Perhaps, but.NET core's platform support (x86/ARM and Linux/Unix/Windows/OSX) isn't too shabby, and covers the vast majority of desktops and servers, and most embedded platforms.
There are certainly platforms that it doesn't support (Unix support seems limited to BSD/Solaris/OSX at the moment), but it still covers a lot of ground, particularly the ARM Linux support, and platform support seems to be increasing since it's opensource and people outside of Microsoft are porting it to other platforms.
I don't think Microsoft has any plans to move away from.NET: they're 15 years on from the initial release and are still putting significant resources into it. At this point, most of the Windows userland is probably written in it.
TIOBE has.NET languages at roughly half the usage of Java, although my experience in industry has been that Java's share is larger than that. Still,.NET has a big enough market share to be a major player, and with Java's market share seemingly dropping quite a bit over the past year, a move that makes.NET more cross-platform is certainly not going to hurt it.
I averaged 3 hours of sleep a night on my DDG and CG. Sometimes I'd go days, 48-36 hours, depending on scheduling, before I could catch more than a 90 minute nap over lunch in my shop.
There is a culture of overwork that results in severe sleep deprivation in the US Navy, and many people standing watch are impaired at an equivalent level to beign legally drunk. It's been the confirmed cause of other incidents before, and it seems a far more likely explanation than cyber attacks. Unfortunately, the Navy does not appear to be doing much to solve the problem.
Apps, on iOS at least, need to get permission before they can send you push notifications. I only grant permission to apps that I actually want to get push notifications from. No game would ever need it, but mail, twitter, etc? Sure, they can have it.
Considering that most of the updates include crash fixes in the changelog, it's safe to say that just because you aren't experiencing crashes doesn't mean there aren't such issues.
Oregon is hardly a remote area, though. You're connected to road networks, for example. In Iqaluit, a gallon of orange juice costs $27 (milk is a steal at $21 a gallon unsubsidized), and while that sort of thing may not make sense to ship by Amazon, for non-perishables it does. You can easily save more money on a single Amazon order than the cost of Prime for the whole year (which is $79 CAD).
Internet isn't cheap in Iqaluit, since satellite uplink is used to serve DSL and 3G customers (this may by solved by new LEO constellations in the future), but browsing Amazon doesn't use much bandwidth, and the savings on staples more than makes up for it.
There is a reason why Iqaluit's post office is the busiest in the entire country despite the population of 7-8 thousand and 80-90% of the packages being from Amazon. This may actually be helping Amazon with the cost of shipping goods there, since there would be some cost savings from the scale.
Unicomp keyboards have a pretty terrible build quality, and I speak as somebody who is typing this on a Unicomp ultra classic. The molding is terrible, with sharp flashing all over the place and on most keycaps. I had to spend a bunch of time with an xacto knife trimming off flashing to make the thing presentable (and to make it stop scratching me). The top plate of the keyboard also doesn't fit tightly to the bottom half, so the thing creaks if you press on the top plate.
Overall, it's a nice typing experience, but they're severely overpriced for the very poor level of quality on offer.
Every single Pi uses the same GPU with the same capabilities (other than some clockspeed changes). They don't appear to have any plans to change it, and the next revision isn't expected until 2019 or later, so I wouldn't expect AV-1 support any time soon.
Is it? Regenerative braking mitigates the impact. Efficiency is reduced at higher speeds (wind resistance), a slower constant pace is ideal for power consumption.
SpaceX just launched 10 Iridium Next satellites. Those satellites weigh roughly a metric ton each. SpaceX charged them roughly $6 million per satellite based on published launch prices.
RocketLab charges a similar price to launch a satellite, but with a fraction as much payload capacity.
You make it sound like PowerVR was just a competing product to the 3DFX Voodoo. They continued to make PowerVR chips long after that:
They stopped making desktop graphics chips. The last desktop-class chip that PowerVR produced (the Kyro II, based on their third generation hardware) was released in 2001, which was roughly coincident with the end of 3dfx. PowerVR took the work that they had done on their fourth generation product, cancelled the Kyro 3, and retargeted it at mobile-class power loads. This resulted in the MBX and MBX Lite chips, one of which was used in the iPhone and iPhone 3G.
- Semi trailers could have been mandated to have crash bars under their trailer such that a vehicle will react more like a head-on impact instead of having its top sliced off - Auto pilot could have bene improved to be able to handle this scenario (this was implemented by Tesla after the crash) - The driver could have actually paid attention and maintained control of the vehicle - The vehicle could have been more aggressive in refusing to continue on autopilot without a driver response, such as slowly decelerating to a stop if the warnings are ignored (this has been improved since the crash, but nowhere near this aggressively)
I think NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin would disagree with you.
NASA has been paying Russia to put its astronauts in orbit for years SpaceX has never launched somebody to orbit and probably won't for at least another few years Blue Origin has never launched an orbital rocket at all, let alone a manned one.
It's a shortsighted policy: instead of the Chinese investing money in US research, they'll invest money in Chinese research.
The end result is they'll get the technology they want, and the US won't get the benefits of the research. That's how we ended up with China having manned spaceflight capabilities while the US doesn't, and how we ended up with China having the most powerful supercomputers.
What do you prefer, damage to your car, or damage to yourself? Cars have crumple zones for a reason, and if the car is totally rigid and the frame remains in the same shape after a crash, that means that all of the energy was transferred directly to the passengers.
Sorry, I should clarify: 10.8 dropped support for machines with a 32-bit EFI. As such, you can boot Mac OS 10.7 on a "32-bit mac" that had a 64-bit processor, as it will load the 32-bit kernel but still be able to run 64-bit userland applications.
If you're on a pure 32-bit mac (which are a lot less common than the 64-bit CPU but 32-bit EFI macs), then you're stuck at 10.6, yes.
It was a very confusing situation that Apple did a poor job of communicating.
First we bitch at Apple because they stopped supporting 32-bit machines after 10.8. Now we bitch at Microsoft because they *still* support 32-bit machines.
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Perhaps, but .NET core's platform support (x86/ARM and Linux/Unix/Windows/OSX) isn't too shabby, and covers the vast majority of desktops and servers, and most embedded platforms.
There are certainly platforms that it doesn't support (Unix support seems limited to BSD/Solaris/OSX at the moment), but it still covers a lot of ground, particularly the ARM Linux support, and platform support seems to be increasing since it's opensource and people outside of Microsoft are porting it to other platforms.
I don't think Microsoft has any plans to move away from .NET: they're 15 years on from the initial release and are still putting significant resources into it. At this point, most of the Windows userland is probably written in it.
TIOBE has .NET languages at roughly half the usage of Java, although my experience in industry has been that Java's share is larger than that. Still, .NET has a big enough market share to be a major player, and with Java's market share seemingly dropping quite a bit over the past year, a move that makes .NET more cross-platform is certainly not going to hurt it.
Let me link to this description of one person's daily schedule aboard a destroyer:
https://np.reddit.com/r/navy/c...
It starts with this, and then goes into detail:
I averaged 3 hours of sleep a night on my DDG and CG. Sometimes I'd go days, 48-36 hours, depending on scheduling, before I could catch more than a 90 minute nap over lunch in my shop.
There is a culture of overwork that results in severe sleep deprivation in the US Navy, and many people standing watch are impaired at an equivalent level to beign legally drunk. It's been the confirmed cause of other incidents before, and it seems a far more likely explanation than cyber attacks. Unfortunately, the Navy does not appear to be doing much to solve the problem.
You can use it for HD-SDI and run 1080p60 video over it using relatively cheap converters like these:
https://www.monoprice.com/prod...
https://www.monoprice.com/prod...
Although since SDI is using BNC connectors, you'd either need to install BNC sockets on your coax, or you'd need to use an adapter like this:
https://www.monoprice.com/prod...
Apps, on iOS at least, need to get permission before they can send you push notifications. I only grant permission to apps that I actually want to get push notifications from. No game would ever need it, but mail, twitter, etc? Sure, they can have it.
Considering that most of the updates include crash fixes in the changelog, it's safe to say that just because you aren't experiencing crashes doesn't mean there aren't such issues.
Because the software still has shortcomings and bugs. Crashes aren't all that uncommon.
Oregon is hardly a remote area, though. You're connected to road networks, for example. In Iqaluit, a gallon of orange juice costs $27 (milk is a steal at $21 a gallon unsubsidized), and while that sort of thing may not make sense to ship by Amazon, for non-perishables it does. You can easily save more money on a single Amazon order than the cost of Prime for the whole year (which is $79 CAD).
Internet isn't cheap in Iqaluit, since satellite uplink is used to serve DSL and 3G customers (this may by solved by new LEO constellations in the future), but browsing Amazon doesn't use much bandwidth, and the savings on staples more than makes up for it.
There is a reason why Iqaluit's post office is the busiest in the entire country despite the population of 7-8 thousand and 80-90% of the packages being from Amazon. This may actually be helping Amazon with the cost of shipping goods there, since there would be some cost savings from the scale.
Unicomp keyboards have a pretty terrible build quality, and I speak as somebody who is typing this on a Unicomp ultra classic. The molding is terrible, with sharp flashing all over the place and on most keycaps. I had to spend a bunch of time with an xacto knife trimming off flashing to make the thing presentable (and to make it stop scratching me). The top plate of the keyboard also doesn't fit tightly to the bottom half, so the thing creaks if you press on the top plate.
Overall, it's a nice typing experience, but they're severely overpriced for the very poor level of quality on offer.
Go live in Vancouver, then. They don't have winter there.
McDonalds serves Egg McMuffins in Canada.
Every single Pi uses the same GPU with the same capabilities (other than some clockspeed changes). They don't appear to have any plans to change it, and the next revision isn't expected until 2019 or later, so I wouldn't expect AV-1 support any time soon.
Is it? Regenerative braking mitigates the impact. Efficiency is reduced at higher speeds (wind resistance), a slower constant pace is ideal for power consumption.
SpaceX just launched 10 Iridium Next satellites. Those satellites weigh roughly a metric ton each. SpaceX charged them roughly $6 million per satellite based on published launch prices.
RocketLab charges a similar price to launch a satellite, but with a fraction as much payload capacity.
You make it sound like PowerVR was just a competing product to the 3DFX Voodoo. They continued to make PowerVR chips long after that:
They stopped making desktop graphics chips. The last desktop-class chip that PowerVR produced (the Kyro II, based on their third generation hardware) was released in 2001, which was roughly coincident with the end of 3dfx. PowerVR took the work that they had done on their fourth generation product, cancelled the Kyro 3, and retargeted it at mobile-class power loads. This resulted in the MBX and MBX Lite chips, one of which was used in the iPhone and iPhone 3G.
- Semi trailers could have been mandated to have crash bars under their trailer such that a vehicle will react more like a head-on impact instead of having its top sliced off
- Auto pilot could have bene improved to be able to handle this scenario (this was implemented by Tesla after the crash)
- The driver could have actually paid attention and maintained control of the vehicle
- The vehicle could have been more aggressive in refusing to continue on autopilot without a driver response, such as slowly decelerating to a stop if the warnings are ignored (this has been improved since the crash, but nowhere near this aggressively)
It's been addressed by other replies, but:
I think NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin would disagree with you.
NASA has been paying Russia to put its astronauts in orbit for years
SpaceX has never launched somebody to orbit and probably won't for at least another few years
Blue Origin has never launched an orbital rocket at all, let alone a manned one.
It's a shortsighted policy: instead of the Chinese investing money in US research, they'll invest money in Chinese research.
The end result is they'll get the technology they want, and the US won't get the benefits of the research. That's how we ended up with China having manned spaceflight capabilities while the US doesn't, and how we ended up with China having the most powerful supercomputers.
Then surely carrying around 120 kilowatt hours of batteries adds a decent chunk of mass to the vehicle :)
What do you prefer, damage to your car, or damage to yourself? Cars have crumple zones for a reason, and if the car is totally rigid and the frame remains in the same shape after a crash, that means that all of the energy was transferred directly to the passengers.
SSE2, then, requires that Microsoft pay the licensing fees, since those patents wouldn't have expired yet.
Sorry, I should clarify: 10.8 dropped support for machines with a 32-bit EFI. As such, you can boot Mac OS 10.7 on a "32-bit mac" that had a 64-bit processor, as it will load the 32-bit kernel but still be able to run 64-bit userland applications.
If you're on a pure 32-bit mac (which are a lot less common than the 64-bit CPU but 32-bit EFI macs), then you're stuck at 10.6, yes.
It was a very confusing situation that Apple did a poor job of communicating.
First we bitch at Apple because they stopped supporting 32-bit machines after 10.8. Now we bitch at Microsoft because they *still* support 32-bit machines.
Please make up your mind, people.
If we ignore anything they've done to x86 in the past 20 years, that basically puts us at the 486 instruction set, since even MMX was only 1997.