it didn't happen under exactly the same circumstances. Saying the same result would have occurred is pretty inane.
in soyuz 18a cosmonauts experience sustained accelerations of more than 20g (which can be fatal), and the parachutes survived far beyond their expected loading @ 15g.
The capsule also didn't land in the ocean and get dragged underwater by it's parachute, like a previous soyuz capsule, even though the landing site was completely random.
So as I said to begin with - don't attribute to soviet engineering what is actually luck.
You'll notice the one time the soyuz escape system was actually used, on the pad, it failed to initiate automatically and had to be initiated by the control tower, and only launched 2 seconds before the rocket exploded.
so I don't see where I'm wrong. There's more chance they'd be dead than alive. the soviets were really lucky.
so you're saying they weren't high enough, so the parachutes that couldn't have deployed would have saved them? or they'd separate, somehow gain more altitude, and then deploy parachutes? The soyuz escape system doesn't work after the 157 seconds, and the malfunction wasnt detected until 325 seconds.
It's possible ancient aliens could have saved them too, but somehow I doubt that likely.
no it wouldn't, because the soyuz second stage ends after 290 seconds into flight, and the escape system can only be used until 157 seconds into the flight.
They'd be dead.
MS is rebranding to fight apple's unified brand, at the same time as trying a slicker, newer UI, at the same time as trying to leverage windows 8 to make inroads into the phone market. If they can pull it off with any success it will be a huge victory.
They aren't inflicting their UI on anyone, since the UI can be switched to the traditional windows interface in a single keyboard click. Anyone angered by this is either uninformed, unreasonable, or still angry that users don't have to use a prompt to key in commands.
there are many companies that do it - it's not almost no one.
Autodesk has pretty much their entire line in 64 bit - everything from autocad, revit, maya, inventor, etc etc etc. Those are used all over the place.
Adobe's CS5, including photoshop, with premier and and after effects as exclusively 64 bit.
3d studio max, cinema4d, etc etc.
Lots of them. Basically all the programs that can gain from lots of memory, have done so already.
Only by accident. If that third stage failure had a soyuz carrying astronauts in it, they'd all be dead. Same is true for a half dozen other incidents at least - soyuz TMA-11, Soyuz TMA-1, June 1997 a module of the mir space station was punctured and depressurized during a mid space collision between mir, spektr, and progress, etc etc.
The US suffered some catastrophic tragedies with Columbia and Challenger, losing 7 astronauts per incident. It doesn't mean soviet engineering is at all better.
Not only will it blend, it blends faster than any other OS on the market. Normally you push the blend button, then there's some blades spinning, and the thing breaks into big chunks, and then smaller chunks, and then a fine powder.
With windows 8 you push the blend button, and it's automatically reduced to a fine powder with awesome Metro style text.
Even better, we wrote an app to un-blend windows 8. It works, instantly, and it was only 4 lines of code! and it work on anything - tablets, phones, pc, toasters, oranges. Fuck linux - windows metro programs are actually running on the hairs of my forearm right now.
I'm not entirely sure what you're arguing.
It's pretty obvious from the state of HUMAN healthcare that there are is a lot of middlemen, greed and abuse involved.
That is the point of for profit medicare - to turn a profit. That the US spends the most on its healthcare per capita, but doesn't get the best results is published fact.
Your arguments that since treating dogs and cats doesn't cost as much, for profit healthcare isn't evil and detrimental is on its face retarded, and when actually thought about incredibly stupid. I'm talking reality, not some sort of fiction you've invented in your mind.
you aren't a furry, are you?
The US is denying this happened, and I'm inclined to believe them. Pilots have to learn to navigate without instruments, including gps. Jamming a gps system wouldn't force anyone to land.
Also, this gps jamming signal is a giant target. In an actual conflict it would be a giant sign saying "DROP BOMBS ON ME".
no, it also costs in greed. There are a lot of middlemen in the insurance company that have to be paid, then the shareholders have to make a profit, etc.
Which is why for profit healthcare is evil.
it just shows how inadequate it is as a system. Those that can afford to pay the exorbitant fees get surgery, and those that can't, or weren't a member of a wealthy family, get euthanized.
You can't say "well veterinary systems are for profit and they work fine." without taking into account the entire system for ALL of the animals including ones that are sick, abandoned, whose families can't afford surgeries and treatments, etc, not just those few who can afford to pay for either the expensive medical procedures or insurance.
If you wanted to compare the two honestly, you'd have to have accept people going without any healthcare, and people being euthanized.
Is that the way you want to run healthcare? Because that doesn't sound very humane to me.
There are also at any time thousands and thousands of animals (I don't even know how many, honestly, but it's an incredible amount) waiting in shelters who are euthanized if they aren't adopted. Sick animals requiring care are euthanized first. The shelters themselves largely exist because of charitable donation, or government support.
So not a wonderful system to compare to how we want to treat human beings.
I never said the doctor was the abuser - simply that the medical professional's advice was not a part of the $2000 cost - that's extra.
I said that for profit medicare is wrong, and this is an example of that.
well you pay for the medical professional's advice and consultation outside the already incredible price for the hearing aid, so charging $2000 for a $100 device is really just an incredible abuse of power. This is why for profit medicare sucks.
most hard drive cache is volatile memory - which is to say, remove power and you lose the info. because of this nothing stays there - each time you start the hdd, you write all the information to it all over again.
Hybrid drives use non-volatile SLC NAND - data written to it remains there, even when the power is off. Because of this you don't pay the penalty of writing high use information to the cache every time the system boots.
from all reports the seagate drives do a fair job at selecting what to cache. For these drives I think your concerns are mostly moot. Perhaps there are better methods of doing what they do, but the drives perform admirably in terms of caching and I'm sure a better generation of drives is less than a year away.
...no one said it was.
I was just replying to the parent who suggested the idea of a hybrid drive, without knowing that they do in fact exist to some degree.
I assume they will become even more popular as other brands release them, perhaps in a 3.5" performance version.
...and would require integration with multiple OS's, require drivers (the quality of which we don't know), etc.
Making it transparent to the OS means you don't have any of those problems. It's a trade off, and for a first gen drive, probably the better way to go.
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ancient autocad users still tell me "release 14 was the best one ever". That was 1997. There will always be curmudgeons.
...people who want battery life?
it didn't happen under exactly the same circumstances. Saying the same result would have occurred is pretty inane. in soyuz 18a cosmonauts experience sustained accelerations of more than 20g (which can be fatal), and the parachutes survived far beyond their expected loading @ 15g. The capsule also didn't land in the ocean and get dragged underwater by it's parachute, like a previous soyuz capsule, even though the landing site was completely random. So as I said to begin with - don't attribute to soviet engineering what is actually luck. You'll notice the one time the soyuz escape system was actually used, on the pad, it failed to initiate automatically and had to be initiated by the control tower, and only launched 2 seconds before the rocket exploded. so I don't see where I'm wrong. There's more chance they'd be dead than alive. the soviets were really lucky.
so you're saying they weren't high enough, so the parachutes that couldn't have deployed would have saved them? or they'd separate, somehow gain more altitude, and then deploy parachutes? The soyuz escape system doesn't work after the 157 seconds, and the malfunction wasnt detected until 325 seconds. It's possible ancient aliens could have saved them too, but somehow I doubt that likely.
no it wouldn't, because the soyuz second stage ends after 290 seconds into flight, and the escape system can only be used until 157 seconds into the flight. They'd be dead.
MS is rebranding to fight apple's unified brand, at the same time as trying a slicker, newer UI, at the same time as trying to leverage windows 8 to make inroads into the phone market. If they can pull it off with any success it will be a huge victory. They aren't inflicting their UI on anyone, since the UI can be switched to the traditional windows interface in a single keyboard click. Anyone angered by this is either uninformed, unreasonable, or still angry that users don't have to use a prompt to key in commands.
he has to pay people to do that, and if the result isn't something people will buy windows 8 for, he won't do it.
there are many companies that do it - it's not almost no one. Autodesk has pretty much their entire line in 64 bit - everything from autocad, revit, maya, inventor, etc etc etc. Those are used all over the place. Adobe's CS5, including photoshop, with premier and and after effects as exclusively 64 bit. 3d studio max, cinema4d, etc etc. Lots of them. Basically all the programs that can gain from lots of memory, have done so already.
Only by accident. If that third stage failure had a soyuz carrying astronauts in it, they'd all be dead. Same is true for a half dozen other incidents at least - soyuz TMA-11, Soyuz TMA-1, June 1997 a module of the mir space station was punctured and depressurized during a mid space collision between mir, spektr, and progress, etc etc. The US suffered some catastrophic tragedies with Columbia and Challenger, losing 7 astronauts per incident. It doesn't mean soviet engineering is at all better.
Not only will it blend, it blends faster than any other OS on the market. Normally you push the blend button, then there's some blades spinning, and the thing breaks into big chunks, and then smaller chunks, and then a fine powder. With windows 8 you push the blend button, and it's automatically reduced to a fine powder with awesome Metro style text. Even better, we wrote an app to un-blend windows 8. It works, instantly, and it was only 4 lines of code! and it work on anything - tablets, phones, pc, toasters, oranges. Fuck linux - windows metro programs are actually running on the hairs of my forearm right now.
I'm not entirely sure what you're arguing. It's pretty obvious from the state of HUMAN healthcare that there are is a lot of middlemen, greed and abuse involved. That is the point of for profit medicare - to turn a profit. That the US spends the most on its healthcare per capita, but doesn't get the best results is published fact. Your arguments that since treating dogs and cats doesn't cost as much, for profit healthcare isn't evil and detrimental is on its face retarded, and when actually thought about incredibly stupid. I'm talking reality, not some sort of fiction you've invented in your mind. you aren't a furry, are you?
The US is denying this happened, and I'm inclined to believe them. Pilots have to learn to navigate without instruments, including gps. Jamming a gps system wouldn't force anyone to land. Also, this gps jamming signal is a giant target. In an actual conflict it would be a giant sign saying "DROP BOMBS ON ME".
no, it also costs in greed. There are a lot of middlemen in the insurance company that have to be paid, then the shareholders have to make a profit, etc. Which is why for profit healthcare is evil.
it just shows how inadequate it is as a system. Those that can afford to pay the exorbitant fees get surgery, and those that can't, or weren't a member of a wealthy family, get euthanized. You can't say "well veterinary systems are for profit and they work fine." without taking into account the entire system for ALL of the animals including ones that are sick, abandoned, whose families can't afford surgeries and treatments, etc, not just those few who can afford to pay for either the expensive medical procedures or insurance. If you wanted to compare the two honestly, you'd have to have accept people going without any healthcare, and people being euthanized. Is that the way you want to run healthcare? Because that doesn't sound very humane to me.
There are also at any time thousands and thousands of animals (I don't even know how many, honestly, but it's an incredible amount) waiting in shelters who are euthanized if they aren't adopted. Sick animals requiring care are euthanized first. The shelters themselves largely exist because of charitable donation, or government support. So not a wonderful system to compare to how we want to treat human beings.
I never said the doctor was the abuser - simply that the medical professional's advice was not a part of the $2000 cost - that's extra. I said that for profit medicare is wrong, and this is an example of that.
There are products like this on the market already - I've seen the infomercial.
well you pay for the medical professional's advice and consultation outside the already incredible price for the hearing aid, so charging $2000 for a $100 device is really just an incredible abuse of power. This is why for profit medicare sucks.
most hard drive cache is volatile memory - which is to say, remove power and you lose the info. because of this nothing stays there - each time you start the hdd, you write all the information to it all over again. Hybrid drives use non-volatile SLC NAND - data written to it remains there, even when the power is off. Because of this you don't pay the penalty of writing high use information to the cache every time the system boots.
The google offer was contingent on seeing their books, and I bet if google had seen their books a bit closer there would be no $5billion offer.
from all reports the seagate drives do a fair job at selecting what to cache. For these drives I think your concerns are mostly moot. Perhaps there are better methods of doing what they do, but the drives perform admirably in terms of caching and I'm sure a better generation of drives is less than a year away.
...no one said it was. I was just replying to the parent who suggested the idea of a hybrid drive, without knowing that they do in fact exist to some degree. I assume they will become even more popular as other brands release them, perhaps in a 3.5" performance version.
...and would require integration with multiple OS's, require drivers (the quality of which we don't know), etc. Making it transparent to the OS means you don't have any of those problems. It's a trade off, and for a first gen drive, probably the better way to go.
500 gb hdd, with intelligent caching using solid state memory...ie a hybrid of an SSD and an hdd.
except it's already on the market. http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/internal-storage/momentus-xt-kit/