we could say those things were "barely" possible with 19th century materials. Charles Gordon Curtis patented the first gas turbine engine in 1899 (not to be confused with his vertical steam turbine of 1896),
wood and cloth planes work well, we could argue if any type of engine including some early radial designs of the late 19th century could push one hard enough to fly with a human on board. There are a couple people (like Gustave Whitehead) who *might* have done just that, but the evidence is hotly debated.
more fun to go hard-core and read the S/370 Principles of Operation. Just quickly skim the first time and it comes together and makes sense the second time through because of chicken and egg issues. It is available on several sites for download as pdf, maybe not supposed to be.
Hah, all the other people are mentioning more recent books books. When I was ten years old I picked up "Programming the The IBM 1620: The Hands-On Approach" (by Eric A Weiss, publisher McGraw-Hill, 1965) at the local library. It started with teaching the 1620 machine language, then assembly, then Fortran I, all with punched cards and/or teletype. It hooked me on computers and I couldn't wait to get my mitts on one. At twelve I was programming the Z-80 in a TRS-80 in assembler (didn't care for BASIC). Recently I saw that book on eBay and bought it, it still gives me metaphorical "geek wood".
I've done it that way for fun but usb boot/system disk and internet storage are too dang slow.
but you don't need to worry about install media, just borrow from your local bsd or linux evangelist. I loan out cd or usb stick, and have done installs for friends and coworkers on their personal machines. wish I had some stickers of dead microsoft colored butterfly men that I could put on case of my laptop every time I kill a windows install. hmmm, that could work as a web page too....
you're right, that IS cheating not to have those. A new usb keyboard and mouse from several place on eBay can be had for $11. But the monitor is a killer, for young eyes could squeak by with a 15 inch that sometimes is under $100, but at my age that's going to cost unless buying used or refurbished. I'm on a 23" widescreen samsung now that was $250 refurbished with warranty. but there goes a cheap computer budget.
huge gain in credibility when that "more hardware than Windows" includes ARM processors, UltraSparc, IBM S/390 and System/z mainframes, Mac PPC and intel, and quite a few others. Some manufacturers put out the hot new chipsets (within certain product lines, at least) with Linux drivers too. A couple minutes research before you buy works wonders
don't panic, it's the default setting for those with good karma. Many of us with good karma really don't give a shit about having it, so we entertain ourselves with immature or disgusting or trolling or offtopic posts. then people like you have to read them. sucks to be you.
you did read the part of the article where the laptop needed fixing before it would work? plenty of broken laptops "for parts" on ebay, for $30, some of those could be fixed.....
did you read article, said laptop had to be repaired first. care to change your point of view, or if not I have $60 thinkpad T23 laptop for you to buy that needs screen, hardrive, memory, networking module and battery pack.
Sport? the ribbon is sported ??!! Sure, in the way that the undershorts of a person with influenza might sport a yellow-brown stripe, or the corpse of an axe murder victim sports a cleft in the skull
Actually, the open source world showed strong leadership in this regard; Ubuntu, Firefox, Gnome, KDE proactively fucking up their UI before this Microsoft announcement.
The above post and its parent brought to you by the Little Fluffer who sits under the desk of various Microsoft executives; they post sticky notes for him which have pointers such as "You'll find my nutsack will need particular attention this morning".
The recession has hit the gay porn industry hard, but thankfully the Little Fluffer has job security; adapting was hard, but by rubbing the Microsoft C?O's peckers with a little shit, he can still enjoy that last-act-ass-to-mouth aftertaste.
Wrong, you have completely missed what is happening to your country. It is not sensationalist, and it is not a non-related thing, to mention waterboarding. It is part and parcel of the exact same core problem, our ongoing transformation into a police state.
people who have had to put up with shoddily built, over-complicated internal power connector boards breaking on their Apple laptops may disagree with that "intolerance of crap" bit. Or soldered-in batteries on pdas. or a filesystem that its fsck can't always fix (while expensive third party products can).
Jobs was often guilty of artsy fartsy in lieu of real engineering.
they would require knowledge of earth's future positions and very precise control of their kinetic energy and direction to "hit" earth. Somehow, they're also going to need rocket engines even if built into their body, the difference in velocity between where their "home asteroid" is and the our earth will be enormous. Muscles and jumping will not accomplish orbit matching
More likely that hostile star-faring aliens would kill humanity quickly with technology we can't defend against. But this notion of them coming to earth for resources is absurd. There are far more of any natural element in the asteroids. The need for water in a recent sci-fi movies was laughable, more of that in the solar system outside of earth than in, in any form you want: steam, liquid, ice (just follow comet)
I am saying we are now tolerating the type of projection of police power in our schools that is against the principles upon which we founded our society, it is a danger to us. We are being conditioned to accept the police state that is being built, and to accept that liberties and freedoms are being taken away.
My point is that police have the option of abusive and evil powers that should not be tolerated in a society that claims to value liberty and freedom, and has supreme law that forbids such thing.
I would argue our tens of millions of Roman Catholic illegal immigrants hold the literal creation view, you just are speaking of technical type of people you know. I have news for you, the technical protestant people I know (I've worked at national labs and other research facilities) also have no problem with science and evolution, neither do the Jewish, Muslim, Hindu "techies". Religion another matter for them, a code of conduct, a philosophy for how to live.
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25 years ago when I was in university there were male nursing majors; everyone, especially the women, assumed they were gay.
we could say those things were "barely" possible with 19th century materials. Charles Gordon Curtis patented the first gas turbine engine in 1899 (not to be confused with his vertical steam turbine of 1896),
wood and cloth planes work well, we could argue if any type of engine including some early radial designs of the late 19th century could push one hard enough to fly with a human on board. There are a couple people (like Gustave Whitehead) who *might* have done just that, but the evidence is hotly debated.
more fun to go hard-core and read the S/370 Principles of Operation. Just quickly skim the first time and it comes together and makes sense the second time through because of chicken and egg issues. It is available on several sites for download as pdf, maybe not supposed to be.
haha, that and other hot-shot techniques make the malware go round even to this day.
on x86, you'll see a compare instruction, then usually a conditional jump. Often JLE (jump near if less than or equal to)
Hah, all the other people are mentioning more recent books books. When I was ten years old I picked up "Programming the The IBM 1620: The Hands-On Approach" (by Eric A Weiss, publisher McGraw-Hill, 1965) at the local library. It started with teaching the 1620 machine language, then assembly, then Fortran I, all with punched cards and/or teletype. It hooked me on computers and I couldn't wait to get my mitts on one. At twelve I was programming the Z-80 in a TRS-80 in assembler (didn't care for BASIC). Recently I saw that book on eBay and bought it, it still gives me metaphorical "geek wood".
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-IBM-1620-hands-McGraw-Hill/dp/B0006BN00K - just $5 used, what a bargain!
I've done it that way for fun but usb boot/system disk and internet storage are too dang slow.
but you don't need to worry about install media, just borrow from your local bsd or linux evangelist. I loan out cd or usb stick, and have done installs for friends and coworkers on their personal machines. wish I had some stickers of dead microsoft colored butterfly men that I could put on case of my laptop every time I kill a windows install. hmmm, that could work as a web page too....
you're right, that IS cheating not to have those. A new usb keyboard and mouse from several place on eBay can be had for $11. But the monitor is a killer, for young eyes could squeak by with a 15 inch that sometimes is under $100, but at my age that's going to cost unless buying used or refurbished. I'm on a 23" widescreen samsung now that was $250 refurbished with warranty. but there goes a cheap computer budget.
huge gain in credibility when that "more hardware than Windows" includes ARM processors, UltraSparc, IBM S/390 and System/z mainframes, Mac PPC and intel, and quite a few others. Some manufacturers put out the hot new chipsets (within certain product lines, at least) with Linux drivers too. A couple minutes research before you buy works wonders
but who does 3D on those with linux?
sure, I have one, a GX260, it's a development server running openbsd, but I don't even need graphics let alone 3D
don't panic, it's the default setting for those with good karma. Many of us with good karma really don't give a shit about having it, so we entertain ourselves with immature or disgusting or trolling or offtopic posts. then people like you have to read them. sucks to be you.
you did read the part of the article where the laptop needed fixing before it would work? plenty of broken laptops "for parts" on ebay, for $30, some of those could be fixed.....
did you read article, said laptop had to be repaired first. care to change your point of view, or if not I have $60 thinkpad T23 laptop for you to buy that needs screen, hardrive, memory, networking module and battery pack.
Sport? the ribbon is sported ??!! Sure, in the way that the undershorts of a person with influenza might sport a yellow-brown stripe, or the corpse of an axe murder victim sports a cleft in the skull
Actually, the open source world showed strong leadership in this regard; Ubuntu, Firefox, Gnome, KDE proactively fucking up their UI before this Microsoft announcement.
The above post and its parent brought to you by the Little Fluffer who sits under the desk of various Microsoft executives; they post sticky notes for him which have pointers such as "You'll find my nutsack will need particular attention this morning".
The recession has hit the gay porn industry hard, but thankfully the Little Fluffer has job security; adapting was hard, but by rubbing the Microsoft C?O's peckers with a little shit, he can still enjoy that last-act-ass-to-mouth aftertaste.
Well since JDK downloaded, ant XML in my head,
jars, wars, and .class files all night with laptop by my bed,
well java you look so fine (look so fine)
for C++ errors took all my time,
for you to help me java
get Stroustrup outta my heart.
help me java, help help me java
help me java, help help me java
.........
help me java, yeah, get him outta my heart.
Bjarne was gonna be my god,
and we gonna be his bitches,
preprocessor bloat came between us,
patterns ruined by the glitches
It's just improvements to the I/O API. Java has the New IO API for doing I/O. java 7 has extended it, hence NIO2. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-nio2-1/?ca=drs-
Wrong, you have completely missed what is happening to your country. It is not sensationalist, and it is not a non-related thing, to mention waterboarding. It is part and parcel of the exact same core problem, our ongoing transformation into a police state.
people who have had to put up with shoddily built, over-complicated internal power connector boards breaking on their Apple laptops may disagree with that "intolerance of crap" bit. Or soldered-in batteries on pdas. or a filesystem that its fsck can't always fix (while expensive third party products can).
Jobs was often guilty of artsy fartsy in lieu of real engineering.
they would require knowledge of earth's future positions and very precise control of their kinetic energy and direction to "hit" earth. Somehow, they're also going to need rocket engines even if built into their body, the difference in velocity between where their "home asteroid" is and the our earth will be enormous. Muscles and jumping will not accomplish orbit matching
More likely that hostile star-faring aliens would kill humanity quickly with technology we can't defend against. But this notion of them coming to earth for resources is absurd. There are far more of any natural element in the asteroids. The need for water in a recent sci-fi movies was laughable, more of that in the solar system outside of earth than in, in any form you want: steam, liquid, ice (just follow comet)
I am saying we are now tolerating the type of projection of police power in our schools that is against the principles upon which we founded our society, it is a danger to us. We are being conditioned to accept the police state that is being built, and to accept that liberties and freedoms are being taken away.
My point is that police have the option of abusive and evil powers that should not be tolerated in a society that claims to value liberty and freedom, and has supreme law that forbids such thing.
I would argue our tens of millions of Roman Catholic illegal immigrants hold the literal creation view, you just are speaking of technical type of people you know. I have news for you, the technical protestant people I know (I've worked at national labs and other research facilities) also have no problem with science and evolution, neither do the Jewish, Muslim, Hindu "techies". Religion another matter for them, a code of conduct, a philosophy for how to live.