Shady actions by Vaishali Thakker or others mentioned in TFA? I see no evidence of any.
You assume people are lying, assuming that the actions of a few attention-seekers apply to every woman who speaks about harassment. In other words, you believe in a conspiracy. That's what I object to.
Or it's just like the commenters who see someone reporting harassment and immediately bleat "that can't possibly be true" based on a few examples of people making false claims.
Apple's iTunes stinks just as much. As another poster said, it's really gone downhill since about version 9. Screens full of useless crap, bloody album art instead of a list view, byzantine editing of playlists. Blech.
I couldn't agree more. My usual MO is to load a bunch of tabs in the background, in the expectation they'll be done downloading/rendering/jumping around before I open the tab. This way, I rarely have to wait for a webpage to finish loading, which is bliss. RAM and bandwidth are cheap enough that I can afford to have lots of background tabs, all fully rendered and waiting for me.
Google: advertising company, sells your data to the highest bidder or uses it itself to advertise to you. "Don't be evil" is a fond memory these days. Apple: hardware company, does not sell your data.
That would be 'in English/American financial information'. This use is uncommon in Europe, where SI units are used instead. So, we'll consider 'MM' another silly Imperial unit;)
Elon's end game is becoming clear. TBC produces tunnel boring machines, flamethrowers, hats. Add an anvil and some rocket engines to the catalog and he can rename the company ACME. Contract SpaceX for the 'instant delivery' option.
yet another bloody format war, and this time the established standard is being replaced with something inferior.
Even the Pentaconn supposedly high-end connector is a single-pin design with 5 contact patches in a row, guaranteeing massive pops and hum when it's inserted. Has the entire industry lost its head?
NASA is working on tracking potentially dangerous asteroids, but is limited in what they can track by funding. They have projects to track the large asteroids (i.e. ones capable of destroying a country), but no funding to track all of the smaller ones. An asteroid 100 m across can make a big dent when it lands, but is difficult to find at 100 million km.
This video shows the rate at which asteroids (some of which are near-Earth objects) are discovered.
Back then, there were clear differences between their 3 laptop lines. These days, MacBook and MacBook Pro use almost the same body design and have almost the same limitations (no ports, no user-replaceable RAM and disk) as the Air. When it's time to replace my 2012 MBP, I may have to get me a Hackintosh.
Fundamental science is part of NASA's remit. And from TFA:
> Being able to model the region accurately is particularly important, the researchers said, because the ionosphere affects radio and GPS technology as well as spacecraft. Right now, changes can be observed only every several hours, and models of the upper atmosphere can predict only about a day of changes. GOLD will be able to monitor how the upper atmosphere changes and evolves throughout the day on an hourly basis so researchers can build better models.
Changes in the upper layers of the atmosphere make it difficult for spacecraft to make an accurately-targeted reentry: the reentry time of a satellite can be hours off the target time, which makes it difficult to time reentry to ensure no debris falls in inhabited areas.
I got as far as the first paragraph of the summary, then thought, "hang on, that's not right" and went to look for better sources (1). I missed the section on polar orbits entirely.
1: which led to my post about AFSS not being a SpaceX development.
Vandenberg, unlike Cape Canaveral, can be used for launches to polar orbits. Polar orbits are popular for Earth observation satellites. That is what keeps Vandenberg open.
NASA and the Air Force (which provides the range safety systems) have been working on the autonomous flight safety system for at least a decade. SpaceX is just the first customer to use it.
After 8 hours of work, productivity drops precipitously. Accrue too much overtime, and you'll be so tired your productivity is negative: you'll just be introducing errors you'll have to fix later.
Recreational reading is the one thing I don't plan. My reading list consists of whatever strikes my fancy at the library or bookstore. Books I've bought but haven't read yet may constitute some sort of plan (as in 'I plan to read these on my next vacation'), but I'm not going to work my way down a list of 'books I should read before I die'.
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Yet you have no trouble calling her a liar without offering any evidence of your own.
Using your reasoning: because of Hans Reiser's murder conviction, any programmer who claims to be not guilty of murder is lying.
Shady actions by Vaishali Thakker or others mentioned in TFA? I see no evidence of any.
You assume people are lying, assuming that the actions of a few attention-seekers apply to every woman who speaks about harassment. In other words, you believe in a conspiracy. That's what I object to.
Or it's just like the commenters who see someone reporting harassment and immediately bleat "that can't possibly be true" based on a few examples of people making false claims.
Apple's iTunes stinks just as much. As another poster said, it's really gone downhill since about version 9. Screens full of useless crap, bloody album art instead of a list view, byzantine editing of playlists. Blech.
But watch out for the massive boulder.
I couldn't agree more. My usual MO is to load a bunch of tabs in the background, in the expectation they'll be done downloading/rendering/jumping around before I open the tab. This way, I rarely have to wait for a webpage to finish loading, which is bliss.
RAM and bandwidth are cheap enough that I can afford to have lots of background tabs, all fully rendered and waiting for me.
This 'feature' would break that.
Google: advertising company, sells your data to the highest bidder or uses it itself to advertise to you. "Don't be evil" is a fond memory these days.
Apple: hardware company, does not sell your data.
Apple iPhone: $700
iOS: okay, I guess
available apps: no better than Android, mostly
not sending all your data to Google: priceless
That would be 'in English/American financial information'. This use is uncommon in Europe, where SI units are used instead. ;)
So, we'll consider 'MM' another silly Imperial unit
Elon's end game is becoming clear.
TBC produces tunnel boring machines, flamethrowers, hats. Add an anvil and some rocket engines to the catalog and he can rename the company ACME. Contract SpaceX for the 'instant delivery' option.
Pfft, pessimist. I'm running the new OS on my 3 year-old iPhone and so far I haven't seen any pro
yet another bloody format war, and this time the established standard is being replaced with something inferior.
Even the Pentaconn supposedly high-end connector is a single-pin design with 5 contact patches in a row, guaranteeing massive pops and hum when it's inserted. Has the entire industry lost its head?
NASA is working on tracking potentially dangerous asteroids, but is limited in what they can track by funding. They have projects to track the large asteroids (i.e. ones capable of destroying a country), but no funding to track all of the smaller ones. An asteroid 100 m across can make a big dent when it lands, but is difficult to find at 100 million km.
This video shows the rate at which asteroids (some of which are near-Earth objects) are discovered.
The ascent isn't 9G, but about 4.2G max.
Did mr. Betteridge's head just explode?
Back then, there were clear differences between their 3 laptop lines. These days, MacBook and MacBook Pro use almost the same body design and have almost the same limitations (no ports, no user-replaceable RAM and disk) as the Air.
When it's time to replace my 2012 MBP, I may have to get me a Hackintosh.
the alert wasn't sent by WOPR.
Let me guess, you played RPN rugby?
Fundamental science is part of NASA's remit. And from TFA:
> Being able to model the region accurately is particularly important, the researchers said, because the ionosphere affects radio and GPS technology as well as spacecraft. Right now, changes can be observed only every several hours, and models of the upper atmosphere can predict only about a day of changes. GOLD will be able to monitor how the upper atmosphere changes and evolves throughout the day on an hourly basis so researchers can build better models.
Changes in the upper layers of the atmosphere make it difficult for spacecraft to make an accurately-targeted reentry: the reentry time of a satellite can be hours off the target time, which makes it difficult to time reentry to ensure no debris falls in inhabited areas.
Radio and GPS aren't exactly niches either.
I got as far as the first paragraph of the summary, then thought, "hang on, that's not right" and went to look for better sources (1). I missed the section on polar orbits entirely.
1: which led to my post about AFSS not being a SpaceX development.
Vandenberg, unlike Cape Canaveral, can be used for launches to polar orbits. Polar orbits are popular for Earth observation satellites. That is what keeps Vandenberg open.
NASA and the Air Force (which provides the range safety systems) have been working on the autonomous flight safety system for at least a decade. SpaceX is just the first customer to use it.
After 8 hours of work, productivity drops precipitously. Accrue too much overtime, and you'll be so tired your productivity is negative: you'll just be introducing errors you'll have to fix later.
Surely you mean Plutonium, not Platinum?
Recreational reading is the one thing I don't plan. My reading list consists of whatever strikes my fancy at the library or bookstore.
Books I've bought but haven't read yet may constitute some sort of plan (as in 'I plan to read these on my next vacation'), but I'm not going to work my way down a list of 'books I should read before I die'.