KDE 3 was great, but I think Gnome 1 was the best. So many options, it really let the user tweak everything. You could even switch window managers on a whim through the GUI choosing among a half dozen options that all worked great. We'll never get a desktop designed for that kind of flexibility again.
But staying planet bound is a death sentence for our civilization, if not our species, at some point.
I'm all for exploration and colonization of the universe, for the sake of exploration and learning and challenge -- but pretending that it's the most sensible strategy for species survival is absurd. If you want to preserve the species, you can build much larger colonies on the bottom of the ocean which will be protected from any event which will happen to Earth in the next billion years, and will have the additional benefit of being on a planet which has natural life.
The only advantage of Mars or asteroids, perhaps, is that it's harder and thus less psychologically tempting to remain dependent on supplies from civilization back home.
Here, and in every similar article, I always read everyone complaining about checkpoints and speed traps everywhere. They say the highway patrol hides on every downhill and tickets for coasting 5 MPH over the limit. Is this really as common as people are making it sound? Is it only particular states that operate this way?
I've been driving in northern California for 20 years. I've never used any sort of radar detector or checkpoint avoidance strategy. I've yet to encounter a DUI checkpoint. I've routinely driven a bit above the speed limit, and only been ticketed once -- by a non-hidden CHP officer on a level stretch of road while I was going 16 MPH over the limit and thus clearly earned it.
The BFR will likely get to Mars within 10 years, but you vastly underestimate the technical and especially the non-technical problems of getting approval to send humans. The Falcon 9 has been flying for 9 years, and we'll be lucky if the first human flies on it this year. Approval for all the additional dangers of a Mars flight (time, radiation, different flight profiles, etc) will require many, many unmanned Mars flights... and those flights are limited to happening every ~2 years when then planets are close. Getting approval for humans to actually live on Mars will be even harder to achieve.
A pair of Falcon Heavy launches are easily capable of sending people to the moon and returning them to Earth. The only thing lacking is a willingness to accept the risk.
Only AAA is half-decent, and this is because their core business is insurance product that also happen to have in-house tow operation.
Eh, AAA is inanely expensive compared to Geico -- which isn't in-house, they negotiate whoever's cheapest and least busy at the moment of your call. $40 a year gives me as many free tows, jumpstarts, lockouts etc as my 1998 car can cause me.
Given that the guy running this is a lawyer, I suspect it's all just a strange sort of advertisement for himself. He figures the lawsuit will get his name in the news and attract some paying clients who want him to defend their equally obviously illegal activity.
It sounds like there's an additional problem, though: copyright detection algorithms can't always distinguish the slight differences between performances of the same work, so they flag a freely-licensed performance based on the similarity to a copyrighted performance. This isn't surprising when you consider that the detection is loose enough to flag videos that happen to be playing a song on the radio softly in the background, too.
The only solution to these problems is a loss of legal rights for repeated false flagging. That'll require congressional action, though -- youtube probably can't make that choice on their own without risking being sued.
Blue Origin has 0 orbital launches planned -- if you count Chinese suborbital launches I'm sure they've got a lot more. Orbital has 2 launches planned this year according to my googling, and has never topped 2.
At any rate, "communist" China agrees with you that private enterprise is the better strategy for space -- which is why they've been encouraging their private space industry, which is a pretty crowded sector now which should hopefully produce orbital results soon.
China has 250+ satellites in orbit already... way more than Russia, way more than any country except the USA. If they really care about you so much, they've known what they want to know for a long time.
I doubt they're going to get 30+ launches done in a year, unless they've been playing things really close to the vest.
Erm, China launched 37 times last year. How is aiming for 30+ this year any sort of stretch or doubtful thing? They've been "playing things really close to the vest" by launching 37 times and then planning 30 for the following year?
Actually, Elon's philosophy is that he doesn't mind if another company beats his to achieving things if that makes the things be achieved faster. He's been urging automakers to go electric for ages, he's been rooting for Blue Origin and all the little rocket companies, etc. Certainly hasn't ever taken any steps to harm competitors. He started his current companies because he was a rich guy who wanted to solve more interesting/important problems, not to make money.
There's something seriously wrong with your thought processes when you jump to the conclusion that a recent Nobel prize winner is a scam artist despite his not seeking investors yet, simply because he doesn't want to show the general public photos of his project until his prototype reaches a point he's satisfied with.
It'd be like letting the client install an early internal alpha of a software project. You'll get lots of useless feedback about things you were going to change anyway and bugs you already knew about, and it'd only slow down your progress.
Will this invention save the world? Probably not. That doesn't mean it doesn't work.
It explicitly does not mean that. It means "except for four necessary items related to Wi-Fi connectivity, near-field communication (NFC), the customer service center and the app store." Basically, boatware is anything that doesn't need to be on a restore image to make the phone immediately functional and allow convenient re-installation of desired apps.
The harshest winds Mars can offer wouldn't tip over an empty hopper faring. You'd barely feel it. A 100 MPH wind on Mars feels nothing like a 100 MPH wind on Earth because there's only 1/100th of the air blowing.
SpaceX manages a couple dozen launches a year. The number of payloads wanting to launch every year is considerably more. Until SpaceX finds a way to launch a lot more often, it doesn't matter if they sell the launches for $1 each -- there'll still be lots of room for competitors.
In the USA, people would be bragging about having the most debt. High debt means you have a high enough income to get lots of credit and you're living the idealized high flying risk-taking capitalist lifestyle and/or own a business.
Different language = different results no matter what search engine you use. Chinese-speaking people and English-speaking people are always going to be reading different materials, at least until true AI comes and provides quality automated translation.
And there are as many Chinese speakers as English speakers in the world, so they're not really a smaller island.
Have you actually ever had a problem with Word files saving wrongly in Libre Office? If so, have you tried saving them to an older version Word format?
Looking at Google+'s "Discover" page now, every single popular post has porn site spam link comments featured. Apparently that's what happens when they fire the humans.
That's the google attitude: anything that doesn't have billions of active users may as well not exist. Google+ only had a couple hundred million active users, so may as well shut it down.
Of course, convincing people like you to adopt this attitude is where Google actually wins. Once you buy into their only-use-humongously-popular-websites theory, you're locked into a few big companies like Google. Perhaps Google+ is a kind of ritual sacrifice to demonstrate to people that they should not consider less popular search engines or email providers or smartphone OSes, because one shouldn't expect any ongoing support or reliability from things that only have millions of users.
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KDE 3 was great, but I think Gnome 1 was the best. So many options, it really let the user tweak everything. You could even switch window managers on a whim through the GUI choosing among a half dozen options that all worked great. We'll never get a desktop designed for that kind of flexibility again.
I'm all for exploration and colonization of the universe, for the sake of exploration and learning and challenge -- but pretending that it's the most sensible strategy for species survival is absurd. If you want to preserve the species, you can build much larger colonies on the bottom of the ocean which will be protected from any event which will happen to Earth in the next billion years, and will have the additional benefit of being on a planet which has natural life.
The only advantage of Mars or asteroids, perhaps, is that it's harder and thus less psychologically tempting to remain dependent on supplies from civilization back home.
Here, and in every similar article, I always read everyone complaining about checkpoints and speed traps everywhere. They say the highway patrol hides on every downhill and tickets for coasting 5 MPH over the limit. Is this really as common as people are making it sound? Is it only particular states that operate this way?
I've been driving in northern California for 20 years. I've never used any sort of radar detector or checkpoint avoidance strategy. I've yet to encounter a DUI checkpoint. I've routinely driven a bit above the speed limit, and only been ticketed once -- by a non-hidden CHP officer on a level stretch of road while I was going 16 MPH over the limit and thus clearly earned it.
The BFR will likely get to Mars within 10 years, but you vastly underestimate the technical and especially the non-technical problems of getting approval to send humans. The Falcon 9 has been flying for 9 years, and we'll be lucky if the first human flies on it this year. Approval for all the additional dangers of a Mars flight (time, radiation, different flight profiles, etc) will require many, many unmanned Mars flights... and those flights are limited to happening every ~2 years when then planets are close. Getting approval for humans to actually live on Mars will be even harder to achieve.
A pair of Falcon Heavy launches are easily capable of sending people to the moon and returning them to Earth. The only thing lacking is a willingness to accept the risk.
Eh, AAA is inanely expensive compared to Geico -- which isn't in-house, they negotiate whoever's cheapest and least busy at the moment of your call. $40 a year gives me as many free tows, jumpstarts, lockouts etc as my 1998 car can cause me.
Given that the guy running this is a lawyer, I suspect it's all just a strange sort of advertisement for himself. He figures the lawsuit will get his name in the news and attract some paying clients who want him to defend their equally obviously illegal activity.
Why extort $150,000 when you can extort $150 1000 times with a script? And that way you can't even be charged with grand theft if you're caught.
It sounds like there's an additional problem, though: copyright detection algorithms can't always distinguish the slight differences between performances of the same work, so they flag a freely-licensed performance based on the similarity to a copyrighted performance. This isn't surprising when you consider that the detection is loose enough to flag videos that happen to be playing a song on the radio softly in the background, too.
The only solution to these problems is a loss of legal rights for repeated false flagging. That'll require congressional action, though -- youtube probably can't make that choice on their own without risking being sued.
You can sill record ahead of time and schedule videos to go live while you're on vacation. Not that it's easy producing that much content.
Blue Origin has 0 orbital launches planned -- if you count Chinese suborbital launches I'm sure they've got a lot more. Orbital has 2 launches planned this year according to my googling, and has never topped 2.
At any rate, "communist" China agrees with you that private enterprise is the better strategy for space -- which is why they've been encouraging their private space industry, which is a pretty crowded sector now which should hopefully produce orbital results soon.
China has 250+ satellites in orbit already... way more than Russia, way more than any country except the USA. If they really care about you so much, they've known what they want to know for a long time.
Erm, China launched 37 times last year. How is aiming for 30+ this year any sort of stretch or doubtful thing? They've been "playing things really close to the vest" by launching 37 times and then planning 30 for the following year?
Actually, Elon's philosophy is that he doesn't mind if another company beats his to achieving things if that makes the things be achieved faster. He's been urging automakers to go electric for ages, he's been rooting for Blue Origin and all the little rocket companies, etc. Certainly hasn't ever taken any steps to harm competitors. He started his current companies because he was a rich guy who wanted to solve more interesting/important problems, not to make money.
There's something seriously wrong with your thought processes when you jump to the conclusion that a recent Nobel prize winner is a scam artist despite his not seeking investors yet, simply because he doesn't want to show the general public photos of his project until his prototype reaches a point he's satisfied with.
It'd be like letting the client install an early internal alpha of a software project. You'll get lots of useless feedback about things you were going to change anyway and bugs you already knew about, and it'd only slow down your progress.
Will this invention save the world? Probably not. That doesn't mean it doesn't work.
It explicitly does not mean that. It means "except for four necessary items related to Wi-Fi connectivity, near-field communication (NFC), the customer service center and the app store." Basically, boatware is anything that doesn't need to be on a restore image to make the phone immediately functional and allow convenient re-installation of desired apps.
The cost of fixing the damage is likely far less than the cost of a hurricane-proof building.
The harshest winds Mars can offer wouldn't tip over an empty hopper faring. You'd barely feel it. A 100 MPH wind on Mars feels nothing like a 100 MPH wind on Earth because there's only 1/100th of the air blowing.
SpaceX manages a couple dozen launches a year. The number of payloads wanting to launch every year is considerably more. Until SpaceX finds a way to launch a lot more often, it doesn't matter if they sell the launches for $1 each -- there'll still be lots of room for competitors.
In the USA, people would be bragging about having the most debt. High debt means you have a high enough income to get lots of credit and you're living the idealized high flying risk-taking capitalist lifestyle and/or own a business.
Different language = different results no matter what search engine you use. Chinese-speaking people and English-speaking people are always going to be reading different materials, at least until true AI comes and provides quality automated translation.
And there are as many Chinese speakers as English speakers in the world, so they're not really a smaller island.
Have you actually ever had a problem with Word files saving wrongly in Libre Office? If so, have you tried saving them to an older version Word format?
Looking at Google+'s "Discover" page now, every single popular post has porn site spam link comments featured. Apparently that's what happens when they fire the humans.
That's the google attitude: anything that doesn't have billions of active users may as well not exist. Google+ only had a couple hundred million active users, so may as well shut it down.
Of course, convincing people like you to adopt this attitude is where Google actually wins. Once you buy into their only-use-humongously-popular-websites theory, you're locked into a few big companies like Google. Perhaps Google+ is a kind of ritual sacrifice to demonstrate to people that they should not consider less popular search engines or email providers or smartphone OSes, because one shouldn't expect any ongoing support or reliability from things that only have millions of users.
No, your OS cannot screenshot a full webpage including all parts beyond the vertical and horizontal scrolls.