When the name was first unveiled and someone pointed out that implied the ability to go to other stars, Musk replied that with some modifications, it could be a real starship. In practice though, there's no way a bell-nozzle methalox engine is going to be used to get to another star. Nuclear propulsion, or at least an aerospike engine, would be utilized. Or possibly a huge solar sail launched from Mercury. These technologies are close enough to being ready that they'd overtake a craft launched today using existing tech.
Musk tweeted: "Starhopper completed tethered hop. All systems green." suggesting the results were good. A decent quality video of the test fire can be seen here. The 'hop' is presumably mere inches, as the tether has essentially no slack.
This is the first known vertical test-fire of the Raptor engine, the first engine firing at the Boca Chica facility, and AFAIK the first time a full-flow rocket engine has been test-fired while attached to a rocket of any sort.
Great progress all around.
Given the orbital hopper is planned to complete construction in June, it's likely the current one will complete its hops by then, suggesting frequent tests rather than the ~40 days inbetween tests of the original Grasshopper.
This is like Congress grilling baseball players about doping. It's all about conspicuously appearing to be doing stuff that matters to the average voter. Ideally, stuff that's easy. I imagine the current DOJ has no love for Hollywood right now, so it's something that doesn't agitate any donors of the current administration.
OTOH, a widely-available male pill could help in rebuilding trust between the sexes, which could lead to more long-term relationships and desire to have children. Wouldn't you feel more comfortable raising children with a woman who you don't think wants to entrap you? "Just get pregnant" needs to go the way of "Just get her drunk", and for the same reason.
Believe it or not, there are still travel agencies you can walk into, talk to a travel agent, and book a flight/hotel/car rental through. Crazy, right? Turns out there are a shitton of well-off baby boomers who don't prefer websites over "the old way", and the associated businesses will remain in business until they change their mind, or more likely, die out.
People here say "what happens when the elite no longer need the little people" but they're thinking small. What happens when the machines no longer need the elite people?
We're going to end up the live-action equivalent of Youtube cat videos, existing for the enjoyment of robots.
The contract further held that if Bezos or I were ever in our lives to "state, suggest or allude to" anything contrary to what AMI wanted said about electronic eavesdropping and hacking, then they could publish the embarrassing photos.
During a college presentation, a classmate included a screenshot of their Windows desktop in one of their Powerpoint slides or whatever. The window only covered part of the screen, so there was a folder on the desktop, clearly visible, labelled 'Tranny Vids'. I did my own presentation and a dorm-mate kept laughing whenever I went to a new slide. I asked him later if I left behind any easter eggs, and he said "on every slide!" Doh.
Luckily Valve already has a solution to that. When the Vive first came out, they pushed dynamic rendering resolution so that it'd lower the output resolution on the fly according to how much time it was taking to render. It would be at full resolution if the hardware was able to support it that frame. Valve even open-sourced the code to do this, and again encouraged people to use it. AFAIK few VR apps actually use dynamic resolution, despite this. If a commonplace next-gen VR headset were high enough resolution/refresh rate that doing this was finally made mandatory, then the programmers might get around to actually doing it.
'Index' sure is a geeky name for a VR headset. As in 'index of refraction' perhaps? I can see the marketing now: "Index: find your place in the virtual world." Many headsets have an exploration naming scheme: rift, cosmos, odyssey, quest, (re)vive. Some are on the more technical side: gear, focus, reverb, 5k+.
This will almost certainly be targeted at VR enthusiasts. The text "Upgrade your experience" presumes a target audience who already owns a VR headset, and also throws shade on the Rift S' incremental improvements. That the Rift S was announced only a week ago suggests this announcement is a reaction to that; the camera angle focusing on the hardware IPD adjuster again throws shade on the Rift S for its lack of hardware IPD adjustment. The text implies this will be a substantial upgrade, although I wonder how it'll compare to the Pimax 5k+.
The RoadToVR article is more confident in saying that the 'mysterious dots' are definitely standard SteamVR tracking dots, and that the cameras have a good chance of being for passthrough video or hand tracking. In my opinion, their positioning and angles suggest they would give very poor coverage for inside-out tracking; the lenses are also larger than necessary for that, and would only be that large if a human would be seeing those images. They could be used for hand tracking in addition to passthrough video, I suppose.
This headset will almost certainly come with/alongside the Knuckles controllers, which have been more or less consumer-ready for months, apparently waiting for something else's completion before coming to market. I believe these controllers will be a turning point for VR, and will probably buy in to whatever headset they come with. I am kinda curious about the Vive Cosmos, though, since almost nothing is known about that either (except its controllers will look like the Oculus controllers, and it has a normal ~110degree FOV with fresnel lenses.)
I've heard years ago of a disorder that causes people to be unable to feel pain. Often times they end up at a hospital due to chewing their tongues off while eating steak, or burning themselves on a hot surface as a child. Don't recall the name/cause of the disorder, perhaps this simply identified the cause of it.
Some people espouse flat-earth ideas because they want attention from others intent to debunk them. They may be completely aware that what they're saying is bullshit but not care, yet convince others because people are paying attention to what they say. If people started ignoring flat-earthers, some of the major voices would go away due to lack of attention. It's similar sociological effects as a consensus voting system.
There's enough alternative-health machinery set up that it'll be very difficult to tear down the anti-vaxx structures.
With biometric authentication, you are only protected by the 4th amendment. Your finger/face/etc. are akin to a key, and a warrant can compel you to unlock the device with it.
With a password, it can be argued that divulging it would constitute self-incrimination, which keeps you protected by the 5th amendment as well, even if they get a warrant. Case law is unclear on the matter, at least, with contradictory rulings.
This is true in the USA at least. UK has a law that mandates divulging passwords, although I don't recall hearing about it being used much.
Exactly. The MSM rhetoric is perfectly calibrated to be soft enough to prevent activism or rioting, yet hard enough to ensure the people stay divided and easy to manipulate in their voting patterns. Someone once said here that the Democratic and Republican parties are just taking turns raping the USA, and I posit that that's an intentionally worked-out agreement rather than an accident. Notice, for example, how few laws get rolled back once the other party is in power, even controversial ones whose rollback is a plank of someone's campaign.
The above is US-centric because that's what I know, although I also know the BBC's "exactly two sides to an issue" tendency helps enforce that.
Eggs come in different sizes: regular, large, and jumbo. A large size egg has ~186mg cholesterol. A regular egg would have less, thus 3 or 4 equaling ~300mg.
Of course "unreliable socially significant information" is so nebulous it could refer to any information. 'Unreliable' doesn't even mean the same thing as 'false', it could just meant questionable or controvertible. I expect this to be heavily subject to selective enforcement, so those who make any inconvenient statements can be fined a year's wages to be made an example of. From what I can find, median per-capita income in Russia is ~$6,500/year. Interestingly, their PCI peaked at ~$9,700/yr in 2013, right before the annexation of Crimea and the associated sanctions. I bet the people aren't very happy their income has dropped by a third in the past 6 years.
Notice that people have been moving away from phone calls and email for years now. Robocalls/spam are a large part of the reason why. If those old systems aren't capable of stopping the crapflood, then people will move to systems that are.
Realistically we'll have self-driving ground cars long before self-driving flying cars would happen. Rules of the road and concerns with ground driving are well-understood, and it's simply a matter of coding all that in. With flying cars, there are concerns that haven't been considered yet and won't be until there's a tragedy that involves multiple deaths and a huge lawsuit that shuts down the entire program. For example, if one flies into a building because its building sensor doesn't work with all-glass exteriors. Ground cars only have to follow the road and they automatically avoid driving into buildings; flying cars have no such luxury.
Once we have self-driving ground cars, traffic will start to clear up and be more tolerable besides, which will eliminate the benefits of flying cars.
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When the name was first unveiled and someone pointed out that implied the ability to go to other stars, Musk replied that with some modifications, it could be a real starship.
In practice though, there's no way a bell-nozzle methalox engine is going to be used to get to another star. Nuclear propulsion, or at least an aerospike engine, would be utilized. Or possibly a huge solar sail launched from Mercury. These technologies are close enough to being ready that they'd overtake a craft launched today using existing tech.
Musk tweeted: "Starhopper completed tethered hop. All systems green." suggesting the results were good.
A decent quality video of the test fire can be seen here. The 'hop' is presumably mere inches, as the tether has essentially no slack.
This is the first known vertical test-fire of the Raptor engine, the first engine firing at the Boca Chica facility, and AFAIK the first time a full-flow rocket engine has been test-fired while attached to a rocket of any sort.
Great progress all around.
Given the orbital hopper is planned to complete construction in June, it's likely the current one will complete its hops by then, suggesting frequent tests rather than the ~40 days inbetween tests of the original Grasshopper.
This is like Congress grilling baseball players about doping. It's all about conspicuously appearing to be doing stuff that matters to the average voter. Ideally, stuff that's easy. I imagine the current DOJ has no love for Hollywood right now, so it's something that doesn't agitate any donors of the current administration.
OTOH, a widely-available male pill could help in rebuilding trust between the sexes, which could lead to more long-term relationships and desire to have children. Wouldn't you feel more comfortable raising children with a woman who you don't think wants to entrap you? "Just get pregnant" needs to go the way of "Just get her drunk", and for the same reason.
The robots are coming no matter what, FWIW.
Believe it or not, there are still travel agencies you can walk into, talk to a travel agent, and book a flight/hotel/car rental through. Crazy, right?
Turns out there are a shitton of well-off baby boomers who don't prefer websites over "the old way", and the associated businesses will remain in business until they change their mind, or more likely, die out.
Seems you need to 'read between the lines'.
His point was that some businesses can't, and don't deserve to, survive in certain situations.
NO.
People here say "what happens when the elite no longer need the little people" but they're thinking small.
What happens when the machines no longer need the elite people?
We're going to end up the live-action equivalent of Youtube cat videos, existing for the enjoyment of robots.
It can be noticeable, particularly for text. There's probably a way to keep the text rendering at full resolution, though.
The contract further held that if Bezos or I were ever in our lives to "state, suggest or allude to" anything contrary to what AMI wanted said about electronic eavesdropping and hacking, then they could publish the embarrassing photos.
I Can't Believe It's Not Blackmail(TM)!
During a college presentation, a classmate included a screenshot of their Windows desktop in one of their Powerpoint slides or whatever. The window only covered part of the screen, so there was a folder on the desktop, clearly visible, labelled 'Tranny Vids'.
I did my own presentation and a dorm-mate kept laughing whenever I went to a new slide. I asked him later if I left behind any easter eggs, and he said "on every slide!"
Doh.
He might not know how to disable safesearch. In related news, he has to ask children to open bottles of pills for him, too.
Luckily Valve already has a solution to that. When the Vive first came out, they pushed dynamic rendering resolution so that it'd lower the output resolution on the fly according to how much time it was taking to render. It would be at full resolution if the hardware was able to support it that frame. Valve even open-sourced the code to do this, and again encouraged people to use it. AFAIK few VR apps actually use dynamic resolution, despite this.
If a commonplace next-gen VR headset were high enough resolution/refresh rate that doing this was finally made mandatory, then the programmers might get around to actually doing it.
'Index' sure is a geeky name for a VR headset. As in 'index of refraction' perhaps? I can see the marketing now: "Index: find your place in the virtual world."
Many headsets have an exploration naming scheme: rift, cosmos, odyssey, quest, (re)vive. Some are on the more technical side: gear, focus, reverb, 5k+.
This will almost certainly be targeted at VR enthusiasts. The text "Upgrade your experience" presumes a target audience who already owns a VR headset, and also throws shade on the Rift S' incremental improvements. That the Rift S was announced only a week ago suggests this announcement is a reaction to that; the camera angle focusing on the hardware IPD adjuster again throws shade on the Rift S for its lack of hardware IPD adjustment. The text implies this will be a substantial upgrade, although I wonder how it'll compare to the Pimax 5k+.
The RoadToVR article is more confident in saying that the 'mysterious dots' are definitely standard SteamVR tracking dots, and that the cameras have a good chance of being for passthrough video or hand tracking. In my opinion, their positioning and angles suggest they would give very poor coverage for inside-out tracking; the lenses are also larger than necessary for that, and would only be that large if a human would be seeing those images. They could be used for hand tracking in addition to passthrough video, I suppose.
This headset will almost certainly come with/alongside the Knuckles controllers, which have been more or less consumer-ready for months, apparently waiting for something else's completion before coming to market. I believe these controllers will be a turning point for VR, and will probably buy in to whatever headset they come with. I am kinda curious about the Vive Cosmos, though, since almost nothing is known about that either (except its controllers will look like the Oculus controllers, and it has a normal ~110degree FOV with fresnel lenses.)
I've heard years ago of a disorder that causes people to be unable to feel pain. Often times they end up at a hospital due to chewing their tongues off while eating steak, or burning themselves on a hot surface as a child. Don't recall the name/cause of the disorder, perhaps this simply identified the cause of it.
Some people espouse flat-earth ideas because they want attention from others intent to debunk them. They may be completely aware that what they're saying is bullshit but not care, yet convince others because people are paying attention to what they say. If people started ignoring flat-earthers, some of the major voices would go away due to lack of attention. It's similar sociological effects as a consensus voting system.
There's enough alternative-health machinery set up that it'll be very difficult to tear down the anti-vaxx structures.
With biometric authentication, you are only protected by the 4th amendment. Your finger/face/etc. are akin to a key, and a warrant can compel you to unlock the device with it.
With a password, it can be argued that divulging it would constitute self-incrimination, which keeps you protected by the 5th amendment as well, even if they get a warrant. Case law is unclear on the matter, at least, with contradictory rulings.
This is true in the USA at least. UK has a law that mandates divulging passwords, although I don't recall hearing about it being used much.
What I'd REALLY like is for MS to open-source Notepad. That's in more dire need of new features than the (now quite decent) Calculator app is.
Exactly. The MSM rhetoric is perfectly calibrated to be soft enough to prevent activism or rioting, yet hard enough to ensure the people stay divided and easy to manipulate in their voting patterns. Someone once said here that the Democratic and Republican parties are just taking turns raping the USA, and I posit that that's an intentionally worked-out agreement rather than an accident. Notice, for example, how few laws get rolled back once the other party is in power, even controversial ones whose rollback is a plank of someone's campaign.
The above is US-centric because that's what I know, although I also know the BBC's "exactly two sides to an issue" tendency helps enforce that.
The VI/VIM wars had their process terminated. Star Trek TAS master race! *sharp gurgling noise*
I'm assuming they meant 300mg per week and it was a typo.
Eggs come in different sizes: regular, large, and jumbo. A large size egg has ~186mg cholesterol. A regular egg would have less, thus 3 or 4 equaling ~300mg.
Scientists Continue Waffling on Eggs
Of course "unreliable socially significant information" is so nebulous it could refer to any information. 'Unreliable' doesn't even mean the same thing as 'false', it could just meant questionable or controvertible. I expect this to be heavily subject to selective enforcement, so those who make any inconvenient statements can be fined a year's wages to be made an example of. From what I can find, median per-capita income in Russia is ~$6,500/year. Interestingly, their PCI peaked at ~$9,700/yr in 2013, right before the annexation of Crimea and the associated sanctions. I bet the people aren't very happy their income has dropped by a third in the past 6 years.
Notice that people have been moving away from phone calls and email for years now. Robocalls/spam are a large part of the reason why. If those old systems aren't capable of stopping the crapflood, then people will move to systems that are.
Realistically we'll have self-driving ground cars long before self-driving flying cars would happen. Rules of the road and concerns with ground driving are well-understood, and it's simply a matter of coding all that in. With flying cars, there are concerns that haven't been considered yet and won't be until there's a tragedy that involves multiple deaths and a huge lawsuit that shuts down the entire program. For example, if one flies into a building because its building sensor doesn't work with all-glass exteriors. Ground cars only have to follow the road and they automatically avoid driving into buildings; flying cars have no such luxury.
Once we have self-driving ground cars, traffic will start to clear up and be more tolerable besides, which will eliminate the benefits of flying cars.