Somehow I suspect most airlines consider not catching on fire more important than a slight improvement in fuel efficiency. Someone's going to lose a shedload of money if these planes are out of service for long.
The reactor would not be powered up until late in the launch, possibly not even until it had reached parking orbit and was leaving for its destination. For NERVA launches which started the reactor before reaching orbit, the trajectory was chosen so if there was a failure the reactor would crash in Antarctica... unfortunately that made it far less efficient so it's debatable as to whether it was worthwhile.
Well, yes. Some people still don't like the mouse.
But, but, but... the Gnome/Unity/Windows 8 fanboys keep telling us how wonderful they are because you can just press $MAGIC_KEY and then type the name of an app to start it, rather than having to use an evil menu.
How many of your Android tablet apps will run on your desktop/laptop?
My desktop and laptop don't run Android.
Every Windows RT app that I've bought works on both my Surface RT and my two Windows 8 machines.
Yeah, great.
Out in the real world, we don't buy a new version of Windows (sorry, I guess it's Window now since it's all designed for full-screen apps) so we can run new apps on an old version of Window, we buy a new version of Window to run old apps from old versions of Window and DOS on the new one. If those apps don't run, there's no reason to pick Window over a more robust and user-friendly operating system.
That's about 6x the cost of a hard drive, in terms of dollars per GB.
Only if you buy a 1TB hard drive. If you buy a 3TB drive, it's about 12x the cost per GB.
Hard drives have a minimum price they can't go below, because of all the hardware required to get those disks spinning and read and write to them. Additional capacity doesn't add so much once you go above that level.
Uh, the technical solution is... drum roll please... don't conduct man in the middle attacks on SSL sessions.
And my technical solution is... never buy a Nokia phone.
As for 'discrediting the other party', anyone who thinks that a third party cracking my SSL session to my bank is no big deal has already discredited themselves. The fact that we have a dozen or people people in this thread saying it's OK is a clear sign of how far Slashdot has sunk.
Yeah, because having the browser display the page locally is just exactly the same as having a remote server decrypt your connection as a man in the middle.
When did using cat (aka 'concatenate files and print on the standard output') to concatenate multiple files and print them to the standard output as input to another command become 'useless use of cat'?
Won't things that use the CLR run without recompilation?
Only if they don't call native code at any point, or only call native code that exists on ARM versions of Windows. If they bundle an x86 version of zlib.dll and call it to read.zip files, for example, you're probably screwed.
Weird. When I search on Google the first three million results are usually ad farms that have no bearing on what I was searching for, and then about ten million results in I find someone's personal web page with the information I actually wanted.
When did Google 'get so much better at searching'? Everything they've done in the last few years seems to have been designed to give me more and more unrelated results ('I'm going to give you results for what you searched for and for any word I think is vaguely similar, because you obviously don't know what you really wanted to search for'), and not the ones I actually want.
For example: you know that awesome startup you wanna create someday by coding some amazing app in your mom's basement? Good luck being successful with that without software patents.
Good luck coding that amazing app with software patents, because the patent trolls will take any money you make.
Hardware patents are moderately justifiable since building a new jet engine costs many millions of dollars and I can't violate your patents in my basement for $500. Software patents are simply retarded, since anyone who downloads a free compiler can violate them, probably without even realising.
After more than half a century of big rockets, they still crash far too often. About 5%-10% of satellite launches still fail.
Uh, no. A typical failure rate for a well-established launcher is 2%.
And many of those failures are 'well, we can't get to orbit any more so we might as well crash and burn' types that wouldn't apply to a manned launcher which can shut the engine down and fly back. Current unmanned satellite launchers aren't designed to bring the satellite back if something goes badly wrong, because the costs would outweigh the benefits.
Um, the viruses you see infecting systems will, pretty much by definition, be the ones that get past the AV software. You won't be asked to remove a virus that the AV software on the machine will catch, because the AV software will catch it.
Maybe because we're sick of having to deal with kids who think the world revolves around them because their parents give them everything and don't know how to say 'no'?
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Uh, they've already done that. At least in America and the UK.
Somehow I suspect most airlines consider not catching on fire more important than a slight improvement in fuel efficiency. Someone's going to lose a shedload of money if these planes are out of service for long.
The reactor would not be powered up until late in the launch, possibly not even until it had reached parking orbit and was leaving for its destination. For NERVA launches which started the reactor before reaching orbit, the trajectory was chosen so if there was a failure the reactor would crash in Antarctica... unfortunately that made it far less efficient so it's debatable as to whether it was worthwhile.
Well, yes. Some people still don't like the mouse.
But, but, but... the Gnome/Unity/Windows 8 fanboys keep telling us how wonderful they are because you can just press $MAGIC_KEY and then type the name of an app to start it, rather than having to use an evil menu.
That's obvious BS, because the Transformer is so top-heavy that if you touch the screen without holding it up with your other hand it falls over.
I bought the keyboard dock with my Transformer because it seemed like a good idea, but in reality it's only useful for the extra battery.
Now try and draw using a mouse, a touchpad, or a nub-mouse. Now use a touchscreen (whatever type). See how much easier it is?
Yeah, because computer hardware should be designed around use cases from three year olds who'd be better off with a piece of paper and a crayon.
How many of your Android tablet apps will run on your desktop/laptop?
My desktop and laptop don't run Android.
Every Windows RT app that I've bought works on both my Surface RT and my two Windows 8 machines.
Yeah, great.
Out in the real world, we don't buy a new version of Windows (sorry, I guess it's Window now since it's all designed for full-screen apps) so we can run new apps on an old version of Window, we buy a new version of Window to run old apps from old versions of Window and DOS on the new one. If those apps don't run, there's no reason to pick Window over a more robust and user-friendly operating system.
Microsoft astroturfing is really getting lame.
Don't forget 64-bit Firefox.
Or all the other 64-bit browsers.
Oh, I just realised he's running on that wacky Windows thing, where the OS is 64-bit but 99% of apps are still 32-bit.
That's about 6x the cost of a hard drive, in terms of dollars per GB.
Only if you buy a 1TB hard drive. If you buy a 3TB drive, it's about 12x the cost per GB.
Hard drives have a minimum price they can't go below, because of all the hardware required to get those disks spinning and read and write to them. Additional capacity doesn't add so much once you go above that level.
But the fact remains that young males commit most violent crimes. The solution, obviously, is to lock them in the basement until they're forty.
If you're training to use a gun in self-defense, what exactly do you think you should be shooting at?
I presume the police also 'glorify killing', since they shoot at human-shaped targets too?
Uh, the technical solution is... drum roll please... don't conduct man in the middle attacks on SSL sessions.
And my technical solution is... never buy a Nokia phone.
As for 'discrediting the other party', anyone who thinks that a third party cracking my SSL session to my bank is no big deal has already discredited themselves. The fact that we have a dozen or people people in this thread saying it's OK is a clear sign of how far Slashdot has sunk.
Uh, my ISP can record all the SSL connections they want, because they can't decrypt what I'm sending.
So are Nokia spending their Microsoft billion on astroturfing Slashdot, or does it just look like they are?
Yeah, because having the browser display the page locally is just exactly the same as having a remote server decrypt your connection as a man in the middle.
You earned yourself a Useless Use of Cat Award!
When did using cat (aka 'concatenate files and print on the standard output') to concatenate multiple files and print them to the standard output as input to another command become 'useless use of cat'?
Why would anyone in their right mind want to run Windows if it won't run their crusty old Windows apps?
Duh. Where is lead contamination most likely: a poor ghetto or a rich gated community? Which is more likely to have a higher rate of violent crime?
Won't things that use the CLR run without recompilation?
Only if they don't call native code at any point, or only call native code that exists on ARM versions of Windows. If they bundle an x86 version of zlib.dll and call it to read .zip files, for example, you're probably screwed.
Weird. When I search on Google the first three million results are usually ad farms that have no bearing on what I was searching for, and then about ten million results in I find someone's personal web page with the information I actually wanted.
When did Google 'get so much better at searching'? Everything they've done in the last few years seems to have been designed to give me more and more unrelated results ('I'm going to give you results for what you searched for and for any word I think is vaguely similar, because you obviously don't know what you really wanted to search for'), and not the ones I actually want.
My post was supposed to say 'less than 2%', but Slashdot ate the less than sign.
For example: you know that awesome startup you wanna create someday by coding some amazing app in your mom's basement? Good luck being successful with that without software patents.
Good luck coding that amazing app with software patents, because the patent trolls will take any money you make.
Hardware patents are moderately justifiable since building a new jet engine costs many millions of dollars and I can't violate your patents in my basement for $500. Software patents are simply retarded, since anyone who downloads a free compiler can violate them, probably without even realising.
After more than half a century of big rockets, they still crash far too often. About 5%-10% of satellite launches still fail.
Uh, no. A typical failure rate for a well-established launcher is 2%.
And many of those failures are 'well, we can't get to orbit any more so we might as well crash and burn' types that wouldn't apply to a manned launcher which can shut the engine down and fly back. Current unmanned satellite launchers aren't designed to bring the satellite back if something goes badly wrong, because the costs would outweigh the benefits.
Um, the viruses you see infecting systems will, pretty much by definition, be the ones that get past the AV software. You won't be asked to remove a virus that the AV software on the machine will catch, because the AV software will catch it.
Maybe because we're sick of having to deal with kids who think the world revolves around them because their parents give them everything and don't know how to say 'no'?
Better yet, have them all die in a massive pet/mafia war. You could even create a new game: Fluffy vs Mafia.