Comment Re:Here we go again (Score 1) 199
Unsustainable? You even mention that Adobe has been doing this for years. It is about as unchanging as anything in computing.
Unsustainable? You even mention that Adobe has been doing this for years. It is about as unchanging as anything in computing.
Bug or feature?
It's so hard to tell these days.
We certainly haven't seen huge leaps in fuel efficiency of aircraft in the last 50 years.
That is not true. Modern airlines are 20-30% more fuel efficient than the original 707. While not an orders-of-magnitude change, it's significant. Physics is a bitch.
The 747, introduced way back then, is still produced.
Because there is a business case for the plane. It has little to do with technologic improvements. Other planes have come and gone mostly because of economic issues.
We had rockets that went to the moon, but no longer have the technology.
We have the technology, just not the political will to spend the money on this particular endevour.
We had reusable shuttles 40 years ago, but no longer have them.
A combination of money and the fact that the Shuttle was a hare brained design, even if it was really cool.
We had Concorde, and only now someone is trying to recreate a smaller version of it, and who knows if it will even get to market.
And again, it's the money, honey. Not the technology.
We had bombers that whose lifespan was, well, 60 years and still counting, while more modern bombers have come and gone
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Blame that one on the idiots in the Air Force and in Congress who couldn't get a hammer built in a cost efficient manner. The physics, and therefore the basic design, of planes has been well understood for some time. Materials, electronics and engines have all improved drastically. And guess what. The B52 has all sorts of new materials, computers, engines.
Let's face it, as far as transportation goes, we have de-innovated. Yes, computers have gotten faster, and the gadgets in cars, trucks and planes have improved, but the transportation systems themselves? Stagnant at best and losing ground in many ways.
Not really, it's all about the economics (and the greed and stupidity of the military-industrial complex). We aren't 'de innovating'. If anything, we're getting smarter (except the military). We aren't pretending that the world is a Jetson's TV show.
Here at Slashdot Central we call it 'pre duping'. A dupe encased in the original article. Saves time with the hassle of the Firehose and all.
Progress!
Righto. I'm sure that the Coast Guard and BP had thousands of helpful hints from people like you and the astrologer next door. Ideas so intelligent that they blew past the several thousand highly experienced deep oil engineers from every single oil company and support company on the Gulf Coast that set to work on the problem.
No submarines? WTF is a submarine going to do - torpedo the thing?
"Simply place a clamp" on a pipe 5000 feet deep pushing out over 400 cubic meters of oil per hour. Simply. I don't think that word means what you think it means.
And read up on the concept of paragraphs and the become comfortable single periods.
And as to the rest of your rant -- take your meds.
This comes up all of the time. Here is a thought - you have a number of countries - like the entire rest of the world - where 'profit' isn't the driving force for medical care. There are dozens of governments who would love to have inexpensive cures. And these countries have lots of smart people, have lots of high end research facilities, have had lots of time. If there was some sort of simple 'cure' for any one of a number of chronic, expensive diseases it would have been studied six ways from Sunday.
It's not some evil collusion of rich, nasty old men. It's just that biology is fucking hard.
Splitters and Lumpers. A very old argument.
Nature cares not a fig for our 'definitions'. It just is.
It will take a year to complete that process.
They must have Comcast. I just hope to hell they don't need tech support.
While hardly an Adobe apologist, you have a client that is running an OS that the OS vendor barely supports and you want an application vendor to tailor it's policies to your edge case? For software that there are other alternatives for?
Be reasonable. And, if your client is a 'real' business, suggesting that they torrent something is pretty dodgy. It could well end up costing them much more than an upgrade to a newer OS.
I'm sure IBM is worried.
That's because of the clouds. Nice and fluffy white. Seattle has lots of them.
white males are the soul of evil
Wait. That can't be right. White males ain't got no soul.
I can only fly these days by ingesting 15 mg valium while boarding and 5 mg every two hours until the flight is over.
I don't get it. What is the problem again?
Not such a bad idea. We can call it the 'underclass'.
BLISS is ignorance.
