No that I think is probably the wrong meaning of attitude. The definition you gave is a aerospace term. If you cannot control your attitude by the definition you give, it means that you are drifting around in space.
Attitude, in the aeronautical sense of the word, means the angle the vehicle is pointing wrt horizon (usually). So a lack of attitude control means that the aircraft is travelling like a roller coaster. I would think this is the intended meaning of the word, even though this was a spacecraft rather than an aircraft.
For someone to sue them in US too
Finally SCO has sold one of their licenses to a commercial Linux user. Here is the press release
The buyer is Everyones servers, a web hoster. I wonder why This guy is doing this?
Well , this is not a one off. They have seperate chess matches for women though women do participate (and win) is general open to all matches. There are even "Women Grand Masters" , why they just dont just use Grand-mistress is a mystery though.
Its probably like having amateur and pro events. If there are a lesser number of women participating, probably makes sense to let them win some matches and encourage them to play more, maybe? Or maybe just targeted advertising?
Re:Opportunity costs too high
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What the original poster said is partially correct. To dig a hole the easiest way is to get Mars gravity to do it for you. But you don't need to lug a 500lb mass from earth for that. What you probably need is a half pound missile and a robot which can attach it to a small meteorite you find in general space. Then use the small missile to move it into an impact path with mars (and aim it) and you should be clear. Moving a 500 lb mass in space should cost almost no energy at all. On the other hand digging a hole in the mud probably is very energy intensive (they use solar panels so irrelevant) and requires a robot capable of digging. I think the missile would be simpler.
But then the point is that when the probe left earth we probably dint know if we needed to dig or crawl or whatever. In this case a general pusrpose robot is better
The last 2 page trick is not necessarily catering to the people who have short attention span. It is the "formula" for a thriller - Keep the reader guessing and finish it all off in a sudden burst of information.
An example would be the "Focaults Pendulum" by Umberto Eco, similar topic to Davinci Code, involves Templars and stuff. The first few chapters are full of (obscure ?) Medieval history references and trivia (which are funnily enough explained much later in the book).So you need a high attention span or a good memory to know what is going on. Anyway the story does not hinge around most of these facts and suddenly ends in around a page or two in the end. Liked this book much more than DaVinci Code.
If you like dell diagnostics, then you should probably buy PCdoctor. Atleast some of the diagnostics in the earlier versions of Dell servers were sublicensed from PCdoctor. Just go into the installation folder and liik at the DLL names, or read a config file.
Atha sabdaanusaasanam.
which interprets and translates (by me):
atha sabda anu-sa-asanam
here-topic (is) sound detail-layout
I am not sure if you got that right... Asanam= Ass (also sit down etc.) . Also anu = near, companion etc.
So from the way you split the words up, I think it will be translated as "So is the sound from the Ass" or non-poetically- "Thus is the way of speaking from the Ass"
Now if it meant Atha Sabda Anusaasanam - It would probably mean "Thus is the teaching of sound" (Anusaasanam -Instruction)
Stupid Sanskrit- Way too complicated to be a living language, It better stayed dead (or Zombie as it is now).
Funniest thing is, German is almost like that. You can telescope 10-20 words into one and probably write a full paragraph in one word. Not to mention "the she carrot was by the male bee eaten" problem.
From the interview, Micheal dell speaking about windows ME MD: I went over to a friend's house the other day. He was having problems with his computer and he asked me to look at it, and I realized he had Windows Me and it's like, oh no--that's your first problem.
Re:Why wouldn't math be known across the universe?
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The Golden Ratio
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That is only because of you think of aliens of being humanlike. Let us for some time assume that life involves reproduction, so viruses are alive. Similarly there are a few self-catalysing reactions with very simple atomes (its there in purification of some metal, though I forget which) this basically means that once you get an atom of the resultant to be formed, it will go on and cause a lot more of resultant chemical to be formed. If there is no resultant to begin with, the reactants remain as such. The behaviour of these two systems are similar, viruses are chemicals which when introduced into cells can convert all the genetic material in the cell into its replicas, which is basically self catalysis with the cell material as the reactant.
This is also similar to computer viruses, which convert some part of the infected host into its own replica. Now alredy there are all sorts of signature changing computer viruses.
Now her eis the conjencture - suppose the virus by itself is dumb, but the whole of the virus community acts real smart -ala ants ? Or is the constant modifications that viruses do (resistance to antigens, shape changing ones like AIDS etc.) indicate intelligence at all?
Now suppose there is a large community of space-chemical-clusters (viruses ) , which are reasonably intelligent. Will they be able to count?
I suppose this means that they are not going to put the x86 emulator they beought off recently onto actual silicon, maybe some issues with IBM making them?
As far as I am concerned this is good news to me, the machine is not going to be constrained by emulation etc. Maybe I can't run x86 linux on it, but maybe yellowdog will run. This also means I have a superfast machine with no HDD, no cooling requirements, no keyboard or mouse etc. and at a subsidised price. Perfect component for setting up a cluster I suppose ? Just put the bootimage on Flashmemory and you are ready to go. (Unless they DRM it to hell, ofcourse)
Actually the first half of the post is moer insightful than funny. These things are not going to have a HDD, but they will have 3 processors a lot of RAM and a small flash storage. And they surely are going to sell it below the cost since its supposed to be a gaming console. This is the perfect tool to make a cluster out of!! Cheap, very fast and you can put the bootimage/code on the flash memory. Im sure all the guys running Linux on the current Xboxes will be buying truckloads of these and putting MacOS on it (or linux, since IBM runs linux on PPC anyway) and making clusters out of these
Though MS being what it is they will probably stop their resellers from shipping bulk orders
Not just that. Gold also "wets" solder better , leading to better contacts. Also Gold conducts heat better than a lot of materials at high temperatures, I think, instruments in airplanes are lots of gold (unless its titanium)
Well, From your username, templar, I understand that you must be a medieval Europe fan. In which case you must have read "Name of the Rose" or something else by Umberto Eco? I have read a few of those, and so Davinci Code was very watery, like reaching for a glass of Vodka and finding its just water.
Eco does not give any historical details, does not say why something is the way it is etc. and so you need an encyclopedia nearby if you have not had european history in school. Its all very complicated and tense till the end when it almost ends in an anti-climax (a lot of fun nonetheless).DaVinci Code on the other hand was too politically correct, too easy to read. Not to mention, has many incorrect facts set in the current world. I suppose it was written for the mainstream, and I should have read this one before any of Eco's books, but still...
I did feel the movie was a letdown, but it was not that bad. You just have to have watched a lot of hong-kong movies (i did ) beginning from the "drunken master" to like it.
Everything including the introduction " XYZ cinema presentation...... Our feature presentation....Kill Bill",on a black background that too, was a spoof on the eastern movies. (Golden harvest movies usually start like that IIRC). The action scenes were typically eastern, down to one (wo)man against a hundred scene . The excess of swords bit and lack of comedy was more Jetli'ish than Jackie Chan (and their hong kong movies not the hollywood ones).
Overall I think that this was the best "eastern-style" action movie ever to come out of hollywood.No bombs, no guns, no 30-wheel trucks being chased by helicopters. But then again, its an acquired taste and quentin probably was hanging out in hongkong for too long for his own good.
I also like the chapterwise progression, very much anime like. Also the background scores were great if you can follow it
Anyway there is a second part coming up, if you watch the first half of "Pulp Fiction" it would have been plain boring. Just let him get out the second part and pray it doesnt end up like matrix.
The procurement decision relegated users to second best, said local Microsoft officials, comparing Open Office 1.1 functionality to Word 97
This is a ridiculos arguement to make. Its not as if the so called "users" come for free. The government pays them to do their job the way the government pleases to get the job done. If they want each form to be filled in triplicate, the employees better do it unless there is a cheaper way to do it. If the Software costs exceed the cost of manual labor, better put more employees and change the software.
Oh no they wont. They are planning to make it their official OS. Did you look at the mandrake logo? Its a crescent and a star. It surely has won support in the middle east (and surely in soviet russia). They even used it in their flags.
Nothing big there methinks.Their help page, which is available by clicking on the help in winamp is also not available see!
I just downloaded it before the/. effect (got the link from ars) , and it does look dfferent. Equaliser is no longer a seperate panel, it is part of the main panel (I am calling each seperate piece in winamp 2.x a panel, eg. main player, equaliser, playlist , visualistation etc.) .
The preferences menu is back to what it was in 2.x almost.The player appears bigger than 2.x or 3.x on my screen, I suppose it is designed for some huge resolution monitors.
Maybe some internal changes too, turning on equaliser to maximum somehow doesnt seem to cause the cracking sound on my speakers anymore, Im not sure but it does seem to do software amplification better.
I am still yet to find a situation where encrypted wireless signals make sense for home or even business situations.
If that is the case, then why do so many people post as ACs to slashdot? Some people sometimes dont want what they say traced back to them.
It'd be like Columbus sailing all the way to the new world and not getting off the ship...
Well Comlumbus did not get to america proper. He landed up somewhere in the west indies (certainly only satellite status).
It has to be free of any hardline advocacy since the Indian government is the main sponsor (Ministry of Information and communications from the website).The government seems to follow a policy of "best job for the tool" and are rather neutral when it comes to software.
I've been reading slashdot for a long time but have not seen the movie (I assume its lord of the rings). Thanks for explaining the movie to me:).
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IBM Puts Pressure On SCO
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The whole thing is funny. According to the article, SCO pulled up some 519 files which have around 300,000 lines of code, which might or might not contain tainted code. That is something like 1 percent of Linux kernel code. Rewriting the whole thing might take a month or two at the maximum, assuming cleanroom specs can be developed out of it.
If that is worth a billion, then is Linux worth 100 billions? Linus is then richer than Bill.
Well, the story does say that PSP is not a single device but a family of many. Also with the coin size disk which they are introducing and which can store 1.8 GB, it can take on the existing MP3 players.And Sony owns Sony (music) so getting songs released in the new format should be trivial.That would certainly be a good thing, the sony records guys have been holding back the real Sony for a looong time, long enough for Apple to be the new age Sony with their iPod.
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No that I think is probably the wrong meaning of attitude. The definition you gave is a aerospace term. If you cannot control your attitude by the definition you give, it means that you are drifting around in space.
Attitude, in the aeronautical sense of the word, means the angle the vehicle is pointing wrt horizon (usually). So a lack of attitude control means that the aircraft is travelling like a roller coaster. I would think this is the intended meaning of the word, even though this was a spacecraft rather than an aircraft.
Here's a picture of a watch phone being sold in India, Ugly if you ask me
For someone to sue them in US too
Finally SCO has sold one of their licenses to a commercial Linux user. Here is the press release
The buyer is Everyones servers, a web hoster. I wonder why This guy is doing this?
Well , this is not a one off. They have seperate chess matches for women though women do participate (and win) is general open to all matches. There are even "Women Grand Masters" , why they just dont just use Grand-mistress is a mystery though.
Its probably like having amateur and pro events. If there are a lesser number of women participating, probably makes sense to let them win some matches and encourage them to play more, maybe? Or maybe just targeted advertising?
What the original poster said is partially correct. To dig a hole the easiest way is to get Mars gravity to do it for you. But you don't need to lug a 500lb mass from earth for that. What you probably need is a half pound missile and a robot which can attach it to a small meteorite you find in general space. Then use the small missile to move it into an impact path with mars (and aim it) and you should be clear. Moving a 500 lb mass in space should cost almost no energy at all. On the other hand digging a hole in the mud probably is very energy intensive (they use solar panels so irrelevant) and requires a robot capable of digging. I think the missile would be simpler.
But then the point is that when the probe left earth we probably dint know if we needed to dig or crawl or whatever. In this case a general pusrpose robot is better
The last 2 page trick is not necessarily catering to the people who have short attention span. It is the "formula" for a thriller - Keep the reader guessing and finish it all off in a sudden burst of information.
An example would be the "Focaults Pendulum" by Umberto Eco, similar topic to Davinci Code, involves Templars and stuff. The first few chapters are full of (obscure ?) Medieval history references and trivia (which are funnily enough explained much later in the book).So you need a high attention span or a good memory to know what is going on. Anyway the story does not hinge around most of these facts and suddenly ends in around a page or two in the end. Liked this book much more than DaVinci Code.
If you like dell diagnostics, then you should probably buy PCdoctor. Atleast some of the diagnostics in the earlier versions of Dell servers were sublicensed from PCdoctor. Just go into the installation folder and liik at the DLL names, or read a config file.
Atha sabdaanusaasanam.
which interprets and translates (by me):
atha sabda anu-sa-asanam
here-topic (is) sound detail-layout
I am not sure if you got that right... Asanam= Ass (also sit down etc.) . Also anu = near, companion etc.
So from the way you split the words up, I think it will be translated as "So is the sound from the Ass" or non-poetically- "Thus is the way of speaking from the Ass"
Now if it meant Atha Sabda Anusaasanam - It would probably mean "Thus is the teaching of sound" (Anusaasanam -Instruction)
Stupid Sanskrit- Way too complicated to be a living language, It better stayed dead (or Zombie as it is now).
Funniest thing is, German is almost like that. You can telescope 10-20 words into one and probably write a full paragraph in one word. Not to mention "the she carrot was by the male bee eaten" problem.
From the interview, Micheal dell speaking about windows ME
MD: I went over to a friend's house the other day. He was having problems with his computer and he asked me to look at it, and I realized he had Windows Me and it's like, oh no--that's your first problem.
That is only because of you think of aliens of being humanlike. Let us for some time assume that life involves reproduction, so viruses are alive. Similarly there are a few self-catalysing reactions with very simple atomes (its there in purification of some metal, though I forget which) this basically means that once you get an atom of the resultant to be formed, it will go on and cause a lot more of resultant chemical to be formed. If there is no resultant to begin with, the reactants remain as such. The behaviour of these two systems are similar, viruses are chemicals which when introduced into cells can convert all the genetic material in the cell into its replicas, which is basically self catalysis with the cell material as the reactant.
This is also similar to computer viruses, which convert some part of the infected host into its own replica. Now alredy there are all sorts of signature changing computer viruses.
Now her eis the conjencture - suppose the virus by itself is dumb, but the whole of the virus community acts real smart -ala ants ? Or is the constant modifications that viruses do (resistance to antigens, shape changing ones like AIDS etc.) indicate intelligence at all?
Now suppose there is a large community of space-chemical-clusters (viruses ) , which are reasonably intelligent. Will they be able to count?
I suppose this means that they are not going to put the x86 emulator they beought off recently onto actual silicon, maybe some issues with IBM making them?
As far as I am concerned this is good news to me, the machine is not going to be constrained by emulation etc. Maybe I can't run x86 linux on it, but maybe yellowdog will run. This also means I have a superfast machine with no HDD, no cooling requirements, no keyboard or mouse etc. and at a subsidised price. Perfect component for setting up a cluster I suppose ? Just put the bootimage on Flashmemory and you are ready to go. (Unless they DRM it to hell, ofcourse)
Actually the first half of the post is moer insightful than funny. These things are not going to have a HDD, but they will have 3 processors a lot of RAM and a small flash storage. And they surely are going to sell it below the cost since its supposed to be a gaming console.
This is the perfect tool to make a cluster out of!! Cheap, very fast and you can put the bootimage/code on the flash memory. Im sure all the guys running Linux on the current Xboxes will be buying truckloads of these and putting MacOS on it (or linux, since IBM runs linux on PPC anyway) and making clusters out of these
Though MS being what it is they will probably stop their resellers from shipping bulk orders
Not just that. Gold also "wets" solder better , leading to better contacts. Also Gold conducts heat better than a lot of materials at high temperatures, I think, instruments in airplanes are lots of gold (unless its titanium)
Well, From your username, templar, I understand that you must be a medieval Europe fan. In which case you must have read "Name of the Rose" or something else by Umberto Eco? I have read a few of those, and so Davinci Code was very watery, like reaching for a glass of Vodka and finding its just water.
Eco does not give any historical details, does not say why something is the way it is etc. and so you need an encyclopedia nearby if you have not had european history in school. Its all very complicated and tense till the end when it almost ends in an anti-climax (a lot of fun nonetheless).DaVinci Code on the other hand was too politically correct, too easy to read. Not to mention, has many incorrect facts set in the current world. I suppose it was written for the mainstream, and I should have read this one before any of Eco's books, but still...
I did feel the movie was a letdown, but it was not that bad. You just have to have watched a lot of hong-kong movies (i did ) beginning from the "drunken master" to like it. ....Kill Bill" ,on a black background that too, was a spoof on the eastern movies. (Golden harvest movies usually start like that IIRC).
Everything including the introduction " XYZ cinema presentation...... Our feature presentation
The action scenes were typically eastern, down to one (wo)man against a hundred scene . The excess of swords bit and lack of comedy was more Jetli'ish than Jackie Chan (and their hong kong movies not the hollywood ones).
Overall I think that this was the best "eastern-style" action movie ever to come out of hollywood.No bombs, no guns, no 30-wheel trucks being chased by helicopters. But then again, its an acquired taste and quentin probably was hanging out in hongkong for too long for his own good.
I also like the chapterwise progression, very much anime like. Also the background scores were great if you can follow it
Anyway there is a second part coming up, if you watch the first half of "Pulp Fiction" it would have been plain boring. Just let him get out the second part and pray it doesnt end up like matrix.
No he is already in the club for the check he got from Knuth.All two dollars and 56 cents
The procurement decision relegated users to second best, said local Microsoft officials, comparing Open Office 1.1 functionality to Word 97
This is a ridiculos arguement to make. Its not as if the so called "users" come for free. The government pays them to do their job the way the government pleases to get the job done. If they want each form to be filled in triplicate, the employees better do it unless there is a cheaper way to do it. If the Software costs exceed the cost of manual labor, better put more employees and change the software.
Oh no they wont. They are planning to make it their official OS. Did you look at the mandrake logo? Its a crescent and a star. It surely has won support in the middle east (and surely in soviet russia). They even used it in their flags.
Nothing big there methinks.Their help page, which is available by clicking on the help in winamp is also not available see! /. effect (got the link from ars) , and it does look dfferent. Equaliser is no longer a seperate panel, it is part of the main panel (I am calling each seperate piece in winamp 2.x a panel, eg. main player, equaliser, playlist , visualistation etc.) .
I just downloaded it before the
The preferences menu is back to what it was in 2.x almost.The player appears bigger than 2.x or 3.x on my screen, I suppose it is designed for some huge resolution monitors.
Maybe some internal changes too, turning on equaliser to maximum somehow doesnt seem to cause the cracking sound on my speakers anymore, Im not sure but it does seem to do software amplification better.
I am still yet to find a situation where encrypted wireless signals make sense for home or even business situations.
If that is the case, then why do so many people post as ACs to slashdot? Some people sometimes dont want what they say traced back to them.
It'd be like Columbus sailing all the way to the new world and not getting off the ship...
Well Comlumbus did not get to america proper. He landed up somewhere in the west indies (certainly only satellite status).
It has to be free of any hardline advocacy since the Indian government is the main sponsor (Ministry of Information and communications from the website).The government seems to follow a policy of "best job for the tool" and are rather neutral when it comes to software.
I've been reading slashdot for a long time but have not seen the movie (I assume its lord of the rings). Thanks for explaining the movie to me :).
The whole thing is funny. According to the article, SCO pulled up some 519 files which have around 300,000 lines of code, which might or might not contain tainted code. That is something like 1 percent of Linux kernel code. Rewriting the whole thing might take a month or two at the maximum, assuming cleanroom specs can be developed out of it.
If that is worth a billion, then is Linux worth 100 billions? Linus is then richer than Bill.
Well, the story does say that PSP is not a single device but a family of many. Also with the coin size disk which they are introducing and which can store 1.8 GB, it can take on the existing MP3 players.And Sony owns Sony (music) so getting songs released in the new format should be trivial.That would certainly be a good thing, the sony records guys have been holding back the real Sony for a looong time, long enough for Apple to be the new age Sony with their iPod.