SpaceX doesn't have the R&D hurdle that NASA had to achieve LEO. SpaceX first to mars? That seems unlikely. Perhaps if we gave them a sustained budget comparable to mid-60s NASA levels for a couple decades. Or, we could just fund NASA, they are quite competent.
Pfft, that's nothing. I've been on Double-Secret Probation for several years. The one to be concerned about is Super-Double-Secret-We're-Serious-This-Time Probation.
No, it will be a feeding frenzy as everyone jumps on the bandwagon to compete against the others. Most people won't think "these are the idiots who advertise on my toaster display", they're going to remember the name and it will become familiar.
Well, that's how current advertising works. Your attention is focused on something (tv, browser window, phone screen, etc) so when an ad shows up your attention follows it. That won't be the case when there's advertising on your toaster. You don't look at it long enough to "consume" the ad. I don't read the toothpaste tube everyday, and I won't start doing it if there's a new advert on it each day.
The only way it might work is if the same ad is on everything.... if pepsi shells out to have a pepsi logo show up on half of the objects in your kitchen/bedroom/bathroom, and you're bound to notice it. But is it worth it to build all those internet devices and pay to have the ad delivered to so many of them? Or should they just shell out for the billboard or subway poster?
If adverts get that pervasive, the value of each one is going to decline substantially. If I see 40 adverts before breakfast, I can't possibly buy each and every one of the products. There's only so much disposable income. If this gets pushed out, it's going to be self defeating.
No, sustainability is the right word to use. You are correct that we are currently doing very little that is sustainable and at these levels we are over the carrying capacity. However our goal *must* be achieving sustainability; watering down the goal is not the answer.
I'd find the book "rental" via Amazon/Kindle would be more palatable if the price were lower - $1 per novel would put it into the "ok, fine, it's just a rental" category (despite being more expensive than a library..). A cursory look finds kindle versions are 80-90% of the price of a dead tree version. That's not a sufficient discount to surrender control.
Except that you have no control over whether that book will remain on your Kindle. You just have to have faith that your books won't be revoked for $SomeRandomReason.
It's not a bad idea. OpenSSL has become unwieldy, which has been known for quite some time. A major refactoring is long overdue. Does it matter if the project changes name? OpenSSL 2.0 or LibreSSL - what's the difference? The OpenSSL guys don't have the resources/time/funding/whatever to do it, and the OpenBSD guys apparently do.
> Even after all those changes, the codebase is still API compatible.
It's going to be a drop in replacement for OpenSSL. Same idea as the MariaDB fork of MySQL. Where is the "bad idea" here?
This can never scale due to helium scarcity. While even low-quality helium would undoubtedly work for this application, the quantities required to build these at scale would drive the price through the roof.
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SpaceX doesn't have the R&D hurdle that NASA had to achieve LEO. SpaceX first to mars? That seems unlikely. Perhaps if we gave them a sustained budget comparable to mid-60s NASA levels for a couple decades. Or, we could just fund NASA, they are quite competent.
That's the point. It can't be done on the current budget levels.
It's not a car analogy any longer. If you find a car with tubro, it's using a CPU analogy.
How would he magically know what happened? He's almost, but not quite, omnipotent.
Buses take longer. There's only so much time per day, if you spend it waiting for buses, you get less done.
So you're saying this is a thinly veiled publicity stunt to help restore MS's reputation?
I think you're discounting the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" effect. I bet you cleaned up in the recent "surface" post though.
Pfft, that's nothing. I've been on Double-Secret Probation for several years. The one to be concerned about is Super-Double-Secret-We're-Serious-This-Time Probation.
So from the other side, if an Afghani intelligence agency was recording every call in America, that's OK too because it's their job?
There is a limit on how much one can borrow as well. So fine, I'll reword: there's only so much disposable income *and credit* available
No, it will be a feeding frenzy as everyone jumps on the bandwagon to compete against the others. Most people won't think "these are the idiots who advertise on my toaster display", they're going to remember the name and it will become familiar.
Well, that's how current advertising works. Your attention is focused on something (tv, browser window, phone screen, etc) so when an ad shows up your attention follows it. That won't be the case when there's advertising on your toaster. You don't look at it long enough to "consume" the ad. I don't read the toothpaste tube everyday, and I won't start doing it if there's a new advert on it each day.
The only way it might work is if the same ad is on everything.... if pepsi shells out to have a pepsi logo show up on half of the objects in your kitchen/bedroom/bathroom, and you're bound to notice it. But is it worth it to build all those internet devices and pay to have the ad delivered to so many of them? Or should they just shell out for the billboard or subway poster?
If adverts get that pervasive, the value of each one is going to decline substantially. If I see 40 adverts before breakfast, I can't possibly buy each and every one of the products. There's only so much disposable income. If this gets pushed out, it's going to be self defeating.
No, sustainability is the right word to use. You are correct that we are currently doing very little that is sustainable and at these levels we are over the carrying capacity. However our goal *must* be achieving sustainability; watering down the goal is not the answer.
I'd find the book "rental" via Amazon/Kindle would be more palatable if the price were lower - $1 per novel would put it into the "ok, fine, it's just a rental" category (despite being more expensive than a library ..). A cursory look finds kindle versions are 80-90% of the price of a dead tree version. That's not a sufficient discount to surrender control.
Except that you have no control over whether that book will remain on your Kindle. You just have to have faith that your books won't be revoked for $SomeRandomReason.
Famous example: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07...
More recent example: http://digitaljournal.com/arti...
It is dying. Things don't die instantly in the software world, they just decline.
In theory, you see less cost for the product with the application of advertising. In practise, hahahahaha.
Sign me up!
If OpenBSD is successful in their goal of making a lean and mean LibreSSL, is there anything that stops someone else from getting it FIPS certified?
Clearly it would have to be re-done with each release, so presumably nobody would bother until LibreSSL is stable.
It's not a bad idea. OpenSSL has become unwieldy, which has been known for quite some time. A major refactoring is long overdue. Does it matter if the project changes name? OpenSSL 2.0 or LibreSSL - what's the difference? The OpenSSL guys don't have the resources/time/funding/whatever to do it, and the OpenBSD guys apparently do.
> Even after all those changes, the codebase is still API compatible.
It's going to be a drop in replacement for OpenSSL. Same idea as the MariaDB fork of MySQL. Where is the "bad idea" here?
Perhaps once the client is open source then the "Zero Knowledge" will begin to apply
here I come!
is there in one of these plates? Are they detachable by thieves to be sold for the metal value?
The value is less competition
This can never scale due to helium scarcity. While even low-quality helium would undoubtedly work for this application, the quantities required to build these at scale would drive the price through the roof.