C# would not have happened without the legal difficulties of Java. Without the legal difficulties, Microsoft would either _own_ Java, or have _destroyed_ Java. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Airframes need wings to fly. Otherwise, they're busses.
Wind turbines need wings.
The question becomes "What is the relative cost of the generating and pointing gear vs. the spinning gear?" Say Mr. Rutan decided that his Scaled Composites was so good it could reduce the cost of manufacturing turbine wings and hubs down to zero. How much of the cost of a wind turbine would that eliminate? I don't know.
My daughter is six (and three-quarters, as she is quick to tell...). She thought the film was fantastic. Some scary parts, yes, but that's what makes films great.
And I have to plug my little local movie house. 180 seats. One screen. One showing Friday night, one on Saturday, and one on Sunday. $3 tickets, $2 for a large drink (maybe this is the same size as a medium at the multiplex), and $2 for a bucket o' popcorn. We saw it on Saturday.
The only drawback is that you have to be in line before tickets go on sale (an hour before the show) to get a seat.
3. The amount of waste would be a small percentage of the starting amount. So for every *ton* of fuel (that's one HELL of a lot of energy!), you'd end up with a few dozen kilograms of stuff left. Of the remaining "waste", a large portion of it would be stable materials.
No, you get about a ton of waste fuel from a ton of fuel. The mass->energy conversion is a tiny fraction of the fuel's mass. And once the U or P atoms are split, the daughters can't be split again.
And then you have the problem that the neutron flux inside the reactor makes _everything_ radioactive. And _everything_ in the fuel processing cycle becomes radioactive.
All that radioactive stuff is waste. It must be stored carefully, for long periods of time. And noone has a solution that works both politically, geologically, and medically.
There are no paper receipts on the Diebold machines because it makes it possible to check that the machine did an accurate job with the election. Can't have that. What the machine says is what the result is.
"I will do everything in my power to deliver Ohio's electoral votes to the President". Diebold CEO.
The modern Creationism/Intelligent Design movement is founded in opposition to science. They object to the notion that observing the universe can lead to conclusions that contradict their interpretation of scripture. They object to teaching school children those conclusions, because it undercuts their authority to tell people what to think.
The details of biology and the Creationist interpretation of scripture are irrelevent.
Even-numbered Presidents of the USA from the 20th century (lets see how good my memory is): Clinton, Reagan, Ford, Johnson, Eisenhower, Roosevelt (FDR), Coolidge, Wilson, Roosevelt (Teddy).
Odd-numbered Presidents of the USA: Bush, Bush, Carter, Nixon, Kennedy, Truman, Hoover, Harding, Taft, McKinley.
Kennedy and Truman don't really belong on that list, and I don't think Ford and Johnson really belong on the first. Switch 'em and we're not too far from "effective" and "ineffective or disasterous".
Ummm, I don't think so. The Oilers moved to Tenessee (Nashville?), and became the Titans.
The Houston Texans are an expansion team, much like the reconstituted Cleveland Browns. Only the "Oilers" name was so valuable the new team... chose something else.
The problem with every large organization is that building the communication networks linking the right people is hard to do. There is a tradeoff to make when deciding which and how many people information needs to propagate to. Too few, and the right people don't get the message. Too many, and the message gets lost in the noise.
Why does NASA use "one off" designs for all of its work (eg, the Space Shuttle, space probes, etc)?
NASA usually doesn't use "one off" designs its work. There were five shuttles built. Voyager one and 2, and the two mars rovers are examples of "build two, so that its more likely that one will work".
The commercial launch business also has a few standard designs and tested optional configurations that get used over and over again.
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The flight control computers on the Shuttle are an interesting example. If you have one fcc, and it dies, then you lose the vehicle and crew (vehicle is unflyable without the fcc). If you have two fccs, and one starts producing erroneous results, you don't know which one to trust. If you have three computers, you can survive any one of them failing, but then a second failure causes you problems.
If you have four computers, there's an outside chance that two will fail, and you will have to choose between two As and two Bs, and if you choose the wrong one, vehicle and crew are debris.
So the shuttle has five computers. The fifth runs software developed independently from the software running on the other four, and breaks two-two ties.
Probably the most reliable large software project ever. But horribly expensive in $/SLOC...
Florida did not hire an incompetent firm to purge their voter registration roles of felons. The system did exactly what it was supposed to do for the folks who hired it. As a result of their fine job, Bush is in office. Competence, not incompetence!
The machines prevent the user from making a mistake, such as having their vote count for candidates in the wrong party.
There are more than enough ways to bury features in the code so that it would be very difficult to discover evidence that the election was stolen. if (today != ElectionDay(thisYear)) {
addVoteToCorrectColumn() } else {
addVoteToColumnButNotIfMyCandidateIsBehind() } i s very hard to disclose through a black-box test. A little more doctoring with the checkSum command, and you won't know that the code running is not the code you just built.
Under Clinton's leadership, the budget deficit deficit of 290.4 billion dollars, to a 236.4 billion dollar surplus, in eight years. That is fiscal conservatism.
From Apple, $2,000 gets you a 1.8 GHz 64-bit processor, 256 MB PC3200 RAM (expandable up to 2GB), 160 GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA HD, 20" 1680x1050 LCD Screen, VGA, S-Video, and composite video outputs, and a 4X DVD-R/CDRW optical drive.
From Gateway, at the same price, you get a Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, an extra 256 MB of RAM, but a slower optical drive and a smaller screen. And you have WinXP Home, instead of MacOS X. And it's ugly.
Parent post clearly identified that he was estimating cost, not value. The labor theory of cost works very well.
Value is entirely contextual. A quart of pure water is worth a lot more to someone stranded in the deserts of Utah than it would have been to a member of the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald, for example.
It's one thing to choose between supporting one OS to third party developers vs. supporting two or more.
The customer doesn't go out and buy new software to run on an iPod; the customer buys more songs. There is no courting of third-party developers for the iPod. At the moment...
iPod + cellPhone + newton + digiCam + camCorder in one pocket-sized box. How cool would that be?
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The earliest clocks chimed at various times during the day. No face, no hands. Not even on the hour.
C# would not have happened without the legal difficulties of Java. Without the legal difficulties, Microsoft would either _own_ Java, or have _destroyed_ Java. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Airframes need wings to fly. Otherwise, they're busses.
Wind turbines need wings.
The question becomes "What is the relative cost of the generating and pointing gear vs. the spinning gear?" Say Mr. Rutan decided that his Scaled Composites was so good it could reduce the cost of manufacturing turbine wings and hubs down to zero. How much of the cost of a wind turbine would that eliminate? I don't know.
My daughter is six (and three-quarters, as she is quick to tell...). She thought the film was fantastic. Some scary parts, yes, but that's what makes films great.
And I have to plug my little local movie house. 180 seats. One screen. One showing Friday night, one on Saturday, and one on Sunday. $3 tickets, $2 for a large drink (maybe this is the same size as a medium at the multiplex), and $2 for a bucket o' popcorn. We saw it on Saturday.
The only drawback is that you have to be in line before tickets go on sale (an hour before the show) to get a seat.
No, you get about a ton of waste fuel from a ton of fuel. The mass->energy conversion is a tiny fraction of the fuel's mass. And once the U or P atoms are split, the daughters can't be split again.
And then you have the problem that the neutron flux inside the reactor makes _everything_ radioactive. And _everything_ in the fuel processing cycle becomes radioactive.
All that radioactive stuff is waste. It must be stored carefully, for long periods of time. And noone has a solution that works both politically, geologically, and medically.
One Nation, indivisible,
with Liberty, and Justice, for All.
There are no paper receipts on the Diebold machines because it makes it possible to check that the machine did an accurate job with the election. Can't have that. What the machine says is what the result is.
"I will do everything in my power to deliver Ohio's electoral votes to the President". Diebold CEO.
The modern Creationism/Intelligent Design movement is founded in opposition to science. They object to the notion that observing the universe can lead to conclusions that contradict their interpretation of scripture. They object to teaching school children those conclusions, because it undercuts their authority to tell people what to think.
The details of biology and the Creationist interpretation of scripture are irrelevent.
Yeah. Because Apple's $800 computer that includes a 17" display is just so much more money.
Even-numbered Presidents of the USA from the 20th century (lets see how good my memory is):
Clinton, Reagan, Ford, Johnson, Eisenhower, Roosevelt (FDR), Coolidge, Wilson, Roosevelt (Teddy).
Odd-numbered Presidents of the USA:
Bush, Bush, Carter, Nixon, Kennedy, Truman, Hoover, Harding, Taft, McKinley.
Kennedy and Truman don't really belong on that list, and I don't think Ford and Johnson really belong on the first. Switch 'em and we're not too far from "effective" and "ineffective or disasterous".
Ummm, I don't think so. The Oilers moved to Tenessee (Nashville?), and became the Titans.
The Houston Texans are an expansion team, much like the reconstituted Cleveland Browns. Only the "Oilers" name was so valuable the new team... chose something else.
The problem with every large organization is that building the communication networks linking the right people is hard to do. There is a tradeoff to make when deciding which and how many people information needs to propagate to. Too few, and the right people don't get the message. Too many, and the message gets lost in the noise.
NASA usually doesn't use "one off" designs its work. There were five shuttles built. Voyager one and 2, and the two mars rovers are examples of "build two, so that its more likely that one will work".
The commercial launch business also has a few standard designs and tested optional configurations that get used over and over again.
The flight control computers on the Shuttle are an interesting example. If you have one fcc, and it dies, then you lose the vehicle and crew (vehicle is unflyable without the fcc). If you have two fccs, and one starts producing erroneous results, you don't know which one to trust. If you have three computers, you can survive any one of them failing, but then a second failure causes you problems.
If you have four computers, there's an outside chance that two will fail, and you will have to choose between two As and two Bs, and if you choose the wrong one, vehicle and crew are debris.
So the shuttle has five computers. The fifth runs software developed independently from the software running on the other four, and breaks two-two ties.
Probably the most reliable large software project ever. But horribly expensive in $/SLOC...
Apollo had two gross errors in twelve launches: the Apollo 1 fire that killed Grissom, White, and Chafee, and the Apollo 13 explosion.
Florida did not hire an incompetent firm to purge their voter registration roles of felons. The system did exactly what it was supposed to do for the folks who hired it. As a result of their fine job, Bush is in office. Competence, not incompetence!
Any questions?
Remind me never to hire you to do user interface design.
The machines prevent the user from making a mistake, such as having their vote count for candidates in the wrong party.
i s very hard to disclose through a black-box test. A little more doctoring with the checkSum command, and you won't know that the code running is not the code you just built.
There are more than enough ways to bury features in the code so that it would be very difficult to discover evidence that the election was stolen. if (today != ElectionDay(thisYear)) {
addVoteToCorrectColumn()
} else {
addVoteToColumnButNotIfMyCandidateIsBehind()
}
If, by 'work', you mean "deliver the election results that those in power desire, without regard to the will of the electorate".
Under Clinton's leadership, the budget deficit deficit of 290.4 billion dollars, to a 236.4 billion dollar surplus, in eight years. That is fiscal conservatism.
Government still needs to fund its actions. If government were to simply print the money needed to fund itself, the result would be rampant inflation.
Tax, borrow, or inflate. Those are the choices.
From Apple, $2,000 gets you a 1.8 GHz 64-bit processor, 256 MB PC3200 RAM (expandable up to 2GB), 160 GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA HD, 20" 1680x1050 LCD Screen, VGA, S-Video, and composite video outputs, and a 4X DVD-R/CDRW optical drive.
From Gateway, at the same price, you get a Pentium 4 3.2 GHz, an extra 256 MB of RAM, but a slower optical drive and a smaller screen. And you have WinXP Home, instead of MacOS X. And it's ugly.
Pretty much the same price.
Parent post clearly identified that he was estimating cost, not value. The labor theory of cost works very well.
Value is entirely contextual. A quart of pure water is worth a lot more to someone stranded in the deserts of Utah than it would have been to a member of the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald, for example.
How will the decision be enforced? What if he fails to pay, what happens then? What if he continues to spam?
There have to be consequences to not following an out-of-state court order.
It's one thing to choose between supporting one OS to third party developers vs. supporting two or more.
The customer doesn't go out and buy new software to run on an iPod; the customer buys more songs. There is no courting of third-party developers for the iPod. At the moment...
iPod + cellPhone + newton + digiCam + camCorder in one pocket-sized box. How cool would that be?