I've heard this idea was being explored many times before, but it's never materialized. I think a CEO hears about the idea and gets excited over it, but the economics usually mean a lot of billboards and other ads will reach more eyes for less money.
Firstly, these work by reflecting sunlight. That means it will only be visible at night, but only when the satellite is still in sunlight and hasn't entered Earth's shadow yet. Then it's only visible to people with good horizons, or where it's passing very high overhead and people just happen to be looking up.
And the biggest problem is that these have a very large surface area which increases the atmospheric drag. So the orbit will decay a lot faster, with pretty much no options for any control after the ad is unfolded.
So, it's probably not going to happen this time either.
The opposition to it is also a bit overblown. The ods that you will ever see it are pretty slim, let alone have your view obstructed by it. All of the other ads spewing light neadlessly into the atmosphere are a much bigger problem for astronomers.
It used to be that if you went to legos.com you got redirected to an explanation of this. It seems to have gone away, but the Wayback Machine still has it.
Pointing the plane's nose towards the ground is probably one of the most dangerous things you can do in a lot of situations, I can't believe there aren't multiple methods for the system to realize that it should disable itself. I mean cruise control disables itself after just tapping the breaks, self driving cars give control back with the slightest force on the steering wheel. It's baffling that a system wouldn't be designed disable itself after being overridden by the pilots several times, or that it noticed there were dramatic changes in altitude, or that it was very near the ground, or that its previous attempts to solve whatever problem there was failed. At the very least, some type of obvious indication to the pilot that the plane was overriding his actions and what to do to make it stop. It's one thing to tell pilots to memorize a list of troubleshooting steps, but just having the plane tell them outright what's going on eliminates a lot of wasted time and possibility for error.
Who would have thought the Burbon Belt had wild temperature swings? We just had -5f and 70f in the same week, which is probably what solidified their plan to pull out now. That temperature swing is higher than normal, but not by much. I don't know what they were drinking when they came up with this plane, but it obviously wasn't from Kentucky.
I backed a similar one called the Peach Printer. It's only been 6 years since it started, and 3 years since the last update. I'm starting to worry a little.
Don't like walled gardens, then don't support a company that enforces them. It's that simple.
This is quite an ignorant statement. It pretends to not be aware that we don't live in a world where users have an actual choice. The walled gardens Google and Apple have created is for their own benefit, not due to user demands. We already have tools for dealing with malware by using firewalls and sandbox environments on "normal" operating systems. The lip service Apple and Goole play to gaurding against malware in their gardens is just because they've denied us the ability to protect ourselves. They are only able to force it upon us because we don't have a true open market.
I mean, anyone who gets mad that a package takes 3 days instead of 2 during the busiest shopping period in the western world...
With all do respect, you're an idiot. People are not complaining that shipping takes longer in general. They are complaining that a company is lieing about their delivery times. I dropped Prime a few years ago when 10 out of my last 10 orders arrived late. So I'm a bit surprised that more people are now just catching on.
cause that would require a lens four times bigger to gather the same light?
That wouldn't help much because it would drastically reduce the depth of field (the range of objects in focus). You'd really need a sensor 4 times as sensitive with no extra noise.
When someone claims person Y's life was worth $Z, I inquire as to if they had >=$Z life insurance on Y. If not, they are lying about the value of Y's life to them.
That is a bad conclusion to draw. Insurance is always a bad bet since the insurance company has to make money. It is not illogical to conclude the price of mind insurance buys is always worth the price.
I've had a button on my mouse mapped to "mute" for many years now, and I think it's the single beat customization that can be done. If you just opened a link, odds are your hand is on the mouse, as soon as you hear anything it's muted in a tiny fraction of a second. It works particularly well to avoid hearing Youtube ads.
Unfortunatley I haven't found anything as fast for mobile yet.
There is water - means that probably there were rivers, and consequently gold.
Rivers do not create gold. Gold does not accumulate in rivers faster than other debris. The only reason you find a higher density of gold in some rivers is due to the unique processes of the area that cause other debris to decay and errode at a faster rate than gold, and faster than other debris comes in.
I had the pleasure of attending a lecture several years back by the then project manager for the Hubble. His explanation was that the issue was a managerial one. The instructions for one of the test devices were (summarized) drill a hole, then paint the device black. But what was actually done was it was painted black, then the hole was drilled. This issue was discovered early enough to fix. Apparently the standard process at the time was to have the project heads rotated ever so often so that they wouldn't get too cozy with each other, but the Hubble required these people to have access to highly classified information, limiting their ability to move people around. And the team was able to convince the manager not to make a big deal out of the out of order operation performed. And it was a tiny bur on that device that caused the test to be wrong.
You need to get out of your cave. Kotlin is now the primary language that Google advises to use to develop Android apps
Yea, they also advised we drop Facebook and only use our Google+ accounts. That's why you should never take advice solely from the creator of a product.
Spoiler Alert! I went in to the movie expecting it to be pretty bad, but they did a better job than I expected. I figured the Kessel Run would be a big theme in the movie, so they could finally explain the "6 parsecs" claim. I think it was pretty obviuos that whoever wrote that line had no idea what they were talking about. I figured somewhere someone would try to make something up to explain it, and it's popped into my head many times over the past 30 years and I wondered about ways they could do it. I was unimpressed whith how they did. But when Solo said "I just did the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs" I laughed pretty hard. In a half full theater, I was the only one that laughed. To me that line alone was worth the price of admission. I assume it's like a fish story where it gets exaggerated a little more every time it's told.
Seeing the Plutonium was found 10 years after the planet Pluto was found, and the previous two elements are Uranium and Neptunium, I find your claim highly suspect that Plutonium was named after the God Pluto. Do you have an authoritative reference for that?
Unfortunately gambling on politics is illegal in the US. Lots of people have pointed out this would remove a lot of the BS from politics. If someone wanted to claim law x would have y effect they could back up their claim by putting money on it, if they don't bet, they obviously don't belive it that much
A monopoly wants to ban something and you're fine with it. Ok. Just don't expect any sympathy when your phone won't let you call someone when your carrier doesn't approve of your relationship. Don't complain when your ISP blocks content regarding your favorite political party.
By censoring content purley on political grounds, they're setting a pretty big precedent, and picking a really big fight.
There's a big problem with that. The apparent motion of the Sun is not constant, and solar noon vs. wall clock noon differ by 30 minutes over the course of the year. It's called the "Equation of time", and sun dials would actually have the number of minutes to add or subtract for a given date engraved on them. So imagine having to adjust your wall clock every day.
For the curious. This is caused by the fact that the Earth's rotational speed is fairly constant, but its orbital speed varies significantly. Same thing happens with the moon, so we do actually get to see more than just one side of it.
...outside the typical no-so-much-a-conspiracy-theory-anymore side of things, it's quite possible Apple got a HUGE influx of bad batteries
I don't see how you consider this "honest", the honest thing to do would be to disclose it to the customers. Selling customers a defective product and then covering it up by making it even more defective is pretty far from my definition of honest.
I do not read fiction (I just don't enjoy it), so I tend to read a lot of technical/programming books. Since they're usually pretty expensive, subscribing to one of the many publisher's unlimited ebook websites has really opened a new world for me. It used to be that I had to value a book's content quite a bit before I could read any of it, when I had to buy each one separately. Since it's usually not necessary to read each one from cover to cover, i tend to jump around a lot, and don't mind dumping a book after I've read as much as I'm interested in. The actual number of books varies with how much time I have to devote to it. But in the last 30 days, I've probably read a good portion of 20 to 30 different books.
Which is exactly what the advertisers want. Most ads only pay when the user clicks on them. And the ones that don't pay per click use the abysmal click through rate as a reason the pay very low prices. The result is they get their ads in front of you for no or very little cost.
This is why I click on ads a lot. Especially on websites or Youtube channels I like. Or ads for companies I hate. Almost no one clicks on ads, so any one person's refusal to ever click on an ad has no effect. But just a few people deliberately clicking ads can really make an impact.
Now I can sue Target for knowing I'm pregnant before I do
The news media spun the story like "Target's recomender system knew predicted a pregnacy". In reality, she alredy knew she was pregnant, but just hadn't told her father, who is the one who complained to Target when she received targeted baby care ads. So, she likely tipped Target off with searches or something similar, and they spilled the beans on her secret.
This happens a lot more to people gift shopping. You search for things you want to buy for someone as a surprise. But then that computer, and any other computer you log in to starts showing you ads for those same things, possibly ruining the surprise if the person you were shopping for either uses the same computer, or is present when you use it.
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I've heard this idea was being explored many times before, but it's never materialized. I think a CEO hears about the idea and gets excited over it, but the economics usually mean a lot of billboards and other ads will reach more eyes for less money.
Firstly, these work by reflecting sunlight. That means it will only be visible at night, but only when the satellite is still in sunlight and hasn't entered Earth's shadow yet. Then it's only visible to people with good horizons, or where it's passing very high overhead and people just happen to be looking up.
And the biggest problem is that these have a very large surface area which increases the atmospheric drag. So the orbit will decay a lot faster, with pretty much no options for any control after the ad is unfolded.
So, it's probably not going to happen this time either.
The opposition to it is also a bit overblown. The ods that you will ever see it are pretty slim, let alone have your view obstructed by it. All of the other ads spewing light neadlessly into the atmosphere are a much bigger problem for astronomers.
Because it's patented.
Patents are only good for about 20 years. Any patents on the original x86 instrutions would have expired long ago.
It used to be that if you went to legos.com you got redirected to an explanation of this. It seems to have gone away, but the Wayback Machine still has it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
Pointing the plane's nose towards the ground is probably one of the most dangerous things you can do in a lot of situations, I can't believe there aren't multiple methods for the system to realize that it should disable itself. I mean cruise control disables itself after just tapping the breaks, self driving cars give control back with the slightest force on the steering wheel. It's baffling that a system wouldn't be designed disable itself after being overridden by the pilots several times, or that it noticed there were dramatic changes in altitude, or that it was very near the ground, or that its previous attempts to solve whatever problem there was failed. At the very least, some type of obvious indication to the pilot that the plane was overriding his actions and what to do to make it stop. It's one thing to tell pilots to memorize a list of troubleshooting steps, but just having the plane tell them outright what's going on eliminates a lot of wasted time and possibility for error.
Who would have thought the Burbon Belt had wild temperature swings? We just had -5f and 70f in the same week, which is probably what solidified their plan to pull out now. That temperature swing is higher than normal, but not by much. I don't know what they were drinking when they came up with this plane, but it obviously wasn't from Kentucky.
They (Louisville) won that fight, it was a prerequisite before they even started.
I backed a similar one called the Peach Printer. It's only been 6 years since it started, and 3 years since the last update. I'm starting to worry a little.
Don't like walled gardens, then don't support a company that enforces them. It's that simple.
This is quite an ignorant statement. It pretends to not be aware that we don't live in a world where users have an actual choice. The walled gardens Google and Apple have created is for their own benefit, not due to user demands. We already have tools for dealing with malware by using firewalls and sandbox environments on "normal" operating systems. The lip service Apple and Goole play to gaurding against malware in their gardens is just because they've denied us the ability to protect ourselves. They are only able to force it upon us because we don't have a true open market.
I mean, anyone who gets mad that a package takes 3 days instead of 2 during the busiest shopping period in the western world...
With all do respect, you're an idiot. People are not complaining that shipping takes longer in general. They are complaining that a company is lieing about their delivery times. I dropped Prime a few years ago when 10 out of my last 10 orders arrived late. So I'm a bit surprised that more people are now just catching on.
cause that would require a lens four times bigger to gather the same light?
That wouldn't help much because it would drastically reduce the depth of field (the range of objects in focus). You'd really need a sensor 4 times as sensitive with no extra noise.
When someone claims person Y's life was worth $Z, I inquire as to if they had >=$Z life insurance on Y. If not, they are lying about the value of Y's life to them.
That is a bad conclusion to draw. Insurance is always a bad bet since the insurance company has to make money. It is not illogical to conclude the price of mind insurance buys is always worth the price.
I've had a button on my mouse mapped to "mute" for many years now, and I think it's the single beat customization that can be done. If you just opened a link, odds are your hand is on the mouse, as soon as you hear anything it's muted in a tiny fraction of a second. It works particularly well to avoid hearing Youtube ads.
Unfortunatley I haven't found anything as fast for mobile yet.
There is water - means that probably there were rivers, and consequently gold.
Rivers do not create gold. Gold does not accumulate in rivers faster than other debris. The only reason you find a higher density of gold in some rivers is due to the unique processes of the area that cause other debris to decay and errode at a faster rate than gold, and faster than other debris comes in.
I had the pleasure of attending a lecture several years back by the then project manager for the Hubble. His explanation was that the issue was a managerial one. The instructions for one of the test devices were (summarized) drill a hole, then paint the device black. But what was actually done was it was painted black, then the hole was drilled. This issue was discovered early enough to fix. Apparently the standard process at the time was to have the project heads rotated ever so often so that they wouldn't get too cozy with each other, but the Hubble required these people to have access to highly classified information, limiting their ability to move people around. And the team was able to convince the manager not to make a big deal out of the out of order operation performed. And it was a tiny bur on that device that caused the test to be wrong.
You need to get out of your cave. Kotlin is now the primary language that Google advises to use to develop Android apps
Yea, they also advised we drop Facebook and only use our Google+ accounts. That's why you should never take advice solely from the creator of a product.
Spoiler Alert! I went in to the movie expecting it to be pretty bad, but they did a better job than I expected. I figured the Kessel Run would be a big theme in the movie, so they could finally explain the "6 parsecs" claim. I think it was pretty obviuos that whoever wrote that line had no idea what they were talking about. I figured somewhere someone would try to make something up to explain it, and it's popped into my head many times over the past 30 years and I wondered about ways they could do it. I was unimpressed whith how they did. But when Solo said "I just did the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs" I laughed pretty hard. In a half full theater, I was the only one that laughed. To me that line alone was worth the price of admission. I assume it's like a fish story where it gets exaggerated a little more every time it's told.
Seeing the Plutonium was found 10 years after the planet Pluto was found, and the previous two elements are Uranium and Neptunium, I find your claim highly suspect that Plutonium was named after the God Pluto. Do you have an authoritative reference for that?
Unfortunately gambling on politics is illegal in the US. Lots of people have pointed out this would remove a lot of the BS from politics. If someone wanted to claim law x would have y effect they could back up their claim by putting money on it, if they don't bet, they obviously don't belive it that much
Microsoft's copy of QDOS certainly beats it.
A monopoly wants to ban something and you're fine with it. Ok. Just don't expect any sympathy when your phone won't let you call someone when your carrier doesn't approve of your relationship. Don't complain when your ISP blocks content regarding your favorite political party.
By censoring content purley on political grounds, they're setting a pretty big precedent, and picking a really big fight.
There's a big problem with that. The apparent motion of the Sun is not constant, and solar noon vs. wall clock noon differ by 30 minutes over the course of the year. It's called the "Equation of time", and sun dials would actually have the number of minutes to add or subtract for a given date engraved on them. So imagine having to adjust your wall clock every day.
For the curious. This is caused by the fact that the Earth's rotational speed is fairly constant, but its orbital speed varies significantly. Same thing happens with the moon, so we do actually get to see more than just one side of it.
...outside the typical no-so-much-a-conspiracy-theory-anymore side of things, it's quite possible Apple got a HUGE influx of bad batteries
I don't see how you consider this "honest", the honest thing to do would be to disclose it to the customers. Selling customers a defective product and then covering it up by making it even more defective is pretty far from my definition of honest.
I do not read fiction (I just don't enjoy it), so I tend to read a lot of technical/programming books. Since they're usually pretty expensive, subscribing to one of the many publisher's unlimited ebook websites has really opened a new world for me. It used to be that I had to value a book's content quite a bit before I could read any of it, when I had to buy each one separately. Since it's usually not necessary to read each one from cover to cover, i tend to jump around a lot, and don't mind dumping a book after I've read as much as I'm interested in. The actual number of books varies with how much time I have to devote to it. But in the last 30 days, I've probably read a good portion of 20 to 30 different books.
I don't click on ads as a matter of principle.
Which is exactly what the advertisers want. Most ads only pay when the user clicks on them. And the ones that don't pay per click use the abysmal click through rate as a reason the pay very low prices. The result is they get their ads in front of you for no or very little cost.
This is why I click on ads a lot. Especially on websites or Youtube channels I like. Or ads for companies I hate. Almost no one clicks on ads, so any one person's refusal to ever click on an ad has no effect. But just a few people deliberately clicking ads can really make an impact.
Now I can sue Target for knowing I'm pregnant before I do
The news media spun the story like "Target's recomender system knew predicted a pregnacy". In reality, she alredy knew she was pregnant, but just hadn't told her father, who is the one who complained to Target when she received targeted baby care ads. So, she likely tipped Target off with searches or something similar, and they spilled the beans on her secret.
This happens a lot more to people gift shopping. You search for things you want to buy for someone as a surprise. But then that computer, and any other computer you log in to starts showing you ads for those same things, possibly ruining the surprise if the person you were shopping for either uses the same computer, or is present when you use it.