That mostly works outside China. My point being that Chinese spies steal tech and then hand it over to chinese companies to use without any care in it being patented or not.
All wishful thinking by an ignorant hater. You are perhaps confused by Microsoft serially abandoning the MP3 player and telephone markets with Zune and Windows mobile? Or is it the almost inexistent profits from Android tablets and generic MP3 players?
Apple continues to make money off of both the iPod and the tablet markets and will, as is their custom, update these markets so that they do not have to keep producing the older AXX CPUs in these devices and so they stay a generation or three behind the most recent iPhone CPUs. Ipod numbers are unknown but until 2017, Apple made more profit off of their iPads each year than Microsoft has ever made off of their surface tablet line.
The fastest way from A to B in Paris is not using public transport in Paris but is on two wheels which how I'm usually doing it almost year round: On a bicycle (public shared bikes or my own depending) for shorter trips and on my motorcycle for longer trips like to/from work which is usually on the other side of Paris from where I live. Except for special cases like A & B being on the same Metro line and close to the Metro exits, two wheels will be faster almost all the time (often 1/2 the time) and if A or B are outside Paris & you need to take a bus and or then walk for a while, 1/3 of the time. Now to be able to be so much faster than the Metro, buses or cars you will be lane splitting but that's allowed here and if done prudently & with experience is not dangereous.
Scooter (Mopeds for people in the US) sales in & around Paris have been skyrocketing for over a decade -- and not just 125cc models people can drive with their car drivers licenses or the 50cc models that you don't need a license for, more people pass the motorcycle license now intending to use a scooter than a motorcycle. Three wheeled scooters (look at Piaggio's main French web page: https://www.piaggio.com/fr_FR/) reassure those who are afraid of being unstable and (other than being more expensive) have pretty much the same advantages as two wheels.
However, the presentation is essentially how to sterilise surfaces, assemblies and instruments which seems poorly adapted to ensuring that a reconstituted biological insulator (crushed cork) which will end up degrading on Mars is as sterile as they claim. I may be off base but Nasa's proven tendency to absolve itself of inconvenient rules it wants others to apply now makes many doubt their application.
NASA likes to try to force requirements on others that they don't apply to themselves.
Commercial crew MUST have less than a failure rate of less than 1/270 (loss of Mission -- not necessarily loss of crew) but Shuttle could fly with an estimated chance of failure and crew loss almost 10 times worse.
CCS needs to have multiple test flights but SLS 1b will be deemed to be safe to put astronauts in on it's first flight (just like the Shuttle).
When Space-X was planning on sending a Dragon to Mars using Falcon Heavy, there were many cries from experts at Nasa that Space-X would be contaminating Mars with terrestrial microbes (leaving aside the fact that Space-X is planning on sending humans to Mars within 15 years if all goes well at which point it'll be a moot point).
I'd be interested in just what precautions NASA has taken to make sure that the crushed cork CANNOT have any microbes that could contaminate Mars. Or is this yet another case where Nasa won't apply it's rules to themselves...
Well, I believe that China will be protecting the intellectual property of _Chinese_ patents. They'll continue to force all the barbarians in the world (AKA non Chinese) to hand over their patents and industrial property as the price of having access to the Chinese market though.
Strawman. Nobody is asking for a shopping mall on top of Moana Kea.
Moana Kea is uniquely adapted for the TMT. That some groups who claim to be "green" have tried to block the TMT using every excuse they could thus clearly and fairly defines these groups as "Green anti-science".
I'm typing this on my 2018 touchbar rMBP, that replaced my 2012 rMBP used for 6 years and then sold off for more than many new PC's cost to defray part of the cost of my new Mac.
Re Dongles: Not a problem and indeed an advantage because I've been able to use multiple Gbit Ethernet interfaces where my PC colleagues needed to use multiple laptops for the same job. I've never lost a dongle even though my job takes me to different places/clients. As for connecting my iPhone, USB-C to lightning cables exist & tiny USB-Type 1 to USB-C adapters allow me to keep using my old cables.
Re GPU: So you're a gamer... I use my macs to work with, not for gaming. The graphics are more than fast enough for everything I need and being able to connect to two 4K displays with zero hassles is much much more than any of my PC colleagues can do.
Re Keyboard: After an adjustment period I now type faster on the new keyboard. Being able to adapt is an advantage.
Re Magsafe: Indeed a loss, but being able to charge from any of the for sockets now on both sides? Add to that being able to charge from PC USB-C chargers that are available now and that I can replace just the cable when, after years of use, it starts fraying instead of the whole magsafe adapter and it's a wash. Besides which Apple was the only company with a good magsafe connecter so turning to the dark side gives no advantage.
Re Macmini: Mine has 4 Cores... Perhaps you waited too long to buy yours? A refresh to go with my 6 core rMBP would be nice but I've no pressing need to change.
Re Function keys: People who say that the touchbar couldn't possibly be more useful than physical FN keys remind me of the Crackberry horde of yore. Funny how those able to adapt no longer pine for physcal keys. Being able to program the touch bar changed the one and only default: When I need FN keys I'll need an esc key more than most of the FN keys. Edit the Touchbar to remove unneeded FN keys and put ESC back on the left.
That leaves price. I'm able and willing to pay more for an environment where everything works well together. If you enjoy the hassles of jerry-rigging Android to Windows, go on and have your fun. I'll be working instead of faring off into figuring out why the phone isn't sharing the internet again.
Well, I still have principals whatever becomes of Assange.
Assange can avoid waiting in jail by promising to respect the judgement of the court system of that country and not flee from justice if those courts decide that he needs to face justice in Sweden for acts that constitute rape. Assange's forswearing and bail jumping doesn't affect my principals.
Assange can also take advantage of yet another credulous young girl by raping her while she is sleeping and that won't affect my principals either.
Assange can also accept money from Putin without that affecting my principals.
But don't try and claim that Assange has any principals in common with me. I've been paying attention to Assange's acts and the man clearly has no principals other than "worship me"
People should be able to trust that their device manufacturer will keep their phone safe. Apple is the only phone manufacturer (except maybe Google) that does this
Google helps people trust that their phone is safe? LOL!
Google's publishing "This minor security patch plugs bug X" means that blackhats can easily know that every Android version up to the unpatched version is vulnerable and we all know that Android's update model is a dogs breakfast, so broken that few phones will ever be updated to receive the patch. After a month what has been the average percentage of Android devices with up to date security patches? 2% 5%? A whopping 7%?
Google is working on improving the way patched percolate down to everyone's phones, but until the percentage of Android devices with up to date security patches start rivaling Apple's, Google ISN'T helping people trust that their phone is safe.
Should you wish to be known as someone who lies to himself and others, go right ahead.
I setup the firewalls for a major photo/video studio's different locations around Paris this year. Macs, PC's and iPad Pros were heavily used in production. Not a single Andoid tablet to be found.
For passport applications performed in person - change the passport application process so that the picture is taken by the passport delivering authorities - Similar pictures are taken when entering many countries like the U.S. and every European passport already has the passport authorities taking fingerprints.
For mailed in passport renewal applications, make doctoring the picture cause for revocation, force people to pick up their passports in person and only deliver them if the picture is a close match to the applicant and apply a temporary ban on re-applying for a new passport when people attempting to subvert the process are detected.
What? This is overly burdensome? Well subverting the utility of passports by doctoring the pictures has a cost too and it seems to me that making sure that MY right to travel isn't being called into question by these idiots is worth some bother.
Quite correct. These polarized glasses will do nothing for OLED screens like my TV nor for giant LED screens like Jumbotrons common in sports arenas and more and more common elsewhere as they don't use polarized light to turn pixels on/off.
You forgot to add that the studies must be peer reviewed and public.*
* So Samsung all the other Androids can profit from the research Apple does and not have to duplicate it (even if it's tongue in cheek studies like the ones you suggested).
Re: Planet X not clearing it's orbit disqualifying it:
Given that Brown-Batygin 2016 proposed planet is posited precisely because it has perturbed the orbits of ETNO's and Goblin is another addition to the list it looks like planet X _is_ clearing it's orbit, even if it may not have finished doing so. The IAU definition has some margin in it: Nobody is claiming that Earth should lose it's planetary status even though Rugyu & Earth cross orbits.
Looks like Bloomberg only believes their reporter's secret sources and refuses to believe Apple when they investigate when consulted for comments and refute repeatedly the allegations.
If Nasa+Congress really wanted to go to the Moon, they would send Space-X (and others like BO ou even ULA) a shopping list of objectives*, ask them how much it would cost, let them do the work & them pay them as objectives are realized.
Objectives are things like the CRS Contract, NOT pork festivals like SLS & Orion, or Nasa micromanaging Space-X like they have been doing on Crewed.
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That mostly works outside China. My point being that Chinese spies steal tech and then hand it over to chinese companies to use without any care in it being patented or not.
Does anyone really think that because IBM/Microsoft/... has patented something that that will stop anyone in _China_ from using/infringing it?
All wishful thinking by an ignorant hater. You are perhaps confused by Microsoft serially abandoning the MP3 player and telephone markets with Zune and Windows mobile? Or is it the almost inexistent profits from Android tablets and generic MP3 players?
Apple continues to make money off of both the iPod and the tablet markets and will, as is their custom, update these markets so that they do not have to keep producing the older AXX CPUs in these devices and so they stay a generation or three behind the most recent iPhone CPUs. Ipod numbers are unknown but until 2017, Apple made more profit off of their iPads each year than Microsoft has ever made off of their surface tablet line.
Further note to future historians: Yes, we thought that Impy was an idiot too...
The fastest way from A to B in Paris is not using public transport in Paris but is on two wheels which how I'm usually doing it almost year round: On a bicycle (public shared bikes or my own depending) for shorter trips and on my motorcycle for longer trips like to/from work which is usually on the other side of Paris from where I live. Except for special cases like A & B being on the same Metro line and close to the Metro exits, two wheels will be faster almost all the time (often 1/2 the time) and if A or B are outside Paris & you need to take a bus and or then walk for a while, 1/3 of the time. Now to be able to be so much faster than the Metro, buses or cars you will be lane splitting but that's allowed here and if done prudently & with experience is not dangereous.
Scooter (Mopeds for people in the US) sales in & around Paris have been skyrocketing for over a decade -- and not just 125cc models people can drive with their car drivers licenses or the 50cc models that you don't need a license for, more people pass the motorcycle license now intending to use a scooter than a motorcycle. Three wheeled scooters (look at Piaggio's main French web page: https://www.piaggio.com/fr_FR/) reassure those who are afraid of being unstable and (other than being more expensive) have pretty much the same advantages as two wheels.
All your base are belong to us.
Many thanks, very informative.
However, the presentation is essentially how to sterilise surfaces, assemblies and instruments which seems poorly adapted to ensuring that a reconstituted biological insulator (crushed cork) which will end up degrading on Mars is as sterile as they claim. I may be off base but Nasa's proven tendency to absolve itself of inconvenient rules it wants others to apply now makes many doubt their application.
NASA likes to try to force requirements on others that they don't apply to themselves.
Commercial crew MUST have less than a failure rate of less than 1/270 (loss of Mission -- not necessarily loss of crew) but Shuttle could fly with an estimated chance of failure and crew loss almost 10 times worse.
CCS needs to have multiple test flights but SLS 1b will be deemed to be safe to put astronauts in on it's first flight (just like the Shuttle).
When Space-X was planning on sending a Dragon to Mars using Falcon Heavy, there were many cries from experts at Nasa that Space-X would be contaminating Mars with terrestrial microbes (leaving aside the fact that Space-X is planning on sending humans to Mars within 15 years if all goes well at which point it'll be a moot point).
I'd be interested in just what precautions NASA has taken to make sure that the crushed cork CANNOT have any microbes that could contaminate Mars. Or is this yet another case where Nasa won't apply it's rules to themselves...
Well, I believe that China will be protecting the intellectual property of _Chinese_ patents. They'll continue to force all the barbarians in the world (AKA non Chinese) to hand over their patents and industrial property as the price of having access to the Chinese market though.
Strawman. Nobody is asking for a shopping mall on top of Moana Kea.
Moana Kea is uniquely adapted for the TMT. That some groups who claim to be "green" have tried to block the TMT using every excuse they could thus clearly and fairly defines these groups as "Green anti-science".
I'm typing this on my 2018 touchbar rMBP, that replaced my 2012 rMBP used for 6 years and then sold off for more than many new PC's cost to defray part of the cost of my new Mac.
Re Dongles: Not a problem and indeed an advantage because I've been able to use multiple Gbit Ethernet interfaces where my PC colleagues needed to use multiple laptops for the same job. I've never lost a dongle even though my job takes me to different places/clients. As for connecting my iPhone, USB-C to lightning cables exist & tiny USB-Type 1 to USB-C adapters allow me to keep using my old cables.
Re GPU: So you're a gamer... I use my macs to work with, not for gaming. The graphics are more than fast enough for everything I need and being able to connect to two 4K displays with zero hassles is much much more than any of my PC colleagues can do.
Re Keyboard: After an adjustment period I now type faster on the new keyboard. Being able to adapt is an advantage.
Re Magsafe: Indeed a loss, but being able to charge from any of the for sockets now on both sides? Add to that being able to charge from PC USB-C chargers that are available now and that I can replace just the cable when, after years of use, it starts fraying instead of the whole magsafe adapter and it's a wash. Besides which Apple was the only company with a good magsafe connecter so turning to the dark side gives no advantage.
Re Macmini: Mine has 4 Cores... Perhaps you waited too long to buy yours? A refresh to go with my 6 core rMBP would be nice but I've no pressing need to change.
Re Function keys: People who say that the touchbar couldn't possibly be more useful than physical FN keys remind me of the Crackberry horde of yore. Funny how those able to adapt no longer pine for physcal keys. Being able to program the touch bar changed the one and only default: When I need FN keys I'll need an esc key more than most of the FN keys. Edit the Touchbar to remove unneeded FN keys and put ESC back on the left.
That leaves price. I'm able and willing to pay more for an environment where everything works well together. If you enjoy the hassles of jerry-rigging Android to Windows, go on and have your fun. I'll be working instead of faring off into figuring out why the phone isn't sharing the internet again.
Looks like you need a much better microscope to be able to continue clutching those straws there buddy.
Well, I still have principals whatever becomes of Assange.
Assange can avoid waiting in jail by promising to respect the judgement of the court system of that country and not flee from justice if those courts decide that he needs to face justice in Sweden for acts that constitute rape. Assange's forswearing and bail jumping doesn't affect my principals.
Assange can also take advantage of yet another credulous young girl by raping her while she is sleeping and that won't affect my principals either.
Assange can also accept money from Putin without that affecting my principals.
But don't try and claim that Assange has any principals in common with me. I've been paying attention to Assange's acts and the man clearly has no principals other than "worship me"
People should be able to trust that their device manufacturer will keep their phone safe. Apple is the only phone manufacturer (except maybe Google) that does this
Google helps people trust that their phone is safe? LOL!
Google's publishing "This minor security patch plugs bug X" means that blackhats can easily know that every Android version up to the unpatched version is vulnerable and we all know that Android's update model is a dogs breakfast, so broken that few phones will ever be updated to receive the patch. After a month what has been the average percentage of Android devices with up to date security patches? 2% 5%? A whopping 7%?
Google is working on improving the way patched percolate down to everyone's phones, but until the percentage of Android devices with up to date security patches start rivaling Apple's, Google ISN'T helping people trust that their phone is safe.
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Also in the study is the following proof that the diminished diversity is solely imputable to Global Warming:
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Impressive, isn't it...
You're right. I Confused my foreign wife entering the U.S. (fingerprint & picture) with my French passport renewal.
Should you wish to be known as someone who lies to himself and others, go right ahead.
I setup the firewalls for a major photo/video studio's different locations around Paris this year. Macs, PC's and iPad Pros were heavily used in production. Not a single Andoid tablet to be found.
For passport applications performed in person - change the passport application process so that the picture is taken by the passport delivering authorities - Similar pictures are taken when entering many countries like the U.S. and every European passport already has the passport authorities taking fingerprints.
For mailed in passport renewal applications, make doctoring the picture cause for revocation, force people to pick up their passports in person and only deliver them if the picture is a close match to the applicant and apply a temporary ban on re-applying for a new passport when people attempting to subvert the process are detected.
What? This is overly burdensome? Well subverting the utility of passports by doctoring the pictures has a cost too and it seems to me that making sure that MY right to travel isn't being called into question by these idiots is worth some bother.
Quite correct. These polarized glasses will do nothing for OLED screens like my TV nor for giant LED screens like Jumbotrons common in sports arenas and more and more common elsewhere as they don't use polarized light to turn pixels on/off.
You forgot to add that the studies must be peer reviewed and public.*
* So Samsung all the other Androids can profit from the research Apple does and not have to duplicate it (even if it's tongue in cheek studies like the ones you suggested).
Re: Planet X not clearing it's orbit disqualifying it:
Given that Brown-Batygin 2016 proposed planet is posited precisely because it has perturbed the orbits of ETNO's and Goblin is another addition to the list it looks like planet X _is_ clearing it's orbit, even if it may not have finished doing so. The IAU definition has some margin in it: Nobody is claiming that Earth should lose it's planetary status even though Rugyu & Earth cross orbits.
See Apple's Statement here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
Looks like Bloomberg only believes their reporter's secret sources and refuses to believe Apple when they investigate when consulted for comments and refute repeatedly the allegations.
If Nasa+Congress really wanted to go to the Moon, they would send Space-X (and others like BO ou even ULA) a shopping list of objectives*, ask them how much it would cost, let them do the work & them pay them as objectives are realized.
Objectives are things like the CRS Contract, NOT pork festivals like SLS & Orion, or Nasa micromanaging Space-X like they have been doing on Crewed.
Both are massive enough to have reached hydrostatic equilibrium, which is the threshold any definition that would be adopted requires.
Reread RockDoctor's post. You snipped the following: "but not large enough to have dynamic dominance of their orbital regions."
Pluto fails.