I don't buy that. "intelligence agency" is not a good example of obfuscation, because its meaning is instantly obvious to anyone, unlike, say, "Manhattan project".
One of the definitions of 'intelligence' is "the faculty of understanding". In this case, the faculty of understanding your enemies.
Gathering data is just the first part of what an intelligence agency does. The real value is in analyzing that data into a coherent picture of what your enemy is capable of and what he will do next.
90% of people doesn't care about anything. That's no reason to not write about things.
Slashdot is a technology site with a readership that contains many hobbyists, tinkerers and others who tend to want to repair things rather than throw the whole thing in the trash because one $0.50 component failed. So Right to Repair legislation is of interest to many of us.
The current situation is that repairability is artificially impaired by large companies trying to force people into the wasteful habit of throwing away objects rather than repairing them. This situation was made possible by government butting out and letting "the market" develop naturally.
Nonrepairability works in favor of a small group of large companies while having a negative impact on everyone else. Insultingly high repair bills, mountains of waste, monopolies are common and unacceptable. The government is the only entity capable of changing this, so yes, government definitely should butt in on behalf of consumers, and put limits to corporate greed and assholiness.
The design is 40 years old (well, 38), but the suits in use now were not produced 40 years ago. New ones were produced for the ISS, so that puts the maximum age closer to 20 years. I suspect the suits are regularly swapped as components reach end-of-life.
And yet my current car (loaded to the gills with electronics) has a service interval 4 times longer than the first car I owned 20 years ago, and (despite being 11 years old now)it's never had an issue that needed the garage's attention in between regular services.
It's not really the "last supply" though. The samples (hundreds of them) were bagged individually and then packed in containers (IIRC 9 containers in total). These were sealed on the Moon surface, so the inside of the container is a vacuum.
6 containers were unpacked and made available for study right away. 3 containers were left sealed. The proposal from TFA is to open one of the 3 sealed containers and use one of the (many) samples in this container.
idk about 'bigger than the entire OS', but MS Office 365 'patches' now redownload the entire Office suite. I recently found that out when I tried to install a language pack (you know, hyphenation and dictionary for Word, maybe 10 Mb in data). The damn installer removed my entire Office installation and reinstalled it.
Some people accept whatever crappy tool they can find, even if that causes them tons of aggravation down the line. Others realize it's worth investing in top-quality tools. Apple's products used to be top-quality tools, and can be again if the company quit fucking around.
The effort required to turn Apple laptops into top-quality tools is far lower than that required to turn a Windows laptop into a top-quality tool. That's why we don't switch.
Crowded cities should not allow new business to buy/rent property until the company has shown there's sufficient housing nearby (with a ceiling on commute time) for all of its employees. Amazon wants to put an office for 20k people in New York? They should be required to build 20k houses.
Wheel motors are a terrible idea. What you gain in clearance, you lose in on-road handling because you've added a great big block of of unsprung weight to each wheel.
The story of the discovery of the elements, as briefly described in TFA is a fascinating one and I want more. What books on this subject can you recommend?
Haggling with the salesman is the worst part of car ownership. Test drives are (for me) an absolute requirement. I will not spend thousands on something I can't thoroughly evaluate beforehand.
No thanks! I don't want my banking app to do anything else!
And websites designed "with smartphones in mind" tend to stink on a desktop. I really don't want my experience to be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.
The Dutch rail system has a large number of gas-heated points. Their fires kept getting blown out, so they're being phased out in favor of electric heaters.
Windows 7 took up 1 GB of RAM when running, Windows 10 takes 3 GB. Windows 7's background processes consumed less than 5% CPU on my 2008 computer, Windows 10 regularly sits at 100% CPU for hours on end on my 2018 computer.
Hopefully... the Ariane 6 both being too costly compared to the commercial options
That's an unrealistic hope. Ariane is seen as strategically important by Europe. We want an independent launch capability, because we've been screwed over by the Americans in the past.
Arianespace is progressing toward the first Ariane 6 launch at a pace that gives me hope they'll be able to transition to reusable rockets (also in development already) in a reasonable timeframe.
Elon has copylefted nothing with regards to SpaceX. The main source for information is off-the-cuff announcements via Twitter. No papers describing the rocket, much less CAD or source code. This has to do with ITAR legislation (which makes it a crime to publish such information).
You're thinking of Tesla, which did publish information on the Supercharger design.
All those custom screws are pointless anyway. Within a few months, screwdriver manufacturers start adding your custom design to their range, and your custom screw is now as accessible as all the previous attempts. All it does is create an annoyance as people have to update their screwdriver sets.
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I don't buy that. "intelligence agency" is not a good example of obfuscation, because its meaning is instantly obvious to anyone, unlike, say, "Manhattan project".
One of the definitions of 'intelligence' is "the faculty of understanding". In this case, the faculty of understanding your enemies.
Gathering data is just the first part of what an intelligence agency does. The real value is in analyzing that data into a coherent picture of what your enemy is capable of and what he will do next.
90% of people doesn't care about anything. That's no reason to not write about things.
Slashdot is a technology site with a readership that contains many hobbyists, tinkerers and others who tend to want to repair things rather than throw the whole thing in the trash because one $0.50 component failed. So Right to Repair legislation is of interest to many of us.
The current situation is that repairability is artificially impaired by large companies trying to force people into the wasteful habit of throwing away objects rather than repairing them. This situation was made possible by government butting out and letting "the market" develop naturally.
Nonrepairability works in favor of a small group of large companies while having a negative impact on everyone else. Insultingly high repair bills, mountains of waste, monopolies are common and unacceptable. The government is the only entity capable of changing this, so yes, government definitely should butt in on behalf of consumers, and put limits to corporate greed and assholiness.
They are around 40 years old
The design is 40 years old (well, 38), but the suits in use now were not produced 40 years ago. New ones were produced for the ISS, so that puts the maximum age closer to 20 years. I suspect the suits are regularly swapped as components reach end-of-life.
And yet my current car (loaded to the gills with electronics) has a service interval 4 times longer than the first car I owned 20 years ago, and (despite being 11 years old now)it's never had an issue that needed the garage's attention in between regular services.
It's not really the "last supply" though. The samples (hundreds of them) were bagged individually and then packed in containers (IIRC 9 containers in total). These were sealed on the Moon surface, so the inside of the container is a vacuum.
6 containers were unpacked and made available for study right away. 3 containers were left sealed. The proposal from TFA is to open one of the 3 sealed containers and use one of the (many) samples in this container.
idk about 'bigger than the entire OS', but MS Office 365 'patches' now redownload the entire Office suite. I recently found that out when I tried to install a language pack (you know, hyphenation and dictionary for Word, maybe 10 Mb in data). The damn installer removed my entire Office installation and reinstalled it.
Some people accept whatever crappy tool they can find, even if that causes them tons of aggravation down the line. Others realize it's worth investing in top-quality tools. Apple's products used to be top-quality tools, and can be again if the company quit fucking around.
The effort required to turn Apple laptops into top-quality tools is far lower than that required to turn a Windows laptop into a top-quality tool. That's why we don't switch.
That's what cable conduits are for. Bonus: they're easily accessible the next time you need to change the cabling setup.
Crowded cities should not allow new business to buy/rent property until the company has shown there's sufficient housing nearby (with a ceiling on commute time) for all of its employees. Amazon wants to put an office for 20k people in New York? They should be required to build 20k houses.
Wheel motors are a terrible idea. What you gain in clearance, you lose in on-road handling because you've added a great big block of of unsprung weight to each wheel.
The fucking summary doesn't do a good job of summarizing the article. The article is 34 paragraphs long, 15 of which are devoted to Mendeleev.
And thanks to your prejudice, you've missed out on what's actually a really good summary of the history of the periodic table.
The story of the discovery of the elements, as briefly described in TFA is a fascinating one and I want more. What books on this subject can you recommend?
Haggling with the salesman is the worst part of car ownership. Test drives are (for me) an absolute requirement. I will not spend thousands on something I can't thoroughly evaluate beforehand.
No thanks! I don't want my banking app to do anything else!
And websites designed "with smartphones in mind" tend to stink on a desktop. I really don't want my experience to be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.
Damn you, camel case!
I've heard The Ribbon has improved a lot since it's introduction
Nope. The ribbon is still a mess in the current Office 365 version. Luckily I don't have to use that pile of crap too often.
The Dutch rail system has a large number of gas-heated points. Their fires kept getting blown out, so they're being phased out in favor of electric heaters.
Won't help. excessive resource usage is due to bloody OneDrive.
Isn't that what subdomains are for? I.e. instead of registering the separate domain 'dellteamnet.com' they could have stuck it at teamnet.dell.com.
Windows 7 took up 1 GB of RAM when running, Windows 10 takes 3 GB. Windows 7's background processes consumed less than 5% CPU on my 2008 computer, Windows 10 regularly sits at 100% CPU for hours on end on my 2018 computer.
Which AvWeek article is that? Can't find it using their search function.
Hopefully ... the Ariane 6 both being too costly compared to the commercial options
That's an unrealistic hope. Ariane is seen as strategically important by Europe. We want an independent launch capability, because we've been screwed over by the Americans in the past.
Arianespace is progressing toward the first Ariane 6 launch at a pace that gives me hope they'll be able to transition to reusable rockets (also in development already) in a reasonable timeframe.
Elon has copylefted nothing with regards to SpaceX. The main source for information is off-the-cuff announcements via Twitter. No papers describing the rocket, much less CAD or source code. This has to do with ITAR legislation (which makes it a crime to publish such information).
You're thinking of Tesla, which did publish information on the Supercharger design.
Nobody insists on "getting screwdrivers blessed by the rainbow beachball itself,". Mac users just live with it because the alternatives are worse.
All those custom screws are pointless anyway. Within a few months, screwdriver manufacturers start adding your custom design to their range, and your custom screw is now as accessible as all the previous attempts. All it does is create an annoyance as people have to update their screwdriver sets.