He may seem like a money-burning madman, but maybe that's what it takes.
I see little madness in burning money this way. What better can a man do with lots of money? Get a nice car, maybe two, get a beautiful villa... a yacht, a place to spend the winter... and then? Another villa? Two more, three more? After a certain point, magabucks are just a number on your bank account, and purely pointless.
What Elon is doing with his money is awe-inspiring, electrifying, actually transcendent. One of the best damn thing you can do with your life before kicking the bucket.
The simultaneous landing of both the side boosters was literally awe-inspiring.
Oh man, you said it. I lost it somewhere between the lift-off and that awesome visual of both boosers landing simultaneously.
A tiny, little, shy but manly tear rolling down them old cheecks.
OK, maybe not that manly. I don't care.
Even without reuse, it looks like Falcon Heavy is going to be cheaper for almost all big payloads than any of the other heavy launchers, especially Ariane 5 and Delta Heavy.
I agree, but reusing the boosters would be more than just icing on the cake.
many things are shitty nowadays - islamic fundamentalism, dying off of coral reefs, melting of permafrost, plastic pollution in the oceans, spreading of idiocracy.... one bright, very bright spot is Space X and a community of people (of which I am a member) that fervently follows the space programs, our steps into the new frontier.
I feel lucky that there are other people like me, and I can interact with them through the Internet (mostly on reddit).
just look at all the hi-fi equipment in the store, those that are regularly sold - has a "iPhone" or some other cellphone docking feature to them. At the very least - their own streaming services and possibilities.
3 or 4 years from now when those iPhone attachments and streaming services will be obsolete, I will still be able to listen to music on my CD player.
Before you peep up saying that my CD player will stop working, I have to inform you that it's a rather old CD deck, produced before planed obsolescence engineering was as developed as today.
I am not a flamethrower expert, but I don't think you can make a flamethrower with propane as fuel. The range would not exceed a meter or meter and a half.
In fact, all the flamethrowers ever made used some sort of liquid fuel, usually gasoline. They need a second container for the propellant gas. Flamethrowers have ranges of several tens of meters.
It further damages the already bad reputation of cyclists everywhere
Hold on a fucking second: "everywhere"? And "further"? That may be the case in the US where car reigns supreme, but here in Finland (and other nordic countries, Germany, Austria etc.) cyclists have a fine reputation.
I am not going to address how ludicrous the allegation is in the context of a messaging app.
But I will point out that Telegram is a fairly popular open source and independent Whatsapp replacement. This is something Fuckerberg hates, and has probably asked Apple to do something about.
Reasonably understood? Perhaps, but the sugar and soda industries have poured a lot of money into research about the effects of saturated fats on heart and blood vessel health, and this has completely muddied the discussion. Butter has gotten a very undeserved bad rap in public discourse. Luckily in the last two decades there have been some high impact articles showing that saturated fats have very little to no adverse effects on cardiiovascular diseases, whereas carbohydrates do have, a very marked negative effect.
Basically, the sugar and soda industries did the same thing with saturated fats as Intel with Spectre (basically innocuous and impossible to *practically* utilize/exploit) vs. Meltdown (nasty shit that was probably already used in the past via javascript to access data in kernel space).
Apple could kill Meltdown and still have perfect Intel compatibility by just using AMD. I am not necessarily saying they should not have the ARM coprocessor, just that using AMD instead of Intel would increase security drastically. Also because AMD doesn't have the management Engine. They have something equivalent, but that doesn't have a full IP stack and other "niceties" like that.
This is the first time in a long while that a company steps back from what looked like suicidal commitment to a bad idea, and actually went back to what works.
I wish Lenovo did the same with the 7-row keyboardes on the ThinkPad. Also I wish Linux companies (except RedHat, of course) would ditch SystemD.
Did you even read that? First of all, the scenario in that example stores sensitive data in userspace - nobody does that. Second of all, and more critically, the code knew where to look for the data, which extremely unrealistic.
People still haven't gotten the point - this is testament to Intel's PR efforts to obfuscate the facts. It seems the majority of people believe that Spectre (affects Intel, AMD and ARM) is just as dangerous as Meltdown (affects only Intel CPUs). Un-fucking-believable. We truly live in the epoch of idiocracy.
I am in fact doing that. You know why? Because I can read, and I use that ability to collect information. For instance, I collected information about Spectre.
The main reason that I haven't enabled 2-factor on my account is that U.S. cellular carriers charge not only for sent messages but also for received messages.
Planet USA. You know, I am not anti-Trump and I also don't support all the crap the EU Commission is spewing (in fact, fuck the EU Commission - bunch of unelected bureaucrats), but you guys really do things weirdly. No universal healthcare? Not enough competing ISPs so you have some of the highest rates in the western world? Workers can be fired for no reason? And you have to pay for received SMS?? That sounds like crazy stuff to me.
Say what you want, if you want to save the thing we call the planet then you'd be all in favour of nuclear power. But what you really are proposing to do is save some uneducated irrational NIMBYs instead.
That's exactly right, but I doubt he/she is even aware of this.
That's the trouble with nuke plants. The disasters are acute. Meaning all the damage is up front. The annoying thing is that if we were rational beings nuclear would be the perfect energy source.
Then I guess you never travel by plane. I mean, the disasters are acute. Sure, they happen very rarely, but that's something your brain isn't capable of processing.
For homework: calculate the likelihood a home in California will be affected by nuclear meltdown, and compare that to the likelihood it wll be affected by wildfire or earthquake in the next 100 years.
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He may seem like a money-burning madman, but maybe that's what it takes.
I see little madness in burning money this way. What better can a man do with lots of money? Get a nice car, maybe two, get a beautiful villa... a yacht, a place to spend the winter... and then? Another villa? Two more, three more? After a certain point, magabucks are just a number on your bank account, and purely pointless.
What Elon is doing with his money is awe-inspiring, electrifying, actually transcendent. One of the best damn thing you can do with your life before kicking the bucket.
The simultaneous landing of both the side boosters was literally awe-inspiring.
Oh man, you said it. I lost it somewhere between the lift-off and that awesome visual of both boosers landing simultaneously.
A tiny, little, shy but manly tear rolling down them old cheecks.
OK, maybe not that manly. I don't care.
Even without reuse, it looks like Falcon Heavy is going to be cheaper for almost all big payloads than any of the other heavy launchers, especially Ariane 5 and Delta Heavy.
I agree, but reusing the boosters would be more than just icing on the cake.
It's a massive expenditure of energy, but at least it's not for high frequency trading or bitcoins!
Good point.
many things are shitty nowadays - islamic fundamentalism, dying off of coral reefs, melting of permafrost, plastic pollution in the oceans, spreading of idiocracy.... one bright, very bright spot is Space X and a community of people (of which I am a member) that fervently follows the space programs, our steps into the new frontier.
I feel lucky that there are other people like me, and I can interact with them through the Internet (mostly on reddit).
just look at all the hi-fi equipment in the store, those that are regularly sold - has a "iPhone" or some other cellphone docking feature to them. At the very least - their own streaming services and possibilities.
3 or 4 years from now when those iPhone attachments and streaming services will be obsolete, I will still be able to listen to music on my CD player.
Before you peep up saying that my CD player will stop working, I have to inform you that it's a rather old CD deck, produced before planed obsolescence engineering was as developed as today.
And now I get to reply to myself, with humble pie on my face: it turns out, Elon's flamethrower is indeed just a propane torch.
I didn't know that. Please forgive my ignorance.
I am not a flamethrower expert, but I don't think you can make a flamethrower with propane as fuel. The range would not exceed a meter or meter and a half.
In fact, all the flamethrowers ever made used some sort of liquid fuel, usually gasoline. They need a second container for the propellant gas. Flamethrowers have ranges of several tens of meters.
It further damages the already bad reputation of cyclists everywhere
Hold on a fucking second: "everywhere"? And "further"? That may be the case in the US where car reigns supreme, but here in Finland (and other nordic countries, Germany, Austria etc.) cyclists have a fine reputation.
I say this as a European socialist. Wojcicki is a cunt and Youtube suffers from it.
Geezz. get with the program.
Eh... smells like a Microsoft sockpuppet.
I use rather advanced features in Microsoft Word (and sometimes Excel), and Word 2007 is still perfectly suitable for all the publications I produce.
I am not going to address how ludicrous the allegation is in the context of a messaging app.
But I will point out that Telegram is a fairly popular open source and independent Whatsapp replacement. This is something Fuckerberg hates, and has probably asked Apple to do something about.
Reasonably understood? Perhaps, but the sugar and soda industries have poured a lot of money into research about the effects of saturated fats on heart and blood vessel health, and this has completely muddied the discussion. Butter has gotten a very undeserved bad rap in public discourse. Luckily in the last two decades there have been some high impact articles showing that saturated fats have very little to no adverse effects on cardiiovascular diseases, whereas carbohydrates do have, a very marked negative effect.
Basically, the sugar and soda industries did the same thing with saturated fats as Intel with Spectre (basically innocuous and impossible to *practically* utilize/exploit) vs. Meltdown (nasty shit that was probably already used in the past via javascript to access data in kernel space).
Apple could kill Meltdown and still have perfect Intel compatibility by just using AMD. I am not necessarily saying they should not have the ARM coprocessor, just that using AMD instead of Intel would increase security drastically. Also because AMD doesn't have the management Engine. They have something equivalent, but that doesn't have a full IP stack and other "niceties" like that.
Why hell, Russian hackers in Cozy Bear were caught red-handed by the Dutch
At the risk of being called a troll (look at my posting history and tell me if I am one), but for that there really is no proof.
This is the first time in a long while that a company steps back from what looked like suicidal commitment to a bad idea, and actually went back to what works.
I wish Lenovo did the same with the 7-row keyboardes on the ThinkPad. Also I wish Linux companies (except RedHat, of course) would ditch SystemD.
Did you even read that? First of all, the scenario in that example stores sensitive data in userspace - nobody does that. Second of all, and more critically, the code knew where to look for the data, which extremely unrealistic.
People still haven't gotten the point - this is testament to Intel's PR efforts to obfuscate the facts. It seems the majority of people believe that Spectre (affects Intel, AMD and ARM) is just as dangerous as Meltdown (affects only Intel CPUs). Un-fucking-believable. We truly live in the epoch of idiocracy.
Spectre cannot be practically used for any exploit - it's Intel PR's red herring, it's bullshit.
Just read up, educate yourselves (though half the people on /. are the proverbial choir I'm preaching to, I guess).
Just kidding, of course.
But if you want to try, here it is, Slackware 7.1
I am in fact doing that. You know why? Because I can read, and I use that ability to collect information. For instance, I collected information about Spectre.
Try it sometimes.
The main reason that I haven't enabled 2-factor on my account is that U.S. cellular carriers charge not only for sent messages but also for received messages.
Planet USA. You know, I am not anti-Trump and I also don't support all the crap the EU Commission is spewing (in fact, fuck the EU Commission - bunch of unelected bureaucrats), but you guys really do things weirdly. No universal healthcare? Not enough competing ISPs so you have some of the highest rates in the western world? Workers can be fired for no reason? And you have to pay for received SMS?? That sounds like crazy stuff to me.
all you who have an AMD CPU can just relax.
Let me repeat: spectre doesn't need patching - it cannot be practically used for exploits.
Say what you want, if you want to save the thing we call the planet then you'd be all in favour of nuclear power. But what you really are proposing to do is save some uneducated irrational NIMBYs instead.
That's exactly right, but I doubt he/she is even aware of this.
I blame idiocracy.
That's the trouble with nuke plants. The disasters are acute. Meaning all the damage is up front. The annoying thing is that if we were rational beings nuclear would be the perfect energy source.
Then I guess you never travel by plane. I mean, the disasters are acute. Sure, they happen very rarely, but that's something your brain isn't capable of processing.
For homework: calculate the likelihood a home in California will be affected by nuclear meltdown, and compare that to the likelihood it wll be affected by wildfire or earthquake in the next 100 years.