well same here (almost), got one spare that noone I know wants for the moment, been lingering in my account for a while, so if anyone wants one, please get in touch.
ah yes, let me clarify, when I mean anti-war I mean they report what actually happens down in Iraq, which isn't a pretty sight, even the Times, who were pro-war, have admitted that the war wasn't going too well and that the reasons for an preemptive stike against Iraq which the bush/blair administrations brought forward were false. And indeed BBC (bless them) have done their best not to take sides - mind you they did get slapped hard for their reporting by the blair administration - in my view unfairly. A lot of papers did start out pro-war, but has now changed when they have more info. Heck, even the UK Black Watch troops down there seems pretty fed up with the reasons for the war, judging by the comments from the relatives of the soldiers killed lately.
graphite as a moderator for a reactor is a Bad Idea. the RBMK as a design 'feature' that could very striong power output increase if coolant is lost. (positive void coefficient). the graphite can also ignite, In chernobyl it burned for 9 days and while doing so released radioactivity into the atmosphere.
oh indeed, please don't get me wrong! I think Burt and Scale done a absolutely fantastic job and I think he does the right thing - sub-orbital now, planning for some kind of orbital flight 2008-ish IIRC. I was just replying to why the shuttle really can't do 2 trips within a week, it's probably just as much the fault of shuttle's design as the more extreme conditions. I suppose some kind of reusable capsule (something like a reusable souyz) would be able to do it, but the shuttle just needs too much of preparation in order to be able to do it.
A suborbital flight and a 'proper' orbital flight are two very different beasts. the speeds the shuttle needs to acvieve in order to go into orbit is far, far higher than a mere suborbital flight which is basicall just going straight upwards and then fall down again. The shuttle needs to achieve great horisontal speed to avoid falling down to earth again, but rather fall *around* earth. THe only (economic) means of getting rid of this speed in order to land is breaking against the atmospere which causes severe heating,, hence the heatprotecting tiles on the shuttle - SpaceShipone does not need these tiles. These tiles are very brittle and needs to be gone through inbetween the launches - which takes alot of time. Also pretty much the whole shuttle has to be gone through, the forces working on the shuttle is far greater than the forces on SpaceShipOne. Granted, the shuttle is a bit of an overcomplicated design and 1970's tech, which doesn't help either.
...and that it probabaly can't survive an impact by a 10cm piece of space junk in LEO
uh, at the relative speeds space junk usually have in LEO (orbital speed ~17,500 miles/hour, of course relative speed between tether and junk might be less but still high) with I can assure you than not much would sustain being with a 10 cm big piece of junk.
yes, 3 ppl isn't enough, true. But that is were the russian upgrade from suyuz comes in, or the modified apollo capsule/ completely new capsule comes in. Yes it cannot support a full IIS, but it's enough to keep some people there for maintenance for the moment. payloads can be sent up via Progress. The bad launch rate is more to do with the terrible russian economy than anything else IMHO. If they had the dosh they could send more. Yes, I'm all for using the shuttle until there's something better - which will take quite a few years, I believe, but I think a winged design, in terms of weigh, is a bad idea for what basically is just a delivery mechanism into LEO.
The Russians fly a tiny 40-year-old spacecraft launched on a booster from the same era
If it works, don't fix it. the Soyuz capsules are extremely durable, look what happened when the landing computer screwed up, the capsule just went into a simple (but safe) ballistic descent. noone hurt. the design might be old but it makes damn much more sense for IIS than the shuttle.
not entirely true, I'm working with the Ms RTC library for the moment in order to write a WIndow messenger aware app. the lib is actaully a COM lib, wrapped up by c# in an assembly. However, the whole lib is apartment threaded, meaning I got severe problem using it in a multithreaded environment. I can spawn worker threads, but I got to use Invoke in order to send the responses back since the send message method *has* to be executed in the same thread context as the RTC lib. This costs lots of time.
Also, just starting the lib in a separate thread with a run method seems to be fairly impossible sainc eit needs to be run in a thread with a windows message pump, which is fairly hidden in c# world. App is now good enough for a demo, but I got to rewrite the whole thing in c++ with COM in order to make it anywhere close to scaleable. Yes, not actually the fault of c#, but rather the lib, but still, depending on what libs you use in c#, you can still run into the old dodgy threading models.
what a troll.. moderators, how the hell could this be modded to 'Informative'?
Linux came out of the terminal app linus was developing on his minix system, he didn't build it on top of Minix. Even Tannenbaum, creator of Minix denies this
hmmm, went to LA/vegas/grand canyon/San Fran last year and never had a problem with anyone there, on the contrary I found most people very nice indeed actually. Hey, there was even a (vinyl) shop owner in San Fran, who handed me a beer while I was cruising his tunes!:-)
When you pass a struct to a function in C#, it's passed by value.
Yeah, which I'm sure is great whan you have an enormous struct;-)
can really all this copying of data that will occur outrun the GB? I suppose it's a nifty idea for smaller structs, but there must be a point somewhere when it's not woth it, or am I just stupid?
With CLR generics, it'll work a little more like C++ and you'll be using an array of 'int' value types. This is much, much, faster
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't c#'s 'primitives' actual instances of objects (albeit they are passed by value)? If they're just a fancy Integer, why would it be quicker?
Not that I'm defending Java's implementation of templates really....
ah, very true, was more trying to bring forward the fact that albeit space is very cold (at least in the shadow of the sun), it wont instantly freeze you if you remove you protection, as seen in 'Mission to Mars' for example. You would rather slowly radiate away all your heat (I assume we all protected from solar radiation). But yes, grabbing hold of a metal pipe with your bare hands in space is nothing I would recomment!;-)
Plus, the moon rock between you and space would provide some sort of insulation and therefore warmth as opposed to being simply "out in the open", wouldn't it?
actually, vacuum is a hell of an insulator, the only way you can lose heat in space is via radiation, which is a fairly slow process, You wont instantl freeze if you take of your space suit (in the shadow). What we would need to insulate against would be solar radiation, since that can get pretty hot up there (~150C, IIRC), plus we get the benefit of shielding against particle/etc radiation
Um, you forgot media hype and 'created need'. Most people arent practiacall when they shop, they buy things depending on brand awarness and coolness of the thing. an Ipod is (apparently) much cooler than most competitor, hence more people buy them. Of course apple nurture this picture and can then take out a higer price even if their product actually have a quite bad sound - especially with those white headphones. Heck I even seen people buying similar white headphones to use with their MD. Talk about media hype!
That's flawed reasoning. One should not condemn a nation based on the nationality of a criminal. Acting on a nation based on the actions of its Head of State is something quite different.
True, but in that case, why didn't we liberate the saudis since Saudi Arabia got about just as bad record as Iraq when it comes to human rights?
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well same here (almost), got one spare that noone I know wants for the moment, been lingering in my account for a while, so if anyone wants one, please get in touch.
ah yes, let me clarify, when I mean anti-war I mean they report what actually happens down in Iraq, which isn't a pretty sight, even the Times, who were pro-war, have admitted that the war wasn't going too well and that the reasons for an preemptive stike against Iraq which the bush/blair administrations brought forward were false.
And indeed BBC (bless them) have done their best not to take sides - mind you they did get slapped hard for their reporting by the blair administration - in my view unfairly. A lot of papers did start out pro-war, but has now changed when they have more info. Heck, even the UK Black Watch troops down there seems pretty fed up with the reasons for the war, judging by the comments from the relatives of the soldiers killed lately.
one of the few??? Heck, most of broitish press were critical against the war - even the murdoch owned papers like the Times.
graphite as a moderator for a reactor is a Bad Idea. the RBMK as a design 'feature' that could very striong power output increase if coolant is lost. (positive void coefficient). the graphite can also ignite, In chernobyl it burned for 9 days and while doing so released radioactivity into the atmosphere.
oh indeed, please don't get me wrong! I think Burt and Scale done a absolutely fantastic job and I think he does the right thing - sub-orbital now, planning for some kind of orbital flight 2008-ish IIRC.
I was just replying to why the shuttle really can't do 2 trips within a week, it's probably just as much the fault of shuttle's design as the more extreme conditions. I suppose some kind of reusable capsule (something like a reusable souyz) would be able to do it, but the shuttle just needs too much of preparation in order to be able to do it.
A suborbital flight and a 'proper' orbital flight are two very different beasts. the speeds the shuttle needs to acvieve in order to go into orbit is far, far higher than a mere suborbital flight which is basicall just going straight upwards and then fall down again. The shuttle needs to achieve great horisontal speed to avoid falling down to earth again, but rather fall *around* earth. THe only (economic) means of getting rid of this speed in order to land is breaking against the atmospere which causes severe heating,, hence the heatprotecting tiles on the shuttle - SpaceShipone does not need these tiles.
These tiles are very brittle and needs to be gone through inbetween the launches - which takes alot of time. Also pretty much the whole shuttle has to be gone through, the forces working on the shuttle is far greater than the forces on SpaceShipOne.
Granted, the shuttle is a bit of an overcomplicated design and 1970's tech, which doesn't help either.
uh, at the relative speeds space junk usually have in LEO (orbital speed ~17,500 miles/hour, of course relative speed between tether and junk might be less but still high) with I can assure you than not much would sustain being with a 10 cm big piece of junk.
Yes, I'm with you that we need another heavy lifter, a return of something similar to Saturn would do lot of good.
yes, 3 ppl isn't enough, true. But that is were the russian upgrade from suyuz comes in, or the modified apollo capsule/ completely new capsule comes in. Yes it cannot support a full IIS, but it's enough to keep some people there for maintenance for the moment.
payloads can be sent up via Progress. The bad launch rate is more to do with the terrible russian economy than anything else IMHO. If they had the dosh they could send more.
Yes, I'm all for using the shuttle until there's something better - which will take quite a few years, I believe, but I think a winged design, in terms of weigh, is a bad idea for what basically is just a delivery mechanism into LEO.
If it works, don't fix it. the Soyuz capsules are extremely durable, look what happened when the landing computer screwed up, the capsule just went into a simple (but safe) ballistic descent. noone hurt. the design might be old but it makes damn much more sense for IIS than the shuttle.
bound checking is removed dynamically by JIT if it finds there's no need for it. So having a'debug' version isn't really necessary.
not entirely true, I'm working with the Ms RTC library for the moment in order to write a WIndow messenger aware app. the lib is actaully a COM lib, wrapped up by c# in an assembly. However, the whole lib is apartment threaded, meaning I got severe problem using it in a multithreaded environment. I can spawn worker threads, but I got to use Invoke in order to send the responses back since the send message method *has* to be executed in the same thread context as the RTC lib. This costs lots of time.
Also, just starting the lib in a separate thread with a run method seems to be fairly impossible sainc eit needs to be run in a thread with a windows message pump, which is fairly hidden in c# world. App is now good enough for a demo, but I got to rewrite the whole thing in c++ with COM in order to make it anywhere close to scaleable. Yes, not actually the fault of c#, but rather the lib, but still, depending on what libs you use in c#, you can still run into the old dodgy threading models.
Linux came out of the terminal app linus was developing on his minix system, he didn't build it on top of Minix. Even Tannenbaum, creator of Minix denies this
um , when we swap to 64 nit architecture we wont be that register starved anymore, at least not on AMD
well, I suspect Japan got some anti-dumping laws of their own if it should be necessary...
hmmm, went to LA/vegas/grand canyon/San Fran last year and never had a problem with anyone there, on the contrary I found most people very nice indeed actually. Hey, there was even a (vinyl) shop owner in San Fran, who handed me a beer while I was cruising his tunes! :-)
Yeah, which I'm sure is great whan you have an enormous struct ;-)
can really all this copying of data that will occur outrun the GB? I suppose it's a nifty idea for smaller structs, but there must be a point somewhere when it's not woth it, or am I just stupid?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't c#'s 'primitives' actual instances of objects (albeit they are passed by value)? If they're just a fancy Integer, why would it be quicker?
Not that I'm defending Java's implementation of templates really....
ah, very true, was more trying to bring forward the fact that albeit space is very cold (at least in the shadow of the sun), it wont instantly freeze you if you remove you protection, as seen in 'Mission to Mars' for example. You would rather slowly radiate away all your heat (I assume we all protected from solar radiation). ;-)
But yes, grabbing hold of a metal pipe with your bare hands in space is nothing I would recomment!
hmmm, I seems to remember SGI having the same idea a few years back, very cool app. However, most of my lifeforms died quite quickly... :-(
actually, vacuum is a hell of an insulator, the only way you can lose heat in space is via radiation, which is a fairly slow process, You wont instantl freeze if you take of your space suit (in the shadow). What we would need to insulate against would be solar radiation, since that can get pretty hot up there (~150C, IIRC), plus we get the benefit of shielding against particle/etc radiation
Um, you forgot media hype and 'created need'. Most people arent practiacall when they shop, they buy things depending on brand awarness and coolness of the thing. an Ipod is (apparently) much cooler than most competitor, hence more people buy them. Of course apple nurture this picture and can then take out a higer price even if their product actually have a quite bad sound - especially with those white headphones. Heck I even seen people buying similar white headphones to use with their MD. Talk about media hype!
Hmm, didn't MS Visual C++ for CE use to be free of charge? I got a version from 2 years back which I could download for free around somewhere...
True, but in that case, why didn't we liberate the saudis since Saudi Arabia got about just as bad record as Iraq when it comes to human rights?
yeah, was thinking of the chair thing. So they got another design? you got any links? would be interesting to check out!