This tool compiles for various Win32/16 flavors plus dos and os/2. It doesn't do Linux or PPC/PalmOS... that are the two platforms where you really wanna cross compile! Do you people think it's a worthwhile product? Has it retained the value it used to have back in the day when most DOS games were compiled using Watcom?
Both the convention site and the project homepage seem to go little way in explaining what this interesting project is about. For those who don't know anything about the project is a cross between a P2P application and a MMORPG. Basically it's a distributed MMORPG of sorts. That's all I could gather from the official pages. Does anyone know more about this?
Well, it's a simple 12KiB shell script, nothing much to see there. It's well written and it's a nice idea, though. I would wait a couple releases before using it in a real environment though... hotswapping releases is a very tricky matter, and can screw up majorly your computer, expecially if it's done via a script.
It has the (supposed) advantage that it increases the brand value: i- meaning intelligent or interactive, e- meaning electronic, m- meaning mobile, x- meaning experience or extended... Of course, since it's so common it's not valuable anymore. It's supposed to sound intelligent but it's just plain dumb! Even the free software community lacks imagination in its own way. Think about the recursive naming convention - e.g. GNU==GNU's Not Unix and children - or the Yet Another... paradigm. The difference is that OSS names are actually smart and funny, since nobody's doing commercial marketing.
Why should it be much larger? It probably has a metallic hydrogen core, which creates the strong magnetic field. This field interacts with the star's outer shell and magnetic field (say by compressing parts of the outer shell) and thus creating the hotspot on the star.
Here you go: "New Clues Are Detected About Planets of Other Stars By KENNETH CHANG
Published: January 8, 2004
ATLANTA, Jan. 7 -- For the first time, astronomers have detected a magnetic field around a planet around a distant star, offering one of the first clues to the properties of any planet outside the solar system.
Over the past decade, astronomers have found 119 planets around other stars. But because the planets are detected indirectly -- by their gravitational tug on the stars -- almost nothing is known about any of them beyond a lower limit of their masses.
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Using the Canada France Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, Evgenya Shkolnik, a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, looked at the star HD179949, 88 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Its planet, nearly the size of Jupiter, falls in the class of "roasters," a large planet that orbits very close to its star, in this case 4 million miles. (The Earth, by contrast, is 93 million miles from the Sun.)
Ms. Shkolnik detected a spot on HD179949 that was 700 degrees warmer than the surrounding areas and circled the star at the same pace as the planet's orbit, once every three days. First seen in 2001, it also appeared in two sets of observations in 2002. It is probably not an intrinsic feature of the star, which takes nine days to rotate.
Instead, the planet appears to possess a magnetic field that interacts with the star's magnetic field.
"The hot spot is slightly ahead of the planet and appears to be moving across the surface of the star," Ms. Shkolnik said. "The best explanation for this is that it's an interaction between the planet of the star."
The findings were presented Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society here and have also been published in The Astrophysical Journal.
"The observations look legitimate to me," said Dr. Gibor B. Basri of the University of California at Berkeley, who was not involved with the research. However, the theoretical understanding is "very insufficient to be able to judge whether how such a thing would happen," he said.
The presence of a magnetic field implies metal at the core of the planet. Jupiter, which possesses a strong magnetic field, is believed to contain a core of metallic hydrogen. HD179949's planet may be inducing a hot spot on the star similar to how the magnetic fields of Io and Europa, two moons of Jupiter, induce hot spots on Jupiter.
Others have suspected that "roasters" must have strong magnetic fields or that they would have been destroyed by the winds of particles ejected from the star. A magnetic field acts as a shield that diverts electrically charged particles around the planet.".
From the article: 'Sherwood Partners "comes in and talks tough," said Doug Koo, who ran a failing San Francisco startup, Cat Technology. "They teach you that some of the things are a necessary evil."'
In other words: "Your employees ain't doing shit, but do let some of them read Slashdot all day, it's a necessary evil";-)
You are joking but here at work FTP use is restricted for exactly this reason. Bit Torrent is totally blocked because it's a "pirate tool" and so is P2P.
Totally ludicrous, expecially since our netadmins would be perfectly capable of monitoring who's using the bandwidth and how.
This does remind me of my school days, I got apprehended because I was playing with a magnet during lesson. It also reminded me what school (well, Italian school to be precise) seems to be all about: taking away the fun away from culture.
Because that's what hacking is, it's a form of culture and fun. And that 13 y.o. boy is a hacker, or at least he has a hacker attitude, which is good! Honest fun with computers should be encouraged by the school, not reprehended.
And did you read the email from the teacher? "Before you make comments you should be a teacher". Quite typical. Using the same argument I would then say, well, before calling someone a hacker, you should be a hacker too, right?
Oh, by the way, when I was his age I was hacking my Speccy... fortunately for me, it was not in that school otherwise I would have got expelled!
Now for the karma whoring: "It's Micro$oft's fault! If they used Linux then there wouldn't have been any chance of NET SENDs":-)
By the way, what would have happened if he did launched a batch file like this (say it's called a.bat) net send foo Hey! call a.bat ? That IS annoying...;-P
There are so many ways to reach people and poll them this days that this is harldy going to make a difference. If you run a telephone poll and, say, an internet poll (more seriously than these obviously) you can quickly figure out the missing bits. Furthermore nowadays you have technologies that let you know a lot about your customers/voters without polling.
On the other hand, it seems that nowadays politics is very influenced by polls. So what could happen is that horrible, privacy-killing laws could be passed because the politicians rely too much on telephone polls, and don't realize that cell-phone users value their privacy too.
From the article: "It's true that PSP is not directly compatible with PS one or PlayStation 2, but it may have several areas of compatibility, through the Memory Stick, with PSX. Consumers are getting smarter and more familiar with the digital era and the different ways to enjoy interactive entertainment.".
So, PSP is barely compatible with PSX - but not with PSone or PS2. Not good. And then the next sentence: consumers are getting smarter.... right! So if I'm getting smarter I have to own a PSX?? I mean if the products I bought from Sony are not compatible with each other, how is Sony rewarding me for being a smart consumer? Unless... Consumers become smart buying the PSX and PSP, dropping their PS2 in a dump... yeah right, very smart!:-O
The article says the rover's trajectory has been updated. Is it because they were afraid it would land in a crater like beagle2?
I do hope at least one probe lands right. It is one of the advantages of having NASA, ESA and other space agencies competing, when did it happen before this that we had so many probes heading on the same planet?
Does anyone know the different purposes they have?
My machine got patched this morning, and I thought "funny, didn't microsoft say no patches for this month?" and then i saw they were dated november... but it was too late.
The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have salvation and power come, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Anointed. For the accuser 10 of our brothers is cast out, who accuses them before our God day and night. They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; love for life did not deter them from death. Therefore, rejoice, you heavens, and you who dwell in them. But woe to you, earth and sea, for the Devil has come down to you in great fury, for he knows he has but a short time."
...said lawyers were brought away by a medical task force after they started drooling heavily. An eye witness reported that they showed all the symptoms of rabies, including a heavy dose of paranoia...
She got herself into a mess!:-O My company developed a site targeted for 50+ year olds, a couple years ago. I can tell you it was one of the worst problems we've ever had! First of all, even if her boss thinks that the primary age range is the elderly, it is quite unlikely that it will be so. Most elderly either don't browse or have someone help them browsing. On the other hand, when they do browse, they are already used to the way pages are currently laid out (small fonts), and have accepted this paradigm. Other problem, sites with large fonts look very bad! We've had to use 12pt fonts for all the site and it looked like total shite! Lastly, she is going to have a LOT of problems with third party code: e.g. forums, content management and so on... these do NOT look good unless you put a LOT of work into changing the CODE... because usually they make an efficent use of screen real estate - meaning they display a lot of info - and if you increase the font size, it's just not gonna fit. I would also forget the font size combobox if i were her - that's gonna be a total nightmare! I know this will make me unpopular here, but in the REAL WORLD, CSSes are NOT used for these things, they are used to make SURE that the site looks exactly the same on all computers... Basically to take away flexibility from the user. And there's a reason for it.
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This tool compiles for various Win32/16 flavors plus dos and os/2. It doesn't do Linux or PPC/PalmOS... that are the two platforms where you really wanna cross compile!
Do you people think it's a worthwhile product? Has it retained the value it used to have back in the day when most DOS games were compiled using Watcom?
Basically RTFA! The whole test is done with VMWARE... also the screenshots are done using that.
Both the convention site and the project homepage seem to go little way in explaining what this interesting project is about.
For those who don't know anything about the project is a cross between a P2P application and a MMORPG. Basically it's a distributed MMORPG of sorts.
That's all I could gather from the official pages. Does anyone know more about this?
Well, it's a simple 12KiB shell script, nothing much to see there. It's well written and it's a nice idea, though.
I would wait a couple releases before using it in a real environment though... hotswapping releases is a very tricky matter, and can screw up majorly your computer, expecially if it's done via a script.
It has the (supposed) advantage that it increases the brand value: i- meaning intelligent or interactive, e- meaning electronic, m- meaning mobile, x- meaning experience or extended... Of course, since it's so common it's not valuable anymore. It's supposed to sound intelligent but it's just plain dumb!
Even the free software community lacks imagination in its own way. Think about the recursive naming convention - e.g. GNU==GNU's Not Unix and children - or the Yet Another... paradigm.
The difference is that OSS names are actually smart and funny, since nobody's doing commercial marketing.
A hacker from Canada has been wardriving in said area and reported that the star's hotspot is IEEE 802.11 compliant.
I wonder what use it would be with a 176yr ping time! DOH!
Why should it be much larger? It probably has a metallic hydrogen core, which creates the strong magnetic field. This field interacts with the star's outer shell and magnetic field (say by compressing parts of the outer shell) and thus creating the hotspot on the star.
Here you go: "New Clues Are Detected About Planets of Other Stars
By KENNETH CHANG
Published: January 8, 2004
ATLANTA, Jan. 7 -- For the first time, astronomers have detected a magnetic field around a planet around a distant star, offering one of the first clues to the properties of any planet outside the solar system.
Over the past decade, astronomers have found 119 planets around other stars. But because the planets are detected indirectly -- by their gravitational tug on the stars -- almost nothing is known about any of them beyond a lower limit of their masses.
Advertisement
Using the Canada France Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, Evgenya Shkolnik, a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, looked at the star HD179949, 88 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Its planet, nearly the size of Jupiter, falls in the class of "roasters," a large planet that orbits very close to its star, in this case 4 million miles. (The Earth, by contrast, is 93 million miles from the Sun.)
Ms. Shkolnik detected a spot on HD179949 that was 700 degrees warmer than the surrounding areas and circled the star at the same pace as the planet's orbit, once every three days. First seen in 2001, it also appeared in two sets of observations in 2002. It is probably not an intrinsic feature of the star, which takes nine days to rotate.
Instead, the planet appears to possess a magnetic field that interacts with the star's magnetic field.
"The hot spot is slightly ahead of the planet and appears to be moving across the surface of the star," Ms. Shkolnik said. "The best explanation for this is that it's an interaction between the planet of the star."
The findings were presented Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society here and have also been published in The Astrophysical Journal.
"The observations look legitimate to me," said Dr. Gibor B. Basri of the University of California at Berkeley, who was not involved with the research. However, the theoretical understanding is "very insufficient to be able to judge whether how such a thing would happen," he said.
The presence of a magnetic field implies metal at the core of the planet. Jupiter, which possesses a strong magnetic field, is believed to contain a core of metallic hydrogen. HD179949's planet may be inducing a hot spot on the star similar to how the magnetic fields of Io and Europa, two moons of Jupiter, induce hot spots on Jupiter.
Others have suspected that "roasters" must have strong magnetic fields or that they would have been destroyed by the winds of particles ejected from the star. A magnetic field acts as a shield that diverts electrically charged particles around the planet.".
From the article: 'Sherwood Partners "comes in and talks tough," said Doug Koo, who ran a failing San Francisco startup, Cat Technology. "They teach you that some of the things are a necessary evil."'
;-)
In other words: "Your employees ain't doing shit, but do let some of them read Slashdot all day, it's a necessary evil"
[C:\>net send all This is a joke!]
:-)
So where's the news? It was already predicted somewhere else. Also, they predicted the failure of the Beagle...
Nothing to see here move along...
You are joking but here at work FTP use is restricted for exactly this reason. Bit Torrent is totally blocked because it's a "pirate tool" and so is P2P.
Totally ludicrous, expecially since our netadmins would be perfectly capable of monitoring who's using the bandwidth and how.
This does remind me of my school days, I got apprehended because I was playing with a magnet during lesson. It also reminded me what school (well, Italian school to be precise) seems to be all about: taking away the fun away from culture.
:-)
;-P
Because that's what hacking is, it's a form of culture and fun. And that 13 y.o. boy is a hacker, or at least he has a hacker attitude, which is good! Honest fun with computers should be encouraged by the school, not reprehended.
And did you read the email from the teacher? "Before you make comments you should be a teacher". Quite typical. Using the same argument I would then say, well, before calling someone a hacker, you should be a hacker too, right?
Oh, by the way, when I was his age I was hacking my Speccy... fortunately for me, it was not in that school otherwise I would have got expelled!
Now for the karma whoring: "It's Micro$oft's fault! If they used Linux then there wouldn't have been any chance of NET SENDs"
By the way, what would have happened if he did launched a batch file like this (say it's called a.bat)
net send foo Hey!
call a.bat
? That IS annoying...
There are so many ways to reach people and poll them this days that this is harldy going to make a difference. If you run a telephone poll and, say, an internet poll (more seriously than these obviously) you can quickly figure out the missing bits. Furthermore nowadays you have technologies that let you know a lot about your customers/voters without polling.
On the other hand, it seems that nowadays politics is very influenced by polls. So what could happen is that horrible, privacy-killing laws could be passed because the politicians rely too much on telephone polls, and don't realize that cell-phone users value their privacy too.
From the article: "It's true that PSP is not directly compatible with PS one or PlayStation 2, but it may have several areas of compatibility, through the Memory Stick, with PSX. Consumers are getting smarter and more familiar with the digital era and the different ways to enjoy interactive entertainment.".
:-O
So, PSP is barely compatible with PSX - but not with PSone or PS2. Not good. And then the next sentence: consumers are getting smarter.... right! So if I'm getting smarter I have to own a PSX?? I mean if the products I bought from Sony are not compatible with each other, how is Sony rewarding me for being a smart consumer?
Unless... Consumers become smart buying the PSX and PSP, dropping their PS2 in a dump... yeah right, very smart!
The article says the rover's trajectory has been updated. Is it because they were afraid it would land in a crater like beagle2?
I do hope at least one probe lands right. It is one of the advantages of having NASA, ESA and other space agencies competing, when did it happen before this that we had so many probes heading on the same planet?
Does anyone know the different purposes they have?
Personally, i got a first post! :-P
It depends on where you put the apices:
:-D
Open "Source Engineering" Software? Here
"Open Source" "Engineering Software"? Here
"Open Source Engineering" Software? Here
Hope I've been of help but I doubt it!
I use Windows XP and get way more updates than Mac users, so I win!!!
Two guys got arrested. Big news, indeed. What a huge ring!
:^D
Was it "The One Ring", by any chance?
And now for some karma whoring: "in Soviet Russia the ring arrests you!"
My machine got patched this morning, and I thought "funny, didn't microsoft say no patches for this month?" and then i saw they were dated november... but it was too late.
Ehm...
The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it. Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have salvation and power come, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Anointed. For the accuser 10 of our brothers is cast out, who accuses them before our God day and night. They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; love for life did not deter them from death. Therefore, rejoice, you heavens, and you who dwell in them. But woe to you, earth and sea, for the Devil has come down to you in great fury, for he knows he has but a short time."
(guess who plays satan...)
Where do you extract Mercury from?
Hg Wells
(/me runs away)
Win XP style testing? So, what's so hard? Release an alpha version and call it RC, and let users do the testing...
</wintroll>
...said lawyers were brought away by a medical task force after they started drooling heavily. An eye witness reported that they showed all the symptoms of rabies, including a heavy dose of paranoia...
She got herself into a mess! :-O
My company developed a site targeted for 50+ year olds, a couple years ago. I can tell you it was one of the worst problems we've ever had!
First of all, even if her boss thinks that the primary age range is the elderly, it is quite unlikely that it will be so. Most elderly either don't browse or have someone help them browsing.
On the other hand, when they do browse, they are already used to the way pages are currently laid out (small fonts), and have accepted this paradigm.
Other problem, sites with large fonts look very bad! We've had to use 12pt fonts for all the site and it looked like total shite!
Lastly, she is going to have a LOT of problems with third party code: e.g. forums, content management and so on... these do NOT look good unless you put a LOT of work into changing the CODE... because usually they make an efficent use of screen real estate - meaning they display a lot of info - and if you increase the font size, it's just not gonna fit.
I would also forget the font size combobox if i were her - that's gonna be a total nightmare!
I know this will make me unpopular here, but in the REAL WORLD, CSSes are NOT used for these things, they are used to make SURE that the site looks exactly the same on all computers... Basically to take away flexibility from the user. And there's a reason for it.