Re: Overview Of New Intel Core i7(Nehalem) Processor

Think concrete.

everything about windows is an ugly kluge.

NTFS is quite good.

John

The stupidity that KDE and Gnome has turned into makes those desktops under Linux not much better.

Not really. The current world record dive is 172 ft, without injury.

So 250 feet would not be fun. Duh. Brick wall splat potential rises exponentially not linearly. To achieve a punch through, one would need a sharp, *hard* impact "nose", and a rigid "frame" behind that for the shock to ripple through.

We have neither. We become a blob of flesh with bones inside, all piling up into a lumpy pile. The bones become weapons at that point. Either way, blob stage is not survivable. It's like being pureed without blades. Water can even pulverize an asteroid on impact (which is then a meteor). I know it is going a lot faster, but the physics are the same.

Masses do not like coming to sudden stops when they are moving fast without some huge mechanism to 'pillow' the energy rise such deceleration causes, which is why many masses fracture, crumble, or squash, as is the case with liquids, which we are, above a certain speed, for stopping rates that fast.

That's a really hard position to maintain at high speed (terminal velocity will be well over 120mph in that position). It's like balancing on a beach-ball, and isn't something you're going to be able to manage without practice.

The reason for the "stable spread" position is that it's ... stable; the centre of gravity is below the centre of drag. Feet-down has the centre of gravity around the lower torso but most of the drag lower down, with the rest of the body being in the wake.

Most things about most software are a kludge. The market won't support aerospace or medical levels of engineering for consumer or business software. The aerospace and medical markets wouldn't support it if it wasn't for regulation and the relatively high civil liability risks in those fields.

It's certainly a lot better than [V]FAT, although performance can be pretty horrid and some of its complexity can be problematic for security.

True, but you hit the water flat you are dead for sure. The best method is obviously the way divers do it - jump forward and rotate into the entry position.

As I understand it (from a documentary fwiw), almost all the survivors hit the water feet first, leaning slightly backwards. All had horrific injuries that they nevertheless survived.

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Even that is easy, Easter position, drag does the rest.

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Not really. It is more like FAT32 on steroids with file ownership tacked on.

The thunk is not by its nature an ugly kludge. The thing being called a "thunk" that is part of windows is. The thunk is a trick where a subroutine is passed an address other than the normal return address that the subroutine may optionally return to instead of the normal place. It is useful for handling exceptional cases where the normal program flow no longer makes sense.

But you can pull the plug on it without things getting tied in knots. So we don't get blamed for "improperly shutting down" our computers every time Windows crashes.

John

So the consensus is: pack a light 'chute in your carry-on bag, or try cobbling a wingsuit together from your overcoat:

The 25mph figure isn't "terminal velocity", which is a stable state. Getting that low a descent rate involves converting your forward speed into lift, as you would do on landing. But getting enough lift means having enough forward speed. You can get an idea of how much forward speed from the video Dirk points to.

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Macrosoft doing a journaled file system correctly? I might believe it if i tested it, but i am not going to fire up xp just to do that test.

However, it may mean that a water landing is quite survivable