Flash died because internet consumption moved from desktop to mobile, where Adobe was never able to deliver reasonable battery life and performance and soon gave up.
Adobe officially decided to kill flash over a year ago, and unofficially decided years earlier. At this point, the only responsible thing to do is make it progressively more inconvenient so that people won't be using an abandoned bundle of security holes.
Flash was great. Never had to worry about autoplaying video or audio back then because it was so easy to make flash be click-to-play. Web pages ran so much faster because the unnecessary decorations were separated into the flash part which we could decide whether or not to load. These days with all of flash's former job being done in javascript we have to disable javascript entirely if we want to be safe, we can't choose particular elements to then enable, and a lot of the internet doesn't work without javascript.
A shaded fueling depot in space seems like the perfect opportunity for naturally super-cooled fuels. The dangers should be less though because the fuel won't warm and expand until made to.
SpaceX is cheap because it's reusable. Which is another way of saying more durable. Their first stage components are built to last 10+ flights, while other rockets are built to last 1 flight.
Consider also the possible added risk of diverging procedures. If the vast majority of launches use the last minute loading of super-cooled fuel, changing that procedure for the occasional manned launches introduces less-tested situations to the launch process. It's not impossible that a component could fail from being fueled an hour early and at warmer temps that doesn't fail in the super-cooled scenarios.
Because having richer customers to sell to and better products to buy is somehow bad for the USA? Because not being able to start wars around the world on a whim is somehow bad for the USA? China's neighbors have some reasons to worry, but the USA can only benefit from China's development.
It's a proof of concept, and also an introductory price. It doesn't have to make a profit, it has to demonstrate the concept so that some city/company will buy the tunneling service for something else.
If you provide exemptions for cars like this, you've still got gridlock. Just provide free public transit with free parking just outside the congestion fee zone.
On my last AMD/ATI computer the graphics worked for a couple of years and then AMD dropped all support to chase something shinier and I was thereafter stuck on open source drivers with no hardware acceleration. Hardware vendors can be nasty like that. The only reason it doesn't affect you on Windows is that you keep on running your old version of Windows until you replace the PC whereas you keep your Linux up to date.
I'm sure the government that incarcerates far more people than any other nation in the world is quaking in their boots knowing that you're coming for them. If you attract the attention of their agents and make a scene, they'll surely back down and nothing will happen to you.
If you're within 100 miles of a border/ocean like the majority of Americans are, you're subject to unconstitutional search and seizure because an ICE agent thinks you might not be a citizen. And if you ever actually board a plane or cross a border, well, you've thereby explicitly waived your constitutional protections.
It's fairly easy to protect major cities from forest fires with such tactics, and for the most part we're successful at that -- with the occasional spectacular failure like Fort McMurray. It's nowhere near as easy to protect thousands of little mountainous villages of 10 houses each... and they add up to a whole lot of people, people who will not move to a city voluntarily.
Actually, idiot... California has all but ceased controlled burn operations.
They have wrapped them up in so many 'air quality' regulations, 'water resource limitation' requirements and 'environmental impact evaluation' red tape that they are almost impossible.
The person calling someone an idiot is a shameless outright liar with a political agenda, big surprise. (No, California doesn't have a shortage of firefighting water like you read on twitter either.)
I see the controlled burn notices and the plumes of smoke every spring, and they've been increasing in frequency in recent years as the fire danger has grown. Here's a source from 9 months ago noting that California's controlled burns have doubled in the past 3 years and is now 31 square miles of controlled burns a year: https://weather.com/en-CA/cana...
Controlled burns are absolutely routine in California forests, certainly in the Eldorado National Forest near me. The fires would be even worse without our regular controlled burns.
There's no reason for Saudi Arabia to export electricity across the ocean. They have direct land routes to the approximately 6.5 billion people who live in Asia, Europe and Africa. That said, it's still not realistically economical at the moment due to losses over such huge distances -- hardly more realistic than ideas of covering the sahara in solar panels. And it would never have anywhere near the margins of oil.
Saudi Arabia may not be a single person, but it's still very much a family business. As far as I know it's the only nation in the world with the family name in the country name.
If it costs a website more to serve up a page with non-tracking ads to a European than to serve up a "blocked" page, then their web design must've reached new levels of absurdity with hundreds of gigabytes of javascript libraries.
If you watch any SpaceX webcast, they give the speed and altitude in kilometers per second / kilometers only. Never seen them even make casual reference to an imperial unit.
Linux is used by a lot of people who other people ask for computer advice, both professionally and personally. I think they'll find the bad will costs them a lot more than maintaining support would've.
I'm still not clear on why the only industry for most countries is resource extraction. Do they manufacture ANYTHING in Africa?
It's the curse of resource-rich economies. For a short term thinker -- which includes most politicians and businesses -- it's so profitable to just dig and sell that nobody with the resources works on doing anything else. Why waste your time trying to convince a company make a long term manufacturing investment when you have companies begging to pay you huge bribes for resource extraction?
My apartment complex, and pretty much everywhere else in the region, has a proposition 65 cancer warning on it because of natural ground asbestos. Which is silly. But there is a danger on windy, dusty days -- precautions are taken by construction crews to avoid excess exposure on bad days.
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Flash died because internet consumption moved from desktop to mobile, where Adobe was never able to deliver reasonable battery life and performance and soon gave up.
Adobe officially decided to kill flash over a year ago, and unofficially decided years earlier. At this point, the only responsible thing to do is make it progressively more inconvenient so that people won't be using an abandoned bundle of security holes.
Flash was great. Never had to worry about autoplaying video or audio back then because it was so easy to make flash be click-to-play. Web pages ran so much faster because the unnecessary decorations were separated into the flash part which we could decide whether or not to load. These days with all of flash's former job being done in javascript we have to disable javascript entirely if we want to be safe, we can't choose particular elements to then enable, and a lot of the internet doesn't work without javascript.
A shaded fueling depot in space seems like the perfect opportunity for naturally super-cooled fuels. The dangers should be less though because the fuel won't warm and expand until made to.
SpaceX is cheap because it's reusable. Which is another way of saying more durable. Their first stage components are built to last 10+ flights, while other rockets are built to last 1 flight.
Consider also the possible added risk of diverging procedures. If the vast majority of launches use the last minute loading of super-cooled fuel, changing that procedure for the occasional manned launches introduces less-tested situations to the launch process. It's not impossible that a component could fail from being fueled an hour early and at warmer temps that doesn't fail in the super-cooled scenarios.
Because having richer customers to sell to and better products to buy is somehow bad for the USA? Because not being able to start wars around the world on a whim is somehow bad for the USA? China's neighbors have some reasons to worry, but the USA can only benefit from China's development.
It's a proof of concept, and also an introductory price. It doesn't have to make a profit, it has to demonstrate the concept so that some city/company will buy the tunneling service for something else.
If you provide exemptions for cars like this, you've still got gridlock. Just provide free public transit with free parking just outside the congestion fee zone.
On my last AMD/ATI computer the graphics worked for a couple of years and then AMD dropped all support to chase something shinier and I was thereafter stuck on open source drivers with no hardware acceleration. Hardware vendors can be nasty like that. The only reason it doesn't affect you on Windows is that you keep on running your old version of Windows until you replace the PC whereas you keep your Linux up to date.
Never, ever base your console design on Star Trek. Those things explode and kill their operators every week.
I'm sure the government that incarcerates far more people than any other nation in the world is quaking in their boots knowing that you're coming for them. If you attract the attention of their agents and make a scene, they'll surely back down and nothing will happen to you.
If you're within 100 miles of a border/ocean like the majority of Americans are, you're subject to unconstitutional search and seizure because an ICE agent thinks you might not be a citizen. And if you ever actually board a plane or cross a border, well, you've thereby explicitly waived your constitutional protections.
It's fairly easy to protect major cities from forest fires with such tactics, and for the most part we're successful at that -- with the occasional spectacular failure like Fort McMurray. It's nowhere near as easy to protect thousands of little mountainous villages of 10 houses each... and they add up to a whole lot of people, people who will not move to a city voluntarily.
The person calling someone an idiot is a shameless outright liar with a political agenda, big surprise. (No, California doesn't have a shortage of firefighting water like you read on twitter either.)
I see the controlled burn notices and the plumes of smoke every spring, and they've been increasing in frequency in recent years as the fire danger has grown. Here's a source from 9 months ago noting that California's controlled burns have doubled in the past 3 years and is now 31 square miles of controlled burns a year: https://weather.com/en-CA/cana...
Controlled burns are absolutely routine in California forests, certainly in the Eldorado National Forest near me. The fires would be even worse without our regular controlled burns.
There's no reason for Saudi Arabia to export electricity across the ocean. They have direct land routes to the approximately 6.5 billion people who live in Asia, Europe and Africa. That said, it's still not realistically economical at the moment due to losses over such huge distances -- hardly more realistic than ideas of covering the sahara in solar panels. And it would never have anywhere near the margins of oil.
Saudi Arabia may not be a single person, but it's still very much a family business. As far as I know it's the only nation in the world with the family name in the country name.
If it costs a website more to serve up a page with non-tracking ads to a European than to serve up a "blocked" page, then their web design must've reached new levels of absurdity with hundreds of gigabytes of javascript libraries.
If you watch any SpaceX webcast, they give the speed and altitude in kilometers per second / kilometers only. Never seen them even make casual reference to an imperial unit.
Musk has paid his bills, hasn't been accused of screwing over contractors, and hasn't bankrupted even one company yet. Hardly comparable.
Linux is used by a lot of people who other people ask for computer advice, both professionally and personally. I think they'll find the bad will costs them a lot more than maintaining support would've.
It's the curse of resource-rich economies. For a short term thinker -- which includes most politicians and businesses -- it's so profitable to just dig and sell that nobody with the resources works on doing anything else. Why waste your time trying to convince a company make a long term manufacturing investment when you have companies begging to pay you huge bribes for resource extraction?
My apartment complex, and pretty much everywhere else in the region, has a proposition 65 cancer warning on it because of natural ground asbestos. Which is silly. But there is a danger on windy, dusty days -- precautions are taken by construction crews to avoid excess exposure on bad days.
They're in rich places, naturally. They build megachurches all through California.