Airplanes are made from relatively thin aluminum, and travel at hundreds of miles/hour. Thus, a hovering 2 kg drone struck by an airplane flying at 200 mph would generate a force of 640 kiloNewtons (5x the thrust of an F100's jet engine.
Yes, Mozilla is important, but it's killing itself.
Two years ago, I stopped using FF on all but a handful of sites because in this era of Web 2.0 and heavy JS usage, after enough tabs get opened eventually the main thread gets to 100% CPU and just sits there. All tabs become unresponsive, which is very anti-performance.
I'd much rather use FF than Chromium, since Chromium doesn't display pages so accurately whereas FF does. However, accurate unresponsiveness is significantly worse than not-so-accurate responsiveness.
Recently, I had to start using FF on my Windows box at work. (The old company time card just doesn't work with FF, but the new one doesn't work with IE.) Installing CTR was the first thing I did. Made the settings just the same as on my Linux box, but still no joy.
Pocket, FirefoxOS, IoT and constantly dicking with the UI are substantially less important than getting full multi-threading implemented. Otherwise, there won't be anymore users using FF.
Maybe the people who took us off the precious metal standard were enthusiastically devoted to fiat currency. Or maybe , and I think much more likely they saw it as the only practical alternative.
I was asking why the U.S. dollar is not fan based, is it because of faith and trust in the government?
You're making a syllogistic fallacy. Just as Socrates is a mortal, but not all mortals are Socrates, everyone who is enthusiastically devoted to something also has faith and trust in it, but not everyone who has faith and trust is also enthusiastically devoted to it.
So, the U.S. dollar is not fan-currency because it is backed by the full might of the U.S. military?
A fan, or fanatic, sometimes also called aficionado or supporter, is a person who is enthusiastically devoted to something or somebody, such as a band, a sports team, a genre, a book, a movie or an entertainer.
How in the hell do you equate backed by the full might of the U.S. military to fandom?
So figure out the passcode (shouldn't be that hard, since people typically use simple PINs or ones that are meaningful to them) to get the decryption key?
How many times have we been told, "all bets are off once you've got physical control of the h/w"? Well, they've got physical control of the h/w.
Saying that Intel's Tick-Tock [wikipedia.org] process just requires an "occasional tweak"
I did not write that. I wrote "each iteration of a factory". If the tick and the tock require different fab equipment (and thus huge new capital expenditures), then they are different iterations of the factory.
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But, but, but... OMG RADIATION!!!!!!!!
For Christ's sake. 174 people got enough radiation that 1:200 people might die of leukemia.
These are all near airports. That's where no-drones regulations make sense.
that assumes that a) it's a head-on collision
The stated assumption was hovering 2 kg drone struck by an airplane, so by definition it's head-on, since otherwise it wouldn't hit the drone.
the drone would be deflected into the airstream and flow with it (being far lighter than the plane)
Possibly. But even a glancing strike would do damage to the very thin aluminum.
Airplanes are made from relatively thin aluminum, and travel at hundreds of miles/hour. Thus, a hovering 2 kg drone struck by an airplane flying at 200 mph would generate a force of 640 kiloNewtons (5x the thrust of an F100's jet engine.
But honestly, what's the likelihood?
Yes, Mozilla is important, but it's killing itself.
Two years ago, I stopped using FF on all but a handful of sites because in this era of Web 2.0 and heavy JS usage, after enough tabs get opened eventually the main thread gets to 100% CPU and just sits there. All tabs become unresponsive, which is very anti-performance.
I'd much rather use FF than Chromium, since Chromium doesn't display pages so accurately whereas FF does. However, accurate unresponsiveness is significantly worse than not-so-accurate responsiveness.
Recently, I had to start using FF on my Windows box at work. (The old company time card just doesn't work with FF, but the new one doesn't work with IE.) Installing CTR was the first thing I did. Made the settings just the same as on my Linux box, but still no joy.
Because it's important.
To whom? Vain developers.
Pocket, FirefoxOS, IoT and constantly dicking with the UI are substantially less important than getting full multi-threading implemented. Otherwise, there won't be anymore users using FF.
They've clearly already shifted their focus back onto Firefox lately
Then why all this other non-browser shit?
it suddenly had Google, Apple, and Microsoft to compete with
You're posting AC so that no one can trace this idiocy back to a real person, right?
Maybe the people who took us off the precious metal standard were enthusiastically devoted to fiat currency. Or maybe , and I think much more likely they saw it as the only practical alternative.
OP expressed a distaste for fan based currency...
I am OP.
I was asking why the U.S. dollar is not fan based, is it because of faith and trust in the government?
You're making a syllogistic fallacy. Just as Socrates is a mortal, but not all mortals are Socrates, everyone who is enthusiastically devoted to something also has faith and trust in it, but not everyone who has faith and trust is also enthusiastically devoted to it.
So, the U.S. dollar is not fan-currency because it is backed by the full might of the U.S. military?
A fan, or fanatic, sometimes also called aficionado or supporter, is a person who is enthusiastically devoted to something or somebody, such as a band, a sports team, a genre, a book, a movie or an entertainer.
How in the hell do you equate backed by the full might of the U.S. military to fandom?
Just because fiat currency requires faith does not mean that we are fans of fiat currency or that it was created by fans of fiat currency.
This is why I don't rely on fan-currency.
So figure out the passcode (shouldn't be that hard, since people typically use simple PINs or ones that are meaningful to them) to get the decryption key?
How many times have we been told, "all bets are off once you've got physical control of the h/w"? Well, they've got physical control of the h/w.
then yes, he would be a fucking moron.
FTFY.
cracking an image of the "hard" drive (both via social engineering and brute force)? What kind of incompetent dunderheads are they???
Or is the Conspiracy Theory that this is really a trojan horse for greater federal power not actually a Conspiracy Theory?
I didn't force you to reply. Honestly.
Saying that Intel's Tick-Tock [wikipedia.org] process just requires an "occasional tweak"
I did not write that. I wrote "each iteration of a factory". If the tick and the tock require different fab equipment (and thus huge new capital expenditures), then they are different iterations of the factory.
with cost per unit of output generally decreasing with increasing scale as fixed costs are spread out over more units of output.
IOW, you're doing the same thing over and over.
Intel is the perfect example of having "economies of scale"
And each iteration of a factory pumps out millions of units using the same process (barring the occasional tweak).
Of course, I would immediately respond that "economies of scale" is playing a far greater role
Isn't that what I originally said?
I think you're not understanding the point of "economies of scale": you have to do the same thing over and over. That's why robots are so useful.
But repeatedly changing the underlying technology (like shrinking process fab) doesn't allow you to amortize the costs of the factory.
Oh, hush.
Think of a dozen guys putting together a car vs a robotic production line.
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Think of a three guys assembling a car vs. Henry Ford's assembly line: very little high tech, but very much economies of scale.
Why? If it's even vaguely profitable, what's the reason for not selling it anymore?
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How much of that is snazzy cutting edge tech, and how much is existing tech at much higher economies of scale?
Asked a different way, what do the kW/kg and time-to-charge curves look like?