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one of these days i may try to get kde to work, though at that point i might as well just get kubuntu. recent developments in windows is making me want to move away from it. short of reactos ever getting completed, linux is really the only other option.

no os is complete without its command line. even on windows there are a few things you need to use the command line for, like setting up junction points is a good example. but there are other things, like managing services where it really helps to have a gui. for example on a recent ubuntu install there was one service, which i didnt need, which was causing the system to have trouble shutting down. it took me 6 hours of typing things i read in internet forums into it (all of it as superuser, since the commands dont work otherwise. i could be installing worms for all i know) just to kill that service. on windows its a mundane problem which can be solved in a few seconds. everything you need to setup, configure, and run the system should be handled by gui elements. ive had a few good linux experiences. i love the version of debian for raspberry pi, since the system is configured specifically for the hardware, very little is needed to be done for setup except copy an image to an sd card and tweak a config file. just need to know which applications i want to install. but even then i had to do console fu to get a network adapter installed. for the very limited resources of the hardware that was acceptable. i also love gcc, its a breeze to get your code to compile (visual studio can be a nightmare to configure and its all gui based). i like to say here are my includes here are my libraries here is my code, compile pls. and of course you can put that in a makefile. its just a fun way to code. but i think thats a thing linux needs to work on, wrap the more useful commands into guis. i like how i can tweak drivers, tweak the os, tweak network stuff in a couple of clicks.

im not a big fan of the new gui, gnome was ok, kde was better. linux is getting better, the fact that it automatically installed my nvidia drivers was nice. but i dont like how you have to use the command line for so many mundane things.

a full adder isnt that complicated. its only like 5 gates per bit. all of the bitwise operations are 1 gate per bit. shift registers take a flipflop per bit (about 5 gates). and with all those you can construct basic operators and from there every math operation known to man (to a finite approximation).

just take a couple hillbillies into space, im sure they could build a still out of station hardware.

its called star wars

other number systems come into play when you fail to pay back your local loan shark.

if totally dice roll random, no. if doing something stupid (exceeding a part's design tolerances), yes. if you go over the design tolerance of a part, then the odds of that part failing should be proportional to the amount you went over the tolerances.

it makes things easier to deal with if the system refuses to boot. you might need to boot up on a linux live cd to retrieve your data, copy it somewhere, and then you would be free to format and start over. if my data is safe on another partition, i can completely wipe out the os partition with impunity without needing to go in and recover anything. it also makes it easier to change oses if i need to. i think my 840 evo does that out of the box. at least thats what the manual says. unfortunately i was not aware of this at the time i set up the drive.

it makes things easier to deal with if the system refuses to boot. you might need to boot up on a linux live cd to retrieve your data, copy it somewhere, and then you would be free to format and start over. if my data is safe on another partition, i can completely wipe out the os partition with impunity without needing to go in and recover anything.

i dont think 150m/s is enough to get you anywhere.

ununoctium

what partitioning does for you is protects your data from the os. if the os becomes unstable, just format the partition and reinstall the os (i restore an image of a stable instal), and your data remains unaffected. the contents of the c drive is expendable. stuff that needs to be on c is really on d, and just connected to c with junction points (i wrote some batch scripts to set those up for me). ive actually been cleaning out a lot of data. i used to have 450gb, but it turned out most of it was redundant or no longer useful to me. my code folder was just loaded full of bloated libraries i never use, i got rid of a bunch of disc images. a lot of stuff that id keep around just for convenience just got deleted, and i put a lot of other things in 7z archives. it is now less inconvenient to backup.

i just got a 500gb ssd, partitioned it 150/350, put the os on the small partition and the data on the big partition (i never put anything important on c:/ ). i keep my old 640gb on board for backup and video storage.

i can only speak of my experiences. like i said, while im pretty sure i have some form of asd (one therapist i had back in '99 had suggested aspergers), but its not one of the things ive been formally diagnosed with. so i dont know how treatment goes when that is official. the docs said i had things like depression, add, odd, bpd, asd, bipolar, mild schizophrenia, etc but i didnt really care about those things at the time. id have to go see a shrink every time they changed my meds, rest of the time played poker with the therapist. i was on disability. i suspected all this was a smoke screen so that my mom could live off the government. they were all quacks. at one point there were giving me a stimulant and a depressant simultaneously and i always wondered if the pills canceled each other out. after i turned 18 in 2000, disability was cut, all help ceased, med were cut and they've been that way ever since, and i dont miss em.

this would be a good way to drum up early science. you might need to gather atmospheric data to unlock spaceplanes. or you may not initially have access to space suits, so you would have to do a high altitude test of a space suit to unlock them.

think about it, once the launcher and the space center than operated it does its job, they are done. the satellite or probe get handed over to the control of the people who paid to put it up there. space agencies dont micromanage everything launch. if you take a contract to put up a probe you are done as soon as you separate it, its not your payload.

what you should do is start a community space station. section off a grid for little cells of a large bitmap. let members of the ksp community pixel in the cells. assemble cells into community space station. the freespace community attempted this some years ago, we never did finish it. http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=37852.msg1013623#msg1013623 i did the pirate section, and emperor khonsu's fish and chips. i think we should do a ksp one. 1. open paint 2. select pencil tool 3. click a lot

thing is psychotherapy works. unfortunately no one can afford to pay a psychiatrist 250 an hour twice a week. you can go to a psychologist or worse a therapist, but they lack the neccisary skill to do anything useful. what the insurance companies have you do is go to the shrink long enough to get a prescription, then send you to some quack therapist. this is what happens when you let insurance adjusters run healthcare.

or people like me who use both systems somewhat interchangeably. though i wouldn't mind owning only one set of tools. i use metric exclusively when programming. for cooking im strictly imperial. when im designing electronics projects some stuff is measured in mils (thousandths of an inch, go figure), and some stuff in mm. its a total mess and i always have to convert back and fourth. when i build something i use imperial because thats how all the materials are sold here in the us. i dont even have a metric tape measure. i would have no problem switching over to pure si units if the rest of the usa wanted to. ultimately it comes down to money, and thats why we haven't switched. i probibly have several hundred bucks invested in imperial tools, and probibly another hundred in kitchen gear. roadsigns would need to be converted, mileposts switched to km posts. a lot of documents would need to be changed, whole factories would need to be retooled, everything made for imperial would be instantly worthless. and the notion that america doesn't use metric is kind of a myth, it is legal to do so in official documents and im sure there is a whole plethora of engineers that do as well.

the irony is that binary logic is stupid easy to design, it also has the added bonus that it takes up less space on the die, and that means better performance. theres a reason why nobody makes decimal computers anymore. the computer has to do the extra job of making all that binary data easy to read for the user, but the other side of it is you dont always need to see all the numbers in a calculation, so it has a rather negligible impact on performance (at least until you start having a gui and pretty fonts).

meh, just a regular reader of hackaday. its hardly an elegant solution. the express card 2.0 interface is just a one lane pcie interface. so you can get an adapter and trick some video cards into running on just one lane. it gives you only 1/16th of the bandwidth but in some cases its better than integrated. some gpus even have a debugging interface hidden amongst the traces on the card. ive seen hacks where people used various mcu dev boards to hack into said interface allowing the mcu to issue rendering commands, awesome stuff. http://hackaday.com/2012/10/08/stm32-driving-a-pcie-video-card/ im kinda derailing here, my bad.

i wouldn't worry too much about bottlenecks, worry about power instead.

also when you start needing values between integers things get really weird. i use a lot of fixed point math in my embedded projects. just pick a number and say thats the ones place. addition and subtraction works as normal. but multiplies and divides require shifts to put numbers back into their original format. you often need to stick data in a larger type to keep from shifting parts (which would otherwise fit in your fixed point format) of your data into oblivion, especially on divides. lets just use base 64 instead. or we could just use base pi.

definately want some ik scripts so i can have some big stompy mech action. get some kerbattletech on. i want kahn jeb to battle against the inner ksphere.