what's the point of reliability features appropriate to business big iron on a 1990s vector supercomputer architecture? the IBM mainframe kicks its butt in reliability and DBMS TPM, the power7 and sun t4-4 kick its butt in perfomance.....what's the point of Itanic?
the debt-notes of the banking cartel that we falsely call money are of course all a scam and used by a very small group of elite to drain our wealth. we should be rounding up and arresting the banking cartel thugs for treason and acts of war.
maybe that 1950s IC post was by another anti-space nutter AC, you all look alike you know.
Those early mainframes didn't use integrated circuits, it took the space program's Apollo Guidance System (1963 - ) to push that.
Amusing you brought up SAGE, as ICBM are of course part of and intertwined with the story of the space age and space age technology. In fact, I'd say it was downright stupid of your and hurts your arguments terribly.
We all reap the many benefits of the space program, GPS and weather and geoscience and comm satellites to name a few.
Intel has had its share of buggy and bad designs, and that's even without going into discussion of the HMSS Itanic. Some AMD chips do great job of bang for the buck, my laptop has a nice dual core one that made the cost much less than comparable Intel chip would.
Still, AMD needs to get more risky with heavy investment into more advanced design and fab. mediocrity just isn't tolerated in processor design.
The U.S. space program did make cause many advances in technology. Your linked stupidity and ignorance of the history of technology is amusing. Especially your mentioning of an integrated circuit patent from the Sputnik era with no practical or commericial application whatsoever. You anti-space nutters sure are a piece of work....
and my parents had the money to well feed the family of seven, to send us to private school for junior high and high school, and to travel, and to loan us money for college (yes, I paid it back with interest [as thanks] over the next ten years). my mom and dad each had a car. later we kids had cars that we paid for ourselves with our summer and side jobs.
In short, we were not in low wage class as half of U.S. people are today. and only my dad worked while we were home. mom later got part time job when last of kids in high school, not of necessity but of being industrious when house not full of kids.
News for you, pal, our standard of living is dropping and now over half of the USA is lower income or in poverty. In the 50s/60s, one man with one job could have the house, car, extra income for vacations. I know, I was there.
Plenty of economists believe real wealth creation, rather than paper pyramid scams, are the key to national prosperity. Just because you choose to believe the ones that shill for the banking cartel and stock/derivatives market doesn't mean the wiser points of view don't exist.
more like revenge on a system using technology to control and harass. It's coming, and it'll be huge. frank herbert had a notion of such a thing and called it the butlerian jihad. you are going to see old mild mannered "pillar of the community" types snap. very, very soon
I think they'll muddle along as they always have. they're the convenience store instead of grocery store... the weirdo plugs and adapters that no one else locally has, the universal dc power supplies, a roll of wire, the odd discrete electronic component....
oh no, eight is the minimum recommended length. 12345678 is the shortest secure password you should be using. or qwertyui. wait, please don't use that second one, it's my paypal password
false, solar panels do degrade, about 0.5% or more per year, rising as time goes on. You might be lucky and have 80% at 20-25 years, or not. maintained nuclear plants work for over 60 years, I've scheduled such maintenance.
your solar panel will degrade to uselessness in a couple of decades, while the reactor will be going strong and probably even be producing slightly more power do to up-rating modifications.
whom do you mean by "our". I don't have to follow some organisation's (IAU) definition of a planet which is disputed by plenty of reputable scientists. nor yours.
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what's the point of reliability features appropriate to business big iron on a 1990s vector supercomputer architecture? the IBM mainframe kicks its butt in reliability and DBMS TPM, the power7 and sun t4-4 kick its butt in perfomance.....what's the point of Itanic?
yes, and I use gobs of the stuff
can you fake a hispanic accent, our BATF might sell you some machine guns just to see what you'll do with them....
but that's no fun, very unlikely a simple failure could kill anyone. this newfangled this adds more thrill and risk
but then have to spend more on the processor. I'd rather be spending my money on RAM
making a design without a good market is a bad design. Oracle's T4-4 and IBM Power7 kick Itanium's butt in most real world applications.
the debt-notes of the banking cartel that we falsely call money are of course all a scam and used by a very small group of elite to drain our wealth. we should be rounding up and arresting the banking cartel thugs for treason and acts of war.
and of course SAGE used vacuum tubes. all down the toilet with the ICBM and the kind of systems NORAD needed for those.
maybe that 1950s IC post was by another anti-space nutter AC, you all look alike you know.
Those early mainframes didn't use integrated circuits, it took the space program's Apollo Guidance System (1963 - ) to push that.
Amusing you brought up SAGE, as ICBM are of course part of and intertwined with the story of the space age and space age technology. In fact, I'd say it was downright stupid of your and hurts your arguments terribly.
We all reap the many benefits of the space program, GPS and weather and geoscience and comm satellites to name a few.
Intel has had its share of buggy and bad designs, and that's even without going into discussion of the HMSS Itanic. Some AMD chips do great job of bang for the buck, my laptop has a nice dual core one that made the cost much less than comparable Intel chip would.
Still, AMD needs to get more risky with heavy investment into more advanced design and fab. mediocrity just isn't tolerated in processor design.
The U.S. space program did make cause many advances in technology. Your linked stupidity and ignorance of the history of technology is amusing. Especially your mentioning of an integrated circuit patent from the Sputnik era with no practical or commericial application whatsoever. You anti-space nutters sure are a piece of work....
and my parents had the money to well feed the family of seven, to send us to private school for junior high and high school, and to travel, and to loan us money for college (yes, I paid it back with interest [as thanks] over the next ten years). my mom and dad each had a car. later we kids had cars that we paid for ourselves with our summer and side jobs.
In short, we were not in low wage class as half of U.S. people are today. and only my dad worked while we were home. mom later got part time job when last of kids in high school, not of necessity but of being industrious when house not full of kids.
at the average of $35K a year, I think that $200K house is going to be out of reach
what muslim president? the USA has never had one
News for you, pal, our standard of living is dropping and now over half of the USA is lower income or in poverty. In the 50s/60s, one man with one job could have the house, car, extra income for vacations. I know, I was there.
Plenty of economists believe real wealth creation, rather than paper pyramid scams, are the key to national prosperity. Just because you choose to believe the ones that shill for the banking cartel and stock/derivatives market doesn't mean the wiser points of view don't exist.
more like revenge on a system using technology to control and harass. It's coming, and it'll be huge. frank herbert had a notion of such a thing and called it the butlerian jihad. you are going to see old mild mannered "pillar of the community" types snap. very, very soon
I've always used computers in the engineering realm, and so at times in my career taken pure IT jobs.
yes, I am an engineering physicist, while you are fed by marketing wanks
I think they'll muddle along as they always have. they're the convenience store instead of grocery store... the weirdo plugs and adapters that no one else locally has, the universal dc power supplies, a roll of wire, the odd discrete electronic component....
oh no, eight is the minimum recommended length. 12345678 is the shortest secure password you should be using. or qwertyui. wait, please don't use that second one, it's my paypal password
look at a chart of sea level rise since the last ice age. the sea is rising much more slowly than it did thousands of years ago.
office depot and officemax have computer stuff too. and there is Fry's and there is still Radio Shack.
false, solar panels do degrade, about 0.5% or more per year, rising as time goes on. You might be lucky and have 80% at 20-25 years, or not. maintained nuclear plants work for over 60 years, I've scheduled such maintenance.
your solar panel will degrade to uselessness in a couple of decades, while the reactor will be going strong and probably even be producing slightly more power do to up-rating modifications.
whom do you mean by "our". I don't have to follow some organisation's (IAU) definition of a planet which is disputed by plenty of reputable scientists. nor yours.