There is no such thing as a T-mobile fan. Cycling fans support the cyclists from their own country or have an individual favourite.
For the cyclists it is a different story. They don't care if a countryman is leading the race, if he is from another team they will put a lot of effort in trying to get him back. They might not win themselves after that but hope a teammate wins so they can share in the price money.
Jens Voigt was ordered by his captain to counter attack Andeas Kloeden (a fellow German but from another team) and did that succesfully. Some german fans didn't appreciate that. The sad thing is, they probably understood that every cyclist would have done the same thing as Jens Voigt but spat on him anyway.
They do film it from a helicopter and show it as one of the many replays (at least where I live). Indeed this is the most interesting shot and it doesn't get the attention it deserves.
Where is the obvious flow of control in an OO language?
Answer: there isn't one. Polymorphism defines the flow of control at runtime, and you can't see it beforehand.
IMHO that is one of the disadvantages of OO; you need a debugger to see what's going on. For a lot of problems polymorphism is the most elegant solution and this disadvantage is outweighed by the advantages. This does not hold for the problems you try to solve in a spread sheet.
Spreadsheets are also terrible at 3D rendering and at making coffee. They are however great for evaluating simple models with many variables. Don't confuse them with real programming languages.
The problem is that people do exactly that. For a lot of people even using a simple language like matlab is too big a step. So they keep on using what they know even if their problem requires a real programming language. Just ask the guy, somewhere else in this discussion, that was forced to do quantum mechanics calculations in excel.
I was going to make the exact same point as the grant parent. A person using a spread sheet looks only at the data and the intermediate results, not at the source. In the end this leads to sheets nobody understands anymore and that are hard to debug.
...but wouldn't it be a helluva lot quicker if ESA had stuck an ion engine or something onto the probe, like they're doing with the SMART moon mission? Why didn't they? I mean, even if it added a few years onto the development time, wouldn't it have got there quicker?
SMART is ESA's first mission using the ion drive and is used to test the technology. I think that, when the Rosetta project was given the go ahead in 1993, the ion drive was either not avalaible in its current form or SMART was selected as the test project. And you can not change the design of a long running project like Rosetta half way, without a significant cost penalty.
I saw that the NASA have launched Deep Space 1 in 1998. This probe flew by the commet Borrelly in 2001, using ion propulsion. As with the recent ESA and NASA mars missions, you can not compare the projects directly -- Deep Space 1 was a high risk project, didn't land, the speed/trajectories of the commets differ, etc -- but it shows the ion drive is certainly an option.
Did you see the jobs they have? assistant in a home for the disabled? There aren't that many high tech jobs in eastern Europe. I know a guy who moved to the US from Bulgaria and he said that all his friends were bored with life and wrote viruses for fun. Nobody there would hire them to do tech work.
Your point may be valid for most countries of the former second world, but please note that these two kids are not from eastern Europe. Austria and the south of Germany didn't have communist regimes and therefore don't have the same problems as Bulgaria (at least not on the same scale).
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Oops, I should have checked: Jens Voigt was counter attacking Jan Ulrich (also German from T-mobile).
There is no such thing as a T-mobile fan. Cycling fans support the cyclists from their own country or have an individual favourite.
For the cyclists it is a different story. They don't care if a countryman is leading the race, if he is from another team they will put a lot of effort in trying to get him back. They might not win themselves after that but hope a teammate wins so they can share in the price money.
Jens Voigt was ordered by his captain to counter attack Andeas Kloeden (a fellow German but from another team) and did that succesfully. Some german fans didn't appreciate that. The sad thing is, they probably understood that every cyclist would have done the same thing as Jens Voigt but spat on him anyway.
They do film it from a helicopter and show it as one of the many replays (at least where I live). Indeed this is the most interesting shot and it doesn't get the attention it deserves.
You might want to read Extensible Programming for the 21st Century. It was discussed on slashdot here.
it's typography 101.
These typography courses must be very slow, it appears that using capitals isn't taught before typography 102.
Indeed, space is big business. There is no competion involved.
Where is the obvious flow of control in an OO language?
Answer: there isn't one. Polymorphism defines the flow of control at runtime, and you can't see it beforehand.
IMHO that is one of the disadvantages of OO; you need a debugger to see what's going on. For a lot of problems polymorphism is the most elegant solution and this disadvantage is outweighed by the advantages. This does not hold for the problems you try to solve in a spread sheet.
Pepijn.
Spreadsheets are also terrible at 3D rendering and at making coffee. They are however great for evaluating simple models with many variables. Don't confuse them with real programming languages.
The problem is that people do exactly that. For a lot of people even using a simple language like matlab is too big a step. So they keep on using what they know even if their problem requires a real programming language. Just ask the guy, somewhere else in this discussion, that was forced to do quantum mechanics calculations in excel.
I was going to make the exact same point as the grant parent. A person using a spread sheet looks only at the data and the intermediate results, not at the source. In the end this leads to sheets nobody understands anymore and that are hard to debug.
Pepijn.
i like shell scripting.
./\U&/g' -e 's/^./\U&/g' -e 's/ i[ ,]/\U&/g' your_post.txt
Then why don't you give the following script a try, you might find it useful. Make sure you run GNU sed though.
sed -e 's/\.
SMART is ESA's first mission using the ion drive and is used to test the technology. I think that, when the Rosetta project was given the go ahead in 1993, the ion drive was either not avalaible in its current form or SMART was selected as the test project. And you can not change the design of a long running project like Rosetta half way, without a significant cost penalty.
I saw that the NASA have launched Deep Space 1 in 1998. This probe flew by the commet Borrelly in 2001, using ion propulsion. As with the recent ESA and NASA mars missions, you can not compare the projects directly -- Deep Space 1 was a high risk project, didn't land, the speed/trajectories of the commets differ, etc -- but it shows the ion drive is certainly an option.
Pepijn Kenter.
Did you see the jobs they have? assistant in a home for the disabled?
There aren't that many high tech jobs in eastern Europe. I know a guy who moved to the US from Bulgaria and he said that all his friends were bored with life and wrote viruses for fun. Nobody there would hire them to do tech work.
Your point may be valid for most countries of the former second world, but please note that these two kids are not from eastern Europe. Austria and the south of Germany didn't have communist regimes and therefore don't have the same problems as Bulgaria (at least not on the same scale).