That was like the days of early PC game programming on EGA and VGA. A system would be lucky to have 512K of memory space available for use, with everything else used for device drivers, extended memory, expanded memory, BIOS, windows. a VGA card with 1 Mbyte of memory and a pixblitter was a luxury along with a sound card that could play MIDI.
The biggest danger to trying to resurrect an old floppy disk using a still functional disk drive, is that the modern day OS will try stomping all sorts of dot files into every directory. Need to make sure the disk is write-protected before using.
They should. The bugs should get more minor and less severe, and more obscure. Sometimes you have hardware designed using software simulators, FPGA's, prototype boards, final product unit, documentation. Then you write your software against all those development platforms, test it and update the documentation as you go along. There's a time where everything peaks. When the major bugs are removed, everything starts gliding downwards as duplicates are removed and fixing one memory fault bug coincides when other bugs "disappear" or no longer can be reproduced.
Figure out what those bugs are coming from. Are they documentation, failed unit tests, new features, badly colored GUI widgets, or more hardware features? It isn't going to help to have a recruitment blitz for more hardware engineers if your technical writers can't keep up with the documentation.
According to the BBC, the polar bears will drown due to global warming. This is because the seals are spending more time in the deep ocean catching fish, forcing the polar bears to swim more often to catch them.
Let's follow the food chain..
"Diet. Polar bears feed almost exclusively on ringed seals and bearded seals. They are also known to eat walrus, beluga whale and bowhead whale carcasses, birds' eggs, and (rarely) vegetation. Polar bears travel great distances in search of prey."
Bearded seals: The bearded seal diet consists primarily of crustaceans (shrimps and crabs), mollusks (clams, snails and whelks), and some fish such as sculpin, flatfish, and cod.
Ringed and Bearded seals live on the ice flows and make ice holes for themselves. "They prefer to rest on ice floe and will move farther north for denser ice. Two subspecies can be found in freshwater."
Crustaceans: Eat absolutely everything as scavengers Arctic cod: Eat Copepods and marine worms
Photosphere is the layer of the Sun that has the granulation pattern of plasma and the solar flares. The Chromosphere is the area that gives the Sun a reddish halo, and the Corona is the layer only visible during an eclipse.
The photosphere/chromosphere is a boundary layer with a density change greater than that of the Earth's ocean/atmosphere boundary layer.
I think that is happening to every language environment. Web page design started with HTML, but now there are CSS style sheets, PHP for getting server processes to run, JavaScript, AJAX, JQuery, Java, WebGL. You don't just learn C on it's own, that has to go with some hardware environment.
The simplest example that we were given was creating a derived class A with virtual inheritance from class B (class A : public virtual B) , then trying to create a container class C using STL vector (class C : public A), then adding and deleting items from a instance of class C. No end of chaos as the run-time environment tries to manage partially deleted objects. In the real-world, there could dozens of inherited classes between B and A. It would be more logical to use smart pointers in this case, but that's the sort of mess that can happen with just a single keyword placed somewhere.
I took a course on C++ back in the mid-1990's. According to the professors back then, the attitude was "Oh, don't learn STL, it's full of bugs, and they're still trying to shake them out". Guess the direction that industry went?
To get strong winds, you want the greatest gradient between air temperatures. The best place for that to happen is between the boundary of ocean/sea air and land air. When it is sunny, the land heats up faster than the ocean, so you get a breeze blowing inshore. At night-time, the land cools down faster than the ocean/sea, so that the breeze blows offshore. Because of the smooth surface of water, wind speeds are usually faster offshore than onshore.The following map gives a good idea of how the speeds differ:
That's almost the opposite of the predecessor of morse code. Originally a telegram was transmitted by writing the letters out in a scan-line fashion. But most of the time, the operators could immediately recognize which letter was coming through after just a couple of scanlines, so the rest of the transmission was redundant (much like viewing text on a GUI window that is only partially visible at the bottom of the frame).
I was thinking of inside pressure. Watching those documentaries about how everything compressed in deep water. There are lifeforms at the far depths of the ocean that can only live at those pressures. Tryto extricate them back to the surface, and they basically dissolve as they consist of proteins that can only exist at those depths.
If materials science advanced to the point where a starship could get close to the speed of light without the crew becoming a sticky goo on the side of the corridors, remain in geostationary orbit, remain pressurized at one atmosphere even when orbiting a large star, I'd be rather worried if it couldn't handle the pressure increase going deep into the ocean.
They were practical for designers of physical machinery like custom gear teeth for mechanical wristwatches, car dashboards and just about anything industrial and mechanical. A particular shape of gear tooth can avoid excessive wear and tear, improve accuracy and avoid jamming. It's more than a copyright. All of those required months of R&D to test and prove an improvement. If someone hadn't already invented the parrot-beak gear tooth for improved timing, then it seemed fair to allow a design patent. A car dashboard that had been designed to present information in a clear and simple way while maintaining a minimalistic look would also be covered. Though back then designers also tried out ideas simply by sliding around paper cutouts of different fonts and instruments on a drawing desk.
But when you start moving into software GUI design, there are fundamental components like text labels, sliders, push buttons, radio buttons, toggle switches, rotary dials that can be combined together in hundreds of ways like lego bricks. You can easily achieve something using cut and paste operations on screen within minutes without any need for HCI or user validation.
The patent dates from 2007. X-windows was around from 1984 and had sliders. How else could they scroll along windows. The Athena widget set was around at this time:
" They require full artificial stability 100% of the time or they won't fly. No human can sense or react quick enough to keep them in the air, "
That's the case with many biological flying critters as well, like swallows and house martins. Greater flight instability leads to higher maneuverability, but at the cost of higher sensitivity to tiny changes in wind conditions and flight surface configuration, which in turn requires constant and rapid readjustment.
Many creatures have been able to adapt to maneuverability in small spaces only by making flight control autonomous. Insects use optic flow where the input to their compound eyes is used to estimate velocity all around and then make the requiring flight readjustments. Fish make use of their lateral line which provides input in the form of vortex pressure and velocity, providing an immediate response to muscle movement. Even honey bees get it wrong sometimes:
Slashdot Mirror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.hngn.com/articles/1...
Now no-one can steal beer from your freezer unless they are on the voice recognition list... :)
I tried it once - it blew up my slashdot account because it started randomly reading slashdot pages at a furious pace.
Miniskirts were the fashion back in the 1960's, wanted by customers of the fashion designers.
ICL used to produce Quadro PC's. They had the ability to have four different DOS command line screens toggled using [Alt] and a function key.
That was like the days of early PC game programming on EGA and VGA. A system would be lucky to have 512K of memory space available for use, with everything else used for device drivers, extended memory, expanded memory, BIOS, windows. a VGA card with 1 Mbyte of memory and a pixblitter was a luxury along with a sound card that could play MIDI.
The biggest danger to trying to resurrect an old floppy disk using a still functional disk drive, is that the modern day OS will try stomping all sorts of dot files into every directory. Need to make sure the disk is write-protected before using.
They're still in use at some airports. The Epson printer may be a bit yellowed, but it's still screeching out passenger lists.
They should. The bugs should get more minor and less severe, and more obscure. Sometimes you have hardware designed using software simulators, FPGA's, prototype boards, final product unit, documentation. Then you write your software against all those development platforms, test it and update the documentation as you go along. There's a time where everything peaks. When the major bugs are removed, everything starts gliding downwards as duplicates are removed and fixing one memory fault bug coincides when other bugs "disappear" or no longer can be reproduced.
Figure out what those bugs are coming from. Are they documentation, failed unit tests, new features, badly colored GUI widgets, or more hardware features?
It isn't going to help to have a recruitment blitz for more hardware engineers if your technical writers can't keep up with the documentation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci...
According to the BBC, the polar bears will drown due to global warming. This is because the seals are spending more time in the deep ocean catching fish, forcing the polar bears to swim more often to catch them.
Let's follow the food chain ..
"Diet. Polar bears feed almost exclusively on ringed seals and bearded seals. They are also known to eat walrus, beluga whale and bowhead whale carcasses, birds' eggs, and (rarely) vegetation. Polar bears travel great distances in search of prey."
Ringed seals eat: Arctic cod and crustaceans, krill, squid, octopus, cod. mussels & crustaceans
Bearded seals: The bearded seal diet consists primarily of crustaceans (shrimps and crabs), mollusks (clams, snails and whelks), and some fish such as sculpin, flatfish, and cod.
Ringed and Bearded seals live on the ice flows and make ice holes for themselves.
"They prefer to rest on ice floe and will move farther north for denser ice. Two subspecies can be found in freshwater."
Crustaceans: Eat absolutely everything as scavengers
Arctic cod: Eat Copepods and marine worms
Flatfish: polychaetes and gammarids (many others)
http://journal.nafo.int/J30/li...
Sculpin: aquatic insect larvae, but will also eat crustaceans, small fish, fish eggs, and some plant material.
http://www.scientificamerican....
http://animals.mom.me/decline-...
Photosphere is the layer of the Sun that has the granulation pattern of plasma and the solar flares. The Chromosphere is the area that gives the Sun a reddish halo, and the Corona is the layer only visible during an eclipse.
The photosphere/chromosphere is a boundary layer with a density change greater than that of the Earth's ocean/atmosphere boundary layer.
I think that is happening to every language environment. Web page design started with HTML, but now there are CSS style sheets, PHP for getting server processes to run, JavaScript, AJAX, JQuery, Java, WebGL. You don't just learn C on it's own, that has to go with some hardware environment.
The simplest example that we were given was creating a derived class A with virtual inheritance from class B (class A : public virtual B) , then trying to create a container class C using STL vector (class C : public A), then adding and deleting items from a instance of class C. No end of chaos as the run-time environment tries to manage partially deleted objects. In the real-world, there could dozens of inherited classes between B and A. It would be more logical to use smart pointers in this case, but that's the sort of mess that can happen with just a single keyword placed somewhere.
I took a course on C++ back in the mid-1990's. According to the professors back then, the attitude was "Oh, don't learn STL, it's full of bugs, and they're still trying to shake them out". Guess the direction that industry went?
To get strong winds, you want the greatest gradient between air temperatures. The best place for that to happen is between the boundary of ocean/sea air and land air. When it is sunny, the land heats up faster than the ocean, so you get a breeze blowing inshore. At night-time, the land cools down faster than the ocean/sea, so that the breeze blows offshore. Because of the smooth surface of water, wind speeds are usually faster offshore than onshore.The following map gives a good idea of how the speeds differ:
http://earth.nullschool.net/#c...
If the mirrors can get in there first, they can be used to melt the sand into glass.
That's almost the opposite of the predecessor of morse code. Originally a telegram was transmitted by writing the letters out in a scan-line fashion. But most of the time, the operators could immediately recognize which letter was coming through after just a couple of scanlines, so the rest of the transmission was redundant (much like viewing text on a GUI window that is only partially visible at the bottom of the frame).
I was thinking of inside pressure. Watching those documentaries about how everything compressed in deep water. There are lifeforms at the far depths of the ocean that can only live at those pressures. Tryto extricate them back to the surface, and they basically dissolve as they consist of proteins that can only exist at those depths.
You'd have to that to get rid of all the barnacles, shellfish and limpets that collected in the cowls and nacelles during the dip into the ocean.
If materials science advanced to the point where a starship could get close to the speed of light without the crew becoming a sticky goo on the side of the corridors, remain in geostationary orbit, remain pressurized at one atmosphere even when orbiting a large star, I'd be rather worried if it couldn't handle the pressure increase going deep into the ocean.
They were practical for designers of physical machinery like custom gear teeth for mechanical wristwatches, car dashboards and just about anything industrial and mechanical. A particular shape of gear tooth can avoid excessive wear and tear, improve accuracy and avoid jamming. It's more than a copyright. All of those required months of R&D to test and prove an improvement. If someone hadn't already invented the parrot-beak gear tooth for improved timing, then it seemed fair to allow a design patent. A car dashboard that had been designed to present information in a clear and simple way while maintaining a minimalistic look would also be covered. Though back then designers also tried out ideas simply by sliding around paper cutouts of different fonts and instruments on a drawing desk.
But when you start moving into software GUI design, there are fundamental components like text labels, sliders, push buttons, radio buttons, toggle switches, rotary dials that can be combined together in hundreds of ways like lego bricks. You can easily achieve something using cut and paste operations on screen within minutes without any need for HCI or user validation.
The patent dates from 2007. X-windows was around from 1984 and had sliders. How else could they scroll along windows. The Athena widget set was around at this time:
http://www.efalk.org/Widgets/#...
Technically it was the same "scrollbar" that was used to scroll windows as was used to implement a color palette index editor.
" They require full artificial stability 100% of the time or they won't fly. No human can sense or react quick enough to keep them in the air, "
That's the case with many biological flying critters as well, like swallows and house martins. Greater flight instability leads to higher maneuverability, but at the cost of higher sensitivity to tiny changes in wind conditions and flight surface configuration, which in turn requires constant and rapid readjustment.
Many creatures have been able to adapt to maneuverability in small spaces only by making flight control autonomous. Insects use optic flow where the input to their compound eyes is used to estimate velocity all around and then make the requiring flight readjustments. Fish make use of their lateral line which provides input in the form of vortex pressure and velocity, providing an immediate response to muscle movement. Even honey bees get it wrong sometimes:
https://imgur.com/gallery/Q2aM...