Well, apart from the bits that have been built that is. Go take a look at one of the engine test rigs on the Reaction Engines website, or even take a look at the youtube video of one of the test runs of that test rig.
Yes, a friend of mine went to a talk by you guys and saw your air cooler thingy. Very impressive. And that's as far as it will get. That's my point. How does it increase the profit margin of insurers? How will City workers get a bonus out of it? How will it reduce Tesco's logistics costs?
Some science and engineering papers will get written and in 50 years time someone will have a similar idea and crib from your plans.
Britain is a festering pit of racism, conceitedness and cynicism. Bread and the Circus. Celebrity culture, you get the idea.
Bristol Spaceplanes had better relocate if it wants to see its ideas flourish.
The last major triumphs of British engineering to actually get built were Concorde and the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors.
Ever since then the can't-do-won't-do attitude of Britain's "financial service economy" curtails any great technological projects. The only things that get built are science projects, with meager government funding.
Reaction Engines/Bristol Spaceplanes have some very interesting engine designs like SABRE. These are the people who designed the RB545 for Hotol (another great British triumph of procrastination over achievement).
Mark my words, this will sit firmly on the drawing board and will probably be reinvented in 20-30 years by the Chinese. The American's won't have it since they didn't invent it.
It sucks to be British unless you're in Banking or Insurance. Still, mustn't grumble. At least we're not French or German or foreign. Time for a nice cup of tea and a sit down.
That's absolutely correct. I don't much care if the whole nation votes unanimously to kill me, I'm still going to defend myself until I run out of ammo.
I notice you are not an American, but your comment has implications for the validity of Capital Punishment, where the nation has effectively voted to kill certain people.
Why should the State have the power of life and death?
The Pentium Pro (and hence Pentium II) and everything thereafter from intel is internally RISC.
The Cyrix 6x86 onwards (now VIA) was RISC internally.
The AMD K6 onwards was RISC internally.
The original Pentium line was the last 386-native processor from intel. It had two integer execution units and a highly optimised floating-point unit which gave it about twice the performance of a 486 at the same clock. To get full benefit of the twin integer pipelines, you had to have pentium-optimised (i.e. instructions specially ordered) code.
It was baroque and was as far at they could take native CISC. Motorola also had a 68060, but Apple dropped that and switched over to PowerPC, which was not instruction set compatible. They opted for dynamic binary translation instead. It worked well.
The main difference is that the Catholic church says that the soul is infused upon conception, while the muslims mainly believe that it is at birth the the soul arrives.
And who has the more persuasive experimental evidence?
He asserted that x86 architechture was doomed to extinction. Yet the majority of the -planet- uses an x86 machine of some sort as of 2008.
*sigh* That old chestnut.
Every x86 processor for the last decade, whether from intel, AMD or VIA is a superscalar, out-of-order, register-rich RISC internally with a layer that decodes x86 op codes and translates them into the native RISC code. The Transmeta chips were RISC/VLIW internally and could emulate any instruction set by loading the translation code at power-up.
Got that one for my 5th birthday. I could build it off by heart after two or three goes. By the time I was 11, I had designed and build my own 4-wheel drive, independent suspension all round, 3-speed gearbox, rack and pinion steering car.
Then they said I was too big to play with toys:-( and took it all away.
You might be shocked to learn that the 2nd Amendment has exactly zero to do with hunting. The primary purpose was the belief that armed men are Citizens while unarmed ones were only Subjects. That the carrying of arms was itself a virtue, helping to keep a Free People in the right frame of mind to be worthy of receiving the Blessings of Liberty.
So why are your rights being continually eroded by those in power, and why is G W Bush still in office? What about the voting "anomalies?" What about the power of corporations over your rights and freedoms? How has your gun helped you there, citizen?
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Open fire! All weapons. Send out rocket AJAX to bring back his body.
and there's windbg for debugging
windbag? /me ducks.
so long as they serve Irn Bru i'll be happy
Scottish astronauts?
"Ah, but," as a self-righteous I'm-a-Christian once told me, "They're not real Christians."
Joe User will not want it if it takes an 8 year degree in computer science to figure out how to change directories.
So, you were burned by VMS on a VAX cluster too...
Well good luck to all of you. It's refreshing to see something positive in this country. Work hard and hopefully you'll see it fly.
Well, apart from the bits that have been built that is. Go take a look at one of the engine test rigs on the Reaction Engines website, or even take a look at the youtube video of one of the test runs of that test rig.
Yes, a friend of mine went to a talk by you guys and saw your air cooler thingy. Very impressive. And that's as far as it will get. That's my point. How does it increase the profit margin of insurers? How will City workers get a bonus out of it? How will it reduce Tesco's logistics costs?
Some science and engineering papers will get written and in 50 years time someone will have a similar idea and crib from your plans.
Britain is a festering pit of racism, conceitedness and cynicism. Bread and the Circus. Celebrity culture, you get the idea.
Bristol Spaceplanes had better relocate if it wants to see its ideas flourish.
The last major triumphs of British engineering to actually get built were Concorde and the Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors.
Ever since then the can't-do-won't-do attitude of Britain's "financial service economy" curtails any great technological projects. The only things that get built are science projects, with meager government funding.
Reaction Engines/Bristol Spaceplanes have some very interesting engine designs like SABRE. These are the people who designed the RB545 for Hotol (another great British triumph of procrastination over achievement).
Mark my words, this will sit firmly on the drawing board and will probably be reinvented in 20-30 years by the Chinese. The American's won't have it since they didn't invent it.
It sucks to be British unless you're in Banking or Insurance. Still, mustn't grumble. At least we're not French or German or foreign. Time for a nice cup of tea and a sit down.
That's absolutely correct. I don't much care if the whole nation votes unanimously to kill me, I'm still going to defend myself until I run out of ammo.
I notice you are not an American, but your comment has implications for the validity of Capital Punishment, where the nation has effectively voted to kill certain people.
Why should the State have the power of life and death?
And you, Mr Stork, will be out of business!
Have you smelled the average /.er? Nope, regular guys will just get more.
I thought they were all Arts Critics and Environmentalists.
There's a native Linux binary for that :-) /me ducks.
This won't be allowed to happen. IKEA will go out of business.
What about putting up shelves and topping up the oil in the car?
The Pentium Pro (and hence Pentium II) and everything thereafter from intel is internally RISC.
The Cyrix 6x86 onwards (now VIA) was RISC internally.
The AMD K6 onwards was RISC internally.
The original Pentium line was the last 386-native processor from intel. It had two integer execution units and a highly optimised floating-point unit which gave it about twice the performance of a 486 at the same clock. To get full benefit of the twin integer pipelines, you had to have pentium-optimised (i.e. instructions specially ordered) code.
It was baroque and was as far at they could take native CISC. Motorola also had a 68060, but Apple dropped that and switched over to PowerPC, which was not instruction set compatible. They opted for dynamic binary translation instead. It worked well.
The main difference is that the Catholic church says that the soul is infused upon conception, while the muslims mainly believe that it is at birth the the soul arrives.
And who has the more persuasive experimental evidence?
He asserted that x86 architechture was doomed to extinction. Yet the majority of the -planet- uses an x86 machine of some sort as of 2008.
*sigh* That old chestnut.
Every x86 processor for the last decade, whether from intel, AMD or VIA is a superscalar, out-of-order, register-rich RISC internally with a layer that decodes x86 op codes and translates them into the native RISC code. The Transmeta chips were RISC/VLIW internally and could emulate any instruction set by loading the translation code at power-up.
ODF comes from Sun, not IBM. Actually, maybe it comes from pink fairies, like OOXML and RTF. Where are my tablets?
Heh. Bonio is even endorsing Bill's new laptop.
He also paid tribute to Mr Gates, saying: "No single man on the planet has done more to impact poverty."
God bless those pagans.
Pagans have god(s) too. "Pagan" was the Roman term for country yokel. Bible-thumpers and Americans think it means "satanist."
dog bless lysdexics.
Got that one for my 5th birthday. I could build it off by heart after two or three goes. By the time I was 11, I had designed and build my own 4-wheel drive, independent suspension all round, 3-speed gearbox, rack and pinion steering car.
Then they said I was too big to play with toys :-( and took it all away.
Except that that's not quite right. It is already illegal to cause a panic by any means, including shouting "Anthrax!"
I thought they came from that neck of the woods anyway?
You might be shocked to learn that the 2nd Amendment has exactly zero to do with hunting. The primary purpose was the belief that armed men are Citizens while unarmed ones were only Subjects. That the carrying of arms was itself a virtue, helping to keep a Free People in the right frame of mind to be worthy of receiving the Blessings of Liberty.
So why are your rights being continually eroded by those in power, and why is G W Bush still in office? What about the voting "anomalies?" What about the power of corporations over your rights and freedoms? How has your gun helped you there, citizen?
/me ducks.
And G W Bushes regime too.