I thought that the whole 64kb was more of a memory limitation instead of harddrive limitation. I would imagine this program takes up a bit more than 64kb of your memory when it starts generating all these texture. Still cool nonetheless.
If I recall, some HD's have a little screen (or s/th) somwhere on them so the air can move in/out. It's small enough so dust, etc., won't get in, but I'd wonder if this stuff could still pass through it and screw things up.
Centripetal is a real force. It is the force from the body to the center of it's rotation. It's normal to the direction of travel. Centrifugal force should be called by it's real name, which is easier to pronounce....inertia
Unless i misread you: A foul is a strike, unless it's the third strike, which would make it an out, so it isn't, unless it's caught, so it's an out. Unless it's Tuesday, and...
You've made it too complicated.
A foul is strike, unless there are not already two strikes. In which case, the foul is not strike nor a ball. Any ball caught in the air, fair or foul is an out. So that arguement is already preceded by one of the basic fundamental rules, catch a fly ball, and there is an out.
The reason that baseball players don't need to see a rulebook is because the rules of the game are damn simple. You don't have to worry about what consitutes one of about 20 different "penalties" like you do in football or basketball. You don't have to worry about when you can or can't do stuff. It's cake. Throw a ball to the batter. Wait for batter to hit it. Get ball, and try to get the batter out. The rules only inovlve things like foul balls and an interference call or two. That's it. It's crazy easy. That's why they don't look at rulebooks. There just aren't that many rules in baseball that aren't common sense.
About the skinning, the microsoft side of it is very weak, until you go run out and buy a program that lets you fiddle with more things. IIRC (it's been 2 years since I've used XP on my box), the start bar was always green, and you could only change some colors. Icons were left as their defaults and you couldn't change those easily. The software that gives you the customizability of linux requires extra $$ from a user. That actually is one huge reason why I switched over to linux. I like customizing and looking at pretty desktops. Some people say it's stupid, but eye-candy goes a long way towards getting users (2k->XP) (and yes, there was a little more than just eye candy plopped onto XP)
I think what he means is that "Ctrl-C" and "Ctrl-V" work unexpextedly. For the most part, if I highlight something, then middle click somewhere else, it very reliably pastes. But, If I copy a link from my Gaim window, and go to my Moz address bar, and select the address to replace it, I run into a problem. The highlighted text replaces whatever I had on my "clipboard". In windows, I can copy it, run to my browser window, select the text in the address bar, paste it, and the new address is there. I don't disagree that linux has a standard way of doing cut/copy/paste, and i don't disagree that it works well, it's just that the way it works is odd and hard to manage. I know that having to delete the address, then go back to my Gaim window and copy, and then back to my Moz window to paste is slower and less productive than in windows.
I believe their is only one boom when the sound barrier is broken. Anything above that creates only the first boom. You don't get another for going 2, 3, 5,....etc times the speed of sound.
So tell me this. If it is moving up, and towards you, and it's size does not change at all, then how are you going to time that and know how fast it is going?
Yes, this is possible.
Is it possible to determine the speed? yes. But NOT in every case, and it is at best a guess. I'm not denying how fast it went, but the way in which you are trying to determine it's speed is extremely crude.
You must not have ever taken trig in high school. To estimate heights and velocity, you need to know how far away you are from it. You also need to know one of the vectors that it is traveling along. Just b/c you can point a telescope at it, and bust out a stopwatch, won't tell you a darn thing.
I'd fathom that Intel would love for their chips to use less power, but they are more concerned w/ the Mhz race. So when they design their latest chips, power/heat are thought about, but aren't given as much concern as Trasmeta may give those issues. Notice how the newest Transmeta chip is only about 1 Ghz. Also notice how long that Intel has been at speeds greater than 1 Ghz (~3 years). So these companies like Transmeta spend a lot more time looking into power/heat issues, and it shows. They seriously lag behind Intel and AMD, but they provide chips to a niche market; small, embedded systems. The chips are plenty powerful for certain tasks, and people can put em damn neare anywhere.
Just a point of clarification. The X-Windows system has been around for a long time, but I don't believe that the current, most popular implementation, XFree86 has not been around nearly that long. Also, with each new release comes the chance of an extra bug or two.
To save yourself some time, you could always VNC into their boxes and admin remotely. Hell, you probably could set up a script that would connect to all your families boxes in subsequent order, look if a patch is present, and apply if not. You could just click and run and go do something else.
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Get an iRiver ihp-120. It plays OGG, lets you read text files on it, and stores files in folders. So your music is as nicely organized as it would be on your main box. I have one and I love it. They run just as much as an ipod for the same amounts of storage.
They sent one off to the side/down and let the other continue it's way through to actually bore the tunnel all the way through. And, there were not just 2 boring machines. I believe that the chunnel consists of 3 tunnels, so that makes 6 machines, 3 of which alien archaelogists one day will dig up and in one loud voice proclaim....WTF?!
Pffftt.....these people think I'm gonna actually bid on something from a guy that doesn't have any feedback and just registered on 03/30/04? Yeah right, this is just some little fly by night operation looking to get my money and run;)
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I know you are being funny, but this program seems fairly DirectX dependent. Maybe if it was OpenGL?
I thought that the whole 64kb was more of a memory limitation instead of harddrive limitation. I would imagine this program takes up a bit more than 64kb of your memory when it starts generating all these texture. Still cool nonetheless.
There goes the idea of tossing UV reactive dye into the stuff and flipping on a blacklight too.
If I recall, some HD's have a little screen (or s/th) somwhere on them so the air can move in/out. It's small enough so dust, etc., won't get in, but I'd wonder if this stuff could still pass through it and screw things up.
Centripetal is a real force. It is the force from the body to the center of it's rotation. It's normal to the direction of travel.
Centrifugal force should be called by it's real name, which is easier to pronounce....inertia
Unless i misread you:
A foul is a strike, unless it's the third strike, which would make it an out, so it isn't, unless it's caught, so it's an out. Unless it's Tuesday, and...
You've made it too complicated.
A foul is strike, unless there are not already two strikes. In which case, the foul is not strike nor a ball. Any ball caught in the air, fair or foul is an out. So that arguement is already preceded by one of the basic fundamental rules, catch a fly ball, and there is an out.
No I'm not flaming you.
The reason that baseball players don't need to see a rulebook is because the rules of the game are damn simple. You don't have to worry about what consitutes one of about 20 different "penalties" like you do in football or basketball. You don't have to worry about when you can or can't do stuff. It's cake. Throw a ball to the batter. Wait for batter to hit it. Get ball, and try to get the batter out. The rules only inovlve things like foul balls and an interference call or two. That's it. It's crazy easy. That's why they don't look at rulebooks. There just aren't that many rules in baseball that aren't common sense.
That's interesting to see. Like I said, it's been 2 years since I've used XP :-)
About the skinning, the microsoft side of it is very weak, until you go run out and buy a program that lets you fiddle with more things. IIRC (it's been 2 years since I've used XP on my box), the start bar was always green, and you could only change some colors. Icons were left as their defaults and you couldn't change those easily. The software that gives you the customizability of linux requires extra $$ from a user. That actually is one huge reason why I switched over to linux. I like customizing and looking at pretty desktops. Some people say it's stupid, but eye-candy goes a long way towards getting users (2k->XP) (and yes, there was a little more than just eye candy plopped onto XP)
I think what he means is that "Ctrl-C" and "Ctrl-V" work unexpextedly. For the most part, if I highlight something, then middle click somewhere else, it very reliably pastes. But, If I copy a link from my Gaim window, and go to my Moz address bar, and select the address to replace it, I run into a problem. The highlighted text replaces whatever I had on my "clipboard". In windows, I can copy it, run to my browser window, select the text in the address bar, paste it, and the new address is there. I don't disagree that linux has a standard way of doing cut/copy/paste, and i don't disagree that it works well, it's just that the way it works is odd and hard to manage. I know that having to delete the address, then go back to my Gaim window and copy, and then back to my Moz window to paste is slower and less productive than in windows.
How do high house prices cause a boom? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
I believe their is only one boom when the sound barrier is broken. Anything above that creates only the first boom. You don't get another for going 2, 3, 5,....etc times the speed of sound.
So tell me this. If it is moving up, and towards you, and it's size does not change at all, then how are you going to time that and know how fast it is going? Yes, this is possible. Is it possible to determine the speed? yes. But NOT in every case, and it is at best a guess. I'm not denying how fast it went, but the way in which you are trying to determine it's speed is extremely crude.
You must not have ever taken trig in high school. To estimate heights and velocity, you need to know how far away you are from it. You also need to know one of the vectors that it is traveling along. Just b/c you can point a telescope at it, and bust out a stopwatch, won't tell you a darn thing.
I'd fathom that Intel would love for their chips to use less power, but they are more concerned w/ the Mhz race. So when they design their latest chips, power/heat are thought about, but aren't given as much concern as Trasmeta may give those issues. Notice how the newest Transmeta chip is only about 1 Ghz. Also notice how long that Intel has been at speeds greater than 1 Ghz (~3 years). So these companies like Transmeta spend a lot more time looking into power/heat issues, and it shows. They seriously lag behind Intel and AMD, but they provide chips to a niche market; small, embedded systems. The chips are plenty powerful for certain tasks, and people can put em damn neare anywhere.
Just a point of clarification. The X-Windows system has been around for a long time, but I don't believe that the current, most popular implementation, XFree86 has not been around nearly that long. Also, with each new release comes the chance of an extra bug or two.
To save yourself some time, you could always VNC into their boxes and admin remotely. Hell, you probably could set up a script that would connect to all your families boxes in subsequent order, look if a patch is present, and apply if not. You could just click and run and go do something else.
Get an iRiver ihp-120. It plays OGG, lets you read text files on it, and stores files in folders. So your music is as nicely organized as it would be on your main box. I have one and I love it. They run just as much as an ipod for the same amounts of storage.
I think you mean gallons to the mile
Ahhh...you must live in the Southern US.
They sent one off to the side/down and let the other continue it's way through to actually bore the tunnel all the way through. And, there were not just 2 boring machines. I believe that the chunnel consists of 3 tunnels, so that makes 6 machines, 3 of which alien archaelogists one day will dig up and in one loud voice proclaim....WTF?!
Pffftt.....these people think I'm gonna actually bid on something from a guy that doesn't have any feedback and just registered on 03/30/04? Yeah right, this is just some little fly by night operation looking to get my money and run ;)
Bore your way there? ;)
1) Buy Boring Machine Off of Ebay
2) Attach nuclear warhead
3) Point down
4) Threaten the leaders of the world
5) ??????
6) Profit!