Yeah, I was going to remark that BCC was killed off way back in the early 1990s by Borland Builder and Microsoft Visual Studio. Apparently it's not totally dead though; it seems that they still offer downloads old versions of Turbo C++ for free.
Hard links can be dangerous if you forget about the fact that you have multiple links. You get what appear to be multiple copies of your files, but in reality there's only one copy of the data. If you modify the contents under any of the links, they all get irrevocably changed. I've been burned by this before.
However, that problem may not be much of an issue if you're just making a read-only archival file collection.
Exactly. The safest, most efficient form of energy we have right now is nuclear energy but of course we can't have that because its nuclear! We need to focus on the here and now and the here and now is nuclear.
If nuclear power were the answer to the world's energy problems, we'd be helping Iran and North Korea with their programs right now.
Nuclear power isn't going anywhere, and it's not just because of hippies. Neocons realize that the vast expansion of nuclear activities that would be required to make even a small dent in the world's energy budget would create huge new opportunities for countries around the world to secretly tinker with weapons programs. Neocons are totally frightened by this scenario. (And it's one of the few things that they're actually correct.)
Neocons cleverly use a passive-aggressive approach to the issue, blandly stating that they "support" more nuclear power without ever seriously pushing for it. They know that almost nobody but some nerds on/. are genuinely in favor of massive increases in nuclear energy, so even the feeble pushback from NIMBYs and hippies will result in more status quo. Which suits them fine.
Fission power is a dead end. Move on to the next idea.
Why send instruments like that, why not just send up a robust microscope with a HD camera? It will never be seen as confirmed unless you see the buggers moving around.
Well, people have been staring at the Martian ALH 84001 meteorite with all sorts of high-tech microscopes for many years, and they still can't agree on what it is that they see.
As far as moving around, on Mars it's not unlikely that any life there would be like the bacteria found in solid rocks miles below the earth's surface. Those have such slow metabolism that they can take thousands of years to divide.
Vaporising the stuff and sniffing the results should also be able to detect the remains of dead organisms, even if they can't survive near the dry UV-soaked surface.
Who pays depends on who benefits most from the relationship.
That's right. And in the case we're talking about, which is an incidental prop in a TV show that just as easily be replaced by a Dell, HP, Samsung, or whoever is the highest bidder, the computer manufacturer pays.
Nobody's talking about making a feature length movie based on the exploits of an animated anthropomorphic iPad.
They're selling quite well without paying any company or business to endorse their products.
Do you think that those prominent apple logos on the gear you see in so many TV shows are put there out of the kindness of the producers' hearts? It's called product placement, and despite any spin you might hear from Apple spokesmen, you can bet that there was compensation in some form.
As for the NFL, I'm sure that Motorola has to pay a pretty penny to get the head coaches to wear those butt-ugly monster headphones that serve as billboards for the batwing logo.
That's not bad, but nothing compared to the 50% efficiency of an 80 year old V8 from a 1940's Ford.
I suggest you recheck your facts. Thermodynamic efficiencies above 50% are in the realm of modern combined-cycle gas+steam turbine power plants, or gargantuan low-speed diesel engines (with cylinder bores that can exceed 36 inches) in big ships. I doubt that a flat head V8 from the 1940s even approaches 20%.
One of the attributes of intelligence is a capability for inference, which allows one to develop generalized concepts from experience with particular instances. I suggest you check it out.
Better summary: A decaying remnant of a once funny show hosts an actor from a crap movie and the douche the movie was about. [claps hands and squeals with glee... not]
People have been saying that exact same thing since about December, 1975. But somehow, the show is still on the air.
Why is that? I think that it's because the episodes seem better with age. When they think about the "good old days", they remember the 5% of sketches that were truly funny. When they see new episodes, they focus on the 95% that are mediocre or worse. So, people always think that the show is "going down the tubes".
However, just like always, there is enough good stuff sprinkled in there to keep an audience, and they'll still be able to glean enough material from old seasons to put out more "Best of $RETIRED_CAST_MEMBER" DVDs.
they'll bring up the Homeland Security angle of having human eyes at toll booths to catch bad actors.
"Booth 23 to headquarters... Booth 23 to headquarters... The operator of the black Lincoln Navigator at this booth has been positively identified as Keanu Reeves. Awaiting further instructions."
That doesn't seem like a show stopper. In the 1950s, the US Air Force built over 50 vacuum tube SAGE computers for air defense. Each one used up to 3 MW of power and probably wasn't much faster than an 80286. They didn't unplug the last one until the 1980s.
If they get their electricity wholesale at 5 cents/kWh, 67 MW would cost about $30,000,000 per year. That's steep, but probably less than the cost to build and staff the installation.
Isn't that par for the course? It seems a lot of standards are driven by a few big players who have a strong interest in it.
True. When I read the summary, I thought that four players seemed better than the early days of the web, when HTML was driven by just the pair of Netscape and Microsoft.
Hmm, it looks like okular does have a print preview... but that doesn't help me much because PDFs are just about the only thing that almost always print as expected anyway.
From a quick check, none of konqueror, kate or gwenview seem to have it. That seems to rule out print previewing most non-PDF files with the primary KDE apps. (My pet peeve is printing web pages; it seems that every browser developer is in some kind of conspiracy to print the last text line of any web page alone on its own sheet of paper, no matter how short the page looks.)
What is the big deal with printing? Install CUPS, point a browser of your choice to localhost:631 and configure away and your done.
Can you get a print preview feature using that strategy?
With KDE3, I made a point of using KDE apps to print things because they all had great print preview functionality. With KDE4, that all went away as far as I can tell. Non-KDE apps have really spotty and/or inaccurate preview support, and now I end up wasting paper on messed up printouts.
This VW is carbon fibre, something which there are questions about safety for commercial airplanes like the B-787 and A-350
I heard that Boeing tried developing a plane made entirely out of mild steel, but it was so heavy and weak that it couldn't safely take off. To make matters worse, it rusted out after a few years. That's why I refuse to ride in most any car on the road today.
Generators cause drag so you loose some energy but this type of system would add friction into the mix which would waste more energy
A bigger engine with 2 extra cylinders (to match the performance of this 4-cylinder hybrid) also adds friction, and it does so all the time the engine is running.
I would assume that this gas compressor can be disengaged with a clutch when not needed, so the friction losses could actually be less overall for the same max power output.
We know already. Just about everyone on slashdot has setup IPv6 at home
I'd bet that most people here are actually like me. I saw the inet6 line in the output from ifconfig, and my response was "tmc;dl". (too many colons; didn't learn)
I don't ever look at my mouse, unless it's hung up on something or otherwise not working.
I do look at my mouse fairly frequently because of an obscure interaction between my KVM and my multi-input monitor. Without going into details, the quickest way to see if switching inputs actually happened with this KVM is to look down at my Microsoft optical mouse and see if its otherwise useless bling LED blinks when it gets a reset from the KVM.
From experience, I've found that having to look way down at my hand is *highly* annoying and unnatural, even if it only happens a couple of times per day. It's so far away from the screen that I have to move my whole head to see it, not just my eye muscles. This would be even worse if I weren't switching between computers and had to constantly search for where I was working on the screen after looking down at the mousepad.
IMO, putting any kind of display down on a mouse is just insane. Maybe a touchpad on top of the mouse could be useful (like a wheel button on steroids), but all visual feedback needs to stay on the main monitor.
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Yeah, I was going to remark that BCC was killed off way back in the early 1990s by Borland Builder and Microsoft Visual Studio. Apparently it's not totally dead though; it seems that they still offer downloads old versions of Turbo C++ for free.
Hard links can be dangerous if you forget about the fact that you have multiple links. You get what appear to be multiple copies of your files, but in reality there's only one copy of the data. If you modify the contents under any of the links, they all get irrevocably changed. I've been burned by this before.
However, that problem may not be much of an issue if you're just making a read-only archival file collection.
Even Venezuela that has a lot of oil is going nuclear to increase their power generation,
Hugo Chavez has a keen interest in nuclear technology? I'm shocked. Shocked.
You've just proved my point.
Exactly. The safest, most efficient form of energy we have right now is nuclear energy but of course we can't have that because its nuclear! We need to focus on the here and now and the here and now is nuclear.
If nuclear power were the answer to the world's energy problems, we'd be helping Iran and North Korea with their programs right now.
Nuclear power isn't going anywhere, and it's not just because of hippies. Neocons realize that the vast expansion of nuclear activities that would be required to make even a small dent in the world's energy budget would create huge new opportunities for countries around the world to secretly tinker with weapons programs. Neocons are totally frightened by this scenario. (And it's one of the few things that they're actually correct.)
Neocons cleverly use a passive-aggressive approach to the issue, blandly stating that they "support" more nuclear power without ever seriously pushing for it. They know that almost nobody but some nerds on /. are genuinely in favor of massive increases in nuclear energy, so even the feeble pushback from NIMBYs and hippies will result in more status quo. Which suits them fine.
Fission power is a dead end. Move on to the next idea.
Why send instruments like that, why not just send up a robust microscope with a HD camera? It will never be seen as confirmed unless you see the buggers moving around.
Well, people have been staring at the Martian ALH 84001 meteorite with all sorts of high-tech microscopes for many years, and they still can't agree on what it is that they see.
As far as moving around, on Mars it's not unlikely that any life there would be like the bacteria found in solid rocks miles below the earth's surface. Those have such slow metabolism that they can take thousands of years to divide.
Vaporising the stuff and sniffing the results should also be able to detect the remains of dead organisms, even if they can't survive near the dry UV-soaked surface.
Who pays depends on who benefits most from the relationship.
That's right. And in the case we're talking about, which is an incidental prop in a TV show that just as easily be replaced by a Dell, HP, Samsung, or whoever is the highest bidder, the computer manufacturer pays.
Nobody's talking about making a feature length movie based on the exploits of an animated anthropomorphic iPad.
Usually, you the Apple logo on the back is covered or replaced with a fictional alternative.
That's what happens for the particular shows where Apple hasn't greased the palms of the producers to get their logo featured.
What you're not understanding is which way the payment flows when you see products featured on TV:
Payment goes From Apple, To the TV producers. Got it?
The use of logos and trademarks requires companies to pay for their use.
Right, as in Apple pays to get the logos featured in the shows.
I don't know if you notice that many shows cover up logos as much as possible.
Right, because Apple didn't pay those particular shows. The TV producers aren't in the business of giving out free advertisements.
They're selling quite well without paying any company or business to endorse their products.
Do you think that those prominent apple logos on the gear you see in so many TV shows are put there out of the kindness of the producers' hearts? It's called product placement, and despite any spin you might hear from Apple spokesmen, you can bet that there was compensation in some form.
As for the NFL, I'm sure that Motorola has to pay a pretty penny to get the head coaches to wear those butt-ugly monster headphones that serve as billboards for the batwing logo.
This article reminded me of the classic 1970s Xerox ad. But what would they do in weather like that? Maybe they plan to always play in domed stadiums.
That's not bad, but nothing compared to the 50% efficiency of an 80 year old V8 from a 1940's Ford.
I suggest you recheck your facts. Thermodynamic efficiencies above 50% are in the realm of modern combined-cycle gas+steam turbine power plants, or gargantuan low-speed diesel engines (with cylinder bores that can exceed 36 inches) in big ships. I doubt that a flat head V8 from the 1940s even approaches 20%.
Not to mention Bombay Sapphire.
One of the attributes of intelligence is a capability for inference, which allows one to develop generalized concepts from experience with particular instances. I suggest you check it out.
Better summary: A decaying remnant of a once funny show hosts an actor from a crap movie and the douche the movie was about.
[claps hands and squeals with glee... not]
People have been saying that exact same thing since about December, 1975. But somehow, the show is still on the air.
Why is that? I think that it's because the episodes seem better with age. When they think about the "good old days", they remember the 5% of sketches that were truly funny. When they see new episodes, they focus on the 95% that are mediocre or worse. So, people always think that the show is "going down the tubes".
However, just like always, there is enough good stuff sprinkled in there to keep an audience, and they'll still be able to glean enough material from old seasons to put out more "Best of $RETIRED_CAST_MEMBER" DVDs.
they'll bring up the Homeland Security angle of having human eyes at toll booths to catch bad actors.
"Booth 23 to headquarters... Booth 23 to headquarters... The operator of the black Lincoln Navigator at this booth has been positively identified as Keanu Reeves. Awaiting further instructions."
That doesn't seem like a show stopper. In the 1950s, the US Air Force built over 50 vacuum tube SAGE computers for air defense. Each one used up to 3 MW of power and probably wasn't much faster than an 80286. They didn't unplug the last one until the 1980s.
If they get their electricity wholesale at 5 cents/kWh, 67 MW would cost about $30,000,000 per year. That's steep, but probably less than the cost to build and staff the installation.
Isn't that par for the course? It seems a lot of standards are driven by a few big players who have a strong interest in it.
True. When I read the summary, I thought that four players seemed better than the early days of the web, when HTML was driven by just the pair of Netscape and Microsoft.
Hmm, it looks like okular does have a print preview... but that doesn't help me much because PDFs are just about the only thing that almost always print as expected anyway.
From a quick check, none of konqueror, kate or gwenview seem to have it. That seems to rule out print previewing most non-PDF files with the primary KDE apps. (My pet peeve is printing web pages; it seems that every browser developer is in some kind of conspiracy to print the last text line of any web page alone on its own sheet of paper, no matter how short the page looks.)
What is the big deal with printing? Install CUPS, point a browser of your choice to localhost:631 and configure away and your done.
Can you get a print preview feature using that strategy?
With KDE3, I made a point of using KDE apps to print things because they all had great print preview functionality. With KDE4, that all went away as far as I can tell. Non-KDE apps have really spotty and/or inaccurate preview support, and now I end up wasting paper on messed up printouts.
Yes, I know that there were high temperature steel alloy supersonic planes. I think the MiG 25 was another one.
However, they weren't made out of the same stuff as a '78 Ford Ganada's quarter panels.
This VW is carbon fibre, something which there are questions about safety for commercial airplanes like the B-787 and A-350
I heard that Boeing tried developing a plane made entirely out of mild steel, but it was so heavy and weak that it couldn't safely take off. To make matters worse, it rusted out after a few years. That's why I refuse to ride in most any car on the road today.
Generators cause drag so you loose some energy but this type of system would add friction into the mix which would waste more energy
A bigger engine with 2 extra cylinders (to match the performance of this 4-cylinder hybrid) also adds friction, and it does so all the time the engine is running.
I would assume that this gas compressor can be disengaged with a clutch when not needed, so the friction losses could actually be less overall for the same max power output.
We know already. Just about everyone on slashdot has setup IPv6 at home
I'd bet that most people here are actually like me. I saw the inet6 line in the output from ifconfig, and my response was "tmc;dl".
(too many colons; didn't learn)
I don't ever look at my mouse, unless it's hung up on something or otherwise not working.
I do look at my mouse fairly frequently because of an obscure interaction between my KVM and my multi-input monitor. Without going into details, the quickest way to see if switching inputs actually happened with this KVM is to look down at my Microsoft optical mouse and see if its otherwise useless bling LED blinks when it gets a reset from the KVM.
From experience, I've found that having to look way down at my hand is *highly* annoying and unnatural, even if it only happens a couple of times per day. It's so far away from the screen that I have to move my whole head to see it, not just my eye muscles. This would be even worse if I weren't switching between computers and had to constantly search for where I was working on the screen after looking down at the mousepad.
IMO, putting any kind of display down on a mouse is just insane. Maybe a touchpad on top of the mouse could be useful (like a wheel button on steroids), but all visual feedback needs to stay on the main monitor.