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An access violation accessing address zero means some code tried dereferencing a null pointer. The fact that Orbiter tried dereferencing a null pointer (indicated by the fact that the "thrown at" location is in orbiter.exe) indicates that a bug exists in Orbiter (failure somewhere to check that...

Given that we're working in the addon environment for a FOSS project (orbiter), I'd recommend working with the same license as the main project (MIT) to minimize licensing hassle. If you want something copyleft, don't use straight GPL, in particular if you're writing anything that will be called...

What exactly does "throttle" mean here? I know what it means for a reciprocating gasoline engine, but I'm less clear on what throttle lever position on a jet engine actually controls. Most of the reading I've done that's said anything about how pilot inputs are translated to engine parameters...

I would never have gotten away with that as a kid. My parents are pretty laid back, but that just wouldn't have flown. Any time we had sweets in the house, we knew exactly how many we could take each, per meal. If we wanted stuff in between meals it was easier to beg and get dad thinking "a...

I've been watching DCS videos on youtube, but it doesn't really seem worth it to me. It does the whole "everything is paid DLC" thing, which is not the greatest when the prices are normal, but here pretty much everything is well beyond the point where I decide I'm being screwed if I'm buying a...

More the stereotype that people from the New Jersey segment of the NYC metro area aren't very polite.

I just realized: Canadians have a reputation for being very polite. Canada geese, on the other hand, have a reputation for being quite grumpy. Shouldn't they be called Jersey Geese?

Given that the tin cans at Samar fought off the freakin'  Yamato, it's a tragedy that the Montana class battleships didn't get built and named after them. Say, instead of all these Admirals and Presidents, howsabout we name the next four ships of the Ford class "Samuel B Roberts", "Johnston"...

I seem to recall hearing that part of the hate he got was from other African Americans for taking a roll that looks a lot like the old "stupid black comic relief" character that used to show up a lot. I don't think that's exactly what Jar Jar was, but an actor getting flak for (being perceived...

It is a monopoly, government-enforced and codified in treaty, but as I pointed out to the OP, even if it didn't exist, only what a developer released (for example, binaries) would be freely available to the public. If the developer withholds source code from public release, significant...

No, the point is not that you're the addon developer's slave: Whatever he does with his addons, he can't force you to do anything. The point is, he is not your slave. You don't get to force him to keep working on something he doesn't want to work on until you get tired of it. The monopoly is...

I mean, in pretty much any eventuality where the Sun does not rise tomorrow, there is no tomorrow. Either the Earth stops rotating within 24 hours, or the mass of the sun is distributed to points outside of Earth's orbit (so that you can't easily point to where the Sun is anymore, from Earth's...

Very, very interesting title.

The primary characteristics used to identify vowels are the position of the highest point of the tongue (front, back, high, low), and rounding of the lips. U and ü are both high, rounded vowels, with u being a back vowel and ü being a front vowel. English doesn't have a high front rounded vowel...

Question for the German speakers on the forum: 1) How often have you spoken German (as opposed to written conversation online) with Americans from the area highlighted in red at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_American_English ? 2) Have you noticed any tendency to overpronounce "ü" among...

HDMI sound devices are often separate from motherboard sound (generally being part of the graphics card) which can be a component of the whole "wrong sound device gets selected" issue. Then again, the fact that both of these came in with Windows updates makes me wonder if HDCP ? -ery is...

Are these headphones 3.5mm, or USB/Bluetooth? The difference is that 3.5mm just takes an analog audio signal from your internal sound card, whereas USB/Bluetooth headphones and speakers present themselves to the OS as a separate sound card, and in my experience every OS has trouble dealing...

They seem to have mistaken you for an admin, and the forum for a commercial site that depends on attracting customers for survival.

Probably not quite true. Most of that is probably automated, so not literally "pairs of hands". The ultimate impact on your privacy is no less catastrophic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beatty,_1st_Earl_Beatty Possibly, along with Halsey, one of the more controversial figures in the history of the steel battleship.