One of the problems with tracking the medal count
is that a medal means a lot more is some
disciples than others. Consider the ridiculous
number of swimming medals awarded for breaststoke,
butterfly, backstroke, freestyle, dog paddle, etc.
The permutations are endless. The result is a
good swimmer wins several golds. Not bad
for a few minutes of moderate exersize. I
find this irksome. I sometimes think that every
UCLA senior on the swim team wins Olympic gold. The prize is devalued.
Then look at another sport like road cycling. You have a road race and time trial hotly contested by several hundred of the greatest endurance athletes in the
world. They kill themselves for 2 golds. Being on the podium is a real accomplishment.
How do countries fair in marquis events like
track and field or gymastics, rather than
archery, or sailing? My point is it there must be a better figure of merit to capture the amount of glory drawn to a nation by winning than just the number of golds.
I thought they were gainfully employed in the
spinoff industry of nuclear proliferation.
Tell'em there are lots openings in Tehran's
commercial nuclear power sector.
In these cases, most of the 'JVM' is implemented in hardware
Oh really? And what do you mean by implemented
in hardware? Got a clue for you. The JVM is
written in C or part in assembler, then glued
to the Java language with JNI. Until Java produces
assembly (like GCJ) you will have to mix C and Java
to port the Java environment anywhere, a non-trivial
task. The point is most Java programmers have
to resort to C if they work at a low level on
any platform.
You don't know what you are talking about.
Java is a terrible choice for embedded systems. A cheezy cell phone does not count! Java is slow and bloated, and the GC is non-deterministic. These are bad characteristics for the avionics system I work with. Decent
JVM's exist for only a few widely used processors
(PPC, ARM), and they are proprietary. Start using anything more obscure (like an AD Blackfin) and it is assembler and C only. Sometimes broken C++.
Like Jack Nicholson once said: "Peddle crazy somewhere else, were full up here."
'Windows XP Starter Edition' will be limited to low-res graphics, limited networking, and will be hobbled to prevent more than three applications running concurrently.
The monopolist Micro$oft is desperate to
maintain the illusion that software can be
treated as a scarce material resource.
But they actually had to add effort to take away value!
For those participating in Micro$oft's shared
source program, here is a patch to turn your
Windoze 2003 Server to the XP Starter configuration:
A shuttle launch costs at least $500 million not
including the enormous fixed costs of shuttle
related centers and personnel. Add that to the
risk of defying the Columbia investigation
recommendations and the political reality of
public support for the Hubble pork barrel and I'd
say the figure sounds reasonable. Furthermore,
the mission stands to give a big boost to robotics
in general.
Ximian Desktop and Sun's Linux-based Sun Java Desktop System.
I can't say these projects come to mind when I mark progress in Free Software in the 2000's.
The Ximian Desktop is arguably inferior to KDE,
XFCE, and other substantial window managers,
including my favorite WindowMaker. I still haven't
seen Sun's Java Desktop. Come to think of it,
I have
never seen a usable Java Desktop program at all.
Here's my list of the seminal programs of the last three decades:
1980's - Emacs, GCC, GDB, GLIBC, X, HURD
1990's - Linux Kernel, X Desktops, Guile, Ghostscript, HURD
I also fail to see how Mr. O'Keefe, who heads NASA, can postpone shuttle missions citing danger to the astronauts' lives. If it seems imminent that another disaster will occur on the next flight, I would understand, but surely we've found ways to resolve the latest problems. Astronauts don't go into the business of space flight thinking they'll have "safe" jobs, and I would think that as long as they're ready to fly again, the administration would be eager to get them back in space.
You cannot fault Mr. O'Keefe for being cautious. The world saw 7 meat comets come
burnin' in on his
watch and neither he or the Bush administration
can afford another accident. The shuttle is
a dangerous experimental vehicle. Its abort
modes are extremely limited. Its occupants
have a ~1.5% chance of death per flight with
a large statistical sample.
It needs to be phased out. By all means he
should not be influenced by the go fever of
the silly astronauts.
What I would like to see is a launch of
a robotic servicing mission to Hubble using an unmanned shuttle.
The shuttle has been fully capable of that
since it was built. It already has well developed remote manipulator capabilities. It would be able to carry
60,000 lbs of robotics and instruments to Hubble.
I don't understand why this option is not discussed.
Faculty and students at Cornell University have built an unmanned airplane with its own on-board, embedded control system.
Wow! Raytheon, Grumman, and others have only
been doing this operationally for 10 years.
Is this what $56G in cash buys Micro$oft?
Good thing they are paying out a big dividend
at the end of the year. It should put an end to
pointless projects like this.
As a Cornell graduate I am embarrassed for my
alma mater.
This type of research is the future of human space exploration, at least for the forseeable future.
For the forseeable future, human space exploration will be restricted to Mars and the inner solar system. With chemical propulsion one way travel to Mars takes
about 6 months, with putative missions lasting
2 years. That is not a long time. Nuclear
propulsion might reduce the time to weeks.
Clearly hibernation is not necessary. Still hibernation research may be of value in other areas. One can imagine
endless applications of hibernation therapy
for cancer, burns, trauma etc. But it will
have no
direct effect on space missions this century. I would rather see the resources spent on developing
adequate radiation shielding or spining
(positive G) habitation modules.
but a wickedly difficult installation method (dselect/tasksel)
I ask you, has anyone ever seen a worse user
interface than dselect's? It seems to me that
it *tries* to obfusticate software installation.
Its authors work and making it hard to use.
I think it is singlehandedly responsible for
the meteoric rise of Gentoo as the GNU/Linux
choice for purists.
Re:Not a stretch, the Proton is made for this
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Soyuz To The Moon?
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The Soviets planned on launching a Soyuz atop a Proton launcher (currently used as a heavy cargo launcher, roughly equivalent payload to the Space Shuttle) to put a Soyuz into a free-return trajectory around the moon.
You don't know what you are talking about. The
Proton can deliver 20,000 lbs to ISS, the shuttle
over 60,000 lbs. That is a huge difference.
It wouldn't be free, but it would certainly be cheaper then developing a new heavy lift rocket or buying Titan IVB, the only other rocket in use with equivalent throw.
Heavy lift versions of the Delta IV and Atlas V
will surpass the Titan IV in payload capacity
and cost effectiveness. Both have already launched commercial and government payloads with
100% reliability.
The Soyuz is a fine spacecraft and can probably
be modified for the mission, but do the
Russians have a launcher to get it to the moon?
The Soyuz launcher is only suitable for LEO missions. The Proton is only slightly more
powerful. The Energia no longer exists. What
other options are there?
'Microsoft will pay upstart Linux seller Lindows $20 million... [so that Lindows] will give up the Lindows name and assign related Web domains to Microsoft.
Has anyone reserved Gindows? How about
'Swodniw'. They could be valuable.
No less a capitalist than Warren Buffett
is appalled at the low tax burden placed on
profitable corporations. His company paid fully
3% of all corporate taxes, which is amazing.
There is nothing fictitious about the power and influence corporations exert on the law and in society, or the benefits they recieve in terms of access to capital, security, and infrastructure they receive within
these sacred shores. They should be taxed accordingly.
has major domestic beers that don't taste like piss [labatts.ca]
Several times on this forum I have heard posters
sing the praises of Canadian beers. Absurd.
Canadian *mass market* beers like Labatts Blue,
and Moosehead are no better than other international
brands like Michelob, Coors, Bud, Fosters, Heineken. They
should all be drunk at as low a temperature as possible to kill the taste. Happily in the U.S we have truely world class micro-breweries.
If you have one near you support it! I greatly respect the
beer reputations of Germany, Britain, Belgium, etc, and hope to sample beers in each of them someday. I just want to point out that the U.S.
is a great place for beer enthusiasts.
Fischer has been a man without a country for
over 10 years. The people who have been harboring
him are doing him no favors. He is a paranoid
schizophrenic and needs help. He has needed it
for a long time. I hope that the dickheads at the
justice department understand this and don't
try to ruin his life anymore than it is.
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One of the problems with tracking the medal count is that a medal means a lot more is some disciples than others. Consider the ridiculous number of swimming medals awarded for breaststoke, butterfly, backstroke, freestyle, dog paddle, etc. The permutations are endless. The result is a good swimmer wins several golds. Not bad for a few minutes of moderate exersize. I find this irksome. I sometimes think that every UCLA senior on the swim team wins Olympic gold. The prize is devalued.
Then look at another sport like road cycling. You have a road race and time trial hotly contested by several hundred of the greatest endurance athletes in the world. They kill themselves for 2 golds. Being on the podium is a real accomplishment.
How do countries fair in marquis events like track and field or gymastics, rather than archery, or sailing? My point is it there must be a better figure of merit to capture the amount of glory drawn to a nation by winning than just the number of golds.
I thought they were gainfully employed in the spinoff industry of nuclear proliferation. Tell'em there are lots openings in Tehran's commercial nuclear power sector.
In these cases, most of the 'JVM' is implemented in hardware
Oh really? And what do you mean by implemented in hardware? Got a clue for you. The JVM is written in C or part in assembler, then glued to the Java language with JNI. Until Java produces assembly (like GCJ) you will have to mix C and Java to port the Java environment anywhere, a non-trivial task. The point is most Java programmers have to resort to C if they work at a low level on any platform.
That poor fella must have got crushed like a beer can.
Loser
You don't know what you are talking about. Java is a terrible choice for embedded systems. A cheezy cell phone does not count! Java is slow and bloated, and the GC is non-deterministic. These are bad characteristics for the avionics system I work with. Decent JVM's exist for only a few widely used processors (PPC, ARM), and they are proprietary. Start using anything more obscure (like an AD Blackfin) and it is assembler and C only. Sometimes broken C++. Like Jack Nicholson once said: "Peddle crazy somewhere else, were full up here."
Python is for troglodytes who can't wrap their minds around Lisp.
'Windows XP Starter Edition' will be limited to low-res graphics, limited networking, and will be hobbled to prevent more than three applications running concurrently.
The monopolist Micro$oft is desperate to maintain the illusion that software can be treated as a scarce material resource. But they actually had to add effort to take away value!
For those participating in Micro$oft's shared source program, here is a patch to turn your Windoze 2003 Server to the XP Starter configuration:
Hey Asia, how do you like building the worlds most powerful graphics cards only to be able to use them at 800x600?
A shuttle launch costs at least $500 million not including the enormous fixed costs of shuttle related centers and personnel. Add that to the risk of defying the Columbia investigation recommendations and the political reality of public support for the Hubble pork barrel and I'd say the figure sounds reasonable. Furthermore, the mission stands to give a big boost to robotics in general.
Does that make Mexico our ass?
HURD - the OS that has been in development for nearly 20 years
Said with tongue in cheek, to highlight the fact that not all high profile free software projects are successes. Fresco is another.
Ximian Desktop and Sun's Linux-based Sun Java Desktop System.
I can't say these projects come to mind when I mark progress in Free Software in the 2000's. The Ximian Desktop is arguably inferior to KDE, XFCE, and other substantial window managers, including my favorite WindowMaker. I still haven't seen Sun's Java Desktop. Come to think of it, I have never seen a usable Java Desktop program at all.
Here's my list of the seminal programs of the last three decades:
I also fail to see how Mr. O'Keefe, who heads NASA, can postpone shuttle missions citing danger to the astronauts' lives. If it seems imminent that another disaster will occur on the next flight, I would understand, but surely we've found ways to resolve the latest problems. Astronauts don't go into the business of space flight thinking they'll have "safe" jobs, and I would think that as long as they're ready to fly again, the administration would be eager to get them back in space.
You cannot fault Mr. O'Keefe for being cautious. The world saw 7 meat comets come burnin' in on his watch and neither he or the Bush administration can afford another accident. The shuttle is a dangerous experimental vehicle. Its abort modes are extremely limited. Its occupants have a ~1.5% chance of death per flight with a large statistical sample. It needs to be phased out. By all means he should not be influenced by the go fever of the silly astronauts.
What I would like to see is a launch of a robotic servicing mission to Hubble using an unmanned shuttle. The shuttle has been fully capable of that since it was built. It already has well developed remote manipulator capabilities. It would be able to carry 60,000 lbs of robotics and instruments to Hubble. I don't understand why this option is not discussed.
Faculty and students at Cornell University have built an unmanned airplane with its own on-board, embedded control system.
Wow! Raytheon, Grumman, and others have only been doing this operationally for 10 years. Is this what $56G in cash buys Micro$oft? Good thing they are paying out a big dividend at the end of the year. It should put an end to pointless projects like this. As a Cornell graduate I am embarrassed for my alma mater.
This type of research is the future of human space exploration, at least for the forseeable future.
For the forseeable future, human space exploration will be restricted to Mars and the inner solar system. With chemical propulsion one way travel to Mars takes about 6 months, with putative missions lasting 2 years. That is not a long time. Nuclear propulsion might reduce the time to weeks. Clearly hibernation is not necessary. Still hibernation research may be of value in other areas. One can imagine endless applications of hibernation therapy for cancer, burns, trauma etc. But it will have no direct effect on space missions this century. I would rather see the resources spent on developing adequate radiation shielding or spining (positive G) habitation modules.
but a wickedly difficult installation method (dselect/tasksel)
I ask you, has anyone ever seen a worse user interface than dselect's? It seems to me that it *tries* to obfusticate software installation. Its authors work and making it hard to use. I think it is singlehandedly responsible for the meteoric rise of Gentoo as the GNU/Linux choice for purists.
The Soviets planned on launching a Soyuz atop a Proton launcher (currently used as a heavy cargo launcher, roughly equivalent payload to the Space Shuttle) to put a Soyuz into a free-return trajectory around the moon.
You don't know what you are talking about. The Proton can deliver 20,000 lbs to ISS, the shuttle over 60,000 lbs. That is a huge difference.
It wouldn't be free, but it would certainly be cheaper then developing a new heavy lift rocket or buying Titan IVB, the only other rocket in use with equivalent throw.
Heavy lift versions of the Delta IV and Atlas V will surpass the Titan IV in payload capacity and cost effectiveness. Both have already launched commercial and government payloads with 100% reliability.
The Soyuz is a fine spacecraft and can probably be modified for the mission, but do the Russians have a launcher to get it to the moon? The Soyuz launcher is only suitable for LEO missions. The Proton is only slightly more powerful. The Energia no longer exists. What other options are there?
'Microsoft will pay upstart Linux seller Lindows $20 million... [so that Lindows] will give up the Lindows name and assign related Web domains to Microsoft.
Has anyone reserved Gindows? How about 'Swodniw'. They could be valuable.
Any why should a corporation pay any taxes.
No less a capitalist than Warren Buffett is appalled at the low tax burden placed on profitable corporations. His company paid fully 3% of all corporate taxes, which is amazing. There is nothing fictitious about the power and influence corporations exert on the law and in society, or the benefits they recieve in terms of access to capital, security, and infrastructure they receive within these sacred shores. They should be taxed accordingly.I'm going to agree with you on all points. I bought a Shuttle SK41G, GeForce4, Athlon XP 2000+ and 2x256 DDR a few weeks ago.
Why would you get such nice components and then get such a lousy CPU? An Athlon XP 2800+ costs about $30 more.
has major domestic beers that don't taste like piss [labatts.ca]
Several times on this forum I have heard posters sing the praises of Canadian beers. Absurd. Canadian *mass market* beers like Labatts Blue, and Moosehead are no better than other international brands like Michelob, Coors, Bud, Fosters, Heineken. They should all be drunk at as low a temperature as possible to kill the taste. Happily in the U.S we have truely world class micro-breweries. If you have one near you support it! I greatly respect the beer reputations of Germany, Britain, Belgium, etc, and hope to sample beers in each of them someday. I just want to point out that the U.S. is a great place for beer enthusiasts.
Fischer has been a man without a country for over 10 years. The people who have been harboring him are doing him no favors. He is a paranoid schizophrenic and needs help. He has needed it for a long time. I hope that the dickheads at the justice department understand this and don't try to ruin his life anymore than it is.
whole lot of convection going on
The cooling affect of air passing over is advection not convection.
emerge/rc-update make Gentoo administration almost handsoff