I'm glad to see I'm not the only one in the world that misspells "missile/missle".
The bad thing for me is, I'm working on a program that builds missiles. During my last presentation, I had "Missle" in the heading of every slide.
Even worse is that I still misspell it frequently. Just one of those words for me I guess.
Regarding your comment, you're right if missiles didn't have guidance, and some don't. And naturally it also depends on the relative motion between the launch vehicle and the target.
I imagine that aerodynamics play a pretty big role in how missiles are attached to a craft--assuming it is an external attachment.
If a jet is blasting through the air at 700 miles per hour, I suspect that even if it didn't affect the maneuverability of the jet, the missile would probably be torn off.
A lot of people have replied to you already, but I'll take a stab too because I've just recently installed FreeBSD, and had to learn what they meant by "ports".
Basically a "port" of an application is a collection of scripts containing information on where to download the source for the application, how to compile it, how to install it, and what other "ports" it may depend on. Whether you have other "ports" installed (in the sense of the application the "port" contains instructions about), etc...
When you install FreeBSD, and I assume other BSDs as well, you have the option of installing all these "ports". This isn't to be confused with installing that applications themselves, this is just the skeleton script collection.
I think the BSD people maintain a list of accepted "ports", so it is a controlled situation.
Neat idea...(I didn't anyway) it looks like all they can detect right now are vowels.
I wonder how they will work out the consonant issues. The way an S is produced is pretty similar to a Z. At least they are pretty similar in my mouth anyway.
I suspect everyone produces consonants in a slightly different manner. I mean, when you are learning to speak, you don't stick your hand in someone else's mouth to figure out what their tongue is doing... You just maneuver your own until you make a similar sound.
So there are probably several different tongue configurations that work to produce a sound. Not to mention the shape of one's mouth may require a specific and unique tongue configuration to produce a particular sound as compared to someone else.
Sounds (hehe) like they have their work cut out for them in this area.
I think this person is talking about Design Documents, whereas you seem to be referring to a User Manual.
One teaches someone how to use a product, and is frequently written after it is done.
The other teaches a programming group how to code a project. (Interface definitions, conventions, hierarchy, etc...) This is supposed to be done before the first line of code is written. Most programmers don't write these, unless their manager makes them, and most managers don't see the use anymore than the typical programmer does.
And when the manager does make them write one, they usually do it as they go, writing the document, and coding side by side, rendering the document useless. Sigh.
I suppose that depends on what you mean by "benefit". If you mean getting fired, with a super severence package, then yeah the high up execs do benefit.
I know when my company merged with another, half the execs got the axe, which makes sense (you suddenly have the double the number of execs needed at a company). The CEO of my company, prior to the merger, got the golden axe with something like $5 million to pocket. But he still got the axe.
Most high up execs, however, don't do it for the money. The money is just a score-card at that point. They do it for the power and control. So getting the axe, even with $5 million to pocket, still sucks to them.
But they live in a different world. If someone offered me $5 mil. to quit, there'd be a sonic boom created with the speed of my exit.
A lot of people are complaining like you are, but yours was the first message I read so I'll reply to it.
You people seem to have the same mentality about movies as you do software. If it comes from a big company with a big budget it must suck. I don't understand that, but I don't have to.
The thing I find interesting about your comments on harry is that you don't compare a good review from harry to whether the movie turned out good. You compare it to whether he had special access.... Who cares if he had special access to the film. What is important about a reviewer is if his/her reviews are accurate. Or, more to the point, accurate to the way you see things.
It is great to find a reviewer that seems to reflect your tastes, and if the one you are reading doesn't then don't read them.
I don't understand people who hate something and keep subjecting themselves to it just to complain.
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That is silly. Let's sue intel because their cpu's allow users to run pirated software.
I only had time to scan the article, so I'm hoping someone who understands this a little better than me can help out...
They say it is for non-commercial puproses...but what part of it? when you build this package, you get a c# compiler and some script compiler, and I assume the class libraries and VM or whatever CLI is (I really don't know). I can understand the part about building an app with their c# compiler being for non-commercial purposes--but don't you need the CLI library or virtual machine or whatever to run a.NET/c# app?
So if I pull down Rotor, build it-- can I use it (the libs/vm whatever CLI is, tossing out the compilers) to run commercial apps? or is that a violation of the proposed license?
I'd also be interested in knowing if this proposed license would prevent someone from selling sourcecode to a project, and have them compile it themselves on their own copy of rotor (which might be conveniently included with the source). --Scott
Well, you see, if you take the time to read the article, you risk having 100 other people post before you. And you worry that no one will read your post.
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Preferred source is sufficiently vague that it could be easily argued against in court, and probably successfully to.
On a side note, what makes people thing GPL is any more binding than an EULA? I'm asking this in all seriousness.
Yeah, you are technically right, it takes forever and a day for a single particular electron to travel from one end of a 1 inch wire to the other. It is on the order of centimeters per second.
But that doesn't matter. The whole wire is chock full of electrons. You shove one in one end, and another at the other end is forced out because there isn't any "room".
Think of those great inelastic collision demos in highschool. Or one of those clacking pendulums.
This effect happens at great speed. And the electrons, for present day purposes, are indistinguishable. (although I suppose they have different spins and what not on a quantum level). This effect simulates the electron traveling from one end to the other at great speed. Not all that far off from the speed of light. I forget what the estimate would be. Maybe like 1/3 c or something like that. It is still pretty quick.
I guess I must be in the minority on this view, but I actually liked the voice over. I thought it added a tremendous amount to the story.
Some things just aren't conveyed that well with pictures alone. Narration provides the bridge.
In most books that I read, dialog is minimal. The author is narrating the entire story, with sparse character dialog! Or internal character dialog, which is difficult to do in a movie without some sort of voice over.
It seems that the picture portion of a movie does a great job of providing a setting, and a mood, but nothing beats good verbage.
The only thing you have "aquired" is the playing of the game. You don't own anything except a license to use their software.
Pay attention all you liberals out there who are upset by this. It is called personal property rights. And it is what you don't have when you purchase a game, because in reality you are paying for the allowance of utilizing their software.
Has it struck anyone else here, reading slashdot, that the british papers have entirely become the equivelent of the American National Enquirer. I.E. Useless?
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I'm glad to see I'm not the only one in the world that misspells "missile/missle".
The bad thing for me is, I'm working on a program that builds missiles. During my last presentation, I had "Missle" in the heading of every slide.
Even worse is that I still misspell it frequently. Just one of those words for me I guess.
Regarding your comment, you're right if missiles didn't have guidance, and some don't. And naturally it also depends on the relative motion between the launch vehicle and the target.
I hit submit too soon. that last paragraph was assuming that the missile was being turned to point at a target.
I imagine that aerodynamics play a pretty big role in how missiles are attached to a craft--assuming it is an external attachment.
If a jet is blasting through the air at 700 miles per hour, I suspect that even if it didn't affect the maneuverability of the jet, the missile would probably be torn off.
Thank you.
"On top of that fact, the thing hasn't been built yet, so it should be of the 21st century"
I'm pretty sure submarines were invented in the 20th century.
A lot of people have replied to you already, but I'll take a stab too because I've just recently installed FreeBSD, and had to learn what they meant by "ports".
Basically a "port" of an application is a collection of scripts containing information on where to download the source for the application, how to compile it, how to install it, and what other "ports" it may depend on. Whether you have other "ports" installed (in the sense of the application the "port" contains instructions about), etc...
When you install FreeBSD, and I assume other BSDs as well, you have the option of installing all these "ports". This isn't to be confused with installing that applications themselves, this is just the skeleton script collection.
I think the BSD people maintain a list of accepted "ports", so it is a controlled situation.
Hope that helps.
I wish that article were on a wiki page. If it were I would go through an correct all the typos.
Neat idea...(I didn't anyway) it looks like all they can detect right now are vowels.
I wonder how they will work out the consonant issues. The way an S is produced is pretty similar to a Z. At least they are pretty similar in my mouth anyway.
I suspect everyone produces consonants in a slightly different manner. I mean, when you are learning to speak, you don't stick your hand in someone else's mouth to figure out what their tongue is doing... You just maneuver your own until you make a similar sound.
So there are probably several different tongue configurations that work to produce a sound. Not to mention the shape of one's mouth may require a specific and unique tongue configuration to produce a particular sound as compared to someone else.
Sounds (hehe) like they have their work cut out for them in this area.
--Scott
Or better yet, how about the iPeed!
I think this person is talking about Design Documents, whereas you seem to be referring to a User Manual.
One teaches someone how to use a product, and is frequently written after it is done.
The other teaches a programming group how to code a project. (Interface definitions, conventions, hierarchy, etc...) This is supposed to be done before the first line of code is written. Most programmers don't write these, unless their manager makes them, and most managers don't see the use anymore than the typical programmer does.
And when the manager does make them write one, they usually do it as they go, writing the document, and coding side by side, rendering the document useless. Sigh.
I suppose that depends on what you mean by "benefit". If you mean getting fired, with a super severence package, then yeah the high up execs do benefit.
I know when my company merged with another, half the execs got the axe, which makes sense (you suddenly have the double the number of execs needed at a company). The CEO of my company, prior to the merger, got the golden axe with something like $5 million to pocket. But he still got the axe.
Most high up execs, however, don't do it for the money. The money is just a score-card at that point. They do it for the power and control. So getting the axe, even with $5 million to pocket, still sucks to them.
But they live in a different world. If someone offered me $5 mil. to quit, there'd be a sonic boom created with the speed of my exit.
I can't believe you just compared cryptonomicon to neuromancer. Cryptonomicon was insidiously boring.
I can't wait to hear from slashdot that mathematics was invented in this book.
A lot of people are complaining like you are, but yours was the first message I read so I'll reply to it.
You people seem to have the same mentality about movies as you do software. If it comes from a big company with a big budget it must suck. I don't understand that, but I don't have to.
The thing I find interesting about your comments on harry is that you don't compare a good review from harry to whether the movie turned out good. You compare it to whether he had special access.... Who cares if he had special access to the film. What is important about a reviewer is if his/her reviews are accurate. Or, more to the point, accurate to the way you see things.
It is great to find a reviewer that seems to reflect your tastes, and if the one you are reading doesn't then don't read them.
I don't understand people who hate something and keep subjecting themselves to it just to complain.
That is silly. Let's sue intel because their cpu's allow users to run pirated software.
I only had time to scan the article, so I'm hoping someone who understands this a little better than me can help out...
.NET/c# app?
They say it is for non-commercial puproses...but what part of it? when you build this package, you get a c# compiler and some script compiler, and I assume the class libraries and VM or whatever CLI is (I really don't know). I can understand the part about building an app with their c# compiler being for non-commercial purposes--but don't you need the CLI library or virtual machine or whatever to run a
So if I pull down Rotor, build it-- can I use it (the libs/vm whatever CLI is, tossing out the compilers) to run commercial apps? or is that a violation of the proposed license?
I'd also be interested in knowing if this proposed license would prevent someone from selling sourcecode to a project, and have them compile it themselves on their own copy of rotor (which might be conveniently included with the source).
--Scott
Ever hear of alldirect.com? I've found their prices to be around 30% or so less than both bn and amazon.
Still, I'm into the instant gratification thing, so I still buy most of my leisure books in the local bn bookstore.
I don't think I've posted that before, and I wasn't trolling. I don't understand trolls.
Well, you see, if you take the time to read the article, you risk having 100 other people post before you. And you worry that no one will read your post.
Preferred source is sufficiently vague that it could be easily argued against in court, and probably successfully to.
On a side note, what makes people thing GPL is any more binding than an EULA? I'm asking this in all seriousness.
I agree with the thought that the story didn't make any sense. It's a wonder half of these people can communicate at all.
Yeah, you are technically right, it takes forever and a day for a single particular electron to travel from one end of a 1 inch wire to the other. It is on the order of centimeters per second.
But that doesn't matter. The whole wire is chock full of electrons. You shove one in one end, and another at the other end is forced out because there isn't any "room".
Think of those great inelastic collision demos in highschool. Or one of those clacking pendulums.
This effect happens at great speed. And the electrons, for present day purposes, are indistinguishable. (although I suppose they have different spins and what not on a quantum level). This effect simulates the electron traveling from one end to the other at great speed. Not all that far off from the speed of light. I forget what the estimate would be. Maybe like 1/3 c or something like that. It is still pretty quick.
--Scott
I guess I must be in the minority on this view, but I actually liked the voice over. I thought it added a tremendous amount to the story.
Some things just aren't conveyed that well with pictures alone. Narration provides the bridge.
In most books that I read, dialog is minimal. The author is narrating the entire story, with sparse character dialog! Or internal character dialog, which is difficult to do in a movie without some sort of voice over.
It seems that the picture portion of a movie does a great job of providing a setting, and a mood, but nothing beats good verbage.
He didn't say he saw a splice. He is saying he saw the film melt.
It has been a while since I have seen fight club, but I don't recall any scenes where they show the film melting.
The only thing you have "aquired" is the playing of the game. You don't own anything except a license to use their software.
Pay attention all you liberals out there who are upset by this. It is called personal property rights. And it is what you don't have when you purchase a game, because in reality you are paying for the allowance of utilizing their software.
At no time do you physically own the bits.
Has it struck anyone else here, reading slashdot, that the british papers have entirely become the equivelent of the American National Enquirer. I.E. Useless?