As someone who's driven in NYC a few times and narrowly avoided many accidents because of erratic driving like that, I support anything that will help my fellow morons on the road be less moronic. You REALLY don't want to miss a turn because you could wind up in a maze of twisty one-way streets, all alike.
Well, if you define 'space' as where things aren't, then most of the universe is space... except for things like stars, planets, etc etc. Kind of like saying "there's no dirt in that hole I just dug" right?;)
Sounds like they found an environmentally friendly way to cook bacon. Just stick it on the pool deck and wait! Side effects may include cooking the chef.
Seriously though, this was probably done deliberately by some architect, who is now cackling with glee over the massive parabolic dish. This would be rather difficult to call an accidental design flaw.
Related note: It would be really useful if file archivers had an option to NOT extract MacOS and Windows specific files like.DS_Store and thumbs.db, so that those of us on different platforms than the archive originators could avoid crufting up our filesystems.
If you prepare a GOOD home-cooked meal for a friend you are romantically interested in, you win a lot of points. It's worth more than taking someone out for dinner (as long as you still do that once in a while) and WAY more than ordering delivery. It shows that you have some useful IRL skills that geeks are commonly assumed not to have. The more from-scratch it is, the more points you can theoretically obtain if your Other has also invested time in learning to cook.
No mac-and-cheese and hotdogs though... make something good like the parent poster mentioned!
Yes, that game was fantastic! I was so thrilled to see it in Intellivision Lives... now I can relive that any time on my PS2, and marvel at how 160x100 was considered "high resolution". Only thing is the weird controller mechanism really sucks for Utopia. Maybe the PC version is better.
You *could* just get a decent surge protector so you could take the time to shut down your apps, ya know. They even make 'em with switches, so you can still have insta-kill and even leave it off while you're not home. Sags happen rather more often without lightning's involvement, and they can silently kill power supplies. Ever turn on the microwave or hear your refrigerator's compressor kick in, then see the lights flicker or dim? Your power supply strained under that. So... good idea, but there is a better way. I have a nice UPS that does power conditioning, keeps the supply constant when input drops or surges, and even lets me disconnect from the wall outlet entirely and have a few minutes to finish up what I'm doing.
Nothing wrong with leaving the power disconnected when you're not using the system - I support that idea. Little trickles of current add up over time.
By the way, what config are you using that your open apps and files are restored upon your next login after you yank the power cord? I've only seen Linux do that with "restore last session" sort of things, but even then it only saved the session when you logged out properly, so yanking the power cord would only restore the last stored session, not the last active setup.
So we'll all be depending on multiple carriers' good patching practices, to make sure the patch for foolib-1.2.3-r4 gets pushed to all their Frobnitz Model 200 phones that they released two years ago and have since deprecated and replaced with Model 201, 220, 240, and 250, now with more shiny (but everyone still gets them because they're free with a new contract.) And by the way, it's going to be on your data bill. Call me pessimistic, but I don't think it'll happen in a timely fashion when someone discovers a vulnerability.
Crackers compete over who can own the most boxes just so they can have bragging rights. Oh look, such-and-such group disabled e911 for 20,000 people, why hasn't OUR group done that yet? We'd better do something even bigger so we can be elite again. Someone will find the loose rivet in the armor, and it'll be like a colonial land grab for a few months until the patch gets distributed.
You need to get through all the orbits of uncontrolled junk, which takes a lot of calculation and you can only move so fast.
You have to be able to get out of the way of new junk that's moving so fast you can't accelerate quickly enough to wait and see if it might miss you.
Calculation of junk trajectory is only so precise, so you have to leave a 'safety buffer' of sorts.
There's more junk up there than we have cataloged. There will always be new junk, and collisions alter orbits of existing junk such that our known trajectories become inaccurate and we have to relocate and recalculate all the time.
So finding a safe zone which requires the least fuel usage to stay alive is becoming more challenging.
Tiny fragments that wouldn't harm anyone if you threw it at them are deadly, equipment-wrecking projectiles at high velocity. Think about a small piece of metal, like a penny. Not a problem if you drop it on your foot. Not going to destroy a vehicle if you drop if off a towering skyscraper, even. But, in space where there's no[t enough] atmosphere to slow it down or burn it up, it can theoretically approach any speed... and a 1,000 MPH penny is a fearsome entity to a fragile laboratory measurement device. We might not even be able to track that very accurately, but if you guess wrong... you transfer that momentum into multiple new shards of former expensive equipment!
So getting things into space is really getting more complicated and keeping things alive up there takes a lot more calculation and fuel as the probability of stray objects increases. Does that cut down on the exaggeration factor?
If Windows crashes, the VM goes down with it. Then, since it's actually crashing, the VM has no chance to save its state, so you've effectively crashed two machines with one bad operation. So it makes more sense to NOT run Linux in a VM. The moral of the story is: Don't run VMs under an OS where you're also performing other tasks - it tends to get messy!
Lucky you, I work around 2.5 miles away, can SEE the airport if I walk over to that side of the building, and didn't even know about it until much later.
The recent earthquake though, that was a lot of fun.
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As someone who's driven in NYC a few times and narrowly avoided many accidents because of erratic driving like that, I support anything that will help my fellow morons on the road be less moronic. You REALLY don't want to miss a turn because you could wind up in a maze of twisty one-way streets, all alike.
A case like this in NYC? I think you need to lower your expectations a little bit.
Well, if you define 'space' as where things aren't, then most of the universe is space... except for things like stars, planets, etc etc. Kind of like saying "there's no dirt in that hole I just dug" right? ;)
I know, it's silly.
Right, but what is the performance overhead of having that many cores on Win7, though?
"It scales" doesn't necessarily imply a linear performance increase :)
On that scale, it's more like finding a speck of glitter in the mall parking lot.
But... I need a paperweight...
Sounds like they found an environmentally friendly way to cook bacon. Just stick it on the pool deck and wait! Side effects may include cooking the chef.
Seriously though, this was probably done deliberately by some architect, who is now cackling with glee over the massive parabolic dish. This would be rather difficult to call an accidental design flaw.
If there was a "Comment of the Day" award, you would win it for this post.
Use Adobe(R) PDF. If you and your friends don't, how will all those updater-updating-installer developers find work??
They could wait until Nov. 12, and call it Ubuntu 10.11.12
This seems like the kind of major win that would be worth delaying Ubuntu 10.10 for.
Related note: It would be really useful if file archivers had an option to NOT extract MacOS and Windows specific files like .DS_Store and thumbs.db, so that those of us on different platforms than the archive originators could avoid crufting up our filesystems.
Geeks of both genders, this is COMPLETELY TRUE.
If you prepare a GOOD home-cooked meal for a friend you are romantically interested in, you win a lot of points. It's worth more than taking someone out for dinner (as long as you still do that once in a while) and WAY more than ordering delivery. It shows that you have some useful IRL skills that geeks are commonly assumed not to have. The more from-scratch it is, the more points you can theoretically obtain if your Other has also invested time in learning to cook.
No mac-and-cheese and hotdogs though... make something good like the parent poster mentioned!
Yes, that game was fantastic! I was so thrilled to see it in Intellivision Lives... now I can relive that any time on my PS2, and marvel at how 160x100 was considered "high resolution". Only thing is the weird controller mechanism really sucks for Utopia. Maybe the PC version is better.
You *could* just get a decent surge protector so you could take the time to shut down your apps, ya know. They even make 'em with switches, so you can still have insta-kill and even leave it off while you're not home. Sags happen rather more often without lightning's involvement, and they can silently kill power supplies. Ever turn on the microwave or hear your refrigerator's compressor kick in, then see the lights flicker or dim? Your power supply strained under that. So... good idea, but there is a better way. I have a nice UPS that does power conditioning, keeps the supply constant when input drops or surges, and even lets me disconnect from the wall outlet entirely and have a few minutes to finish up what I'm doing.
Nothing wrong with leaving the power disconnected when you're not using the system - I support that idea. Little trickles of current add up over time.
By the way, what config are you using that your open apps and files are restored upon your next login after you yank the power cord? I've only seen Linux do that with "restore last session" sort of things, but even then it only saved the session when you logged out properly, so yanking the power cord would only restore the last stored session, not the last active setup.
So we'll all be depending on multiple carriers' good patching practices, to make sure the patch for foolib-1.2.3-r4 gets pushed to all their Frobnitz Model 200 phones that they released two years ago and have since deprecated and replaced with Model 201, 220, 240, and 250, now with more shiny (but everyone still gets them because they're free with a new contract.) And by the way, it's going to be on your data bill. Call me pessimistic, but I don't think it'll happen in a timely fashion when someone discovers a vulnerability.
Crackers compete over who can own the most boxes just so they can have bragging rights. Oh look, such-and-such group disabled e911 for 20,000 people, why hasn't OUR group done that yet? We'd better do something even bigger so we can be elite again. Someone will find the loose rivet in the armor, and it'll be like a colonial land grab for a few months until the patch gets distributed.
You need to get through all the orbits of uncontrolled junk, which takes a lot of calculation and you can only move so fast.
You have to be able to get out of the way of new junk that's moving so fast you can't accelerate quickly enough to wait and see if it might miss you.
Calculation of junk trajectory is only so precise, so you have to leave a 'safety buffer' of sorts.
There's more junk up there than we have cataloged. There will always be new junk, and collisions alter orbits of existing junk such that our known trajectories become inaccurate and we have to relocate and recalculate all the time.
So finding a safe zone which requires the least fuel usage to stay alive is becoming more challenging.
Tiny fragments that wouldn't harm anyone if you threw it at them are deadly, equipment-wrecking projectiles at high velocity. Think about a small piece of metal, like a penny. Not a problem if you drop it on your foot. Not going to destroy a vehicle if you drop if off a towering skyscraper, even. But, in space where there's no[t enough] atmosphere to slow it down or burn it up, it can theoretically approach any speed... and a 1,000 MPH penny is a fearsome entity to a fragile laboratory measurement device. We might not even be able to track that very accurately, but if you guess wrong... you transfer that momentum into multiple new shards of former expensive equipment!
So getting things into space is really getting more complicated and keeping things alive up there takes a lot more calculation and fuel as the probability of stray objects increases. Does that cut down on the exaggeration factor?
Well, sort of yes, but that would remove your ability to run the DRM-protected software.
If Windows crashes, the VM goes down with it. Then, since it's actually crashing, the VM has no chance to save its state, so you've effectively crashed two machines with one bad operation. So it makes more sense to NOT run Linux in a VM. The moral of the story is: Don't run VMs under an OS where you're also performing other tasks - it tends to get messy!
Now *that* is an interesting question!
We're getting close:
http://warmouse.com/
Lucky you, I work around 2.5 miles away, can SEE the airport if I walk over to that side of the building, and didn't even know about it until much later.
The recent earthquake though, that was a lot of fun.
Good sir, I approve of your post and thank you for it.
Or, perhaps, a lens and/or sensor that corrects for the distortion caused by the curved mirror?
Hey, they do it for the big telescopes.
I know, I was also amused. While writing about professional camera equipment, he spelled Nikon completely wrong :-D
"Oh come on, it's an easy typo. The keys are right next to each other"