Same tech, actually. Logitech bought 'em and decided the CAD market was a better fit than the gaming market (or at least more profitable). My problem was always that I don't have a very steady hand so fine control was difficult--a few quick tries with it put a lot of concussion missiles into the wall.
Does nobody remember the Space Orb? I've had one in my basement for five or six years now, and I keep saying "I'll pull it out and learn how to use it one of these days." It's a full 3D, 6DOF, dang hard to use controller.
We always called the ViRGE the "3Decelerator." 'twas one of the first combined 2D/3D solutions though, and at a good price point, with S3's usual excellent 2D. I briefly considered one before buying a Rush.
There's a reason most scientists don't rush to get to the absolute bottom of every single detail in fishy stories. It's called "whack-a-mole." After sinking a ton of time into picking apart a faulty notion, another one springs up and captures the public's attention. And in the meantime the work you're getting paid to do sits undone. (Phil Plait brings this up occasionally on his site.)
So eventually you develop a crap filter and say "these, these, and these points indicate this is probably bogus" and move on. There's limited time in the day--you have to work on things that seem most promising. You simply can't follow every single possible idea. And if the originator of an idea is known for a conceptual framework that's highly suspect (at best), it's usually not worth much attention. Building on a bad foundation and all that. Weinberg's book Dreams of a Final Theory has some great parts on this process (has lots of other great parts, too).
Babylon 5: In the Beginning--no real surprises (shucks, even reuses footage) but a prequel that was up to the standards and feel of its "parent". They're not all bad (although I did have to think for awhile to come up with that example).
In a Gaussian distribution (which is true of most human characteristics), the three averages are the same number, so it is impossible for a significant majority to be above any average.
It's also slower than molasses in January in Maine
Which end of Maine? Molasses probably isn't much slower in southern Maine than in Massachusetts, where molasses in January has been clocked at 35 MPH.
Practitioners depend on fiendishly difficult scaled-down high-voltage laboratory vacuum-chamber experiments, and absolutely enormous computer simulations.
And, er, observations of space plasmas. I know a couple of astrophysicists who are quite well-versed in plasma physics (one of whom grilled me nicely on my oral qualifier). And the planetary scientists who are dealing with Enceladus and Mars are generally cut more from the space physics cloth than the astrophysics cloth--they probably have somebody doing plasmas next door.
Yes, many astrophysicists are used to gravity as the force that organizes the universe, but there are plenty who deal with gas and plasma dynamics, not to mention tons (relatively) of observational space plasma physicists.
If they hadn't done this, they'd have jumped in front of a local train instead.
Only if they hate their family and want to stick them with the bill for the delays. Suicide may be more acceptable in Japan than in the US, but doing it by jumping in front of a train is less so.
Hmm. It told me enough to identify which processes are pigs...use pmap -d and look at the bottom for writeable/private. Not exactly the same as the DG tool, but you get the bottom line.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Sunbelt Computer Systems, their PL/B implementation, or PL/B source files (extension.pls). (Oh, the fun I had keeping WinAmp from opening my source code....)
The Goa'uld are busy fighting amongst themselves. They're more interested in neutralizing external threats than defeating them--the Asgard have managed to bluff them, even though they couldn't mount a serious defense. Other planets are not allowed to develop to the point where they could become a threat. SGC is the first entity they've encountered with reasonably advanced technology, a will to go into the galaxy, and no other concerns or refuges. Plus, they're stirring up the Jaffa.
Yeah, it doesn't explain away all the plot holes, but the creators do make an effort to not be too ridiculous.
I just finished watching an interview with Roger Beausolai (sp?).
I checked my Challenger file; the spelling is Boisjoly. Unfortunately I don't have a citation written on my photocopy of the interview with him: "Some of the things NASA booster manager Larry Mulloy said... went beyond probing; it was the start of intimidation. But even with that, our chief engineer said he would not recommend launching."
I was just flipping through a 1990 Miami Herald article on Bill McInnis, who made repeated claims of a hydrogen fuel line leak with the shuttle (visible, he said, with Challenger). NASA grounded the fleet for a fuel line leak about two weeks after he committed suicide. The chilling part of this article: "He talked, too, of failures in the thermal protection tiles that keep the shuttle from burning up on re-entry, and of what he believed to have been a lack of proper testing..." The reason I was flipping through the article was to get Mike Clemens' name right. He was a Cape engineer who warned his boss about the O-rings; his boss didn't pass it up. Mike committed suicide after Challenger, feeling responsible for not successfully persuading his boss. I had a list somewhere--I think it had three names on it--of people who warned about the O-rings and killed themselves out of a feeling of responsibility later.
To claim "They knew a disaster was coming, but no one stepped forward" is inaccurate, irresponsible, and horribly unfair to people who lost their jobs over this. Furthermore, it continues to obscure the root cause of the accident. Of course, MSNBC doesn't have a link for feedback about the article.
Exactly. That reminds me of the joke in Armegeddon:
Which is a rip-off/homage of a joke I heard from Charlie Duke (don't know if it was his originally) about the Saturn V--something to the effect of "Then you realize you're sitting on top of something with the explosive potential of a small atomic bomb, that has hundreds of thousands of parts that all need to work perfectly--and it's all been built by the lowest bidder."
Assuming I were attempting to pull a technical writer out of the vague Internettal æther instead of taking the more conventional route of putting up an ad for the job, I'd start by checking the Linux Documentation Project. If a particularly well-written HOWTO (no jokes please) stuck out, I'd know how well the author could write without an editor, that zie could bring a project to completion, and that zie enjoyed writing at least to the point of producing something on a volunteer basis. Then I'd look at other online documentation, well-written technical books with short author lists, etc.
I'd be looking for technical writing, in the flesh, not "technical writing" as a search term. You'll need some sort of portfolio or writing sample if you make it to an application anyhow.
Other than the last responce the rest of his interview was quite surprisingly well spoken and reasonable.
Using "terrorist" in conjunction with Penny Arcade and assuming that any action taken by anybody familiar with the site must have been coordinated by Tycho and Gabe doesn't really strike me as reasonable.
The tone is different than some of his other speech, but it's still full of scare words and low on actual content. At least this interview makes it easier to see what his perspective is (even if it doesn't make any more sense).
I've seen this somewhere for generating SSH keys. Might have been on Windows.
PuTTY's key generator uses mouse motion as the randomness in generating a key.
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Same tech, actually. Logitech bought 'em and decided the CAD market was a better fit than the gaming market (or at least more profitable). My problem was always that I don't have a very steady hand so fine control was difficult--a few quick tries with it put a lot of concussion missiles into the wall.
Does nobody remember the Space Orb? I've had one in my basement for five or six years now, and I keep saying "I'll pull it out and learn how to use it one of these days." It's a full 3D, 6DOF, dang hard to use controller.
Naaaah, I'll skip the bowing ;)
We always called the ViRGE the "3Decelerator." 'twas one of the first combined 2D/3D solutions though, and at a good price point, with S3's usual excellent 2D. I briefly considered one before buying a Rush.
So eventually you develop a crap filter and say "these, these, and these points indicate this is probably bogus" and move on. There's limited time in the day--you have to work on things that seem most promising. You simply can't follow every single possible idea. And if the originator of an idea is known for a conceptual framework that's highly suspect (at best), it's usually not worth much attention. Building on a bad foundation and all that. Weinberg's book Dreams of a Final Theory has some great parts on this process (has lots of other great parts, too).
Babylon 5: In the Beginning--no real surprises (shucks, even reuses footage) but a prequel that was up to the standards and feel of its "parent". They're not all bad (although I did have to think for awhile to come up with that example).
I see the geography requirement is slipping ;)
In a Gaussian distribution (which is true of most human characteristics), the three averages are the same number, so it is impossible for a significant majority to be above any average.
It's also slower than molasses in January in Maine
Which end of Maine? Molasses probably isn't much slower in southern Maine than in Massachusetts, where molasses in January has been clocked at 35 MPH.
And, er, observations of space plasmas. I know a couple of astrophysicists who are quite well-versed in plasma physics (one of whom grilled me nicely on my oral qualifier). And the planetary scientists who are dealing with Enceladus and Mars are generally cut more from the space physics cloth than the astrophysics cloth--they probably have somebody doing plasmas next door.
Yes, many astrophysicists are used to gravity as the force that organizes the universe, but there are plenty who deal with gas and plasma dynamics, not to mention tons (relatively) of observational space plasma physicists.
Depends on what's running server end. VPNC works great, IMX.
GPGPU is what you're looking for.
So it is Novell...ZD is just taking everything and reslicing it with minimal quotation marks. And not linking the original source. *headdesk*
Novell did the original survey. Desktoplinux.com (a ZD thing, apparently) is suggesting the alternatives.
I think that you should restrict that sort of remark to something artistic.
Only if they hate their family and want to stick them with the bill for the delays. Suicide may be more acceptable in Japan than in the US, but doing it by jumping in front of a train is less so.
Hmm. It told me enough to identify which processes are pigs...use pmap -d and look at the bottom for writeable/private. Not exactly the same as the DG tool, but you get the bottom line.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Sunbelt Computer Systems, their PL/B implementation, or PL/B source files (extension .pls). (Oh, the fun I had keeping WinAmp from opening my source code....)
Yeah, it doesn't explain away all the plot holes, but the creators do make an effort to not be too ridiculous.
I checked my Challenger file; the spelling is Boisjoly. Unfortunately I don't have a citation written on my photocopy of the interview with him: "Some of the things NASA booster manager Larry Mulloy said ... went beyond probing; it was the start of intimidation. But even with that, our chief engineer said he would not recommend launching."
I was just flipping through a 1990 Miami Herald article on Bill McInnis, who made repeated claims of a hydrogen fuel line leak with the shuttle (visible, he said, with Challenger). NASA grounded the fleet for a fuel line leak about two weeks after he committed suicide. The chilling part of this article: "He talked, too, of failures in the thermal protection tiles that keep the shuttle from burning up on re-entry, and of what he believed to have been a lack of proper testing..." The reason I was flipping through the article was to get Mike Clemens' name right. He was a Cape engineer who warned his boss about the O-rings; his boss didn't pass it up. Mike committed suicide after Challenger, feeling responsible for not successfully persuading his boss. I had a list somewhere--I think it had three names on it--of people who warned about the O-rings and killed themselves out of a feeling of responsibility later.
To claim "They knew a disaster was coming, but no one stepped forward" is inaccurate, irresponsible, and horribly unfair to people who lost their jobs over this. Furthermore, it continues to obscure the root cause of the accident. Of course, MSNBC doesn't have a link for feedback about the article.
Exactly. That reminds me of the joke in Armegeddon:
Which is a rip-off/homage of a joke I heard from Charlie Duke (don't know if it was his originally) about the Saturn V--something to the effect of "Then you realize you're sitting on top of something with the explosive potential of a small atomic bomb, that has hundreds of thousands of parts that all need to work perfectly--and it's all been built by the lowest bidder."
I'd be looking for technical writing, in the flesh, not "technical writing" as a search term. You'll need some sort of portfolio or writing sample if you make it to an application anyhow.
Using "terrorist" in conjunction with Penny Arcade and assuming that any action taken by anybody familiar with the site must have been coordinated by Tycho and Gabe doesn't really strike me as reasonable.
The tone is different than some of his other speech, but it's still full of scare words and low on actual content. At least this interview makes it easier to see what his perspective is (even if it doesn't make any more sense).
I've seen this somewhere for generating SSH keys. Might have been on Windows.
PuTTY's key generator uses mouse motion as the randomness in generating a key.
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