Anyway: Politics already made the space station more complex: The Russians wanted a module perpendicular to the other modules, thus causing some nice side effects. No way to stop them, and there have been attempts, but politics decided that it not matter that much, so the spacestation got its perpendicular module.
1. There is not that much usefull space in the space shuttle. For labwork they had the lab in the cargo bay for example.
2. Dynamics: You can not add random parts to the space station without changing its dynamice properties. Once you add a part, the harmonic frequencies are going to change, and you will have to recalculate the whole thing to check for problematic stress points and fatigue. (Ok, you think: Zero gravity, what stress, it floats by itself. In reality the spacestation is in a degrading orbit, so it has to be lifted once in a while, this uses thrusters which are carefully placed to boost the stations orbit. This also causes a lot of stress on the station!) The harmonics are already a problem since not everything of the spacestation is in one plane, making it already very complex. The harmonics also dampen out pretty slow since there is not atmosferic friction (there are dampeners though).
Thus a continously added object like the spaceshuttle will be not add a lot in space, but will add a lot in complexity and weight, making the lift of the spacestation more complex and expensive, and will probably reduce the life time of the station.
Or maybe even more, anything which comes loose, will be discussed into great detail.
Anyway, rule of thumb: Great progress comes with risk. With the space shuttle, which about 20 years ago was great progress, the risk stays since there are no real developments. The only question is: Is the spaceprogram worth the risk of flying with the space shuttle?
I personally think it is. I regret the attitude after the accident were complete risk aversion was shown. I would have gotten into the next space shuttle (err, can not pay for it, so they have to offer), and I am sure I would have returned safely (chance less then 1% on a deadly accident). The chance that the foam which caused this came loose and causes the damage is extremely small. Pieces of the shuttle fell off before (especially the ceramic tiles, lost a few per X flights), without problems.
I mainly use Java, just commenting on languages evolving. Looking at Java, I think Java is one of the most clear examples in it. Sun reacts to input of users of the language, and to its competition (.NET) by updating the language and the VM to be able to stay competitive.
The library problems of C++ are well known to me too (port application from one linux box to the next, and welcome incompatibilities and the hours of solving it, last problem though was with IBM Java: It started, but just not completely, library problem!)
It is interesting to see how an abstract language like a programming language evolves through time. I would think that in a language like C++ the more userfriendlyness should be in the libraries and not in the language, so I agree with the author on this point. Putting it in the libraries makes it better backwards compatible, and distributable.
Once you want to "re-marry IBM" you will have to fight your way through the Intel monopolistic activities (see AMD vs Intel case, previously covered on/.)
Let them integrate it please! That is the best thing that has happened to MS windows in years, companies will love them for this innovative way of delivering adds to keep the internet "free". It will be a bad day though if the browser check tells you that your browser is not adware compatible (-:
(And even more people will use firefox & probably an other OS)
The sale price of SF network is in dollars, so this way they can get better actors/sets/environment in another country where the prices are lower, and sell it in their own high priced dollar country. It does not make you backward, but probably more realistic. The high incomes in the US are not realistic compared to the skills of the people. The low incomes for the experts in Bulgaria are also not realistic (should be higher), but for now you can higher an expert in Bulgaria for about 25% of the price of the US expert.
Outsourcing to rural america
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Was that not an old slashdot article, apparently that works for sci-fi movies
And it is an incredible animal already without the concept zero. It labels objects by name and properties like color and shape. But also recognize objects which are similar like keys. There is no way for the researcher to hint the solution unconsiously like what happens with the famous counting of horses and dogs (The horse taps the foot X times for the correct answer, but in reality just looks for the right signs in the face or behaviour of the owner (smart too though, sociology (-: )).
The parrot is in this case better then men in understanding language. The researchers can not talk "parrot language", but this bird can talk human language. What would be great for research if they are able to find out if this parrot has a concept of language and can translate some more familiar environment things (like trees instead of keys) and see if that translates to other parrots in the wild.
Report from a company switch:
The first 6 weeks the users have to get used to it, after that, they start to understand that they cannot f**k there systems anymore with downloading all kinds of programs, and that they can only work with it.
Other conversions go easy (use win4lin,vmware,windows terminal services to fill the gap).
They were talking about new eyecandy, I would like to see that then too. It helps a lot to "sell" it to the world of users. I agree with the fact that if you have something to tell that text should be enough.
Yes, good old Mario!
New games are too much when it comes to just relaxation. If you just want to do something stupid for a while, and not want to run around in a 3d world. Or the other way around: Use your own fantasy to fill up the holes. I love paratrooper!
Well, anyway, the messages are plain text. I think only the opensource community can get away with this. Try to present your plans and execute them in a business without a decent (=lots of graphics) presentation.
But it just seems to be forever though. Funny to see that it is actually faster, now I don't have to apologize to my customers anymore about the slow start of OO.
Grin, removing activeX would help acceptance of other browsers even more, and would reduce the hell of bad developped not standard compatible websites (This site is build for IE, please change your browser. Hey they do not even make IE for my OS, so you do not want my business, OK, I will go somewhere else (Some frustrations here)).
"Reducing scripting privileges may break some existing Web applications, especially intranet apps geared for enterprises."
This is interesting though: Internet applications are catching on, Firefox marketshare has scared Microsoft a bit, and what do they do in response: Fix their security holes by taking away features which now give them a lead in companies?
I would rethink that one it I were head of MS IE division.
Which is apparently from quality point of view, not a good thing (however it has a high quality, low loss setting), but from an access point of view (and like what they do here: Photograph pages of books with it), is always works. No aging of formats or whatever.
P.S. I am used of cancon just sending their software development manuals (at least in the past for their printers), apparently some attitude changed.
Slashdot Mirror
I am the structural engineer guy (-:
Anyway: Politics already made the space station more complex: The Russians wanted a module perpendicular to the other modules, thus causing some nice side effects. No way to stop them, and there have been attempts, but politics decided that it not matter that much, so the spacestation got its perpendicular module.
Iow: Been there, done that
So you say just launch the shuttle slowly, since it is impractible to put the camera's around the same way as in the matrix?
1. There is not that much usefull space in the space shuttle. For labwork they had the lab in the cargo bay for example.
2. Dynamics: You can not add random parts to the space station without changing its dynamice properties. Once you add a part, the harmonic frequencies are going to change, and you will have to recalculate the whole thing to check for problematic stress points and fatigue. (Ok, you think: Zero gravity, what stress, it floats by itself. In reality the spacestation is in a degrading orbit, so it has to be lifted once in a while, this uses thrusters which are carefully placed to boost the stations orbit. This also causes a lot of stress on the station!)
The harmonics are already a problem since not everything of the spacestation is in one plane, making it already very complex. The harmonics also dampen out pretty slow since there is not atmosferic friction (there are dampeners though).
Thus a continously added object like the spaceshuttle will be not add a lot in space, but will add a lot in complexity and weight, making the lift of the spacestation more complex and expensive, and will probably reduce the life time of the station.
Or maybe even more, anything which comes loose, will be discussed into great detail.
Anyway, rule of thumb: Great progress comes with risk. With the space shuttle, which about 20 years ago was great progress, the risk stays since there are no real developments.
The only question is: Is the spaceprogram worth the risk of flying with the space shuttle?
I personally think it is. I regret the attitude after the accident were complete risk aversion was shown. I would have gotten into the next space shuttle (err, can not pay for it, so they have to offer), and I am sure I would have returned safely (chance less then 1% on a deadly accident). The chance that the foam which caused this came loose and causes the damage is extremely small. Pieces of the shuttle fell off before (especially the ceramic tiles, lost a few per X flights), without problems.
I mainly use Java, just commenting on languages evolving. Looking at Java, I think Java is one of the most clear examples in it. Sun reacts to input of users of the language, and to its competition (.NET) by updating the language and the VM to be able to stay competitive.
The library problems of C++ are well known to me too (port application from one linux box to the next, and welcome incompatibilities and the hours of solving it, last problem though was with IBM Java: It started, but just not completely, library problem!)
History of java according to IBM:
Java is based on Smalltalk!, not on C++
Can not help it, they tell this at the IBM java courses.
It is interesting to see how an abstract language like a programming language evolves through time. I would think that in a language like C++ the more userfriendlyness should be in the libraries and not in the language, so I agree with the author on this point. Putting it in the libraries makes it better backwards compatible, and distributable.
Once you want to "re-marry IBM" you will have to fight your way through the Intel monopolistic activities (see AMD vs Intel case, previously covered on /.)
Let them integrate it please! That is the best thing that has happened to MS windows in years, companies will love them for this innovative way of delivering adds to keep the internet "free".
It will be a bad day though if the browser check tells you that your browser is not adware compatible (-:
(And even more people will use firefox & probably an other OS)
The sale price of SF network is in dollars, so this way they can get better actors/sets/environment in another country where the prices are lower, and sell it in their own high priced dollar country. It does not make you backward, but probably more realistic. The high incomes in the US are not realistic compared to the skills of the people. The low incomes for the experts in Bulgaria are also not realistic (should be higher), but for now you can higher an expert in Bulgaria for about 25% of the price of the US expert.
Was that not an old slashdot article, apparently that works for sci-fi movies
And it is an incredible animal already without the concept zero. It labels objects by name and properties like color and shape. But also recognize objects which are similar like keys. There is no way for the researcher to hint the solution unconsiously like what happens with the famous counting of horses and dogs (The horse taps the foot X times for the correct answer, but in reality just looks for the right signs in the face or behaviour of the owner (smart too though, sociology (-: )).
The parrot is in this case better then men in understanding language. The researchers can not talk "parrot language", but this bird can talk human language. What would be great for research if they are able to find out if this parrot has a concept of language and can translate some more familiar environment things (like trees instead of keys) and see if that translates to other parrots in the wild.
Report from a company switch:
The first 6 weeks the users have to get used to it, after that, they start to understand that they cannot f**k there systems anymore with downloading all kinds of programs, and that they can only work with it.
Other conversions go easy (use win4lin,vmware,windows terminal services to fill the gap).
They were talking about new eyecandy, I would like to see that then too. It helps a lot to "sell" it to the world of users. I agree with the fact that if you have something to tell that text should be enough.
Yes, good old Mario!
New games are too much when it comes to just relaxation. If you just want to do something stupid for a while, and not want to run around in a 3d world.
Or the other way around: Use your own fantasy to fill up the holes.
I love paratrooper!
Funny, if it would have been commercial software, you would have been moderated as flame bait
Well, anyway, the messages are plain text. I think only the opensource community can get away with this. Try to present your plans and execute them in a business without a decent (=lots of graphics) presentation.
But it just seems to be forever though. Funny to see that it is actually faster, now I don't have to apologize to my customers anymore about the slow start of OO.
Too bad you don't explain where acrylic is for. So your anti rant is also a rant this way.
Nothing else to say about it.
Wonderland (like in "Alice in...")
Grin, removing activeX would help acceptance of other browsers even more, and would reduce the hell of bad developped not standard compatible websites (This site is build for IE, please change your browser.
Hey they do not even make IE for my OS, so you do not want my business, OK, I will go somewhere else (Some frustrations here)).
"Reducing scripting privileges may break some existing Web applications, especially intranet apps geared for enterprises."
This is interesting though: Internet applications are catching on, Firefox marketshare has scared Microsoft a bit, and what do they do in response: Fix their security holes by taking away features which now give them a lead in companies?
I would rethink that one it I were head of MS IE division.
Lot of dupes lately I would say
Which is apparently from quality point of view, not a good thing (however it has a high quality, low loss setting), but from an access point of view (and like what they do here: Photograph pages of books with it), is always works. No aging of formats or whatever.
P.S. I am used of cancon just sending their software development manuals (at least in the past for their printers), apparently some attitude changed.