While we're on the subject of Descent, the Yamaha OPL MIDI tracks were some of the best I've heard. The way it was meant to sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Playing it in DOSBox doesn't sound anywhere near as good as the real deal... you've got to switch the OPL instrument patch bank and the support for doing that in DOSBox isn't too good. If you play the OPL MIDI files with adlmidi and the proper Descent patch bank, then it sounds good.

Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1174/

Correction, it was an I6, not a V6.

The original Corvette only had a 150-hp V6, according to Wikipedia.

I think GP meant the Intel 8052 core.

Yes.

No. An 80-kilogram person has about 14 or 15 kg of carbon atoms. This works out to trillions of carbon atoms per human cell. Therefore every cell has approximately one atom of C14, and the human body as a whole has almost a quadrillion C14 atoms.

Actually, we get gaping holes in the Java environment that the applets run on. But I think you get the idea.

On Linux and probably some other unices, chroot is not intended for use as a security mechanism. See http://it.slashdot.org/story/07/09/27/2256235/when-not-to-use-chroot and also man 2 chroot.

If you can take the performance hit, a VM of some kind (emulated bytecode, virtualization or JIT compilation) is much better for security. Unfortunately, security is more difficult than it seems at first glance, so it doesn't always get the attention it needs. Hence we have gaping holes in Java applets. This is why we can't have nice things.

That was Frank Little.

From Wikipedia:

So, yes, there is plenty of gravity acting upon satellites in orbits, but they are in free fall, so there isn't a significant gravitational force experienced by the components of the satellite due to their accelerating reference frame. Thanks to our somewhat sloppy terminology, this is zero-gravity.

Yahoo! Answers, which admittedly is very hit-and-miss, but sometimes it gets the job done.

Too many car analogies in your presentations is just like too many Ferraris. Sure, the first one or two are fun to take for a spin around the countryside, but when your garage or presentation is full of them, it gets kind of crowded and reduces the overall value of them.

What reason(s)? All I can see are:

• Because we have ten fingers and ten toes,
• because ten is a product of two and five making division by these two numbers easier,
• and simple momentum (it's too late to change now).

I personally think that hexadecimal is a superior system, especially for communicating with binary computers which use binary naturally. The only reason we can't use it is because we decided that ten was a great number base for some reason.

Fortunately, Slashdot lacks Unicode support, so we're already protected.