The ratio of payload to fuel is higher with smaller launches
Remind me what the ratio of surface area to volume is for a cylinder. Hmmm, r*h : r^2*h, so the bigger r is, the more fuel you carry to fuel tank structure.
No, it means he's done much more. As I understand it, getting signal off chip is power limited because you have to drive great big pads with wires attached that either end up going to another die in the package, or off package. The point is that there is an impedance mismatch with respect to the small transistors and the big pads. With light there is no impedance mismatch provided you cane get enough photons.
I think Oracle bought Sun because Sun was cheap to buy, and Oracle had a plan on converting the purchase into more money than they spent. Why was Sun cheap? Because the market had lost any expectation that the current management could earn any value. That is why the Sun stock was down 80% over the four years prior to the sale.
In 2007–2008, Sun posted revenue of $13.8 billion and had $2 billion in cash. First-quarter 2008 losses were $1.68 billion; revenue fell 7% to $2.99 billion. Sun’s stock lost 80% of its value November 2007 to November 2008, reducing the company’s market value to $3 billion. With falling sales to large corporate clients, Sun announced plans to lay off 5,000 to 6,000 workers, or 15-18% of its work force. It expected to save $700 million to $800 million a year as a result of the moves, while also taking up to $600 million in charges.
Loosing 80% of your value is not doing fine. And no, mergers are not all about owning the market, if that was a real risk the merger would not have been allowed due to anti-trust reason. If you disagree, then tell me what market Oracle bought. The purchase happens for a public company when the purchaser offers the stockholders more than they think the current management can return to them. If Sun had been doing fine, they would have been too expensive to buy.
There are a whole lot more people that second guessing Larry Ellison than providing an equivalent value to their shareholders. Not that I have experience in billion dollar acquisitions, but the 50 and 100 million dollar acquisitions I've seen first hand took years to play out.
Excuse me, but when has a soldering iron ever been required for owning or even building a non-Apple home computer?
In 1975 - the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWTPC was a common home computer. Like Altair and IMSAI it had to be assembled; all of which were put together with said soldering iron. The Apple II came out summer of 1977, before ( by months ) the TRS-80 and PET. So Apple II was as I recall the first common one, if not the absolute first computer that did not sell in kit form.
Obj C plays quite nicely with C and C++. With the exception of some UIView windowing calls and Audio library, my entire app is written in C++ including all of the OpenGL calls.
Yes, logic, of course. But then the device is more than just the memory, which at best is 1/3 the cost along with display, and battery, and maybe even a processor. Regarding the retail memory market, I doubt the markup is even 10% from wholesale. I don't think OLPC even broke $180 in whole sale cost.
"Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript." Looks like there's still no hope for third-party browsers!
But Atomic Web browser is great. It uses Webkit, and Webkit Javascript, so it renders no doubt exactly like Safari. But, it provides a much nicer UI, for Tabs, for Search, and for Fullscreen. I almost never use Safari on my iPhone since I found Atomic.
blocked pitot tube will cause the airspeed indicator to register an increase in airspeed when the aircraft climbs, even though indicated airspeed is constant.
I could see this leading to a stall in short order depending on which instrument you are believing at the time.
I am looking forward to the recovery of the recorders from AF 447.
B=Boron. This is a proton + Boron fusion reaction that quickly fissions to 3 Helium. I can trivially dismiss his idea given the amount of energy he thinks he is going to have going into a Farsworth Fusor.
The original poster was suggesting we could make meaningful quantities of He using a fusor, which requires more energy in than is produced by the resultant fusion. By showing the amount of energy produced by the fusion, and knowing we need more than that to produce the fusion, I hoped to make clear that a table top fusor was not going to solve the He shortage.
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This app does not use the network. I have it - it is nearly instant.
This app does not use the network. I have it - it is nearly instant. I just tried it in Airplane mode - still works.
The ratio of payload to fuel is higher with smaller launches
Remind me what the ratio of surface area to volume is for a cylinder. Hmmm, r*h : r^2*h, so the bigger r is, the more fuel you carry to fuel tank structure.
No, it means he's done much more. As I understand it, getting signal off chip is power limited because you have to drive great big pads with wires attached that either end up going to another die in the package, or off package. The point is that there is an impedance mismatch with respect to the small transistors and the big pads. With light there is no impedance mismatch provided you cane get enough photons.
Current switching speed is not limited by sinal propagation speed in metal;1/3c. More likely by the capacitance in the line.
I think Oracle bought Sun because Sun was cheap to buy, and Oracle had a plan on converting the purchase into more money than they spent. Why was Sun cheap? Because the market had lost any expectation that the current management could earn any value. That is why the Sun stock was down 80% over the four years prior to the sale.
In 2007–2008, Sun posted revenue of $13.8 billion and had $2 billion in cash. First-quarter 2008 losses were $1.68 billion; revenue fell 7% to $2.99 billion. Sun’s stock lost 80% of its value November 2007 to November 2008, reducing the company’s market value to $3 billion. With falling sales to large corporate clients, Sun announced plans to lay off 5,000 to 6,000 workers, or 15-18% of its work force. It expected to save $700 million to $800 million a year as a result of the moves, while also taking up to $600 million in charges.
Loosing 80% of your value is not doing fine. And no, mergers are not all about owning the market, if that was a real risk the merger would not have been allowed due to anti-trust reason. If you disagree, then tell me what market Oracle bought. The purchase happens for a public company when the purchaser offers the stockholders more than they think the current management can return to them. If Sun had been doing fine, they would have been too expensive to buy.
There are a whole lot more people that second guessing Larry Ellison than providing an equivalent value to their shareholders. Not that I have experience in billion dollar acquisitions, but the 50 and 100 million dollar acquisitions I've seen first hand took years to play out.
...MySQL, OpenOffice and Java - arguably the three most valuable software assets he bought with Sun.
But not valuable enough to keep Sun in business for themselves.
They died when they spun off Agilent. I liked their test equipment, and possibly their early ink jet printers.
Cray's come with random serial numbers I am told.
Excuse me, but when has a soldering iron ever been required for owning or even building a non-Apple home computer?
In 1975 - the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWTPC was a common home computer. Like Altair and IMSAI it had to be assembled; all of which were put together with said soldering iron. The Apple II came out summer of 1977, before ( by months ) the TRS-80 and PET. So Apple II was as I recall the first common one, if not the absolute first computer that did not sell in kit form.
Obj C plays quite nicely with C and C++. With the exception of some UIView windowing calls and Audio library, my entire app is written in C++ including all of the OpenGL calls.
Good on ye for the reference, but if I 'ad to bet my pence, Apple will nought to cry first.
Sorry for self reply - my first Mac was a IIci; yes color was missing from the Mac between 1984 and '87.
Wish I could delete my previsou. post
Maybe it's just a rationalization 20 years later for why Apple didn't adopt color graphics earlier.
Every Apple I've had, starting with the II+ has had color graphics.
Yes, logic, of course. But then the device is more than just the memory, which at best is 1/3 the cost along with display, and battery, and maybe even a processor. Regarding the retail memory market, I doubt the markup is even 10% from wholesale. I don't think OLPC even broke $180 in whole sale cost.
I can not find 2GB RAM retail for less than $35. So the summary is truly amazing, or RAM is not a global market.
"Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript." Looks like there's still no hope for third-party browsers!
But Atomic Web browser is great. It uses Webkit, and Webkit Javascript, so it renders no doubt exactly like Safari. But, it provides a much nicer UI, for Tabs, for Search, and for Fullscreen. I almost never use Safari on my iPhone since I found Atomic.
What do you do that costs $25M for an FTE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitot-static_system#Pitot-static_errors
blocked pitot tube will cause the airspeed indicator to register an increase in airspeed when the aircraft climbs, even though indicated airspeed is constant.
I could see this leading to a stall in short order depending on which instrument you are believing at the time.
I am looking forward to the recovery of the recorders from AF 447.
TWA800 - fuel tank exploded.
Rudder goes opposite control input- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_rudder_issues - many crashes
AF 447 - likely due to pitot ice
So, if it is money the odds are the pilot, but it is hardly unheard of for a plane to fail.
B=Boron. This is a proton + Boron fusion reaction that quickly fissions to 3 Helium. I can trivially dismiss his idea given the amount of energy he thinks he is going to have going into a Farsworth Fusor.
Are you sure p-B11 fusion isn’t fission?
http://focusfusion.org/index.php/site/article/are_you_sure_pb11_fusion_isnt_fission/
The original poster was suggesting we could make meaningful quantities of He using a fusor, which requires more energy in than is produced by the resultant fusion. By showing the amount of energy produced by the fusion, and knowing we need more than that to produce the fusion, I hoped to make clear that a table top fusor was not going to solve the He shortage.
Really? Where?