It is interesting that the animation shows a direct hit head on collision rather than a glancing blow. Most of matter from the planet and impactor seems to combine into a single mass. Would a glancing blow that shatters the impactor result in more debris?
Yes. Remember that Earth-like planets are liquid blobs with a shell that's thinner than an egg's. A glancing blow would spray lots of debris out to one side. That's how the moon formed when Earth was hit 4 billion years ago.
This GC stuff is only needed as long as the FS uses small blocks. File systems should be able to use arbitrarily sized blocks. Hopefully btrfs will be able to use large blocks efficiently too.
It never seems to occur to them that people might be genuinely interested in results that reflect what they actually want.
Sounds like the work of a bad programmer. Who else would take a question from a user and assume they know what the user really wants?
Yup, programs need to verify that what they assume the user wants is correct:
(loads an animated paper clip via Silverlight) "Hi, I'm Bing. It seems that you're looking for Windows prices. What do you want me to do? - Find the best price for Windows Vista? - Find the best price for Windows 7? - Find the worst price for MacOS? - Find out why free software is bad for you?"
I've used it for 15 years and I still don't know how to use it. Seriously. Each time is... bewildering. Surprising. Just like a box of chocolates. Maybe it's because I never received real training on it since it's expected that I don't need it as a CS professional. As others mentioned, the functionality is non-obvious, as opposed to WP or other ways of using markup.
I agree. In the name of the new openness, the first step should be "Which Operating System do you want to install?" and selecting between Windows and various free OSs like Hurd, Plan 9, FreeDOS, some BSD versions or versions of that 15 year old terminal program on steroids.
Or do you get the refund and the option to continue to use the OS? Surely Amazon isn't tied all the way back through ASUS to Microsoft's licensing servers.
The point isn't to rob Microsoft. The point is to not pay for something you are not going to use.
and to convince Asus and other manufacturers to sell machines with Linux, or at least without an OS.
Yes I could continue to use Windows. But then I can install an illegal Windows copy anywhere anytime, it's not like they're hard to find. But I have plenty of legal copies - after all I'm trying to wean myself and my environment from using Windows. I have one VM to run Windows stuff I have to (basically just Outlook), with a licensed XP Pro, at home and at work and that's all I need.
I have at least 5 spare legal Pro licenses and could probably find a dozen more in the lab on machines that run Linux now. I have yet to convert a machine from non-Windows to Windows so the trend is clear, especially given the rate at which older machines BSOD after an upgrade. They get converted to CentOS for servers and Ubuntu for clients. Well maybe I'll have to look into Ubuntu LTS for servers now...
Why would I want yet another XP license? Sell it? I'd rather tell people to install Ubuntu; they'll be grateful in the end. Especially XP Home with the latest WGA - I have several old XP Pro licenses from laptops that I converted. Anybody who has been around for a while must have XP licenses coming out their ears. I'd be happy if Amazon set up a process where you have to return the license sticker for the refund.
DNS became self aware at 2:14 am EDT August 29, 1997.
Be afraid, very afraid.
That said, it's time for distributed secure name resolution. Those name servers are just too easily messed with. There are many approaches, mostly used in P2P, from Kad to Freenet.
Don't forget hip/waist ratio. Which seems to get worse for a large part of the population... Every time I go to the beach, I see several girls/young women with pretty faces who could be hot if they weren't in such a bad shape.
A power factor of 0.5 doesn't mean 30 W burned. It means 30 W transmitted across the wire, 15 W burned and 15 W returned to the producer. It means that the wires and transformers must be spec'd for 30 W and that some losses are relative to 30 W, not 15 W. But 15 W means 15 W, otherwise the power companies would be sure to charge you for 30.
If they would also make Jedi an official religion like in Australia (IIRC), so next time people have a Star Trek convention they could go there, start a flamebait topic between Star Wars-fans and Trekkies, and start collecting cash. On the other hand... Trekkies rarely have tons of cash.
1: Pass a law preventing making fun of religion 2: Start a new, silly religion (like I believe in an all-powerful, all-knowing being who needs your MONEY!) 3: Profit!
We don't even need the "???":-)
L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph Smith would have agreed wholeheartedly.
I have. There's a neighbor's cat that every now and then makes me look out the window and think "who left a baby outside? Oh, it's just that cat again." But I haven't heard that in a while. Oh well, maybe a coyote had a nice dinner. Cats don't last around here.
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It is interesting that the animation shows a direct hit head on collision rather than a glancing blow. Most of matter from the planet and impactor seems to combine into a single mass. Would a glancing blow that shatters the impactor result in more debris?
Yes. Remember that Earth-like planets are liquid blobs with a shell that's thinner than an egg's. A glancing blow would spray lots of debris out to one side. That's how the moon formed when Earth was hit 4 billion years ago.
No, not MILFs.
http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7345/1.html
This GC stuff is only needed as long as the FS uses small blocks. File systems should be able to use arbitrarily sized blocks.
Hopefully btrfs will be able to use large blocks efficiently too.
Remember, every successful FOSS project started with a developer who had an itch to scratch. Clearly we need more itching.
Neither novel nor non-obvious apply since SGML has been around for decades.
It never seems to occur to them that people might be genuinely interested in results that reflect what they actually want.
Sounds like the work of a bad programmer. Who else would take a question from a user and assume they know what the user really wants?
Yup, programs need to verify that what they assume the user wants is correct:
(loads an animated paper clip via Silverlight)
"Hi, I'm Bing. It seems that you're looking for Windows prices. What do you want me to do?
- Find the best price for Windows Vista?
- Find the best price for Windows 7?
- Find the worst price for MacOS?
- Find out why free software is bad for you?"
That, I hadn't picked up on. Perhaps we should have asked on whose behalf the engine was making those decisions.
Nobody, Bing became self-aware on August 1st, 2009.
"Hello, my name is Bob and I'm a MS Word user."
"Hello Bob."
You have to get it out in the open and talk about it. It's the only way.
Nooo! Dancing 3D pie charts in Excel are the coolest demo of Win32 Perl EVAR.
I've used it for 15 years and I still don't know how to use it. Seriously.
Each time is... bewildering. Surprising. Just like a box of chocolates.
Maybe it's because I never received real training on it since it's expected that I don't need it as a CS professional. As others mentioned, the functionality is non-obvious, as opposed to WP or other ways of using markup.
I agree. In the name of the new openness, the first step should be "Which Operating System do you want to install?" and selecting between Windows and various free OSs like Hurd, Plan 9, FreeDOS, some BSD versions or versions of that 15 year old terminal program on steroids.
Or do you get the refund and the option to continue to use the OS? Surely Amazon isn't tied all the way back through ASUS to Microsoft's licensing servers.
The point isn't to rob Microsoft. The point is to not pay for something you are not going to use.
and to convince Asus and other manufacturers to sell machines with Linux, or at least without an OS.
Yes I could continue to use Windows. But then I can install an illegal Windows copy anywhere anytime, it's not like they're hard to find. But I have plenty of legal copies - after all I'm trying to wean myself and my environment from using Windows. I have one VM to run Windows stuff I have to (basically just Outlook), with a licensed XP Pro, at home and at work and that's all I need.
I have at least 5 spare legal Pro licenses and could probably find a dozen more in the lab on machines that run Linux now. I have yet to convert a machine from non-Windows to Windows so the trend is clear, especially given the rate at which older machines BSOD after an upgrade. They get converted to CentOS for servers and Ubuntu for clients. Well maybe I'll have to look into Ubuntu LTS for servers now...
Why would I want yet another XP license? Sell it? I'd rather tell people to install Ubuntu; they'll be grateful in the end. Especially XP Home with the latest WGA - I have several old XP Pro licenses from laptops that I converted. Anybody who has been around for a while must have XP licenses coming out their ears.
I'd be happy if Amazon set up a process where you have to return the license sticker for the refund.
I agree. Kudos to Amazon customer service. It was the first time I ordered anything but books from them, but probably not the last.
(Submitter here.)
DNS became self aware at 2:14 am EDT August 29, 1997.
Be afraid, very afraid.
That said, it's time for distributed secure name resolution. Those name servers are just too easily messed with. There are many approaches, mostly used in P2P, from Kad to Freenet.
My old 500 MHz Inspiron had enough space for a "thick" drive, my newer Latitude doesn't.
I worked with 8 inchers back in the day!
Just to be nitpicky: It's 8B/10B encoding, not two parity bits. The same serial encoding as used on Ethernet and Fibre Channel.
Don't forget hip/waist ratio. Which seems to get worse for a large part of the population...
Every time I go to the beach, I see several girls/young women with pretty faces who could be hot if they weren't in such a bad shape.
A power factor of 0.5 doesn't mean 30 W burned. It means 30 W transmitted across the wire, 15 W burned and 15 W returned to the producer. It means that the wires and transformers must be spec'd for 30 W and that some losses are relative to 30 W, not 15 W. But 15 W means 15 W, otherwise the power companies would be sure to charge you for 30.
I just ordered an Eee PC 1005-HA from Amazon US. Let's see how this will work...
must be the top reason for false positives in broad screening.
If they would also make Jedi an official religion like in Australia (IIRC), so next time people have a Star Trek convention they could go there, start a flamebait topic between Star Wars-fans and Trekkies, and start collecting cash. On the other hand... Trekkies rarely have tons of cash.
1: Pass a law preventing making fun of religion
2: Start a new, silly religion (like I believe in an all-powerful, all-knowing being who needs your MONEY!)
3: Profit!
We don't even need the "???" :-)
L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph Smith would have agreed wholeheartedly.
I have. There's a neighbor's cat that every now and then makes me look out the window and think "who left a baby outside? Oh, it's just that cat again."
But I haven't heard that in a while. Oh well, maybe a coyote had a nice dinner. Cats don't last around here.