There are other approaches requiring less dramatic technological advances.
A simple approach is to start with a satellite at low earth orbit, then extend a cable up and down from there. There are other approaches requiring less dramatic technological advances.
A simple approach is to start with a satellite at low earth orbit, then extend a cable up and down from there.
Ok. Now spin - get the speed right and you get a cable moving at a sensible speed at the bottom that could be grabbed by a passing space plane. You'd need to balance the masses at the two ends of the cable - but effectively you can transfer two objects into and out of high earth orbit.
The good part about this is that the cable is nowhere near the surface of the earth, and thus cannot suffer from wind, earth-based terrorist attack, etc.
As technologhy improves, the cable could be extended, gradually approaching the ground. Of course, when it reached the ground, it would be at zero speed - and there's your elevator.
Are you seriously suggesting people will just stand around and say - oh dear, she's drowning. I couldn't possibly jump in and save her because I don't have the right Boy Scout badge?
Damn - I'm never going swimming in Wales. (Actually, come to think of it I HAVE been swimming in Wales. And I survived. The portugese men-o-war not withstanding).
Anyway - a note to the world. If you are drowning and there aren't any lawyers about (if there I propose throwing them in and NOT saving them) I will dive in and attempt to rescue you, ok?
Absolutely. In fact you don't go nearly far enough. Let's not have ANY timezones. Make the whole country a single timezone and deem noon in the capital 12:00 be midday.
I mean, it worked for the USSR... no, wait...
[Yes, this is true. The whole of the USSR, spanning five timezones, used to run on Moscow time. People in Kamchatka used to get up at midnight. Well, the clocks said midnight, anyway]
For the moment, we are seeing devices that connect to USB charging from that. It's the first "standard" for charging I have ever seen.
Thus far, I have two Palms and one Blackberry that charge that way. Sadly my camera does not, despite having a usb connection.
It's hardly ideal - but the plethora of chargers drives me mad - it's as bad as the vast collection of stupidly incompatible remote controls (not to mention those "universal" controls that almost replace the others - but not quite). Now don't get me started on that....
All true about the "this operation is forbidden" crap - and it seems to be getting worse!
But "memory" - my (Sony) DVD player does that - it remembers the last location of (roughly) the last 6 DVDs it played and starts from there.
(And by the way, digital televison recorded to VHS looks great! - BTW I'm in Oz, so we have digital free-to-air, though they do little more than duplicate the "normal" tv with a couple of extra channels, oh and widescreen, oh, and great quality.. not too bad, really)
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't why she swallowed a fly, Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider, That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. But I dunno why she swallowed that fly - Perhaps she'll die.
I have used JBuilder (and Delphi [released 1995] - and even Turbo Pascal [released 1983]) from version 1.0 [1997].
It has served me well.
What's the coolest part - well, surely it's the GUI editor. You can built a decent swing gui and actually have it work - and there's no crap comments in your code. Swing is - I reckon [and yes, I have built swing components] - seriously user unfriendly to build. JBuilder does it well. (Not perfectly, and some of its reverse engineering attempts are pretty woeful - but it's hard).
The gui builder in Eclipse is nowhere near as sophisticated. Last time I looked it puts comments in the code and was generally pretty clunky.
Minds you, as soon as that component is sorted out I'm probably jumping ship. Sorry Borland - you've served me well (and taken my money) for 20+ years. I look forward to seeing your new business model (and spare me Imprise - or was it Inprise, I never did manage to remember)
Gosh - how cool. Middle-clicking. I don't have a middle button so I tried clicking BOTH mouse buttons - lo and behold, there was a new tab with the site. A spurious menu, but basically very cool.
A 10 second burst of radiation would irradiate half the earth. The other half would be unaffected, surely? If it can penetrate the earth (like neutrinos do all the time), then it'll go straight though any organisms too.
The article "GOTOs considered harmful" by Dijkstra (1968) was perhaps the first article about programming structure (stick with me here).
There was a bit of discussion. Anyway someone duly wrote an article on removing GOTOs from a language. They replaced them completely by using COMEFROMs instead.
So anyway, what's the difference between !IS and ISNOT anyway?
You can see the original article at http://w w w.a c m.o r g/c l a s s i c s/o c t 9 5/ (yes, you'll have to remove all the spaces - so you'll have to be keen)
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There are other approaches requiring less dramatic technological advances.
A simple approach is to start with a satellite at low earth orbit, then extend a cable up and down from there.
There are other approaches requiring less dramatic technological advances.
A simple approach is to start with a satellite at low earth orbit, then extend a cable up and down from there.
Ok. Now spin - get the speed right and you get a cable moving at a sensible speed at the bottom that could be grabbed by a passing space plane. You'd need to balance the masses at the two ends of the cable - but effectively you can transfer two objects into and out of high earth orbit.
The good part about this is that the cable is nowhere near the surface of the earth, and thus cannot suffer from wind, earth-based terrorist attack, etc.
As technologhy improves, the cable could be extended, gradually approaching the ground. Of course, when it reached the ground, it would be at zero speed - and there's your elevator.
They have to be on the equator - because they end up in geosynchronous orbit .. which has to be on the equator.
Last time I looked, none of the USA is on the equator.
Damn, they'll have to start talking to countries on the equator (hmm - Panama all over again?)
No, the heck with talking to them, just invade.
I just had to say it. Sorry.
Are you seriously suggesting people will just stand around and say - oh dear, she's drowning. I couldn't possibly jump in and save her because I don't have the right Boy Scout badge?
Damn - I'm never going swimming in Wales. (Actually, come to think of it I HAVE been swimming in Wales. And I survived. The portugese men-o-war not withstanding).
Anyway - a note to the world. If you are drowning and there aren't any lawyers about (if there I propose throwing them in and NOT saving them) I will dive in and attempt to rescue you, ok?
So sue me
"She just drifted down" ... er, who observed this? And why the heck didn't THEY save her?
Yes. I wrote exactly what you describe for a major Australian bank. Two years ago.
It installed and ran nicely and runs to this day.
A full multi party chat system, dynamic updates, dynamic threads, etc.
It was accepted instantly by the user community. No training, no support.
What's the problem, exactly?
Absolutely. In fact you don't go nearly far enough. Let's not have ANY timezones. Make the whole country a single timezone and deem noon in the capital 12:00 be midday.
... no, wait ...
I mean, it worked for the USSR
[Yes, this is true. The whole of the USSR, spanning five timezones, used to run on Moscow time. People in Kamchatka used to get up at midnight. Well, the clocks said midnight, anyway]
For the moment, we are seeing devices that connect to USB charging from that. It's the first "standard" for charging I have ever seen.
....
Thus far, I have two Palms and one Blackberry that charge that way. Sadly my camera does not, despite having a usb connection.
It's hardly ideal - but the plethora of chargers drives me mad - it's as bad as the vast collection of stupidly incompatible remote controls (not to mention those "universal" controls that almost replace the others - but not quite). Now don't get me started on that
The data was being kept kept for "research purposes ...
... of course.
and in other news, Japanese whalers are applying to double its kill to 25,000 next year.
For scientific research
All true about the "this operation is forbidden" crap - and it seems to be getting worse!
.. not too bad, really)
But "memory" - my (Sony) DVD player does that - it remembers the last location of (roughly) the last 6 DVDs it played and starts from there.
(And by the way, digital televison recorded to VHS looks great! - BTW I'm in Oz, so we have digital free-to-air, though they do little more than duplicate the "normal" tv with a couple of extra channels, oh and widescreen, oh, and great quality
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
.. suppose it gets stuck?
I don't why she swallowed a fly,
Perhaps she'll die.
There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die.
Yes
Oh dear. It was the Allegro - I looked it up. Sigh ...
Wasn't there a British car called the Metro - small, ugly, and had a square steering wheel (I'm not making this up)?
This isn't new. Harry Potter had it ages ago. The matron used it to regrow the bones in his arm.
New, indeed!
for local people ....
I have used JBuilder (and Delphi [released 1995] - and even Turbo Pascal [released 1983]) from version 1.0 [1997].
It has served me well.
What's the coolest part - well, surely it's the GUI editor. You can built a decent swing gui and actually have it work - and there's no crap comments in your code.
Swing is - I reckon [and yes, I have built swing components] - seriously user unfriendly to build. JBuilder does it well. (Not perfectly, and some of its reverse engineering attempts are pretty woeful - but it's hard).
The gui builder in Eclipse is nowhere near as sophisticated. Last time I looked it puts comments in the code and was generally pretty clunky.
Minds you, as soon as that component is sorted out I'm probably jumping ship. Sorry Borland - you've served me well (and taken my money) for 20+ years. I look forward to seeing your new business model (and spare me Imprise - or was it Inprise, I never did manage to remember)
Simon in Sydney
Lead - don't be ridiculous. We ought to use gold ... and think of all the people it would attract ...
My goodness, so it is! Gads, I've been in this business since 1971 and I still learn new tricks. Maybe I'm a bot sloooow ....
thanks!
Gosh - how cool. Middle-clicking. I don't have a middle button so I tried clicking BOTH mouse buttons - lo and behold, there was a new tab with the site. A spurious menu, but basically very cool.
thanks
A 10 second burst of radiation would irradiate half the earth. The other half would be unaffected, surely? If it can penetrate the earth (like neutrinos do all the time), then it'll go straight though any organisms too.
Come on, hand them over - we know you have weapons of mass destruction, we have the receipts!
http://www.theharrowgroup.com/
Lots of colour and movement .... pretty ...
"Officially, I have 1 linux system, but in reality, I have probably 15 active systems."
On the other hand, that's probably true of Windows, too. (Have Microsoft sold more than one copy of Windows in - say - Italy, or more likely China?)
The article "GOTOs considered harmful" by Dijkstra (1968) was perhaps the first article about programming structure (stick with me here).
There was a bit of discussion.
Anyway someone duly wrote an article on removing GOTOs from a language.
They replaced them completely by using COMEFROMs instead.
So anyway, what's the difference between !IS and ISNOT anyway?
You can see the original article at http://w w w.a c m.o r g/c l a s s i c s/o c t 9 5/ (yes, you'll have to remove all the spaces - so you'll have to be keen)