"in an unusually ironic twist, Microsoft has started talking smack about their own products, instead of those of their competitors. "
thats not so ironic. In sales and marketing, you never talk about your competitors unless you have to. You would much rather discuss how your new product is improved over your old product. You don't want to give credibility to your competitors by mentioning them, and on the off chance your customer hasn't heard about them at all.
Since Office has such an overwhelming market share, they pretty much don't have to talk about Open Office/StarOffice at all except in cases where the customers ask about them.
well, you do have to know what you are doing, but
the standard says:
vector::at
const_reference at(size_type off) const;
reference at(size_type off);
The member function returns a reference to the element of the controlled sequence at position off. If that position is invalid, the function throws an object of class out_of_range. That is just like Java. the code will look the same.
BUT
the if you use the '[]' operator with an out of range index, then the behavior is undefined. so it becomes an implementation dependent thing in this case. So its best to avoid depending on [] for portability sake.
Neo Flying - superman (ok they admitted this one) Architect and 'the Source' - Tron Master Control Program The Key Maker - Ghost Busters Keymaster And worst of all - the Zion celebration scene : the Ewok party at the end of Star Wars VI
The top level guys competing in topcoder are some of the smartest guys you will ever meet. Whoever thinks they are a coder, go ahead and try a competition. Its free and they do it a couple of times a week. See if you can even get the easy problem right. I dare you.
p.s. Topcoder also has the best Java client side applications going. Their competition arena application/applet is a masterpiece.
Where did RedHat get the code for their Linux dist? They didn't write it. Or at least they didn't write 99.5% of it. They took it from other GPL distributions.
Smack? jeez. I was rounding on the 100 mph. Ok, so its somewhere between 50 and 150 mph forward speed. and yes, if its a Cub or a STOL lightplane you are in pretty good shape. I was trying to keep a balanced discussion.
I don't think I said anything about logbooks. In the military you can see the logbooks anytime. But since the discussion was about unexpected failures of the Moller aircar, I was just balancing the discussion. Sometimes things happen that don't have anything to do with maintenance or logbooks. Things break,things get broken by pilot error, and things fall out of the sky.
As for wings coming off airplanes, it usually happens as the result of a pullout from speed, maybe with a lot of load. Like the forest service C-130 that crashed. (watch the video). But typically it occurs in an IFR loss of control where you get into a dive or spiral and pull out too hard. Like the bonanza you mentioned. They have a failure mode called divergent spiral that can rip the wings off on a nice clear day.
An engine failure in a helicopter is a lot safer than one in an airplane. I'll take it over a dead-stick in a plane any day.
When autorotating, if you have a space the size of a football field you can land on it easily with no damage. If you have a clear spot the size of a tennis court you can hit it with some hard landing damage but nothing catastrophic. You will land with virtually no forward speed, and maybe some vertical speed depending on skill.
A conventional airplane needs just as much room to land power off as power on. even the smallest normal planes need 1000 feet or more to land (yes, yes some STOL planes get in under that). If you don't have a runway you will hit the ground with a forward speed of 100 mph or so and be in for a really scary ride, usually killing you in the process.
Helicopters have other failure modes that are pretty hairy (loss of main rotor, tail rotor or transmission failure) where you will drop like a rock. But the wings come off airplanes too.
retired army aviator, rotary and fixed wing rated.
all that said, the previous poster was right about the Moller being hyped for years and never working. 8 engines doesn't help when you run out of gas. And people run out of gas in airplanes every day.
In the 80's, a stream of really cool advertisements came out for Lotus Jazz. The ads NEVER said what Jazz was or what it did. But they were so cool (a dancing yuppie up on his tiptoes and the headline 'you have to have Jazz') that I really wanted to buy it, whatever it was. It was hyped in the media of the time but still no one ever said what it was beyond it being some kind of 'integrated software' for business.
Then one day it just vanished. Everyone stopped talking about it, the ads were gone. It was like a government coverup of a flying saucer crash. I never saw it on a store shelf and never found out what it was.
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thats not so ironic. In sales and marketing, you never talk about your competitors unless you have to. You would much rather discuss how your new product is improved over your old product. You don't want to give credibility to your competitors by mentioning them, and on the off chance your customer hasn't heard about them at all.
Since Office has such an overwhelming market share, they pretty much don't have to talk about Open Office/StarOffice at all except in cases where the customers ask about them.
well, you do have to know what you are doing, but the standard says:
vector::at
const_reference at(size_type off) const;
reference at(size_type off);
The member function returns a reference to the element of the controlled sequence at position off. If that position is invalid, the function throws an object of class out_of_range. That is just like Java. the code will look the same.
BUT
the if you use the '[]' operator with an out of range index, then the behavior is undefined. so it becomes an implementation dependent thing in this case. So its best to avoid depending on [] for portability sake.
Ok, but after balancing our lives, we find the jobs have balanced themselves right over to India.
Neo Flying - superman (ok they admitted this one)
Architect and 'the Source' - Tron Master Control Program
The Key Maker - Ghost Busters Keymaster
And worst of all - the Zion celebration scene : the Ewok party at the end of Star Wars VI
The top level guys competing in topcoder are some of the smartest guys you will ever meet. Whoever thinks they are a coder, go ahead and try a competition. Its free and they do it a couple of times a week. See if you can even get the easy problem right. I dare you.
p.s. Topcoder also has the best Java client side applications going. Their competition arena application/applet is a masterpiece.
no i don't work for them. Yes I have competed.
HP isn't really HP. Its just a mass market computer vendor. Agilent is HP and still does the cool stuff.
Where did RedHat get the code for their Linux dist? They didn't write it. Or at least they didn't write 99.5% of it. They took it from other GPL distributions.
forgot to log in first try.
Smack? jeez. I was rounding on the 100 mph. Ok, so its somewhere between 50 and 150 mph forward speed. and yes, if its a Cub or a STOL lightplane you are in pretty good shape. I was trying to keep a balanced discussion.
I don't think I said anything about logbooks. In the military you can see the logbooks anytime. But since the discussion was about unexpected failures of the Moller aircar, I was just balancing the discussion. Sometimes things happen that don't have anything to do with maintenance or logbooks. Things break,things get broken by pilot error, and things fall out of the sky.
As for wings coming off airplanes, it usually happens as the result of a pullout from speed, maybe with a lot of load. Like the forest service C-130 that crashed. (watch the video). But typically it occurs in an IFR loss of control where you get into a dive or spiral and pull out too hard. Like the bonanza you mentioned. They have a failure mode called divergent spiral that can rip the wings off on a nice clear day.
An engine failure in a helicopter is a lot safer than one in an airplane. I'll take it over a dead-stick in a plane any day.
When autorotating, if you have a space the size of a football field you can land on it easily with no damage. If you have a clear spot the size of a tennis court you can hit it with some hard landing damage but nothing catastrophic. You will land with virtually no forward speed, and maybe some vertical speed depending on skill.
A conventional airplane needs just as much room to land power off as power on. even the smallest normal planes need 1000 feet or more to land (yes, yes some STOL planes get in under that). If you don't have a runway you will hit the ground with a forward speed of 100 mph or so and be in for a really scary ride, usually killing you in the process.
Helicopters have other failure modes that are pretty hairy (loss of main rotor, tail rotor or transmission failure) where you will drop like a rock. But the wings come off airplanes too.
retired army aviator, rotary and fixed wing rated.
all that said, the previous poster was right about the Moller being hyped for years and never working. 8 engines doesn't help when you run out of gas. And people run out of gas in airplanes every day.
In the 80's, a stream of really cool advertisements came out for Lotus Jazz. The ads NEVER said what Jazz was or what it did. But they were so cool (a dancing yuppie up on his tiptoes and the headline 'you have to have Jazz') that I really wanted to buy it, whatever it was. It was hyped in the media of the time but still no one ever said what it was beyond it being some kind of 'integrated software' for business.
Then one day it just vanished. Everyone stopped talking about it, the ads were gone. It was like a government coverup of a flying saucer crash. I never saw it on a store shelf and never found out what it was.