Why speculate on battery prices. Worst case you will be spending 20K after 5 years. It is should be acceptable risk for most people buying a Tesla. You still get to enjoy 5 years with an incredible vehicle.
In India, device & data are not linked. You buy device separately and data separately most of the time. Most of the users are on pre-paid plans. Whenever their plan expires, they recharge.
Starting cost for smart phones is around $50. You can get very decent devices for about $100. When you consider most people use it for Facebook, Whatsapp, YouTube, and basic games, the performance is more than sufficient.
Data plans are available for as low as 7 cents per day with a 1.5GB daily allowance. Yes, it is 1.5GB per day. You just recharge it once in three months for about $6. That is the rate on lowest cost network. It may raise to $7 or $8 per 3 months on other networks. You can also get 3 GB per day allowance for $5 per month.
No other country is going to come anywhere near these costs anytime soon.
Why should the content creators be solely responsible for such comments. Isn't Youtube jointly responsible? Will they refund the money charged to their advertisers?
If not, this is only a tactic to maximize their revenue, not for protecting children.
The "researcher" is trying to invent the problem where nothing exists. Most likely he has already written his paper before collecting data, and fit the data to suit his theory. He tactfully adds that problem is for "poor" people, so that anybody will think twice before rebutting his theory.
India is perfectly fine with a single time zone. Our east wakes up when the sun is coming up, around 4 AM. In the west they may normally go to bed couple of hours after sun goes down, regardless what the clock says. Our day light hours vary very little with season with maximum deviation of about 4 hours in northern latitudes. So India is much better placed with number of night hours than most of US.
The real problem is for the IT slaves working night shifts to cover US time zones, which no time zone tweaking is going to fix.
Indian classic music traditions use a similar 8-note, 12-chromatic note format as Western music. There are usage variations, but the mathematical fundamentals are same.
Yeah, let us now compare capabilities a 7 year old rocket/ship to another with over 50 years of history.
Soyuz can carry three astronauts at most to ISS, and is a single purpose ship. Crew Dragon can carry 7, and also some cargo making the transportation to station cheaper overall.
Humans can only depend on traffic signs on unfamiliar roads. But self-driving cars can access the road database and check the normal speed on that road, and may be able to guess possible issues with the street sign.
That is called business - where the buyer and seller both benefit. NASA got their cargo transportation much cheaper than what it would cost them otherwise, and SpaceX got a flight tested rocket, which can be used for other customers.
So which is better? Pushing an aggressive schedule to to launch, but getting delayed or having a well planned (aka leisurely) schedule and still getting delayed?
I second elementaryOS. It is very neat and clean UI and sensible defaults (most of the time). It is based on Ubuntu, so your have excellent package support. I have seen it working over 90% of the time with just default installation.
Some Linux veterans may feel a bit crippled since it has very limited customization options, but for newbies, and those who don't intend to fiddle with the system, but just use it, it is the best I have seen in a long time.
At the end of six years of free period, everything in Oregon government establishment, including simple websites will be using Oracle DB & systems, resulting in huge ongoing revenue for Oracle.
The reason is simpler, actually. The stage has significant horizontal velocity because it is coming back from too far away. There is a boost back burn right after MECO which reverses the direction the stage is going. It is not practical to move it horizontally at that speed while keeping it vertically straight (too much wind resistance can break the stage). So it has to lose both horizontal and vertical velocity at the exact moment of touch down, while straightening up at the same time. Straightening and stabilization of the rocket is done by a combination of reaction control thrusters, grid fins, and the landing burn of the central engine. The points you raise are also valid of course.
If you and I are given the same resources as Jobs, could we have created a Mac or iPhone? Jobs' greatness is not because he was a great inventor (though media simplifies it to that). But it is the ability to put all the resource available to him to realize a dream. I say this even though I am not a fan of Jobs or Apple. Quite the opposite.
Same applies to Musk. Of course he was utilizing government subsidy as much as possible for Solar City and Tesla. Of course Falcon 9 and Dragon received significant government funding. But most of his competitors have the same resources available to them to even larger extent. Why weren't they able to produce a product that is as successful? It is in the ability to dream, and put together what he has to realize it.
I have been a programmer for all of my career, and had management roles in the past 10 years to varying degrees. Over this period, I have also mentored other technical team members in transitioning to management roles. The toughest part of that process is in learning the ability to delegate. This is especially tough for talented programmers.
You often feel that it is easier for you to do a particular task yourself rather than delegating. It may be true that you might finish the work in tenth of the time it takes someone else to do, and you may be spending more time in explaining it to others. But at some point you have to stop doing it, start trusting others to deliver, and don't meddle with their work too often. Once you learn how to do it, you are well on your way to becoming a successful manager.
Get real man. Shuttle might have cost a bit higher due to politics, but it was never going to be cheap - just as SLS is not going to be cheap. Shuttle should have been abandoned at least in 1986 when they realised that they forgot to put a launch abort system on it.
Over its lifetime, it has cost $209B. That is over $1.5B for each flight.
Hmm... may be it will look cheaper by 2025 when you are spending over $10B on each launch of SLS (It is expected to cost $41B for 4 flights by that time). Hopefully someone would have mercy and kill it before then.
ISRO never called it a shuttle. It has always been refered to as technology demonstrator (RLV-TD). Current experiment is termed RLV-TD HEX (Hypersonic flight Experiment). The ultimate aim is to develop an RLV named Avatar, which was originally announced over 17 years ago.
This particluar test flight should not be compared to US space shuttle. Better comparison would be X-43A or X51-A Waverider. As these have defence applications, the projects had been running between NASA and DARPA. Similarly, India's Avatar programme has also been shuttling between ISRO and DRDO (Defence Research & Development Organization).
The main feature of Avatar concept is an air breathing Scramjet engine. So far there hasn't been any great success in developing Scramjet engine. The longest one fired for 15 seconds on second flight of X-51A, while its first flight didn't run scramjet. India is nowhere near developing Scramjet in immediate future. But the current flight will test some preliminary technologies related to that project, specifically hypersonic reentry. I don't think this particular vehicle has any propulsion. Even the next two experiments planned on the series (LEX and REX) are planned without any rocket propulsion, but will use turbofan engine for landing. Actual powered flight would be on the SPEX, which will use Scramjet (Source: http://isp.justthe80.com/launc...
Current test is a 100 crore INR (about 16 million USD) experiment. I am happy that ISRO is doing something to take this promising technology further. It may take another 20 years before actually seeing a scramjet engine in action, but that is ok. I would consider it as my tax money well spent.
Can we turn this around and say, "ability to think in multiple perspectives is important to successfully learn a new language"? There are many for whom learning a second langauge is very difficult while some others pickup a new one easily. Would this theory explain that problem?
Landing on a barge (or ASDS) would still be needed for deep space missions like DSCOVR which didn't have enough fuel left to boost back the stage towards launch pad. The center core of Falcon 9 Heavy wouldn't have enough fuel as well, and will most likely land on ASDS, while other two booster cores go back to landing pad.
SpaceX is in fact building a second ASDS which will be used for launches from Pacific coast.
There are plenty of products in the audiophile industry that can match or exceed this in craziness level. I wouldn't be surprised to see a glorifying review of this in a hi-fi magazine.
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I would have never believed I would say this 20 years back. That too on Slashdot. But,
Go Micro$oft!!!
Yes, exactly.
Why speculate on battery prices. Worst case you will be spending 20K after 5 years. It is should be acceptable risk for most people buying a Tesla. You still get to enjoy 5 years with an incredible vehicle.
In India, device & data are not linked. You buy device separately and data separately most of the time. Most of the users are on pre-paid plans. Whenever their plan expires, they recharge.
Starting cost for smart phones is around $50. You can get very decent devices for about $100. When you consider most people use it for Facebook, Whatsapp, YouTube, and basic games, the performance is more than sufficient.
Data plans are available for as low as 7 cents per day with a 1.5GB daily allowance. Yes, it is 1.5GB per day. You just recharge it once in three months for about $6. That is the rate on lowest cost network. It may raise to $7 or $8 per 3 months on other networks. You can also get 3 GB per day allowance for $5 per month.
No other country is going to come anywhere near these costs anytime soon.
Why should the content creators be solely responsible for such comments. Isn't Youtube jointly responsible? Will they refund the money charged to their advertisers?
If not, this is only a tactic to maximize their revenue, not for protecting children.
The "researcher" is trying to invent the problem where nothing exists. Most likely he has already written his paper before collecting data, and fit the data to suit his theory. He tactfully adds that problem is for "poor" people, so that anybody will think twice before rebutting his theory.
India is perfectly fine with a single time zone. Our east wakes up when the sun is coming up, around 4 AM. In the west they may normally go to bed couple of hours after sun goes down, regardless what the clock says. Our day light hours vary very little with season with maximum deviation of about 4 hours in northern latitudes. So India is much better placed with number of night hours than most of US.
The real problem is for the IT slaves working night shifts to cover US time zones, which no time zone tweaking is going to fix.
Indian classic music traditions use a similar 8-note, 12-chromatic note format as Western music. There are usage variations, but the mathematical fundamentals are same.
What is the schedule for shutting down FDL?
I would like a study on why the scientists spend time studying things that are obvious to nursery school teachers.
Yeah, let us now compare capabilities a 7 year old rocket/ship to another with over 50 years of history.
Soyuz can carry three astronauts at most to ISS, and is a single purpose ship. Crew Dragon can carry 7, and also some cargo making the transportation to station cheaper overall.
Humans can only depend on traffic signs on unfamiliar roads. But self-driving cars can access the road database and check the normal speed on that road, and may be able to guess possible issues with the street sign.
That is called business - where the buyer and seller both benefit. NASA got their cargo transportation much cheaper than what it would cost them otherwise, and SpaceX got a flight tested rocket, which can be used for other customers.
That is such an ancient and painful technology. Probably this measure will make it unusable and kill it. May be that is the idea.
In India, we bypassed the voice mail "revolution" altogether.
So which is better? Pushing an aggressive schedule to to launch, but getting delayed or having a well planned (aka leisurely) schedule and still getting delayed?
I second elementaryOS. It is very neat and clean UI and sensible defaults (most of the time). It is based on Ubuntu, so your have excellent package support. I have seen it working over 90% of the time with just default installation.
Some Linux veterans may feel a bit crippled since it has very limited customization options, but for newbies, and those who don't intend to fiddle with the system, but just use it, it is the best I have seen in a long time.
I don't know what the survey compared it to. But I did a quick test with the same result.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (a resized version was used)
Input Image: ../zayapa.jpg JPEG 1608x949 1608x949+0+0 8-bit sRGB 1.097MB 0.000u 0:00.000
Output Image: zayapa.jpg[1] JPEG 1608x949 1608x949+0+0 8-bit sRGB 641KB 0.000u 0:00.000
Only "gotcha" is:
$ time guetzli ../zayapa.jpg zayapa.jpg
real 5m39.725s
user 5m35.340s
sys 0m4.188s
It is a relatively low-end Pentium processor, but still over 5 minutes to compress a 1MB image is too high.
5) Export to other countries
6) More profit!!!
At the end of six years of free period, everything in Oregon government establishment, including simple websites will be using Oracle DB & systems, resulting in huge ongoing revenue for Oracle.
The reason is simpler, actually. The stage has significant horizontal velocity because it is coming back from too far away. There is a boost back burn right after MECO which reverses the direction the stage is going. It is not practical to move it horizontally at that speed while keeping it vertically straight (too much wind resistance can break the stage). So it has to lose both horizontal and vertical velocity at the exact moment of touch down, while straightening up at the same time. Straightening and stabilization of the rocket is done by a combination of reaction control thrusters, grid fins, and the landing burn of the central engine. The points you raise are also valid of course.
If you and I are given the same resources as Jobs, could we have created a Mac or iPhone? Jobs' greatness is not because he was a great inventor (though media simplifies it to that). But it is the ability to put all the resource available to him to realize a dream. I say this even though I am not a fan of Jobs or Apple. Quite the opposite.
Same applies to Musk. Of course he was utilizing government subsidy as much as possible for Solar City and Tesla. Of course Falcon 9 and Dragon received significant government funding. But most of his competitors have the same resources available to them to even larger extent. Why weren't they able to produce a product that is as successful? It is in the ability to dream, and put together what he has to realize it.
I have been a programmer for all of my career, and had management roles in the past 10 years to varying degrees. Over this period, I have also mentored other technical team members in transitioning to management roles. The toughest part of that process is in learning the ability to delegate. This is especially tough for talented programmers.
You often feel that it is easier for you to do a particular task yourself rather than delegating. It may be true that you might finish the work in tenth of the time it takes someone else to do, and you may be spending more time in explaining it to others. But at some point you have to stop doing it, start trusting others to deliver, and don't meddle with their work too often. Once you learn how to do it, you are well on your way to becoming a successful manager.
Get real man. Shuttle might have cost a bit higher due to politics, but it was never going to be cheap - just as SLS is not going to be cheap. Shuttle should have been abandoned at least in 1986 when they realised that they forgot to put a launch abort system on it.
Over its lifetime, it has cost $209B. That is over $1.5B for each flight.
Hmm... may be it will look cheaper by 2025 when you are spending over $10B on each launch of SLS (It is expected to cost $41B for 4 flights by that time). Hopefully someone would have mercy and kill it before then.
ISRO never called it a shuttle. It has always been refered to as technology demonstrator (RLV-TD). Current experiment is termed RLV-TD HEX (Hypersonic flight Experiment). The ultimate aim is to develop an RLV named Avatar, which was originally announced over 17 years ago.
This particluar test flight should not be compared to US space shuttle. Better comparison would be X-43A or X51-A Waverider. As these have defence applications, the projects had been running between NASA and DARPA. Similarly, India's Avatar programme has also been shuttling between ISRO and DRDO (Defence Research & Development Organization).
The main feature of Avatar concept is an air breathing Scramjet engine. So far there hasn't been any great success in developing Scramjet engine. The longest one fired for 15 seconds on second flight of X-51A, while its first flight didn't run scramjet. India is nowhere near developing Scramjet in immediate future. But the current flight will test some preliminary technologies related to that project, specifically hypersonic reentry. I don't think this particular vehicle has any propulsion. Even the next two experiments planned on the series (LEX and REX) are planned without any rocket propulsion, but will use turbofan engine for landing. Actual powered flight would be on the SPEX, which will use Scramjet (Source: http://isp.justthe80.com/launc...
Current test is a 100 crore INR (about 16 million USD) experiment. I am happy that ISRO is doing something to take this promising technology further. It may take another 20 years before actually seeing a scramjet engine in action, but that is ok. I would consider it as my tax money well spent.
Can we turn this around and say, "ability to think in multiple perspectives is important to successfully learn a new language"? There are many for whom learning a second langauge is very difficult while some others pickup a new one easily. Would this theory explain that problem?
Landing on a barge (or ASDS) would still be needed for deep space missions like DSCOVR which didn't have enough fuel left to boost back the stage towards launch pad. The center core of Falcon 9 Heavy wouldn't have enough fuel as well, and will most likely land on ASDS, while other two booster cores go back to landing pad.
SpaceX is in fact building a second ASDS which will be used for launches from Pacific coast.
There are plenty of products in the audiophile industry that can match or exceed this in craziness level. I wouldn't be surprised to see a glorifying review of this in a hi-fi magazine.