That would appear to be what they plan to switch to for the actual discs, yes. They're basically an evolution of bluray. The first generation seems to basically take BDXL (which FaceBook and Amazon Glacier use), reduce the distance between tracks to get the per-layer density from ~33GB up to 50GB, and then make them double-sided to go from three layers to six total layers. That gets you from the 100GB BDXL to a 300GB Archival Disc.
Sony has had a storage mechanism that puts twelve BDXL discs in a single cartridge not much than twice the thickness of that many discs, and clearly intends to swap out the BDXL discs with Archival Discs when they're ready.
The smart child had memorized his father's Apple ID password
A password was required to make an in-game purchase, and even if the father entered it himself, that only works for 15 minutes. How is it Apple's fault that the kid memorized the guy's password?
By what measure did it suck? Because sharing a similar high-level story with a pre-existing work is not a measure of quality. Critics loved it, audiences loved it. If 90% of people think that a thing did not suck, then how can the other 10% be correct in saying that it did suck?
It's called giving the people what they want. The Phantom Menace has a 56% RT score. The Force Awakens has a 94% RT score. The audience scores are roughly similar, and the audience scores don't really improve for the subsequent prequels.
Lucas made four star wars movies himself: one good one (4) followed by three mediocre ones (1/2/3). He clearly doesn't know how to make a good one anymore.
- Visual line-of-sight (VLOS) only; the unmanned aircraft must remain within VLOS of the operator or visual observer. - At all times the small unmanned aircraft must remain close enough to the operator for the operator to be capable of seeing the aircraft with vision unaided by any device other than corrective lenses.
Well, an 18650 cell has maybe half a cent worth of lithium in it, so... do you really think that switching to a cheaper metal is going to make much of a difference?
Sodium batteries aren't going to see any adoption unless they have some technical superiority over lithium ion.
Ditto, just checked my spam folder and I found the scam mail. Except, they don't have most of the stuff they're claiming. Why would they have any tax information in the first place? And I don't have an SSN, since I'm not American, so clearly they don't have that either.
No more than Taiwan is the territory of China. Russia may have been completely in the wrong by invading and conquering Crimea, but they did, and now it's theirs. Ukraine's claims to it are just that: claims, not possession.
A good chunk of Micron's chip manufacturing capacity is via IMFT, which is a joint venture with Intel (hence the Intel Micron Flash Technologies Inc.) and I really doubt the US government would let them buy Micron...
On the other hand, there are a bunch of chip manufactures in Taiwan (like TSMC or UMC) that they could buy, or even a bunch of Chinese manufacturers like SMIC that they could buy and expand.
My experience is that I let Windows install some updates and it took an hour and a half (on a modern SSD-backed system)... and it changed all my file type assignments. Every single file type that is supported by a Microsoft program was replaced with the Microsoft program. HTML files were changed from Chrome to Edge, TXT files changed from Notepad++ to notepad.exe, PDF files changed from Acrobat to Edge, all image files changed from Photoshop to Windows Photo Viewer, and so on. I was not amused.
I'm referring to your comment about a plug-in digital replacement for VHS tapes, not your comment about cameras. A plug-in VHS device would be subject to most of the same limitations as real VHS tapes, which is to say, the very best you could hope for is composite quality video, and in reality you'd get substantially less. The cost of such an interface, however, would be far more than the cost of just putting a composite (and/or HDMI) interface on the device to begin with. This sort of thing might make sense with cassette players in a car radio, where there are no other ways to connect to the radio, but that's not the case with a TV. Any solution you could come up with would cost more and provide lower quality than just plugging the new device directly into the TV.
In terms of the camera comments, the value is in the lenses, not the cheap semi-disposable camera bodies. You can simply buy a new digital camera body for your existing lenses. A modern APS-C DSLR will provide better image quality than 35mm film, albeit with a crop factor and reduced depth of field, and it can use your existing lenses. Possibly with adapters, depending on what type of lenses you have. They're $300-400.
Because such a device would probably cost even more than a device that just plugged directly into the TV, making it pointless. Not to mention that the video quality would be, well, VHS quality.
Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
Skylon will supposedly be cheaper to operate than currently existing expendable multi-stage rockets or future reusable ones. The problem is that Skylon will have a massive sunk cost: estimates from more than a decade ago put the total sunk costs at $12 billion USD, a figure that is sure to be much higher in reality.
Skylon has a similar payload capacity to a Falcon 9 rocket, which costs $61.2M per launch. Skylon is predicted to have a $14.7M USD launch cost (assuming the prediction is remotely accurate). Skylon would have to launch more than 800 times just to break even compared to Falcon 9. If SpaceX or any other company is successful in bringing the cost of launch down via reusability, then Skylon could take even longer to pay off.
In short, considering the enormous costs, Skylon is unlikely to ever be cheaper than alternatives.
How is this a problem? It's illegal to call yourself an engineer if you don't have an engineering degree and belong to the order of engineers. At least that's how it works here, and apparently in many US states too. That's why Microsoft stopped using the "MCSE" term.
The original TOS crew that came back for TNG were a big part of why the first two seasons were so weak, and the show only became good in the third season, when all of the TOS crew had left. As such, I don't think that having that connection to the roots of the series was at all helpful. Quite the opposite.
The competition with dealers is artificial anyhow, since all dealers selling cars from the same manufacturer are going to have the same base costs.
There are enough car companies for a healthy and competitive market, certainly more than four or five major manufacturers. I count at least ten major manufacturers selling vehicles in the US, and more may be enticed to enter the US market if there were less barriers to doing so.
There is more than one car manufacturer, and they already engage in heavy competition. What does it matter if dealers are squeezed out of the market? Why is that a bad thing?
We have a similar rule at the convention centre that I run events at. It's a huge building, there are tons of entrances, and if you call 911 yourself, you're just going to cause a big delay in the EMTs getting to the right place. Instead, you call venue security, and they will act as the first responder and call 911 and figure out the best entrance to get them to the right place.
The "don't call 911" rule is normal and needed for big facilities.
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No, the 1.5TB cartridge for the ODSD77U has twelve seemingly normal 128GB BDXL-R discs in it, it's not a single 1.5TB disc.
That would appear to be what they plan to switch to for the actual discs, yes. They're basically an evolution of bluray. The first generation seems to basically take BDXL (which FaceBook and Amazon Glacier use), reduce the distance between tracks to get the per-layer density from ~33GB up to 50GB, and then make them double-sided to go from three layers to six total layers. That gets you from the 100GB BDXL to a 300GB Archival Disc.
Sony has had a storage mechanism that puts twelve BDXL discs in a single cartridge not much than twice the thickness of that many discs, and clearly intends to swap out the BDXL discs with Archival Discs when they're ready.
It wasn't, but he's right.
The smart child had memorized his father's Apple ID password
A password was required to make an in-game purchase, and even if the father entered it himself, that only works for 15 minutes. How is it Apple's fault that the kid memorized the guy's password?
They do not. You don't need a credit card. They even provide instructions on how to do this:
https://support.apple.com/en-c...
Works fine for me with uBO
By what measure did it suck? Because sharing a similar high-level story with a pre-existing work is not a measure of quality. Critics loved it, audiences loved it. If 90% of people think that a thing did not suck, then how can the other 10% be correct in saying that it did suck?
It's called giving the people what they want. The Phantom Menace has a 56% RT score. The Force Awakens has a 94% RT score. The audience scores are roughly similar, and the audience scores don't really improve for the subsequent prequels.
Lucas made four star wars movies himself: one good one (4) followed by three mediocre ones (1/2/3). He clearly doesn't know how to make a good one anymore.
The FAA rules are exactly the opposite of what you understand:
https://www.faa.gov/regulation...
Operational Limitations
- Visual line-of-sight (VLOS) only; the unmanned aircraft must remain
within VLOS of the operator or visual observer.
- At all times the small unmanned aircraft must remain close enough to
the operator for the operator to be capable of seeing the aircraft with
vision unaided by any device other than corrective lenses.
Well, an 18650 cell has maybe half a cent worth of lithium in it, so... do you really think that switching to a cheaper metal is going to make much of a difference?
Sodium batteries aren't going to see any adoption unless they have some technical superiority over lithium ion.
Ditto, just checked my spam folder and I found the scam mail. Except, they don't have most of the stuff they're claiming. Why would they have any tax information in the first place? And I don't have an SSN, since I'm not American, so clearly they don't have that either.
No more than Taiwan is the territory of China. Russia may have been completely in the wrong by invading and conquering Crimea, but they did, and now it's theirs. Ukraine's claims to it are just that: claims, not possession.
A good chunk of Micron's chip manufacturing capacity is via IMFT, which is a joint venture with Intel (hence the Intel Micron Flash Technologies Inc.) and I really doubt the US government would let them buy Micron...
On the other hand, there are a bunch of chip manufactures in Taiwan (like TSMC or UMC) that they could buy, or even a bunch of Chinese manufacturers like SMIC that they could buy and expand.
My experience is that I let Windows install some updates and it took an hour and a half (on a modern SSD-backed system)... and it changed all my file type assignments. Every single file type that is supported by a Microsoft program was replaced with the Microsoft program. HTML files were changed from Chrome to Edge, TXT files changed from Notepad++ to notepad.exe, PDF files changed from Acrobat to Edge, all image files changed from Photoshop to Windows Photo Viewer, and so on. I was not amused.
RTFA, which is busy complaining that MOST of the supported games are xbox live arcade games.
I'm referring to your comment about a plug-in digital replacement for VHS tapes, not your comment about cameras. A plug-in VHS device would be subject to most of the same limitations as real VHS tapes, which is to say, the very best you could hope for is composite quality video, and in reality you'd get substantially less. The cost of such an interface, however, would be far more than the cost of just putting a composite (and/or HDMI) interface on the device to begin with. This sort of thing might make sense with cassette players in a car radio, where there are no other ways to connect to the radio, but that's not the case with a TV. Any solution you could come up with would cost more and provide lower quality than just plugging the new device directly into the TV.
In terms of the camera comments, the value is in the lenses, not the cheap semi-disposable camera bodies. You can simply buy a new digital camera body for your existing lenses. A modern APS-C DSLR will provide better image quality than 35mm film, albeit with a crop factor and reduced depth of field, and it can use your existing lenses. Possibly with adapters, depending on what type of lenses you have. They're $300-400.
Because such a device would probably cost even more than a device that just plugged directly into the TV, making it pointless. Not to mention that the video quality would be, well, VHS quality.
Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
Skylon will supposedly be cheaper to operate than currently existing expendable multi-stage rockets or future reusable ones. The problem is that Skylon will have a massive sunk cost: estimates from more than a decade ago put the total sunk costs at $12 billion USD, a figure that is sure to be much higher in reality.
Skylon has a similar payload capacity to a Falcon 9 rocket, which costs $61.2M per launch. Skylon is predicted to have a $14.7M USD launch cost (assuming the prediction is remotely accurate). Skylon would have to launch more than 800 times just to break even compared to Falcon 9. If SpaceX or any other company is successful in bringing the cost of launch down via reusability, then Skylon could take even longer to pay off.
In short, considering the enormous costs, Skylon is unlikely to ever be cheaper than alternatives.
How is this a problem? It's illegal to call yourself an engineer if you don't have an engineering degree and belong to the order of engineers. At least that's how it works here, and apparently in many US states too. That's why Microsoft stopped using the "MCSE" term.
The original TOS crew that came back for TNG were a big part of why the first two seasons were so weak, and the show only became good in the third season, when all of the TOS crew had left. As such, I don't think that having that connection to the roots of the series was at all helpful. Quite the opposite.
The competition with dealers is artificial anyhow, since all dealers selling cars from the same manufacturer are going to have the same base costs.
There are enough car companies for a healthy and competitive market, certainly more than four or five major manufacturers. I count at least ten major manufacturers selling vehicles in the US, and more may be enticed to enter the US market if there were less barriers to doing so.
There is more than one car manufacturer, and they already engage in heavy competition. What does it matter if dealers are squeezed out of the market? Why is that a bad thing?
We have a similar rule at the convention centre that I run events at. It's a huge building, there are tons of entrances, and if you call 911 yourself, you're just going to cause a big delay in the EMTs getting to the right place. Instead, you call venue security, and they will act as the first responder and call 911 and figure out the best entrance to get them to the right place.
The "don't call 911" rule is normal and needed for big facilities.
SSDs fell below $1/GB years ago. They've been stuck around $0.30-0.40/GB for a while.