thePunisher

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by thePunisher 6y ago
The paint especially is horrible. When it's brand new if compares unfavorably with a 30-year Toyota.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Answer: install Firefox.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Then stop posting political content. If you post political content you're gonna get political discussions.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
It will be technically infeasible to do so. Or do you mean telecoms? That might be possible, but they'll risk losing customers. IIRC when the internet was young, there were many closed computer networks such as The Source and America O
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by thePunisher 6y ago
My laptop is almost 10 years old an works fine with Jitsi and Linux Mint on Firefox.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
That's why I keep calling for a NEW Internet to be created based on HORNET technology. HORNET is basically the same as the Tor network, but with speeds similar to the current internet. Sites can't be traced or blocked and neither
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by thePunisher 6y ago
No. Zoom should be banned and its CEO ousted. The company should be purged from all Chinese influences.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Russia spends a sizeable amount on space exploration, but 80% of it is stolen or defrauded by corrupt officials like Rogozin. Putin is angry about the endless string of failures that result from this, but dares not to come down too hard on
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I have already predicted that all the large markets (North America, Europe, China and India) will essentially close themselves off because they want to become self-sufficient in all aspects, including internet platforms. Only North America
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Looks very familiar! In fact, it's the European copy of the Falcon 9 starting to take shape. They've already implied they will copy Falcon-9 verbatim as much as possible. Ariane 6 is simply a stopgap measure until they can get the
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by thePunisher 6y ago
The Chinese are not playing by the rules, why should we? We should only play fair with nations that do the same. The other ones we put in the grinder.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
We regressed because we found out that winged spaceships are too hazardous. Dream Chaser too is dangerous since in the event of an explosion it will likely tear the wings off, making a safe return infeasible.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Not that heavy. A Raptor weighs 1500kg (1.5 metric tons) so 6 of them makes 9 metric tons while the weight at the top of Starship should be almost 100 tons.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
My motto is "better safe than sorry" as far as China is concerned. This banning doesn't need to occur at every company, only at the ones which are strategically important, such as defense and cutting-edge high-tech.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Not really. The passenger and cargo area are on top and the fuel tanks are at the bottom, which will be mostly empty after landing. IIRC Starship has a cargo capacity of 100 metric tons, all of it topside. The Raptor engines at the bottom w
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I developed MFC applications and wxWidgets is FAR better than MFC. Much easier to use too. Plus multi-platform.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
And what if the lift fails? How are they gonna climb up 40 meters with a huge and bulky Moon suit? It would be bummer if you had to die on the Moon because you couldn't climb back up into your spaceship.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
No, but a friend of mine is and he said exactly the same thing.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I agree. And just because it's a company making billions selling software doesn't mean they're obliged to pay you a great deal of money. If Beigi was smart he would've asked them to purchase the copyrights as he's t
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I don't see Starship landing on the Moon. It's just too big and unwieldy and will likely topple upon touchdown.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
If Qt hadn't been taken up by KDE some other UI framework (such as wxWidgets) could've had much larger user base thereby rendering Qt much less attractive to developers and undermining their business model. I personally prefer wxW
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I wonder how much effort it would take to enable Crew Dragon to fly people to the Moon and pull the rug from under Orion's feet? A slightly improved heat-shield and some rad-hard electronics would do it IMHO. That would save NASA anoth
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by thePunisher 6y ago
That's no crime. If developers wouldn't be allowed to do that we'd have a major crisis on our hands. The worst infringement as far as I'm concerned is that MS tricked him into giving up all his secrets before they implem
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by thePunisher 6y ago
5G is a transmission technology so end-to-end encryption isn't useful there. You need end-to-end encryption at the application level.
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by thePunisher 6y ago
I agree somewhat. But you have to realize that developing and maintaining software is incredibly expensive and time consuming. I, for example, hate Android for spying on me all the time, but I realize that developing such a complicated oper
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by thePunisher 6y ago
There's nothing wrong with selling proprietary software. What really irritates me are companies like Redis who pretend to be open-source and start whining when other people (like Amazon) earn money from using their software. I believe
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by thePunisher 6y ago
IMHO the Qt company is simply using the corona-crisis as an excuse to jack-up prices. They would've done so in any case at some point. The Qt company is very shortsighted since KDE has meant a lot for them in terms of legitimacy and va
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by thePunisher 6y ago
It was foolish of KDE to use commercial product as a base for their free desktop. They should've use wxUniversal (the self drawing version of wxWidgets). Now, the only option they have left is to fork QT, which would put enormous press
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by thePunisher 6y ago
Even ethnic Chinese from Taiwan have been known to spy for Communist China (like the Chinese American who stole the plans for the latest U.S. nuclear warheads at Lawrence Livermore and is now teaching at a university in China). The Chinese
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by thePunisher 6y ago
It took ASML a long time to perfect these machines, but once they nailed it I'm pretty sure it's no big deal for anyone to duplicate it if they knew how to avoid all the pitfalls. It would save the Chinese decades if they stole AS

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