Comment Re:More details and downloadable archive (Score 1) 578
I,J,K also work pretty good as array indexes because they are the unit vectors for X,Y,Z. So physicists were mostly ok with leaving them as is.
I,J,K also work pretty good as array indexes because they are the unit vectors for X,Y,Z. So physicists were mostly ok with leaving them as is.
I'm not sure about their current stuff, but Bruker had (closed) software which they ported from commercial UNIX to Linux (Redhat in this case).
I believe what we're seeing a coalescing of different pressures keeping prices high, including customer wanting Windows, substantial market requirements for CPU power (higher resolution media playback, etc), some key applications not currently available on ARM, marketing channels not setting appropriate expectations vis-a-vis product capabilities. I also believe existing hardware suppliers are somewhat reluctant to race each other to the bottom in pricing and margin.
There was also the article in the New York Times, which you mentioned. Maybe they're also a little left wing, but they're arguably more responsible, and definitely drink less Guinness. Perhaps it's all just a liberal conspiracy, then?
I understand that in order to take office, you had to profess Christianity. You also had to be a property owning white male, and usually protestant. Apparently, these things were all subject to change. Religion was just the first thing on the chopping block. So, it's really not that interesting. Kind of shameful, in a way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_States#Removal_of_exclusions
By the way, Sarah Palin is too stupid to be insidious. Pumpkin positive stupid.
They'll just have to learn how to write FORTRAN in any language. Soon enough, they will become a Real Programmer.
A valuable lesson, really.
Everyone knows that the US has orbital photo recon. We don't have a 100% clear picture of what the capabilities are.
The fact that it's an X craft tells us this orbital space plane is a test vehicle. But a test vehicle for what? What are the ultimate objectives of the program? How does it tie in with Prompt Global Strike?
Ares I was a piece of pork which should have long since been canceled. I'm glad it's gone. Everyone knows there are currently two US boosters (three soon enough) in the same weight and performance category and part of Obama's plan is to use those to go into LEO. This makes sense.
What no one has discussed, either in the pro Constellation crowd or those against, is what the propulsion package will be for Flexible Path. I'd like to see some of the ideas behind DIRECT refined so we end up with a moderately economical, scalable launch architecture for really heavy payloads. COTS is not likely to develop this on their own, they're happy at 25 tons to LEO and under. It's where their profit is. Note, I'm choosing to be optimistic on Flexible path being funded and implemented.
It looks like Orion Lite from Bigelow/Boeing/Lockheed is the front runner for crew transport. I'm not sure how much commonality is possible between it and a future Orion Heavy used for lunar or martian missions. Hopefully building one makes it easier to build the other.
And don't depend on your Navy keeping them away forever. Just ask the Minoans. They bottled themselves up on Crete, and when Mt. Thera erupted they were easy pickings for the Mycenaeans.
As to the question of Empire...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard
Some will argue that there is a great difference between being a player in power politics and being a colonial power. I do not necessarily agree. Rather, I believe in the duck test.
To release a better, or cheaper product.
I'll settle for either cheaper with the same quality or the same price with better quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F7TMlrDXtw
Let's just stick to calling it the Higgs Boson. God Particle is just a meaningless snippet that the scientifically semi-literate have latched onto because it sounds cool.
Just like Theory of Everything, actually.
Only in James Bond films.
Hi,
Here's some software to read a Mattel Powerglove through the Linux
serial driver, you must be using a Menelli box to interface to the glove.
I also wrote a predictive filter to try and eliminate glitches, a TCP-IP
server-client pair to read data in your application, a posture look-up
table to recognise hand shapes, and a simple attempt at recognising 6DOF
movement with vectors and tokenising them into gestures.
I'm not supporting the software, but I will be hacking around with it
again after Christmas, so the only condition on using it is to send me
any fixes, improvements, and ideas on making it better.(there is a also an AMI PRO document to go with this stuff, which is
the project report I wrote for my BSc degree.)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/hardware/drivers/linux-powerglove.README
I have found that Frozen Bubble tends to interfere quite a bit with the whole doing work thing. It's more addictive than Tetris, which has always been the crack cocaine of computing in my mind.
Fun, though.
I don't think anyone's gonna have a problem with the US acting in assistance to a constabulary action. Whether they are trained for it or would bring such a reputation as to be a detriment is an operational concern. The problem is when decisions to implement are made unilaterally.
Not saying that the UN has any great track record. That's a whole other debate. It just happens to be the closest thing to a democratic process we have, internationally.
Variables don't; constants aren't.