That doesn't change the facts - Apollo hardware production was capped in CY 65/66. (FY 66/67) Yes, they continued to pay for hardware already contracted for but once that was paid for... well, the results are obvious in the chart
And when you look into the 70's... you see the tail of the curve that starts in 67. But you don't quote that part because it just reinforces just how wrong your original claim is.
Oh ye of little faith. I realize we are decades off from this, but consider material mining and processing in space if you're only using the product in space.
Decades? Are you serious? Material mining and processing in space for use in space presumes the customers exist for the resultant product. The problem is, there's no rational scenario in which private industry spends the massive amounts of money needed to created those customers... let alone the money for the mining and processing infrastructure itself.
And the whole China thing -- wasn't really thinking they were a space racer, but they are competition in just about everything else.
You're right, China is in competition... but what you've missed is that other than India, pretty much nobody else is.
We may see this again with China, and redirect our public funds accordingly back to the space program.
At the current pace of China's space program, that'll happen at the earliest somewhere around 2090 or so when they catch up to where the rest of the planet is today. I.E. Your scenario isn't happening. The Red Scare isn't repeating itself. (Though an awful lot of people would like for it to - they love being afraid.)
Or it may be that private industry, not public industry, gets the backing of huge investors and the Industrial Revolution begins again, this time to construct space-based mining platforms.
There's no a mineral on Earth that, even if already processed into useable form and ready to shovel into a spacecraft's hatch, is worth mining in space. None. Zip. Nada. Even if transport was free, neither the technology nor the infrastructure exists. (And we're not even close - think "late 18th century" for where we are with regards to space mining.)
Like Neal in his essay, you're so far disconnected from the real world, you don't even realize the real world exists.
The space program was killed in the 70's because of the Vietnam war.
Wrong.
The manned space program was killed in 1965/66 when Congress capped hardware production. (Largely to pay for the Great Society.) Everything after that was running on momentum and fumes.
One thing that Apple does better than almost any other tech company is that they say No to most items that are not relevant to their goals. They do not load up their stores with extra padding items in order to try to sell a few more units, unless they think that it fits in with the use of their key products.
Or, in other words, they *do* load their store up with extra padding - except that it's Apple Approved iPadding.
Seriously, have you ever actually been in an Apple store? Three quarters of the SKU's in the store are fluff and third party accessories.
When you launch a new Mac, you are not hit over the head with loads of crap-ware which the system vendor managed to make an extra 30 bucks by hoisting upon you.
No, Apple just tacks the extra thirty bucks on directly and saves on the paperwork and accounting headaches.
I wonder where most of the technology is driven, by large scale commercial operations like Boeing etc, or the smaller scale university departments and independent efforts. Most of the new Dreamliner "concepts" like the composite materials are something sport gliders have been pioneering for decades.
You've forgotten (if you in fact knew) that composites have been used for missile motor cases (starting with the Polaris A-2), and for aircraft flight control surfaces and stabilizers, and other such applications for decades too. Then there's the F-117 (1981) and B-2 (1989) which both made extensive use of composites.
In my opinion, people who subscribe to the "I can fire anyone for any reason and treat them like slaves because they should be paying ME to work here" attitude are left with the people who can't get jobs with normal bosses. Most people don't want to work for an unpredictable tyrant. Demanding good work is one thing, but being unreasonable is another. He just probably figured that his employees are either kids or people who really can't get better work and thought "motivation" like this was appropriate.
The thing is - if you read TFA, he wasn't firing people for random reasons, or treating them like slaves, or... pretty much any other quality you ascribe to him. He was firing people for violating some pretty simple and basic work standards.
Yes, the "contest" was a dipshit move - but let's keep the karma whoring FUD to a minimum.
The Chinese seem willing to spend just enough money on space tech to impress the impressionable.
There, fixed that for you.
Seriously, most of the posters on Slashdot are worse than the worst Tea Partiers when it comes to exaggerating facts and events in order to work themselves up into a panic. The fact is, China has just enough of a space program to show the world that they are a Serious Nation and a World Player - and not a Yuan's worth more. They aren't going to the Moon anytime soon, and at their current pace they'll have a space station roughly matching the capabilities of the Soviet Alamaz (circa 1973) sometime in the 2020's.
When was the last time any of us totally created code?
Probably never - because the only way to totally create code is to directly generate machine code (not assembler) directly on the bare iron. Even at the assembler level, lat alone at higher levels, you're dependent on the guy who wrote the compiler.
It's that surprising? Most people's status updates alone would take up dozens of pages.
Precisely. The stuff folks want to hide (probable politics, sexuality, religion, financial status, etc...) can all fit on a single page. The rest is just the raw data. They're probably being scared by the word "compiled" and thinking there is much more than there is.
Anyways, my question is why is there such a media gap about this protest? Is it on purpose (tin foil hat), or is it just because it's vague and nobody really cares about it, so the media doesn't bother?
After years of coverage of anti-war protests, and nonsense like the hoodlums at the WTC conference in Seattle, and the nearly daily protest marches, candlelight vigils, etc., etc. for a thousand different causes.... 'Protesters' with a vague, confused, and inchoate agenda don't even make the needle twitch anymore.
And though I agree with their general ideas, there's no way in hell I want to be associated with them. Have you seen the "Occupy Wall Street" website? It makes me weep. A million dollar ad campaign by Madison Avenue's finest, or a billion dollar disinformation campaign by Langley's couldn't do a better job of making them look like hoodlums, loons and trolls. ("Gangsterism" and "Communiques"? Really guys, those tags are right out of Marxist Protest Manual v19.22 - which has long since been deprecated.) Though, to be fair, it seems to be doing a pretty good job of attracting the professional trolls (*cough*Micheal Moore*cough*).
They've also succeeded in capturing the attention of the 'internet rage' crowd, which (if I were organizing such a protest) should be about absolutely the last thing their leaders should want. Once you become an internet meme, the clock on your half-life is ticking... and it's ticking fast. Like the 'outrage' over the electoral irregularities in Iraq or over the false dawn of the Jasmine 'Revolution', you're an eight days wonder. In a week or two, you'll be "so like 30 seconds ago" as the 'net moves on to it's next ineffectual retweeting and forwarding.
Real change takes time, effort, and organization. (Ask the civil rights movement.) But these guys are from the MTV and internet generations - where style is more important than substance and attention spans are short.
The best gaming laptop will never be able to compete against an even modest desktop at a fraction of the price.
The fact that a gaming laptop even exists, when once it did not, should give you pause. The fact that tablets and smartphones, all-but-impossible not so many years ago, exist...
Tablets, while lightweight and simple, are essentially useless for anything but basic stuff because they're only a very small and weak computer.
Tell that to the mainframe guys. After all, desktops were once only "essentially useless for anything but basic stuff because they're only a very small and weak computer".
Seriously, technology advances. Nobody is going to stick with 2011 technology in their 2021 tablets. I wouldn't bet that in the long term tablets will remain a weak, niche machine. Desktops didn't. Laptops didn't.
Nowadays almost all camera batteries provided by (computer, camera, car, etc.) manufacturers are Li-Ion and almost all rechargeable AAs are traditional NiMH, so it sounds to me like you are comparing different chemistries and erroneously concluding that the result is due to the quality of the battery.
No, I'm pointing out that cheaper batteries use a different chemistry and hence behave differently. (Though not as clearly as I could have, granted.) If he's generalizing from consumer grade NiMH to the higher grade Li-Ion used in cars, he's leading himself into error.
To answer the original question: since EVs currently use Li-Ion batteries, expect them to discharge a few percent per month, which would add up to one full cycle every 3 years.
So, not only "not so much" in money, but "not so much" in the airport long term parking he was concerned about. (At least not per vehicle, though on a national level it could really add up.)
It does however make me wonder whether I will be able to play these games without a prescription?
You already can - there's at least one game for the DS3 that purports to exercise the brain. Not to mention that various puzzle books, etc... for "improving the brain and problem solving skills" have been around for decades. On top of that, and also for decades, you've been able to buy children's toys designed to emphasize learning motor skills or various cognitive skills.
All without the various over exaggerated effects you hype.
So the Food and Drug Administration is now taking its cues from the laughably named "Defense Department"
Nope. The FDA has been in the business of approving and regulating medical devices for nigh upon a century now.
Considering how much rechargeable batteries "leak" energy when they sit, does anyone take this into account when they're touting all these great energy savings that electric cars are supposed to provide?
Decent (I.E. not consumer grade) rechargeables hardly leak at all. The spare battery for my (semi-pro) camera sits for weeks without losing any noticeable charge at all. On the other hand, the (consumer grade) AA's I use for other purposes have a noticeably short shelf life.
Most of the time my car is just sitting around. But with a gas-powered car, it's not like I'm losing gallons of gas letting it sit for a few days (or even a week). With an electric car, even with one of the newest batteries, I would be losing power even if I'm not driving it, right?
Certainly you'll be losing power, the real question is "how much?". You're acting as if it's a significant amount, but not giving any numbers showing whether or not it is.
I think you've mistaken Ozzie and Harriet for a documentary - it's not. It's fiction. Seriously, as with so much else, there never was such a golden age except in rose tinted and selective memory.
Funny...I remember growing up exactly the way I described. Mom cooked...when I was old enough, I learned to cook and contributed to evening meals. And yes....BOTH of my parents worked.
Funny. That's not only not the world you described in your original post, it has nothing to do with that world.
This was basically how most all of my friends were raised.
You seem not to understand that you and your friends don't represent a significant number.
So, no, it isn't impossible.....it is quite simple to do.
Had I claimed it was impossible, you'd have a point. Since I didn't, you're just blowing more smoke. As to simplicity, the adult world always seems simple to children. Eventually you'll grow up and realize differently. (Hopefully.)
It is just too bad, that somewhere in the past couple generations, we've lost parents that actually care about what their kids eat....than actually had at least ONE parent that knew how to cook and prepare a nutritious meal, and knew the importance of that, and at least the insistence of at least sporadic family sit down meals.
I think you've mistaken Ozzie and Harriet for a documentary - it's not. It's fiction. Seriously, as with so much else, there never was such a golden age except in rose tinted and selective memory.
Confirmation of the results of an experiment by an independent party is standard practice in the scientific community. Without it, the findings wouldn't even be considered completely valid!
That's generally true - but there are exceptions. High energy particle physics particularly abounds with them, because the equipment is almost always unique and essentially impossible to duplicate.
That doesn't mean the results are going to be accepted uncritically though. There's going to be a ton of third parties examining the mathematics, the theories, the engineering of the equipment, etc... looking for potential holes.
To amass wealth, one actually has to save. When you save, your opportunities and possibilities expand as well as society being able to use your savings to make investments.
And then you run smack dab into the brick wall known as "the paradox of thrift". If everyone is saving, then nobody takes advantage of the increased investment capital available because nobody is buying and there will be little to no return on investment.
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That doesn't change the facts - Apollo hardware production was capped in CY 65/66. (FY 66/67) Yes, they continued to pay for hardware already contracted for but once that was paid for... well, the results are obvious in the chart
And when you look into the 70's... you see the tail of the curve that starts in 67. But you don't quote that part because it just reinforces just how wrong your original claim is.
Yes, he created the idea of the walled garden and the locked gate - and then he made it seem 'cool' to be locked in.
Decades? Are you serious? Material mining and processing in space for use in space presumes the customers exist for the resultant product. The problem is, there's no rational scenario in which private industry spends the massive amounts of money needed to created those customers... let alone the money for the mining and processing infrastructure itself.
You're right, China is in competition... but what you've missed is that other than India, pretty much nobody else is.
At the current pace of China's space program, that'll happen at the earliest somewhere around 2090 or so when they catch up to where the rest of the planet is today. I.E. Your scenario isn't happening. The Red Scare isn't repeating itself. (Though an awful lot of people would like for it to - they love being afraid.)
There's no a mineral on Earth that, even if already processed into useable form and ready to shovel into a spacecraft's hatch, is worth mining in space. None. Zip. Nada. Even if transport was free, neither the technology nor the infrastructure exists. (And we're not even close - think "late 18th century" for where we are with regards to space mining.)
Like Neal in his essay, you're so far disconnected from the real world, you don't even realize the real world exists.
Wrong.
The manned space program was killed in 1965/66 when Congress capped hardware production. (Largely to pay for the Great Society.) Everything after that was running on momentum and fumes.
Thanks for this... Even for the heavily tinfoil leaning Slashdot Demographic this was a spectacularly bad article.
Or, in other words, they *do* load their store up with extra padding - except that it's Apple Approved iPadding.
Seriously, have you ever actually been in an Apple store? Three quarters of the SKU's in the store are fluff and third party accessories.
No, Apple just tacks the extra thirty bucks on directly and saves on the paperwork and accounting headaches.
You've forgotten (if you in fact knew) that composites have been used for missile motor cases (starting with the Polaris A-2), and for aircraft flight control surfaces and stabilizers, and other such applications for decades too. Then there's the F-117 (1981) and B-2 (1989) which both made extensive use of composites.
The thing is - if you read TFA, he wasn't firing people for random reasons, or treating them like slaves, or... pretty much any other quality you ascribe to him. He was firing people for violating some pretty simple and basic work standards.
Yes, the "contest" was a dipshit move - but let's keep the karma whoring FUD to a minimum.
There, fixed that for you.
Seriously, most of the posters on Slashdot are worse than the worst Tea Partiers when it comes to exaggerating facts and events in order to work themselves up into a panic. The fact is, China has just enough of a space program to show the world that they are a Serious Nation and a World Player - and not a Yuan's worth more. They aren't going to the Moon anytime soon, and at their current pace they'll have a space station roughly matching the capabilities of the Soviet Alamaz (circa 1973) sometime in the 2020's.
Probably never - because the only way to totally create code is to directly generate machine code (not assembler) directly on the bare iron. Even at the assembler level, lat alone at higher levels, you're dependent on the guy who wrote the compiler.
Precisely. The stuff folks want to hide (probable politics, sexuality, religion, financial status, etc...) can all fit on a single page. The rest is just the raw data. They're probably being scared by the word "compiled" and thinking there is much more than there is.
In other words, their new "supercomputer" still brings less to the table than all but the smallest of BOINC projects.
You must be new around here - Slashdot has been home to activist social rantings since at least the late 90's.
After years of coverage of anti-war protests, and nonsense like the hoodlums at the WTC conference in Seattle, and the nearly daily protest marches, candlelight vigils, etc., etc. for a thousand different causes.... 'Protesters' with a vague, confused, and inchoate agenda don't even make the needle twitch anymore.
And though I agree with their general ideas, there's no way in hell I want to be associated with them. Have you seen the "Occupy Wall Street" website? It makes me weep. A million dollar ad campaign by Madison Avenue's finest, or a billion dollar disinformation campaign by Langley's couldn't do a better job of making them look like hoodlums, loons and trolls. ("Gangsterism" and "Communiques"? Really guys, those tags are right out of Marxist Protest Manual v19.22 - which has long since been deprecated.) Though, to be fair, it seems to be doing a pretty good job of attracting the professional trolls (*cough*Micheal Moore*cough*).
They've also succeeded in capturing the attention of the 'internet rage' crowd, which (if I were organizing such a protest) should be about absolutely the last thing their leaders should want. Once you become an internet meme, the clock on your half-life is ticking... and it's ticking fast. Like the 'outrage' over the electoral irregularities in Iraq or over the false dawn of the Jasmine 'Revolution', you're an eight days wonder. In a week or two, you'll be "so like 30 seconds ago" as the 'net moves on to it's next ineffectual retweeting and forwarding.
Real change takes time, effort, and organization. (Ask the civil rights movement.) But these guys are from the MTV and internet generations - where style is more important than substance and attention spans are short.
The fact that a gaming laptop even exists, when once it did not, should give you pause. The fact that tablets and smartphones, all-but-impossible not so many years ago, exist...
Tell that to the mainframe guys. After all, desktops were once only "essentially useless for anything but basic stuff because they're only a very small and weak computer".
Seriously, technology advances. Nobody is going to stick with 2011 technology in their 2021 tablets. I wouldn't bet that in the long term tablets will remain a weak, niche machine. Desktops didn't. Laptops didn't.
No, I'm pointing out that cheaper batteries use a different chemistry and hence behave differently. (Though not as clearly as I could have, granted.) If he's generalizing from consumer grade NiMH to the higher grade Li-Ion used in cars, he's leading himself into error.
So, not only "not so much" in money, but "not so much" in the airport long term parking he was concerned about. (At least not per vehicle, though on a national level it could really add up.)
You already can - there's at least one game for the DS3 that purports to exercise the brain. Not to mention that various puzzle books, etc... for "improving the brain and problem solving skills" have been around for decades. On top of that, and also for decades, you've been able to buy children's toys designed to emphasize learning motor skills or various cognitive skills.
All without the various over exaggerated effects you hype.
Nope. The FDA has been in the business of approving and regulating medical devices for nigh upon a century now.
Decent (I.E. not consumer grade) rechargeables hardly leak at all. The spare battery for my (semi-pro) camera sits for weeks without losing any noticeable charge at all. On the other hand, the (consumer grade) AA's I use for other purposes have a noticeably short shelf life.
Certainly you'll be losing power, the real question is "how much?". You're acting as if it's a significant amount, but not giving any numbers showing whether or not it is.
Funny. That's not only not the world you described in your original post, it has nothing to do with that world.
You seem not to understand that you and your friends don't represent a significant number.
Had I claimed it was impossible, you'd have a point. Since I didn't, you're just blowing more smoke. As to simplicity, the adult world always seems simple to children. Eventually you'll grow up and realize differently. (Hopefully.)
I think you've mistaken Ozzie and Harriet for a documentary - it's not. It's fiction. Seriously, as with so much else, there never was such a golden age except in rose tinted and selective memory.
That's generally true - but there are exceptions. High energy particle physics particularly abounds with them, because the equipment is almost always unique and essentially impossible to duplicate.
That doesn't mean the results are going to be accepted uncritically though. There's going to be a ton of third parties examining the mathematics, the theories, the engineering of the equipment, etc... looking for potential holes.
And then you run smack dab into the brick wall known as "the paradox of thrift". If everyone is saving, then nobody takes advantage of the increased investment capital available because nobody is buying and there will be little to no return on investment.
Decades of studying manned space programs.
And you think a Marine that's not fully physically cable isn't jeopardizing the lives of his squadmates in combat?