Had to be the video of the astronauts opening up the space capsule with the required safety goggles and masks.
In microgravity, loose things float around. If something sharp came loose inside the Dragon, you don't want it to get in your eye. In an environment that's been entirely sealed for days, material outgassing or particulate breakdown can cause hazards which wouldn't be a problem on Earth because air movement would carry it away. So goggles and masks make sense.
Its great to see private enterprise enter the space race now, maybe NASA will stop billing $20k for a toilet seat and $30k for a hammer because SpaceX can get them at Walmart for $5 a piece.
Which is fine until the toxic outgassing from your $5 Chinese toilet seat poisons the atmosphere over the next month and kills the crew.
One of the reasons space is legitimately expensive is because many things become complex when you don't have any gravity and are living in a sealed environment.
I said it before, and I'll say it again. The EU's problems are the result of a political structure and cannot succeed due to lack of sufficient federalization.
The EU was created in the hope that a 'beneficial crisis' would allow them to force centralised control onto people who didn't want it.
It's currently breaking apart because that was a fscking stupid idea. No-one wants to be told what to do by French and German politicians in Brussels.
As long as the government is intervening in their every day life by providing a safety net for their irresponsible decisions, how is this a bad thing?
Who is the government to tell people that they're being irresponsible? And, if they are but aren't harming anyone else, so what?
Do you really, seriously, truthfully believe that the Nanny State banning big sodas won't prevent soda addicts from... drum roll please... buying two of them?
All this really does is prove that politicians are stupider than people who drink ten liters of soda in a day.
it *already* costs 20 mil to pay Russia to send you to the space station via soyuz, including training, and has for a few years now.
Perhaps for an indvidual, but NASA are paying over $50,000,000 a seat. And I believe that Soyuz is already flying in order to take Russian crews to ISS, NASA aren't buying an entire flight just for their astronauts.
The whole thing seems to be kind of coasting without a lot of funding or urgency.
The big difference is this: SpaceX is launching pizza to the space station, Spaceship Two is launching paying customers for short trips into space. Astronauts would be annoyed if their pizza delivery was late, but that's nothing compared to half a dozen families crying on TV because you just blew up their mum or dad because you rushed your rocket into service without proper testing.
Running PC games can easily take 300-500W with a high-end graphics card. Posting on Facebook probably uses 30-50W on a modern desktop PC (plus whatever the monitor uses in both cases).
The US military should have a strict policy of only buying military parts from sovereign, free, democratic countries with a long history of friendship, such as Israel, Canada, Europe, Japan and South Korea.
Didn't the US and UK governments sell crypto equipment they knew they could break to their 'allies' during the Cold War?
I'm not sure, every article I've read seems to refer to websites based here rather than visible from here. I have yet to see anything that implies the law would be applied to sites hosted elsewhere or by companies based outside of the UK.
Don't forget 'The Cloud'. Last time I tried a traceroute to my web site it appeared to be in Germany... I've no idea where it might be running today.
At best it takes jobs away from low-paid workers and gives them to criminals, at worst it encourages the government to lock people up in order to make money.
They've offered the free "express" version lately, but it has always been kind of demo version, or for students. You have always had to buy the full version to do some serious development.
Bollocks. I've done 'serious development' of open source Windows software in the 'express' version of Visual Studio.
You had to manually download and install SDKs, but nothing prevented you from building complex code.
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I somehow think you are mistaken, I don't see a lot of Redhat running arm devices around
My ex-employer ran a cut-down version of Redhat on their ARM-based systems. But they also built all the hardware so it was a non-issue.
But that is there. In the UEFI (read: "BIOS") settings.
For now.
And it's a heck of a lot more complex than 'insert CD, boot and come back to your newly installed operating system after a coffee break'.
Or just letting users install whatever OS they want?
That is Before Jobs thinking.
Today users are fully aware that their computers should be locked down and not allow them to do anything that The Jobs wouldn't let them do.
If Dell wants Windows Certification it better not do this. Per the Windows Certification Requirements, page 122:
Of course for Windows 9, blocking non-Windows operating systems will become mandatory on all devices.
You don't get the 'slippery slope' thing, do you? Or are you one of those 'slippery slopes don't exist' bozos?
Had to be the video of the astronauts opening up the space capsule with the required safety goggles and masks.
In microgravity, loose things float around. If something sharp came loose inside the Dragon, you don't want it to get in your eye. In an environment that's been entirely sealed for days, material outgassing or particulate breakdown can cause hazards which wouldn't be a problem on Earth because air movement would carry it away. So goggles and masks make sense.
Its great to see private enterprise enter the space race now, maybe NASA will stop billing $20k for a toilet seat and $30k for a hammer because SpaceX can get them at Walmart for $5 a piece.
Which is fine until the toxic outgassing from your $5 Chinese toilet seat poisons the atmosphere over the next month and kills the crew.
One of the reasons space is legitimately expensive is because many things become complex when you don't have any gravity and are living in a sealed environment.
I said it before, and I'll say it again. The EU's problems are the result of a political structure and cannot succeed due to lack of sufficient federalization.
The EU was created in the hope that a 'beneficial crisis' would allow them to force centralised control onto people who didn't want it.
It's currently breaking apart because that was a fscking stupid idea. No-one wants to be told what to do by French and German politicians in Brussels.
Yeah, but I'm sick of subsidizing the health care costs of these fatties that want their giant sodas.
Then stop demanding 'free' healthcare.
As long as the government is intervening in their every day life by providing a safety net for their irresponsible decisions, how is this a bad thing?
Who is the government to tell people that they're being irresponsible? And, if they are but aren't harming anyone else, so what?
Do you really, seriously, truthfully believe that the Nanny State banning big sodas won't prevent soda addicts from... drum roll please... buying two of them?
All this really does is prove that politicians are stupider than people who drink ten liters of soda in a day.
Wait, SpaceX is getting into the space *tourism* market?
Really?
I believe they're supposed to fly Dragons to Bigelow's space station in a few years, if Bigelow can afford to launch it.
reducing the cost to 20 million USD?
it *already* costs 20 mil to pay Russia to send you to the space station via soyuz, including training, and has for a few years now.
Perhaps for an indvidual, but NASA are paying over $50,000,000 a seat. And I believe that Soyuz is already flying in order to take Russian crews to ISS, NASA aren't buying an entire flight just for their astronauts.
Here's the first relevant page Google found:
http://www.space.com/8158-nasa-signs-335-million-deal-fly-astronauts-russian-spaceships.html
The whole thing seems to be kind of coasting without a lot of funding or urgency.
The big difference is this: SpaceX is launching pizza to the space station, Spaceship Two is launching paying customers for short trips into space. Astronauts would be annoyed if their pizza delivery was late, but that's nothing compared to half a dozen families crying on TV because you just blew up their mum or dad because you rushed your rocket into service without proper testing.
Yes, but the article was specifically about saving money by turning your computer off when you're not using it.
A high-end gaming GPU might use 50-100W when rendering the desktop. Integrated graphics... don't.
Actually typical modern desktop uses more like 60-150 W while browsing.
Only if it's a Phenom or has a discrete graphics card. My Athlon X2 uses about 50W when CPU usage is low, as does my i5 (both using integrated GPUs).
Running PC games can easily take 300-500W with a high-end graphics card. Posting on Facebook probably uses 30-50W on a modern desktop PC (plus whatever the monitor uses in both cases).
BTW most 'environmentalists' are proponents of science and evidence based decision making.
I wish I had some mod points so I could rate you +5 Funny.
Indeed. Who would buy an AV solution with a declared record of not blocking 'it's in a good cause' malware?
Um, wrong. Where did you get the idea that the US views malware-based foreign espionage as an act of war?
So if important US systems were infested with Iranian-government malware, Congress wouldn't be demanding that Obama bomb Iran this afternoon?
Yeah, because when similar malware hits us in the West we want it to be a total surprise.
The US military should have a strict policy of only buying military parts from sovereign, free, democratic countries with a long history of friendship, such as Israel, Canada, Europe, Japan and South Korea.
Didn't the US and UK governments sell crypto equipment they knew they could break to their 'allies' during the Cold War?
I'm not sure, every article I've read seems to refer to websites based here rather than visible from here. I have yet to see anything that implies the law would be applied to sites hosted elsewhere or by companies based outside of the UK.
Don't forget 'The Cloud'. Last time I tried a traceroute to my web site it appeared to be in Germany... I've no idea where it might be running today.
Do you know of any studies/argumentations about the likelihood of Iran using atom bombs against Israel?
About as likely as Britain launching a first strike against the USSR during the Cold War?
If everyone PERSONALLY reduced their CO2 emissions, the world would be a better place.
If everyone PERSONALLY reduced their CO2 emissions, a whole lot of people would be out of work.
Do you oppose prison labour? Why?
Why would anyone support prison labour?
At best it takes jobs away from low-paid workers and gives them to criminals, at worst it encourages the government to lock people up in order to make money.
They've offered the free "express" version lately, but it has always been kind of demo version, or for students. You have always had to buy the full version to do some serious development.
Bollocks. I've done 'serious development' of open source Windows software in the 'express' version of Visual Studio.
You had to manually download and install SDKs, but nothing prevented you from building complex code.
The mother of one of my ex-girlfriends was a child psychologist, and the girlfriend turned out to be a complete psycho. I'm sure it's not unrelated.