The ISS has an atmosphere inside, so heat convection shouldn't be a problem.
Wrong. Convection needs gravity. Without it you'd generate a heat bubble.
...If necessary, put it in a box with air driven through it to give circulation.
Right there; however, a simple air blower would do, no need to encapsulate the printer (actually that would be creating problems where none was before.)
I guess I should have been more specific.
Of course there is life in the deep sea (and caves). However, without the sun, temperature on Earth's surface (including the sea) would be around 3 Kelvin. Not much happening there (anymore) concerning life.
Questions is, would geothermal energy alone be enough to provide enough heat for life? Or would a planet cool down entirely, despite of the reactor burning down below, bringing it to a halt.
Interesting idea.
I'm wondering if a planet like Earth would be capable of developing and sustaining life without a sun, let's say 200 meters or so below the surface.
Earth does have a pretty powerful "generator" in its core, I just don't know if that would be enough.
To say it more sloppy: If (against all known physics) our sun would decide to collapse silently, would we be able to survive if we all grab shovels and dig really fast?
Unless you like bugs, type-checking is a good thing. Lack of type enforcement encourages what -- lack of forethought?
My thoughts exactly. Any language that makes you believe you can leave the "thinking" to the compiler is the wrong approach.
Might as well program the next Mars rover in PHP.
(not that PHP is bad as such, it just makes lazy programmers more lazy)
... or just render at whatever point size to screen and be happy that the resolution is high enough to make whatever we display readable?
The problem with that is, if you have one display of a certain physical size, a display with double the resolution of the same size can make the text unreadable, because it's only half as big.
What I'd be waiting for is a resolution-independent rendering system, but that means the displays would have to report their physical size, and the OS needs to be designed to take account of that.
Apple's retina display (and rendering engine) is just a hack to simulate that (*), kind of simulating 4 pixels as one (or vice versa, depends how you look at it).
Currently, if you switch from one display to a better one, you may have to adjust your default font to make text readable again.
With resolution-independent systems you'd still see the same, but the text being displayed more "crisp".
*) the old "wysiwyg" concept was a hack too, because it relied on a certain physical screen/paper size to match display and printer output.
No worries, you simply have to accept the fact that kiddies these days don't get it unless there's at least a LOL, lololol, or Omg LMAO in the sentence.;-)
Can you (or someone else) expand on this? I am not a physicist and am curious as to what you are referring to.
Ready for a 6 month lesson?;-)
First off, DVD players use a laser. Lasers obey to certain rules, it's an interaction between electrons, atom nuclei and photons (light, the laser light).
We can reliably predict the behavior of those "systems".
I'll try an example now (to stick with the lettuce).
Let's assume you are a farmer and are growing lettuce. No you find several heads of lettuce. Some fresh, some with leaves withered, some rotten.
As a farmer you can determine how long ago the lettuce head was cut.
Physicists do the same. They know how long lettuce (atoms) need to decay, based on physical laws that make the laser produce light.
So when you look at a stone, you look at the "withered leaves" and can tell how old it is.
So, you're saying, if we want to visit a different solar system or galaxy, all we have to do is to find someone stupid enough to go down on a long rope and kick the damn turtle in the butt?
Or maybe even better, lower a few billion tons of lettuce on a long rod at the other end...
History is a breeze on these schools... they only go back 6,001 years (to include 2013).
What puzzles me, or rather amuses me is how many of the people believing in this nonsense are happy to operate their DVD players and/or GPS (among other things) without hesitation; - And accept they will work, completely ignoring that those items are based on the same physical laws we determine the age of earth with.
Yes and no.
Of course I did try the CDs in the car with the engine turned off.
After a bit of research I found this:
I guess I rather was a victim of copyright wars and/or attempts to install DRM on CDs.
So it was after all an attempt to sell CDs with DRM, one way or another, although it seems that most companies have dropped that attempt shortly after.
Still, their loss, not mine.
You may be right, I never cared to investigate.
What puzzles me is why my (ancient) CD player would play them fine, but the newer player in the car didn't (this was in the mid or late '90 iirc).
Anyway, I thought I bought CDs, but obviously they were not.
Ok, I should have said that the CDs were playing fine in my home player, just not in the car.
This was because the CDs were restricted to play in CD players only, and the firmware in the car/computer player "decided" it would not play this. Same as with your DVD.
You could just have easily bought a new player for your car
Again, I need to buy new equipment to play legally acquired media?
When I bought them they said "CD", no mention of "Will play in CD players only".
What was your point - you hate when media formats change?
If you'd care to read my initial post again (see my sig) you'd notice that I'm not complaining about media change, but I do complain about restrictions due to DRM.
So you're saying I need to spend additional money (extra player) and time (rip CDs/DVDs before playing, update firmware) to access stuff I legally bought or rented?
On the other hand, DRM treats your paying customers like would-be criminals.
Right.
Music: Once I had collected 400 vinyl records. Then came the CD. I said to myself, well, more convenient format, same quality, so I'll just by all the stuff again on CD. (*)
And over time I did, plus all the new stuff that was released.
Then came the time when I bought CDs and they wouldn't play in my car player. Geat.
Conveniently at the same time Napster et al came up.
So music industry lost me for quite some time.
Film: I used to rent lots of (tape) videos, and was mildly annoyed by the FBI warning at the beginning, but fortunately the VCR had the fast forward button.
Then came DVDs and first it was all fine, skip the annoying stuff and then go right to the beginning of the movie.
Then they had the clever idea of having to watch all the intros and copyright stuff (and advertisements) being mandatory.
Great idea again. Movie industry lost me then.
As for games, I can't say much, I did buy the few games I was playing, but I never was much into games, but the recent EA disaster should say enough.
*) Audiophiles relax, buy a few monster cables, throw in a few homeopathic pills, lean back and enjoy the distortions of your tube amplyfier (also called "warmth").;-)
[...] and receiving the monthly CDROMs with amusing titles
I do remember, especially the one that had a music video on it, with seemingly topless cute girls smiling into the camera, just to show the "superior" Quicktime features.
Being an Apple developer was fun those days.
But actually developing Apple software never really was (remember MPW, MacApp and Macsbug?)
Slashdot Mirror
hmm what would be the consequences being caught downloading copyrighted torrents from the iss?
I can see it already, the new TPB location
The ISS has an atmosphere inside, so heat convection shouldn't be a problem.
Wrong. Convection needs gravity. Without it you'd generate a heat bubble.
...If necessary, put it in a box with air driven through it to give circulation.
Right there; however, a simple air blower would do, no need to encapsulate the printer (actually that would be creating problems where none was before.)
Very Odd Day. The dog was freaked out for a week!
If I was your dog, I'd freak out too :p
I guess I should have been more specific.
Of course there is life in the deep sea (and caves). However, without the sun, temperature on Earth's surface (including the sea) would be around 3 Kelvin.
Not much happening there (anymore) concerning life.
Questions is, would geothermal energy alone be enough to provide enough heat for life? Or would a planet cool down entirely, despite of the reactor burning down below, bringing it to a halt.
Interesting idea.
I'm wondering if a planet like Earth would be capable of developing and sustaining life without a sun, let's say 200 meters or so below the surface.
Earth does have a pretty powerful "generator" in its core, I just don't know if that would be enough.
To say it more sloppy: If (against all known physics) our sun would decide to collapse silently, would we be able to survive if we all grab shovels and dig really fast?
Actually, a compiler would give you the same results for both concerning "for( i = 0; i < 0;)"
;)
In Assembler: NOOP
Unless you like bugs, type-checking is a good thing. Lack of type enforcement encourages what -- lack of forethought?
My thoughts exactly. Any language that makes you believe you can leave the "thinking" to the compiler is the wrong approach.
Might as well program the next Mars rover in PHP.
(not that PHP is bad as such, it just makes lazy programmers more lazy)
... or just render at whatever point size to screen and be happy that the resolution is high enough to make whatever we display readable?
The problem with that is, if you have one display of a certain physical size, a display with double the resolution of the same size can make the text unreadable, because it's only half as big.
What I'd be waiting for is a resolution-independent rendering system, but that means the displays would have to report their physical size, and the OS needs to be designed to take account of that.
Apple's retina display (and rendering engine) is just a hack to simulate that (*), kind of simulating 4 pixels as one (or vice versa, depends how you look at it).
Currently, if you switch from one display to a better one, you may have to adjust your default font to make text readable again.
With resolution-independent systems you'd still see the same, but the text being displayed more "crisp".
*) the old "wysiwyg" concept was a hack too, because it relied on a certain physical screen/paper size to match display and printer output.
No worries, you simply have to accept the fact that kiddies these days don't get it unless there's at least a LOL, lololol, or Omg LMAO in the sentence. ;-)
What is hinting in this context?
I think he meant tinting.
;-)
And indeed, once you avoid tinting the fonts, rendering becomes very easy!
Depends how much the turtle likes it.
Can you (or someone else) expand on this? I am not a physicist and am curious as to what you are referring to.
Ready for a 6 month lesson? ;-)
First off, DVD players use a laser. Lasers obey to certain rules, it's an interaction between electrons, atom nuclei and photons (light, the laser light).
We can reliably predict the behavior of those "systems".
I'll try an example now (to stick with the lettuce).
Let's assume you are a farmer and are growing lettuce. No you find several heads of lettuce. Some fresh, some with leaves withered, some rotten.
As a farmer you can determine how long ago the lettuce head was cut.
Physicists do the same. They know how long lettuce (atoms) need to decay, based on physical laws that make the laser produce light.
So when you look at a stone, you look at the "withered leaves" and can tell how old it is.
Hope this makes sense.
Yeah, all DVD players are based on a mass spectrometer.
Replace "mass spectrometer" with "Planck world" and you are there.
[...] In short, it's magic.
So, you're saying, if we want to visit a different solar system or galaxy, all we have to do is to find someone stupid enough to go down on a long rope and kick the damn turtle in the butt?
Or maybe even better, lower a few billion tons of lettuce on a long rod at the other end...
History is a breeze on these schools... they only go back 6,001 years (to include 2013).
What puzzles me, or rather amuses me is how many of the people believing in this nonsense are happy to operate their DVD players and/or GPS (among other things) without hesitation;
- And accept they will work, completely ignoring that those items are based on the same physical laws we determine the age of earth with.
On the bright side, if I ever need to make someone else lose a dare I'll know what to give them to drink.
Try coffee with a spoon of salt instead of sugar (i.e. give them a "sugar bowl" filled with salt)
:D
Just be sure to film their faces
Read further:
"to add liquid ingredients (cream, sweetener, and lemon juice) from a foil package to another that contains black coffee or tea."
Why was that fuss about the blink tag? Sometimes you seem to need it:
;)
:)
I recovered a little bit when I read further
No offense
a consistent complaint has been lousy coffee. [...] allows astronauts to add liquid ingredients (cream, sweetener, and lemon juice)
I almost choked reading up to this point... I recovered a little bit when I read further ;)
Yes and no.
Of course I did try the CDs in the car with the engine turned off.
After a bit of research I found this:
I guess I rather was a victim of copyright wars and/or attempts to install DRM on CDs.
So it was after all an attempt to sell CDs with DRM, one way or another, although it seems that most companies have dropped that attempt shortly after.
Still, their loss, not mine.
You may be right, I never cared to investigate.
What puzzles me is why my (ancient) CD player would play them fine, but the newer player in the car didn't (this was in the mid or late '90 iirc).
Anyway, I thought I bought CDs, but obviously they were not.
This was because the CDs were restricted to play in CD players only, and the firmware in the car/computer player "decided" it would not play this. Same as with your DVD.
You could just have easily bought a new player for your car
Again, I need to buy new equipment to play legally acquired media?
When I bought them they said "CD", no mention of "Will play in CD players only".
What was your point - you hate when media formats change?
If you'd care to read my initial post again (see my sig) you'd notice that I'm not complaining about media change, but I do complain about restrictions due to DRM.
So you're saying I need to spend additional money (extra player) and time (rip CDs/DVDs before playing, update firmware) to access stuff I legally bought or rented?
On the other hand, DRM treats your paying customers like would-be criminals.
Right.
;-)
Music: Once I had collected 400 vinyl records. Then came the CD. I said to myself, well, more convenient format, same quality, so I'll just by all the stuff again on CD. (*)
And over time I did, plus all the new stuff that was released.
Then came the time when I bought CDs and they wouldn't play in my car player. Geat.
Conveniently at the same time Napster et al came up.
So music industry lost me for quite some time.
Film: I used to rent lots of (tape) videos, and was mildly annoyed by the FBI warning at the beginning, but fortunately the VCR had the fast forward button.
Then came DVDs and first it was all fine, skip the annoying stuff and then go right to the beginning of the movie.
Then they had the clever idea of having to watch all the intros and copyright stuff (and advertisements) being mandatory.
Great idea again. Movie industry lost me then.
As for games, I can't say much, I did buy the few games I was playing, but I never was much into games, but the recent EA disaster should say enough.
*) Audiophiles relax, buy a few monster cables, throw in a few homeopathic pills, lean back and enjoy the distortions of your tube amplyfier (also called "warmth").
[...] and receiving the monthly CDROMs with amusing titles
I do remember, especially the one that had a music video on it, with seemingly topless cute girls smiling into the camera, just to show the "superior" Quicktime features.
Being an Apple developer was fun those days.
But actually developing Apple software never really was (remember MPW, MacApp and Macsbug?)
Can you translate that to English please?