The neat thing about the nanotube is that they form spontaneously when carbon is heated. If you burn a candle, chances are you're creating carbon nanotubes in the chaff from the candle. The only problem is, it's not many of them, and they have to be separated.
The big boys just use more carbon and a big spark, causing millions of nanotubes to randomly form and fly about all over the place, where they can be used to cause lung disease and serve as a choking hazard for graduate students until collected and sorted.
Hopefully someday something good will come of all this great research...
A commercial drawing program for Linux? Granted, is is by the company that develops Corel Linux, but still... what next? Photoshop? Director?
If Microsoft is split (as I hope it is), then mabye we'll see its applications available under Linux -- and, like some of the Macintosh ports -- they just might not suck. What a concept. Has Bill figured this one out yet, or is he too busy belittling judges?
The acceleration on the trip down is 1 g. But when the thing hits the ground, it has a certain momentum (mass times velocity). The force on it while it's stopping is equal to its momentum divided by the time it takes to stop... I don't have a calculator on me to do the math, but that doesn't sound like a bad approximation to me.
The whole use of the unit "G" is someone misleading, since it's sort of a unit of force, but immediately makes people think "gravity". They're just measuring the force of impace in a nice multiple of Earth's gravitational field, since most people don't have a feel for what 15,000 Newtons is (or that a pound is a unit of force).
Based on what I know, it seems that most online porn is of "white folk", although that is by no means the rule. If they happen to use enough different "skin tone" ranges to cover the many different skin tones real people have, that would certainly explain all of the pictures that this censorware erroneously blocks.
In the other case, I suppose non-whites could be pleased that they don't have to be the subject of all this useless nonsese. There is always a way to get around such things. Weak encryption comes to mind, as well as color-shifting -- although it seems that the software is triggered by all sorts of images, so it would probably pick those up, too.
People just need to chill out. What's a workplace without the requisite porn, pirated music, and Quake 3 Deathmatches anyway?
I'd have to say that people are even more afraid of C than they are of C++ (if they know the difference between the two).
The approach of this book sounds interesting, at least, and I might've used it back when I first started learning, but I think Java is a much stronger "learning language" than C or C++. It it considerably more intuitive -- if any programming language can be called that. It also has a nice tendency to work the same way on any system, unlike C and C++.
I suppose the danger of books like these is arming people who don't quite know what they're doing with the knowledge of C++. I can hear the help desk calls now...
Finally, now you can have your iFruit and eat it, too. With a nice processor and the ATI Rage card that they come with, you can play a decent game of Quake on them now. (Yeah, you could install LinuxPPC, too. How cool would that be?) Too bad they don't offer 500 MHz G4 upgrade cards!
Such a surprise... are there any countries, barring the third-world or Communist ones, that don't have better online freedom than we Americans. "Land of the free?" We passed that one up a long time ago inexchange for the real American ideal -- money. Mabye someday we'll realize that money isn't everything. Monopolies will be defeated by an open source-empowered Internet, and we'll have real security. The government will become efficient and we'll spend less on security and more on social programs. Is that asking so much? Oh, probably...
How about the South Park episode? "First I kick you in the nuts as hard as I can, then you kick me in the nuts." Or something like that... I guess it would be tough to come up with a good stragety for a simulated version of that game, though.:-)
Well, with the random-choosing bots that the contest-makers throw in, you'd have a 50% chance of beating them, so that you'll only end up somewhere in the middle. I suppose it might really beef up your scores with people that get really in-depth with their code, but very simple algorithms will beat you senseless. As a subject of the testing mentality, I'd have to agree that in real life always choosing the same one will play serious mind games with your opponent, but computers, unfortunately, aren't that smart.:-(
Actually, I'm surprised that Apple isn't running Apache under Mac OS X Server on a couple of G4 machines or something, as much as they've touted their system as a being a capable server. The Be doesn't surprise me at all, though. Be is, after all, for multimedia (as is shown by the graphics tests).
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The neat thing about the nanotube is that they form spontaneously when carbon is heated. If you burn a candle, chances are you're creating carbon nanotubes in the chaff from the candle. The only problem is, it's not many of them, and they have to be separated.
The big boys just use more carbon and a big spark, causing millions of nanotubes to randomly form and fly about all over the place, where they can be used to cause lung disease and serve as a choking hazard for graduate students until collected and sorted.
Hopefully someday something good will come of all this great research...
A commercial drawing program for Linux? Granted, is is by the company that develops Corel Linux, but still... what next? Photoshop? Director?
If Microsoft is split (as I hope it is), then mabye we'll see its applications available under Linux -- and, like some of the Macintosh ports -- they just might not suck. What a concept. Has Bill figured this one out yet, or is he too busy belittling judges?
The acceleration on the trip down is 1 g. But when the thing hits the ground, it has a certain momentum (mass times velocity). The force on it while it's stopping is equal to its momentum divided by the time it takes to stop... I don't have a calculator on me to do the math, but that doesn't sound like a bad approximation to me.
The whole use of the unit "G" is someone misleading, since it's sort of a unit of force, but immediately makes people think "gravity". They're just measuring the force of impace in a nice multiple of Earth's gravitational field, since most people don't have a feel for what 15,000 Newtons is (or that a pound is a unit of force).
Oh well. That's physics for ya. Crazy physicists.
Based on what I know, it seems that most online porn is of "white folk", although that is by no means the rule. If they happen to use enough different "skin tone" ranges to cover the many different skin tones real people have, that would certainly explain all of the pictures that this censorware erroneously blocks.
In the other case, I suppose non-whites could be pleased that they don't have to be the subject of all this useless nonsese. There is always a way to get around such things. Weak encryption comes to mind, as well as color-shifting -- although it seems that the software is triggered by all sorts of images, so it would probably pick those up, too.
People just need to chill out. What's a workplace without the requisite porn, pirated music, and Quake 3 Deathmatches anyway?
I'd have to say that people are even more afraid of C than they are of C++ (if they know the difference between the two).
The approach of this book sounds interesting, at least, and I might've used it back when I first started learning, but I think Java is a much stronger "learning language" than C or C++. It it considerably more intuitive -- if any programming language can be called that. It also has a nice tendency to work the same way on any system, unlike C and C++.
I suppose the danger of books like these is arming people who don't quite know what they're doing with the knowledge of C++. I can hear the help desk calls now...
Finally, now you can have your iFruit and eat it, too. With a nice processor and the ATI Rage card that they come with, you can play a decent game of Quake on them now. (Yeah, you could install LinuxPPC, too. How cool would that be?) Too bad they don't offer 500 MHz G4 upgrade cards!
Such a surprise... are there any countries, barring the third-world or Communist ones, that don't have better online freedom than we Americans. "Land of the free?" We passed that one up a long time ago inexchange for the real American ideal -- money. Mabye someday we'll realize that money isn't everything. Monopolies will be defeated by an open source-empowered Internet, and we'll have real security. The government will become efficient and we'll spend less on security and more on social programs. Is that asking so much? Oh, probably...
How about the South Park episode? "First I kick you in the nuts as hard as I can, then you kick me in the nuts." Or something like that... I guess it would be tough to come up with a good stragety for a simulated version of that game, though. :-)
Well, with the random-choosing bots that the contest-makers throw in, you'd have a 50% chance of beating them, so that you'll only end up somewhere in the middle. I suppose it might really beef up your scores with people that get really in-depth with their code, but very simple algorithms will beat you senseless. As a subject of the testing mentality, I'd have to agree that in real life always choosing the same one will play serious mind games with your opponent, but computers, unfortunately, aren't that smart. :-(
Actually, I'm surprised that Apple isn't running Apache under Mac OS X Server on a couple of G4 machines or something, as much as they've touted their system as a being a capable server. The Be doesn't surprise me at all, though. Be is, after all, for multimedia (as is shown by the graphics tests).