Actually my laptop is a Mac. An hour of battery might be a high estimate too. It's more like 45 minutes.:-/
I'm using a brand-new 1gHz PowerBook right now. Even with the display cranked up close to max brightness I'm still getting 4 hours plus on it. If I bump the brightness down I get close to 6 hours out of it. Not bad at all, especially considering how nice the laptop is. It is about as full-featured as a laptop gets.
I highly recommend one, I'm on a business trip right now and I brought along a few DVDs. It's much better than ordering in a movie for $5 or whatever. The screen is large enough to confortably watch a DVD in widescreen without any eyestrain.
No, I answered. I know it might have been a troll, but then again it might not have. If it was a troll then so be it, he got me, big deal. If it was not a troll then maybe I helped. Either way it took me a few minutes to write something just in case it wasn't real.
I must have spent over 12 hours a day playing it...
But I wasn't enjoying playing it. It was a misery. Everyone one the game hated me, and I hated all of them. I was frequently being banned, but I always found a way back...
When I did die, I'd lose so much (in the way of xp and equipment etc), I'd go insane, smashing up furniture and walls in real life. There's still a foot-wide hole in the wall where I smashed it in using a metal pole
In the end I just got bored and stopped playing. My life has improved since then, but not by much. I still have no friends, I've put on several stone in weight, and time I used to spend playing the game I now spend watching the telly.
You may or may not already know this, you may be blocking it out, and you probably don't want to hear it but you have to see a mental health care professional about this behavior. I certainly do not have any sort of competency in the mental health care field, but this sort of behavior is very alarming.
Look at it this way: you were spending most of your waking hours playing a game you didn't like to play, you would deliberately sabotage any personal relationships in the game, you would act out your frustration with the virtual world by breaking stuff in the physical world, and now that you don't play you have very little improvement. Doesn't this sound abnormal? Even your posting this here is probably some sort of calling out for help. Now, I don't know you and you don't know me but please try to find some help from someone. Even if life looks crappy right now it doesn't have to be that way in the future.
There are people who can help. You can be happy, and not in a sickening sweet way but in a "go out and kick ass" way! Look at the first few pages of a phonebook, they often will have counseling lines posted there. Go to a doctor, ask him for help. Believe me, it could be a stupid little thing like you need more light or less sugar or even an increase in certain vitamins. Sometimes just a little change can help. Look for that help, it is your right to feel good and succeed in life.
I've read all his books, and to me, JP stands out by far. Those others you listed (Congo, Terminal Man, Sphere) had interesting ideas, but were not his best work.
I totally agree on Congo and Terminal man - interesting ideas, but they just didn't cut it and were lacking something. However, I thought Sphere was amazing and engaging. I guess it just depends on your tastes.
My favorite book of his is probably Travels, a autobiography of sorts in which Michael Crichton relates all of the wierd things he has seen in the late sixties, the seventies, and the early eighties. The cool thing is that he doesn't write it as an autobiography, but more like an explorer. It is a very cool read, pick it up if you haven't. He also has a similar book called Five Patients, in which he studies our health care system and uses five example patients to show what is good, bad, and ugly about health care.
And since network gaming seems to be the place, the gaming industry is heading, imho there is a need for an free network-api, which is designed for gaming, like directplay. There's OpenGL, OpenML, now who will create OpenNL for OpenNetwerkLibrary?
There is one already. It is called OpenPlay. Here is a quote from the site:
What is OpenPlay? OpenPlay is a cross-platform network abstraction layer designed to simplify the task of creating programs which communicate across multiple computers.
While originally designed for multiplayer games, it is useful for any developer who wants an easy, platform-independent way to send messages to programs running on other machines. It completely abstracts both OpenTransport and Winsock, and its plug-in architecture makes it easy for you to support new transport protocols.
The Myth series uses OpenPlay, as well as some other games
Woah, wait a second. You mean to tell me that the First Circuit has Puerto Rico and all of New England EXCEPT FOR CONNECTICUT AND VERMONT! How did Connecticut and Vermont get pulled into the Second Circuit with New York, while Puerto Rico avoids being part of the 11th Circuit with their neighbors Alabama, Georgia and Florida. It looks to me like all of the other Circuits are neighboring states.
Maybe a better division would be to have all of New England be the 1st Circuit, include New York in the current 3rd Circuit (NJ and PA), and put Puerto Rico in the 11th Circuit with its neighbor Florida. I would say that all of those regions share a bit more in common than the current division.
Maybe it's just me but this sounds like a really odd division of the Circuits
Purely hypothetically, say that Congress passed a law making it illegal to be blonde. Clearly this is unconstitutional, but if it is enforced many people will go to jail. Obviously they will want to appeal it.
Well, there are still several levels here. First of all, it has to pass both the House and the Senate in order to make it totally through Congress. Then it has to be signed off by the President. Any of these governing bodies can nix the bill, effectively sending it back for more evaluation.
Once it is signed off by both branches of Congress and the President then it becomes law. Of course the Supreme Court can then challenge the Constitutionality of the bill and can nullify it. Past that I'm not sure.
Here is a web site which may help you to understand the entire process, I know I am just spitballing it. I'm a chemist, not a lawyer dammit, and I am only repeating what I remember from Schoolhouse Rock. For more sites that may help you, remember that Google is your friend (Google US Constitutional Law section).
It's all well and fine now, but when they these robots finally get their metal claws you will need to get Old Glory Robot Insurance! It's for when the metal ones decide to come for you - and they will!
If NASA wants to do some useful science on the ISS, they should start researching equipment that doesn't break down in orbit. Even if the ISS doesn't provide any great research or achievements, why not use it to validate methods of building things and keeping stuff in orbit reliably?
Equipment breaks down no matter where you are using it. Every single part which is used has a probability of breaking down every day it is around, even if it is just sitting in a locked safe on Earth. The reason they need to do so many repairs is because anything that you bring with you into space has a ton of parts. These parts are very durable but there are so many of them that even if you only get a 0.01% failure rate per year you are still going to have several failures over the course of that year.
Add to this the fact that objects which are put into space face tremendous stresses. The acceleration of being put into orbit, the radiation, the wide variations in temperature, the forces in any direction due to course corrections. Even if the parts are very durable on Earth they are still going to have higher failure rates in a space vehicle.
Most systems have triple (or more) redundancy to offset these problems, so that when something breaks the replacement can come into action immediately. That means that even with several failures there is very little danger to the station. However, you still need to repair the failures so that you can keep the redundancy in place.
I'm sure that NASA engineers do plenty of research into making the parts of the various space vehicles as durable as possible. In fact, I have worked with several people who help with just this kind of research. At RPI there is a linear particle accelerator which is used to bombard equipment, especially electronic components, with various types of particles. As a research assistant I helped to prepare and test some of the equipment. This was 10 years ago, but I'm certain that this type of testing is still being performed in order to improve the failure rates of equipment in space.
NAME ONE SITE that would cause something similar to/. effect.
Let's see. I would say that CNN.com could cause a flood of people to visit a site. Maybe MSN.com could also, simply because it is set as a default homepage and so many people don't know how to change their default homepage. I'm sure that there are other sites similar to those that could have a "slashdot effect" but certainly Slashdot is the prime example for the effect.
Meanwhile, www.utwente.nl is used as a central point of information towards students and employees. Which n00b put the link on slashdot, _AGAIN_? Thanks for ruining our just revived webserver
Hmm, that person would be you, seeing as how you just posted the link yourself.
You know, I would think that most web administrators would check the referring site and if the person is coming from Slashdot they would redirect to a low-graphics version of their site. Either that or deny the Slashdot visit with a page explaining bandwidth issues. I know it is tough to prepare for every eventuality but I don't know of many sites other than Slashdot which could cause such a flood of people to visit a site.
Maybe the art school* dropout type professional programmers are tending away from building their own, but as for the "real" programmers, I'd say that's not true at all.
Be careful just how you paint with that broad brush. I would definitely consider myself not to be a "art school dropout type", I have a bachelors in Chemistry with a minor in CompSci, as well as a masters in Computational Chemistry. I do tons of programming which involves developing computer simulations of chemical interactions on a quantum level. I have no desire to build my own system, I simply want my machine to work. That's not to say I can't build my own, I just have no desire to waste my time doing so. I neither want nor need a cheap, no-name computer. I want something solid, reliable, and backed with a hefty warranty so that it gets replaced quickly if something breaks. If it is compact and it looks good, so much the better.
I have many colleges who are also making this kind of choice. Increasingly a lot of computational chemists and biologists that I know are using pre-built systems. Many of the straight programming and network people I work with are also using pre-built systems. In fact, from what I've seen it looks like there are more hobbyists building their own machines than the professionals. Now maybe that is different for you, but it is certain to me that there is a decreased emphasis on building your own computer than there has been in past years.
What this may mean is the beginning of the PC appliance era. About 80% of PCs are never opened once they leave the factory. They could just as well ship as sealed boxes, with the usual "no user serviceable parts inside" marking.
This is exactly the reason that Apple came out with the iMac and it is also the reason it has been so successful. The average person wants a pretty, small box which needs almost no maintenance. They don't want to upgrade it, they don't want to open it. When it eventually breaks they want to move on to another one as easily as possible.
Towers and other expandable computers are simply for those who want to fool around with their computer. Those types of computer users are becoming a rarity now. Even professional programmers and other "power users" are tending to go away from the build-your-own mentality and are instead are just treating their computer as a tool to be bought once, kept closed, and used until they need the next one.
An upgraded GUI can soak tons of raw CPU power in ways that make you yearn for it (just ask the Mac folks about CPU consumption under the OS X GUI).
Actually I am one of the Mac folk you speak of and I can say that it really doesn't slow things down much. The two big factors which caused people to perceive a slowdown were increased memory usage and a non-optimized operating system.
Once you up your memory and upgrade to a more recent build of MacOS X (the most recent is 10.2.2), you find that it is pretty much as quick as the MacOSs that came before it. It is slower in some tasks and quicker in others, but overall there really isn't any performance degradation. In fact I would say that performance has actually gone up a bit, simply due to the fact that applications multitask much more smoothly. Another reason performance is up is that I never have to start up my computer anymore, I just leave it running 24/7. It uses almost no power when sleeping and starts up in a few seconds. That is certainly quicker than having to start up my computer every day, or to restart it when there is trouble with a piece of software.
Given that Antarctica is about the *only* thing south of Australia, there is a very good chance that the quark entered *and* left from Antarctica.
There is quite a bit of water between Australia and Antarctica. The closest points between the two (actually from Tasmania, an island, to Antarctica) are approximately 24 degrees latitude apart. This translates to about 1660 miles between the two.
If it were the same time, different place, then wouldn't there only be a difference in distance, not the.72 seconds between entrance and exit?
Yes, if it was the same time, different place. It is not though, what is happening is that the object was traveling faster than the speed of sound in the earth. Thus the object enters and leaves the earth faster than the wave can propagate. To a seismograph, this would appear to be a long fault along the entire path the object took, rather than as a series of points along the path.
So the object enters the earth and leaves fractions of a second later, but all we see is a shock wave emanating along the entire path of the object. There is both a difference in time and distance for the entrance and exit points.
So are Australia and Antartica 37.5 miles apart? Confused.
Take a look at that again:
pass through the earth at 400 km per second (250 miles per second)...an object entered south of Australia and exited the Earth near Antarctica 0.15 of a second later.
The object didn't enter Australia, it entered south of Australia. Since Antarctica is south of Australia, it is certainly possible that the object entered the earth 37.5 miles away from Antarctica.
Yep, the last-minute addition must have lowered the center of gravity below the center of pressure. It goes to show, never make last-minute changes to a design! The last time I did that I was working on a chemistry project and I ended up with a mixture of hot sulphuric acid, sodium hydroxide, butyl alcohol, and a few other chemicals fountaining out of a flask onto my hands. Luckily for me I was wearing thick gloves and there was a chemical shower 3 feet away. Nasty nasty stuff, those gloves were melting in seconds.
My worst rocketry accident occurred when I built a model SR-71 Blackbird. It was a beautiful model rocket and it took me a long time to get just right. I put it on the launch pad and everything was going ok until I hit the ignition button. The rocket got about 1/2 way up the launch rod and then it stuck. The force of the engine caused the rocket to tip over the pad and then it freed itself and went shooting off at about 2 feet off the ground. The damn rocket slammed into the ground nose first, jammed on, and then the ejection charge fired and lit the rocket on fire.
Many hours of work down the drain in 10 seconds. Amazing. It turned out that the 2 sections of the launch rod had gotten turned and, since they are designed to only line up a certain way, they were off center from each other. The rocket jammed on this and well...
it went fine until the tagged on motor lit the main motor....the rocket tumbled just for an instant, and when the main motor fired, the rocket was horizontal
What you need to do is to read this web page on how to design a stable rocket before you build one. Basically it all comes down to the last paragraph on the web page, which tells you to make sure you have the center of gravity closer to the nose than the center of pressure.
What you probably needed was to have more weight in the nose of the rocket and/or to use larger fins on the rocket. More weight in the nose would move the center of gravity toward the nose, larger fins would move the center of pressure toward the motor. If you had done this then the drag on the rocket from the air passing over it would have kept it straight up until it lost all upward velocity. Thus it would have not wobbled during the small delay between the first motor ending and the second motor getting up to speed.
I do know that pppd calls a script every time its connection goes up or goes down. You may be able to write a script to do your mail transfers with this script.
When the connection is made it calls the shell script at:/private/etc/ppp/ip-up
When the connection is broken it calls the shell script at:/private/etc/ppp/ip-down
If you don't use ppp or pppoe (or anything else that uses pppd) then maybe there are similar scripts in other places. Hope this helps.
The reason I haven't switched over to OS X? Believe it or not, there's only one reason: that stupid Open File dialog. I can't grok it, I can't figure it out, and worst of all I can't just type in the first few letters of the file I want in the folder and have it be selected, as has been the case since Mac OS 6.x (back when it was just called "System 6")
Hmm, works fine for me. One thing you need to do is to change the focus from the "Go To:" input box first. Just hit the tab key and type a few letters. It will then select the first folder or file beginning with the letters you typed. You can then go into the folder by hitting the right arrow key. If you hit the left arrow key it will back up one level. The up and down arrows move you up and down in the current list.
Just because things might have changed a little doesn't mean that it's too much effort to switch to a new operating system. Sometimes you need to just plunge in and experience something new. Sure you will be slowed down for a little while, but MacOS X has many good features and actually has lost very little from older MacOS versions. I would say that overall the good far outweighs what has changed or has been removed. You will be up and running at full speed in no time
So jump right in and move forward with the many people who are now running MacOS X exclusively. I can honestly say that I have not run MacOS 9 or earlier in about a year, including Classic mode. I don't miss it at all!
I've often felt that Apple should contribute directly to SDL rather than work in parallel.
Perhaps, but then again Apple has been working on OpenPlay for quite some time now. I'm fairly certain that they were working on it with Bungie and that it formed the basis for the networking used in the Myth games. Of course it wasn't open source back then.
I'm not sure which open source effort is further along, works better, is more portable, etc. but it could go the other way too. That is to say that perhaps the SDL people should adopt and work on OpenPlay. It all depends on which one would best fit the games community at-large. That's the great thing about open source: choices.
remember Game Sprockets? That was when Apple last tried to provide a framework for game developers. Like OpenDoc, any developers who adopted it were out of luck when Apple decided to abandon it.
Ahh, but now we begin to see the beauty of open source. Apple has released OpenPlay as open source. They have provided the full source code for OpenPlay and they encourage any and all to help develop it. So even if Apple goes south it will still be out there and people can continue to develop the API.
Better yet, charge for a number of email sent over a certain amount. Set it at 1000 emails and you would be good I think.
The problem with this is that they would then just get multiple accounts. If they needed to send 10,000 messages then they would get 10 accounts and send 1,000 messages for free per account.
The best way is to have some sort of central agency handle mail, just like it is done with the postal services across the world. Mail would be relayed through their servers and only routed if the sender has an account. Each sender would have their own account and they would be charged some trivial amount to have a message relayed, say 0.1 cents per message. If you get a message you didn't want from a sender you can reply to the router with a complaint. More than a certain amount of complaints per period of time causes a penalty charge to be made.
This sort of setup would not hurt the casual sender of email and normal businesses would be barely affected. A nasty spammer would find it very tough to do business as usual, due to the costs involved. Once this kind of program became commonplace then people could stop using their usual email and start using the new kind of email. I would make it so that the client could easily refuse all of the old email and only receive the new type.
OpenGL is a replacement for D3D only. OpenAL is probably comparable to DirectSound, but there is nothing comparable to DirectShow, DirectPlay, or DirectMusic
I'm not sure about some of those, but I do know that there is OpenPlay, an alternative networking API. Here's a quote from the site:
What is OpenPlay? OpenPlay is a cross-platform network abstraction layer designed to simplify the task of creating programs which communicate across multiple computers.
While originally designed for multiplayer games, it is useful for any developer who wants an easy, platform-independent way to send messages to programs running on other machines. It completely abstracts both OpenTransport and Winsock, and its plug-in architecture makes it easy for you to support new transport protocols.
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I highly recommend one, I'm on a business trip right now and I brought along a few DVDs. It's much better than ordering in a movie for $5 or whatever. The screen is large enough to confortably watch a DVD in widescreen without any eyestrain.
No, I answered. I know it might have been a troll, but then again it might not have. If it was a troll then so be it, he got me, big deal. If it was not a troll then maybe I helped. Either way it took me a few minutes to write something just in case it wasn't real.
You may or may not already know this, you may be blocking it out, and you probably don't want to hear it but you have to see a mental health care professional about this behavior. I certainly do not have any sort of competency in the mental health care field, but this sort of behavior is very alarming.
Look at it this way: you were spending most of your waking hours playing a game you didn't like to play, you would deliberately sabotage any personal relationships in the game, you would act out your frustration with the virtual world by breaking stuff in the physical world, and now that you don't play you have very little improvement. Doesn't this sound abnormal? Even your posting this here is probably some sort of calling out for help. Now, I don't know you and you don't know me but please try to find some help from someone. Even if life looks crappy right now it doesn't have to be that way in the future.
There are people who can help. You can be happy, and not in a sickening sweet way but in a "go out and kick ass" way! Look at the first few pages of a phonebook, they often will have counseling lines posted there. Go to a doctor, ask him for help. Believe me, it could be a stupid little thing like you need more light or less sugar or even an increase in certain vitamins. Sometimes just a little change can help. Look for that help, it is your right to feel good and succeed in life.
I totally agree on Congo and Terminal man - interesting ideas, but they just didn't cut it and were lacking something. However, I thought Sphere was amazing and engaging. I guess it just depends on your tastes.
My favorite book of his is probably Travels, a autobiography of sorts in which Michael Crichton relates all of the wierd things he has seen in the late sixties, the seventies, and the early eighties. The cool thing is that he doesn't write it as an autobiography, but more like an explorer. It is a very cool read, pick it up if you haven't. He also has a similar book called Five Patients, in which he studies our health care system and uses five example patients to show what is good, bad, and ugly about health care.
There is one already. It is called OpenPlay. Here is a quote from the site:
The Myth series uses OpenPlay, as well as some other games
Woah, wait a second. You mean to tell me that the First Circuit has Puerto Rico and all of New England EXCEPT FOR CONNECTICUT AND VERMONT! How did Connecticut and Vermont get pulled into the Second Circuit with New York, while Puerto Rico avoids being part of the 11th Circuit with their neighbors Alabama, Georgia and Florida. It looks to me like all of the other Circuits are neighboring states.
Maybe a better division would be to have all of New England be the 1st Circuit, include New York in the current 3rd Circuit (NJ and PA), and put Puerto Rico in the 11th Circuit with its neighbor Florida. I would say that all of those regions share a bit more in common than the current division.
Maybe it's just me but this sounds like a really odd division of the Circuits
Well, there are still several levels here. First of all, it has to pass both the House and the Senate in order to make it totally through Congress. Then it has to be signed off by the President. Any of these governing bodies can nix the bill, effectively sending it back for more evaluation.
Once it is signed off by both branches of Congress and the President then it becomes law. Of course the Supreme Court can then challenge the Constitutionality of the bill and can nullify it. Past that I'm not sure.
Here is a web site which may help you to understand the entire process, I know I am just spitballing it. I'm a chemist, not a lawyer dammit, and I am only repeating what I remember from Schoolhouse Rock. For more sites that may help you, remember that Google is your friend (Google US Constitutional Law section).
It's all well and fine now, but when they these robots finally get their metal claws you will need to get Old Glory Robot Insurance! It's for when the metal ones decide to come for you - and they will!
Equipment breaks down no matter where you are using it. Every single part which is used has a probability of breaking down every day it is around, even if it is just sitting in a locked safe on Earth. The reason they need to do so many repairs is because anything that you bring with you into space has a ton of parts. These parts are very durable but there are so many of them that even if you only get a 0.01% failure rate per year you are still going to have several failures over the course of that year.
Add to this the fact that objects which are put into space face tremendous stresses. The acceleration of being put into orbit, the radiation, the wide variations in temperature, the forces in any direction due to course corrections. Even if the parts are very durable on Earth they are still going to have higher failure rates in a space vehicle.
Most systems have triple (or more) redundancy to offset these problems, so that when something breaks the replacement can come into action immediately. That means that even with several failures there is very little danger to the station. However, you still need to repair the failures so that you can keep the redundancy in place.
I'm sure that NASA engineers do plenty of research into making the parts of the various space vehicles as durable as possible. In fact, I have worked with several people who help with just this kind of research. At RPI there is a linear particle accelerator which is used to bombard equipment, especially electronic components, with various types of particles. As a research assistant I helped to prepare and test some of the equipment. This was 10 years ago, but I'm certain that this type of testing is still being performed in order to improve the failure rates of equipment in space.
Let's see. I would say that CNN.com could cause a flood of people to visit a site. Maybe MSN.com could also, simply because it is set as a default homepage and so many people don't know how to change their default homepage. I'm sure that there are other sites similar to those that could have a "slashdot effect" but certainly Slashdot is the prime example for the effect.
Hmm, that person would be you, seeing as how you just posted the link yourself.
You know, I would think that most web administrators would check the referring site and if the person is coming from Slashdot they would redirect to a low-graphics version of their site. Either that or deny the Slashdot visit with a page explaining bandwidth issues. I know it is tough to prepare for every eventuality but I don't know of many sites other than Slashdot which could cause such a flood of people to visit a site.
Be careful just how you paint with that broad brush. I would definitely consider myself not to be a "art school dropout type", I have a bachelors in Chemistry with a minor in CompSci, as well as a masters in Computational Chemistry. I do tons of programming which involves developing computer simulations of chemical interactions on a quantum level. I have no desire to build my own system, I simply want my machine to work. That's not to say I can't build my own, I just have no desire to waste my time doing so. I neither want nor need a cheap, no-name computer. I want something solid, reliable, and backed with a hefty warranty so that it gets replaced quickly if something breaks. If it is compact and it looks good, so much the better.
I have many colleges who are also making this kind of choice. Increasingly a lot of computational chemists and biologists that I know are using pre-built systems. Many of the straight programming and network people I work with are also using pre-built systems. In fact, from what I've seen it looks like there are more hobbyists building their own machines than the professionals. Now maybe that is different for you, but it is certain to me that there is a decreased emphasis on building your own computer than there has been in past years.
This is exactly the reason that Apple came out with the iMac and it is also the reason it has been so successful. The average person wants a pretty, small box which needs almost no maintenance. They don't want to upgrade it, they don't want to open it. When it eventually breaks they want to move on to another one as easily as possible.
Towers and other expandable computers are simply for those who want to fool around with their computer. Those types of computer users are becoming a rarity now. Even professional programmers and other "power users" are tending to go away from the build-your-own mentality and are instead are just treating their computer as a tool to be bought once, kept closed, and used until they need the next one.
Actually I am one of the Mac folk you speak of and I can say that it really doesn't slow things down much. The two big factors which caused people to perceive a slowdown were increased memory usage and a non-optimized operating system.
Once you up your memory and upgrade to a more recent build of MacOS X (the most recent is 10.2.2), you find that it is pretty much as quick as the MacOSs that came before it. It is slower in some tasks and quicker in others, but overall there really isn't any performance degradation. In fact I would say that performance has actually gone up a bit, simply due to the fact that applications multitask much more smoothly. Another reason performance is up is that I never have to start up my computer anymore, I just leave it running 24/7. It uses almost no power when sleeping and starts up in a few seconds. That is certainly quicker than having to start up my computer every day, or to restart it when there is trouble with a piece of software.
There is quite a bit of water between Australia and Antarctica. The closest points between the two (actually from Tasmania, an island, to Antarctica) are approximately 24 degrees latitude apart. This translates to about 1660 miles between the two.
Yes, if it was the same time, different place. It is not though, what is happening is that the object was traveling faster than the speed of sound in the earth. Thus the object enters and leaves the earth faster than the wave can propagate. To a seismograph, this would appear to be a long fault along the entire path the object took, rather than as a series of points along the path.
So the object enters the earth and leaves fractions of a second later, but all we see is a shock wave emanating along the entire path of the object. There is both a difference in time and distance for the entrance and exit points.
Take a look at that again:
The object didn't enter Australia, it entered south of Australia. Since Antarctica is south of Australia, it is certainly possible that the object entered the earth 37.5 miles away from Antarctica.
Yep, the last-minute addition must have lowered the center of gravity below the center of pressure. It goes to show, never make last-minute changes to a design! The last time I did that I was working on a chemistry project and I ended up with a mixture of hot sulphuric acid, sodium hydroxide, butyl alcohol, and a few other chemicals fountaining out of a flask onto my hands. Luckily for me I was wearing thick gloves and there was a chemical shower 3 feet away. Nasty nasty stuff, those gloves were melting in seconds.
My worst rocketry accident occurred when I built a model SR-71 Blackbird. It was a beautiful model rocket and it took me a long time to get just right. I put it on the launch pad and everything was going ok until I hit the ignition button. The rocket got about 1/2 way up the launch rod and then it stuck. The force of the engine caused the rocket to tip over the pad and then it freed itself and went shooting off at about 2 feet off the ground. The damn rocket slammed into the ground nose first, jammed on, and then the ejection charge fired and lit the rocket on fire.
Many hours of work down the drain in 10 seconds. Amazing. It turned out that the 2 sections of the launch rod had gotten turned and, since they are designed to only line up a certain way, they were off center from each other. The rocket jammed on this and well...
What you need to do is to read this web page on how to design a stable rocket before you build one. Basically it all comes down to the last paragraph on the web page, which tells you to make sure you have the center of gravity closer to the nose than the center of pressure.
What you probably needed was to have more weight in the nose of the rocket and/or to use larger fins on the rocket. More weight in the nose would move the center of gravity toward the nose, larger fins would move the center of pressure toward the motor. If you had done this then the drag on the rocket from the air passing over it would have kept it straight up until it lost all upward velocity. Thus it would have not wobbled during the small delay between the first motor ending and the second motor getting up to speed.
I do know that pppd calls a script every time its connection goes up or goes down. You may be able to write a script to do your mail transfers with this script.
/private/etc/ppp/ip-up
/private/etc/ppp/ip-down
When the connection is made it calls the shell script at:
When the connection is broken it calls the shell script at:
If you don't use ppp or pppoe (or anything else that uses pppd) then maybe there are similar scripts in other places. Hope this helps.
Hmm, works fine for me. One thing you need to do is to change the focus from the "Go To:" input box first. Just hit the tab key and type a few letters. It will then select the first folder or file beginning with the letters you typed. You can then go into the folder by hitting the right arrow key. If you hit the left arrow key it will back up one level. The up and down arrows move you up and down in the current list.
Just because things might have changed a little doesn't mean that it's too much effort to switch to a new operating system. Sometimes you need to just plunge in and experience something new. Sure you will be slowed down for a little while, but MacOS X has many good features and actually has lost very little from older MacOS versions. I would say that overall the good far outweighs what has changed or has been removed. You will be up and running at full speed in no time
So jump right in and move forward with the many people who are now running MacOS X exclusively. I can honestly say that I have not run MacOS 9 or earlier in about a year, including Classic mode. I don't miss it at all!
Perhaps, but then again Apple has been working on OpenPlay for quite some time now. I'm fairly certain that they were working on it with Bungie and that it formed the basis for the networking used in the Myth games. Of course it wasn't open source back then.
I'm not sure which open source effort is further along, works better, is more portable, etc. but it could go the other way too. That is to say that perhaps the SDL people should adopt and work on OpenPlay. It all depends on which one would best fit the games community at-large. That's the great thing about open source: choices.
The problem with this is that they would then just get multiple accounts. If they needed to send 10,000 messages then they would get 10 accounts and send 1,000 messages for free per account.
The best way is to have some sort of central agency handle mail, just like it is done with the postal services across the world. Mail would be relayed through their servers and only routed if the sender has an account. Each sender would have their own account and they would be charged some trivial amount to have a message relayed, say 0.1 cents per message. If you get a message you didn't want from a sender you can reply to the router with a complaint. More than a certain amount of complaints per period of time causes a penalty charge to be made.
This sort of setup would not hurt the casual sender of email and normal businesses would be barely affected. A nasty spammer would find it very tough to do business as usual, due to the costs involved. Once this kind of program became commonplace then people could stop using their usual email and start using the new kind of email. I would make it so that the client could easily refuse all of the old email and only receive the new type.
I'm not sure about some of those, but I do know that there is OpenPlay, an alternative networking API. Here's a quote from the site: