It's not just the people using PB for commercial purposes though. Several friends of mine have been hit with $400 ransom demands for their hobby photos. Most of them used PB to host photos they'd share on various forums.
Going from 'free' to $400/yr is absurd, so yes, I blame them. I never used PB myself. NoScript shows PB tries to load scripts from something like 100 different domains, that was reason enough to avoid them. I pay $25/yr to host a website with more space for photos than I can fill in a decade, another reason to consider PB's new pricing extortionate.
I'm not advocating a double standard. Let me rephrase: the chivalrous thing to do is to keep your hands off your coworkers until there's clear agreement you both want more.
Intimate relationships should start with talking, not with one party grabbing the other's ass.
For the ULA price quoted, we're talking about a cost estimate done by the Air Force for national security launches in 2020. And apparently, that's an estimate of the maximum price, not the average. ULA has since published more information:
Launch cost over the whole ELC duration of 78 missions averages to $225M a pop with Delta IV Heavy at ~$400M and Atlas starting at ~$164M.
SpaceX have published a price of $65M for a basic commercial launch. That's a much lower price than e.g. NASA is paying for its Commercial Resupply missions to the ISS: the CRS-1 missions cost around $180M each. That does include a Dragon spacecraft, but I doubt that alone costs $120M. Apparently there are a lot of optional extras you can specify on your SpaceX launch, and SpaceX hasn't published any of those prices. USAF launches will be closer to NASA prices than 'basic commercial' launches.
Betacam and Betamax may have used similar technology (and the same physical tape format), but they were incompatible. Betacam used a tape speed 6 times (IIRC) higher than Betamax, and they couldn't read each other's tapes. So "professional version" is a bit of a stretch.
The psychology of being subjected to movement with no visual reference (vomit tube)
This is an issue in ships and aircraft, which can move around violently depending on weather. In a high-speed train, by contrast, you hardly notice anything. In a TGV, 300 km/h feels like standing still, the only lurching about is when the train approaches a station at low speed and runs over old tracks. Hyperloop won't have points or crossings, and won't encounter trains running in the opposite direction, so should be a very smooth ride.
Stratolaunch have been trying to get a suitable rocket built by various companies, much larger than the Pegasus. Both SpaceX (with a Falcon-based rocket with 5 Merlin engines) and ATK were involved at some point. Several of those deals fell apart while construction on the aircraft was well underway.
The Pegasus deal is a last resort, it helps Orbital get rid of their last-of-the-Mohicans (i.e. expensive to operate) Tristar.
This is a solved problem. Unicode defines 5 code points for each Arabic letter, one for each specific form (initial, medial, final, isolated) and one general form. Software that supports Arabic takes the general form as input, and uses a simple algorithm to determine which of the 4 specific forms has to be used depending on where in a word the letter occurs.
Lots of software supports Arabic (I've used Word and InDesign to create cursive Arabic and Farsi).
One comment I got from Arabic translators is that the font matters: Arial Unicode MS contains all the Arabic glyphs, but they are rendered as geometric shapes: perfect constant-radius arcs, vertical lines. This looks alien to them. They much preferred SeriaArabic, a font that looks more like handwriting (with e.g. subtle variations in line thickness, not-quite-vertical lines, variable-radius arcs).
Or maybe Musk's reality distortion field is just fading because we're getting used to his companies doing things thought impossible, and it usually takes a few years for the skeletons of how he achieves that to come out of the closet. Rumblings of not-so-good working conditions at SpaceX and Tesla predate the election cycle.
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It's not just the people using PB for commercial purposes though. Several friends of mine have been hit with $400 ransom demands for their hobby photos. Most of them used PB to host photos they'd share on various forums.
Going from 'free' to $400/yr is absurd, so yes, I blame them.
I never used PB myself. NoScript shows PB tries to load scripts from something like 100 different domains, that was reason enough to avoid them. I pay $25/yr to host a website with more space for photos than I can fill in a decade, another reason to consider PB's new pricing extortionate.
Architects should be forced to live in their own buildings, and airline executives should be forced to travel in their own economy class.
I'm not advocating a double standard.
Let me rephrase: the chivalrous thing to do is to keep your hands off your coworkers until there's clear agreement you both want more.
Intimate relationships should start with talking, not with one party grabbing the other's ass.
Now, every pat on the butt or peck on the cheek is 'harassment'.
no, it's harassment, without scare quotes. The chivalrous thing to do is to keep your hands off your coworkers until you're invited.
This wasn't about political correctness, it was about common decency, and Uber's lack thereof.
The whole point of e-commerce is to not have to go to the bloody store!
Everyone's comparing apples to oranges here.
For the ULA price quoted, we're talking about a cost estimate done by the Air Force for national security launches in 2020. And apparently, that's an estimate of the maximum price, not the average. ULA has since published more information:
Launch cost over the whole ELC duration of 78 missions averages to $225M a pop with Delta IV Heavy at ~$400M and Atlas starting at ~$164M.
SpaceX have published a price of $65M for a basic commercial launch. That's a much lower price than e.g. NASA is paying for its Commercial Resupply missions to the ISS: the CRS-1 missions cost around $180M each. That does include a Dragon spacecraft, but I doubt that alone costs $120M.
Apparently there are a lot of optional extras you can specify on your SpaceX launch, and SpaceX hasn't published any of those prices. USAF launches will be closer to NASA prices than 'basic commercial' launches.
Then how do you define religion? Any gathering of two people who share a belief system?
Congratulations, now you're trying to control everyone. What penalty would you propose for failure to become an atheist?
Betacam and Betamax may have used similar technology (and the same physical tape format), but they were incompatible. Betacam used a tape speed 6 times (IIRC) higher than Betamax, and they couldn't read each other's tapes. So "professional version" is a bit of a stretch.
The psychology of being subjected to movement with no visual reference (vomit tube)
This is an issue in ships and aircraft, which can move around violently depending on weather. In a high-speed train, by contrast, you hardly notice anything. In a TGV, 300 km/h feels like standing still, the only lurching about is when the train approaches a station at low speed and runs over old tracks. Hyperloop won't have points or crossings, and won't encounter trains running in the opposite direction, so should be a very smooth ride.
Stratolaunch have been trying to get a suitable rocket built by various companies, much larger than the Pegasus. Both SpaceX (with a Falcon-based rocket with 5 Merlin engines) and ATK were involved at some point. Several of those deals fell apart while construction on the aircraft was well underway.
The Pegasus deal is a last resort, it helps Orbital get rid of their last-of-the-Mohicans (i.e. expensive to operate) Tristar.
The issue can be framed differently: I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can't Write My Name
This is a solved problem. Unicode defines 5 code points for each Arabic letter, one for each specific form (initial, medial, final, isolated) and one general form. Software that supports Arabic takes the general form as input, and uses a simple algorithm to determine which of the 4 specific forms has to be used depending on where in a word the letter occurs.
Lots of software supports Arabic (I've used Word and InDesign to create cursive Arabic and Farsi).
One comment I got from Arabic translators is that the font matters: Arial Unicode MS contains all the Arabic glyphs, but they are rendered as geometric shapes: perfect constant-radius arcs, vertical lines. This looks alien to them.
They much preferred SeriaArabic, a font that looks more like handwriting (with e.g. subtle variations in line thickness, not-quite-vertical lines, variable-radius arcs).
Or maybe Musk's reality distortion field is just fading because we're getting used to his companies doing things thought impossible, and it usually takes a few years for the skeletons of how he achieves that to come out of the closet. Rumblings of not-so-good working conditions at SpaceX and Tesla predate the election cycle.
Correlation is not causation, and all that.
incantation
cursing
But now we know where your real interest lies ;)
You've got the wrong cylindrical object. It's a ring, specifically the One Ring to rule them all.
In common usage, it's the opposite though.
Merriam-Webster: quantum leap: a sudden large change, development, or improvement
The UK has 2 large pumped-storage stations, Dinorwig and Ffestiniog are good for 4 GW combined.
Given the condition some of my packages arrive in, that's already in widespread use.
we're lucky this got announced early, so there have been efforts to save this data:
Github repo
list of mirrors
another one
more
even more
I have a hard time figuring out why companies insist on having their office in a place that requires them to pay salaries 4x the national average.
Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it.
Converting one XML document into another (often an FO document) is easier via Perl than via XSLT?
Most of the work I do is processing XML documents. Why not use XSLT for that?