Frequently underestimated force of nature. You never really get the idea of the true power without experiencing it. I really have my doubts about the reliability of any floating landing platform. Better start thinking about investing in some concrete pylon if this landing at sea thing really is going to work.
Any self respecting geek knows that the 5nm process node name bears hardly any relation to transistor dimensions, or any other dimension. In fact, the spacing between metal traces in Samsung's so-called 5nm process is somewhere around 32nm, the public not really knowing for sure because Samsung has not yet released details of this node.
The real news is, the near-complete break with deep UV in favor of EUV. And as we all know (right?) EUV photolithography is still not ready for prime time. Last I heard, there is no good way to protect the photomask from being degraded by dust particles, in other words, the pellicle problem. Without this, production volume will be seriously degraded, yields will be low, and parts prohibitively expensive. This isn't the only open question about EUV, just the most glaringly obvious one. It's hard to know everything that goes on in the secret research labs of course, but I'm going to call BS on 2020 EUV high volume production. Sample parts, maybe.
7nm is going to be the reigning node for quite some time, I'm afraid.
Yeah, you're right. Zuckerberg knows he won the lottery and is otherwise just a standard issue scumbag voyeur. Elon Musk: fountain of creative energy. Mark Zuckerberg: fountain of jizz.
I realize that he still owns a majority of FB shares
You'd be wrong about that. He owns a majority of votes (about 57%) but only a small minority of shares. In other words, while controlling Facebook, he only owns a small fraction of its market value and earnings.
Against Zuckerberg's outright voting control are security laws that protect the rights of minority shareholders, thus giving them the power to make life miserable for Zuckerberg should he get on the wrong side of them.
I totally understand why there are so many Linux distros: because we can. It's a way to homestead in the tech frontier. It worked for making America great and it works for making Linux great. The weak distros fade out and those with a real contribution to make are able to attract a community and prosper. They all feed improvements, ideas and bug fixes to each other. What's not to like about having lots of distros? Oh right, if you work for Microsoft or are otherwise emotionally invested, lots of distros is something to attack because it's something you can't have.
Re "why we choose this interface": you really meant "why we made this interface the default", because on just about any Linux distro you can install any desktop you want and reasonably expect it to work. You can even use multiple different ones at the same time, how many geek points do you get for doing that?
I guess, the majority of Linux users as of today don't even know there is a console or why you would want one. It's certainly not something the typical Android user needs or knows about.
Diversity in the Linux desktop world is a good thing, not a bad thing. I really don't get what these two are blathering on about.
Kind of disgusting that some idiot modded you troll for pointing out that Linus is wrong. It would be far from the first time, the Bitkeeper fiasco iss a marquee example. You are 100% right, Linus has not got much useful to say about the Linux desktop. Vaughan-Nichols has got it wrong too with this troll article: the more Microsoft pushes its users to do what they don't want, that is, rent PCs from Microsoft, the more Linux converts we will get. I do agree that Linux is likely to be the last usable desktop standing.
Bringing back the expensive engines was the only good thing it did.
Now the expensive engines fly back and land without going all the way to orbit. Isn't that obviously better? There is a much cheaper second stage that still burns up, but on the plus side, it is optimized for efficient operation in near vacuum, making it lighter, cheaper, more powerful and more reliable than one engine that tries to do it all.
By the way, think about the pumps and pipes and valves and grommets involved in moving that cryogenic fuel from the external tank to the engines at stupidly high rates. How would you feel about sharing your living space with that gear and those raging rivers of liquid hydrogen and oxygen?
The last thing the US wants to do is "take out" Russia's economy, because then we'd have to worry about dealing with an impoverished, destabilized country that owns a large arsenal of nuclear weapons with substantial resale value. It's in our best interest for Russia to be affluent, happy, and feel secure.
You're way off the mark. Every time Russia starts feeling a bit wealthy it steps up interference with its rivals and oppression of its neighbours. Every. Single. Time. Russia behaved best and almost became a democracy when it was poorest, as in immediately after losing the cold war. That pattern will never change as long as Russia is run by the mafia.
The best thing that could happen to Russia right now is another economic collapse. Best for the free world, and best for itself.
Yes, and it draws attention to just how bad an idea the space shuttle was in an engineering sense. There is more than one way to fly a main engine back to earth, you don't actually need to boost it all the way up to low earth orbit and back.
The Russians really were on the right track with Buran: gliding back from orbit does make sense, it does make sense to have wings on a reusable crewed vehicle, but it does not make sense to stitch a huge, heavy engine onto it.
Only a slight exaggeration. The end of dependence on Russia to service the international space station is now in sight. Finally. So sad that Russia fell off the rails so badly, but it happened, and now the only logical course is, just cut every tie, especially ones where lives hang in the balance. Thanks much for not holding the space station hostage these past years, but goodbye and good riddance.
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Frequently underestimated force of nature. You never really get the idea of the true power without experiencing it. I really have my doubts about the reliability of any floating landing platform. Better start thinking about investing in some concrete pylon if this landing at sea thing really is going to work.
Any self respecting geek knows that the 5nm process node name bears hardly any relation to transistor dimensions, or any other dimension. In fact, the spacing between metal traces in Samsung's so-called 5nm process is somewhere around 32nm, the public not really knowing for sure because Samsung has not yet released details of this node.
The real news is, the near-complete break with deep UV in favor of EUV. And as we all know (right?) EUV photolithography is still not ready for prime time. Last I heard, there is no good way to protect the photomask from being degraded by dust particles, in other words, the pellicle problem. Without this, production volume will be seriously degraded, yields will be low, and parts prohibitively expensive. This isn't the only open question about EUV, just the most glaringly obvious one. It's hard to know everything that goes on in the secret research labs of course, but I'm going to call BS on 2020 EUV high volume production. Sample parts, maybe.
7nm is going to be the reigning node for quite some time, I'm afraid.
Here's an actual issue: you're a creep. Fuck off and die.
Traitor trump created that narrative himself.
Conservatives and their ball licking Evangelical toadies are hypocritical unpatriotic baby jailers, like you.
Sorry, everybody knows this but you: "Baby Jails" is a term most commonly associated with Donald Trump.
Conscience, empathy, and responsibility add up to Christianity, not Socialism and blah blah slobber drool!
Dang you slimed me, I need to wash myself off now. And don't talk to me about Christianity, it makes me thing of Evangelicals.
Hardened conservatives are strong on individual responsibility but also show empathy.
Sure, baby jails show a lot of empathy.
People are not 'noble creatures'
NRA members and Trump supporters aren't, anyway. I do know many fundamentally decent people, but none of them own an assault rifle or voted for Trump.
Yeah, you're right. Zuckerberg knows he won the lottery and is otherwise just a standard issue scumbag voyeur. Elon Musk: fountain of creative energy. Mark Zuckerberg: fountain of jizz.
Even worse, sold out USA to the Russians.
but its his baby
It was his baby until he sold it to the public. Now his baby grew up but he didn't.
I realize that he still owns a majority of FB shares
You'd be wrong about that. He owns a majority of votes (about 57%) but only a small minority of shares. In other words, while controlling Facebook, he only owns a small fraction of its market value and earnings.
Against Zuckerberg's outright voting control are security laws that protect the rights of minority shareholders, thus giving them the power to make life miserable for Zuckerberg should he get on the wrong side of them.
It's his company
Yah, no. It's a public company.
Conscience, empathy, responsibility, does that add up to socialism? If so, I'm all for it.
That was at least 3 cents :)
I totally understand why there are so many Linux distros: because we can. It's a way to homestead in the tech frontier. It worked for making America great and it works for making Linux great. The weak distros fade out and those with a real contribution to make are able to attract a community and prosper. They all feed improvements, ideas and bug fixes to each other. What's not to like about having lots of distros? Oh right, if you work for Microsoft or are otherwise emotionally invested, lots of distros is something to attack because it's something you can't have.
Re "why we choose this interface": you really meant "why we made this interface the default", because on just about any Linux distro you can install any desktop you want and reasonably expect it to work. You can even use multiple different ones at the same time, how many geek points do you get for doing that?
I guess, the majority of Linux users as of today don't even know there is a console or why you would want one. It's certainly not something the typical Android user needs or knows about.
Diversity in the Linux desktop world is a good thing, not a bad thing. I really don't get what these two are blathering on about.
Kind of disgusting that some idiot modded you troll for pointing out that Linus is wrong. It would be far from the first time, the Bitkeeper fiasco iss a marquee example. You are 100% right, Linus has not got much useful to say about the Linux desktop. Vaughan-Nichols has got it wrong too with this troll article: the more Microsoft pushes its users to do what they don't want, that is, rent PCs from Microsoft, the more Linux converts we will get. I do agree that Linux is likely to be the last usable desktop standing.
Bringing back the expensive engines was the only good thing it did.
Now the expensive engines fly back and land without going all the way to orbit. Isn't that obviously better? There is a much cheaper second stage that still burns up, but on the plus side, it is optimized for efficient operation in near vacuum, making it lighter, cheaper, more powerful and more reliable than one engine that tries to do it all.
By the way, think about the pumps and pipes and valves and grommets involved in moving that cryogenic fuel from the external tank to the engines at stupidly high rates. How would you feel about sharing your living space with that gear and those raging rivers of liquid hydrogen and oxygen?
Right, 90%+ of Russians seem to admire and support dictator Putin, making life miserable for the remaining 10%.
The last thing the US wants to do is "take out" Russia's economy, because then we'd have to worry about dealing with an impoverished, destabilized country that owns a large arsenal of nuclear weapons with substantial resale value. It's in our best interest for Russia to be affluent, happy, and feel secure.
You're way off the mark. Every time Russia starts feeling a bit wealthy it steps up interference with its rivals and oppression of its neighbours. Every. Single. Time. Russia behaved best and almost became a democracy when it was poorest, as in immediately after losing the cold war. That pattern will never change as long as Russia is run by the mafia.
The best thing that could happen to Russia right now is another economic collapse. Best for the free world, and best for itself.
Yes, and it draws attention to just how bad an idea the space shuttle was in an engineering sense. There is more than one way to fly a main engine back to earth, you don't actually need to boost it all the way up to low earth orbit and back.
The Russians really were on the right track with Buran: gliding back from orbit does make sense, it does make sense to have wings on a reusable crewed vehicle, but it does not make sense to stitch a huge, heavy engine onto it.
Only a slight exaggeration. The end of dependence on Russia to service the international space station is now in sight. Finally. So sad that Russia fell off the rails so badly, but it happened, and now the only logical course is, just cut every tie, especially ones where lives hang in the balance. Thanks much for not holding the space station hostage these past years, but goodbye and good riddance.
It was *never* and is not now about atomic commits on a file system.
Yes, it is now and always was about atomic commit, you knucklehead.
If you manage to survive to 1000' without needing your parachute maybe you're good :-)
For the rest of us, the pandemonium should be entertaining.
Autorotation in a quadcopter? Guffaw!