That's pure idiocy. The person you were replying to mention ACCELERATION and DECELERATION. These are important.
If you accelerated halfway and decelerated halfway to reach 500,000,000km in an hour, that would be an acceleration of around 80,000 m/s^2. By comparison, gravitational acceleration is 9.8 m/s^2. A 150-pound person would have a force exerted on them of about 600 tons. Any passengers would be a nicely centrifuged sediment and liquid layer on the wall of the ship. You'll have difficulty designing any robots to survive 8,000 G's also.
This is why the most important component of a Starfleet vessel is a shield behind which the laws of physics do not apply.
Unless M-Systems develops an entirely different memory technology, the Disk-On-Chip is well documented and is supported under Linux. You don't get a lot of storage space, but you could still put Linux on it.
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That code is so bloated! Here is a more optimized Slashdot gender detection routine:
And I totally agree with that. I would much rather see money used for some lasting, useful space infrastructure than blow all the cash on a one-shot firecracker to put a bootprint in red dirt.
Let's try for some logical progression here. The giant leap was when a man first set foot on something other than Earth. Now let's start walking. There are no lasting benefits right now from a massive Mars bootprint operation, let's go there when it's cheaper and we have some practical Moon colony experience to build on.
I'll add a little to this. Use lawnmowing as a starting base. You'll build up a few customer relationships. Then, write up a snazzy brochure illustrating some of the other skills you have, for example painting, computer support or even building new systems, house watching, etc. I made lots of good money between the ages of 12 and 18 by painting things. I even painted the entire exterior of a house once. I also did some minor computer support, but there just weren't as many computers around then...plus they were a lot more stable and spyware/adware/virus-free. As far as hardware jobs involving soldering go, there isn't a whole lot you can do. Maybe get away from the soldering, and install home networks? Read up on data wiring codes (basically, don't run bare data wires through HVAC ducts) and peddle your service. You might be surprised how many people want a network, but would rather let some scrawny highschoolers muck around in the crawlspaces.
Just wait until you reach 23! I'm doing a temp job AND an electronics consulting project at the same time! People don't look down on 23-year-olds (almost 24) as much as they do for 22-year-olds. You got moxie, kid. You'll go far someday.
Yeah, and remember, this guy has already succeeded in making around $5,000,000 for himself in about a year...in spite of poor spelling, poor judgement, etc. I'm so in the wrong business.
Um, you're missing a major point here. This was not Microsoft coming to the rescue. If they wanted to do that, they would have backed SCO openly, or bought them outright. This was under the table. They obviously don't want to be associated with SCO's tactics, but approve of the mess SCO is making. If it isn't illegal, it still smells really, really bad. And it's something any Average Joe can understand: Microsoft secretly paid a company to file ridiculous lawsuits against competitors, and make false accusations in an attempt to discredit competitors' products.
So when we finally get flying cars, the hoods will be welded shut? Sad. Might be a good idea though, I don't need some ignorant teen dropping his riced-out Honda Civair on my house. Just a 4-inch tailpipe sticking out of the rubble.
Just put it up on eBay and let it go. Someone will want it for spare parts. That's all it's really good for; laptop keyboards are very nonstandard and the odds are very good that you won't ever figure it out. This is a project involving large amounts of reverse engineering, development of custom circuitry, and microcontroller programming.
Heh, I don't know why you're so affected by it. What if he'd said that what keeps him going is his absence of belief in any god? Or would you have "recoiled from the fumes" if he really had advocated Islamic, Buddhist, or Hindu beliefs?
If you don't believe in Christianity, that doesn't mean there's open season on Christians. If it's so vapid as you claim, then why worry about it?
Considering that Christianity accounts for a large proportion of our population, it's probably not to your advantage to go "eeew, fumes of triteness" every time you find a Christian.
I've been in both situations: the one passed over for getting the axe, and one of several who did get the axe. All I can say is that no matter how secure you think you job is, always have a few tricks up your sleeve. Keep up with your professional contacts, maintain the skills that your current job doesn't use.
Waiting until farmer comes out to the henhouse is way, way too late. Companies today are less adverse to firing people no matter how long they've been working there. Often it's not even a manager's decision, it's bean-counter's decision somewhere that ten people will need to be laid off here and there to make year-end budgets.
Also, just because a company is large and appears stable, there's no guarantee that anyone will be working there a month from now. It's like playing Russian Roulette; somewhere out there, someone is falsifying financial statements. Are they in your company? Is it going to turn up tomorrow in headline news, sending the stocks through the floor? You just can't guarantee anything.
If you have no options elsewhere, the only chance you have is to just be a good employee, don't ruffle anyone's feathers. Never accept an upcoming slack period in the schedule; always seek out interleaving projects if your managers aren't finding you any. If you're always in the middle of two or three projects, you're more likely to be put on the "needs to stay for now" pile. But there is no surefire way to stay.
Just keep up your contacts and be on the lookout for any positions elsewhere. Investigate what it takes to become a consultant in your area. Companies no longer feel the need to offer loyal employees any long-term job security, so we should no longer have to feel guilty for jumping ship to suit our own needs.
Do it. Then set up a simple web-based upload/download site using PHP. This is more efficient because the attachment doesn't need to be encoded for mailing, and gets around any attachment size limits for various users.
It's extremely easy to do, and you could even set it up so that each uploaded file gets a little key so only the intended recipient can get it. The uploader script will automatically send an email to the desired recipient, containing a URL with the unique key embedded. Having all of the files stored on the server like that will probably cut down on all the inappropriate files too.
Solution should take no more than three PHP files of 100 or less lines each.
The Agate Face apparently uses the isosurface command that not many people get into. It's very powerful. I assume it's called Agate Face because they used the agate map as the function input to the isosurface, maybe with the turbulence turned up a bit.
Put down the ham set and pick up the power line. The Internet is now infinitely more accessible and far-reaching than amateur radio ever was or will be. Sure, you can link up with satellites and coordinate a large effort to talk with someone on the other side of the world for a few minutes. Sure, the hardware's interesting and it's a nice nondestructive hobby. But the world of radio and wired communications has been growing exponentially while the ham community sits still. Every other person in developed countries has a pocket-sized radio that will let them talk to anyone in the world. Sending images and documents to another person either wirelessly or over land lines is no longer an exciting event to be shown off at the local ham club meeting, it's something ordinary people do every day.
There's something to be said for maintaining old traditions and primitive tools, but don't try to preserve it at the expense of forward progress. There are isolated cases of ham radios playing important roles in emergency missions, but these are very rare and you have to know that the hams were bounding with joy behind their microphones at the opportunity to do something more useful than lie about their last fishing trip.
Looking at it closely, it does look like a puddle, with fine dirt floating on it; as would be expected for a concentrated brine. There appear to be faint reflections of the opposite trench wall on the surface of the puddle.
Well, reflections, or some less-than perfect application of the airbrush tool. I could lean pretty strongly towards the latter, in this case.
The greatest word processor ever was Appleworks for the Apple II, followed by Bank Street Writer. Or at least it seemed really neat when that's all there was.
I guess if anyone still wants the barebones approach offered by all those old programs, they could buy one of the available standalone word processors.
Yet the forums were Slashdotted. Granted, forums can sometimes use a lot of horsepower, but the forums were an official subdomain of their main site and they obviously didn't come up with a way to make the forums resilient.
Now the EV1 users know just what kind of job their hosting service does. It should be a huge embarrassment for a hosting company to actually get Slashdotted. *nods wisely*
If you want to make money by selling software, then yes, Open Source is financial suicide.
If you want to make money by giving away software and selling support, then Open Source is iffy but has a chance of working. You can often be replaced cheaper by an in-house programmer or local consultant.
However, if you want to make your own software to USE that helps your company make money, then Open Source is invaluable. If others can put portions of your application to good use, then they will help develop it and everyone benefits.
Still, though, any Open Source work cuts down on the available paid work for programmers, because it is efficient and may be supplemented by free coders. So Open Source makes a lot of sense for companies as a whole, perhaps less sense for individual programmers who want to make a living; pretty similar actually to the effect of outsourcing.
Compare how long Linux and DOS/Windows have both existed. Bill Gates is a multi-billionaire, Linus Torvalds is a multi-thousandaire. It's up to the individual to decide if they value a contribution to the computing community more than personal gain.
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That's pure idiocy. The person you were replying to mention ACCELERATION and DECELERATION. These are important.
If you accelerated halfway and decelerated halfway to reach 500,000,000km in an hour, that would be an acceleration of around 80,000 m/s^2. By comparison, gravitational acceleration is 9.8 m/s^2. A 150-pound person would have a force exerted on them of about 600 tons. Any passengers would be a nicely centrifuged sediment and liquid layer on the wall of the ship. You'll have difficulty designing any robots to survive 8,000 G's also.
This is why the most important component of a Starfleet vessel is a shield behind which the laws of physics do not apply.
Unless M-Systems develops an entirely different memory technology, the Disk-On-Chip is well documented and is supported under Linux. You don't get a lot of storage space, but you could still put Linux on it.
That code is so bloated! Here is a more optimized Slashdot gender detection routine:
#include <Slashdot.h>
char* gender;
char* main(){
gender = "male";
return gender;
}
And I totally agree with that. I would much rather see money used for some lasting, useful space infrastructure than blow all the cash on a one-shot firecracker to put a bootprint in red dirt.
Let's try for some logical progression here. The giant leap was when a man first set foot on something other than Earth. Now let's start walking. There are no lasting benefits right now from a massive Mars bootprint operation, let's go there when it's cheaper and we have some practical Moon colony experience to build on.
I'll add a little to this. Use lawnmowing as a starting base. You'll build up a few customer relationships. Then, write up a snazzy brochure illustrating some of the other skills you have, for example painting, computer support or even building new systems, house watching, etc. I made lots of good money between the ages of 12 and 18 by painting things. I even painted the entire exterior of a house once. I also did some minor computer support, but there just weren't as many computers around then...plus they were a lot more stable and spyware/adware/virus-free. As far as hardware jobs involving soldering go, there isn't a whole lot you can do. Maybe get away from the soldering, and install home networks? Read up on data wiring codes (basically, don't run bare data wires through HVAC ducts) and peddle your service. You might be surprised how many people want a network, but would rather let some scrawny highschoolers muck around in the crawlspaces.
Just wait until you reach 23! I'm doing a temp job AND an electronics consulting project at the same time! People don't look down on 23-year-olds (almost 24) as much as they do for 22-year-olds. You got moxie, kid. You'll go far someday.
I meant that it isn't MIME-encoded while on the server...thus taking up less space.
Yeah, and remember, this guy has already succeeded in making around $5,000,000 for himself in about a year...in spite of poor spelling, poor judgement, etc. I'm so in the wrong business.
Um, you're missing a major point here. This was not Microsoft coming to the rescue. If they wanted to do that, they would have backed SCO openly, or bought them outright. This was under the table. They obviously don't want to be associated with SCO's tactics, but approve of the mess SCO is making. If it isn't illegal, it still smells really, really bad. And it's something any Average Joe can understand: Microsoft secretly paid a company to file ridiculous lawsuits against competitors, and make false accusations in an attempt to discredit competitors' products.
So when we finally get flying cars, the hoods will be welded shut? Sad. Might be a good idea though, I don't need some ignorant teen dropping his riced-out Honda Civair on my house. Just a 4-inch tailpipe sticking out of the rubble.
Just put it up on eBay and let it go. Someone will want it for spare parts. That's all it's really good for; laptop keyboards are very nonstandard and the odds are very good that you won't ever figure it out. This is a project involving large amounts of reverse engineering, development of custom circuitry, and microcontroller programming.
Heh, I don't know why you're so affected by it. What if he'd said that what keeps him going is his absence of belief in any god? Or would you have "recoiled from the fumes" if he really had advocated Islamic, Buddhist, or Hindu beliefs?
If you don't believe in Christianity, that doesn't mean there's open season on Christians. If it's so vapid as you claim, then why worry about it?
Considering that Christianity accounts for a large proportion of our population, it's probably not to your advantage to go "eeew, fumes of triteness" every time you find a Christian.
I've been in both situations: the one passed over for getting the axe, and one of several who did get the axe. All I can say is that no matter how secure you think you job is, always have a few tricks up your sleeve. Keep up with your professional contacts, maintain the skills that your current job doesn't use.
Waiting until farmer comes out to the henhouse is way, way too late. Companies today are less adverse to firing people no matter how long they've been working there. Often it's not even a manager's decision, it's bean-counter's decision somewhere that ten people will need to be laid off here and there to make year-end budgets.
Also, just because a company is large and appears stable, there's no guarantee that anyone will be working there a month from now. It's like playing Russian Roulette; somewhere out there, someone is falsifying financial statements. Are they in your company? Is it going to turn up tomorrow in headline news, sending the stocks through the floor? You just can't guarantee anything.
If you have no options elsewhere, the only chance you have is to just be a good employee, don't ruffle anyone's feathers. Never accept an upcoming slack period in the schedule; always seek out interleaving projects if your managers aren't finding you any. If you're always in the middle of two or three projects, you're more likely to be put on the "needs to stay for now" pile. But there is no surefire way to stay.
Just keep up your contacts and be on the lookout for any positions elsewhere. Investigate what it takes to become a consultant in your area. Companies no longer feel the need to offer loyal employees any long-term job security, so we should no longer have to feel guilty for jumping ship to suit our own needs.
It is also easy to make a session-based login system.
Do it. Then set up a simple web-based upload/download site using PHP. This is more efficient because the attachment doesn't need to be encoded for mailing, and gets around any attachment size limits for various users.
It's extremely easy to do, and you could even set it up so that each uploaded file gets a little key so only the intended recipient can get it. The uploader script will automatically send an email to the desired recipient, containing a URL with the unique key embedded. Having all of the files stored on the server like that will probably cut down on all the inappropriate files too.
Solution should take no more than three PHP files of 100 or less lines each.
It's under 7kg, which seems to be the problem here...I guess landing on Mars and writing product descriptions aren't so different after all!
Sorry, the specs aren't that outstanding.
And at 16 pounds, and with that 3Ghz processor in there, it will burn your legs AND cut off circulation to them at the same time!
The Agate Face apparently uses the isosurface command that not many people get into. It's very powerful. I assume it's called Agate Face because they used the agate map as the function input to the isosurface, maybe with the turbulence turned up a bit.
Ok, so it's for people in the middle of nowhere, and people waiting for the apocalypse. In neither case is broadband-over-power a problem.
Put down the ham set and pick up the power line. The Internet is now infinitely more accessible and far-reaching than amateur radio ever was or will be. Sure, you can link up with satellites and coordinate a large effort to talk with someone on the other side of the world for a few minutes. Sure, the hardware's interesting and it's a nice nondestructive hobby. But the world of radio and wired communications has been growing exponentially while the ham community sits still. Every other person in developed countries has a pocket-sized radio that will let them talk to anyone in the world. Sending images and documents to another person either wirelessly or over land lines is no longer an exciting event to be shown off at the local ham club meeting, it's something ordinary people do every day.
There's something to be said for maintaining old traditions and primitive tools, but don't try to preserve it at the expense of forward progress. There are isolated cases of ham radios playing important roles in emergency missions, but these are very rare and you have to know that the hams were bounding with joy behind their microphones at the opportunity to do something more useful than lie about their last fishing trip.
Looking at it closely, it does look like a puddle, with fine dirt floating on it; as would be expected for a concentrated brine. There appear to be faint reflections of the opposite trench wall on the surface of the puddle.
Well, reflections, or some less-than perfect application of the airbrush tool. I could lean pretty strongly towards the latter, in this case.
The greatest word processor ever was Appleworks for the Apple II, followed by Bank Street Writer. Or at least it seemed really neat when that's all there was.
I guess if anyone still wants the barebones approach offered by all those old programs, they could buy one of the available standalone word processors.
Yet the forums were Slashdotted. Granted, forums can sometimes use a lot of horsepower, but the forums were an official subdomain of their main site and they obviously didn't come up with a way to make the forums resilient.
Now the EV1 users know just what kind of job their hosting service does. It should be a huge embarrassment for a hosting company to actually get Slashdotted. *nods wisely*
If you want to make money by selling software, then yes, Open Source is financial suicide.
If you want to make money by giving away software and selling support, then Open Source is iffy but has a chance of working. You can often be replaced cheaper by an in-house programmer or local consultant.
However, if you want to make your own software to USE that helps your company make money, then Open Source is invaluable. If others can put portions of your application to good use, then they will help develop it and everyone benefits.
Still, though, any Open Source work cuts down on the available paid work for programmers, because it is efficient and may be supplemented by free coders. So Open Source makes a lot of sense for companies as a whole, perhaps less sense for individual programmers who want to make a living; pretty similar actually to the effect of outsourcing.
Compare how long Linux and DOS/Windows have both existed. Bill Gates is a multi-billionaire, Linus Torvalds is a multi-thousandaire. It's up to the individual to decide if they value a contribution to the computing community more than personal gain.