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[ISProgram]

From [ame="http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=6565"]this addon[/ame]...

Used Fraps today. Had a thought. Decided to do this. Might make a full liftoff to payload deploy, really want to, but this thing is already 5.19 MB and it slowed down my computer.

Hopefully, it doesn't prove to be a problem for you guys, but if it does, just let me know and I will get rid of it and just provide a link.

EDIT: I was in a ORBCOMM mood today...

 

[mojoey]

I read that "Wow" in Elmo's voice (in my mind, of course).

Wow. Much impersonation. Very muppet.

 

[Matias Saibene]

News flash

I received an official complaint from the International Association of Mathematical, forbidding me to do some mathematical operation for fear that my random results (results of operations) make a space-time singularity that could destroy the universe, or create a black hole.
I have been ranked with: interdimensional danger.

The world is in my hands.:uhh:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

I received an official complaint from the International Association of Mathematical, forbidding me to do some mathematical operation for fear that my random results (results of operations) make a space-time singularity that could destroy the universe, or create a black hole.
I have been ranked with: interdimensional danger.

The world is in my hands.:uhh:

Lemme guess, you were going to divide by zero...

 

[Matias Saibene]

Lemme guess, you were going to divide by zero...

That is an easy operation:

0÷0=1
0÷0=54357914e66
0÷0=π
0÷0=blue screen
0÷0=45234frvtd6g4erliquy74rys2q7wyr6z1oq8w7rei57ento7cfyiw3u4er658u4t34t5er34y45n67hb@5tyvw...

For me to divide by zero, is the most reliable generator random number that exists in the universe.
But really all operations I do at math I get random numbers (true case of real life):facepalm:.

 

[MattBaker]

0/0 is either 1 or 0.

I never understood why dividing by zero is such a huge offense. The only thing you did is doing an operation that will result in infinity. So?

 

[Urwumpe]

0/0 is either 1 or 0.

I never understood why dividing by zero is such a huge offense. The only thing you did is doing an operation that will result in infinity. So?

Its simply not an operation that will result in infinity. It is undefined. The result can be ANYTHING.

The infinity is just one option, since for example the function 1/x approaches infinity as x goes towards zero. But which infinity? If you come from negative numbers, it could be negative infinity, if you come from positive numbers, it could be a positive infinity... See the problem?

(Damn, I am too sober for such discussions)

 

[MattBaker]

If you come from negative numbers, it could be negative infinity, if you come from positive numbers, it could be a positive infinity... See the problem?

New assumption: X/0 is 42. Always.

 

[Linguofreak]

Its simply not an operation that will result in infinity. It is undefined. The result can be ANYTHING.

The infinity is just one option, since for example the function 1/x approaches infinity as x goes towards zero. But which infinity? If you come from negative numbers, it could be negative infinity, if you come from positive numbers, it could be a positive infinity... See the problem?

(Damn, I am too sober for such discussions)

An interesting way of visualizing the problem with 0/0 is to draw lines on a grid representing division problems. Each line passes through the origin and one other point, which has the numerator for its y coordinate and the denominator for its x coordinate. The slope of the line is the result of the division, and is well defined for anything other than 0/0, as given any pair of distinct points, there is only one line passing through both. However, for 0/0, the two points defining our line are identical, which is to say that we're taking one point and saying that the slope of the line passing through that point is the result of the division problem 0/0. But there's more than one line that passes through the origin, so there's more than one result.

 

[Ghostrider]

Its simply not an operation that will result in infinity. It is undefined. The result can be ANYTHING.

Anything? Ok. I'm going to keep dividing by zero until the result is Christina Hendricks. Might take a while.

 

[Linguofreak]

Darn.

mke2fs /dev/fb0 works, but the system categorically refuses to mount or losetup /dev/fb0.

There's no particular reason I wanted to set up a filesystem on my framebuffer. I just wanted to see if I could...

 

[Quick_Nick]

Looking at Google data from a few years ago on hard drive temperature and failure rate, I was surprised to see that there are far more failures at room temperature (and below) than at relatively high temperature. And the optimal temperature range is fairly narrow and quite warm at around 40C.

 

[MattBaker]

I should get a hard drive build into me. It likes the same temperature my body does.

 

[RisingFury]

Looking at Google data from a few years ago on hard drive temperature and failure rate, I was surprised to see that there are far more failures at room temperature (and below) than at relatively high temperature. And the optimal temperature range is fairly narrow and quite warm at around 40C.

At that point you have to ask yourself: What's more expensive - replacing the failed hard drives or heating the storage facility?

 

[Urwumpe]

At that point you have to ask yourself: What's more expensive - replacing the failed hard drives or heating the storage facility?

Maybe you need a better thermal control system - cool electronics but temperature regulated hard drives...

 

[Quick_Nick]

Maybe you need a better thermal control system - cool electronics but temperature regulated hard drives...

Heatsink from the CPU right to the HDD. :lol:

 

[Izack]

Currently playing X3. Man, it's hard to make money.

 

[jedidia]

Meh. The X-series always made me feel like going from shelf to shelf in Walmart rather than being in space... If I remember correctly, that frustration was the cause of the search which lead me to orbiter, some 8-ish years ago I think it was. Never looked back since then.

 

[Urwumpe]

Meh. The X-series always made me feel like going from shelf to shelf in Walmart rather than being in space... If I remember correctly, that frustration was the cause of the search which lead me to orbiter, some 8-ish years ago I think it was. Never looked back since then.

I think it would be some kind of cool to have such a kind of game one day as add-on in Orbiter... maybe in a single solar system. The World of 2001 was a pretty good base already for something like that.

 

[jedidia]

I think it would be some kind of cool to have such a kind of game one day as add-on in Orbiter... maybe in a single solar system.

For that I don't have to look back... but forward. IMS was never intended to be a one-off, but a base. Unfortunately I have to rewrite it to really serve as such. Just get the kids of my back for another few years. Oh, who am I kidding...