I can see it now. An advanced civilization finds the key disks, spends months learning the technology, builds special equipment and tools to decode the disks only to find.... cat videos.
I think this scenario is even more likely:
"builds special equipment and tools to decode the disks only to find.... Rick Astley videos."
It's not twice the fuel. It takes most of the fuel to get to speed. At that point the booster is SIGNIFICANTLY lighter, so it takes (again with that word) SIGNIFICANTLY LESS fuel to slow down, and then to land.
True.
However, you still have to remember that most of the fuel is used to lift the weight of the fuel.
Take the weight of the fuel required for the landing (plus the weight of the part of the rocket that contains that fuel that had to be added).
Now figure out how much additional fuel will be required to lift that. How much will the additional fuel (and additional rocket weight to contain the additional fuel) weigh? How much additional fuel will be required for that? And so on? And so on? It adds up.
Nine governments in agreement sounds like an unlikely scenario regardless what the topic is.
Except where there is something in it for them. Like when they say if you agree to open the door when I want something, then I will open the door when you want something. Maybe we just all agree to leave the door open all the time for convenience.
I imagined it as a kid on pretty much every long drive I ever went on. Though I had at that time envisioned it as a RC craft with video feedback as opposed to a drone. At that time, as a passenger bored out of my mind, I would not have wanted a computer flying it anyway. I wanted to fly it.
Ethernet over AC anyone, should be good enough for a frig. I did have a 900MHz spread-spectrum phone set that had a range of about 800m after going through a brick veneered cinder block wall, so it looks like this HaLow technology will allow me to have WiFi out to the garage and barn.
Or, for everyone in the neighborhood to connect to your IoT devices.
The lower data rate should be fine for most IoT devices (except perhaps, ones streaming video of your home over the net), but the range being longer seems more like a bad thing than a good thing.
They already do this by offering totally meaningless descriptions. Reading descriptions does no good when they contain no actual information.
Almost every one I have ever read said something like "A security issue has been identified that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it."
Nothing new. Just now Microsoft is the attacker who intends to gain complete control of your computer.
If they all stop for a pedestrian in the way, then it will be trivial for criminals to stop any car they want for any reason. Just stand in front of it.
I can only see it as blue, period. Not trolling - I really cannot see this as white in any circumstances, even the XKCD "color balanced" bit I still see it as blue (albeit a much lighter blue on the left).
When I looked at the image, I saw a bluish and brownish dress.
In the XKCD image, I can say that they are both blue in color, with the dark room one being lighter blue in appearance to my eye, yet I know my interpretation would be more that it was in fact a white dress in a darkly lit area.
I have sunglasses that are brown tinted, and technically everything I see with them on has a brown tint to it, yet I know my brain is ignoring this (unless I am really thinking about it) and perceiving the colors for what I know they are. Your brain does an incredible amount of processing and interpretation of the things you see.
On reviewing the image again, I can see the over exposed background which does suggest the exposure of the dress itself is darkened, and therefore is white, or at least much lighter than it appears in the image.
What you need to do is pay attention to who is in charge of this, and find ways to boycott any products they have anything to do with in the future. Especially the bastards who were involved in the marketing.
Yeah! Let's make sure we punish people for the rest of their lives! Damn them for not providing me with my exact requirements!
The internet has turned into somewhere we can destroy people. It's ugly.
While I agree some things get out of hand, and vigilantism is often not a very good thing, are you suggesting that it is okay for them to screw people over, change to a new company and then do it again, and again?
Telling people they will get what they want if they give them the money, taking the money, then turning around and not giving them what they want is not okay. And if the company folds because of it, and the people move on and start a new company, it should not be okay to do it all over again.
And since you basically agreed to be an investor in the venture (that's why you get a "reward", not a "purchase"), do you know what you can do about that in most cases? Jack and shit.
They should offer this to the user as an option, where the user has to pay less when tracking is enabled. Otherwise this is abuse of market power to make users agree to being tracked.
Except it will be the other way around. Pay more to not be tracked.
Based on what we know about simulators, they are inherently slower and smaller in scope than the system they run on. You're never going to have a virtual machine that is more powerful than the metal that it runs on. Similarly, you're probably not going to have a simulated universe be more powerful than the universe that is hosting the simulated universe.
I don't think that is necessarily true. You just can't simulate something more powerful in real time. Maybe the simulation takes an day in the simulator's universe to "render" one second in our universe (or any other ratio, it's just an example). To the people in the simulation, everything seems "real-time" from their point of view. We have no way to know how long the hardware in the "real" universe takes to run our simulation.
I'm sure new CPU designs that are more powerful can still be simulated on older CPU designs. Again, the simulation may run a lot slower.
Free touchscreens is not the answer. My new laptop has a touch screen and the first thing I did was disable it. I have no desire to try to operate my laptop by holding my arm up all the time touching stuff on the screen. I hated it doing things when I reach up and flick a piece of dust off the screen. There was a virtual keyboard on the task bar that is very difficult to make go away. Why would anyone want to type on the screen when there is a keyboard on the laptop?
If you want to start putting inappropriate user interfaces into things, then try a keyboard in your car to drive with.
They studied hard and ensured they fully understood every aspect of basic satellite lunch systems domestically before moving to the next stage.
I can imagine an Indian scientist thinking "Hmmm... what do satellites like to eat for lunch, and what type of system can we build to feed it to them?"
Or just switch to Open Office or other derivatives.
That is exactly what I did. Unfortunately every once in a while one of my colleagues will send me a document (usually a power point presentation) that won't open in anything other than the newest version of office.
Just tell them "I'm sorry, but your file is in a non-standard format and I can't open it."
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Indeed, in the recent hit movie, "The Martian," Matt Damon's character grew potatoes to survive long enough to be rescued.
So, umm, I guess that means that we have already proved it can be done????
No problem. 0000. Nope. 0001. Nope. 0002. Nope...
That's why 9999 is always the best PIN.
I can see it now. An advanced civilization finds the key disks, spends months learning the technology, builds special equipment and tools to decode the disks only to find.... cat videos.
I think this scenario is even more likely:
"builds special equipment and tools to decode the disks only to find.... Rick Astley videos."
It's not twice the fuel. It takes most of the fuel to get to speed. At that point the booster is SIGNIFICANTLY lighter, so it takes (again with that word) SIGNIFICANTLY LESS fuel to slow down, and then to land.
True.
However, you still have to remember that most of the fuel is used to lift the weight of the fuel.
Take the weight of the fuel required for the landing (plus the weight of the part of the rocket that contains that fuel that had to be added).
Now figure out how much additional fuel will be required to lift that. How much will the additional fuel (and additional rocket weight to contain the additional fuel) weigh? How much additional fuel will be required for that? And so on? And so on? It adds up.
Nine governments in agreement sounds like an unlikely scenario regardless what the topic is.
Except where there is something in it for them. Like when they say if you agree to open the door when I want something, then I will open the door when you want something. Maybe we just all agree to leave the door open all the time for convenience.
I imagined it as a kid on pretty much every long drive I ever went on. Though I had at that time envisioned it as a RC craft with video feedback as opposed to a drone. At that time, as a passenger bored out of my mind, I would not have wanted a computer flying it anyway. I wanted to fly it.
Can't wait for the first ransomware. "Please pay X if you wish to drive to work this morning"
"Please pay X if you wish the brakes to resume functioning. Otherwise, brake and acceleration control will not be available to the user."
Ethernet over AC anyone, should be good enough for a frig. I did have a 900MHz spread-spectrum phone set that had a range of about 800m after going through a brick veneered cinder block wall, so it looks like this HaLow technology will allow me to have WiFi out to the garage and barn.
Or, for everyone in the neighborhood to connect to your IoT devices. The lower data rate should be fine for most IoT devices (except perhaps, ones streaming video of your home over the net), but the range being longer seems more like a bad thing than a good thing.
The real WTF is that you can possibly run up a bill that large in just 6 days with a free to pay game.
$5,900 bill / 65 in-app purchases
Sounds like an average of around $90 per purchase. That is the real WTF!
They already do this by offering totally meaningless descriptions. Reading descriptions does no good when they contain no actual information.
Almost every one I have ever read said something like "A security issue has been identified that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise your system and gain control over it."
Nothing new. Just now Microsoft is the attacker who intends to gain complete control of your computer.
Issue them a smartphone and a Facebook account when they enter the country. Problem solved.
If they all stop for a pedestrian in the way, then it will be trivial for criminals to stop any car they want for any reason. Just stand in front of it.
The company proposes to launch payloads into low Earth orbit on beams of microwaves.
And fresh popcorn will be served when you get to obit.
What the hell is with the stupid share thing? When I point at it, it looks like they are trying to tweet "F-ing"!
I can only see it as blue, period. Not trolling - I really cannot see this as white in any circumstances, even the XKCD "color balanced" bit I still see it as blue (albeit a much lighter blue on the left).
When I looked at the image, I saw a bluish and brownish dress.
In the XKCD image, I can say that they are both blue in color, with the dark room one being lighter blue in appearance to my eye, yet I know my interpretation would be more that it was in fact a white dress in a darkly lit area.
I have sunglasses that are brown tinted, and technically everything I see with them on has a brown tint to it, yet I know my brain is ignoring this (unless I am really thinking about it) and perceiving the colors for what I know they are. Your brain does an incredible amount of processing and interpretation of the things you see.
On reviewing the image again, I can see the over exposed background which does suggest the exposure of the dress itself is darkened, and therefore is white, or at least much lighter than it appears in the image.
I am reminded of this as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion
Ubisoft - Buyer beware.
Sure, video playback and gaming are some key exceptions
Well, with all the tards with VVS, I suppose even video is not always an exception either.
Vertical Video Syndrome - A PSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You're not shooting that right dummy!
Frontier is going to fold, and you know it.
What you need to do is pay attention to who is in charge of this, and find ways to boycott any products they have anything to do with in the future. Especially the bastards who were involved in the marketing.
Yeah! Let's make sure we punish people for the rest of their lives! Damn them for not providing me with my exact requirements!
The internet has turned into somewhere we can destroy people. It's ugly.
While I agree some things get out of hand, and vigilantism is often not a very good thing, are you suggesting that it is okay for them to screw people over, change to a new company and then do it again, and again? Telling people they will get what they want if they give them the money, taking the money, then turning around and not giving them what they want is not okay. And if the company folds because of it, and the people move on and start a new company, it should not be okay to do it all over again.
And since you basically agreed to be an investor in the venture (that's why you get a "reward", not a "purchase"), do you know what you can do about that in most cases? Jack and shit.
And Jack left town.
They should offer this to the user as an option, where the user has to pay less when tracking is enabled. Otherwise this is abuse of market power to make users agree to being tracked.
Except it will be the other way around. Pay more to not be tracked.
Based on what we know about simulators, they are inherently slower and smaller in scope than the system they run on. You're never going to have a virtual machine that is more powerful than the metal that it runs on. Similarly, you're probably not going to have a simulated universe be more powerful than the universe that is hosting the simulated universe.
I don't think that is necessarily true. You just can't simulate something more powerful in real time. Maybe the simulation takes an day in the simulator's universe to "render" one second in our universe (or any other ratio, it's just an example). To the people in the simulation, everything seems "real-time" from their point of view. We have no way to know how long the hardware in the "real" universe takes to run our simulation.
I'm sure new CPU designs that are more powerful can still be simulated on older CPU designs. Again, the simulation may run a lot slower.
Free touchscreens is not the answer. My new laptop has a touch screen and the first thing I did was disable it. I have no desire to try to operate my laptop by holding my arm up all the time touching stuff on the screen. I hated it doing things when I reach up and flick a piece of dust off the screen. There was a virtual keyboard on the task bar that is very difficult to make go away. Why would anyone want to type on the screen when there is a keyboard on the laptop? If you want to start putting inappropriate user interfaces into things, then try a keyboard in your car to drive with.
Who sold the fuel to the people driving the Volkswagen? Clearly without fuel they could not have completed the crime using the Volkswagen.
They studied hard and ensured they fully understood every aspect of basic satellite lunch systems domestically before moving to the next stage.
I can imagine an Indian scientist thinking "Hmmm... what do satellites like to eat for lunch, and what type of system can we build to feed it to them?"
Or just switch to Open Office or other derivatives.
That is exactly what I did. Unfortunately every once in a while one of my colleagues will send me a document (usually a power point presentation) that won't open in anything other than the newest version of office.
Just tell them "I'm sorry, but your file is in a non-standard format and I can't open it."