Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird)
> wrote:
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>> Hmmm; now you've got me curious. What *were* the first
>> composite projectiles?
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> Fetchez la Vache!
Non, non, non,
Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird)
> wrote:
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> > Hmmm; now you've got me curious. What *were* the first
> > composite projectiles?
>
> Fetchez la Vache!
:-)
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"Cameron Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Ha! It's interesting, especially for "computerists", to consider
> how some technologies "plateau": steam car speeds, fresco paint-
> ing, dry-stone walls, ...
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>From what I remember from my reading, the Stanley Steamer
had a reputation
"Cameron Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >> Did you know that the first military smokeless powder
> >> round was for the French Lebel? - It threw a bronze
> >> ball, and could punch through a singl
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird)
wrote:
> Hmmm; now you've got me curious. What *were* the first
> composite projectiles?
Fetchez la Vache!
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hendrik van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>2) That the old NATO round (.308 Winchester) travels at
>around 2500 fps. - and this was some forty years ago,
>when I did my stint of milit
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 6 May 2007 10:15:26 +0200, "Hendrik van Rooyen"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
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>> A rifle bullet can travel at around 5000 feet per second.
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> You've got some fast ri
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Did you know that the first military smokeless powder
>> round was for the French Lebel? - It threw a bronze
>> ball, and could punch throu
Bart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What about C module with usleep,nanosleep?
Unlikely to help! It is an linux OS limit that the minimum sleep time
is 1/HZ.
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John a écrit :
> Anyways, what I need is high resolution sleep, not high resolution
> timing. Installing a real time OS seems like overkill.
IDEA Maybe try creating threading.Event and waiting for it with a timeout.
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> On 9 Maj, 03:23, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> > > "Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote"
> > > It is also possible to keep the timer list sorted by "expiry date",
> > > and to reprogram the timer to interrupt at the next expiry time
> > > to give arbitr
On 9 Maj, 03:23, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> > "Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote"
> > It is also possible to keep the timer list sorted by "expiry date",
> > and to reprogram the timer to interrupt at the next expiry time
> > to give arbitrary resoluti
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> "Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote"
> It is also possible to keep the timer list sorted by "expiry date",
> and to reprogram the timer to interrupt at the next expiry time
> to give arbitrary resolution, instead of implementing a regular 'tick'.
Yes, and tha
On May 8, 12:59 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 May 2007 08:24:01 +0200, "Hendrik van Rooyen"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
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> > So being an idle bugger, I just naturally assumed that the
> > speed would have doubled in the inte
On Tue, 08 May 2007 17:59:13 +, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> Did you know that the first military smokeless powder
>> round was for the French Lebel? - It threw a bronze
>> ball, and could punch through a single brick wall.
>>
> Well, extreme high speed wouldn't help for that -- just get
"Dennis Lee Bieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED],..m.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 May 2007 10:15:26 +0200, "Hendrik van Rooyen"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
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>
> > A rifle bullet can travel at around 5000 feet per second.
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> You've got some fast rifles over there...
LO
"Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote"
> Consider what you're asking here. The operating system can only age the
> timer list and re-evaluate process ready states when a process goes into
> kernel mode, either by releasing the CPU or hitting the end of its time
> slice. In order to know that
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>The table below shows the execution time for this code snippet as
>measured by the unix command `time':
>
>for i in range(1000):
> time.sleep(inter)
>
>inter execution time ideal
>0 0.02 s0 s
>1e-44.
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The table below shows the execution time for this code snippet as
> measured by the unix command `time':
>
> for i in range(1000):
> time.sleep(inter)
>
> inter execution time ideal
> 0 0.02 s0 s
> 1e-4
The table below shows the execution time for this code snippet as
measured by the unix command `time':
for i in range(1000):
time.sleep(inter)
inter execution time ideal
0 0.02 s0 s
1e-44.29 s0.1 s
1e-3
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