I think you're thinking of multitasking made-for-Windows programs in real mode on pre-286 chips (which you could do even in windows 1.0 - but no window overlaps until 2.x), and the other gentleman is thinking of multitasking multiple non-Windows-(i.e., DOS-)programs. You couldn't multitask multiple DOS programs through Windows on any pre-286 chip.
Excellent threadjacking attempt with the second paragraph. As for the first, it appears to me that you are suggesting that NASA should be either mothballed or put in some sort of caretaker mode. Am I correct? Please clarify.
These are the areas that will probably be hit hardest by rising interest rates. That is, the areas where the house is expensive but the commute still sucks. Anything inside rt 128 will probably stay high.
IIRC, the as yet unseen "Fruit Fucker" was originally a sort-of-thow-away punchline at the end of a strip (satan's ordering one). Fans asked for a strip showing what a fruit fucker would actually look like, and a star -and the occasional dreaded continuity- was born.
Also, the actor who portrays Gen. Hammond was a stunt man and occasional character actor on MacGuyver. He plays a poacher in one episode, for instance.
Sadly I must agree with this. I always thought the strength of SG-1 was the characters. Not just O'Neil, but many regular and recurring. Even the scenery-chewing goauld had some individual personality to them. I can't say the same for Atlantis. Those few characters that are even distinguishable tend to be stock types lifted from other sci-fi (genre-not-network) shows.
Another thing to remember is that IBM actually has written much of the j2se code. Who knows what the exact details of that license agreement are? I suspect that Sun (same goes for IBM) may not even have the full legal rights to unilaterally open source the j2se even if they decided they wanted to do it tomorrow.
Uh oh. Didn't I hear this ~1996 from Netscape supporters? Not that Business 2.0 at all represents the average Firefox supporter or maintainer. But still, gives me shivers.
Mods you are really on crack. I'm not Christian, but this parent post is not funny at all. It's a pretty blantant flamebait. Designed to be mocking and offensive. Come ON!
I don't know why you assume I am saying antimatter has negative mass. And yes, we know oodles about the behavior of fundamental antiparticles with several fundamental forces (em, sure, gravity, probably [although we still have many questions about gravity in general - I personally subscribe to general relativity as is, but we have some cosmological data to reconcile with that]. Strong force, check. Weak force, I call BS - we don't have enough experimental proof at all here). Does that mean that the properties and construction of larger scale antimatter constructs exist and behave how we expect? Well, probably, but do we have any proof? Not really. (remember, consistent theory is a very good predictor, but the proof in the pudding is experiemental results) I think someone has gotten together anti-quarks into anti-protons once or twice, IIRC, but we're not even to the point of having, say simple anti-hydrogen gas (or even anti-hydrogen plasma, I think). Are the rules for more complex atoms and molecules what we expect? For consistency's sake with solid math like Schrodenger's, we think so, but we have no proof. None. And certainly we don't have proof of the radioactive decay of very large anti-atom nuclei and the strong force & weak force implications. I'm not saying that I think that we will find something strange here. But I AM saying that we DON'T know. We still need experimental proof. And that is what is interesting. So let's not get ahead of ourselves and close the book.
Well, while you are right about 5.56 vs. 7.62, the "etc." was meant to cover the datum that the pendulum is swinging yet again in that army special forces and others are moving to a 6.8mm diameter. I just assumed that the average slashdotter on this story wouldn't care about a longer explanation. Shows I was wrong.
You are correct. And further, the question of whether its better to maim a solider and thus require several of his buddies to carry him off, or kill him outright. Hence the question of 5.56mm vs. 7.62mm, etc.
You jest, but it is interesting that we actually know very little about how large amounts of antimatter (at/beyond the "anti-atom" and "anti-molecule" stage - assuming the rules are the same even for that) would behave with regard to fundamental forces like gravity. Sure, we guess it'd be the same based on varying degrees of theory, but we don't really know.
Gee, do you think maybe it's because it would take WAY MORE energy to create the antimatter in the first place? Antimatter doesn't grow on trees, you know (and thank god for that). This is the same reason your power plant runs on gas or coal rather than smokeless gun powder. It takes more energy to make the powder than you get back out. When you need a weapon with quick energy release, however, you care less about wasting energy in the process.
For the record, I grew up approx half a mile from WSB 750, one of the few "clear channel" stations that operates at the max (50kW) day and night. And it's true you could get it all over the South at night. (It also had the nasty habit of playing in the background on phone lines when I was growing up - in fact it still does).
I stand corrected. Shows you I was never dealing with the licensing the place where I used Resin. Do I win back any nerd points by pointing out is *is* fairly cheap compared to products by two certain three-letter-initial companies? =)
Geez. I guess you've never tried running a non-trivial web application on a webserver where your Tomcat only gets allocated 64mb RAM (and where every extra mb costs you $$$ per month). Admittedly the idea that Java is slow usually comes from people using Swing which isn't an issue for server-side applications.
Well, problem #1 is using Tomcat on a "non-trivial" production application. If you have to go free, Resin and Jetty are both more performant.
Re Java being "mysterious" (?!). You're reading the wrong books. Not that you need a book at all. All you need is: The Java Language specification
and if you are interested in more depth, The VM spec
The specified behavior for synchronization, the memory model & threading are all there in fairly simple terms.
There is usually one difference between the milk brands in a case like this. I can't speak for Albertson's in particular, but there is a similar situation with H.E.B. v. Hill Country Fare milk. Same dairy, same cows. The H.E.B. milk costs a little more, but they do add in some extra levels of vitamin enrichment (maybe A, B & D instead of just B & D). Not being prone to rickets (that's vitamin A defficiency, right?), I always buy the cheaper stuff, of course.
Hell, I remember when games were so simple that you *didn't* ever "win." Maybe you had a high scores list, but that didn't matter so much if you were playing on your home console. rather than the arcade. But that didn't make the game any less fun.
What I want to know is: who is working on the real-life Dalek contraption? When I am old and infirm I want these to be ready. Implant my withered remains in there and it'll be time to EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
Time for some enterprising genius out there to change his name to Devros and get working.
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I think you're thinking of multitasking made-for-Windows programs in real mode on pre-286 chips (which you could do even in windows 1.0 - but no window overlaps until 2.x), and the other gentleman is thinking of multitasking multiple non-Windows-(i.e., DOS-)programs. You couldn't multitask multiple DOS programs through Windows on any pre-286 chip.
Excellent threadjacking attempt with the second paragraph. As for the first, it appears to me that you are suggesting that NASA should be either mothballed or put in some sort of caretaker mode. Am I correct? Please clarify.
These are the areas that will probably be hit hardest by rising interest rates. That is, the areas where the house is expensive but the commute still sucks. Anything inside rt 128 will probably stay high.
IIRC, the as yet unseen "Fruit Fucker" was originally a sort-of-thow-away punchline at the end of a strip (satan's ordering one). Fans asked for a strip showing what a fruit fucker would actually look like, and a star -and the occasional dreaded continuity- was born.
Also, the actor who portrays Gen. Hammond was a stunt man and occasional character actor on MacGuyver. He plays a poacher in one episode, for instance.
Sadly I must agree with this. I always thought the strength of SG-1 was the characters. Not just O'Neil, but many regular and recurring. Even the scenery-chewing goauld had some individual personality to them. I can't say the same for Atlantis. Those few characters that are even distinguishable tend to be stock types lifted from other sci-fi (genre-not-network) shows.
European or tropical?
But more important, what is their unladen airspeed velocity. And do you think tropical bees could carry a coconut to England? Or European bees?
Another thing to remember is that IBM actually has written much of the j2se code. Who knows what the exact details of that license agreement are? I suspect that Sun (same goes for IBM) may not even have the full legal rights to unilaterally open source the j2se even if they decided they wanted to do it tomorrow.
>No, I don't believe the president could name any of them, or knew of there existance. It just so happens that he misspoke and was right.
While he did probably mispeak, he probably does know about at least one other internet: SIPRNET.
Uh oh. Didn't I hear this ~1996 from Netscape supporters? Not that Business 2.0 at all represents the average Firefox supporter or maintainer. But still, gives me shivers.
Mods you are really on crack. I'm not Christian, but this parent post is not funny at all. It's a pretty blantant flamebait. Designed to be mocking and offensive. Come ON!
I don't know why you assume I am saying antimatter has negative mass.
And yes, we know oodles about the behavior of fundamental antiparticles with several fundamental forces (em, sure, gravity, probably [although we still have many questions about gravity in general - I personally subscribe to general relativity as is, but we have some cosmological data to reconcile with that]. Strong force, check. Weak force, I call BS - we don't have enough experimental proof at all here). Does that mean that the properties and construction of larger scale antimatter constructs exist and behave how we expect? Well, probably, but do we have any proof? Not really. (remember, consistent theory is a very good predictor, but the proof in the pudding is experiemental results) I think someone has gotten together anti-quarks into anti-protons once or twice, IIRC, but we're not even to the point of having, say simple anti-hydrogen gas (or even anti-hydrogen plasma, I think). Are the rules for more complex atoms and molecules what we expect? For consistency's sake with solid math like Schrodenger's, we think so, but we have no proof. None. And certainly we don't have proof of the radioactive decay of very large anti-atom nuclei and the strong force & weak force implications. I'm not saying that I think that we will find something strange here. But I AM saying that we DON'T know. We still need experimental proof. And that is what is interesting. So let's not get ahead of ourselves and close the book.
Well, while you are right about 5.56 vs. 7.62, the "etc." was meant to cover the datum that the pendulum is swinging yet again in that army special forces and others are moving to a 6.8mm diameter. I just assumed that the average slashdotter on this story wouldn't care about a longer explanation. Shows I was wrong.
You are correct. And further, the question of whether its better to maim a solider and thus require several of his buddies to carry him off, or kill him outright. Hence the question of 5.56mm vs. 7.62mm, etc.
You jest, but it is interesting that we actually know very little about how large amounts of antimatter (at/beyond the "anti-atom" and "anti-molecule" stage - assuming the rules are the same even for that) would behave with regard to fundamental forces like gravity. Sure, we guess it'd be the same based on varying degrees of theory, but we don't really know.
Gee, do you think maybe it's because it would take WAY MORE energy to create the antimatter in the first place? Antimatter doesn't grow on trees, you know (and thank god for that).
This is the same reason your power plant runs on gas or coal rather than smokeless gun powder. It takes more energy to make the powder than you get back out.
When you need a weapon with quick energy release, however, you care less about wasting energy in the process.
For the record, I grew up approx half a mile from WSB 750, one of the few "clear channel" stations that operates at the max (50kW) day and night. And it's true you could get it all over the South at night. (It also had the nasty habit of playing in the background on phone lines when I was growing up - in fact it still does).
No cancer yet...
I stand corrected. Shows you I was never dealing with the licensing the place where I used Resin. Do I win back any nerd points by pointing out is *is* fairly cheap compared to products by two certain three-letter-initial companies? =)
Geez. I guess you've never tried running a non-trivial web application on a webserver where your Tomcat only gets allocated 64mb RAM (and where every extra mb costs you $$$ per month). Admittedly the idea that Java is slow usually comes from people using Swing which isn't an issue for server-side applications.
Well, problem #1 is using Tomcat on a "non-trivial" production application. If you have to go free, Resin and Jetty are both more performant.
Re Java being "mysterious" (?!). You're reading the wrong books. Not that you need a book at all. All you need is:
The Java Language specification
and if you are interested in more depth, The VM spec
The specified behavior for synchronization, the memory model & threading are all there in fairly simple terms.
There is usually one difference between the milk brands in a case like this. I can't speak for Albertson's in particular, but there is a similar situation with H.E.B. v. Hill Country Fare milk. Same dairy, same cows. The H.E.B. milk costs a little more, but they do add in some extra levels of vitamin enrichment (maybe A, B & D instead of just B & D). Not being prone to rickets (that's vitamin A defficiency, right?), I always buy the cheaper stuff, of course.
Hell, I remember when games were so simple that you *didn't* ever "win." Maybe you had a high scores list, but that didn't matter so much if you were playing on your home console. rather than the arcade. But that didn't make the game any less fun.
Yow. For that price it doesn't seem worth it for *anyone*.
I'd settle for 3.0 if they had picked that. Java 1.2 would be 2.0 (inner classes, collections, other major additions).
What I want to know is: who is working on the real-life Dalek contraption? When I am old and infirm I want these to be ready. Implant my withered remains in there and it'll be time to EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
Time for some enterprising genius out there to change his name to Devros and get working.