If you find a cell phone even a prototype and put it up for sale on ebay that would be called theft! You would be looking at jail time for sure. Frankly it looks like Gizmodo bought a stolen prototype which also seems like a good way to get a visit from the men in blue...
Actually I would say the WebOS has a better UI than the iPhone. It handles multitasking much better the iPhone OS 4.0. Yes I have an iPod touch and my wife has a Palm Pre so I have used them both. I have an android phone and the UI on both the iPhone and the Pre blow it away for now but I don't have 2.1 yet.
That being said the iPhone is a very good phone. It has a top quality UI the only one close is the Pre. A really good SDK which the Pre lacked. And because of the good SDK a really good selection of Apps. Right now the iPhone has a very good balance of a great UI, a great SDK, and a great selection of applications. From a hardware point of view I would say that it's feature set is only just okay. The iPhone has a very good battery life. My android phone's sucks to be honest but my wife's Pre is pretty good. The lack of a microSD slot and remove able battery I find really annoying but they are not deal breakers. To be honest not many people will swap microsd cards and most iPhones have more built in storage than most people will add with a microSD card. I have a removable battery but it is such a PITA to swap it I do not bother with a spare. If you plan on keeping your phone for years then this is a big deal but for most people it really isn't. The camera on the iPhone is okay but it lacks a flash. And it doesn't us a standard USB cable but even that doesn't seem to bother most people Over all I think Apple is providing a very good combination of features. If they where on Sprint my wife and I would probably have picked them. For use Sprint's low cost data plan is the trump card. That and my wife really does love her Pre she has had it since launch and just loves it. That being said that when you look at the entire package of Usability, software support, and hardware features the iPhone over all is at the top. Only the Nexus One really matches up well and that is because the Better hardware and multi tasking sort of makes up for the better UI on the iPhone. When it comes to Apps I would say that Android has all the major app types covered and that the apps are of a very high quality. The only place the iPhone has a real lead is in games which does count for a lot.
SSDs will take over for "smaller" HDs first. A standard hard drive has a fixed low end price. It costs x to make any hard drive no matter how small the capacity. That is why an 80 gig hard drive is a rotten deal compared to say a 250 or 500. Not being an expert I would guess that is is somewhere around $40 dollars. Right now on newegg you can get an 80GB sata laptop drive for $40, and 120GB for $45, and a 250 for $47. It really doesn't make any sense to pick anything smaller than a $250 from the end users point of view but if you are selling to a price for say a netbook and your price point is $299 then the difference can matter. But if you can get a 40GB SSD for $30 or 120 $40 then it makes sense. The minimum price for an SSD is lower than for a flash drive. I think you will see SSDs sell big in the very fast segment and in the small segment first. A standard USB flash drive is nothing but a slow SSD.
If this wasn't intentional then someone is looking for a new job. And b. If you find a lost cell phone shouldn't you really try and return it? Since it is an iPhone one could probably take it to an Apple or AT&T store and they could read the sim and contact the owner. Just saying that finding a cell phone and then keeping it seems a lot like stealing to me.
I know this is off topic but there are a lot of idiots on bicycles that give bicyclists a bad rep. I used to ride a lot and have both a street and off road bike so I feel your pain but sometimes there are idiots that out there that cause big problems. A good example is one day my wife and I where driving to lunch and our bumper was in the cross walk. Not our tires mind you just a bit of the bumper. An idiot on a bicycle yelled at her and told my wife that the crosswalk as for him! The thing is that idiot was riding on the sidewalk on a rode with a BICYCLE LANE! I will not get into the group ride that decided that three abreast on a busy two lane road at 8:00 am on a workday was a good plan. I was terrified because I had a line of cars behind me. on coming traffic to the left and two bicyclists right in front of my car! If one had had a flat I would have had no choice but to hit them! The though of hitting a fellow rider makes me sick to my stomach but they literally hemmed me in. So yes we have to deal with idiot cage drivers and idiot riders making our life hard.
I believe.net give you the option to compile to native code. You don't need an API to do this you need and installer to do this. The problem with doing it with java is that you can dynamical load classes. You would pretty much have to include the JVM in to your compiled code or have it on the OS to handle that situation. You may get some benefit from storing the output of the JIT in some kind of cache on the OS or in the binary it's self. I wonder if Java is already doing that or not. Still isn't exactly the same thing as I was talking about. I am not sure that Java byte code is well suited to being compiled to most modern native ISAs. I believe it is a stack machine which is easy to write an interpreter for doesn't compile all that well to modern register heavy ISAs. The big problem with taking and existing ISA and cross compiling to a new ISA say X86 to ARM9 is that the X86 has already been though the optimizer. Depending on how much optimization was done at the code generation stage it could be very hard to generate optimized code for the ARM. That is why a "perfect" ISA would be the best solution. That perfect ISA would contain enough high level constructs that you could still preform really good code level optimization during the install phase. I do not know about.NET but my guess is that it may actually be close to that. I have hard that they are using it on Winmo7 so it must work well on both ARM and X86. So.NET might be a good solution for this if there are not nasty legal surprises in it.
Actually almost anyplace with a dam would probably be a good spot for a data center. Frankly putting them in the day it's self may be brilliant. 1. Lots of reliable power and no transmission loss. 2. Easy cooling. Tap the cold water going into the turbine for cooling and release it down stream. 3. Security. The dam probably is already a high security area so no extra would be needed.
Whine whine whine.... You not right to the apple phone of your dreams with all the apps of your dreams run by the company of your dreams. I don't like so I didn't get an iPhone. Actually I hate AT&T so I got and Android phone on sprint. You are not locked in to the iphone. Sell it on ebay and get an Android phone. What it may cost you money? Well yea but a smartphone for the most part is a luxury. This apps sure is. There is no restriction of your rights here. Not censorship or a threat to your freedoms. You just bought a bad product. Take the loss and move on.
It is total CRAPIIII We are going to study and decide what HLLV we will build for the NEXT FIVE YEARS!!!!!! AND THEN START BUILDING IT FOR SOME UNNAMED MISSION! Let's put this in perspective. 1960 The Saturn family was proposed. 1962 The go ahead for the Saturn V was given. 1967 First flight of the Saturn V HLLV! This was back when they used slide rules and paper to design rocket! Also this all started just 3 years after Sputnik. MORE PRESPECTIVE First Satellite 1957 Man walked on the moon 1969! From zero to the moon in just 12 years! Men on Mars by 2035! yea sure..... What these means is NO HLLV will be built. Yes the Ares I was a not what I would say is an elegant design. However the Ares V is a perfectly reasonable HLLV. There is no need to throw it away and start fresh with five years of studies. I bet we could have an Ares V on the pad in well under the five years Obama wants to spend doing studies! THIS IS THE WORST PLAN I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY FREAKING LIFE! I said it before and I will say it again. This sounds like something that Hogan would talk Col Clink into! REALLY WHAT THE HECK! It is over. The US is officially out of it. We are doomed. Just turn us in a giant theme park. We have no future just a past.
We all know that if tobacco was a new product that it would never make it to market today. "If I want to breathe cyanide, shouldn't that be up to me?" The old libertarian argument but irrelevant to this discussion. Should you be allowed to sell cyanide and a cyanide delivery system as an aid to help people stop smoking? And should there not be any tests, warning labels or regulations on the sales of it?
Right now these are unregulated devices so as I said I would like to see some safety testing on them before people can just sell them all over the place. This isn't a matter of what you are allowed to do. It is a matter of what you are allowed to sell to others. You want to make on of your own for your personal use in the privacy of your own home. Be my guest.
Oh yes I am aware of all that. The glide ratio of a 747 in a clean configuration I believe is around 15:1 So at 20,000 feet will glide roughly 60 miles. Actually a good bit less because you will need to set up your approach slow down, and drop flaps and gear to land. I am not sure what the best glide speed of a 747 but I would guess some where around 300 mph or more. So the pilots would have less than 10 minutes to find a safe land spot set up an approach and land. So unless the failure was right over an airport or a handy rock hard dry lake bead you are in a world of hurt. An Airbus did do it once. They where at high altitude and had a trained sailplane pilot as the captain who just happened to know of former Air force base and managed to get it on to the run way. It was still technically a crash since the nose wheel failed but no one was hurt. So I stand by my statment that it is just about the worst thing that could happen. Yes a massive structural failure of the lifting and or control surfaces are worse but at this point it is a case of splitting hairs.
I didn't but the Censorship line is what I am not fond of. Just like every store on the planet the have every right to pick and choose what they carry. The fact that Apple will not carry this cartoon app is nothing really shocking or any threat to anybodies freedom. It is also not censorship.
The iPhone isn't the only smartphone. It is now and always has been a walled garden. So this is a big woop. If you don't like the product then don't buy it. If enough people don't buy it then things may change. As someone else I am sure has said. Put the app on other smart phones and get on with your life. Yawn........
"Having all your engines fail isn't minor, but it isn't on the same scale as an actual crash."
The amount of shear luck involved not to mention skill on the part of the pilots is just over the top.
Having a 747 loose all power and not crash is just short of proof of divine intervention. Honestly that is probably the worst thing that could happen short of a crash and should be avoided at all costs.
"... and how exactly is a mature and financially stable company different from a mature and financially stable government?"
Well show me one and there may not be any!
Historically I have yet to see any nation that fits your description outside of a few in North Europe. But the big difference I see is that those governments have less interest in long term benefits. They have to look at there limited resources which belong to the people. After they take care of all the needs of the populous today they have two choices of what to do with the left over resources. They can spend them on research of give them back to the people to spend on luxury and entertainment. Most of the time luxury and entertainment seems to win out. See Norway and Sweden as examples of those. BTW very nice places to live I hear but not hot beads of basic research. Of course when that doesn't win out those nations tend to have some grand plan which often goes terribly astray and is a total disaster. Just a look at the UK in any of it flirtations with socialism will provide great examples of those. Or they are extremity dogmatic and repressive governments see eastern Europe and South America for examples of those.
So honestly they just don't seem to go together historically. In theory yes you are correct but I have yet to see any historical example of it in action.
Actually Nicotine is toxic. "The LD50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 40–60 mg (0.5-1.0 mg/kg) can be a lethal dosage for adult humans.[41][42] Nicotine therefore has a high toxicity in comparison to many other alkaloids such as cocaine, which has an LD50 of 95.1 mg/kg when administered to mice. It is impossible however to overdose on nicotine through smoking alone (though a person can overdose on nicotine through a combination of nicotine patches, nicotine gum, and/or tobacco smoking at the same time).[43][44] Spilling an extremely high concentration of nicotine onto the skin can result in intoxication or even death since nicotine readily passes into the bloodstream from dermal contact."
I do not know how these electric cigarettes work but is ti possible to over dose on them? What s safeguards do they have to prevent it. I just don't know but frankly right now they seem to be an unregulated untested medical device which doesn't seem to be all that good of an idea too me. Are they safer than real cigarettes? Again I don't know that let's face it that is a low bar to meet. I will give this a big. I don't know all the way around. Frankly I don't smoke and think of it as one God's little IQ tests. Sort of like riding a motorcycle with out a helmet, or nude base jumping in cactus country.
Not really but it is close. Java is interpreted or in all the modern systems they use what is called a just in time compiler. What the AS/400 does is different because instead of using a JIT you translate/compile during the "install" or what they call the initial program load. So you don't have a big penalty on start up but installs take a while.
I think that Apple is a little worried but mainly they want people to use the "advanced" features of the OS to make better applications. The problem with OS portable apps is that you must write for the lowest common denominator. It is even a problem when writing Windows apps. When you pick APIs you have to pick and choose based on what OSs you want your app to run on. Nobody right now is really willing to write code that will not run on XP because there are still new PCs being sold with XP. Also Windows users really expect code to work on all versions of Windows and have for a while.
Actually you could have XCode compile to some "perfect" ISA and then have the appstore and or Itunes compile the ISA into the correct ISA for the device. I have actually thought that this idea would be great for a Linux installer. Have very compiler create this universal binary and have it translate at install time. I believe IBM already does this with the what ever they call the System 38/AS400 mini computer.
"Also, no one in their right mind would ever use a CPU emulator on a mobile platform OS" Palm did for a long time... But anyway I agree this is just insane. Apple left the PPC camp a long time ago. Dual core? Maybe but it would be a duel core ARM. ARM is a good ISA with wide spread support. Not only that but GOOD GRIEF. Version 4 of the OS is running on the stinking 3GS now. I just don't see Apple wanting to support three ISAs with two differnt ISAs on mobile! So no I just don't see it.
Of course it is Jobs so I will not say it is impossible. Frankly I though that Apple going to Intel was dumbest thing I ever heard but I was proven wrong.
It is up to the consumer. It is super cheap to make a crappy car that is unsafe and pollutes. Enough people care about reliability and safety that they a. passed regulations and b. check on the reliability of the cars they buy. That is why Honda sells so many cars. Maybe it is time that people put value into items not made in these conditions. Maybe we should stop buying the cheapest of everything and start caring about "quality" again. Frankly I have found when I pay a little bit extra for things like tools, and jeans they last a lot longer than the cheap ones. They actually end up being cheaper over the long haul.
"Ethics? What is more ethical, moving your operation to the US/EU or taking away hundreds of thousands of jobs from those Chinese people" Yes. So my mouse may cost $15 instead of $12 and the profit margin is only 40% instead of 50%. China is keeping their currency artificially low so there exports and labor are cheaper than our exports and labor.
People aka customers can choose what they see value in. Some people see value in a brand name. Or nice design. It is just as reasonable for a person to see value in products made by employees that are treated the way they would like to be treated. It is a choice. As far as the iPad example you gave. They are selling hand over fist. I do not know what Apple's margin is on them but I bet it is pretty big. I also bet that they could make them in the us for not a lot more than they make them in China. I would love to see Apple which talks about how important ti is to control everything to actually start making their own products.
Not really. The trait that they lack is the one that makes children trust their parents and close family more than strangers. It is the lack of a basic skill in self preservation. Evolution is that we have gained the ability to learn that as we mature we can trust people that are different than us using judgment.
Think about it at the basic survival trait level I mean at the pure Darwin evolution point of view. Organisms that share the most genetic material with you have the greatest vested interest in your survival. The closer they are to you genetically the more you can trust them. Your parents and siblings are the most trust worthy, your grandparents next and so one and so on. They will also tend to look the most like you. The less someone looks like you the farther they are genetically the lest they can be trusted. Do not fall into thinking of individuals but in broad trends. A child that trusts every organisms the same and has no fear will probably not survive. In other words these kids lack any sense of self preservation.
Racism is when you allow this old survival trait to over rule rational thought. When we refuse to learn to trust someone different that is racism.
He is presenting this plan as his own but of course he has advisers but who? What are they qualifications. It is silly to assume that the quality of an unknown source is it not? As to your two year old source of problems.
"Both vehicles have a history of weight issues;" Every air and space craft does. Including the Apollo and LEM.
"Excessive vibration during launch threatens system design;" That was one of the reasons for flight testing.
" Uncertainty about how flight characteristics will be impacted by a fifth segment added to the Ares I launch vehicle;" Flight testing but it has been computer modeled. Uncertainty exists until testing in all things. Classic straw man as you like to say.
"Ares I upper stage essentially requires development of a new engine;" No it is a development of the J2 that was flown on the Saturn family as a second stage of the Ib and the 3rd stage of the V. Also a restartable cryogenic upper stage engine is a mature technology. The J2 from the Saturn line and the Centar that has been flying since the 60s and is still flying today are examples.
"No industry capability currently exists for producing the kind of heat shields that the Orion will need for protecting the crew exploration vehicle when it reenters Earth's atmosphere; " Because they have not built any for a while. Yea not exactly a problem. Did you expect to find on off the shelf heatshield?
"Existing test facilities are insufficient for testing Ares I's new engine, for replicating the engine's vibration and acoustic environment, and for testing the thermal protection system for the Orion vehicle." This is also an infrastructure problem. It will not go away
The last two must not be any problem at all because they will impact Obama's current plan as well. Also with Obama's current plan we will have to develop a service module that can remain in space in cold storage for x months and be 100% reliable if needed. Which also has never been done and we lack the facilities to test. And the Atlas V and or the Delta 4 have never been flown with a Orion like payload so there is uncertainty there. What hard data to you have that the problems have gotten worse? If you have it present it because that article's list was full of "unknowns" and which could maybe be a problem or not.
So far you have presented no hard data and no named experts that you may have advised President Obama and that article which is two years out of date and frankly a fluff piece.
So why is this a good plan? What do we gain? We save no money because NASA's budget is supposed to go up. We gain no capability that I see. And are there any new hard goals of more fluffy in the future stuff?
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If you find a cell phone even a prototype and put it up for sale on ebay that would be called theft!
You would be looking at jail time for sure.
Frankly it looks like Gizmodo bought a stolen prototype which also seems like a good way to get a visit from the men in blue...
Actually I would say the WebOS has a better UI than the iPhone. It handles multitasking much better the iPhone OS 4.0.
Yes I have an iPod touch and my wife has a Palm Pre so I have used them both.
I have an android phone and the UI on both the iPhone and the Pre blow it away for now but I don't have 2.1 yet.
That being said the iPhone is a very good phone.
It has a top quality UI the only one close is the Pre.
A really good SDK which the Pre lacked.
And because of the good SDK a really good selection of Apps.
Right now the iPhone has a very good balance of a great UI, a great SDK, and a great selection of applications.
From a hardware point of view I would say that it's feature set is only just okay.
The iPhone has a very good battery life. My android phone's sucks to be honest but my wife's Pre is pretty good.
The lack of a microSD slot and remove able battery I find really annoying but they are not deal breakers. To be honest not many people will swap microsd cards and most iPhones have more built in storage than most people will add with a microSD card.
I have a removable battery but it is such a PITA to swap it I do not bother with a spare. If you plan on keeping your phone for years then this is a big deal but for most people it really isn't.
The camera on the iPhone is okay but it lacks a flash.
And it doesn't us a standard USB cable but even that doesn't seem to bother most people
Over all I think Apple is providing a very good combination of features.
If they where on Sprint my wife and I would probably have picked them. For use Sprint's low cost data plan is the trump card. That and my wife really does love her Pre she has had it since launch and just loves it.
That being said that when you look at the entire package of Usability, software support, and hardware features the iPhone over all is at the top. Only the Nexus One really matches up well and that is because the Better hardware and multi tasking sort of makes up for the better UI on the iPhone.
When it comes to Apps I would say that Android has all the major app types covered and that the apps are of a very high quality. The only place the iPhone has a real lead is in games which does count for a lot.
SSDs will take over for "smaller" HDs first.
A standard hard drive has a fixed low end price. It costs x to make any hard drive no matter how small the capacity. That is why an 80 gig hard drive is a rotten deal compared to say a 250 or 500. Not being an expert I would guess that is is somewhere around $40 dollars.
Right now on newegg you can get an 80GB sata laptop drive for $40, and 120GB for $45, and a 250 for $47.
It really doesn't make any sense to pick anything smaller than a $250 from the end users point of view but if you are selling to a price for say a netbook and your price point is $299 then the difference can matter.
But if you can get a 40GB SSD for $30 or 120 $40 then it makes sense.
The minimum price for an SSD is lower than for a flash drive.
I think you will see SSDs sell big in the very fast segment and in the small segment first. A standard USB flash drive is nothing but a slow SSD.
If this wasn't intentional then someone is looking for a new job.
And b.
If you find a lost cell phone shouldn't you really try and return it? Since it is an iPhone one could probably take it to an Apple or AT&T store and they could read the sim and contact the owner.
Just saying that finding a cell phone and then keeping it seems a lot like stealing to me.
Way not funny.
Yea I can see that now. "What where you doing on this date?" .....
I know this is off topic but there are a lot of idiots on bicycles that give bicyclists a bad rep.
I used to ride a lot and have both a street and off road bike so I feel your pain but sometimes there are idiots that out there that cause big problems.
A good example is one day my wife and I where driving to lunch and our bumper was in the cross walk. Not our tires mind you just a bit of the bumper. An idiot on a bicycle yelled at her and told my wife that the crosswalk as for him!
The thing is that idiot was riding on the sidewalk on a rode with a BICYCLE LANE!
I will not get into the group ride that decided that three abreast on a busy two lane road at 8:00 am on a workday was a good plan.
I was terrified because I had a line of cars behind me. on coming traffic to the left and two bicyclists right in front of my car! If one had had a flat I would have had no choice but to hit them! The though of hitting a fellow rider makes me sick to my stomach but they literally hemmed me in.
So yes we have to deal with idiot cage drivers and idiot riders making our life hard.
I believe .net give you the option to compile to native code. .NET but my guess is that it may actually be close to that. I have hard that they are using it on Winmo7 so it must work well on both ARM and X86. .NET might be a good solution for this if there are not nasty legal surprises in it.
You don't need an API to do this you need and installer to do this. The problem with doing it with java is that you can dynamical load classes. You would pretty much have to include the JVM in to your compiled code or have it on the OS to handle that situation. You may get some benefit from storing the output of the JIT in some kind of cache on the OS or in the binary it's self. I wonder if Java is already doing that or not.
Still isn't exactly the same thing as I was talking about. I am not sure that Java byte code is well suited to being compiled to most modern native ISAs. I believe it is a stack machine which is easy to write an interpreter for doesn't compile all that well to modern register heavy ISAs.
The big problem with taking and existing ISA and cross compiling to a new ISA say X86 to ARM9 is that the X86 has already been though the optimizer. Depending on how much optimization was done at the code generation stage it could be very hard to generate optimized code for the ARM.
That is why a "perfect" ISA would be the best solution. That perfect ISA would contain enough high level constructs that you could still preform really good code level optimization during the install phase.
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Actually almost anyplace with a dam would probably be a good spot for a data center. Frankly putting them in the day it's self may be brilliant.
1. Lots of reliable power and no transmission loss.
2. Easy cooling. Tap the cold water going into the turbine for cooling and release it down stream.
3. Security. The dam probably is already a high security area so no extra would be needed.
Whine whine whine....
You not right to the apple phone of your dreams with all the apps of your dreams run by the company of your dreams.
I don't like so I didn't get an iPhone. Actually I hate AT&T so I got and Android phone on sprint.
You are not locked in to the iphone. Sell it on ebay and get an Android phone. What it may cost you money? Well yea but a smartphone for the most part is a luxury. This apps sure is.
There is no restriction of your rights here. Not censorship or a threat to your freedoms. You just bought a bad product.
Take the loss and move on.
It is total CRAPIIII
We are going to study and decide what HLLV we will build for the NEXT FIVE YEARS!!!!!! AND THEN START BUILDING IT FOR SOME UNNAMED MISSION!
Let's put this in perspective.
1960 The Saturn family was proposed.
1962 The go ahead for the Saturn V was given.
1967 First flight of the Saturn V HLLV!
This was back when they used slide rules and paper to design rocket! Also this all started just 3 years after Sputnik.
MORE PRESPECTIVE
First Satellite 1957
Man walked on the moon 1969!
From zero to the moon in just 12 years!
Men on Mars by 2035! yea sure.....
What these means is NO HLLV will be built.
Yes the Ares I was a not what I would say is an elegant design.
However the Ares V is a perfectly reasonable HLLV. There is no need to throw it away and start fresh with five years of studies. I bet we could have an Ares V on the pad in well under the five years Obama wants to spend doing studies!
THIS IS THE WORST PLAN I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY FREAKING LIFE!
I said it before and I will say it again. This sounds like something that Hogan would talk Col Clink into!
REALLY WHAT THE HECK!
It is over. The US is officially out of it. We are doomed. Just turn us in a giant theme park. We have no future just a past.
We all know that if tobacco was a new product that it would never make it to market today.
"If I want to breathe cyanide, shouldn't that be up to me?"
The old libertarian argument but irrelevant to this discussion.
Should you be allowed to sell cyanide and a cyanide delivery system as an aid to help people stop smoking? And should there not be any tests, warning labels or regulations on the sales of it?
Right now these are unregulated devices so as I said I would like to see some safety testing on them before people can just sell them all over the place.
This isn't a matter of what you are allowed to do. It is a matter of what you are allowed to sell to others.
You want to make on of your own for your personal use in the privacy of your own home. Be my guest.
Oh yes I am aware of all that. The glide ratio of a 747 in a clean configuration I believe is around 15:1 So at 20,000 feet will glide roughly 60 miles.
Actually a good bit less because you will need to set up your approach slow down, and drop flaps and gear to land.
I am not sure what the best glide speed of a 747 but I would guess some where around 300 mph or more.
So the pilots would have less than 10 minutes to find a safe land spot set up an approach and land.
So unless the failure was right over an airport or a handy rock hard dry lake bead you are in a world of hurt. An Airbus did do it once. They where at high altitude and had a trained sailplane pilot as the captain who just happened to know of former Air force base and managed to get it on to the run way. It was still technically a crash since the nose wheel failed but no one was hurt.
So I stand by my statment that it is just about the worst thing that could happen. Yes a massive structural failure of the lifting and or control surfaces are worse but at this point it is a case of splitting hairs.
I didn't but the Censorship line is what I am not fond of. Just like every store on the planet the have every right to pick and choose what they carry. The fact that Apple will not carry this cartoon app is nothing really shocking or any threat to anybodies freedom. It is also not censorship.
The iPhone isn't the only smartphone. It is now and always has been a walled garden. So this is a big woop.
If you don't like the product then don't buy it. If enough people don't buy it then things may change.
As someone else I am sure has said.
Put the app on other smart phones and get on with your life.
Yawn........
"Having all your engines fail isn't minor, but it isn't on the same scale as an actual crash."
The amount of shear luck involved not to mention skill on the part of the pilots is just over the top.
Having a 747 loose all power and not crash is just short of proof of divine intervention.
Honestly that is probably the worst thing that could happen short of a crash and should be avoided at all costs.
"... and how exactly is a mature and financially stable company different from a mature and financially stable government?"
Well show me one and there may not be any!
Historically I have yet to see any nation that fits your description outside of a few in North Europe.
But the big difference I see is that those governments have less interest in long term benefits.
They have to look at there limited resources which belong to the people. After they take care of all the needs of the populous today they have two choices of what to do with the left over resources. They can spend them on research of give them back to the people to spend on luxury and entertainment. Most of the time luxury and entertainment seems to win out. See Norway and Sweden as examples of those. BTW very nice places to live I hear but not hot beads of basic research.
Of course when that doesn't win out those nations tend to have some grand plan which often goes terribly astray and is a total disaster. Just a look at the UK in any of it flirtations with socialism will provide great examples of those. Or they are extremity dogmatic and repressive governments see eastern Europe and South America for examples of those.
So honestly they just don't seem to go together historically. In theory yes you are correct but I have yet to see any historical example of it in action.
Actually Nicotine is toxic.
"The LD50 of nicotine is 50 mg/kg for rats and 3 mg/kg for mice. 40–60 mg (0.5-1.0 mg/kg) can be a lethal dosage for adult humans.[41][42] Nicotine therefore has a high toxicity in comparison to many other alkaloids such as cocaine, which has an LD50 of 95.1 mg/kg when administered to mice. It is impossible however to overdose on nicotine through smoking alone (though a person can overdose on nicotine through a combination of nicotine patches, nicotine gum, and/or tobacco smoking at the same time).[43][44] Spilling an extremely high concentration of nicotine onto the skin can result in intoxication or even death since nicotine readily passes into the bloodstream from dermal contact."
I do not know how these electric cigarettes work but is ti possible to over dose on them? What s safeguards do they have to prevent it. I just don't know but frankly right now they seem to be an unregulated untested medical device which doesn't seem to be all that good of an idea too me.
Are they safer than real cigarettes? Again I don't know that let's face it that is a low bar to meet.
I will give this a big. I don't know all the way around. Frankly I don't smoke and think of it as one God's little IQ tests. Sort of like riding a motorcycle with out a helmet, or nude base jumping in cactus country.
Not really but it is close.
Java is interpreted or in all the modern systems they use what is called a just in time compiler.
What the AS/400 does is different because instead of using a JIT you translate/compile during the "install" or what they call the initial program load.
So you don't have a big penalty on start up but installs take a while.
I think that Apple is a little worried but mainly they want people to use the "advanced" features of the OS to make better applications.
The problem with OS portable apps is that you must write for the lowest common denominator.
It is even a problem when writing Windows apps. When you pick APIs you have to pick and choose based on what OSs you want your app to run on. Nobody right now is really willing to write code that will not run on XP because there are still new PCs being sold with XP.
Also Windows users really expect code to work on all versions of Windows and have for a while.
Actually you could have XCode compile to some "perfect" ISA and then have the appstore and or Itunes compile the ISA into the correct ISA for the device.
I have actually thought that this idea would be great for a Linux installer. Have very compiler create this universal binary and have it translate at install time. I believe IBM already does this with the what ever they call the System 38/AS400 mini computer.
"Also, no one in their right mind would ever use a CPU emulator on a mobile platform OS" Palm did for a long time...
But anyway I agree this is just insane.
Apple left the PPC camp a long time ago. Dual core? Maybe but it would be a duel core ARM. ARM is a good ISA with wide spread support.
Not only that but GOOD GRIEF. Version 4 of the OS is running on the stinking 3GS now. I just don't see Apple wanting to support three ISAs with two differnt ISAs on mobile! So no I just don't see it.
Of course it is Jobs so I will not say it is impossible. Frankly I though that Apple going to Intel was dumbest thing I ever heard but I was proven wrong.
It is up to the consumer.
It is super cheap to make a crappy car that is unsafe and pollutes.
Enough people care about reliability and safety that they a. passed regulations and b. check on the reliability of the cars they buy.
That is why Honda sells so many cars.
Maybe it is time that people put value into items not made in these conditions. Maybe we should stop buying the cheapest of everything and start caring about "quality" again.
Frankly I have found when I pay a little bit extra for things like tools, and jeans they last a lot longer than the cheap ones. They actually end up being cheaper over the long haul.
"Ethics? What is more ethical, moving your operation to the US/EU or taking away hundreds of thousands of jobs from those Chinese people"
Yes.
So my mouse may cost $15 instead of $12 and the profit margin is only 40% instead of 50%.
China is keeping their currency artificially low so there exports and labor are cheaper than our exports and labor.
People aka customers can choose what they see value in. Some people see value in a brand name. Or nice design. It is just as reasonable for a person to see value in products made by employees that are treated the way they would like to be treated.
It is a choice.
As far as the iPad example you gave.
They are selling hand over fist. I do not know what Apple's margin is on them but I bet it is pretty big. I also bet that they could make them in the us for not a lot more than they make them in China. I would love to see Apple which talks about how important ti is to control everything to actually start making their own products.
Not really.
The trait that they lack is the one that makes children trust their parents and close family more than strangers. It is the lack of a basic skill in self preservation.
Evolution is that we have gained the ability to learn that as we mature we can trust people that are different than us using judgment.
Racial bias != racism.
Think about it at the basic survival trait level I mean at the pure Darwin evolution point of view.
Organisms that share the most genetic material with you have the greatest vested interest in your survival. The closer they are to you genetically the more you can trust them. Your parents and siblings are the most trust worthy, your grandparents next and so one and so on. They will also tend to look the most like you.
The less someone looks like you the farther they are genetically the lest they can be trusted.
Do not fall into thinking of individuals but in broad trends.
A child that trusts every organisms the same and has no fear will probably not survive.
In other words these kids lack any sense of self preservation.
Racism is when you allow this old survival trait to over rule rational thought. When we refuse to learn to trust someone different that is racism.
He is presenting this plan as his own but of course he has advisers but who? What are they qualifications. It is silly to assume that the quality of an unknown source is it not? As to your two year old source of problems.
"Both vehicles have a history of weight issues;"
Every air and space craft does. Including the Apollo and LEM.
"Excessive vibration during launch threatens system design;"
That was one of the reasons for flight testing.
" Uncertainty about how flight characteristics will be impacted by a fifth segment added to the Ares I launch vehicle;"
Flight testing but it has been computer modeled. Uncertainty exists until testing in all things. Classic straw man as you like to say.
"Ares I upper stage essentially requires development of a new engine;"
No it is a development of the J2 that was flown on the Saturn family as a second stage of the Ib and the 3rd stage of the V. Also a restartable cryogenic upper stage engine is a mature technology. The J2 from the Saturn line and the Centar that has been flying since the 60s and is still flying today are examples.
"No industry capability currently exists for producing the kind of heat shields that the Orion will need for protecting the crew exploration vehicle when it reenters Earth's atmosphere; "
Because they have not built any for a while. Yea not exactly a problem. Did you expect to find on off the shelf heatshield?
"Existing test facilities are insufficient for testing Ares I's new engine, for replicating the engine's vibration and acoustic environment, and for testing the thermal protection system for the Orion vehicle."
This is also an infrastructure problem. It will not go away
The last two must not be any problem at all because they will impact Obama's current plan as well.
Also with Obama's current plan we will have to develop a service module that can remain in space in cold storage for x months and be 100% reliable if needed. Which also has never been done and we lack the facilities to test.
And the Atlas V and or the Delta 4 have never been flown with a Orion like payload so there is uncertainty there.
What hard data to you have that the problems have gotten worse? If you have it present it because that article's list was full of "unknowns" and which could maybe be a problem or not.
So far you have presented no hard data and no named experts that you may have advised President Obama and that article which is two years out of date and frankly a fluff piece.
So why is this a good plan? What do we gain? We save no money because NASA's budget is supposed to go up. We gain no capability that I see. And are there any new hard goals of more fluffy in the future stuff?