His statements are perhaps a bit naive, but I think he was trying to express curiosity.
An interest in space does not have to be passively reading wiki's (or watching television). How would we know anything if we would just passively consume information about what has already been discovered?
This is all about pushing 'engineering limits'. Call that your final frontier if you want, but putting down people for dreaming higher may just be a defense for justifying doing nothing.
1% Efficient at what? Converting sunlight to electricity? Please explain what you mean.
Trees are part of the wilderness - they don't 'displace' it.
Deserts are pretty much harsh environments because they are lacking trees.
Trees need a lot of water? Its stops if from running off, keeping the eco-system moist around them. They regulate moisture so that if rain is not falling, everything else around them doesn't die (including other smaller plants which also absorb C02).
Ever seen what happens to a river when you cut the trees around it? It shrinks. How would that happen if the trees were 'stealing' the water away from the river?
If there was salmon, it dies because of the rise in water temperature. What do you think the 'efficiency' of solar panels for that?
A gas giant still has a core. Uranus happens to be next in line in terms of gravity wells in our solar system (I'll leave your Mom out of it).
The wheels are within a closed system. How much more 'amphibious' do you want to make it?
Why Europa? You saw a movie? You don't want to contaminate any of these worlds if you can avoid it, Ceres, Enceladus, Rhea.. At least not before they have been studied and believed to be void of life.
The fact that it is well suited for low gravity environments is has been well established, but the design may also offers advantages for higher gravity environments given rough terrain.
I am not upset at at all; just making an observation.
I know your trolling when commenting about history, but I somewhat agree with it. Not the 'inconsequential nerds'
part, but because history can be re-written and usually is.
Perhaps unlike what you suggest ("limited cerebral function"), 'people' might have gotten a little smarter over time?
If you need to compare him to anybody, Thomas Edison comes to mind; in the sense that he was really good at stealing/taking credit. Nicholas Tesla would serve as a counter example.
In my opinion, the overinflated space that Gates bulldozed over would have been much better served by better 'people'. Gary Kildal just to name another one.
Those broken eggs were not about necessity. They were about greed, but mostly about the lust for control and power without any regards for the greater good.
I will will not dismiss your last statement. He just might manage to perform a significant good deed before history (some of it financed by "charity") chant his name in glory.
Any chance that part of the motivation for taking control of Nokia was an attempt to undermine Qt (commercial licensing now under Digia: http://www.digia.com/)?
I for one find Forth to be a fascinating language. The fact that it has been around for a while does not diminish it in any way.
I first heard of it back in the 80's while learning assembler on the 6502. I noticed it again while getting to know FreeBSD (loader stage 3) and decided to finally learn it when I came across some old manuals and software for my newly acquired PET CBM 8032 just a few weeks ago.
Ever since, I seem to notice it mentioned more and more, perhaps partly because of renewed interest in stack machines, but also because it offers an interactive way to boot strap a very small system with minimal resources.
It is available in some form on almost every platform that I know.
Following are some resources that I have found to be of interest. Hopefully those sites will not get badly hurt.
Slashdot Mirror
His statements are perhaps a bit naive, but I think he was trying to express curiosity.
An interest in space does not have to be passively reading wiki's (or watching television). How would we know anything if we would just passively consume information about what has already been discovered?
This is all about pushing 'engineering limits'. Call that your final frontier if you want, but putting down people for dreaming higher may just be a defense for justifying doing nothing.
1% Efficient at what? Converting sunlight to electricity? Please explain what you mean.
Trees are part of the wilderness - they don't 'displace' it.
Deserts are pretty much harsh environments because they are lacking trees.
Trees need a lot of water? Its stops if from running off, keeping the eco-system moist around them. They regulate moisture so that if rain is not falling, everything else around them doesn't die (including other smaller plants which also absorb C02).
Ever seen what happens to a river when you cut the trees around it? It shrinks. How would that happen if the trees were 'stealing' the water away from the river?
If there was salmon, it dies because of the rise in water temperature. What do you think the 'efficiency' of solar panels for that?
[citation required]
What do you mean by 'critical point'?
What 'extreme conditions' are you talking about?
"it could form ionic and superionic states"
If you know what these words mean, could you articulate why you think this is the case?
A gas giant still has a core. Uranus happens to be next in line in terms of gravity wells in our solar system (I'll leave your Mom out of it).
The wheels are within a closed system. How much more 'amphibious' do you want to make it?
Why Europa? You saw a movie? You don't want to contaminate any of these worlds if you can avoid it, Ceres, Enceladus, Rhea.. At least not before they have been studied and believed to be void of life.
The fact that it is well suited for low gravity environments is has been well established, but the design may also offers advantages for higher gravity environments given rough terrain.
Important mostly for embedded systems, and is as obscure as it gets.
.. or he could just go to BSD.
I'm not sure about legal expertise, but these geeks are awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Not anymore.
Those people have moved on to soylentnews.org
I am not upset at at all; just making an observation. I know your trolling when commenting about history, but I somewhat agree with it. Not the 'inconsequential nerds' part, but because history can be re-written and usually is.
I don't think that you get my point. I have no worries about Qt being destroyed, and those concerns were taken care of preemptively.
If you think those 'Alternative GUI' tools measure up to Qt, I would be curious to know how. They are no threat to Visual Studio.
That said, I would choose Qt/Qt-Creator over the Microsoft offerings given the choice for most C++ projects I can foresee.
Perhaps you prefer something else, but that is another discussion all-together.
Perhaps unlike what you suggest ("limited cerebral function"), 'people' might have gotten a little smarter over time?
If you need to compare him to anybody, Thomas Edison comes to mind; in the sense that he was really good at stealing/taking credit. Nicholas Tesla would serve as a counter example.
In my opinion, the overinflated space that Gates bulldozed over would have been much better served by better 'people'. Gary Kildal just to name another one.
Those broken eggs were not about necessity. They were about greed, but mostly about the lust for control and power without any regards for the greater good.
I will will not dismiss your last statement. He just might manage to perform a significant good deed before history (some of it financed by "charity") chant his name in glory.
And, he's dumping far more money into slashdot to make sure he's being talked about.. so yeah, who cares? It's making slashdot a better place!
Any chance that part of the motivation for taking control of Nokia was an attempt to undermine Qt (commercial licensing now under Digia: http://www.digia.com/)?
I haven't had that problem using my choice of an OS.
"Everybody else is doing it" doesn't make it right.
It is presumably an attempt at a joke based on the fact that Forth makes use of RPN.
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I for one find Forth to be a fascinating language. The fact that it has been around for a while does not diminish it in any way.
I first heard of it back in the 80's while learning assembler on the 6502. I noticed it again while getting to know FreeBSD (loader stage 3) and decided to finally learn it when I came across some old manuals and software for my newly acquired PET CBM 8032 just a few weeks ago.
Ever since, I seem to notice it mentioned more and more, perhaps partly because of renewed interest in stack machines, but also because it offers an interactive way to boot strap a very small system with minimal resources.
It is available in some form on almost every platform that I know.
Following are some resources that I have found to be of interest. Hopefully those sites will not get badly hurt.
http://www.forth.com/starting-...
http://thinking-forth.sourcefo...
http://playground.arduino.cc/C....
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ma...
https://uwaterloo.ca/independe...
http://www.ultratechnology.com...