Light sails may work for an interstellar cruise, but chemical rockets are the only viable theoretical way to land and take off from a planet/moon you haven't built a space elevator on. We're talking about an interstellar trip that's only theoretically feasible for a vehicle that weighs a few grams, and you're talking about adding a 200,000+ kilogram rocket to it.
But can you turn on your juicer from your phone while you're in the driveway so that it's done when you open your front door? That's worth $400 to absurdly wealthy people.
There's plenty of benefit for China -- not so much the ISS itself but what cooperation on it entails. It'd mean equal access to research, and the ability for their scientists to collaborate with American scientists, unlike the current situation where NASA employees are strictly forbidden from Chinese contacts. More importantly, it'd be a boon for Chinese industry -- currently any project involving NASA is strictly forbidden from working with any Chinese company, which is not good for the bottom line.
I suppose you could connect to the meta-universe internet and then hack into a robot to remotely explore the real world from within our simulation. You're technically not leaving the simulation, but if you're using VR to control the robot that exists in the real world then it's practically speaking the same thing.
You've got to consider the scale of the technology too in comparison to the competence. Blizzard games can be largely simulated just by a spreadsheet and a relatively simple random number generator. Atomic level simulation of a leaf flittering in the wind blows a WOW server away. Let alone an entire universe.
If the universe is a simulation, it's much more reasonable to assume that only my own experience is being simulated. If only the things I'm presently aware of have to be simulated, the computing power required is pretty low -- particularly as I don't have the expertise to examine leaf flittering at the atomic level, and at any rate the simulation can simply alter my memory to remove any mistake that I discover. The simulation may well have only been turned on a minute ago or might reset each day before the flaws become an issue. Simulation + Occam's razor = solipsism.
This is a city in Sweden, so it's safe to assume that health insurance comes from the national health insurance program, the city would not be buying private coverage for their employees. Thus, even if it the 6 hour days save money overall for the government at all levels, it costs the city money they don't have.
Bad examples. Nobody except maybe the Tsar would've predicted Tsarist Russia would last. It'd been weakening for a long time and there was a revolution in 1905.
Why anyone other than an advertiser wants to be able to order stuff with voice recognition is beyond me. If you want to have a painful conversation where you're repeatedly not understood or misunderstood and receive the wrong food, just go to a drive through.
This distance from say the city of Tunis to the rain forest is about the distance from Los Angels to the Atlantic Ocean. Transport over that distance can only be justified if water sells at the destination for as much as oil does -- which it does not, unless you're about the little bottles of premium water that foolish westerners pay absurd prices for.
Also, it's not insane politics to not wish to be dependent on other countries for water -- it's common sense. Same reason countries subsidize their farmers in order to avoid being dependent on cheaper food imports.
In fact, it's theorized that those hydrothermal vents may be where life first originated on Earth. One could argue that they are thus the most habitable place on Earth.
Being petty and vengeful toward your own creation generally only happens when you lose control of it. If you're fully in control of your creation and can change whatever you want, getting mad at it would have to be purely for fun... but if he's also omniscient, that instantly takes all the fun out of it.
My theory is that God committed suicide as soon as he realized how tortuously pointless being an omni-being necessarily is.
What it could do is make creationism require even more mental contortions. It's hard to explain why a god who creates each species separately fully-developed would create microbes for Europa or Enceladus.
Canonical lost 31 of about 700 employees. Most linux distros have 0 employees and maybe a couple of hobbyists. I think Ubuntu can survive.
they use the same kernel
To the same extent as they always did. That's what makes them linux. Of course they do use different versions.
the same init system
Actually the variety here has improved. Before systemd and upstart, everybody used sysvinit -- now there's a little variety and there are non-systemd debian forks.
the same desktop environment
Debian and Fedora both offer a wide variety of desktop environments. Who cares what the default selection may be?
Don't underestimate how many disloyal people there are. I use chrome 99% of the time, but if firefox becomes a better experience I'll switch. Most of us aren't religious about browser use, we aren't pissed off at or alienated by firefox, we simply found it was no longer the best choice.
If they actually perform the requested work, they're not exactly fake companies -- just bad companies with deceptive pricing and uncertified workmanship.
If you really want good sleep, find work where you can set your own hours and then sleep whenever you like. I never had any luck trying to force sleep, but being able to choose when to sleep works great.
Keep in mind that even if every new car sold in 2022 is electric, I'll still be driving my 1998 car and there will be no economic case for me to buy a 2022 car.
SpaceX will probably never do a launch for quite as low as $1M, even if they recover the second stage and the faring too. This rocket, if actually able to do that, would fill a niche: micro-satellites that have to be launched on their own instead of as a group for some reason (specific orbit/timing needed).
Just because the booster goes to orbit doesn't mean it has to stay there. SpaceX doesn't recover their second stage, but they do de-orbit it. Likewise I expect this rocket will be required to carry a little extra fuel to take it back to the atmosphere to burn up.
If their entire channel has less than 10K views, they're probably losing $10 or less from this. I doubt the loss of $10 is going to kill entire genres of music.
My Obamaphone is a low-end Android smartphone (with a camera so bad that I wouldn't use it). Perhaps your friend got it through the wrong company, since the exact phone you get all depends on which company you sign up with.
So the use scenario is that you're on vacation when your neighbor calls you up asking to borrow a tool from your garage, and now you can open your garage door for him from the other side of the world? Seems absurd.
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Light sails may work for an interstellar cruise, but chemical rockets are the only viable theoretical way to land and take off from a planet/moon you haven't built a space elevator on. We're talking about an interstellar trip that's only theoretically feasible for a vehicle that weighs a few grams, and you're talking about adding a 200,000+ kilogram rocket to it.
But can you turn on your juicer from your phone while you're in the driveway so that it's done when you open your front door? That's worth $400 to absurdly wealthy people.
There's plenty of benefit for China -- not so much the ISS itself but what cooperation on it entails. It'd mean equal access to research, and the ability for their scientists to collaborate with American scientists, unlike the current situation where NASA employees are strictly forbidden from Chinese contacts. More importantly, it'd be a boon for Chinese industry -- currently any project involving NASA is strictly forbidden from working with any Chinese company, which is not good for the bottom line.
I suppose you could connect to the meta-universe internet and then hack into a robot to remotely explore the real world from within our simulation. You're technically not leaving the simulation, but if you're using VR to control the robot that exists in the real world then it's practically speaking the same thing.
You've got to consider the scale of the technology too in comparison to the competence. Blizzard games can be largely simulated just by a spreadsheet and a relatively simple random number generator. Atomic level simulation of a leaf flittering in the wind blows a WOW server away. Let alone an entire universe.
If the universe is a simulation, it's much more reasonable to assume that only my own experience is being simulated. If only the things I'm presently aware of have to be simulated, the computing power required is pretty low -- particularly as I don't have the expertise to examine leaf flittering at the atomic level, and at any rate the simulation can simply alter my memory to remove any mistake that I discover. The simulation may well have only been turned on a minute ago or might reset each day before the flaws become an issue. Simulation + Occam's razor = solipsism.
They've all aged 14 years already. It's way too late to continue the series where it left off.
It's called market research. They're looking for a potential growth market where people may be gullible enough to use Firefox and believe it's good.
This is a city in Sweden, so it's safe to assume that health insurance comes from the national health insurance program, the city would not be buying private coverage for their employees. Thus, even if it the 6 hour days save money overall for the government at all levels, it costs the city money they don't have.
Bad examples. Nobody except maybe the Tsar would've predicted Tsarist Russia would last. It'd been weakening for a long time and there was a revolution in 1905.
Why anyone other than an advertiser wants to be able to order stuff with voice recognition is beyond me. If you want to have a painful conversation where you're repeatedly not understood or misunderstood and receive the wrong food, just go to a drive through.
This distance from say the city of Tunis to the rain forest is about the distance from Los Angels to the Atlantic Ocean. Transport over that distance can only be justified if water sells at the destination for as much as oil does -- which it does not, unless you're about the little bottles of premium water that foolish westerners pay absurd prices for.
Also, it's not insane politics to not wish to be dependent on other countries for water -- it's common sense. Same reason countries subsidize their farmers in order to avoid being dependent on cheaper food imports.
In fact, it's theorized that those hydrothermal vents may be where life first originated on Earth. One could argue that they are thus the most habitable place on Earth.
Being petty and vengeful toward your own creation generally only happens when you lose control of it. If you're fully in control of your creation and can change whatever you want, getting mad at it would have to be purely for fun... but if he's also omniscient, that instantly takes all the fun out of it.
My theory is that God committed suicide as soon as he realized how tortuously pointless being an omni-being necessarily is.
What it could do is make creationism require even more mental contortions. It's hard to explain why a god who creates each species separately fully-developed would create microbes for Europa or Enceladus.
Because it sells. Calm coverage doesn't get nearly as many clicks so it gets evolutionary weeded out.
Canonical lost 31 of about 700 employees. Most linux distros have 0 employees and maybe a couple of hobbyists. I think Ubuntu can survive.
To the same extent as they always did. That's what makes them linux. Of course they do use different versions.
Actually the variety here has improved. Before systemd and upstart, everybody used sysvinit -- now there's a little variety and there are non-systemd debian forks.
Debian and Fedora both offer a wide variety of desktop environments. Who cares what the default selection may be?
Did they ever not?
Don't underestimate how many disloyal people there are. I use chrome 99% of the time, but if firefox becomes a better experience I'll switch. Most of us aren't religious about browser use, we aren't pissed off at or alienated by firefox, we simply found it was no longer the best choice.
If they actually perform the requested work, they're not exactly fake companies -- just bad companies with deceptive pricing and uncertified workmanship.
If you really want good sleep, find work where you can set your own hours and then sleep whenever you like. I never had any luck trying to force sleep, but being able to choose when to sleep works great.
Keep in mind that even if every new car sold in 2022 is electric, I'll still be driving my 1998 car and there will be no economic case for me to buy a 2022 car.
SpaceX will probably never do a launch for quite as low as $1M, even if they recover the second stage and the faring too. This rocket, if actually able to do that, would fill a niche: micro-satellites that have to be launched on their own instead of as a group for some reason (specific orbit/timing needed).
Just because the booster goes to orbit doesn't mean it has to stay there. SpaceX doesn't recover their second stage, but they do de-orbit it. Likewise I expect this rocket will be required to carry a little extra fuel to take it back to the atmosphere to burn up.
If their entire channel has less than 10K views, they're probably losing $10 or less from this. I doubt the loss of $10 is going to kill entire genres of music.
My Obamaphone is a low-end Android smartphone (with a camera so bad that I wouldn't use it). Perhaps your friend got it through the wrong company, since the exact phone you get all depends on which company you sign up with.
So the use scenario is that you're on vacation when your neighbor calls you up asking to borrow a tool from your garage, and now you can open your garage door for him from the other side of the world? Seems absurd.