Yes, with an approved simulator setup, under the direction of an instructor, you can log flightsim instrument time as simulator time.
You can't log VFR flightsim time, because it just doesn't carry over. Without a 6 degrees of freedom motion platform you just don't get the right practise for maintaining altitude in turbulence, or practising stalls, or recognizing incipient spins, or recovering from spirals (actually even a motion platform can't do that justice because of the G forces). It's also far too limited (unless you've got megabucks for a real sim) to practise things like emergency procedures (the engine just stopped -- now what?).
That said, it can be useful for practising scanning the panel and some navigation exercises, but that's a relatively small part of that first license.
Exactly. For me its mostly shells on workspace 1, browser on 2, email on 3, and 4 for 'other' (typically office). If I regularly used more apps I'd add more virtual workspaces. I'll pop up shells elsewhere if I need them, and others (kscd, k3b, etc) come and go as needed.
It's not exactly a new concept, either. HP a version of this with VUE prior to CDE (circa 1991), and DesqView I think had something similar about the same time. Perhaps Microsoft and Apple think their users are too stupid to figure it out. Heck, Apple won't even let users have more than one mouse button. (Joke! I'm an old Mac user, and used a 3-button mouse on System 7.)
Well, KDE will let me have up to 20 virtual desktops, although I generally find that four is enough.
What if you have several windows on your desktop or several instances of an application.
Depends whether I need to see them all simultaneously -- I usually don't. Typically each virtual desktop has several windows open, I just click to raise whichever I need. And Mozilla/Firefox's tabs do help. (Konsole also allows for tabs, but typically if I have multiple command line windows open it's because I want to see them simultaneously.)
Also what if your task bar gets filled?
KDE has the option of grouping by like application, as does XP. For me it's not usually an issue, I put my task bar up along the right edge of the screen and there's enough room for fifteen or so task icons as well as the various applets and taskbar menus.
It wasn't so much that the results from the other Viking experiments were inconsistent with life -- they weren't -- but that they could be explained by non-life processes (such as superoxide chemistry). The labeled-release experiment's results required a lot more handwaving to be explained that way.
I used to explain that the Viking biology experiments package was very carefully designed to answer the question "is there life on Mars?". The two Vikings landed, carefully performed their experiments, and broacast back the message "could you repeat the question?".
Of course, if Martian soil were that rich in superoxides, it's hard to imagine methane lasting even 300 years.
Perhaps a way to handle many apps running at once without the desktop looking cluttered is next.
Well, even Motif Window Manager lets you iconify running apps;-) But more seriously, isn't that what multiple virtual desktops are for? That's how I use them.
I'll believe power supply. Had one let a whole bunch of magic smoke out of my main desktop machine about a month ago. A few parts survived, but mostly not. On one board a couple of circuit traces were literally vaporized.
Anyone got a Western Digital WD800BB-32BSA0 with a working electronics board they're willing to sell? (The other drive I had a spare of, swapping the boards let me recover the data.)
The snowman accessory kit is a design patent (hint: the 'D' starting the patent number). That's closer in concept to a copyright or trademark than a regular (aka 'utility') patent. It doesn't patent the idea of "snowman accessory kits", (the mind boggles), just the particular design of that one.
Do you lock your front door? Leave your keys in the ignition? If you really don't understand the attitude, and are not merely saying that for the sake of a post, then you don't lock your front door and you do leave your car keys in the ignition (without locking the car doors).
It is certainly not permitted for random strangers to enter your house or drive your car, so why worry about locks? Leaving doors unlocked and car keys in the ignition is much more convenient.
I suspect you understand this attitude far more than you pretend. And no, the attitude of most users is not that you can do these things if it isn't physically prevented -- just as most people are basically honest and won't trespass or steal your car. It's the few assholes you have to be on guard against. Recall the price of freedom.
If I'm going to shell out seven or eight bucks for a novel (and that's just paperback), damn right I want the publisher to be "elitist" so I don't waste my money on crap.
Part of the money I'm paying is for some editor or first reader to wade through the slush pile and find the good stuff.
(Now true, some later, poorly edited, novels by Big Name Authors manage to get published although they might not have made it out of the slush pile if they were first novels, but they still sell well. Such is life.)
There was a time when real science fiction fans, the ones that actually read books rather than just watched movies or flipped through comics, considered "scifi" (as Ellison pronounces it, "skiffy") to be a term used either derogatively or only by wannabes, and the real abbreviation was SF -- which could also stand for "speculative fiction", as the New Wavers were inclined to call it.
A few old timers still feel the same way, but those who were still in diapers when the original "Star Wars" first appeared on the big screen have grown up with "sci fi". "SF", though, is still easier to say and shorter to write.
No need to compress images... just spool stuff off in raw format. Making games faster
Given the relative speed of CPUs and drives -- especially optical drives -- it's probably faster to transfer it compressed (less I/O) and then decompress it in memory -- ideally in video memory, let the GPU do it...
That's less than a two hour movie at a 2.33 aspect ratio (about the widest in common use) and 1024 lines vertical, with no compression and 24 frames per second (film rate). Not counting audio.
With reasonable (very low loss) compression, that's a feature length movie at film resolution.
You'll need a second disk for the extras.
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I'll go with the Prigaux chart over the Levenez one for that. Levenez shows Pascal, etc, as branching from the Algol line after Algol 68, which may be true chronologically but not syntacticall or symantically.
Prigaux has it right, Algol W (the W is for Wirth) is an Algol 60 deriviative (as is Simula and others), and Pascal (also created by Wirth) descends from that. Algol 68 is quite different.
Mind, I wouldn't put a line from PL/I to Pascal, well, maybe a dashed line. I think the only thing Pascal could be remotely said to inherit from PL/I is records (structures), syntactically PL/I is too different (it owes as much to Fortran and Cobol as to Algol, as Prigaux' chart shows, but Pascal doesn't.)
Those of Frankish descent probably would still have a pretty good argument, even though the Gauls were there first. (Given the name of the country and all.)
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So what do you call (in Esperanto) a place for horses?
And can you keep horses and cows in the same building?
What about llamas?
No way.
Yes, with an approved simulator setup, under the direction of an instructor, you can log flightsim instrument time as simulator time.
You can't log VFR flightsim time, because it just doesn't carry over. Without a 6 degrees of freedom motion platform you just don't get the right practise for maintaining altitude in turbulence, or practising stalls, or recognizing incipient spins, or recovering from spirals (actually even a motion platform can't do that justice because of the G forces). It's also far too limited (unless you've got megabucks for a real sim) to practise things like emergency procedures (the engine just stopped -- now what?).
That said, it can be useful for practising scanning the panel and some navigation exercises, but that's a relatively small part of that first license.
Exactly. For me its mostly shells on workspace 1, browser on 2, email on 3, and 4 for 'other' (typically office). If I regularly used more apps I'd add more virtual workspaces. I'll pop up shells elsewhere if I need them, and others (kscd, k3b, etc) come and go as needed.
It's not exactly a new concept, either. HP a version of this with VUE prior to CDE (circa 1991), and DesqView I think had something similar about the same time. Perhaps Microsoft and Apple think their users are too stupid to figure it out. Heck, Apple won't even let users have more than one mouse button. (Joke! I'm an old Mac user, and used a 3-button mouse on System 7.)
How do you manage 15+ applications that are open?
Well, KDE will let me have up to 20 virtual desktops, although I generally find that four is enough.
What if you have several windows on your desktop or several instances of an application.
Depends whether I need to see them all simultaneously -- I usually don't. Typically each virtual desktop has several windows open, I just click to raise whichever I need. And Mozilla/Firefox's tabs do help. (Konsole also allows for tabs, but typically if I have multiple command line windows open it's because I want to see them simultaneously.)
Also what if your task bar gets filled?
KDE has the option of grouping by like application, as does XP. For me it's not usually an issue, I put my task bar up along the right edge of the screen and there's enough room for fifteen or so task icons as well as the various applets and taskbar menus.
It wasn't so much that the results from the other Viking experiments were inconsistent with life -- they weren't -- but that they could be explained by non-life processes (such as superoxide chemistry). The labeled-release experiment's results required a lot more handwaving to be explained that way.
I used to explain that the Viking biology experiments package was very carefully designed to answer the question "is there life on Mars?". The two Vikings landed, carefully performed their experiments, and broacast back the message "could you repeat the question?".
Of course, if Martian soil were that rich in superoxides, it's hard to imagine methane lasting even 300 years.
Perhaps a way to handle many apps running at once without the desktop looking cluttered is next.
;-) But more seriously, isn't that what multiple virtual desktops are for? That's how I use them.
Well, even Motif Window Manager lets you iconify running apps
Um, if it's hardware accelerated, it will be eating fewer of your CPU cycles.
It seems that one Dr. Moreau had prior art. Maybe that's why USPTO refused it.
The dang thing is too reflective. Those aren't pictures of it, but of what it reflects. It's like trying to take a picture of a mirror...
The Puppeteers had (have, will have, whatever) both antigrav and artificial gravity. I think they could deal with any instability.
Oh yeah? Just when was your copy of the Bible published, eh?
Damn clever, these revisionists.
Then you've got them wired backwards. They're supposed to blow.
Probably. That's why I stick to diet sodas.
Or rather, don't stick.
I'll believe power supply. Had one let a whole bunch of magic smoke out of my main desktop machine about a month ago. A few parts survived, but mostly not. On one board a couple of circuit traces were literally vaporized.
Anyone got a Western Digital WD800BB-32BSA0 with a working electronics board they're willing to sell? (The other drive I had a spare of, swapping the boards let me recover the data.)
The snowman accessory kit is a design patent (hint: the 'D' starting the patent number). That's closer in concept to a copyright or trademark than a regular (aka 'utility') patent. It doesn't patent the idea of "snowman accessory kits", (the mind boggles), just the particular design of that one.
The others I'll grant you.
Do you lock your front door? Leave your keys in the ignition? If you really don't understand the attitude, and are not merely saying that for the sake of a post, then you don't lock your front door and you do leave your car keys in the ignition (without locking the car doors).
It is certainly not permitted for random strangers to enter your house or drive your car, so why worry about locks? Leaving doors unlocked and car keys in the ignition is much more convenient.
I suspect you understand this attitude far more than you pretend. And no, the attitude of most users is not that you can do these things if it isn't physically prevented -- just as most people are basically honest and won't trespass or steal your car. It's the few assholes you have to be on guard against. Recall the price of freedom.
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Ah, but "is-not is not not-is". (Keith Laumer, The Great Time Machine Hoax, 1964)
If I'm going to shell out seven or eight bucks for a novel (and that's just paperback), damn right I want the publisher to be "elitist" so I don't waste my money on crap.
Part of the money I'm paying is for some editor or first reader to wade through the slush pile and find the good stuff.
(Now true, some later, poorly edited, novels by Big Name Authors manage to get published although they might not have made it out of the slush pile if they were first novels, but they still sell well. Such is life.)
There was a time when real science fiction fans, the ones that actually read books rather than just watched movies or flipped through comics, considered "scifi" (as Ellison pronounces it, "skiffy") to be a term used either derogatively or only by wannabes, and the real abbreviation was SF -- which could also stand for "speculative fiction", as the New Wavers were inclined to call it.
A few old timers still feel the same way, but those who were still in diapers when the original "Star Wars" first appeared on the big screen have grown up with "sci fi". "SF", though, is still easier to say and shorter to write.
No need to compress images... just spool stuff off in raw format. Making games faster
Given the relative speed of CPUs and drives -- especially optical drives -- it's probably faster to transfer it compressed (less I/O) and then decompress it in memory -- ideally in video memory, let the GPU do it...
That's less than a two hour movie at a 2.33 aspect ratio (about the widest in common use) and 1024 lines vertical, with no compression and 24 frames per second (film rate). Not counting audio.
With reasonable (very low loss) compression, that's a feature length movie at film resolution.
You'll need a second disk for the extras.
"Socks are the larval form of hangers."
I thought that was paperclips.
Shouldn't the ring have a green LED for that oath?
I'll go with the Prigaux chart over the Levenez one for that. Levenez shows Pascal, etc, as branching from the Algol line after Algol 68, which may be true chronologically but not syntacticall or symantically.
Prigaux has it right, Algol W (the W is for Wirth) is an Algol 60 deriviative (as is Simula and others), and Pascal (also created by Wirth) descends from that. Algol 68 is quite different.
Mind, I wouldn't put a line from PL/I to Pascal, well, maybe a dashed line. I think the only thing Pascal could be remotely said to inherit from PL/I is records (structures), syntactically PL/I is too different (it owes as much to Fortran and Cobol as to Algol, as Prigaux' chart shows, but Pascal doesn't.)
Those of Frankish descent probably would still have a pretty good argument, even though the Gauls were there first. (Given the name of the country and all.)