Because on Earth using people as universal bio-robots is much cheaper. What is so hard to understand about that?
Back in the Apollo days each man hour on the Moon did cost about $1B. If crews for drilling rigs on Earth would cost that much per man hour, there would be only automated drilling rigs. What do you think?
People on the surface wouldn't wield tools with their hands to break through the surface anyway. And landing people (and all they need to survive and to return) means so much more mass that you could just as well deliver a massive automated drilling rig with no people needed.
The only reason to land people is if you want to land people. And wanting to do this is a fully justified reason to do it. There's no need to find hilarious excuses to do so.
What is a "normal backup system"? It has three pairs of redundant computers (3 x 2) doing the same things, that's quite a lot of redundancy. NASA seems to be OK with it.
The only time a capsule crashed into a space station was a Soyuz into MIR - and this Soyuz was manually controlled.
Yes, but I certainly didn't read my email on both at the same time. At worst it's just the same as multitasking. The bottleneck for data consumption is the user, not the device.
Couldn't be that this works out of the box since ages with iOS and macOS while with Android/ChromeOS you still had to manually enable the hotspot on your phone and then connect to it from your Chromebook.
But honestly, with LTE chipsets being dirt-cheap these days and e-SIMs being a thing there's actually very little reason to not include an LTE radio with every fucking laptop and tablet and have it work with the same phone number and the same contract as your phone. You can use only one of both at the same time anyway. Making your pay extra even for being allowed to tether is nothing but short-sighted stupidness.
...that Apple tried to avoid to begin with in iOS: Once you allow apps to run in the background, more and more apps want to do that and the bottom line is that the phone is busy all the time and sucks your battery dry and nobody knows why.
Apple was quite drastic and just didn't allow background tasks with very few exceptions: VoiceIP apps, chat apps and audio apps, also apps are allowed to finish tasks (like downloads) they began while they were in the foreground for max. 5 minutes. Some people think this is too strict, but the sweet spot is somewhere between "no background tasks at all" and "whatever, let apps do what they want", with both extremes probably being utterly wrong.
You won't find a solution that will satisfy everyone, but as soon as you have phone manufacturers putting up their own policies and hacks nobody knows what will happen with his app when and why and under which Android version. The fact that they seem to NEED their own hacks seems to indicate that Google didn't really solve this problem with Android.
I'm not. This thing is so huge, thick and heavy (it weights two thirds of an iPad mini, 200/300g) that I didn't want to carry it in my pocket every day. So I bought a fucking iPhone 7 a few days ago instead to replace my disintegrating iPhone 6. Well.
Wouldn't this actually have exactly the opposite effect? If you charge your phone more often and only partly before the battery is completely empty this is actually much better for the battery. Running it dry every day and charging it completely to 100% over night is the worst case for the lifetime of your battery.
The current iPhones are the thickest since the iPhone 4s. They have gotten thicker ever since the iPhone 6, which was and still is the thinnest iPhone ever. Apple has long given up on that and in fact especially the iPhone XR is positively a brick.
These are execution problems and surely could be improved upon. Just like fingerprint sensors and face recognition systems are old and totally sucked often enough.
(Although I personally agree that even in the best case this is just a tiny bit of convenience and surely nothing you would really need.)
If they will build this, it will be hardly more than a practical joke, but certainly a lot of fun. I really don't see where's the problem with this. It certainly won't be more crazy than any other 1 million supercar or whatever. And no, I don't think it will be really practical for your morning commute...
Others would have rigged some tear gas canister or an explosive device with a few handfuls of shrapnel. Glitter and fart spray is effective enough and at the same time whimsical enough to get away with it.
With so many things coming from China basically everything would become more expensive and this wouldn't exactly be a popular thing. Sticking it just to the elitist iPhone owners (although I fear Trump may be wrong here, but whatever) is more limited. Those who buy $200 China smartphone anyway will say "serves them right!" and love Trump even more. At least I'm fairly sure that Trump thinks this way.
They didn't make a small X because the sensors for FaceID along with the camera and everything else cause the notch up there to be wide enough that there wouldn't be enough room on either side for the status bar items in a smaller display. A smaller phone would have needed a full-width bezel on the top and due to Apple's obsession with design and symmetry this was just not an option. The resulting phone would have looked too much like what 100 Android phones look like.
The only way to make a smaller X would have been to do away with FaceID and put a TouchID sensor on the back, making the notch on the front much smaller. This again probably wasn't what Apple wanted because they didn't want to mar the uptake of FaceID by offering a convincing package of a new phone with the old TouchID, making FaceID in their expensive phones look like a crutch.
You don't need to agree with everything (or anything) Apple does but they usually have good reasons (good for Apple) to do what they do. They aren't idiots (far from it), they just want your money.
Just saying. Because "if those commercial capabilities come online" doesn't mean the same as "when those commercial capabilities come online". It means he doubts that they will come online.
Which honestly is just reasonable. Especially BFS (SpaceX) as a fully and quickly reusable spacecraft that at the same time is a high-performance low-mass second stage still is more of a dream than a plan. Yes, SpaceX is building some tank components as test articles, they have fired the first engine prototypes but everything else (from reentry aerodynamics to heat shield) is an ongoing R&D effort, not something you just have to build and fly. They're still changing the design all the time, with Musk teasing a "radical change" just a few days ago. They will only really start building this thing when the design is fully nailed down and it doesn't look like that at all.
Anyway, the silent agreement between all the old players still seems to be "I will believe it when I see it" and they will be happy with that for quite a few years I guess.
They will launch up to 20 or 25 sats per launch. So a few hundred launches. But yes, it will be many launches. The thing is that SpaceX is right now the only company who could do that: With the first stage being reusable at least 10 times, they will need to build only about 30 or 40 of them. With all other launchers the launch costs alone would be prohibitive.
But sure, it's a fucking big project on an altogether new scale. It can easily break SpaceX. Or earn them enough money to build their Mars spacecraft.
Whatâ(TM)s the advantage of having whatâ(TM)s basically a full-width notch instead? As long as thereâ(TM)s no way to integrate camera, sensors and speaker into the display you will have them above the display and either have reach the display at least around these to the top (leaving a notch in the middle) or have a full strip of no display at all on the top.
I really donâ(TM)t understand what people who hate the notch really want instead. Do they want a full-width notch instead of a part-width notch?
If you ask Germans "how are you?" (or the German "Wie geht's dir?") you can expect either getting a full rundown of their health, work, financial, family and marriage situation or just a "fuck off" look (which basically means "None of your business, stranger!"). It's just one of the language and culture differences you have to adapt to: Words don't mean the same even if you can perfectly understand them.
Small talk isn't something that the Finnish are lacking, it's rather something that the Americans are very good at. Very similar with smiling by the way: Americans do that all the time, Europeans not so much.
It's not that easy in Europe. They have quite stringent regulations for vehicles and while bicycles are bicycles (and basically 100% unregulated for historical reasons), scooters are just as rare as Segways because they're treated basically as powered toys that are not allowed on public streets. No way. Trying the same as in SF would just get you a into big and expensive trouble in Europe. You may see single people driving around with them as long as nobody cares, but dump a shitload of them onto the streets and try to make money with them and you'll be very surprised what happens to you there.
Nobody ever said you'd be going to eat insects being caught in the wild. It would be insects that are being farmed, just as with nearly all other animals we eat. The percentage of wild animals globally is hardly more than a rounding error compared to cattle etc. anyway.
That screen is high up, easy to reach and right in your field of view when you're looking at the road before you. I can't seriously pretend that a myriad of tiny buttons, dials and lights deep down in the center console or so is really better. The touchscreen is different, but not really worse.
All of this has been developed with feedback from the crews, coordinated by a NASA astronaut with three Shuttle missions under his belt. Somehow I think that these people know better than you what's laughable and what will work, anonymous coward.
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Boeing naming its capsule "Starliner" is OK though?
It would just need to support streaming from an iPhone or iPad, nothing more.
Because on Earth using people as universal bio-robots is much cheaper. What is so hard to understand about that?
Back in the Apollo days each man hour on the Moon did cost about $1B. If crews for drilling rigs on Earth would cost that much per man hour, there would be only automated drilling rigs. What do you think?
People on the surface wouldn't wield tools with their hands to break through the surface anyway. And landing people (and all they need to survive and to return) means so much more mass that you could just as well deliver a massive automated drilling rig with no people needed.
The only reason to land people is if you want to land people. And wanting to do this is a fully justified reason to do it. There's no need to find hilarious excuses to do so.
What is a "normal backup system"? It has three pairs of redundant computers (3 x 2) doing the same things, that's quite a lot of redundancy. NASA seems to be OK with it.
The only time a capsule crashed into a space station was a Soyuz into MIR - and this Soyuz was manually controlled.
For the benefit of the non-trolls here an informative and fun graph of the climate in the last 20000 years:
https://xkcd.com/1732/
Make sure to scroll down to the very bottom (the present).
Yes, but I certainly didn't read my email on both at the same time. At worst it's just the same as multitasking. The bottleneck for data consumption is the user, not the device.
Couldn't be that this works out of the box since ages with iOS and macOS while with Android/ChromeOS you still had to manually enable the hotspot on your phone and then connect to it from your Chromebook.
But honestly, with LTE chipsets being dirt-cheap these days and e-SIMs being a thing there's actually very little reason to not include an LTE radio with every fucking laptop and tablet and have it work with the same phone number and the same contract as your phone. You can use only one of both at the same time anyway. Making your pay extra even for being allowed to tether is nothing but short-sighted stupidness.
...that Apple tried to avoid to begin with in iOS: Once you allow apps to run in the background, more and more apps want to do that and the bottom line is that the phone is busy all the time and sucks your battery dry and nobody knows why.
Apple was quite drastic and just didn't allow background tasks with very few exceptions: VoiceIP apps, chat apps and audio apps, also apps are allowed to finish tasks (like downloads) they began while they were in the foreground for max. 5 minutes. Some people think this is too strict, but the sweet spot is somewhere between "no background tasks at all" and "whatever, let apps do what they want", with both extremes probably being utterly wrong.
You won't find a solution that will satisfy everyone, but as soon as you have phone manufacturers putting up their own policies and hacks nobody knows what will happen with his app when and why and under which Android version. The fact that they seem to NEED their own hacks seems to indicate that Google didn't really solve this problem with Android.
I'm not. This thing is so huge, thick and heavy (it weights two thirds of an iPad mini, 200/300g) that I didn't want to carry it in my pocket every day. So I bought a fucking iPhone 7 a few days ago instead to replace my disintegrating iPhone 6. Well.
Wouldn't this actually have exactly the opposite effect? If you charge your phone more often and only partly before the battery is completely empty this is actually much better for the battery. Running it dry every day and charging it completely to 100% over night is the worst case for the lifetime of your battery.
The current iPhones are the thickest since the iPhone 4s. They have gotten thicker ever since the iPhone 6, which was and still is the thinnest iPhone ever. Apple has long given up on that and in fact especially the iPhone XR is positively a brick.
These are execution problems and surely could be improved upon. Just like fingerprint sensors and face recognition systems are old and totally sucked often enough.
(Although I personally agree that even in the best case this is just a tiny bit of convenience and surely nothing you would really need.)
If they will build this, it will be hardly more than a practical joke, but certainly a lot of fun. I really don't see where's the problem with this. It certainly won't be more crazy than any other 1 million supercar or whatever. And no, I don't think it will be really practical for your morning commute...
Others would have rigged some tear gas canister or an explosive device with a few handfuls of shrapnel. Glitter and fart spray is effective enough and at the same time whimsical enough to get away with it.
With so many things coming from China basically everything would become more expensive and this wouldn't exactly be a popular thing. Sticking it just to the elitist iPhone owners (although I fear Trump may be wrong here, but whatever) is more limited. Those who buy $200 China smartphone anyway will say "serves them right!" and love Trump even more. At least I'm fairly sure that Trump thinks this way.
They didn't make a small X because the sensors for FaceID along with the camera and everything else cause the notch up there to be wide enough that there wouldn't be enough room on either side for the status bar items in a smaller display. A smaller phone would have needed a full-width bezel on the top and due to Apple's obsession with design and symmetry this was just not an option. The resulting phone would have looked too much like what 100 Android phones look like.
The only way to make a smaller X would have been to do away with FaceID and put a TouchID sensor on the back, making the notch on the front much smaller. This again probably wasn't what Apple wanted because they didn't want to mar the uptake of FaceID by offering a convincing package of a new phone with the old TouchID, making FaceID in their expensive phones look like a crutch.
You don't need to agree with everything (or anything) Apple does but they usually have good reasons (good for Apple) to do what they do. They aren't idiots (far from it), they just want your money.
Just saying. Because "if those commercial capabilities come online" doesn't mean the same as "when those commercial capabilities come online". It means he doubts that they will come online.
Which honestly is just reasonable. Especially BFS (SpaceX) as a fully and quickly reusable spacecraft that at the same time is a high-performance low-mass second stage still is more of a dream than a plan. Yes, SpaceX is building some tank components as test articles, they have fired the first engine prototypes but everything else (from reentry aerodynamics to heat shield) is an ongoing R&D effort, not something you just have to build and fly. They're still changing the design all the time, with Musk teasing a "radical change" just a few days ago. They will only really start building this thing when the design is fully nailed down and it doesn't look like that at all.
Anyway, the silent agreement between all the old players still seems to be "I will believe it when I see it" and they will be happy with that for quite a few years I guess.
They will launch up to 20 or 25 sats per launch. So a few hundred launches. But yes, it will be many launches. The thing is that SpaceX is right now the only company who could do that: With the first stage being reusable at least 10 times, they will need to build only about 30 or 40 of them. With all other launchers the launch costs alone would be prohibitive.
But sure, it's a fucking big project on an altogether new scale. It can easily break SpaceX. Or earn them enough money to build their Mars spacecraft.
Whatâ(TM)s the advantage of having whatâ(TM)s basically a full-width notch instead? As long as thereâ(TM)s no way to integrate camera, sensors and speaker into the display you will have them above the display and either have reach the display at least around these to the top (leaving a notch in the middle) or have a full strip of no display at all on the top.
I really donâ(TM)t understand what people who hate the notch really want instead. Do they want a full-width notch instead of a part-width notch?
If you ask Germans "how are you?" (or the German "Wie geht's dir?") you can expect either getting a full rundown of their health, work, financial, family and marriage situation or just a "fuck off" look (which basically means "None of your business, stranger!"). It's just one of the language and culture differences you have to adapt to: Words don't mean the same even if you can perfectly understand them.
Small talk isn't something that the Finnish are lacking, it's rather something that the Americans are very good at. Very similar with smiling by the way: Americans do that all the time, Europeans not so much.
It's not that easy in Europe. They have quite stringent regulations for vehicles and while bicycles are bicycles (and basically 100% unregulated for historical reasons), scooters are just as rare as Segways because they're treated basically as powered toys that are not allowed on public streets. No way. Trying the same as in SF would just get you a into big and expensive trouble in Europe. You may see single people driving around with them as long as nobody cares, but dump a shitload of them onto the streets and try to make money with them and you'll be very surprised what happens to you there.
Nobody ever said you'd be going to eat insects being caught in the wild. It would be insects that are being farmed, just as with nearly all other animals we eat. The percentage of wild animals globally is hardly more than a rounding error compared to cattle etc. anyway.
That screen is high up, easy to reach and right in your field of view when you're looking at the road before you. I can't seriously pretend that a myriad of tiny buttons, dials and lights deep down in the center console or so is really better. The touchscreen is different, but not really worse.
All of this has been developed with feedback from the crews, coordinated by a NASA astronaut with three Shuttle missions under his belt. Somehow I think that these people know better than you what's laughable and what will work, anonymous coward.