Project Denver is one of three implementations of the ARMv8 architecture expected to appear Real Soon Now. The ARMv8 architecture was mentioned in the summary.
In the real world, there are stages of coercion between no influence and having a gun held to your head. When an operating systems company has a few billion dollars int the bank, 85% of the market, and deals with distributors that give them lots of advertising money in exchange for only shipping their operating system, it becomes difficult to buy a computer that meets your needs and does not come with their operating system.
Does the 'on the computer' part make it special? For example, what happens if I write a journal in code (something that was pretty common in the 19th century). The court can compel me to hand over the journal, but can they compel me to decode it? I would have thought that this would violate the 5th amendment, but maybe not.
I don't really understand this. Most places, they define the job and set the salary. They don't say 'well, we were looking to pay $60K, but since you're 40 we'll pay $150k.' If a job is offering $150K, then they'll pay that irrespective of whether the best applicant that they find is 20 or 40.
Mod up. This is the first space story I've seen recently which talks about doing something both sensible and achievable. Of course, that probably means that it won't get enough funding...
$2/kg, for certain values of 'in space'. That's $2/kg to LEO, which just about qualifies. When you want to get into a higher orbit, things get a lot more expensive (although that's something this project is aimed at addressing). $10/kg to, for example, geosynchronous orbit, is still pretty good.
To your last point, the plan is usually to put a carboniferous asteroid in approximately the right orbit and use it for the raw materials. You still need to get the production facility into orbit though, and that's not exactly cheap. Neither is moving several-hundred ton lumps of rock around, even in orbit...
It's not quite that simple. The problem isn't really height, it's speed. Ideally, you want to do most of your acceleration in the upper atmosphere, where air resistance is low but there is still enough air available to use it as reaction mass (so you don't have to lift it with you) and you can burn some of it with your fuel. The most energy efficient launch would probably involve taking a balloon up a hundred km or so, then accelerating hard horizontally with a scramjet. You'd then be in a wildly elliptical orbit, and you'd need some mechanism to correct it, but there are a few relatively cheap ways of doing this if time isn't your highest priority.
I didn't say it was shit, I said that it's far from the best example of the genre. Most of the people I've spoken to who like it have never played another game in the same category. When they do, they usually agree that Angry Birds is not the best (some don't, and that's fine - games are pretty subjective things, after all). The advantage Angry Birds had was being first to market on the iPhone - hitting a market of people who didn't usually play Flash games (and who couldn't due to limitations of their platform).
I'd be interested to see how $2/album DRM-free downloads would do. At that price, you can buy an album to see if you like a band, and not be too upset if you don't. At $10/album, or $1/track, it's often cheaper to buy the CD - and then you don't have to bother making a backup.
I've found with GOG that for $3 I'll buy games that look as if they might be fun, and often not even get around to downloading and trying them for a month or so. With music, it's still at the price where I think about buying it, rather than just impulse purchasing.
I've been using WINE on OS X to play a lot of games that I've got from GOG. Most of them work with no tweaking at all. Given that OS X isn't exactly a tier 1 platform for WINE, I'd be surprised if it works better than on Linux. The main difference is the 3D drives. On Linux they're a complete crapshoot: they may be great, or they may be completely unusable. On OS X, they're usually okay (not great, but consistent).
Ron Paul doesn't stand a chance. He's in a competition to find the person with the silliest first name. The current leaders are Mitt and Newt, both of which are pretty silly. He, on the other hand, has not one but two boring first names.
That doesn't sound like a good business model. That it buy low and sell at a loss... Those are for cases that they couldn't turn around.
That's not how it works. Remember that the market capitalisation of a company (i.e. the total value of all of the shares) is affected by a lot of things like the state of the market, investor confidence, and so on. It is quite common to see the value of a company on the stock exchange dip below the value of its assets. At this point, you buy 51% of the shares (or more) and put your own board in place. They then sell off all of the assets and return the money to the shareholders. The company no longer exists, the employees are all out of work, and the raiders made a fat profit.
That was the old Apple, before the NeXT purchase. New Apple likes low-volume high-margin markets. It wants the 10-20% of the market where 50-70% of the profit is made. This is why Apple caused such problems for Nokia: they didn't compete at all in most of Nokia's market, only in the most profitable part. They took about 5% of Nokia's market share, and about 50% of their profit.
Just like Linux was identical to a score of previously released "do stuff" operating systems?
I'm not even sure what the point of this is supposed to be.
If it's so mediocre in your overwhelmingly arrogant and conceited viewpoint then why don't you do something better? Or even as good? Or even half as good?
Why would I? Go to any flash games site on the Internet and you'll easily find a dozen better implementations of the same concept. Most of them were around for longer than Angry Birds. There is no point creating something better than Angry Birds when there are dozens of (free!) games that are better already.
My father's car has had no problems working with his last two Nokia phones or his Blackberry. It doesn't have an iPod dock connector though, and I don't know if iOS supports the standard bluetooth stuff that everyone else implements...
There also don't need to be any humans at the shooter's position. The shooter could be a fairly cumbersome robot - basically a tank with a remote control. The spotter could be a UAV. Between the two of them, you've got a pretty impressive antipersonnel weapon, and no one on your team needs to be anywhere near... Although you could put the operator inside the tank and use short-range control to minimise the latency. You can almost certainly kill anyone with an antitank rocket before he gets close enough to take a shot...
It's not the reflection that matters, it's the diffusion. Try this little experiment. Stand in a dark room with a torch. Shine it at a wall. Now shine it at a mirror. Was the spot on the wall, or the spot on the mirror easier to see? The mirror was reflecting more of the light, but it was reflecting most of it along a path that didn't return to you. Try the same experiment with a laser pointer and you'll only see a very faint spot on the mirror, but a much brighter spot on the wall after it's bounced off. Now, if you were a bullet programmed to head towards the brightest spot on the wavelength of the laser, would you go towards the mirror or the bit of the wall where the reflected beam ended?
The muzzle velocity of an SA80 (which isn't exactly modern anymore) is 940 m/s, or about 2100 miles per hour. That means that it takes 1.7 seconds for the bullet to travel one mile. For vertical distance, s = ut+0.5at^2, where u is 0 and a is g, gives us 0.5g*1.7^2, or 14.2m. Now some basic trigonometry. You have a triangle 14.2 metres on one the opposite side, 1609 on the adjacent. arctan(14.2/1609) is about 0.5 degrees. So, you'd have to aim very, very slightly above the horizontal.
Of course, the SA80 isn't designed for this kind of range, and a weapon designed for this kind of range would have a faster muzzle velocity. I'm also fudging the calculation slightly by assuming that there is no air resistance - in practice the bullet would be slowing down a bit. I doubt you'd need more than 1 or 2 degrees elevation, however.
The fact that it's basically identical to 100 other throw-a-thing-to-knock-over-other-things games? The first 10 or so I played were all fun, but after a while they got a bit repetitive. Then Angry Birds was released and everyone talks about it as if it's the best game ever and totally new and original. It's a competent implementation of an old idea - not the best I've played, but not the worst either - but the public reaction to it is completely over the top. Angry Birds fans are like people encountering Doom 3 as the first FPS that they've ever seen and saying how amazing it is.
And we're back to international recognition. Sealand needs to be recognised as a flag state, which means signing a couple of treaties (and the other signatories accepting you). Sealand has not done this. It will be no more regarded as a flag state than a ship flying the jolly roger.
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Project Denver is one of three implementations of the ARMv8 architecture expected to appear Real Soon Now. The ARMv8 architecture was mentioned in the summary.
In the real world, there are stages of coercion between no influence and having a gun held to your head. When an operating systems company has a few billion dollars int the bank, 85% of the market, and deals with distributors that give them lots of advertising money in exchange for only shipping their operating system, it becomes difficult to buy a computer that meets your needs and does not come with their operating system.
Does the 'on the computer' part make it special? For example, what happens if I write a journal in code (something that was pretty common in the 19th century). The court can compel me to hand over the journal, but can they compel me to decode it? I would have thought that this would violate the 5th amendment, but maybe not.
I don't really understand this. Most places, they define the job and set the salary. They don't say 'well, we were looking to pay $60K, but since you're 40 we'll pay $150k.' If a job is offering $150K, then they'll pay that irrespective of whether the best applicant that they find is 20 or 40.
Mod up. This is the first space story I've seen recently which talks about doing something both sensible and achievable. Of course, that probably means that it won't get enough funding...
$2/kg, for certain values of 'in space'. That's $2/kg to LEO, which just about qualifies. When you want to get into a higher orbit, things get a lot more expensive (although that's something this project is aimed at addressing). $10/kg to, for example, geosynchronous orbit, is still pretty good.
To your last point, the plan is usually to put a carboniferous asteroid in approximately the right orbit and use it for the raw materials. You still need to get the production facility into orbit though, and that's not exactly cheap. Neither is moving several-hundred ton lumps of rock around, even in orbit...
It's not quite that simple. The problem isn't really height, it's speed. Ideally, you want to do most of your acceleration in the upper atmosphere, where air resistance is low but there is still enough air available to use it as reaction mass (so you don't have to lift it with you) and you can burn some of it with your fuel. The most energy efficient launch would probably involve taking a balloon up a hundred km or so, then accelerating hard horizontally with a scramjet. You'd then be in a wildly elliptical orbit, and you'd need some mechanism to correct it, but there are a few relatively cheap ways of doing this if time isn't your highest priority.
I didn't say it was shit, I said that it's far from the best example of the genre. Most of the people I've spoken to who like it have never played another game in the same category. When they do, they usually agree that Angry Birds is not the best (some don't, and that's fine - games are pretty subjective things, after all). The advantage Angry Birds had was being first to market on the iPhone - hitting a market of people who didn't usually play Flash games (and who couldn't due to limitations of their platform).
I'd be interested to see how $2/album DRM-free downloads would do. At that price, you can buy an album to see if you like a band, and not be too upset if you don't. At $10/album, or $1/track, it's often cheaper to buy the CD - and then you don't have to bother making a backup.
I've found with GOG that for $3 I'll buy games that look as if they might be fun, and often not even get around to downloading and trying them for a month or so. With music, it's still at the price where I think about buying it, rather than just impulse purchasing.
I've been using WINE on OS X to play a lot of games that I've got from GOG. Most of them work with no tweaking at all. Given that OS X isn't exactly a tier 1 platform for WINE, I'd be surprised if it works better than on Linux. The main difference is the 3D drives. On Linux they're a complete crapshoot: they may be great, or they may be completely unusable. On OS X, they're usually okay (not great, but consistent).
Ron Paul doesn't stand a chance. He's in a competition to find the person with the silliest first name. The current leaders are Mitt and Newt, both of which are pretty silly. He, on the other hand, has not one but two boring first names.
Yup, protestants only symbolically eat one of their gods...
That doesn't sound like a good business model. That it buy low and sell at a loss... Those are for cases that they couldn't turn around.
That's not how it works. Remember that the market capitalisation of a company (i.e. the total value of all of the shares) is affected by a lot of things like the state of the market, investor confidence, and so on. It is quite common to see the value of a company on the stock exchange dip below the value of its assets. At this point, you buy 51% of the shares (or more) and put your own board in place. They then sell off all of the assets and return the money to the shareholders. The company no longer exists, the employees are all out of work, and the raiders made a fat profit.
That was the old Apple, before the NeXT purchase. New Apple likes low-volume high-margin markets. It wants the 10-20% of the market where 50-70% of the profit is made. This is why Apple caused such problems for Nokia: they didn't compete at all in most of Nokia's market, only in the most profitable part. They took about 5% of Nokia's market share, and about 50% of their profit.
Just like Linux was identical to a score of previously released "do stuff" operating systems?
I'm not even sure what the point of this is supposed to be.
If it's so mediocre in your overwhelmingly arrogant and conceited viewpoint then why don't you do something better? Or even as good? Or even half as good?
Why would I? Go to any flash games site on the Internet and you'll easily find a dozen better implementations of the same concept. Most of them were around for longer than Angry Birds. There is no point creating something better than Angry Birds when there are dozens of (free!) games that are better already.
You have to let go of the archaic view of money as something that you invest and save and view it as something that you give to me.
My father's car has had no problems working with his last two Nokia phones or his Blackberry. It doesn't have an iPod dock connector though, and I don't know if iOS supports the standard bluetooth stuff that everyone else implements...
Making a laser rifle is easy. We've been able to make them for decades. The difficult bit is making a portable power station...
There also don't need to be any humans at the shooter's position. The shooter could be a fairly cumbersome robot - basically a tank with a remote control. The spotter could be a UAV. Between the two of them, you've got a pretty impressive antipersonnel weapon, and no one on your team needs to be anywhere near... Although you could put the operator inside the tank and use short-range control to minimise the latency. You can almost certainly kill anyone with an antitank rocket before he gets close enough to take a shot...
And do they even have the manual dexterity required to use the knife?
It's not the reflection that matters, it's the diffusion. Try this little experiment. Stand in a dark room with a torch. Shine it at a wall. Now shine it at a mirror. Was the spot on the wall, or the spot on the mirror easier to see? The mirror was reflecting more of the light, but it was reflecting most of it along a path that didn't return to you. Try the same experiment with a laser pointer and you'll only see a very faint spot on the mirror, but a much brighter spot on the wall after it's bounced off. Now, if you were a bullet programmed to head towards the brightest spot on the wavelength of the laser, would you go towards the mirror or the bit of the wall where the reflected beam ended?
The muzzle velocity of an SA80 (which isn't exactly modern anymore) is 940 m/s, or about 2100 miles per hour. That means that it takes 1.7 seconds for the bullet to travel one mile. For vertical distance, s = ut+0.5at^2, where u is 0 and a is g, gives us 0.5g*1.7^2, or 14.2m. Now some basic trigonometry. You have a triangle 14.2 metres on one the opposite side, 1609 on the adjacent. arctan(14.2/1609) is about 0.5 degrees. So, you'd have to aim very, very slightly above the horizontal.
Of course, the SA80 isn't designed for this kind of range, and a weapon designed for this kind of range would have a faster muzzle velocity. I'm also fudging the calculation slightly by assuming that there is no air resistance - in practice the bullet would be slowing down a bit. I doubt you'd need more than 1 or 2 degrees elevation, however.
The fact that it's basically identical to 100 other throw-a-thing-to-knock-over-other-things games? The first 10 or so I played were all fun, but after a while they got a bit repetitive. Then Angry Birds was released and everyone talks about it as if it's the best game ever and totally new and original. It's a competent implementation of an old idea - not the best I've played, but not the worst either - but the public reaction to it is completely over the top. Angry Birds fans are like people encountering Doom 3 as the first FPS that they've ever seen and saying how amazing it is.
And we're back to international recognition. Sealand needs to be recognised as a flag state, which means signing a couple of treaties (and the other signatories accepting you). Sealand has not done this. It will be no more regarded as a flag state than a ship flying the jolly roger.