the total energy equivalent of a body at rest (or in freefall like the ISS) is the mass times speed of light squared. Energy emitted as heat loss from ISS reduces it's total mass by not very much. Nothing else leaves ISS (as far as I know) they don't jetteson waste. Mass does not leave ISS in any form other than energy, hence e=mc^2 is the only equation relevant to mass loss, however c^2 is pretty big so the mass loss is pretty small.
there is a bit lost as heat, e=mc^2 and all that, but the humans are converting edible food, into non edible waste. The weight of the food+humans+waste is constant.
Apart from that the weight of an orbiting object is pretty irrelevant unless it is very very big. (like a twin planet system)
http://www.bathsheba.com
To start building a model from my 3D file, the design is built up, one layer at a time, from steel powder held in place by a laser-activated binder.... This produces a porous steel part that is about 60% dense.... The model is heated, the stems are dipped in a crucible of molten bronze, and capillary action causes the bronze to wick throughout the piece. Counterintuitive to say the least, but apparently it works very well.
oh, my bad. Grandparent post stated US Gallon vs Imperial rather than UK Gallon vs Imperial. Another reason to ditch imperial measurements in favour of something more sensible. Rods to the Hogshead or something.
in London too. They are very easy to park. In fact you can park nose in to the pavement because the length of the car is the same as the width of everything else.
so when people from America say their SUV does a shockingly poor 15MPG what they really mean is that it does a truely dreadful 12.490123 MPG! Why are American cars fitted with huge engines when they don't go any faster than small efficient engines and the weight screws up the handling?
All the components are manufactured and processed by a bunch of companies working together in one factory, the ERP systems trade with each other constantly and they deliver stock as it moves about, for example a door processing company might fit the window then send the completed door on a hook on a chain from the roof, when it reaches a particular point on it's way to the car a transaction takes place from one ERP selling it and delivering it to another. The next system belonging to the next company takes over and bolts it to the car.
a very very small number of large primes are Mersenne numbers, a very very small number of Mersenne numbers are prime. The point with the Mersenne numbers is that there are slightly more likely to be prime than a random large number and more importantly various mathematical tricks can be used to test a mersenne number for primality so they are quicker and easier to test than other numbers. These are the reasons why it is valid to say that most very large discovered primes are Mersenne numbers
the way Notes stores mail is a little different in concept to most other things, folders don't "contain" messages, messages exist in their own right in the database irrespective of what folders they might be in. It is perfectly valid for a message to exist without any folders including the message. Folders in Notes can have documents dragged into them which stores that association and you can get to the message through the folder. A saved search is what would be called a view in Notes, that is a folder which is based on a selection formula rather than manual fileing. It is perfectly valid also for one message to be shown in many many folders and views, but delete it from one it is deleted from all. Deleting a message is very different from removing it from a folder. Views and folders can also be categorised, this is basically the same thing as the group by feature. Notes views are indexed rather than calculated on the fly so I suspect they would be quicker for large mail files.
Notes of course isn't open source and you can only do limited view customisation without the design client, I do like the user interface for creating these saved searches, it is better than creating a private view in Notes.
but I for one won't be going back to your SQL overlord.
In RDBMS systems the fundamental element which stores data is the table, that is the thing that is real. There are views or queries which are virtual and there are records which only make sense with reference to the table they are part of. In Domino the fundamental element of data is the document, this is roughly equivalent to the level of a record in SQL. Basically any Domino database can be thought of as a collection of independent records, these can be displayed in views, which look a bit like tables, but only in the sense that a query in SQL looks like a table, views are virtual, but they are indexed so they are seriously quick. The advantages of this way of thinking is that documents (records) are not constrained by the restrictions of the table they happen to be in, I can add a field to any document without breaking anything, I don't need to redesign tables.
In addition to that the datatypes are much simpler and more powerful, there is no distinction between numeric data types, they are all stored as 8 byte floats, text fields are all variable length up to 15k, any field can store an array (in fact single value fields are stored as a single element array), and there are rich text fields which can store any amount of stuff.
Overall this is a way more powerful toolkit than an RDBMS for most tasks in most businesses. That isn't to say it is a magic bullet which can replace your ERP, but for stuff I come across it is better.
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Bedfont Lakes is next door to Heathrow airport.
my talk is on IBM Collaborative Technologies using Linux. Basically I am demoing Notes under Wine and ways of getting Sametime and ICT going under Linux. For the demo I am using Knoppix installed to disk, which is basically Debian but you know it is going to work before you install it. If you have any questions or if you want to attend then go see the conference website or contact me through my blog.
The architecture is good. Font handling is an operating system service which should be provided to applications, each application should not mess about deciding how best to craft it's fonts. The beauty of Open Source is that there is no need for some clever person to waste their time fixing the problem in the wrong place when the correct place is just as available to go tinkering. (calling it a problem is a bit strong though, sub pixel font hinting or coloured fonts in general falls in to the eye candy enhancement bucket rather than the problems to fix bucket)
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yes including Domino. but IBM have stated that hyperthreading and similar count as one processor.
no it doesn't. It equals mass times the speed of light times the speed of light.
the total energy equivalent of a body at rest (or in freefall like the ISS) is the mass times speed of light squared. Energy emitted as heat loss from ISS reduces it's total mass by not very much. Nothing else leaves ISS (as far as I know) they don't jetteson waste. Mass does not leave ISS in any form other than energy, hence e=mc^2 is the only equation relevant to mass loss, however c^2 is pretty big so the mass loss is pretty small.
there is a bit lost as heat, e=mc^2 and all that, but the humans are converting edible food, into non edible waste. The weight of the food+humans+waste is constant. Apart from that the weight of an orbiting object is pretty irrelevant unless it is very very big. (like a twin planet system)
I nearly bought one once. http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/pogo/spec/index.h tml
the sun is top right, shadows and sunbeams should go top right to bottom left I think.
fly inverted! not sure how pleasant that would be for a pilot with low oxygen, but the blood rush to the head might just work in his favour.
http://www.bathsheba.com/ it is way cool.
http://www.bathsheba.com To start building a model from my 3D file, the design is built up, one layer at a time, from steel powder held in place by a laser-activated binder. ... This produces a porous steel part that is about 60% dense. ... The model is heated, the stems are dipped in a crucible of molten bronze, and capillary action causes the bronze to wick throughout the piece. Counterintuitive to say the least, but apparently it works very well.
you can call them senators if it makes you feel better.
oh, my bad. Grandparent post stated US Gallon vs Imperial rather than UK Gallon vs Imperial. Another reason to ditch imperial measurements in favour of something more sensible. Rods to the Hogshead or something.
in London too. They are very easy to park. In fact you can park nose in to the pavement because the length of the car is the same as the width of everything else.
so when people from America say their SUV does a shockingly poor 15MPG what they really mean is that it does a truely dreadful 12.490123 MPG! Why are American cars fitted with huge engines when they don't go any faster than small efficient engines and the weight screws up the handling?
All the components are manufactured and processed by a bunch of companies working together in one factory, the ERP systems trade with each other constantly and they deliver stock as it moves about, for example a door processing company might fit the window then send the completed door on a hook on a chain from the roof, when it reaches a particular point on it's way to the car a transaction takes place from one ERP selling it and delivering it to another. The next system belonging to the next company takes over and bolts it to the car.
or better still go with the microfortnight. VMS waits on bootup for a period defined in microfortnights. http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ microfortnight
a very very small number of large primes are Mersenne numbers, a very very small number of Mersenne numbers are prime. The point with the Mersenne numbers is that there are slightly more likely to be prime than a random large number and more importantly various mathematical tricks can be used to test a mersenne number for primality so they are quicker and easier to test than other numbers. These are the reasons why it is valid to say that most very large discovered primes are Mersenne numbers
err, you can use thunderbird with a domino server and you can use notes client with any pop3/IMAP server. What hooks do you think Notes doesn't have?
the way Notes stores mail is a little different in concept to most other things, folders don't "contain" messages, messages exist in their own right in the database irrespective of what folders they might be in. It is perfectly valid for a message to exist without any folders including the message. Folders in Notes can have documents dragged into them which stores that association and you can get to the message through the folder. A saved search is what would be called a view in Notes, that is a folder which is based on a selection formula rather than manual fileing. It is perfectly valid also for one message to be shown in many many folders and views, but delete it from one it is deleted from all. Deleting a message is very different from removing it from a folder. Views and folders can also be categorised, this is basically the same thing as the group by feature. Notes views are indexed rather than calculated on the fly so I suspect they would be quicker for large mail files.
Notes of course isn't open source and you can only do limited view customisation without the design client, I do like the user interface for creating these saved searches, it is better than creating a private view in Notes.
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but I for one won't be going back to your SQL overlord. In RDBMS systems the fundamental element which stores data is the table, that is the thing that is real. There are views or queries which are virtual and there are records which only make sense with reference to the table they are part of. In Domino the fundamental element of data is the document, this is roughly equivalent to the level of a record in SQL. Basically any Domino database can be thought of as a collection of independent records, these can be displayed in views, which look a bit like tables, but only in the sense that a query in SQL looks like a table, views are virtual, but they are indexed so they are seriously quick. The advantages of this way of thinking is that documents (records) are not constrained by the restrictions of the table they happen to be in, I can add a field to any document without breaking anything, I don't need to redesign tables.
In addition to that the datatypes are much simpler and more powerful, there is no distinction between numeric data types, they are all stored as 8 byte floats, text fields are all variable length up to 15k, any field can store an array (in fact single value fields are stored as a single element array), and there are rich text fields which can store any amount of stuff. Overall this is a way more powerful toolkit than an RDBMS for most tasks in most businesses. That isn't to say it is a magic bullet which can replace your ERP, but for stuff I come across it is better.
conference website Bedfont Lakes is next door to Heathrow airport. my talk is on IBM Collaborative Technologies using Linux. Basically I am demoing Notes under Wine and ways of getting Sametime and ICT going under Linux. For the demo I am using Knoppix installed to disk, which is basically Debian but you know it is going to work before you install it. If you have any questions or if you want to attend then go see the conference website or contact me through my blog.
The architecture is good. Font handling is an operating system service which should be provided to applications, each application should not mess about deciding how best to craft it's fonts. The beauty of Open Source is that there is no need for some clever person to waste their time fixing the problem in the wrong place when the correct place is just as available to go tinkering. (calling it a problem is a bit strong though, sub pixel font hinting or coloured fonts in general falls in to the eye candy enhancement bucket rather than the problems to fix bucket)
rendering text is the job of the font server/X server. It should be implemented there and it would then work for all applications.
read some of the drafts for star wars. Leah rescues a captured Luke in the death star, not the other way round.
got curious about the advert on the board. picture of the geek