"An expensive plane that ended up with little real use." No it made an excellent long range strike aircraft and did very well in desert storm. The reason it was retired was that it was old and expensive to maintain and the USAF wanted more F-15Es. Which could dogfight.
A-29 Super Tucano is not a WWII Era plane! that headline is a flat out lie. Also the A-29 would beat a F-35 for COIN. It is useless for any other mission. Good GRIEF! The editors on Slashdot are now at the FOX News/MSNBC/Nation Enquire level!
I have heard it as pioneers get slaughtered settlers get rich. It is funny but people forget just how much things have changed and how expensive a lot of things were back then. Of course back in 1972 you may have gotten your tv for free, you didn't pay for internet, computers, smart phones, tablets, music subscriptions and so on. Over all I like today better than the good old days except that back then we could go to the moon.
Not at all. A plant that makes fuel from air will require employees and processes. A storage system like a battery would only require a few maintenance people and security. A plant that can only run 8 hours a day, when it is not raining, or when it is not cloudy. Will just not work. The idea of storing the power in batteries and then using it to make liquid fuel adds a conversion step and drops the efficiency and raises the cost even higher. Using a molten salt thorium reactor would be a lot cheaper and more efficient since you would have the option of both the electrical power and heat from the source.
For solar to be practical batteries need to become massively better and by that I mean cheaper. Solar cells also need to come down in price but not by as much as batteries need to improve.
Just sit down and do the math to provide a 12 hour backup of a small nuclear power plant in this case Vermont Yankee would take 920352 of the daily use 7kwh power walls! That is a smaller backup than needed for winter use. that comes to $2,761,056,751 and they will all need to be replaced at least once every 15 years if not more often. That is without the cost of the solar cells.
I am with rl117 on this. The fear of doxxing reminds me of the people that support the school and police arresting the kid with the clock. The author is complaining about harassment. It is annoying but does no real harm. Even harm to your reputation is probably very unlikely. It is a case of fear and paranoia.
The thing is just how many people praise doxxing when the victim is someone they do not like?
Actually this would work great with nuclear power and would end up being cheaper than using solar. People have to understand that the idea of "you make it when you have sunlight" thing does not work. For the employees it is "sorry but you do not work today or get paid because it is raining" just does not work. The big costs will be the plant and the people and to get your investment back you need to run the production all the time. A processing plant you can only run 8 hours a day on average is going to cost 3 times that of a plant that can run 24 hours a day.
AMD64 is not all that x86 like and that is the isa most people use today. The old 16 bit stuff is just a tiny bit of cruft for backwards compatibility.
"Why are we so slavishly stuck with x86?" Because it works. Because the x86 was picked for the PC and we have bought untold millions of PCs Intel has had untold billions of dollars to spend on making the x86 very fast and pretty power efficient. When the pc came out the 68000 was a much better cpu and an 8Mhz Z-80 was faster. ARM tends to win at the low end of the scale and the x86 at the higher end. I find it depressing but Intel has the advantage of huge scale and profits.
Actually they did but not the V-weapons. They had developed nerve agents but never used them. It seems that Hitler was not a fan of gas in combat. The Japanese did use gas in the war in China but the US warned them that if they used it on US troops then the US would retaliate.
Kind of a long shot worry. You are far more likely to have a member of the Russian mafia take your credit card number or get access to your bank account. Kind of like being afraid of flying so you just drive everywhere.
I find it amusing that people are worried that the NSA actually cares about what they do. It seems like a large amount of narcissism. The NSA does not care about you buying drugs or cheating on your wife. They don't even care if you are into letting Rupert Murdoch put you over his knee and spank you with a fish.
If you locate your server outside the US then the NSA is free to do anything they want. If you communicate with them they can tap that all legally. Frankly if you are worried about political speech then having the server in the US or if you are in the EU then having it in the same nation is probably the safest.
I posted the same thing on HAD. This all happened in 1946. While really interesting it is not accurate and I would have loved more details on the FERMIAC.
Actually I disagree. It is the moderate people that do make the needle move. The crackpots just get all the press. As much as I like FOSS it has not moved the needle much at all. Most people still use closed source software. Even browsers are moving back to closed source more and more.
I have to agree but it is hard at times "RMS: I have to exert all my self control to respond civilly after seeing the word "monetize". Implicit in that word is the idea that you want to turn everything into money. The only point in writing a program is to turn it into money. Feh!"
He seems to forget that people need to eat, pay mortgages, and also that they only have x amount of time. If you are going to spend 40 hours a week working on something you must be retired, rich, getting paid for it, or on vacation. RMS gets paid for being RMS. Good gig if you can get it.
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"An expensive plane that ended up with little real use."
No it made an excellent long range strike aircraft and did very well in desert storm. The reason it was retired was that it was old and expensive to maintain and the USAF wanted more F-15Es. Which could dogfight.
A-29 Super Tucano is not a WWII Era plane! that headline is a flat out lie.
Also the A-29 would beat a F-35 for COIN. It is useless for any other mission.
Good GRIEF! The editors on Slashdot are now at the FOX News/MSNBC/Nation Enquire level!
I have heard it as pioneers get slaughtered settlers get rich.
It is funny but people forget just how much things have changed and how expensive a lot of things were back then.
Of course back in 1972 you may have gotten your tv for free, you didn't pay for internet, computers, smart phones, tablets, music subscriptions and so on. Over all I like today better than the good old days except that back then we could go to the moon.
Not at all.
A plant that makes fuel from air will require employees and processes. A storage system like a battery would only require a few maintenance people and security. A plant that can only run 8 hours a day, when it is not raining, or when it is not cloudy. Will just not work. The idea of storing the power in batteries and then using it to make liquid fuel adds a conversion step and drops the efficiency and raises the cost even higher.
Using a molten salt thorium reactor would be a lot cheaper and more efficient since you would have the option of both the electrical power and heat from the source.
For solar to be practical batteries need to become massively better and by that I mean cheaper. Solar cells also need to come down in price but not by as much as batteries need to improve.
Just sit down and do the math to provide a 12 hour backup of a small nuclear power plant in this case Vermont Yankee would take 920352 of the daily use 7kwh power walls! That is a smaller backup than needed for winter use. that comes to $2,761,056,751 and they will all need to be replaced at least once every 15 years if not more often.
That is without the cost of the solar cells.
Yep but it will not be.
humm....
So like the kid that started and anti-swearing site that was Doxxed on 4Chan?
"The only answer that makes sense is that you were a raging asshole."
AKA takes a stand on a subject that someone else really disagrees with.
I am with rl117 on this. The fear of doxxing reminds me of the people that support the school and police arresting the kid with the clock. The author is complaining about harassment. It is annoying but does no real harm. Even harm to your reputation is probably very unlikely. It is a case of fear and paranoia.
The thing is just how many people praise doxxing when the victim is someone they do not like?
Actually this would work great with nuclear power and would end up being cheaper than using solar.
People have to understand that the idea of "you make it when you have sunlight" thing does not work. For the employees it is "sorry but you do not work today or get paid because it is raining" just does not work.
The big costs will be the plant and the people and to get your investment back you need to run the production all the time.
A processing plant you can only run 8 hours a day on average is going to cost 3 times that of a plant that can run 24 hours a day.
AMD64 is not all that x86 like and that is the isa most people use today. The old 16 bit stuff is just a tiny bit of cruft for backwards compatibility.
That is the common theory.
"Why are we so slavishly stuck with x86?"
Because it works.
Because the x86 was picked for the PC and we have bought untold millions of PCs Intel has had untold billions of dollars to spend on making the x86 very fast and pretty power efficient.
When the pc came out the 68000 was a much better cpu and an 8Mhz Z-80 was faster.
ARM tends to win at the low end of the scale and the x86 at the higher end.
I find it depressing but Intel has the advantage of huge scale and profits.
Actually they did but not the V-weapons. They had developed nerve agents but never used them. It seems that Hitler was not a fan of gas in combat. The Japanese did use gas in the war in China but the US warned them that if they used it on US troops then the US would retaliate.
School Committee?
This was more likely the teacher+administration+maybe the police.
True. I can say as a greybeard that the good old days sucked except for the manned space program. The 70s where terrible.
Kind of a long shot worry. You are far more likely to have a member of the Russian mafia take your credit card number or get access to your bank account. Kind of like being afraid of flying so you just drive everywhere.
I find it amusing that people are worried that the NSA actually cares about what they do. It seems like a large amount of narcissism. The NSA does not care about you buying drugs or cheating on your wife. They don't even care if you are into letting Rupert Murdoch put you over his knee and spank you with a fish.
True. The topic is actually off topic of the story. AKA click bait.
"That doesn't make what he said any less true."
Just off topic.
I find it interesting that everyone is so worried about the NSA but not the KGB/China. Do people really think that they care more about privacy?
If you locate your server outside the US then the NSA is free to do anything they want. If you communicate with them they can tap that all legally.
Frankly if you are worried about political speech then having the server in the US or if you are in the EU then having it in the same nation is probably the safest.
I posted the same thing on HAD. This all happened in 1946. While really interesting it is not accurate and I would have loved more details on the FERMIAC.
Actually I disagree. It is the moderate people that do make the needle move. The crackpots just get all the press. As much as I like FOSS it has not moved the needle much at all. Most people still use closed source software. Even browsers are moving back to closed source more and more.
Except Libre/Open Office was being paid for by Sun for the longest time and it is not as good as Word.
I have to agree but it is hard at times
"RMS: I have to exert all my self control to respond civilly after seeing the word "monetize". Implicit in that word is the idea that you want to turn everything into money. The only point in writing a program is to turn it into money. Feh!"
He seems to forget that people need to eat, pay mortgages, and also that they only have x amount of time.
If you are going to spend 40 hours a week working on something you must be retired, rich, getting paid for it, or on vacation.
RMS gets paid for being RMS. Good gig if you can get it.
Well what I remember is that they talked about how someday man would walk on the moon.