assembly is a low level language, and as such there are fewer people that can program in it, and it tends to take more resources to write anything. (Yes, time is a resource, especially if there are bean counters or marketing weasels around)
Of course, like anything else, it has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of Assembly is the compiled code, if written well, is smaller and faster than other code that does the same thing. The disadvantage, less programmers available, harder to understand, takes longer to write code.
"With many retailers selling out" When you consider how they massively shorted everyone this isn't a surprise. One of our local stores was supposed to get over 100 of them. They got 12, and haven't been able to get anymore. With their supplier telling them the might get some more next year, they said F-it and have dropped the product.
Another store around here had 60 ordered. They got 3. Since then they've received 2 more.
Nintendo is once again pulling a huge stupid out it's hat. Supply is so short many people are deciding it's not worth it, especially since they just wanted to give them as christmas gifts. No point in that if you can't get one until halfway through next year.
Ja, dictators are like, while democracies aren't supposed to be. In fact, the US has rules and laws that are supposed to prevent that, but it takes somebody in authority to press the issue for them to be enforced.
Lex Luthor was evil, but he was also a genius and a highly skilled orator. The comparison falls a bit short when those two points are in the mix, but I get your point.;)
So declarations of a desire to do many things that are a clear violation of the Constitution of the United States and in some cases violations of international laws and treaties endorsed by the USA are not a threat to Democracy? Damn... WTF do you consider a threat?
There are other articles on other science sites that read better. This particular fusion system is a stellerator, a type that is currently looking to be the best of our experimental fusion systems for several reasons, not the least of which is that it doesn't have the same leakage and containment vessel damage, a huge problem with tokamaks. Of course saying unlimited or infinite energy are just hyperbole, though it would have a lot of advantages over normal power generation methods.
LoL, you haven't seen some of the cell coverage around here, or rather the lack of it. Some friends of mine have Tmobile and the millisecond they cross the city boundry their connection goes dead. Even if we are on I-5, probably the busiest backbone highway of the pacific west! They can't even make calls in many of the coastal cities other than Newport.
Don't worry, the applefans will soon forget about this problem with apple like they have all the others and again start promoting they myth of apples are perfect and never have any problems. Of course, those people have never worked in tech support that handles both apples and windows. Heck, I still hear that apples don't have viruses from some of them, when back in the 90s I had a list of over a thousand were in the wild on them, and this was before the big malware explosion.
When I was a kid, they said there's no life without photosynthesis either to make a cells food, or to be another creatures food. They said nothing could live in battery acid. They said nothing could live in the the vacuum of space. They said nothing could live in the high radiation of a nuclear reactor or space. They said nothing could live in the sub zero conditions in ice itself. They said nothing could live in the boiling waters of a geyser. (They hadn't found the oceanic hydrothermal vents yet.) They said blood couldn't be based on copper, it had to be iron.
You know what? Since then every one of those things have been proven wrong. On Earth we have found life that violates those rules. Everything from Chemosynthesis to Extremophiles and Tardigrades, among some many weird and wonderful examples. Not all of these are newly discovered creatures or microscopic. Take the Horseshoe Crab and it's copper based blood as an example.
You'd be amazed at what actually exists in nature. Even if you think you've created something unique in the way of life forms, odds are mother nature beat you to it, and you just haven't realized it yet.
Well if you want to exclude silica because it's part of a molecule comprised of something in addition to just silicon, then you have to exclude organic molecules as well because they are composed of things other than just carbon. So I guess by your definition, life on earth doesn't use silicon or carbon.
I'd suggest you rethink your stance there as your reasoning is a bit off.
Incorrect. Diatoms grow their own frustules, and the shapes of those vary greatly between species.
To again post something from wikipedia because they phrase things so much better than I do:
When diatoms die and their organic material decomposes, the frustules sink to the bottom of the aquatic environment. This remnant material is diatomite or "Diatomaceous earth", and is used commercially as filters, mineral fillers, mechanical insecticide, in insulation material, anti-caking agents, as a fine abrasive, and other uses.
By the way, if you didn't catch it earlier, Frustules are "A unique feature of diatom cells is that they are enclosed within a cell wall made of silica (hydrated silicon dioxide)".
I was going to bring that up as well. Oh well, I'll still put in the bits I copied from wikipedia.
A unique feature of diatom cells is that they are enclosed within a cell wall made of silica (hydrated silicon dioxide) called a frustule.
The frustule is composed almost purely of silica, made from silicic acid, and is coated with a layer of organic substance, which was referred to in the early literature on diatoms as pectin, a fiber most commonly found in cell walls of plants. This layer is actually composed of several types of polysaccharides.
Definitely, as teenagers back in the 80s we pulled that off too. Of course, we just did it for the irony, it's not like it was news worthy or anything, just weird.
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assembly is a low level language, and as such there are fewer people that can program in it, and it tends to take more resources to write anything. (Yes, time is a resource, especially if there are bean counters or marketing weasels around)
Of course, like anything else, it has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of Assembly is the compiled code, if written well, is smaller and faster than other code that does the same thing. The disadvantage, less programmers available, harder to understand, takes longer to write code.
"With many retailers selling out"
When you consider how they massively shorted everyone this isn't a surprise.
One of our local stores was supposed to get over 100 of them. They got 12, and haven't been able to get anymore. With their supplier telling them the might get some more next year, they said F-it and have dropped the product.
Another store around here had 60 ordered. They got 3. Since then they've received 2 more.
Nintendo is once again pulling a huge stupid out it's hat. Supply is so short many people are deciding it's not worth it, especially since they just wanted to give them as christmas gifts. No point in that if you can't get one until halfway through next year.
Yeah, and Trump was complaining about it being rigged as well, even before he won, especially when it looked like he'd lose. So what's your point?
Yes, they have literally blamed him for things that happened before his time. Trump is part of that peanut gallery as well.
He's still an assclown, he always has been, this election campaign just got more press for it.
Ja, dictators are like, while democracies aren't supposed to be. In fact, the US has rules and laws that are supposed to prevent that, but it takes somebody in authority to press the issue for them to be enforced.
We could use Dunkelzhan right now!
Lex Luthor was evil, but he was also a genius and a highly skilled orator. The comparison falls a bit short when those two points are in the mix, but I get your point. ;)
So declarations of a desire to do many things that are a clear violation of the Constitution of the United States and in some cases violations of international laws and treaties endorsed by the USA are not a threat to Democracy? Damn... WTF do you consider a threat?
Probably more of a facist Italy thing. Mussolini and all that.
More like history. You should read some, it's very enlightening.
There are other articles on other science sites that read better. This particular fusion system is a stellerator, a type that is currently looking to be the best of our experimental fusion systems for several reasons, not the least of which is that it doesn't have the same leakage and containment vessel damage, a huge problem with tokamaks.
Of course saying unlimited or infinite energy are just hyperbole, though it would have a lot of advantages over normal power generation methods.
Faster ways to screw people isn't exactly progress.
LoL, you haven't seen some of the cell coverage around here, or rather the lack of it. Some friends of mine have Tmobile and the millisecond they cross the city boundry their connection goes dead. Even if we are on I-5, probably the busiest backbone highway of the pacific west! They can't even make calls in many of the coastal cities other than Newport.
And i guess you've never seen a politician flip flop before
What middle class?
Don't worry, the applefans will soon forget about this problem with apple like they have all the others and again start promoting they myth of apples are perfect and never have any problems. Of course, those people have never worked in tech support that handles both apples and windows. Heck, I still hear that apples don't have viruses from some of them, when back in the 90s I had a list of over a thousand were in the wild on them, and this was before the big malware explosion.
I agree, and I hope the country wins. After all, what moron allowed a company to trademark the name of a country they don't own?
Dialect doesn't mean different language, nor does it imply inability or difficulty in communicating.
Just to point out a simple thing.
When I was a kid, they said there's no life without photosynthesis either to make a cells food, or to be another creatures food.
They said nothing could live in battery acid.
They said nothing could live in the the vacuum of space.
They said nothing could live in the high radiation of a nuclear reactor or space.
They said nothing could live in the sub zero conditions in ice itself.
They said nothing could live in the boiling waters of a geyser. (They hadn't found the oceanic hydrothermal vents yet.)
They said blood couldn't be based on copper, it had to be iron.
You know what? Since then every one of those things have been proven wrong. On Earth we have found life that violates those rules. Everything from Chemosynthesis to Extremophiles and Tardigrades, among some many weird and wonderful examples. Not all of these are newly discovered creatures or microscopic. Take the Horseshoe Crab and it's copper based blood as an example.
You'd be amazed at what actually exists in nature. Even if you think you've created something unique in the way of life forms, odds are mother nature beat you to it, and you just haven't realized it yet.
Well if you want to exclude silica because it's part of a molecule comprised of something in addition to just silicon, then you have to exclude organic molecules as well because they are composed of things other than just carbon. So I guess by your definition, life on earth doesn't use silicon or carbon.
I'd suggest you rethink your stance there as your reasoning is a bit off.
Incorrect. Diatoms grow their own frustules, and the shapes of those vary greatly between species.
To again post something from wikipedia because they phrase things so much better than I do:
When diatoms die and their organic material decomposes, the frustules sink to the bottom of the aquatic environment. This remnant material is diatomite or "Diatomaceous earth", and is used commercially as filters, mineral fillers, mechanical insecticide, in insulation material, anti-caking agents, as a fine abrasive, and other uses.
By the way, if you didn't catch it earlier, Frustules are "A unique feature of diatom cells is that they are enclosed within a cell wall made of silica (hydrated silicon dioxide)".
Diamond is the hardest NATURALLY FORMED mineral...
You'd be amazed what those material scientists are doing.
I was going to bring that up as well. Oh well, I'll still put in the bits I copied from wikipedia.
A unique feature of diatom cells is that they are enclosed within a cell wall made of silica (hydrated silicon dioxide) called a frustule.
The frustule is composed almost purely of silica, made from silicic acid, and is coated with a layer of organic substance, which was referred to in the early literature on diatoms as pectin, a fiber most commonly found in cell walls of plants. This layer is actually composed of several types of polysaccharides.
Definitely, as teenagers back in the 80s we pulled that off too. Of course, we just did it for the irony, it's not like it was news worthy or anything, just weird.