For those of you who don't know: an ebuild is a Gentoo Linux source package which manages all the dependencies and the process for building.
Although to be fair, Gentoo does require you to do some configuration for your kernel, to select the network card drivers and such. It isn't effortless with the kernel.
They don't break the ground; the specially designed nose cone crumples. They've run a test at the calculated velocity that they're expecting to have when they hit the ground---with an actual man inside. He said that it wasn't too bad, and the accererometer didn't give readings that sounded too unhealthy. Personally, I think that the most risky part of the landing is the wobbling that they saw in the helicopter drop test, and that's likely to go away if they fall farther. I assume that they hit the terminal velocity in their drop test and that falling farther will just give more time to damp the oscillation, and I hope I'm not wrong. Oh well.
Speaking of weapons, do you remember the idea to redirect an asteroid to fall on Telford, obliterating a large chunk of Great Britain? There are even pictures!
Let's say that you download python gui scripts for a web browser---python applets. I believe this is something that Grail can/could do. How would you run them safely? I'm not attacking you; I'm curious.
The orientation does matter when using the controls, which are placed in the front of the cabin.
However, I don't think it's anything to worry about. It's been calculated and the safety margin is perfectly adequate. Plus, the chair is really cool.:-)
It's hard to define, but I will swear to anyone that aesthetics are very important in code. Case in point: I'm currently refactoring somebody else's Python code. It sucks. There isn't any one specific thing about it that sucks, but it is still shit. Working shit, but shit nonetheless. The parts that I've worked over are much easier to read and change.
Messy code must die!---and Python is a great language to kill it with when done properly.
I wanted to call it "llamaplot" and Colin wanted to call it "nplot." We agreed that "newplot" was acceptable but, we then discovered that there was an absolutely ghastly pascal program of that name that the Computer Science Dept. occasionally used. I decided that "gnuplot" would make a nice pun and after a fashion Colin agreed.
With the Python scripting support, what version of Python do you use? 2.2.3 is stable and well supported, 2.3b2 is faster and has features that make me very happy---but you can't have true sandboxing with anything later than 2.1, which is a bummer.
Ah well, if they have a standard way formating ASCII text then producing an XML version from it should be too daunting. (Me, once again from a distance.)
I would suggest reStructuredText, which doesn't look like markup but is.
The Gutenberg people are doing all they can to preserve every book they can legally get their hands on. Personally, I'd like it if they could get their hands on some newer books.
I swear, one of these days I'm going to patent a method of "freezing water into ice" or something just for the hell of it. I've got a couple dings in my livingroom wall that a patent certificate would cover nicely.
No! You must phrase it differently, like this: "A method for inducing a state change in fresh water through the creation of a strong temperature gradient".
Although, duct tape would also cover those dings in your wall.;-)
"Hey, Ben-Sharrahaf! Look! There's a city at these GPS coordinates! And look, there are some more coordinates! It looks like they map to the White House! We could never have found out about this without this box in a plane---except, maybe, if we were to look up the coordinates on the 'net or use a GPS device! Break out the ICBMs before the Americans catch us for our ridiculously dangerous hijacking of a plane to capture this list!"
I don't think it's likely to happen. It doesn't take much secret information to cause havoc with ICBMs.
The last book (#4) was the best in the series so far, and I hope this just comes close. I haven't been able to read it yet though- there are two women in the house, so that makes me last in line....
I feel your pain. I was third in line when my family got the book (on the first day by mail---none of the highly publicized queueing up in the early morning outside bookstores for us!), and I had to go to Texas for three weeks in four days. It was hopeless! Then one day I has the book all to myself through some miraculous turn of fate. The miracles just keep on coming; I read the whole thing that day. It was a tough call, but I think this was even better than Goblet of Fire. Enjoy.:-)
Clever.:-) Making backups would also be a good idea. If your web site has CSS files for the overall styling, you could make a modified version that puts "Hacked by Peter" in the background several times. You would just use fixed positioning, z-index, and some fonts.
Dvarves didn't entirely make the doors of Moria. To quote the doors themselves:
The Doors of Durin, Lord of Moria. Speak, friend, and enter. [now, at the bottom] I, Narvi, made them. Celebrimbor of Hollin drew these signs.
Celebrimbor drew the illustrations, and he was from Hollin, so he's probably an Elf, albeit one of the more Dwarvish types of Elves. However, the Dwarves did make the secret entrance to the Lonely Mountain which could only be seen when it was open or on Durin's Day.
You know one of my favorite things about Firebird? It comes in a zip file that you can just unzip to any directory and use from there. No need to have admin privilages or anything.
If that isn't allowed, then I'm sorry for you. I may be overestimating your employer, but I hope not.
"Sir, if you aren't going to go through the security system, would you please step aside? No, there won't be a refund on the ticket."
That's the great part about the airport personnel I've seen: they're very polite and professional. If some pedophile is getting his jollies from backscatter x-rays, you won't know about it.
I agree with your suggestion of python; unfortunately new-style classes have made rexec insecure and the feature has been deprecated in 2.2 and removed in 2.3, so it's rather difficult.
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Although to be fair, Gentoo does require you to do some configuration for your kernel, to select the network card drivers and such. It isn't effortless with the kernel.
They don't break the ground; the specially designed nose cone crumples. They've run a test at the calculated velocity that they're expecting to have when they hit the ground---with an actual man inside. He said that it wasn't too bad, and the accererometer didn't give readings that sounded too unhealthy. Personally, I think that the most risky part of the landing is the wobbling that they saw in the helicopter drop test, and that's likely to go away if they fall farther. I assume that they hit the terminal velocity in their drop test and that falling farther will just give more time to damp the oscillation, and I hope I'm not wrong. Oh well.
Speaking of weapons, do you remember the idea to redirect an asteroid to fall on Telford, obliterating a large chunk of Great Britain? There are even pictures!
Of course, conversion is trivial, but 17 megabucks is more proper and nicer sounding.
BTW, XHTML 2.0 will have a <blockcode> tag! Isn't that cool?
Hey---it was funny when I got modded as Informative for linking to a joke....
Let's say that you download python gui scripts for a web browser---python applets. I believe this is something that Grail can/could do. How would you run them safely? I'm not attacking you; I'm curious.
However, I don't think it's anything to worry about. It's been calculated and the safety margin is perfectly adequate. Plus, the chair is really cool. :-)
Messy code must die!---and Python is a great language to kill it with when done properly.
Python already has a sort of system in place for block delimiters. Mind you, it's rather ugly, so I don't use it.
With the Python scripting support, what version of Python do you use? 2.2.3 is stable and well supported, 2.3b2 is faster and has features that make me very happy---but you can't have true sandboxing with anything later than 2.1, which is a bummer.
I would suggest reStructuredText, which doesn't look like markup but is.
The Gutenberg people are doing all they can to preserve every book they can legally get their hands on. Personally, I'd like it if they could get their hands on some newer books.
No! You must phrase it differently, like this: "A method for inducing a state change in fresh water through the creation of a strong temperature gradient".
Although, duct tape would also cover those dings in your wall. ;-)
Actually, I have used telnet a few times because POP3 was actually much faster than starting an email program on that horribly slow machine.
I don't think it's likely to happen. It doesn't take much secret information to cause havoc with ICBMs.
I feel your pain. I was third in line when my family got the book (on the first day by mail---none of the highly publicized queueing up in the early morning outside bookstores for us!), and I had to go to Texas for three weeks in four days. It was hopeless! Then one day I has the book all to myself through some miraculous turn of fate. The miracles just keep on coming; I read the whole thing that day. It was a tough call, but I think this was even better than Goblet of Fire. Enjoy. :-)
Clever. :-) Making backups would also be a good idea. If your web site has CSS files for the overall styling, you could make a modified version that puts "Hacked by Peter" in the background several times. You would just use fixed positioning, z-index, and some fonts.
Yes, we've heard.
Celebrimbor drew the illustrations, and he was from Hollin, so he's probably an Elf, albeit one of the more Dwarvish types of Elves. However, the Dwarves did make the secret entrance to the Lonely Mountain which could only be seen when it was open or on Durin's Day.
Man, I know too much about Middle Earth.
If that isn't allowed, then I'm sorry for you. I may be overestimating your employer, but I hope not.
That's the great part about the airport personnel I've seen: they're very polite and professional. If some pedophile is getting his jollies from backscatter x-rays, you won't know about it.
CSS is a web innovation. User stylesheets are browser innovations, since they're part of the browser, not something that the browser supports viewing.
As for any XML scripting---ugh. No. Please no.