A man rated rocket at a launch cost of only 16 million could make things interesting.
I don't know how many people it could carry, but assuming it was more than a few that could make access to orbit a lot cheaper for private parties.
As I understand it though, they are primarily pushing both of the rockets as cargo lifting bodies and will probably not utilize them for space tourism applications at least initially.
Launchd provides faster startup through a unified framework for starting, stopping and managing daemons, and incorporates inetd, init, mach_init, System Starter and related services.
We can already predict the value of pi as accurately as almost anyone would need. I don't know the number of digits that have been computed offhand but I believe it is in the billions. There aren't very many applications that would want or could use more than that, and for most things that is way more accuracy than needed.
I don't think your implication is accurate here. Nowhere in the summary or FA did it say the school "felt that way." On the contrary most colleges unfortunately have been all to eager to help the RIAA in whatever way they can. There is nothing preventing them from simply turning over the information anyway. There could be any number of reasons why they may still want to (they don't approve of the activity, they wish to avoid further legal problems with the RIAA, it's part of their network service agreement, etc.).
Because OOP purists would mysteriously erupt in convulsive fits mixed with violent outbursts of anger resembling a sex crazed bigfoot/unicorn hybrid if you actually used a GOTO statement while writing OOP code.
In computing, the programming paradigm of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) centers on constructs called aspects, which treat concerns of objects, classes, or methods. The aim of AOP is to separate program code related to the main purposes of the application (its core concerns) from code related to secondary purposes (cross-cutting concerns).
For example, a telecommunications application might have a core concern of routing calls, while code for timing and billing those calls would crosscut the whole object hierarchy. AOP aims to separate the billing concerns from the core concern. It moves code not related to solving the domain problem from the business logic into a separate module. The application code no longer contains pieces of crosscutting concerns scattered across modules; instead, programmers maintain crosscutting concerns in aspects; this makes it easier to maintain both core and crosscutting concerns.
Any program has principled points (join points) where programmers can identify and modify the program semantics. In AOP, programmers specify join points using a language feature called a pointcut, and specify the behavior to join those points by using advice such as methods or functions. Some variants of AOP allow programmers to extend the types in the system. These features enable aspects to implement behavior for concerns that crosscut the core concern of the application.
Something I've noticed. Why is it that most Java IDE's are fairly good but most of the Java apps built with them suck?
I mean if someone can write a good Java app to do development, why can't they write a good app to do anything else? Most all of them tend to be bloated, slow, and have an ugly UI.
It seems to me that this really doesn't solve the software patent problem at all. The major issue of patents being granted for trivial/previously implemented ideas will continue. "Marking" seems to be just an easier way to enforce software patents.
In fact, until the flawed underlying process of patenting software is fixed in a more permanent way this could actually make things worse. Right now it is very easy for programmers to simply ignore patents that they find ridiculous on the basis that the owner would not challenge them in court and become thereby open themsleves to dispute about the validity of the patent itself.
Yeah, people on other unices actually write scripts to do work. They get triggered, and run as user "oracle" or something like that.
So much for that functionality.
If you had any idea what the hell you are talking about or had even read ANY of this thread, you would know that virtually no one on "other unices" even uses this feature.
I don't mean to offend any/. readers from the UAE, but it seems the YRO category has been getting more obscure with each story over the past few weeks. What relevance does a tracking system that will be experienced offline by drivers in the United Arab Emirates have to do with my rights online or anywhere else?
pointed out some advantages that Microsoft had over Apple's OS
I've lost count of the number of articles, comparisons, and reviews of Longhorn I've come across in the last two years that tout some *advantage* over another OS (usually OS X).
What possible relevance does that have to me (or anyone else) right now considering no one will be able to buy copy for the next two years, if then? Meanwhile in the last two years OS X has served me very well, certainly better than a nonexistent OS could have.
At this point, continuing to sing Longhorn's praises to the consumer is about as logical as advertising the fact that Duke Nukem Forever will support the ability to fire 10 guns at once. If software companies never deliver the product, the feature set it has couldn't really be more irrelevant.
While I don't applaud the Bush administration's actions on censorship, I think it's still important to keep in mind that we have it much better than some places (China being just one example).
One should not become so cynical as to completely forget the good things about our form of government and the freedoms it provides. There are legitimate concerns regarding control of some information (trade secrets, confidential personal data, illegal material, national security concerns, etc.). The oft promulgated worldview that all information should be free (as in speech) is simply not a rational one.
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And for those that think "Rocket Science" is so easy
Anyone that thinks that has never looked at a fluid mechanics textbook.
to find Eden, baby, hell yeah! :-)
Each of us hides a secret pain.
A man rated rocket at a launch cost of only 16 million could make things interesting.
I don't know how many people it could carry, but assuming it was more than a few that could make access to orbit a lot cheaper for private parties.
As I understand it though, they are primarily pushing both of the rockets as cargo lifting bodies and will probably not utilize them for space tourism applications at least initially.
Launchd provides faster startup through a unified framework for starting, stopping and managing daemons, and incorporates inetd, init, mach_init, System Starter and related services.
We can already predict the value of pi as accurately as almost anyone would need. I don't know the number of digits that have been computed offhand but I believe it is in the billions. There aren't very many applications that would want or could use more than that, and for most things that is way more accuracy than needed.
He's probably a college student working at an Apple store who somehow feels qualified to outline the entire business strategy of the company.
I don't think your implication is accurate here. Nowhere in the summary or FA did it say the school "felt that way." On the contrary most colleges unfortunately have been all to eager to help the RIAA in whatever way they can. There is nothing preventing them from simply turning over the information anyway. There could be any number of reasons why they may still want to (they don't approve of the activity, they wish to avoid further legal problems with the RIAA, it's part of their network service agreement, etc.).
Because OOP purists would mysteriously erupt in convulsive fits mixed with violent outbursts of anger resembling a sex crazed bigfoot/unicorn hybrid if you actually used a GOTO statement while writing OOP code.
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In computing, the programming paradigm of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) centers on constructs called aspects, which treat concerns of objects, classes, or methods. The aim of AOP is to separate program code related to the main purposes of the application (its core concerns) from code related to secondary purposes (cross-cutting concerns).
For example, a telecommunications application might have a core concern of routing calls, while code for timing and billing those calls would crosscut the whole object hierarchy. AOP aims to separate the billing concerns from the core concern. It moves code not related to solving the domain problem from the business logic into a separate module. The application code no longer contains pieces of crosscutting concerns scattered across modules; instead, programmers maintain crosscutting concerns in aspects; this makes it easier to maintain both core and crosscutting concerns.
Any program has principled points (join points) where programmers can identify and modify the program semantics. In AOP, programmers specify join points using a language feature called a pointcut, and specify the behavior to join those points by using advice such as methods or functions. Some variants of AOP allow programmers to extend the types in the system. These features enable aspects to implement behavior for concerns that crosscut the core concern of the application.
The only thing worse would be GOTO + OOP, which of course = C++
Something I've noticed. Why is it that most Java IDE's are fairly good but most of the Java apps built with them suck?
I mean if someone can write a good Java app to do development, why can't they write a good app to do anything else? Most all of them tend to be bloated, slow, and have an ugly UI.
Cmdr Adama filling his battlestar with rotary phones and manual typewriters!
Something tells me he should focus on adding a few more medics first.
It seems to me that this really doesn't solve the software patent problem at all. The major issue of patents being granted for trivial/previously implemented ideas will continue. "Marking" seems to be just an easier way to enforce software patents.
In fact, until the flawed underlying process of patenting software is fixed in a more permanent way this could actually make things worse. Right now it is very easy for programmers to simply ignore patents that they find ridiculous on the basis that the owner would not challenge them in court and become thereby open themsleves to dispute about the validity of the patent itself.
Or does the submitter sound a bit too much like a Sidekick affiliate?
Yeah, people on other unices actually write scripts to do work. They get triggered, and run as user "oracle" or something like that. So much for that functionality.
If you had any idea what the hell you are talking about or had even read ANY of this thread, you would know that virtually no one on "other unices" even uses this feature.
Except for the acting. :(
I don't mean to offend any /. readers from the UAE, but it seems the YRO category has been getting more obscure with each story over the past few weeks. What relevance does a tracking system that will be experienced offline by drivers in the United Arab Emirates have to do with my rights online or anywhere else?
That's why I offset "advantage." I wouldn't really consider them to be either, but the person(s) writing the articles obviously did.
pointed out some advantages that Microsoft had over Apple's OS
I've lost count of the number of articles, comparisons, and reviews of Longhorn I've come across in the last two years that tout some *advantage* over another OS (usually OS X).
What possible relevance does that have to me (or anyone else) right now considering no one will be able to buy copy for the next two years, if then? Meanwhile in the last two years OS X has served me very well, certainly better than a nonexistent OS could have.
At this point, continuing to sing Longhorn's praises to the consumer is about as logical as advertising the fact that Duke Nukem Forever will support the ability to fire 10 guns at once. If software companies never deliver the product, the feature set it has couldn't really be more irrelevant.
The actors seem to know something you all don't.
This show is as dead as a doornail right now and won't be coming back.
While I don't applaud the Bush administration's actions on censorship, I think it's still important to keep in mind that we have it much better than some places (China being just one example).
One should not become so cynical as to completely forget the good things about our form of government and the freedoms it provides. There are legitimate concerns regarding control of some information (trade secrets, confidential personal data, illegal material, national security concerns, etc.). The oft promulgated worldview that all information should be free (as in speech) is simply not a rational one.
No, he only took credit for it.
Visually, LEXX was stunning, but I could never get into the story.
That's because there was none.
The `L' Line of the MTA
Man, that just brought back horrific memories of sendmail M4 syntax.