In order to handle all of this in a case-insensitive file system the file system itself needs not only to be aware of the intricate details of character encodings and casing for different languages, every single file system operation would also have to look at the currently selected locale in order to determine wether two names are equivalent or not. If you believe this is simple, read the FAQ's at the Unicode [unicode.org] site and you will never again suggest that the file system should be case-insignificant.
yes, its complicated. good thing that software can do complicated things (NTFS does everything you just said). look at the CompareString API, once one has such an API then anything can use it, including filesystems.
Could this possibly be used and in part funded by the defense dept.? The next evolutionary step for military lasers?
maybe. but then again, the article (if you read it) talks only about how its to be used for nuclear fusion research, an interesting topic on its own.
i was pleasantly surprised that the poster talked about real genius and didnt snipe at the missile defense system, but alas of course it was only a matter of time before people would troll about it.
You know...this would put an end to high speed pursuits
i wonder if they consider it riskier than the strips of little hollow tubes that puncture and slowly deflate your tires.
without your electrical system and your engine spinning down you could lose power steering, power brakes, your lights would go out (at night at high speed most probably), various automatic transmission problems, etc.
i was kinda late to the final fantasy scene so my first was FF7. i admit, i fell in love with tifa.
in FF8 of course i fell in love with rinoa and in the end FMVs my eyes were tearing up. okay fine i was bawling. hearing "eyes on me" still makes me wistful.
i guess it kinda helped in the immersion that i named those characters after a girl i had a crush on and i was depressed and with OCD at the time (possibly more common to computer geeks and gamers than the general population), but yeah it was pretty immersive.
how can one murder something that's not been born yet?
i had this discussion with some coworkers. we came to the consensus that it makes sense within the current laws because the pregnant wife was in the third trimester.
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i was thinking the same thing. so many of the "news for nerds" articles and their replies are really out there. if youve been to any pro sports event you should have seen one of these.
its like the article about the car that was hacked up to get a better quarter mile time. the article and its comments were like "case modding for cars!", apparently nobody knew that cars were getting "modded" waaaaay before frickin' computer cases?
too much and the large bubbles that form on the channel walls effectively create a steam void that has a much higher specific heat then the fluid used for cooling... basically it is acting as an insulator preventing heat transfer into the fluid in the channel... a very bad thing [tm].
this is also the same effect that is a good thing when doing various tricks (walking across hot coals with damp feet, dunking your wet hand into molten lead, etc.).
The goal should not be to "free" Iraq, if anything the goal should be to "free" Iraq with certain other premises: few to no civilian casualties, low to no damage to civilian infrastructure, effective ways to bring in humanitary aid, a smooth transition to a just post-war system.
yep. in progress.
Also, the United States have bought what you call the most dominant military force at a time when a dominant military force has lost many of its uses: you can't (and don't need to) conquer the world with it, and you can't even defend American citizens with it - an army is no use against domestic terrorism.
how about making the world a safer, better place (exactly what its being used for now)?
a completely dominant military force does everything better than a weaker military force: - wins wars faster - takes less casualties - causes less civilian casualties - inflicts less enemy casualties since they surrender faster
it would be irresponsible for a country to have the most successful social and economic system in the history of the world and NOT buy the greatest military in the history of the world too.
The more the U.S. kills people around the world the more enemies it makes. It needs to kill those new enemies. Better make better guns so you can kill more of those enemies...creating more enemies.
wrong. what creates enemies are oppressive regimes that promote hate for everything american. you may have forgotten that way more japanese and germans were killed in WWII than in any other conflict the US has been in. not surprisingly, there arent any japanese and german anti-american terrorist groups.
why? because the US and allies went in and replaced the regimes.
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why is this chilling at all? US domination? so what? im all for it and im totally behind wolfowitz and pre-emption, its the strategically correct thing to do to preserve our way of life. the world would be one big USA and thats way better than what it is now.
Unless Microsoft doesn't get its act together (they were pretty late with 32-bit 386 support, IIRC)...
this isn't specific to this post, but for some reason there seems to be a common agreement around here that microsoft doesnt have a 64-bit OS out yet. actually they've shipped 64-bit support for years, back in the Alpha days and in windows 2000 and XP (they also have a guide here).
for developer support, you can't miss it in MSDN or all the WIN64 #defines in the header files: everything is extended for 64-bit (GetWindowLongPtr for example).
you're obviously not familiar with just how many guns there are out there, or how you will never remove the old guns from the hands of law-abiding gun owners, or how guns will always be produced somewhere without this "feature".
If ALL guns in the (near) future, have some of these technologies, the world would be a much safer place.
that doesnt make any sense, because a) it wont happen and b) the world wouldnt be safer.
it's talking about how the gravity wells of planets make for low-energy paths from place to place, like how we choose to launch a mars probe when earth and mars are at certain positions relative to each other, maybe using the moon along the way. a well-known concept but the article has lots of flashy language.
Actually I think the reason XP takes up so much ram is because it is loading up a ton of USELESS DLL's and COM objects into ram so that IE will load faster and Word XYZ will open immediately,.NET Framework, VB Framework and the list goes on.
this is incorrect. many applications are simply written poorly; messenger loads faster than icq and media player loads faster than realplayer because icq and realplayer haven't done the work to make load time fast. by delay-loading DLLs you can speed up application load time immensely but many products don't do this.
there is no link between the operating system and word; if word loads too quickly it's because WORD has pre-loaded its modules via its little quicklaunch area it used to have, which it put into the startup folder. any application can make use of these tricks; although of course pre-loading the system like this is counterproductive in terms of using the system for other applications.
as always, please read the article and associated literature to get a background of the problems that this is intended to solve and how this architecture handles the complexities involved. your questions will be answered.
To remake the heavy lift Saturn rockets or reconstruct the Apollo heat sheilds, we would have to redo everything from scratch.
that doesnt make any sense. i went to the kennedy space center and they have a saturn V just sitting there.
in fact, who cares? if we were to remake ENIAC right now it'd probably cost millions and require infrastructure to make vacuum tubes that we might not have nowadays, but nobody would say we can't match the feats of ENIAC, or that we're behind where we were in the 40s.
if we really had a reason to go to the moon (and hence a budget to do so), then we'd go. to say otherwise is ridiculous, "Now we don't have a clue as to how to get back." give me a break.
the cars have to be practically the same shape, whether a Chevy, Ford, Pontiac, or Dodge
is there a set of rules or conventions or sponsorships that conspire against import cars? im surprised there arent any japanese or german models out there. just curious.
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In order to handle all of this in a case-insensitive file system the file system itself needs not only to be aware of the intricate details of character encodings and casing for different languages, every single file system operation would also have to look at the currently selected locale in order to determine wether two names are equivalent or not. If you believe this is simple, read the FAQ's at the Unicode [unicode.org] site and you will never again suggest that the file system should be case-insignificant.
yes, its complicated. good thing that software can do complicated things (NTFS does everything you just said). look at the CompareString API, once one has such an API then anything can use it, including filesystems.
Could this possibly be used and in part funded by the defense dept.? The next evolutionary step for military lasers?
maybe. but then again, the article (if you read it) talks only about how its to be used for nuclear fusion research, an interesting topic on its own.
i was pleasantly surprised that the poster talked about real genius and didnt snipe at the missile defense system, but alas of course it was only a matter of time before people would troll about it.
You know...this would put an end to high speed pursuits
i wonder if they consider it riskier than the strips of little hollow tubes that puncture and slowly deflate your tires.
without your electrical system and your engine spinning down you could lose power steering, power brakes, your lights would go out (at night at high speed most probably), various automatic transmission problems, etc.
i guess its still safer than the PIT maneuver.
you're an idiot. the point is that the whole article is a troll, much like most other articles on slashdot. oh but wait, you're a troll too.
i was kinda late to the final fantasy scene so my first was FF7. i admit, i fell in love with tifa.
in FF8 of course i fell in love with rinoa and in the end FMVs my eyes were tearing up. okay fine i was bawling. hearing "eyes on me" still makes me wistful.
i guess it kinda helped in the immersion that i named those characters after a girl i had a crush on and i was depressed and with OCD at the time (possibly more common to computer geeks and gamers than the general population), but yeah it was pretty immersive.
if youre into audio you also know he's a troll because nobody buys $1000 cables for bose speakers.
how can one murder something that's not been born yet?
i had this discussion with some coworkers. we came to the consensus that it makes sense within the current laws because the pregnant wife was in the third trimester.
i was thinking the same thing. so many of the "news for nerds" articles and their replies are really out there. if youve been to any pro sports event you should have seen one of these.
its like the article about the car that was hacked up to get a better quarter mile time. the article and its comments were like "case modding for cars!", apparently nobody knew that cars were getting "modded" waaaaay before frickin' computer cases?
too much and the large bubbles that form on the channel walls effectively create a steam void that has a much higher specific heat then the fluid used for cooling... basically it is acting as an insulator preventing heat transfer into the fluid in the channel... a very bad thing [tm].
this is also the same effect that is a good thing when doing various tricks (walking across hot coals with damp feet, dunking your wet hand into molten lead, etc.).
hahahahahahaha
youre almost as funny as baghdad bob himself
The goal should not be to "free" Iraq, if anything the goal should be to "free" Iraq with certain other premises: few to no civilian casualties, low to no damage to civilian infrastructure, effective ways to bring in humanitary aid, a smooth transition to a just post-war system.
yep. in progress.
Also, the United States have bought what you call the most dominant military force at a time when a dominant military force has lost many of its uses: you can't (and don't need to) conquer the world with it, and you can't even defend American citizens with it - an army is no use against domestic terrorism.
how about making the world a safer, better place (exactly what its being used for now)?
a completely dominant military force does everything better than a weaker military force:
- wins wars faster
- takes less casualties
- causes less civilian casualties
- inflicts less enemy casualties since they surrender faster
it would be irresponsible for a country to have the most successful social and economic system in the history of the world and NOT buy the greatest military in the history of the world too.
90 lbs of thrust can lift a 90 lb soldier.
The more the U.S. kills people around the world the more enemies it makes. It needs to kill those new enemies. Better make better guns so you can kill more of those enemies...creating more enemies.
wrong. what creates enemies are oppressive regimes that promote hate for everything american. you may have forgotten that way more japanese and germans were killed in WWII than in any other conflict the US has been in. not surprisingly, there arent any japanese and german anti-american terrorist groups.
why? because the US and allies went in and replaced the regimes.
why is this chilling at all? US domination? so what? im all for it and im totally behind wolfowitz and pre-emption, its the strategically correct thing to do to preserve our way of life. the world would be one big USA and thats way better than what it is now.
Unless Microsoft doesn't get its act together (they were pretty late with 32-bit 386 support, IIRC)...
this isn't specific to this post, but for some reason there seems to be a common agreement around here that microsoft doesnt have a 64-bit OS out yet. actually they've shipped 64-bit support for years, back in the Alpha days and in windows 2000 and XP (they also have a guide here).
for developer support, you can't miss it in MSDN or all the WIN64 #defines in the header files: everything is extended for 64-bit (GetWindowLongPtr for example).
you're obviously not familiar with just how many guns there are out there, or how you will never remove the old guns from the hands of law-abiding gun owners, or how guns will always be produced somewhere without this "feature".
If ALL guns in the (near) future, have some of these technologies, the world would be a much safer place.
that doesnt make any sense, because a) it wont happen and b) the world wouldnt be safer.
wtf? the parent made sense to me.
Red LED display of number of rounds left. (Preferably facing the user when held, so no-one else can see it).
that'd be a detriment to sighting at night. all you want are your nightsights to glow a little.
FYI XP and above (and probably win2k SPs) disable all network shares if your admin password is blank.
Even in Seattle you have to lie about working for Microsoft... I have lost TWO girls at parties because they asked me where I worked, and I said MS.
sounds like something that would only happen in seattle. plus they sound like bitches anyway.
it's talking about how the gravity wells of planets make for low-energy paths from place to place, like how we choose to launch a mars probe when earth and mars are at certain positions relative to each other, maybe using the moon along the way. a well-known concept but the article has lots of flashy language.
Actually I think the reason XP takes up so much ram is because it is loading up a ton of USELESS DLL's and COM objects into ram so that IE will load faster and Word XYZ will open immediately, .NET Framework, VB Framework and the list goes on.
this is incorrect. many applications are simply written poorly; messenger loads faster than icq and media player loads faster than realplayer because icq and realplayer haven't done the work to make load time fast. by delay-loading DLLs you can speed up application load time immensely but many products don't do this.
there is no link between the operating system and word; if word loads too quickly it's because WORD has pre-loaded its modules via its little quicklaunch area it used to have, which it put into the startup folder. any application can make use of these tricks; although of course pre-loading the system like this is counterproductive in terms of using the system for other applications.
as always, please read the article and associated literature to get a background of the problems that this is intended to solve and how this architecture handles the complexities involved. your questions will be answered.
To remake the heavy lift Saturn rockets or reconstruct the Apollo heat sheilds, we would have to redo everything from scratch.
that doesnt make any sense. i went to the kennedy space center and they have a saturn V just sitting there.
in fact, who cares? if we were to remake ENIAC right now it'd probably cost millions and require infrastructure to make vacuum tubes that we might not have nowadays, but nobody would say we can't match the feats of ENIAC, or that we're behind where we were in the 40s.
if we really had a reason to go to the moon (and hence a budget to do so), then we'd go. to say otherwise is ridiculous, "Now we don't have a clue as to how to get back." give me a break.
the cars have to be practically the same shape, whether a Chevy, Ford, Pontiac, or Dodge
is there a set of rules or conventions or sponsorships that conspire against import cars? im surprised there arent any japanese or german models out there. just curious.