That's true. But it doesn't always work _for Average Joe needs_, which I admit I didn't make clear. I don't need the command line to _tweak_ it: the "Network Settings" applet can't set the gateway, which is a pretty common setting.
It's true that it usually works (which was your point), but things do break, even for Average Joe users' needs (which was my point). Anyway, I'm nitpicking already:)
Which was exactly my point. You claimed (well, implied) that in Ubuntu you don't need to touch the command line. I need to, even if I don't want to, because the menus (i.e., the graphical set-up tools) don't work correctly. It's anecdotal, true. But it does happen.
There some programming lanugages (Ada, SPARK and Eiffel spring to my mind) which have the verification build in (to some degree). Just in case you wonder how that works here my favorite Ada example:
type Day_Of_Month is range 1.. 31;
Neither Java nor C# allow that kind of controll over integer types. Mind you there is A# (Ada for CLI).
Well, they don't quite allow this control on integer types. But you don't need to use integer types, you can use an enum in Java (with methods for operations), and I _think_ C# allows you to redefine operators to make a type that works just like the integers in your example.
But there's another issue that's bothering me: range 1.. 31 is not a valid type for the day of the month, because half of the months don't have 31 days. So you actually need a full Date class that can figure out how many days each month has. (Which is hard; you have leap years, and exceptions to that, and for very long time periods (thousands or millions of years) the formulas is hard to get right. If you want a Time class that follows leap seconds and stuff, you're fracked...)
Nope, it couldn't. The voltage difference between the legs doesn't matter much, because the resistance of the wire if _much_ lower than the resistance of the bird. In other words, the wire short-circuits the bird, so it won't get practically any current through.
I use Ubuntu. For some reason I can't set the gateway through the menus (nothing happens when I do). I have to manually change the routing table each time I change networks. (Which is twice daily. I have scripts to do it, but anyway, I did have to poke on the command line to write them.)
Exactly. If after growing trees and removing them the nutrients were restored, than after growing trees and not removing them (as in a natural forest) there would be an "overflow" (sorry, not my first language) of nutrients. Thus, it follows that each iteration decreases by a certain amount the amount of nutrients.
Only a couple or so batteries exploded, out of a very large number, the effect is very far on the tail of the Gauss curve. If Apple sold many fewer batteries, it is plausible that it was much harder to detect it in their case.
(If there are two or three failures in, say, 50000 (random big number) of Dells, it's likely to never happen in, say 10000 Apples.)
Of course, it's likely that there are warning signs before actually exploding. And IANABatteryExpert, so I don't really know how hard it is to detect this, and Apple might actually have acted badly in this case. I'm just saying that having a much lower absolute failure rate (even if it's because of the overall numbers) is a plausible justification for slower reaction.
Food and water security are perhaps the only two issues that every human on the global universally agrees on. Let's face it, government is too big. Food and water regulation should be handled on the local level. The FDA is just one of those massive government programs from the old era.
This is stupid. You found the only two issues on that every human will agree on, which is the only kind of issue that can be easily regulated at the global level, and you propose regulating it separately in each and every jurisdiction.
I guess this means that governments should only regulate things no-one agrees on. Like what to read, what music to listen to, what religion (if any) to follow, and ultimately what to think, right?
Ideally, I'd like a world where we all ate fruits and other products where no life was harmed - eating an apple without killing the tree, harvesting products without harming the plants.
Just for the sake of completeness, you understand, I'd like to know: how about harvesting products without harming animals or humans? Milk? Human black pudding? Placenta paté? Bukake fans will surely provide some other interesting dish ideas...
As far as I know, the rational reason (pleonastic, I know, but the word reason is often abused) for being vegan (or vegetarian, I forget which is what) is not hurting living beings, as I'm quite sure our genetic heritage makes a balanced omnivore diet preferable. Any comments?
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By the time that list will be super-massive, you'll probably have a 100MB firefox installation. I don't think that'll be the case, ever.
Anyways, if you want your to install software from anywhere without any safety precautions, try IE.
The guy didn't say that all baptists are religious fanatics voting for Bush. That's ridiculous.
He merely said 90% of them are. That's probably at most an exageration.:-/
Well, doing SFX, GFX, XFX or whatever does not mean everyone will do movies. It might mean, for example, playing Doom9 deathmatch, while the computer records your face in real-time and uses every facial expression, lip-movement, etc., to alter your avatar's face, recording your voice and playing it as if spoken by the avatar - that is, retaining intonation, or emotion if necessary, and changing voice, accent, and maybe even language, all irecognisable and perfect. (This could get especially interesting if your avatar is not human.)
Darl McBride has got to be the most flamboyant retarded CEO ever. I don't mean that funny-ha-ha either. He really is very deluded.
Actually, I'm under the impression he's not. As far as I can tell, [conspiracy on]they're (by they I mean SCO's owners) making as much noise as possible to distract everyone, while trying to sell everything they own related to SCO, while it still has some value. As far as I can tell from what I read since the story began, SCO has pretty much nothing to make money form anymore, and they try to capitalize on any conection they have with Linux. They're gonna throw as much distorted lawspeach at everyone until they're gone start loosing trials, and then they're probably simply disappear (probably SCO's holdings will be bought by someone). In the meantime, it's major stock-holders will have sold everything.[conspiracy off]
Does anyone know how much gravity the Earth exerts at 100 miles versus sea level? 30%?
The Earth's radius is around 6500 km, IIRC, that's around 4000 miles I guess. Since a=omega^2 * R (centrifugal force), and g=k*m*M/R^2 (gravity).... I'm too laze, you do it. Anyways, I don't expect the gravity at 100 miles be less than.9 g. The difference in gravity on the equator versus at the pole less than 2%, IIRC, and the difference in radius on the poles/equator is about 25 km (16 miles).
Sure, that's normal. You wouldn't use a military strength laser on the climber. However, the adaptive optics that can be used to focus the laser on a 1 m square area, 100000km away can probably be easily used - if so designed - to focus on a 1 milimeter sqare area, less than 100 km away. And there is no reason they can't make a laser capable of much higher power output than necessary for climbing. Also, I'd expect them to have a few backup laser systems around.
Anyways, this is structure rather easier to protect against attacks from within the atmosphere: it's very isolated, so:
You can very strictly control the traffic on a 100 km radius around it, since trafic is usually inexistant there.
You can have a few batteries of SAMs around, maybe even a few fighter jets, since reaction time is much higher than in a populated area: Anything that's 500 km from the cable is almost certainly there because of the cable, since there's nothing else around.
If you already built the cable, it is almost cheap to launch a swarm of sattelites to monitor anything larger than a bird, above and below water, even in space, on a very large area around it. Mirror dishes on low orbit could be relatively easily used redirect laser beams from the ground to whatever aproaches from space. Launching things to space with the elevator will probably be so cheap, you could send zillions of protection systems in space to protect it, and anyone without one will be very disadvantaged trying to attack it.
Anyway, I'm not trying to say that it will be invulnerable, but it will be very hard to hit, harder than pretty much anything else on Earth.
The really is no excuse to use a language like Java or C# to do your checking when you can do it yourself. Except of course, laziness >:P
There really is no excuse to use a language like C or C++ to do your programs when you can do it yourself. Using assembler, or a hex-editor. Or flip-switches. I love flip-switches. Except of course, if you're lazy.
"There are starving children that need food, and we're spending how much on a frickin' elevator to space?!?!"
You're already spending ten times as much on the shuttles, and those things are orders of magnitude less useful than a space elevator.
"With that much money, we could buy 10 aircraft carriers!".
Well, actually I think there are quite enough aircraft carriers on Earth. Anyways, a space elevator's military potential is orders of magnitude greater than an aircraft carrier, especially if the lasers used for climbing can be used to defend it - that shouldn't be too difficult.
[...] a "space elevator" is going to sound like [...] a fairly frivolous-sounding projet, and not as inspiring as rockets. Okay, so it'll make space exploration cheaper - what benefits does it have for ordinary people?
OK, so it's a thousand times more efficient than a rocket, big deal! Look hot PRETTY and INSPIRING the rockets are!!!! Come on, it's going to be infinitely more inspiring after it sends it's first thousand people in space, or when any highschool can send science projects in space, or launch sattelites - this thing should make Iridium-like systems a hundred times cheaper than today. Oh, and "ordinary people" will be able to actually use it. Personally. What benefits does NASA have for _you_, right now?
And as for how great a target it is: it is ribbon around a meter wide, 100000km long. But, the atmosphere - the part accesible by plane, I mean - less than 30km. So it's area is 300000 square meters, much lower than any building's. If terrorists can hit it - what with all the security around it, big giant lasers that can hit a 1m square dish on the climber 100000 _km_ in space - they can hit anything, anywhere, and the elevator is the least of your problems. And anyway, breaking it inside the atmosphere (actually, anywhere lower than geostationary orbit) will sent most of it in space, not on earth. And the piece below geostationary orbit, if it fell, will create less debris than an exploding shuttle. It's less than a milimeter thick, for God's sake.
"There are starving children that need food, and we're spending how much on a frickin' elevator to space?!?!"
You're already spending ten times as much on the shuttles, and those things are orders of magnitude less useful than a space elevator.
"With that much money, we could buy 10 aircraft carriers!".
Well, actually I think there are quite enough aircraft carriers on Earth. Anyways, a space elevator's military potential is orders of magnitude greater than an aircraft carrier, especially if the lasers used for climbing can be used to defend it - that shouldn't be too difficult.
[...] a "space elevator" is going to sound like [...] a fairly frivolous-sounding projet, and not as inspiring as rockets. Okay, so it'll make space exploration cheaper - what benefits does it have for ordinary people?
OK, so it's a thousand times more efficient than a rocket, big deal! Look hot PRETTY and INSPIRING the rockets are!!!! Come on, it's going to be infinitely more inspiring after it sends it's first thousand people in space, or when any highschool can send science projects in space, or launch sattelites - this thing should make Iridium-like systems a hundred times cheaper than today. Oh, and "ordinary people" will be able to actually use it. Personally. What benefits does NASA have for _you_, right now?
And as for how great a target it is: it is ribbon around a meter wide, 100000km long. But, the atmosphere - the part accesible by plane, I mean - less than 30km. So it's area is 300000 square meters, much lower than any building's. If terrorists can hit it - what with all the security around it, big giant lasers that can hit a 1m square dish on the climber 100000 _km_ in space - they can hit anything, anywhere, and the elevator is the least of your problems. And anyway, breaking it inside the atmosphere (actually, anywhere lower than geostationary orbit) will sent most of it in space, not on earth. And the piece below geostationary orbit, if it fell, will create less debris than an exploding shuttle. It's less than a mm thick, for God's sake.
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That's true. But it doesn't always work _for Average Joe needs_, which I admit I didn't make clear. I don't need the command line to _tweak_ it: the "Network Settings" applet can't set the gateway, which is a pretty common setting. It's true that it usually works (which was your point), but things do break, even for Average Joe users' needs (which was my point). Anyway, I'm nitpicking already :)
Which was exactly my point. You claimed (well, implied) that in Ubuntu you don't need to touch the command line. I need to, even if I don't want to, because the menus (i.e., the graphical set-up tools) don't work correctly. It's anecdotal, true. But it does happen.
Nope, it couldn't. The voltage difference between the legs doesn't matter much, because the resistance of the wire if _much_ lower than the resistance of the bird. In other words, the wire short-circuits the bird, so it won't get practically any current through.
I use Ubuntu. For some reason I can't set the gateway through the menus (nothing happens when I do). I have to manually change the routing table each time I change networks. (Which is twice daily. I have scripts to do it, but anyway, I did have to poke on the command line to write them.)
No, they use Yahoo!
um... how old are you?
Exactly. If after growing trees and removing them the nutrients were restored, than after growing trees and not removing them (as in a natural forest) there would be an "overflow" (sorry, not my first language) of nutrients. Thus, it follows that each iteration decreases by a certain amount the amount of nutrients.
Only a couple or so batteries exploded, out of a very large number, the effect is very far on the tail of the Gauss curve. If Apple sold many fewer batteries, it is plausible that it was much harder to detect it in their case. (If there are two or three failures in, say, 50000 (random big number) of Dells, it's likely to never happen in, say 10000 Apples.) Of course, it's likely that there are warning signs before actually exploding. And IANABatteryExpert, so I don't really know how hard it is to detect this, and Apple might actually have acted badly in this case. I'm just saying that having a much lower absolute failure rate (even if it's because of the overall numbers) is a plausible justification for slower reaction.
Their batteries exploded a bit more often, though...
Sure it did. Look how hard gmail sucks.
Or they could simply reverse the polarity for a while.
Just for the sake of completeness, you understand, I'd like to know: how about harvesting products without harming animals or humans? Milk? Human black pudding? Placenta paté? Bukake fans will surely provide some other interesting dish ideas...
As far as I know, the rational reason (pleonastic, I know, but the word reason is often abused) for being vegan (or vegetarian, I forget which is what) is not hurting living beings, as I'm quite sure our genetic heritage makes a balanced omnivore diet preferable. Any comments?
By the time that list will be super-massive, you'll probably have a 100MB firefox installation. I don't think that'll be the case, ever. Anyways, if you want your to install software from anywhere without any safety precautions, try IE.
I've also spent weeks trying to do administrative tasks and damage control on Windows that were trivially unnecessary in Linux.
The guy didn't say that all baptists are religious fanatics voting for Bush. That's ridiculous. He merely said 90% of them are. That's probably at most an exageration. :-/
Well, doing SFX, GFX, XFX or whatever does not mean everyone will do movies. It might mean, for example, playing Doom9 deathmatch, while the computer records your face in real-time and uses every facial expression, lip-movement, etc., to alter your avatar's face, recording your voice and playing it as if spoken by the avatar - that is, retaining intonation, or emotion if necessary, and changing voice, accent, and maybe even language, all irecognisable and perfect. (This could get especially interesting if your avatar is not human.)
You can very strictly control the traffic on a 100 km radius around it, since trafic is usually inexistant there.
You can have a few batteries of SAMs around, maybe even a few fighter jets, since reaction time is much higher than in a populated area: Anything that's 500 km from the cable is almost certainly there because of the cable, since there's nothing else around.
If you already built the cable, it is almost cheap to launch a swarm of sattelites to monitor anything larger than a bird, above and below water, even in space, on a very large area around it. Mirror dishes on low orbit could be relatively easily used redirect laser beams from the ground to whatever aproaches from space. Launching things to space with the elevator will probably be so cheap, you could send zillions of protection systems in space to protect it, and anyone without one will be very disadvantaged trying to attack it.
Anyway, I'm not trying to say that it will be invulnerable, but it will be very hard to hit, harder than pretty much anything else on Earth.