But at least I have 5 or 6 other browsers on each machine, so I can get the benefits of multiprogramming by simply starting different browsers.
Couldn't you open up several different Firebird processes? I admire your adaptibility, but I do think it might be easier to use one browser at a time. Unless, of course, Firebird does some horrible and evil Windows-like "only one instance of this program can be open" thing, in which case it must be fixed, and someone deserves a bit of flaming.
I'm not sure of this, but I don't think that these suborbital rockets need a heat shield beyond the usual "stick some insulation in there so the hapless pilot doesn't get too hot". As an example, Armadillo Aerospace is going with a disposable nose cone design, which should be a good place to put any heat shielding, and which will crumple on landing. It is rapidly replacable, but I don't think it's much of a "heat shield". I would agree with you if we were talking about orbital, though.
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A very nice thing about this Centennial challenge and the X-Prize is that there are lots of different teams going in lots of different directions, so if it turns out that, say, [non-]reusable is best, we won't be stuck with a huge investment into a different type of system. Diversity is good.
By the way, an illustration of the different cultures of NASA and the Russian space program is the kinds of laptops they allow their astro- and cosmonauts to carry onto the ISS. The standard laptop is a Pentium-166 IBM Thinkpad, but what if you want more speed for some reason? It would have cost a fortune to put, say, a 1GHz Pentum 4 through NASA's screening process, but the Russians decided not to worry about it. It worked just fine, even when running processor-intensive tasks all the time, and now the Russians know that a more capable laptop version generally doesn't have problems with the space environment. It's a bit "shoddier", but a lot more relaxed.
While I mostly agree with you (especially about the BR and P tags), there's a barrier to entry to the field of communications satellites: the technology and infrastructure to put satellites up there at decent costs is pretty expensive. I'm optimistic, and I think the infrastructure will eventually be there, but it would be nice to have a few million dollars of incentive dangled in front of people, the low-hanging fruit of space technology.
Ah yes, the earmark of good academics: everybody inside. Was that because of the workload, or because RIT is filled with sunlight-averse people? I'm considering going there, but I'm getting a bit of FUD (justified or not) from slashdot. I like my sunny days.
I'll take the small chance. Especially since what we do with nuclear waste is a bit more complex than just sticking it in a hole in the ground. We do geological studies to ensure that the hole won't change much, we build fancy containment facilities, and have the whole thing carefully managed and guarded. I much prefer that to just releasing all that pollution into the air, water, and whatever else you can think of.
I think that there are good printers out there, but you have to shell out lots of money for them. If you know of an exception, please tell me I'm wrong, since I'm looking for a printer. It's funny, HP makes shoddy printers to save cost (and probably to keep people buying new printers), and then they do something like this which would seem to raise costs.
I'll try that next time I get someone asking for computer help. I've tried that sort of thing before, though, and had a problem: eventually I realize that the person I'm talking to has no idea how to use the computer. He/she has just memorized places to click, and then expects me to do anything else that doesn't fit into his/her memory. If people, before starting to use a computer, would learn some of the most basic concepts of why the computer acts like that, we'd be better off.
If he's going to be giving these people internet access, he's going to need to buy a pretty fast internet connection---I'd say "Business" DSL at least. Don't forget overhead. It might come out to quite a bit less than $11.5k.
Yesterday I didn't know what day of the week it was, so I asked somebody when I got curious. Today I didn't know what day it was, until I made sure that it was Wednesday and not Friday (I need this knowledge for English assignments). I stil don't know what day of the month it is. I do know that it is February.
I am not mentally incompetent. I just don't remember these things.
Last year I had to read The Crucible, in which many people were reasonlessly tortured and killed in witch trials, and The Grapes of Wrath, in which people were driven off their farms en masse and migrated in squalor to exploitative third-world California, where they and their children promptly started suffering from malnutrition, poor sanitation, and general despair. Both books had messages, but niether was fun to read. I'm glad that RMS could make his point with such admirable brevity that you don't have to be a masochist to read the entire story.
Personally, I think it might be worth the price if someone wrote a Haskell book that could actually explain to me what a monad is. I tried to learn how to use them a few months ago. I still sometimes wake up in a cold sweat with nightmares of monads eating my brain.
Given a choice, though, I'd prefer an alpha release of Arc. No monads there! Hahahahahahaha!
What sorts of scared users would be using pine? I would think that all the pine users would be knowledgeable enough to know that pine isn't susceptible to email viruses.
No no, you never just come out and say something like that. Not when you're SCO! They won't try that line on a judge, but they will mention in press releases that they got death threats. If they can put themselves in a position of "poor persecuted people" it might help with their pump-and-dump-and-pay-the-lawyers scheme. That's why their press releases take so many pages to essentially say nothing.
It's funny, but comments like that are the kind of thing Darl and his minions use as evidence that they are on some sort of holy crusade for what is rightly theirs, having to face insults and sometimes even death threats. As if it had anything to do with the validity (ha!) of their claims.
How many gallons are there in 23 cups? How many quarts are there in 65 fluid ounces? (The answers are 1.4375 gal and 2.03125 quarts, respectively). And how is this simple, compared to shifting the decimal point around?
Hear hear. I find Imperial units extremely painful to do conversions with, so I propose that we go to the much easier Metric system! It's all for the better! You can do conversions in your head! Complicated conversions! We will CRUSH OUR ENEMIES WITH THE METRIC SYSTEM!
Besides this rather geeky calculation, people who use and defend the use of the imperial system don't know how to use it! I was talking to someone about DSL, and I said something like, "even if you're 15000 feet from the CO, and you're much farther, performance would suck." and she had no idea how far that is in miles (it's a little less than 3, for our metrified friends).
That's exactly what I'm talking about. I live in the US, and I couldn't for the life of me do that conversion without the aid of a reference and a calculator. With metric, it would be so easy that I could just say it in meters or kilometers without missing a beat.
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Couldn't you open up several different Firebird processes? I admire your adaptibility, but I do think it might be easier to use one browser at a time. Unless, of course, Firebird does some horrible and evil Windows-like "only one instance of this program can be open" thing, in which case it must be fixed, and someone deserves a bit of flaming.
I'm not sure of this, but I don't think that these suborbital rockets need a heat shield beyond the usual "stick some insulation in there so the hapless pilot doesn't get too hot". As an example, Armadillo Aerospace is going with a disposable nose cone design, which should be a good place to put any heat shielding, and which will crumple on landing. It is rapidly replacable, but I don't think it's much of a "heat shield". I would agree with you if we were talking about orbital, though.
By the way, an illustration of the different cultures of NASA and the Russian space program is the kinds of laptops they allow their astro- and cosmonauts to carry onto the ISS. The standard laptop is a Pentium-166 IBM Thinkpad, but what if you want more speed for some reason? It would have cost a fortune to put, say, a 1GHz Pentum 4 through NASA's screening process, but the Russians decided not to worry about it. It worked just fine, even when running processor-intensive tasks all the time, and now the Russians know that a more capable laptop version generally doesn't have problems with the space environment. It's a bit "shoddier", but a lot more relaxed.
While I mostly agree with you (especially about the BR and P tags), there's a barrier to entry to the field of communications satellites: the technology and infrastructure to put satellites up there at decent costs is pretty expensive. I'm optimistic, and I think the infrastructure will eventually be there, but it would be nice to have a few million dollars of incentive dangled in front of people, the low-hanging fruit of space technology.
Mine has even less. Cheers; it and Firebird make the web fun.
When you hear someone talk about loosing, don't you sometimes want to go berserk?
Wouldn't RPMs per minute be revs/min^2, or a measurement of angular acceleration? Talk about mixed-up terms....
Ah yes, the earmark of good academics: everybody inside. Was that because of the workload, or because RIT is filled with sunlight-averse people? I'm considering going there, but I'm getting a bit of FUD (justified or not) from slashdot. I like my sunny days.
I'll take the small chance. Especially since what we do with nuclear waste is a bit more complex than just sticking it in a hole in the ground. We do geological studies to ensure that the hole won't change much, we build fancy containment facilities, and have the whole thing carefully managed and guarded. I much prefer that to just releasing all that pollution into the air, water, and whatever else you can think of.
I think that there are good printers out there, but you have to shell out lots of money for them. If you know of an exception, please tell me I'm wrong, since I'm looking for a printer. It's funny, HP makes shoddy printers to save cost (and probably to keep people buying new printers), and then they do something like this which would seem to raise costs.
I'll try that next time I get someone asking for computer help. I've tried that sort of thing before, though, and had a problem: eventually I realize that the person I'm talking to has no idea how to use the computer. He/she has just memorized places to click, and then expects me to do anything else that doesn't fit into his/her memory. If people, before starting to use a computer, would learn some of the most basic concepts of why the computer acts like that, we'd be better off.
If he's going to be giving these people internet access, he's going to need to buy a pretty fast internet connection---I'd say "Business" DSL at least. Don't forget overhead. It might come out to quite a bit less than $11.5k.
I am not mentally incompetent. I just don't remember these things.
Those jokes deserve to die.
I suspected that it might be something like that.
Last year I had to read The Crucible, in which many people were reasonlessly tortured and killed in witch trials, and The Grapes of Wrath, in which people were driven off their farms en masse and migrated in squalor to exploitative third-world California, where they and their children promptly started suffering from malnutrition, poor sanitation, and general despair. Both books had messages, but niether was fun to read. I'm glad that RMS could make his point with such admirable brevity that you don't have to be a masochist to read the entire story.
In the USA we're detaining numerous non-citizens indefinitely without the usual "due process of law", right now. Beat that, Brits!
Given a choice, though, I'd prefer an alpha release of Arc. No monads there! Hahahahahahaha!
Another one: "they should have encrypted it".
What sorts of scared users would be using pine? I would think that all the pine users would be knowledgeable enough to know that pine isn't susceptible to email viruses.
Good point. How about using GNU Lilypond to draw all those obscure symbols? It does a great job, and it's free.
No no, you never just come out and say something like that. Not when you're SCO! They won't try that line on a judge, but they will mention in press releases that they got death threats. If they can put themselves in a position of "poor persecuted people" it might help with their pump-and-dump-and-pay-the-lawyers scheme. That's why their press releases take so many pages to essentially say nothing.
It's funny, but comments like that are the kind of thing Darl and his minions use as evidence that they are on some sort of holy crusade for what is rightly theirs, having to face insults and sometimes even death threats. As if it had anything to do with the validity (ha!) of their claims.
How many gallons are there in 23 cups? How many quarts are there in 65 fluid ounces? (The answers are 1.4375 gal and 2.03125 quarts, respectively). And how is this simple, compared to shifting the decimal point around?
Besides this rather geeky calculation, people who use and defend the use of the imperial system don't know how to use it! I was talking to someone about DSL, and I said something like, "even if you're 15000 feet from the CO, and you're much farther, performance would suck." and she had no idea how far that is in miles (it's a little less than 3, for our metrified friends).
That's exactly what I'm talking about. I live in the US, and I couldn't for the life of me do that conversion without the aid of a reference and a calculator. With metric, it would be so easy that I could just say it in meters or kilometers without missing a beat.