Actually, X used to be shipped with a basic widget set called the "X Toolkit", and also with a somewhat more advanced library called "X View" (which implemented more advanced concepts like callbacks ("notifiers"), etc). I remember using these libraries when I wrote a font editor (around 1986 or so). I found them easy to use, and bereft of much of the cruft that seems to have accumulated around more modern libraries (such as GTK+, etc.). However, I don't think that XFree86 implemented either library, for some reason.
Uh, you do know that it is "standard" (at least in English) to capitalize the word "I" and the first word in a sentence, don't you? If you think that standardization is such a good thing, then why don't you follow elementary standards of written English?
They want to be unique, just like everyone else. "I got a belly button ring becuase it expresses my individuality, and because I saw someone else that did it."
Yeah, if you really want to be unique, get an eyeball ring.
If you are allowed to do bit-twiddling, and know that your objects are bounded in size, you can do better than n log n
True. For example, if no two objects have the same value, and they are all integers in the range 0 to k, they can be sorted in O(n) by using an array of size k.
HardOCP does claim that "Mr. Roberts is the registered contact on the MEDHIRE, LLC. website", and they provide a screenshot of their whois query to prove it (as an aside, notice that the screenshot amusingly shows the domain name as "emedhire.com", the same name that appeared in TR's resume, and that point 5 in the nastygram demanded they change).
Also, point 5 states that the true name of "eMed Hire" is "MEDHIRE, LLC", but in point 6, he (the lawyer) uses the "eMed Hire" name. If the correct name is "MEDHIRE, LLC", not "eMed Hire", then why is it incorrect to imply that Roberts wasn't a director of "eMed Hire", even if he may have been a director if "MEDHIRE, LLC"?
I think that the effect relies on the perception of alternating frames. If you switch the frames so fast that the flickering disappears, the 3-D effect goes away, and looks like a double-exposure instead. (At least, that is what I think happens.)
There is a difference between software written by employees for a company, and software written by volunteers on their own time. There is also a difference among software written by one person, software written by a tightly-knit group (all at one location), and software written by a loosely-knit group.
Software (OSS or otherwise) written by a large, loosely-knit group of people who are employees for a company (and, thus, presumably, writing a commercial product that has deadlines) needs "useless bureaucracy" to (try to) keep things on schedule and going in the right direction. Software written by some guy/gal in his/her spare time may need very little "useless bureaucracy".
My own personal stuff doesn't require process documentation, estimation procedures, release schedules, etc, but even I use the occasional design document (even if it's just scribblings on a piece of paper). OTOH, KDE is a big project, and may possibly profit from using some or many of the methods suggested by the G.P. (if it isn't already using them).
"Use the right tool for the right job.", I always say. (Well, I don't always say that. Sometimes I say other things. And, sometimes, I say nothing at all (especially when I'm sleeping). But "Use the right tool for the right job." is something that I frequently say, or, at least, that I have said on more than one occasion.)
If you ever get stranded outside of the ISS, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy, and people will try to recover you because, hey, free dummy.
CRAP CRAP CRAP!!! I apologize; geosync is about 36,000 kilometers, not miles. That translates to about 22,000 miles. I'm sorry that I got metric and "standard" confused. (Perhaps I should get a job at NASA.) I don't know why, but I thought that geosync was much higher. You were right; sorry about my earlier post that a geosync-sized cable would wrap around the Earth at least once. It wouldn't. However, the total cable, including the counterweight portion, would wrap around the Earth if it weren't for friction.
???? Earth geosynchronous orbit is about 36,000 miles. The Earth at its equator is a bit under 8,000 miles in diameter. Its circumference is just under 25,000 miles. The elevator cable will be over 60,000 miles long, because there must be a counterweight to the portion of the cable hanging below geosynchronous orbit. Thus, the cable could wrap around the Earth up to at least twice, except for one thing: friction. Most of the cable would end up burning in the Earth's atmosphere. My guess is that none of the cable from the Pacific-based elevator would even reach South America, except in particulate form.
This means that there was a springwheel or pendulum keeping time. All you have to do to "pick" this kind of lock is to pick up the entire vault and rotate/move it back and forth at a particular frequency. The action will speed up, and the time lock will open early. Yes, I know that rotating/moving a large built-in vault can present a bit of a problem, but theoretically, it's possible.
Yes but at that point you could rely on the effects of centrifgul force and use lighter cables.
Well, no, not really. Remember that the initial cable will be lowered from orbit, not raised to orbit. In a 36,000+ mile-long cable, it will not make much of a difference if the bottom 100 miles (which, by the way, will be the lightest part of the cable) are bouyed up with some kind of floatation device.
The ISS will almost certainly used to build and maintain it.
I doubt that very much. It's not in a geosynchronous orbit, and it's not in an equatorial orbit. The platform from which the cable is lowered to the Earth (and from which the counterweight is "raised" away from the Earth) must be in an equatorial geosynchronous orbit, in order to remain above the same location on Earth at all times. Moving the ISS to such an orbit is probably not cost-effective. My guess, though, is that the ISS could (and probably will) be used for testing some space elevator concepts, such as doling out long cable, etc.
There are several disadvantages to stainless steel teeth:
They pick up fingerprints very easily.
If you have stainless steel teeth, you can never be the super-villian, only one of his henchmen, and when you finally get the (somewhat geeky) girl, the two of you end up being stranded on a rapidly-deteriorating space station. (You do get rescued later, though.)
You may pick up a radio station playing hip-hop, or, even worse, Rush Limbaugh.
People may complain that you have "stainless steel" breath.
When getting an MRI, your head may get ripped off.
This is one of the most Insightful Off-Topic posts that I have read all week.
(Actually, the whole thread (except for the root) is off-topic, so just mod the parent up, because it's on-topic in the context of this off-topic (except for the root) thread.)
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Venus has slightly less mass than Earth (about 90%), but Venus's atmosphere is over 90 times thicker than Earth's (around 9100%).
The first result points to the Wired article.
The guy claims that he didn't get squat:
I remember using these libraries when I wrote a font editor (around 1986 or so).
I found them easy to use, and bereft of much of the cruft that seems to have accumulated around more modern libraries (such as GTK+, etc.).
However, I don't think that XFree86 implemented either library, for some reason.
If you think that standardization is such a good thing, then why don't you follow elementary standards of written English?
I have taken maybe ten photographs in the past 30 years.
For example, if no two objects have the same value, and they are all integers in the range 0 to k, they can be sorted in O(n) by using an array of size k.
"Who do you post as?"
"Oh, some guy I know."
The standards for libel in the United States of America are different from those in the United Kingdom.
If the correct name is "MEDHIRE, LLC", not "eMed Hire", then why is it incorrect to imply that Roberts wasn't a director of "eMed Hire", even if he may have been a director if "MEDHIRE, LLC"?
You are using the word "surely" far too often surely?
I think that the effect relies on the perception of alternating frames.
If you switch the frames so fast that the flickering disappears, the 3-D effect goes away, and looks like a double-exposure instead.
(At least, that is what I think happens.)
Flying Moose Systems (creators of 3D HOOPS) found that its sales increased dramatically after it changed its name to Ithaca Software.
There is a difference between software written by employees for a company, and software written by volunteers on their own time.
There is also a difference among software written by one person, software written by a tightly-knit group (all at one location), and software written by a loosely-knit group.
Software (OSS or otherwise) written by a large, loosely-knit group of people who are employees for a company (and, thus, presumably, writing a commercial product that has deadlines) needs "useless bureaucracy" to (try to) keep things on schedule and going in the right direction.
Software written by some guy/gal in his/her spare time may need very little "useless bureaucracy".
My own personal stuff doesn't require process documentation, estimation procedures, release schedules, etc, but even I use the occasional design document (even if it's just scribblings on a piece of paper).
OTOH, KDE is a big project, and may possibly profit from using some or many of the methods suggested by the G.P. (if it isn't already using them).
"Use the right tool for the right job.", I always say.
(Well, I don't always say that.
Sometimes I say other things.
And, sometimes, I say nothing at all (especially when I'm sleeping).
But "Use the right tool for the right job." is something that I frequently say, or, at least, that I have said on more than one occasion.)
If you ever get stranded outside of the ISS, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy, and people will try to recover you because, hey, free dummy.
CRAP CRAP CRAP!!!
I apologize; geosync is about 36,000 kilometers, not miles.
That translates to about 22,000 miles.
I'm sorry that I got metric and "standard" confused.
(Perhaps I should get a job at NASA.)
I don't know why, but I thought that geosync was much higher.
You were right; sorry about my earlier post that a geosync-sized cable would wrap around the Earth at least once.
It wouldn't.
However, the total cable, including the counterweight portion, would wrap around the Earth if it weren't for friction.
Earth geosynchronous orbit is about 36,000 miles.
The Earth at its equator is a bit under 8,000 miles in diameter.
Its circumference is just under 25,000 miles.
The elevator cable will be over 60,000 miles long, because there must be a counterweight to the portion of the cable hanging below geosynchronous orbit.
Thus, the cable could wrap around the Earth up to at least twice, except for one thing: friction.
Most of the cable would end up burning in the Earth's atmosphere.
My guess is that none of the cable from the Pacific-based elevator would even reach South America, except in particulate form.
All you have to do to "pick" this kind of lock is to pick up the entire vault and rotate/move it back and forth at a particular frequency.
The action will speed up, and the time lock will open early.
Yes, I know that rotating/moving a large built-in vault can present a bit of a problem, but theoretically, it's possible.
Oh, you said Washington state.
Sorry.
Remember that the initial cable will be lowered from orbit, not raised to orbit.
In a 36,000+ mile-long cable, it will not make much of a difference if the bottom 100 miles (which, by the way, will be the lightest part of the cable) are bouyed up with some kind of floatation device.
It's not in a geosynchronous orbit, and it's not in an equatorial orbit.
The platform from which the cable is lowered to the Earth (and from which the counterweight is "raised" away from the Earth) must be in an equatorial geosynchronous orbit, in order to remain above the same location on Earth at all times.
Moving the ISS to such an orbit is probably not cost-effective.
My guess, though, is that the ISS could (and probably will) be used for testing some space elevator concepts, such as doling out long cable, etc.
(You do get rescued later, though.)
This is one of the most Insightful Off-Topic posts that I have read all week.
(Actually, the whole thread (except for the root) is off-topic, so just mod the parent up, because it's on-topic in the context of this off-topic (except for the root) thread.)