Yes. I have far too many unplayed Steam games I bought for $2-5 in sales to have to rush out and buy new ones. I do sometimes buy games at release, but only a very small number that I really want to play now.
If the ABI was stable, they'd be stuck with supporting crappy, crusty old crappy crap that some crappy old closed-source driver for some crappy old hardware requires, and unable to rewrite the kernel to provide similar functionality in a better manner.
Over time the models got better and we now know that the climate will change.
Everyone who looks out the window now and again knows the climate changes. Only a few fanatical climate change deniers claim the climate didn't change before humans came along.
Some places will get hotter and some places will get cooler, but over all the trend is towards more heat and climate change.
That'll be why the models continue diverging from reality unless we continually 'adjust' the temperature record to make them a better fit.
Why would Intel not be charging more for a current i7 than they used to charge for a Pentium-4, if they had no competition? AMD has nothing in that market, and, even in lower-end markets, they barely compete on performance and are vastly more power-hungry.
If Intel started charging $1000 for an i3, the market would be flooded with ARM desktops by Christmas.
Intel's pricing (and refusal to offer 6-core mainstream parts) is a consequence of Intel's effective MONOPOLY in the x86 space. AMD's current CPU offerings are a BAD JOKE, offering around 50% per core of Intel's core performance. No serious PC gamer would opt for anything less than a true 4-core i5. AMD isn't even in the picture.
So why did I pay less for my i7 a couple of years ago than I did when I bought my Pentium-4 back in the days when AMD was actually competitive?
Yeah, because what could possibly go wrong in an air traffic control system when the computers are thrashing like crazy as they run out of RAM?
I've worked with some non-critical systems used in aviation, and they shut down and switch to the backup when they get close to running out of RAM. A few seconds' delay to swap in data about airliners that are travelling a few miles apart at a few hundred miles an hour could kill hundreds of people.
Some of us have been pointing this out since... well, at least since someone decided it would be a good idea to let sites you have no control over run code in your web browser.
If you care about security, every site on the network other than yours should be considered hostile. If you let the hipsters convince you that the network is a happy, fluffy land full of unicorns and bunnies, you deserve whatever you get.
Republican voters want someone who does the things Trump says. The Republican establishment want someone who can lose to Hillary and keep them in Congress for another eight years.
Reality TV star Donald Trump advising us on space exploration...who could possibly object to that?
He could hardly do worse than Congress, with its insane, unaffordable Porklauncher.
Besides, there's no way in hell the US government is going to be funding a trillion dollar NASA trip to Mars. The first people there will be tourists flying on their own dime, at vastly lower cost.
The funny part is that he thinks modern America has the ability to fix its broken infrastructure. Things that could be built in months a century ago would take a decade or more of environmental studies before anyone even started work, and a decade more to build.
You have NO IDEA how fortunate you are. Or how bad things can be.
Oh, yes. Because I saved money rather than spent it, I'm 'fortunate'.
No, I saved it because I have a middle-class attitude. And I have that attitude because I've seen exactly how bad things can be when you live paycheck to paycheck.
Having worked in a factory, shovelling oily hunks of metal from one bin to another, I laugh whenever anyone claims Amazon's warehouse work is 'slavery'. I'd have jumped at a job like that, if I'd had the option at the time.
The people who think it's awful have clearly never done a real, hard, manual job in their lives.
The future of work is automation doing everything humans aren't required for. Amazon is one of the last great industrial-era corporations, and will die when local manufacturing makes the whole concept of a middleman between manufacturers and users obsolete.
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The RAF also considered using Concorde as a cruise missile carrier. I don't know how serious they were, but there are artists impressions on the web.
Uh, the SR71 cockpit was pressurized. The suits were so the crew would survive if they had to eject.
You really don't want to be trying to fly a plane for long while wearing a pressurized suit in near-vacuum conditions.
Yes. I have far too many unplayed Steam games I bought for $2-5 in sales to have to rush out and buy new ones. I do sometimes buy games at release, but only a very small number that I really want to play now.
If the ABI was stable, they'd be stuck with supporting crappy, crusty old crappy crap that some crappy old closed-source driver for some crappy old hardware requires, and unable to rewrite the kernel to provide similar functionality in a better manner.
Like Windows.
Over time the models got better and we now know that the climate will change.
Everyone who looks out the window now and again knows the climate changes. Only a few fanatical climate change deniers claim the climate didn't change before humans came along.
Some places will get hotter and some places will get cooler, but over all the trend is towards more heat and climate change.
That'll be why the models continue diverging from reality unless we continually 'adjust' the temperature record to make them a better fit.
Historically and hysterically stupid post.
Yes, yours is. But what about mine?
Why would Intel not be charging more for a current i7 than they used to charge for a Pentium-4, if they had no competition? AMD has nothing in that market, and, even in lower-end markets, they barely compete on performance and are vastly more power-hungry.
If Intel started charging $1000 for an i3, the market would be flooded with ARM desktops by Christmas.
It's AMD not ARM. ARM is not competing in the desktop world.
Nor is AMD.
The difference is that ARM could compete there, and replace the 90% of desktop systems that don't need much CPU power.
Intel's pricing (and refusal to offer 6-core mainstream parts) is a consequence of Intel's effective MONOPOLY in the x86 space. AMD's current CPU offerings are a BAD JOKE, offering around 50% per core of Intel's core performance. No serious PC gamer would opt for anything less than a true 4-core i5. AMD isn't even in the picture.
So why did I pay less for my i7 a couple of years ago than I did when I bought my Pentium-4 back in the days when AMD was actually competitive?
Intel's current competition is ARM, not AMD.
Which is irrelevant, since it's not that system that failed.
Yeah, because what could possibly go wrong in an air traffic control system when the computers are thrashing like crazy as they run out of RAM?
I've worked with some non-critical systems used in aviation, and they shut down and switch to the backup when they get close to running out of RAM. A few seconds' delay to swap in data about airliners that are travelling a few miles apart at a few hundred miles an hour could kill hundreds of people.
And this article, if you actually read it, explicitly refers to 'two million lines of code'.
I have Word documents from the 90s. Hey, guess what? They don't open in a modern version of Word.
I had to track down a copy of Word from the Windows 3.1 era to be able to open them.
I kinda doubt that, My understanding is most of the US's air-traffic control systems (and software) is ancient .
Somehow, I doubt it was 2,000,000 lines of assembly language.
When was the last time the NEW SHINY actually did SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS?
It's always going to. So far, in my experience, it never has. Tossing out an established code base and starting over is almost always a bad idea.
Hey, at least you get drivers. They stopped supporting the integrated graphics in my AMD machine a couple of years ago.
Yes! The NEW SHINY will SOLVE ALL OUR PROBLEMS!
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Still no support for the Nexus 7, which was on sale less than a year ago.
If that's Google's idea of customer support, I'll have to replace it with an iPad.
Some of us have been pointing this out since... well, at least since someone decided it would be a good idea to let sites you have no control over run code in your web browser.
If you care about security, every site on the network other than yours should be considered hostile. If you let the hipsters convince you that the network is a happy, fluffy land full of unicorns and bunnies, you deserve whatever you get.
Hint: if there's one thing military history has shown, it's that the bad guys tend not to fight wars the way you want them to.
Republican voters want someone who does the things Trump says. The Republican establishment want someone who can lose to Hillary and keep them in Congress for another eight years.
One person's 'government waste' is another person's salary. Obviously they'll vote to waste as much money as possible, to keep themselves employed.
Reality TV star Donald Trump advising us on space exploration...who could possibly object to that?
He could hardly do worse than Congress, with its insane, unaffordable Porklauncher.
Besides, there's no way in hell the US government is going to be funding a trillion dollar NASA trip to Mars. The first people there will be tourists flying on their own dime, at vastly lower cost.
The funny part is that he thinks modern America has the ability to fix its broken infrastructure. Things that could be built in months a century ago would take a decade or more of environmental studies before anyone even started work, and a decade more to build.
You have NO IDEA how fortunate you are. Or how bad things can be.
Oh, yes. Because I saved money rather than spent it, I'm 'fortunate'.
No, I saved it because I have a middle-class attitude. And I have that attitude because I've seen exactly how bad things can be when you live paycheck to paycheck.
Having worked in a factory, shovelling oily hunks of metal from one bin to another, I laugh whenever anyone claims Amazon's warehouse work is 'slavery'. I'd have jumped at a job like that, if I'd had the option at the time.
The people who think it's awful have clearly never done a real, hard, manual job in their lives.
The future of work is automation doing everything humans aren't required for. Amazon is one of the last great industrial-era corporations, and will die when local manufacturing makes the whole concept of a middleman between manufacturers and users obsolete.