After all these years, Microsoft hit the sweet spot for Windows and Office as mature products. Someone else commented to me today on how bad it was using MS Visual Studio and SQL Server on less than top of the line hardware.
AMD AM1 processors run at 25W TDP, which is less the Intel i3 processors. My current AMD AM3+ quad core processor runs at 95W TDP. I'm thinking about replacing the motherboard and getting an AMD eight-core processor that also runs at 95W TDP.
Except for Windows and Office, I don't run Microsoft bloatware on my PC. Everything else is open source. I'm still running the same AMD quad-core system from seven years ago. No need to get on the hardware band wagon again.
I saw one proposal of putting a manned space station in orbit on the far side of the moon and/or at L2 point (i.e., stable orbit outside lunar not facing the sun).
Create robust shielding? We need to figure that one out before leaving the Earth-Moon system, and test it on a probe before committing people to it.
Which was why the Orion space capsule completed a 3,600-mile orbit to fly through the Van Allen radiation belt, as well as simulate a 20,000 MPH atmospheric return entry. With the exception of the Apollo missions, most manned flights were restricted to Low Earth Orbit.
Either the school you attended was exceptionally bad, or you spent a lot of time not paying attention.
I was misdiagnosed as being mentally retarded. Never mind that I consistently blew out the annual examinations on the genius side (i.e., these were "statistical flukes," as not the threaten the 3X funding I represented for the special ed classes). I graduated from the eight grade with fifth grade math/writing skills and a college-level reading comprehension. After skipping high school and teaching myself at home, I got an associate degree in general ed at the community college. A decade later I went back to school to learn computer programming while taking two classes per semester and working 60 hours per week for five years. I even made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major.
San Jose State University used to have a policy to automatically kick out students who fell below a certain grade point average in a semester (~5% of the student population). The university changed the policy when ~10% or more were at risk of being kicked out in the mid-1990's. That's a lot money that the university couldn't afford to kick out the door.
The shorter route to India was based on the presumption that the world was round. Prior to 1492, everyone knew the world was flat. Hence, Christopher Columbus' voyage was a pointless exercise.
Another proposal was to use Venus as a slingshot to Mars if the launch window for a direct Mars flight was ever missed. I find it fascinating that people always think of space flight as being outward (i.e., towards the outer planets) while ignoring Earth's sister world next door.
Pointless like Christopher Columbus sailing accross the Atlantic Ocean to find an alternative route to India and discovering America by accident in 1492? After all, everyone believed at that time believed the world was flat and ships would fall off into the void.
A circumnavigation of Venus would test our ability to function in deep space, to enter a planet's gravitational influence, to create robust shielding for the higher radiation at Venus's relatively close proximity to the sun, to devise zero-g strategies for long-duration flights -- all of which would bolster us for an even longer journey to Mars. Besides, for a long-duration mission, we might not want to commit our astronauts to landing on Mars only to find out that they could not walk, their musculature had so degenerated upon arrival. In contrast, the crew of a long Venus round-trip would land not on a faraway planet but back on Earth, where medical attention is readily available if needed.
That being said, there are still plenty of specialized applications that demand top performance.
I'm in the process of rebuilding my FreeNAS file server. Running ZFS with 2GB RAM on old hardware doesn't make for a stable system. You need 1GB RAM per every 1TB of raw storage. Since I'm planning to expand the hard drive capacity to 8TB (minimum), I'll need a new motherboard that can handle more RAM.
I click Visual Studio and it thinks for a couple of seconds then pops into its usual full-screen view, then I click on SQL Server's management studio and... it thinks for a bit before popping into view.
Outside of Microsoft Windows and Office, I don't use Microsoft bloatware. Everything else is open source.
Magazines for the 1980's "toy" computers (i.e., Atari, Commodore, Texas Instruments, etc.), as my middle school Apple ][ instructor snidely called them. Compute! was the general purpose magazine. Gazette was for Commodore 64/128. I subscribed to both back in the day.
These days, we have thrown up our hands, and we smother the problem with more hardware.
Maybe seven years ago when I last overhauled my PC with new motherboard, CPU and RAM. I rarely max out my AMD quad-core processor and/or 4GB memory. I don't have any software that can smoother the hardware.
Mexicans like to stand around and complain. Only the Central American worked harder than them, but he took more crap because he understood the language.
I had a roommate who went through 20 majors in five years, graduated with a business degree, became a stockbroker, got stressed out, became an alcoholic and lost his job, went to A.A. meetings, and became a tech writer.
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Back in the late 1990's, I learned HTML and CSS using Notepad on Windows. These days I use Notepad++ (PC) or Text Wangler (Mac) for editing HTML code.
We learned how to play nice with the Russians, especially during hockey season.
After all these years, Microsoft hit the sweet spot for Windows and Office as mature products. Someone else commented to me today on how bad it was using MS Visual Studio and SQL Server on less than top of the line hardware.
AMD AM1 processors run at 25W TDP, which is less the Intel i3 processors. My current AMD AM3+ quad core processor runs at 95W TDP. I'm thinking about replacing the motherboard and getting an AMD eight-core processor that also runs at 95W TDP.
Except for Windows and Office, I don't run Microsoft bloatware on my PC. Everything else is open source. I'm still running the same AMD quad-core system from seven years ago. No need to get on the hardware band wagon again.
There is absolutely no point sending humans to Venus, unless as a form of cruel and unusual punishment.
That's what they said about Australia. A penal colony at Venus might work.
I saw one proposal of putting a manned space station in orbit on the far side of the moon and/or at L2 point (i.e., stable orbit outside lunar not facing the sun).
Away from the big, bad, scary alien.
If you read my other comments, you would have noticed that I admitted to being wrong and cited the exact Wikipedia link that you cited.
Create robust shielding? We need to figure that one out before leaving the Earth-Moon system, and test it on a probe before committing people to it.
Which was why the Orion space capsule completed a 3,600-mile orbit to fly through the Van Allen radiation belt, as well as simulate a 20,000 MPH atmospheric return entry. With the exception of the Apollo missions, most manned flights were restricted to Low Earth Orbit.
Either the school you attended was exceptionally bad, or you spent a lot of time not paying attention.
I was misdiagnosed as being mentally retarded. Never mind that I consistently blew out the annual examinations on the genius side (i.e., these were "statistical flukes," as not the threaten the 3X funding I represented for the special ed classes). I graduated from the eight grade with fifth grade math/writing skills and a college-level reading comprehension. After skipping high school and teaching myself at home, I got an associate degree in general ed at the community college. A decade later I went back to school to learn computer programming while taking two classes per semester and working 60 hours per week for five years. I even made the president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major.
San Jose State University used to have a policy to automatically kick out students who fell below a certain grade point average in a semester (~5% of the student population). The university changed the policy when ~10% or more were at risk of being kicked out in the mid-1990's. That's a lot money that the university couldn't afford to kick out the door.
Everything I was taught about Christopher Columbus was wrong! Damn public school education!!
The shorter route to India was based on the presumption that the world was round. Prior to 1492, everyone knew the world was flat. Hence, Christopher Columbus' voyage was a pointless exercise.
Another proposal was to use Venus as a slingshot to Mars if the launch window for a direct Mars flight was ever missed. I find it fascinating that people always think of space flight as being outward (i.e., towards the outer planets) while ignoring Earth's sister world next door.
Pointless like Christopher Columbus sailing accross the Atlantic Ocean to find an alternative route to India and discovering America by accident in 1492? After all, everyone believed at that time believed the world was flat and ships would fall off into the void.
Okay, a fundamental question then... What's the mission?
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/11/29/forget-asteroidssend-a-manned-flyby-mission-to-venus/
A circumnavigation of Venus would test our ability to function in deep space, to enter a planet's gravitational influence, to create robust shielding for the higher radiation at Venus's relatively close proximity to the sun, to devise zero-g strategies for long-duration flights -- all of which would bolster us for an even longer journey to Mars. Besides, for a long-duration mission, we might not want to commit our astronauts to landing on Mars only to find out that they could not walk, their musculature had so degenerated upon arrival. In contrast, the crew of a long Venus round-trip would land not on a faraway planet but back on Earth, where medical attention is readily available if needed.
That being said, there are still plenty of specialized applications that demand top performance.
I'm in the process of rebuilding my FreeNAS file server. Running ZFS with 2GB RAM on old hardware doesn't make for a stable system. You need 1GB RAM per every 1TB of raw storage. Since I'm planning to expand the hard drive capacity to 8TB (minimum), I'll need a new motherboard that can handle more RAM.
I click Visual Studio and it thinks for a couple of seconds then pops into its usual full-screen view, then I click on SQL Server's management studio and ... it thinks for a bit before popping into view.
Outside of Microsoft Windows and Office, I don't use Microsoft bloatware. Everything else is open source.
Compute!
Computer! Gazette
Magazines for the 1980's "toy" computers (i.e., Atari, Commodore, Texas Instruments, etc.), as my middle school Apple ][ instructor snidely called them. Compute! was the general purpose magazine. Gazette was for Commodore 64/128. I subscribed to both back in the day.
These days, we have thrown up our hands, and we smother the problem with more hardware.
Maybe seven years ago when I last overhauled my PC with new motherboard, CPU and RAM. I rarely max out my AMD quad-core processor and/or 4GB memory. I don't have any software that can smoother the hardware.
I've noticed that white and black people tend to be wary of each other. A smile changes that. I've gotten smiles in return. Basic psychology.
Who gives a fart about Mars these days?
Mexicans like to stand around and complain. Only the Central American worked harder than them, but he took more crap because he understood the language.
I had a roommate who went through 20 majors in five years, graduated with a business degree, became a stockbroker, got stressed out, became an alcoholic and lost his job, went to A.A. meetings, and became a tech writer.