Photoshop's UI is quite far from perfect. It is ok, but I had to crack open the manual to find out I actually had to right click the gradient too to get the paint bucket too.
Toolbars buttons are *not* supposed to be right clicked...
I bet when the airport was made, those houses weren't there. So the people wanted cheap houses and now they are complaining about the noise levels? No shit sherlock.
The "Frogs" managed to design and finish their own fighter project, Rafale, before Eurofighter did.
Yes, having less people on the project would normally make it finish cheaper and faster, but the fact is by virtue of being a multinational project it was harder to cancel by the politicians. Had the UK gone at it alone, the most likely result would have been a government cancelation of the project like with TSR.2.
AFAIK the low altitude problem of the Airbus fly-by-wire system was corrected a long time ago. Fly-by-wire gives the passengers a smoother ride and makes it easier for a pilot to control the airplane in regular circumstances. Yes, because things are supposed to work well in regular circumstances and okay in extraordinary circumstances, not the opposite.
SGI failed. Sun will fail too. Sorry, couldn't resist.:-)
But it is true you know? The problem is SGI took a long time to develop their highly integrated solutions. By the time they got their solution up, the open X86 market was already onto something else. Cheaper and faster. I see little reason why this will not happen with Sun as well unless they move into a place the X86 market cannot reach them. i.e. 16-128 way systems and beyond.
No shared memory over 8-way Opteron solutions no. And even the 8-way solutions are still just announcements. If you want to buy something now, the best you can get is 4-way.
Cray is doing a bunch of work on high-performing large and mid-sized MPI Opteron systems for HPC which you should be seeing over the course of this year and next. But if you used Sun you likely are more interested in shared memory systems.
Mind you, there are these rumours floating around, about Sun and Broadcom working on higher end Opteron solutions. But they are nothing more than rumours. For now.
Well, do not count much on Afara's Niagara and Rock processors. The previous claim to fame of the leader on that project was the Intel i860 processor and we know how well that one went. Crash and burn.
Sure, their UltraSPARC development team needed a good kick in the pants. But going the flock of chicken way will not payoff. If they persist on it they will go the way of Transputer and all the other losers^H^H^H^H^H^H innovators.
WW2 happened because the Kaiser was de-throned and an unstable Republic burdened with war compensations was put in its place. The stupid armistice was indeed the root of it all.
Compare that with post-WW2 Japan. The Emperor stayed on his post and rather than forcing Japan to pay compensations, money was provided for rebuilding instead.
If you think bombing is the way to win any war, you have much to learn.
NForce card here, using the 2.6.3 kernel from Fedora 2 test 2. I do get freaky sample rates from the drivers ocasionally and everything plays speeded up or down, but "Sound & Video -> Volume Control" works well. The problem is the PCM volume by default is 0 and if that is 0, the master volume control doesn't do anything.
General reliability of US rockets is.997 uh? Which US rockets are those? It certainly isn't Shuttle, Titan IV or Delta III. And Shuttle has flown over 100 times. Which is reasonable for a launch vehicle.
Perhaps you are talking about the Atlas II-V family. That one has a flawless flight record. But then again, most launches were done without solids. Hmmm... Atlas and Saturn, this is starting to become a recurring pattern. Solids are evil, especially those of the multiple segment variety.
The Soyuz booster has had several major upgrades during its lifetime on engines and avionics, ergo, possibility for new failure modes. Shuttle has also had upgrades, but not so many on the highly critical path. We call every R-7 based space launcher a "Soyuz" but there are significant differences.
In fact, you could say the second Shuttle accident was due to design upgrades (they stopped painting the main tank) and the first was due to the solids.
Failures most often seem to be due to solid engine, stage separation or engine ignition failure. Chamber explosions or structural collapses, the main problems with liquid rockets, do not seem to happen much anymore.
IMHO, the major source of problems for several US rocket families (Titan IV, Delta III, Shuttle) was the use of hard to control solid engines. Statistically, it is easy to see that solid engines are less reliable than liquid engines on average.
The Russians have historically favoured liquid fueled rockets.
The US dumped its most successful heavy lift launch vehicle, Saturn, which was built to run exclusively on liquid fuel, for the Shuttle and Delta IV with solid engines. Hmmm...
I consider the Russian reliability numbers excellent considering the usual shoddy quality of their hardware.
Oh and there is no comparison possible with the auto business. A car uses less parts, has lower chamber temperatures and pressure, non-cryogenic fuel, you name it. Materials technology evolves slowly, this is one of the most significant factors for the poor reliability in rocket engines.
Besides, if your single car engine fails, you usually don't come crashing into something and the brakes and steering still work. Those new fangled unstable configuration military airplanes are a different matter altogether.
Yeah, Boeing probably said that about the Delta III too. Which part of the higher the number of non reduntant engines in your system, the higher the possibility of failure do you not understand?
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Like I said before, Photoshop has hidden menus in the toolbar buttons. How is that any better?
Toolbars buttons are *not* supposed to be right clicked...
So *THAT* is why GCC is so slow and a memory hog. ;-)
I have seen people using PDF for presentation slides.
Yeah the old Amiga CygnusEd kicked ass. NEdit is pretty decent, but CygnusEd was better.
FTE also has menus. But the project seems dead...
I bet when the airport was made, those houses weren't there. So the people wanted cheap houses and now they are complaining about the noise levels? No shit sherlock.
Yes, having less people on the project would normally make it finish cheaper and faster, but the fact is by virtue of being a multinational project it was harder to cancel by the politicians. Had the UK gone at it alone, the most likely result would have been a government cancelation of the project like with TSR.2.
AFAIK the low altitude problem of the Airbus fly-by-wire system was corrected a long time ago. Fly-by-wire gives the passengers a smoother ride and makes it easier for a pilot to control the airplane in regular circumstances. Yes, because things are supposed to work well in regular circumstances and okay in extraordinary circumstances, not the opposite.
The Sonic Cruiser wasn't supersonic, hence why it was uninteresting.
Well, solar power is sort of fusion power on the cheap. :-D
If the term was 15 years, we could legally be playing games from 1989 or older now.
Like SAP? They certainly seem to be in the poor house.
But it is true you know? The problem is SGI took a long time to develop their highly integrated solutions. By the time they got their solution up, the open X86 market was already onto something else. Cheaper and faster. I see little reason why this will not happen with Sun as well unless they move into a place the X86 market cannot reach them. i.e. 16-128 way systems and beyond.
Cray is doing a bunch of work on high-performing large and mid-sized MPI Opteron systems for HPC which you should be seeing over the course of this year and next. But if you used Sun you likely are more interested in shared memory systems.
Mind you, there are these rumours floating around, about Sun and Broadcom working on higher end Opteron solutions. But they are nothing more than rumours. For now.
Sure, their UltraSPARC development team needed a good kick in the pants. But going the flock of chicken way will not payoff. If they persist on it they will go the way of Transputer and all the other losers^H^H^H^H^H^H innovators.
They can try to close their software even more. Of course, it will only leave them even more buried than they are now.
Note I said any war.
Beamed power is the way to go. Why just beam data, if you can beam power as well?
Compare that with post-WW2 Japan. The Emperor stayed on his post and rather than forcing Japan to pay compensations, money was provided for rebuilding instead.
If you think bombing is the way to win any war, you have much to learn.
NForce card here, using the 2.6.3 kernel from Fedora 2 test 2. I do get freaky sample rates from the drivers ocasionally and everything plays speeded up or down, but "Sound & Video -> Volume Control" works well. The problem is the PCM volume by default is 0 and if that is 0, the master volume control doesn't do anything.
Perhaps you are talking about the Atlas II-V family. That one has a flawless flight record. But then again, most launches were done without solids. Hmmm... Atlas and Saturn, this is starting to become a recurring pattern. Solids are evil, especially those of the multiple segment variety.
The Soyuz booster has had several major upgrades during its lifetime on engines and avionics, ergo, possibility for new failure modes. Shuttle has also had upgrades, but not so many on the highly critical path. We call every R-7 based space launcher a "Soyuz" but there are significant differences.
In fact, you could say the second Shuttle accident was due to design upgrades (they stopped painting the main tank) and the first was due to the solids.
Failures most often seem to be due to solid engine, stage separation or engine ignition failure. Chamber explosions or structural collapses, the main problems with liquid rockets, do not seem to happen much anymore.
The Russians have historically favoured liquid fueled rockets.
The US dumped its most successful heavy lift launch vehicle, Saturn, which was built to run exclusively on liquid fuel, for the Shuttle and Delta IV with solid engines. Hmmm...
I consider the Russian reliability numbers excellent considering the usual shoddy quality of their hardware.
Besides, if your single car engine fails, you usually don't come crashing into something and the brakes and steering still work. Those new fangled unstable configuration military airplanes are a different matter altogether.
Yeah, Boeing probably said that about the Delta III too. Which part of the higher the number of non reduntant engines in your system, the higher the possibility of failure do you not understand?
So you are saying that making a vastly more expensive and complex design with about the same reliability as the simpler design is a good deal?