My desktop computer at home is running Linux for more than a decade now.
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factor 966971: 966971
My year of the Linux desktop was 1999. Besides, my UID is _twice_ a prime, so obviously my testicles are larger.
I find a study like this to be highly suspect. It's a 28 page story, hardly anything special. Have them read an actual novel instead. In 28 pages the "plot" is going to either be very convoluted or extremely thin. I find it just as likely that the 28 page story bored the kindle folks half to death and they didn't bother trying to recall it.
You're going to have to do better than 28 pages. That's barely a chapter in the books I read.
Windows 8 basically handed Linux an opportunity on a silver platter. Now they just need to make the desktop significantly better than what Microsoft is currently offering.
And to take advantage of the Windows 8 fiasco Linux created it's own with Gnome 3, Unity and KDE 4. Honestly, Linux had the Windows 8 problem before Microsoft did. The state of UI's on Linux is a travesty.
Microsoft probably has somewhere between 6 and 20 thousand engineers working on device drivers for various windows versions out there making about 80k a pop. Sorry but Linux simply does not have these kinds of resources. It would be nice but I don't see it happening.
Try 500-600. Most of those are "project managers" too who farm the work out to Indian contractors. Microsoft doesn't have the development force you think they do.
But then you're arguing for inefficiency to make-work.
If you watch the video at the bottom of the article, you'll see photos of several prototype FarmBots that do, in fact, exist.
Those are just tabletop gardening robots. That was done 20 years ago.
There's lots of real robotic agricultural machinery, much of it mobile. Building a gantry over a tabletop doesn't scale.
So the Numbers Station folks aren't out of a job yet!
So, you like-a the sauce?
Everybody who said it died.
About half the cost of building a house is labor. They say in the article that aside from the guy running the printer, there are no labor costs here. I don't believe that's necessarily true, because there's still got to be somebody wiring the electrical and installing windows, but regardless, it could dramatically decrease the cost of building a home. It could also be a lot faster. Imagine that, just rolling up two trucks to a construction site: one carrying the printer, another with all the crushed rock, setting it up and letting it go. A week later, a finished home ready for a family to move into at half the cost. That brings the dream of home ownership within the reach of a lot of people who wouldn't have been able to afford it before. We live in exciting times.
Given the nature of the mission and power source (multi-year if not multi-decade operation on another planet with no hope of human intervention if something should go wrong)
Curiosity was intended to last two years, it's been going for almost three. It wasn't intended to last this long, and it definitely wasn't intended to operate for decades.
We are going to be stuck in this era for a very long time, unless someone outside of the corrupt energy group can step in and start the ball rolling.
That's what Elon Musk is doing with SolarCity. Combine his cheap solar panels with his cheap batteries from the gigafactory they're building and you've got your fantasy.
They want their user interface back.
Climate change is expected to soon kill off 1/8th of all bird species.
Yeah, sure. Because all the other "global warming" prediction have been so fucking accurate. You morons are batting 0.0000
Did you care to read the link, which said things such as excellent resistance to UV and cosmic radiation?
Anyhoo, I guess it's an iterative process. Better wheels on the next one please guys.
We want to create puppets that pull their own strings. - Ann Marion
