This doesn't mean it's work spending billions of dollars to get more. We can manufacture them here, cheaper than going out into orbit, much less another planet.
But these are SPACE DIAMONDS, and clearly far more likely to get you laid than those silly artificial diamonds.
Older cars were generally more reliable because there were fewer things to go wrong.
Uh, no, they weren't. You might be able to fix a 1970s car when it broke down, but they broke down a lot more. Go back to the 1930s, and there were even less things to go wrong, but you were probably doing maintenance on those things every weekend to ensure they didn't break down.
Why connect EVERYTHING?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
What more reason do you need?
Good to see they're working on the important stuff, rather than fixing bugs. No wonder their market share is rising so fast. Oh, sorry, I meant sinking.
Anyone else sick of driving a REAL car and NOT being able to see around super-oversized SUVs at a safe following distance?
I'm sick of driving a REAL car and NOT being able to see around your Corolla.
REAL cars have the engine in the middle, where Newton intended, and are as low as possible to reduce drag.
Installation of the windows was a factor, true, but the square windows was the primary point of failure.
The corners had higher stress than expected, which is why they were redesigned once they discovered the problem. But the cracks started from rivet holes, where the windows were incorrectly installed; AFAIR the design specified different rivets, and glue as a backup, and would probably have at least survived long enough for an engineer to notice any cracks during normal inspections, if they'd been installed that way.
The passengers in a plane do not need windows but clearly because planes have windows at considerable cost to design properly (remember the Dehavilland Comet?) there's clearly a want for them to be there.
If I remember correctly, the Comet windows were designed properly (though they turned out to have less safety margin than intended), but they weren't installed properly. And I believe the window that failed was the one used for navigation fixes, which would have been hard to live without in the days before GPS.
Your terminal -- mainframe concept sounds a bit too 70ish to me. Why should it be the future of computing now when it already failed in the 80s-90s for most uses? I really don't buy it.
Because we've had a generation of people developing for desktop machines, and now the New Shiny is the old mainframe model. In another twenty years, everyone will be abandoning it for the New Shiny of local processing after they remember why giving all your data to someone else who charges you to access it is a Really Bad Idea.
Yeah, I saw the latest Office recently. Man, what a heap of smelly stuff.
'But people won't understand menus if they're not in UPPER CASE!'
It's like they've got confused and are trying to do a Nokia on Microsoft itself.
The reason so many distros have adopted systemd is because it fills a need: it does something useful for them.
Like what?
You are aware that every form of ebook DRM is completely broken and serves no purpose other than to annoy legitimate purchasers, right?
But this is Slashdot. In 13 years, we'll all be in driverless Teslas, so you'll be able to watch pr0n or post kitty pictures to Facebook for the duration of the trip.
More seriously, 'high speed rail' appears to be just a huge boondoggle to shovel money to unions. That's presumably why it's going to take so long to build; if there was real demand, no-one would want to wait thirteen years for it.
If they were required to have an auto-deploy parachute that might reduce some categories of problems
Why would any commercial enterprise in their right mind fly a big, expensive drone that would smash to pieces if it hit the ground from normal operating altitude, and not have some device to prevent it from doing so?
All that's really needed is insurance and common sense. All the FAA can do is cripple the US drone industry with pointless regulations.
Regulators gotta regulate... FOR THE CHILDREN!
All that is needed is to pass a law requiring 3D printers to only allow signed documents to be printed, with multiple private places acting as clearinghouses that vet items (they are not infringing, not a gun part, etc.) Existing 3D printers can be easily banned with ownership of one becoming a felony, just like how magazines over x amount of rounds are illegal to possess now in NJ, California, and other states.
Like I said, they'll try to control them like the Soviets tried to control typewriters. And that will just result in an economic collapse, as the free countries where anyone can make whatever they want become far more wealthy than the totalitarian Luddites.
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
