The part that says why they dropped. The part that says that they will keep dropping even as demand goes up. Sorry but I don't have a crystal ball I only have history.
Sort of like the Fusion is 20 years away and has been for the last 50 years. Or the car of the future. All someone really has to do is pick up Popular Science from 1973 to 1980 or so and you will see pages and pages about solar, wind turbines, alternative fuel cars, fuel cells, electric cars, gas electric cars, Stirling engine cars and so on. It is funny but progress always seems to be much slower or much faster than predicted. The early home computer crowd really missed out on the potential of the Internet. Of course there is a great story written by Winston Churchill in the late 40s where he seem to predict the Internet.
Hey WIndows 95 and 98 didn't suck. Sure Windows 2000 and XP where big improvements but at the time 95 and 98 where big leaps forward. Windows 95 was when the PC actually caught up with the Amiga from 1985 in many ways.
Actually Microsoft sold Basic to just about every company including Commodore. Yes Microsoft got lucky but they did make the most of it. They also kept with it. Windows was a failure in versions one and two. I remember Selling machines that had it bundled. People took it off to get more disk space. It wasn't until Windows 386 and Windows 3 that it was actually really useful.Then you have Microsoft Office mainly Word and Excel. Some of those same computers also included Word 1.0 for DOS. I tired it out and though wow this is actually pretty cool if it wasn't so dog slow. Microsoft ported Word to the Mac and keep improving it until it became the standard for both MacOS and Windows. Excel started on the Mac and ended up as the spreadsheet. While some of their business practices have been down right evil, and many of their products have been flops they have has some brilliant products as well. And the truth is that some of those brilliant products like Word started out as failures but Microsoft kept improving them until they became great products. As far as Berkeley goes they didn't pick Commodore. They had a version of Geos for the PC as well and it was actually not bad. It just didn't have Microsoft behind it. Oh and Geos also ran on the Apple as well.
I don't know if Gates can fix Microsoft. I do not know if anyone can. It is still making money hand over fist and is doing very well. They have totally blown the online market and the mobile market but they are doing well in the Console market. They may not really be broken but just mature and settled in their markets. Nothing wrong with that. Boeing doesn't make light aircraft, or ultra lights. Peterbuilt doesn't make compact cars. Maybe those are just not markets that Microsoft can win at.
So is it okay for the Police to violate someones civil rights if they catch the criminal? Or do you not understand the danger of the ends justify the means? Not only that but the wires actually are mostly analysis not proof. What crimes exactly where proven? Just asking because I have seen no proof offered just a lot of opinion.
And this was an attack on right to freedom of the press. A group is trying to control what the press will report through intimidation. It is exactly the same as the above actions in that it is a scare tactic used to limit the rights of others. The fact that you can not see that I fear is a case of you and your ability to think = FAIL.
It is fortunate that acting irresponsibly which I feel Wikileaks is doing is not illegal. The discussion really isn't about wikileaks, Manning, or Iraq. What it should be about is way too many people on Slashdot approving of vigilantly revenge and censorship. On that subject I see are in agreement.
As to Canada's action that is one of those things that really only history will know for sure. If what you say is accurate does not not sound different from what FDR did before the US entered WWII. The US wanted nothing to do with another bloody European war. FDR felt that was not the right choice and had our military do some really "questionable" things for a neutral country. History says he was a hero but he also lied to the people of the US about our level of military support. Had Japan not attacked the US he would have gone down as a villain. He would have been a villain for doing both too much and or too little depending on how history worked out. I am not Canadian so I feel I have no right to say if your government is right or wrong. As a US citizen I have the greatest affection for Canada. They are the best neighbors we could ask for and I have enough respect for them to say your government is up to you. As to who ever leaked the data if they where in the military they acted in a very dangerous and I feel a criminal way. If they really thought that these where criminal acts he should have called them to the attention of his commanding officers. If he felt they where also guilty then to a member of congress. That would have been the correct actions IMHO. As it is it looks like whom ever did it just grabbed all the data he could and handed it over to somebody. You can not have a member of the Military of a free nation over ride the actions of the elected civil authority. While you think this action is good think of all the other actions members of the military could do over the objections and control of the elected civil authority. The vast majority of them are really not what you want. As I have gotten older I have found that the world is a complicated place. All those rules are restrictions that I thought where foolish wastes of time when I was young I now understand more and more. Not that I am sure this is the best of all possible worlds. It is just that I know that I fear many other people's idea of the best of all possible worlds more than I desire my own.
What is GM food? Just about every crop we use has been modified over the centuries. If you ever found the ancestors of corn, chickens, and potatoes you would find they are very different from what we grow and eat today. In many ways all the problems people worry about with GM crops are still with us from the standard crops including the destruction of the orignal plants.
You see that is the thing. If I had been like Anon or this other bunch of losers I would have hacked Slashdot and removed your post or defaced it. And then you might have done the same. Adults discuss and eventually if they are real grown ups respectfully disagree. That is how a democracy works. Using power to restrict the honest exchange of ideas and opinons is an evil act. It doesn't make the act any less evil if that power is technical knowledge instead of wealth or political power.
Why do find 10km scary. To me is is comforting but not as much as 30,000ft which I round to six miles up. In aviation speed is life, altitude is life. Thing only really suck when you run out of one or both of them. But 30,000 ft isn't really 10,000 meters or even six miles. You see people as a whole are not too dumb to translate between system on the fly for things like news stories. The only time people should bent is when dealing with technical documentation.
I disagree with you on many points here. I think Wikileaks is acting irresponsibly and that if a member of the military did leak that info I feel they are not heros but criminals. However the biggest problem I have with your post is that you are declaring Manning guilty of the action before he has had a trail. You may voice any opinion you feel is truthful about the actions but I would ask you to refrain from declaring Manning guilty. It is unfair to him as he is innocent until proven guilty.
Yea it is no worse than burning books, or a cross on someones lawn, or painting graffiti on a synagogue. As long as no gets hurt is is all good right? I mean after all those actions do only about as much damage if any at all. I agree people are just too dang sensitive.
That was your error. It never really was amusing. It has always been an attack on freedom of expression and in this case the press. There is a reason why vigilantes are not a good thing.
It is an embedded development board that used a dual core Cortex A9. If that doesn't help then you are lacking the basic knowledge to use this information. It maybe of no interest to you unless you are a developer that is into Linux, and the Cortex line of embedded devices. Now the specs are are missing some info. They say it supports SPI,I2C, and several other ports but most of them are not shown being available on headers.
Not likely, rate of climb drops a lot as altitude goes up. I am not sure that these engines are turbocharged but if not then the power really starts to drop as you go up as the air gets less dense. But that depends on what you mean by a lot. If you mean 6000 ft above sea level then maybe If you mean 10k I just don't think so. Oh AGL? That is all about safety not performance, above sea level is what really matters from a performance issue.
well the 64k limit was the segment issue but at a time when when a lot of computers came with 256 k it wasn't terrible. They soon fixed it. It was also the first IDE I remember. Before that people often used WordStar or if you had no other choice edlin. It was a real game changer at the time. The next big thing was the Database toolbox, Editor toolbox, and telcom tool box. I don't know how many vertical industries where built on those tool boxes.
Turbo Pascal was actually a very good programing system. It had a huge libary of tools and and a big comunity. The early version where also dirt cheap. At a time when a Basic compiler cost $500 you could buy TuboPascal for well under $100. This was before GCC and the internet. Thing is that if you miss TurboPascal just get FreePascal. The C64 was just plain fun. It was also a great place for an "educated" amateur to shine. The local BBS was getting slow when people where logging on. It also was going to run out of space for new users. I suggested to the hacker group that ran it to move to relative files and a hash table in place of the seq file they where using. I got a lot of credit for being brillant when I showed them how to do a simple hash.
sigh.... The chain reaction will stop as soon as the rods are dropped. There is left over heat from decay product that is that must be removed by the coolant or else the core can get hot enough to melt. I keep hearing people talk about the reaction going on after that but the fuel in a standard reactor requires a moderator like water for the reaction to continue even without the control rods. Now this does not apply for graphite moderated reactors like the one at Chernobyl but a modern western power plant reactor with no coolant will not support a chain reaction. The coolant is also the moderator so you can not the imaginary runaway blob of radio active death that is so popular in the media.
Did you not bother to listen to CNN, read a newspaper, or pay attention to any of the other news sources when this was happening?
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The part that says why they dropped. The part that says that they will keep dropping even as demand goes up.
Sorry but I don't have a crystal ball I only have history.
Sort of like the Fusion is 20 years away and has been for the last 50 years.
Or the car of the future. All someone really has to do is pick up Popular Science from 1973 to 1980 or so and you will see pages and pages about solar, wind turbines, alternative fuel cars, fuel cells, electric cars, gas electric cars, Stirling engine cars and so on.
It is funny but progress always seems to be much slower or much faster than predicted. The early home computer crowd really missed out on the potential of the Internet. Of course there is a great story written by Winston Churchill in the late 40s where he seem to predict the Internet.
Hey WIndows 95 and 98 didn't suck. Sure Windows 2000 and XP where big improvements but at the time 95 and 98 where big leaps forward. Windows 95 was when the PC actually caught up with the Amiga from 1985 in many ways.
Actually Microsoft sold Basic to just about every company including Commodore. Yes Microsoft got lucky but they did make the most of it. They also kept with it. Windows was a failure in versions one and two. I remember Selling machines that had it bundled. People took it off to get more disk space.
It wasn't until Windows 386 and Windows 3 that it was actually really useful.Then you have Microsoft Office mainly Word and Excel. Some of those same computers also included Word 1.0 for DOS. I tired it out and though wow this is actually pretty cool if it wasn't so dog slow. Microsoft ported Word to the Mac and keep improving it until it became the standard for both MacOS and Windows. Excel started on the Mac and ended up as the spreadsheet.
While some of their business practices have been down right evil, and many of their products have been flops they have has some brilliant products as well. And the truth is that some of those brilliant products like Word started out as failures but Microsoft kept improving them until they became great products.
As far as Berkeley goes they didn't pick Commodore. They had a version of Geos for the PC as well and it was actually not bad. It just didn't have Microsoft behind it. Oh and Geos also ran on the Apple as well.
I don't know if Gates can fix Microsoft. I do not know if anyone can. It is still making money hand over fist and is doing very well. They have totally blown the online market and the mobile market but they are doing well in the Console market. They may not really be broken but just mature and settled in their markets. Nothing wrong with that. Boeing doesn't make light aircraft, or ultra lights. Peterbuilt doesn't make compact cars. Maybe those are just not markets that Microsoft can win at.
So is it okay for the Police to violate someones civil rights if they catch the criminal? Or do you not understand the danger of the ends justify the means? Not only that but the wires actually are mostly analysis not proof. What crimes exactly where proven? Just asking because I have seen no proof offered just a lot of opinion.
And this was an attack on right to freedom of the press. A group is trying to control what the press will report through intimidation. It is exactly the same as the above actions in that it is a scare tactic used to limit the rights of others. The fact that you can not see that I fear is a case of you and your ability to think = FAIL.
Actually no it really doesn't. What is central is that a news outlet is being attacked because someone didn't like what they said.
Two wrongs do not make a right. It seems disrespectful for me to say what the voters of Canada should and should not do.
It is fortunate that acting irresponsibly which I feel Wikileaks is doing is not illegal. The discussion really isn't about wikileaks, Manning, or Iraq. What it should be about is way too many people on Slashdot approving of vigilantly revenge and censorship. On that subject I see are in agreement.
As to Canada's action that is one of those things that really only history will know for sure. If what you say is accurate does not not sound different from what FDR did before the US entered WWII. The US wanted nothing to do with another bloody European war. FDR felt that was not the right choice and had our military do some really "questionable" things for a neutral country. History says he was a hero but he also lied to the people of the US about our level of military support. Had Japan not attacked the US he would have gone down as a villain. He would have been a villain for doing both too much and or too little depending on how history worked out.
I am not Canadian so I feel I have no right to say if your government is right or wrong. As a US citizen I have the greatest affection for Canada. They are the best neighbors we could ask for and I have enough respect for them to say your government is up to you.
As to who ever leaked the data if they where in the military they acted in a very dangerous and I feel a criminal way. If they really thought that these where criminal acts he should have called them to the attention of his commanding officers. If he felt they where also guilty then to a member of congress. That would have been the correct actions IMHO. As it is it looks like whom ever did it just grabbed all the data he could and handed it over to somebody. You can not have a member of the Military of a free nation over ride the actions of the elected civil authority. While you think this action is good think of all the other actions members of the military could do over the objections and control of the elected civil authority. The vast majority of them are really not what you want. As I have gotten older I have found that the world is a complicated place. All those rules are restrictions that I thought where foolish wastes of time when I was young I now understand more and more. Not that I am sure this is the best of all possible worlds. It is just that I know that I fear many other people's idea of the best of all possible worlds more than I desire my own.
What is GM food? Just about every crop we use has been modified over the centuries. If you ever found the ancestors of corn, chickens, and potatoes you would find they are very different from what we grow and eat today. In many ways all the problems people worry about with GM crops are still with us from the standard crops including the destruction of the orignal plants.
You see that is the thing. If I had been like Anon or this other bunch of losers I would have hacked Slashdot and removed your post or defaced it. And then you might have done the same.
Adults discuss and eventually if they are real grown ups respectfully disagree. That is how a democracy works. Using power to restrict the honest exchange of ideas and opinons is an evil act. It doesn't make the act any less evil if that power is technical knowledge instead of wealth or political power.
Why do find 10km scary. To me is is comforting but not as much as 30,000ft which I round to six miles up. In aviation speed is life, altitude is life. Thing only really suck when you run out of one or both of them.
But 30,000 ft isn't really 10,000 meters or even six miles. You see people as a whole are not too dumb to translate between system on the fly for things like news stories. The only time people should bent is when dealing with technical documentation.
I disagree with you on many points here. I think Wikileaks is acting irresponsibly and that if a member of the military did leak that info I feel they are not heros but criminals. However the biggest problem I have with your post is that you are declaring Manning guilty of the action before he has had a trail. You may voice any opinion you feel is truthful about the actions but I would ask you to refrain from declaring Manning guilty. It is unfair to him as he is innocent until proven guilty.
Yea it is no worse than burning books, or a cross on someones lawn, or painting graffiti on a synagogue. As long as no gets hurt is is all good right? I mean after all those actions do only about as much damage if any at all. I agree people are just too dang sensitive.
That was your error. It never really was amusing. It has always been an attack on freedom of expression and in this case the press. There is a reason why vigilantes are not a good thing.
It is an embedded development board that used a dual core Cortex A9. If that doesn't help then you are lacking the basic knowledge to use this information. It maybe of no interest to you unless you are a developer that is into Linux, and the Cortex line of embedded devices.
Now the specs are are missing some info. They say it supports SPI,I2C, and several other ports but most of them are not shown being available on headers.
and it was unmanned. I will say that the ride down didn't look like a lot of fun. Well better than the alternative might be but...
Not likely, rate of climb drops a lot as altitude goes up. I am not sure that these engines are turbocharged but if not then the power really starts to drop as you go up as the air gets less dense. But that depends on what you mean by a lot. If you mean 6000 ft above sea level then maybe If you mean 10k I just don't think so. Oh AGL? That is all about safety not performance, above sea level is what really matters from a performance issue.
Really where is the metric whiners complaining about them using the term feet? Oh because it was a NZ newscast and a NZ citizen using them?
well the 64k limit was the segment issue but at a time when when a lot of computers came with 256 k it wasn't terrible. They soon fixed it. It was also the first IDE I remember. Before that people often used WordStar or if you had no other choice edlin. It was a real game changer at the time. The next big thing was the Database toolbox, Editor toolbox, and telcom tool box. I don't know how many vertical industries where built on those tool boxes.
And FreePascal as a replacement for TurboPascal
Turbo Pascal was actually a very good programing system. It had a huge libary of tools and and a big comunity. The early version where also dirt cheap. At a time when a Basic compiler cost $500 you could buy TuboPascal for well under $100.
This was before GCC and the internet.
Thing is that if you miss TurboPascal just get FreePascal.
The C64 was just plain fun. It was also a great place for an "educated" amateur to shine. The local BBS was getting slow when people where logging on. It also was going to run out of space for new users. I suggested to the hacker group that ran it to move to relative files and a hash table in place of the seq file they where using. I got a lot of credit for being brillant when I showed them how to do a simple hash.
And yet it is creepy as hell
sigh....
The chain reaction will stop as soon as the rods are dropped. There is left over heat from decay product that is that must be removed by the coolant or else the core can get hot enough to melt. I keep hearing people talk about the reaction going on after that but the fuel in a standard reactor requires a moderator like water for the reaction to continue even without the control rods. Now this does not apply for graphite moderated reactors like the one at Chernobyl but a modern western power plant reactor with no coolant will not support a chain reaction. The coolant is also the moderator so you can not the imaginary runaway blob of radio active death that is so popular in the media.
Did you not bother to listen to CNN, read a newspaper, or pay attention to any of the other news sources when this was happening?
This is so sad. No rocket, no mission, and they point out how many different states are building it. Space welfare no more and no less.