Comment Calculating trajectories for Apollo program (Score 5, Interesting) 220
http://embedded.com/columns/technicalinsights/218401508?pgno=1
"Calculating trajectories for Apollo program"
"Jack Crenshaw describes what he and team members did to research trajectories for the Apollo missions."
Comment Re:Fake (Score 2, Funny) 220
lol Cheyenne Mountain doesn't exist.
Comment Re:Not sure that hard drives are any better... (Score 1) 317
There won't be a problem connecting the hard disk to newer systems, as there will always be adapters, like we have today with the PATA/SATA bridge to USB products.
However, there are far more points of failure with hard disks than with optical media.
Those who sell hard disks in an external closure as a backup solutions have failed as much as those who use RAID as backup today, but what's worse is that these external hard disk products can't handle any impact at all, and they come with vertical stands (!), and dubious power supply connectors to add to the dependencies.
As for optical media:
- the label surface seems to be the most fragile of the two surfaces during reading.
- should be stored away from heat sources, ultraviolet radiation, and avoid high fluctuations in humidity.
- should (apparently) be stored vertically.
- you lose less data than with a hard disk.
- burn multiple copies
- reburn after N years
- competence/awareness of sessions/closed sessions, optical media file systems, etc
Print everything in base 16 to paper and rely on OCR to get your zip files back.
Comment Lars thanks YouTube (Score 1) 672
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl2qocBpM1U
"Lars congratulates YouTube users for their great versions of Metallica songs. Metallica's new album "Death Magnetic" released September 12th, 2008."
Comment Re:Japanese? (Score 1) 439
If by Japanese you mean "Konnichiwa, mothafuckaaa", then no.
Comment C#'s modern concepts. I am laughing hard. (Score -1, Troll) 499
From the fine article: "We also wanted to introduce modern concepts, such as object orientation, type safety, garbage collection"
These are modern concepts?
Simula. Simula. Simula.
This was defined in the 1960s, and sadly, it's become worse today.
Dynamic OOP is one of the earliest *good* concepts in computing, along with virtualization ("byte-code").
Verdict:
C# is a poor attempt at making something good.
C# is developed by MiC#roSoft--those who brought us Windows and New Technology technology.
C# not very popular.
Submission + - Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream (ocremix.org)
djpretzel writes: "Today OverClocked ReMix released its ninth album, Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream. The album, made by fans for fans, honors the recent 10-year anniversary of the Square Enix PlayStation video game Final Fantasy VII with 45 arrangements of composer Nobuo Uematsu's original score. Available for free download at http://ff7.ocremix.org, Voices of the Lifestream is not affiliated with or endorsed by Square Enix. More than 40 artists from the OverClocked ReMix community contributed more than three hours of music to the album, with interpretations covering a variety of genres and styles from jazz to electronica to rock to symphonic."
Submission + - The Case of the Missing Email
An anonymous reader writes: Has your email gone missing lately? Or have your users been complaining about missing emails? I first stumbled onto this problem last December, when I found this post. The original poster started the thread last March (1 year ago), but the problem appears to have manifested itself in the last few weeks as Windows Admins everywhere have been patching their boxen for the recent DST change. In short, Exchange appears to have a problem resending a message after encountering a temporary failure, specifically when sending mail to a server that has implemented greylisting. At this point, the problem has not been acknowledged by MS and so there is no fix except for the workarounds mentioned in the original post. And so I ask Slashdot — Have you noticed this behaviour too? Maybe if we raise awareness here, MS will acknowledge the problem and even provide a fix. I don't want to turn off greylisting because it's been hugely effective. I already have to degrade my web pages to work properly with their substandard browser, please don't tell me that I have to degrade my mail server too.
