It was interesting to me reading that Blue Origin has contracts with Telesat and OneWeb to launch satellites for their competing broadband products. That makes me think of Amazon being paid to do the distribution for companies who sell the same products sold by Amazon.
I wonder how the build cost per square meter compares to PV panels. I saw an article a while back telling about people at Sandia inventing a way to use solar to directly split hydrogen from water. It involved making a parabolic reflector and having a small amount of catalyst at the focus. I remember thinking at the time that reflector seems much less expensive per square meter to build than does PV panel, so even if it's a less efficient use of sunlight, if you've got the space and the build is cheap, it makes sense financially. Plus, the hydrogen is easy to store for use at night time. I'd post a link, but it seems the article has disappeared.
Hopefully it will be possible for the antenna owner to share use of the antenna with other people who have separate accounts. While I have no doubt that Starlink is willing to sell service at a data rate that would allow one to be a remote area ISP, I doubt that commercial boat owners would ever be willing to subscribe at that rate. Whereas they might allow others to also use the antenna so long as the data rate for their own connection didn't fall (which the single account rate you suggest indicates single antenna capacity might well allow that to be the case).
As someone who works on boats at sea, the prospect of having personal broadband at work is a dream come true. However, considering that they're steel boats (so the decks will reflect the signal), what is needed is a way to use a single antenna on the top of the vessel to connect with multiple customers inside the vessel. Employers aren't going to want to pay for very much data for employees, and as an employee, I'd rather pay for my own, so as not to be restricted by what my employer might allocate. I expect that the equivalent of a Wilson cellular booster wouldn't be ideal, as frequency used by the satellite wouldn't necessarily be ideal for use indoors. What would be ideal is something that translated the satellite signal to and from wifi and allowed customers to individually log on to their SpaceX reseller account via a smartphone app. In fact, it might be a good idea for any Starlink earth station to look like a hotspot from the consumer side.
The only content that needs the benefit of paid prioritization has a high enough bandwidth that giving it prioritization will screw too much other content to provide it. This will lead to a world where the text you want to read has to wait for the video advertisements in the margins that you don't want to tolerate.
It might be a popular feature for them to stop using data when there's on one in the room. Maybe a smartwatch could also tell them when you've fallen asleep.
then the robots ought to gently extend 30mm diameter rods from their bodies at intersections so as to help the elderly cross the street. Having delivery robots do automated vending to people having the app used at the Go stores has got to be part of the plan for their future.
If this compensates for my phone's inability to do VoLTE, that would be nice. Last year I could wifi tether my VOIP service to my cellular data, but that no longer works.
Who knew Elon Musk had a single "main goal" ? I don't need an AI chip in my skull. I need an interface module in my skull. It can connect to AIs, robot arms, vehicle control modules, media sources, etc. Over time it can be used to transfer my consciousness beyond my skull, so that by the time my skull goes offline, I won't need a skull.
One thing I worried about when learning of other LEO Satellite Internet was the satellites being shot down as they pass over China. So, China putting up their own constellation that could be shot down in retaliation sounds like motivation for them not to throw stones. Plus, it will be amusing when they achieve commercial competitiveness by putting up internet for the rest of the world that is less censored than the internet that they provide domestically.
Delivery for high quality perishable products is hard. It shouldn't be the initial focus. One thing Amazon has is the customer reviews. I just searched for customer reviews of local produce and farmer's markets, and most of the front page links were to TripAdvisor with a few also to Yelp. So, here's what Amazon could do...
Free listings for non-taxable food where the delivery method is customer pick-up in a store smaller than 5000 sq ft, provided that the vendor sells at the advertised price, giving customers who bring an "I saw it on Amazon" QR code generated by the product page a 5% discount, and the code verification gives Amazon a report of those sales (which can allow the customer a "verified purchase" notation if they review the product). Vendors who rack up lots of sales with positive reviews are targets for deals that make their product carried by the nearest Whole Foods.
Local produce vendors get visibility. Amazon gets leads for popular local products to carry in their stores and gets to condition shoppers to check their site when looking for tasty local food. Customers get to learn where to obtain tasty locally produced food via an easy search, with reviews from other customers.
When I see the open vehicle in the photo, what immediately comes to mind is someone removing everyone's groceries, filling the space up with all their trash, and sending the vehicle on its way. Possibly first they might have to register a bogus account at a real address.
I imagine a more realistic delivery vehicle would, on scanning the proper QR code for the order that corresponds to the delivery address, excrete filled bags of groceries. It could have an arm of hooks that lowers until it's not supporting any grocery weight and rotates to disengage the bags. Then, the vehicle drives from over the top of the delivery spot.
By the government, maybe - T-Mobile should approve it only so long as Masayoshi Son has nothing to do with the customer facing policies of the combined company.
When I was curious about how to let someone else make a call on my phone without giving them access to my address book, the suggestion I found was that I make a separate user profile for guest use and have a password needed to switch back to my main one. Since multiple user profiles are possible, it wouldn't be that hard to make one called "ID" in addition to the guest one for letting a stranger make a call. Then the account with the ID doesn't share any of my other data, but I don't share my ID info with everyone who brings up my lock screen.
I wonder what percentage of battery could be saved launching from a steam catapult (something longer and with slightly less acceleration than the ones used in aircraft carriers).
My parents' Avalon will beep at you if the keys leave with the vehicle on, and start making more beeps if they stay gone for a while. It doesn't tell you why it's complaining, though.
I don't know if the reason is to permit convenience similar to my use, but I'd take advantage of this when driving my parents (in their car) to doctor visits a lot. They'd have the keys in their pocket/purse. I'd park the car after letting them out at the entrance.
Gif-Sorting.xxx Of the 5 gif-centric pages listed by "The Porn Dude," only PornHub seems to be making an effort to be friendly towards users publishing albums of collected images, and they only seem to allow customization of the membership of an album, not other aspects of its layout or appearance. So, there's probably a market for a porn tumblr replacement.
So, a corporation isn't self aware when it comes to criminal acts, but its free speech is protected when it comes to campaign contributions. I'd think any entity that needs the benefit of protected speech would have sufficient self awareness to desire to break the law, but I suppose sufficient self awareness to purchase politicians obviates any need for consistency.
Considering that Backyard started in California, perhaps they could design houses that are less vulnerable to fire. People whose houses were burned in the recent fires could benefit from replacement dwellings that are done better than cheap wood frame.
The last time I was in Costa Rica, lots of the streets didn't have names. Directions were like "the red house a couple kilometers NorthEast of the big mall." I reckon many other places don't name all the streets also. It works fine if you're local. If I, a non local was being given directions to drive somewhere, the easy way would be to text me a QR that my phone translates to a dot on a map and then generates a route. If I'm in a place that names all the streets, I could type in a street address I'm never going to remember. It's just more time consuming.
Personally, I'd think it might be just as well to incorporate high resolution Lat-Lon coordinates into a QR splotch and let local software on a smartphone find the route. Addresses with words are designed for people to learn them, but people don't learn them. We use address books.
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It was interesting to me reading that Blue Origin has contracts with Telesat and OneWeb to launch satellites for their competing broadband products. That makes me think of Amazon being paid to do the distribution for companies who sell the same products sold by Amazon.
I wonder how the build cost per square meter compares to PV panels. I saw an article a while back telling about people at Sandia inventing a way to use solar to directly split hydrogen from water. It involved making a parabolic reflector and having a small amount of catalyst at the focus. I remember thinking at the time that reflector seems much less expensive per square meter to build than does PV panel, so even if it's a less efficient use of sunlight, if you've got the space and the build is cheap, it makes sense financially. Plus, the hydrogen is easy to store for use at night time. I'd post a link, but it seems the article has disappeared.
Hopefully it will be possible for the antenna owner to share use of the antenna with other people who have separate accounts. While I have no doubt that Starlink is willing to sell service at a data rate that would allow one to be a remote area ISP, I doubt that commercial boat owners would ever be willing to subscribe at that rate. Whereas they might allow others to also use the antenna so long as the data rate for their own connection didn't fall (which the single account rate you suggest indicates single antenna capacity might well allow that to be the case).
As someone who works on boats at sea, the prospect of having personal broadband at work is a dream come true. However, considering that they're steel boats (so the decks will reflect the signal), what is needed is a way to use a single antenna on the top of the vessel to connect with multiple customers inside the vessel. Employers aren't going to want to pay for very much data for employees, and as an employee, I'd rather pay for my own, so as not to be restricted by what my employer might allocate. I expect that the equivalent of a Wilson cellular booster wouldn't be ideal, as frequency used by the satellite wouldn't necessarily be ideal for use indoors. What would be ideal is something that translated the satellite signal to and from wifi and allowed customers to individually log on to their SpaceX reseller account via a smartphone app. In fact, it might be a good idea for any Starlink earth station to look like a hotspot from the consumer side.
The only content that needs the benefit of paid prioritization has a high enough bandwidth that giving it prioritization will screw too much other content to provide it. This will lead to a world where the text you want to read has to wait for the video advertisements in the margins that you don't want to tolerate.
It might be a popular feature for them to stop using data when there's on one in the room. Maybe a smartwatch could also tell them when you've fallen asleep.
then the robots ought to gently extend 30mm diameter rods from their bodies at intersections so as to help the elderly cross the street. Having delivery robots do automated vending to people having the app used at the Go stores has got to be part of the plan for their future.
If this compensates for my phone's inability to do VoLTE, that would be nice. Last year I could wifi tether my VOIP service to my cellular data, but that no longer works.
Who knew Elon Musk had a single "main goal" ? I don't need an AI chip in my skull. I need an interface module in my skull. It can connect to AIs, robot arms, vehicle control modules, media sources, etc. Over time it can be used to transfer my consciousness beyond my skull, so that by the time my skull goes offline, I won't need a skull.
According to the article, the loans were being made to people who build houses for others to buy.
One thing I worried about when learning of other LEO Satellite Internet was the satellites being shot down as they pass over China. So, China putting up their own constellation that could be shot down in retaliation sounds like motivation for them not to throw stones. Plus, it will be amusing when they achieve commercial competitiveness by putting up internet for the rest of the world that is less censored than the internet that they provide domestically.
Delivery for high quality perishable products is hard. It shouldn't be the initial focus. One thing Amazon has is the customer reviews. I just searched for customer reviews of local produce and farmer's markets, and most of the front page links were to TripAdvisor with a few also to Yelp. So, here's what Amazon could do...
Free listings for non-taxable food where the delivery method is customer pick-up in a store smaller than 5000 sq ft, provided that the vendor sells at the advertised price, giving customers who bring an "I saw it on Amazon" QR code generated by the product page a 5% discount, and the code verification gives Amazon a report of those sales (which can allow the customer a "verified purchase" notation if they review the product). Vendors who rack up lots of sales with positive reviews are targets for deals that make their product carried by the nearest Whole Foods.
Local produce vendors get visibility.
Amazon gets leads for popular local products to carry in their stores and gets to condition shoppers to check their site when looking for tasty local food.
Customers get to learn where to obtain tasty locally produced food via an easy search, with reviews from other customers.
When I see the open vehicle in the photo, what immediately comes to mind is someone removing everyone's groceries, filling the space up with all their trash, and sending the vehicle on its way. Possibly first they might have to register a bogus account at a real address.
I imagine a more realistic delivery vehicle would, on scanning the proper QR code for the order that corresponds to the delivery address, excrete filled bags of groceries. It could have an arm of hooks that lowers until it's not supporting any grocery weight and rotates to disengage the bags. Then, the vehicle drives from over the top of the delivery spot.
This is a good thing, and should be approved.
By the government, maybe - T-Mobile should approve it only so long as Masayoshi Son has nothing to do with the customer facing policies of the combined company.
So, is all that analysis why Pornhub downloads are so much slower than the ones from Xvideos, or is that a reaction to my script blocker?
When I was curious about how to let someone else make a call on my phone without giving them access to my address book, the suggestion I found was that I make a separate user profile for guest use and have a password needed to switch back to my main one. Since multiple user profiles are possible, it wouldn't be that hard to make one called "ID" in addition to the guest one for letting a stranger make a call. Then the account with the ID doesn't share any of my other data, but I don't share my ID info with everyone who brings up my lock screen.
I wonder what percentage of battery could be saved launching from a steam catapult (something longer and with slightly less acceleration than the ones used in aircraft carriers).
My parents' Avalon will beep at you if the keys leave with the vehicle on, and start making more beeps if they stay gone for a while. It doesn't tell you why it's complaining, though.
I don't know if the reason is to permit convenience similar to my use, but I'd take advantage of this when driving my parents (in their car) to doctor visits a lot. They'd have the keys in their pocket/purse. I'd park the car after letting them out at the entrance.
Maybe the value of the car was to use it for getting to the location for committing an additional crime, and a stolen car was best for that.
Gif-Sorting.xxx Of the 5 gif-centric pages listed by "The Porn Dude," only PornHub seems to be making an effort to be friendly towards users publishing albums of collected images, and they only seem to allow customization of the membership of an album, not other aspects of its layout or appearance. So, there's probably a market for a porn tumblr replacement.
So, a corporation isn't self aware when it comes to criminal acts, but its free speech is protected when it comes to campaign contributions. I'd think any entity that needs the benefit of protected speech would have sufficient self awareness to desire to break the law, but I suppose sufficient self awareness to purchase politicians obviates any need for consistency.
Considering that Backyard started in California, perhaps they could design houses that are less vulnerable to fire. People whose houses were burned in the recent fires could benefit from replacement dwellings that are done better than cheap wood frame.
The last time I was in Costa Rica, lots of the streets didn't have names. Directions were like "the red house a couple kilometers NorthEast of the big mall." I reckon many other places don't name all the streets also. It works fine if you're local. If I, a non local was being given directions to drive somewhere, the easy way would be to text me a QR that my phone translates to a dot on a map and then generates a route. If I'm in a place that names all the streets, I could type in a street address I'm never going to remember. It's just more time consuming.
In a lot of places in the world, there is no existing method for having addresses. Many people aren't interested. For example: Costa Rica Street Signs and Addresses. “ We don’t need no stinking street sign!”
Personally, I'd think it might be just as well to incorporate high resolution Lat-Lon coordinates into a QR splotch and let local software on a smartphone find the route. Addresses with words are designed for people to learn them, but people don't learn them. We use address books.