Reveal Codes was necessary because WordPerfect was really dumb about placing those codes. In any nontrivial document you'd end up with incorrectly nested codes, start codes whose end code had been deleted, multiple identical (or worse, different) codes applied to the same bit of text etc. You could spend hours cleaning up the mess WP made.
Then Word came along, and all these problems went away because Word had far better handling of code placement. The result was that you didn't need Reveal Codes any more: all of the problem classes it solved didn't occur in Word.
What3Words has a big drawback: the words are assigned randomly, which makes it impossible to figure out where an address is without accessing the What3Words database. It's not human-usable without computer assistance. This makes What2Words likely to fail: countries that aren't organized enough to have street addresses worked out, are usually too poor for the citizens to be able to afford satnav systems.
Conventional street addresses are grouped: city, street, number. Large area, smaller area, 1 house. When you send a parcel to an address, you can use this to sort parcels: your first sorting operation is by city and can ignore the rest of the address.
Street addresses also have at least some logic to them (yes, I know about how street addresses can be illogical as well). All houses on a street have the same street name, house numbers are consecutive and follow conventions (odd numbers on one side, even nrs on the other). Street names in a neighborhood often follow a theme. In grid cities in the US, the entire address is numerical and you can find your way without a map. Post codes do this too, depending on how fine-grained they are.
It IS about build quality. And tariffs. And weird loopholes in American law that allow massive SUVs and pickups to be really cheap because they are classified as trucks, not cars which meant Detroit could get away with building low-quality, unsafe, fuel-guzzling vehicles that were cheap to design and build.
The EV1 project was cancelled because the EV1 wasn't very good. The later version had a 25 kWh NiMH battery pack for 100-140 miles of range when new, only 2 seats. The technology wasn't ready for widespread adoption at the time.
Waiting until the next generation of battery tech had matured (Li-ion) was the right call to make. Put the EV1 next to a Tesla model S and the EV1 looks like a T-Ford.
Allowing the cars to remain in circulation would have been a drain on resources and a potential PR nightmare as the batteries degraded (remember NiMH, its memory effects and limited recharge cycles?).
TV: Bad buy hijacks car remotely, locks doors, passengers helplessly ride to their doom.
Reality: when I pull the interior door handle, the doors (which were locked automatically when I started driving) unlock and open. There's a mechanical connection between handle and door lock.
If your answer is that bitcoin is worth $0, you are wrong.....at a minimum it has value as a money laundering and malware ransoming exchange medium.
So, for law-abiding citizens the value of Bitcoin is below zero. The only way they'll come in contact with BTC is when it provides criminals with an easy way to untraceably demand a ransom.
I don't like bookmarks. Because they are not visible on screen, in my experience they become write-only memory: write bookmark, never think about it again.
I've got a bunch of long-term projects going on, each with a number of tabs. Having them as tabs serves as a constant reminder of unfinished business, which is something I need. Maybe this is a flaw in how my brain works, but I haven't found a better workaround than this.
Like DVD, KFC or BP, the term BFR doesn't formally stand for anything.
That's funny. I was going to correct you with the meaning of those acronyms we all know, and when looking for sources I found that you're actually right. Thanks for the info.
While that is technically correct (the best kind), I find it really annoying when a company says "we're going to keep using this well-known abbreviation, but now it's no longer an abbreviation". It's a distinction without a difference.
No, that's not all it is. Gentrification happens when house values increase at a (much) higher rate than inflation. Houses become less affordable, meaning another area is created where people with lower incomes can't live.
Gentrification has other drawbacks too, as seen in e.g. San Francisco. Rich people move in, and start using their financial and political clout to shape the neighborhood to their wishes at the expense of the pre-gentrification inhabitants. Sometimes at the expense of the city as a whole too (e.g. the impossibility of building higher-density housing in SF).
Lights staying on after you switch the car off is not a bug, it's a feature. Park your car on a dark driveway, and the car lights the way to the front door for you. Sounds like they need to add an automatic shutoff on a delay though.
It's no different than American radio. Over here (.nl) radio broadcasters are required to make a clear distinction between programming and ads. All ads are bunched together in blocks on either side of the hourly news, with jingles at the start and end of each block. Program presenters are not involved in the ads (so you don't get the same voice doing ads and programs).
obviously a far higher kg/m^2 object than a Starlink satellite.
Not obvious at all. The ISS has very large solar arrays and radiators, plus a lot of habitable volume (i.e. filled with nothing but air). I expect most satellites to have a higher kg/m^2 value.
So, which demonstration are you referring to? The Shuttle was the only spacecraft to do this from orbit, anything else was experiments that didn't demonstrate a reentry from orbital speed.
And yes, reuse IS a big deal.
Companies didn't feel the need to start reusing rockets because the market wasn't there (chicken and egg problem), up to ~12 launches per year it's not cheaper to reuse stages. Arianespace and IIRC Boeing did financial studies on this ~30 years ago. At low launch numbers, you still need all the infrastructure to build rockets, but it's sitting still most of the time if you reuse.
Musk found a way around that, by developing an expendable rocket that had a growth path to reusability, and by not caring about the financial aspect as much (going for way-out-there goals becomes a lot easier if you have a billion or two lying around).
What impresses me is that Musk is making access to space a lot cheaper, and he's doing so at a very high speed. He's lit a fire under the rest of the launcher industry.
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Compare and contrast with Ford. They are essentially ditching their car platforms today, and will focus on the truck platforms.
To be fair though, that's just Ford USA. Ford Europe is not anywhere close to ditching the Fiesta, Focus and Mondeo.
Reveal Codes was necessary because WordPerfect was really dumb about placing those codes.
In any nontrivial document you'd end up with incorrectly nested codes, start codes whose end code had been deleted, multiple identical (or worse, different) codes applied to the same bit of text etc. You could spend hours cleaning up the mess WP made.
Then Word came along, and all these problems went away because Word had far better handling of code placement. The result was that you didn't need Reveal Codes any more: all of the problem classes it solved didn't occur in Word.
the Black Bird? The 1960s era reconnaisance aircraft that didn't go to space? No, that was not an instance of militarizing space.
asl.dll, obviously.
What3Words has a big drawback: the words are assigned randomly, which makes it impossible to figure out where an address is without accessing the What3Words database. It's not human-usable without computer assistance.
This makes What2Words likely to fail: countries that aren't organized enough to have street addresses worked out, are usually too poor for the citizens to be able to afford satnav systems.
Conventional street addresses are grouped: city, street, number. Large area, smaller area, 1 house.
When you send a parcel to an address, you can use this to sort parcels: your first sorting operation is by city and can ignore the rest of the address.
Street addresses also have at least some logic to them (yes, I know about how street addresses can be illogical as well). All houses on a street have the same street name, house numbers are consecutive and follow conventions (odd numbers on one side, even nrs on the other). Street names in a neighborhood often follow a theme.
In grid cities in the US, the entire address is numerical and you can find your way without a map.
Post codes do this too, depending on how fine-grained they are.
It IS about build quality. And tariffs. And weird loopholes in American law that allow massive SUVs and pickups to be really cheap because they are classified as trucks, not cars which meant Detroit could get away with building low-quality, unsafe, fuel-guzzling vehicles that were cheap to design and build.
Too toxic, and too indiscriminate at eradicating bugs. You want to eliminate just a few mosquito species (the ones spreading malaria).
I really wanted a mosquito laser cannon.
The EV1 project was cancelled because the EV1 wasn't very good. The later version had a 25 kWh NiMH battery pack for 100-140 miles of range when new, only 2 seats. The technology wasn't ready for widespread adoption at the time.
Waiting until the next generation of battery tech had matured (Li-ion) was the right call to make. Put the EV1 next to a Tesla model S and the EV1 looks like a T-Ford.
Allowing the cars to remain in circulation would have been a drain on resources and a potential PR nightmare as the batteries degraded (remember NiMH, its memory effects and limited recharge cycles?).
TV: Bad buy hijacks car remotely, locks doors, passengers helplessly ride to their doom.
Reality: when I pull the interior door handle, the doors (which were locked automatically when I started driving) unlock and open. There's a mechanical connection between handle and door lock.
If your answer is that bitcoin is worth $0, you are wrong.....at a minimum it has value as a money laundering and malware ransoming exchange medium.
So, for law-abiding citizens the value of Bitcoin is below zero. The only way they'll come in contact with BTC is when it provides criminals with an easy way to untraceably demand a ransom.
More like corporate greed seeing another opportunity to try and drive sales, coupled with copycat behavior of local/national retailers.
I don't like bookmarks. Because they are not visible on screen, in my experience they become write-only memory: write bookmark, never think about it again.
I've got a bunch of long-term projects going on, each with a number of tabs. Having them as tabs serves as a constant reminder of unfinished business, which is something I need. Maybe this is a flaw in how my brain works, but I haven't found a better workaround than this.
"doubling the size" is a colloquialism that's often taken to mean all 3 dimensions are scaled by a factor of 2.
If you want to be precise, there are other words you can use. Doubling the volume gets you to 20x1x1.
Like DVD, KFC or BP, the term BFR doesn't formally stand for anything.
That's funny. I was going to correct you with the meaning of those acronyms we all know, and when looking for sources I found that you're actually right. Thanks for the info.
While that is technically correct (the best kind), I find it really annoying when a company says "we're going to keep using this well-known abbreviation, but now it's no longer an abbreviation". It's a distinction without a difference.
Nah, they're just kids playing. That's not a cyberattack, this (zhing!) is a cyberattack.
No, that's not all it is. Gentrification happens when house values increase at a (much) higher rate than inflation. Houses become less affordable, meaning another area is created where people with lower incomes can't live.
Gentrification has other drawbacks too, as seen in e.g. San Francisco. Rich people move in, and start using their financial and political clout to shape the neighborhood to their wishes at the expense of the pre-gentrification inhabitants. Sometimes at the expense of the city as a whole too (e.g. the impossibility of building higher-density housing in SF).
In about 50% of ads I see on YouTube, the player fails to return to the video I want to watch at the end of the ad. I have to reload the page.
Don't be an idiot. This is the result of 20 years of work, a vast amount of actual data underlies the decision taken today.
The pound is defined as a derivative of the kg, so yes this affects you too.
Lights staying on after you switch the car off is not a bug, it's a feature. Park your car on a dark driveway, and the car lights the way to the front door for you.
Sounds like they need to add an automatic shutoff on a delay though.
It's no different than American radio. Over here (.nl) radio broadcasters are required to make a clear distinction between programming and ads. All ads are bunched together in blocks on either side of the hourly news, with jingles at the start and end of each block. Program presenters are not involved in the ads (so you don't get the same voice doing ads and programs).
obviously a far higher kg/m^2 object than a Starlink satellite.
Not obvious at all. The ISS has very large solar arrays and radiators, plus a lot of habitable volume (i.e. filled with nothing but air). I expect most satellites to have a higher kg/m^2 value.
So, which demonstration are you referring to? The Shuttle was the only spacecraft to do this from orbit, anything else was experiments that didn't demonstrate a reentry from orbital speed.
And yes, reuse IS a big deal.
Companies didn't feel the need to start reusing rockets because the market wasn't there (chicken and egg problem), up to ~12 launches per year it's not cheaper to reuse stages. Arianespace and IIRC Boeing did financial studies on this ~30 years ago. At low launch numbers, you still need all the infrastructure to build rockets, but it's sitting still most of the time if you reuse.
Musk found a way around that, by developing an expendable rocket that had a growth path to reusability, and by not caring about the financial aspect as much (going for way-out-there goals becomes a lot easier if you have a billion or two lying around).
What impresses me is that Musk is making access to space a lot cheaper, and he's doing so at a very high speed. He's lit a fire under the rest of the launcher industry.
Install several antivirus products and MS OneDrive on a Windows box, watch them battle for who gets to access the file first.