I remember when I was a kid of about 13 or so seeing a demo of 3D images transmitted in a regular TV signal. It was on a show called "PM Magazine"...
I also remember seeing this on the show "PM Magazine" back in the 70s or 80s. It was based on quickly switching between two images of the same scene taken from slightly different angles. The problem with it was that it was not possible to get rid of the flickering without getting rid of the 3-D effect as well.
all these projectiles being fired at the asteroid are going to push the earth backward and out of its normal orbit?
Not really. First of all, the projectiles would be launched from the asteroid, not from the Earth, so they would have almost no effect on the Earth's orbit (unless they hit the Earth, and even then, the effect would be negligible). Secondly, the individual ships that are launched will have an effect on the Earth's orbit, but that effect will be so small as to be immeasurable. Thirdly, the Earth is bombarded daily with tons of material from outer space (most of which burns up in the atmosphere). This material has an effect on the Earth's orbit that completely overshadows anything that Man can (currently) do. Even that material has a negligible effect on the Earth's orbit.
I am not an astrophysicist, but my guess is that the gravity of Jupiter and other large planets have a far greater effect on the Earth's orbit than even dinosaur-extincting-size asteroids.
First, they came for DRDOS, and I didn't speak up, because I didn't use DRDOS.
Then, they came for stac, and I didn't speak up, because I didn't use stac. Then, they came for Netscape, and I didn't speak up, because I didn't use Netscape. Then, they came for Lindows, and I didn't speak up, because I didn't use Lindows. Then, they came for wxWindows, and I didn't speak up, because I didn't use wxWindows. Then, they came for me, and no one spoke up, because they didn't use me.
I once saw a sign in a restaurant offering a "bowel of chicken soup". I was not interested in soup made from the bowels of chickens, and so I went elsewhere.
What does this mean if my source comes from a code generator?
Then the real "source code" is the code that was input to the code generator. For example, for lex/flex and yacc/bison, the "real" source code is in the.l and.y files, not the generated.c and.h files.
Most incorrect indentation can be fixed by running the source through a pretty-printer (such as indent or cindent). I don't know of any pretty-printer that can clean up incorrect Hungarian Notation.
Please use the Preview button before submitting your post. Your example is misleading because you used "<" instead of "<" to mean "<". This caused your example to display incorrectly. (Note that "Plain Old Text" isn't.) Alternatively, you can surround your example text with "<ecode></ecode>":
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Beginning of word is "\<". End of word is "\>". AFAICR, this also works in vanilla vi.
Note that "word" means different things in vim, depending on the language mode. For example, "\<hi\>" matches "(hi-mom)" in C/C++/etc. mode, but not in LISP mode.
X is a single-threaded client/server application [that] provides windowing services and network transparency.
While XFree86 may be single-threaded (I don't know, because I haven't looked at how it implements X), there is no requirement that an X server be single-threaded. In fact, given how an X server must be able to service several connections simultaneously, I would think that it would be easier to implement as a multi-threaded application. The primary reason of which I can think not to do this may be that different platforms implement different threading packages/libraries.
Due to Earth's immense gravity, weight and aerodynamics are critical in spaceship construction. However, once the ship is in low gravity these considerations are totally irrelevant.
While true in the pedantic sense (weight = mass x gravity, so 0 gravity = 0 weight), the mass of a spaceship is relevant in the sense that a ship with higher mass requires more fuel to non-gravitationally alter its trajectory. So it is still important to keep the weight down in interplanetary craft. OTOH, in space stations that do not change trajectory (other than by graviational influence), the mass is far less important, excepting getting the mass there in the first place.
OK, I just tried your test using MS-Windows. I didn't get your "smearing", but I got a lot of "jumping" and "ghosting", i.e., subsequent images of the window would appear in new postions dozens of pixels away from the previous images, while the previous images remained on-screen for several tenths of a second. In addition, sometimes the previous images remained on the wallpaper indefinitely, until I released the mouse button and moved the pointer over the wallpaper (i.e., off of any window). And this was with an empty Notepad window! So, you see, MS-Windows has similar problems.
Note that I encounter the previous-images-on-wallpaper thing frequently, so I am very used to moving my mouse onto the wallpaper to get rid of the images; it's almost automatic.
Personally, I never use it [+], not even in.NET, because it implies an activity that isn't going on, that is to say it implies you're APPENDING string A to string B.
It doesn't imply that any more than x+y implies adding y directly to x. In the expression 4 + 5, I doubt that very many people would imply that to mean that 4 was replaced by 9. Instead, a third entity receives the 9. In a similar manner, "hi, " + "planet!" doesn't mean that "hi, " is replaced by "hi, planet!". Instead, a third entity receives the concatenated string. Most languages of which I am aware (BASIC, C++ STL, Python, etc., etc.) that use "+" to mean concatenate strings will use it to mean that the concatenation is a new entity.
Now, depending on the language, concatenation may require a memory allocation, but that may also be true for integer addition. (For example, Python and some versions of LISP will allocate memory for both addition and concatenation, whereas a language like Borland's Object Pascal (Delphi) will not allocate additional memory for either type of operation if short strings are used.) This type of thing is why it's essential for programmers to know what's going on "under the hood", if they want to write efficient programs.
And think about how dumb you are because if you can't reach your family because of a disaster, there won't be any power lines active anyway and your precious ham radio will still work.
Jesus H. Christ! How stupid can people be around here? As has been mentioned elsewhere, there won't be any ham radio operators, because nobody is going to go through the time and expense if the only time they can use it is during a disaster. No ham radio operators ==> no ham radio. Why is that so difficult for you morons to understand?
Robot kills everyone with the same name as the big-haired not-very-good-looking-but-somehow-sexy-anyway bimbo, but somehow manages to miss killing her.
Robot shoots up police station, and manages to kill everyone but person it was after (the big-haired not-very-good-looking-but-somehow-sexy-anyway bimbo), and her boyfriend from the future.
That's all that I can think of right now. Now, I don't know how many of these ideas are actually original, or whether Ellison actually thought of any of them, but that's never stopped lawsuits before.
There is also the extra housekeeping that goes on for clearing bits from the freemap, updating the file size in the dest directory entry, etc. Things like that also contribute to the performance penalty.
ARGH! I hate that "feature" of Mozilla! On a QWERTY keyboard, ^Q is right next to ^W, which I use all of the time to close tabs in Mozilla. Just a little slip, and WHAM!, there go my other 40-50 tabs. I tried turning the warning on closing multiple tabs, but that pops up when clicking the X icon or using Alt+F4, which is highly annoying. Is there any way to disable (or warn on) just ^Q, and leave Alt+F4 and the X icon alone?
kids who studied a second language usually performed better with reading and writing in English.
That may have been because kids that want to learn a second language are probably more interested in language than those who don't. In this case, cause and effect may not be what you think.
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It was based on quickly switching between two images of the same scene taken from slightly different angles.
The problem with it was that it was not possible to get rid of the flickering without getting rid of the 3-D effect as well.
First of all, the projectiles would be launched from the asteroid, not from the Earth, so they would have almost no effect on the Earth's orbit (unless they hit the Earth, and even then, the effect would be negligible).
Secondly, the individual ships that are launched will have an effect on the Earth's orbit, but that effect will be so small as to be immeasurable.
Thirdly, the Earth is bombarded daily with tons of material from outer space (most of which burns up in the atmosphere).
This material has an effect on the Earth's orbit that completely overshadows anything that Man can (currently) do.
Even that material has a negligible effect on the Earth's orbit.
I am not an astrophysicist, but my guess is that the gravity of Jupiter and other large planets have a far greater effect on the Earth's orbit than even dinosaur-extincting-size asteroids.
Hmmm, needs more work.
I once saw a sign in a restaurant offering a "bowel of chicken soup".
I was not interested in soup made from the bowels of chickens, and so I went elsewhere.
For example, for lex/flex and yacc/bison, the "real" source code is in the
I don't know of any pretty-printer that can clean up incorrect Hungarian Notation.
Your example is misleading because you used "<" instead of "<" to mean "<".
This caused your example to display incorrectly.
(Note that "Plain Old Text" isn't.)
Alternatively, you can surround your example text with "<ecode></ecode>":
The parent of your post did not preview before clicking the "submit" button.
Beginning of word is "\<".
End of word is "\>".
AFAICR, this also works in vanilla vi.
Note that "word" means different things in vim, depending on the language mode.
For example, "\<hi\>" matches "(hi-mom)" in C/C++/etc. mode, but not in LISP mode.
Damn you, USAPATRIOT act!
In fact, given how an X server must be able to service several connections simultaneously, I would think that it would be easier to implement as a multi-threaded application.
The primary reason of which I can think not to do this may be that different platforms implement different threading packages/libraries.
(Also, I never found Xlib that difficult to use.
There was also a "standard" library, called XView, that worked quite well with X/Xlib.)
Window shades?
So it is still important to keep the weight down in interplanetary craft.
OTOH, in space stations that do not change trajectory (other than by graviational influence), the mass is far less important, excepting getting the mass there in the first place.
OK, I just tried your test using MS-Windows.
I didn't get your "smearing", but I got a lot of "jumping" and "ghosting", i.e., subsequent images of the window would appear in new postions dozens of pixels away from the previous images, while the previous images remained on-screen for several tenths of a second.
In addition, sometimes the previous images remained on the wallpaper indefinitely, until I released the mouse button and moved the pointer over the wallpaper (i.e., off of any window).
And this was with an empty Notepad window!
So, you see, MS-Windows has similar problems.
Note that I encounter the previous-images-on-wallpaper thing frequently, so I am very used to moving my mouse onto the wallpaper to get rid of the images; it's almost automatic.
In the expression 4 + 5, I doubt that very many people would imply that to mean that 4 was replaced by 9.
Instead, a third entity receives the 9.
In a similar manner, "hi, " + "planet!" doesn't mean that "hi, " is replaced by "hi, planet!".
Instead, a third entity receives the concatenated string.
Most languages of which I am aware (BASIC, C++ STL, Python, etc., etc.) that use "+" to mean concatenate strings will use it to mean that the concatenation is a new entity.
Now, depending on the language, concatenation may require a memory allocation, but that may also be true for integer addition.
(For example, Python and some versions of LISP will allocate memory for both addition and concatenation, whereas a language like Borland's Object Pascal (Delphi) will not allocate additional memory for either type of operation if short strings are used.)
This type of thing is why it's essential for programmers to know what's going on "under the hood", if they want to write efficient programs.
And think about how dumb you are because if you can't reach your family because of a disaster, there won't be any power lines active anyway and your precious ham radio will still work.
Jesus H. Christ!
How stupid can people be around here?
As has been mentioned elsewhere, there won't be any ham radio operators, because nobody is going to go through the time and expense if the only time they can use it is during a disaster.
No ham radio operators ==> no ham radio.
Why is that so difficult for you morons to understand?
Plus, I think that a patent can be "renewed" once (not sure how that works), giving a total of 34 years.
- Truck-drivin' robot.
- Big-haired not-very-good-looking-but-somehow-sexy-anyway bimbo.
- Robot kills everyone with the same name as the big-haired not-very-good-looking-but-somehow-sexy-anyway bimbo, but somehow manages to miss killing her.
- Robot shoots up police station, and manages to kill everyone but person it was after (the big-haired not-very-good-looking-but-somehow-sexy-anyway bimbo), and her boyfriend from the future.
That's all that I can think of right now.Now, I don't know how many of these ideas are actually original, or whether Ellison actually thought of any of them, but that's never stopped lawsuits before.
There is also the extra housekeeping that goes on for clearing bits from the freemap, updating the file size in the dest directory entry, etc.
Things like that also contribute to the performance penalty.
I hate that "feature" of Mozilla!
On a QWERTY keyboard, ^Q is right next to ^W, which I use all of the time to close tabs in Mozilla.
Just a little slip, and WHAM!, there go my other 40-50 tabs.
I tried turning the warning on closing multiple tabs, but that pops up when clicking the X icon or using Alt+F4, which is highly annoying.
Is there any way to disable (or warn on) just ^Q, and leave Alt+F4 and the X icon alone?
Oh, wait...
In this case, cause and effect may not be what you think.