Hey! Dont knock strtok, strtok() is one of the most useful functions i've found for string manipulation i've found. Of course you should always back up the full string if you want to use it again later of course;]
Is it just me who is getting sick of these? Slashdot really needs a filter that refuses to post a message about Beowulf Clusters under an article that has _nothing_ to do with them.
Uh rich people? The only socioeconomic group being affected by this research so far is monkeys that live in laboratories. And I'm sure they would just love to live longer under their conditions wouldn't they?
Hmm would a small toy company have a trouble holding TOYS.R.US against the massive Toys R Us chain if they registered it first? Or would the latter have to get TOYS.R.US.R.US instead?
Uh break the fan blades? It sounds like you are assuming this thing would have fans that are not enclosed in a nacelle housing of some kind, or simply inside the body with holes for airflow. Now if I was an astronaut I would find the idea of an autonomous sphere floating around with exposed fans under its own guidance somewhat unnverving to say the least. You would not want it to get jammed in your hair or to accidently run into more personal spaces. Might be somewhat more painful that the original Star Wars dron with its zapping lasers.
Yes something like this that is vacuum certified to also inspect exterior surfaces would be exceedingly useful for astronauts. For example if they suspect damage to a section of the spacecraft they can simply send out one of these little guys to take a look. The alternative would be to spend several hours suiting up, outside in EVA and desuiting. However these things are going to need an alternate propulsion system for vacuum as opposed to those fans (nothing to push against in space). A simple compressed air system would be perfect, and would also be safe for internal use if you just compressed the normal breathing mix.
Ok, just me or this totally contradicting an earlier posting. Someone qualified mtDNA as mutating 5-10 times FASTER then DNA, while the posting I am replying to indicated very little if any mutation. Could someone in the know please clarify which of these posting is actually correct?
You are of course assuming that Hale-Bope would totally remove the moon if it hit it. That is _slightly_ unlikely as the moon is several orders of magnitude larger than that comet, hence Hale-Bopp would aty most make a new large crater. Albiet it would alter the moons orbit slightly, but not enough to matter at all for us in the near future (several million (billion?) years)
But what if the sniffer is installed in the bios or similar low level location somehow. You can change to inferior operating systems all you want, it wont help you.
When microbes mutate, becoming resistant to antibiotics, are you saying that, rather than gaining the information to avoid being killed, the microbes are discarding old information that told them how to die and when?
Actually the information that tells us to grow old and die of old age behaviour is extra information that could be beneficial to lose. I wonder how long the early steps evolution took before this was developed, as species that had shorter generations were capable of evolving faster than their long lived competitors..
Since he would not of been permitted to use a computer since he was arrested way back before even Windows 95 was released. I think he can count himself luckier than most of us as he would never have had that particular OS inflicted on him, and with that sentence he might still get the tail end of Win2K though....
Hi another feature that I'm sure people would like (I sure would) is an advanced search feature, with as many options as ftpsearch. Ie searching by comment score would be good, I'd like to be able to find the lowest scored comment ever, or search by people who have a highest average sort of score, that sort of thing...
Sounds more to me like the Chinese government is doing something to prevent the system working in there area Iridium Jamming anyone?. Or maybe it just works that bad everywhere.... There are a great many Iridium sattellites, somewhere around 60, and they are all in low orbits , not geostationary ones. Hence you cannot have a certain number sitting above any fixed area.
Another water propelled toy I've seen around is this water-jet plane. Basicly it was a big styrofoam glider with a wingspan of about 2 meters. The fuselage of the plane held a plastic bottle that had a special cap with a nozzle and a snap release valve. To fly the plane you first filled about a 1/3 of bottle with water and pumped it up with a supplied cheap plastic pump. Once you had it up to pressure you put the bottle into the plane, then throw the whole thing into the air releasing the valve just as you did so. The glider would then fly up some distance under the water pressure and then glide back down to erth.
I feel that any web board that claims an anonymous posting feature should do the following before it can be allowed to be truly defined as such. All web and other logs pertaining to the anonymous postings are not written out at all, ie not just written and then erased by a anonymous cleaning process. Hence there is nothing to be subpeoned for at all. This will protect both the board provider from being subpoened and the original poster too. A central body to verify all boards procedures in doing this might be a good idea, so we can have a 'True Anonymous' rating for such systems. Also does anyone know just how the slashdot anonymous postings are handled as far as logs go?
I've seen some bare CCD's cameras mounted on circuit boards that also have an array of infra-red LED's (same as the ones in tv remote controles) mounted around them. This provides enough illumination so that the camera can see in what you perceive as darkness. If you want to see this work yourself, if you have any kind of digicam, take a photo of a remote control with a button pressed in the dark.
Finding that hatch would be damn near impossible. After all, the Mercury hatch was barely large enough for a man to fit through. Lets say 10 square feet...
Hmm if the American astronauts have trouble fitting through a hatch that is 10 square feet in area I think they need to change their diet a bit. A bit less of the fatty foods and a little more exercise. I guess the Russians got into space up a little earlier as their rockets would need a lower power rocket to reach orbit.
No you just throw out a UPS as well. You wouldn't need an especially long life one too, 5 minutes is about all the backup power it would need. Hopefull long enough for it to backup everything on the hard drive to another machine that isn't at terminal velocity through wireless ethernet.
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Hey! Dont knock strtok, strtok() is one of the most useful functions i've found for string manipulation i've found. Of course you should always back up the full string if you want to use it again later of course ;]
Ok moderators, you know what to do with the above.
Is it just me who is getting sick of these?
Slashdot really needs a filter that refuses to post a message about Beowulf Clusters under an article that has _nothing_ to do with them.
Uh rich people? The only socioeconomic group being affected by this research so far is monkeys that live in laboratories. And I'm sure they would just love to live longer under their conditions wouldn't they?
Hmm would a small toy company have a trouble holding TOYS.R.US against the massive Toys R Us chain if they registered it first? Or would the latter have to get TOYS.R.US.R.US instead?
Uh break the fan blades? It sounds like you are assuming this thing would have fans that are not enclosed in a nacelle housing of some kind, or simply inside the body with holes for airflow. Now if I was an astronaut I would find the idea of an autonomous sphere floating around with exposed fans under its own guidance somewhat unnverving to say the least. You would not want it to get jammed in your hair or to accidently run into more personal spaces. Might be somewhat more painful that the original Star Wars dron with its zapping lasers.
Yes something like this that is vacuum certified to also inspect exterior surfaces would be exceedingly useful for astronauts.
For example if they suspect damage to a section of the spacecraft they can simply send out one of these little guys to take a look. The alternative would be to spend several hours suiting up, outside in EVA and desuiting.
However these things are going to need an alternate propulsion system for vacuum as opposed to those fans (nothing to push against in space). A simple compressed air system would be perfect, and would also be safe for internal use if you just compressed the normal breathing mix.
Ok, just me or this totally contradicting an earlier posting. Someone qualified mtDNA as mutating 5-10 times FASTER then DNA, while the posting I am replying to indicated very little if any mutation. Could someone in the know please clarify which of these posting is actually correct?
You are of course assuming that Hale-Bope would totally remove the moon if it hit it. That is _slightly_ unlikely as the moon is several orders of magnitude larger than that comet, hence Hale-Bopp would aty most make a new large crater. Albiet it would alter the moons orbit slightly, but not enough to matter at all for us in the near future (several million (billion?) years)
Actually I like POP too, is there an implementation of it out there that uses encrypted passwords?
But what if the sniffer is installed in the bios or similar low level location somehow. You can change to inferior operating systems all you want, it wont help you.
Uh, just why was this marked insightful?
rust, my friend. It decays into rust. now when was the last time rust killed anyone =)
How about the Tin Man from the Wizard Of Oz?
He may not of been killed by it, but it surely inconvenienced him a great deal.
Actually the information that tells us to grow old and die of old age behaviour is extra information that could be beneficial to lose. I wonder how long the early steps evolution took before this was developed, as species that had shorter generations were capable of evolving faster than their long lived competitors..
True, you might be able to fit in enough could to make it display a LILO prompt somewhere though.
Since he would not of been permitted to use a computer since he was arrested way back before even Windows 95 was released. I think he can count himself luckier than most of us as he would never have had that particular OS inflicted on him, and with that sentence he might still get the tail end of Win2K though....
Hi another feature that I'm sure people would like (I sure would) is an advanced search feature, with as many options as ftpsearch.
Ie searching by comment score would be good, I'd like to be able to find the lowest scored comment ever, or search by people who have a highest average sort of score, that sort of thing...
Sounds more to me like the Chinese government is doing something to prevent the system working in there area Iridium Jamming anyone?. Or maybe it just works that bad everywhere.... There are a great many Iridium sattellites, somewhere around 60, and they are all in low orbits , not geostationary ones. Hence you cannot have a certain number sitting above any fixed area.
Another water propelled toy I've seen around is this water-jet plane. Basicly it was a big styrofoam glider with a wingspan of about 2 meters. The fuselage of the plane held a plastic bottle that had a special cap with a nozzle and a snap release valve. To fly the plane you first filled about a 1/3 of bottle with water and pumped it up with a supplied cheap plastic pump. Once you had it up to pressure you put the bottle into the plane, then throw the whole thing into the air releasing the valve just as you did so. The glider would then fly up some distance under the water pressure and then glide back down to erth.
Hahaha this is great, do you write for The Onion by any chance? ;]
Can someone whose following this thing please explain just what it means for use?
I feel that any web board that claims an anonymous posting feature should do the following before it can be allowed to be truly defined as such.
All web and other logs pertaining to the anonymous postings are not written out at all, ie not just written and then erased by a anonymous cleaning process. Hence there is nothing to be subpeoned for at all. This will protect both the board provider from being subpoened and the original poster too.
A central body to verify all boards procedures in doing this might be a good idea, so we can have a 'True Anonymous' rating for such systems.
Also does anyone know just how the slashdot anonymous postings are handled as far as logs go?
I've seen some bare CCD's cameras mounted on circuit boards that also have an array of infra-red LED's (same as the ones in tv remote controles) mounted around them. This provides enough illumination so that the camera can see in what you perceive as darkness. If you want to see this work yourself, if you have any kind of digicam, take a photo of a remote control with a button pressed in the dark.
Hmm if the American astronauts have trouble fitting through a hatch that is 10 square feet in area I think they need to change their diet a bit.
A bit less of the fatty foods and a little more exercise. I guess the Russians got into space up a little earlier as their rockets would need a lower power rocket to reach orbit.
No you just throw out a UPS as well. You wouldn't need an especially long life one too, 5 minutes is about all the backup power it would need. Hopefull long enough for it to backup everything on the hard drive to another machine that isn't at terminal velocity through wireless ethernet.