Yeah, right. We can't even make a robot that is capable of performing the tricks of a dog. Teleoperate to geosynchronous orbit? I don't think so. Getting this unit to do anything useful is a giant accomplishment, but it shouldn't be necessary, if manned space flight had been managed as something more than a PR stunt for decades.
of manufacturing antimatter.. cause there's only one thing more simple to build than a rocket engine, and that's an antimatter rocket engine. The potential for space technology is enormous.. if only antimatter didn't cost so damn much.
The dominate cost of satellite manufacture is design. Period. Launch costs don't even come close.
Not to mention the fact that fixing many failures in satellites wont even require a second launch.. the repair satellite sits in orbit until it is needed. Sure, refueling the repair satellite requires a launch, but not the same rated launch as a satellite.. you just need a dumb unreliable, but economical booster to lob up fuel and, maybe, spare parts. And, even then, the repair satellite uses ion engines to get around, so it doesn't need a whole lot of "fuel" as it gets most the energy for its propulsion from the sun.
A repair satellite is an excellent stepping stone to doing actual industry in space. The fact that it still costs more to send a person up to do maintenance than it does to spend years on the ground working on "perfect" systems that are unrepairable for 20 years is just insane and testimony to how little NASA's manned space program has progressed in 40 years.
A visionary with a bit of get up and go. His book MOONRUSH is not only a great technical work where he outlines a theoretically sound argument for commercial exploitation of the Moon and how to do it, but is also a great visionary and inspirational work. Hopefully Orbital Express will prove that he's capable of following through.
we're still waiting for Spore... of course, once you do ship, all is forgiven.. at least until I get bored with the game and wonder why there's no multiplayer (and don't give me that "asynchronous multiplayer" crap).
Have you ever watched Beyond 2000 as an adult? Every three minutes you can't help yourself from answering back when they make some optimistic prediction about the future by saying "yeah, and what COULD happen is that the technology never gets out of the prototype stage because its being developed my technical people who feel their work is too important to hire a marketing person, which is why I'm hearing about this on Beyond 2000 instead of seeing them on store shelves."
Almost everything on that show, ever, is completely impractical and never makes it out of the prototype stage. They were right to kill it.. and this Beyond Tomorrow crap that they brought out a few years ago is even worse.. they can't even find good prototypes to be optimistic about.
I don't disagree with you, except to say that selling a computer without support is not what Dell is about. They love those support contracts.. it's what gives them a good brand name. Selling a computer that half works is hardly in their interests is it?
Normal people will actually consider buying a Dell with Linux preinstalled if they have some kind of guarentee that they will be able to use their computer to do what they want to do. aka, play movies, read email, browse the web and edit documents/spreadsheets. The Linux desktop is almost there, but preinstalled is a requirement.
The Linux community wants Dell to just start selling PCs with Linux preinstalled. Doesn't matter to the community if they can't find a distro that has support for all their hardware. Doesn't doesn't matter if Dell can't offer any support yet. Just put a bunch of distro choices in the "Operating System" box.
Dell, of course, doesn't want to start selling PCs with Linux preinstalled until they have found a suitable hardware configuration.. cut a deal with someone to outsource the support to.. etc, etc. As such, this means the Linux community has to wait and every day Dell doesn't just start selling the damn PCs is another day of flaming they will get.
damn, you must have a fast machine.. my 2.61GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual with 4 gig of ram claims it is going to take over an hour and a half just to fill 128k-sq with random.. I can only imagine how long it is going to take to simulate.
Yep, pretty interesting, not what I was thinking about though. The population of random soups in Life are also expected to grow without bound if they are large enough, but only with a vastly large starting size.. analysing soups of extremely large size seems more interesting than studying soups of small size, so I was wondering what the biggest grid size anyone has simulated was. You'd figure we'd be able to do interesting soup sizes by now.
The centralized aspect of Microsoft's solution is the only thing that is seriously different on Linux.. as it is hard to get distributed developers not to duplicate each other's work.
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Yes, cause I called someone a sucker.. way to put words in my mouth.
Go do a PhD, then you'll know what I'm talking about, and you'll know what being a Google hotshot is all about.
should be the geek mantra, and companies like Google know it.
Yeah, right. We can't even make a robot that is capable of performing the tricks of a dog. Teleoperate to geosynchronous orbit? I don't think so. Getting this unit to do anything useful is a giant accomplishment, but it shouldn't be necessary, if manned space flight had been managed as something more than a PR stunt for decades.
of manufacturing antimatter.. cause there's only one thing more simple to build than a rocket engine, and that's an antimatter rocket engine. The potential for space technology is enormous.. if only antimatter didn't cost so damn much.
The dominate cost of satellite manufacture is design. Period. Launch costs don't even come close.
Not to mention the fact that fixing many failures in satellites wont even require a second launch.. the repair satellite sits in orbit until it is needed. Sure, refueling the repair satellite requires a launch, but not the same rated launch as a satellite.. you just need a dumb unreliable, but economical booster to lob up fuel and, maybe, spare parts. And, even then, the repair satellite uses ion engines to get around, so it doesn't need a whole lot of "fuel" as it gets most the energy for its propulsion from the sun.
A repair satellite is an excellent stepping stone to doing actual industry in space. The fact that it still costs more to send a person up to do maintenance than it does to spend years on the ground working on "perfect" systems that are unrepairable for 20 years is just insane and testimony to how little NASA's manned space program has progressed in 40 years.
Yeah, cause it's not like it is expensive to build something "correctly the first time".. sheesh.
A visionary with a bit of get up and go. His book MOONRUSH is not only a great technical work where he outlines a theoretically sound argument for commercial exploitation of the Moon and how to do it, but is also a great visionary and inspirational work. Hopefully Orbital Express will prove that he's capable of following through.
we're still waiting for Spore... of course, once you do ship, all is forgiven.. at least until I get bored with the game and wonder why there's no multiplayer (and don't give me that "asynchronous multiplayer" crap).
All fabrics are artificial.. I don't think I've ever seen a blanket or a shirt tree.
Kinda reminds me of people who complain about fruit having "chemicals" in them.
Have you ever watched Beyond 2000 as an adult? Every three minutes you can't help yourself from answering back when they make some optimistic prediction about the future by saying "yeah, and what COULD happen is that the technology never gets out of the prototype stage because its being developed my technical people who feel their work is too important to hire a marketing person, which is why I'm hearing about this on Beyond 2000 instead of seeing them on store shelves."
Almost everything on that show, ever, is completely impractical and never makes it out of the prototype stage. They were right to kill it.. and this Beyond Tomorrow crap that they brought out a few years ago is even worse.. they can't even find good prototypes to be optimistic about.
I don't disagree with you, except to say that selling a computer without support is not what Dell is about. They love those support contracts.. it's what gives them a good brand name. Selling a computer that half works is hardly in their interests is it?
You read my mind.
Normal people will actually consider buying a Dell with Linux preinstalled if they have some kind of guarentee that they will be able to use their computer to do what they want to do. aka, play movies, read email, browse the web and edit documents/spreadsheets. The Linux desktop is almost there, but preinstalled is a requirement.
The Linux community wants Dell to just start selling PCs with Linux preinstalled. Doesn't matter to the community if they can't find a distro that has support for all their hardware. Doesn't doesn't matter if Dell can't offer any support yet. Just put a bunch of distro choices in the "Operating System" box.
Dell, of course, doesn't want to start selling PCs with Linux preinstalled until they have found a suitable hardware configuration.. cut a deal with someone to outsource the support to.. etc, etc. As such, this means the Linux community has to wait and every day Dell doesn't just start selling the damn PCs is another day of flaming they will get.
fuck I hate lawyers.. even the ones who are arguing on your side are incapable of being rational.
the videos were on Slashdot in 2003.. it's the one where he says stupid autonomous robots are a waste of time.
this is a dupe from 2003 where it was already 2 years old. So I guess we'll see these podcasts on Slashdot again in 2015.
so I'll say this another way.. thanks for the podcasts from SIX YEARS AGO.
damn, you must have a fast machine.. my 2.61GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual with 4 gig of ram claims it is going to take over an hour and a half just to fill 128k-sq with random.. I can only imagine how long it is going to take to simulate.
Yep, pretty interesting, not what I was thinking about though. The population of random soups in Life are also
expected to grow without bound if they are large enough, but only with a vastly large starting size.. analysing soups of extremely large size seems more interesting than studying soups of small size, so I was wondering what the biggest grid size anyone has simulated was. You'd figure we'd be able to do interesting soup sizes by now.
Would you happen to know what the biggest grid of conway ever simulated is? and for how long? I was trying to find stats on this a month or so ago..
What are you talking about exactly?
The centralized aspect of Microsoft's solution is the only thing that is seriously different on Linux.. as it is hard to get distributed developers not to duplicate each other's work.
The keys are encrypted in much the same way.
I wonder if there's a way to do self standing dominos.