I love space exploration and think it has tremendous potential for mankind. But I have often thought that the Space Shuttle was a kluge designed by a committee. It was also a huge government make work project. Thankfully, projects like SpaceX and private industry is taking over from where NASA blew it. Though there were plenty of hard working and smart people there. In the end they remind me of the DMV or Post Office of space technology.
I think it's ironic that a journalism flop like the LA Times has the guts to call anything else a flop. I cancled my subscription to that rag years ago. These dinosaurs should be allowed to go extinct.
Seriously. I always thought the press was unfair on IBM for the whole OS/2 debacle. OS/2 actually worked good, till MS decided to kill it with good anti-marketing. IBM helped kill it themselves with their ad campaign stating that OS/2 "obliterated" your software. Oh, I guess the karma thing is coming back on Microsoft now. Instead of Charlie Chaplin friendly ads, there are ones showing me how stupid I am because a 3 year old can do Windows 8. Really? I think MS obliterated my software. Seriously.
All these people say "get him a Mac" or "get him Linux". Bah humbug! I get the good stuff for myself (I prefer Mac), and then I can give people like that a blank stare and say "I don't know nothin' about that there Windows stuff";-)
Dad is a retired 85 year old dude on a fixed budget. He can't afford the luxury of Apple products. Regardless of what he was running, he is still my dad. I would help him no matter what. I just want my life to be simpler, so this is why I did this. Now my brothers......That's another story. But they are teachable.;-)
My dad got infected by some malware a while back. He had WinXP Pro. My brothers tried to help him to no avail. He doesn't do well with keeping his antivrus and malware stuff updated. The old guy also does stuff I've told him not to do too. So he got this malware infection that told him that the FBI had locked his computer and to send $200 to a site to unlock it. He freaked out. So I installed Linux Mint 13 KDE 32-bit on his computer. He hasn't had to worry since. He likes it because its also faster. My family thinks I'm free tech support and I was getting real tired of fixing their installations. Now my brothers and uncle have installed Mint also. Life is much simpler for me now.:-)
So some congressman says some boneheaded thing. There's a big surprise. Now the correct respose is the boneheaded idea to elect Charlie Darwin to congress? Would Gengis Khan make a good hostess at the International House of Pancakes? Now that makes sense.
Boo frickin hoo. Somebody says something that alarms their lefty sensibilities and I get a -1 troll rating. What a bunch of poor losers. It's gonna be like the Reagan/Carter blowout again. Only Obama makes the peanut farmer look good. Boneheads. Whatever.
Neanderthal means Neander Valley in German. I used to live near Dusseldorf which is also close to this valley in Germany. There is a really nice train ride to get to it, there's a nice nature trail and a museum with some displays of Neanderthal bones and artifacts. Neanderthals could probably interbreed with modern humans even if they were a new species. There are inter-special hybrids, such as mules. But they are usually sterile if the genome is too divergent. Neanderthal DNA is believed to be in our modern genome too. So they could not have been to genetically different than we are. Species are somewhat arbitrarily assigned anyway. It is also commonly believed by many that they were lesser mentally developed and brute beasts. The average cranial capacity of Neanderthal skulls exceeds that of modern humans. There's a lot of controversy surrounding their intellectual ability. Especially their language skills. The hyoid bone in your throat allows you to produce the sounds of modern language. They have found Neanderthal hyoid bones which were well developed. This has deepened that controversy. Just like there is great physical diversity among domestic dogs, why couldn't the same apply to homo sapiens? There is speculation that they were not immune to some of the infectious diseases that we had spread to their population. That this might have been the cause of their extinction and not our superiority. This would also explain why contact with them invariably led to extinction.
Every car will have data in it like aircraft do. It will know what your actions were, were you were and what you were doing. It's comforting to know my ex wife, the insurance company, the police and the rest of government won't get access to that data. Uh huh. Sure.
Actually, you bring up an excellent point. I actually meant to refer to external memory systems. The speed of light is an absolute barrier which obviates the physical placement of a very high performance system. I can't imagine any replacement for an on-chip cache. But memristors, phase change memory and magnetoresistive external memory systems have made me hopeful. How exactly files would be stored in such a system and booting I think would create some interesting new retrieval and storage solutions.
Since computers began we have had hierarchal memory systems. Cache is the most expensive, but the fastest. DRAM is much cheaper slower and denser, but also volatile. Flash is faster than rotating media, slower than DRAM, but non-vloatile. It also has the drawback of limited programming cycles. Magnetic media is very dense, non-vloatile and slow. It is also mechanicly delicate. There are new technologies being developed that are both fast, dense, and non-volatile. With a fast enough, cheap and non-volatile memroy system, you would not need cache, RAM or disk. You could use on unified memory system. This is where I think many syustems are going. Windows, Linux, or OSX have nothing to do with it. Though they will all be greatly impacted.
You could go nuclear and avoid so much of it's proliferation and disposal drawbacks by going with liquid flouride thorium reactors (LFTR's). But then again, if you wanted to create a big government pie-in-the-sky "make work" project, you could pursue fusion. Oh yeah, they're already doing that.
I think the two are converging somewhat. eBook readers aren't as powerful or versatile. I need another gadget like I need a hole in the head too. But if I must, I would get a tablet. If money was no object, I would go with a retina iPad. But the Android tablets are catching up fast. Cheaper too. I look at an eBook reader as a crippled tablet.
Another big point missed in the movie is that the Space Shuttle is only capable of going to Low Earth Orbit. Bruce Willis wouldn't have even been able to get the bomb there even if it was big enough.
The QT Toolkit from Nokia is what underlies KDE. KDE is the most Windows like interface for Linux and BSD. With all the ports to Linux in the works, Microsoft could slow this down if they bought Nokia and changed the license terms of QT. Oracle bought Sun and then changed the license to Open Office. Whereas Open Office had been gaining acceptance and support, Oracle's modification of the license changed halted the inertia Open Office had been gaining.
Microsoft cannot stop the inevitable mass adaptation of desktop Linux, but they can stall it by modifying the terms of the QT license. It's been a long time coming, but it will happen.
Nokia has been a huge supporter of Windows for mobile phones. Microsoft has tried harder than anybody has without making any progress with their own phones. Remember the "Kin"? If Microsoft intends to continue trying, they'll have to keep Nokia's patent portfolio away from the other mobile phone manufacturers. Microsoft needs to buy Nokia for this very purpose.
Intel have never had any success in mobile... Nokia are falling fast... And MS are somewhere between, never had much success and also seem to be falling, albeit from a much lower height than Nokia.
Why would 3 failures of the mobile market want to get together?
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I love space exploration and think it has tremendous potential for mankind. But I have often thought that the Space Shuttle was a kluge designed by a committee. It was also a huge government make work project. Thankfully, projects like SpaceX and private industry is taking over from where NASA blew it. Though there were plenty of hard working and smart people there. In the end they remind me of the DMV or Post Office of space technology.
Oh, but wait. She did it from her iPad. Nice endorsement.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/20/tech/social-media/oprah-surface-tweet/index.html
I think it's ironic that a journalism flop like the LA Times has the guts to call anything else a flop. I cancled my subscription to that rag years ago. These dinosaurs should be allowed to go extinct.
Seriously. I always thought the press was unfair on IBM for the whole OS/2 debacle. OS/2 actually worked good, till MS decided to kill it with good anti-marketing. IBM helped kill it themselves with their ad campaign stating that OS/2 "obliterated" your software. Oh, I guess the karma thing is coming back on Microsoft now. Instead of Charlie Chaplin friendly ads, there are ones showing me how stupid I am because a 3 year old can do Windows 8. Really? I think MS obliterated my software. Seriously.
All these people say "get him a Mac" or "get him Linux". Bah humbug! I get the good stuff for myself (I prefer Mac), and then I can give people like that a blank stare and say "I don't know nothin' about that there Windows stuff" ;-)
Dad is a retired 85 year old dude on a fixed budget. He can't afford the luxury of Apple products. Regardless of what he was running, he is still my dad. I would help him no matter what. I just want my life to be simpler, so this is why I did this. Now my brothers......That's another story. But they are teachable. ;-)
No political bias there. Uh huh.
My dad got infected by some malware a while back. He had WinXP Pro. My brothers tried to help him to no avail. He doesn't do well with keeping his antivrus and malware stuff updated. The old guy also does stuff I've told him not to do too. So he got this malware infection that told him that the FBI had locked his computer and to send $200 to a site to unlock it. He freaked out. So I installed Linux Mint 13 KDE 32-bit on his computer. He hasn't had to worry since. He likes it because its also faster. My family thinks I'm free tech support and I was getting real tired of fixing their installations. Now my brothers and uncle have installed Mint also. Life is much simpler for me now. :-)
Heck, automation is making procreation irrelevant. Ugh.
So some congressman says some boneheaded thing. There's a big surprise. Now the correct respose is the boneheaded idea to elect Charlie Darwin to congress? Would Gengis Khan make a good hostess at the International House of Pancakes? Now that makes sense.
Boo frickin hoo. Somebody says something that alarms their lefty sensibilities and I get a -1 troll rating. What a bunch of poor losers. It's gonna be like the Reagan/Carter blowout again. Only Obama makes the peanut farmer look good. Boneheads. Whatever.
Yep, and Barack Obama is also a good speaker. Obama and Biden are both poor leaders too.
Neanderthal means Neander Valley in German. I used to live near Dusseldorf which is also close to this valley in Germany. There is a really nice train ride to get to it, there's a nice nature trail and a museum with some displays of Neanderthal bones and artifacts. Neanderthals could probably interbreed with modern humans even if they were a new species. There are inter-special hybrids, such as mules. But they are usually sterile if the genome is too divergent. Neanderthal DNA is believed to be in our modern genome too. So they could not have been to genetically different than we are. Species are somewhat arbitrarily assigned anyway. It is also commonly believed by many that they were lesser mentally developed and brute beasts. The average cranial capacity of Neanderthal skulls exceeds that of modern humans. There's a lot of controversy surrounding their intellectual ability. Especially their language skills. The hyoid bone in your throat allows you to produce the sounds of modern language. They have found Neanderthal hyoid bones which were well developed. This has deepened that controversy. Just like there is great physical diversity among domestic dogs, why couldn't the same apply to homo sapiens? There is speculation that they were not immune to some of the infectious diseases that we had spread to their population. That this might have been the cause of their extinction and not our superiority. This would also explain why contact with them invariably led to extinction.
I've dated a few chicks that thought I was a Neanderthal. I still got lucky though. Chicks just dig furrow brows.
Christian Science is like Grape Nuts. It ain't Science and they ain't nuts.
Every car will have data in it like aircraft do. It will know what your actions were, were you were and what you were doing. It's comforting to know my ex wife, the insurance company, the police and the rest of government won't get access to that data. Uh huh. Sure.
Actually, you bring up an excellent point. I actually meant to refer to external memory systems. The speed of light is an absolute barrier which obviates the physical placement of a very high performance system. I can't imagine any replacement for an on-chip cache. But memristors, phase change memory and magnetoresistive external memory systems have made me hopeful. How exactly files would be stored in such a system and booting I think would create some interesting new retrieval and storage solutions.
Since computers began we have had hierarchal memory systems. Cache is the most expensive, but the fastest. DRAM is much cheaper slower and denser, but also volatile. Flash is faster than rotating media, slower than DRAM, but non-vloatile. It also has the drawback of limited programming cycles. Magnetic media is very dense, non-vloatile and slow. It is also mechanicly delicate. There are new technologies being developed that are both fast, dense, and non-volatile. With a fast enough, cheap and non-volatile memroy system, you would not need cache, RAM or disk. You could use on unified memory system. This is where I think many syustems are going. Windows, Linux, or OSX have nothing to do with it. Though they will all be greatly impacted.
You could go nuclear and avoid so much of it's proliferation and disposal drawbacks by going with liquid flouride thorium reactors (LFTR's). But then again, if you wanted to create a big government pie-in-the-sky "make work" project, you could pursue fusion. Oh yeah, they're already doing that.
I think the two are converging somewhat. eBook readers aren't as powerful or versatile. I need another gadget like I need a hole in the head too. But if I must, I would get a tablet. If money was no object, I would go with a retina iPad. But the Android tablets are catching up fast. Cheaper too. I look at an eBook reader as a crippled tablet.
OK. I have poster's regret. Can I delete this now? ;-)
The government would save alot of time and money if they scheduled their solar exploation craft to go at night. I'm just sayin.
Another big point missed in the movie is that the Space Shuttle is only capable of going to Low Earth Orbit. Bruce Willis wouldn't have even been able to get the bomb there even if it was big enough.
The QT Toolkit from Nokia is what underlies KDE. KDE is the most Windows like interface for Linux and BSD. With all the ports to Linux in the works, Microsoft could slow this down if they bought Nokia and changed the license terms of QT. Oracle bought Sun and then changed the license to Open Office. Whereas Open Office had been gaining acceptance and support, Oracle's modification of the license changed halted the inertia Open Office had been gaining.
Microsoft cannot stop the inevitable mass adaptation of desktop Linux, but they can stall it by modifying the terms of the QT license. It's been a long time coming, but it will happen.
Nokia has been a huge supporter of Windows for mobile phones. Microsoft has tried harder than anybody has without making any progress with their own phones. Remember the "Kin"? If Microsoft intends to continue trying, they'll have to keep Nokia's patent portfolio away from the other mobile phone manufacturers. Microsoft needs to buy Nokia for this very purpose.
Intel have never had any success in mobile...
Nokia are falling fast...
And MS are somewhere between, never had much success and also seem to be falling, albeit from a much lower height than Nokia.
Why would 3 failures of the mobile market want to get together?
Because misery loves company.