The USA is in business. NASA is not. Burt Rutan put this together in the nice competitive environment that the USA promotes. Even if you were to limit the term 'the USA' to the United States military/government, I'll bet you that the Air Force and the NRO has a way to get to space, and the odds are good that there is a method to put a man in space, either on the boards as a backup plan, or an active project like Aurora. But "the USA" isn't the government, it is the country, comprised of resources of materials, relationships and, above all, people.
The United States is, when it works, an environment in which the individual can excel and accomplish great things. The state exists of and for the people only to foster that environment. The phrase "it should shame the USA that a few people and $20M can do what the USA can't" is nonsensical in that the USA *is* the people, and the accomplishments of the people are the accomplishments of the USA.
At this point, Tanenbaum, Linus and Ritchie have all chimed in. Has Kernighan commented on the statement? That (and plausably RMS for glibc) would complete the statements of all authors involved in every system - Unix, Minix and Linux. None so far have seen any link whatsoever other than formally published reference specs intended to maintain compatability.
I believe the point is that print manga has a very wide variety of styles. There are some common styles, but then American superhero comics have a common style. That doesn't mean that all American comics look like Marvel in the 80s. Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Peter Bagge's Hate represent a very non-superhero look. Compare Rouge to the Bradleys. In the same way, there are a wide variety of art styles represented in print manga.
Several of my CLI apps are now PHP. It is a good language for interfacing to databases and especially good at creating CLI tools to manage websites written in PHP. From there it was a natural jump to do things like manage my mp3 collection in PHP, a couple cron jobs and things like that.
PHP compiled in CLI mode is pretty good as a quick tool to make other tools. I'm a die hard shell scripter, but the need to interface with web facing code on many servers led me down the path of using it, and it has really proven to be fairly good. There's a lag on slow machines when first executed, as it compiles to memory whenever a script is executed, and that's about my only complaint.
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You are new around here if you don't remember the run of Geeks in Space. It was fairly good up until Cowboy Neal started in with the drum machine every episode (note that's not what made it bad, it's just about the same time it jumped).
That, plus the appearance of the object makes me doubt that it was a meteor. Plus the story that quotes them as saying that they were advised to "put it in the oven to dry it off". Hunh?
I believe he's saying that the meteor hit the roof, and upon hitting the roof (and thus the surface of the earth) became a meteorite. I agree. If a kid then picked it up (big kid), and threw it, it would be a meteorite. But the first impact from space will always be a meteor hit, as it it not a meteorite until it hits.
Why? The rest of the components were designed to last for a shorter time. The mission was designed to do many things in a fairly short period of time. Thus the entire system was designed to do that. It's like asking why a missile targeting system doesn't have a log cycle routine; by the time the log needs to rollover, the hardware is in tiny pieces.
A dust cleaner would be another thing that could fail... as would anything else to extend the mission time frame. Instead of a more complex system that could run a year, they made a simple system to last a couple months. Simple seems to be a really good thing when you can't go over and kick it if it gets stuck.
Hell, grep is the tool to *do* this. I know I habitually tag TODO, ALPHA, BETA, SECURITY and FIXME tags through my source, and then do a 'grep -r TODO >todo.txt' (repeat for other tags).
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I kinda worry about that as well. I've not sat down and used Windows since around 1998. When I've shoulder surfed or hit a Kinkos to do something on the road, it is a very odd interface that doesn't fit my work pattern. Ditto with OSX, which I'm trying to get used to (I was given an old iBook to replace the system I killed by pulling it off a desk one morning).
I want to get used to OSX, but I need to be productive, so Gentoo is likely going on there so I can have everything where it "makes sense". I wish SUSE made a up to date PPC distro...
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Seriously, it makes perfect sense... Navigator, Explorer, Konqueror, Safari. They lead you out into that internet thingy. Mostly that part called the world wide web. Makes sense to me.
Yeah, I actually knew that. I was trying to reduce the people jumping in point out the Nova UL and blur my point. What I got was a reply jumping in to point out the UL status. Ah, well. Slashdot - the nexus of all nitpicks.
This is a backend, intended for usage within another project. In cases like that, it is better to have a distinctive set of characters for Google to find (a process I call 'kiboing'). Only developers are going to use this. Any end users will use it as part of an editor. Think KHTML versus Konqueror. KHTML is the engine, Konqueror the user facing application.
Of course, cars seem to be going towards alphabet soup in their naming (I swear there's a model with the suffix MFC). I'd say that there's no more market tested and carefully chosen names than car model names. The Chevy Nova notwithstanding.:) Maybe people are starting to like esoteric combinations of characters.
Put up a sign that says "do not push this button" and tell me how many out of 20 leave the button alone.
In Space Quest, that's the way to get to a (very short) scene from King's Quest.
I'm struggling to remember the dialogue. "Did you hear something...?" "Just the moat monster". Gadzooks, it's been many a year since I played that on a Apple//c.
Note that the Ogg player runs about 80% real-time. That could have to do with the overhead of having Linux running, or it could be due to the iPod honestly not having enough horsepower. Apple has chosen not to support Ogg for one reason or another (or likely a whole slew of reasons).
It's hardly a "got you on" issue. First off, works are generally listed by start date, as that indicates the culture they were created in. Second, I agreed with you; good works are still being made. Are you disagreeing with that? Otherwise you're trying to argue with someone supporting your point.
And IMO, Spirited Away is in Miyazaki's top percentile of films - a lot of people didn't quite get it, if you ask me. I ask people here what they think it was about and they're usually not close. Maybe it's a cultural thing.
I highly doubt it. Different people like different things. For comparison, my top five movies, somewhat in order from favorite to least, are "End of Evangelion", "Pink Floyd's The Wall", "Apocalypse Now", "A Clockwork Orange", and "The Blues Brothers". I like the first three for being near 'tone poems' of cinema. I've never seen a Lynch film I liked, I like Lain and despise Key: the Metal Idol.
I didn't say I didn't get it, nor did I say it was bad. Honestly, I think it is a good movie that is simply overrated by overzealous fans. Some excellent works cannot withstand the hype.
Then you haven't seen Lain, FLCL, Spirited Away, Cowboy Bebop, or any number of other series I could name.
Half of those were not made after 1998. Lain and Cowboy Bebop were 1998. FLCL was 2000, and Spirited Away (which I didn't particularly like) was 2001.
I disagree that there are no decent anime being made (in any of a number of various genres from serious drama to silly comedy), but, just like any other medium (television, film, stage), the good stuff only comes along every once in awhile. Anime is not a genre; it's a medium. The medium has certain common styles whose popularity come and go (although not all works have those common styles), but then so do stage musicals.
Current project: 1.6megs core source, 677k for core plugin modules (not counting their associated graphics and documentation files). Counting graphics, documentation, source and demo files, it comes to a whopping total of 141megs. That includes all the screenshots for the documentation and such as well.
Of course, if you include all the past versions in the vault, it goes up.
You can easily spot details in Stockton and Sacramento as he drives through them that are clearly I-5. The sound wall to the right in Stockton, the approach in Sacramento. I have an urge to slice and dice the video and see if I can find the place he stopped to eat and get gas north of downtown Sacto.
As the first among many who added the word 'home' and more clarification, I thank you (and the others, esp. SunBug's ECU). Still only 27 returns on '"limp home" sportage', but I have a much more clear idea of what it is doing, the terms to search for, and how I can find the info. Thanks.
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The United States is, when it works, an environment in which the individual can excel and accomplish great things. The state exists of and for the people only to foster that environment. The phrase "it should shame the USA that a few people and $20M can do what the USA can't" is nonsensical in that the USA *is* the people, and the accomplishments of the people are the accomplishments of the USA.
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PHP compiled in CLI mode is pretty good as a quick tool to make other tools. I'm a die hard shell scripter, but the need to interface with web facing code on many servers led me down the path of using it, and it has really proven to be fairly good. There's a lag on slow machines when first executed, as it compiles to memory whenever a script is executed, and that's about my only complaint.
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A dust cleaner would be another thing that could fail... as would anything else to extend the mission time frame. Instead of a more complex system that could run a year, they made a simple system to last a couple months. Simple seems to be a really good thing when you can't go over and kick it if it gets stuck.
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I want to get used to OSX, but I need to be productive, so Gentoo is likely going on there so I can have everything where it "makes sense". I wish SUSE made a up to date PPC distro...
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Seriously, it makes perfect sense... Navigator, Explorer, Konqueror, Safari. They lead you out into that internet thingy. Mostly that part called the world wide web. Makes sense to me.
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No, seriously!! We could...uhh....
*runs*
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
With a beowulf cluster of LED signs, it's unlikely to be pitch black. Thus it can be taken seriously as an anti-grue measure.
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Of course, cars seem to be going towards alphabet soup in their naming (I swear there's a model with the suffix MFC). I'd say that there's no more market tested and carefully chosen names than car model names. The Chevy Nova notwithstanding. :) Maybe people are starting to like esoteric combinations of characters.
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In Space Quest, that's the way to get to a (very short) scene from King's Quest.
I'm struggling to remember the dialogue. "Did you hear something...?" "Just the moat monster". Gadzooks, it's been many a year since I played that on a Apple //c.
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Why? It's already been done (FAQ 3.3).
Note that the Ogg player runs about 80% real-time. That could have to do with the overhead of having Linux running, or it could be due to the iPod honestly not having enough horsepower. Apple has chosen not to support Ogg for one reason or another (or likely a whole slew of reasons).
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It's hardly a "got you on" issue. First off, works are generally listed by start date, as that indicates the culture they were created in. Second, I agreed with you; good works are still being made. Are you disagreeing with that? Otherwise you're trying to argue with someone supporting your point.
And IMO, Spirited Away is in Miyazaki's top percentile of films - a lot of people didn't quite get it, if you ask me. I ask people here what they think it was about and they're usually not close. Maybe it's a cultural thing.
I highly doubt it. Different people like different things. For comparison, my top five movies, somewhat in order from favorite to least, are "End of Evangelion", "Pink Floyd's The Wall", "Apocalypse Now", "A Clockwork Orange", and "The Blues Brothers". I like the first three for being near 'tone poems' of cinema. I've never seen a Lynch film I liked, I like Lain and despise Key: the Metal Idol.
I didn't say I didn't get it, nor did I say it was bad. Honestly, I think it is a good movie that is simply overrated by overzealous fans. Some excellent works cannot withstand the hype.
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Then you haven't seen Lain, FLCL, Spirited Away, Cowboy Bebop, or any number of other series I could name.
Half of those were not made after 1998. Lain and Cowboy Bebop were 1998. FLCL was 2000, and Spirited Away (which I didn't particularly like) was 2001.
I disagree that there are no decent anime being made (in any of a number of various genres from serious drama to silly comedy), but, just like any other medium (television, film, stage), the good stuff only comes along every once in awhile. Anime is not a genre; it's a medium. The medium has certain common styles whose popularity come and go (although not all works have those common styles), but then so do stage musicals.
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Of course, if you include all the past versions in the vault, it goes up.
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Yeah, but it was named that because Seth Green was taking a nap when Shawn Fanning stole the source from him (which all fit on a single floppy!).
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