Back in '93, it would be very unlikely a 10 year old girl would understand UNIX since it practically didn't exist at home computers and kids usually don't have access to UNIX servers.
I wish when they were working at the federal level to reform voting procedures that they had simply standardized paper ballots are released and leave it at that. For instance, they could have required ballots not to use the butterfly system, provide rules for listing candidates in random order, etc. They could even require the ballot to be scanned on the spot with the results displayed to the voter so that they could correct their ballot if they made a mistake (ie, the pimpled ballot, not filling in a circle completely, etc.). This wouldn't be used to tally the vote, just to confirm to the voter that they are submitting a good ballot.
Sounds like a great idea to me. I wonder how hard it would be to get it on a ballot as a citizen initiative in California. It is apparently fairly easy to do here in Colorado given the number of initiatives this year, although I think one like this wouldn't pass here.
I know they aren't stable, but it would take an enormous amount of time before they would re-enter the earth's atmosphere. This is why those satellites get a bit of an orbit boost at the end of their mission rather than to deorbit like satellites at a lower altitude. That, and it would take a large amount of propellant to deorbit GSO satellites in a short amount of time.
Would forever close off space exploration, thereby stranding us here and cutting us off from sending out probes, etc.
Nothing stays in LEO for long without propulsion. There is still a little atmosphere there which will cause the objects to deorbit in time. Depending on the altitude, this could range from a year to a few years for LEO. Now once you get to GSO (~38,000km) you're there essentially forever.
So the question is, will there actually be anything new in here that readers haven't seen before, or is it merely pulling bits from various texts and stitching them together in a fresh binding? Sounds like the latter to me...
Considering he is somewhat of a Tolkien scholar and has worked on this 30 years, I doubt that it is just a hodgepodge of works. There probably is a bit of truth to the money grab in that the recent success of the LOTR movies probably encouraged him to finish editing and/or publishers to publish the work.
I doubt the smoothness has a substantial positive affect compared to benefits gained from insulated duct
Yes, you are 100% correct. I'm sure designing air ducts is similar to designing wind tunnels (which I did back in college). It doesn't matter if the wall surface is smooth or not (within reason). The air is going to slow down when close to it regardless of how smooth it is.
Many police departments that use Tasers include subjecting their officers to being shocked with the Taser as part of their training.
True. One point I would like to make that even though they test it on themselves it doesn't guarantee it is non-lethal because they are testing it on fit, rational people rathar than on people that are out of control and/or in serious medical trouble due to drug use or some pre-existing medical condition. I know a couple of cops who have voluntered to be tasered. Not only does it hurt like hell (duh), but your muscles constrict so quickly
Why not just be happy with games from a year ago and buy 2nd/3rd release of the console of your choice and buy a relatively cheap PC that can easily play games from 1-2 years ago?
I also don't buy the social argument. It's much easier to bring laptops for a little network gaming with friends than consoles and a bunch of TVs/good laptops with TV inputs. A cheap laptop can still play some fun classics, like Starcraft.
I grew up using computers (even way back in '84) and have always been an avid computer user. Even so, I wouldn't want schools to insist on students bringing laptops to school. For guys like me, I would just spend even more time playing or coding on the computer and spending less time doing school work, reading books, being social, etc. And for people with just a passing interest in computers they would just waste time playing games or doing online activities. I simply don't see the benefit, especially if the school is already stocked with decent computer labs (as mine were, even back in the late 80s, early 90s).
If you want something anywhere close to VS 2005, try the demo of SlickEdit. I don't know of any other IDE in Linux that's better, especially for C/C++ coding. I never used it a lot personally, but a coworker of mine uses it everyday and it does seem to be a pretty efficient and capable IDE.
I've been programming on both Linux and Windows for some time and haven't found a better IDE than Visual Studio 2005. It's a hell of a lot better than the old Visual Studio 6. On Linux, I mostly use vi for C/C++ and Eclipse for Java (with the vi plugin for editing). SlickEdit is probably the best one for Linux, but I never work on projects in Linux that are large enough to justify the expense in purchasing it.
At least for international travel. It would cost $177 each way to ship just 20 lbs of clothes from here in Colorado to London via FedEx ($255 for 40 lbs of clothes). Were you just doing domestic travel?
You obviously haven't been to Colorado Springs. The public high school near Cheyenne Mountain is one of the best in Colorado, and then there's the private schools. It's also one of the wealthiest areas along the Front Range and rather scenic too (there's a 5-star hotel nearby--The Broadmoor). There's also a fairly new large movie theater nearby and all the other stuff preppy people would like. There's also a strong military presence in the city and is probably one of the most conservative, hawkish cities I've ever lived in which is something else I would think they'd like.
I think the main drawbacks to NORAD would be the cost to upgrade buildings (this was recently done, but I think NSA would need even more) and the inconvenience of all the workers having to drive 15-20 miles to get to work.
They would have to build another facility to meet the NSA security specs.
I think that's why he specifically mentioned Cheyenne Mountain. If NORAD doesn't meet NSA security specs then I don't know what would. It is already secure and impervious to small nukes and has a pretty good size back power generation capability. In case you didn't know, the main residents within NORAD are moving out so there now is a good deal of space available there.
Modern games have orders of magnitude more code in them and would take a lot more effort to determine how well they are coded. I guess you could focuse on core aspects of the engine using a profiler. But would it be worth it? Usually the graphics card is the limiting factor for games to run well currently whereas back then the code really needed to be efficient to take full advantage of the meager CPU power available.
From my own experience with Half-Life 2, it seems graphic drivers can easily make as big of a difference as anything else to game quality. I've seen it run buggy as hell on a theoretically awesome gaming laptop and then run smoothly (with medium settings on both computers) with a Radeon 9800 Pro and slower CPU. The problem was tracked to the driver on the laptop which was not supported by the chipset manufacturer and wasn't patched/updated by the laptop manufacturer.
Fundamentaly, economics is entertwined with human psychology. Where does demand come from? It's almost always driven by desire or a perceived need. If one wishes to succeed in financial transactions they will almost alway perform better by understanding their competition well (be it stock trades, real estate, etc.). I would like to go into detail, but it would be a rather long, boring essay.
As for how it reflects on people by putting so much thought into such transactions, I would just like to point out that the two richest men in the world are men that would put at least as much thought into their various business dealings and transactions. They also are giving more money to charity than anyone in recent history (probably more than anyone in the entire history) in real dollars. Amassing fortunes give you the ability to efficiently help the charities you most care about (such as helping poor, sick children in third-world countries as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does).
I don't think the author meant that DVDs were dying (in fact, he says as much when talking about the blue-ray DVD vs. HD-DVD format wars--there just isn't much consumer demand for HD yet). Rather, he says Netflix is threatened by on-demand streaming video.
I think he's absolutely correct. I would cancel my Netflix subscription in a heart beat if I could simply stream the videos. Then there would be little to no waiting, no bad DVDs, no need to return the DVD, etc. The whole point of Netflix is to distribute movies for customers to keep temprorarily, not permanently so the permenance of the media matters little to the consumer and is instead a hinderance since it gets damaged over time.
Not only does MS have that capability, they fully endorse it from what I understand. Didn't they help get the initiative off in the first place, like they did with SOAP? For that matter, where is SOAP on that diagram?
It really seems like a good deal for Briggs and Stratton since the competitors are allowed to improve their engine within a few limits. So not only do they get name recognition but specific ideas for their engine design. (not to mention scouting for new engineers as you said)
I wish they would come up with a challenge making a better car rather than a better bike. Seriously, who would buy a car that can only carry a 130 lbs (59 kg) person (actually, less than that since that weight includes clothing and gear according to the rules) 15 mph? I appreciate that they are trying to prove what is possible with small, efficient engines. But is it really a 'car' if it has the same perfomance as a bicycle?
Also, why such a severe restriction on the engine? According to the rules they must use a specific 4-cylinder engine produced by Briggs & Stratton. Seems to cramp creativity a bit (although I guess it gives them a sponser).
What if they use a standard binary format, similar to how binary attachments are sent in e-mails? I doubt that's what they're doing, but it seems possible to encode binary in xml without using proprietary formats.
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Back in '93, it would be very unlikely a 10 year old girl would understand UNIX since it practically didn't exist at home computers and kids usually don't have access to UNIX servers.
I wish when they were working at the federal level to reform voting procedures that they had simply standardized paper ballots are released and leave it at that. For instance, they could have required ballots not to use the butterfly system, provide rules for listing candidates in random order, etc. They could even require the ballot to be scanned on the spot with the results displayed to the voter so that they could correct their ballot if they made a mistake (ie, the pimpled ballot, not filling in a circle completely, etc.). This wouldn't be used to tally the vote, just to confirm to the voter that they are submitting a good ballot.
Sounds like a great idea to me. I wonder how hard it would be to get it on a ballot as a citizen initiative in California. It is apparently fairly easy to do here in Colorado given the number of initiatives this year, although I think one like this wouldn't pass here.
I know they aren't stable, but it would take an enormous amount of time before they would re-enter the earth's atmosphere. This is why those satellites get a bit of an orbit boost at the end of their mission rather than to deorbit like satellites at a lower altitude. That, and it would take a large amount of propellant to deorbit GSO satellites in a short amount of time.
Would forever close off space exploration, thereby stranding us here and cutting us off from sending out probes, etc.
Nothing stays in LEO for long without propulsion. There is still a little atmosphere there which will cause the objects to deorbit in time. Depending on the altitude, this could range from a year to a few years for LEO. Now once you get to GSO (~38,000km) you're there essentially forever.
So the question is, will there actually be anything new in here that readers haven't seen before, or is it merely pulling bits from various texts and stitching them together in a fresh binding? Sounds like the latter to me...
Considering he is somewhat of a Tolkien scholar and has worked on this 30 years, I doubt that it is just a hodgepodge of works. There probably is a bit of truth to the money grab in that the recent success of the LOTR movies probably encouraged him to finish editing and/or publishers to publish the work.
I doubt the smoothness has a substantial positive affect compared to benefits gained from insulated duct
Yes, you are 100% correct. I'm sure designing air ducts is similar to designing wind tunnels (which I did back in college). It doesn't matter if the wall surface is smooth or not (within reason). The air is going to slow down when close to it regardless of how smooth it is.
... that you nearly injure yourself.
Many police departments that use Tasers include subjecting their officers to being shocked with the Taser as part of their training.
True. One point I would like to make that even though they test it on themselves it doesn't guarantee it is non-lethal because they are testing it on fit, rational people rathar than on people that are out of control and/or in serious medical trouble due to drug use or some pre-existing medical condition. I know a couple of cops who have voluntered to be tasered. Not only does it hurt like hell (duh), but your muscles constrict so quickly
Why not just be happy with games from a year ago and buy 2nd/3rd release of the console of your choice and buy a relatively cheap PC that can easily play games from 1-2 years ago?
I also don't buy the social argument. It's much easier to bring laptops for a little network gaming with friends than consoles and a bunch of TVs/good laptops with TV inputs. A cheap laptop can still play some fun classics, like Starcraft.
I grew up using computers (even way back in '84) and have always been an avid computer user. Even so, I wouldn't want schools to insist on students bringing laptops to school. For guys like me, I would just spend even more time playing or coding on the computer and spending less time doing school work, reading books, being social, etc. And for people with just a passing interest in computers they would just waste time playing games or doing online activities. I simply don't see the benefit, especially if the school is already stocked with decent computer labs (as mine were, even back in the late 80s, early 90s).
If you want something anywhere close to VS 2005, try the demo of SlickEdit. I don't know of any other IDE in Linux that's better, especially for C/C++ coding. I never used it a lot personally, but a coworker of mine uses it everyday and it does seem to be a pretty efficient and capable IDE.
I've been programming on both Linux and Windows for some time and haven't found a better IDE than Visual Studio 2005. It's a hell of a lot better than the old Visual Studio 6. On Linux, I mostly use vi for C/C++ and Eclipse for Java (with the vi plugin for editing). SlickEdit is probably the best one for Linux, but I never work on projects in Linux that are large enough to justify the expense in purchasing it.
At least for international travel. It would cost $177 each way to ship just 20 lbs of clothes from here in Colorado to London via FedEx ($255 for 40 lbs of clothes). Were you just doing domestic travel?
You obviously haven't been to Colorado Springs. The public high school near Cheyenne Mountain is one of the best in Colorado, and then there's the private schools. It's also one of the wealthiest areas along the Front Range and rather scenic too (there's a 5-star hotel nearby--The Broadmoor). There's also a fairly new large movie theater nearby and all the other stuff preppy people would like. There's also a strong military presence in the city and is probably one of the most conservative, hawkish cities I've ever lived in which is something else I would think they'd like.
I think the main drawbacks to NORAD would be the cost to upgrade buildings (this was recently done, but I think NSA would need even more) and the inconvenience of all the workers having to drive 15-20 miles to get to work.
They would have to build another facility to meet the NSA security specs.
I think that's why he specifically mentioned Cheyenne Mountain. If NORAD doesn't meet NSA security specs then I don't know what would. It is already secure and impervious to small nukes and has a pretty good size back power generation capability. In case you didn't know, the main residents within NORAD are moving out so there now is a good deal of space available there.
Modern games have orders of magnitude more code in them and would take a lot more effort to determine how well they are coded. I guess you could focuse on core aspects of the engine using a profiler. But would it be worth it? Usually the graphics card is the limiting factor for games to run well currently whereas back then the code really needed to be efficient to take full advantage of the meager CPU power available.
From my own experience with Half-Life 2, it seems graphic drivers can easily make as big of a difference as anything else to game quality. I've seen it run buggy as hell on a theoretically awesome gaming laptop and then run smoothly (with medium settings on both computers) with a Radeon 9800 Pro and slower CPU. The problem was tracked to the driver on the laptop which was not supported by the chipset manufacturer and wasn't patched/updated by the laptop manufacturer.
I don't see what that has to do with Tourette syndrom (spontanious motor ticks and/or speech). Did you mean some other syndrom?
Fundamentaly, economics is entertwined with human psychology. Where does demand come from? It's almost always driven by desire or a perceived need. If one wishes to succeed in financial transactions they will almost alway perform better by understanding their competition well (be it stock trades, real estate, etc.). I would like to go into detail, but it would be a rather long, boring essay.
As for how it reflects on people by putting so much thought into such transactions, I would just like to point out that the two richest men in the world are men that would put at least as much thought into their various business dealings and transactions. They also are giving more money to charity than anyone in recent history (probably more than anyone in the entire history) in real dollars. Amassing fortunes give you the ability to efficiently help the charities you most care about (such as helping poor, sick children in third-world countries as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does).
I don't think the author meant that DVDs were dying (in fact, he says as much when talking about the blue-ray DVD vs. HD-DVD format wars--there just isn't much consumer demand for HD yet). Rather, he says Netflix is threatened by on-demand streaming video.
I think he's absolutely correct. I would cancel my Netflix subscription in a heart beat if I could simply stream the videos. Then there would be little to no waiting, no bad DVDs, no need to return the DVD, etc. The whole point of Netflix is to distribute movies for customers to keep temprorarily, not permanently so the permenance of the media matters little to the consumer and is instead a hinderance since it gets damaged over time.
Not only does MS have that capability, they fully endorse it from what I understand. Didn't they help get the initiative off in the first place, like they did with SOAP? For that matter, where is SOAP on that diagram?
It really seems like a good deal for Briggs and Stratton since the competitors are allowed to improve their engine within a few limits. So not only do they get name recognition but specific ideas for their engine design. (not to mention scouting for new engineers as you said)
Also, why such a severe restriction on the engine? According to the rules they must use a specific 4-cylinder engine produced by Briggs & Stratton. Seems to cramp creativity a bit (although I guess it gives them a sponser).
So, given two parent posts, shouldn't it be easier (or at least more obvious) to center a div vertically?
What if they use a standard binary format, similar to how binary attachments are sent in e-mails? I doubt that's what they're doing, but it seems possible to encode binary in xml without using proprietary formats.