After getting it off the moon, there's still a long way to go. I guess we could just let these loads of titanium fall to the earth and hope they hit their targets, but that doesn't seem like such a wonderful idea. And anything that could be used to slow them down would have to be made on the moon or sent there. Getting the titanium dug up, processed, and shot out into space seems much easier to me than getting them down to where we can use it. But then, I certainly haven't studied this or anything.
Good lord, I'd hate to see what kind of structure could support sending maglev trains loaded with titanium from the moon to the earth. That would make the space elevator seem infinitely puny in comparison.
But even if its base covers half the earth, I'd want it to exist if it meant I could pilot a Japanese mecha on the moon.
Vista could capture video from a highdef webcam and use real time ray-tracing to make Clippy realistically reflect whatever is in front of the monitor and Vista would still have no excuse for 90% of it's requirements.
Nobdy cares about capitalism anymore. I blame it on the schools. They spend too much time teaching about George Washington and black rights, and not enough time teaching about economics.
Too bad QNX is proprietary. L4 does look pretty promising even if there doesn't seem to be much real world usage. However, according to a section about GNU Hurd at gnufans.org, L4 is deprecated, whatever that means in this context. Why can't any good opensource microkernels ever seem to get off the ground?
I'll admit that the example about Windows XP/KDE/Gnome was a pretty crappy example though. I don't see me CPU usage consistently skyrocketing from the windowing system.:b
What was the key problem with these kernels? Performance.
Exactly. Microkernels are inherently slower, even if not as slow as some people think they are. Currently I am not willing to give up that much speed in exchange for stability. Microkernels will probably take over eventually, but for now I still don't think computers have gotten fast enough. Current low-end PCs struggle and stutter just to run Windows XP, KDE, or Gnome.
But I am a bit mystified as to why microkernels aren't more popular for situations where stability is very important and lots of speed is available, like web servers. What's the deal with that?
That's retarded. There are many ways a clock could be broken that wouldn't lead to it being right twice a day. A broken clock might not even have hands to show time. Some broken clocks may simply not be able to change the time but run at regular speed, so if it got off track (daylight savings change) then it would never be right again (or untill the next daylight savings change). And it's possible for a clock to run slower without being stopped dead.
What on earth could you possibly be babbling about? Are you saying that OpenGL only "runs" on Windows? Did you happen to miss the "Open" in "OpenGL"? Your comments are some of the most nonsensical I've ever seen that didn't appear to be joking. See the OpenGL entry at Wikipedia.
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I didn't know the GNOME API had Lisp bindings.
Don't you mean -1?
Even I knew Trolltech didn't create KDE, and I use Windows by choice. Just a few seconds reading the KDE article at Wikipedia would tell you that.
/. editors really are morons. I knew they weren't the brightest, but shit!
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After getting it off the moon, there's still a long way to go. I guess we could just let these loads of titanium fall to the earth and hope they hit their targets, but that doesn't seem like such a wonderful idea. And anything that could be used to slow them down would have to be made on the moon or sent there. Getting the titanium dug up, processed, and shot out into space seems much easier to me than getting them down to where we can use it. But then, I certainly haven't studied this or anything.
Something didn't make it on digg? Did they finally set a limit on front page stories per day or something?
Good lord, I'd hate to see what kind of structure could support sending maglev trains loaded with titanium from the moon to the earth. That would make the space elevator seem infinitely puny in comparison.
But even if its base covers half the earth, I'd want it to exist if it meant I could pilot a Japanese mecha on the moon.
In three thousand years perhaps, unless you just happen to have access to a bigass render farm.
Vista could capture video from a highdef webcam and use real time ray-tracing to make Clippy realistically reflect whatever is in front of the monitor and Vista would still have no excuse for 90% of it's requirements.
"gay sex" also beats "straight sex" by a landslide.
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http://googlefight.com/query.php?lang=en_GB&word1
Obviously gay sex is greatly preferred over straight sex.
Exactly. We wont't be seeing the next Halo or Doom using a scripting language anytime soon.
I'm quite sure that I'm paying more that $1000 in taxes quite regularly, although I would still pay $1000 more if I could buy my privacy.
Another reason is that gasprices in the US are incredibly low from a european point of view
Brazil isn't in Europe.
Nobdy cares about capitalism anymore. I blame it on the schools. They spend too much time teaching about George Washington and black rights, and not enough time teaching about economics.
Too bad QNX is proprietary. L4 does look pretty promising even if there doesn't seem to be much real world usage. However, according to a section about GNU Hurd at gnufans.org, L4 is deprecated, whatever that means in this context. Why can't any good opensource microkernels ever seem to get off the ground?
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I'll admit that the example about Windows XP/KDE/Gnome was a pretty crappy example though. I don't see me CPU usage consistently skyrocketing from the windowing system.
But I am a bit mystified as to why microkernels aren't more popular for situations where stability is very important and lots of speed is available, like web servers. What's the deal with that?
If only.
So one function returns 0 when successful, while the other returns 0 when unsuccessful? What the hell is going on here?
Not even considering the bug, that's some pretty horrific coding. Is all of X written this poorly?
Haha. That's hilarious! Although I feel geeky lauging at it.
I didn't know Star Trek was ever funny. ^_~
You're funding the terrorist! You're funding the terrorist! Everyone resist!
Oh yeah?! Well you fund terrorism! So take that!
What on earth could you possibly be babbling about? Are you saying that OpenGL only "runs" on Windows? Did you happen to miss the "Open" in "OpenGL"? Your comments are some of the most nonsensical I've ever seen that didn't appear to be joking. See the OpenGL entry at Wikipedia.
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Ha. This is why I love Slashdot.
Maybe not "run", but certainly quite a brisk jog.