Well... You, as any human, have the same flaw: The "8 or 80 rule".
Read again, you put a very big response for... well, nothing. The VERY BIG problem with using internet tech (javascript, HTML, DOM, etc etc) to do local desktop things is ridiculously simple:
Performance. Memory usage, CPU cycles, the usual. You can do a vmware-like thing on Javascript? Sure, why not? But... Will be fast or will have low memory usage? Hell no. And he will need a browser, more memory and more CPU time needed to do the job.
And hell yes, javascript is sloppy. In the sense that lack basic things like well-defined strings, integers, good error control, etc. Sure, you can use it to do usefull things, but only if you can afford the big overhead penalty. This is more or less acceptable on a medium-sized "web application", but absolutely not in a big/complex desktop application.
Your mistake is thinking on the issue solely in monetary terms. And as another commenter said, thinking in terms of short-term monetary gain and wanting return guarantees. Basic research do not have guarantees of return.
To be more clear: Lack the will to go beyond of sending probes and start sending settlers. We have the moon where it is possible to mine taking advantage of low gravity, and a whole asteroid belt where it is easy to find literal giant metal balls just waiting to be processed.
Well, you can send metals mined from Moon to Earth, one way is a mass driver to go out and then a carefull planned "meteoric entry" using a low-cost heat shield to avoid the loss of material to atmosphere reentry. But as others have already commented, this material would be more useful on the moon and in space itself, would be much easier to build a large spaceship on the Moon than on Earth
You're assuming that people would only pay for services that directly benefit them
And it is not what everyone does nowadays? How many around you are screaming they do not want pay taxes to "sustain vagabonds" (aka, people who by most who try are not getting employment)?
The problem of NASA is political. Go to space means taking risks, politicians are averse to risks and tend to think only of themselves. Projects will not work right when they are approved only if benefit financially this or that politician.
Yeah, right.... Just imagine a world where the police are private, and where they only serve the places that are profitable. Now, imagine that this private police services are expensive (after all, profit is now above the service itself), and you can not afford her services. Nightmare scenario for those who have income, but can not pay.
Friend, your self-esteem must be very, very low to take what I said as a personal offense against you. Or, you have serious problems to understand the difference between "look around and tell me how many there are sheep" (which was what I meant) and "You're a sheep" (that was what you got from what I can see) . Read more carefully what the others say before going out writing.
I do not need to "demonstrate independence". And, honestly, I do not understand why you are so pissed of with the truth. Maybe because you are a sheep? You proved my point that the truth hurts.
Exact. Nobody wants creative people, when creative people tend to question situations that benefit only 1% of the population at the expense of all others.
The problem is the proportionality of punishment. Here in Brazil if you kill someone, you usually pick three years in prison and hardly have to pay any fine. These cases demonstrate that on the USA corporatocracy, money is worth much, much more than life.
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You made me spill coffee on the whole table with this, thanks :-D
Free market is a fairytale.
Well... A bit more and will be the end of the Internet.
I can resume this as: "Modern CEOs = Cancer". Well said, sir
...or eliminate those unable to earn it.
the super-rich are already trying to do this for a long time.
Well... You, as any human, have the same flaw: The "8 or 80 rule".
Read again, you put a very big response for... well, nothing. The VERY BIG problem with using internet tech (javascript, HTML, DOM, etc etc) to do local desktop things is ridiculously simple:
Performance. Memory usage, CPU cycles, the usual. You can do a vmware-like thing on Javascript? Sure, why not? But... Will be fast or will have low memory usage? Hell no. And he will need a browser, more memory and more CPU time needed to do the job.
And hell yes, javascript is sloppy. In the sense that lack basic things like well-defined strings, integers, good error control, etc. Sure, you can use it to do usefull things, but only if you can afford the big overhead penalty. This is more or less acceptable on a medium-sized "web application", but absolutely not in a big/complex desktop application.
Use slow, sloppy javascript (or javascript-like) and HTML to create big, serious-work desktop applications? Sincerely, fuck you.
Your mistake is thinking on the issue solely in monetary terms. And as another commenter said, thinking in terms of short-term monetary gain and wanting return guarantees. Basic research do not have guarantees of return.
Exactly. Basically socializing became too great a risk.
To be more clear: Lack the will to go beyond of sending probes and start sending settlers. We have the moon where it is possible to mine taking advantage of low gravity, and a whole asteroid belt where it is easy to find literal giant metal balls just waiting to be processed.
Well, you can send metals mined from Moon to Earth, one way is a mass driver to go out and then a carefull planned "meteoric entry" using a low-cost heat shield to avoid the loss of material to atmosphere reentry. But as others have already commented, this material would be more useful on the moon and in space itself, would be much easier to build a large spaceship on the Moon than on Earth
The problem is not technology to go to space, you americans already have this. The problem is will to do this again.
You're assuming that people would only pay for services that directly benefit them
And it is not what everyone does nowadays? How many around you are screaming they do not want pay taxes to "sustain vagabonds" (aka, people who by most who try are not getting employment)?
The problem of NASA is political. Go to space means taking risks, politicians are averse to risks and tend to think only of themselves. Projects will not work right when they are approved only if benefit financially this or that politician.
Very well said, sir.
Sorry dude, but you have no way of knowing if a research will be useful or not, does not work that way.
Yeah, right.... Just imagine a world where the police are private, and where they only serve the places that are profitable. Now, imagine that this private police services are expensive (after all, profit is now above the service itself), and you can not afford her services. Nightmare scenario for those who have income, but can not pay.
That being said, I don't believe I have a monopoly on the truth. I think I am right, but my views have changed time and again throughout my life
This is proof of ability to rationalize.
Very true. People these days down vote anything that goes against their beliefs.
Friend, your self-esteem must be very, very low to take what I said as a personal offense against you. Or, you have serious problems to understand the difference between "look around and tell me how many there are sheep" (which was what I meant) and "You're a sheep" (that was what you got from what I can see) . Read more carefully what the others say before going out writing.
Don't care. He is just "yet another freak".
I do not need to "demonstrate independence". And, honestly, I do not understand why you are so pissed of with the truth. Maybe because you are a sheep? You proved my point that the truth hurts.
Exact. Nobody wants creative people, when creative people tend to question situations that benefit only 1% of the population at the expense of all others.
No, you stop reading because truth hurts. Look around and tell again if most of what you see are not sheep.
The problem is the proportionality of punishment. Here in Brazil if you kill someone, you usually pick three years in prison and hardly have to pay any fine. These cases demonstrate that on the USA corporatocracy, money is worth much, much more than life.