they probably could with a decent budget, but the military is more important in USA
Of course, back in NASA's glory days, every manned mission was launched on a military missile (Redstone, Atlas, Titan II) or on a rocket initiated by the military (Saturn). Even the space shuttle project was designed mainly around the requirements of the Air Force.
NASA's current problem is that the shuttle turned out to be too expensive and risky even for the military to use.
NASA on a crap budget backed by Bushes rhetoric will never achieve it
NASA has never had the budget to develop major space systems independent of the military. If they want to do any more groundbreaking work, first they'll have to figure out how to align it with military goals, and then figure out how to market it to once again fool the public into thinking that it's all just being done for the science.
Some selection for traits can also be observed in areas where people "trophy hunt", selecting deer to kill based on the size of the antlers instead of taking at random for food.
Also, it appears that in the areas where deer are mainly hunted for food, the proportion of meatless deer has started to increase.
I'm sick of the media's sloppy reporting of statistics. Things like "56.2% of developers do blah blah blah".
Look, there's no reason to be so fuzzy with the numbers. This survey received exactly 5830 responses, and of those, exactly 3278 developers said that they use OSS. That means that precisely 56.2264150943396226415(0943396226415)... percent of all developers use OSS.
This is a rational number, people; it sure as hell ain't pi. There's no reason to get lazy and muddy the waters with approximations.
...oops, I should have used the combustion energy of H2+O2 for human energy production (~13 kJ/kg). That would make human water vapor production even lower; about 1/6000 of natural evaporation.
Water vapor, good old H2O is also a powerful greenhouse gas.
Before you make statements like that, you should consider how much water vapor is generated naturally on this planet. If we assume that on average 500cm of rain falls annually all over the earth, then 500l/m^2 of water must have been evaporated, mostly by solar energy. At 2260kJ/kg, that comes out to 5.8e23 joules of solar energy that goes into evaporating water annually. Since the human race currently uses only about 5e20 joules of energy per year, converting to all hydrogen would only create an extra amount of water vapor equal to about 1/1000 of the natural production.
Moreover, unlike CO2, water vapor easily condenses out of the atmosphere, and any problem goes away within a few days. It doesn't just keep building up.
Why would AMD expect its competitor, Intel, to write software that supports AMD's own products?
As others have pointed out, Intel allegedly went out of their way to secretly hobble code on AMD CPUs. Normally, there would be nothing wrong with pulling a dirty trick like this.
However, this is an *anti trust* case. If you are hold a monopoly position in a market, you are prohibited from taking advantage of that position in various ways, and that may very well include this particular dirty trick.
As in recent years the Itanium does well, easily beating x86 processors even at its low clockspeed (1.4Ghz)
Itaniums also have up to 9 Megabytes of cache. And they come with super heavy-duty FPU units. It's unfortunate that we can't directly compare the core architecture of the Itanium vs. the core architecure of the x86 without influence of the extra cache and FPU resources that the Itanium target market supports.
If somebody would build an x86 with that much cache, and increase the proportion of transistors in the x86 FPUs to match the Itanium's target market, then we could compare the relative benefits of x86 core vs. EPIC core. Until then, when you compare the two processors, you're most likely looking at differences in the logic units outside the core, which are determined by target market price/performance tradeoffs and which are largely independent of the core architecture.
Intel was working on 64 bit chips when AMD's main product was making pentium 1 clones.
Unfortunately for Intel, multi-year schedule slips and disappointing real-world performance results make that irrelevant. Starting earlier to develop something doesn't matter if the results of your efforts turn out to suck.
Pervasive low-level performance-critical libraries like zlib will be the last thing (other than the kernel) that Microsoft ports to managed code. They'll probably continue use a C implementation of zlib and similar libraries for many years to come, if not indefinitely.
Nor does it have anything to do with copyrights. The books haven't been released, and the physical copies remain under control of the publisher (either because the publisher still owns them, or because they've made the new owners sign actual binding paper contracts that specify that the books will not be released).
This is simple handling of physical property. That property may have information encoded on it, but that information is being kept as a plain old-fashioned secret. Since nobody in the general public has a copy, the book simply doesn't exist as general knowledge until the ship date.
This is not like copyright issues, where the government steps in after you've bought something to tell you what you can and can't do with it.
You can stop foaming at the mouth now. I was just pointing out how hypocritical it would be for this administration to be "encouraging" other countries to improve energy efficiency when it refuses to consider even the simplest steps that can be taken here at home.
Haha -- that's a good one. I bet they're going to tell other countries that they need to legislate increases in average fuel economy standards and eliminate tax deductions for large SUVs.
Anybody who has seen Marooned knows that all they have to do is wait for the moment that the eye of the hurricane passes over the launch pad, and everything will be be A-OK for liftoff. No big deal.
... all that happened was that I saw a list of about 30 old/. articles about web browsers. It didn't seem like such a big deal. Am I missing something?
If they have compared our closed source AIX with their Unix, why do they claim they couldn't compare open source Linux with their Unix without our AIX source code?
"Your Honor, it's because we've spent the last two years getting our lawyers up to speed on Bitkeeper, but now Linus has yanked the rug out from under us. Now we're going to have to train them on this 'Git', which is completely different RCS system. I'm afraid we're back at square one, and to get out of this jam we're going to need IBM to send us the complete source code history of OS/2 as well."
I've actually driven a model A, and I don't think that it could really get up to 50mph. Which is a good thing, because the non-hydraulic main brakes seemed to have less stopping power than the parking brakes on most modern cars.
Over 100 of those was due to a single incident in 1960 which was actually an ICBM test, not a general-purpose space mission. Under extreme pressure from the top government ranks to keep the cold war test on schedule, safety regulations were ignored while frantic launch preparations were made on a fully fueled missile. Somebody accidentally made an electrical connection that ignited the second stage, which engulfed the ground crew in fire.
That singular incident really doesn't have much to do with the current statistical safety of manned space flight.
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Of course, back in NASA's glory days, every manned mission was launched on a military missile (Redstone, Atlas, Titan II) or on a rocket initiated by the military (Saturn). Even the space shuttle project was designed mainly around the requirements of the Air Force.
NASA's current problem is that the shuttle turned out to be too expensive and risky even for the military to use.
NASA on a crap budget backed by Bushes rhetoric will never achieve it
NASA has never had the budget to develop major space systems independent of the military. If they want to do any more groundbreaking work, first they'll have to figure out how to align it with military goals, and then figure out how to market it to once again fool the public into thinking that it's all just being done for the science.
I'd have to pick the Taurus regardless of the revision. I just never liked driving a .
That's useless. All I have to do is give you a light karate chop to the shoulder, and you'll drop the phaser and fall to the floor unconscious.
Also, it appears that in the areas where deer are mainly hunted for food, the proportion of meatless deer has started to increase.
Look, there's no reason to be so fuzzy with the numbers. This survey received exactly 5830 responses, and of those, exactly 3278 developers said that they use OSS. That means that precisely 56.2264150943396226415(0943396226415)... percent of all developers use OSS.
This is a rational number, people; it sure as hell ain't pi. There's no reason to get lazy and muddy the waters with approximations.
2005: "Longhorn will fix this."
2001: "XP will fix this"
1999: "Windows 2000 will fix this"
1996: "Mission accomplished! NT fixes this. We've got C2 certification!"
1994: "Windows NT will fix this"
...oops, I should have used the combustion energy of H2+O2 for human energy production (~13 kJ/kg). That would make human water vapor production even lower; about 1/6000 of natural evaporation.
Before you make statements like that, you should consider how much water vapor is generated naturally on this planet. If we assume that on average 500cm of rain falls annually all over the earth, then 500l/m^2 of water must have been evaporated, mostly by solar energy. At 2260kJ/kg, that comes out to 5.8e23 joules of solar energy that goes into evaporating water annually. Since the human race currently uses only about 5e20 joules of energy per year, converting to all hydrogen would only create an extra amount of water vapor equal to about 1/1000 of the natural production.
Moreover, unlike CO2, water vapor easily condenses out of the atmosphere, and any problem goes away within a few days. It doesn't just keep building up.
As others have pointed out, Intel allegedly went out of their way to secretly hobble code on AMD CPUs. Normally, there would be nothing wrong with pulling a dirty trick like this.
However, this is an *anti trust* case. If you are hold a monopoly position in a market, you are prohibited from taking advantage of that position in various ways, and that may very well include this particular dirty trick.
Itaniums also have up to 9 Megabytes of cache. And they come with super heavy-duty FPU units. It's unfortunate that we can't directly compare the core architecture of the Itanium vs. the core architecure of the x86 without influence of the extra cache and FPU resources that the Itanium target market supports.
If somebody would build an x86 with that much cache, and increase the proportion of transistors in the x86 FPUs to match the Itanium's target market, then we could compare the relative benefits of x86 core vs. EPIC core. Until then, when you compare the two processors, you're most likely looking at differences in the logic units outside the core, which are determined by target market price/performance tradeoffs and which are largely independent of the core architecture.
Unfortunately for Intel, multi-year schedule slips and disappointing real-world performance results make that irrelevant. Starting earlier to develop something doesn't matter if the results of your efforts turn out to suck.
Pervasive low-level performance-critical libraries like zlib will be the last thing (other than the kernel) that Microsoft ports to managed code. They'll probably continue use a C implementation of zlib and similar libraries for many years to come, if not indefinitely.
Nor does it have anything to do with copyrights. The books haven't been released, and the physical copies remain under control of the publisher (either because the publisher still owns them, or because they've made the new owners sign actual binding paper contracts that specify that the books will not be released).
This is simple handling of physical property. That property may have information encoded on it, but that information is being kept as a plain old-fashioned secret. Since nobody in the general public has a copy, the book simply doesn't exist as general knowledge until the ship date.
This is not like copyright issues, where the government steps in after you've bought something to tell you what you can and can't do with it.
You can stop foaming at the mouth now. I was just pointing out how hypocritical it would be for this administration to be "encouraging" other countries to improve energy efficiency when it refuses to consider even the simplest steps that can be taken here at home.
Haha -- that's a good one. I bet they're going to tell other countries that they need to legislate increases in average fuel economy standards and eliminate tax deductions for large SUVs.
Anybody who has seen Marooned knows that all they have to do is wait for the moment that the eye of the hurricane passes over the launch pad, and everything will be be A-OK for liftoff. No big deal.
... all that happened was that I saw a list of about 30 old /. articles about web browsers. It didn't seem like such a big deal. Am I missing something?
Of course "Etats-Unians" is just as unspecific as "American". There are dozens of countries around the world formed as a union of smaller territories.
4) You seem to have missed the joke.
"Your Honor, it's because we've spent the last two years getting our lawyers up to speed on Bitkeeper, but now Linus has yanked the rug out from under us. Now we're going to have to train them on this 'Git', which is completely different RCS system. I'm afraid we're back at square one, and to get out of this jam we're going to need IBM to send us the complete source code history of OS/2 as well."
Unfortunately, most software on the market seems to have been written by the "Dogs Playing Poker" programmers.
However, a 2mg mosquito impacting at 23000 mph would have ~250 joules of energy, which is comparable to that of some handgun bullets.
I've actually driven a model A, and I don't think that it could really get up to 50mph. Which is a good thing, because the non-hydraulic main brakes seemed to have less stopping power than the parking brakes on most modern cars.
Over 100 of those was due to a single incident in 1960 which was actually an ICBM test, not a general-purpose space mission. Under extreme pressure from the top government ranks to keep the cold war test on schedule, safety regulations were ignored while frantic launch preparations were made on a fully fueled missile. Somebody accidentally made an electrical connection that ignited the second stage, which engulfed the ground crew in fire.
That singular incident really doesn't have much to do with the current statistical safety of manned space flight.
However, the wealthiest people tend to take steps to avoid having increases in their net worth categorized as "income".