actually no, if G the gravitational constant, M the sum of the mass of earth & "Snerd's Turd [he just named the brown dwarf], w is 2*pi over orbital period, and r the distance between "Witch-tit World" and Snerd's Turd, we find that:
G*M = w^2 * r^3
which shows that if we decrease M, it can be compensated for to yield same orbital period by decreasing the distance between the two bodies.
Dr. Snerd says he is folding a wire coathanger and to please report to the Observatory for your knuckle pimp-sticking
That rocks! I'll have to try something similar with 50 caliber BRI sabot slug out of my Winchester pump. Bet mine will be more unreadable than yours after that.
This just in, Dr. Mortimer Snerd of Bigscope Observatory has found an earthlike planet orbiting a brown dwarf 20 lightyears from earth. Says Snerd, "The planet is identical to earth in mass, orbital period, rotation, land to sea ratio, and elemental composition. It's just $&%*$# colder than a witches tit!"
heh, it can stand for a few things in the realm of computers:
1. virtual memory (using secondary storage to allow the program to address more memory locations than there is in physical RAM)
2. virtual machine (a machine implemented in software on a real machine, which *could* have different opcodes, or the same ones as the real machine)
3. VM - the operating system by IBM which allows one of their mainframes to act like many (stands for virtual machine)
( Also, there's the VM in VMS, the DEC Vax and Alpha operating system, which stands for VIrtual Memory as in #1)
I do my photo scanning & turbotax on my old windows 98se machine....but you know, that P200 will run X apps just fine, but not most of today's bloated window managers. Just for fun you might want to try lightweight one, just do "X11 lightweight window manager" in google.
yeah, could build new or expensive-to-synthesize proteins with them, or even maybe even useful polymers.
By the way, there are different species of e. coli - there's a good one that actually is *supposed* to be in everyone's intestines....and yes, some bad ones that cause problems: read about that here
Except there may come a time when corporations realize the many layers of a J2EE application and the slowness of Java really drain the horsepower of a group of machines, and that a lean, mean middleware coupled with a good scripting language can even kick java's butt.
Not to mention Linux taking on the abilities to work even huge servers and advanced storage arrays....
I love Solaris and Sun gear, but I see trouble for them ahead.
And my question is, how is this any more environmentally friendly than liquid hydrogen plus liquid oxygen, or for that matter liquid kerosene (just shorter hydrocarbon chains than paraffin) and liquid oxygen.
Just another hydrocarbon fuel from crude oil... Whoop-de-doo.
well, liquid hydrogen as fuel plus liquid oxygen as oxidizer is the energy source for many liquid fuel rockets. The combination of the two made most of the Challenger's explosive energy release.
carrying pure oxygen, or for even more fun, liquid oxygen together with hydrogen in a car would be real folly, but of course no one is proposing doing that. Liquid oxygen by itself can turn many slowly burning things into explosives.
Funny how the less productive AutoCAD drafters/designers would pick at the dozens of icons on their digitizing tablet overlay...and when not doing that at the menu sidebars. The fast ones would mostly pound the crap out of the keyboard with an occasional mouse movement. The slow ones loved their Compaq 386's, and the fast ones were on a waiting list for a Unix box (first Sparc 2's, then SGI Indy's)
actually, gasoline puts out a huge amounnt of water vapor too in the exhaust...it's mostly made of chains of carbon, with hydrogen holding onto each carbon bond that isn't attached to another carbon
Alpha never seems to "make it" after all these 11 years, and still it seems doomed.....and two of the three operating systems introduced with it are NOT the choice of the data center, and the third dropped Alpha support! Maybe we should start a folk legend about "The Curse of the Alpha!"
Anyway, a cool kick-butt chip, it was....and if we ever see the benchmarks on this latest generation, I'll bet it still is. Too bad on this planet technical excellence and superiority of function and performance don't determine success in the marketplace.
Looks a little better than c++ (which I've been doing for 11+ years), what with enforced single calling of class/object destructors, garbage collection, try/catch/finally blocks, package/module, doing away with throwback preprocessor syntax....but would anyone really use this for device drivers and OS kernel writing? No, probably not. And if not, then why bring over the "low level" features of C, like primitive data types, unions, explicit pointers.....leave that stuff for the C libraries that you maybe CALL with your high level language.
Coherent (a Unix-like operating system) by Mark Williams Company also supported it. You do know how 286 switches from protected back to real for kernel services? The processor itself couldn't do it, so there was a fun trick with the help of the keyboard controller.
I used to run Coherent on my 10 MHz Capital E 80286 from Elek-Tek. It had 1MB of RAM and a 40MB Seagate ST251-1. Both 1.2MB 5-1/4" and 720K 3-1/2" floppies. 2400 baud Zoom modem. And Super EGA.
I do remember a novel based on the premise that a giant asteroid/planetoid thing was on a collision course with the Sun, coming into a pole on a trajectory that made it impossible to spot until too late (like 300 years notice or some such in the book)....wouldn't hurt the core, but the disruption to the photosphere would trash the earth for a few thousand years before going back to normal.......that would be a major bummer!
We should get plenty of warning of when the explosion would happen BEFORE it happens.....but once it did, yeah, like 8 minutes before we toast.
A drastic change in neutrino emissions (which do get to us at lightspeed from the core) should tip us off, we hope
Events in the core of the Sun would take a long time, a million years, to work their way through the many layers of the Sun to the surface.
Actually, most (537 arc seconds per century) of the precession is explainable by Newtonian mechanics as perturbations caused by the other planets, Einstein did in fact use propogation velocity of gravity as 300,000,000 m/s to predict an extra precession of about 45 arc seconds per century. The "classical" component is the limit of gravitic influence propogating at infinite velocity.
Some mention of Newcomb's observations and observed/expected precession here
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actually no, if G the gravitational constant, M the sum of the mass of earth & "Snerd's Turd [he just named the brown dwarf], w is 2*pi over orbital period, and r the distance between "Witch-tit World" and Snerd's Turd, we find that:
G*M = w^2 * r^3
which shows that if we decrease M, it can be compensated for to yield same orbital period by decreasing the distance between the two bodies.
Dr. Snerd says he is folding a wire coathanger and to please report to the Observatory for your knuckle pimp-sticking
That rocks! I'll have to try something similar with 50 caliber BRI sabot slug out of my Winchester pump. Bet mine will be more unreadable than yours after that.
This just in, Dr. Mortimer Snerd of Bigscope Observatory has found an earthlike planet orbiting a brown dwarf 20 lightyears from earth. Says Snerd, "The planet is identical to earth in mass, orbital period, rotation, land to sea ratio, and elemental composition. It's just $&%*$# colder than a witches tit!"
The main OS on the space shuttle is proprietary.
..but is it English speaking by choice? Check this out.
heh, it can stand for a few things in the realm of computers:
1. virtual memory (using secondary storage to allow the program to address more memory locations than there is in physical RAM)
2. virtual machine (a machine implemented in software on a real machine, which *could* have different opcodes, or the same ones as the real machine)
3. VM - the operating system by IBM which allows one of their mainframes to act like many (stands for virtual machine)
( Also, there's the VM in VMS, the DEC Vax and Alpha operating system, which stands for VIrtual Memory as in #1)
The really lightweight window managers can even run on 16-24MB machines, if the client applications aren't too heavy.
I do my photo scanning & turbotax on my old windows 98se machine....but you know, that P200 will run X apps just fine, but not most of today's bloated window managers. Just for fun you might want to try lightweight one, just do "X11 lightweight window manager" in google.
yeah, could build new or expensive-to-synthesize proteins with them, or even maybe even useful polymers.
By the way, there are different species of e. coli - there's a good one that actually is *supposed* to be in everyone's intestines....and yes, some bad ones that cause problems: read about that here
but what about 2 unrelated apps runninng at the same time? Not everyone runs just one heavy program.
Except there may come a time when corporations realize the many layers of a J2EE application and the slowness of Java really drain the horsepower of a group of machines, and that a lean, mean middleware coupled with a good scripting language can even kick java's butt.
Not to mention Linux taking on the abilities to work even huge servers and advanced storage arrays....
I love Solaris and Sun gear, but I see trouble for them ahead.
And my question is, how is this any more environmentally friendly than liquid hydrogen plus liquid oxygen, or for that matter liquid kerosene (just shorter hydrocarbon chains than paraffin) and liquid oxygen.
Just another hydrocarbon fuel from crude oil... Whoop-de-doo.
well, liquid hydrogen as fuel plus liquid oxygen as oxidizer is the energy source for many liquid fuel rockets. The combination of the two made most of the Challenger's explosive energy release.
carrying pure oxygen, or for even more fun, liquid oxygen together with hydrogen in a car would be real folly, but of course no one is proposing doing that. Liquid oxygen by itself can turn many slowly burning things into explosives.
Funny how the less productive AutoCAD drafters/designers would pick at the dozens of icons on their digitizing tablet overlay...and when not doing that at the menu sidebars. The fast ones would mostly pound the crap out of the keyboard with an occasional mouse movement. The slow ones loved their Compaq 386's, and the fast ones were on a waiting list for a Unix box (first Sparc 2's, then SGI Indy's)
actually, gasoline puts out a huge amounnt of water vapor too in the exhaust...it's mostly made of chains of carbon, with hydrogen holding onto each carbon bond that isn't attached to another carbon
...and last July a new species was discovered in Central Park right under our noses
But this project is a great idea & a good start anyway, to a project that will take 100+ years, I'm sure
Q3 2002 results are in: "IBM was the star of the quarter" quoted here
The computerworld article goes on to say of total server market for Q3
IBM 32%
HP 24.5%
Dell 7.7%
Sun 12.6%
Read the article for Intel-based server breakdown, and Unix server breakdown
Alpha never seems to "make it" after all these 11 years, and still it seems doomed.....and two of the three operating systems introduced with it are NOT the choice of the data center, and the third dropped Alpha support! Maybe we should start a folk legend about "The Curse of the Alpha!"
Anyway, a cool kick-butt chip, it was....and if we ever see the benchmarks on this latest generation, I'll bet it still is. Too bad on this planet technical excellence and superiority of function and performance don't determine success in the marketplace.
Looks a little better than c++ (which I've been doing for 11+ years), what with enforced single calling of class/object destructors, garbage collection, try/catch/finally blocks, package/module, doing away with throwback preprocessor syntax....but would anyone really use this for device drivers and OS kernel writing? No, probably not. And if not, then why bring over the "low level" features of C, like primitive data types, unions, explicit pointers.....leave that stuff for the C libraries that you maybe CALL with your high level language.
Just remembered one more...Novell Netware 286
Coherent (a Unix-like operating system) by Mark Williams Company also supported it. You do know how 286 switches from protected back to real for kernel services? The processor itself couldn't do it, so there was a fun trick with the help of the keyboard controller.
I used to run Coherent on my 10 MHz Capital E 80286 from Elek-Tek. It had 1MB of RAM and a 40MB Seagate ST251-1. Both 1.2MB 5-1/4" and 720K 3-1/2" floppies. 2400 baud Zoom modem. And Super EGA.
I do remember a novel based on the premise that a giant asteroid/planetoid thing was on a collision course with the Sun, coming into a pole on a trajectory that made it impossible to spot until too late (like 300 years notice or some such in the book)....wouldn't hurt the core, but the disruption to the photosphere would trash the earth for a few thousand years before going back to normal.......that would be a major bummer!
We should get plenty of warning of when the explosion would happen BEFORE it happens.....but once it did, yeah, like 8 minutes before we toast. A drastic change in neutrino emissions (which do get to us at lightspeed from the core) should tip us off, we hope
Events in the core of the Sun would take a long time, a million years, to work their way through the many layers of the Sun to the surface.
Actually, most (537 arc seconds per century) of the precession is explainable by Newtonian mechanics as perturbations caused by the other planets, Einstein did in fact use propogation velocity of gravity as 300,000,000 m/s to predict an extra precession of about 45 arc seconds per century. The "classical" component is the limit of gravitic influence propogating at infinite velocity.
Some mention of Newcomb's observations and observed/expected precession here