Remember this study's been going 4 years, I assume (no I haven't RdTFA, but it's hardly difficult to guess) they were analysing a version of linux from four years ago, and similarly a version of windows from four years ago (circa 2000) which would be XP or w2k.
I wonder why Boeing didn't consider trying to fly around the world non-stop on a 747SP back in the early 1980's? A 747SP fully fuelled up and also loaded with the equivalent of a full passenger/cargo load in fuel probably could have come close if they used pre-cooled JP4 fuel.
From almost TFA:
GlobalFlyer is an airplane with world-class aerodynamic efficiency that will be 82-percent fuel by weight when it takes off. Responding to a reporter's question, Rutan said that a Boeing 747 with 82-percent of its weight in fuel "would not get off the ground," and that, lacking an engine that was twice as efficient as current engines, the jumbo jet could not fly around the world without refueling.
(Follow the "story" link in the posting)
HTH
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Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny/p
For instance, PERL as it is doesn't have named function parameters, each function is just passed an array of parameters (unlike in pretty much every other language I know--C, LISP, Java, etc)).
Then send a hash into the array (apologies, I've not done any Perl recently so this is likely to be wrong in details, but the essense is correct):
sub blah(@) {
print $_{"parameter1"}
print $_{"parameter2"}
}
For instance, PERL as it is doesn't have named function parameters, each function is just passed an array of parameters (unlike in pretty much every other language I know--C, LISP, Java, etc)).
Then send a hash into the array (apologies, I've not done any Perl recently so this is likely to be wrong in details, but the essense is correct):
sub blah(@) {
print $_{"parameter1"}
}
Oh No! My browser isn't standards compliant because it doesn't implement all the standard security holes and bugs!!!
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSarky" Penny
Just for the sake of completeness, I looked up what it is in greek (the language Paul wrote - or more correctly dictated- it in) and the answer is:
Unfortunately, my greek isn't fantastic so I did some more poking around, and AFAICS the magic word is or "philarguria" which I can only find translated as "love of money".
Indeed, "phil" means "love of" (philosophy, love of thinking; philanthropy, love of mankind; philophax, made up word) "arguria" means "silver" (the chemical symbol of silver is "Ag")
I've completely forgotten what my point was, if I ever had one, but I had so much fun rooting this out, I don't honestly care!:)
Incidentally, here in the UK, we mostly use lb still in daily life, even though "officially" we're supposed to use metric measures.
To make it even more confusing, we use miles exclusively (except in scientific areas, but even NASA use Km...)
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
Not in my experience, I've always found switching between windows and linux frustrating because Administrator *doesn't* have 100% access to everything. Have you never clicked "End Process" in task manager and had it tell you you don't have permission even when you're logged in as Administrator? Also, try changing the security settings of a file so that only one specific user has permission to do anything to it and then try bypassing those permissions as Administrator.
As it happens, there are ways around all this (you can use kill.exe for the first and change the permissions for the second) but if Administrator actually were a direct equivalent to root, you could just do rm -rf / and kill the lot. You could cat/dev/zero >/proc/kmem and totally b0rk your entire system. Not that you'd want to, but at least if you *do* want to, you *can*.
At the end of the day, Administrator is dangerous enough that you *really* don't want to run random stuff as Administrator, but not powerful enough to do all the stuff I want to do without having to battle through another half-dozen bloody stupid click-click-click interfaces. Gimme root and properly administrated normal users with a workable CLI any day!
Nothing to do......except find a *different* reason you weren't fit to fly. I've heard of at least one person faking a squint to get off martial duty, an excuse which would probably work quite well for a pilot.
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny PS I have naff eyesight anyway, so I'd be fine;)
There's an article on the BBC news website about dyslexia making comparisons between english and chinese (among other things) New Theory on Cause of Dyslexia
On the other hand, isn't spanish the language spoken by more people than any other? Certainly Spanish and English between them cover a lot of people, let alone all the other European languages...
I once saw a little article in a free-on-the-train paper demonstrating that we mostly read the top half of a line of text. Try it some time, cover up the bottom half of a line of text and read it, then cover up the top half of the next line of text and read that. Which is easier?
And let us not forget the Cheshire Moon. This name refers to a new or crescent moon where the line of the crescent looks like a smile or bowl instead of the typical "C" shape.
My mum always told me that her mum (Who's from Lancashire, England) had always said "When the moon's on its back, it's a sure sign of snow".
Possibly there's a correlation between "cheshire moon" and the winter months...?
Hope they have lots of backup. Of course, how do you backup a system like this?
Backup isn't a concern. Think about it. The entire setup is 'beta' in that none of it has been done before (or at least on the scale they're working at) nearly everything at CERN is a one-of-a-kind prototype. As it is, they don't have the capacity to store more than a tiny fraction of their annual data output anyway, so even if the entire system got wiped, the proportion of data lost would still be relatively small. At the end of the day, if you're trying to do something that nobody else has done before, you have to consider the whole thing an experiment. One piece of beta software hardly figures in that environment...
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Remember this study's been going 4 years, I assume (no I haven't RdTFA, but it's hardly difficult to guess) they were analysing a version of linux from four years ago, and similarly a version of windows from four years ago (circa 2000) which would be XP or w2k.
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
I wonder why Boeing didn't consider trying to fly around the world non-stop on a 747SP back in the early 1980's? A 747SP fully fuelled up and also loaded with the equivalent of a full passenger/cargo load in fuel probably could have come close if they used pre-cooled JP4 fuel.
From almost TFA:
(Follow the "story" link in the posting)
HTH
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny/p
Of course... cloud cover is a problem, but there are ways around that (like those robot blimps that loiter in a given area above the clouds).
I doubt blimps *above* the clouds are going to be much good at getting signals through the clouds...
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
For instance, PERL as it is doesn't have named function parameters, each function is just passed an array of parameters (unlike in pretty much every other language I know--C, LISP, Java, etc)).
Then send a hash into the array (apologies, I've not done any Perl recently so this is likely to be wrong in details, but the essense is correct):
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
For instance, PERL as it is doesn't have named function parameters, each function is just passed an array of parameters (unlike in pretty much every other language I know--C, LISP, Java, etc)).
Then send a hash into the array (apologies, I've not done any Perl recently so this is likely to be wrong in details, but the essense is correct):
sub blah(@) { print $_{"parameter1"} }
Oh No! My browser isn't standards compliant because it doesn't implement all the standard security holes and bugs!!! Cheers & God bless Sam "SammyTheSarky" Penny
Just for the sake of completeness, I looked up what it is in greek (the language Paul wrote - or more correctly dictated- it in) and the answer is:
Unfortunately, my greek isn't fantastic so I did some more poking around, and AFAICS the magic word is or "philarguria" which I can only find translated as "love of money".Indeed, "phil" means "love of" (philosophy, love of thinking; philanthropy, love of mankind; philophax, made up word) "arguria" means "silver" (the chemical symbol of silver is "Ag")
I've completely forgotten what my point was, if I ever had one, but I had so much fun rooting this out, I don't honestly care! :)
Have a nice day, all
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
I remember seing a TV program a while back that compared the NHS (national health service in the UK) with the equivalents in US, Canada & Mexico.
UK's was the best, then mexico, then canada. The US's version was the worst of those compared...
Make of this what you will. I only wish I could find a web link to echo the information in the program...
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Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
Funny, I found it in the bible
Surely this is the mother of all geeky cooling devices?
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Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
Incidentally, here in the UK, we mostly use lb still in daily life, even though "officially" we're supposed to use metric measures. To make it even more confusing, we use miles exclusively (except in scientific areas, but even NASA use Km...) Cheers & God bless Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
On Windows, you have rw permissions on everything
Not in my experience, I've always found switching between windows and linux frustrating because Administrator *doesn't* have 100% access to everything. Have you never clicked "End Process" in task manager and had it tell you you don't have permission even when you're logged in as Administrator? Also, try changing the security settings of a file so that only one specific user has permission to do anything to it and then try bypassing those permissions as Administrator.
As it happens, there are ways around all this (you can use kill.exe for the first and change the permissions for the second) but if Administrator actually were a direct equivalent to root, you could just do rm -rf / and kill the lot. You could cat /dev/zero > /proc/kmem and totally b0rk your entire system. Not that you'd want to, but at least if you *do* want to, you *can*.
At the end of the day, Administrator is dangerous enough that you *really* don't want to run random stuff as Administrator, but not powerful enough to do all the stuff I want to do without having to battle through another half-dozen bloody stupid click-click-click interfaces. Gimme root and properly administrated normal users with a workable CLI any day!
</rant> I guess
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
Did anyone else wonder, "whatever happened to IPv5?"?
Well, this seems to be the answer...
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Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
Nothing to do... ...except find a *different* reason you weren't fit to fly. I've heard of at least one person faking a squint to get off martial duty, an excuse which would probably work quite well for a pilot.
;)
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
PS I have naff eyesight anyway, so I'd be fine
Um, he was quite possibly talking about wine... Cheers & God bless Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
There's an article on the BBC news website about dyslexia making comparisons between english and chinese (among other things) New Theory on Cause of Dyslexia
On the other hand, isn't spanish the language spoken by more people than any other? Certainly Spanish and English between them cover a lot of people, let alone all the other European languages...
I once saw a little article in a free-on-the-train paper demonstrating that we mostly read the top half of a line of text. Try it some time, cover up the bottom half of a line of text and read it, then cover up the top half of the next line of text and read that. Which is easier?
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
Isn't this just a tamagotchi with pretty eyes?
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
And let us not forget the Cheshire Moon. This name refers to a new or crescent moon where the line of the crescent looks like a smile or bowl instead of the typical "C" shape.
My mum always told me that her mum (Who's from Lancashire, England) had always said "When the moon's on its back, it's a sure sign of snow".
Possibly there's a correlation between "cheshire moon" and the winter months...?
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
Now, if somebody were to prove that the Hypothesis were *wrong*, then there might be some real practical results from that...
:)
But I figure it's fairly likely to be true, after all.
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
Juggling, surely the *real* canonical geeky 'sport' ?
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Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
Not if you intend for them to mean "in a manner completely lacking in correctness".
E.g. if I say "He went about it entirely wrongly" I'm saying "The way in which he went about it was entirely wrong"
It is a syntactically and semantically valid construct, but I have to conceed that it's downright ugly!
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Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
You, sir, are a Gand and I claim my five pounds :)
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
Hope they have lots of backup. Of course, how do you backup a system like this?
Backup isn't a concern. Think about it. The entire setup is 'beta' in that none of it has been done before (or at least on the scale they're working at) nearly everything at CERN is a one-of-a-kind prototype. As it is, they don't have the capacity to store more than a tiny fraction of their annual data output anyway, so even if the entire system got wiped, the proportion of data lost would still be relatively small. At the end of the day, if you're trying to do something that nobody else has done before, you have to consider the whole thing an experiment. One piece of beta software hardly figures in that environment...
Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny
I couldn't see a copy of the article on their website but...
There's a link at the bottom of the article originally posted to this one which mentions those stats.
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Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny