Voyager was the series where the Borg got uber nerfed. They went from one cube destroying an armada of Federation ships to an armada of cubes unable to take down one Federation ship.
# Application memory management. On System 7.5, you had to manually set how much memory an application was supposed to get. If you guessed wrong, tough - the app would die with an 'out of memory error', regardless of how much physical or even virtual RAM was still available.
Don't forget the other nice side effect of this system: Memory fragmentation. Say you have 8 MB of RAM. If your start up app A, that takes up 2 Megs, then B, which takes up 3, then quit A. While you now have 5 megs of free RAM, you can't lauch a 5 meg app. You only use a 3 meg one. Because of the order you launched programs, B is sitting in the middle of your memory address space. There are two megs of free memory on one side and three on the other, but System 7 (And posibly 8 and 9, not sure when they got arround to fixing this) can only allocate continious blocks of memory to applications. To defragment, you basically had to close everything then reopen the stuff you wanted.
One of the (few) nice things under Windows is the / character, which ususally precedes command line arguments, is a reserved character and can't appear in file names, meaning you can't have these sort of mishaps.
If you count the number of solar systems destroyed and divide it by the number of times the galaxy has been saved, it sorta works out. Of course, they managed to destroy not one but two entire solar systems over the course of two hours last Friday, so your millage might varry.
Recently, webcomics PvP and Penny Arcade have virtually taken over the Dark Iron server with thier respective megaguilds. While it seems boths sides are having quite a bit of fun, it also seems the trafic is bringing the server to its knees. Whats your take on these "specialty servers", and are there any plans for reenforcement, or is the hardware maxed?
Slightly off topic, but I notice this rock got named Apophis, which I find slightly ironic, considering in one episode of Stargate, the Goa'uld Apophis tried chucking a giant asteroid at Earth to deal with those uppety Humans without makeing a direct strike, drawling the wrath of the Asguard.
I think the article itself could use some editors, too. I'm not a language Nazi (I got my degree in Computer Engeneering, not English), but the article not only has some ackward sentences (With that in consideration, a hacker would only need to collect packets from the wireless router for about 588 minutes, or about 10 hours. That is significantly less than 10 days.), but the author seemed a little comma happy, too. (The way the RC4 encryption algorithm works is it first takes the Initialization Vector and the WEP key, and turns them into a key stream.) Its laborious to read.
The solid rocket boosters used for the shuttle today is reliable, reasonable safe (as safe as anything can be in space I guess) and not at least very cheap for the power they deliver.
Solid rockets are, in some ways, the least safe type of engine. With liquid or hybrid engines, there are fuel and\or oxidizer pumps. Solids don't have pumps, they just burn the fuel where it is loaded. Yay, no moving parts, so its simpler\more reliable. However, when something goes wrong with your solid during launch, there is no way to throttle back or turn off the engine like you can with liquid or hybrid. Once its lit, you are committed until flameout.
Well, the Soviets lost the Polyus, which was lauched side mounted on a Energia (so it was basically replacing the orbiter oin the suttle stack, but that was lost due to the added complication of lauching the satillite upside down. Managed to spin 360 degrees instead of 180 after lauch and power dove right back into the atmosphere. See Wikipedia.
Also a bit of a in-joke. Jack at one point says one-L O'Neil has no sense of humor. In the original movie, James Spader was credited as playing Jack O'Neil
I don't Galactica is cheap. I mean, they have to cut the corners off of every scrap of paper that appears on camera!
That, and, you know, all those highly detailed digital space ship models they have to render.
Though they certainly saved money by not buying a SteadyCam.
Nope, NH has no personal income tax nor no sales tax, though there are the built into the price taxes on gas and tobaco and stuff. State revenue is primarily raised through anual property tax, which hits everything from your house to your car. They also have a 8% room, meal, and entertainment tax to stick it to those tourists.
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Dammit, I'm a doctor, not an IT adminstrator!
Voyager was the series where the Borg got uber nerfed. They went from one cube destroying an armada of Federation ships to an armada of cubes unable to take down one Federation ship.
# Application memory management. On System 7.5, you had to manually set how much memory an application was supposed to get. If you guessed wrong, tough - the app would die with an 'out of memory error', regardless of how much physical or even virtual RAM was still available. Don't forget the other nice side effect of this system: Memory fragmentation. Say you have 8 MB of RAM. If your start up app A, that takes up 2 Megs, then B, which takes up 3, then quit A. While you now have 5 megs of free RAM, you can't lauch a 5 meg app. You only use a 3 meg one. Because of the order you launched programs, B is sitting in the middle of your memory address space. There are two megs of free memory on one side and three on the other, but System 7 (And posibly 8 and 9, not sure when they got arround to fixing this) can only allocate continious blocks of memory to applications. To defragment, you basically had to close everything then reopen the stuff you wanted.
One of the (few) nice things under Windows is the / character, which ususally precedes command line arguments, is a reserved character and can't appear in file names, meaning you can't have these sort of mishaps.
If you count the number of solar systems destroyed and divide it by the number of times the galaxy has been saved, it sorta works out. Of course, they managed to destroy not one but two entire solar systems over the course of two hours last Friday, so your millage might varry.
Recently, webcomics PvP and Penny Arcade have virtually taken over the Dark Iron server with thier respective megaguilds. While it seems boths sides are having quite a bit of fun, it also seems the trafic is bringing the server to its knees. Whats your take on these "specialty servers", and are there any plans for reenforcement, or is the hardware maxed?
Slightly off topic, but I notice this rock got named Apophis, which I find slightly ironic, considering in one episode of Stargate, the Goa'uld Apophis tried chucking a giant asteroid at Earth to deal with those uppety Humans without makeing a direct strike, drawling the wrath of the Asguard.
I think the article itself could use some editors, too. I'm not a language Nazi (I got my degree in Computer Engeneering, not English), but the article not only has some ackward sentences (With that in consideration, a hacker would only need to collect packets from the wireless router for about 588 minutes, or about 10 hours. That is significantly less than 10 days.), but the author seemed a little comma happy, too. (The way the RC4 encryption algorithm works is it first takes the Initialization Vector and the WEP key, and turns them into a key stream.) Its laborious to read.
The solid rocket boosters used for the shuttle today is reliable, reasonable safe (as safe as anything can be in space I guess) and not at least very cheap for the power they deliver.
Solid rockets are, in some ways, the least safe type of engine. With liquid or hybrid engines, there are fuel and\or oxidizer pumps. Solids don't have pumps, they just burn the fuel where it is loaded. Yay, no moving parts, so its simpler\more reliable. However, when something goes wrong with your solid during launch, there is no way to throttle back or turn off the engine like you can with liquid or hybrid. Once its lit, you are committed until flameout.
And don't you try any mind tricks on me to try to get me to take them!
I've been using a Tic-Tac as a unit of energy. Just one (kilo)calorie.
On the Internet, only old people use email.
Well, the Soviets lost the Polyus, which was lauched side mounted on a Energia (so it was basically replacing the orbiter oin the suttle stack, but that was lost due to the added complication of lauching the satillite upside down. Managed to spin 360 degrees instead of 180 after lauch and power dove right back into the atmosphere. See Wikipedia.
Well, you CAN hijack a streetsweeper in game if you want.
Also a bit of a in-joke. Jack at one point says one-L O'Neil has no sense of humor. In the original movie, James Spader was credited as playing Jack O'Neil
Can't stay for the rebroadcasts, need to go buy a book!
So, Lella, how about a nice glass of shampagan?
The guy who normally makes up the code names is in the john.
I can't wait to see what Clippy suggests now...
"It looks like you are surfing for pr0n. Would you like help?"
Those must be the states with Senators on the Appropriation Committe. When I sent one off, it only when to Patrick Leahy and not to Jim Jeffords.
Vi? Why not port lynx to the thing? Or, better yet, get X and Firefox running then go visit the website. A recursion of JavaScript OSs.
I protect my javascript with stuff like this:
It seems to work. There must be a few people out there who still respect copyright.
I don't Galactica is cheap. I mean, they have to cut the corners off of every scrap of paper that appears on camera! That, and, you know, all those highly detailed digital space ship models they have to render. Though they certainly saved money by not buying a SteadyCam.
Don't forget the County of Whatchmacallit! (Sorry, I have no idea what county New Orleans is in.)
Nope, NH has no personal income tax nor no sales tax, though there are the built into the price taxes on gas and tobaco and stuff. State revenue is primarily raised through anual property tax, which hits everything from your house to your car. They also have a 8% room, meal, and entertainment tax to stick it to those tourists.