My wife is an Architect but she qualified too soon to get experience with CAD. So when the time came to buy a copies of autocad and revit she was totally stumped by their complexity. She bought a commercial copy of sketchup for this reason. It is 3D CAD without the clutter. The concepts are easier to learn, and it made a transition to revit possible.
Yeah in the UI of the ATC system I work on red is only used for emergencies, nothing else. The actual colors are very subdued, even when red it used, but it stands out when it is used.
North Korea have exactly the rocket they need. The first stage of the rocket they tested can drop a nuke on Seoul. Thats all they want. If they demonstrate a rocket which can drop a nuke on Beijing they will be shut down as quickly as China can cut the money supply, so they won't do that.
Sure, its all recursion, simple xml DOM tree manipulation, and calls to encode and decode a stream. Its an elegant design but horrible to run. I am sure modern software is loaded with performance sinks like that.
Oh (and now you got me started) there is a tendency for developers to turn efficient high level languages with strong typing into weakly typed performance sucks like perl by using string keys, root classes (every domain object really is an Object) and type casts all over the place.
The point is that the metrics you quote don't actuually help modern computers. My laptop runs at 1.6 GHz but it still has trouble performing everyday tasks. The software from the model 100 should absolutely fly on my laptop, probably to the point where you wouldn't see a difference. The problem is that programmers now operate in an abstract world where they do their little job and if you have performance issues then that can be blamed on a different layer in the system. I see this in my day job and you wouldn't believe the horrors. There was one guy using XML serialisation as a form of type cast, and building the intermediate xml documents as nested strings as the object hierarchy was traversed. It took a good part of a second to process one record, of which we get a thousand messages per second. Very elegant but the purpose of the job is to stay in business you know?
It revolutionised journalism because it make it possible for articles to be written once and uploaded via a phone line. It must have put a lot of typists out of work.
IIRC there was a story a few years back that Larry had bought a new, smaller boat because it was too difficult to find places to park the old one in some countries.
When your enemies live in caves and fire small arms it actually pays to fill their sky with the contrails of your bomber for hours on end. The Taliban can't shoot back at a B-52 so there is no need to hide.
We have a bunch of them and I am currently on their shit project, having avoided it for the last five years. Its got to the point where they are being made to take people who refuse to play poker and golf with them but the leadership of the project is still a boys club.
Maybe the second and third stages, as well as the orbital payload are just dummies which represent the payoad which willl ultimately be attached to the first stage.
Yeah its like when I worked for our road authority we had a B2B link to pass road service jobs to a contractor. To test the link we put test in every field and the contractor still dispatched the job and billed us. They want to get paid, duh.
Thanks for the link. I take the point about the amount of energy which would need to be dissipated but wouldn't it still be better to have 32,000 magnitude 3 quakes instead of one magnitude 6 quake?
It would actually be interesting to extend the idea of a bread machine into something more universal. It would have hoppers for various ingredents and an internet connection. The idea would be that you would remotely control it from a web browser and select an item from a menu from its internal storage, but it would also have the ability to use programming instructions from elsewhere, so you really could share cakes.
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Maybe if the captain pulls back and the first officer pushes forward you get a bank to the left.
I would love to know what happens if one stick pulls up and the other pushes down.
My wife is an Architect but she qualified too soon to get experience with CAD. So when the time came to buy a copies of autocad and revit she was totally stumped by their complexity. She bought a commercial copy of sketchup for this reason. It is 3D CAD without the clutter. The concepts are easier to learn, and it made a transition to revit possible.
Yeah in the UI of the ATC system I work on red is only used for emergencies, nothing else. The actual colors are very subdued, even when red it used, but it stands out when it is used.
And a security strap with official looking printing on it, complete with an ID card showing your picture.
Sure just cruise around wrecking yards and the second hand market then weld interesting bits on to them. Thats what the producers did.
North Korea have exactly the rocket they need. The first stage of the rocket they tested can drop a nuke on Seoul. Thats all they want. If they demonstrate a rocket which can drop a nuke on Beijing they will be shut down as quickly as China can cut the money supply, so they won't do that.
Not my fault. The speedo on my van is broken.
Sure, its all recursion, simple xml DOM tree manipulation, and calls to encode and decode a stream. Its an elegant design but horrible to run. I am sure modern software is loaded with performance sinks like that.
Oh (and now you got me started) there is a tendency for developers to turn efficient high level languages with strong typing into weakly typed performance sucks like perl by using string keys, root classes (every domain object really is an Object) and type casts all over the place.
There are a few Tandy branded stores in Melbourne but they feel like a cheap goods outlet for DSE.
The point is that the metrics you quote don't actuually help modern computers. My laptop runs at 1.6 GHz but it still has trouble performing everyday tasks. The software from the model 100 should absolutely fly on my laptop, probably to the point where you wouldn't see a difference. The problem is that programmers now operate in an abstract world where they do their little job and if you have performance issues then that can be blamed on a different layer in the system. I see this in my day job and you wouldn't believe the horrors. There was one guy using XML serialisation as a form of type cast, and building the intermediate xml documents as nested strings as the object hierarchy was traversed. It took a good part of a second to process one record, of which we get a thousand messages per second. Very elegant but the purpose of the job is to stay in business you know?
Here in Australia it is still called Tandy, though the stores have gone downhill in the last 30 years.
I don't recall that but I wouldn't be surprised.
It revolutionised journalism because it make it possible for articles to be written once and uploaded via a phone line. It must have put a lot of typists out of work.
IIRC there was a story a few years back that Larry had bought a new, smaller boat because it was too difficult to find places to park the old one in some countries.
When your enemies live in caves and fire small arms it actually pays to fill their sky with the contrails of your bomber for hours on end. The Taliban can't shoot back at a B-52 so there is no need to hide.
We have a bunch of them and I am currently on their shit project, having avoided it for the last five years. Its got to the point where they are being made to take people who refuse to play poker and golf with them but the leadership of the project is still a boys club.
Maybe the second and third stages, as well as the orbital payload are just dummies which represent the payoad which willl ultimately be attached to the first stage.
I had it easy with my 6502.
Thats like 1/40 the cost of making the movie again in 3D.
Yeah its like when I worked for our road authority we had a B2B link to pass road service jobs to a contractor. To test the link we put test in every field and the contractor still dispatched the job and billed us. They want to get paid, duh.
Sounds like posting to wikileaks would have kept the information in public view for longer.
Thanks for the link. I take the point about the amount of energy which would need to be dissipated but wouldn't it still be better to have 32,000 magnitude 3 quakes instead of one magnitude 6 quake?
That would obviously be quite a breakthrough if it could be made repeatable.
It would actually be interesting to extend the idea of a bread machine into something more universal. It would have hoppers for various ingredents and an internet connection. The idea would be that you would remotely control it from a web browser and select an item from a menu from its internal storage, but it would also have the ability to use programming instructions from elsewhere, so you really could share cakes.