Well... Not a bad idea... But in the long run, will "StarBase 90210" work for seven years? Why not experiment a bit with the Star Trek universe and make a number of TV movies or miniseris rather than an all new series?
I'd like to see a federation spy operating under cover in the Romulan empire. And after that story, wouldnt it be refreshing to an Murder She Wrote-ish tale. Then perhaps explore the Starfleet Academy. Or follow the tale of two rivaling federation test pilots that takes greater and greater risks to compete with eachother. Then hire the DS9 team for a special TV movie...
Sure, It sounds like a number of cheap stunts, but it would also be possible to return to the original trek concept with first contacts with new civilisation and cultural clashes.
Only trek would work better in the miniseries format as it could feature central characters that are "tailormade" for the plot. (Compare this to Final Fantasy series where they didnt have to make sure all characters survive to return in the next episode)/Ter
I wish i could find a good scripting language like python and perl where the interpreter (and standard libraries) are distributed as a single executable file. CGIpython comes very close, but unfortunately it doesnt work in interactive mode (at least not the windows version). Oh well....
It doesnt matter. It's a win-win situation. Either Bruce manages to blow the thing into little pieces... and if he doesnt? Hey, we got rid of Bruce Willis!:-) Yay!
This isnt really an answer - more a bit of trivia: The ol' Cray-X supercomputer where round (their cabinets where placed in a circle) so that the length of the cabling could be kept down. Back then the synchronisation between pulses in different cables where a problem. And there really where a *snakepit* of cables between the cabinets.
I havnt heard about any free source browsing programs... But I've been using Doxygen to generate HTML documentation of the source when I need to familliarize myself to new code. Definitions in the documentation will be hypertext linkes and there are class inheritance graphs generated. What's missing is really some kind of call-tree but you cant have everything. Doxygen also extract JavaDoc comments from C++ code and insert them into the HTML-documentation.
Doxygen can also generate LaTeX, and RTF files instead of HTML.
First a minor correction. The XBox have 64 Mb of RAM. I dont know why there isnt more than that, it seems like an unneccesary limitation.
Maybe Deus Ex 1 has bigger levels, but they were cut up in smaller sections (sometime poorly divided too) that took forever to load. I also thought that Deus Ex ran really slow on the PS2. The textures and buildings was abysmal and had virtually no eye-candy. (Although some objects in the game looked nice). Even so the framrate was terrible at times. I felt that the engine was really bad. Still... I loved the game and have played in three or four times by now.
>Furthermore, it will be observable only in >some parts of Earth.
Isnt the moon viewable from rougly 50% of the earth surface? That, combined with the spin of the earth during the eclipse, would make any lunar eclipse visible from more than 50% of the surface of the earth.
I wouldnt like to be on earth if la Luna is actually eclipsed by another heavenly body. But I sleep well at night knowing that Bruce Willis would blow the object into pieces long before it would be a threat.
I know this is *really* ancient by now but...
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Greatest Equations Ever
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Math can show hidden truth is everyday life.
A girldfriend is the product of lots if invested time and money
Unfortunately, the flesh of these things seems to hold a high amount of ammonia. This link tells - among other things - about some dude that tried to cook a part of a giant squid.
Okay, I totally expect that this post will be considered trolling. But anyway...
In the 5.0 days i ran RedHat, but then i migrated to Mandrake. I thought that it was time to try RH again, so i neglected upgrading to Mandrake 8.2 and waited for RH 7.3... Now... Im kinda disappointed. Its seems darn buggy.
First: Whenever i close a KDE application (Konsole or Konqueror or whatyever), The KDE Crash Handeller pops up.
Second: Mouse scrollwheel support? I've tried all kind of drivers (and even migrated my old X-windows configuration file.
Third: NVidia driver. The src.rpm does compile but there seem to be some issued with the mesa library that causes it to crash.
Am I the only one with a Geforce256MX card and a logitech wheelmouse running KDE?
Wonder why there is no redhat 7.3 faq on redhat.com yet... Isnt the mandrake site more informative towards the community?
Now i havnt giving up on RH7.3 yet, but i AM downloading Mdk 8.2 ISO:s while writing this.
I dont know what the rest of you guys think, but i have a love-hate relationship to Matlab. It is unreasonably expensive and it has a whole bunch of flaws (negative indexing anyone?).However, by some ancient twist of fate it has become standard.
It is possible to lend a copy of matlab from the university i attend for about $6. But the day i'm outtahere it gonna cost me to continue using it.
Its a bit sad that my university so vigourously require students to learn matlab. I once enterred into a discussion with one of the professors... Afterwards i learned that he had written a bunch of the toolboxes ('system identification' and 'robust control' i think), so that professor were economically motivated to engourage people to start using matlab.
Still, theres no need complaining about it. Its a decent tool that will surely be welcome for many OS X users.
A funny detail is that this was found out. The study of acrylamid actually started with the drilling of a tunnel in western Sweden. The rockwalls had to be sealed with a product (Rocka Gil) that contained acrylamide and the workers got sick. In the folloing study they found that it wansn't only the tunnelworkers that had the substance in their bodies, and it has now been traced to our food.
I submitted this story two days above (when it was news) but was rejected.
Just an idea (am no Slash hacker), but why not just migrate the new discussion threads from the duplicate story to the original one, once it is clear that its a "rerun"? (And afterwards pull the dup down).
Oh, perhaps the original story would have been archived by then, Well it was worth a shot...
Re:C++ too slow, really!
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GTK+ can be used in C that doesnt have support for templates.
I still believe that there is a limit of what compilation speed it acceptable. Have you compared different compilers? Yes, running speed is important too, but not at any price.
I find myself developing the software under Visual Studio and make sure that the program compiles and works there before moving to Linux and compiling the code. Id prefer to develop the stuff under Linux completly, but the time between typing make and having a binary just takes too darn long. Sure i can have a cup of coffee during the compilations, but that sums upp to an awful lot of coffee...
By the way: NUMBER_OF_USERS * BINARY_RUNNING_TIME_GAIN - NUMBER_OF_DEVELOPERS * NUMBER_OF_COMPILES * COMPILATION_SPEED_GAIN = A_NUMBER_THAT_I_DONT_CARE_ABOUT_IF_IT_IS_POSITIVE_ OR_NOT
It is even slower at compiling C++ than the old one. When will they implement precompiled headers. Oh why, why. why havnt they done it already! Or should i just give up Qt and move to GTK+?
Well, there is a few speech synthesis programs that are quite nice, festival (good) or IBM:s ViaVoice (excellent) for example.
However, only a few application supports speech-devices. But since its possible to use many application in plain textmode from a VT102-terminal (pine for e-mail, editors, links for surfing etc) wouldnt it be great if somone developed a braille display that you hook on to a serialport and replaces the screen.
(Textmode rules! I do 70% of my computing on the VT102 terminal in my livingroom).
I believe that there are some support for speech devices in the kernel aswell, unless im wrong.
(I use viavoice to read me a bedtime story every now and then, but found out that a Mommy is better at that - afaik she never kept on reading after i fell asleep)
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This is ofcause exceedingly cool! Nokia should really implement this in their telephones. Wonder if GPS is really needed for this...
Remember what we said about GTAIII, that "noone would deam of acting out a computergame on the streets of a real city"?
And arn't anyone curious about wtf happened to Wesley? :-)
Well... Not a bad idea... But in the long run, will "StarBase 90210" work for seven years? Why not experiment a bit with the Star Trek universe and make a number of TV movies or miniseris rather than an all new series?
/Ter
I'd like to see a federation spy operating under cover in the Romulan empire. And after that story, wouldnt it be refreshing to an Murder She Wrote-ish tale. Then perhaps explore the Starfleet Academy. Or follow the tale of two rivaling federation test pilots that takes greater and greater risks to compete with eachother. Then hire the DS9 team for a special TV movie...
Sure, It sounds like a number of cheap stunts, but it would also be possible to return to the original trek concept with first contacts with new civilisation and cultural clashes.
Only trek would work better in the miniseries format as it could feature central characters that are "tailormade" for the plot. (Compare this to Final Fantasy series where they didnt have to make sure all characters survive to return in the next episode)
I wish i could find a good scripting language like python and perl where the interpreter (and standard libraries) are distributed as a single executable file. CGIpython comes very close, but unfortunately it doesnt work in interactive mode (at least not the windows version). Oh well....
Black thingie that can foretell the future?
I bought one of those once: http://www.shuchow.com/eightball.html
It doesnt matter. It's a win-win situation. Either Bruce manages to blow the thing into little pieces... and if he doesnt? Hey, we got rid of Bruce Willis! :-) Yay!
Where's Bruce Willis when you need him? :-)
BTW: It's discoverer tells the tale of how it was found here. Amazing what you can do with a telescope that the parents bought for Christmas 1968.
This isnt really an answer - more a bit of trivia:
The ol' Cray-X supercomputer where round (their cabinets where placed in a circle) so that the length of the cabling could be kept down. Back then the synchronisation between pulses in different cables where a problem. And there really where a *snakepit* of cables between the cabinets.
I havnt heard about any free source browsing programs... But I've been using Doxygen to generate HTML documentation of the source when I need to familliarize myself to new code. Definitions in the documentation will be hypertext linkes and there are class inheritance graphs generated. What's missing is really some kind of call-tree but you cant have everything. Doxygen also extract JavaDoc comments from C++ code and insert them into the HTML-documentation.
Doxygen can also generate LaTeX, and RTF files instead of HTML.
First a minor correction. The XBox have 64 Mb of RAM. I dont know why there isnt more than that, it seems like an unneccesary limitation.
Maybe Deus Ex 1 has bigger levels, but they were cut up in smaller sections (sometime poorly divided too) that took forever to load.
I also thought that Deus Ex ran really slow on the PS2. The textures and buildings was abysmal and had virtually no eye-candy. (Although some objects in the game looked nice). Even so the framrate was terrible at times. I felt that the engine was really bad. Still... I loved the game and have played in three or four times by now.
>Furthermore, it will be observable only in
>some parts of Earth.
Isnt the moon viewable from rougly 50% of the earth surface? That, combined with the spin of the earth during the eclipse, would make any lunar eclipse visible from more than 50% of the surface of the earth.
I wouldnt like to be on earth if la Luna is actually eclipsed by another heavenly body.
But I sleep well at night knowing that Bruce Willis would blow the object into pieces long before it would be a threat.
Math can show hidden truth is everyday life.
A girldfriend is the product of lots if invested time and money
GIRLFRIEND = TIME * MONEY
but if "time is money"
TIME = MONEY
we have that
GIRLFRIEND = MONEY^2
and if "money is the root of all evil"
MONEY = SQRT(EVIL)
this implies that
GIRLFRIEND = EVIL
So lets avoid them, fellow geeks!
Oh Jar Jar! Nobody loves you but me...
Isnt enough to save a copy of the old libs and set up the LDD_PRELOAD?
Unfortunately, the flesh of these things seems to hold a high amount of ammonia.
This link tells - among other things - about some dude that tried to cook a part of a giant squid.
Okay, I totally expect that this post will be considered trolling. But anyway...
In the 5.0 days i ran RedHat, but then i migrated to Mandrake. I thought that it was time to try RH again, so i neglected upgrading to Mandrake 8.2 and waited for RH 7.3... Now... Im kinda disappointed. Its seems darn buggy.
First: Whenever i close a KDE application (Konsole or Konqueror or whatyever), The KDE Crash Handeller pops up.
Second: Mouse scrollwheel support? I've tried all kind of drivers (and even migrated my old X-windows configuration file.
Third: NVidia driver. The src.rpm does compile but there seem to be some issued with the mesa library that causes it to crash.
Am I the only one with a Geforce256MX card and a logitech wheelmouse running KDE?
Wonder why there is no redhat 7.3 faq on redhat.com yet... Isnt the mandrake site more informative towards the community?
Now i havnt giving up on RH7.3 yet, but i AM downloading Mdk 8.2 ISO:s while writing this.
I dont know what the rest of you guys think, but i have a love-hate relationship to Matlab. It is unreasonably expensive and it has a whole bunch of flaws (negative indexing anyone?).However, by some ancient twist of fate it has become standard.
It is possible to lend a copy of matlab from the university i attend for about $6. But the day i'm outtahere it gonna cost me to continue using it.
Its a bit sad that my university so vigourously require students to learn matlab. I once enterred into a discussion with one of the professors... Afterwards i learned that he had written a bunch of the toolboxes ('system identification' and 'robust control' i think), so that professor were economically motivated to engourage people to start using matlab.
Still, theres no need complaining about it. Its a decent tool that will surely be welcome for many OS X users.
So long and thanks for all the fish'n'chips.
A funny detail is that this was found out. The study of acrylamid actually started with the drilling of a tunnel in western Sweden. The rockwalls had to be sealed with a product (Rocka Gil) that contained acrylamide and the workers got sick. In the folloing study they found that it wansn't only the tunnelworkers that had the substance in their bodies, and it has now been traced to our food.
I submitted this story two days above (when it was news) but was rejected.
Just an idea (am no Slash hacker), but why not just migrate the new discussion threads from the duplicate story to the original one, once it is clear that its a "rerun"? (And afterwards pull the dup down).
Oh, perhaps the original story would have been archived by then, Well it was worth a shot...
GTK+ can be used in C that doesnt have support for templates.
_ OR_NOT
I still believe that there is a limit of what compilation speed it acceptable. Have you compared different compilers? Yes, running speed is important too, but not at any price.
I find myself developing the software under Visual Studio and make sure that the program compiles and works there before moving to Linux and compiling the code. Id prefer to develop the stuff under Linux completly, but the time between typing make and having a binary just takes too darn long.
Sure i can have a cup of coffee during the compilations, but that sums upp to an awful lot of coffee...
By the way:
NUMBER_OF_USERS * BINARY_RUNNING_TIME_GAIN - NUMBER_OF_DEVELOPERS * NUMBER_OF_COMPILES * COMPILATION_SPEED_GAIN = A_NUMBER_THAT_I_DONT_CARE_ABOUT_IF_IT_IS_POSITIVE
It is even slower at compiling C++ than the old one.
When will they implement precompiled headers.
Oh why, why. why havnt they done it already!
Or should i just give up Qt and move to GTK+?
Well, prior art means exactly didley-swat!
:-)
For example, Julius Caesar used to have a combover two millenia ago. But look what i found in Delphion.
Scary, huh. If you're gonna try that you've got bigger problems than both hairloss and patent infridgement.
Well, there is a few speech synthesis programs that are quite nice, festival (good) or IBM:s ViaVoice (excellent) for example.
However, only a few application supports speech-devices. But since its possible to use many application in plain textmode from a VT102-terminal (pine for e-mail, editors, links for surfing etc) wouldnt it be great if somone developed a braille display that you hook on to a serialport and replaces the screen.
(Textmode rules! I do 70% of my computing on the VT102 terminal in my livingroom).
I believe that there are some support for speech devices in the kernel aswell, unless im wrong.
Furthermore i'd like to direct you to BLINUX
(I use viavoice to read me a bedtime story every now and then, but found out that a Mommy is better at that - afaik she never kept on reading after i fell asleep)