Yeah, same experience here. I visited Japan first time before the new fingerprint checks were put in, and it was supremely simple procedure to enter. The customs staff were very polite (of course) and friendly, and just waved me through. I was actually worried because I had brought a big perfume bottle which I realized on the plane to be over the allowed duty-free size, but no problem! I don't consider having to give an address of residence for the stay to be harrassment either. This is given on a disembarkment card and not in a interrogation by officials by the way.
I do hate the new fingerprinting checks, no doubt about that, but the procedure itself is very smoothly implemented and going through takes about no time.
A license does not decide whether a work is derivative; copyright law does. "Compiling in" a header file is also vague. If all the header file does it to declare an interface, it is difficult to "compile in" any code to derive from. Unless one wants that adhering to an interface is equal to creating derivative work. Then, presuably, one finds a good friend in Darl McBride et al, and supports the notion that Linux is a derivative work of Unix.
Um, change fast? Right...I bought a Radeon HD 4830 partly because AMD had opened their specs and I figured an open source driver wouldn't be that far off. But, radeonhd driver still pretty much sucks. Installing fglrx doesn't improve things much either (if anything). Part of the reason may be that they are both using DRI. I didn't expect my Linux desktop to be crawling when I bought that 4830, especially since I used to have an NVIDIA 6600GT and KDE with Compiz was pretty spiffy even with that old card! Running the 4830 in Linux is a joke though: even something as simple as resizing a window is painfully slow! I was looking forward to DRI2 and Gallium3D, since at least there would an architecture to support modern graphics (DRI is like a decade out of date!) But I'm jumping ship now, and will be running Linux on my newly bought 2nd hand NVIDIA 8600GT, which despite being a generation behind and class down from the 4830, will be running circles around it...NVIDIA's architecture is of similar age as DRI, and yet it seems competent. Perhaps DRI2 will even things out, but that's still ten years later. Fast? Well, maybe things have finally started to move, one can hope...But I'm still going with the NVIDIA card since it's actually working right here, right now...
English is not a romance language either. Both English and Swedish are Germanic languages, and Swedish does use 'bank' in the manner suggested (blodbank = blood bank, pantbank = pawn shop, platsbank = jobs available etc). It's not a bad point that different languages don't necessarily correspond in usage though.
Earth is much closer to Jupiter than the New Horizon is. Distance between Earth and Jupiter is about 4 AU while New Horizon is currently some 11 AU away from Jupiter.
Yeah, it's a shame it doesn't play along with standard containers, but it's still very useful. I use it mostly for the ownership semantics (which is what's causing problems with standard containers...). Very helpful in keeping track of resources...
"Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution."
Yeah, if only those BSD and MIT licenses would somehow protect the credit of the authors. I don't know. Maybe they could have a condition saying something like: redistribution must reproduce the copyright notices. If only...
I'm afraid you are mixing up some things. The Lunar Orbiters photographed the moon onto 70mm optical film. This film was automatically processed onboard the spacecraft and then electronically scanned, with the result being sent to earth via the radiolink. The Apollo 11 video camera was obviously nothing like this system and if you are expecting resolution better than HD video cameras from any recovered tapes with the original radio stream, you are bound to be disappointed. On the other hand, there already exists high-definition footage of the first lunar landing as well as Armstrong stepping onto the surface: a 16mm film camera was brought and recorded many things. You can get 1080p out of this...
There are many extant copies; not just one! Some are better quality than others. The one in the NASA archives is perhaps one of the worst, because of the way it was achieved. TCN-9 in Australia, for example, has a better copy which was taken directly from Honeysuckle Creek, which apparently is similar in appearance to the stills taken from the SSTV monitor:
http://www.bautforum.com/conspiracy-theories/84874-apollo-slow-scan-tv-tapes-panorama-photographs-2.html#post1437117
This is true HD footage! Well, not the above link of course, but if they scanned/will scan the 16mm film at 1080p... Later missions took the 16mm DAC outside the LM, while on Apollo 11 it was only filming from within the LM (I think?) Starting with Apollo 15, the video camera was upgraded and provided greatly enhanced picture quality.
Completely different! Although the Apollo 1 fire did cause some public disheartenment, this happened on the ground, and in the public's mind that's completely different to even an accident during launch or re-entry. Several Apollo astronauts died in plane crashes but see how much that registered with the public. A death in space would have been completely different, so I strongly believe!
Well, sorry to be a party pooper, and it would indeed have been great if the drive from Apollo could have continued, but I think we have to consider a likely outcome of even just continuing the moon landings would have been a fatal accident. There were serious failings on pretty much all Apollo moon flights, the worst being Apollo 13 of course.
Maybe the really amazing thing NASA did was not just land a man on the moon, but the "returning him safely to earth" - there was no death in space after all.
But imagine there would have been...What would have happened with that national will power to go into space? Consider the reaction to the Columbia incident. I imagine having dead astronauts floating about in space would seriously have changed people's attitude towards space flight...
If video was the primary function, it's kind of incredible that they almost decided not to bring the video camera with them then...
And as for "lost images", there are no lost images - all the footage is still available! This whole thing has been blown out of proportion. The tapes that are missing contain recordings of the radio stream. This is raw data and cannot be viewed without decoding and processing. The best method in the 1960s to capture this image was kinoscope, which is how it was converted to standard television. These copies still exists (as far as I know). Now, these are OF COURSE not up to current high-definition standard, but I wouldn't count on even the best signal processing on the original signal to produce such either!
If HD footage is desired, however, realize that they also brought a 16mm film camera...
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Nitpicking: dereferencing NULL gives undefined behaviour and NULL is not necessarily 0; it's implementation defined.
Yeah, same experience here. I visited Japan first time before the new fingerprint checks were put in, and it was supremely simple procedure to enter. The customs staff were very polite (of course) and friendly, and just waved me through. I was actually worried because I had brought a big perfume bottle which I realized on the plane to be over the allowed duty-free size, but no problem! I don't consider having to give an address of residence for the stay to be harrassment either. This is given on a disembarkment card and not in a interrogation by officials by the way. I do hate the new fingerprinting checks, no doubt about that, but the procedure itself is very smoothly implemented and going through takes about no time.
A license does not decide whether a work is derivative; copyright law does. "Compiling in" a header file is also vague. If all the header file does it to declare an interface, it is difficult to "compile in" any code to derive from. Unless one wants that adhering to an interface is equal to creating derivative work. Then, presuably, one finds a good friend in Darl McBride et al, and supports the notion that Linux is a derivative work of Unix.
In what way are Linux system calls "excepted from the normal GPL rules"?
Um, change fast? Right...I bought a Radeon HD 4830 partly because AMD had opened their specs and I figured an open source driver wouldn't be that far off. But, radeonhd driver still pretty much sucks. Installing fglrx doesn't improve things much either (if anything). Part of the reason may be that they are both using DRI. I didn't expect my Linux desktop to be crawling when I bought that 4830, especially since I used to have an NVIDIA 6600GT and KDE with Compiz was pretty spiffy even with that old card! Running the 4830 in Linux is a joke though: even something as simple as resizing a window is painfully slow! I was looking forward to DRI2 and Gallium3D, since at least there would an architecture to support modern graphics (DRI is like a decade out of date!) But I'm jumping ship now, and will be running Linux on my newly bought 2nd hand NVIDIA 8600GT, which despite being a generation behind and class down from the 4830, will be running circles around it...NVIDIA's architecture is of similar age as DRI, and yet it seems competent. Perhaps DRI2 will even things out, but that's still ten years later. Fast? Well, maybe things have finally started to move, one can hope...But I'm still going with the NVIDIA card since it's actually working right here, right now...
What would be the point? Size on disk is not important, especially since the Linux kernel takes up like what? A few megabytes?
English is not a romance language either. Both English and Swedish are Germanic languages, and Swedish does use 'bank' in the manner suggested (blodbank = blood bank, pantbank = pawn shop, platsbank = jobs available etc). It's not a bad point that different languages don't necessarily correspond in usage though.
No. They are searching for water on the moon.
They are not trying or expecting to find any civilizations! They are trying to find water on the moon!
Earth is much closer to Jupiter than the New Horizon is. Distance between Earth and Jupiter is about 4 AU while New Horizon is currently some 11 AU away from Jupiter.
Yeah, it's a shame it doesn't play along with standard containers, but it's still very useful. I use it mostly for the ownership semantics (which is what's causing problems with standard containers...). Very helpful in keeping track of resources...
Several buffer overflows have been found in DJB's software, cf Guninsky.
If you are Doing It Right it's also impossible to get a "buffer overflow" in plain C...
About the lack of a standardized smart pointer, there is std::auto_ptr since C++98, which I tend to use quite frequently.
With that definition of good programmer, are there in fact any good programmers?
What does the Dreamcast have to do with an IBM processor?
"Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution."
Yeah, if only those BSD and MIT licenses would somehow protect the credit of the authors. I don't know. Maybe they could have a condition saying something like: redistribution must reproduce the copyright notices. If only...
I'm afraid you are mixing up some things. The Lunar Orbiters photographed the moon onto 70mm optical film. This film was automatically processed onboard the spacecraft and then electronically scanned, with the result being sent to earth via the radiolink. The Apollo 11 video camera was obviously nothing like this system and if you are expecting resolution better than HD video cameras from any recovered tapes with the original radio stream, you are bound to be disappointed. On the other hand, there already exists high-definition footage of the first lunar landing as well as Armstrong stepping onto the surface: a 16mm film camera was brought and recorded many things. You can get 1080p out of this...
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There are many extant copies; not just one! Some are better quality than others. The one in the NASA archives is perhaps one of the worst, because of the way it was achieved. TCN-9 in Australia, for example, has a better copy which was taken directly from Honeysuckle Creek, which apparently is similar in appearance to the stills taken from the SSTV monitor: http://www.bautforum.com/conspiracy-theories/84874-apollo-slow-scan-tv-tapes-panorama-photographs-2.html#post1437117
Apollo 11 also had a 16mm film camera. You can even see Armstrong descending down the ladder and take that first step! Go here for footage:
http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/NVA2~17~17~59100~126533:APOLLO-11-16MM-ONBOARD-FILM
This is true HD footage! Well, not the above link of course, but if they scanned/will scan the 16mm film at 1080p...
Later missions took the 16mm DAC outside the LM, while on Apollo 11 it was only filming from within the LM (I think?)
Starting with Apollo 15, the video camera was upgraded and provided greatly enhanced picture quality.
Completely different! Although the Apollo 1 fire did cause some public disheartenment, this happened on the ground, and in the public's mind that's completely different to even an accident during launch or re-entry. Several Apollo astronauts died in plane crashes but see how much that registered with the public. A death in space would have been completely different, so I strongly believe!
Well, sorry to be a party pooper, and it would indeed have been great if the drive from Apollo could have continued, but I think we have to consider a likely outcome of even just continuing the moon landings would have been a fatal accident. There were serious failings on pretty much all Apollo moon flights, the worst being Apollo 13 of course.
Maybe the really amazing thing NASA did was not just land a man on the moon, but the "returning him safely to earth" - there was no death in space after all.
But imagine there would have been...What would have happened with that national will power to go into space? Consider the reaction to the Columbia incident. I imagine having dead astronauts floating about in space would seriously have changed people's attitude towards space flight...
Maybe I'm just being negative...
If video was the primary function, it's kind of incredible that they almost decided not to bring the video camera with them then... And as for "lost images", there are no lost images - all the footage is still available! This whole thing has been blown out of proportion. The tapes that are missing contain recordings of the radio stream. This is raw data and cannot be viewed without decoding and processing. The best method in the 1960s to capture this image was kinoscope, which is how it was converted to standard television. These copies still exists (as far as I know). Now, these are OF COURSE not up to current high-definition standard, but I wouldn't count on even the best signal processing on the original signal to produce such either! If HD footage is desired, however, realize that they also brought a 16mm film camera...
A proper conspiracy requires that man has not been on the moon. Period. The whole point is to reject one of the greatest achievements of humanity.