As the other poster stated, meterites are hitting the Earth every day. I believe that I read somewhere that the Earth acquires several tons worth of material from meteors and meterites daily. I also remember reading somewhere (and it seems logical if you think about it) that the Earth also loses mass as the upper atmosphere is stripped away by the solar wind. Compared to these two processes, the amount of mass removed by sending it up the Space Elevator (or added by bringing it down) would be insignificant.
You'd need that next-gen shuttle thing just to haul into orbit the huge amount of stuff.
Not if you capture an asteroid and use it for the raw materials. Now, wrestling an asteroid into a geo orbit won't be easy, and there will probably be oppostition from Luddite groups on Earth that are afraid of something going wrong, causing the asteroid to crash into Earth, causing our extinction, similar to what happened 65 million years ago, but it can be done. And if the cable manufacturing/deployment process is automated, you won't need to put humans up there, along with all of the infrastructure required to keep them alive (a presumably necessary condition for the success of the project). The whole thing could probably be done using a couple of (non-shuttle) rocket flights. (Use that big Russian rocket (I forgot its name ("Energia"?)) to send everything up.)
So, then I am expected to enter the the address book for my entire company, including their personal address?
Have you never heard of wildcards?
New addresses from friends on the road using a throwaway yahoo address?
The article refers to a ten-digit number embedded within the message. Your friend would have to simply add this code to the message sent. How would your friend remember this number? He/she would have it written down on the same scrap of paper on which your email address is written (or PDA on which it is stored).
At one time, the directory in which Slackware was located was called "slakware" (no "c"). I believe that this was to satisfy MS-DOS's "8.3" filename requirement.
So 3.8 cm = 1.496062992126 in = 0.1246719160105 ft (approximately).
(Actually, my guess is that someone calculated that the Moon was moving away by about 1.5 in a year, and someone else converted it to Metric (1.5 in = 3.81 cm ~= 3.8 cm).)
// In "sound.c++": #if LOG_SOUND
class play_logger : logger {}; #else
class play_logger : nologger {}; #endif //... Sound::Play()
{
play_logger log("Sound::Play"); //...
log << "The new value is " << ++i; //...
}
Note that with this method: 1. A log message is printed when the function is entered, and when it exits (whether normally or by exception). 2. The function name is printed before each debug line. 3. The compiler should optimize out the "log" variable if debugging is turned off, but leave the "side effects" (e.g., "++i" in the above example).
You can enhance the logger class to indent when entering a function and outdent when leaving it, thus showing the level of the call stack (among the traced functions).
(Note: I typed this in off the top of my head, so there may be typos of which I am unaware. Also, slashdot is not indenting the "//..." lines for some reason.)
Anyone know where I can get MP3s for the Doom soundtracks?
You can get midis and MP2s here. (The links in the "Level" column take you to the MP2 files at 3ddownloads.) The blurb at the top of the page tells how you can also buy a CD of the music.
What most of the other repliers to this post are failing to notice is that he was using this code to move a block into an I/O register, i.e., the code was copying the source to a single memory address, not to sequential memory addresses. (Note the lack of ++es after the tos.) So memcpy, BlockMove, the Vax single byte-copy instructions, etc., are all inappropriate comparisons here, because they all copy to sequential memory locations.
Now, if you want to modify his code so that it does a memory copy, then some of the other agruments in this thread may have some merit.
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Bubble sort is fine for sorting "almost sorted" lists.
For example, let's assume that we have a bunch of objects in a deque, sorted on some field. During the operation of the program, this field is incremented or decremented by 1. After changing value, the object "bubbles" itself to a new postion in the deque, if necessary.
Another place where a bubble sort might be appropriate is for lists of very few items, say, five or six.
I agree, however, that the BS is used far too often.
cout can be better than printf for outputing datatypes other than those that printf supports directly. For example, for a complex variable c, "cout << c;" is better than "printf("(%g,%g)", c.r, c.i);".
If you project your network system in the C^n- space of markovian probability measures and with to the frequency domain, you can easily see that our system represents a compact manifold of superharmonic measures.
I agree with you 100%. I will soon be switching my ISP from Earthlink to some other ISP for this very reason. (Pages take forever to load. Getting detailed network statistics is a major pain (requiring a copy/paste and manual edit of URLs). Hell, I can't even sign in any more (despite having cookies enabled for earthlink); I just get sent to a page that states that I have to enable JavaScript to sign in. This means that I can't even change my password any more.)
I have scripting, cookies, and even referer turned off (except cookies for a few choice sites). When I visit a site that requires these things, I go away. If it was a commercial site, then they just lost a potential customer.
The problem is that people are hiring artists and marketing people, rather than programmers, as web page designers and implementors. The marketing person should define the reuirements for the site, the artist should design the look of the site, and then a programmer should create the site, with alternate HTML for those people who have all of the fluff disabled.
Is there an opensource font editing software package.
Try typing "open source font editing software" into Google and see what happens. (It's usually a good idea to type "X" into Google before asking "Is there X? I haven't been able to find any X." here.)
A somewhat more valid question might be, "I just did a search for open source font editing software on Google and it found over 100,000 pages. Can someone recommend a good open-source font editing program that runs on MSWin95 and works with both TTF and AT1 files?"
Oh, BTW, I just did a search for open source font editing software on Google and it found over 100,000 pages. Can someone recommend a good open-source font editing program that runs on MSWin95 and works with both TTF and AT1 files?
1. Solve world hunger so tribe in africa don't need pork to survive
Raise human-edible crops in the same area where you were raising pig food before. IIRC, you can feed ten times as many people per unit area of land if you don't process the food using animals (i.e., feed the animals the food, then eat the animals). However, the reason for most famine in the world is political, not due to actual lack of food.
2. Find jobs the farmers who currently raise hogs as a for primary or suplimental income...
I don't care what happens to these dealers of death, any more than abolitionists cared about what happened to slave dealers 150 years ago.
3. Find me an example of a civilization that is flourishing with out pork.
We won't know until we try. It's like, many years ago, someone saying, "Find me an example of a civilization that is flouishing without the death penalty". Someone was first, and now all civilized countries in the world have abolished the death penalty (for humans, anyway).
4. Find a place to sell grain considerd feed quality for animals but not people.
Methanol fuel. The plastics industry. Also, more farms would grow "people quality" food if the market for "feed quality" food declined, which would also help with your point 1 above.
5. Do the above with the following animals. Cattle, Chickens, fish, sheep.
Yes, I agree, do it with all animals. And while you're at it, get rid of animal testing, hunting and fishing, and other immoral practices.
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As the other poster stated, meterites are hitting the Earth every day.
I believe that I read somewhere that the Earth acquires several tons worth of material from meteors and meterites daily.
I also remember reading somewhere (and it seems logical if you think about it) that the Earth also loses mass as the upper atmosphere is stripped away by the solar wind.
Compared to these two processes, the amount of mass removed by sending it up the Space Elevator (or added by bringing it down) would be insignificant.
You'd need that next-gen shuttle thing just to haul into orbit the huge amount of stuff.
Not if you capture an asteroid and use it for the raw materials.
Now, wrestling an asteroid into a geo orbit won't be easy, and there will probably be oppostition from Luddite groups on Earth that are afraid of something going wrong, causing the asteroid to crash into Earth, causing our extinction, similar to what happened 65 million years ago, but it can be done.
And if the cable manufacturing/deployment process is automated, you won't need to put humans up there, along with all of the infrastructure required to keep them alive (a presumably necessary condition for the success of the project).
The whole thing could probably be done using a couple of (non-shuttle) rocket flights.
(Use that big Russian rocket (I forgot its name ("Energia"?)) to send everything up.)
A government can have police without being a police state.
Actually, it really happened ...
... if you can believe this story.
The problem is, nobody seems to get it. [excessive overanalysis skipped]
You need to get out more.
Whitespace is an actual language.
RTFA.
The other thing looks like a 4/1 joke, though.
Why doesn't he correct Seoul to Pyongyang in your 'impression'?
Because he thinks that "Pyongyang" is a dirty word.
[...]next time I'm working on a PDP/11 [...] (36 bit word size).
The PDP-11 has a 16-bit word size.
I think that you are thinking of the PDP-10.
So, then I am expected to enter the the address book for my entire company, including their personal address?
Have you never heard of wildcards?
New addresses from friends on the road using a throwaway yahoo address?
The article refers to a ten-digit number embedded within the message.
Your friend would have to simply add this code to the message sent.
How would your friend remember this number?
He/she would have it written down on the same scrap of paper on which your email address is written (or PDA on which it is stored).
At one time, the directory in which Slackware was located was called "slakware" (no "c").
I believe that this was to satisfy MS-DOS's "8.3" filename requirement.
You've got it backwards.
1 in = 2.54 cm
So 3.8 cm = 1.496062992126 in = 0.1246719160105 ft (approximately).
(Actually, my guess is that someone calculated that the Moon was moving away by about 1.5 in a year, and someone else converted it to Metric (1.5 in = 3.81 cm ~= 3.8 cm).)
1. A log message is printed when the function is entered, and when it exits (whether normally or by exception).
2. The function name is printed before each debug line.
3. The compiler should optimize out the "log" variable if debugging is turned off, but leave the "side effects" (e.g., "++i" in the above example).
You can enhance the logger class to indent when entering a function and outdent when leaving it, thus showing the level of the call stack (among the traced functions).
(Note: I typed this in off the top of my head, so there may be typos of which I am unaware.
Also, slashdot is not indenting the "//..." lines for some reason.)
That was you?
the key length is too short.
64 bits should be enough for anybody.
Yet another Physics Genius wannabe.
Anyone know where I can get MP3s for the Doom soundtracks?
You can get midis and MP2s here.
(The links in the "Level" column take you to the MP2 files at 3ddownloads.)
The blurb at the top of the page tells how you can also buy a CD of the music.
What most of the other repliers to this post are failing to notice is that he was using this code to move a block into an I/O register, i.e., the code was copying the source to a single memory address, not to sequential memory addresses.
(Note the lack of ++es after the tos.)
So memcpy, BlockMove, the Vax single byte-copy instructions, etc., are all inappropriate comparisons here, because they all copy to sequential memory locations.
Now, if you want to modify his code so that it does a memory copy, then some of the other agruments in this thread may have some merit.
Bubble sort is fine for sorting "almost sorted" lists.
For example, let's assume that we have a bunch of objects in a deque, sorted on some field.
During the operation of the program, this field is incremented or decremented by 1.
After changing value, the object "bubbles" itself to a new postion in the deque, if necessary.
Another place where a bubble sort might be appropriate is for lists of very few items, say, five or six.
I agree, however, that the BS is used far too often.
cout can be better than printf for outputing datatypes other than those that printf supports directly.
For example, for a complex variable c, "cout << c;" is better than "printf("(%g,%g)", c.r, c.i);".
I can't seem to find a way to get the angle brackets to appear properly
When using so-called "Plain Old Text" mode, use "<" for "<".
Two other escapes:
">" for ">"
"&" for "&"
If you project your network system in the C^n- space of markovian probability measures and with to the frequency domain, you can easily see that our system represents a compact manifold of superharmonic measures.
Of course!
Why didn't I think of that?
I agree with you 100%.
I will soon be switching my ISP from Earthlink to some other ISP for this very reason.
(Pages take forever to load.
Getting detailed network statistics is a major pain (requiring a copy/paste and manual edit of URLs).
Hell, I can't even sign in any more (despite having cookies enabled for earthlink); I just get sent to a page that states that I have to enable JavaScript to sign in.
This means that I can't even change my password any more.)
I have scripting, cookies, and even referer turned off (except cookies for a few choice sites).
When I visit a site that requires these things, I go away.
If it was a commercial site, then they just lost a potential customer.
The problem is that people are hiring artists and marketing people, rather than programmers, as web page designers and implementors.
The marketing person should define the reuirements for the site, the artist should design the look of the site, and then a programmer should create the site, with alternate HTML for those people who have all of the fluff disabled.
ILM has a need for an image format which allows for high dynamic range and lossy compression.
The EXR compression schemes (there are three) are lossless.
However, your general point is valid.
Is there an opensource font editing software package.
Try typing "open source font editing software" into Google and see what happens.
(It's usually a good idea to type "X" into Google before asking "Is there X? I haven't been able to find any X." here.)
A somewhat more valid question might be, "I just did a search for open source font editing software on Google and it found over 100,000 pages.
Can someone recommend a good open-source font editing program that runs on MSWin95 and works with both TTF and AT1 files?"
Oh, BTW, I just did a search for open source font editing software on Google and it found over 100,000 pages.
Can someone recommend a good open-source font editing program that runs on MSWin95 and works with both TTF and AT1 files?
1. Solve world hunger so tribe in africa don't need pork to survive
...
Raise human-edible crops in the same area where you were raising pig food before.
IIRC, you can feed ten times as many people per unit area of land if you don't process the food using animals (i.e., feed the animals the food, then eat the animals).
However, the reason for most famine in the world is political, not due to actual lack of food.
2. Find jobs the farmers who currently raise hogs as a for primary or suplimental income
I don't care what happens to these dealers of death, any more than abolitionists cared about what happened to slave dealers 150 years ago.
3. Find me an example of a civilization that is flourishing with out pork.
We won't know until we try.
It's like, many years ago, someone saying, "Find me an example of a civilization that is flouishing without the death penalty".
Someone was first, and now all civilized countries in the world have abolished the death penalty (for humans, anyway).
4. Find a place to sell grain considerd feed quality for animals but not people.
Methanol fuel.
The plastics industry.
Also, more farms would grow "people quality" food if the market for "feed quality" food declined, which would also help with your point 1 above.
5. Do the above with the following animals. Cattle, Chickens, fish, sheep.
Yes, I agree, do it with all animals.
And while you're at it, get rid of animal testing, hunting and fishing, and other immoral practices.