Agreed. Info reminds me of Microsoft help files or MSDN articles: doesn't matter how many links I follow, I can never find the information I'm looking for. In man pages it's all there, in one page, at most a simple text search away.
What? No. By pushing it backwards you are slowing it down. It will then assume a lower orbit. Orbital height == orbital velocity.
It will not "assume" a lower orbit. The slower speed will make it descend and it will reach its lowest point half an orbit after you pushed it. It will then start to climb again and half an orbit later it will be back at the position where you pushed it (just not at the same time as you, which is crucial). If you want it to assume a lower orbit you need to slow it down again at its lowest point (or at any other point in its orbit really).
(Disclaimer: I learned everything I know about orbital mechanics by playing with Orbiter. Which is awesome, by the way.)
... and we can repeatedly test the things to destruction like the motors in the Saturn V were.
How many do you think can be blown up before there is a public outcry about the tax-payers' money being wasted on those damn rocket scientists and their expensive toys? The world is a different place now than it was in the fifties.
Hehe, you could see the Russian general pull on his collar when they aborted probably thinking "Gorbachev is gonna have my balls pinned to the walls for this on".
I don't think he had anything to fear from Gorbachev back then. Khrushchev, on the other hand...
Funny how they say "Microsoft conducts its business in compliance with laws designed to promote fair competition" instead of "Microsoft will not engage in unfair competition". Gotta keep those loopholes open!
Bullshit. You can download the source code, make any changes you want and publish your own version without restrictions. That's the definition of open source, so the Linux kernel most definitely qualifies. The fact that it's hard for you to get your changes into Linus' kernel tree has nothing to do with it.
If our friendly polish, french, swedish, brazilian, et al readers cannot be bothered to know at least roughly what the difference between F and C is, then why on earth would they bother to come to this website in the first place when 1/3 of the content is completely US-centric and another 1/3 is based on US companies? Good question, I'll have to get back to you on that.
By the sound of it you'll be the one sending out those e-mails. If that's true: refuse to do it, for all the reasons mentioned above. If he fires you for that he's a jerk you don't want to work for anyway.
On the other hand, he may have an AMD/ATI card, and in that case I can sympathize. I managed to get a dual screen setup going, but it still won't do accelerated 3D and it fills up the xorg log file with error messages to the tune of 1 GB/day. Dual screen on an ATI card under Linux is a huge hassle.
I wouldn't take programming advice from a guy who doesn't know the first thing about pointer declarations in C. "int *ptr" does not mean "ptr is a pointer to an int", it means "*ptr is an int". That simple mistake leads to stupidities like writing it "int* ptr" and the subsequent confusion when "int* a, b" doesn't do what you expect.
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By the way, you can use any character instead of the '/'. Handy for replacing path names in a file:
The "info" command is IMHO too unwieldy.
Agreed. Info reminds me of Microsoft help files or MSDN articles: doesn't matter how many links I follow, I can never find the information I'm looking for. In man pages it's all there, in one page, at most a simple text search away.
I use "man zshall", you insensitive clod!
(19819 lines of awesomeness!)
I recently discovered "sed -i" for editing a file in-place. Eliminates the need for temporary files. sed never ceases to amaze.
Oh, and man <whatever>. Man pages are awesome.
What? No. By pushing it backwards you are slowing it down. It will then assume a lower orbit. Orbital height == orbital velocity.
It will not "assume" a lower orbit. The slower speed will make it descend and it will reach its lowest point half an orbit after you pushed it. It will then start to climb again and half an orbit later it will be back at the position where you pushed it (just not at the same time as you, which is crucial). If you want it to assume a lower orbit you need to slow it down again at its lowest point (or at any other point in its orbit really).
(Disclaimer: I learned everything I know about orbital mechanics by playing with Orbiter. Which is awesome, by the way.)
Just out of curiosity, how many places outside of the US have you lived in?
... and we can repeatedly test the things to destruction like the motors in the Saturn V were.
How many do you think can be blown up before there is a public outcry about the tax-payers' money being wasted on those damn rocket scientists and their expensive toys? The world is a different place now than it was in the fifties.
Hehe, you could see the Russian general pull on his collar when they aborted probably thinking "Gorbachev is gonna have my balls pinned to the walls for this on".
I don't think he had anything to fear from Gorbachev back then. Khrushchev, on the other hand...
Nice clips though, good find.
Be sure to let NASA know when you've finished your design of a helicopter that can support 900 kg in an atmosphere 170 times less dense than Earth's.
Preposterous indeed.
Funny how they say "Microsoft conducts its business in compliance with laws designed to promote fair competition" instead of "Microsoft will not engage in unfair competition". Gotta keep those loopholes open!
If only I had mod points to bury you to oblivion.
I'd help you out, but I can't find the "-1, stupid" option.
But somehow a 8 MPG hummer is Ok.
Well, duh. The governator has one.
Bullshit. You can download the source code, make any changes you want and publish your own version without restrictions. That's the definition of open source, so the Linux kernel most definitely qualifies. The fact that it's hard for you to get your changes into Linus' kernel tree has nothing to do with it.
Let's just say it would keep him busy for a good while.
Could be a while though.
By the sound of it you'll be the one sending out those e-mails. If that's true: refuse to do it, for all the reasons mentioned above. If he fires you for that he's a jerk you don't want to work for anyway.
On the other hand, he may have an AMD/ATI card, and in that case I can sympathize. I managed to get a dual screen setup going, but it still won't do accelerated 3D and it fills up the xorg log file with error messages to the tune of 1 GB/day. Dual screen on an ATI card under Linux is a huge hassle.
However, the report states that Spaceship 2 is 50% complete and White Knight 2 is 60% complete.
Well, you know what they say: the first 90% takes 90% of the time. The last 10% also takes 90% of the time.
Could be a while yet.
Prior to Christianity, the world believed in conquest without justification.
... resist ... making Iraq comment ...
Must
I'm thinking black monolith.
"Anyone who expresses such doubts is immediately branded some sort of Christian right wing nut."
No, that only happens when you do it on an internet forum. Allow me to demonstrate:
You're a Christian right wing nut.
I wouldn't take programming advice from a guy who doesn't know the first thing about pointer declarations in C. "int *ptr" does not mean "ptr is a pointer to an int", it means "*ptr is an int". That simple mistake leads to stupidities like writing it "int* ptr" and the subsequent confusion when "int* a, b" doesn't do what you expect.
Trust me, you don't want to know what Gabber is.
"Fundamentally broken"?
Ctrl-middleclick in the xterm window. You'll get a menu called "VT Options". Unselect "Scroll to Bottom on Tty Output".
I'm in.