Note that $130M is only enough to pay for one Falcon Heavy launch with the additional government book-keeping. Commercial satellite vendors pay less, because they don't require as much compliance and paperwork.
So, it's really nice that Falcon Heavy got a government contract. However, SpaceX is not even close to recovering the cost of the engineering it put into it, and the first test launch. And they may never recover it before this business shifts to their new rocket, fondly called "BFR".
Someone pretending to be you a few days ago for your lawsuit story.. Said they had a family computer and looked up porn on it.
I saw that photo of eight blazing Core i9 CPUs, bathing in heat-sink grease and wet with cooling water, nestled in a motherboard carrying an entire 256 gigabytes of RAM. I'm still panting today!
I think the real problem is they did it too quickly. Too much means that some things can never be automated. Too fast just means they have to take longer to get it right. Some lines that were made manual are now automated again, as they got the process working.
The main point of manual labor is that you can speed up by hiring more people. With automation, you have to make the machine actually work before you can scale up by buying more machines.
The German folks who disassembled a Tesla showed that the parts costs would allow Tesla to make a nice profit. I'm sure that when they're building an assembly line in 5 weeks they're not making money, but that assembly line is going to keep running, even if they eventually move it into a permanent building. Let' also remember that they are selling a whole lot of electricity storage, solar panels, cars don't even have to be their main income stream.
So, Elon Musk and his company just built in 5 weeks, literally from the ground up, what GM might spend 10 years architecting and designing, getting the EIR, hiring the right unions and negotiating their contracts, contracting for an acquiring equipment, actually assembling it, staffing it, and starting it running.
This race for profitability is actually viewed with contempt by a commentator of the conventional auto industry.
There is a lot to be said for agility, as any manager or investor in a start-up will tell you. This is simply another difference between Silicon Valley business and the conventional auto business. The same sort of difference that allowed Tesla to make electric cars that could actually compete with gasoline cars on their own turf.
I hear Ferrari is just starting to introduce one that might compete, after Tesla has had theirs on the market since 2007, with three new models since. But that's it so far. Ferrari is pretty agile as auto manufacturers go, but at the cost of low manufacturing volume. Ferrari won't be selling its cars at even 5000/month. Tesla is trying to get both the volume and the innovation.
When Elon introduced Dragon 2, he said something about it being able to land on any body in this solar system. He didn't mention it needing a separate landing vehicle. But Dragon 2, as it's being built, doesn't have close to the necessary amount of delta-V. The Red Dragon that was formerly contemplated would have added fuel capacity, since it didn't need to carry people, but it also used aerobraking.
At this point, any proposal from SpaceX would be based on BFR.
The problem with pluggable filesystem modules is that we still have a lot of innovation to do in the low-level kernel handling of I/O, thus the interface remains in flux. Significant performance gains have been realized and more are possible, and architecture for systems with significantly greater parallelism is still in progress. Taking advantage of new hardware capabilities has also required changes in interfaces.
One of the unique things about Linux is that the developers are allowed to innovate. It's a feature, not a bug.
I, for one, wouldn't really want a filesystem that hadn't passed review by the kernel team.
There's NASA, and then there's congress. Congress is pushing SLS, which is at this point an albatross around NASA's neck, because of its profit production for various companies in the states of various congress people.
In fairness to NASA and congress, we didn't know SpaceX would do so well when SLS was proposed and approved.
But it's time to kill it.
A mission that the government hasn't yet selected the vendors for isn't going to launch next year.
Of the vendors, only SpaceX has the technical capability to launch a payload to the moon on a few month's schedule, using the Falcon Heavy. However, there is no landing vehicle in existence at this time. Note that this has to be a cryogenic rocket, because it has to spend days in space before landing, unlike all of the existing SpaceX boosters. SpaceX boosters use a kerosene-based fuel and would freeze in the time required. Their new methane engine has had firing tests but no space vehicle exists for it yet. SpaceX has a very ambitious schedule and could be flying its new "BFR" larger manned rocket in 2022, especially if the government gives it a mission and thus financial support.
Social experiments are difficult to perform with scientific rigor because they use people. It is generally either impossible or impractical to isolate people from outside influences and from unknown issues that bias the experiment. And thus it's difficult to prove anything. For this reason, physical scientists look down upon social science as "soft science".
I am not so concerned with companies making the move, as the Open Source community and green-field projects. The same folks who use Rails in start-ups should be keeping an eye on this.
I am very lucky to have my attorneys from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and my attorneys from O'Melveny and Meyers who won the lower court case and will continue to help EFF during the appeal.
My attorneys have requested that I not comment about the case at this time. Obviously, I'd love to discuss it with you sometime, when it's all over.
Valerie, Stanley and I are doing well and send you our best wishes.
OpenStreetMap is a sort of open data that everybody needs, and should be available under the same terms as Open Source software or very similar ones. Open Source projects don't always succeed, for separate reasons from their desirability. Note that OpenOffice existed for years and got great benefit from Sun's contribution of StarDivision's work, but project participation was handicapped by Sun's management. When LibreOffice split off, it was suddenly so much more viable.
OpenStreetMap has had a commercial involvement which might not have helped - and as far as I can tell is mostly over. And I hear it's difficult to become an editor. I am not a geodata developer. I'd like to hear from some folks who are, and who have tried to participate or who can try now and report back.
If you really can't get this out of your head, I'll discuss it on the phone with you, and expect you not to publish the information. It wouldn't take long, and would only make you more sad.
Do you want us to say the same things about you when the police decide it's your turn to pay the piper?
It is heart-breaking that he died without a friend left in the world, but that was a consequence of his illness.
I am 60 and my death isn't all that far away any longer. I am fortunate to have friends and a wonderful family, and hope to die in peace, with them around me.
Ian was and continues to be very admired for his achievements, and his death was unnecessary and completely undignified, and is a continuing source of disquiet for me personally. Ian is a victim of mental illness. This is acknowledged by his family and by those who knew him more closely, rather than simply admiring him from afar. Rather than dishonor Ian by discussing this in detail, I would prefer to simply state that he was a victim of mental illness, not the police.
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I'd rather bet on Elon than someone so full of bits.
Note that $130M is only enough to pay for one Falcon Heavy launch with the additional government book-keeping. Commercial satellite vendors pay less, because they don't require as much compliance and paperwork.
So, it's really nice that Falcon Heavy got a government contract. However, SpaceX is not even close to recovering the cost of the engineering it put into it, and the first test launch. And they may never recover it before this business shifts to their new rocket, fondly called "BFR".
I saw that photo of eight blazing Core i9 CPUs, bathing in heat-sink grease and wet with cooling water, nestled in a motherboard carrying an entire 256 gigabytes of RAM. I'm still panting today!
If it's a temporary tent they'll buy AirPac. If it's permanent, normal building air conditioners.
I've been in lots of air-conditioned tents. However, any time it gets to 105 in Fremont, you can expect it to be front-page news.
I think the real problem is they did it too quickly. Too much means that some things can never be automated. Too fast just means they have to take longer to get it right. Some lines that were made manual are now automated again, as they got the process working.
The main point of manual labor is that you can speed up by hiring more people. With automation, you have to make the machine actually work before you can scale up by buying more machines.
The German folks who disassembled a Tesla showed that the parts costs would allow Tesla to make a nice profit. I'm sure that when they're building an assembly line in 5 weeks they're not making money, but that assembly line is going to keep running, even if they eventually move it into a permanent building. Let' also remember that they are selling a whole lot of electricity storage, solar panels, cars don't even have to be their main income stream.
So, Elon Musk and his company just built in 5 weeks, literally from the ground up, what GM might spend 10 years architecting and designing, getting the EIR, hiring the right unions and negotiating their contracts, contracting for an acquiring equipment, actually assembling it, staffing it, and starting it running.
This race for profitability is actually viewed with contempt by a commentator of the conventional auto industry.
There is a lot to be said for agility, as any manager or investor in a start-up will tell you. This is simply another difference between Silicon Valley business and the conventional auto business. The same sort of difference that allowed Tesla to make electric cars that could actually compete with gasoline cars on their own turf.
I hear Ferrari is just starting to introduce one that might compete, after Tesla has had theirs on the market since 2007, with three new models since. But that's it so far. Ferrari is pretty agile as auto manufacturers go, but at the cost of low manufacturing volume. Ferrari won't be selling its cars at even 5000/month. Tesla is trying to get both the volume and the innovation.
When Elon introduced Dragon 2, he said something about it being able to land on any body in this solar system. He didn't mention it needing a separate landing vehicle. But Dragon 2, as it's being built, doesn't have close to the necessary amount of delta-V. The Red Dragon that was formerly contemplated would have added fuel capacity, since it didn't need to carry people, but it also used aerobraking.
At this point, any proposal from SpaceX would be based on BFR.
People like this are called left-behinds.
They still have to build a new landing vehicle, because there is insufficient delta-v in the Dragon 2.
The problem with pluggable filesystem modules is that we still have a lot of innovation to do in the low-level kernel handling of I/O, thus the interface remains in flux. Significant performance gains have been realized and more are possible, and architecture for systems with significantly greater parallelism is still in progress. Taking advantage of new hardware capabilities has also required changes in interfaces.
One of the unique things about Linux is that the developers are allowed to innovate. It's a feature, not a bug.
I, for one, wouldn't really want a filesystem that hadn't passed review by the kernel team.
There's NASA, and then there's congress. Congress is pushing SLS, which is at this point an albatross around NASA's neck, because of its profit production for various companies in the states of various congress people.
In fairness to NASA and congress, we didn't know SpaceX would do so well when SLS was proposed and approved. But it's time to kill it.
A mission that the government hasn't yet selected the vendors for isn't going to launch next year.
Of the vendors, only SpaceX has the technical capability to launch a payload to the moon on a few month's schedule, using the Falcon Heavy. However, there is no landing vehicle in existence at this time. Note that this has to be a cryogenic rocket, because it has to spend days in space before landing, unlike all of the existing SpaceX boosters. SpaceX boosters use a kerosene-based fuel and would freeze in the time required. Their new methane engine has had firing tests but no space vehicle exists for it yet. SpaceX has a very ambitious schedule and could be flying its new "BFR" larger manned rocket in 2022, especially if the government gives it a mission and thus financial support.
Social experiments are difficult to perform with scientific rigor because they use people. It is generally either impossible or impractical to isolate people from outside influences and from unknown issues that bias the experiment. And thus it's difficult to prove anything. For this reason, physical scientists look down upon social science as "soft science".
I am not so concerned with companies making the move, as the Open Source community and green-field projects. The same folks who use Rails in start-ups should be keeping an eye on this.
There is a common-use desktop in the living room. The family members don't generally think of each other as security threats. :-)
Oops. My family has been told they can't comment either. I apologize for this.
that his lawyers worked for about 900 hours and were paid for about 450 of them, at fair rates for lawyers.
I am very lucky to have my attorneys from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and my attorneys from O'Melveny and Meyers who won the lower court case and will continue to help EFF during the appeal.
My attorneys have requested that I not comment about the case at this time. Obviously, I'd love to discuss it with you sometime, when it's all over.
Valerie, Stanley and I are doing well and send you our best wishes.
Thanks
Bruce
Can you tell us more, and perhaps suggest what could be fixed or what a different project could do?
OpenStreetMap is a sort of open data that everybody needs, and should be available under the same terms as Open Source software or very similar ones. Open Source projects don't always succeed, for separate reasons from their desirability. Note that OpenOffice existed for years and got great benefit from Sun's contribution of StarDivision's work, but project participation was handicapped by Sun's management. When LibreOffice split off, it was suddenly so much more viable.
OpenStreetMap has had a commercial involvement which might not have helped - and as far as I can tell is mostly over. And I hear it's difficult to become an editor. I am not a geodata developer. I'd like to hear from some folks who are, and who have tried to participate or who can try now and report back.
If you really can't get this out of your head, I'll discuss it on the phone with you, and expect you not to publish the information. It wouldn't take long, and would only make you more sad.
It is heart-breaking that he died without a friend left in the world, but that was a consequence of his illness.
I am 60 and my death isn't all that far away any longer. I am fortunate to have friends and a wonderful family, and hope to die in peace, with them around me.
Ian was and continues to be very admired for his achievements, and his death was unnecessary and completely undignified, and is a continuing source of disquiet for me personally. Ian is a victim of mental illness. This is acknowledged by his family and by those who knew him more closely, rather than simply admiring him from afar. Rather than dishonor Ian by discussing this in detail, I would prefer to simply state that he was a victim of mental illness, not the police.