A lot of us can't run it because... - the software support isn't there. No CATIA, no ProE, no etc. Can't be an engineer using Linux alone. - it is still fucking slow. Hate to break it to you, but as a long time xfce4 user, XP is still faster. Yes, doing everything CLI is probably faster as far as system response goes. But it's slower for getting things done because double-clicking an icon is easier than typing/usr/share/baoeu/otehu/ -x -die. Pressing a flurry of keys might feel faster, but it isn't actually faster.
And so, until linux developers wake up, linux as an engineering tool will not progress. Engineers already have a million pieces of proprietary scientific software they have to learn; adding linux to that isn't worth it when there is fast, and stable Windows XP.
And it's stable enough as a desktop, though not as a corporate server. Maybe that's because, in at least one thing, MS has its priorities straight. They've focused on making an OS that's sane to use while attempting to make it stable. And, lo and behold, it works.
still haven't gotten octave working with gnuplot. fuck it, i've got more important things to do. i'll do it in matlab.
I hate to say it, but the slow GUI speed is why I don't enjoy using Linux. Even xfce4 is slower than Windows XP, which is ridiculous. Gnome used to be my favorite environment (it's by far the easiest to use), but I got fed up by the sluggishness. I hope this project can bring me back to GNOME.
You probably don't remember it because it doesn't exist. There are numerous radars using everything from millimeter waves (MMW) to multi meter long waves. Each type has its own specific uses, though I've heard that MMW radar is the most difficult technology to develop. But IANAEE (electrical engineer).
U.S. Air Force scientists looked into generating a field of plasma around an aircraft to reduce aerodynamic drag. One unexpected effect was a reduction of RCS (radar cross section, a rough measure of radar visibility), though to my knowledge the research has not been pursued (it probably continues in classified state, just like the plasma toroid ABM system 7 years ago...). Of course, this is EM radiation in the radio portin of the specturm, not optical.
Russian electrodynamicists are also infamously known for proposing "plasma stealth" devices, which have yet to be demonstrated veritably well. Every few months something pops up about how they've solved high power requirements, reduced weight of the devices, eliminated interferce with the aircraft's EM devices (radar and comm/nav, which critical to everything) and problem Y. And then, you see nothing of it in any journal or trade publication. Just claims, and it seems, nothing more.
Notably, plasma radar stealth has an opposite effect of the optical stealth. The aircraft would glow like a lightbulb, and leave a trail of glowing plasma in its wake. Also notably, aircraft at high hypersonic speeds induce a local plasma air environment, due to the tremendous energy of the aerodynamics.
Here at the University of Michigan, the solar car team (whose corporate donations exceed $1 million) keeps messing with the Human-Powered Helicopter team's table in the Wilson Center. Now we've got to trash that table though, because apparently homemade tables are not allowed in any university buildings.
Interestingly, Michigan Solar Car is basically a small student-run corporation. They've got over 200 members with guys from the business school helping with corporate relations, and an army of engineers of every type. I work across from them every week, but they actually rent their own off-campus building for most of their construction.
A breakaway faction of the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) called WHAT-WG
According to the WHAT-WG page, "Many of the members of this working group are active supporters and members of the W3C..." So it seems they themselves do not see WHAT-WG as a "breakaway faction."
And if they actually rejected the W3C, why are they planning to submit their proposal through the standard W3C pipeline? Why not attempt to bypass or ignore it? If WHAT-WG are against the W3C, they would not be planning to cooperate with them.
It looks like this WHAT-WG is just another group submitting another proposal to the W3C. Yes, that proposal conflicts with an existing W3C one. But that doesn't indicate anything about turmoil in the W3C. It's just another potential standard that happens to have the same goal as another. Competition of standards in the W3C is nothing new.
The components using CCD's can be changed and have been numerous times, but it's still expensive to design and manufacture them. The separate costs of all those little developments could probably be more cheaply consolidated in one brand new telescope.
How about we send a robotic telescope instead? One with arms so that it could fix the Hubble, look at the stars and then hurl large rocks at the teeming citizens below...
Perhaps even more amusing, is that almost every slashdotter reading that would have agreed with Gates at that time. No one, not even the tech savvy Gates (and he was quite informed), expected the rapid advances in computer technology which followed. And the future is hard to predict, especially in computer hardware.
And of course, I'm assuming that Gates actually said those words attributed to him. Not everything you read on the internet is true.
Regardless of the actual acronym's expansion, "PC" has come to define a computer using an x86 compatible CPU. Saying that Apple has released a PC makes no sense to Apple, nor to anyone else in the computer world. Word definitions are set by the majority, whether you like it or not.
"NASA - get a mission people care about that can be realistically funded, or sign over the next twenty years to Burt Rhutan and company."
That's easier said than done. Why should science be subject to the whims of the masses? The general public has never been able to determine which scientific research is important. And of course, realistic funding is completely subjective, and quite complex.
Scaled Composites? They're air guys for the most part, not space. And they might not even have the right stuff. As one Scaled employee told me, "The America's Space Prize seems to be too small award for too large a project." Asking Scaled to handle a large scale vehicle development project is like asking your resident teenage hacker to handle the networking infrastructure for a 500 node corporate computer network. The kid might be able to build a great low-cost PC quickly, but throw him a large project and he'll just buckle under the stress and seriously compromise the project due to a lack of experience and cockiness. Rutan alone being made NASA Administrator would be quite different though from signing "over the next twenty years to Burt Rhutan [sic] and company".
And be advised, you shouldn't get too enamored of celebrity engineers. The engineers you never hear about on CNN/Slashdot (both have about the same aerospace news quality) are probably a more impressive bunch than you think.
Imagine, said Robert Streiffer, a professor of philosophy and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, a human-chimpanzee chimera endowed with speech and an enhanced potential to learn -- what some have called a "humanzee."
"There's a knee-jerk reaction that enhancing the moral status of an animal is bad," Streiffer said. "But if you did it, and you gave it the protections it deserves, how could the animal complain?"
Unfortunately, said Harvard political philosopher Michael J. Sandel, speaking last fall at a meeting of the President's Council on Bioethics, such protections are unlikely.
"Chances are we would make them perform menial jobs or dangerous jobs," Sandel said. "That would be an objection."
What if we made them completely human biologically, but created them in a completely artificial manner? Do Streiffer's and Sander's words above sound to anyone else like they could apply to Replicants?
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A Boeing rocket, aircraft, missile, spacecraft or what?
Well, Netcraft confirms it.
A lot of us can't run it because... /usr/share/baoeu/otehu/ -x -die. Pressing a flurry of keys might feel faster, but it isn't actually faster.
- the software support isn't there. No CATIA, no ProE, no etc. Can't be an engineer using Linux alone.
- it is still fucking slow. Hate to break it to you, but as a long time xfce4 user, XP is still faster. Yes, doing everything CLI is probably faster as far as system response goes. But it's slower for getting things done because double-clicking an icon is easier than typing
And so, until linux developers wake up, linux as an engineering tool will not progress. Engineers already have a million pieces of proprietary scientific software they have to learn; adding linux to that isn't worth it when there is fast, and stable Windows XP.
And it's stable enough as a desktop, though not as a corporate server. Maybe that's because, in at least one thing, MS has its priorities straight. They've focused on making an OS that's sane to use while attempting to make it stable. And, lo and behold, it works.
still haven't gotten octave working with gnuplot. fuck it, i've got more important things to do. i'll do it in matlab.
I hate to say it, but the slow GUI speed is why I don't enjoy using Linux. Even xfce4 is slower than Windows XP, which is ridiculous. Gnome used to be my favorite environment (it's by far the easiest to use), but I got fed up by the sluggishness. I hope this project can bring me back to GNOME.
Can you say, "420"?
+1 old school reference
liberal arts major?
You probably don't remember it because it doesn't exist. There are numerous radars using everything from millimeter waves (MMW) to multi meter long waves. Each type has its own specific uses, though I've heard that MMW radar is the most difficult technology to develop. But IANAEE (electrical engineer).
U.S. Air Force scientists looked into generating a field of plasma around an aircraft to reduce aerodynamic drag. One unexpected effect was a reduction of RCS (radar cross section, a rough measure of radar visibility), though to my knowledge the research has not been pursued (it probably continues in classified state, just like the plasma toroid ABM system 7 years ago...). Of course, this is EM radiation in the radio portin of the specturm, not optical.
Russian electrodynamicists are also infamously known for proposing "plasma stealth" devices, which have yet to be demonstrated veritably well. Every few months something pops up about how they've solved high power requirements, reduced weight of the devices, eliminated interferce with the aircraft's EM devices (radar and comm/nav, which critical to everything) and problem Y. And then, you see nothing of it in any journal or trade publication. Just claims, and it seems, nothing more.
Notably, plasma radar stealth has an opposite effect of the optical stealth. The aircraft would glow like a lightbulb, and leave a trail of glowing plasma in its wake. Also notably, aircraft at high hypersonic speeds induce a local plasma air environment, due to the tremendous energy of the aerodynamics.
As owner of the Hope Diamond, I must say that a grain of salt the size of the Hope is no big deal. I've had better diamonds in my time.
If you microwave the hamster, you might get kicked out of the mansion...
Well, I didn't think my solar powered electric chair was that well known...
Here at the University of Michigan, the solar car team (whose corporate donations exceed $1 million) keeps messing with the Human-Powered Helicopter team's table in the Wilson Center. Now we've got to trash that table though, because apparently homemade tables are not allowed in any university buildings.
Interestingly, Michigan Solar Car is basically a small student-run corporation. They've got over 200 members with guys from the business school helping with corporate relations, and an army of engineers of every type. I work across from them every week, but they actually rent their own off-campus building for most of their construction.
A breakaway faction of the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) called WHAT-WG
According to the WHAT-WG page, "Many of the members of this working group are active supporters and members of the W3C..." So it seems they themselves do not see WHAT-WG as a "breakaway faction."
And if they actually rejected the W3C, why are they planning to submit their proposal through the standard W3C pipeline? Why not attempt to bypass or ignore it? If WHAT-WG are against the W3C, they would not be planning to cooperate with them.
It looks like this WHAT-WG is just another group submitting another proposal to the W3C. Yes, that proposal conflicts with an existing W3C one. But that doesn't indicate anything about turmoil in the W3C. It's just another potential standard that happens to have the same goal as another. Competition of standards in the W3C is nothing new.
What the hell, it's being run by Princeton? No way I'm believing this now.
The components using CCD's can be changed and have been numerous times, but it's still expensive to design and manufacture them. The separate costs of all those little developments could probably be more cheaply consolidated in one brand new telescope.
How about we send a robotic telescope instead? One with arms so that it could fix the Hubble, look at the stars and then hurl large rocks at the teeming citizens below...
Perhaps even more amusing, is that almost every slashdotter reading that would have agreed with Gates at that time. No one, not even the tech savvy Gates (and he was quite informed), expected the rapid advances in computer technology which followed. And the future is hard to predict, especially in computer hardware.
And of course, I'm assuming that Gates actually said those words attributed to him. Not everything you read on the internet is true.
So when Apple talks about switching from PC's to Macs, what the hell are they talking about?
Regardless of the actual acronym's expansion, "PC" has come to define a computer using an x86 compatible CPU. Saying that Apple has released a PC makes no sense to Apple, nor to anyone else in the computer world. Word definitions are set by the majority, whether you like it or not.
Can you tell me more about this movie? I have never heard of it, nor has it ever been reported on slashdot.
How would Final Fantasy game series factor into this, since it's basically a CG movie franchise with token bits of interactivity?
"NASA - get a mission people care about that can be realistically funded, or sign over the next twenty years to Burt Rhutan and company."
That's easier said than done. Why should science be subject to the whims of the masses? The general public has never been able to determine which scientific research is important. And of course, realistic funding is completely subjective, and quite complex.
Scaled Composites? They're air guys for the most part, not space. And they might not even have the right stuff. As one Scaled employee told me, "The America's Space Prize seems to be too small award for too large a project." Asking Scaled to handle a large scale vehicle development project is like asking your resident teenage hacker to handle the networking infrastructure for a 500 node corporate computer network. The kid might be able to build a great low-cost PC quickly, but throw him a large project and he'll just buckle under the stress and seriously compromise the project due to a lack of experience and cockiness. Rutan alone being made NASA Administrator would be quite different though from signing "over the next twenty years to Burt Rhutan [sic] and company".
And be advised, you shouldn't get too enamored of celebrity engineers. The engineers you never hear about on CNN/Slashdot (both have about the same aerospace news quality) are probably a more impressive bunch than you think.
It is valuable to all of us.
will auto-link a URL
isn't it funny that an "auto-link" doesn't actually link URLs automatically? in that it requires user specification of the link.