Do I fail the fanboy test here or does that not make any sense?
2011-2012 was the last time you could upgrade the RAM and SATA drive yourself. Late-2011 might imply he's using the 17" version, which was discontinued in mid-2012 without a refresh, when the Retina series was announced. They're still nice; I'm using one right now. One more refresh and it would have had USB 3.0. The only way a 17" can get USB 3.0 is with an ExpressCard, and the card needs an external power supply to get 500ma out of a port to power an external drive. (I suppose a Thunderbolt-to-USB 3.0 interface is possible, but it would also need external power.)
Apple learned a long time ago to wait until the battery discharges below 95% before charging again. That last 5% is really hard on Li-ion batteries. I know this because I had a "Pismo" Powerbook back in 2000-2001 and the battery died after just a year of use, probably because I kept sleeping it, then plugging it in. (It didn't help that I ran OS X beta on it, which didn't sleep everything properly.) A couple of years later they added the 95% recharge threshold.
I see this behavior all the time on my current MacBook Pro. The battery is still good over five years later. (The cycle count in its stats is only 76!)
And that is exactly the one thing that a moon base will be good for. It won't be good as a "stepping stone to Mars", because it's still in a gravity well. It won't be good as practice for living on Mars, because it's a quite different environment (vacuum and nasty dust vs thin atmosphere and nasty phosphates; the only common part is habitats and radiation shielding).
We need to go there to see what is up there, other than basalt regolith, that would be worth sending more people to bring it back. Even (as that article says) meteorites lying around could be worth the effort.
As for Helium-3, it's just a meme that lets you know who the space nutters are. We don't even have fusion working yet, and 3He is a second-tier fuel that we wouldn't be able to use for years after we do get fusion working.
That's something only Congress can do, and as we all know, they are the opposite of Progress. They are the real problem with NASA funding. All the President can do is provide a goal so that Congress can fight over which districts get the pork that makes the goal happen.
At some point we're going to solve obesity and at that point we're going to see a big jump in longevity.
Maybe in average lifespan, but age 114 seems to be a point after which the human body really starts to fail. And this is apparently related to the balance between the body being able to heal itself vs cells going cancerous.
in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Etching it on the CPU die, or even "it's in the binary somewhere!" is specifically not good enough. The ME's use of Minix being a surprise to everyone indicates that they in fact did not follow this term of the license.
This. Besides, "the wall" should work rather like vaccine immunity. Holes don't matter so much as minimizing them. The fewer places there are to cross illegally, the easier it is to patrol them.
The last ep of Orville did the same thing. Break for commercial, show a block of ads, show 3-4 minutes of show, and another block of ads.
It's more complicated than that. I know, because I cut the commercials manually in MythTV from a lot of shows so I can do a lossless re-encode that saves as much as 20%, counting the extra minute I need on each side for the current trend of no commercials between shows. That's around a gigabyte per half hour of just commercials at HD OTA bit rates.
Last week's episode timing was weird enough for me to notice. They had a loooooong run of show, then a block of ads, then a short run of show only as long as the ad block, then more ads. The last segment of show was also unusually long. But the total amount of commercials was normal. I have seen people say that Orville is trying to emulate the odd commercial break timing of ST:TNG.
I only have "cable" (actually Uverse TV) part of the year to get certain sports (not NFL, FWIW) for my elderly mother to watch. I otherwise stick to OTA ATSC on my MythTV. One of the local OTA sub-channels (on the ION station) is qubo, but it's on an upper tier to receive over pay TV, and I couldn't receive it that way if I wanted without paying more money.
Cable TV was originally about receiving TV in mountainous areas where a normal antenna wouldn't work; now it has become the no-brain option for five hundred channels of crap you don't watch so that you can pay a hundred bucks a month for the five you do watch.
What is "Essential"? I have never heard of this company before, and I have no idea what kind of relationship it would have with Google. Just because it's familiar to the submitter doesn't mean the rest of Slashdot has any clue about it!
October 1979, spend half an hour trying to figure out how to answer "Memory Size?", as it was (IIRC) not in the instruction manual(s). Went Mac in 1985, after a short side-trip through CoCo land to play with 6809 code.
I smugly know that I'm not vulnerable to this because I normally run 10.9. The highest I have is a Mac Mini that came with 10.12 installed, and once I "jail broke" that one, there was no reason to downgrade. I wish companies would quit trying to "re-imagine" operating systems all the time. And quit trying to make "pro" hardware "thin" (or round) for no good reason.
I was sad that nobody ever got him to do a parody of Forbidden Planet using his "Naked Gun" acting style. They could have called it a silly name like "Prohibited Planet", and it would have been an instant cult classic.
The ideal size of stone for making pavement was described by MacAdam as being "small enough to fit into a child's mouth". So that's some of what the children in the hard labour yard of the workhouse were doing.
Oh, you were talking about the "legacy" signal on older transmitters. This is going to be really shitty when it happens. ATSC hasn't even been officially up for 10 years yet, and they're already planning a completely incompatible upgrade, with the only bone thrown to the previous system being lumping a bunch of signals onto a single transmitter that could barely handle five reduced resolution channels?
This isn't exactly the UK 405-line standard here, it's the super-duper replacement for an analog system that lasted over 60 years, with backward-compatible color video and stereo audio, that they went to a lot of trouble to switch over from.
Ultimately, it has been decided that H.264 would not be considered for ATSC-3.0, but rather the newer MPEG-H HEVC / H.265 codec would be used instead, with OFDM instead of 8VSB for modulation, allowing for 28 Mbit/s to 36 Mbit/s or more of bandwidth on a single 6-MHz channel.
tl;dr: They finally really did it. Those maniacs! They blew it up! God damn them! God damn them all to hell!
I sure hope I'll be able to get tuner cards with Linux drivers for my MythTV.
You can then buy the limited-edition display card display case for the low, low price of $99.95.
I've got to admit, the first thing I thought was that this was rather silly. Then I thought it a bit and realized that the people with really pimped-out cases might be able to make it fit in to a theme... if the cool artwork doesn't get hidden by the card in the next slot, that is.
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Needs beefy machine.
Runs 2011 MBP.
Do I fail the fanboy test here or does that not make any sense?
2011-2012 was the last time you could upgrade the RAM and SATA drive yourself. Late-2011 might imply he's using the 17" version, which was discontinued in mid-2012 without a refresh, when the Retina series was announced. They're still nice; I'm using one right now. One more refresh and it would have had USB 3.0. The only way a 17" can get USB 3.0 is with an ExpressCard, and the card needs an external power supply to get 500ma out of a port to power an external drive. (I suppose a Thunderbolt-to-USB 3.0 interface is possible, but it would also need external power.)
Apple learned a long time ago to wait until the battery discharges below 95% before charging again. That last 5% is really hard on Li-ion batteries. I know this because I had a "Pismo" Powerbook back in 2000-2001 and the battery died after just a year of use, probably because I kept sleeping it, then plugging it in. (It didn't help that I ran OS X beta on it, which didn't sleep everything properly.) A couple of years later they added the 95% recharge threshold.
I see this behavior all the time on my current MacBook Pro. The battery is still good over five years later. (The cycle count in its stats is only 76!)
And that is exactly the one thing that a moon base will be good for. It won't be good as a "stepping stone to Mars", because it's still in a gravity well. It won't be good as practice for living on Mars, because it's a quite different environment (vacuum and nasty dust vs thin atmosphere and nasty phosphates; the only common part is habitats and radiation shielding).
We need to go there to see what is up there, other than basalt regolith, that would be worth sending more people to bring it back. Even (as that article says) meteorites lying around could be worth the effort.
As for Helium-3, it's just a meme that lets you know who the space nutters are. We don't even have fusion working yet, and 3He is a second-tier fuel that we wouldn't be able to use for years after we do get fusion working.
stop signing directives and sign a check instead.
That's something only Congress can do, and as we all know, they are the opposite of Progress. They are the real problem with NASA funding. All the President can do is provide a goal so that Congress can fight over which districts get the pork that makes the goal happen.
At some point we're going to solve obesity and at that point we're going to see a big jump in longevity.
Maybe in average lifespan, but age 114 seems to be a point after which the human body really starts to fail. And this is apparently related to the balance between the body being able to heal itself vs cells going cancerous.
After logging in to the ME
Oh, you!
in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Etching it on the CPU die, or even "it's in the binary somewhere!" is specifically not good enough. The ME's use of Minix being a surprise to everyone indicates that they in fact did not follow this term of the license.
This. Besides, "the wall" should work rather like vaccine immunity. Holes don't matter so much as minimizing them. The fewer places there are to cross illegally, the easier it is to patrol them.
The last ep of Orville did the same thing. Break for commercial, show a block of ads, show 3-4 minutes of show, and another block of ads.
It's more complicated than that. I know, because I cut the commercials manually in MythTV from a lot of shows so I can do a lossless re-encode that saves as much as 20%, counting the extra minute I need on each side for the current trend of no commercials between shows. That's around a gigabyte per half hour of just commercials at HD OTA bit rates.
Last week's episode timing was weird enough for me to notice. They had a loooooong run of show, then a block of ads, then a short run of show only as long as the ad block, then more ads. The last segment of show was also unusually long. But the total amount of commercials was normal. I have seen people say that Orville is trying to emulate the odd commercial break timing of ST:TNG.
That was MPR, not NPR. Learn the difference, it could save your life!
And don't forget the super-plural, "all y'all".
I only have "cable" (actually Uverse TV) part of the year to get certain sports (not NFL, FWIW) for my elderly mother to watch. I otherwise stick to OTA ATSC on my MythTV. One of the local OTA sub-channels (on the ION station) is qubo, but it's on an upper tier to receive over pay TV, and I couldn't receive it that way if I wanted without paying more money.
Cable TV was originally about receiving TV in mountainous areas where a normal antenna wouldn't work; now it has become the no-brain option for five hundred channels of crap you don't watch so that you can pay a hundred bucks a month for the five you do watch.
It's not a collector item except maybe for someone who collects lame things.
And there aren't a lot of those kind of people in the collector market of absurdly popular things like Star Wars?
What is "Essential"? I have never heard of this company before, and I have no idea what kind of relationship it would have with Google. Just because it's familiar to the submitter doesn't mean the rest of Slashdot has any clue about it!
Also, ho hum, another domino falls.
October 1979, spend half an hour trying to figure out how to answer "Memory Size?", as it was (IIRC) not in the instruction manual(s). Went Mac in 1985, after a short side-trip through CoCo land to play with 6809 code.
I smugly know that I'm not vulnerable to this because I normally run 10.9. The highest I have is a Mac Mini that came with 10.12 installed, and once I "jail broke" that one, there was no reason to downgrade. I wish companies would quit trying to "re-imagine" operating systems all the time. And quit trying to make "pro" hardware "thin" (or round) for no good reason.
You're holding I.T wrong.
As a non-smoker, I find them just as annoying. And now it seems we're going to get more of them.
I was sad that nobody ever got him to do a parody of Forbidden Planet using his "Naked Gun" acting style. They could have called it a silly name like "Prohibited Planet", and it would have been an instant cult classic.
I think it might have been "aether quartz". That would even make some sense.
How long is that in parsecs? I want to figure out how many Kessel runs that is.
The ideal size of stone for making pavement was described by MacAdam as being "small enough to fit into a child's mouth". So that's some of what the children in the hard labour yard of the workhouse were doing.
Victorian-era quality control!
You think I actually clicked on the link from a Slashdot article? wow. Just wow.
Oh, you were talking about the "legacy" signal on older transmitters. This is going to be really shitty when it happens. ATSC hasn't even been officially up for 10 years yet, and they're already planning a completely incompatible upgrade, with the only bone thrown to the previous system being lumping a bunch of signals onto a single transmitter that could barely handle five reduced resolution channels?
This isn't exactly the UK 405-line standard here, it's the super-duper replacement for an analog system that lasted over 60 years, with backward-compatible color video and stereo audio, that they went to a lot of trouble to switch over from.
ATSC 3.0
Ultimately, it has been decided that H.264 would not be considered for ATSC-3.0, but rather the newer MPEG-H HEVC / H.265 codec would be used instead, with OFDM instead of 8VSB for modulation, allowing for 28 Mbit/s to 36 Mbit/s or more of bandwidth on a single 6-MHz channel.
tl;dr: They finally really did it. Those maniacs! They blew it up! God damn them! God damn them all to hell!
I sure hope I'll be able to get tuner cards with Linux drivers for my MythTV.
You can then buy the limited-edition display card display case for the low, low price of $99.95.
I've got to admit, the first thing I thought was that this was rather silly. Then I thought it a bit and realized that the people with really pimped-out cases might be able to make it fit in to a theme... if the cool artwork doesn't get hidden by the card in the next slot, that is.