These news may be great for filesharing people worldwide. But from a political point of view the Piracy Party has not won until the the servers are back up on swedish territory.
In zero gravity, cryogenic fuels still have surface tension and therefore stick to the walls of their tanks. Acquisition devices would have to find a way to pick up the liquid, but not the gases in the centre of the tank.
How about generating aritifical gravity by putting the entire gas station into a spin? (Yes, Arthur C. Clarke taught me this:-) There'd probably be some problems with this however.
It may be harder to build an orbital structure that's able to sustain constant gravity.
The station itself might need to consume fuel in order to sustain the spin. Though other orbiters need to perform correctional maneuvers too.
From playing Orbiter I know it's a lot harder to dock while spinning:) Additionally, the spin rate would change while loading/unloading fuel.
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Where I work I can do so much better than that; a guy who's responsible for testing some software I wrote most part of came to me to ask me if I eventually was going to fix "bug X", to which I (truthfully) replied, "That's been fixed in CVS for about 2 weeks, AND.. I updated its status in bugzilla!".
The +5 funny part is that this was indirectly caused by an earlier incident, which I like to call the "Bugzilla Wars!" - when I finally had him convinced to write up bug reports in bugzilla rather than hand over "bug report papers" written in Open Office, he submitted around 50 bugs in one day. However, I had to do some bulk status reassignments when I learned that most of the reports was set to "very high priority" which left little room for prioritizing anything up. As a result he recieved probably ~200 bugzilla mails in a timespan of 10 minutes. Later I recieved a bunch of bugzilla mails because he had up-prioritized bugs again with comments like "this doesn't work, and that's unacceptable!". This practise went forth and back a few times. At some point the torrent of mails stopped though, and I didn't know why...
So.. about that "bug X" I had told him that he was supposed to get a mail from bugzilla stating that the bug had been resolved, and he told me that he hadn't got any! So when we sat down to fix that particular problem, we came across a filter in his thunderbird that redirected all bugzilla mail to trash:-D
What's the most used browser on windows? Internet Explorer.
What's the most used music and video player on windows? Windows Media Player.
The keyword is integration.
When Microsoft integrates a search bar for their own engine in Vista, then we can only pray that anti-trust will keep them from drawing the majority of users to their own product.
Reminds me that I really thought my Athlon64 allowed 64-bit enabled apps to run under win32, using the new features as if they were a new SSE or something, but alas.
I'd use it to find some decent pr0n among the oceans of crap out there. But seriously, 'searching' is a very interesting subject and a lot deeper than most people realize. Try to explain how Google works to a non-geek.
the BACK button in the browser simply didn't work with ajax sites.
If you're using AJAX for all "navigation" for a site you're using it wrong. One of the best uses for AJAX is to update the site according to a user's choice, say, adding a comment to a slashdot article. What do you want to use the BACK button for there? Go back to BEFORE you posted the comment? The BACK button works great for static homepages, but "dynamic" is the keyword in AJAX.
Many browsers cannot print ajax pages appropriately.
That's not really an AJAX problem, but the browser having difficulties capturing the present state of the page. The same problem usually goes for using "save as" on the page, btw.
Ajax is currently so hard to learn that many page authors write buggy code.
Okay, then call that section "Page authors sucks most of the time". Also, Ruby on Rails does a great job of making AJAX available to the n00b.
Search engines have trouble with ajax
Again, AJAX should be used for dynamic changes to a page. A search engine isn't meant to post comments and such.
IMO, AJAX used for page navigation is bad. Using it for dynamic updates is neat.
Hasbro has a long history of suing amateurs who make games based on their games. I think they own a lot of classic arcade games too (e.g. from acquiring atari), so when someone makes, say, a Missile Command clone they also issue legal threats. Makes my inner baby cry.
After Windows Longhorn, Windows is no more. In name only. The next OS from Microsoft will be integrated into the core of WMG 9.0.
Seeing that graphics cards exceeds standard desktop computers in both processing power and memory capabilities, it was the logical choice to have the graphics do the OS, and not the other way around., says Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft.
Look out for WMG 9.0 compatibility on the back of that next generation graphics card's box.
Could this be used as legal immunity for linux? So, when SCO decides to sue someone for having an unlicenced linux kernel, they just reply with something like, "Sorry sir McNeal, but I checked this morning.. and what do you know, we actually run Mozillix, Fenix and Bollox... but not linux?"
Tech: Tech-support.. how may I help you? Me: Hi, uhm... Well, I'm having trouble connecting to the internet.. Tech: *groan* Ok. What browser are you using? Me: Eh.. It says firepanda.. Tech: Oh? Well, try opening it... Me: Ok.... done Tech: Now, in your.. firepanda window.. try find a menu called "preferences" Me: Uhm.. firepanda?! it says crimsongazelle now.. Tech: *sigh*
I remember GEOS - it was actually a nice little Mac-style OS for C64. It's funny to see a complete package, with "paint", "wordpad" and so on run in less than 64k of memory.
The emergency brake (i.e. the handbrake) in trucks is usually kept open by compressed air. The compressed air is responsible for holding a spring back, so if the air is suddenly lost, for some reason, the spring will extend and brake the truck. (This is because the conventional brakes are powered by compressed air)
Maybe a similar system could be used to automaticly seal off contaminated areas, in case power is lost?
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These news may be great for filesharing people worldwide. But from a political point of view the Piracy Party has not won until the the servers are back up on swedish territory.
A BFG you say? I hope the design included the operator to be blindfolded. Otherwise he'd might destroy everything in his field of vision.
How about generating aritifical gravity by putting the entire gas station into a spin? (Yes, Arthur C. Clarke taught me this :-) There'd probably be some problems with this however.
"Scott Borg, the director and chief economist of the US Cyber Consequences Unit (CCU)"...
I had, but luckily it got mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw'd.
Even less so when it's slashdotted.
Where I work I can do so much better than that; a guy who's responsible for testing some software I wrote most part of came to me to ask me if I eventually was going to fix "bug X", to which I (truthfully) replied, "That's been fixed in CVS for about 2 weeks, AND.. I updated its status in bugzilla!".
The +5 funny part is that this was indirectly caused by an earlier incident, which I like to call the "Bugzilla Wars!" - when I finally had him convinced to write up bug reports in bugzilla rather than hand over "bug report papers" written in Open Office, he submitted around 50 bugs in one day. However, I had to do some bulk status reassignments when I learned that most of the reports was set to "very high priority" which left little room for prioritizing anything up. As a result he recieved probably ~200 bugzilla mails in a timespan of 10 minutes. Later I recieved a bunch of bugzilla mails because he had up-prioritized bugs again with comments like "this doesn't work, and that's unacceptable!". This practise went forth and back a few times. At some point the torrent of mails stopped though, and I didn't know why...
So.. about that "bug X" I had told him that he was supposed to get a mail from bugzilla stating that the bug had been resolved, and he told me that he hadn't got any! So when we sat down to fix that particular problem, we came across a filter in his thunderbird that redirected all bugzilla mail to trash :-D
What's the most used browser on windows? Internet Explorer.
What's the most used music and video player on windows? Windows Media Player.
The keyword is integration.
When Microsoft integrates a search bar for their own engine in Vista, then we can only pray that anti-trust will keep them from drawing the majority of users to their own product.
"written in brainfuck": 463 hits
I'm sure it measures something!
Reminds me that I really thought my Athlon64 allowed 64-bit enabled apps to run under win32, using the new features as if they were a new SSE or something, but alas.
I'd use it to find some decent pr0n among the oceans of crap out there. But seriously, 'searching' is a very interesting subject and a lot deeper than most people realize. Try to explain how Google works to a non-geek.
From TFA
the BACK button in the browser simply didn't work with ajax sites.
If you're using AJAX for all "navigation" for a site you're using it wrong. One of the best uses for AJAX is to update the site according to a user's choice, say, adding a comment to a slashdot article. What do you want to use the BACK button for there? Go back to BEFORE you posted the comment? The BACK button works great for static homepages, but "dynamic" is the keyword in AJAX.
Many browsers cannot print ajax pages appropriately.
That's not really an AJAX problem, but the browser having difficulties capturing the present state of the page. The same problem usually goes for using "save as" on the page, btw.
Ajax is currently so hard to learn that many page authors write buggy code.
Okay, then call that section "Page authors sucks most of the time". Also, Ruby on Rails does a great job of making AJAX available to the n00b.
Search engines have trouble with ajax
Again, AJAX should be used for dynamic changes to a page. A search engine isn't meant to post comments and such.
IMO, AJAX used for page navigation is bad. Using it for dynamic updates is neat.
Hasbro has a long history of suing amateurs who make games based on their games. I think they own a lot of classic arcade games too (e.g. from acquiring atari), so when someone makes, say, a Missile Command clone they also issue legal threats. Makes my inner baby cry.
And the few parents who actually use Linux were probably convinced by their kids :)
Maybe he got this idea while listening to a 55-cycle hum.
Maybe we should work out this FTL problem before using such terms.
I'd like to point out the permanent "shift key" that already works on the computers of countless geeks.
I know, I know... tape!
or direct x_x
After Windows Longhorn, Windows is no more. In name only. The next OS from Microsoft will be integrated into the core of WMG 9.0.
Seeing that graphics cards exceeds standard desktop computers in both processing power and memory capabilities, it was the logical choice to have the graphics do the OS, and not the other way around., says Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft.
Look out for WMG 9.0 compatibility on the back of that next generation graphics card's box.
So all I have to do is sketch a woman with big boobies?..
Oh, my bad - McBride it is, of course. I must've accidently installed this name randomizer into my brain.
Could this be used as legal immunity for linux? So, when SCO decides to sue someone for having an unlicenced linux kernel, they just reply with something like, "Sorry sir McNeal, but I checked this morning.. and what do you know, we actually run Mozillix, Fenix and Bollox... but not linux?"
I remember GEOS - it was actually a nice little Mac-style OS for C64. It's funny to see a complete package, with "paint", "wordpad" and so on run in less than 64k of memory.
HOTU has a PC version of it.
The emergency brake (i.e. the handbrake) in trucks is usually kept open by compressed air. The compressed air is responsible for holding a spring back, so if the air is suddenly lost, for some reason, the spring will extend and brake the truck. (This is because the conventional brakes are powered by compressed air)
Maybe a similar system could be used to automaticly seal off contaminated areas, in case power is lost?