Not a highly placed anything, ASSHOLE!!!, just a retired info-sorter type grunt who is NOT the least bit willing to risk finding myself in Federal Prison for talking about the wrong things--or the RIGHT things too soon.
You are cordially invited to attempt an aeriel fornication upon a rotating cruller.
Absolute proof of this is to compare the modern European descendents of the barely-Bronze-Age Aryans who left the Indus Valley in the waves of the'Great Radiation' with the degenerate masses that are descended from those that lacked the ******* to risk it all.
Compare Calcutta to...say St Louis,Mo.
It is a matter of open record that the two main providors of weapons grade fissionables AND the deut/trit needed for boosting weren France and the late-lamented Union of South Africa.
The availability of hardware is not a material problem at all, but rather one of public relations and politics. Both the US and Russia have substancial numbers of surplus ICBM's which are more than competent to fill the role of expendable launch vehicle if allowed to by the political forces.
In the 'orbital life boat' role, even if the US X38 is still too far behind schedule to go into service in the imediate future, the Russian Soyuz has a 31 year record of perfect performance in bringing Cosmonauts [and a few Astronauts] back from orbit unharmed. [in 1971 a presurization valve failure caused the deaths of three Cosmonauts-since then, presure suits have been required during de-orbit and re-entry, just in case]
The MIG design works also built the 105-11 as a powered and fully controlable space-plane to maneuver in orbit and serve as an orbital taxi. It was flown eight times between November 1977 and September 1978 and is now in the VVS museum on Molino airfield near Moscow. In the book MIG [Naval Inst Press: 1994]it is clear from both the tech description and photos that this aircraft/spacecraft could be produced in quantity and at extremely reasonable cost with very little lead time.
For the short term re-supply requirement, the Progress robot freighter [loaded launch weight aprox 7 tons] is well within the capacity of several of the surplus ICBM's and is also designed to serve as both an auxiliary powersource and finally as a hauler/incinerator.
BTW there is more hardware already designed and tested by both countries , that is more advanced than these, which I cannot describe AT THIS TIME.
The cause of a recent Mars probe failure was an error in ONE line of code. Tne investment in software is far more of a factor than the cost of replacing hardware.
You will find, if you look into the matter more closely, that the only 3W 'phones [that were FCC aproved in US] were car phones/carry phones.
To the best of my knowledge, hand-helds in US have been limited to 600mW.
Every post in this discusion makes the same error of assuming that 'computer'='digital computer'.
The current trend towards digital, rather than analog is just that- a trend or fashion. [and
please no 'universal Turing machine' response]
When presented with a problem within my grasp I can 'see' the curves hanging there in Hilbert space instantly. Using Dif Anyl to calculate values for same would take many agonising hours and be far mor errorprone.
An article in Scientific American [within last 30 months] reported that an entire major module of the Analytical Engine had been constructed [after correction of a couple of minor but fatal flaws in the blueprints] and was functioning perfectly!
I have a life-long problem with writing which would seem to be the inverse of dyslexia: 'b', 'p', 'd', 'q', are almost always scrambled [randomly?] in my handwriting. This is more than enough to make me sure that dyslexia is a real neurological disorder.
if you go to any basic Chem or Physics text it should quickly become obvious that it's hard to find any thermal transfer medium better than good old H20
In the paleolithic of computers, when memory was still core, there was, for several years there was only one language which gave you both power and any degree of control over your own code.
That was IBM [360] Assembeler; and that was the context within which I spent a great deal of time working on the problem of why I was so lousy at debugging; why almost everyone else was worse; and why, the better you were at the process, the more you hated doing it!?
Several of my realizations point in still useful directions:
Competant code tends to mirror the programers' mental process'--as a result, when looking at your own code, [less than perfect??] your analytical process is overwhelmingly likely to closely paralell your origional process and as a direct result will include a paralell error or omission at the same point. [[when process=metaprocess]+\-[real positive integer]level]] This is my worst possible scenario for error detection.
Debugging someone elses code is even worse because you have to start by translating code into process, then follow process, in order to find error/omission in code. With the additional dificulty that all except a very small percentage of the very best write lousy, loopy, inefficiant code on their few good days. [exmp-Bill Gates/Windows] I ALWAYS found it to be far faster and less hellish to rewrite the routine from scratch. [at least then it was my own shit that I might find myself writing bad haiku on the walls with]
While [[process][scalar][vector]] will always yeild metaprocess; the inverse {which I couldn't generate at 0500 Lima for love or money} will give you one of the lesser orders of infinities of wrong answers as often as it will yeild the single correct answer. Seems like really poor odds to me.
***the preceeding thoughts were chipped out of Germanium bearing flint by a single naked human mind***
IMHO the most basic and definative factor in even BEGINING to grasp>comprehend>grok>love a book is re-reading! I recall with great clarity and pleasure, that with the Ring Trilogy; Heinlein's
'Time Eneough For Love';and a few other works which I hold equally high regard, the first thing that I did after first reading, was to go straight back to the beginning and read it again, with the mental equivelant of slightly changed browser settings. Cretins [at best] who spout shit about 'ruining it for them' will never be able to understand ANY fraction of the joy that can come from finding a new love of this sort.
your logic is almost as bad as your manners.
try: severe visual impairment and aproix 1 1/2 functioning hands. i try not to waste time or effort so what the hell am i responding to you for?
voluntary pmt works fine given two proviso:
moderately intel users
a min buy-in in line w/percieved value
[ARS TECHNICA lost my $$ with no way to make a small initial pmt]
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Not a highly placed anything, ASSHOLE!!!, just a retired info-sorter type grunt who is NOT the least bit willing to risk finding myself in Federal Prison for talking about the wrong things--or the RIGHT things too soon. You are cordially invited to attempt an aeriel fornication upon a rotating cruller.
Absolute proof of this is to compare the modern European descendents of the barely-Bronze-Age Aryans who left the Indus Valley in the waves of the'Great Radiation' with the degenerate masses that are descended from those that lacked the ******* to risk it all. Compare Calcutta to...say St Louis,Mo.
It is a matter of open record that the two main providors of weapons grade fissionables AND the deut/trit needed for boosting weren France and the late-lamented Union of South Africa.
The availability of hardware is not a material problem at all, but rather one of public relations and politics. Both the US and Russia have substancial numbers of surplus ICBM's which are more than competent to fill the role of expendable launch vehicle if allowed to by the political forces. In the 'orbital life boat' role, even if the US X38 is still too far behind schedule to go into service in the imediate future, the Russian Soyuz has a 31 year record of perfect performance in bringing Cosmonauts [and a few Astronauts] back from orbit unharmed. [in 1971 a presurization valve failure caused the deaths of three Cosmonauts-since then, presure suits have been required during de-orbit and re-entry, just in case] The MIG design works also built the 105-11 as a powered and fully controlable space-plane to maneuver in orbit and serve as an orbital taxi. It was flown eight times between November 1977 and September 1978 and is now in the VVS museum on Molino airfield near Moscow. In the book MIG [Naval Inst Press: 1994]it is clear from both the tech description and photos that this aircraft/spacecraft could be produced in quantity and at extremely reasonable cost with very little lead time. For the short term re-supply requirement, the Progress robot freighter [loaded launch weight aprox 7 tons] is well within the capacity of several of the surplus ICBM's and is also designed to serve as both an auxiliary powersource and finally as a hauler/incinerator. BTW there is more hardware already designed and tested by both countries , that is more advanced than these, which I cannot describe AT THIS TIME.
The cause of a recent Mars probe failure was an error in ONE line of code. Tne investment in software is far more of a factor than the cost of replacing hardware.
You will find, if you look into the matter more closely, that the only 3W 'phones [that were FCC aproved in US] were car phones/carry phones. To the best of my knowledge, hand-helds in US have been limited to 600mW.
Every post in this discusion makes the same error of assuming that 'computer'='digital computer'. The current trend towards digital, rather than analog is just that- a trend or fashion. [and please no 'universal Turing machine' response] When presented with a problem within my grasp I can 'see' the curves hanging there in Hilbert space instantly. Using Dif Anyl to calculate values for same would take many agonising hours and be far mor errorprone.
An article in Scientific American [within last 30 months] reported that an entire major module of the Analytical Engine had been constructed [after correction of a couple of minor but fatal flaws in the blueprints] and was functioning perfectly!
I have a life-long problem with writing which would seem to be the inverse of dyslexia: 'b', 'p', 'd', 'q', are almost always scrambled [randomly?] in my handwriting. This is more than enough to make me sure that dyslexia is a real neurological disorder.
if you go to any basic Chem or Physics text it should quickly become obvious that it's hard to find any thermal transfer medium better than good old H20
In the paleolithic of computers, when memory was still core, there was, for several years there was only one language which gave you both power and any degree of control over your own code. That was IBM [360] Assembeler; and that was the context within which I spent a great deal of time working on the problem of why I was so lousy at debugging; why almost everyone else was worse; and why, the better you were at the process, the more you hated doing it!? Several of my realizations point in still useful directions: Competant code tends to mirror the programers' mental process'--as a result, when looking at your own code, [less than perfect??] your analytical process is overwhelmingly likely to closely paralell your origional process and as a direct result will include a paralell error or omission at the same point. [[when process=metaprocess]+\-[real positive integer]level]] This is my worst possible scenario for error detection. Debugging someone elses code is even worse because you have to start by translating code into process, then follow process, in order to find error/omission in code. With the additional dificulty that all except a very small percentage of the very best write lousy, loopy, inefficiant code on their few good days. [exmp-Bill Gates/Windows] I ALWAYS found it to be far faster and less hellish to rewrite the routine from scratch. [at least then it was my own shit that I might find myself writing bad haiku on the walls with] While [[process][scalar][vector]] will always yeild metaprocess; the inverse {which I couldn't generate at 0500 Lima for love or money} will give you one of the lesser orders of infinities of wrong answers as often as it will yeild the single correct answer. Seems like really poor odds to me. ***the preceeding thoughts were chipped out of Germanium bearing flint by a single naked human mind***
IMHO the most basic and definative factor in even BEGINING to grasp>comprehend>grok>love a book is re-reading! I recall with great clarity and pleasure, that with the Ring Trilogy; Heinlein's 'Time Eneough For Love' ;and a few other works which I hold equally high regard, the first thing that I did after first reading, was to go straight back to the beginning and read it again, with the mental equivelant of slightly changed browser settings. Cretins [at best] who spout shit about 'ruining it for them' will never be able to understand ANY fraction of the joy that can come from finding a new love of this sort.
your logic is almost as bad as your manners. try: severe visual impairment and aproix 1 1/2 functioning hands. i try not to waste time or effort so what the hell am i responding to you for?
the Trinity site--as inescapable from the Hydro, the burning ANYTHING plants, TMI,and any really big open-pit
voluntary pmt works fine given two proviso: moderately intel users a min buy-in in line w/percieved value [ARS TECHNICA lost my $$ with no way to make a small initial pmt]