From what I read a wile ago they are going to start in LEO and then slowly build up a greater and greater eliptical orbit until they can break free. So it' spretty much as you said!
depends on where you going, it would be quicker to go to jupiter with ion drive than conventional rockets. Then again ORION would be damn much quicker, my favourite...
Of course it's viral in the sense that if you do modification to code once released under GPL, you would have to release it as well under the GPL if you wanted to reditribute it. so what, that's a feature, not a bug.
um why?? it's not like you getting sucked into the sun more the closer you are. You just orbit faster... it's no harder for the engine to break loose from there than here at earth distance
I thought the difference between a planet-moon combination and a planet-planet combination was that winth in a planet moon combination the centre of gravity lay within the body of the larger body, whereas a planet-planet combination has it centre of gravity outside both bodies.
um, probably not, MS will go the same way as IBM, maybe a bit further down since they do not have the service bit to fall back on as IBM did. MS will be much less imortant in the future, but not extinct. Heck, maybe they even turn over to be part of the 'Good Guys' just as IBM did!
nope, BeOS didn't have pthreads nor mmap(). which cause all sorts of mayhem when trying to port more advanced apps. Still a good OS though, bought a few versions of it
From what I know HP has about double ($2 billion) the Linux business than IBM ($1 Billion), so yes, they do good money on Linux. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,85723 7,00.asp
Also, they do give back to the community, just like IBM. http://opensource.hp.com/
Oh, one more tip: Don't use the concrete types like HashMap to the left of a declaration and in method parameters, use an abstract type like Map. It'll save you some agony.
Ah, yes, program with interfaces. I try to keep stuff as Collections, handy if you need to swap from an ArrayList to a HashMap or other.
So I spent a lot of my time enhancing and fixing defects in our cgi library
sounds like my last job (c++ stuff)and their home rolled xml parser, which could only handle ascii, great when ended up in need of unicode. Great place to work but they had a bit of the 'Not-implemented-here' attitude. Great way to learn how things work, but when there are industrial strength xml parsers out there - why not use them. That's one thing I love with java though, You will always find something in the standard libs that'll do the thing you want to do. Some call it bloat, but I rather see it as a helping hand.
Yes, that's an idea. Seems like a bit of 'overkill' those time when you really just need a List or a HashMap or other container, even if it should clean up the code a fair bit. Yes, looked into Generic Java, we're not allowed to introduce any meta/pre compilers into our toolchain though at work, so I got to wait until 1.5. At home I prefer c++.
THe thing that could be called explosive would be if you tried to hold your breath. Your lungs will rupture if you're suddenly depressurised while hold your breath. Same is true for divers. A very cool trick in diving is to go down around 12meters, remove the mouthpiece and swim slowly up to the surface while breathing out in a long 'aaaaaaah', you wont run out of air at any point since the air in your lungs are expanding as you go up!
one little nitpick, you wont explode if exposed to vacuum, you most likely get 'the bends' (decompression sickness) though. YOu wouldn't even instantly freeze to death since there aren't many molecules around that can transfer heat away from your body (even if the few that's around are very cold). More info about what happens to people exposed to vacuum can be found here
1. well, everything but sockets, look to plan9 if you really, really want *everything* as a file.
2. So does windows pretty much, win2000 is posix compliant. see here
3 - 5. true
6. Well, it certanly *feels* more unix, but it's actually nothing but a clone of a lot of unix stuff. Also a lot of what ppl see as unix nowadays is actually GNU stuff, which is, as we all know, *not* unix stuff, at least according to it's creator!;-)
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Oh, you can write a c app in pretty much the same size as a asm app, as long as you leave out all the libs.
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bah!;-) IntelliJ if you got the dosh or Eclipse if you need something free, ecplipse beat the shit out of NetBean any day IMHO!! Yeah, I do like VC++ 6.0 as well, (that's were I do most of my c++ stuff) but it starts to feel a bit old compared to the new java IDEs. (sure the new one's better but I ain't got the dosh)
um, if you want to write to a single platform on java, you just aim for the same virtual machine (i.e. 1.4.1 or whatever you fancy) you cannot really go wrong. Cannot understand how you managed to screw up SQL really. even more how you failed to test anything worked before implementing it.
Apparently not a too difficult calculation, You basically need to know how many rads someone has to absorb in order to die. Official number back then was 100,000, based on hiroshima and nagasaki. This is know to be wrong nowadays. However there where already talks about this number being wrong back then during project Orion, and they used the more conservative number of 10,000 rads, which is pretty much the correct figure today. Orion was also planned during the time when USA and Russia blew enourmous H_bombs up all around the globe. Something like 100 Mtons. Orion calculated to add no more 1% to that fallout, which was very marginal, of course it's different nowadays though. The fallout part was something that was taken very seriously, some scientists in the project did see that as a show stopper. You couldn't go around comdemning random ppl to death because of the fallout. I do like the idea of Orion and if you could assemble it in orbit, use really clean nukes plus use the big ones outside the magnetosphere it would be one hell of a ship.
Very true, My Creative Nomad Zen player does state in it's Instructions that you shold not jog with your zen. You can however walk with it. Bit of a disapointment, but I might just buy a solid state player for those oh-so-rare moments when I'm running. Otherwise the zen rocks - sounds great. the interface possibly be tweaked a bit, but works in overall good.
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From what I read a wile ago they are going to start in LEO and then slowly build up a greater and greater eliptical orbit until they can break free. So it' spretty much as you said!
depends on where you going, it would be quicker to go to jupiter with ion drive than conventional rockets. Then again ORION would be damn much quicker, my favourite...
Of course it's viral in the sense that if you do modification to code once released under GPL, you would have to release it as well under the GPL if you wanted to reditribute it. so what, that's a feature, not a bug.
um why?? it's not like you getting sucked into the sun more the closer you are. You just orbit faster... it's no harder for the engine to break loose from there than here at earth distance
ooooh, just hit his quota of allocated data transfer amount...
Victoria Silvestedt?? You mean her *bosom* will be in every scene, of course...
I thought the difference between a planet-moon combination and a planet-planet combination was that winth in a planet moon combination the centre of gravity lay within the body of the larger body, whereas a planet-planet combination has it centre of gravity outside both bodies.
gross! *grin*
ALways wondered why my keyboard was so sticky on my linux box.
um, probably not, MS will go the same way as IBM, maybe a bit further down since they do not have the service bit to fall back on as IBM did. MS will be much less imortant in the future, but not extinct. Heck, maybe they even turn over to be part of the 'Good Guys' just as IBM did!
nope, BeOS didn't have pthreads nor mmap(). which cause all sorts of mayhem when trying to port more advanced apps. Still a good OS though, bought a few versions of it
From what I know HP has about double ($2 billion) the Linux business than IBM ($1 Billion), so yes, they do good money on Linux.3 7,00.asp
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,8572
Also, they do give back to the community, just like IBM.
http://opensource.hp.com/
OS/2 2.1 was all from IBM, IIRC
Ah, yes, program with interfaces. I try to keep stuff as Collections, handy if you need to swap from an ArrayList to a HashMap or other.
So I spent a lot of my time enhancing and fixing defects in our cgi library
sounds like my last job (c++ stuff)and their home rolled xml parser, which could only handle ascii, great when ended up in need of unicode. Great place to work but they had a bit of the 'Not-implemented-here' attitude.
Great way to learn how things work, but when there are industrial strength xml parsers out there - why not use them.
That's one thing I love with java though, You will always find something in the standard libs that'll do the thing you want to do. Some call it bloat, but I rather see it as a helping hand.
Yes, that's an idea. Seems like a bit of 'overkill' those time when you really just need a List or a HashMap or other container, even if it should clean up the code a fair bit.
Yes, looked into Generic Java, we're not allowed to introduce any meta/pre compilers into our toolchain though at work, so I got to wait until 1.5. At home I prefer c++.
So how would one go on and extract data from a container in java without all these endless casts?
Generics is a thing java has been sorely lacking since it's birth, thank god they're getting it now at last! (yes, I do code java for a living)
THe thing that could be called explosive would be if you tried to hold your breath. Your lungs will rupture if you're suddenly depressurised while hold your breath. Same is true for divers. A very cool trick in diving is to go down around 12meters, remove the mouthpiece and swim slowly up to the surface while breathing out in a long 'aaaaaaah', you wont run out of air at any point since the air in your lungs are expanding as you go up!
what's blasphemous though is your use of a capital letter at the start of a variable name! ;-)
one little nitpick, you wont explode if exposed to vacuum, you most likely get 'the bends' (decompression sickness) though. YOu wouldn't even instantly freeze to death since there aren't many molecules around that can transfer heat away from your body (even if the few that's around are very cold). More info about what happens to people exposed to vacuum can be found here
1. well, everything but sockets, look to plan9 if you really, really want *everything* as a file.
;-)
2. So does windows pretty much, win2000 is posix compliant. see here
3 - 5. true
6. Well, it certanly *feels* more unix, but it's actually nothing but a clone of a lot of unix stuff. Also a lot of what ppl see as unix nowadays is actually GNU stuff, which is, as we all know, *not* unix stuff, at least according to it's creator!
Oh, you can write a c app in pretty much the same size as a asm app, as long as you leave out all the libs.
You should really try Delphi.... VB killer...
bah! ;-)
IntelliJ if you got the dosh or Eclipse if you need something free, ecplipse beat the shit out of NetBean any day IMHO!! Yeah, I do like VC++ 6.0 as well, (that's were I do most of my c++ stuff) but it starts to feel a bit old compared to the new java IDEs. (sure the new one's better but I ain't got the dosh)
um, if you want to write to a single platform on java, you just aim for the same virtual machine (i.e. 1.4.1 or whatever you fancy) you cannot really go wrong. Cannot understand how you managed to screw up SQL really. even more how you failed to test anything worked before implementing it.
Apparently not a too difficult calculation, You basically need to know how many rads someone has to absorb in order to die. Official number back then was 100,000, based on hiroshima and nagasaki. This is know to be wrong nowadays. However there where already talks about this number being wrong back then during project Orion, and they used the more conservative number of 10,000 rads, which is pretty much the correct figure today.
Orion was also planned during the time when USA and Russia blew enourmous H_bombs up all around the globe. Something like 100 Mtons. Orion calculated to add no more 1% to that fallout, which was very marginal, of course it's different nowadays though.
The fallout part was something that was taken very seriously, some scientists in the project did see that as a show stopper. You couldn't go around comdemning random ppl to death because of the fallout. I do like the idea of Orion and if you could assemble it in orbit, use really clean nukes plus use the big ones outside the magnetosphere it would be one hell of a ship.
Very true, My Creative Nomad Zen player does state in it's Instructions that you shold not jog with your zen. You can however walk with it. Bit of a disapointment, but I might just buy a solid state player for those oh-so-rare moments when I'm running.
Otherwise the zen rocks - sounds great. the interface possibly be tweaked a bit, but works in overall good.