So I'm rich? Hmm, doesn't feel like it. It's not like I can quit work and live for the rest of my life on $200k... as you say, it's only four years of the median income, which is not a lot of money.
Besides which, Branson has talked about reducing the cost to more like $50k within ten years of operations beginning, which is, I believe, around the same price as a cruise to Antarctica.
Anyone inclined to become a "space tourist" is, pretty much by definition, rich.
As far as I'm aware, VG is intending to charge around $200,000 a ticket. Plenty of people could afford that without being considered rich. That would barely buy you the cheapest house around here.
When I lived in the UK, I'd have US companies tell me we had to pay more because it was more expensive to support companies in the EU because they had to translate the software from English....
Bill, when are you finally going to accept that hardly anyone wants to run keyboard-and-mouse Windows apps on a tablet? I know you thought it was a great idea fifteen years ago, but surely, by now, the dismal sales figures of Windows tablets have proven you wrong?
Microsoft gives you the worst of both worlds: a tablet that has hardly any apps, which, once you attach the keyboard, becomes an expensive, not very ergonomic laptop.
If you actually read this thread, you'd see that even he admits that the keyboard costs $120 more. You can almost buy a complete laptop for the cost of just the Surface keyboard.
The number of people who want to run Windows apps on a tablet is roughly the same as the number of people who wanted to run Windows apps on previous generations of Windows tablets for the last decade or more. That is, hardly any, because they're not designed for it.
Indeed. Why should my web browsing be delayed because someone else wants to watch funny cat videos?
ISPs should take packets from me and deliver them where I send them, and delver packets in the other direction that are sent to me. And nothing else. If that means someone else can't get reliable video playback from remote sites, because the ISP can't cripple my packets to let theirs through, tough luck.
"The vibrations and oscillations in the version they used for the first three test flights would have torn the ship apart well if it had been fired for anywhere near full duration of about a minute."
It refers to a Times article which is behind their paywall, so I can't read it.
As I understand it, the big problem with the engine was uneven combustion and the vibrations it caused, not explosion. Hybrid engines are unlikely to explode, though I believe some oxidizer tanks have.
Parts of Columbia survived the impact, but that doesn't mean the crew could have got out alive. It's quite possible that one pilot was thrown clear of the wreckage when it broke up, while the other was trapped inside.
Chromebooks are soon to be dead now that windows based alternatives are available at the same price point running a real OS on comparatively decent hardware.
You know what we used to call cheap, small laptops with limited storage running Windows or Linux? Netbooks.
They were great, until everyone started shouting that tablets were The New Shiny, and suddenly they disappeared. Now, cheap, small laptops are supposed to be The New Shiny, except we're not allowed to call them netbooks any more.
Which is good, because we need to replace our old netbook, so now I'll be able to buy a new one and install a real OS on it instead of that Windows crap.
Yeah, that's why NASA lost two shuttle crews in about a hundred and twenty flights, almost lost Columbia on the very first flight, and were too scared to fly a return-to-launch-site abort anywhere other than a simulator.
Test flights are dangerous. Test pilots used to die regularly, but we've improved aircraft reliability and test pilot survival technology to the point where they rarely do today. The real question is whether they were properly equipped to have the best chance of survival in the event of an accident such as this.
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So I'm rich? Hmm, doesn't feel like it. It's not like I can quit work and live for the rest of my life on $200k... as you say, it's only four years of the median income, which is not a lot of money.
Besides which, Branson has talked about reducing the cost to more like $50k within ten years of operations beginning, which is, I believe, around the same price as a cruise to Antarctica.
Anyone inclined to become a "space tourist" is, pretty much by definition, rich.
As far as I'm aware, VG is intending to charge around $200,000 a ticket. Plenty of people could afford that without being considered rich. That would barely buy you the cheapest house around here.
When I lived in the UK, I'd have US companies tell me we had to pay more because it was more expensive to support companies in the EU because they had to translate the software from English....
Bill, when are you finally going to accept that hardly anyone wants to run keyboard-and-mouse Windows apps on a tablet? I know you thought it was a great idea fifteen years ago, but surely, by now, the dismal sales figures of Windows tablets have proven you wrong?
So you mean it's really just a Microsoft ad trying to push Surfaces as something that might be useful to iPad users?
So is it a bad laptop or a bad tablet?
Microsoft gives you the worst of both worlds: a tablet that has hardly any apps, which, once you attach the keyboard, becomes an expensive, not very ergonomic laptop.
If you actually read this thread, you'd see that even he admits that the keyboard costs $120 more. You can almost buy a complete laptop for the cost of just the Surface keyboard.
And you completely ignore my point.
The number of people who want to run Windows apps on a tablet is roughly the same as the number of people who wanted to run Windows apps on previous generations of Windows tablets for the last decade or more. That is, hardly any, because they're not designed for it.
Banks are on the hook? Too bad for them, someone in the banks organization didn't do due diligence.
But they probably got a nice fat bonus for making the loans.
Yeah, because I totally want to be creating Excel spreadsheets on a tablet.
Being able to run Windows apps is irrelevant if they can't be used effectively without a keyboard and mouse.
Besides which, you can buy an entire Android tablet for less than the cost of the keyboard alone.
Indeed. Why should my web browsing be delayed because someone else wants to watch funny cat videos?
ISPs should take packets from me and deliver them where I send them, and delver packets in the other direction that are sent to me. And nothing else. If that means someone else can't get reliable video playback from remote sites, because the ISP can't cripple my packets to let theirs through, tough luck.
Well, yes. That's 'progressives' for you; they want to 'progress' toward everyone doing what they tell them to do.
Let's see what a few seconds on Google can find us:
http://www.parabolicarc.com/20...
"The vibrations and oscillations in the version they used for the first three test flights would have torn the ship apart well if it had been fired for anywhere near full duration of about a minute."
It refers to a Times article which is behind their paywall, so I can't read it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
"There have also been accidents where nitrous oxide decomposition in plumbing has led to the explosion of large tanks."
Weren't the engineers killed in the accident while developing the Spaceship Two engine killed by an exploding NOX tank? I couldn't find the details.
As we see here, Democrats are experts in projection. That's why they're going to get creamed in the election.
Not that a Republican government will be much better, of course.
Uh, you haven't been reading the news, have you?
Didn't Reagan pick up a lot of previously Democrat voters after Carter's dismal time in the White House?
As I understand it, the big problem with the engine was uneven combustion and the vibrations it caused, not explosion. Hybrid engines are unlikely to explode, though I believe some oxidizer tanks have.
Yes, thank God we have a Democrat President who won the Peace Prize, or who knows what a mess the world would be in right now.
Parts of Columbia survived the impact, but that doesn't mean the crew could have got out alive. It's quite possible that one pilot was thrown clear of the wreckage when it broke up, while the other was trapped inside.
The appeal of the Chromebook is what, exactly?
It doesn't run Window 8.
Some, perhaps. The smart folks just install Mint's MATE edition.
Honestly, I sometimes think the Gnome team must have paid Microsoft to release Window 8, just so they could point at a UI that's worse than theirs.
Chromebooks are soon to be dead now that windows based alternatives are available at the same price point running a real OS on comparatively decent hardware.
You know what we used to call cheap, small laptops with limited storage running Windows or Linux? Netbooks.
They were great, until everyone started shouting that tablets were The New Shiny, and suddenly they disappeared. Now, cheap, small laptops are supposed to be The New Shiny, except we're not allowed to call them netbooks any more.
Which is good, because we need to replace our old netbook, so now I'll be able to buy a new one and install a real OS on it instead of that Windows crap.
So, by the time Windows 9 comes out, there may be as many people using Window 8 as using Windows XP.
Yeah, that's why NASA lost two shuttle crews in about a hundred and twenty flights, almost lost Columbia on the very first flight, and were too scared to fly a return-to-launch-site abort anywhere other than a simulator.
Test flights are dangerous. Test pilots used to die regularly, but we've improved aircraft reliability and test pilot survival technology to the point where they rarely do today. The real question is whether they were properly equipped to have the best chance of survival in the event of an accident such as this.