In fact, I've found that I like it best when I have only a single toolbar. Here's how I configure it:
If I type a URL and hit 'enter' it loads the URL. If I type a non-URL and hit 'enter' it does an 'I'm feeling lucky' search. If I type anything and hit shift-enter it does a Google search on the text If I type anything and hit ctrl-enter it surrounds the text with www.[text].com and tries to load the URL.
I'm frugal with my screen space. I have a single wide strip on top with the current URL and no other text box. It doesn't really need to be that wide, but I have really grown to like this added simplicity to my interface. I only ever go one place to type things.
(Not to evangalize, but I use Maxthon. Though I first started using this setup when I had Firefox.)
Am I the only one looking for an OS that changes everything about how I use the computer? OSX is all I've seen, and it doesn't [yet] run on x86.
It's entirely possible there IS nothing fundamentally good beyond the command line and text-and-pictures-clicked-on-in-windows, given our current hardware, but maybe I just haven't thought of it yet. There are a lot of interesting applications that give new ways to do specific things -- though not as many as I'd like -- but not operating systems.
Agreed, mostly. Here's the thing. This is like saying "is human speech art?"
The answer is, quite unequivocally, "it depends".
There's no denying you can write art in code, and then that code is art (the IOCCC springs to mind). You can also write code to fix your sink or whatever, and that's not art.
Trying to figure out exactly where the line goes, or grouping them together and then saying "is this whole batch art?" isn't just intellectual drivel, it's idiocy. But also intellectual drivel.
the 'speed of the tip of the rotor' is relative to the helicopter, and is thus constant, not depending where it is in its rotation.
When mu = 1, and the tip of the blade is on the retreating side, the blade is standing still relative to the ground.
But what you asked about,
Think about this: when a blade-tip is perfectly perpendicular to the helicopter (longitudinal axis)and on the advancing side, if its airspeed is the same as the helicopter's, it shouldn't be moving relative to the helicopter...
No. You say "If its airspeed is the same as the helicopter's". They are not referring to airspeed (see first paragraph). They are referring to speed of rotation at the tip, so relative to the helicopter.
I know. I'm referring to the implication that somewhere on the blade between the stationary tip and the tip itself is in some sense moving 'backward', more so than the tip itself (the word 'even' implies this). They explained that it meant in terms of the blade through the air and that it's, at some point on the edge, hitting the air in the wrong direction. All clear now.
the rotor is still travelling forwards with the helicopter, but backwards relative to itself and its aerofoil.
Wait, I'm still confused.
What does "travelling backwards relative to itself" mean? And okay, backwards relative to the airfoil makes sense, but isn't that what it's doing anyway, always, on that side? Why would they say "the tip is standing still and other parts are moving backward" if they're talking about relative to the airfoil? The tip must also be moving backward relative to the airfoil.
This means that at a certain point, the tip of the retreating blade is "standing still" relative to the wind and producing no lift, while the rest of the blade is actually moving backwards through the air.
The site is dashslotted so I can't see any diagrams, but I'm having trouble picturing this. "the tip of the retreating blade is 'standing still'" made sense, but how on earth would the rest of the blade be "actually moving backward through the air"? The retreating tip stands still, but then the rest of the blade can only be moving more forward than that.
I have just gone through a time warp and it is April Fools Day, right?
What year is it?
It's 2005. None of that stuff has happened yet -- President Stewart (Jon or Martha), Taiwan's conquoring of China, Linus Torvald's anti-trust convictions, the Open Open Source movement (requiring personal bigoraphies to be included in code as comments), nuclear winter, volcanic summer, the deaths of all former members of the Jackson Five by inexplicable meteor impacts, Japan's adoption of live-action Katamari Damacy as the national sport, the draining of the Medeterranian to hold the overflowing third-world European population, Al Gore's attempted comeback, the subsequent re-flooding of the Medeterranian by a couple of teenage pranksters, the magnetic field reversal, the Moon 2, Al Gore's second attempted comeback, Al Gore's therapy session on Oprah, Jerry Falwell's therapy session on Queer Eye, George Lucas's release of the final original episodes 13, 14, and 15, and the death of the last "in Soviet Russia" joke in captivity.
Are you talking about NeXT? That wasn't my understanding. I thought they were basically liquidated. I read this Steve Jobs bio, and I didn't hear anything like that.
Also, why was I modded alternately 'interesting' and 'flamebait'? I was making a pun. Unless . . . oh, crap, don't tell me NEXTFEST actually/is/ named after NeXT. But if not, I was making a pun! What did I miss?
I'm constantly frustrated by poor interface design and hate learning my way through new OSes. The phones I've used have such terrible interfaces that I can't imagine that they won't change quite a bit in the future. I've resisted buying a cell phone in part because I don't want to learn interfaces for devices that are going to vanish soon and be replaecd by something better.
Part of me wants a cell phone that simply has ten numbers, a call button, and a call log, and for the other stuff I'll use a laptop that has a GOOD interface for it. Oh, and a ringer and vibrate. But sadly, fewer features doesn't seem to less cost now.
Another part wants all mobile things integrated into one device, giving me a laptop/phone/PDA that I can carry everywhere. But it has to have a good interface. I refuse to learn this damn texting. Morse code I could do. But texting just seems awful.
I've got friends who have Treos and stuff, but I've never gotten to play with any of them. The idea of something that runs Linux seems nice, though.
So, my question for/.: Where should I be looking for a good laptop/PDA/phone-type device that has a good and reliable interface and a QWERTY keyboard? What's your experience with these devices? What do you think is on the way?
It sucks how the speed of light limit is such an absolute no-way-around-it problem, for a lot of applications. Guarenteed 10 ms round-trip for every thousand miles (5ms/1000 miles). So halfway around the earth and you've got 100ms ping guarenteed lower limit, even if you run the cables as straight as you can (on the surface, of course).
Mostly I'm mentioning this because it was an excuse to put together a rule of thumb for light/distance in real-world estimation, like the 1-foot-per-nanosecond rule. 5.5 ms to go 1000 miles, rounded down and you've got a nice absolute floor.
5ms per 1000 miles, 10ms ping. More because your cables aren't straight enough.
Here is a relevant post by Ralph Spoilsport on an earlier article, which can be found here. I am reproducing it here in full because it is very interesting and highly relevant.
this is actually a BIG question
And one that I have railed about for many years. I have been in the same position the Author discussed, and I have come to ONLY negative conclusions. In a few words, and I hate to say this, but buddy:
WE'RE FUCKED.
Digital is a loser's proposition. backing up to analogue or even digital data on analogic substrates (such as DV tape) fail. Simply nad purely.
The *only* thing that comes close is some kind of RAID, and those, even with the plummeting price of storage, are still too expensive given the needs.
Also, a RAID assumes a continuity of several things that are not likely to be continuous:
With Video: Framerate, number of lines, colour depth, aspect ratio, file format, compression format, Operating system compatibility, etc etc etc. All of these things are variables.
With Audio: sample rate, compression format, bit depth, file format, etc.
Basically all of it points to very bad places.
I am fairly well convinced that our age will simply disappear. They will find our garbage, the few books not pressed on acidic paper, our paintings (fat lot of good the abstract stuff will mean to them) and drawings, that's about it. the rest will just be shiny little bits of crap in the landfill.
Since we will have used up all the dense energy forms, they will be appalled at the energy requirements just to get the few remaining museum piece devices to work. Archiving the 21st century will be impossible. To the 25th century, the 21st century will be seen as a dark age - not only for the holocaust of the die caused by the failure of the petroleum based economy, but from the simple fact that very little of the information formats we are totally geared into will survive, including this note on/.
His problem of saving personal video is just the tip ofthe iceberg. His problem is the problem of our very civilisation, writ small.
That's why I am abandoning video, and going back to painting. In 500 years, my painting CAN survive. the video simply won't.
RS
And don't give me shit about my karma or whatever. My karma's fine, I don't care about it. I'm copying this because it's interesting and contributes to the discussion.
But do inspiration and goosebumps justify forcibly extracting money from taxpayers, and spending the lives of our best and brightest?
Yes.
Let's have some balls, for once, and go somewhere. We can sit here, doing with shinier toys what we did again and again throughout history, or we can go somewhere. Exploration, man. "And he willed that the hearts of men would seek beyond the world, and find no rest therein." Let's go.
Okay, I read it. It doesn't seem like the clearest article.
And as for it being too dangerous with guarenteed loss of life -- did you know that, in the construction of a high-rise, they basically count on the deaths of one or two cnostruction workers? That's my understanding.
I think space missions are cool and all, but here's a pretty interesting article about why it may be wasteful and an inappropriate way to spend taxpayers' money.
I'll read the article. But:
The West Wing on Voyager crossing the termination shock:
"Voyager, in case it's ever encountered by extraterrestrials, is carrying photos of life on earth, greetings in fifty-five languages, and a collection of music from Gregorian chant to Chuck Berry, including "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" by 1920s bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, whose stepmother blinded him at seven by throwing lye in his eyes after his father beat her for being with another man. He died penniless of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down.
But his music just left the solar system."
Okay, maybe I'm dumb to feel inspired by that. I don't know why it's so touching. But every time I think of it I get goosebumps.
The Onion said it best. Holy shit, we walked on the fucking moon.
It may be true that there's no incentive to explore space, in terms of measurable returns. We get spinoff technology, but maybe it would have come anyway. That's debatable. But we walked on the fucking moon. That is one of the biggest moments in any chronicle of our race. Let's keep at it, if for no other reason than that we can. Let's be the one species that survives itself and spreads out into the universe.
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In fact, I've found that I like it best when I have only a single toolbar. Here's how I configure it:
If I type a URL and hit 'enter' it loads the URL.
If I type a non-URL and hit 'enter' it does an 'I'm feeling lucky' search.
If I type anything and hit shift-enter it does a Google search on the text
If I type anything and hit ctrl-enter it surrounds the text with www.[text].com and tries to load the URL.
I'm frugal with my screen space. I have a single wide strip on top with the current URL and no other text box. It doesn't really need to be that wide, but I have really grown to like this added simplicity to my interface. I only ever go one place to type things.
(Not to evangalize, but I use Maxthon. Though I first started using this setup when I had Firefox.)
Am I the only one looking for an OS that changes everything about how I use the computer? OSX is all I've seen, and it doesn't [yet] run on x86.
It's entirely possible there IS nothing fundamentally good beyond the command line and text-and-pictures-clicked-on-in-windows, given our current hardware, but maybe I just haven't thought of it yet. There are a lot of interesting applications that give new ways to do specific things -- though not as many as I'd like -- but not operating systems.
I'd like to try them if they exist.
Anyway, mod me ignorant but interesting.
Agreed, mostly. Here's the thing. This is like saying "is human speech art?"
The answer is, quite unequivocally, "it depends".
There's no denying you can write art in code, and then that code is art (the IOCCC springs to mind). You can also write code to fix your sink or whatever, and that's not art.
Trying to figure out exactly where the line goes, or grouping them together and then saying "is this whole batch art?" isn't just intellectual drivel, it's idiocy. But also intellectual drivel.
Getting punched every morning helps with your constitution. Toughens you up. Let's encourage it.
At least, I think it helps. I'll do some studies.
the 'speed of the tip of the rotor' is relative to the helicopter, and is thus constant, not depending where it is in its rotation.
When mu = 1, and the tip of the blade is on the retreating side, the blade is standing still relative to the ground.
But what you asked about,
Think about this: when a blade-tip is perfectly perpendicular to the helicopter (longitudinal axis)and on the advancing side, if its airspeed is the same as the helicopter's, it shouldn't be moving relative to the helicopter...
No. You say "If its airspeed is the same as the helicopter's". They are not referring to airspeed (see first paragraph). They are referring to speed of rotation at the tip, so relative to the helicopter.
I know. I'm referring to the implication that somewhere on the blade between the stationary tip and the tip itself is in some sense moving 'backward', more so than the tip itself (the word 'even' implies this). They explained that it meant in terms of the blade through the air and that it's, at some point on the edge, hitting the air in the wrong direction. All clear now.
Oh! I understand now!
Thanks.
Wait, I'm still confused.
What does "travelling backwards relative to itself" mean? And okay, backwards relative to the airfoil makes sense, but isn't that what it's doing anyway, always, on that side? Why would they say "the tip is standing still and other parts are moving backward" if they're talking about relative to the airfoil? The tip must also be moving backward relative to the airfoil.
The site is dashslotted so I can't see any diagrams, but I'm having trouble picturing this. "the tip of the retreating blade is 'standing still'" made sense, but how on earth would the rest of the blade be "actually moving backward through the air"? The retreating tip stands still, but then the rest of the blade can only be moving more forward than that.
What am I missing?
Duh, you fold it.
That's why the Japanese jumped ahead in miniature electronics -- we came up with the circuit boards, but they know Oragami.
It's 2005. None of that stuff has happened yet -- President Stewart (Jon or Martha), Taiwan's conquoring of China, Linus Torvald's anti-trust convictions, the Open Open Source movement (requiring personal bigoraphies to be included in code as comments), nuclear winter, volcanic summer, the deaths of all former members of the Jackson Five by inexplicable meteor impacts, Japan's adoption of live-action Katamari Damacy as the national sport, the draining of the Medeterranian to hold the overflowing third-world European population, Al Gore's attempted comeback, the subsequent re-flooding of the Medeterranian by a couple of teenage pranksters, the magnetic field reversal, the Moon 2, Al Gore's second attempted comeback, Al Gore's therapy session on Oprah, Jerry Falwell's therapy session on Queer Eye, George Lucas's release of the final original episodes 13, 14, and 15, and the death of the last "in Soviet Russia" joke in captivity.
You've got a lot to look forward to.
Mod parent 'not troll'.
Are you talking about NeXT? That wasn't my understanding. I thought they were basically liquidated. I read this Steve Jobs bio, and I didn't hear anything like that.
/is/ named after NeXT. But if not, I was making a pun! What did I miss?
Also, why was I modded alternately 'interesting' and 'flamebait'? I was making a pun. Unless . . . oh, crap, don't tell me NEXTFEST actually
I'm constantly frustrated by poor interface design and hate learning my way through new OSes. The phones I've used have such terrible interfaces that I can't imagine that they won't change quite a bit in the future. I've resisted buying a cell phone in part because I don't want to learn interfaces for devices that are going to vanish soon and be replaecd by something better.
/.: Where should I be looking for a good laptop/PDA/phone-type device that has a good and reliable interface and a QWERTY keyboard? What's your experience with these devices? What do you think is on the way?
Part of me wants a cell phone that simply has ten numbers, a call button, and a call log, and for the other stuff I'll use a laptop that has a GOOD interface for it. Oh, and a ringer and vibrate. But sadly, fewer features doesn't seem to less cost now.
Another part wants all mobile things integrated into one device, giving me a laptop/phone/PDA that I can carry everywhere. But it has to have a good interface. I refuse to learn this damn texting. Morse code I could do. But texting just seems awful.
I've got friends who have Treos and stuff, but I've never gotten to play with any of them. The idea of something that runs Linux seems nice, though.
So, my question for
It sucks how the speed of light limit is such an absolute no-way-around-it problem, for a lot of applications. Guarenteed 10 ms round-trip for every thousand miles (5ms/1000 miles). So halfway around the earth and you've got 100ms ping guarenteed lower limit, even if you run the cables as straight as you can (on the surface, of course).
Mostly I'm mentioning this because it was an excuse to put together a rule of thumb for light/distance in real-world estimation, like the 1-foot-per-nanosecond rule. 5.5 ms to go 1000 miles, rounded down and you've got a nice absolute floor.
5ms per 1000 miles, 10ms ping. More because your cables aren't straight enough.
Goddammit, why do I keep getting modded "funny" when I'm being serious!?
And the last joke I tried to make got modded "interesting". It was a goddamn PUN, people! There was nothing interesting about it!
Sigh.
Watch this be modded "anti-semitic" or something.
Dammit. Why do I keep getting modded "funny" when I don't expect it!?
I think that must be a bad sign.
And the last stupid joke I tried to make (a goddamn PUN) got modded "interesting".
Sigh.
And don't give me shit about my karma or whatever. My karma's fine, I don't care about it. I'm copying this because it's interesting and contributes to the discussion.
What do you think about Ralph's thoughts?
if ((A isNot B) == (&A != &B)) { return new Patent(this->Innovation()) }
What does &A mean, in this context?
Yes.
Let's have some balls, for once, and go somewhere. We can sit here, doing with shinier toys what we did again and again throughout history, or we can go somewhere. Exploration, man. "And he willed that the hearts of men would seek beyond the world, and find no rest therein." Let's go.
Okay, I read it. It doesn't seem like the clearest article.
And as for it being too dangerous with guarenteed loss of life -- did you know that, in the construction of a high-rise, they basically count on the deaths of one or two cnostruction workers? That's my understanding.
I'll read the article. But:
The West Wing on Voyager crossing the termination shock:
"Voyager, in case it's ever encountered by extraterrestrials, is carrying photos of life on earth, greetings in fifty-five languages, and a collection of music from Gregorian chant to Chuck Berry, including "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" by 1920s bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, whose stepmother blinded him at seven by throwing lye in his eyes after his father beat her for being with another man. He died penniless of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down.
But his music just left the solar system."
Okay, maybe I'm dumb to feel inspired by that. I don't know why it's so touching. But every time I think of it I get goosebumps.
The Onion said it best. Holy shit, we walked on the fucking moon.
It may be true that there's no incentive to explore space, in terms of measurable returns. We get spinoff technology, but maybe it would have come anyway. That's debatable. But we walked on the fucking moon. That is one of the biggest moments in any chronicle of our race. Let's keep at it, if for no other reason than that we can. Let's be the one species that survives itself and spreads out into the universe.
So it seems now that Wikipedia has more street cred than either Yahoo OR Google, since they're both clammering to be seen as being in support.
And with Google at aproximately 211 street cred units as of the last survey, Wikipedia is definitely doing well.
I can't see the page. (2:32 EST)