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The article mentions that this aircraft is able to "stay aloft for 5 days". I'm sure no drone has similar loiter capabilities like this craft, not to mention a far higher payload.
Furthermore, I suppose it would be far easier (if not trivial) to turn this vehicle into a drone than an airplane.
You're the only one who's trying to make that assertion. It's a strawman, and a poor one at that.
That's a baseless assertion. Just because you developed a distaste for a particular programming paradigm it doesn't mean that your baseless assertions are suddenly sound.
> So, sticking to a paradigm that does not work
Somehow, the software world is founded on something that you somehow claim doesn't work.
Perhaps you've taken your pet peeve a bit too far.
Modularity isn't a mere "site effect" of OO: it's one of the main motivation factors that have lead to OO.
In fact, the main problem with these anti-OO rants made by procedural purists is that in essence they all boil down to claiming that basic OO features that are a part of any OO language can be reimplemented in procedural languages.
If what you say was true, how would you explain the fact that gold prices also fluctuated wildly with regards to all currencies used in the world?
> in 1915, or so, Henry Ford released Model T, first mass produced car. The price of Model T at that time was about $300 dollars, which was equal to 20 ounces of gold. Now, 100 years later, 20 ounces of gold still can buy you a brand new car, while 300$ only buys you set of tires and some gas.
You need to discover what inflation is. Adjusted to inflation, $300 in 1915 are equivalent to around $7k in 2016.
Furthermore, prices are dictated by the purchasing power of the target market which also varied significantly since 1915.
Actually, once the state stopped recognizing gold as the standard economic unit of account, it ceases to be money. It becomes just another commodity, like corn or platinum.
Another natural consequence of gold having become a commodity is that monetary policies cease to cover the value of gold, thus it fluctuates naturally in the market just like any product, and is also subjected to economic bubbles.
The price fluctuation alone makes gold unsuited to be used as money, as it is no longer suited to store value.
It costs $35 and comes with ethernet, wifi, and a quad-core processor.
Furthermore, it's fully supported in linux.
That's terribly awesome for what it is.
A decade ago you had to spend 50x that amount of cash to get a laptop with those specs, without linux support.
No matter how you cut it, the Raspberry Pi 3 is not bad from any angle. At all.