People always leave out W2k for some reason. W2k was really good. As to Windows 8 yes microsoft can survive Windows 8 on the desktop market. What will hurt is the fact that desktops and notebooks are becoming less important as mobile is becoming more important. WP7 is a fizzle. It isn't bad but but it is not popular and is not better than IOS or Android at this time. Microsoft and Nokia are betting that the Nokia 900 will be a smash hit. The problem is that I just don't see it happening. I could be wrong but Nokia and Microsoft are just not on many peoples radar here in the US in the mobile market. Nokia is in a better position in the EU and in some emerging markets but Microsoft sure is not. Yes Windows 8 will not kill Microsoft on the desktop. People will keep Windows 7 and they may fix it with Windows 9 Windows 8 has a good chance of killing Microsoft in the mobile market.
Up to a point. Think about it this way to bring the Enterprise up to the quality of a new carrier you would have too. A replace the reactors and turbines. Replace all of the wiring. Replace the radar, fire control, SAMs, and all the command and control systems. It would take longer and cost more money than building a new carrier from the ground up and it still would be the only ship of it's class and have lots of one off parts and problems. Many years ago I remember reading about the retirement of the F-8 and did a little work. I figured out that if you replaced the engine radar and added a new composite wing that it would be about 70% as good as an F-16. The problem was that it would cost like 90% as much and wouldn't have as long of service life as a new F-16. At some point you are just better off building a new Car, Carrier, Plane, or just about anything than spending money keeping an old one. Of course if the car or plane is a "Classic" and is just going to a show piece then it can have a very long life. Or if enough of them where made and or they where way over built you can get an extremely long life out of them. Good examples of air craft that managed that are. The B-52. The C-47/DC-3 C-135, KC-135, RC-134, and E-3 And the DC-8. But those are the exceptions and not the rule.
Okay it is the longest life of a combate ship built in the last century. It is also the oldest serving carrier. I really want them to make it a museum ship. The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier does seem worth saving. Of course the other Enterprise CV-6 really should have been saved as well.
You are right most of the time. In this case no. I was using the API in the way Apple suggested. What I ran into was that Apple had moved part of the graphics system into a thread. I had carefully written my code so that it was non-threaded as Apple had recommended. What happened was that all of a sudden customers where getting random lockups. When I did tests I got nothing until I simulated the speed of the network data to match a real world situation. Then I got memory errors in the debugger where their where no memory allocations or deallocations. It turned out that the errors where not memory errors but where caused by two threads trying to access the same memory. The fix involved placing mutexs in my carefully written none threaded code! It got fixed but the error was a. hard to replicate. b. involved a none or possibly poorly documented change to the OS. Yes this was a hard one to deal with.
I did but the problem was only duplicatable during a very long interactive test. I had installed the beta version and ran my software. I then looked through the changes for anything that I thought could effect my code and found none. It was only when I started to get random lockups from customers that I ran exhaustive multi hour tests and found that Apple had made an undocumented change to the graphics system.
Yes IOS can be a nightmare. When an IOS update came out all of a sudden my code stopped working. I had checked the changes to IOS and nothing should have caused a problem. I was doing everything the "safe" documented apple way and it still blew up. I got a fix uploaded and then Apple had the app store shutdown for the holidays!!!! My update was uploaded to the store days before the shutdown but did they clear the backlog? Not a freaking chance they shut it down and we had to wait for weeks with upset customers.
We used planets at my office for a while along with SOL for our main file server. Soon it got changed to other stuff and finally just function and number.
Funny but I never heard any of it in my life time. My wife is a red head and has told that it was a negative with some people but she grew up in a small New Mexico town with what seems like an overly large number of prejudices for the size of the population. These included. What Elementary school you went do. Anti-Mormon Anti-Hispanic Anti-Redhead Anti-Native American Anti-Catholic Anti-Atheist
My wife keeps saying that she wants me to see the town she grew up in just so I can understand how bad it was.
No you are wrong. First of all do you know for sure every test that you might want to do? No you don't because results from one test may lead to another. Not only that results from one test could lead to inventing a new test. I am all for robotic missions as better bang for the buck but the truth is that no robotic mission will be as good as sending scientists with a full lab to mars but that costs a whole lot of money so it is cheaper to return samples from Mars to Earth. If you can not afford that then rovers with a lab will get you more bang for the buck than returning a sample. If you can not afford that then a lander is the best option, If you can not afford that then an orbital probe is the best. I left out a bunch of manned options short of landing a full lab aka a mars base/colony but you get the point. It all comes down to best return on investment. I frankly do not see a sample return being that much more expensive than an advanced lab on an advanced rover.
Actually Minix is trying to make advancements in a few areas. 1. Embedded. Minix is trying to be smaller, lighters, and more modular than Linux which to be honest is pretty dang good. 2. Security. Being a microkernel and having drivers running in user space it is the goal that a security exploit in a driver will not lead to a global aka root level exploit. 3. Reliability. With the microkernel if a driver crashes then instead of all of Minix crashing that driver can just be restarted. So if a video, network, or some other driver crashes the system stays up. If the driver is written so that the code pages are read only then it could be possible to just restart the driver in memory without having to even reload it. I swear that people seem to really hate people trying new stuff. I like and use Linux but that is what should be cool about open source. We should be seeing new stuff more. Instead we have Linux, BSD, X and people crabbing about Wayland and Minix. Heck if we only picked what was most popular and worked good enough then we would all be running Windows 7 on desktops and laptops and using iPhones. Really take a look and read about Minix. It has some interesting ideas. Frankly I could see it making a good firewall and or a NAS or SAN server if the performance gets good enough.
About as bad as lead. Now the hexafluoride is pretty nasty but so are a lot of things being trucked around. I was attacking just the radiation boogie man with a few facts.
BTW they where not 'toting rifles' they where toting shotguns. Shotguns are smooth bore guns and not rifled so they can not be rifles. So a group was using a drone to harass people acting in a legal way on private property. Gee if the legal activity was not hunting then I bet people would be all cheering the people that supposedly took down the "drone" for protecting their rights. BTW radio controlled copters crash all the time. The prop damage shown looks like it was caused by a crash to me. Oh and flying a radio controlled aircraft over a public road is frowned on by the AMA. It could crash and hurt people so flying it over the road to start with is a good bit more dangerous than shooting bird shot into the air.
For the record I am not into hunting and do not own a gun. I feel no need for firearm in my life, I just find the willingness to accept a drone harassing people on private property just because you do not like what they are doing to be hypocritical.
"b) NaCl is not radioactive" But your granite countertops and or any granite buildings you go into and or any granite mountain you happen to be near is.
Uranium is just not that radioactive. It isn't like cobalt 60 or any of the real scary stuff.
Actually long distance has really come down a lot. You can get unlimited long distance on most land lines pretty cheap and most cells have unlimited long distance nights and weekends. There was a time when long distance was super expensive. Even 12 or so years ago it was not all that cheap. Today it really is pretty dang cheap. I would say that a lot of the benefits are already here. I guess no one here took economics. Demand drives pricing not the cost of production. If you can produce a high demand product inexpensively you make big profits. Ideally competition drives down prices because the costs are low enough that others will undercut your pricing. That has actually been working in the long distance phone market in the US. VOIP providers like Vontage, Comcast, and so on plus cell providers have pushed down the cost of land line long distance. The Telcoms are pretty evil as a rule but voice long distance pricing is not exactly one of their big sins today.
I was thinking of fire fighting myself. Using drones for water drops and monitoring for forest fires. Also for search and rescue. Oh and for extra cell hot spots for disaster and large events.
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That is what we have now. When you sell a home you pay capital gains unless you buy a home that costs as much or more. That is the point right now. People on slashdot seem to want tax people on paper profits AKA something you own goes up in value while you are holding it like you home. Which frankly is just dumb. I mean my wife bought me a wedding ring when we got married. Because the cost of gold has gone up it is worth a lot more than when she bought it. Should I have to pay tax on that increase?
umm no. stealth aircraft do not use bumps to disperse radar. The coating uses electrical properties to reduce the radar signal not physical shape. The airframes physical shape does with things like faceting and sawtooth edges. Also the Shuttle really was not a "brick" as many people like to call it. It flew very well at hypersonic speeds. At approach speed with out power it's L/D ratio was bad but probably no worse than most other high speed aircraft like fighter jets or the SR-71. It was probably a good bit better than the F-104 in an engine out landing.
you could add them starting at the transition point back on the airframe. Actually more than a few aircraft use vortex generators to already do this. It is usually a fix or is used where the extra lift is more important than the extra drag.
That is the big issue here. The last place you would want to add "bumps" to an airframe is the leading edge of the wing, props, turbines, and or rotors. I can see the look on a gas turbine designers face now....
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But imagine if you also paid income tax on the increased value of your home. Also you should get your city/state to look into what we have in Florida, it is called a homestead exemption. Your property tax can only go up so much a year so you don't get hammered by bubbles.
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When you sell the stock. The same time you pay taxes on it.
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You also are not taxed on your house increasing in value or your 401k until you sell them. Stock can also go down in price do you get a refund for that?
"2. On the commercial side, a lot less energy required, i.e. no need for ultra-fast 15k RPM drives in servers, need up to 15 times fewer drives in server farms. This is BIG." Probably not. Spindles == speed and redundancy. If you are looking at a data warehousing situation then maybe but if you are dealing with a lot of transactions you will still want as many spindles as you can afford.
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People always leave out W2k for some reason. W2k was really good.
As to Windows 8 yes microsoft can survive Windows 8 on the desktop market. What will hurt is the fact that desktops and notebooks are becoming less important as mobile is becoming more important. WP7 is a fizzle. It isn't bad but but it is not popular and is not better than IOS or Android at this time.
Microsoft and Nokia are betting that the Nokia 900 will be a smash hit. The problem is that I just don't see it happening. I could be wrong but Nokia and Microsoft are just not on many peoples radar here in the US in the mobile market. Nokia is in a better position in the EU and in some emerging markets but Microsoft sure is not.
Yes Windows 8 will not kill Microsoft on the desktop. People will keep Windows 7 and they may fix it with Windows 9
Windows 8 has a good chance of killing Microsoft in the mobile market.
I always found Casper to be really creepy.
He as after all the friendly little dead kid which is just really kind of freaky if you think about it.
Up to a point.
Think about it this way to bring the Enterprise up to the quality of a new carrier you would have too.
A replace the reactors and turbines.
Replace all of the wiring.
Replace the radar, fire control, SAMs, and all the command and control systems.
It would take longer and cost more money than building a new carrier from the ground up and it still would be the only ship of it's class and have lots of one off parts and problems.
Many years ago I remember reading about the retirement of the F-8 and did a little work. I figured out that if you replaced the engine radar and added a new composite wing that it would be about 70% as good as an F-16. The problem was that it would cost like 90% as much and wouldn't have as long of service life as a new F-16.
At some point you are just better off building a new Car, Carrier, Plane, or just about anything than spending money keeping an old one. Of course if the car or plane is a "Classic" and is just going to a show piece then it can have a very long life.
Or if enough of them where made and or they where way over built you can get an extremely long life out of them.
Good examples of air craft that managed that are.
The B-52.
The C-47/DC-3
C-135, KC-135, RC-134, and E-3
And the DC-8.
But those are the exceptions and not the rule.
Okay it is the longest life of a combate ship built in the last century. It is also the oldest serving carrier.
I really want them to make it a museum ship. The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier does seem worth saving. Of course the other Enterprise CV-6 really should have been saved as well.
Might I introduce you to your new best friend? Please say hello to Chlorpromazine.
You are right most of the time. In this case no.
I was using the API in the way Apple suggested. What I ran into was that Apple had moved part of the graphics system into a thread. I had carefully written my code so that it was non-threaded as Apple had recommended. What happened was that all of a sudden customers where getting random lockups.
When I did tests I got nothing until I simulated the speed of the network data to match a real world situation. Then I got memory errors in the debugger where their where no memory allocations or deallocations.
It turned out that the errors where not memory errors but where caused by two threads trying to access the same memory. The fix involved placing mutexs in my carefully written none threaded code!
It got fixed but the error was
a. hard to replicate.
b. involved a none or possibly poorly documented change to the OS.
Yes this was a hard one to deal with.
I did but the problem was only duplicatable during a very long interactive test. I had installed the beta version and ran my software. I then looked through the changes for anything that I thought could effect my code and found none.
It was only when I started to get random lockups from customers that I ran exhaustive multi hour tests and found that Apple had made an undocumented change to the graphics system.
Yes IOS can be a nightmare. When an IOS update came out all of a sudden my code stopped working. I had checked the changes to IOS and nothing should have caused a problem. I was doing everything the "safe" documented apple way and it still blew up. I got a fix uploaded and then Apple had the app store shutdown for the holidays!!!! My update was uploaded to the store days before the shutdown but did they clear the backlog? Not a freaking chance they shut it down and we had to wait for weeks with upset customers.
We used planets at my office for a while along with SOL for our main file server. Soon it got changed to other stuff and finally just function and number.
Funny but I never heard any of it in my life time. My wife is a red head and has told that it was a negative with some people but she grew up in a small New Mexico town with what seems like an overly large number of prejudices for the size of the population.
These included.
What Elementary school you went do.
Anti-Mormon
Anti-Hispanic
Anti-Redhead
Anti-Native American
Anti-Catholic
Anti-Atheist
My wife keeps saying that she wants me to see the town she grew up in just so I can understand how bad it was.
No you are wrong.
First of all do you know for sure every test that you might want to do?
No you don't because results from one test may lead to another. Not only that results from one test could lead to inventing a new test.
I am all for robotic missions as better bang for the buck but the truth is that no robotic mission will be as good as sending scientists with a full lab to mars but that costs a whole lot of money so it is cheaper to return samples from Mars to Earth. If you can not afford that then rovers with a lab will get you more bang for the buck than returning a sample. If you can not afford that then a lander is the best option, If you can not afford that then an orbital probe is the best.
I left out a bunch of manned options short of landing a full lab aka a mars base/colony but you get the point. It all comes down to best return on investment. I frankly do not see a sample return being that much more expensive than an advanced lab on an advanced rover.
Here let me give you the link
http://www.minix3.org/other/read-more.html
Actually Minix is trying to make advancements in a few areas.
1. Embedded. Minix is trying to be smaller, lighters, and more modular than Linux which to be honest is pretty dang good.
2. Security. Being a microkernel and having drivers running in user space it is the goal that a security exploit in a driver will not lead to a global aka root level exploit.
3. Reliability. With the microkernel if a driver crashes then instead of all of Minix crashing that driver can just be restarted. So if a video, network, or some other driver crashes the system stays up. If the driver is written so that the code pages are read only then it could be possible to just restart the driver in memory without having to even reload it.
I swear that people seem to really hate people trying new stuff. I like and use Linux but that is what should be cool about open source. We should be seeing new stuff more. Instead we have Linux, BSD, X and people crabbing about Wayland and Minix. Heck if we only picked what was most popular and worked good enough then we would all be running Windows 7 on desktops and laptops and using iPhones.
Really take a look and read about Minix. It has some interesting ideas. Frankly I could see it making a good firewall and or a NAS or SAN server if the performance gets good enough.
About as bad as lead. Now the hexafluoride is pretty nasty but so are a lot of things being trucked around.
I was attacking just the radiation boogie man with a few facts.
Or they heard a shot and the crashed the drone.
BTW they where not 'toting rifles' they where toting shotguns. Shotguns are smooth bore guns and not rifled so they can not be rifles.
So a group was using a drone to harass people acting in a legal way on private property. Gee if the legal activity was not hunting then I bet people would be all cheering the people that supposedly took down the "drone" for protecting their rights.
BTW radio controlled copters crash all the time. The prop damage shown looks like it was caused by a crash to me.
Oh and flying a radio controlled aircraft over a public road is frowned on by the AMA. It could crash and hurt people so flying it over the road to start with is a good bit more dangerous than shooting bird shot into the air.
For the record I am not into hunting and do not own a gun. I feel no need for firearm in my life, I just find the willingness to accept a drone harassing people on private property just because you do not like what they are doing to be hypocritical.
"b) NaCl is not radioactive"
But your granite countertops and or any granite buildings you go into and or any granite mountain you happen to be near is.
Uranium is just not that radioactive. It isn't like cobalt 60 or any of the real scary stuff.
Actually long distance has really come down a lot. You can get unlimited long distance on most land lines pretty cheap and most cells have unlimited long distance nights and weekends. There was a time when long distance was super expensive. Even 12 or so years ago it was not all that cheap. Today it really is pretty dang cheap. I would say that a lot of the benefits are already here.
I guess no one here took economics. Demand drives pricing not the cost of production. If you can produce a high demand product inexpensively you make big profits. Ideally competition drives down prices because the costs are low enough that others will undercut your pricing. That has actually been working in the long distance phone market in the US. VOIP providers like Vontage, Comcast, and so on plus cell providers have pushed down the cost of land line long distance. The Telcoms are pretty evil as a rule but voice long distance pricing is not exactly one of their big sins today.
Because you can not go online and buy an apple product for 60% price of buying it in the store.
It is that apple control thing working for them.
I was thinking of fire fighting myself. Using drones for water drops and monitoring for forest fires. Also for search and rescue.
Oh and for extra cell hot spots for disaster and large events.
That is what we have now. When you sell a home you pay capital gains unless you buy a home that costs as much or more. That is the point right now. People on slashdot seem to want tax people on paper profits AKA something you own goes up in value while you are holding it like you home.
Which frankly is just dumb.
I mean my wife bought me a wedding ring when we got married. Because the cost of gold has gone up it is worth a lot more than when she bought it. Should I have to pay tax on that increase?
umm no.
stealth aircraft do not use bumps to disperse radar. The coating uses electrical properties to reduce the radar signal not physical shape. The airframes physical shape does with things like faceting and sawtooth edges. Also the Shuttle really was not a "brick" as many people like to call it. It flew very well at hypersonic speeds. At approach speed with out power it's L/D ratio was bad but probably no worse than most other high speed aircraft like fighter jets or the SR-71. It was probably a good bit better than the F-104 in an engine out landing.
you could add them starting at the transition point back on the airframe. Actually more than a few aircraft use vortex generators to already do this. It is usually a fix or is used where the extra lift is more important than the extra drag.
That is the big issue here. The last place you would want to add "bumps" to an airframe is the leading edge of the wing, props, turbines, and or rotors.
I can see the look on a gas turbine designers face now....
But imagine if you also paid income tax on the increased value of your home. Also you should get your city/state to look into what we have in Florida, it is called a homestead exemption. Your property tax can only go up so much a year so you don't get hammered by bubbles.
When you sell the stock. The same time you pay taxes on it.
You also are not taxed on your house increasing in value or your 401k until you sell them. Stock can also go down in price do you get a refund for that?
"2. On the commercial side, a lot less energy required, i.e. no need for ultra-fast 15k RPM drives in servers, need up to 15 times fewer drives in server farms. This is BIG."
Probably not. Spindles == speed and redundancy. If you are looking at a data warehousing situation then maybe but if you are dealing with a lot of transactions you will still want as many spindles as you can afford.