Indeed. By the time we can do today's 'meaningful computation' for almost no energy, the definition will have changed to make it as 'meaningful' as what we used to run on a 6502.
As it is, it takes 2 minutes to access the port to reprogram keys. If that port and its wires were buried in the engine so that you had to put the car on a lift and take it half apart to access, they'd move on to easier targets.
I really want to have to pay for $500 of labor on top of the $100 for a new key next time my girlfriend loses one.
And I really, really want to have to take half the car apart to find out that the 'check engine' light is on because the fuel cap is loose (yeah, OK, the fuel cap is the first thing I check now when the light comes on).
Someone did this in one of my old cars before I bought it. Worked OK until the switch burned out and the car wouldn't start. That left me sitting at the side of the road pulling wires out from under the dashboard, which lead to an interesting conversation with the police when they drove past...
And the West has a long history of deposing people with a 'horrible record with political dissidents and human rights'... to replace them with someone much worse.
I know many people who aren't in the 'top 20' on Amazon who make a living from self-published fiction.
At least in SF, a typical mid-list advance for a 'physical book using normal means' seems to be around $20,000; if you don't believe me, read some of the posts on the web from mid-list writers complaining that advances are lower today than they were twenty years ago. A typical advance for a new writer seems to be around $5,000.
If you sell an e-book for $4.99 you need to find about 6,000 fans to make $20,000, or about 1,500 to make $5,000.
Sure, Linux runs on tons of stuff but where there is a real choice people stayed with MS.
Where is there 'a real choice'? Most people don't run Linux because they can't run the Windows-only Happy Kitteh Screen Saver or whatever other Windows program they believe they can't live without.
The problem with your thinking is that copyright and other "intellectual property" is keeping that process from happening, so information is lost to the universe. That should be viewed as a tragedy.
One day, all copies of Goatse will be lost to the universe. Most of us won't view that as a tragedy.
If you're writing something that necessarily CANNOT be objectively checked (in this case, a novelist's inspiration for writing a novel), then which "secondary sources" are going to exist?
A secondary source which says 'Joe Writer said that Foobar Smythe was based on his friend Joe Bloggs'?
Unless "Do Not Track" is actually an explicit expression of a user's conscious intent, it will face the same hypothetical fate and become yet another ignored standard.
So you think most users WANT to be tracked by every shitty ad server on the Internet and only a few people don't?
If Expert X says 'no, woozits are green', how exactly is a non-expert editor or reader supposed to verify that? Is everyone reading the article supposed to contact Expert X and ask them 'are you sure woozits are really green?'
And my experience is that Wikipedia is generally pretty good for any technical subject and pretty hopeless for anything controversial.
And Jellybeans is just Android 4.1. That's not a major revision, that's a just minor one, hence the ".1" and the minor number of changes compared to Ice Cream Sandwich version - Android 4.0.
True. My tablet updated a few days ago and I've barely noticed any difference between 4.1 and 4.0... graphics seem to be smoother and the wi-fi icon no longer works.
Because most users don't install Windows themselves?
Duh, you've got it, young padawan.
The only reason people think Windows is easy to install compared to Linux is because they don't do it. Take a blank PC and a fresh Windows install CD and see how easy it is to get running.
You mean the kind of people who, after numerous studies, decided that we should remove the Start Menu and make users type in the name of the application they want to run, or pick them from a scrolling screenful of huge icons?
The problem here is the assumption that something is broken.
Gnome 3 and Unity are broken.
Other than that, I can't think of much else. Except the Gnome developers seem to have added new bugs to every release of Gnome 2 in the year or so before they ditched it. My Ubuntu 11.x system has a ton of bugs which don't affect Gnome 2 on CentOS 5.
It's the learning curve that puts most people off.
You mean a UI barely distinguishable from the XP they've been using for a decade?
However, most people's experience of Linux is a troublesome couple of days trying to get some obscure bit of hardware working properly followed by a full on feet-eating system meltdown due to excessive fiddling in the wrong places.
Weird. My desktop Linux systems just work... at least as well as the Windows ones ever did.
My experience of Windows 7 is spending a troublesome couple of days trying to get my laptop to boot after I installed a larger hard drive and reinstalled Windows which then failed because 'some stupid service is not running', which eventually turned out to be because it couldn't install on a larger hard drive unless you uninstalled some weird and unnecessary Intel driver that it wanted to install for me. With a learning curve like that, why would anyone want to run Windows?
How heavy is "heavy lift"? SpaceX has the Falcon Heavy on the roadmap. Supposed to lift over double the capacity of the Shuttle.
Considering the shuttle launched something like a quarter as much as the Saturn V, launching twice as much isn't really saying a lot.
But it also avoids the biggest problem of the SLS: you spend billions and billions and billions of dollars developing something that flies perhaps a dozen times over the next decade, so every single launch starts with a base cost of a billion dollars or more when you spread the development costs over a tiny number of launches. The Falcon Heavy would be based on the Falcon 9, so most of the development costs are already paid for.
There were studies on using a barge to move Saturn rockets to and from the pads, but they seemed quite hokey. I believe there are some papers about them on NTRS.
Even if it's another entity besides NASA that builds a heavy lift rocket, they are going to need somewhere to launch it from.
NASA are the only entity likely to build a heavy lift rocket in the near future because it makes no financial sense. And even if SpaceX did build one, they'd be unlikely to pay for NASA infrastructure to launch it.
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Indeed. By the time we can do today's 'meaningful computation' for almost no energy, the definition will have changed to make it as 'meaningful' as what we used to run on a 6502.
Or you could drive a ten year old Italian car, then you wouldn't even have to shoot it.
As it is, it takes 2 minutes to access the port to reprogram keys. If that port and its wires were buried in the engine so that you had to put the car on a lift and take it half apart to access, they'd move on to easier targets.
I really want to have to pay for $500 of labor on top of the $100 for a new key next time my girlfriend loses one.
And I really, really want to have to take half the car apart to find out that the 'check engine' light is on because the fuel cap is loose (yeah, OK, the fuel cap is the first thing I check now when the light comes on).
Someone did this in one of my old cars before I bought it. Worked OK until the switch burned out and the car wouldn't start. That left me sitting at the side of the road pulling wires out from under the dashboard, which lead to an interesting conversation with the police when they drove past...
PGP is over twenty years old, and I'm not aware of it being broken other than by rubber hoses or brute force on short keys.
You don't need physical security, you just need security developers of clue.
And the West has a long history of deposing people with a 'horrible record with political dissidents and human rights'... to replace them with someone much worse.
What's the problem? You just attach a big magnifying glass in front of the screen, like 'Brazil'.
You run Windows? On servers?
I know many people who aren't in the 'top 20' on Amazon who make a living from self-published fiction.
At least in SF, a typical mid-list advance for a 'physical book using normal means' seems to be around $20,000; if you don't believe me, read some of the posts on the web from mid-list writers complaining that advances are lower today than they were twenty years ago. A typical advance for a new writer seems to be around $5,000.
If you sell an e-book for $4.99 you need to find about 6,000 fans to make $20,000, or about 1,500 to make $5,000.
Sure, Linux runs on tons of stuff but where there is a real choice people stayed with MS.
Where is there 'a real choice'? Most people don't run Linux because they can't run the Windows-only Happy Kitteh Screen Saver or whatever other Windows program they believe they can't live without.
The problem with your thinking is that copyright and other "intellectual property" is keeping that process from happening, so information is lost to the universe. That should be viewed as a tragedy.
One day, all copies of Goatse will be lost to the universe. Most of us won't view that as a tragedy.
If you're writing something that necessarily CANNOT be objectively checked (in this case, a novelist's inspiration for writing a novel), then which "secondary sources" are going to exist?
A secondary source which says 'Joe Writer said that Foobar Smythe was based on his friend Joe Bloggs'?
You clearly don't get this Wikipedia thing.
It was nearly impossible to search for anything ... until Google figured how to monatize search with ads.
Yeah, because there were no search engines before Google. And the more Google has 'monatized' (sic) its searches, the worse they've become.
Unless "Do Not Track" is actually an explicit expression of a user's conscious intent, it will face the same hypothetical fate and become yet another ignored standard.
So you think most users WANT to be tracked by every shitty ad server on the Internet and only a few people don't?
If Expert X says 'no, woozits are green', how exactly is a non-expert editor or reader supposed to verify that? Is everyone reading the article supposed to contact Expert X and ask them 'are you sure woozits are really green?'
And my experience is that Wikipedia is generally pretty good for any technical subject and pretty hopeless for anything controversial.
And Jellybeans is just Android 4.1. That's not a major revision, that's a just minor one, hence the ".1" and the minor number of changes compared to Ice Cream Sandwich version - Android 4.0.
True. My tablet updated a few days ago and I've barely noticed any difference between 4.1 and 4.0... graphics seem to be smoother and the wi-fi icon no longer works.
Because most users don't install Windows themselves?
Duh, you've got it, young padawan.
The only reason people think Windows is easy to install compared to Linux is because they don't do it. Take a blank PC and a fresh Windows install CD and see how easy it is to get running.
Install? Boot from CD, select 'install', click 'next' a couple of times. Fsckload easier than installing Windows.
Use? If you can use XP you can use Gnome 2. Shame about the 'new and improved' UIs that have replaced it.
You mean the kind of people who, after numerous studies, decided that we should remove the Start Menu and make users type in the name of the application they want to run, or pick them from a scrolling screenful of huge icons?
That kind of 'UX expert'?
The problem here is the assumption that something is broken.
Gnome 3 and Unity are broken.
Other than that, I can't think of much else. Except the Gnome developers seem to have added new bugs to every release of Gnome 2 in the year or so before they ditched it. My Ubuntu 11.x system has a ton of bugs which don't affect Gnome 2 on CentOS 5.
By adopting the Android desktop.
Good one. Someone mod them funny.
It's the learning curve that puts most people off.
You mean a UI barely distinguishable from the XP they've been using for a decade?
However, most people's experience of Linux is a troublesome couple of days trying to get some obscure bit of hardware working properly followed by a full on feet-eating system meltdown due to excessive fiddling in the wrong places.
Weird. My desktop Linux systems just work... at least as well as the Windows ones ever did.
My experience of Windows 7 is spending a troublesome couple of days trying to get my laptop to boot after I installed a larger hard drive and reinstalled Windows which then failed because 'some stupid service is not running', which eventually turned out to be because it couldn't install on a larger hard drive unless you uninstalled some weird and unnecessary Intel driver that it wanted to install for me. With a learning curve like that, why would anyone want to run Windows?
How heavy is "heavy lift"? SpaceX has the Falcon Heavy on the roadmap. Supposed to lift over double the capacity of the Shuttle.
Considering the shuttle launched something like a quarter as much as the Saturn V, launching twice as much isn't really saying a lot.
But it also avoids the biggest problem of the SLS: you spend billions and billions and billions of dollars developing something that flies perhaps a dozen times over the next decade, so every single launch starts with a base cost of a billion dollars or more when you spread the development costs over a tiny number of launches. The Falcon Heavy would be based on the Falcon 9, so most of the development costs are already paid for.
There were studies on using a barge to move Saturn rockets to and from the pads, but they seemed quite hokey. I believe there are some papers about them on NTRS.
Even if it's another entity besides NASA that builds a heavy lift rocket, they are going to need somewhere to launch it from.
NASA are the only entity likely to build a heavy lift rocket in the near future because it makes no financial sense. And even if SpaceX did build one, they'd be unlikely to pay for NASA infrastructure to launch it.