It took less than three decades. However after 9/11 laptop and cellphone use on airplanes was banned. I remember at one point Iridium mentioned airplane communications for plane travelers as a possible market.
The limiting factor was the size of a pocket. The form factor is the same calculators have used for yonks. Now, it may be that someone makes a smartwatch but do you have any reason to believe those will be more successful in the long term than calculator watches turned out to be?
Smartphones are general purpose computers in a portable format. I doubt they will be replaced or displaced any time soon. Personal computers did not totally replace mainframes either. They just have a larger market. In the case of a smartwatch the problems are how to conduct input and output given the small size. Aside from sci-fiesque projections of virtual displays into thin air what else can you do?
For whatever unfathomable reason Microsoft decided to make Winsock use the BSD socket API *but* you need to use Windows specific error handling mechanisms, Windows specific constants, initialization and shutdown functions, etc.
It is called Realpolitik. It was probably invented by Cardinal Richelieu who joined the Thirty Years War in Europe, of Protestants vs Catholics, by siding with the Protestants despite being a Catholic priest himself because he was not interested in the Spanish Habsburg Empire gaining dominion in Europe.
It caused the Cuban 'special economic period' too.
The USSR went bankrupt for all sorts of reasons. Expenses on the war on Afghanistan. Crumbling infrastructure including oil extraction and transportation. Supposedly their oil industry production collapsed just before the crisis happened. Besides the infrastructure they ran out of the easily accessible oil that used to fuel their planned economy. As a result the whole thing came tumbling down. The system was designed to run on cheap oil.
They did not have unfettered access to the worldwide markets either not a lot of goods they could sell to other countries besides weapons. That certainly did not help either.
So the move to thawing relations with the West had to happen regardless of it breaking up or not.
No state will ever give up land willingly. It is from that taxes are derived. You are naive if you think the only reason the South seceded from the Union was slavery. There was a lot more at stake than that. People tend to reduce issues to slogans or sum things up in simple sentences that do not explain the whole situation.
You need to learn how to read. What he is claiming is that Ukraine borders NATO countries like Poland and Romania and if the war escalates it may end up involving all of NATO.
It is de facto Russian. That is what matters. There is a number of disputed territories in the world. We might as well color Tibet differently by this token.
Boeing Delta III? Failure. Delta IV Heavy? Lots of 'partial failures' which put the payload in the wrong orbit. Lockheed Martin Altas V? Powered by Russian RD-180 engines and no launch failures so far.
Launch failures happen. Some guy installed a part upside down in that Proton and the control systems thought the rocket was pointing the other way around.
You might argue that this was also a design error. They could have designed it so it would not fit but in the proper way. However Angara is supposed to replace Proton so it is not like I can blame them for not investing much more on it.
It is always a bit naive to compare the size of programs like this. What actually gets done depends a lot more on PPP than GDP. If the salaries in that nation are a lot lower they can hire more people with the same money and get more results that way.
The launch complex is being built because Kazakhstan keeps asking for more and more concessions in order to continue using Baikonur. Eventually it becomes cheaper to build a new base in Russia itself. Especially considering that they will probably have to build new launch pads to launch Angara.
You do not know what you are talking about. Ammonia fertilizer is made with the Haber-Bosch process. It only requires a source of hydrogen. The source of hydrogen can be petroleum but for e.g. in the US it is usually natural gas. There are more ways to get hydrogen than that.
Temperature control can be taken care of in most populated areas by using all sorts of passive mechanisms like insulation and proper building design. For those that do need active heating in places where a heat pump would not work as desired there are more things to burn than oil.
If petroleum became too expensive farm machinery would go electric. This is already done to a certain degree in the mining business.
I do not know anyone who supports this. What we do support is that humans do not change the global temperature with their activities in any meaningful way compared with the other natural phenomena like solar irradiation, etc. The percentage of change humans cause with their activities is so small it might as well be totally irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
Take tree rings as an instance. The way it is measured that there is more CO2 in the atmosphere in that year is by assuming the tree has grown faster that year because of elevated CO2. But this does not take into account rainfall at all.
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I also think a bracelet makes more sense as a form factor than a phone. ASUS had a conceptual design like that.
It took less than three decades. However after 9/11 laptop and cellphone use on airplanes was banned. I remember at one point Iridium mentioned airplane communications for plane travelers as a possible market.
The limiting factor was the size of a pocket. The form factor is the same calculators have used for yonks. Now, it may be that someone makes a smartwatch but do you have any reason to believe those will be more successful in the long term than calculator watches turned out to be?
Smartphones are general purpose computers in a portable format. I doubt they will be replaced or displaced any time soon. Personal computers did not totally replace mainframes either. They just have a larger market. In the case of a smartwatch the problems are how to conduct input and output given the small size. Aside from sci-fiesque projections of virtual displays into thin air what else can you do?
For whatever unfathomable reason Microsoft decided to make Winsock use the BSD socket API *but* you need to use Windows specific error handling mechanisms, Windows specific constants, initialization and shutdown functions, etc.
It is called Realpolitik. It was probably invented by Cardinal Richelieu who joined the Thirty Years War in Europe, of Protestants vs Catholics, by siding with the Protestants despite being a Catholic priest himself because he was not interested in the Spanish Habsburg Empire gaining dominion in Europe.
Just call it a puppet state like we used to back when it was WW2 time.
It caused the Cuban 'special economic period' too.
The USSR went bankrupt for all sorts of reasons. Expenses on the war on Afghanistan. Crumbling infrastructure including oil extraction and transportation. Supposedly their oil industry production collapsed just before the crisis happened. Besides the infrastructure they ran out of the easily accessible oil that used to fuel their planned economy. As a result the whole thing came tumbling down. The system was designed to run on cheap oil.
They did not have unfettered access to the worldwide markets either not a lot of goods they could sell to other countries besides weapons. That certainly did not help either.
So the move to thawing relations with the West had to happen regardless of it breaking up or not.
No state will ever give up land willingly. It is from that taxes are derived. You are naive if you think the only reason the South seceded from the Union was slavery. There was a lot more at stake than that. People tend to reduce issues to slogans or sum things up in simple sentences that do not explain the whole situation.
You need to learn how to read. What he is claiming is that Ukraine borders NATO countries like Poland and Romania and if the war escalates it may end up involving all of NATO.
It is de facto Russian. That is what matters. There is a number of disputed territories in the world. We might as well color Tibet differently by this token.
If you have negative margins it ceases to be a business. That sounds like a good reason to jack up prices to me.
From what I heard they want to do that in places like California. So beware.
This is worse than net neutrality. IMO it violates the Sherman antitrust act.
He was probably talking about the Shuttle and manned space flight.
Boeing Delta III? Failure. Delta IV Heavy? Lots of 'partial failures' which put the payload in the wrong orbit. Lockheed Martin Altas V? Powered by Russian RD-180 engines and no launch failures so far.
Launch failures happen. Some guy installed a part upside down in that Proton and the control systems thought the rocket was pointing the other way around.
You might argue that this was also a design error. They could have designed it so it would not fit but in the proper way. However Angara is supposed to replace Proton so it is not like I can blame them for not investing much more on it.
It is always a bit naive to compare the size of programs like this. What actually gets done depends a lot more on PPP than GDP. If the salaries in that nation are a lot lower they can hire more people with the same money and get more results that way.
The launch complex is being built because Kazakhstan keeps asking for more and more concessions in order to continue using Baikonur. Eventually it becomes cheaper to build a new base in Russia itself. Especially considering that they will probably have to build new launch pads to launch Angara.
Not a problem since cosmonauts carry pistols.
I doubt they will fire in the vacuum though.
Is this 'news' story some sort of astroturfing campaign for these applications or what?
You might as well ask why there are differences in price in any other market.
Companies are not interested in wasting time teaching you skills on the job if they can avoid it.
BS. Unless by 'people' you mean Apple.
You do not know what you are talking about. Ammonia fertilizer is made with the Haber-Bosch process. It only requires a source of hydrogen. The source of hydrogen can be petroleum but for e.g. in the US it is usually natural gas. There are more ways to get hydrogen than that.
Temperature control can be taken care of in most populated areas by using all sorts of passive mechanisms like insulation and proper building design. For those that do need active heating in places where a heat pump would not work as desired there are more things to burn than oil.
If petroleum became too expensive farm machinery would go electric. This is already done to a certain degree in the mining business.
If you aggregate even more data points you get the medieval warm period and their results become totally bogus.
Humans are not changing the climate
I do not know anyone who supports this. What we do support is that humans do not change the global temperature with their activities in any meaningful way compared with the other natural phenomena like solar irradiation, etc. The percentage of change humans cause with their activities is so small it might as well be totally irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
Take tree rings as an instance. The way it is measured that there is more CO2 in the atmosphere in that year is by assuming the tree has grown faster that year because of elevated CO2. But this does not take into account rainfall at all.