No, you don't get it. Like most people paying money for these flights, I'd be paying to go into what is generally accepted as space in relative comfort and safety, and to be able to spend several minutes floating free in zero-g.
None of your alternatives offer that.
So why do you think I'd want to pay thousands of dollars for them?
Well, the easiest way to get rich is to convince your buddies in government to give you a lot of taxpayers' money. Which is why it's odd that the people who complain the most about 'the 1%' also demand more government, which will funnel more money to their buddies.
If the 'anti-1%' left didn't exist, the leeches would have to invent them.
Then why don't you go to Russia? For half that price you can fly in a MiG to the edge of space. Why not?
That's kind of like asking why anyone would want to fly supersonic in Concorde while drinking champagne, rather than in an F-16.
From what I can find on the web, the Mig only goes to 75,000 feet, which is not space, and you're strapped into an ejection seat, rather than free to move around in zero-g for several minutes.
If I remember correctly, Virgin have several hundred deposits from customers already. Last I remember, they were talking about getting the cost down to $50,000 within a decade, at which point I'd seriously consider it myself.
There's clearly demand for these trips. The only question is whether there's enough demand to justify the investment in operating them.
Until we stop waiting for the "free market" to come up with a solution and regulate better credit card security, nothing will change.
Uh, what do credit cards have to do with the "free market"?
Hint: do you really, actually, think I can just set up a new credit card company tomorrow, without having to deal with a tsunami of government regulations around the world?
Touch is great for navigation which is what people use a mouse for most of the time.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'navigation', but I often have to click links half a dozen times on my Android tablet browser before it actually gets the right link (and not the one above, below, or to the left or right) and actually follows it. A mouse would do that in one click, once.
If you really want a mechanical keyboard there are tons of bluetooth choices and frankly I just don't understand why anyone would want to use a mouse with a tablet. It makes no sense.
Because touch is a god-awful interface for anything other than finger-painting or pressing huge buttons?
I'd be very surprised if this happened, for two reasons: (1) there's really no reason to buy a laptop with the same processing power as a tablet and (2), even if there were, Apple has nothing to gain by offering one. They are already growing their market share at premium prices.
True. One of the other consequences of Window 8 is that I'm seeing more people I know who do buy laptops and desktops buy Macs instead of Windows.
Why buy a PC when you can buy an iPad or and Android tablet ?
Because the tablet is slow and clunky and Google (and possibly Apple) are tracking your every move? I left my laptop at home last time I traveled and took the tablet instead, but I went back to the laptop (and the desktop for anything CPU or graphics intensive) as soon as I returned home.
What can be done on a desktop or laptop PC that can't be done on a tablet ?
You can do word processing on a tablet, but it's god-awfully painful compared to a desktop or laptop. Even emails are clunky if you're sending more than two lines.
Eventually, I assume that all binaries which don't need 64-bit addressing (which will probably always be more than 90% of them) will switch to this ABI since having access to the extended register set without the overhead of all the bus bandwidth and cache space lost to store lots of zeroes is a HUGE win with zero cost.
Uh, no.
Really, no.
It's just not going to happen.
90+% of applications are not CPU-intensive, so they don't give a crap. 90% of the other applications that are CPU-intensive would benefit far more from removing pointer accesses than from making the pointers half the size. Only the remaining 1% are going to go through the hassle of dicking around with a complete second set of libraries on their system just so they can halve the size of their pointers.
There's simply no benefit at all from compiling the vast majority of desktop x86 applications in anything other than x86-64. Which is why no sane x86 distro is even going to consider using this kludge.
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But I still ask, how come commercial space didn't happen in 1980s.
Because it needed a few billionaires willing to throw money at it for years with no returns to make it viable.
No, you don't get it. Like most people paying money for these flights, I'd be paying to go into what is generally accepted as space in relative comfort and safety, and to be able to spend several minutes floating free in zero-g.
None of your alternatives offer that.
So why do you think I'd want to pay thousands of dollars for them?
Well, the easiest way to get rich is to convince your buddies in government to give you a lot of taxpayers' money. Which is why it's odd that the people who complain the most about 'the 1%' also demand more government, which will funnel more money to their buddies.
If the 'anti-1%' left didn't exist, the leeches would have to invent them.
And winners always claim that their win is solely their own achievement, and in no way related to luck.
Most successful people I've met admit that luck played a part in their success. Most failures expect to get rich by playing the lottery.
Losers always claim the rest of us must have 'gamed the system' rather than just worked hard and saved some money along the way.
Then why don't you go to Russia? For half that price you can fly in a MiG to the edge of space. Why not?
That's kind of like asking why anyone would want to fly supersonic in Concorde while drinking champagne, rather than in an F-16.
From what I can find on the web, the Mig only goes to 75,000 feet, which is not space, and you're strapped into an ejection seat, rather than free to move around in zero-g for several minutes.
If I remember correctly, Virgin have several hundred deposits from customers already. Last I remember, they were talking about getting the cost down to $50,000 within a decade, at which point I'd seriously consider it myself.
There's clearly demand for these trips. The only question is whether there's enough demand to justify the investment in operating them.
Until we stop waiting for the "free market" to come up with a solution and regulate better credit card security, nothing will change.
Uh, what do credit cards have to do with the "free market"?
Hint: do you really, actually, think I can just set up a new credit card company tomorrow, without having to deal with a tsunami of government regulations around the world?
I have serious doubts about it being faster than a high-end LGA775 desktop P4.
The CPU benchmarks I found in a quick web search show the Celeron 847 at about twice the performance of a 3.8GHz P4.
Heck, even a dual-core Atom typically benchmarked around the same as a high-end P4 when running four threads.
Who's writing keylogging malware for CentOS?
Touch is great for navigation which is what people use a mouse for most of the time.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'navigation', but I often have to click links half a dozen times on my Android tablet browser before it actually gets the right link (and not the one above, below, or to the left or right) and actually follows it. A mouse would do that in one click, once.
If you really want a mechanical keyboard there are tons of bluetooth choices and frankly I just don't understand why anyone would want to use a mouse with a tablet. It makes no sense.
Because touch is a god-awful interface for anything other than finger-painting or pressing huge buttons?
So, with console getting a major upgrade recently, do you expect to see a huge "move" in games in about 2 years?
That 'major upgrade' makes the console about as fast as a low to mid-range gaming PC today.
Typing isn't actually a problem on a tablet, as long as you use a decent Bluetooth keyboard.
Then you just turned it into a crappy laptop.
I can't believe people are choosing other tablets.
So you think people buying a $70 Android tablet should be buying $1000 Surface tablets instead?
Didnt they do that already with 8.1? You can now boot directly to the desktop and they even put back the start menu.
Unless I'm much mistaken, they just added a 'Start' button that takes you to the steaming pile of tile crapola that everyone hates.
I'd be very surprised if this happened, for two reasons: (1) there's really no reason to buy a laptop with the same processing power as a tablet and (2), even if there were, Apple has nothing to gain by offering one. They are already growing their market share at premium prices.
True. One of the other consequences of Window 8 is that I'm seeing more people I know who do buy laptops and desktops buy Macs instead of Windows.
Why buy a PC when you can buy an iPad or and Android tablet ?
Because the tablet is slow and clunky and Google (and possibly Apple) are tracking your every move? I left my laptop at home last time I traveled and took the tablet instead, but I went back to the laptop (and the desktop for anything CPU or graphics intensive) as soon as I returned home.
What can be done on a desktop or laptop PC that can't be done on a tablet ?
You can do word processing on a tablet, but it's god-awfully painful compared to a desktop or laptop. Even emails are clunky if you're sending more than two lines.
And then some people just don't like Win 8.
You've actually met someone who does like Window 8?
Everyone I know who's seen it takes one look, goes 'WTF?' and decides not to buy a new PC after all.
Wasn't Window 8 released about seven quarters ago?
The idea is that an overriding government concern ("compelling state interest") can allow for infringements on constitutional rights.
I don't see that mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. There's no 'unless we think it's a good idea' clause at the end, so far as I can find.
Isn't it against European Union laws on freedom of cross-border trade or what's it called properly?
I don't know why this has been modded down, since this seems a blatant violation of EU law.
Eventually, I assume that all binaries which don't need 64-bit addressing (which will probably always be more than 90% of them) will switch to this ABI since having access to the extended register set without the overhead of all the bus bandwidth and cache space lost to store lots of zeroes is a HUGE win with zero cost.
Uh, no.
Really, no.
It's just not going to happen.
90+% of applications are not CPU-intensive, so they don't give a crap. 90% of the other applications that are CPU-intensive would benefit far more from removing pointer accesses than from making the pointers half the size. Only the remaining 1% are going to go through the hassle of dicking around with a complete second set of libraries on their system just so they can halve the size of their pointers.
There's simply no benefit at all from compiling the vast majority of desktop x86 applications in anything other than x86-64. Which is why no sane x86 distro is even going to consider using this kludge.
Troll rating: 1/10.
And because no-one wants to buy a new desktop when they see what a piece of crap Window 8 is.