OT: Any chance of writing a bot that visits coral-cache versions of the links in any article that's about to hit the front page? At least latecomers to the article would then have a fighting chance of seeing what the fuss was about in the brief seconds the server was online.
AJAX = Asynchronous Javascript And XML. The name was coined by Jesse James Garrett at when he wanted to tout the merits of Javascript, the DOM and XMLHttpRequest to a client, so yes it describes old technologies with a new buzzword.
I also used to balk at it - in much the same way as most of you also balk at web2.0 - but I feel it's helped inspire great design concepts and propel the development of such Javascript projects as Prototype, Mootools, Dojo, and the stalled-but-promising TIBET from Technical Persuit, as to make it all worthwhile. Certainly it has generated more excitement than "DHTML" did in its day.
In moderate doses AJAX can do great things for a web-site. But just as with Flash, Java and animated GIFs, too much can be a disaster. Use sparingly.
1. Even the man who DISCOVERED the Belts - Mr. James Van Allen himself - has dismissed this notion given the trajectory of the rockets.
2. However much fuel it took, the engine only had to be "on" for less than 1% of the whole journey. The rest of the time Newton took the drivers seat.
3. The craft is moving in a vacuum. There is no wind-sheer, eddies, or other atmospheric phenomena to buffer it around when the *tiny* manouvering jets fire. The astronauts would indeed feel themselves "pulled" about as the vehicle manouvered, but sound? Vibration? Even by 1969 standards, they weren't flying around in some clunky old Honda Accord with dodgy suspension. Refer to Space Shuttle footage and observe just how small manouvering jets need to be, and how little they affect the vehicle outside of simply shifting it about.
Crater? Charred earth? They're not on the Earth.;) How can the glass-like composition of the Moon's surface be reasonably expected to react in the same way as setting off a Saturn V in a wheat field? Not only that, but the engines were fired only intermittently on approach, landing and briefly during takeoff from the lunar-surface.
4. The characteristics of a rocket-plume depend on the atmosphere it's burning in and the composition of the fuel. Just watch a Space Shuttle launch and observe not only the difference between the Solid Rocket Boosters and the main Shuttle engines, but the changes they go through as the vehicle climbs up and out of the atmosphere. Sure, the SRBs make a lot of smoke and mess, but the Moon Lander was not using solid-fuel. It was using liquid-fuel like the three main-engines of the Shuttle.
I admit it's not great prose, but I always felt drawn into the story and was gutted when I finished it. She might explain the same thing over and over again with a hundred different metaphors, but I liked reading the metaphors.:p
I'll see if I can get hold of Gravity's Rainbow on your recommendation.
It was necessary, since Rand puts over an excellent point against the phrase "From each..." However, the argument is not really appropriate in the context of Open-Source, and if you read that excerpt (or the book) you will see why.
Needless to say, that excerpt is far too long. You might as well read the damn book. It's a mighty fine read.
No, it was playable on a 486 DX2/100 with 16 megs of RAM.
Back in college there were two computer rooms next to each other: One with 486 DX2's running at 66MHz with 8 megs of RAM, the other with 100MHz machines. If you were lucky you'd get around 5-10 FPS on the 66s. Needless to say, the second room experienced a sharp rise in popularity at lunchtimes.:p
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Yeah, we can tell:
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Reminds me of the old engineers adage: "Three years ago I couldn't even spell the word 'engineer'; now I *is* one!"
So a project code named "linus' makes the tag sharks think we are all idiots and can't read the article?
You must be new here.
OT: Any chance of writing a bot that visits coral-cache versions of the links in any article that's about to hit the front page? At least latecomers to the article would then have a fighting chance of seeing what the fuss was about in the brief seconds the server was online.
...on 45+ GBP per-month plans.
Not quite the same as "giving it away", but the plans are decent and the hardware is free.
It would be 700 quadrillion.
...chicken.
I bet he eats well, though.
In such a situation it might be better programmed to blend with the force rather than opposing it.
...erratum plaguing their boxen.
AJAX = Asynchronous Javascript And XML. The name was coined by Jesse James Garrett at when he wanted to tout the merits of Javascript, the DOM and XMLHttpRequest to a client, so yes it describes old technologies with a new buzzword.
I also used to balk at it - in much the same way as most of you also balk at web2.0 - but I feel it's helped inspire great design concepts and propel the development of such Javascript projects as Prototype, Mootools, Dojo, and the stalled-but-promising TIBET from Technical Persuit, as to make it all worthwhile. Certainly it has generated more excitement than "DHTML" did in its day.
In moderate doses AJAX can do great things for a web-site. But just as with Flash, Java and animated GIFs, too much can be a disaster. Use sparingly.
"Get embarrassed?" Science is not a battle of wits.
...George Bush hates black metals. :(
...the Universe is made of cornflour.
Why not just: "ls -l > filelist"
I hear he also had trouble with mounting.
1. Even the man who DISCOVERED the Belts - Mr. James Van Allen himself - has dismissed this notion given the trajectory of the rockets.
;) How can the glass-like composition of the Moon's surface be reasonably expected to react in the same way as setting off a Saturn V in a wheat field? Not only that, but the engines were fired only intermittently on approach, landing and briefly during takeoff from the lunar-surface.
2. However much fuel it took, the engine only had to be "on" for less than 1% of the whole journey. The rest of the time Newton took the drivers seat.
3. The craft is moving in a vacuum. There is no wind-sheer, eddies, or other atmospheric phenomena to buffer it around when the *tiny* manouvering jets fire. The astronauts would indeed feel themselves "pulled" about as the vehicle manouvered, but sound? Vibration? Even by 1969 standards, they weren't flying around in some clunky old Honda Accord with dodgy suspension. Refer to Space Shuttle footage and observe just how small manouvering jets need to be, and how little they affect the vehicle outside of simply shifting it about.
Crater? Charred earth? They're not on the Earth.
4. The characteristics of a rocket-plume depend on the atmosphere it's burning in and the composition of the fuel. Just watch a Space Shuttle launch and observe not only the difference between the Solid Rocket Boosters and the main Shuttle engines, but the changes they go through as the vehicle climbs up and out of the atmosphere. Sure, the SRBs make a lot of smoke and mess, but the Moon Lander was not using solid-fuel. It was using liquid-fuel like the three main-engines of the Shuttle.
Take a look for yourself:
Compare the three main Shuttle engines to those of the Solid Rocket Boosters. A side-on shot at take-off.
Now, how large a plume do you reasonably expect the much smaller Lunar Module engine to create?
Aha ha ha. Oh, gosh that's so f...
Oh to Hell with it.
As demonstrated, again by PA, here:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/16
I admit it's not great prose, but I always felt drawn into the story and was gutted when I finished it. She might explain the same thing over and over again with a hundred different metaphors, but I liked reading the metaphors. :p
I'll see if I can get hold of Gravity's Rainbow on your recommendation.
It was necessary, since Rand puts over an excellent point against the phrase "From each..." However, the argument is not really appropriate in the context of Open-Source, and if you read that excerpt (or the book) you will see why.
Needless to say, that excerpt is far too long. You might as well read the damn book. It's a mighty fine read.
No, it was playable on a 486 DX2/100 with 16 megs of RAM.
:p
Back in college there were two computer rooms next to each other: One with 486 DX2's running at 66MHz with 8 megs of RAM, the other with 100MHz machines. If you were lucky you'd get around 5-10 FPS on the 66s. Needless to say, the second room experienced a sharp rise in popularity at lunchtimes.