Not my angle - it's just that mental illness overrides whatever ideology the larger society holds. Because, you know, their brain doesn't work so good.
Yes, there truly has been a rash of pilots deliberately crashing into mountains. We should make sweeping statements about the present state of humanity based on a single incident.
And, by the way, I strongly suspect that if this theory pans out, we'll find out that the co-pilot was mentally ill and so "moral relativism" or any other ideology would matter very little.
"Was" a she? So the person was trans-gender and trying to fake their death to live as the opposite sex. It's all becoming so clear now. Ladies, beware of effeminate short French men with a funny accent.
BTW, what would you guys suggest to wean non-technical friends off FB chat,
I don't know... we've gone backwards. We started out with competing and non-compatible IM clients - AIM being the biggest. For a while we were trending toward a bunch of competing but compatible IM clients. Then everyone abandoned IM for SMS. Now they are abandoning SMS for a bunch of competing non-compatible IM clients... just on the phone this time.
I currently have WhatsApp installed for a single friend who insists on using it. It's pretty good - give that one a shot. Sometimes people invite me to a Google Hangout - and that also lets you talk or video chat for free. Viber is another one that works pretty well and gives you free calling. The desktop version does video. I have exactly one friend on that.
The worst is that they DO know, and yet still wrote a whole paper on it. They are concatenating strings in Java and Python - which is slow. Surprise, surprise, it is faster to write strings to a pre-allocated buffer, in this case the disk cache. That is the whole paper.
Germany is really struggling with exactly the problem you dismiss. It is relatively simple to take one isolated pocket and only draw from the grid when the batteries start to run low. If you can give the utility an hour's notice, they can start spooling up generators. Give them notice again when you are going to disconnect and they can orderly shut generation down.
Requiring the smooth two-way transfer of power is a more complicated problem to solve, even if it eliminates the bank of batteries. It also requires that the entire system be set up to handle distributed generation, whereas the Musk solution makes no such demand. In practical terms, this might make solar more viable in places where it is politically difficult to make infrastructure changes.
No, single stage was a non-starter - both projects failed at that goal. But there was still hope that it could be used for the stages individually - which is exactly what SpaceX is doing.
My point wasn't to be dreamy eyed and show that "with a little more time, NASA could have..." My point was only to show that others have (mostly) solved the problem that Mr. Musk is currently chasing. I applaud his very pragmatic approach to engineering - the man is really to be admired. But credit where credit is due:)
You are right that you are "locking in" a certain development environment. But that is only part of your application... you will have end-users actually putting your application to use. It is one thing to lock in your single development machine or handful of machines to a single vendor - quite another to lock in all of your users as well. It was all well and good to blow off the 5% of people back when smart phones and Macs were marginal 10 years ago. It is quite another to blow off 50% of people on alternate platforms... the calculus has changed.
It was mostly a dead end because NASA felt forced to play with it, and when it fell over and caught fire they felt very little motivation to rebuild it. Their money was on the also-doomed Lockheed space plane (Venture Star?). It's pretty clear that DC-X technology could have been used to land the first stage, even if the capsule itself still did a traditional "splashdown".
Maybe you are trying to start some kind of pedantic discussion, but I don't really understand your argument. The reality is: ActiveX: Works on MS Windows running IE. HTML5/JS/CSS: Works on Android, IOS, MacOS, Linux, Solaris, the BSDs, Chrome, Windows, Windows Phone, etc.
You can play with definitions all you like, but you are not locking yourself into a single vendor like you do with ActiveX.
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Yes, most of the services are not available here either - and I'm less than a mile from Philly, so it isn't about being out in the boondocks.
Ooops. I'm not a contractor - that was meant to say "ASK a contractor...".
It's better at extortion than at unbiased advice.
As a contractor for the Angie's List literature that they send professionals. It is really slimy.
But I think it addresses MadChicken's concern.
I (well, my wife) has Prime so I get it for free.
The 5GB is still there:
If by "abruptly" you mean "with plenty of notice and a straightforward way to download all of your old data".
Not my angle - it's just that mental illness overrides whatever ideology the larger society holds. Because, you know, their brain doesn't work so good.
Yes, there truly has been a rash of pilots deliberately crashing into mountains. We should make sweeping statements about the present state of humanity based on a single incident.
And, by the way, I strongly suspect that if this theory pans out, we'll find out that the co-pilot was mentally ill and so "moral relativism" or any other ideology would matter very little.
"Was" a she? So the person was trans-gender and trying to fake their death to live as the opposite sex. It's all becoming so clear now. Ladies, beware of effeminate short French men with a funny accent.
This is why those of us in the packaging industry would really like to get their contract :)
Android? IOS?
Yeah, it sucks. That's why I said we've gone backwards.
BTW, what would you guys suggest to wean non-technical friends off FB chat,
I don't know... we've gone backwards. We started out with competing and non-compatible IM clients - AIM being the biggest. For a while we were trending toward a bunch of competing but compatible IM clients. Then everyone abandoned IM for SMS. Now they are abandoning SMS for a bunch of competing non-compatible IM clients... just on the phone this time.
I currently have WhatsApp installed for a single friend who insists on using it. It's pretty good - give that one a shot. Sometimes people invite me to a Google Hangout - and that also lets you talk or video chat for free. Viber is another one that works pretty well and gives you free calling. The desktop version does video. I have exactly one friend on that.
The worst is that they DO know, and yet still wrote a whole paper on it. They are concatenating strings in Java and Python - which is slow. Surprise, surprise, it is faster to write strings to a pre-allocated buffer, in this case the disk cache. That is the whole paper.
Germany is really struggling with exactly the problem you dismiss. It is relatively simple to take one isolated pocket and only draw from the grid when the batteries start to run low. If you can give the utility an hour's notice, they can start spooling up generators. Give them notice again when you are going to disconnect and they can orderly shut generation down.
Requiring the smooth two-way transfer of power is a more complicated problem to solve, even if it eliminates the bank of batteries. It also requires that the entire system be set up to handle distributed generation, whereas the Musk solution makes no such demand. In practical terms, this might make solar more viable in places where it is politically difficult to make infrastructure changes.
Eliminate the batteries, system is simpler, and benefits more.
Are you sure? A bank of batteries may very well be simpler than upgrading the entire grid to handle distributed generation.
I don't think "toxic" is the word you are looking for. Maybe you are thinking of lead-acid batteries?
No, you just aren't pleasant to talk to.
No, single stage was a non-starter - both projects failed at that goal. But there was still hope that it could be used for the stages individually - which is exactly what SpaceX is doing.
My point wasn't to be dreamy eyed and show that "with a little more time, NASA could have..." My point was only to show that others have (mostly) solved the problem that Mr. Musk is currently chasing. I applaud his very pragmatic approach to engineering - the man is really to be admired. But credit where credit is due :)
You are right that you are "locking in" a certain development environment. But that is only part of your application... you will have end-users actually putting your application to use. It is one thing to lock in your single development machine or handful of machines to a single vendor - quite another to lock in all of your users as well. It was all well and good to blow off the 5% of people back when smart phones and Macs were marginal 10 years ago. It is quite another to blow off 50% of people on alternate platforms... the calculus has changed.
It was mostly a dead end because NASA felt forced to play with it, and when it fell over and caught fire they felt very little motivation to rebuild it. Their money was on the also-doomed Lockheed space plane (Venture Star?). It's pretty clear that DC-X technology could have been used to land the first stage, even if the capsule itself still did a traditional "splashdown".
I can't be the only one old enough to remember the "Delta Clipper"...
There is a huge difference between being locked into a single vendor and being "locked in" to every major platform of the day.
I don't see how that's the case.
Maybe you are trying to start some kind of pedantic discussion, but I don't really understand your argument. The reality is:
ActiveX: Works on MS Windows running IE.
HTML5/JS/CSS: Works on Android, IOS, MacOS, Linux, Solaris, the BSDs, Chrome, Windows, Windows Phone, etc.
You can play with definitions all you like, but you are not locking yourself into a single vendor like you do with ActiveX.
Aren't you civil? Good choice posting anonymously.