Dr. Mark Drela @ MIT is a great resource for these things. He is also an RC Sailplane enthusiast, so that is where I know him from. He is one of the most knowledgeable, helpful guys around, and makes all of his airfoils available to the public.
...are both very volatile power systems. Being an remote-control electric flight enthusiast, I have heard too many stories about NiMH cells exploding ("it sounded like a shotgun blast!") and LiON batteries burning up cars. They are fine if they aren't damaged or defective -- but a NimH or especially LiON cells that have been damaged can be VERY dangerous.
Me, I'm waiting for nuclear-powered cellphones! Chernobyl in your pocket!
...Linus has ditched BitKeeper for Visual SourceSafe!
Solaris is not a love story.
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Those who say "they've turned it into a love story" are hardly true, and have only seen the piss-poor previews. Those who says that Solaris is a bad sci-fi movie -- they may be correct. It has no explosions, it has no aliens.
Solaris is a taut and trim movie that will make you think, if you care to do so. Consider this: as Rheia is a construct of Kelvin -- the ideas that you have of heaven and earth are merely constructs. Consider it.
Excellent! Worked for me with a Sapphire 8500LE! I still get a little weird artifacting around the mouse pointer, but nothing as bad as when i flashed my board to the ATI non-OEM BIOS!
First off, let me say I dual-boot at home with Slackware and XP. XP is only used for games. Slackware w/ KDE works great for me.
1. Work All Windows, All The Time. Until MS Outlook, Visual Studio.NET, and SQL Server Enterprise Manager are ported, I'm stuck.
2. Games Yeah, I don't think this has to be explained. Run Battlefield 1942 under Wine? P'Shaw.
2. My Mother Even as slick and produced as Mandrake and RedHat are for the new user, there are still various issues that the normal user just doesn't care or know about. The difference between KDE and GNOME? Yeah, try explaining that one -- and then try to explain why that is BETTER than Windows. Then reboot into Windows when you realize that you CAN'T. I applaud RedHat for their recent desktop-melding moves. Another issue is device support. Setting up a printer in Linux can still be a bit of a pain-in-the-ass, and the newest of the new devices are often not supported by Linux until much later (not the fault of Linux, mind you, but the manufacturers).
All of this said, I think that a Linux desktop is a good possibility for completely new / adventurous users. That's how Mac gained it's popularity in the early 80's. Plenty of complete newbies not accustomed to one particular GUI/OS paradigm.
So, as much as some of the Linux curmudgeons revile the movements of RedHat -- that is where the key to a large user base is.
Can you imagine the number of discs this would create? I mean, I've made a lot of coasters in my time -- nothing I'm too proud of, mind you, but this would great a HUGE glut of coasters that will end up in the land-fill!
The ecological matters are huge, not to mention the implementation here. What if I only handle it in the dark, like one of those "darkboxes" they have at the camera store?
Anyway, I may just have to get one of the Nappy Roots DVD's -- gotta support the home teams:)
Oh, that's right -- I'm not at home watching TV on Saturday nights!:)
Similar experience - with a Dreamcast
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I was kicked off of EBay for something similar -- I was selling my beloved Dreamcast which came with the serialpc cable that can be used to boot your DC with your own software (i.e. NetBSD or Linux). Now, you COULD in THEORY, download an entire disc via the serial cable in about 24 hours or so.
Now, the first auction that they yanked contained references to some games that I had "backed up". Well, I'll agree with them that they were in the right to yank that auction. Well, I reposted the auction, assuming that their reference to "infringing items" meant these backed-up CDs, so it still had the serial cable on it.
Well, shortly after posting that auction, they canned it, AND canned my logon, saying that I had repeatedly posted infringing items! I had a couple of terse emails with my buddy "Nigel" at eBay, who argued that the infringing items where still on there -- the coder's cable! (Note: they didn't specify what was infringing on the first email, I had just assumed it was the backups) Anyway, after doing some research on the cable I found that it was possible to backup games -- over 24 hours! Anyway, I gave into them, and sweated out my 6 months suspension.
However, after reading this article about backing up GD-ROM data with a broadband adapter -- should these be outlawed, too?
eBay is certainly attempting to cover themselves, and while I support their right to refuse service to anyone, under any circumstances, and I realize that eBay is more a privilege than a right, I don't appreciate it as a consumer.
Not that she couldn't before, per se, but she didn't really want to unlearn her Windows ways to do it! She's much more a casual user than I, and when i installed Mandrake 8 on her machine (with KDE as Desktop, using Galeon as browser) and when she went to "set image as wallpaper" and it blew up her desktop!
Galeon tried to use the Gnome Desktop and she was using KDE, BLAH BLAH BLAH. Point being, the more casual user doesn't give a damn (when they are first using an OS) about the differences and inequities between WM's and desktops. To quote my wife "How is this better than Windows?".
Now, I don't know if this push by Redhat to obsfucate the desktops from the user would fix the issue i stated, but frankly, the community NEEDS this...
Re:Wonder what the heck this is all about?
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Just testing if you could see that OK:)
But seriously -- how goes the corneal transplant T+4.7 years? There hasn't been an update on your transplant in quite some time!
Well, maybe he's not, but reconfigurable housing (as an idea) has been around a while, and no doubt the Dymaxion house was a great example! Forget that half-day crap, you could unlock the wall and turn it around the center-post!
Well, i guess the next OBVIOUS step is a plane that can cross the Atlantic on nothing but thermals and tailwinds!
I mean, when you can keep an unpowered plane aloft for 36 hours, why not? Well, so far the straight-line distance record is only 226km, but with a GPS autopilot, and a thermal detection unit (get the scientist working on the tube technology immediately!), who knows!
I fly RC aircraft, mainly small sailplanes, etc. This talk of mountain waves reminds me of dynamic soaring, which is a technique birds (and sailplaners) use to increase speed -- without flapping wings.
In fact, sailplanes can often reach 150 MPH using this technique. And thats with no propellor. Needless to say, it's fast and exciting. Also, for those of us who like it when things go "boom", a critical failure at 150 MPH is always fun:)
A choice bit of rhetoric from the instructions: [pic of boat] A leaky craft full of filthy boat people. Must be stopped at all costs, for the good of the nation. Say it with me: We don't want people like this in our country!
Wow, here in the US, we had people who might say such things -- they were call the Ku Klux Klan!
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Quote: "Considering Microsoft has called the GPL a "Cancer" and attacks linux publicly whenever possible by telling outright lies, how can we ever look bad?"
Have you been reading Slashdot comment? I'm surprised folks won't be throwing their own feces!
wouldn't it be great if there was an online, GPL'ed repository for recipes too? oh wait, there is -- ReciPHP -- it's still in beta, but it is already a great categorization and search tool for recipes! like Freshmeat, except with more meat:)
for upwards of 80% of the Earth it is, and frankly, it's getting bigger. I work for a web-development company, and the last couple of projects that we have designed and developed have revolved around IE, and IE only -- why is this, you say? Well, because of certain things that MS has built into IE, and IE's overall "acceptance" by commercial customers. Granted, most of these projects are intranet applications, but it makes no difference! To the consumer, more and different browsers are a "good thing", but to web-development companies, and the folks who write applications for a broad number of people, one browser is a "good thing". Integration with MS services (like that god-awful MS-only authentication thing), better embedded plugin support, and the fact that many dotNET web-apps *may* have a hard time running correctly in Moz and Operea all contribute to smaller-mindshare browsers low acceptance ratings.
Now, before i denegrate my ENTIRE character, let me say that I am a staunch anything-other-than-IE-and-mostly-Mozilla supporter. I use Mozilla 95% of the time (and mostly IE when i have to A) fill out my timecard on our IE-only intranet at work -or- B) pay my Capital One card:) ).
So, what can we do to help? Advocacy. Get folks using Moz or Opera -- your mom, your brother, your sister, your dog, whatever. Brief them on how Moz came to be -- it's free as in speech, ma! Or, we could just wait for MS to cock-up IE...:)
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Dr. Mark Drela @ MIT is a great resource for these things. He is also an RC Sailplane enthusiast, so that is where I know him from. He is one of the most knowledgeable, helpful guys around, and makes all of his airfoils available to the public.
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http://raphael.mit.edu/DRELA.bio.html
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...are both very volatile power systems. Being an remote-control electric flight enthusiast, I have heard too many stories about NiMH cells exploding ("it sounded like a shotgun blast!") and LiON batteries burning up cars. They are fine if they aren't damaged or defective -- but a NimH or especially LiON cells that have been damaged can be VERY dangerous.
Me, I'm waiting for nuclear-powered cellphones! Chernobyl in your pocket!
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...Linus has ditched BitKeeper for Visual SourceSafe!
Those who say "they've turned it into a love story" are hardly true, and have only seen the piss-poor previews. Those who says that Solaris is a bad sci-fi movie -- they may be correct. It has no explosions, it has no aliens.
Solaris is a taut and trim movie that will make you think, if you care to do so. Consider this: as Rheia is a construct of Kelvin -- the ideas that you have of heaven and earth are merely constructs. Consider it.
Excellent! Worked for me with a Sapphire 8500LE! I still get a little weird artifacting around the mouse pointer, but nothing as bad as when i flashed my board to the ATI non-OEM BIOS!
What is next for William Shatner?
I mean, you've done just about everything an entertainer can do -- act, write, sing, rap to Shakespeare, TV, movies, commercials.
Do you see yourself retiring anytime soon (and naturally chopping wood in some Northwestern locale)?
First off, let me say I dual-boot at home with Slackware and XP. XP is only used for games. Slackware w/ KDE works great for me.
1. Work
All Windows, All The Time. Until MS Outlook, Visual Studio.NET, and SQL Server Enterprise Manager are ported, I'm stuck.
2. Games
Yeah, I don't think this has to be explained. Run Battlefield 1942 under Wine? P'Shaw.
2. My Mother
Even as slick and produced as Mandrake and RedHat are for the new user, there are still various issues that the normal user just doesn't care or know about. The difference between KDE and GNOME? Yeah, try explaining that one -- and then try to explain why that is BETTER than Windows. Then reboot into Windows when you realize that you CAN'T. I applaud RedHat for their recent desktop-melding moves. Another issue is device support. Setting up a printer in Linux can still be a bit of a pain-in-the-ass, and the newest of the new devices are often not supported by Linux until much later (not the fault of Linux, mind you, but the manufacturers).
All of this said, I think that a Linux desktop is a good possibility for completely new / adventurous users. That's how Mac gained it's popularity in the early 80's. Plenty of complete newbies not accustomed to one particular GUI/OS paradigm.
So, as much as some of the Linux curmudgeons revile the movements of RedHat -- that is where the key to a large user base is.
Can you imagine the number of discs this would create? I mean, I've made a lot of coasters in my time -- nothing I'm too proud of, mind you, but this would great a HUGE glut of coasters that will end up in the land-fill!
:)
The ecological matters are huge, not to mention the implementation here. What if I only handle it in the dark, like one of those "darkboxes" they have at the camera store?
Anyway, I may just have to get one of the Nappy Roots DVD's -- gotta support the home teams
Oh, that's right -- I'm not at home watching TV on Saturday nights! :)
I was kicked off of EBay for something similar -- I was selling my beloved Dreamcast which came with the serialpc cable that can be used to boot your DC with your own software (i.e. NetBSD or Linux). Now, you COULD in THEORY, download an entire disc via the serial cable in about 24 hours or so.
Now, the first auction that they yanked contained references to some games that I had "backed up". Well, I'll agree with them that they were in the right to yank that auction. Well, I reposted the auction, assuming that their reference to "infringing items" meant these backed-up CDs, so it still had the serial cable on it.
Well, shortly after posting that auction, they canned it, AND canned my logon, saying that I had repeatedly posted infringing items! I had a couple of terse emails with my buddy "Nigel" at eBay, who argued that the infringing items where still on there -- the coder's cable! (Note: they didn't specify what was infringing on the first email, I had just assumed it was the backups) Anyway, after doing some research on the cable I found that it was possible to backup games -- over 24 hours! Anyway, I gave into them, and sweated out my 6 months suspension.
However, after reading this article about backing up GD-ROM data with a broadband adapter -- should these be outlawed, too?
eBay is certainly attempting to cover themselves, and while I support their right to refuse service to anyone, under any circumstances, and I realize that eBay is more a privilege than a right, I don't appreciate it as a consumer.
I thought you meant LCDs as in LCD text displays like CrystalFontz or MatrixOrbital! Shucks...
Not that she couldn't before, per se, but she didn't really want to unlearn her Windows ways to do it! She's much more a casual user than I, and when i installed Mandrake 8 on her machine (with KDE as Desktop, using Galeon as browser) and when she went to "set image as wallpaper" and it blew up her desktop!
Galeon tried to use the Gnome Desktop and she was using KDE, BLAH BLAH BLAH. Point being, the more casual user doesn't give a damn (when they are first using an OS) about the differences and inequities between WM's and desktops. To quote my wife "How is this better than Windows?".
Now, I don't know if this push by Redhat to obsfucate the desktops from the user would fix the issue i stated, but frankly, the community NEEDS this...
WEEEE'VE GOT BUUUUUUUSH!
Just testing if you could see that OK :)
But seriously -- how goes the corneal transplant T+4.7 years? There hasn't been an update on your transplant in quite some time!
Well, maybe he's not, but reconfigurable housing (as an idea) has been around a while, and no doubt the Dymaxion house was a great example! Forget that half-day crap, you could unlock the wall and turn it around the center-post!
http://www.hfmgv.org/dymaxion
http://www.thirteen.org/bucky/house.html
...but when will we see some sort of blocking feature to remove that lame ^H^H^H^H joke? That's what i want to see :)
Well, i guess the next OBVIOUS step is a plane that can cross the Atlantic on nothing but thermals and tailwinds!
I mean, when you can keep an unpowered plane aloft for 36 hours, why not? Well, so far the straight-line distance record is only 226km, but with a GPS autopilot, and a thermal detection unit (get the scientist working on the tube technology immediately!), who knows!
FAI RC Model Records for Gliders
Lift!
I fly RC aircraft, mainly small sailplanes, etc. This talk of mountain waves reminds me of dynamic soaring, which is a technique birds (and sailplaners) use to increase speed -- without flapping wings.
:)
In fact, sailplanes can often reach 150 MPH using this technique. And thats with no propellor. Needless to say, it's fast and exciting. Also, for those of us who like it when things go "boom", a critical failure at 150 MPH is always fun
big 'ol realplayer dynamic soaring video
What about the homeless people who rely on the subway heat vents in the winter?
Sjender's "Pacific Solution" game about the australian pacific-refugee problem?
t io n/
http://home.pacific.net.au/~sjender/pacificsolu
A choice bit of rhetoric from the instructions:
[pic of boat]
A leaky craft full of filthy boat people. Must be stopped at all costs, for the good of the nation. Say it with me: We don't want people like this in our country!
Wow, here in the US, we had people who might say such things -- they were call the Ku Klux Klan!
What a jackass.
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Quote:
"Considering Microsoft has called the GPL a "Cancer" and attacks linux publicly whenever possible by telling outright lies, how can we ever look bad?"
Have you been reading Slashdot comment? I'm surprised folks won't be throwing their own feces!
wouldn't it be great if there was an online, GPL'ed repository for recipes too? oh wait, there is -- ReciPHP -- it's still in beta, but it is already a great categorization and search tool for recipes! like Freshmeat, except with more meat :)
for upwards of 80% of the Earth it is, and frankly, it's getting bigger. I work for a web-development company, and the last couple of projects that we have designed and developed have revolved around IE, and IE only -- why is this, you say? Well, because of certain things that MS has built into IE, and IE's overall "acceptance" by commercial customers. Granted, most of these projects are intranet applications, but it makes no difference! To the consumer, more and different browsers are a "good thing", but to web-development companies, and the folks who write applications for a broad number of people, one browser is a "good thing". Integration with MS services (like that god-awful MS-only authentication thing), better embedded plugin support, and the fact that many dotNET web-apps *may* have a hard time running correctly in Moz and Operea all contribute to smaller-mindshare browsers low acceptance ratings.
:) ).
:)
Now, before i denegrate my ENTIRE character, let me say that I am a staunch anything-other-than-IE-and-mostly-Mozilla supporter. I use Mozilla 95% of the time (and mostly IE when i have to A) fill out my timecard on our IE-only intranet at work -or- B) pay my Capital One card
So, what can we do to help? Advocacy. Get folks using Moz or Opera -- your mom, your brother, your sister, your dog, whatever. Brief them on how Moz came to be -- it's free as in speech, ma! Or, we could just wait for MS to cock-up IE...