Like what? If they were really interested in cutting corners they would not be developing superdraco engines for the CCDev escape system proposal. The Shuttle had no escape system at all and NASA flew it. They could be flying manned flights today if they just added some seats and a life support system to their capsule which is not a particularly hard thing to do. From my experience working for other large well established companies where it is common to outsource everything supposedly to cut costs it comes as no surprise that in their experience vertical integration is cheaper. Especially on a market like this where there is little open competition. Most launch providers do not even publicly announce their prices for anything at all. US rocket engines are mostly built by like one company which is Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne a UTC company. You can try to buy them abroad but you risk being entangled in legal issues. I have even heard people say that SpaceX spends too much time and resources testing their hardware and that they could just do a hold down test at the launch site instead of doing all those stage tests at Texas. It does not seem like they are cutting corners to me.
If by molten salt you mean hot sodium or fluorine that is really nasty and corrosive stuff. Modern PWRs are much less tricky to clean up if they leave a mess. The only advantage of a molten salt reactor is that you can use it as a breeder reactor and you get more energy out the uranium. The only safe alternative to PWRs I can think of are the lead-bismuth reactors similar to what the Russians used in some of their nuclear powered subs and the pebble bed reactors.
Wow Elon is a billionaire now? He wasn't one at the time he started Tesla and SpaceX. One rumor is his first wife divorced him some time back because he was having a cash flow problem at the time. I knew he was doing better now that Tesla actually sells cars and SpaceX got all those launch contracts and Falcon 9 is flying but that is certainly interesting to know. You can check out his previous track record. AFAIK he had ~200 million at the time.
It is a load of bull. I lost count on the number of times I did not post a reply or comment on something because that site required a user login. I still remember when Usenet used to be a great place to hang out and talk about stuff with low amounts of spam and a lot of us did not use our real names back then even if most would. It should not be required to provide your contact for most web services. There are just too many people data mining every single aspect of your life as it is already. I know a lot of people who simply avoid using the web because of that. In real life you say something stupid and the next day no one remembers what you said but in the web what you say lasts nearly forever on some storage medium somewhere.
It keeps asking me for my cell phone number and tells me if I don't I am in danger of losing my account to hackers or something. It isn't like I cannot get my cellphone robbed you know Google? I am tired of this crap. First time I saw it was on Facebook and it was a significant factor in me stopping to use that service.
That makes two of us. I stopped using Facebook a couple of months back. Never saw much need to use Twitter. Only social networking site I still use is LinkedIn but it is not like I go there every day.
They only need to add fat binaries to Android for it to work. Besides eventually the bytecode language will be fast enough. There are already a lot of people using Javascript for a lot of things you wouldn't think of using a language like that a couple of years back and it is much harder to make a language like that go fast than the Java like code Google compiles to run on Dalvik.
Android not only supports different resolutions but also different aspect ratios. There is a reason why Apple keeps selecting the same aspect ratio over and over again...
The former CEO of Micron used to be a factory floor worker. The fact is most CEOs are dumber than you would think and none are worth bonuses like that.
It used to be done. Kind of. First time AMD had a profit the CEO distributed it as checks which he personally delivered to every single employee in the company. The investors hated him as a CEO because they would have preferred a dividend instead. Heh.
Actually the single thing I liked reading in Das Kapital was in one place where Marx mentioned that once you could industrially manufacture diamonds the price would plummet because carbon is abundant despite the diamond mine market being controlled by a limited set of people who connive to control prices. Or was he talking about emeralds? Whatever. His ultimate goal was for the people to control the means of production in order that no one could have personal leverage over everyone else due to economic control. Since he did not think it was possible for all individuals to have their own means of production for everything he assigned these to the State so that in this way the people would decide how to use the means of production on their own with worker committees or whatever. At least that was the principle. In practice there was always someone in charge of running the manufacturing plant that was appointed by the State and had much the role a COO or even a CEO would. Given the problems organizations have with internal and external communication of knowledge it was hard to do things otherwise even if they wanted to. Contrary to what some say the economy of the Soviet Union, despite the social problems, performed incredibly well in the first three decades of its existence. Well enough to compare with Meiji Japan or Imperial Germany. Electrification, steel, mechanization, housing, etc. This from a country which was militarily defeated by Japan and humbled by Germany during their Imperial times. It was only after Khrushchev was ousted that their economic performance kept degrading. In the long run their top-down economic system suffered from the usual problems of any such system. If the people providing the directives suck the system goes down the drain. Even the other Allied commanders thought Stalin, if anything, was a great logistics expert. Khrushchev had enough vision to try different ways to do things even if he failed a lot of the time and stopped the purges once he came to power. The following leaders had neither vision nor managing skills so the result was pathetic. In the end the system was not sustainable. Yet I have little doubt someone will try to implement it again, with some other name, much like I have found people attacking the Agile model lately in favor of modified Waterfall models. Some people just cannot thrust bottom-up planning .
Using pseudo-greek in your discourse does not make you any more right either. Instead of using fancy words like 'epistemic' I prefer to say 'knowledge'. What are you? Some guy with a degree in philosophy?
Curiously that is one of the things the e-mail authors didn't report. They were just miffed someone else managed to read the emails where they discussed how to block 3rd parties from attempting to reproduce their results or how to properly block 3rd parties from publishing in well known publications in the field.
What? That a guy was asking how he could massage the sample data so it would turn out the results he wanted? Including cherry picking datasets for specific time intervals? Nah.
How can you attack something that isn't falsifiable? If the temperature drops it stops being called global warming and is called climate change instead. If someone shows the extrapolation function used on the data to predict future temperature (which shows temperatures increasing in the future) would generate the same result using random noise it doesn't matter. Then there is the cherry picking of temperature data values and massaging of data to give the results you want while not allowing 3rd parties to access the data because it would show that you have messed with the measured data which was supposed to have been input. Not to mention that all the data is based on indirect measurements like tree ring data (which can change not only due to temperature differences, but carbon dioxide levels, rainfall, solar exposure, etc).
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Great. Now we just need someone to name their kid 1337 h4x0r.
We are talking about fscking video comments of LOLcats and Trololos here. Why the heck should they be proper or sane?
Like what? If they were really interested in cutting corners they would not be developing superdraco engines for the CCDev escape system proposal. The Shuttle had no escape system at all and NASA flew it. They could be flying manned flights today if they just added some seats and a life support system to their capsule which is not a particularly hard thing to do. From my experience working for other large well established companies where it is common to outsource everything supposedly to cut costs it comes as no surprise that in their experience vertical integration is cheaper. Especially on a market like this where there is little open competition. Most launch providers do not even publicly announce their prices for anything at all. US rocket engines are mostly built by like one company which is Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne a UTC company. You can try to buy them abroad but you risk being entangled in legal issues. I have even heard people say that SpaceX spends too much time and resources testing their hardware and that they could just do a hold down test at the launch site instead of doing all those stage tests at Texas. It does not seem like they are cutting corners to me.
If by molten salt you mean hot sodium or fluorine that is really nasty and corrosive stuff. Modern PWRs are much less tricky to clean up if they leave a mess. The only advantage of a molten salt reactor is that you can use it as a breeder reactor and you get more energy out the uranium. The only safe alternative to PWRs I can think of are the lead-bismuth reactors similar to what the Russians used in some of their nuclear powered subs and the pebble bed reactors.
Wow Elon is a billionaire now? He wasn't one at the time he started Tesla and SpaceX. One rumor is his first wife divorced him some time back because he was having a cash flow problem at the time. I knew he was doing better now that Tesla actually sells cars and SpaceX got all those launch contracts and Falcon 9 is flying but that is certainly interesting to know. You can check out his previous track record. AFAIK he had ~200 million at the time.
SpaceX already managed to do their rockets for like a tenth what the NASA cost models predicted. So there is room to do things a lot cheaper.
Uh Elon is not a billionarie. He put like $100M of his own money on SpaceX.
It is a load of bull. I lost count on the number of times I did not post a reply or comment on something because that site required a user login. I still remember when Usenet used to be a great place to hang out and talk about stuff with low amounts of spam and a lot of us did not use our real names back then even if most would. It should not be required to provide your contact for most web services. There are just too many people data mining every single aspect of your life as it is already. I know a lot of people who simply avoid using the web because of that. In real life you say something stupid and the next day no one remembers what you said but in the web what you say lasts nearly forever on some storage medium somewhere.
It keeps asking me for my cell phone number and tells me if I don't I am in danger of losing my account to hackers or something. It isn't like I cannot get my cellphone robbed you know Google? I am tired of this crap. First time I saw it was on Facebook and it was a significant factor in me stopping to use that service.
That makes two of us. I stopped using Facebook a couple of months back. Never saw much need to use Twitter. Only social networking site I still use is LinkedIn but it is not like I go there every day.
They only need to add fat binaries to Android for it to work. Besides eventually the bytecode language will be fast enough. There are already a lot of people using Javascript for a lot of things you wouldn't think of using a language like that a couple of years back and it is much harder to make a language like that go fast than the Java like code Google compiles to run on Dalvik.
Actually I think that if Android never showed up the possibility of WebOS or MeeGo succeeding would have been much greater.
Android not only supports different resolutions but also different aspect ratios. There is a reason why Apple keeps selecting the same aspect ratio over and over again...
I can't run Siri on my 3GS. Big whoop.
Don't worry. The Mac users used to say the same to Windows users back when they actually had any decent market share.
Yeah but Marx wrote about that in the XIXth century... Diamond manufacturing methods were conceived in the Soviet Union in the 1960s or something.
The former CEO of Micron used to be a factory floor worker. The fact is most CEOs are dumber than you would think and none are worth bonuses like that.
It used to be done. Kind of. First time AMD had a profit the CEO distributed it as checks which he personally delivered to every single employee in the company. The investors hated him as a CEO because they would have preferred a dividend instead. Heh.
Goldman Sachs: because the guys with the Gold make the rules.
Actually the single thing I liked reading in Das Kapital was in one place where Marx mentioned that once you could industrially manufacture diamonds the price would plummet because carbon is abundant despite the diamond mine market being controlled by a limited set of people who connive to control prices. Or was he talking about emeralds? Whatever. His ultimate goal was for the people to control the means of production in order that no one could have personal leverage over everyone else due to economic control. Since he did not think it was possible for all individuals to have their own means of production for everything he assigned these to the State so that in this way the people would decide how to use the means of production on their own with worker committees or whatever. At least that was the principle. In practice there was always someone in charge of running the manufacturing plant that was appointed by the State and had much the role a COO or even a CEO would. Given the problems organizations have with internal and external communication of knowledge it was hard to do things otherwise even if they wanted to. Contrary to what some say the economy of the Soviet Union, despite the social problems, performed incredibly well in the first three decades of its existence. Well enough to compare with Meiji Japan or Imperial Germany. Electrification, steel, mechanization, housing, etc. This from a country which was militarily defeated by Japan and humbled by Germany during their Imperial times. It was only after Khrushchev was ousted that their economic performance kept degrading. In the long run their top-down economic system suffered from the usual problems of any such system. If the people providing the directives suck the system goes down the drain. Even the other Allied commanders thought Stalin, if anything, was a great logistics expert. Khrushchev had enough vision to try different ways to do things even if he failed a lot of the time and stopped the purges once he came to power. The following leaders had neither vision nor managing skills so the result was pathetic. In the end the system was not sustainable. Yet I have little doubt someone will try to implement it again, with some other name, much like I have found people attacking the Agile model lately in favor of modified Waterfall models. Some people just cannot thrust bottom-up planning .
Using pseudo-greek in your discourse does not make you any more right either. Instead of using fancy words like 'epistemic' I prefer to say 'knowledge'. What are you? Some guy with a degree in philosophy?
Curiously that is one of the things the e-mail authors didn't report. They were just miffed someone else managed to read the emails where they discussed how to block 3rd parties from attempting to reproduce their results or how to properly block 3rd parties from publishing in well known publications in the field.
What? That a guy was asking how he could massage the sample data so it would turn out the results he wanted? Including cherry picking datasets for specific time intervals? Nah.
How can you attack something that isn't falsifiable? If the temperature drops it stops being called global warming and is called climate change instead. If someone shows the extrapolation function used on the data to predict future temperature (which shows temperatures increasing in the future) would generate the same result using random noise it doesn't matter. Then there is the cherry picking of temperature data values and massaging of data to give the results you want while not allowing 3rd parties to access the data because it would show that you have messed with the measured data which was supposed to have been input. Not to mention that all the data is based on indirect measurements like tree ring data (which can change not only due to temperature differences, but carbon dioxide levels, rainfall, solar exposure, etc).
Have you actually read the emails?
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