Peter Davidson has done a lot of series for UK TV over the last 20 years. Tom Baker did have a rough patch for about 10 years after he left but now he's in Monarch of the Glen amongst other things and does loads of commercial voiceovers. John Pertwee had his own long running kids series about a scarecrow back in the 80s , forget its name.
Nothing stopping you buying your own 18 wheeler if you're that insecure. Or better yet , don't even leave your house or if you do make sure you wear kevlar armour with a foot of cotton wool padding.
Do they mean that if you stood on the surface you could feel a breeze, could you fly in it? Or do they simply mean that it has a measurable presense via a number of instruments? It doesn't even appear on the photos so it can't be that substantial.
We were promised spectacular pictures but all we got was some grainy poor quality B&W pics and one false colour one of the surface. Given this is probably the first & last landing on titan for decades I think they could have put in a better camera. Even viking managed better quality pictures back in 1976.
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"I believe gcc has precompiled headers since 3.4,"
Thats not always a good thing. Sometimes you need to view header source to get info that simply isn't in the man pages, eg the type of some variable or the default value of a parameter.
"I dumped the notion of having a land-line long ago. Mobile phones are just about as cheap and more versatile."
You don't have to charge a land line. You have a guarunteed uptime with a landline. You don't have to search for a land line phone.
If you have an emergency situation do you really want to have to search for you mobile, hope the battery doesn't die and that theres no network congestion? You might think it irrelevant now but when you or a relative has just been taken seriously ill you won't give a rats arse about tarifs and features , you just want the ambulence, NOW.
Happens all the time. If anyone claims CherryOS is a bit suspect perhaps the same could be said about a number of the *BSDs. Ok , he's been a bit underhand but as far as I can see he's done nothing wrong and hasn't violated the GPL.
Same everywhere in britain. Nottingham used to be a nice place when I was at uni, now its like Beirut on a saturday night. Nothing will change until the police start acting like police instead of social workers and start cracking some heads instead of being all nice and polite to the chavs.
Why nuclear? Is this so if the microbes look hostile old GW can push the red button and sort them out?:)
Seriously , I can't see the greenies going for that and I have to say that if it crashes , you can't 100% guarantee that it won't spread nuclear contaminants over a huge area of Mars. Hardly a good start for possible colonisation or the bugs that may already be there. Whats wrong with solar panels and some wiper or fan to keep them clean?
"I'm so sick of all this anti-Perl talk. I write powerful applications in Perl and they are definetly not 'write only'."
Your perl apps may be amazingly legible and easy to understand , but most I've seen are written by paid up members of the The Shorter The Better club. Usually resulting in a rats nest of complex regular expressions and obscure syntax making it impossible to get a clear understanding of whats going on without intensive study of the code. Other languages can allow obtuse code but only Perl makes it so easy it becomes 2nd nature.
"Why does Microsoft continue to use RC4 in this day and age?"
The same reason they're still using the tired old method of 3 letter file extension to mark file types - backwards compatability. BC is what made windows and MSs bank balance what it is , for good AND bad.
"Usenet is finally dying its rather long-deserved death."
Whats deserved about it? I still find it a useful discussion forum. Just because some groups are full of spam spouting imbeciles doesn't mean they're all useless and just because you obviously don't use it doesn't mean that there arn't hundreds of thousands if not millions of people out there who still do.
Oh yes. The scietific data is all well and good but theres a reason that almost ALL space probes have had cameras - thats how we explore the world , by sight. No one apart from a few scientists gives a rats bottom about a screen full of figures but show people a picture and it makes all the difference. Besides, you can have all the measurements of wind speed, temp, acidity etc you want , but you still won't know what its like there without a picture.
" about 'its hard' and 'its to complicated', but, it's actually not hard, and not to complicated. complex systems are designed and built every day in the aerospace field, systems that many lives depend on. We take it for granted that they are properly designed with failsafe modes, they can deal with problems on the fly, and they do not puke up and die when things become abnormal."
Yeah , theres *never* been any inflight problems in aircraft due to the computers or other systems has there. Though a couple of dead airbus pilots might disagree about that but hey, you obviously know best. After release no aircraft EVER needs a software update since the code is obviously 100% perfect from day one. Right?
"We use checklists to ensure that all testing covers all forseeable abnormal conditions"
You cannot forsee all abnormal conditions. If you seriously believe that then you're either arrogant or a fool. Or both.
You spend all that money on spacecraft whose, lets face it, main reason was to take pictures of the surface and you only fit a black and white camera. Wtf!?? And before anyone says "but I saw the orange picture of the surface" , it was an artificially coloured B&W picture. I realise colour takes more bandwidth but you can always process the colour pictures into B&W onboard and transmit those , say have 9 B&W , one colour. Their logic is a mystery to me.
No one forces parse writers to do what they do , they do it out of choice like all of us in IT do. I'm not going to weep for them if they're having a hard time, they can always go do something else.
Its now 20 years on. Theres little point trying to relive the past because its never as good as you remember and thats all this company is trying to do. AmigaOS is vapourware more or less and besides, the good thing about the Amiga was its hardware, the OS was pretty much an irrelevance other than as a boot loader for the apps. Hardware these days is so far beyond the hardware of 1985 its not even funny. Whats the point?
"Because it's those.01% of the programmers making our lives easier, indeed, even possible. If you don't support the guys writing the languages you work in, it will never be easy for the 99.99%. Does everything have to have a global payoff?"
Don't be an ass. Thats like suggesting all roads should be made out of cobbles because , hey , its a lot quicker to build them then but people can still drive cars along them (ok , slower , but who cares right? The road builders are having an easy life now)
If the OS is set up correctly all the loader needs to do is start it. I have the BIOS for doing everything else. I don't WANT a loader that does everything , its just extra rubbish that can go wrong. Why do I NEED to check devices in a loader for fscks sake? Its not like its going to use them! Let the OS do the work , thats why its called an "operating system".
Well those modes displays have to be created somehow by the hardware anyway so how do you distinguish between a "real" mode and one thats "emulated" if its all done by a bunch of video chips anyway?
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Peter Davidson has done a lot of series for UK TV over the last 20 years. Tom Baker did have a rough patch for about 10 years after he left but now he's in Monarch of the Glen amongst other things and does loads of commercial voiceovers. John Pertwee had his own long running kids series about a scarecrow back in the 80s , forget its name.
If dead pixels bother you so much perhaps you should stick to CRTs.
Nothing stopping you buying your own 18 wheeler if you're that insecure. Or better yet , don't even leave your house or if you do make sure you wear kevlar armour with a foot of cotton wool padding.
Do they mean that if you stood on the surface you could feel a breeze, could you fly in it? Or do they simply mean that it has a measurable presense via a number of instruments? It doesn't even appear on the photos so it can't be that substantial.
We were promised spectacular pictures but all we got was some grainy poor quality B&W pics and one false colour one of the surface. Given this is probably the first & last landing on titan for decades I think they could have put in a better camera. Even viking managed better quality pictures back in 1976.
"I believe gcc has precompiled headers since 3.4,"
Thats not always a good thing. Sometimes you need to view header source to get info that simply isn't in the man pages, eg the type of some variable or the default value of a parameter.
A locked door? Oh yeah , that'll keep them out!
After all , its only unlocked houses that ever get burgled, right?
"I dumped the notion of having a land-line long ago. Mobile phones are just about as cheap and more versatile."
You don't have to charge a land line. You have a guarunteed uptime with a landline. You don't have to search for a land line phone.
If you have an emergency situation do you really want to have to search for you mobile, hope the battery doesn't die and that theres no network congestion? You might think it irrelevant now but when you or a relative has just been taken seriously ill you won't give a rats arse about tarifs and features , you just want the ambulence, NOW.
Some people find them useful. You know , in case of people trying to break in. Where the hell do *you* live? Nowheresville?
Happens all the time. If anyone claims CherryOS is a bit suspect perhaps the same could be said about a number of the *BSDs. Ok , he's been a bit underhand but as far as I can see he's done nothing wrong and hasn't violated the GPL.
Didn't realise that computers were quite *that* exciting to burglers!
Same everywhere in britain. Nottingham used to be a nice place when I was at uni, now its like Beirut on a saturday night. Nothing will change until the police start acting like police instead of social workers and start cracking some heads instead of being all nice and polite to the chavs.
Why nuclear? Is this so if the microbes look hostile old GW can push the red button and sort them out? :)
Seriously , I can't see the greenies going for that and I have to say that if it crashes , you can't 100% guarantee that it won't spread nuclear contaminants over a huge area of Mars. Hardly a good start for possible colonisation or the bugs that may already be there. Whats wrong with solar panels and some wiper or fan to keep them clean?
"I'm so sick of all this anti-Perl talk. I write powerful applications in Perl and they are definetly not 'write only'."
Your perl apps may be amazingly legible and easy to understand , but most I've seen are written by paid up members of the The Shorter The Better club. Usually resulting in a rats nest of complex regular expressions and obscure syntax making it impossible to get a clear understanding of whats going on without intensive study of the code. Other languages can allow obtuse code but only Perl makes it so easy it becomes 2nd nature.
Or get back to earth for that matter? Nice idea as long as you don't mind a one way trip into deep space.
"Why does Microsoft continue to use RC4 in this day and age?"
The same reason they're still using the tired old method of 3 letter file extension to mark file types - backwards compatability. BC is what made windows and MSs bank balance what it is , for good AND bad.
"Usenet is finally dying its rather long-deserved death."
Whats deserved about it? I still find it a useful discussion forum. Just because some groups are full of spam spouting imbeciles doesn't mean they're all useless and just because you obviously don't use it doesn't mean that there arn't hundreds of thousands if not millions of people out there who still do.
>Main reason was to take pictures?
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>No-no-no.
Oh yes. The scietific data is all well and good but theres a reason that almost ALL space probes have had cameras - thats how we explore the world , by sight. No one apart from a few scientists gives a rats bottom about a screen full of figures but show people a picture and it makes all the difference. Besides, you can have all the measurements of wind speed, temp, acidity etc you want , but you still won't know what its like there without a picture.
" about 'its hard' and 'its to complicated', but, it's actually not hard, and not to complicated. complex systems are designed and built every day in the aerospace field, systems that many lives depend on. We take it for granted that they are properly designed with failsafe modes, they can deal with problems on the fly, and they do not puke up and die when things become abnormal."
Yeah , theres *never* been any inflight problems in aircraft due to the computers or other systems has there. Though a couple of dead airbus pilots might disagree about that but hey, you obviously know best. After release no aircraft EVER needs a software update since the code is obviously 100% perfect from day one. Right?
"We use checklists to ensure that all testing covers all forseeable abnormal conditions"
You cannot forsee all abnormal conditions. If you seriously believe that then you're either arrogant or a fool. Or both.
You spend all that money on spacecraft whose,
lets face it, main reason was to take pictures of
the surface and you only fit a black and white camera. Wtf!?? And before anyone says "but I saw the orange picture of the surface" , it was an artificially coloured B&W picture. I realise colour takes more bandwidth but you can always process the colour pictures into B&W onboard and transmit those , say have 9 B&W , one colour. Their logic is a mystery to me.
No one forces parse writers to do what they do , they do it out of choice like all of us in IT do. I'm not going to weep for them if they're having a hard time, they can always go do something else.
Its now 20 years on. Theres little point trying to relive the past because its never as good as you remember and thats all this company is trying to do. AmigaOS is vapourware more or less and besides, the good thing about the Amiga was its hardware, the OS was pretty much an irrelevance other than as a boot loader for the apps. Hardware these days is so far beyond the hardware of 1985 its not even funny. Whats the point?
"Because it's those .01% of the programmers making our lives easier, indeed, even possible. If you don't support the guys writing the languages you work in, it will never be easy for the 99.99%. Does everything have to have a global payoff?"
Don't be an ass. Thats like suggesting all roads should be made out of cobbles because , hey , its a lot quicker to build them then but people can still drive cars along them (ok , slower , but who cares right? The road builders are having an easy life now)
If the OS is set up correctly all the loader needs to do is start it. I have the BIOS for doing everything else. I don't WANT a loader that does everything , its just extra rubbish that can go wrong. Why do I NEED to check devices in a loader for fscks sake? Its not like its going to use them! Let the OS do the work , thats why its called an "operating system".
Well those modes displays have to be created somehow by the hardware anyway so how do you distinguish between a "real" mode and one thats "emulated" if its all done by a bunch of video chips anyway?