Maybe you have a point for "art" which can tolerate some mistakes. However the engineers or mathematicians I have see who worked 80 hours a week needed those hours, because they did everything 3 times.
As for this looking good for managers, "Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself."
We could have a wonderful regulatory industry in place, ensuring the safety of private space flight, for a measely few million dollars, well before there is any private space flight.
The mass of material required for such an elevator...
The mass of this material is in fact estimated in the article at 6,800 kg for a full cable that would support a lifting capacity of 200 kg at the base right there in the Fine Article for us to read. Ask the russians if they can get that much there, they will quote you a price in US$ for 2 years from now.
So I guess all the interesting events in China happen outside?
Not necessarily. Remember the pin-point landing they did a few weeks ago on someone's roof? If the satellites suspect something interesting inside, they come into your house.
Lets look at this part : "..at the level where people interact with each other..."
this part often doesnt work very well. I think the problem is not with the language used, it is with people. They don't know what they want, at least not precisely. How does it help to program in english, or in chinese, if you don't know what you want to do? On top of this, often what people want to do is the wrong thing to solve the problem they are facing.
Plus, as has been pointed out before, we have enough amateurs fscking things up as it is.
Encodings like XML suck up CPU cycles in those cases where the signalling part is large compared to the data part. If you communicate large chunks of data, it shouldn't be significant, or so one would hope.
It seems with the low sun angle, and the cloud cover you would expect there, solar energy would not be such a good idea.
Did I miss a technology update somewhere ?
I think they mean that the satellite is ok, which is the main thing. After all, they only had the one satellite, but they have more apartments. And more Chinese guys. Isn't it wonderful how the goverment cares for their people in China ?
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hey, Italians don't even seperate spoken words with pauses when they have something to say
hey, some of this compares favourably to what the music industry wants us to buy
Maybe you have a point for "art" which can tolerate some mistakes. However the engineers or mathematicians I have see who worked 80 hours a week needed those hours, because they did everything 3 times.
As for this looking good for managers, "Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself."
We could have a wonderful regulatory industry in place, ensuring the safety of private space flight, for a measely few million dollars, well before there is any private space flight.
The mass of material required for such an elevator...
The mass of this material is in fact estimated in the article at 6,800 kg for a full cable that would support a lifting capacity of 200 kg at the base right there in the Fine Article for us to read. Ask the russians if they can get that much there, they will quote you a price in US$ for 2 years from now.
So I guess all the interesting events in China happen outside?
Not necessarily. Remember the pin-point landing they did a few weeks ago on someone's roof? If the satellites suspect something interesting inside, they come into your house.
> How does this compare to the speed of orbital rockets?
Its slower.
Lets look at this part : "..at the level where people interact with each other..."
this part often doesnt work very well. I think the problem is not with the language used, it is with people. They don't know what they want, at least not precisely. How does it help to program in english, or in chinese, if you don't know what you want to do? On top of this, often what people want to do is the wrong thing to solve the problem they are facing.
Plus, as has been pointed out before, we have enough amateurs fscking things up as it is.
Encodings like XML suck up CPU cycles in those cases where the signalling part is large compared to the data part. If you communicate large chunks of data, it shouldn't be significant, or so one would hope.
How about "geographically distributed, heterogeneous parallel processing".
It seems with the low sun angle, and the cloud cover you would expect there, solar energy would not be such a good idea. Did I miss a technology update somewhere ?
I think they mean that the satellite is ok, which is the main thing. After all, they only had the one satellite, but they have more apartments. And more Chinese guys. Isn't it wonderful how the goverment cares for their people in China ?