The PS3 hardware was clearly a mistake. Or rather it was miscalculation. They originally planned not to need a GPU because Cell was supposed to have enough FP power to do the 3D graphics all by itself but that turned out not to be the case. So they had to rush to NVIDIA and slap a GPU in there. With its own dedicated memory. The result was a very expensive console. Cell itself had a massive die size and probably only got cheap enough to build after two shrinks. Programming the Cell was a nightmare for a long time. Whole new CS research had to be done to exploit its capabilities. Today you can run OpenCL on it but it used to be the case that you had to write dedicated code for things to work properly. Most people who were doing console ports just did not bother.
Only problem is coming up with a multi-kilowatt electrical source that far out in space
SAFE-30 nuclear reactor. In fact the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) was planned to use nuclear-electric propulsion to explore the moons of Jupiter but it was cancelled. Another possibility if you want to stay in the inner planets i.e. not go further than Mars is to use a gigantic solar panel array. The 8 ISS solar arrays generate 84 kW.
I read the press release. Then I noticed it was Energia doing the announcement. You can dismiss this as a marketing exercise. When it is Roskosmos doing the announcement then I'll get interested. Is this using the triple RD-180 launcher they showed a couples of years back or what?
This is just another line item in the history of idiocy that is happening in Google. Remember reading about how they tried switching from MySQL to Oracle in AdWords a couple of years back?
A lot of people died after the invasions not from the slaughter itself but from famines as the Roman Empire's trade network broke up. Most of the wheat used to feed Rome came from fields in Egypt. Try checking Rome's population in that period the data it is quite illuminating. Then there was the Black Death and other diseases brought to Europe from Asia. Of course none of this is the fault of the Catholic Church which, as you pointed out, was actually one of the few places where the knowledge from the Roman Empire was kept. With a reduced population the rate of technological advance slowed down as would be expected but it did not stop. There were several places in Europe where Roman technological developments were kept and improved like in Venice. The Renaissance was indeed kickstarted by technological advances brought back to Europe after the Crusades.
The Vikings settled Iceland, Greenland, and supposedly North America during the Middle Ages. They conducted raids all the way from Sweden to the Black Sea. So it is not like there were no technological advances at all in Europe.
This fuel combination doesn't have a significantly lower performance than LOX/Kerosene. The fact is you can easily make an ICBM using these propellants. Their problem is they probably can't get their dry mass fraction down and the engines are old tech.
He's a big Asimov buff so he's drifting a bit (he does that on occasion). Fact is tools or force multipliers have existed since like forever. Robotics and AI have advanced in a more or less continuous fashion since their introduction. First they were only used for production, now they are also used for quality control. Soon they will be used for transportation and logistics as well. Once AI gets too creative is probably when people will smashing up machines.
That's the point actually. One of the main events in transportation that should have happened or be happening is the use of energy storage technologies like batteries or whatever instead of oil. Just like electricity decoupled the energy source from the production site, batteries or some other energy storage device are supposed to do the same for transportation.
I have always found the idea of technological revolutions being restricted to specific timeframes interesting. It is mostly a bunch of bullshit created by people who excessively attempt to categorize things. Notice how his time periods for the revolutions don't include: Bessemer process, refrigeration, antibiotics, polymers (e.g. nylon), jet engine, solar cells, nuclear power, etc. Do you honestly think transatlantic flight was less an important transportation achievement than steam ships? The mind boggles.
Another example is the period formerly known as the Dark Ages or Middle Ages. Crop rotation, wind mills, boats with a keel like longships and knarr, glass lenses, gunpowder, compass, paper currency, etc are all seemingly trash for these people. You often hear flamethrowers were invented in WWI. The truth is people were fighting with flamethrowers back in the Crusades during the Middle Ages.
Considering a lot of people in Congress and the Senate until recently did not want to fund SpaceX (Falcon 9) or Orbital (Antares) for COTS i.e. ISS ressuply and continue paying even more to the Russians, or even more than that to ULA, well things have proceeded as usual. Not to mention that SpaceX can only ramp up their business so quickly. These things take time to mature.
This has nothing to do with ICBMs. Those are solid rockets which SpaceX has stated they have no interest in developing. The prime vendors for such military rockets using solid propellant would be ATK Thiokol or Aerojet.
You would be surprised with the military. The fact is they already did try to launch some payloads with SpaceX back when they only had Falcon 1 and no proven track record. Back then it was mostly small research satellites. However the launches failed and they stopped buying vehicles until, well, now basically.
You would be surprised. I often see Iranian CS research papers at international conferences and they don't seem stupid or basic quite the contrary. They seem to have a better grasp of mathematics than the average. I don't see them having many issues switching to Linux assuming they are not using it already. The issue with these industrial machine tools is that they come with custom Windows drivers so they do not run on anything but Windows.
Actually only seldom have 100% backwards compatible applications or OSes succeeded. UNIX was not the same as Multics. MS-DOS was not the same as CP/M. Microsoft Word was not the same as Wordperfect and Excel was not the same as Lotus. You will probably notice some patterns here. The new entrant was cheaper or the incumbent did not bother switching platforms as the market shifted. ChromeOS has failed so far but Android has not. Microsoft managed to alienate their OEMs with Surface enough that Chromebooks are actually starting to be pushed to the end client in a way I personally never believed would happen. So who knows.
Most of the new clients Microsoft has had recently came to it because of SharePoint. Google Apps collaboration features basically kill SharePoint. Yes it also kills Outlook and Exchange.
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The PS3 hardware was clearly a mistake. Or rather it was miscalculation. They originally planned not to need a GPU because Cell was supposed to have enough FP power to do the 3D graphics all by itself but that turned out not to be the case. So they had to rush to NVIDIA and slap a GPU in there. With its own dedicated memory. The result was a very expensive console. Cell itself had a massive die size and probably only got cheap enough to build after two shrinks. Programming the Cell was a nightmare for a long time. Whole new CS research had to be done to exploit its capabilities. Today you can run OpenCL on it but it used to be the case that you had to write dedicated code for things to work properly. Most people who were doing console ports just did not bother.
The PS2 was a great design though.
Use Ubuntu and just click to install the NVIDIA driver. It's not very hard and no CLI required.
I bet a cathode ray tube electron has relativistic velocities.
Only problem is coming up with a multi-kilowatt electrical source that far out in space
SAFE-30 nuclear reactor. In fact the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) was planned to use nuclear-electric propulsion to explore the moons of Jupiter but it was cancelled. Another possibility if you want to stay in the inner planets i.e. not go further than Mars is to use a gigantic solar panel array. The 8 ISS solar arrays generate 84 kW.
I read the press release. Then I noticed it was Energia doing the announcement. You can dismiss this as a marketing exercise. When it is Roskosmos doing the announcement then I'll get interested. Is this using the triple RD-180 launcher they showed a couples of years back or what?
Just ask for people to have experience working with a spreadsheet. Actually scratch that. Do you ask for people to have experience using a calculator?
This is just another line item in the history of idiocy that is happening in Google. Remember reading about how they tried switching from MySQL to Oracle in AdWords a couple of years back?
Yes folks even Google makes stupid decisions.
A lot of people died after the invasions not from the slaughter itself but from famines as the Roman Empire's trade network broke up. Most of the wheat used to feed Rome came from fields in Egypt. Try checking Rome's population in that period the data it is quite illuminating. Then there was the Black Death and other diseases brought to Europe from Asia. Of course none of this is the fault of the Catholic Church which, as you pointed out, was actually one of the few places where the knowledge from the Roman Empire was kept. With a reduced population the rate of technological advance slowed down as would be expected but it did not stop. There were several places in Europe where Roman technological developments were kept and improved like in Venice. The Renaissance was indeed kickstarted by technological advances brought back to Europe after the Crusades.
The Vikings settled Iceland, Greenland, and supposedly North America during the Middle Ages. They conducted raids all the way from Sweden to the Black Sea. So it is not like there were no technological advances at all in Europe.
How about just waiting for the next orbit and then de-orbiting? Cross range is a military requirement and not necessary for civilian launches.
Much of the technology and information Falcon is using is based upon the research done to achieve the Shuttle program.
Like what? *crickets chirping*
Actually there are some people claiming the sinking of that South Korean vessel was a false flag operation.
This fuel combination doesn't have a significantly lower performance than LOX/Kerosene. The fact is you can easily make an ICBM using these propellants. Their problem is they probably can't get their dry mass fraction down and the engines are old tech.
LOX is a PITA for military rockets compared with RFNA.
He's a big Asimov buff so he's drifting a bit (he does that on occasion). Fact is tools or force multipliers have existed since like forever. Robotics and AI have advanced in a more or less continuous fashion since their introduction. First they were only used for production, now they are also used for quality control. Soon they will be used for transportation and logistics as well. Once AI gets too creative is probably when people will smashing up machines.
That's the point actually. One of the main events in transportation that should have happened or be happening is the use of energy storage technologies like batteries or whatever instead of oil. Just like electricity decoupled the energy source from the production site, batteries or some other energy storage device are supposed to do the same for transportation.
Famous last words. Surely you must be joking.
I have always found the idea of technological revolutions being restricted to specific timeframes interesting. It is mostly a bunch of bullshit created by people who excessively attempt to categorize things. Notice how his time periods for the revolutions don't include: Bessemer process, refrigeration, antibiotics, polymers (e.g. nylon), jet engine, solar cells, nuclear power, etc. Do you honestly think transatlantic flight was less an important transportation achievement than steam ships? The mind boggles.
Another example is the period formerly known as the Dark Ages or Middle Ages. Crop rotation, wind mills, boats with a keel like longships and knarr, glass lenses, gunpowder, compass, paper currency, etc are all seemingly trash for these people. You often hear flamethrowers were invented in WWI. The truth is people were fighting with flamethrowers back in the Crusades during the Middle Ages.
I have fond memories of 68k hardware but I am surprised people even bother with stuff like this in 2012.
Considering a lot of people in Congress and the Senate until recently did not want to fund SpaceX (Falcon 9) or Orbital (Antares) for COTS i.e. ISS ressuply and continue paying even more to the Russians, or even more than that to ULA, well things have proceeded as usual. Not to mention that SpaceX can only ramp up their business so quickly. These things take time to mature.
This has nothing to do with ICBMs. Those are solid rockets which SpaceX has stated they have no interest in developing. The prime vendors for such military rockets using solid propellant would be ATK Thiokol or Aerojet.
You would be surprised with the military. The fact is they already did try to launch some payloads with SpaceX back when they only had Falcon 1 and no proven track record. Back then it was mostly small research satellites. However the launches failed and they stopped buying vehicles until, well, now basically.
Nah, the government goes with the lowest bidder. Cost is something that is totally irrelevant.
You would be surprised. I often see Iranian CS research papers at international conferences and they don't seem stupid or basic quite the contrary. They seem to have a better grasp of mathematics than the average. I don't see them having many issues switching to Linux assuming they are not using it already. The issue with these industrial machine tools is that they come with custom Windows drivers so they do not run on anything but Windows.
Actually only seldom have 100% backwards compatible applications or OSes succeeded. UNIX was not the same as Multics. MS-DOS was not the same as CP/M. Microsoft Word was not the same as Wordperfect and Excel was not the same as Lotus. You will probably notice some patterns here. The new entrant was cheaper or the incumbent did not bother switching platforms as the market shifted. ChromeOS has failed so far but Android has not. Microsoft managed to alienate their OEMs with Surface enough that Chromebooks are actually starting to be pushed to the end client in a way I personally never believed would happen. So who knows.
Most of the new clients Microsoft has had recently came to it because of SharePoint. Google Apps collaboration features basically kill SharePoint. Yes it also kills Outlook and Exchange.