Point taken, but this deal seems pretty short-term to me. 15 years is basically in the range of timescales needed from conception to introduction of any new airliner. Might be too short for new major airport or terminal... (plus many places just got or are getting new modern ones, they sure won't be willing to quickly do major changes geared for just one aircraft type)
The other major component discussed, going beyond turbofan engines, is relatively low-risk and incremental.
I'm not sure if we can expect something Boeing-like coming to fruition anytime soon. Seems a bit incompatible with installed airport infrastructure or maintenance methods. More than the other concepts.
Morice Line seemed to have quite advanced, for a time, electronic systems....
Anyway - sure, a sort of isolationist approach is fine in principle; as long as it is honest, as long as it goes both ways, without excessive meddling in the affairs of others (and don't tell me "it's the evil gov" - from where do you think come people in the position of "power"? Which of the all societies throughout the world a given style of governance largely reflects?)
Stop financing warlords of their current civil war, for a start - ffs, even CIA resources supported such people (ironically, US brought quite a bit of harm by installing or supporting few Latin American "Francisco Francos")
Prosperity does tend to limit numbers of such desperate / deranged / etc. individuals (brings also more resources and better incentives for public servants)
And be careful with wishing for 1), now they would really have nothing to lose (it might be a vicious cycle, generally)
...exploiting fear and hatred to make a profit, at enormous peasantry expense, by locking up people into serfdom...
Where have you been when we were building civilization?
("vampires" from ColdWeDog might be about correct, considering the age of those "legends" / how the popculture and symbolisms of those times are largely lost)
Almost everybody who even has some (not the closest) family members in the military / etc. has an utter respect for them, of their unvaluable services for the country, and on personal level - how they keep the family (financially or otherwise) together. Or technicians and engineers (with their families) - while corruption is of course rampant around, their place of work is a shining beacon providing essential item for fair price. Like AC reply said...
Systems of governance, of doing business, are largely a reflection of their societies.
If the discussed guess would somehow turn out to be closer than predictions - it still wouldn't change much... a) what, do we really expect reversion of methodologies to mirror his? b) the people uncomfortable with the idea of humans being in charge of the Earth (that's what this is about) will find something to cling on either way.
You might be interested in one analysis of how destructive the introduction of even few males would be...
(yes, the "Plot" section naturally contains major spoilers / the translation in Youtube link doesn't seem too great... but it's probably impossible to convey the awesomeness of many lines, anyway; also, the movie doesn't bother itself with puritan "morality")
Hey, not everybody can have RDF (however entertaining Ballmer can be); it's not much different from any new / small / starting platform... and in fact most likely somewhat on the safer side, coming from MS; mostly unjustified hysteria among pundits (may I remind you: the same who are typically not very aware that outside their view there's another mobile OS, one which is dominating; or how most striking growth happens in so called "feature phone" touchscreen devices) is not a new ting OTOH
It was only about the ease of singular procedure (presently also about convenient schedules, which shouldn't be a reason...), and in context of medical resources necessary - how, if you have decent basic ones, C-section is a fairly straightforward surgical procedure.
But it's still a surgical procedure; unnecessary surgery is always a bad thing in general, with possible significant cost to the patient, long term consequences, risk of infection (immune system weakens in low g! Also, confined spaces of colonies might be slightly receptive to emergence of "hospital superbugs"). Or specifically - possible retardation of immune system in the newborn (adding to low g effects...), worse (being later) bonding, scarring / adhesions and all their complications. Decreases the chances of problem-free natural delivery later, might easily make the next deliveries required to be via C-section - a position in which you don't want to be (not a big problem when only part of the population goes through C-sections; a different issue when all of them do so in a fairly small colony)
A personal anecdote: random infection after C-section (required as far as my survival was concerned / I got 1 Apgar even with it; so it's not exactly some personal grudge against it) led to complete sterilization and another subsequent (again not really related to C-section, just to risks of surgical procedures / hospital) more serious infection of my "mother" ("" in context of me being a partial orphan for almost 2 years because of it; and how such woman, with major loss of normal hormonal functions / on a simple biological level / not bonded at all, had a hard time properly acting in her role when it became practically possible)
The situation you describe could be as bad or worse with C-section (considering how the medical stuff was apparently quite negligent). Planned C-section delivery is OK when you're an oracle and can anticipate problems (that's kinda the job of gynecologist...). I assure you, women are adapted to vaginal birth.
WinCE was supposedly a bit of a kludge, perhaps still is; that could be a reason for a switch to NT, once hardware is up to it.
There are no indications Xbox will switch to desktop UI; they push it on tablets precisely because of (misplaced, in this case) how they value backwards compatibility. Whatever one can say about MS, they do that rather well on average. And now they know perfectly well what should be the UI of a phone.
Maintaining compatibility with first version of iOS isn't much of an accomplishment BTW, considering it didn't support native apps for a year.
Overall, I don't understand what's the problem. Worse case - you'd have have to switch platforms again / you're willing to abandon bought apps anyway. Seems a bit like "concerned FUD", actually.
So what? Clear possibility is there / you yourself said they have a great UI experience now (they know it / it was unraveling for some time / not a fluke), why they would throw it away?
Can you guarantee next versions of any OS will run apps from older ones?
Well, since WP7 essentially runs everything in ".net light", I can see how a transition to Windows 8 kernel could be practically invisible (with "what for?" left)
Second sentence is about right, especially with space colonization. But if the first suggests C-section as almost routine...well, it shouldn't be (plus, especially when preplanned, it's one of the easier surgical procedures)
Obviously not very perceptive, too. Not enough to, say, notice how some rodent or invertebrate experiments were already performed. How uniquely agile we are during intercourse (about which TFS also wonders) / have hands great at gripping. How insemination doesn't seem to depend much on the direction of gravity. How "progress of the pregnancy is another issue of course"
Actually, it seems Contiki can go down even to tens of bytes (still some K's of flash of course) / it can be slimmed down from more typical installs.
So there's probably some possibility (at least when it comes to memory), when targeting this one specific memory layout.
(BTW, OS-9 looks like a totally jaw-dropping thing for TRS-80; and not available only way past the time of home computer it runs on, like Contiki or SymbOS)
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Point taken, but this deal seems pretty short-term to me. 15 years is basically in the range of timescales needed from conception to introduction of any new airliner. Might be too short for new major airport or terminal... (plus many places just got or are getting new modern ones, they sure won't be willing to quickly do major changes geared for just one aircraft type)
The other major component discussed, going beyond turbofan engines, is relatively low-risk and incremental.
I'm not sure if we can expect something Boeing-like coming to fruition anytime soon. Seems a bit incompatible with installed airport infrastructure or maintenance methods. More than the other concepts.
Morice Line seemed to have quite advanced, for a time, electronic systems....
Anyway - sure, a sort of isolationist approach is fine in principle; as long as it is honest, as long as it goes both ways, without excessive meddling in the affairs of others (and don't tell me "it's the evil gov" - from where do you think come people in the position of "power"? Which of the all societies throughout the world a given style of governance largely reflects?)
Stop financing warlords of their current civil war, for a start - ffs, even CIA resources supported such people (ironically, US brought quite a bit of harm by installing or supporting few Latin American "Francisco Francos")
Pay isn't determined strictly by how much value any one member of the workforce brings, but how much the next one is valued.
Prosperity does tend to limit numbers of such desperate / deranged / etc. individuals (brings also more resources and better incentives for public servants)
And be careful with wishing for 1), now they would really have nothing to lose (it might be a vicious cycle, generally)
Could you first, on your part, stop financing warlords of their civil war?
...exploiting fear and hatred to make a profit, at enormous peasantry expense, by locking up people into serfdom...
Where have you been when we were building civilization?
("vampires" from ColdWeDog might be about correct, considering the age of those "legends" / how the popculture and symbolisms of those times are largely lost)
Don't be afraid to go further...
Almost everybody who even has some (not the closest) family members in the military / etc. has an utter respect for them, of their unvaluable services for the country, and on personal level - how they keep the family (financially or otherwise) together. Or technicians and engineers (with their families) - while corruption is of course rampant around, their place of work is a shining beacon providing essential item for fair price. Like AC reply said...
Systems of governance, of doing business, are largely a reflection of their societies.
It's typically about small details. Usually pretty coherent, forming particular whole; but still, small details here and there.
If the discussed guess would somehow turn out to be closer than predictions - it still wouldn't change much... a) what, do we really expect reversion of methodologies to mirror his? b) the people uncomfortable with the idea of humans being in charge of the Earth (that's what this is about) will find something to cling on either way.
You might be interested in one analysis of how destructive the introduction of even few males would be...
(yes, the "Plot" section naturally contains major spoilers / the translation in Youtube link doesn't seem too great... but it's probably impossible to convey the awesomeness of many lines, anyway; also, the movie doesn't bother itself with puritan "morality")
Hey, not everybody can have RDF (however entertaining Ballmer can be); it's not much different from any new / small / starting platform... and in fact most likely somewhat on the safer side, coming from MS; mostly unjustified hysteria among pundits (may I remind you: the same who are typically not very aware that outside their view there's another mobile OS, one which is dominating; or how most striking growth happens in so called "feature phone" touchscreen devices) is not a new ting OTOH
It was only about the ease of singular procedure (presently also about convenient schedules, which shouldn't be a reason...), and in context of medical resources necessary - how, if you have decent basic ones, C-section is a fairly straightforward surgical procedure.
But it's still a surgical procedure; unnecessary surgery is always a bad thing in general, with possible significant cost to the patient, long term consequences, risk of infection (immune system weakens in low g! Also, confined spaces of colonies might be slightly receptive to emergence of "hospital superbugs"). Or specifically - possible retardation of immune system in the newborn (adding to low g effects...), worse (being later) bonding, scarring / adhesions and all their complications. Decreases the chances of problem-free natural delivery later, might easily make the next deliveries required to be via C-section - a position in which you don't want to be (not a big problem when only part of the population goes through C-sections; a different issue when all of them do so in a fairly small colony)
A personal anecdote: random infection after C-section (required as far as my survival was concerned / I got 1 Apgar even with it; so it's not exactly some personal grudge against it) led to complete sterilization and another subsequent (again not really related to C-section, just to risks of surgical procedures / hospital) more serious infection of my "mother" ("" in context of me being a partial orphan for almost 2 years because of it; and how such woman, with major loss of normal hormonal functions / on a simple biological level / not bonded at all, had a hard time properly acting in her role when it became practically possible)
The situation you describe could be as bad or worse with C-section (considering how the medical stuff was apparently quite negligent). Planned C-section delivery is OK when you're an oracle and can anticipate problems (that's kinda the job of gynecologist...). I assure you, women are adapted to vaginal birth.
WinCE was supposedly a bit of a kludge, perhaps still is; that could be a reason for a switch to NT, once hardware is up to it.
There are no indications Xbox will switch to desktop UI; they push it on tablets precisely because of (misplaced, in this case) how they value backwards compatibility. Whatever one can say about MS, they do that rather well on average. And now they know perfectly well what should be the UI of a phone.
Maintaining compatibility with first version of iOS isn't much of an accomplishment BTW, considering it didn't support native apps for a year.
Overall, I don't understand what's the problem. Worse case - you'd have have to switch platforms again / you're willing to abandon bought apps anyway. Seems a bit like "concerned FUD", actually.
So what? Clear possibility is there / you yourself said they have a great UI experience now (they know it / it was unraveling for some time / not a fluke), why they would throw it away?
Can you guarantee next versions of any OS will run apps from older ones?
Winmob7 uses ".Net light" for apps, changing the underlying OS can easily make no difference / be quite invisible to the user.
So after praising user experience of WP7 you express suspicion how changing the core / kernel to "Windows proper" will that? Huh?
Well, since WP7 essentially runs everything in ".net light", I can see how a transition to Windows 8 kernel could be practically invisible (with "what for?" left)
Check out XNA.
Depends, it would seem (and while not limiting ourselves to what is strictly practical)
They also have MeeGo / I wonder how it will fit with this announcement.
Second sentence is about right, especially with space colonization. But if the first suggests C-section as almost routine...well, it shouldn't be (plus, especially when preplanned, it's one of the easier surgical procedures)
Obviously not very perceptive, too. Not enough to, say, notice how some rodent or invertebrate experiments were already performed. How uniquely agile we are during intercourse (about which TFS also wonders) / have hands great at gripping. How insemination doesn't seem to depend much on the direction of gravity. How "progress of the pregnancy is another issue of course"
Actually, it seems Contiki can go down even to tens of bytes (still some K's of flash of course) / it can be slimmed down from more typical installs.
So there's probably some possibility (at least when it comes to memory), when targeting this one specific memory layout.
(BTW, OS-9 looks like a totally jaw-dropping thing for TRS-80; and not available only way past the time of home computer it runs on, like Contiki or SymbOS)
Growing fatherless (or motherless; as an orphan, generally) is pretty much the norm for our species.
Recent times of low mortality / long lives (and still not everywhere) are almost a statistical fluke.
(and as long as there's recombination...)