To be fair: I thought the same thing having seen the prequels and Life as a House.
However, in Shattered Glass he shows different attributes. I still think he is somewhat stilted (not completely convincing) but he is certainly not a whiny goth brat.
Agreed. The silentpc review was MUCH better, more thorough. And no ads! Remarkable. Whereas the XYZ "review" was loaded down with "contextual" junk links and massive ads.
Apropros of nothing in particular, I notice that there are now a lot of popups that get thru the Mozilla blocker. I'm using 1.7.8. I'm aware thats somewhat behind the times, but not drastically so.
Interesting idea. For some reason it hasn't got much publicity.
To me it sounds astonishingly difficult to build. An elevator might be impossible due to physical/chemical limits, but if it possible then its a fairly simple thing to construct. The launch loop on the other hand is a truly enormous active machine 2000km long. It sounds much harder to make to me, even though you don't have to use any exotic materials.
But thats only on a first sight. Probably there are mitigating factors.
Having a powerful booster gives a lot more flexibility, like the Soviet Union's Energiya booster, which could (and did) launch loads other than their Shuttle. Although their strap-on boosters were liquid fuel and more powerful.
They had plans for reusing both the strap-ons and the main booster, but no-one knows how far that went - certainly the main engines were discarded. I wonder how/if Nasa plans to re-use the main engines? Since they were designed for reusability, I guess the SSMEs are not cheap and cheerful, so they would want to recycle them.
Also I remember that, in their earlier plans, the USSR were going to have an inline configuration with some kind of super-advanced high-speed lander. In the end they went for the more conservative shuttle design.
Observers seemed to agree that the USSRs approach was more flexibile in some ways, so shades of that are probably appearing here. It must be nice for the designers to revisit some of these ideas:)
Really? I read some of the (main) articles on the Soviet Union recently, I would be curious to know what sorts of things are wrong. They did not seem obviously biased.
Actually, none of the buttons or menus are "real" ie. native. Its just that in FF they made more effort to make them LOOK like real Windows controls.
In any csae, I don't see any difference in the menus from native ones; the status bar looks exactly the same; most of the buttons look like standard windows buttons (either flat or 3d). Though I do agree that Go and Search should be normal flat buttons.
BTW, are you talking about the standard Win2000 look, or the standard XP look, or the standard Office 2003 look?
No, you didn't read what I said. Power is beamed from the ground probably by microwave. Thus the crawlers don't need to carry fuel, and the cable does not need to supply power either.
Most serious suggestions don't involved anything about a linear motor. It's more like a normal mechanical device with power beamed from the ground. This makes the cable a plain physical object without any electrical or magentic requirements.
Of course, all those new companies would immediately lose money. Office and OS get their respective monopolies, so would be profitable (and office might be interested in Linux). The others have nothing.
Total stockpile detonation? Clearly not. The nuclear winter following would be extremely severe, and pretty much the entire earth would be hopelessly polluted.
Which is why its called MAD, of course... it long ago passed the point of destroying life as we know it.
A couple of destroyed buildings serves as a very visible symbol.
If terrorists had killed 4000 random people with a selective virus, sure it would still be nasty but there wouldn't be any video to watch or a great big hole in the ground afterwards.
Gun deaths are the same thing: not visible, so ignored.
All those things are basically true except for the bloat. The bit that still bothers me is the MAINTENANCE, which is only consistently easy to do if you use packages from the vendor.
No, it doesn't. That's silly. Even in the most extreme case 90% of memory contains DATA.
The only way that half of memory would be pointers is if your entire computer's memory had a tree or list of integers, and what use is that? All real applications, even computational ones, contain lots of data: strings, images, documents.
The two biggest users of memory on most computers would be cache (whether the file system, or database pages, or web pages), and images (icons, web browser pictures, game textures).
Hm. Been a while since I used it, and it probably depends on version. I do remember having to create a special view (using the designer, as the GP says) to have sorting by subject. That was Notes 4.6; they are now up to 6 now.
Notes is pretty much a flat file database with blob support. This works well for certain things, but is disastrous for others.
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To be fair: I thought the same thing having seen the prequels and Life as a House.
However, in Shattered Glass he shows different attributes. I still think he is somewhat stilted (not completely convincing) but he is certainly not a whiny goth brat.
Knowing about the patent is legally irrelevant.
As you say, this is rather silly in some cases. That's one of the problems with patents.
Please move the advertising to your real signature, so we can turn it off.
Agreed. The silentpc review was MUCH better, more thorough. And no ads! Remarkable. Whereas the XYZ "review" was loaded down with "contextual" junk links and massive ads.
Thanks SPCR, donation sent your way...
I've noticed that a nice even white noise makes me sleep poorly. I wake up feeling kind of drugged, even though I slept pretty solidly.
But how can you freeze so suddenly if the only heat loss is by radiation? (Very slow).
Apropros of nothing in particular, I notice that there are now a lot of popups that get thru the Mozilla blocker. I'm using 1.7.8. I'm aware thats somewhat behind the times, but not drastically so.
Interesting idea. For some reason it hasn't got much publicity.
To me it sounds astonishingly difficult to build. An elevator might be impossible due to physical/chemical limits, but if it possible then its a fairly simple thing to construct. The launch loop on the other hand is a truly enormous active machine 2000km long. It sounds much harder to make to me, even though you don't have to use any exotic materials.
But thats only on a first sight. Probably there are mitigating factors.
Which parts are complicated? Some googling suggested this page
http://www.astronautix.com/engines/rd0120.htm
which mentions the nozzle cooling system and two turbopumps as complexities. What others are there?
Having a powerful booster gives a lot more flexibility, like the Soviet Union's Energiya booster, which could (and did) launch loads other than their Shuttle. Although their strap-on boosters were liquid fuel and more powerful.
:)
They had plans for reusing both the strap-ons and the main booster, but no-one knows how far that went - certainly the main engines were discarded. I wonder how/if Nasa plans to re-use the main engines? Since they were designed for reusability, I guess the SSMEs are not cheap and cheerful, so they would want to recycle them.
Also I remember that, in their earlier plans, the USSR were going to have an inline configuration with some kind of super-advanced high-speed lander. In the end they went for the more conservative shuttle design.
Observers seemed to agree that the USSRs approach was more flexibile in some ways, so shades of that are probably appearing here. It must be nice for the designers to revisit some of these ideas
Really? I read some of the (main) articles on the Soviet Union recently, I would be curious to know what sorts of things are wrong. They did not seem obviously biased.
Actually, none of the buttons or menus are "real" ie. native. Its just that in FF they made more effort to make them LOOK like real Windows controls.
In any csae, I don't see any difference in the menus from native ones; the status bar looks exactly the same; most of the buttons look like standard windows buttons (either flat or 3d). Though I do agree that Go and Search should be normal flat buttons.
BTW, are you talking about the standard Win2000 look, or the standard XP look, or the standard Office 2003 look?
No, you didn't read what I said. Power is beamed from the ground probably by microwave. Thus the crawlers don't need to carry fuel, and the cable does not need to supply power either.
Most serious suggestions don't involved anything about a linear motor. It's more like a normal mechanical device with power beamed from the ground.
This makes the cable a plain physical object without any electrical or magentic requirements.
Funny, but not relevant. They only need approval so they can get on with real-life testing of some of the technology.
You're right, no major company would dare to put a hard drive in a portable device.
Of course, all those new companies would immediately lose money. Office and OS get their respective monopolies, so would be profitable (and office might be interested in Linux). The others have nothing.
Total stockpile detonation? Clearly not. The nuclear winter following would be extremely severe, and pretty much the entire earth would be hopelessly polluted.
Which is why its called MAD, of course... it long ago passed the point of destroying life as we know it.
By hitting a country with a nuclear weapon you have high chances to hit any group of terrorists hidden in this area
But do you? Isn't it more likely terrorists will be in all sorts of odd places that it isn't worth spending entire nukes on.
Unless you plan to kill everyone in the country.
The word you are looking for is "genocide". Nuclear strikes = genocide.
The apologists will of course say that you can have "contained" tactical nuclear strikes. Yeah, right.
A couple of destroyed buildings serves as a very visible symbol.
If terrorists had killed 4000 random people with a selective virus, sure it would still be nasty but there wouldn't be any video to watch or a great big hole in the ground afterwards.
Gun deaths are the same thing: not visible, so ignored.
We can save a lot of money and time by re-using the Energia designs for a direct shot, instead of puddling round for years making a new launcher.
http://k26.com/buran/html/energia-mars.html
Well, it's an interesting idea anyway, and it would be great to see the Energiya booster reused.
But of course that would make less money for the precious aerospace companies.
All those things are basically true except for the bloat. The bit that still bothers me is the MAINTENANCE, which is only consistently easy to do if you use packages from the vendor.
about half of memory typically contains pointers
No, it doesn't. That's silly. Even in the most extreme case 90% of memory contains DATA.
The only way that half of memory would be pointers is if your entire computer's memory had a tree or list of integers, and what use is that? All real applications, even computational ones, contain lots of data: strings, images, documents.
The two biggest users of memory on most computers would be cache (whether the file system, or database pages, or web pages), and images (icons, web browser pictures, game textures).
Hm. Been a while since I used it, and it probably depends on version. I do remember having to create a special view (using the designer, as the GP says) to have sorting by subject. That was Notes 4.6; they are now up to 6 now.
Notes is pretty much a flat file database with blob support. This works well for certain things, but is disastrous for others.