20+ years of Star Wars were focused on tracking a ballistic missile for long enough and with enough power to burn thru the aluminum outer shell and to do enough damage to the interior so as to make it incapable of detonating it's warhead. A failure to acheive this goal does not nessesarily imply the lesser task of hitting a cockpit window is ruled out.
I agree that using lasers against airplanes does not seem a good terrorist tactic.
The only thing I can think of at this time, is I once posted in the wanted section for something. All the wanted items are grouped together, and mostly it seems ( here in San Diego, anyway ), that most people end up posting a "wanted" under the for sale classification that their wanted item falls in.
Not sure what to suggest to do about this, I can understand not wanting to break the wanteds down into subclassifications, and I understand not wanting the wanted items in with the for sale items...
Just thought of another thing.... I see a fair number of people edit their for sale items with a " - GONE". I would suggest encouraging them to just delete the item entirely. It will save you some small amount of storage, and those of us perusing the board dont really need to see the item, it is just clutter that needs to be skipped.
Thanks for hosting the site, and for taking the time to respond to my post.
FYI.. You can tell the newspapers that the items that I posted for sale would *not* have ended up in a for sale listing with them, the transaction costs ( money and time, mostly time ) were too high to make it worthwhile.:-)
*So as a society, it is therefore safest to assume that each person knows what is best for him or herself.*
Knows and does are two things, usually.
Two examples:
1: We often "know" that not smoking or losing weight are "best" for us. But how often, as a society, do we do this? Also, isnt it "best" for a rich person to not have such poverty around him/her that those without would kill him to take it?
2: Enron/Worldcom. Was it "best" for these people to take the actions they did? Demonstratably, the answer is no, it seems to have landed them without a company to make money from, and possibly, with some sactions.
Communism failed because it did not take into account the fundamental drives of the people that constitute the economy. It is my belief that pure, unregulated capitalism would fail for the same basic reason, failing to take into account the people's fundamental drives.
The sign was probably ( as indicated by other posters ) used to indicate an error. I.E. negative return value indicates error. But then, the other programmers probably cheerfully ignored the return value anyway.
Do the number of cashiers factor into this? Or is it per terminal ( person )?
As a fellow programmer, you are *probably* safe. Were it my decision to make, I would bump to 32 bits the next time you need to open the code to fix other bugs. And look for other instances of this problem in other areas. Caveat, I am the kind of programmer that checks return codes, the return from malloc/new, etc, etc, in addition to try catch blocks. I use the length limited versions of the string copying functions, etc, etc...
Not quite. Most go there. Some can go ( depending on the development shop that put the thing together ) in the system or system32 directory. Then there are the registry entries. Should be straightforward, but sometimes is not.
The boiling off would still be a closed cycle system. Marine steam plants have been doing this for more than a hundred years now. The size differences may introduce some issues... And I dont know that that would be effiecient. There would be added weight and complexity as you note.
To the sibling posts, your parent has a point, a turbine is more sensitive to the speed at which it runs, which is why a turbine is a poor choice to directly replace an ICE.
But... If you use the turbine at a constant speed to drive an electrical generator, then you can have the efficiency and the usablity, provided the electrical stuff doesnt weigh too much or is too inefficient. With hybrids on the road, I would have to think those issues are not big ones.
True, but steam turbines in ships have been around since before 1900. The first problem was solved in multiple ways ( reduction gearing, double reduction gearing, turbo-electric drives ( several battleships and the Lexington and Saratoga ( CV-2 and CV-3 ) ).
The turbine airflow and oil issues would have been solved in aircraft engineering from the 1940's and on.
It is true that the specifics of the solutions would need some additional work to fit the particulars of the problems, but I would think the large problems would have been solved already.
If you are going to run at a set RPM, then a standard diesel or gasoline infernal combustion engine is not the way to go. Some turbine arrangement would be optimal there.
In fact, I think the main reason we dont see the hybrids going this way is
1: Servicing a turbine engine is something that the existing infrastructure is *not* ready for. ( there *may* be arguments for the idea that a turbine unit would not create enough "servicing oportunities" for its creators, but I digress )
2: As I understand it, the gas engine is used to provide part of the motive force for peak loading ( I.E. driving the wheels, not the generator ). An entirely electic drivetrain would lose that.
In researching and exploring bringing something towards commercialization, there seem to be many paths, in the early days. Some of these paths lead to problems that require certain breakthrus that just dont happen when needed to bring the concept to reality. So, other, easier, paths are followed. Later, those breakthru's can happen in other ways, or other fields that make those other paths that were abandoned back towards viablity, and even, sometimes, making a better path to the concept.
I dont know about yours, but mine here in San Diego (sdfreecycle.com) has a balance of items offered and items wanted. Anecdotally, I would guess the split to be about 50% of each.
And I dont see it as "...items they think people *should* give them...". Most of the wanted postings that I have read ( not many, I will grant you ) have not been demanding.
I had a compiler construction class, the prof told us "issue a warning like 'syntax error', and you fail, right there, right then". Or words to that effect. VB would fail according to his standards.
For calloc() and malloc(), the value returned is a pointer
to the allocated memory, which is suitably aligned for any
kind of variable, or NULL if the request fails.
*Hell, when you buy a PC the vendor can install whatever he/she wants. You have a choice - microsoft isn't stopping you from making your own decisions.*
One of the big PC players wanted to install NetScape as the default browser on the machines they shipped. Microsoft applied pressure ( pulling the preferencial pricing ) and got them to reverse themselves. That player listened to market feedback, and tryed to play to it. Microsoft stopped them from making a decision.
So, are you *sure* that the vendor can make a viable choice here?
Also, did you know that for each machine sold, regardless of actual installed OS, you would pay for a licence for an MS operating system. That or dont get the good pricing.
Now, tell me again about how my choices are respected by Microsoft?
First, H1B != Immigrant. They are invited guest workers here nominally because their skills are in short supply. I have worked with a couple H1B programmers, and they are good enough, but not *that* good, and not in short supply at that skill level domestically.
My opinion? They seem to be here because corporations wanted cheap labor, and lobbied their congressperson. Whence their capitalistic ideals? The market was determining wage levels, but they didnt like it, so they did what they could to drive wages down.
And now, I will call your bluff. First thing tomorrow, go in and tell your boss you want less money. And start working harder.:-)
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Because there is a marketing purpose to be served here.
They lose some of their lock in.
Web applications make the underlying operating system far less important. It makes it easier to switch away from ( and to, really ) Windows.
20+ years of Star Wars were focused on tracking a ballistic missile for long enough and with enough power to burn thru the aluminum outer shell and to do enough damage to the interior so as to make it incapable of detonating it's warhead. A failure to acheive this goal does not nessesarily imply the lesser task of hitting a cockpit window is ruled out.
I agree that using lasers against airplanes does not seem a good terrorist tactic.
The only thing I can think of at this time, is I once posted in the wanted section for something. All the wanted items are grouped together, and mostly it seems ( here in San Diego, anyway ), that most people end up posting a "wanted" under the for sale classification that their wanted item falls in.
:-)
Not sure what to suggest to do about this, I can understand not wanting to break the wanteds down into subclassifications, and I understand not wanting the wanted items in with the for sale items...
Just thought of another thing.... I see a fair number of people edit their for sale items with a " - GONE". I would suggest encouraging them to just delete the item entirely. It will save you some small amount of storage, and those of us perusing the board dont really need to see the item, it is just clutter that needs to be skipped.
Thanks for hosting the site, and for taking the time to respond to my post.
FYI.. You can tell the newspapers that the items that I posted for sale would *not* have ended up in a for sale listing with them, the transaction costs ( money and time, mostly time ) were too high to make it worthwhile.
*So as a society, it is therefore safest to assume that each person knows what is best for him or herself.*
Knows and does are two things, usually.
Two examples:
1: We often "know" that not smoking or losing weight are "best" for us. But how often, as a society, do we do this? Also, isnt it "best" for a rich person to not have such poverty around him/her that those without would kill him to take it?
2: Enron/Worldcom. Was it "best" for these people to take the actions they did? Demonstratably, the answer is no, it seems to have landed them without a company to make money from, and possibly, with some sactions.
Communism failed because it did not take into account the fundamental drives of the people that constitute the economy. It is my belief that pure, unregulated capitalism would fail for the same basic reason, failing to take into account the people's fundamental drives.
Unsigned would give a range of 0 to 65535.
The sign was probably ( as indicated by other posters ) used to indicate an error. I.E. negative return value indicates error. But then, the other programmers probably cheerfully ignored the return value anyway.
Do the number of cashiers factor into this?
Or is it per terminal ( person )?
As a fellow programmer, you are *probably* safe. Were it my decision to make, I would bump to 32 bits the next time you need to open the code to fix other bugs. And look for other instances of this problem in other areas. Caveat, I am the kind of programmer that checks return codes, the return from malloc/new, etc, etc, in addition to try catch blocks. I use the length limited versions of the string copying functions, etc, etc...
RE: Windows installs,
Not quite. Most go there. Some can go ( depending on the development shop that put the thing together ) in the system or system32 directory. Then there are the registry entries. Should be straightforward, but sometimes is not.
The boiling off would still be a closed cycle system. Marine steam plants have been doing this for more than a hundred years now. The size differences may introduce some issues... And I dont know that that would be effiecient. There would be added weight and complexity as you note.
To the sibling posts, your parent has a point, a turbine is more sensitive to the speed at which it runs, which is why a turbine is a poor choice to directly replace an ICE.
But... If you use the turbine at a constant speed to drive an electrical generator, then you can have the efficiency and the usablity, provided the electrical stuff doesnt weigh too much or is too inefficient. With hybrids on the road, I would have to think those issues are not big ones.
True, but steam turbines in ships have been around since before 1900. The first problem was solved in multiple ways ( reduction gearing, double reduction gearing, turbo-electric drives ( several battleships and the Lexington and Saratoga ( CV-2 and CV-3 ) ).
The turbine airflow and oil issues would have been solved in aircraft engineering from the 1940's and on.
It is true that the specifics of the solutions would need some additional work to fit the particulars of the problems, but I would think the large problems would have been solved already.
I could understand not modding it up, but down?
If you are going to run at a set RPM, then a standard diesel or gasoline infernal combustion engine is not the way to go. Some turbine arrangement would be optimal there.
In fact, I think the main reason we dont see the hybrids going this way is
1: Servicing a turbine engine is something that the existing infrastructure is *not* ready for. ( there *may* be arguments for the idea that a turbine unit would not create enough "servicing oportunities" for its creators, but I digress )
2: As I understand it, the gas engine is used to provide part of the motive force for peak loading ( I.E. driving the wheels, not the generator ). An entirely electic drivetrain would lose that.
Some good thoughts, though.
In researching and exploring bringing something towards commercialization, there seem to be many paths, in the early days. Some of these paths lead to problems that require certain breakthrus that just dont happen when needed to bring the concept to reality. So, other, easier, paths are followed. Later, those breakthru's can happen in other ways, or other fields that make those other paths that were abandoned back towards viablity, and even, sometimes, making a better path to the concept.
Many thanks for hosting CraigsList, sir.
I have sold and aquired several items that I would not have been able to using traditional outlets.
Thanks,
David
I dont know about yours, but mine here in San Diego (sdfreecycle.com) has a balance of items offered and items wanted. Anecdotally, I would guess the split to be about 50% of each.
And I dont see it as "...items they think people *should* give them...". Most of the wanted postings that I have read ( not many, I will grant you ) have not been demanding.
I got it.
Didnt it also posit that Israel and the Arab world would have a fight to the death just after?
I hear you. Perhaps you should hire me! :-)
Maybe catch them young and train them right?
I especially love stepping thru their MFC code.
I would be ashamed to write in that fashion.
I had a compiler construction class, the prof told us "issue a warning like 'syntax error', and you fail, right there, right then". Or words to that effect. VB would fail according to his standards.
Long time not to be coding. My consolences.
For calloc() and malloc(), the value returned is a pointer
to the allocated memory, which is suitably aligned for any
kind of variable, or NULL if the request fails.
*Hell, when you buy a PC the vendor can install whatever he/she wants. You have a choice - microsoft isn't stopping you from making your own decisions.*
One of the big PC players wanted to install NetScape as the default browser on the machines they shipped. Microsoft applied pressure ( pulling the preferencial pricing ) and got them to reverse themselves. That player listened to market feedback, and tryed to play to it. Microsoft stopped them from making a decision.
So, are you *sure* that the vendor can make a viable choice here?
Also, did you know that for each machine sold, regardless of actual installed OS, you would pay for a licence for an MS operating system. That or dont get the good pricing.
Now, tell me again about how my choices are respected by Microsoft?
And deleted it.
Maybe Bush lost California due to manipulation of voting equipment.
I dont care about the party BS. The voting process needs to be above reproach and beyond question.
First, H1B != Immigrant. They are invited guest workers here nominally because their skills are in short supply. I have worked with a couple H1B programmers, and they are good enough, but not *that* good, and not in short supply at that skill level domestically.
:-)
My opinion? They seem to be here because corporations wanted cheap labor, and lobbied their congressperson. Whence their capitalistic ideals? The market was determining wage levels, but they didnt like it, so they did what they could to drive wages down.
And now, I will call your bluff. First thing tomorrow, go in and tell your boss you want less money. And start working harder.
Wall street isnt very smart, is it?
Costco seems to be doing well, paying enough so that the employees are happy to do more than the minimum to get by. But Wall Street doesnt like that.