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The fact is pre-load doesn't make your system faster, only slower. I have it turned off, many don't. If you had 3.5GB of RAM maybe you wouldn't really care but I do.
Following my experience with 1.9 series it won't make a lot of change for me. If you have footers and headers leaden with graphics, OOo 1.9 (tested upto m79) performs poorly. Basic graphs are OK but today I managed to print a large document which had a transparent background image, when printed it brought the image to the foreground and left the text in the background. Instant waste paper, poor dead tree.
If only it would just get better. Every time it crashed I tried my best to report the problem back but the agent would never work with the password-protected proxy.
Load times are improved by having one of those blasphemous "pre-load" options. Instead of waiting 20 seconds to load now I load it once when I start my PC and spend 200000 seconds in a reboot cycle waiting my PC to swap in and out of disk. Neat.
My company uses a spread sheet with password protection and lots of stupid VB scripting. I broke the password protection to use thedocument in OOo but with 1.9m69 I still couldn't save it back more or less intact. The last time I tried it buggered all of the VB scripting and in Word it just wouldn't work.
After so many complaints that's still I have to use MS Word. I'm not expecting OOo guys fixing my company's stupid spreadsheet but if it worked it would be so nice...
Let's be frank, American people don't want to give up driving SUVs, that's what it amounts to. Everyone with a gram of brain can understand the basic truth: SUVs are bad. On the other hand, if the healty and climate-friendly alternative is a bcycle, Americans will always choose the end of the world and the SUVs.:)
Similar things are true for solar, nuclear and wind energy. Most of the British are notoriously against wind energy. Stupid twats.
The whole idea of these launchers are stolen from Russians. Soyuz rockets and its precursors always arrived horizontal, then erected at the tower, just before the launch. This made inspection and fixing easier. On the other hand the whole thing is because Russians favoured mobile ICBMs. They tend to come inside ready-to-launch railway carriages or truckloads. When you want to fire, you take it out of its box and hit the button. If you are preparing to fire a missile in Siberia you don't have many options left. Also mobile missiles are harder to spot and destroy. (On the other hand, they also had bunker-based ICBMs like Americans favoured). MX was supposed to be mobile but that was scrapped in late 70s.
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Go and read some of the NASA history books. For Gemini they chose Titan II because it was already chosen for Air Force's MOM so they thought they would benefit from not paying for R&D. In all cases until Saturn, NASA bought vehicles "off the shelf", all of the previous launchers were ICMBs or shorter range launch vehicles.
NASA don't do development for launch vehicles, they buy it from third parties.
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which NASA rockets are you talking about? Atlas? Initial rockets were bought from army, now produced by Lockheed Martin for anyone who's ready to buy. Titan II? Again borrowed from army initially (original contractor), now produced by Lockheed Martin. Redstone? Originally built by US army itself, under the guidance of von Braun.
OK, let's look at the recent manned launchers. Which one shall we pick. Soyuz? Not a single manned launch accident in 20 years. Errm, that's not NASA and not even US. Russians got that one right (shame about L1 though).
It is supposed to be a sarcastic reply to Molotov's claim "We are not dropping bombs, we are dropping food packages to the starving Finnish". I think he is lucky not to have one of these coctails stuffed into his ass.:)
Finland continued their fight against Soviets in their so-called Continuation War after the Winter war. They only admitted defeat in 1944. That stage of the war is a little bit of controversial because they had to align themselves with Germans. Before that they were alone fighting the Soviets. Britain promised to help them but that never materialised.
Fertilizer can be used to make home-made bombs and in some countries you cannot just buy them, you have to show your ID and stuff.
Let me tell you something even worse. I was in the university, living in Turkey at the time (I have parents from Turkey and Britain so I have dual nationality).
One day coming back from the university I misjudged the fuel in my motorcycle's tank and got stranded on my way back home. It simply ran out of fuel. I hitched a hike to the nearest filling station and tried to buy some fuel. They wouldn't sell it to me!!
Apparently some law has been passed so that I had to present myself to the Police or Gendermarie (if it was out of the town, which I was) with my ID, licence and everything. So did I. It took three hours to get 2L of fuel and get my motorbike running again.
It was so annoying. I like where I live now, there is no legal ID card. I carry my british passport with me sometime in case some nutter home minister tries to lock me in without going through the law system. Apparently that'll be a part of the history soon, England will have to lock people in their own houses, even to British.
Civic liberties are very important and using terrorrist treat like a carrot on a stick, Western governments have been eroding our rights so badly. Even worse, they make it sound like they are doing a service to us. Since 9/11 how many terrorist attacks were done in USA? UK? There was the Madrid bombing and that's all. Spaniards were fascists for the last 75 years, I don't expect them to change their attitute just because now they are a part of the EU but countries like UK, USA, France have been the bastion of the western society and in UK and USA governments have been pushing these draconian laws with no problem.
You will only find out when you just can't buy some fuel for your stranded bike.
When you lose something you will not find it out before you really need it. My small experience with draconian Turkish laws thought me that.
PS: Why I couldn't buy the fuel? Because you can make Molotov coctails with soap and fuel. Just mix it in 1/3 ratio and put it in a wine bottle (Empty the bottle first, cheers). Wet the wick with the fuel and wrap it around the neck of the bottle neatly. Burn it before you throw it and don't hold it in your hand once you burn it. From where did I get this recipe for Molotov coctail? I was 10 and had a Encyclopedia Brittanica and it gave me all I needed. Thanks Comrade Molotov!
What you are referring to is known as interferometer-telescopes. They don't take pretty pictures but can do lots of other interesting science.
The trouble is the timing mechanism sensitivity. Larger the wavelength is, better chance you have syncronyzing two separate data streams. With radio waves this is no problem with today's technology. With light waves we only managed to achive it in the last couple of years. The timing problem means you have to use a very sensitive and complicated optical system to merge two light beams, you cannot simply record them to tapes and then mix it back with the reference timing signal (as it is done with radio telescopes). They have to be physically close, distance very carefully calculated, optics perfectly clear and aligned. You just can't do it using light in space. Not yet. Maybe in 50 years time.
Two solutions to that: stacking of pictures and DSP.
By using stacking even a crappy webcam can generate pretty astronomical pictures of many celestial objects with a rather small (4-8 inch) terrestrial telescopes. DSP can handle (upto a degree) the surface aberrations. It wouldn't be perfect but might work. On the other hand, I don't think spinning it longtitutally is a good idea. Actually I think it's a bloody stupid idea. The framerate necessary would be enormous, reducing the quality of the images.
Moon is a very very dusty place and even worse, the dust is abrasive. Have you seen the pictures taken on moon landings? I have a very nice coffee-table book called "Full Moon" and it has some wonderful pictures of LM, inside. The astronauts look like coal miners, all black and dirty. The moon pictures look like it's all gray and white there but its albedo is actually very low and moon is quite a dark place, with lots of black, sticky and abrasive dust.
I have a Botswana currency which exactly looks like a quid. Someone must have slipped it to me sometime, I tried to pay for a newspaper with it and the guy didn't accept it, me just like you wonders why and then figure it out! Now, this is just brilliant, last week someone gave me a half a penny! It has King George VI's picture on it and was minted in 1941! It looks exactly like a 2 penny piece and that's how I managed to pick it up!
I cannot resist to shamelessly rip off http://www.lagged.za.net/scripts/Monty_Python,_Lif e_Of_Brian_-_Script.html:
C: What's this thing?
"ROMANES EUNT DOMUS"?
"People called Romanes they go the house"? B: It, it says "Romans go home". C: No it doesn't. What's Latin for "Roman"? B: (hesitates) C: Come on, come on! B: (uncertain) "ROMANUS". C: Goes like? B: "-ANUS". C: Vocative plural of "-ANUS" is? B: "-ANI". C: (takes paintbrush from Brian and paints over) "RO-MA-NI".
"EUNT"? What is "EUNT"? B: "Go". C: Conjugate the verb "to go"! B: "IRE". "EO", "IS", "IT", "IMUS", "ITIS", "EUNT". C: So "EUNT" is...? B: Third person plural present indicative, "they go". C: But "Romans, go home!" is an order, so you must use the...?
(lifts Brian by his hairs) B: The... imperative. C: Which is? B: Ahm, oh, oh, "I", "I"! C: How many romans? (pulls harder) B: Plural, plural! "ITE". C: (strikes over "EUNT" and paints "ITE" to the wall)
(satisfied) "I-TE".
"DOMUS"? Nominative? "Go home", this is motion towards, isn't it, boy? B: (very anxious) Dative? C: (draws his sword and holds it to Brian's throat) B: Ahh! No, ablative, ablative, sir. No, the, accusative, accusative,
ah, DOMUM, sir. C: Except that "DOMUS" takes the...? B:... the locative, sir! C: Which is? B: "DOMUM". C: (satisfied) "DOMUM" (strikes out "DOMUS" and writes "DOMUM") "-MUM".
Understand? B: Yes sir. C: Now write it down a hundred times. B: Yes sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar, sir. C: (salutes) Hail Caesar.
If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off. B: (very reliefed) Oh thank you sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar and
everything, sir!
What did the Romans ever done for us? Apart from the aqueduct, the sanitation, irrigation and the roads, medicine, education, health and the wine, public baths, the public order?
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Not with his plotlines. Since Largo kicked out his plots are going downhill. I can barely stand it anymore. Unless it was for the cute girls...
Ditch Windows. That's the idea.
The fact is pre-load doesn't make your system faster, only slower. I have it turned off, many don't. If you had 3.5GB of RAM maybe you wouldn't really care but I do.
See Evolution. It is a complete Outlook replacement. I still have people using Outlook 98 in the office. They really annoy me. Evolution just works.
If only it would just get better. Every time it crashed I tried my best to report the problem back but the agent would never work with the password-protected proxy.
Load times are improved by having one of those blasphemous "pre-load" options. Instead of waiting 20 seconds to load now I load it once when I start my PC and spend 200000 seconds in a reboot cycle waiting my PC to swap in and out of disk. Neat.
After so many complaints that's still I have to use MS Word. I'm not expecting OOo guys fixing my company's stupid spreadsheet but if it worked it would be so nice...
Finally fox hunting by dogs is banned in this country. I always wondered why these hound dogs hated hams, probably it's the smell.
Let's be frank, American people don't want to give up driving SUVs, that's what it amounts to. Everyone with a gram of brain can understand the basic truth: SUVs are bad. On the other hand, if the healty and climate-friendly alternative is a bcycle, Americans will always choose the end of the world and the SUVs. :)
Similar things are true for solar, nuclear and wind energy. Most of the British are notoriously against wind energy. Stupid twats.
The whole idea of these launchers are stolen from Russians. Soyuz rockets and its precursors always arrived horizontal, then erected at the tower, just before the launch. This made inspection and fixing easier. On the other hand the whole thing is because Russians favoured mobile ICBMs. They tend to come inside ready-to-launch railway carriages or truckloads. When you want to fire, you take it out of its box and hit the button. If you are preparing to fire a missile in Siberia you don't have many options left. Also mobile missiles are harder to spot and destroy. (On the other hand, they also had bunker-based ICBMs like Americans favoured). MX was supposed to be mobile but that was scrapped in late 70s.
NASA don't do development for launch vehicles, they buy it from third parties.
OK, let's look at the recent manned launchers. Which one shall we pick. Soyuz? Not a single manned launch accident in 20 years. Errm, that's not NASA and not even US. Russians got that one right (shame about L1 though).
Tesco owns me. Almost everything I eat comes from their stores. It is convenient, close to the work, close to home. I must be making them rich.
Finland continued their fight against Soviets in their so-called Continuation War after the Winter war. They only admitted defeat in 1944. That stage of the war is a little bit of controversial because they had to align themselves with Germans. Before that they were alone fighting the Soviets. Britain promised to help them but that never materialised.
Fertilizer can be used to make home-made bombs and in some countries you cannot just buy them, you have to show your ID and stuff.
Let me tell you something even worse. I was in the university, living in Turkey at the time (I have parents from Turkey and Britain so I have dual nationality).
One day coming back from the university I misjudged the fuel in my motorcycle's tank and got stranded on my way back home. It simply ran out of fuel. I hitched a hike to the nearest filling station and tried to buy some fuel. They wouldn't sell it to me!!
Apparently some law has been passed so that I had to present myself to the Police or Gendermarie (if it was out of the town, which I was) with my ID, licence and everything. So did I. It took three hours to get 2L of fuel and get my motorbike running again.
It was so annoying. I like where I live now, there is no legal ID card. I carry my british passport with me sometime in case some nutter home minister tries to lock me in without going through the law system. Apparently that'll be a part of the history soon, England will have to lock people in their own houses, even to British.
Civic liberties are very important and using terrorrist treat like a carrot on a stick, Western governments have been eroding our rights so badly. Even worse, they make it sound like they are doing a service to us. Since 9/11 how many terrorist attacks were done in USA? UK? There was the Madrid bombing and that's all. Spaniards were fascists for the last 75 years, I don't expect them to change their attitute just because now they are a part of the EU but countries like UK, USA, France have been the bastion of the western society and in UK and USA governments have been pushing these draconian laws with no problem.
You will only find out when you just can't buy some fuel for your stranded bike.
When you lose something you will not find it out before you really need it. My small experience with draconian Turkish laws thought me that.
PS: Why I couldn't buy the fuel? Because you can make Molotov coctails with soap and fuel. Just mix it in 1/3 ratio and put it in a wine bottle (Empty the bottle first, cheers). Wet the wick with the fuel and wrap it around the neck of the bottle neatly. Burn it before you throw it and don't hold it in your hand once you burn it. From where did I get this recipe for Molotov coctail? I was 10 and had a Encyclopedia Brittanica and it gave me all I needed. Thanks Comrade Molotov!
That's radio waves, not light waves. It is much harder to do it using light.
The trouble is the timing mechanism sensitivity. Larger the wavelength is, better chance you have syncronyzing two separate data streams. With radio waves this is no problem with today's technology. With light waves we only managed to achive it in the last couple of years. The timing problem means you have to use a very sensitive and complicated optical system to merge two light beams, you cannot simply record them to tapes and then mix it back with the reference timing signal (as it is done with radio telescopes). They have to be physically close, distance very carefully calculated, optics perfectly clear and aligned. You just can't do it using light in space. Not yet. Maybe in 50 years time.
By using stacking even a crappy webcam can generate pretty astronomical pictures of many celestial objects with a rather small (4-8 inch) terrestrial telescopes. DSP can handle (upto a degree) the surface aberrations. It wouldn't be perfect but might work. On the other hand, I don't think spinning it longtitutally is a good idea. Actually I think it's a bloody stupid idea. The framerate necessary would be enormous, reducing the quality of the images.
Moon is a very very dusty place and even worse, the dust is abrasive. Have you seen the pictures taken on moon landings? I have a very nice coffee-table book called "Full Moon" and it has some wonderful pictures of LM, inside. The astronauts look like coal miners, all black and dirty. The moon pictures look like it's all gray and white there but its albedo is actually very low and moon is quite a dark place, with lots of black, sticky and abrasive dust.
I have a Botswana currency which exactly looks like a quid. Someone must have slipped it to me sometime, I tried to pay for a newspaper with it and the guy didn't accept it, me just like you wonders why and then figure it out! Now, this is just brilliant, last week someone gave me a half a penny! It has King George VI's picture on it and was minted in 1941! It looks exactly like a 2 penny piece and that's how I managed to pick it up!
Enjoy the noise.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these sunspots... Especially when they usually cluster around... Anyway.. :P
It takes a while for those protons to slam into the atmosphere and satellites so you are safe for at least a day. They are fast but NAFAL.
I cannot resist to shamelessly rip off http://www.lagged.za.net/scripts/Monty_Python,_Lif e_Of_Brian_-_Script.html:
...? ...? ... imperative. ...? ... the locative, sir!
C: What's this thing?
"ROMANES EUNT DOMUS"?
"People called Romanes they go the house"?
B: It, it says "Romans go home".
C: No it doesn't. What's Latin for "Roman"?
B: (hesitates)
C: Come on, come on!
B: (uncertain) "ROMANUS".
C: Goes like?
B: "-ANUS".
C: Vocative plural of "-ANUS" is?
B: "-ANI".
C: (takes paintbrush from Brian and paints over) "RO-MA-NI".
"EUNT"? What is "EUNT"?
B: "Go".
C: Conjugate the verb "to go"!
B: "IRE". "EO", "IS", "IT", "IMUS", "ITIS", "EUNT".
C: So "EUNT" is
B: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
C: But "Romans, go home!" is an order, so you must use the
(lifts Brian by his hairs)
B: The
C: Which is?
B: Ahm, oh, oh, "I", "I"!
C: How many romans? (pulls harder)
B: Plural, plural! "ITE".
C: (strikes over "EUNT" and paints "ITE" to the wall)
(satisfied) "I-TE".
"DOMUS"? Nominative? "Go home", this is motion towards, isn't it, boy?
B: (very anxious) Dative?
C: (draws his sword and holds it to Brian's throat)
B: Ahh! No, ablative, ablative, sir. No, the, accusative, accusative,
ah, DOMUM, sir.
C: Except that "DOMUS" takes the
B:
C: Which is?
B: "DOMUM".
C: (satisfied) "DOMUM" (strikes out "DOMUS" and writes "DOMUM") "-MUM".
Understand?
B: Yes sir.
C: Now write it down a hundred times.
B: Yes sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar, sir.
C: (salutes) Hail Caesar.
If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.
B: (very reliefed) Oh thank you sir, thank you sir, hail Caesar and
everything, sir!
What did the Romans ever done for us? Apart from the aqueduct, the sanitation, irrigation and the roads, medicine, education, health and the wine, public baths, the public order?