Well, if it's about the same inertia as you own body, it might actually work. You have to stop your own forward motion, too, when stopping walking. I'm not sure how big this sphere is supposed to be, however, and since all its mass will be on the outer radius, its inertia will be quite high, even if it's light-weight.
Another problem might be that the ground will feel unstable, and you might start swaying and even fall. The ground will shift slightly. I, too, will have to try for myself;)
Yes, it should, though at least with NetBSD's implementation (called "SOFTDEP"), it is still advised to do a fsck at bootup (and you still get the "file system not clean, please fsck" message when mounting an not-previously-umounted fs).
But NetBSD has the Log-structured Filesystem (LFS), which is old, but active development has been resumed for quite some time and it will be quite mature and fully functional and stable in the upcoming 1.5 relase.
It also goes beyond journalling, in that it ensures both metadata and data consistency at any time, thus you can also pull the plug during write operations and re-mount it at bootup without fsck.
It also handles file creation and deletion very efficiently, comparable to asynchronous filesystems, and possibly beaten only by ReiserFS.
Compare this to the ext2fs filesystem, which, being mounted asynchronously in its standard use, cannot even guarantee metadata consistency, resulting in a possible large number of files in/lost+found after a crash/power loss.
Don't worry too much about the signals. I have made the same experiences as you until recently, I never had a serious relationship and I'm already 29.
I got those "signals", some pretty strong and unambiguous, from several women before, but none was really interested in a relationship with me.
I might tell my story, because although my girl-friend lives some 300 miles away we are very happy right now.
We met on the German language Christian channel #ixthys, and although there are often a lot of geeks she is not one of them, but spends a lot of time on-line and at the computer otherwise.
Even long before that I tended to visit people I met on the Internet (both male and female) quite often, and then, although I was really not interested in romance, when I suggested we met IRL some time, she agreed. We had really talked a lot on-line before, but rarely ever e-mailed, but started talking on the phone from time to time. I went to visit her, and we visited her home town, went to the movies, talked a lot, watched video films etc., but all the time it was "just friends".
It was only the third time I visited her that it started getting romantic, and only after I extended my visit by one day, and even missed a choir concert for that. Sitting very close together after watching a video film, we stroked through each other's hair, and it turned out we both liked it so much, that, one small step after another, we ended up kissing.
Sometimes it can work. The best thing was that we did not even have to say a word, and it was not at all embarrassing, it was just The Right Thing.
People say that one can either be lucky in gambling or in love. I know that it's wrong. The first time I visited her I won an SGI 320 Visual Workstation in a prize draw, which I thought was my single biggest stroke of luck ever, but on the next visit I won my girl and I know that's worth a lot more.
I think that's in fact the way it is most of the time for couples that met "on-line".
It was the same with me and my girl-friend (although she's not a geek and we met on #ixthys, a German language Christian channel, a lot of Linux and Unix users there, but not per se a geek channel), and I know of several others. It did not start getting romantic before we met IRL several times.
The first question we get when we tell people "we met on the Internet" tends to be, "And did you meet? I mean, in person?"
So I think irc, or any other on-line chat, is not so much a place for (real) romance, but for getting to know other people, with one of which you might eventually fall in love (just like with someone you met at any other occasion).
Even the current version 3.5 of Real 3D is very powerful, the power is just hidden unter a not-so-stylish GUI. But the physical simulation features, the embedded programming language (FORTH) allowing access to almost all program functions, and the rendering engine quality and speed are smashing.
I don't think the price is fixed yet. But just like the Amiga version was always much cheaper than the Windoze-version, it might happen that the Linux version will be cheaper than the version for the "professional" (huh?) operating System "Windows NT". (It will most likely run on W'98, too)
Real 3D was always a lot cheaper than competitors like 3DS MAX (whose rendering engine really sucks, both quality- and speed-wise) or LightWave 3D, and offered much more features without hundreds of plug-ins.
Realsoft Oy, Finland, have decided to release the successor to their 3D animation package 'Real 3D' for Linux.
Other supported systems will be Windows and probably IRIX. Amiga is most likely being dropped and maybe Mac and possibly Be will be left to third party developers.
There is no release date yet, but the software is finally entering beta testing after years of alpha testing.
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Well, if it's about the same inertia as you own body, it might actually work. You have to stop your own forward motion, too, when stopping walking. I'm not sure how big this sphere is supposed to be, however, and since all its mass will be on the outer radius, its inertia will be quite high, even if it's light-weight.
;)
Another problem might be that the ground will feel unstable, and you might start swaying and even fall. The ground will shift slightly. I, too, will have to try for myself
Yes, it should, though at least with NetBSD's implementation (called "SOFTDEP"), it is still advised to do a fsck at bootup (and you still get the "file system not clean, please fsck" message when mounting an not-previously-umounted fs).
/lost+found after a crash/power loss.
But NetBSD has the Log-structured Filesystem (LFS), which is old, but active development has been resumed for quite some time and it will be quite mature and fully functional and stable in the upcoming 1.5 relase.
It also goes beyond journalling, in that it ensures both metadata and data consistency at any time, thus you can also pull the plug during write operations and re-mount it at bootup without fsck.
It also handles file creation and deletion very efficiently, comparable to asynchronous filesystems, and possibly beaten only by ReiserFS.
Compare this to the ext2fs filesystem, which, being mounted asynchronously in its standard use, cannot even guarantee metadata consistency, resulting in a possible large number of files in
Don't worry too much about the signals. I have made the same experiences as you until recently, I never had a serious relationship and I'm already 29.
I got those "signals", some pretty strong and unambiguous, from several women before, but none was really interested in a relationship with me.
I might tell my story, because although my girl-friend lives some 300 miles away we are very happy right now.
We met on the German language Christian channel #ixthys, and although there are often a lot of geeks she is not one of them, but spends a lot of time on-line and at the computer otherwise.
Even long before that I tended to visit people I met on the Internet (both male and female) quite often, and then, although I was really not interested in romance, when I suggested we met IRL some time, she agreed. We had really talked a lot on-line before, but rarely ever e-mailed, but started talking on the phone from time to time. I went to visit her, and we visited her home town, went to the movies, talked a lot, watched video films etc., but all the time it was "just friends".
It was only the third time I visited her that it started getting romantic, and only after I extended my visit by one day, and even missed a choir concert for that. Sitting very close together after watching a video film, we stroked through each other's hair, and it turned out we both liked it so much, that, one small step after another, we ended up kissing.
Sometimes it can work. The best thing was that we did not even have to say a word, and it was not at all embarrassing, it was just The Right Thing.
People say that one can either be lucky in gambling or in love. I know that it's wrong. The first time I visited her I won an SGI 320 Visual Workstation in a prize draw, which I thought was my single biggest stroke of luck ever, but on the next visit I won my girl and I know that's worth a lot more.
I think that's in fact the way it is most of the time for couples that met "on-line".
It was the same with me and my girl-friend (although she's not a geek and we met on #ixthys, a German language Christian channel, a lot of Linux and Unix users there, but not per se a geek channel), and I know of several others. It did not start getting romantic before we met IRL several times.
The first question we get when we tell people "we met on the Internet" tends to be, "And did you meet? I mean, in person?"
So I think irc, or any other on-line chat, is not so much a place for (real) romance, but for getting to know other people, with one of which you might eventually fall in love (just like with someone you met at any other occasion).
Even the current version 3.5 of Real 3D is very powerful, the power is just hidden unter a not-so-stylish GUI. But the physical simulation features, the embedded programming language (FORTH) allowing access to almost all program functions, and the rendering engine quality and speed are smashing.
I don't think the price is fixed yet. But just like the Amiga version was always much cheaper than the Windoze-version, it might happen that the Linux version will be cheaper than the version for the "professional" (huh?) operating System "Windows NT". (It will most likely run on W'98, too)
Real 3D was always a lot cheaper than competitors like 3DS MAX (whose rendering engine really sucks, both quality- and speed-wise) or LightWave 3D, and offered much more features without hundreds of plug-ins.
Realsoft Oy, Finland, have decided to release the successor to their 3D animation package 'Real 3D' for Linux.
Other supported systems will be Windows and probably IRIX. Amiga is most likely being dropped and maybe Mac and possibly Be will be left to third party developers.
There is no release date yet, but the software is finally entering beta testing after years of alpha testing.
See their V4 pages.