Well it looks like you failed to read the FAQ then: Personally, I have a pet peeve when people post comments saying things like "That's not News For Nerds!" and "That's not Stuff that Matters!"
You are quite right about the space suits and flight trajectory and I was wrong. Sorry! It's not an unreasonable comparison although the X-15 was also designed for level flight as well and flew several missions like that. OK I did a bit of reading.:)
This is quite right - the X-15 reached 354,000 feet in 1963 which is slightly over the 328,000 feet (100km) space boundary. What puzzles me is simply how it stayed up with no air flow over the wings. It certainly did not fall back to Earth like SpaceShipOne.
Er, the X-15 was the last in a series of supersonic aircraft going back to machines like the X-1. It was not built in isolation. The X-15 had pilots wear suits developed from spacesuits and had no room for passengers. SpaceShipOne has no need for spacesuits and takes passengers. The X-15 could also not go up into space and then fall back down again safely. SpaceShipOne can do this. So when you sid "same capabilities" you meant "not a lot like it" right?
As much as I agree that massively distributed projects conducted over the Internet have the potential to provide more processors than this type of project, it's hardly as reliable a way to do computing. There must be a good reason why stuff like SETI@home doesn't make lists of supercomputing but I don't know why.
RTFA. This uses off the shelf components. Exactly how gigantic is your PC server farm going to be anyway? This used 16,250 processors and when installed and finished it will have 130,000...
You don't think MS would have made the NT codebase as "consumer friendly" as OS/2? Of course this is all moot because MS took the easiest route, which was to sell the godawful Win 3.1....curse them.
So now the US can say "our elections were free and fair to stop carping" to any other nation that wants to point the finger. In theory it ought to give the US more leverage if/when it tries to encourage countries with rigged elections to admit election discrepancies. Then again it probably won't as they'll always find an excuse. "The OSCE is a US shill!"
If this is the case then how come the western media has not picked up on these stories before? This would be a significant change to our established history of space exploration.
An excellent piece. If I hadn't already posted to this story I'd have modded you up - thank for providing that link. Absolutely true as well, it was a really good unit for its day although ISTR we got an Intel processor with up to 1MB RAM instead of a National 16032 with 16MB RAM. I picked up 3 BBC Bs for free the other day plus a colour Cub monitor so I'm feeling pretty smug.;-)
The BBC's mode 7 was put in there in the first place with teletext in mind. Teletext predates the BBC by some 8 years, the Beeb having launched in April '82. Your links probably say this but oooh I looove karma.;-)
RAM manufacturers, having suffered torrid margins in recent years, have found out that people tend to buy RAM priced at certain price points and not much in between. As there is no hugely compelling reason for people to start buying 1GB DRAM sticks the prices will stay there to recoup the maximum from their investment. Wait till we get a large OS revision from MS that makes half a gig of RAM the starter point and you'll see a shift.
He does sound more "down to earth" but then he has the least to lose doesn't he? it is not like he is going to lose the chance of the Presidency. If the Libertarians were a larger party then you'd see a lot more spin.
If they are truly hucksters they won't meet a product launch date! There was no commercial gain from this journalism worth the risk of getting it all wrong and making enemies of future industry players. It's good to see this sort of questioning in the games industry. Often journalists write trite fawning nonsense or rehash press releases.
And my list was of companies that would. I think MS have strong allies. I do not think the Chinese and Taiwainese manufacturers will refuse to work with MS on this either.
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Well it looks like you failed to read the FAQ then:
Personally, I have a pet peeve when people post comments saying things like "That's not News For Nerds!" and "That's not Stuff that Matters!"
You are quite right about the space suits and flight trajectory and I was wrong. Sorry! :)
It's not an unreasonable comparison although the X-15 was also designed for level flight as well and flew several missions like that.
OK I did a bit of reading.
This is quite right - the X-15 reached 354,000 feet in 1963 which is slightly over the 328,000 feet (100km) space boundary.
What puzzles me is simply how it stayed up with no air flow over the wings.
It certainly did not fall back to Earth like SpaceShipOne.
Er, the X-15 was the last in a series of supersonic aircraft going back to machines like the X-1. It was not built in isolation.
The X-15 had pilots wear suits developed from spacesuits and had no room for passengers.
SpaceShipOne has no need for spacesuits and takes passengers.
The X-15 could also not go up into space and then fall back down again safely.
SpaceShipOne can do this.
So when you sid "same capabilities" you meant "not a lot like it" right?
The BBC had streaming video coverage of it.
As much as I agree that massively distributed projects conducted over the Internet have the potential to provide more processors than this type of project, it's hardly as reliable a way to do computing.
There must be a good reason why stuff like SETI@home doesn't make lists of supercomputing but I don't know why.
RTFA. This uses off the shelf components.
Exactly how gigantic is your PC server farm going to be anyway? This used 16,250 processors and when installed and finished it will have 130,000...
You don't think MS would have made the NT codebase as "consumer friendly" as OS/2?
Of course this is all moot because MS took the easiest route, which was to sell the godawful Win 3.1....curse them.
You think MS wouldn't have used NT to bash about OS/2?
I don't see the rise of Linux as a bad thing either.
Imagine if Windows 3.1 had not been released yet - now that would be funny.
Great! It's all on track!
So now the US can say "our elections were free and fair to stop carping" to any other nation that wants to point the finger.
In theory it ought to give the US more leverage if/when it tries to encourage countries with rigged elections to admit election discrepancies.
Then again it probably won't as they'll always find an excuse.
"The OSCE is a US shill!"
I knew it was 64-bit. :)
The post was a little ambiguous with respect to that however....
Is this 4GB limit worth much these days?
Modern 32-bit processors use more than 32-bits for addressing RAM don't they?
If this is the case then how come the western media has not picked up on these stories before?
This would be a significant change to our established history of space exploration.
Is this meant to be a joke?
Or did you really not know I was talking about a home computer funded by, and named after, the BBC?
Jesus Christ...
An excellent piece. If I hadn't already posted to this story I'd have modded you up - thank for providing that link. ;-)
Absolutely true as well, it was a really good unit for its day although ISTR we got an Intel processor with up to 1MB RAM instead of a National 16032 with 16MB RAM.
I picked up 3 BBC Bs for free the other day plus a colour Cub monitor so I'm feeling pretty smug.
The BBC's mode 7 was put in there in the first place with teletext in mind. ;-)
Teletext predates the BBC by some 8 years, the Beeb having launched in April '82.
Your links probably say this but oooh I looove karma.
Now I shall get redundantly modded to Hell.
RAM manufacturers, having suffered torrid margins in recent years, have found out that people tend to buy RAM priced at certain price points and not much in between. As there is no hugely compelling reason for people to start buying 1GB DRAM sticks the prices will stay there to recoup the maximum from their investment.
Wait till we get a large OS revision from MS that makes half a gig of RAM the starter point and you'll see a shift.
He does sound more "down to earth" but then he has the least to lose doesn't he? it is not like he is going to lose the chance of the Presidency.
If the Libertarians were a larger party then you'd see a lot more spin.
Red Flag Linux is a project designed to get the wind up Microsoft.
If they are truly hucksters they won't meet a product launch date!
There was no commercial gain from this journalism worth the risk of getting it all wrong and making enemies of future industry players.
It's good to see this sort of questioning in the games industry. Often journalists write trite fawning nonsense or rehash press releases.
And my list was of companies that would. I think MS have strong allies. I do not think the Chinese and Taiwainese manufacturers will refuse to work with MS on this either.
Er Dell, Compaq, Intel, AMD, Nvidia...?
Ouch. Do you have friendly people to mirror with?