By all accounts, the Hubble Space Telescope should retire to a museum such as the Smithsonian but instead it will be burned up during re-entry like a piece of space garbage. So sad:-(
Says who? Is that official? De-orbiting it will need a mission sent. Might as well boost it to a higher long-term orbit instead. One day, somebody will offer to bring it back. Would be a lot of prestige for the BFR, or whoever succeeds in building a suitable vehicle. (The Shuttle would have been capable of returning the 11 tons to Earth.)
The "living in harmony" thing is not total BS. They did after a time reach a sustainable equilibrium. We have no idea if or when industrial society will do that. Or if it is desirable.
Australia has been inhabited throughout, if sparsely, for tens of thousands of years. Early inhabitants altered the ecosystem by sending megafauna to extinction, and lighting frequent fires, drastically changing forests. Even before the recent introduction of farming, mining and towns, there was little or nothing of the landscape left "untouched".
Antarctica and Greenland are relatively virginal compared to Australia.
Exactly. American "Cheese" is not cheese. Even in the US itself, it cannot be labelled as cheese, but must be called "processed cheese", "cheese-based food" or "edible congealed rubber-like product".
thing to do is unlock the bootloader, and install a custom ROM
Just beware you can lose features that way. e.g. Google Pay, Camera image-processing features,... DRM'ed streaming apps like Netflix may refuse to install or reduce features.
There are workarounds, but they can be time consuming.
I very much doubt that the Facebook app is istored in ROM.
It is stored in the READ-ONLY system partition. It is ROM. Which is why it cannot be deleted. Not just Samsung. Sony too, for example.
That is what ROM has meant for decades now. Non-volatile flash memory that is only written in a firmware upgrade. Were you expecting hand-woven core memory, or factory mask ROM?
I think I have made myself clear. But Amimojo, I've read your posts and no idea what you really think. Do you believe sexual dimorphism in humans stops at the neck? What intrinsic differences are there between men and women? Do you believe that male domination of records in sport is due to biological causes, or it it oppression of female athletes? What about chess?
I'm looking at the data, instead of twisting it to fit my prejudices. I might hypothesise that in Iran or China, parents contribute more to the choice of field of study, compared to Scandinavia. Greater freedom of choice by young people leads to greater expression of their differing preferences.
Some irony here. Blaming parenting for bad kids is often not much better than blaming video games. Correlation between children and parental behaviour is mostly explained by genetics and the broader shared environment. With some obvious exceptions, especially for younger "spoiled kids", though I object to that term, as if it is just a lack of parental discipline, they can quickly learn how to follow the norms of their peer group when older.
If it is cross cultural how do you explain places like Iran where more than half the STEM graduates are female? How about China
Less gender equality and personal freedom in those countries. More equality and freedom means men and women are more able to make choices and express their differences.
No, except that culture reflects nature. Sexual differences in personality and preference in occupational activities appear to be hard wired, and cross-cultural. Cross-species even - we see similar sexual dimorphism in other primates.
It can be observed from an early age in the toys and activities that children use. As they get older and more socially conditioned, the sexual differences become smaller, not greater. Women like people, men like things. (talking tendency in averages of course, if that does not do without saying)
Yep, follow the money. We should have embargoed the Saudi scum and blockaded their ports in the weeks after 9/11, not spend trillions on endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Send a message that financing terrorism and mass murder is not an acceptable thing to do.
Unless we do it. Afghanistan in the '80s, Cuba, Brazil, Nicaragua, Pinochet, Mubarak...
Square in the middle of what used to be the San Diego Freeway, I leaned back against a huge, twisted oak. The old bark was rough and powdery against my bare back. There was dark green shade shot with tight parallel beams of white gold. Long grass tickled my legs.
Forty yards away across a wide strip of lawn was a clump of elms, and a small grandmotherly woman sitting on a green towel. She looked like she'd grown there. A stalk of grass protruded between her teeth. I felt we were kindred spirits, and once when I caught her eye I wiggled a forefinger at her, and she waved back.
In a minute now I'd have to be getting up, Jill was meeting me at the Wiltshire exits in half an hour. But I'd started walking at the Sunset Boulevard ramps, and I was tired. A minute more...
It was a good place to watch the world rotate.
A good day for it, too. No clouds at all. On this hot blue summer afternoon, King's Free Park was as crowded as it ever gets.
Someone at police headquarters had expected that. Twice the usual number of copseyes floated overhead, waiting. Gold dots against blue, basketball-sized, twelve feet up. Each with a television eye and a sonic stunner, each a hookup to police headquarters, they were there to enforce the law of the park.
Wait a decade or so, and Sudanese will be the same - the Sudanese community will be an integral part of Australia's multicultural society,
Wishful thinking at best. How are the Aboriginals doing? Living in Melbourne, you probably don't meet any, but come to WA or Queensland. These social divides can last centuries with no solution in sight. Yes there are big differences in the two groups, but also similarities. And overseas experience with sub-Saharans has not been good. Look at London or the US. Or visit sub-Saharan Africa - it is nothing like Eurasia. I fear there is no factual basis for your optimism, but I do hope it proves correct.
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By all accounts, the Hubble Space Telescope should retire to a museum such as the Smithsonian but instead it will be burned up during re-entry like a piece of space garbage. So sad :-(
Says who? Is that official? De-orbiting it will need a mission sent. Might as well boost it to a higher long-term orbit instead.
One day, somebody will offer to bring it back. Would be a lot of prestige for the BFR, or whoever succeeds in building a suitable vehicle.
(The Shuttle would have been capable of returning the 11 tons to Earth.)
It needs a duress code.
Wink left then right, and it silently erases the phone, except for the decoy profile.
The "living in harmony" thing is not total BS. They did after a time reach a sustainable equilibrium.
We have no idea if or when industrial society will do that. Or if it is desirable.
What part of the Earth is untouched by ants?
Cyanobacteria! Since they spewed their toxic oxygen into the atmosphere, nothing has been the same.
Australia has been inhabited throughout, if sparsely, for tens of thousands of years.
Early inhabitants altered the ecosystem by sending megafauna to extinction, and lighting frequent fires, drastically changing forests.
Even before the recent introduction of farming, mining and towns, there was little or nothing of the landscape left "untouched".
Antarctica and Greenland are relatively virginal compared to Australia.
Could it be that the product isn't cheese?
Exactly. American "Cheese" is not cheese. Even in the US itself, it cannot be labelled as cheese, but must be called "processed cheese", "cheese-based food" or "edible congealed rubber-like product".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
thing to do is unlock the bootloader, and install a custom ROM
Just beware you can lose features that way. ...
e.g. Google Pay, Camera image-processing features,
DRM'ed streaming apps like Netflix may refuse to install or reduce features.
There are workarounds, but they can be time consuming.
I very much doubt that the Facebook app is istored in ROM.
It is stored in the READ-ONLY system partition. It is ROM. Which is why it cannot be deleted. Not just Samsung. Sony too, for example.
That is what ROM has meant for decades now. Non-volatile flash memory that is only written in a firmware upgrade.
Were you expecting hand-woven core memory, or factory mask ROM?
I think I have made myself clear. But Amimojo, I've read your posts and no idea what you really think.
Do you believe sexual dimorphism in humans stops at the neck?
What intrinsic differences are there between men and women?
Do you believe that male domination of records in sport is due to biological causes, or it it oppression of female athletes?
What about chess?
I'm looking at the data, instead of twisting it to fit my prejudices.
I might hypothesise that in Iran or China, parents contribute more to the choice of field of study, compared to Scandinavia.
Greater freedom of choice by young people leads to greater expression of their differing preferences.
What can we blame bad parenting on now?
Some irony here. Blaming parenting for bad kids is often not much better than blaming video games.
Correlation between children and parental behaviour is mostly explained by genetics and the broader shared environment. With some obvious exceptions, especially for younger "spoiled kids", though I object to that term, as if it is just a lack of parental discipline, they can quickly learn how to follow the norms of their peer group when older.
If it is cross cultural how do you explain places like Iran where more than half the STEM graduates are female? How about China
Less gender equality and personal freedom in those countries. More equality and freedom means men and women are more able to make choices and express their differences.
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...
But: Gender disparities in science and engineering in Chinese universities:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
Except they can just keep walking up the stairs
Some will think of that. But there may be some ACs in the crowd. Chaos!
No, except that culture reflects nature.
Sexual differences in personality and preference in occupational activities appear to be hard wired, and cross-cultural. Cross-species even - we see similar sexual dimorphism in other primates.
It can be observed from an early age in the toys and activities that children use. As they get older and more socially conditioned, the sexual differences become smaller, not greater. Women like people, men like things. (talking tendency in averages of course, if that does not do without saying)
"Bennu's small size"
But Chinese frequently state that small size does not matter.
Especially when they are connected full-time to remote operations centre, where they are monitored and controlled.
What next? Self-driving elevators?
Women are on average more neurotic than men. James Damore got fired for saying this.
Women are on average higher in neuroticism, one of the Big-5 personality traits.
This is unfortunately named, as it is not the same as being neurotic.
The 18th Apollo mission was planned to land on the dark side of the moon.
But according to Senator William Proxmire, supporting Wisconsin cheese farmers was more important, so it got cancelled.
I very much doubt that lunar cheese mines could have competed with Wisconsin, due to the high cost of transport, Grommit.
2x larger battery.
WHAT! That would add over a millimetre of thinness. Apple will never trade convenience for looks.
Next you'll be wanting to go back to a Nokia-style plastic face, that gets bothersome scuff-marks occasionally, just because it never shatters.
(I do miss the days when you could accidentally drop your phone from a moving car, find the battery and cover, reassemble, and it still just worked.)
The US produces way more oil than Norway. Where is our sovereign wealth fund enabling us to pay for societally nice things?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yep, follow the money. We should have embargoed the Saudi scum and blockaded their ports in the weeks after 9/11, not spend trillions on endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Send a message that financing terrorism and mass murder is not an acceptable thing to do.
Unless we do it. Afghanistan in the '80s, Cuba, Brazil, Nicaragua, Pinochet, Mubarak ...
Norway generates about 90% of it's electrical power via Hydro.
That, and the fact the country could fit into Texas twice, you have the perfect place for electric cars.
That, and a trillion dollars of oil profits in the sovereign wealth funds, meaning you can afford big subsidies to help make the guilt go away.
Square in the middle of what used to be the San Diego Freeway, I leaned back against a huge, twisted oak. The old bark was rough and powdery against my bare back. There was dark green shade shot with tight parallel beams of white gold. Long grass tickled my legs.
Forty yards away across a wide strip of lawn was a clump of elms, and a small grandmotherly woman sitting on a green towel. She looked like she'd grown there. A stalk of grass protruded between her teeth. I felt we were kindred spirits, and once when I caught her eye I wiggled a forefinger at her, and she waved back.
In a minute now I'd have to be getting up, Jill was meeting me at the Wiltshire exits in half an hour. But I'd started walking at the Sunset Boulevard ramps, and I was tired. A minute more...
It was a good place to watch the world rotate.
A good day for it, too. No clouds at all. On this hot blue summer afternoon, King's Free Park was as crowded as it ever gets.
Someone at police headquarters had expected that. Twice the usual number of copseyes floated overhead, waiting. Gold dots against blue, basketball-sized, twelve feet up. Each with a television eye and a sonic stunner, each a hookup to police headquarters, they were there to enforce the law of the park.
No violence. ...
http://www.larryniven.net/stor...
Wait a decade or so, and Sudanese will be the same - the Sudanese community will be an integral part of Australia's multicultural society,
Wishful thinking at best. How are the Aboriginals doing? Living in Melbourne, you probably don't meet any, but come to WA or Queensland.
These social divides can last centuries with no solution in sight. Yes there are big differences in the two groups, but also similarities. And overseas experience with sub-Saharans has not been good. Look at London or the US. Or visit sub-Saharan Africa - it is nothing like Eurasia.
I fear there is no factual basis for your optimism, but I do hope it proves correct.
Found Peter Duttons media advisor who lives 3000kms from Melbourne.
Politicians like Peter Dutton shamelessly exaggerate and exploit problems.
But this does not mean there is no basis in fact.