Thei might have a seperate balance sheet, they're all benefiting from the same programs and research.
The entire X program isn't solely for NASA, y'know.
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Houston IS the blackbox.
When you have something flying at Mach 2 after a vertical ascent of only 60-some seconds, no blackbox we can make would survive any longer than radio transmissions captured by warehouse-sized surveilance systems on the ground can. Then, there's all the other surveilance on the ground and in the air by astronomers (pros and amateur) and USAF.
NASA, the same day of the disaster, explained all that in the Q&A session.
The current shuttle design would gain little from a blackbox-like device.
There was a never-released episode where he actually catches the Road Runner and eats it.
It was shown in Montréal's Fantasia film festival.
Mind you, I didn't see that one. I was in another theater watching Tromeo and Juliet.
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The fundamental flaw behind the space elevator is security.
It makes a damn tempting taget to snap off the line and watch the "cable" come down with heavy ground dammage, and then the destabilization of anything in orbit from the remainder of the elevator.
I thought I'd share my own experience with sleep disorder. About 2 years ago, extensive snoring, driving my wife nuts and keeping me from sleeping more than 5-6 hours or suffer intense headaches pushed me into seeing an ear-nose-throat doctor?an otho-rhino-laringologist.
After discussing the situation, and examining my throat, he thought he'd knew what to do, but some tests had to be done to make sure of the steps to take to fix the issue.
First, all wired-up like your typical Hi-Fi system back panel, and a forced-fed breading machine (augmenting the air pressure as you bread through a mask), I spent a night at home while being monitored. Back at the hospital (after some weeks--the free healthcare system in Quebec has it's drawbacks), the doctor just wasn't sure about the readins he had on the small "portable" machine. So, he suggested we redo the test in the sleep clinic of the hospital, using better equipment (aka, much less portable).
In the ORL sleep disorder business, an "event" is a sequence of 10 to 15 seconds of halted breading caused by blocked airways--this is referred to as apnea. From 0 to 5 "events" per hour, it's considered normal (none being ideal), and can be caused by a bad sleep position, your dreams etc. In the province of Québec, at 15 events per hour, the government feels it's serious enough to do something about it and pay for it. I was doing 32.
The ORL confirmed this to be the source of my headaches fatigue (due to restlessness and lack of oxygen during the night). In my case, the snoring was caused by oversized amygdalaes, and a soften (over time) soft palace due to years of snoring--as times goes, the situation usually worsens.
If you want to know where the soft palace is, stick your figer up the roof of your mouth and slide backward (towards the throat). Where it gives in, that's where it is.
My soft palace was weakened over the years because of the snoring, causing, by ricochet, the uvulae to swell up and further blocking the airways at night. Sleeping on your back worsens the situation because all the soft tissues fall back as you rest.
Now, before you're too amused by the Fred Flintstone images and sounds, be aware that acute snoring can lead to severe health problems and ultimately, cardiac problems and even cardiac arrest. It's VERY serious.
What was prescribed to me was what is known as a UPPP, an uvulo-palato-pharyngo-plastia. After documenting myself on the procedure and consulting a number of web sites about the issue. A google search on UPPP can lead you to interesting sites, such as this one or this one.
The alternative was to spend the rest of my life with a breathing machine, or to suffer the consequences of ignoring the remedes.
I finally opted for the procedure. The first web site I refer above has a throat photo of the before/after surgery, which illustrate a bit what they did. They took out my amygdalaes, part of the soft palace (including the uvulae) and tightened the back throat tissues. Recovery from this was a snap (about 16 hours after surgery I was eating toasts--although I was told this wasn't typical).
The result are amazing. I can not do the same 5 hour nights but be completely rested! I can do 12 hour nights if I want to lay down a bit, and not have headaches. I can concentrate better, I don't make a single whistle as I sleep, and overall feel healthier.
There is a slight (5-10%) chance of occasional nasal-reflux with the UPPP procedure. Nasal-reflux is food that shoots up your nose if you're not careful as you eat. I've only gotten this twice since the procedure, about 16 months ago. It's easily avoidable, and basically involves changing your swallowing timing (the absence of the amygdalaes causes food to go down quicker in your throat).
Another possible side effect to this surgery is not being able to pronouce the R (as in "farce") as we do in french (rolling the Rs). This is of no concerns for the anglophones, however. Hispanic might be affected. You still can pronounce Rs, but it's hard to roll then as we do in french.
If you think you have a sleep disorder, ACT ON IT. Ask questions, get doctor referrals and begin your journey to a healthier life.
Apple's Cocoa framework, based on Objective-C, has all been exposed to Java.
Both languages share so much of the same concepts that both languages can call in each other, allowing a project to be composed of both Obj-C and java.
Given Apple's recent extensions to Obj-C, the so-called Objective-C++, you can actually mix C, C++ and Obj-C source code in the same file and interchangeably make cals to and from C++ classes and obj-C classes. Then, calling Java is nearly as trivial.
These changes are finding their way back into the GCC compiler, which is the standard compiler for the Project builder environment.
Even though they'd like a bigger market share, Apple is pretty comfy in their niche. They manage to turn out a profit.
Amiga users were as passionate about their machines as Mac users are now about their machines. If they can recapture these users back, then they can get comfy in their own niche and make some people happy in the process.
Foundation might be a confusing series to put on film, because the 5-book trilogy (now actually about a dozen books) is spread over 1000 years of human evolution. That's hard to put on film.
I would certainly enjoy seeing the Mule and the General on film (I forgot the original names--I've read the entire Asimov collection in french).
Anyhow, I think that for a single movie, Caves Of Steel would be a better choice.
My understanding is that BSD exposes a Linux ABI. I suppose that there might be a little bit of manipulation behind the scenes when a Linux function is called, to adapt it to an underlying BSD call, but not to the extent that it would be called emulation.
[...]
I could be wrong though, OSX is more my sort of thing.
Mac OS X does just that when you launch a CFM-based Carbon App.
CFM ("Code Fragment Manager") is the old ABI of Mac OS. When the Finder launches a CFM-based application, withint the native Mach-O -based Mac OS X ABI environment, it actually launches another application called "LaunchCFMApp" and passes your app as a parameter.
LaunchCFMApp does exactly what this Linux ABI thingy does on FreeBSD: it loads the "foreign" application's ABI, creates a vector map in memory and connects all function calls from the "foreign" ABI to the "native" entry points.
This is not emulation, but rather, dynamic re-linking.
The Objective-C language has been around for a while, but kinda got locked-up in proprietary runtime implementations by NeXT (now part of Apple) or the Stepstone corporation which were amongst the first to come up with an Obj-C compiler (for x86). Now, GCC does Obj-C and MetroWerks also has an Obj-C capable compiler. Also, the entire runtime is now open sourced in Darwin, the core OS at the base of Mac OS X, in the form of "Core Foundation" and "Foundation Frameworks".
Couple that with the open-source API SPECs (oppose "implementation"), and you have an amazing combinaison.
On the Mac, this is now known as Cocoa. Cocoa is an object framework that's now mostly accessible via the Java programming language.
For Linux (x86, but soon PPC as well), thetre's AfterStep, an open-source implementation of everything that had made the NeXT a NeXT, including the dev environment.
If you have access to a Mac, get yourself some tutorial and explore Cocoa programming. If you only have access to a Linux box, get yourself a complete install and explore what you can do with this.
No amount of description actually gives any justice to how amazing this dev environment actually is.
If you're tempted to explore further, o'Reiley has a couple of Cocoa books, but the very best Cocoa books out there is written by Skott Anguish and al, and is called Cocoa Programming.
For those who don't follow, Zyclon-B was a hydrocyanic acid initially used as disinfectant and insecticide that ended up being used by the Nazis in the concentration camps,
It's also the name of a Metal group from Norway that ought to disinfect their own style.
It should also be noted that this article benchmarked Mac OS X version 10.1.5, where version 10.2, which shows significant performance boost, mostly in I/O, was already available.
The author of the article defended this obvious tainted results was due to the fact that their box CAME with 10.1.5 and not the 10.2 build.
In London, UK, the police has set up a special Diesel police squat that walks around town a snifs diesel car fumes (great job...).
They started doing this because they cracked down on a group of people in a specific township that started using cooking oil with a drop of ethanol in their cars, thus avoiding the expensive car fuel taxes.
This news appeared a couple of weeks ago. Follow your nose to google.
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OH NO! It doesn't have a floppy drive!
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NASA is a branch of USAF.
Thei might have a seperate balance sheet, they're all benefiting from the same programs and research.
The entire X program isn't solely for NASA, y'know.
Houston IS the blackbox.
When you have something flying at Mach 2 after a vertical ascent of only 60-some seconds, no blackbox we can make would survive any longer than radio transmissions captured by warehouse-sized surveilance systems on the ground can. Then, there's all the other surveilance on the ground and in the air by astronomers (pros and amateur) and USAF.
NASA, the same day of the disaster, explained all that in the Q&A session.
The current shuttle design would gain little from a blackbox-like device.
There was a never-released episode where he actually catches the Road Runner and eats it.
It was shown in Montréal's Fantasia film festival.
Mind you, I didn't see that one. I was in another theater watching Tromeo and Juliet.
The fundamental flaw behind the space elevator is security.
It makes a damn tempting taget to snap off the line and watch the "cable" come down with heavy ground dammage, and then the destabilization of anything in orbit from the remainder of the elevator.
This is so close the the aniversary date of the Chalenger explosion it's freaky.
Perhaps the aging shuttles will need a replacement.
And perhaps it's time for international communities start to pitch in, as we all benefit from these launches one way or another.
I just wish my government had the balls to get involved a bit more than just peripheral equipment like Canadarm 1 and 2.
My heart is for the families of those directly affected, and for anyone in the space business.
I thought I'd share my own experience with sleep disorder.
About 2 years ago, extensive snoring, driving my wife nuts and keeping me from sleeping more than 5-6 hours or suffer intense headaches pushed me into seeing an ear-nose-throat doctor?an otho-rhino-laringologist.
After discussing the situation, and examining my throat, he thought he'd knew what to do, but some tests had to be done to make sure of the steps to take to fix the issue.
First, all wired-up like your typical Hi-Fi system back panel, and a forced-fed breading machine (augmenting the air pressure as you bread through a mask), I spent a night at home while being monitored. Back at the hospital (after some weeks--the free healthcare system in Quebec has it's drawbacks), the doctor just wasn't sure about the readins he had on the small "portable" machine. So, he suggested we redo the test in the sleep clinic of the hospital, using better equipment (aka, much less portable).
In the ORL sleep disorder business, an "event" is a sequence of 10 to 15 seconds of halted breading caused by blocked airways--this is referred to as apnea. From 0 to 5 "events" per hour, it's considered normal (none being ideal), and can be caused by a bad sleep position, your dreams etc. In the province of Québec, at 15 events per hour, the government feels it's serious enough to do something about it and pay for it. I was doing 32.
The ORL confirmed this to be the source of my headaches fatigue (due to restlessness and lack of oxygen during the night). In my case, the snoring was caused by oversized amygdalaes, and a soften (over time) soft palace due to years of snoring--as times goes, the situation usually worsens.
If you want to know where the soft palace is, stick your figer up the roof of your mouth and slide backward (towards the throat). Where it gives in, that's where it is.
My soft palace was weakened over the years because of the snoring, causing, by ricochet, the uvulae to swell up and further blocking the airways at night. Sleeping on your back worsens the situation because all the soft tissues fall back as you rest.
Now, before you're too amused by the Fred Flintstone images and sounds, be aware that acute snoring can lead to severe health problems and ultimately, cardiac problems and even cardiac arrest. It's VERY serious.
What was prescribed to me was what is known as a UPPP, an uvulo-palato-pharyngo-plastia. After documenting myself on the procedure and consulting a number of web sites about the issue. A google search on UPPP can lead you to interesting sites, such as this one or this one.
The alternative was to spend the rest of my life with a breathing machine, or to suffer the consequences of ignoring the remedes.
I finally opted for the procedure. The first web site I refer above has a throat photo of the before/after surgery, which illustrate a bit what they did. They took out my amygdalaes, part of the soft palace (including the uvulae) and tightened the back throat tissues. Recovery from this was a snap (about 16 hours after surgery I was eating toasts--although I was told this wasn't typical).
The result are amazing. I can not do the same 5 hour nights but be completely rested! I can do 12 hour nights if I want to lay down a bit, and not have headaches. I can concentrate better, I don't make a single whistle as I sleep, and overall feel healthier.
There is a slight (5-10%) chance of occasional nasal-reflux with the UPPP procedure. Nasal-reflux is food that shoots up your nose if you're not careful as you eat. I've only gotten this twice since the procedure, about 16 months ago. It's easily avoidable, and basically involves changing your swallowing timing (the absence of the amygdalaes causes food to go down quicker in your throat).
Another possible side effect to this surgery is not being able to pronouce the R (as in "farce") as we do in french (rolling the Rs). This is of no concerns for the anglophones, however. Hispanic might be affected. You still can pronounce Rs, but it's hard to roll then as we do in french.
If you think you have a sleep disorder, ACT ON IT. Ask questions, get doctor referrals and begin your journey to a healthier life.
Apple's Cocoa framework, based on Objective-C, has all been exposed to Java.
Both languages share so much of the same concepts that both languages can call in each other, allowing a project to be composed of both Obj-C and java.
Given Apple's recent extensions to Obj-C, the so-called Objective-C++, you can actually mix C, C++ and Obj-C source code in the same file and interchangeably make cals to and from C++ classes and obj-C classes. Then, calling Java is nearly as trivial.
These changes are finding their way back into the GCC compiler, which is the standard compiler for the Project builder environment.
I Agree.
Are you listening Apple? I'd actually BUY one at $1000 or less.
Get an iBook.
There's absolutely no way to simulate acceleration that would equal drool flying across your ears.
Unless this thing had a head-up fan mounted on.
No robotic parts inside, just 100% human guts.
And a few silicon implants.
Sadly enough, though, we can't blame Micro$oft for crashing Mir.
Ask Apple.
Even though they'd like a bigger market share, Apple is pretty comfy in their niche. They manage to turn out a profit.
Amiga users were as passionate about their machines as Mac users are now about their machines. If they can recapture these users back, then they can get comfy in their own niche and make some people happy in the process.
you can't get a refund on what you haven't paid for ;-)
Pff! You live in the United States, where lawsuits rule.
You have the opportunity to sue Red Hat for failed promisses and have them reimburse you for your download time PLUS lost productivity.
It'll happen. Just wait.
Pff!
Cancer Mice are morons too!
Foundation might be a confusing series to put on film, because the 5-book trilogy (now actually about a dozen books) is spread over 1000 years of human evolution. That's hard to put on film.
I would certainly enjoy seeing the Mule and the General on film (I forgot the original names--I've read the entire Asimov collection in french).
Anyhow, I think that for a single movie, Caves Of Steel would be a better choice.
My understanding is that BSD exposes a Linux ABI. I suppose that there might be a little bit of manipulation behind the scenes when a Linux function is called, to adapt it to an underlying BSD call, but not to the extent that it would be called emulation.
[...]
I could be wrong though, OSX is more my sort of thing.
Mac OS X does just that when you launch a CFM-based Carbon App.
CFM ("Code Fragment Manager") is the old ABI of Mac OS. When the Finder launches a CFM-based application, withint the native Mach-O -based Mac OS X ABI environment, it actually launches another application called "LaunchCFMApp" and passes your app as a parameter.
LaunchCFMApp does exactly what this Linux ABI thingy does on FreeBSD: it loads the "foreign" application's ABI, creates a vector map in memory and connects all function calls from the "foreign" ABI to the "native" entry points.
This is not emulation, but rather, dynamic re-linking.
The Objective-C language has been around for a while, but kinda got locked-up in proprietary runtime implementations by NeXT (now part of Apple) or the Stepstone corporation which were amongst the first to come up with an Obj-C compiler (for x86). Now, GCC does Obj-C and MetroWerks also has an Obj-C capable compiler. Also, the entire runtime is now open sourced in Darwin, the core OS at the base of Mac OS X, in the form of "Core Foundation" and "Foundation Frameworks".
Couple that with the open-source API SPECs (oppose "implementation"), and you have an amazing combinaison.
On the Mac, this is now known as Cocoa. Cocoa is an object framework that's now mostly accessible via the Java programming language.
For Linux (x86, but soon PPC as well), thetre's AfterStep, an open-source implementation of everything that had made the NeXT a NeXT, including the dev environment.
If you have access to a Mac, get yourself some tutorial and explore Cocoa programming. If you only have access to a Linux box, get yourself a complete install and explore what you can do with this.
No amount of description actually gives any justice to how amazing this dev environment actually is.
If you're tempted to explore further, o'Reiley has a couple of Cocoa books, but the very best Cocoa books out there is written by Skott Anguish and al, and is called Cocoa Programming.
For those who don't follow, Zyclon-B was a hydrocyanic acid initially used as disinfectant and insecticide that ended up being used by the Nazis in the concentration camps,
It's also the name of a Metal group from Norway that ought to disinfect their own style.
It's not hard to find out where the Newton went.
Didn't MicroSoft just release their Tablet PC?
They had to steal the idea from somewhere.
They'll probably setup a special tax for the construction of this thing.
They'll probably call this the "Slatibartfast tax".
It should also be noted that this article benchmarked Mac OS X version 10.1.5, where version 10.2, which shows significant performance boost, mostly in I/O, was already available.
The author of the article defended this obvious tainted results was due to the fact that their box CAME with 10.1.5 and not the 10.2 build.
squad!
Squad I meant! But you know that.
I think they're called the "sniff police".
In London, UK, the police has set up a special Diesel police squat that walks around town a snifs diesel car fumes (great job...).
They started doing this because they cracked down on a group of people in a specific township that started using cooking oil with a drop of ethanol in their cars, thus avoiding the expensive car fuel taxes.
This news appeared a couple of weeks ago. Follow your nose to google.