Huh? No currently flying booster has a success rate as abysmal as the Falcon I. The only thing SpaceX is doing as well as the "traditional" contractors is putting a bright face on an ongoing series of delays and failures. And you, like most of the rest of the space fanboi community, have swallowed the spin, hook, line, and sinker.
Usually accidents in a new launch vehicle happen at its inception, or when there are vehicle upgrades. This was indeed the issue with the Falcon 1 launches. In the last failure they decided to replace the first stage engine and forgot to change a piece of software to match the new vehicle characteristics (not too unlike the issue Arianespace had when trying to shoehorn the Ariane 4 flight software into Ariane 5). Hopefully they will get better at the game now, which is why the next launches are critical. Even companies which should know better manage to produce crap on ocasion. Remember Delta III?
Other people have done the math on this problem as well. The areas better suited for solar power generation are deserts which are currently not being used for farmland, or anything else really. The technology discussed there is solar photovoltaic modules, but other technologies such as solar thermal could be used just as well. You seem to be confusing this solution with power generation from biofuel crops.
Here in page 15. You can see the amount of land area solar power would require for generating our requirements for the next couple of decades. Only problem is, it is still too expensive to build it.
That is funny. The worst power plant disasters in history, with the most fatalities, where made by hydroelectric plants (i.e. dams). This little accident in China for example caused 26000 direct fatalities in flooding. 145000 additional disaster affected residents died from epidemics and famine.
There was scientific development in the so called dark ages. Most of the improvements consisted in techniques to improve agricultural and industrial production which paved the way for a population boom that fueled the change made in the renaissance. Technologies from the dark ages include: heavy plow, crop rotation, tower mill. Was it not for the increased population pressure there would have been little motive for expansion and colonization.
I have not tried programming in Qt for several years now, but I have to tell you that when GTK+ was at about version 1.0 this was definitively not true.
Qt's fugly slot mechanism and nonsensical object hierarchy were pretty annoying. I found the GTK+ library (C) to be more object oriented than Qt (C++) itself, what, with their 'moc' compiler crud.
Qt is indeed more cross-platform and has a richer API than GTK+. That by itself, plus the fact it is LGPLed now, makes it interesting for writing applications regardless of how well written the API is.
How many sound APIs does Windows have? There is WinMM, DirectSound, Media Foundation. I have seen games use OpenAL, FMod, Miles Sound System. Windows Vista's MIDI subsystem is incompatible with that of Windows XP, and means I get substandard MIDI sound. Talk about some feature regression.
Linux has had two leading sound systems. It used to be OSS (many years ago) and has been ALSA for quite some time. If you require anything else, you are probably going to have trouble in some distributions. Now, ALSA may be considered a crappy API, but then again, so was WinMM and it didn't stop people from using it.
With Ubuntu you often need to reboot as well. The wonders of the NVIDIA binary driver mean you have to recompile some kernel module every time the driver changes, and seemingly reboot to restart the module. Its not like in the old days where you only need to kill and restart X11.
Same here. I got the InfoMagic 6 CD set from April 1996 and installed Slackware 3.0. You had to make a boot floppy because autoboot CDs didn't exist back then. I remember using X11 with FVWM to basically run mostly XTerms.
I got it because I wanted to do C and UNIX C programming at home, without having to use Solaris at the University.
UNIX had world readable passwd files while Windows didn't even have passwords. I'm on a Vista system and I've had 3 viruses by now. I *never* a virus on Linux, and I have used Linux for over a decade now.
Because it seems in the end TomTom has to remove FAT LFN support after all. I also note that in cases where one of the offending parties has less or less notable patents than the other there is usually a cash offset. I hope this drives to the home that FAT is *not* suitable has a standard filesystem for interoperability and people start using ISO9660, or whatever.
It isn't a battle on two fronts regarding their bread winner. Even if NVIDIA stops manufacturing chipsets, they will still manufacture graphics chips. Fact is the latest NVIDIA chipsets have sucked and been buggy as hell. Their former love for SLI lock-in crapola hasn't gained any favors in the market either.
I doubt Larabee will be all they have been claiming it will be, but Intel managed to sucker punch RISC vendors with Pentium Pro before. If they manage to make a chip with similar performance to NVIDIA's top offering, but cheaper (not unthinkable given Intel's manufacturing prowess while NVIDIA is stuck using TSMC), NVIDIA will be reeling for a long time to come.
No. MS-DOS was based on QDOS. QDOS was a Digital Research CP/M clone. Digital Research later on made DR-DOS, which was an MS-DOS compatible version of CP/M. DR-DOS was later purchased by Novell, then by Caldera. Confused?
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That sounds a bit like PACER.
Usually accidents in a new launch vehicle happen at its inception, or when there are vehicle upgrades. This was indeed the issue with the Falcon 1 launches. In the last failure they decided to replace the first stage engine and forgot to change a piece of software to match the new vehicle characteristics (not too unlike the issue Arianespace had when trying to shoehorn the Ariane 4 flight software into Ariane 5). Hopefully they will get better at the game now, which is why the next launches are critical. Even companies which should know better manage to produce crap on ocasion. Remember Delta III?
Microsoft has tried to replace the PDF format several times in the past and failed.
Other people have done the math on this problem as well. The areas better suited for solar power generation are deserts which are currently not being used for farmland, or anything else really. The technology discussed there is solar photovoltaic modules, but other technologies such as solar thermal could be used just as well. You seem to be confusing this solution with power generation from biofuel crops.
Actually Switzerland is part of ESA even if they aren't part of the EU. There was even a Swiss astronaut.
Actually, Canada is part of the European Space Agency as well.
Actually, they do hunt seals by clobbering them in Norway.
Here in page 15. You can see the amount of land area solar power would require for generating our requirements for the next couple of decades. Only problem is, it is still too expensive to build it.
That is funny. The worst power plant disasters in history, with the most fatalities, where made by hydroelectric plants (i.e. dams). This little accident in China for example caused 26000 direct fatalities in flooding. 145000 additional disaster affected residents died from epidemics and famine.
There was scientific development in the so called dark ages. Most of the improvements consisted in techniques to improve agricultural and industrial production which paved the way for a population boom that fueled the change made in the renaissance. Technologies from the dark ages include: heavy plow, crop rotation, tower mill. Was it not for the increased population pressure there would have been little motive for expansion and colonization.
Perhaps if Sun was less stupid it would actually work.
Qt's fugly slot mechanism and nonsensical object hierarchy were pretty annoying. I found the GTK+ library (C) to be more object oriented than Qt (C++) itself, what, with their 'moc' compiler crud.
Qt is indeed more cross-platform and has a richer API than GTK+. That by itself, plus the fact it is LGPLed now, makes it interesting for writing applications regardless of how well written the API is.
Linux has had two leading sound systems. It used to be OSS (many years ago) and has been ALSA for quite some time. If you require anything else, you are probably going to have trouble in some distributions. Now, ALSA may be considered a crappy API, but then again, so was WinMM and it didn't stop people from using it.
As powerful as Liberty Prime is, I think it can't cross oceans. Unless it has an optional flight pack I am unaware of.
With Ubuntu you often need to reboot as well. The wonders of the NVIDIA binary driver mean you have to recompile some kernel module every time the driver changes, and seemingly reboot to restart the module. Its not like in the old days where you only need to kill and restart X11.
I mean, what's a home tab?
Soyuz already includes retro rockets besides the parachute landing system.
I got it because I wanted to do C and UNIX C programming at home, without having to use Solaris at the University.
UNIX had world readable passwd files while Windows didn't even have passwords. I'm on a Vista system and I've had 3 viruses by now. I *never* a virus on Linux, and I have used Linux for over a decade now.
I also opposed it because of clause 2. It doesn't impose the dual licensing ad infinitum.
Because it seems in the end TomTom has to remove FAT LFN support after all. I also note that in cases where one of the offending parties has less or less notable patents than the other there is usually a cash offset. I hope this drives to the home that FAT is *not* suitable has a standard filesystem for interoperability and people start using ISO9660, or whatever.
I doubt Larabee will be all they have been claiming it will be, but Intel managed to sucker punch RISC vendors with Pentium Pro before. If they manage to make a chip with similar performance to NVIDIA's top offering, but cheaper (not unthinkable given Intel's manufacturing prowess while NVIDIA is stuck using TSMC), NVIDIA will be reeling for a long time to come.
No. MS-DOS was based on QDOS. QDOS was a Digital Research CP/M clone. Digital Research later on made DR-DOS, which was an MS-DOS compatible version of CP/M. DR-DOS was later purchased by Novell, then by Caldera. Confused?
Something which reflects gravity? That's cavorite!.
Noone forced them into getting an IMF loan anyway. Is it surprising the people loaning them the money ask certain terms?