I was under the impression that 2x4s are, in fact, actually 2in by 4in when cut wet, but shrink to the standard size when seasoned. Or, at least, did at some point in their history of manufacture. Thats strange. If I buy 90*45 timber in Australia then it really is 90*45, to within a millimetre or so.
I really can't see how a single radio button (and associated label) would hurt here. Gnome hides that stuff in gconf. Firefox in about:config, both of which work for me. It would be pragmatic for pidgin to have an obscure place for this kind of option, at least for the next couple of versions to see how it goes.
Clearly Reiser realized he was being followed. Given he's into tech, he knows how they found Kevin Mitnick, so of course he's not going to carry around a big sign that says, "Hi guys, here's Hans Reiser." If I knew I was a suspect in a crime, and I was not guilty, I would make absolutely sure the police could find me whenever they wanted to.
In Windows and Mac OS, if you're a computer dummy you can find all of your files because the OS's default them to specific directories that are easy to find. There's no such handholding in the world of Linux, and I think that's it's biggest flaw at this point for mainstream users. In gnome my wife puts all her files on the desktop. Its a horrible mess but she knows how to find everything.
The problem here has a lot to do with new users being inundated with confusing dialog boxes, and just clicking "OK" at the first opportunity. This problem occurs both on Windows and Ubuntu. Not that this excuses Ubuntu: a usability problem should be fixed, even if it occurs on other platforms as well. If I connect to an SSH service in Nautilus I get a passphrase dialog, and another dialog saying that I can cancel the current action by pressing cancel. Sometimes the cancel dialog sits on top of the passphrase dialog. Then a third dialog asks me for a different password to unlock the keyring.
His note that if you go too small of screen size you cant click on the buttons of the dialog. This happens a LOT in windows with dons of the dialogs and YES even the screen size dialog.
She would have failed that test under windows. I once knew someone who set their desktop font size to something insane so that you could only see the top left corner of the top left icon label on the desktop. Safe mode didn't use safe desktop fonts to he had to reinstall windows.
An early job I interviewed for ran IT for an entire hospital on an early PDP/11. It had 60 VT terminals.
The job I wound up doing used PDP 11/83's and 11/84's to run a traffic signal system. I did callout work at night and if a system halted it was usually because a card had failed. Almost always the register dump on the console would give you the bus address of the failed card.
They were scary systems initially but nice to work with once you got used to them. Just don't slide a box out of the rack without extending the legs first because there is a lot of off centre mass there.
One thing which started to bring down the PDP boxes was that the plastic padding inside the lid turned to dust, then the dust fell into the backplane. The metal parts easily outlived the plastic ones.
a superlens-based CD, DVD or Blu-Ray system could get 10 times the capacity per track Maybe it could it improve resolution in integrated circuit manufacture as well.
Always thought that business of 3 interconnecting modules would be the weak spot & it is. That's malfunction #3 with it. They could swap one disposable module for a more robust docking mechanism & a bigger crew capsule but they won't. Are you saying that the interface between the propulsion module and descent module is the problem here? Every capsule design works this way. It worked very well for apollo for example.
I don't see how else you can operate anyway. The propulsion/service module protects the heat shield. It contains retro rockets which have to be behind the heat shield.
Its not hard to get explosive bolts to work reliably. Its just that the russians haven't worked that bit out yet.
Australia? One is just 10km away from me now. came up the river Rhine two weeks ago and now is perpared for display in a museum from August on. Thats the new Australian colonialism for you. Look out Europe.
Believe me I have done my share of machine code and assembly programming in my time and I understand exactly what the people on this project have achieved.
Good on them, but I believe the right tool should be used for the job. Many very high level tools such as UML get overused these days. Thats a shame and it is good that people are working to keep their assembler skills alive.
I don't think that's really the definition of a memory leak. If the reference to an object is still in scope, then it's not really a leak, is it? A leak would be the memory was allocated, used, and then no longer needed (went out of scope, set to null, etc, but the original allocation was never released back into the heap or marked for GC. If your application runs along happily but eventually runs out of memory then you have a memory leak.
In java I can create two objects which point to each other, but with nothing else pointing to each object, and that memory will be lost for ever, but the garbage collector won't free them because it works by counting references.
Lately I have been working on little applications for myself which I release under a GPL. They are not much: a front end for my GPS, an educational game/toy for my son.
So far it has all been in java but then I read another article about the apple Lisa and decided to write a document oriented desktop for my eeePC.
Wanting it to be blindingly fast I started working in C with XLib and Xt calls. It is coming along nicely but the graphics are horribly slow compared to what I could do in Java. I think part of the reason is I am drawing icons as xpm images. A project I work on in my day job uses a font for drawing icons instead.
Overall it is no faster than java and the java graphics API's seem to contain workarounds for bugs in X.
I love working in C. It has been a great experience but the JIT based runtime seems to deliver results which a simple compiler can not.
Attitude and trajectory are controlled by opening and closing the shutters. Commands come from the ground by broadcast messages. You could launch thousands of the things on a single vehicle. It would make a great way of concentrating sunlight for solar power. Remind me again how you can change trajectory with aerodynamics in space? You use light pressure. The shutters control the amount of light being reflected from different parts of the vehicle. Light pressure causes the vehicle to rotate. Once a consistent attitude has been established light pressure gives you a velocity change. The whole lot can be done with a few milliwatts of power to control a CPU and sheets of liquid crystal.
I could easily build something to throw a penny through a field goal from 30 yards away. And I'm sure in the future we'll be able to put gram-size satellites into orbit.
Sure, it may be just as easy to launch something bigger, but why bother if something smaller will do? Hell, there may come a point in the future where we aren't even capable of building them that big...unless we just build a big hull and have a bunch of empty space around the computer. Technology is shrinking. It will most likely continue to do so. Besides, a gram size satellite would be much harder to hit with a missile (or another space ship...) than one that's several kilograms. Imagine something like a compact disk. A stackable reflective disc with LCD shutters to control reflectivity. Give it a little CPU in the centre with photovoltaic cells to provide power.
Attitude and trajectory are controlled by opening and closing the shutters. Commands come from the ground by broadcast messages. You could launch thousands of the things on a single vehicle. It would make a great way of concentrating sunlight for solar power.
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A millibit would be funny, like write only memory.
I can't imagine it would remove my ability to su root.
An early job I interviewed for ran IT for an entire hospital on an early PDP/11. It had 60 VT terminals.
The job I wound up doing used PDP 11/83's and 11/84's to run a traffic signal system. I did callout work at night and if a system halted it was usually because a card had failed. Almost always the register dump on the console would give you the bus address of the failed card.
They were scary systems initially but nice to work with once you got used to them. Just don't slide a box out of the rack without extending the legs first because there is a lot of off centre mass there.
One thing which started to bring down the PDP boxes was that the plastic padding inside the lid turned to dust, then the dust fell into the backplane. The metal parts easily outlived the plastic ones.
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I don't see how else you can operate anyway. The propulsion/service module protects the heat shield. It contains retro rockets which have to be behind the heat shield.
Its not hard to get explosive bolts to work reliably. Its just that the russians haven't worked that bit out yet.
Gee imagine if Alan Turing had built him a word processor.
Believe me I have done my share of machine code and assembly programming in my time and I understand exactly what the people on this project have achieved.
Good on them, but I believe the right tool should be used for the job. Many very high level tools such as UML get overused these days. Thats a shame and it is good that people are working to keep their assembler skills alive.
In java I can create two objects which point to each other, but with nothing else pointing to each object, and that memory will be lost for ever, but the garbage collector won't free them because it works by counting references.
Let me show you my house made only with hand tools (in about 10 years).
Lately I have been working on little applications for myself which I release under a GPL. They are not much: a front end for my GPS, an educational game/toy for my son.
So far it has all been in java but then I read another article about the apple Lisa and decided to write a document oriented desktop for my eeePC.
Wanting it to be blindingly fast I started working in C with XLib and Xt calls. It is coming along nicely but the graphics are horribly slow compared to what I could do in Java. I think part of the reason is I am drawing icons as xpm images. A project I work on in my day job uses a font for drawing icons instead.
Overall it is no faster than java and the java graphics API's seem to contain workarounds for bugs in X.
I love working in C. It has been a great experience but the JIT based runtime seems to deliver results which a simple compiler can not.
It would make a great way of concentrating sunlight for solar power. Remind me again how you can change trajectory with aerodynamics in space? You use light pressure. The shutters control the amount of light being reflected from different parts of the vehicle. Light pressure causes the vehicle to rotate. Once a consistent attitude has been established light pressure gives you a velocity change. The whole lot can be done with a few milliwatts of power to control a CPU and sheets of liquid crystal.
Sure, it may be just as easy to launch something bigger, but why bother if something smaller will do? Hell, there may come a point in the future where we aren't even capable of building them that big...unless we just build a big hull and have a bunch of empty space around the computer. Technology is shrinking. It will most likely continue to do so. Besides, a gram size satellite would be much harder to hit with a missile (or another space ship...) than one that's several kilograms. Imagine something like a compact disk. A stackable reflective disc with LCD shutters to control reflectivity. Give it a little CPU in the centre with photovoltaic cells to provide power.
Attitude and trajectory are controlled by opening and closing the shutters. Commands come from the ground by broadcast messages. You could launch thousands of the things on a single vehicle.
It would make a great way of concentrating sunlight for solar power.