I will be making a b-line to the superintendent's office.
I hope you'll be going in a straight line there, as it will be quicker. 'B-line' is actually 'bee-line', meaning the way a bee meanders all over the place on its way from one point to another.
I'm talking about the customer moving the carts in and out of the building, not those little half doors that employees use to return carts from the lot through.
If you're concerned with the power generation that the revolving door could generate, just put those plates near the door and let the people (and their heavy carts!) go over the plates like has been done at many train stations?
But there's another idea for Sainsbury - install revolving doors, and attach them to rotary electrical motors to generate electrical power (BTW, typically rotary motors are much more efficient that rocking motors as in the original article's plates). That way, they could extract energy from their customer's bodies, not their cars, and you couldn't escape this entrance tax (for that's what this is) by walking to the store. If you extracted 50 joules per customer that way, and you had one customer per door per second, that's 50 watts, enough to light a light bulb over the entrance.
Have you ever tried to push a shopping cart through a revolving door?
actually there is no such thing as an earthrise on the moon, as the moon does not 'rotate' in relation to it's movement around the earth. At any point on the surface of the moon facing the earth, the earth will always be in the same point in the sky, always.
yeah, I love the formatter in Eclipse. I just match it up to the company's coding standards, and (try to remember to) run the formatter before I check in my work too.
and that's a completely valid point. I'm saying I don't like seeing braces a certain way, just as you don't like the spacing with conditional statements a certain way. I never said anywhere that one was right or wrong, just I personally don't like seeing it one particular way.
that's actually how I code in c++. keeping the opening braces with the opening statement is how I code in Java. both ways have to do with the coding standards where I work.
If you ask a bunch of 3 year olds which looks best, they seem to pick K&R and can point out the structure better than the extra line feeds or white space in other coding formats.
Are you serious? if you're going to make a bullshit claim like that, you could at least try to fake a citation. a three year old isn't going to know what they're even looking at, let alone knowing how braces and whitespace are used to group code into logical blocks.
unless you're using a 12 inch monitor, they extra lines aren't really hurting anything. braces show where code blocks are, and blank lines are used within those blocks to break up the code into logically separate blocks.
reading this kind of code tells you that there is an else condition there. having a leading closing brace makes you have to read into the line to see what's going on. I know it's 2 characters, but when scanning code for structure, it helps to have it on a bew line.
FTA:
Technology is being developed to allow people with severe motor disabilities to play 3D computer games like World of Warcraft using only their eyes. So WoW players whose bodies atrophy from lack of getting up doing things in the real world would through this system be able to continue playing?
While it may be possible that this black hole was formed from a relatively small (to form a black hole) star, couldn't it also be the case that it just a really old black hole? Hawkings told of how black holes can 'evaporate' over time with lack of surrounding matter, perhaps that could be the case here.
What about artistic photographs? Most photos in that sense are planned to have a certain layout, composition, empty spaces, etc. Say I make a nice panorama shot with a 6:1 aspect ratio. Now my photo that took careful planning is reduced to a 4:3 with all the 'unimportant' spaces removed? Maybe it's just me, but there seem to be lots more instances where this would hurt than help. Journalistic images? Sports photos? Oh, the image can't fit, let's get rid of everything between the 50 and 20 yard lines. There aren't any players standing there. I really only see this being beneficial for web ads. Instead of creating square, vertical, and horizontal versions of the same ad, just make one and let the image be 'resized' accordingly.
I know that I hesitate to buy CDs because I don't want to spend 15-20 bucks on something that could end up being worthless in 6 months if I don't treat it with extreme care. Any CDs I buy are immediately ripped to 192k mp3s (good enough for regular listening), and the CD goes back in its case and is stored away (in case I need to do a reinstall, etc). Then I just listen to the mp3s on my computer, or I make an mp3 CD for listening to in the car. If that scratches, big deal, burn another copy.
actually they're put up high in the air so they can cover more ground. That and the transmitters/receivers are set with a downward direction of about 3 degrees so as to utilize more of the signal (in/out).
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but who here cringed every single time he said the word labtop instead of laptop?
I will be making a b-line to the superintendent's office.
I hope you'll be going in a straight line there, as it will be quicker. 'B-line' is actually 'bee-line', meaning the way a bee meanders all over the place on its way from one point to another.
I'm talking about the customer moving the carts in and out of the building, not those little half doors that employees use to return carts from the lot through.
If you're concerned with the power generation that the revolving door could generate, just put those plates near the door and let the people (and their heavy carts!) go over the plates like has been done at many train stations?
But there's another idea for Sainsbury - install revolving doors, and attach them to rotary electrical motors to generate electrical power (BTW, typically rotary motors are much more efficient that rocking motors as in the original article's plates). That way, they could extract energy from their customer's bodies, not their cars, and you couldn't escape this entrance tax (for that's what this is) by walking to the store. If you extracted 50 joules per customer that way, and you had one customer per door per second, that's 50 watts, enough to light a light bulb over the entrance.
Have you ever tried to push a shopping cart through a revolving door?
as I said to the first guy to make this point, wobble != rotation
wobble != rotation
actually there is no such thing as an earthrise on the moon, as the moon does not 'rotate' in relation to it's movement around the earth. At any point on the surface of the moon facing the earth, the earth will always be in the same point in the sky, always.
http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Subspace_communication
everyone agrees that Star Trek's subspace communication is a better definition.
that's fine for single instruction blocks, but when each condition requires multiple statements, you really can't use that.
fair enough.
yeah, I love the formatter in Eclipse. I just match it up to the company's coding standards, and (try to remember to) run the formatter before I check in my work too.
and that's a completely valid point. I'm saying I don't like seeing braces a certain way, just as you don't like the spacing with conditional statements a certain way. I never said anywhere that one was right or wrong, just I personally don't like seeing it one particular way.
that's actually how I code in c++. keeping the opening braces with the opening statement is how I code in Java. both ways have to do with the coding standards where I work.
yes the code is important, but knowing what code gets grouped and being able to follow the flow is just as important.
I keep braces on their own line when coding c++, but I do my indentation differently:
if(something)
{
do_something();
}
else
{
do_something_else();
}
If you ask a bunch of 3 year olds which looks best, they seem to pick K&R and can point out the structure better than the extra line feeds or white space in other coding formats.
Are you serious? if you're going to make a bullshit claim like that, you could at least try to fake a citation. a three year old isn't going to know what they're even looking at, let alone knowing how braces and whitespace are used to group code into logical blocks.
unless you're using a 12 inch monitor, they extra lines aren't really hurting anything. braces show where code blocks are, and blank lines are used within those blocks to break up the code into logically separate blocks.
yes, putting the else on a new line makes it a bit more readable; you know that line marks the beginning of an else:
if( condition ) {
statement1;
}
else {
statement2;
}
reading this kind of code tells you that there is an else condition there. having a leading closing brace makes you have to read into the line to see what's going on. I know it's 2 characters, but when scanning code for structure, it helps to have it on a bew line.
I can't stand seeing the closing brace of an if statement sharing a line with an else, like so:
if( condition ) {
statement1;
} else {
statement2;
}
While it may be possible that this black hole was formed from a relatively small (to form a black hole) star, couldn't it also be the case that it just a really old black hole? Hawkings told of how black holes can 'evaporate' over time with lack of surrounding matter, perhaps that could be the case here.
hmm... insightful.
What about artistic photographs? Most photos in that sense are planned to have a certain layout, composition, empty spaces, etc. Say I make a nice panorama shot with a 6:1 aspect ratio. Now my photo that took careful planning is reduced to a 4:3 with all the 'unimportant' spaces removed? Maybe it's just me, but there seem to be lots more instances where this would hurt than help. Journalistic images? Sports photos? Oh, the image can't fit, let's get rid of everything between the 50 and 20 yard lines. There aren't any players standing there. I really only see this being beneficial for web ads. Instead of creating square, vertical, and horizontal versions of the same ad, just make one and let the image be 'resized' accordingly.
actually they're put up high in the air so they can cover more ground. That and the transmitters/receivers are set with a downward direction of about 3 degrees so as to utilize more of the signal (in/out).