Superior by what definition? Stability? sure, I'll give you that. ease of use?
1. Take a random Windows XP user. 2. Sit them in front of two machines, one running Window 8, one running Linux MATE. 3. Ask them to start a text editor on both machines. 4. See which one takes longer, and results in more bitching and swearing.
I mean, seriously, if I didn't know about Windows+R, I wouldn't have been able to start freaking Notepad on the Window 8 machine I played with in a local computer store.
Communists have been trying to kill private transport since the Communist Manifesto was published. People who can travel without permission are much more dangerous to the State than those who can be forced to walk at any time.
Look at ITER: $20B and rising, it will only make 500 MW(th) -- six times less thermal energy than a 1 GW(e) fission reactor -- and it doesn't even include the advanced materials needed to withstand commercial reactor levels of integrated neutron flux.
Uh, ITER is a government project. Of course it's expensive and doesn't achieve much.
The problem is that few speed limits are set based on the laws of physics, so when people run into one of the few that is, they ignore it and crash.
The vast majority were just made up by some bureaucrat. If you're lucky, they were made up by some bureaucrat based on the performance of a 1970s road yacht, so they bear some tiny resemblance to reality, rather than just pulled out of thin air.
Actually, studies have shown that raising speed limits can reduce speeds. For example, people who drove at 50mph in a 30 limit that was set far too low would often reduce their speed to obey a 40mph limit, because it was sensible enough that they weren't willing to break it any more... once they'd decided to break the 30mph speed limit, they'd already broken it, so were as likely to drive at 50 as 40.
If Apollo and NASA did t need smaller computers would IBM and Intel have ever been formed?
You do realize that IBM was founded in 1911, right?
As for ICs, at best Apollo brought the development forward a few years. And, if you really wanted to bring the development of ICs forward a few years, you could just have spent a few million doing so.
Same for those other 'spinoffs'. The spinoff argument never works, because, if they actually matter, you could just have developed those things and not bothered with the whole Moon business.
The only think SpaceX has going for it is risk-management
Sure, if you ignore the minor things like launching satellites for a fraction of the cost of existing companies, thereby opening up new markets in space, and developing technologies like returning used rocket stages to the launch site to reduce those costs even further.
What, exactly, was the long-term benefit of NASA 'space exploration' in the 1960s?
Apollo was the kind of technical program which could only have been achieved with tax funding, because no-one else could see any use for it to justify the money. So, they went to the Moon, then... stopped. Leaving just a few moon rocks and some rusting rocket stages.
That's what happens when you push for 'big' exploration. Government is funding it precisely because it makes no sense. If it made sense, private organisations would already be doing it.
Garbage collection solves many memory allocation bugs by introducing new bugs, and other issues like massive memory bloat. It's just another magic solution to poor programming which allows poor programmers to screw things up in new and creative ways.
Actually, it's because Amazon pay maybe $2 every time an ebook is borrowed, which is fine by most indie authors selling their ebooks for $4.99 or less, but not by trade publishers trying to sell their ebooks at $14.99.
The only way to enforce equality is to make everyone equally poor. Commies are great at that, which is precisely why no sane person takes their 'OMG! Inequality!' nonsense seriously.
Indeed. Under communism, comrade, all pigs will be equal. It's just the pigs at the top will have instant access to executive jets, Zil limos and dashas in the country, while the pigs at the bottom will wait twenty years for a Trabant.
I tried to find an example Space Shuttle mission that I could use to compare, but I can't even find a comprehensive list of "anomalies".
NASA has all the shuttle anomaly reports available. Some of them are pretty long.
Just to take the first mission as an example, the body flap went outside design limits during launch, and the commander later said that, if he'd known that at the time, he would have bailed out rather than go to orbit and risk re-entry. The toilet didn't work. Tiles fell off various parts of the exterior. The re-entry software had an incorrect aerodynamic model, requiring them to fly it manually through part of the re-entry. There was partial burn-through on some metal components where the tiles had fallen off. And that's just what I can list from memory.
Rocket science is still Rocket Science at this point.
Well, you could, you know, NOT CONNECT the IP enabled water heater to the Internet.
Except, in the future, the only way to set water termperature will be through a web interface, and you'll need it connected to download firmware updates so it doesn't explode due to a random memory corruption bug causing it to leave the gas on all day.
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A small minority of the market thats still an order of magnitude bigger than that of desktop Linux.
[citation needed]
Oh, you can't cite it, because there are no valid stats for the number of desktop Linux users.
Personally, I haven't seen a Mac in years, but I can see six Linux desktops from right here.
The state of UI's on Linux is a travesty.
Only for distros that don't ship with MATE as an option. Just install it and forget all the other crap.
Superior by what definition? Stability? sure, I'll give you that. ease of use?
1. Take a random Windows XP user.
2. Sit them in front of two machines, one running Window 8, one running Linux MATE.
3. Ask them to start a text editor on both machines.
4. See which one takes longer, and results in more bitching and swearing.
I mean, seriously, if I didn't know about Windows+R, I wouldn't have been able to start freaking Notepad on the Window 8 machine I played with in a local computer store.
Communists have been trying to kill private transport since the Communist Manifesto was published. People who can travel without permission are much more dangerous to the State than those who can be forced to walk at any time.
Look at ITER: $20B and rising, it will only make 500 MW(th) -- six times less thermal energy than a 1 GW(e) fission reactor -- and it doesn't even include the advanced materials needed to withstand commercial reactor levels of integrated neutron flux.
Uh, ITER is a government project. Of course it's expensive and doesn't achieve much.
The problem is that few speed limits are set based on the laws of physics, so when people run into one of the few that is, they ignore it and crash.
The vast majority were just made up by some bureaucrat. If you're lucky, they were made up by some bureaucrat based on the performance of a 1970s road yacht, so they bear some tiny resemblance to reality, rather than just pulled out of thin air.
Actually, studies have shown that raising speed limits can reduce speeds. For example, people who drove at 50mph in a 30 limit that was set far too low would often reduce their speed to obey a 40mph limit, because it was sensible enough that they weren't willing to break it any more... once they'd decided to break the 30mph speed limit, they'd already broken it, so were as likely to drive at 50 as 40.
If Apollo and NASA did t need smaller computers would IBM and Intel have ever been formed?
You do realize that IBM was founded in 1911, right?
As for ICs, at best Apollo brought the development forward a few years. And, if you really wanted to bring the development of ICs forward a few years, you could just have spent a few million doing so.
Same for those other 'spinoffs'. The spinoff argument never works, because, if they actually matter, you could just have developed those things and not bothered with the whole Moon business.
So, who funded the Native Americans who found the "New World" thousands of years before he did?
In other words, you can't answer my question, so you're going to take your ball and go home.
The only think SpaceX has going for it is risk-management
Sure, if you ignore the minor things like launching satellites for a fraction of the cost of existing companies, thereby opening up new markets in space, and developing technologies like returning used rocket stages to the launch site to reduce those costs even further.
What, exactly, was the long-term benefit of NASA 'space exploration' in the 1960s?
Apollo was the kind of technical program which could only have been achieved with tax funding, because no-one else could see any use for it to justify the money. So, they went to the Moon, then... stopped. Leaving just a few moon rocks and some rusting rocket stages.
That's what happens when you push for 'big' exploration. Government is funding it precisely because it makes no sense. If it made sense, private organisations would already be doing it.
Exactly. This has been the goal of NASA from day 1. To inspire people to actually go *DO* this stuff.
Really? 'Cause I don't see that in the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958. The word 'inspire' doesn't appear there once.
At a penny to comment, the only people left will be the trolls.
Did they finally take that ribbon crap out, then?
Garbage collection solves many memory allocation bugs by introducing new bugs, and other issues like massive memory bloat. It's just another magic solution to poor programming which allows poor programmers to screw things up in new and creative ways.
So lighten up on Micro$oft, at least on this front.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Microsoft just lay off a large number of testers?
You do realize that trade publishers (at least the Big Five) don't use KDP, and all have their own contracts with Amazon, right?
Actually, it's because Amazon pay maybe $2 every time an ebook is borrowed, which is fine by most indie authors selling their ebooks for $4.99 or less, but not by trade publishers trying to sell their ebooks at $14.99.
The only way to enforce equality is to make everyone equally poor. Commies are great at that, which is precisely why no sane person takes their 'OMG! Inequality!' nonsense seriously.
Indeed. Under communism, comrade, all pigs will be equal. It's just the pigs at the top will have instant access to executive jets, Zil limos and dashas in the country, while the pigs at the bottom will wait twenty years for a Trabant.
The problem is that the road through the dictatorship of the proletariat is a dead end.
Yawn.
If women really made less than men for doing the same job, why would any company ever hire men?
Oh, OK, the companies are EVIL, but they're also really stupid, right?
I tried to find an example Space Shuttle mission that I could use to compare, but I can't even find a comprehensive list of "anomalies".
NASA has all the shuttle anomaly reports available. Some of them are pretty long.
Just to take the first mission as an example, the body flap went outside design limits during launch, and the commander later said that, if he'd known that at the time, he would have bailed out rather than go to orbit and risk re-entry. The toilet didn't work. Tiles fell off various parts of the exterior. The re-entry software had an incorrect aerodynamic model, requiring them to fly it manually through part of the re-entry. There was partial burn-through on some metal components where the tiles had fallen off. And that's just what I can list from memory.
Rocket science is still Rocket Science at this point.
Well, you could, you know, NOT CONNECT the IP enabled water heater to the Internet.
Except, in the future, the only way to set water termperature will be through a web interface, and you'll need it connected to download firmware updates so it doesn't explode due to a random memory corruption bug causing it to leave the gas on all day.