OK, we don't have anough addresses. Ok, lets firewall and subnet. Outcome? I can't connect directly to my friends's computer, and I can't run games (or any other) servers. Decentralised P2P suffers similarly. Rock on IPv6! I have my own IP address, unlike about 1/2 the people at my university and all my friends at other universities, and it's damn useful. Rock on IPv6!
I know what you mean, I played Jedi Knight 2 on 640x480 and it a) ran uber smootly and b) looked like all those sprite-based star wars games from 10 years ago, but bloody amazing.
I gather that with 48khz there are ikky problematic sounds if you forget to filter out high frequecies that reach all the way down into the audible domain - 196khz ensures that these artifacts will be well out of the range of hearing and the abilities of most equipment to reproduce.
Linux on the desktop is a long long way off from being as easy to use for beginners as windows is. I think we need to just grit our teeth, clench our buttocks, swallow our pride and set out to emulate windows's simplicity.
Technology is seen as infallible by a great many people - suppose a paper accidentally failed the pagiarism test - is there any way to appeal? who are you going to beleive, some snot-nosed plagiarising punk or a godlike magical website?
Ok, it may bave been intended as a troll, but he has a point. I got XP free with my dell. I felt no great need to reformat it, and I have a linux partition for when I want to tinker with linux in a power enviroment, not to mention the 3 or 4 scrap boxes...
But as a desktop enviroment, that just works, it has no rival (Except possibly OSX.) Everything just... works. Ok, if you want to fanny around customising it, it's shit, but if you just want to write some emails, watch some movies, play some games, linux is no match (at least not without several weeks of tinkering.
To see them having thier own games division; it's a lot cheaper than contracting every time, especially given the vast potential they have for game development. There is always the danger of the games sucking, though.
I suspect all of the current shuttle computer functions could be packed into a single millitary-grade shielded chip, which could then be used in parallel with other chips. I believe the shuttles currently use several duplicate computers and compare the results of any calculation. The chips might fail 2 or 3 times faster but you could fit on 100 of them for the same weight as the original computers.
You could even use chips/boards made by several different companies/processes so if an undiscovered bug immobilised all of a particular type, you could still land safely.
It's about time too. The current shuttle fleet has computers less powerful than the modern car and structural materials about as sophisticated as a shopping trolley.
Given that they were designed and built some time ago, would it really cost that much to just fab a new set of components in the same shapes and sizes, but using modern materials that are stronger and lighter? as long as all the replacement bits didn't perform worse than the originals in any way, you wouldn't have to redesign anything, you'd just end up with it twice as light, twice as strong, or twice as cheap. Of course, the computer systems could be a problem, with the current shuttle computers all obsolete, and modern ones all having security/stability problems (Some more than others, but I for one would feel no more secure trusting my life to OSX, Windows, or linux)
Slashdot Mirror
Sow faster! We got on Slashdot!
Oh great, now a slashdotting will take out a large section of highway
OK, we don't have anough addresses. Ok, lets firewall and subnet. Outcome? I can't connect directly to my friends's computer, and I can't run games (or any other) servers. Decentralised P2P suffers similarly. Rock on IPv6! I have my own IP address, unlike about 1/2 the people at my university and all my friends at other universities, and it's damn useful. Rock on IPv6!
Oh great, now a slashdotting will take out all the power and aircraft in a hundred mile radius
I know what you mean, I played Jedi Knight 2 on 640x480 and it a) ran uber smootly and b) looked like all those sprite-based star wars games from 10 years ago, but bloody amazing.
I gather that with 48khz there are ikky problematic sounds if you forget to filter out high frequecies that reach all the way down into the audible domain - 196khz ensures that these artifacts will be well out of the range of hearing and the abilities of most equipment to reproduce.
Linux on the desktop is a long long way off from being as easy to use for beginners as windows is. I think we need to just grit our teeth, clench our buttocks, swallow our pride and set out to emulate windows's simplicity.
Will this have any impact on Firebird, which is the sweetest browser I ever did use?
Technology is seen as infallible by a great many people - suppose a paper accidentally failed the pagiarism test - is there any way to appeal? who are you going to beleive, some snot-nosed plagiarising punk or a godlike magical website?
With America's Army, and now this, it seems the US millitary are tying to save money by having people train themselves.
having duplicate posts is a very useful way to see general opinions, rather than haveing one or two massive threads about a particual viewpoint.
Hurrah for burning trousers!
I missed the "This is not" and I was looking forward to reading about all those things, expecially why I'm a god.
My favourite things about the 2600 were those rad game cartridges and cool joysticks.
Ok, it may bave been intended as a troll, but he has a point. I got XP free with my dell. I felt no great need to reformat it, and I have a linux partition for when I want to tinker with linux in a power enviroment, not to mention the 3 or 4 scrap boxes... But as a desktop enviroment, that just works, it has no rival (Except possibly OSX.) Everything just... works. Ok, if you want to fanny around customising it, it's shit, but if you just want to write some emails, watch some movies, play some games, linux is no match (at least not without several weeks of tinkering.
Heresey! Say 15 "Hail Linus's"
To see them having thier own games division; it's a lot cheaper than contracting every time, especially given the vast potential they have for game development. There is always the danger of the games sucking, though.
I suspect all of the current shuttle computer functions could be packed into a single millitary-grade shielded chip, which could then be used in parallel with other chips.
I believe the shuttles currently use several duplicate computers and compare the results of any calculation. The chips might fail 2 or 3 times faster but you could fit on 100 of them for the same weight as the original computers.
You could even use chips/boards made by several different companies/processes so if an undiscovered bug immobilised all of a particular type, you could still land safely.
It's about time too. The current shuttle fleet has computers less powerful than the modern car and structural materials about as sophisticated as a shopping trolley.
But isn't SCO supposed to have produced some evidence by now?
The helmet says "MARSE?", presumeably the grunt's name.
Telewest cable do a 2Mbit service for 50/mo iirc.
It's a name!
What next? Microsoft to sue DIY shops for selling windows without paying royalties?
Given that they were designed and built some time ago, would it really cost that much to just fab a new set of components in the same shapes and sizes, but using modern materials that are stronger and lighter? as long as all the replacement bits didn't perform worse than the originals in any way, you wouldn't have to redesign anything, you'd just end up with it twice as light, twice as strong, or twice as cheap.
Of course, the computer systems could be a problem, with the current shuttle computers all obsolete, and modern ones all having security/stability problems (Some more than others, but I for one would feel no more secure trusting my life to OSX, Windows, or linux)
the man behind the thirty meter "telescope"
We finally find out just how popular he is with the ladies...