I believe (though I might be mistaken) that you may have fallen victim to a broad-spectrum troll attempt target towards mac fans and "grammar nazis".:)
Disclaimer: I didn't read the code, and don't intend to.
I don't know if you're still interested, and I'm just hypothesizing here, but 0xFFFF is 65535 and some other posters noted that his array was of size 65535, which of course means that index 65535 is out of bounds by just one. This could cause your segfault.
Note that Debian is usually quite wise about its use of money. Most of it goes to hardware purchase and the reimbursement of travel expenses for some developers to attend DebConf (and not big honchos with a US salary but often students or citizens of poorer countries that could not affort a ticket, yet have been recognized critical to the effort).
Moreover, fly-by-wire controls make some sense in planes, because the old hydraulic systems added a lot of weight
Actually, modern fly-by-wire military aircraft are inherently unstable, which means that the command that would make a stable aircraft pitch or bank may sometimes have exactly the opposite effect. So a computer is needed to probe the airflow and translate the pilot's orders into the right commands to the ailerons.
Actually, I attended a lecture by RMS a few years ago and he used those very same words to describe Free Software: "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" (would that be Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood ?).
And that's a fine motto to live by in my [admittedly biased] opinion.:)
I understand you may feel slightly insulted (hmm, too harsh, let's say 'teased') by his answers, but do realize that *he* may have felt the same way because of some condescending questions.
Respect and understanding goes both ways, and I believe this Q/A was very well done and informative.
Not really an answer to your post, but still something I find interesting:
Since we like round numbers, the way we measure does have an effect:
For instance, somebody said in a previous post that he usually drove at 60mph, which is about 96 km/h. If he used the metric system, he would probably aim for an average of 100km/h. 4% difference. (note to self: check for impact on travel time, fuel consumption, accident probability, faster wearing down of the car, etc)
Same thing here in Europe after the Euro switch. Some items sizes have been adjusted (a bit) so that their prices fall near a round number (higher, of course).
It's mostly psychological, but if the impact of psychology were completely negligible, then WHY would everything be priced $X.99 and not $X+1 ?
The cfq scheduler in the -mm (Andrew Morton) trees gives very good results in a desktop use.
With anticipatory or deadline, I'm experiencing awful skips with artsd under KDE 3.2 every time there is a heavy disk access, but it's [almost] completely gone with cfq.
To use it, compile a -mm kernel and add the 'elevator=cfq' to the kernel boot parameters through Lilo or Grub.
> It was just a simple matter of them needing to > have someone read the words aloud.... as well > as the 90 year old man that claimed to have > worked on computers for "64 years now."
Hmm, maybe it's just that your 90 year old man's sight is not what it used to be ?
In the immortal words of some anonymous software designer: "don't prematurely optimize."
Well, I've always heard "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" attributed to Knuth, so it's not *that* anonymous !:)
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Just an idea, but if you're using the latest 1.0.4xxx drivers from nvidia, they have a new (read "broken") 2D acceleration driver. Check out the forums at nvidia.com.
If you need decent 2D response, and you can spare the slight increase in 3D performance, just use the 1.0.3xxx series.
I often swap things from one server through ssh (fish://) to another one with samba (smb://) by drag-dropping from a vertically-splitted konqueror window from my desktop that sits on a third computer.
Do that with builtin Explorer functions. For that matter, do that with Nautilus, too !
If you're really in a hurry, DanielS has some packages for X4.2.99 , snapshot 901, which I think could be called X4.3rc1. Maybe he'll do some unofficial packages for X4.3 ?
Anyway, here's the link:
http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/xfree86/README
Not likely because of the recoil: the same energy you appy to your bowling bowl going *down* will be applied to your aircraft going *up*. It is safer to climb higher and to drop the thing.
If you shoot the thing at 300m/s (around mach 1 which is quite high for a bowling ball:), you'll get a kinetic energy of 1/2 m v^2. (where m=mass of the thing and v=300m/s).
If you simply drop it, the gravitatioal potential energy is mgh (where m=mass of the thing , h=height and g=gravitational acceleration). Thus in order to get the same effect, you write.5mv^2=mgh , thus h=.5v^2/g which leads to h=4500m.
The real computation is a bit more complicated since you add the resistance of the air, which is a function of both altitude (air pressure) and speed.
BTW: am I the only one thinking of a 2-ounce squirrel carrying a 1 pound coconut ?:-D
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I believe (though I might be mistaken) that you may have fallen victim to a broad-spectrum troll attempt target towards :)
mac fans and "grammar nazis".
YHBT HAND
:D Nice one !
=> +1 Funny if I had the mod points...
Nice catch. Kudos to you ! (sorry, no mod points to give)
*** Critical Strike ***
(no mod points, 'twas the best I could come up with)
Translation for the impaired:
"Because we want our computers to look classy and not like a cheap whore".
I seem to recall "futurists" like Arthur Clarke claiming that the train of the future would use lots of small motors connected to each wheel
_ vitesse
That's more or less the next generation TGV, the AGV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotrice_à_grande
Disclaimer: I didn't read the code, and don't intend to.
I don't know if you're still interested, and I'm just hypothesizing here, but 0xFFFF is 65535 and some other posters noted that his array was of size 65535, which of course means that index 65535 is out of bounds by just one. This could cause your segfault.
HTH,
Kig.
With the gravity being different, the mechanics won't fit, whether or not the dust is moon-like or not.
Note that Debian is usually quite wise about its use of money. Most of it goes to hardware purchase and the reimbursement of travel expenses for some developers to attend DebConf (and not big honchos with a US salary but often students or citizens of poorer countries that could not affort a ticket, yet have been recognized critical to the effort).
> Maybe once they have taken focus-follows-mouse
You can't have f-f-m with the menubar at the top, it's impractical.
Actually, it is common enough that "sum" is a function that does exactly that.
So you would just write "return sum(results)" and be done with it.
Python rules !
(Note that I believe it works with other types of sequences (even pure iterators) and on types with overloaded "+". Python definitely rules...)
HTH,
kig
A more complete feature plan can be found here
Though it's not always up-to-date (some devs prefer pushing their code first, and *then* update the page).
HTH,
Kig.
Moreover, fly-by-wire controls make some sense in planes, because the old hydraulic systems added a lot of weight
r /h istory-01.html
Actually, modern fly-by-wire military aircraft are inherently unstable, which means that the command that would make a stable aircraft pitch or bank may sometimes have exactly the opposite effect. So a computer is needed to probe the airflow and translate the pilot's orders into the right commands to the ailerons.
http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Controls/instructo
> But, but... it's a wireless mike.
Use the Force, Luke.
Actually, I attended a lecture by RMS a few years ago and he used those very same words to describe Free Software: "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" (would that be Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood ?).
:)
And that's a fine motto to live by in my [admittedly biased] opinion.
I understand you may feel slightly insulted (hmm, too harsh, let's say 'teased') by his answers, but do realize that *he* may have felt the same way because of some condescending questions.
Respect and understanding goes both ways, and I believe this Q/A was very well done and informative.
Just a typo on your part, I guess, but it's OSI (OpenSource Initiative), not OSDN (OpenSource Developer Network).
/., Newsforge, freshmeat, etc.
The first is an evangelization organisation, the second is whatever there is on top of
Not really an answer to your post, but still something I find interesting:
Since we like round numbers, the way we measure does have an effect:
For instance, somebody said in a previous post that he usually drove at 60mph, which is about 96 km/h.
If he used the metric system, he would probably aim for an average of 100km/h. 4% difference.
(note to self: check for impact on travel time, fuel consumption, accident probability, faster wearing down of the car, etc)
Same thing here in Europe after the Euro switch. Some items sizes have been adjusted (a bit) so that their prices fall near a round number (higher, of course).
It's mostly psychological, but if the impact of psychology were completely negligible, then WHY would everything be priced $X.99 and not $X+1 ?
The cfq scheduler in the -mm (Andrew Morton) trees gives very good results in a desktop use.
With anticipatory or deadline, I'm experiencing awful skips with artsd under KDE 3.2 every time there is a heavy disk access, but it's [almost] completely gone with cfq.
To use it, compile a -mm kernel and add the 'elevator=cfq' to the kernel boot parameters through Lilo or Grub.
See this lwn article for more info.
> It was just a simple matter of them needing to ... as well
> have someone read the words aloud.
> as the 90 year old man that claimed to have
> worked on computers for "64 years now."
Hmm, maybe it's just that your 90 year old man's sight is not what it used to be ?
JUST BE SURE TO SPEAK UP AND INTO HIS EAR !
In the immortal words of some anonymous software designer: "don't prematurely optimize."
:)
Well, I've always heard "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" attributed to Knuth, so it's not *that* anonymous !
Just an idea, but if you're using the latest 1.0.4xxx drivers from nvidia, they have a new (read "broken") 2D acceleration driver. Check out the forums at nvidia.com.
If you need decent 2D response, and you can spare the slight increase in 3D performance, just use the 1.0.3xxx series.
Hope this helps.
I often swap things from one server through ssh (fish://) to another one with samba (smb://) by drag-dropping from a vertically-splitted konqueror window from my desktop that sits on a third computer.
Do that with builtin Explorer functions.
For that matter, do that with Nautilus, too !
If you're really in a hurry, DanielS has some packages for X4.2.99 , snapshot 901, which I think could be called X4.3rc1. Maybe he'll do some unofficial packages for X4.3 ? Anyway, here's the link: http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/xfree86/README
Not likely because of the recoil: the same energy you appy to your bowling bowl going *down* will be applied to your aircraft going *up*. It is safer to climb higher and to drop the thing.
:), you'll get a kinetic energy of 1/2 m v^2. (where m=mass of the thing and v=300m/s).
.5mv^2=mgh , thus
:-D
If you shoot the thing at 300m/s (around mach 1 which is quite high for a bowling ball
If you simply drop it, the gravitatioal potential energy is mgh (where m=mass of the thing , h=height and g=gravitational acceleration). Thus in order to get the same effect, you write
h=.5v^2/g which leads to h=4500m.
The real computation is a bit more complicated since you add the resistance of the air, which is a function of both altitude (air pressure) and speed.
BTW: am I the only one thinking of a 2-ounce squirrel carrying a 1 pound coconut ?