If you can cut your payload in half, and in return cut your costs to launch that payload in half, you break even on your launches.
If you cut your payload in half to have recoverable rockets, but you cut the cost of the launch by 90%, you can launch five times as much to orbit for the same price.
a) it was a joke b) The original poster commented about suing them for the value of the debt, which suggests in pretty strong terms that he is, in fact, owing money and is, in fact, being called for legitimate reasons.
Exactly. Part of the point of the story was the fact that the situation around Jupiter led to some (tense, somewhat hostile) partnerships between the US and the USSR.
In the book there was a three-way cold war between USSR, China and the US.
I can't say anything about this company -- I know nothing about it and have never heard about it, but that isn't even remotely uncommon for a small company running dark with nothing to sell. I've done consulting with a number of companies that have gone a year or more like that before having any public visibility, particularly in the healthcare space.
I've seen that mentioned a few times... but if light travels less than C, then light would have to have a slight mass, which would mean the speed of a photon would vary by the energy it has.
The US is 14 trillion dollars in debt and growing.
Mars, the Moon and an asteroid mission will all never happen, until private industry sees a need for it... at least not by the US.
We only went to the moon as a political stunt, and an excuse for funding massive amounts of aerospace development during the cold war. That motivation does not exist now, nor does the will of the American people to pony up enough taxes to stop the bleeding and do things like that.
Its unfortunate, but NASA's just doing this to keep their jobs and relevance, and the various politicians supporting it are doing it for political reasons, largely the siphoning of tax money into their districts or the districts of those they owe favors to.
The point is to get the "zomg, Microsoft is blocking Linux with Windows 8!!!" shitstorm going again, because it got everyone in a tizzy a day or two ago, and tizzies generate clicks and clicks generate ad impressions.
For 99.99% of the population, having your computer alert you and not boot when infected with malware is not only good for the user, but for the entire ecosystem by reducing the risk of compromised systems being online.
If you want to boot something else, make sure you buy hardware that supports it. I, for one, am glad to hear that basic precautions like this are being put in place.
"A primer for Windows developers on Microsoft’s website states that distribution of traditional desktop applications will proceed as usual. “Open distribution: retail stores, web, private networks, individual sharing, and so on” will be allowed"....
This tidbit is NOT like how apple does things. The one thing i hate about Apples walled garden is that I have to pay $99 a year to test an app on an actual device that I OWN. I know Apple will say that they want their users to have a "good experience" or whatever but if i want to write an app that will heat up *my* phone so much that it makes the phone literally explode i should have every right to do so and if someone comes to me and wants to try an app that I wrote on his/her phone without getting a certificate key and wants to take the risk of his/her phone exploding in their hand then that is the risk that they should accept, understanding that kind of behavior isn't covered under his/her phones warranty.
Shhhhh this is a Microsoft rant article. Reason is not welcome here.
All you bleeding heart liberals are too stupid to realize there is nothing to differentiate this man from George W. Bush. And as for copyrights & patents....he is showing himself to be a pimp for corporation.
Against the people at every turn. We're not talking about legality. We're talking about the Constitution that says a fine cannot outweigh the crime. Right now, in our courts. Copyright violation is a greater crime than rape. Think about that before you reply...
Clearly thinking is a stretch for you, but consider this:
You don't pay a fine for rape, you go to jail. Obama is not a lawyer working for the executive branch.
You, however, are a moron, if the difference between what you posted, and the reality of the two points above, aren't understood by you.
2300 "commands" really means there are a few hundred objects with some number of operations you can take on them, and you do so by chaining them together like named pipes. Imagine, if you will, that every config file on your Unix system was an object that you could pipe commands in and out of. That's how you have to compare it to Unix.
So, in some ways its easier. Rather than having to do piping through grep/sed/whatever to switch some setting in a config file, you just call an operation on that object in PowerShell, then you can pipe that object to something else to do another action.
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Apple is a media company, first and foremost.
Microsoft is a software company, first and foremost.
IBM is a services company, first and foremost.
If you can cut your payload in half, and in return cut your costs to launch that payload in half, you break even on your launches.
If you cut your payload in half to have recoverable rockets, but you cut the cost of the launch by 90%, you can launch five times as much to orbit for the same price.
If there's one human being on this planet who can make that claim and have it mean something, its Elon Musk.
It didn't, but its sort of trendy to wax poetic about the Space Shuttle these days.
Settle down, Melvin.
a) it was a joke
b) The original poster commented about suing them for the value of the debt, which suggests in pretty strong terms that he is, in fact, owing money and is, in fact, being called for legitimate reasons.
Chinese take-out is an American invention.
Well, strictly speaking, they're spending the US's money, thanks to the massive trade imbalance.
So buy from China, at least your "tax" dollars are going to something worthwhile.
Exactly. Part of the point of the story was the fact that the situation around Jupiter led to some (tense, somewhat hostile) partnerships between the US and the USSR.
In the book there was a three-way cold war between USSR, China and the US.
You could try paying your bills.
I know, its un-American, but it does make them stop.
I can't say anything about this company -- I know nothing about it and have never heard about it, but that isn't even remotely uncommon for a small company running dark with nothing to sell. I've done consulting with a number of companies that have gone a year or more like that before having any public visibility, particularly in the healthcare space.
At what point does a sheet turn into a block?
At first the bartender told him he had to pay, but then said "I'm just meson with you".
I've seen that mentioned a few times ... but if light travels less than C, then light would have to have a slight mass, which would mean the speed of a photon would vary by the energy it has.
It doesn't.
The US is 14 trillion dollars in debt and growing.
Mars, the Moon and an asteroid mission will all never happen, until private industry sees a need for it... at least not by the US.
We only went to the moon as a political stunt, and an excuse for funding massive amounts of aerospace development during the cold war. That motivation does not exist now, nor does the will of the American people to pony up enough taxes to stop the bleeding and do things like that.
Its unfortunate, but NASA's just doing this to keep their jobs and relevance, and the various politicians supporting it are doing it for political reasons, largely the siphoning of tax money into their districts or the districts of those they owe favors to.
The point is to get the "zomg, Microsoft is blocking Linux with Windows 8!!!" shitstorm going again, because it got everyone in a tizzy a day or two ago, and tizzies generate clicks and clicks generate ad impressions.
You get what you pay for.
For 99.99% of the population, having your computer alert you and not boot when infected with malware is not only good for the user, but for the entire ecosystem by reducing the risk of compromised systems being online.
If you want to boot something else, make sure you buy hardware that supports it. I, for one, am glad to hear that basic precautions like this are being put in place.
"A primer for Windows developers on Microsoft’s website states that distribution of traditional desktop applications will proceed as usual. “Open distribution: retail stores, web, private networks, individual sharing, and so on” will be allowed"....
This tidbit is NOT like how apple does things. The one thing i hate about Apples walled garden is that I have to pay $99 a year to test an app on an actual device that I OWN. I know Apple will say that they want their users to have a "good experience" or whatever but if i want to write an app that will heat up *my* phone so much that it makes the phone literally explode i should have every right to do so and if someone comes to me and wants to try an app that I wrote on his/her phone without getting a certificate key and wants to take the risk of his/her phone exploding in their hand then that is the risk that they should accept, understanding that kind of behavior isn't covered under his/her phones warranty.
Shhhhh this is a Microsoft rant article. Reason is not welcome here.
Never taken even a single business class, have you?
But Obama is a f***kwad....
All you bleeding heart liberals are too stupid to realize there is nothing to differentiate this man from George W. Bush. And as for copyrights & patents....he is showing himself to be a pimp for corporation.
Against the people at every turn. We're not talking about legality. We're talking about the Constitution that says a fine cannot outweigh the crime. Right now, in our courts. Copyright violation is a greater crime than rape. Think about that before you reply...
Clearly thinking is a stretch for you, but consider this:
You don't pay a fine for rape, you go to jail.
Obama is not a lawyer working for the executive branch.
You, however, are a moron, if the difference between what you posted, and the reality of the two points above, aren't understood by you.
Civil cases aren't about illegal -- they're about stupid (paraphrased, but it gets the point across).
A public company exists for one reason -- to protect and increase the value of the company for its shareholders.
If HP's moves, for whatever reason, aren't in the best interest of the shareholders, then a lawsuit like this is perfectly valid.
x86 apps won't run on ARM. I wouldn't infer from that statement that .NET apps targeting "Any CPU" won't.
I would assume virtually all, if not all, Metro apps will run on both.
Hi, the 1990's have called and want their history book back.
Thats how PowerShell works, too...
2300 "commands" really means there are a few hundred objects with some number of operations you can take on them, and you do so by chaining them together like named pipes. Imagine, if you will, that every config file on your Unix system was an object that you could pipe commands in and out of. That's how you have to compare it to Unix.
So, in some ways its easier. Rather than having to do piping through grep/sed/whatever to switch some setting in a config file, you just call an operation on that object in PowerShell, then you can pipe that object to something else to do another action.