I think the facilities there themselves are important to retain because they're strategically located if you want to ship large components from anywhere connected to the Mississippi, assemble them, and ship them to Florida. Still, yeah, SLS sucks.
You mean the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility? Actually THEY DO. But yeah the building is allocated to different private contractors to do the actual work.
When Ryzen came out I thought it was time to upgrade and throw AMD a bone. So I bought a new computer system. Motherboard, CPU, but then... the DRAM and NAND were expensive like heck and the GPU prices were ludicrous because of those god damned coin miners. So I put an old GPU card on it and got lower end memory and NAND products.
I ended up with a M.2 NAND drive which was not any larger than the SATA one I had in my old PC and cost about as much if not more... A couple months passed then Meltdown and Spectre came around. So basically I've left it in another floor collecting dust while I'm still working on my old PC. I can't feel assed about transferring the file systems and applications from my "old" PC to the new one. Oh and the case they got me had no 5 1/4" frontal drive bays whatsoever for my legacy discs so I had to buy an external reader. At one point I thought I was better off with a laptop.
I blame the memory cartel pricing, obscene GPU prices which are like 2x what they should be right now, and the CPU manufacturers for a) screwing it up b) Intel keeps spinning new revisions of the same shit over and over and calls it a new product.
So it is little wonder few people want to upgrade. Also 4K just made everything more expensive and it is useless for gaming.
No, it is not reusable. But it a decent medium lift launcher with more performance than what the Delta II used to have. Unfortunately because the engine comes from Russia and the first stage comes from Ukraine I suspect it will be phased out eventually.
You would be wrong. Not a lot of people remember, but back when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa one of the things the Soviets did was they bombed Berlin on August 7 1941 with DB-3 long distance bombers. If they know there is a large force behind the attacks threatening their nation they could strike.
Yeah no shit. Nigeria has oil & gas fields. Even with all the corruption and graft it's not like the country does not have money in it. It's just that it is mostly concentrated at the top.
There was more to it than that. The USA "stole" things like steel manufacturing processes and railroad technologies like steam engines, etc. Before that a lot of cotton-mill designs were also copied without license.
Mute? The Chinese enacted counter sanctions on all their major US import products. Which include agricultural produce and airplanes and airplane parts. They also tried to negotiate with the US, but since each negotiator the US has sent them so far sings a different tune, they have realized it is better to just wait until the US has its mid-term elections until they try again.
In any company with leading edge tech or new products any production goals are tentative. Intel has issues with production yields with new processes for example and quite often the yield rate is only told a long time after the fact as the information can be used by competitors and determines price signals.
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There already is a NASA docking standard at least.
I think the facilities there themselves are important to retain because they're strategically located if you want to ship large components from anywhere connected to the Mississippi, assemble them, and ship them to Florida. Still, yeah, SLS sucks.
You mean the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility? Actually THEY DO.
But yeah the building is allocated to different private contractors to do the actual work.
I wonder how the Linux kernel ever got developed...
When Ryzen came out I thought it was time to upgrade and throw AMD a bone. So I bought a new computer system. Motherboard, CPU, but then... the DRAM and NAND were expensive like heck and the GPU prices were ludicrous because of those god damned coin miners. So I put an old GPU card on it and got lower end memory and NAND products.
I ended up with a M.2 NAND drive which was not any larger than the SATA one I had in my old PC and cost about as much if not more... A couple months passed then Meltdown and Spectre came around. So basically I've left it in another floor collecting dust while I'm still working on my old PC. I can't feel assed about transferring the file systems and applications from my "old" PC to the new one. Oh and the case they got me had no 5 1/4" frontal drive bays whatsoever for my legacy discs so I had to buy an external reader. At one point I thought I was better off with a laptop.
I blame the memory cartel pricing, obscene GPU prices which are like 2x what they should be right now, and the CPU manufacturers for a) screwing it up b) Intel keeps spinning new revisions of the same shit over and over and calls it a new product.
So it is little wonder few people want to upgrade. Also 4K just made everything more expensive and it is useless for gaming.
That's one of the issues you get when you use refurbished 1960s-1970s rocket engines.
No, it is not reusable. But it a decent medium lift launcher with more performance than what the Delta II used to have. Unfortunately because the engine comes from Russia and the first stage comes from Ukraine I suspect it will be phased out eventually.
You would be wrong. Not a lot of people remember, but back when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa one of the things the Soviets did was they bombed Berlin on August 7 1941 with DB-3 long distance bombers. If they know there is a large force behind the attacks threatening their nation they could strike.
In case of a real war against Russia they would shoot down GPS satellites, not just jam them.
Yeah no shit. Nigeria has oil & gas fields. Even with all the corruption and graft it's not like the country does not have money in it. It's just that it is mostly concentrated at the top.
There is such a thing as being good enough. Much like JPEG-2000 never replaced JPEG.
AV1 is just a codec. If those things happen it will be at the container level.
All it means is their delivery infrastructure hasn't scaled up properly to meet the new production rates.
Ghostbusters.
Iceland is already home to large smelters like Alcoa.
You could use that for smelting aluminum, grinding wheat into flour, or other similar processes as well.
I know what I would rather have.
Fujian still has not started manufacturing a single damned thing yet.
There was more to it than that. The USA "stole" things like steel manufacturing processes and railroad technologies like steam engines, etc. Before that a lot of cotton-mill designs were also copied without license.
Mute? The Chinese enacted counter sanctions on all their major US import products. Which include agricultural produce and airplanes and airplane parts. They also tried to negotiate with the US, but since each negotiator the US has sent them so far sings a different tune, they have realized it is better to just wait until the US has its mid-term elections until they try again.
They were top notch you mean. Current IBM management only knows about acquiring companies and outsourcing development work.
You forgot Oracle.
In any company with leading edge tech or new products any production goals are tentative. Intel has issues with production yields with new processes for example and quite often the yield rate is only told a long time after the fact as the information can be used by competitors and determines price signals.
You mean it will replace already poorly paid beginner lawyers in lawyer offices and make that occupation vanish into thin air.
How do you think the water recycling mechanisms on the ISS work? Try reading about the Soviet/Russian Elektron system for example.
Yeah but he did start SpaceX. Also to a large degree what you see in the Model S or X was because of his guidance. Both the good and the bad.