Knowing assembly is useful for optimizations, but it is critical for tracing bugs -- especially bugs in your tools. How many GCC bugs have you discovered lately?
Alan Cooper's 1995 book, About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design,explores this. If I remember correctly, you don't need Save dialog because your document must be persistant (for programmers: simulate with autosave every few seconds); Delete does not have to be confirmed because there must be a reliable, visible, and easy to use undo mechanism (undelete qualifies).
Secam is compatible with old B/W TV sets; more than that, it is compatible with old analog studio VCRs (this was a factor for Soviets to select SECAM -- they didn't want to replace all studio equipment.) B/W VCRs don't hold phase well.
Using annual income instead of net worth is plain stupid fundraising gimmick. Uncle Hub and Uncle Garth from Secondhand Lions, slowly spending a big pile of cash, will count among the poorest people in the world if you count it this way.
5.) Refine reproduction processes and lower costs by firing the engineers who developed your tech
I have a couple a places in mind that would hire them... Hint: one starts with n, another starts with A.
According to SpaceFlightNow the failure was caused by missing command from on-board flight control system to shutdown second stage engine. No engine shutdown -> no stage separation ->> second stage, third stage and the cryosat end up fallig back on Earth in the designated second stage drop zone.
New Blue Cards from American Express also feature RF interface. They no longer have Smartcard pads. RF antenna loop is visible through clear plastic on the promo pictures.
Let me rapeat just to make sure I got it right. Energy in form of electric current splits water in hydrogen and oxygen. The box collects hydrogen, vents oxygen, and then hydrogen is burned into the conventional engine, which through the transmission turns the wheels.
I'd simplify that. I take electricity and run it through the electric motor instead. 90% efficiency! Any takers to market that with me?
JPEG image can't be revealed one pixel at a time. JPEG image consists of 16x16 MCU (Minimal Coding Units) encoded with DCT and high harmonics discarded (actually, there's more to this). Changing one pixel before encoding changes the whole 16x16 square.
The whole world treats the US as damage and goes around it.
US treats the ROW(1) as damage and goes around it... Sounds more true to me. (1) ROW: Rest Of World
> FORTRAN only reserves the first 6 columns for comments
I am afraid you are totally wrong. Even if I didn't touch Fortran for at least 15 years, I still remember the Fortran program formatting:
5 columns for numerical goto labels 6th column is for continuation mark columns 7-72 for program statements columns 73-80 are for comment-like sequential numbering, very handy if you need to reassemble a dropped punchcard deck.
Comments are marked with letter C in the first column and take the whole line.
Windows driver support?! Who is kidding here? I have a four year old Windows 98 box, had to reinstall drivers last week -- audio (ALi) still does not work, even with freshly downloaded driver. FYI Knoppix no problem whatsoever.
Sealaunch uses Zenit for the first stage in their launcher. They wre originally designed as a quick launch ICBM by the Soviets.
Zenit is definitely not an ICBM; it was designed as more powerful replacement for Soyuz. Zenit first stage was also used as Energia strap-on.
Back in the 60s, Ukrainian manufacturer of Zenit stared rocket production with UR-100, which is the rail-transportable container-stored quick-launch encapsulated storable liquid propellant missile, the world's biggest production run ICBM.
Energia was flown twice: 1987 May 15 and 1988 Nov 15. Check http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/energia.htm
It will probably never fly again.
More bits and pieces from Astronautix:
Atlas V 551 20,050 kg to LEO 28 deg Proton 8K82M LEO Payload: 21,000 kg Ariane 5G LEO Payload: 16,000 kg. to: 407 km Orbit. at: 51.6 degrees Zenit-2 LEO Payload: 13,740 kg. to: 200 km Orbit. at: 51.4 degrees. Titan 4 LEO Payload: 17,700 kg. to: 185 km Orbit. Delta IV Large LEO Payload: 25,800 kg. to: 185 km Orbit. at: 28.5 degrees.
Satana AKA Dnepr-1 LV is less than 4,000 kg to LEO: http://www.kosmotras.ru/energ2.htm
The article (which I actually read on paper) talks about taking the tape, scanning it in segments, splicing, and using custom image recoginition to convert little circles into sequences of bits and bytes.
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Knowing assembly is useful for optimizations, but it is critical for tracing bugs -- especially bugs in your tools. How many GCC bugs have you discovered lately?
Alan Cooper's 1995 book, About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design,explores this. If I remember correctly,
you don't need Save dialog because your document must be persistant (for programmers: simulate with autosave every few seconds);
Delete does not have to be confirmed because there must be a reliable, visible, and easy to use undo mechanism (undelete qualifies).
Secam is compatible with old B/W TV sets; more than that, it is compatible with old analog studio VCRs (this was a factor for Soviets to select SECAM -- they didn't want to replace all studio equipment.) B/W VCRs don't hold phase well.
Top 1% pays 36% of tax according to http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=6
I guess they already fixed the problem...
Using annual income instead of net worth is plain stupid fundraising gimmick. Uncle Hub and Uncle Garth from Secondhand Lions, slowly spending a big pile of cash, will count among the poorest people in the world if you count it this way.
Words: Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790)
Emphasis: mine
5.) Refine reproduction processes and lower costs by firing the engineers who developed your tech
I have a couple a places in mind that would hire them... Hint: one starts with n, another starts with A.
According to SpaceFlightNow the failure was caused by missing command from on-board flight control system to shutdown second stage engine. No engine shutdown -> no stage separation ->> second stage, third stage and the cryosat end up fallig back on Earth in the designated second stage drop zone.
Keyring for Palm OS
New Blue Cards from American Express also feature RF interface. They no longer have Smartcard pads. RF antenna loop is visible through clear plastic on the promo pictures.
Let me rapeat just to make sure I got it right. Energy in form of electric current splits water in hydrogen and oxygen. The box collects hydrogen, vents oxygen, and then hydrogen is burned into the conventional engine, which through the transmission turns the wheels.
I'd simplify that. I take electricity and run it through the electric motor instead. 90% efficiency! Any takers to market that with me?
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JPEG image can't be revealed one pixel at a time. JPEG image consists of 16x16 MCU (Minimal Coding Units) encoded with DCT and high harmonics discarded (actually, there's more to this). Changing one pixel before encoding changes the whole 16x16 square.
The whole world treats the US as damage and goes around it.
US treats the ROW(1) as damage and goes around it...
Sounds more true to me.
(1) ROW: Rest Of World
> FORTRAN only reserves the first 6 columns for comments
I am afraid you are totally wrong. Even if I didn't touch Fortran for at least 15 years, I still remember the Fortran program formatting:
5 columns for numerical goto labels
6th column is for continuation mark
columns 7-72 for program statements
columns 73-80 are for comment-like sequential numbering, very handy if you need to reassemble a dropped punchcard deck.
Comments are marked with letter C in the first column and take the whole line.
Windows driver support?! Who is kidding here?
I have a four year old Windows 98 box, had to reinstall drivers last week -- audio (ALi) still does not work, even with freshly downloaded driver. FYI Knoppix no problem whatsoever.
Those of us who ever tried to figure out what a certain poorly-documented register on an ASIC really does, and enjoyed it, please read on:
http://www.rfidanalysis.org/DSTbreak.pdf
Sealaunch uses Zenit for the first stage in their launcher. They wre originally designed as a quick launch ICBM by the Soviets.
Zenit is definitely not an ICBM; it was designed as more powerful replacement for Soyuz. Zenit first stage was also used as Energia strap-on.
Back in the 60s, Ukrainian manufacturer of Zenit stared rocket production with UR-100, which is the rail-transportable container-stored quick-launch encapsulated storable liquid propellant missile, the world's biggest production run ICBM.
DNEPR-1 is a civilian name for a rocket named (by NATO) Satan.
Some people think it is way sexier than Delta-4 Heavy.
Here's more stuff about this relic Russian (actually, Ukrainian) ICBM
Actuelly, SS-18 is RS-20. Russians did not share with NATO their secret rocket designations.
Energia was flown twice: 1987 May 15 and 1988 Nov 15. Check http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/energia.htm
It will probably never fly again.
More bits and pieces from Astronautix:
Atlas V 551 20,050 kg to LEO 28 deg
Proton 8K82M LEO Payload: 21,000 kg
Ariane 5G LEO Payload: 16,000 kg. to: 407 km Orbit. at: 51.6 degrees
Zenit-2 LEO Payload: 13,740 kg. to: 200 km Orbit. at: 51.4 degrees.
Titan 4 LEO Payload: 17,700 kg. to: 185 km Orbit.
Delta IV Large LEO Payload: 25,800 kg. to: 185 km Orbit. at: 28.5 degrees.
Satana AKA Dnepr-1 LV is less than 4,000 kg to LEO: http://www.kosmotras.ru/energ2.htm
> Kill the economy. I mean really kill it - we are talking 40% > or higher inflation here.
> Start a civil war.
> etc. etc.
The post-Soviet Russia (no joke here) tried all these things -- and still has an influx of immigrants. Go figure...
So, how many people on the University network knew your root password?
> Try emulating a paper tape reader....
The article (which I actually read on paper) talks about taking the tape, scanning it in segments, splicing, and using custom image recoginition to convert little circles into sequences of bits and bytes.
8-inch floppy disks is a diferent story.