The fact that people have to ride into space on Russian (or Chinese) rockets is less about the technology than the ham fisted planning and management of American politicians, bureaucrats, and NASA administrators."
There's more to that though. NASA previously had difficulties making strong progress on the next manned system while still operating the current one. Nixon cancelled Apollo to spend that operational money to develop the Space Shuttle (even though there were several Saturn Vs to spare), which the US had about 6 or so years between manned programs, exactly like the inter-program lull we have now. The good news is that the unmanned exploration program has still done exceedingly well in those years, and the same right now.
Soyuz has been handing US astronauts bound for ISS duty since 2005-ish. The commission on Columbia released a finding that the Space Shuttle was an unsafe platform, so the President decided that it was only to be used to complete the ISS according to existing commitments, flying the Space Shuttle to rotate inhabitants didn't make the cut.
The WiFi is something I've been hoping for. But I'm having a hard time finding a spec on the dimensions, it looks like 2x or so larger than RPi.
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Talk about an impossible standard, and another moved goalpost. Once you get to "growing wheat in Greenland", it's far too late to even try to prevent it. We do know that the rate of glacial ice thaw has been increasing rapidly, more quickly than predicted.
Sure, there is a natural global climate cycle, but this acceleration of change is outside the usual range of typical climate cycles. Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are twice that of any period in the last 400,000 years.
Glossy screens do bother me too. However, it turns out that Apple does use use glass with anti-reflective coatings. The current revision iMac has a surface that cuts reflections roughly in half. I was pretty surprised when I realized that. I just wished the industry used even stronger coatings though.
I think there's a point in that. I removed the cover from an old Canon PowerShot and found a Sony screen, which was relatively surprising as there are many other screen makers, and Sony competes with Canon in several market segments.
I don't think we can ever completely be extricated from any multinational corporation, but folks are free to see how far they can go with that.
It's interesting that SSD failure rate is roughly comparable to HDD. I would have expected SSD would be much more reliable, not having any moving parts and all. I was hoping for better anyway, given that SSD still costs like 6-10 times that of an HDD for equivalent capacities.
You're talking about very different devices though. LIGO is a considerably more specialized device than LHC, it's designed to do only one kind of experiment. Particle accelerators are more versatile.
That said, I'm not sure if LHC has actually discovered anything. They've taken data, and found interesting data but I don't think anyone's done complete analyses on that data to show an actual discovery.
Did anyone run the small penis jokes on the explorers that climbed mountains? That's something else that had little practical value, but I don't think climbers were heaped with ridicule for doing useless things. I'm not saying that overclocking is comparable, but it's less ridiculous as the risk of dying is lower.
If it were the same type, I might agree, but pusher type aircraft tend to be considerably quieter than puller type, at least that I recall. The prop turbulence doesn't hit the aircraft, because it's behind the aircraft.
It sounds interesting. I think it's at least an interesting idea, we'll see if it pans out. There is very little to compare it against.
$500,000 is a lot of money, but it might be in the ball park with competing aircraft, because aircraft can get very expensive very quickly. I would be interested to see how this shakes out, because fuel is easily more than half of the cost of flying an airplane, at least as far as I recall.
When you've mistaken overclocking for normal operation, I think you've either missed the boat or you're not being honest with your agenda.
IB is hotter in overclocking, but at recommended settings, it is cooler and a little faster than SB. If you only care about overclocking, that's fine, but to not say that much is not being honest to us.
Or did you not even bother to understand the article you're referencing?
I think this is separate from the core argument, I don't think anyone would make such a device. However, but a building with metal siding and few windows might be sufficient. Except for the fact that I installed a repeater, some parts of my shop would completely drop detectable signal, other parts too weak to let useful signal through. Some stores are like that too, I can get in the middle of the building and get no signal. This counts a Target, Walmart and a local grocery store. Anyone working in a warehouse might be in trouble.
I don't think any medical device will require a constant signal to keep the patient alive, there's too much risk in that, I don't know exactly what circumstances would require that. I can see maybe a medical device for a seriously ill person that relays location and vital data to dispatch an ambulance, one might be in trouble if you lose signal and you have a life threatening episode.
I see you're conveniently ignoring the unmanned space program, which really started getting on a roll. Even today, there are nearly a dozen active probes around the solar system.
Skylab and the ISS are advancements as well. There wasn't much of a sustained US manned space presence until the ISS.
The SLS may be pretty good too. Farming out low earth orbit services is something that probably should have been done sooner, but maybe it took until now before entrepreneurs had the means to really lower the cost of space access.
You can't do gaming on a TV? Which universe is this again?
I don't know about this screen cleaning thing, I've not needed to clean my screen in a while. Maybe the ones I own have an anti-static coating on them.
Why blame the engineers for that? The engineers that I know are trying to make things the best they can be, but they're prevented by short-sighted penny pinchers that make constricting demands.
According to a page I found on the Internet, "D" is 642.5m long. But point taken, still big though. I don't know if that would have been profitable to build well.
The quote in the article: "I don't want to be the guy that approved this and then it's a flop and sitting out there in Vegas forever."
Nothing in Vegas stays forever. It's usually demolished to make way for the next thing, it doesn't matter if the building is steeped in history, if it's not profitable enough, it goes.
I don't think there is much of an orientation bias in the formation of rotating objects in a galaxy, certainly not one that would prevent this system from working from outside the galaxy.
I take it that a system that records mainly the changed data isn't suitable for this kind of archive? Storage can be set up such that you don't absolutely need to retain dozens or hundreds of archives, just record files that were changed since the last backup. Disks can manage that without being terribly expensive. The only thing is that this kind of technology might not suit certain needs where you need something that can be reasonably proven wasn't tampered with.
I kind of understand it though, but Facebook is probably carrying it too far. As I understand, they aren't taking complete ownership of the word book, but stopping other social media sites that would use parts of their name in their own sites, which is unimaginitive anyway. Imagine if Pinterest was Pinbook, it would have been a cheap cop-out that tries to ride on another business' name, and dilute the value of Facebook's trademark.
If Facebook is hunting down non-social media sites, then that would be bad, but I haven't seen that happen.
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The fact that people have to ride into space on Russian (or Chinese) rockets is less about the technology than the ham fisted planning and management of American politicians, bureaucrats, and NASA administrators."
There's more to that though. NASA previously had difficulties making strong progress on the next manned system while still operating the current one. Nixon cancelled Apollo to spend that operational money to develop the Space Shuttle (even though there were several Saturn Vs to spare), which the US had about 6 or so years between manned programs, exactly like the inter-program lull we have now. The good news is that the unmanned exploration program has still done exceedingly well in those years, and the same right now.
Soyuz has been handing US astronauts bound for ISS duty since 2005-ish. The commission on Columbia released a finding that the Space Shuttle was an unsafe platform, so the President decided that it was only to be used to complete the ISS according to existing commitments, flying the Space Shuttle to rotate inhabitants didn't make the cut.
There is a FAQ on their site:
http://gooseberry.atspace.co.uk/
They acknowledge they don't really fully know what they have, it's a circuit board they've found and are offering.
The WiFi is something I've been hoping for. But I'm having a hard time finding a spec on the dimensions, it looks like 2x or so larger than RPi.
Talk about an impossible standard, and another moved goalpost. Once you get to "growing wheat in Greenland", it's far too late to even try to prevent it. We do know that the rate of glacial ice thaw has been increasing rapidly, more quickly than predicted.
Sure, there is a natural global climate cycle, but this acceleration of change is outside the usual range of typical climate cycles. Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are twice that of any period in the last 400,000 years.
Glossy screens do bother me too. However, it turns out that Apple does use use glass with anti-reflective coatings. The current revision iMac has a surface that cuts reflections roughly in half. I was pretty surprised when I realized that. I just wished the industry used even stronger coatings though.
I think there's a point in that. I removed the cover from an old Canon PowerShot and found a Sony screen, which was relatively surprising as there are many other screen makers, and Sony competes with Canon in several market segments.
I don't think we can ever completely be extricated from any multinational corporation, but folks are free to see how far they can go with that.
I was only looking at the data sets provided in your links. If you provided data on the Intel models, then that would be interesting.
It's interesting that SSD failure rate is roughly comparable to HDD. I would have expected SSD would be much more reliable, not having any moving parts and all. I was hoping for better anyway, given that SSD still costs like 6-10 times that of an HDD for equivalent capacities.
You're talking about very different devices though. LIGO is a considerably more specialized device than LHC, it's designed to do only one kind of experiment. Particle accelerators are more versatile.
That said, I'm not sure if LHC has actually discovered anything. They've taken data, and found interesting data but I don't think anyone's done complete analyses on that data to show an actual discovery.
Maybe it's about body language of a sub culture that the cops don't understand?
"One way to find out is to stop and frisk them. "
Where is the probable cause?
Did anyone run the small penis jokes on the explorers that climbed mountains? That's something else that had little practical value, but I don't think climbers were heaped with ridicule for doing useless things. I'm not saying that overclocking is comparable, but it's less ridiculous as the risk of dying is lower.
I thought it was a joke.
If it were the same type, I might agree, but pusher type aircraft tend to be considerably quieter than puller type, at least that I recall. The prop turbulence doesn't hit the aircraft, because it's behind the aircraft.
It sounds interesting. I think it's at least an interesting idea, we'll see if it pans out. There is very little to compare it against.
$500,000 is a lot of money, but it might be in the ball park with competing aircraft, because aircraft can get very expensive very quickly. I would be interested to see how this shakes out, because fuel is easily more than half of the cost of flying an airplane, at least as far as I recall.
When you've mistaken overclocking for normal operation, I think you've either missed the boat or you're not being honest with your agenda.
IB is hotter in overclocking, but at recommended settings, it is cooler and a little faster than SB. If you only care about overclocking, that's fine, but to not say that much is not being honest to us.
Or did you not even bother to understand the article you're referencing?
This decade or previous decade? The 2000's were pretty sad, but the 2010s GM has shown a pretty robust recovery.
The example doesn't really fly though, GM still makes a lot of its own parts, they haven't farmed out the core product.
I think this is separate from the core argument, I don't think anyone would make such a device. However, but a building with metal siding and few windows might be sufficient. Except for the fact that I installed a repeater, some parts of my shop would completely drop detectable signal, other parts too weak to let useful signal through. Some stores are like that too, I can get in the middle of the building and get no signal. This counts a Target, Walmart and a local grocery store. Anyone working in a warehouse might be in trouble.
I don't think any medical device will require a constant signal to keep the patient alive, there's too much risk in that, I don't know exactly what circumstances would require that. I can see maybe a medical device for a seriously ill person that relays location and vital data to dispatch an ambulance, one might be in trouble if you lose signal and you have a life threatening episode.
I see you're conveniently ignoring the unmanned space program, which really started getting on a roll. Even today, there are nearly a dozen active probes around the solar system.
Skylab and the ISS are advancements as well. There wasn't much of a sustained US manned space presence until the ISS.
The SLS may be pretty good too. Farming out low earth orbit services is something that probably should have been done sooner, but maybe it took until now before entrepreneurs had the means to really lower the cost of space access.
You can't do gaming on a TV? Which universe is this again?
I don't know about this screen cleaning thing, I've not needed to clean my screen in a while. Maybe the ones I own have an anti-static coating on them.
Why blame the engineers for that? The engineers that I know are trying to make things the best they can be, but they're prevented by short-sighted penny pinchers that make constricting demands.
According to a page I found on the Internet, "D" is 642.5m long. But point taken, still big though. I don't know if that would have been profitable to build well.
The quote in the article:
"I don't want to be the guy that approved this and then it's a flop and sitting out there in Vegas forever."
Nothing in Vegas stays forever. It's usually demolished to make way for the next thing, it doesn't matter if the building is steeped in history, if it's not profitable enough, it goes.
I don't think there is much of an orientation bias in the formation of rotating objects in a galaxy, certainly not one that would prevent this system from working from outside the galaxy.
I take it that a system that records mainly the changed data isn't suitable for this kind of archive? Storage can be set up such that you don't absolutely need to retain dozens or hundreds of archives, just record files that were changed since the last backup. Disks can manage that without being terribly expensive. The only thing is that this kind of technology might not suit certain needs where you need something that can be reasonably proven wasn't tampered with.
I kind of understand it though, but Facebook is probably carrying it too far. As I understand, they aren't taking complete ownership of the word book, but stopping other social media sites that would use parts of their name in their own sites, which is unimaginitive anyway. Imagine if Pinterest was Pinbook, it would have been a cheap cop-out that tries to ride on another business' name, and dilute the value of Facebook's trademark.
If Facebook is hunting down non-social media sites, then that would be bad, but I haven't seen that happen.