The aforementioned term springs from the same mindset from which the term "World Series" is applied to a US-only baseball league.
The term "The World Series", if memory serves me correctly, was named after the now defunct New York newspaper called "The World", which was a major (only?) sponsor of the games at the time.
To minimize the success of polluted variants, we need a respected, and preferably open and independent, standards body that 1) defines the language and standard classes; 2) works with for- and non-profit organizations to ratify new features and extensions; and 3) certifies implementations to be standards-compatible.
If this were done right we might just blow away the credibility of any polluted variants before they have a chance to muster support and mindshare.
"Popular Science is running an article on Austin Meyer, the creator of the popular X-Plane flight simulator."
For a moment there, I thought this was a story on Mike Meyers and his next Austin Powers movie, featuring a futuristic X-Plane thingy that spoofs Moonraker.
I'm honestly not sure whether to be disappointed or not...
Erm, but if the root problem is that it is difficult to write good nav software, how are humans supposed to figure out they're off course until it's too late?
Joe: Uh, Chuck, I think we just missed the turnoff for Mars.
Chuck: Awww, dammit, Joe, weren't you supposed to be reading the map?
Joe: Well, yeah, I've had my eyes on it the whole time, honest! I guess we're not where I thought we were supposed to be or something. Don't people signpost properly?
Chuck: Don't worry, looks like we can turn back at Mercury. Jeez, we're going to be late! I hope there's a McDonalds on the way, I'm hungry.;-)
That's why I think they're skipping 8.x and on to 9.. at this rate they can unveil RedHat 10 on Oct 31, the 10th anniversary of the "Halloween" release, the first RedHat distro.
The US didn't declare war on Germany. Germany was the agressor. WW2 was triggered when Hitlers took Poland. Europe was then fed up by Germanys imperialism and declared war. The US on this time stood back and watch. When they entered it was in true self defence (perl harbour) and it was allready a fullscale war where Germany couldn't complain about losses (they were the agressor, remember.)
It was in fact Hitler who declared war on the U.S., two days after Pearl Habour. This came as a big sigh of relief for Churchill, as after Pearl the U.S.'s beef was with Japan, not with Germany. So in effect, Hitler paved the way, politically speaking, for the U.S. to get directly involved in the European theatre.
Almost every single service pack changes the interfaces to dozens and dozens of parts of the windows api.
It is intentional part of the strategy: to make the Win32 API a "moving target", precisely to foil efforts to make a Windows clone or workalike.
Digital Research's DR-DOS was gaining a reputation ("a better DOS than DOS") and starting to make some inroads when MS decided to get serious about Windows... and they weren't about to make the same mistake twice.
Who wants to run missions critical apps on an Alpha processor? No wonder it can't sell! If it's really good and been around that long, it should be at least a Beta processor by now...;-)
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The moment you begin accelerating, you're approaching the speed of light.
Yes, but even when I'm "near" the speed of light, if I shoot a laser beam forward it will travel away from my ship at the speed of light! Leaving the math out of it for the moment, this concept seems to imply that there are no limits to velocities that I can accelerate to.
Getting back to the point: how do we explain an apparant increase in mass with velocity, when velocity is relative to your frame of reference? From my frame of reference now I am stationary typing at my keyboard. From another frame of reference, I may be ripping past at an astounding speed as a result of the combined movement of the planet, solar system, etc. This whole "mass increases with velocity" thing seems to demand an absolute frame of reference to hold true... surely there must be an essential concept that I'm missing here.
Let's take another situation: we have three bodies, A, B, and C. From C's frame of reference, C is stationary, while A and B are travelling at velocities approaching the speed of light... toward each other. Now, before A and B collide, what does A see from his frame of reference? He passes C at a velocity near the speed of light, while he is heading toward an immenent collision with B at, what... twice that speed?
Someone please smack me upside the head, something inside ain't working....
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The speed of light is constant in all possible frames of reference, according to Einstein
Alwright, I gun the throttle of my Model Z Star Cruizer, and accelerate steadlily towards lightspeed.
Now, in my frame of reference (i.e. from the cockpit of my Cruizer), the light from my console radiates away at, well, the speed of light. The light that radiates thru my forward viewport travels ahead of my vehicle's path at, again, the speed of light, yes? And this would be true at any speed that I travel at?
If I understand this correctly, then, I would never be able to travel fast enough to catch up with the laser bolt that I shoot ahead of my trajectory.
When do I really really approach "the speed of light?" When does my increase in mass approach infinity, prohibiting acceleration beyond a given velocity? Is my own frame of reference paramount or inconsequential?
Your body is probably between 20k to 300k ohms, for a DC current. Remember, your body is also a very effective capacitor which presents a much lower impedence ("effective resistance" for an AC current) to an AC current. The higher the frequency of the AC current, the easier it passes through a capacitor (i.e. impedence -> 0 as freq -> infinity).
30 to 50 volts DC probably isn't going to do anything to you. 30 to 50 volts @ 50 Hz AC, on the other hand, starts to get dangerous.
What makes power supplies and such particularly dangerous is that most use a technique called high frequency switching to efficiently transform your AC utility power to stable, high amperage output. Those high frequency voltages would send a current that rips right through your juicy body, composed of 80% water and salts, wonderful capacitor material.
It means that, just like JIT compilation in Java, the first time through a loop is slower than subsequent accesses.
Whoa..! Just had a crazy thought. Couldn't a Transmeta chip, with appropriate modifications to the code morphing layer, be made to run Java bytecode "natively"? Would this make a really nifty Java application server, or am I completely off whack here?
Imagine a Transmeta box running a JVM specially built to take advantage of the Crusoe. Would this be a hotrod that runs Java bytecode at "native" speed without the initial JIT latency? Or would this be a fizzle given Java's other limitations (e.g. tendency to have poor memory locality)?
Curious... yeah this is a niche market, but wow, this would be an interesting play for the server market if it were possible.
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Ah, you're an Edenist! :)
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edenism
The term "The World Series", if memory serves me correctly, was named after the now defunct New York newspaper called "The World", which was a major (only?) sponsor of the games at the time.
To minimize the success of polluted variants, we need a respected, and preferably open and independent, standards body that 1) defines the language and standard classes; 2) works with for- and non-profit organizations to ratify new features and extensions; and 3) certifies implementations to be standards-compatible.
If this were done right we might just blow away the credibility of any polluted variants before they have a chance to muster support and mindshare.
For a moment there, I thought this was a story on Mike Meyers and his next Austin Powers movie, featuring a futuristic X-Plane thingy that spoofs Moonraker.
I'm honestly not sure whether to be disappointed or not...
Erm, but if the root problem is that it is difficult to write good nav software, how are humans supposed to figure out they're off course until it's too late?
;-)
Joe: Uh, Chuck, I think we just missed the turnoff for Mars.
Chuck: Awww, dammit, Joe, weren't you supposed to be reading the map?
Joe: Well, yeah, I've had my eyes on it the whole time, honest! I guess we're not where I thought we were supposed to be or something. Don't people signpost properly?
Chuck: Don't worry, looks like we can turn back at Mercury. Jeez, we're going to be late! I hope there's a McDonalds on the way, I'm hungry.
That's why I think they're skipping 8.x and on to 9.. at this rate they can unveil RedHat 10 on Oct 31, the 10th anniversary of the "Halloween" release, the first RedHat distro.
Brace for marketing impact...
To be more accurate:
The US didn't declare war on Germany. Germany was the agressor. WW2 was triggered when Hitlers took Poland. Europe was then fed up by Germanys imperialism and declared war. The US on this time stood back and watch. When they entered it was in true self defence (perl harbour) and it was allready a fullscale war where Germany couldn't complain about losses (they were the agressor, remember.)
It was in fact Hitler who declared war on the U.S., two days after Pearl Habour. This came as a big sigh of relief for Churchill, as after Pearl the U.S.'s beef was with Japan, not with Germany. So in effect, Hitler paved the way, politically speaking, for the U.S. to get directly involved in the European theatre.
It is intentional part of the strategy: to make the Win32 API a "moving target", precisely to foil efforts to make a Windows clone or workalike.
Digital Research's DR-DOS was gaining a reputation ("a better DOS than DOS") and starting to make some inroads when MS decided to get serious about Windows... and they weren't about to make the same mistake twice.
No, but you will need an activation code from M$ if you want to play C#
Who wants to run missions critical apps on an Alpha processor? No wonder it can't sell! If it's really good and been around that long, it should be at least a Beta processor by now... ;-)
Yes, but even when I'm "near" the speed of light, if I shoot a laser beam forward it will travel away from my ship at the speed of light! Leaving the math out of it for the moment, this concept seems to imply that there are no limits to velocities that I can accelerate to.
Getting back to the point: how do we explain an apparant increase in mass with velocity, when velocity is relative to your frame of reference? From my frame of reference now I am stationary typing at my keyboard. From another frame of reference, I may be ripping past at an astounding speed as a result of the combined movement of the planet, solar system, etc. This whole "mass increases with velocity" thing seems to demand an absolute frame of reference to hold true... surely there must be an essential concept that I'm missing here.
Let's take another situation: we have three bodies, A, B, and C. From C's frame of reference, C is stationary, while A and B are travelling at velocities approaching the speed of light... toward each other. Now, before A and B collide, what does A see from his frame of reference? He passes C at a velocity near the speed of light, while he is heading toward an immenent collision with B at, what... twice that speed?
Someone please smack me upside the head, something inside ain't working....
Alwright, I gun the throttle of my Model Z Star Cruizer, and accelerate steadlily towards lightspeed.
Now, in my frame of reference (i.e. from the cockpit of my Cruizer), the light from my console radiates away at, well, the speed of light. The light that radiates thru my forward viewport travels ahead of my vehicle's path at, again, the speed of light, yes? And this would be true at any speed that I travel at?
If I understand this correctly, then, I would never be able to travel fast enough to catch up with the laser bolt that I shoot ahead of my trajectory.
When do I really really approach "the speed of light?" When does my increase in mass approach infinity, prohibiting acceleration beyond a given velocity? Is my own frame of reference paramount or inconsequential?
The mind boggles.
Does this mean that the new bugs are guranteed to work the same way as the old bugs?
(Just couldn't resist.... ;-)
30 to 50 volts DC probably isn't going to do anything to you. 30 to 50 volts @ 50 Hz AC, on the other hand, starts to get dangerous.
What makes power supplies and such particularly dangerous is that most use a technique called high frequency switching to efficiently transform your AC utility power to stable, high amperage output. Those high frequency voltages would send a current that rips right through your juicy body, composed of 80% water and salts, wonderful capacitor material.
Whoa..! Just had a crazy thought. Couldn't a Transmeta chip, with appropriate modifications to the code morphing layer, be made to run Java bytecode "natively"? Would this make a really nifty Java application server, or am I completely off whack here?
Imagine a Transmeta box running a JVM specially built to take advantage of the Crusoe. Would this be a hotrod that runs Java bytecode at "native" speed without the initial JIT latency? Or would this be a fizzle given Java's other limitations (e.g. tendency to have poor memory locality)?
Curious... yeah this is a niche market, but wow, this would be an interesting play for the server market if it were possible.