but many more languages are now more common that Fortran, and most newly created code is C++ and often wrapped by other languages such as python.
x86 most modern?, it may well be. You do realize that x86 processors don't have internals that represent the instruction set (unlike processors of decades ago), it is more accurate to say they emulate the x86 via microcode. The internal architecture is extremely advanced even if the x86 memory and register model is a not a linear clean and orthoganal design.
you're not thinking of all the dead spiders that ran into misfortune using this technique. it's great for the species, but a crap shoot for any individual spider. Just like fact that half of all birds on the planet die each year. flocks and migration good for species but not for individual bird
just make a nice charcoal fired steam engine driven vehicle, it'll blow away all those lesser "sun trickle fed" devices. Remember kiddies, its not a viable energy source for driving civilization forward unless molecules or atoms are breaking!
I don't either, I've stocked up on lead solder for electronics and plumbing to last a lifetime. No need to worry about lead contamination either, it won't happen the way hardened solder ages. Not even in plumbing with one very important exception that doesn't apply where I live. if your water has small amounts of salt in it, and it goes through pipes with lead solder, you're screwed. just a PSA for those of you in say Houston or other places where ocean water gets into your drinking water a bit
what nonsense, there's hardly a better place on the east coast to have a 3.8MT ground burst, with the prevailing westerlies carrying the fallout over the ocean. Not much there, who gives a shit.
there are alternative isotopes, with much longer half lives even if battery weight is three or five times what a pu-238 one would be. not the heaviest thing in a spacecraft...anyway, the equipment to make the pu-238 exists, just a matter of getting serious about making the stuff
in that view, matter an antimatter aren't really meeting and annihilating and making photons, it's just an electron meeting a photon and both bounce backward in time. The photon is its own antiparticle so it looks the same going forward or backward in time, but the electron is a positron going backward. Thus we see an electron and positron meet and two photons fly away.
Now add that to your view of interactions and time, and the universe gets very simple and nearly empty
I would only add that Feynman wondered if there was really only a single electron in the whole universe, with "an extremely complicated world line" going back and forth in time, and it is a positron while going "backward" in time. This explains why all electrons are identical, they're the same one.
Nothing nonsensical about your musings, the greatest minds in physics have wondered about such things.
Actually, light weight nucliei are better for shielding in space because much less secondary radiation produced. The slower protons cause more damage than the high energy ones which pass through the body without time to interact.
No need to recreate an "earth's magetosphere", there are alternative designs such as having opposing strong fields that in the center of the ship where the crew is the field intensity is low. Also combined electrostatic and magnetic designs. Quite an engineering problem though.
IBM does have about 12 billion in cash, however I expect this billion will be spent over many years. Note that it will be spent mainly on powerPC linux development
Plenty of explorers and experimenters have died too. For example, how did we learn certain plants are poisonous? (just think, at least one dead human for every major type of plant in the "nightshade" family, that's quite the body count). There are worse ways to die and more useless ways to die than after exploring in space. In the time it took you to read my post some people choked to death on tough food, some were run over by cars, some were gunned down by street punks, some fell into a hole and died, some died of flu, etc. etc. etc.
cancer not an issue, the radiation levels are lethal by the outright mass death of cells. Anyway, there are methods for shielding, I'd say the main objection to a "crowd-sourced" space trip to anywhere would be the lack of billions of dollars and experience that only a few space agencies on earth possess.
what contingency what that be, neither place can support multicellular earth life and quick death is certain without oxygen, warmth, food, water, and adequate radiation shielding.
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but many more languages are now more common that Fortran, and most newly created code is C++ and often wrapped by other languages such as python.
x86 most modern?, it may well be. You do realize that x86 processors don't have internals that represent the instruction set (unlike processors of decades ago), it is more accurate to say they emulate the x86 via microcode. The internal architecture is extremely advanced even if the x86 memory and register model is a not a linear clean and orthoganal design.
but one of the definitions of the word code, from centuries past, is "A systematic collection of regulations and rules of procedure or conduct".
you're not thinking of all the dead spiders that ran into misfortune using this technique. it's great for the species, but a crap shoot for any individual spider. Just like fact that half of all birds on the planet die each year. flocks and migration good for species but not for individual bird
you'd need a lens, the cost would be immense
just make a nice charcoal fired steam engine driven vehicle, it'll blow away all those lesser "sun trickle fed" devices. Remember kiddies, its not a viable energy source for driving civilization forward unless molecules or atoms are breaking!
never worked in the field of high performance numerical methods?
more than adequate, Fortran is still the most optimizable language for high performance numeric computation, moreso than C and derived languages
. England has enough data for wonderful statistics for deflators over huge timespans, for instance from 1860 to 2012 we have 100 times price factor. http://safalra.com/other/historical-uk-inflation-price-conversion/ And from 1490 to 1860 about nine point seven food price factor. So the fifty million of today becomes fifty two thousand in Columbus' day.
http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/58383/1/612520374.pdf
I don't either, I've stocked up on lead solder for electronics and plumbing to last a lifetime. No need to worry about lead contamination either, it won't happen the way hardened solder ages. Not even in plumbing with one very important exception that doesn't apply where I live. if your water has small amounts of salt in it, and it goes through pipes with lead solder, you're screwed. just a PSA for those of you in say Houston or other places where ocean water gets into your drinking water a bit
what nonsense, there's hardly a better place on the east coast to have a 3.8MT ground burst, with the prevailing westerlies carrying the fallout over the ocean. Not much there, who gives a shit.
we pay the bill for it, it's ours
that's why the three to five times the weight, but for centuries of useful output rather than decade (e.g. am-241)
there are alternative isotopes, with much longer half lives even if battery weight is three or five times what a pu-238 one would be. not the heaviest thing in a spacecraft...anyway, the equipment to make the pu-238 exists, just a matter of getting serious about making the stuff
eh? we're maintaining thousands of bombs for just that
in that view, matter an antimatter aren't really meeting and annihilating and making photons, it's just an electron meeting a photon and both bounce backward in time. The photon is its own antiparticle so it looks the same going forward or backward in time, but the electron is a positron going backward. Thus we see an electron and positron meet and two photons fly away.
Now add that to your view of interactions and time, and the universe gets very simple and nearly empty
I would only add that Feynman wondered if there was really only a single electron in the whole universe, with "an extremely complicated world line" going back and forth in time, and it is a positron while going "backward" in time. This explains why all electrons are identical, they're the same one.
Nothing nonsensical about your musings, the greatest minds in physics have wondered about such things.
you're almost right except for the "infinite stakes", it's a penny-ante game for mostly nothing
desktop margins are way too low, which is why IBM sold off all that business.
but you are right, nothing like today's craft would be useful at all, they are death traps outside low orbit.
Actually, light weight nucliei are better for shielding in space because much less secondary radiation produced. The slower protons cause more damage than the high energy ones which pass through the body without time to interact.
No need to recreate an "earth's magetosphere", there are alternative designs such as having opposing strong fields that in the center of the ship where the crew is the field intensity is low. Also combined electrostatic and magnetic designs. Quite an engineering problem though.
you seem to have something missing between your ears. I'm an engineering physicist, and I do know about ceramics.
To make a stove with stack fire clay will indeed have to be kiln fired to be stabilized
Zero, since the phrase is meaningless.
IBM does have about 12 billion in cash, however I expect this billion will be spent over many years. Note that it will be spent mainly on powerPC linux development
Plenty of explorers and experimenters have died too. For example, how did we learn certain plants are poisonous? (just think, at least one dead human for every major type of plant in the "nightshade" family, that's quite the body count). There are worse ways to die and more useless ways to die than after exploring in space. In the time it took you to read my post some people choked to death on tough food, some were run over by cars, some were gunned down by street punks, some fell into a hole and died, some died of flu, etc. etc. etc.
cancer not an issue, the radiation levels are lethal by the outright mass death of cells. Anyway, there are methods for shielding, I'd say the main objection to a "crowd-sourced" space trip to anywhere would be the lack of billions of dollars and experience that only a few space agencies on earth possess.
what contingency what that be, neither place can support multicellular earth life and quick death is certain without oxygen, warmth, food, water, and adequate radiation shielding.