If it weren't for that drive, we wouldn't bother to go at all. At this point, and for the next hundred years or more, we're going to do nothing more than a brief visit. But putting people on the surface - that's a Fuck Yeah! moment. People won't pay for robots, but they'd all chip in if some dude went and wrote his name in Martian sand in pee. *shrug*
BTW - I agree that robotic missions make much more sense.The manned program has always sucked NASA dry on a year to year basis, but if you ask the average person to name an astronaut and a robot mission to a planet, you'd better believe you'll get Neil Armstrong and a blank stare. (There's an outside chance you'll get Voyager, but my money is that half of them will call it Vygr)
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Now, to be fair, a step/1000mi:Mars/Stars is about an order of magnitude short. But there are several key hurdles to be overcome which will be much more appropriate to work out on the lunar surface or on the trip to and from Mars.
If they're unsafe it's too late now. Putting your passwords in a cloud service is like putting nude pictures online. Nobody may want to look at them, but they're out there forever, and somebody has them backed up somewhere.
It depends on whether they ever had the keys to unlock them or they were all locally encrypted (barring the whole "they lied and stored your password anyway" tin foil hat argument).
Yes and no. Sure, it could be lazy. OTOH, when your use case is eight million passengers every single day, there's a certain amount of redundancy to having the information with the passenger, rather than dependent on a network/data link. Four 9s uptime during flying hours still means over a thousand passenger cancellations every single day due to inaccessible data.
Go try rocketry as a hobby. Then come back and bitch.
We worked it out, though it took time - and we had to deal with BOTH the FAA and BATFE. Be an adult and work with the FAA to keep both drones and air traffic safe. Be lucky you don't have to sue the BATFE.
It's not the manufacturers, it's the users. Those of us who fly rockets - and all the traditional RC aircraft pilots - know the regs and we stick to them pretty damned closely because it's safety. The manufacturers are selling a product, and while it needs to be airworthy and safe to operate, they have no control over where it's operated.
I can only fly certain impulse rockets near my house because of air traffic restrictions. That doesn't mean manufacturers should make bigger engines - it just means if I want to fly them I have to take them somewhere where they will be safe and legal (like Black Rock).
Which brings up an interesting point. Desktop machines struggle to drive 4k monitiors with hundreds of watts of graphics power. Phones (like the G3) drive their QHD displays with a total thermal envelope of about 5W. Even scaling up, 9 phones is 45W to drive this many pixels. Why the disconnect?
(note this doesn't really address the connection - phones get ultra-short cables and small total pixel counts compared to this)
You laugh...but I have a teen daughter. The idea is that a "cool" house is where the kids will want to hang out. Movie screen and large movie collection, playroom with sofas, bean bags, and cushy carpet, fountain drinks, espresso bar with all the trimmings - you name it. I'd rather have them party it up at my place than somewhere else.
Wow - this would be great...though in a larger size - say 60ish inches; enough for a 30x42 plan at nearly 150 dpi with room on the side for toolbars. Throw in a wacom/n-trig digitizer interface and a stand that lets me mount it like a drafting table and I'd be in heaven.
DP 1.3 is 32.4Gbps (25.92Gbps net through after overhead) which is sufficient for 8k/30Hz full 24bit video at ~25Gbps, and 8k/60Hz using 4:2:0 subsampling. That's clearly not ideal for a computer screen, where you would want 4:4:4, but is probably good enough for nearly any screen up to about 40-50" (and likely on towards 100") regardless of distance when reproducing video (moving) content.
People are always more careful with their own money. If I haven't paid my CC bill, the CC company is out that money. If it comes out of my bank account, I'm SOL until they get around to figuring it out. It's why I always decline when offered a debit card - WTF would I want *my* money on the line where a fraudulent transaction might occur?
Given that this is an area with a large opportunity for fraud (the manually added tip), it's not too surprising. I'd rather have a verification from my bank than find out that someone put an extra zero on the end two weeks later.
Even for a garden variety lawyer, it's only 10 hours at a partner level. The fresh-outs are billing at $250-350/hr. There's two hours just to check conflict of interest and set up your file ($500). Send one of those briefs to go look up case law and type up a briefing for a half a day ($1000-1400), let the partner review it and consult for 2 hours with the client ($1000), then write and opinion (2 hours, $1000) and then send a brief to type/proof/file it with the court (4 hours, another $1000-1400) and you've easily popped a $4000-5000 bill.
The problem is that you've spent $50,000 on lemonade taste testing and recipe development. Making a $5 glass of lemonade using a recipe which uses $0.35 of raw materials instead of $0.60 isn't going to allow you to make a bigger profit if you have to sell it for $4.75 or less.
They have two plans: 1) Sell their VR headsets for $500 and pray they sell enough 2) Declare bankruptcy, buy the tech back at liquidation, and start a new company selling the same headset for $200
Note: this is how golf courses get built. It generally takes two developers to go bankrupt before a golf course can turn a profit.
Tech doesn't magically appear. It occurs because of engineering. It may not be your engineering budget, but somebody spent the money, time, and research costs to develop what you will eventually use.
And, just for the record, a lot of positional tracking DID come from rocket science (and the closely associated aeronautical work). And we spent a shitload of money on that kind of engineering just to get to the starting blocks where mobile phones could even consider them.
The parts of cheap. Make 100 Million headsets and you could sell them profitably for $150. They've got a mountain of engineering debt to pay off, though, and they're sure as hell not going to sell 100 million.
People (and research) are expensive. That's why it's going to cost so much.
A place where guns are prohibited but enforcement is not complete. Airports and courtrooms are gun-free zones. Everywhere else that guns are prohibited but every occupant is not subject to a rigorous search prior to entry, and all entrances and exits are not guarded, is only "technically" a gun-free zone.
This can be viewed as either a place where people shouldn't need to be worried about being harassed or bullied by armed citizens, or a place where the temporary physical superiority offered to you by carrying a firearm is suspended and you have to interact with humanity on a nominally equal footing. A cynic might say that this is either a "target rich environment" or a place where those of weak minds and hearts despise because the ability to deprive someone else of their life via a gun is the only way the can find value in themselves.
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One word: conquest.
If it weren't for that drive, we wouldn't bother to go at all. At this point, and for the next hundred years or more, we're going to do nothing more than a brief visit. But putting people on the surface - that's a Fuck Yeah! moment. People won't pay for robots, but they'd all chip in if some dude went and wrote his name in Martian sand in pee. *shrug*
BTW - I agree that robotic missions make much more sense.The manned program has always sucked NASA dry on a year to year basis, but if you ask the average person to name an astronaut and a robot mission to a planet, you'd better believe you'll get Neil Armstrong and a blank stare. (There's an outside chance you'll get Voyager, but my money is that half of them will call it Vygr)
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Now, to be fair, a step/1000mi:Mars/Stars is about an order of magnitude short. But there are several key hurdles to be overcome which will be much more appropriate to work out on the lunar surface or on the trip to and from Mars.
If they're unsafe it's too late now. Putting your passwords in a cloud service is like putting nude pictures online. Nobody may want to look at them, but they're out there forever, and somebody has them backed up somewhere.
It depends on whether they ever had the keys to unlock them or they were all locally encrypted (barring the whole "they lied and stored your password anyway" tin foil hat argument).
A laptop you can do real work on, with a display aspect ratio that's only meant for watching movies.
Bring back 4:3, make it 3:2 or - hey, how about 1.41:1 to match ISO 216/DIN476 sizing (and just call it an even 5k at 16:11.33)?
Well, attfa, if you opt for the HD panel (presumably 1080p), you get 17 hours of battery life. And that definitely wouldn't suck.
Yes and no. Sure, it could be lazy. OTOH, when your use case is eight million passengers every single day, there's a certain amount of redundancy to having the information with the passenger, rather than dependent on a network/data link. Four 9s uptime during flying hours still means over a thousand passenger cancellations every single day due to inaccessible data.
Go try rocketry as a hobby. Then come back and bitch.
We worked it out, though it took time - and we had to deal with BOTH the FAA and BATFE. Be an adult and work with the FAA to keep both drones and air traffic safe. Be lucky you don't have to sue the BATFE.
It's not the manufacturers, it's the users. Those of us who fly rockets - and all the traditional RC aircraft pilots - know the regs and we stick to them pretty damned closely because it's safety. The manufacturers are selling a product, and while it needs to be airworthy and safe to operate, they have no control over where it's operated.
I can only fly certain impulse rockets near my house because of air traffic restrictions. That doesn't mean manufacturers should make bigger engines - it just means if I want to fly them I have to take them somewhere where they will be safe and legal (like Black Rock).
And, damn it - we must all be really fucking old to have gotten a reference from AFCW.
You know, that actually wasn't to hard to hear in Otto's voice.
Damn you.
Which brings up an interesting point. Desktop machines struggle to drive 4k monitiors with hundreds of watts of graphics power. Phones (like the G3) drive their QHD displays with a total thermal envelope of about 5W. Even scaling up, 9 phones is 45W to drive this many pixels. Why the disconnect?
(note this doesn't really address the connection - phones get ultra-short cables and small total pixel counts compared to this)
You laugh...but I have a teen daughter. The idea is that a "cool" house is where the kids will want to hang out. Movie screen and large movie collection, playroom with sofas, bean bags, and cushy carpet, fountain drinks, espresso bar with all the trimmings - you name it. I'd rather have them party it up at my place than somewhere else.
Wow - this would be great...though in a larger size - say 60ish inches; enough for a 30x42 plan at nearly 150 dpi with room on the side for toolbars. Throw in a wacom/n-trig digitizer interface and a stand that lets me mount it like a drafting table and I'd be in heaven.
DP 1.3 is 32.4Gbps (25.92Gbps net through after overhead) which is sufficient for 8k/30Hz full 24bit video at ~25Gbps, and 8k/60Hz using 4:2:0 subsampling. That's clearly not ideal for a computer screen, where you would want 4:4:4, but is probably good enough for nearly any screen up to about 40-50" (and likely on towards 100") regardless of distance when reproducing video (moving) content.
People are always more careful with their own money. If I haven't paid my CC bill, the CC company is out that money. If it comes out of my bank account, I'm SOL until they get around to figuring it out. It's why I always decline when offered a debit card - WTF would I want *my* money on the line where a fraudulent transaction might occur?
Given that this is an area with a large opportunity for fraud (the manually added tip), it's not too surprising. I'd rather have a verification from my bank than find out that someone put an extra zero on the end two weeks later.
I just finished installing a 6 head soft drink fountain dispenser next to the playroom. It's gonna be carbonated drinks as far as the eye can see.
It's easy. That's 5 hours for an IP lawyer.
Even for a garden variety lawyer, it's only 10 hours at a partner level. The fresh-outs are billing at $250-350/hr. There's two hours just to check conflict of interest and set up your file ($500). Send one of those briefs to go look up case law and type up a briefing for a half a day ($1000-1400), let the partner review it and consult for 2 hours with the client ($1000), then write and opinion (2 hours, $1000) and then send a brief to type/proof/file it with the court (4 hours, another $1000-1400) and you've easily popped a $4000-5000 bill.
No, don't look at bronies. That's something you can't unsee.
Hearts and minds, baby - that's where you win a war. And they've got us right where they want us.
Admit it - we all just thought "Chipotle"
The problem is that you've spent $50,000 on lemonade taste testing and recipe development. Making a $5 glass of lemonade using a recipe which uses $0.35 of raw materials instead of $0.60 isn't going to allow you to make a bigger profit if you have to sell it for $4.75 or less.
They have two plans:
1) Sell their VR headsets for $500 and pray they sell enough
2) Declare bankruptcy, buy the tech back at liquidation, and start a new company selling the same headset for $200
Note: this is how golf courses get built. It generally takes two developers to go bankrupt before a golf course can turn a profit.
Tech doesn't magically appear. It occurs because of engineering. It may not be your engineering budget, but somebody spent the money, time, and research costs to develop what you will eventually use.
And, just for the record, a lot of positional tracking DID come from rocket science (and the closely associated aeronautical work). And we spent a shitload of money on that kind of engineering just to get to the starting blocks where mobile phones could even consider them.
The parts of cheap. Make 100 Million headsets and you could sell them profitably for $150. They've got a mountain of engineering debt to pay off, though, and they're sure as hell not going to sell 100 million.
People (and research) are expensive. That's why it's going to cost so much.
A place where guns are prohibited but enforcement is not complete. Airports and courtrooms are gun-free zones. Everywhere else that guns are prohibited but every occupant is not subject to a rigorous search prior to entry, and all entrances and exits are not guarded, is only "technically" a gun-free zone.
This can be viewed as either a place where people shouldn't need to be worried about being harassed or bullied by armed citizens, or a place where the temporary physical superiority offered to you by carrying a firearm is suspended and you have to interact with humanity on a nominally equal footing. A cynic might say that this is either a "target rich environment" or a place where those of weak minds and hearts despise because the ability to deprive someone else of their life via a gun is the only way the can find value in themselves.