Not to understate the achievement, but comparing it to consumer hardware like cars is a bit of apples and oranges. It'd be more akin to military grade hardware like ships and planes. Of course, even for some of those, 35 years is a stretch... and NASA has never had the budget that the military does.
"Each only has 68 kilobytes of computer memory. To put that in perspective, the smallest iPod — an 8-gigabyte iPod Nano — is 100,000 times more powerful."
So what you're saying is that if I upgrade my computer from a 500GB hard disk to a 2TB hard disk, it makes the entire computer 4 times more powerful?
Been a while since I've done Windows licensing, but does the license include support? If it does, then there's the main advantage of using Windows over Linux in any corporate environment.
Isn't that true of pretty much every software with multiple versions? The code already exists. However, I would hope the virtualization support isn't actually installed unless it's needed.
Performance per watt is mostly important in mobile applications, especially laptops, where battery life is something that people really do care about. I've never heard of people caring about performance per watt for non-mobile systems with the exception of very low power builds. I went with a 25W Athlon II X2 for my router mostly because it does have very little power draw. It's not very relevant for the desktop/server market, but it's still very important to other markets - especially the very large mobile market.
Not requiring water is a world of difference away from not requiring to drink water from a spring because they get it from another source. They still need the water just like a scramjet still needs air. Unless you're proposing they just take it along with them, but then it's essentially just another rocket and not based on scramjet technology at all.
I need a lot of water to survive. Camels need significantly less water to survive. However, I am not aware of any animal that can survive on no water. (inanimate spores don't count) Walk, jog, die.
Although scramjet would be a great stage 1 as other posters have mentioned, the technology is not adaptable to no air like it is adaptable to thinner air.
So what you're saying is that if we teach Creationism, then the kids will grow up to build perpetual motion machines? While the rest of us are stuck with pesky laws of physics? Hey, anything if it will get me my flying car faster.
Belief in God and belief in evolution need not be separate things. You can completely believe in God while still believing in evolution. What the AC was pointing out is that most Creationists that completely deny evolution refuse to believe the evidence right in front of them. He said nothing about whether or not God exists, but nice try.
Sounds like you're just not using the right kind of paper for a large image. Switch to paper made for printing large images with inkjet and you'll see a world of difference.
My inkjet printer is still using the starter cartridges that came with it in 2008 ($30 + free S&H for a networked printer made it too good to pass up). It's just starting to get low on B&W now. There were times I'd go more than 8 months without printing anything and never had a problem. However, once the ink runs out, I'll likely spend the money to get a nice networked color laser printer.
To be fair, XP is still 11 years old. However, I bet it would still install fine on any laptops that are no more than 7 or 8 years older than XP. I would expect the same from Windows 7 - it will still probably work great on any new hardware made in the next five or six years. I wouldn't expect it to still run on all new hardware when its 11 years old.
Hmm, I seemed to have skipped Windows 2000 and Vista just fine. Who says I can't skip Windows 8? And if it does get to the point where Windows 7 is obsolete, then I can re-evaluate my options then. However, if 7 follows in the footsteps on its predecessors, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to stick with Windows 7 for at least another 4 or 5 years. The only glaring exception might be gaming, but that's a fairly inconsequential corner of the market, especially with the options for dual-booting or VMs. Your analogy of a using a 12 year old operating system (which, by the way, I still come across fairly often) is pretty bad considering Windows 7 is only a few years old and is just now beginning to be adopted en masse by corporations.
The advantage of Venus over Mars is that is already has abundant oxygen in the atmosphere, just in a different state than we need it. It's also a lot closer to the sun, so solar power is much more efficient. I wouldn't expect non-domed cities anytime soon, but the materials and resources are there to fuel a domed or underground colony.
Hmmm, and how much science fiction has become true within a century or two of it being written? Traveling to moon? Did that. Created giant subs capable of traversing the world's oceans? Did that. Went to Mars? We're pretty close. Cybernetics? Robotics? The author that came up with those lived to see them start to become real.
There's a whole range of rape. One the "legitimate" end is physical violence, somewhere closer to the middle is coercion or emotional manipulation, a little to the other side of the middle is taking advantage of drunk chicks in a bar, further this way still is fully consensual sex, but one person happens to be 16 and the other 22, and finally all the way on the opposite end is "it was a bad idea or I changed my mind, so I'm going to call it rape"
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Not to understate the achievement, but comparing it to consumer hardware like cars is a bit of apples and oranges. It'd be more akin to military grade hardware like ships and planes. Of course, even for some of those, 35 years is a stretch... and NASA has never had the budget that the military does.
"Each only has 68 kilobytes of computer memory. To put that in perspective, the smallest iPod — an 8-gigabyte iPod Nano — is 100,000 times more powerful."
So what you're saying is that if I upgrade my computer from a 500GB hard disk to a 2TB hard disk, it makes the entire computer 4 times more powerful?
Been a while since I've done Windows licensing, but does the license include support? If it does, then there's the main advantage of using Windows over Linux in any corporate environment.
Isn't that true of pretty much every software with multiple versions? The code already exists. However, I would hope the virtualization support isn't actually installed unless it's needed.
I've had Symantec do this at work several times on systems with no infection
Declaration of Independence is not the Constitution
That'd be "horndogs" not "hot DOGs"
Performance per watt is mostly important in mobile applications, especially laptops, where battery life is something that people really do care about. I've never heard of people caring about performance per watt for non-mobile systems with the exception of very low power builds. I went with a 25W Athlon II X2 for my router mostly because it does have very little power draw. It's not very relevant for the desktop/server market, but it's still very important to other markets - especially the very large mobile market.
Not requiring water is a world of difference away from not requiring to drink water from a spring because they get it from another source. They still need the water just like a scramjet still needs air. Unless you're proposing they just take it along with them, but then it's essentially just another rocket and not based on scramjet technology at all.
I need a lot of water to survive.
Camels need significantly less water to survive.
However, I am not aware of any animal that can survive on no water. (inanimate spores don't count)
Walk, jog, die.
Although scramjet would be a great stage 1 as other posters have mentioned, the technology is not adaptable to no air like it is adaptable to thinner air.
Sounds to me like they're all machines that can get massive amounts of work done in a relatively short time (compared to any alternative).
So what you're saying is that if we teach Creationism, then the kids will grow up to build perpetual motion machines? While the rest of us are stuck with pesky laws of physics? Hey, anything if it will get me my flying car faster.
Belief in God and belief in evolution need not be separate things. You can completely believe in God while still believing in evolution. What the AC was pointing out is that most Creationists that completely deny evolution refuse to believe the evidence right in front of them. He said nothing about whether or not God exists, but nice try.
Sounds like you're just not using the right kind of paper for a large image. Switch to paper made for printing large images with inkjet and you'll see a world of difference.
My inkjet printer is still using the starter cartridges that came with it in 2008 ($30 + free S&H for a networked printer made it too good to pass up). It's just starting to get low on B&W now. There were times I'd go more than 8 months without printing anything and never had a problem. However, once the ink runs out, I'll likely spend the money to get a nice networked color laser printer.
About ten years ago, Lexmark was my favorite brand for cheap printers that just worked. Nowadays... not so much.
To be fair, XP is still 11 years old. However, I bet it would still install fine on any laptops that are no more than 7 or 8 years older than XP. I would expect the same from Windows 7 - it will still probably work great on any new hardware made in the next five or six years. I wouldn't expect it to still run on all new hardware when its 11 years old.
Downgrade rights, re-use old licenses, buy Windows 7 retail... plenty of options for people that do not want Windows 8 on a new PC.
Why, just last week I installed Windows 98 on a PC and I'm fairly sure that hasn't been available on new PCs in quite some time.
Hmm, I seemed to have skipped Windows 2000 and Vista just fine. Who says I can't skip Windows 8? And if it does get to the point where Windows 7 is obsolete, then I can re-evaluate my options then. However, if 7 follows in the footsteps on its predecessors, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to stick with Windows 7 for at least another 4 or 5 years. The only glaring exception might be gaming, but that's a fairly inconsequential corner of the market, especially with the options for dual-booting or VMs. Your analogy of a using a 12 year old operating system (which, by the way, I still come across fairly often) is pretty bad considering Windows 7 is only a few years old and is just now beginning to be adopted en masse by corporations.
What's wrong with sticking with Windows 7 for now?
It's not like Windows 7 is automatically obsolete as soon as 8 hits the market.
The advantage of Venus over Mars is that is already has abundant oxygen in the atmosphere, just in a different state than we need it. It's also a lot closer to the sun, so solar power is much more efficient. I wouldn't expect non-domed cities anytime soon, but the materials and resources are there to fuel a domed or underground colony.
Hmmm, and how much science fiction has become true within a century or two of it being written? Traveling to moon? Did that. Created giant subs capable of traversing the world's oceans? Did that. Went to Mars? We're pretty close. Cybernetics? Robotics? The author that came up with those lived to see them start to become real.
There's a whole range of rape. One the "legitimate" end is physical violence, somewhere closer to the middle is coercion or emotional manipulation, a little to the other side of the middle is taking advantage of drunk chicks in a bar, further this way still is fully consensual sex, but one person happens to be 16 and the other 22, and finally all the way on the opposite end is "it was a bad idea or I changed my mind, so I'm going to call it rape"
"I should have never reconnected his mouth."
"Well, we took the risk, doctor."
How can we know for sure unless we cut the whole area of ground, transport it to Earth and view it under the Earth's sky?