We don't know that. We've seen very few planets, and we've seen none of them up close. All we know is that there is only one suitable planet in our solar system, and perhaps another that could sustain life with a little help. We know next to nothing about the number of earth-like planets in the galaxy, or even the universe.
"the whole God thing" is simple because it explains nothing. It replaces one difficult problem ("how the F. could all of this have evolved by itself?") with another ("where did God come from?"), and then specifically defines that the latter cannot be understood or explained, and must be accepted "as is", no questions asked.
Oh no, another one of those people who claim "IAs will flop, because I don't want one". How self-centered can you get? IAs are not meant to take the place of your precious PC. They are meant for people who don't want or need a PC. In other words, that is everybody who right now only uses their PC for webbrowsing and email, plus everybody who would like to do webbrowsing and email, but either can't afford a PC, or wouldn't know how to take care of it. That's a lot of people.
You write games for BeOS exactly the same way as you write games for any platform. You use the OS as a driver to push a internally processed and mixed audio signal to the soundcard, and to drive your 3d hardware in the lowest level immediate mode you can get away with. OS services must be generalized to be useful, and therefore are always too slow for games.
You would be right in the old days of DOS, but with today's system being equiped with hardware accellerated 3d video and audio cards, you couldn't be more wrong. If you're mixing audio yourself for example, you're giving away performance on every card that has a built-in hardware mixer (which many cards have these days).
But 'locate' requires the uses of a "database" (a flat file, really) and a daemon that tries its best to keep this database file somewhat up to date. It never is of course, unlike BeOS' filesystem meta-information, which makes 'locate' a very poor substitute for BeOS' 'query' command. Especially if you consider that 'query' can run queries not only by name, but also on other indexed attributes. Finding all files you downloaded from a certain website that are between 20 and 30 days old and larger than 2 megs is trivial, and very fast.
Since when do you need the OS sourcecode in order to write a high-quality wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, or a good java- enabled webbrowser for it?
And BTW, two of the three are already available for BeOS, and the third is on its way.
Assume for a minute that this patent is broad enough to also apply to cddb/freedb functionality. The patent was filed VERY recently, in mid-1999. Freedb itself preceeds this patent if I'm not mistaken. MacOS and BeOS (and probably Windows too) have had cd database functionality (using a similar method but different algorithm than cddb to generate the key) since at least 1997. There is so much prior art here, it's not even funny. If they attempted to shut down freedb based on this patent, the judge would summarily dismiss the case after a minute, and cddb would open themselves up to a "frivolous lawsuit" countersuit.
You will need energy to accellerate the flywheels. Energy is directly related to mass as given by the equation E=mcc. That means that you have to count the
energy you will need to spin up the flywheels as mass
too, and the net effect will be that there is no mass change in the system (and therefore no propulsion). The only way to get around that is to have an external powersupply, but in that case your drive is no longer reactionless or self contained.
Even a high-school student knows that you
need to "push against" something to get a vehicle moving (the road in case of a car, the air in case of a plane, and its own exhaust gases
in case of a conventional rocket).
If that's what they taught you about rockets in highschool, then they taught you wrong. What they probably also didn't teach you is that inertia can be altered (in a charged capacitor for example), and that you can use this effect to generate a (small) force, without the reaction force.
So if it moves, it moves 1-2cm every cycle, 400000 cycles per second
No, it moves 1-2cm from zero velocity. For the second "jolt", it will already have a velocity, and will accellerate more. Also, your calculation assumes that any practical application propulsion system will have the same scale, which is probably not true.
Also remember to subtract the extra 1000 points his daddy bought for him!
Bush is a dolt. His debating skills seem to revolve around chanting "fuzzy numbers" over and over again.
Thirdly, the electoral college is the law of the land. We simply cannot violate it based on whim.
It's interesting to see how slashdotter swing one way (we cannot violate the law) when an election is concerned, yet swing entirely the other way on something like copyright (we don't like the law, so screw it and let's copy this stuff).
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We don't know that. We've seen very few planets, and we've seen none of them up close. All we know is that there is only one suitable planet in our solar system, and perhaps another that could sustain life with a little help. We know next to nothing about the number of earth-like planets in the galaxy, or even the universe.
"the whole God thing" is simple because it explains nothing. It replaces one difficult problem ("how the F. could all of this have evolved by itself?") with another ("where did God come from?"), and then specifically defines that the latter cannot be understood or explained, and must be accepted "as is", no questions asked.
Oh no, another one of those people who claim "IAs will flop, because I don't want one". How self-centered can you get? IAs are not meant to take the place of your precious PC. They are meant for people who don't want or need a PC. In other words, that is everybody who right now only uses their PC for webbrowsing and email, plus everybody who would like to do webbrowsing and email, but either can't afford a PC, or wouldn't know how to take care of it. That's a lot of people.
BeOS has been running on desktop and laptop machines for years. Go to http://free.be.com for your free copy today.
Hmm, it's a pretty sad day when Bill Gates, the mightiest man on earth, needs help from a professional wrestler. I guess he's getting old...
posix has no provisions for graphics or sound, and is therefore largely irrelevant when it comes to writing a modern cross-platform game.
You would be right in the old days of DOS, but with today's system being equiped with hardware accellerated 3d video and audio cards, you couldn't be more wrong. If you're mixing audio yourself for example, you're giving away performance on every card that has a built-in hardware mixer (which many cards have these days).
You've never actually used BeOS or Gobe Productive, have you?
But 'locate' requires the uses of a "database" (a flat file, really) and a daemon that tries its best to keep this database file somewhat up to date. It never is of course, unlike BeOS' filesystem meta-information, which makes 'locate' a very poor substitute for BeOS' 'query' command. Especially if you consider that 'query' can run queries not only by name, but also on other indexed attributes. Finding all files you downloaded from a certain website that are between 20 and 30 days old and larger than 2 megs is trivial, and very fast.
Why would BeOS suddenly gain a lot of drivers that it didn't have before? It's not like you need OS sourcecode to write devicedrivers...
Since when do you need the OS sourcecode in order to write a high-quality wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, or a good java- enabled webbrowser for it?
And BTW, two of the three are already available for BeOS, and the third is on its way.
Repeat after me: "the OS does not need to be opensourced and/or GPL'd in order to write drivers for it".
Assume for a minute that this patent is broad enough to also apply to cddb/freedb functionality. The patent was filed VERY recently, in mid-1999. Freedb itself preceeds this patent if I'm not mistaken. MacOS and BeOS (and probably Windows too) have had cd database functionality (using a similar method but different algorithm than cddb to generate the key) since at least 1997. There is so much prior art here, it's not even funny. If they attempted to shut down freedb based on this patent, the judge would summarily dismiss the case after a minute, and cddb would open themselves up to a "frivolous lawsuit" countersuit.
You will need energy to accellerate the flywheels. Energy is directly related to mass as given by the equation E=mcc. That means that you have to count the energy you will need to spin up the flywheels as mass too, and the net effect will be that there is no mass change in the system (and therefore no propulsion). The only way to get around that is to have an external powersupply, but in that case your drive is no longer reactionless or self contained.
If that's what they taught you about rockets in highschool, then they taught you wrong. What they probably also didn't teach you is that inertia can be altered (in a charged capacitor for example), and that you can use this effect to generate a (small) force, without the reaction force.
No, it moves 1-2cm from zero velocity. For the second "jolt", it will already have a velocity, and will accellerate more. Also, your calculation assumes that any practical application propulsion system will have the same scale, which is probably not true.
Site appears to be down. Guess it was hacked by "the man"...
Also remember to subtract the extra 1000 points his daddy bought for him!
Bush is a dolt. His debating skills seem to revolve around chanting "fuzzy numbers" over and over again.
Do you really think you could manage to push the right button to send those missiles over?
"Gore wants to treat Social Security like it is some kind of federal program" - George W. Bush.
It's interesting to see how slashdotter swing one way (we cannot violate the law) when an election is concerned, yet swing entirely the other way on something like copyright (we don't like the law, so screw it and let's copy this stuff).
I ph34r your debating skillz...
Of course. You're a freeloader. I wouldn't expect anything else.
References? URL?