That's the whole problem people keep missing! He was killed while he was working on the DNS changes and there was no one set to salute some imaginary spot in the air, while turning their feet like a military maneuver, and resume the changes!
And prices less insane, the pirates will play. Well, most of them. see: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime.
Bonus points for not attacking your customer base.
...yet. Not being a jerk, just adjusting to the common collective behavioral process of top decision makers at large companies. One will probably attack with feelings of grandiosity, the others will follow suit but stay $1 behind, thinking "Ah, what the hell. Eeeeeeasy money*."
I hope I'm wrong.
* Copyright held by whatever owns rights to Terminator 2 this hour of today
Modding and can't promote, but I especially agree with your piece about being the storytellers of culture. Feelings of power and control. Narcissism. Rich narcissist = good if distracted with holiday and fun-fun activities. Rich narcissist = bad if they think they are losing control.
Just as it is probably inconceivable to you that a lot of people, when given the opportunity to pay more for something than they consider it to be worth, just walk away and do without. No twisted justifications for stealing. They simply do without. Weird, eh?
What you say makes sense and is a very good way to live life in a mentally healthy state. There are a couple of things you can't put into that blob, though - communications (arts) and protective instincts (child-rearin').
You can't expect your wife, mother, or other directly tied one who had a child to one day decide they can do without. It's something the species needs to continue and instinctively it's a protected behavior. Communications is another - arts of music and visual; we have those embedded as one of the core drivers and accompanying components of our lives (brains). I, nor anyone with a realistic and working Human brain, can decide that because we no longer, do not, or will not have the means to see video and listen to musical patterns, that it's something we can 'do without'. Unless we want to brainwash all of a generation, and ensure they raise their young with punishment, cannot make music something we can do without. If you can, that's just you. You're a glitch in the matrix of all Human kind covering the globe. Even African tribes and groups that are just now being discovered have music and dance as part of their core beings.
Move away from Humans and you have other animals that rely on and express themselves in visual and auditory ways every day. To be a corporation/group of them/government/group of them that thinks they can put a price tag on music with a "you must do without unless you pay" is on dangerous ground. They're lucky they were getting what they did because of convenience; it was easy to love something heard on the radio and buy it. CDs added higher quality. Digital music added easier spread. It's done. Modeled, it's like a virus that is unstoppable spreading across the globe and infecting everyone (except lucky people like you, that is if you're really not just trolling). It can't be stopped. Finding something new or desirable that adds to the spice of it, so to speak, is the only way.
Go ahead, argue that point. If you do, you're just suffering from a case of cognitive dissonance. It's okay, we all do it. Just remember that this isn't a battle or game with a winner or loser. I'm stating facts, replying to you because you seem to be a bit lacking in knowledge of the facts, or are just in a grumpy mood today and need to seize power by arguing points that can't be argued - just to get in an argument. I'm not going to argue with you. Stating anything outside of basic Human needs and long-term animal instincts as a point of superior logic is nothing more than cognitive dissonance, or a really smart person who should be working on AI - AI can be controlled and dynamically changed per one's desires.:)
... It's so farcical I almost can't believe it's the way our modern economies function.
You have a very interesting and enlightening post here. Gives people something to think about, except for the execs that make the decisions. They're older and HATE changing business models because they're scared of it not turning out where they're in the same tax bracket (sorry for the bad use of terms, but hell...) than they are now. Not to mention the investors, those freaking scumbags that put pressure on the execs to do what THEY, the investors, want to ensure they have a return+++ on their investment. Combine the two, and it's sort of like a bad government setup - people who don't want to muddy the waters too much because there are so many risks to take, and those behind them that are (sorry to say, but they are) threatening them every day to continue instead of giving up and moving toward current technological, psychological, and many other variables in the real-world models.
The execs are also (almost 100% because they were to get in, or are because they got in and feel entitled to way more than they are) narcissistic. There is no way they can change their official operations and opinions/appearances unless it is THEIR idea. Somehow, someone else is going to have to come up with a new world model for A/V arts and step-by-step help them think they (execs) themselves came up with the ideas. That or wait for them to die off from natural causes and, try to help the ones observing and learning to be like them, to think they have a better idea that they came up with all by themselves.
Human behavior is so sad when it's been researched so thoroughly and proven, yet people repeat behaviors and get the same results. I guess one of the K-12 (in the US, anyhow) classes should be behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic psychology. When I saw K-12, I mean every year from K-12. Maybe that would help people more easily realize that something changing doesn't mean you lost a game that your entire self-worth is based on internally; you just changed your opinion or operating behavior because something more effective was found. Not to be off-topic, but same with government... stop sticking to [this] or [that] party line and making sure when you have a stance or opinion that you always stick to it to prove integrity. Prove freakin' integrity by showing you're the same person with good intentions that's simply adapting. I bring this at the end because it ties to business.
I would gladly give every music exec exactly what he deserves, but murder is illegal in my country.
How about an alternative... Freeze all assets, strip them of their belongings, give them an apartment and food for a month, and go make them learn to play a musical instrument. Like Trading Places; get other execs to back it for a reality show. Heck, they'll gain from it so why not screw one of their own over?;)
I still remember the day I found out just how little of the ~15-20 bucks I spent on a CD actually went to the band. I felt robbed. I felt bad for the bands. I hate rent seekers who use their position of power and influence to take far more than their fair share as an fiefdom tax.
OMG, I know.. If it weren't for the psycho fan risk, it would be nice to be able to give money to the band members directly to ensure it isn't going to get a[n] [over]weighted fee pulled by someone else. Tax reporting isn't brought into this thought, anyone who reads this. That's the band members' responsibility to do what they wish in terms of evasion or reporting.
It baffles me that the rights holders won't allow a discounted price for a movie purchase after you rent it. I'm sure it's on Apple's radar. They'vs been doing something similar for Music for years with "Complete My Album". You get a discount for the album based on the amount that you've paid for each song.
If not, you just put it on their radar. Of course, they have prior art and email chains to cover patents and copyrights. {Hold on a sec... gotta modify a character in an email chain at work.. ok there, done. Now it's shown I proved I told the company about this new proof of concept on 2015-09-22. Sweet.}/sarcasm
I'm not criticizing you, BTW. Just pointing fingers in their direction. 7:)
I love your examples! What the ID-10-T execs don't realize is that their consumer base could (if we had a "movement" other than bowel) completely destroy them. All of them. Their actions that scare, set limits for, and piss off those that can destroy them are narcissistic at best (oh, there are so many more words).
Oh, well. People just repeat the same mistakes again expecting different results because they're "different" than the ones before (more powerful or smarter). Funny how that process repeats and proves that those who believe they are smarter are absolutely not. Laughable.
Quite simply, privacy supports terrorism in many peoples' eyes. The government has backed the concept, but focused on encryption.
It looks like another attempt to rewrite the rules to have a win-win (big shocker there). There's more money in winning.
Win: Government and people who really think that things like encryption limitation will somehow thwart terrorists are now happy. Google gets points and possibly more investment from people. Win: Google has rewritten the conceptual rules and can now also use that data, which is no longer considered "non-existent", if you will, to use for ad data internally and (oh, a third win), sell off more statistical data.
Not a big shocker on this one. More waves of this care coming.
They should have sent up one of these babies (JILA Strontium Atomic Clock Sets New Records https://www.nist.gov/news-even...). No maintenance required:)
Huh? But that's old news. China's is cooler and better and will last longer. And it comes from CHINA where all of the bestest electronics are Wonka-style constructed!!!1
Agree with you completely! What I meant was the young age of old enough to use a music playing device you can purchase through until about mid-late 20s where you start to appreciate your music you've listened to until that point. Certain groups excluded, the demand for buying music released yesterday drops significantly.
I could be wrong, but observation shows me that there are two things at play simultaneously:
1. The majority of the profit comes from younger individuals who [want|need] NOW. They don't tend to think of ways to hack around the bad system that makes them pay for something they shouldn't have to pay for, so their demand and "I [want|need] it NOW" mentality drives them toward the thing that gets them what they want with a payment (slews of different ways to download music and pay). Google makes it easy, Apple makes it easy. Those are the two majority OS players.
2. The individuals generating the numbers are the same ones, or different people under the same superior. It's never okay to say "we lost but we're still alive" when it comes to superiority complexes the corp execs all suffer from, so why not issue the statement, "We are doing great, actually. Better than the last newfangled thing crazy of them CD things. Thanks!" It's a game play. Your move.
I say generating, because there isn't any possible way that they could meet two situational criteria simultaneously without a free handout from the government (which really means you're fine, just getting income from another source); they can't be "suffering" from "pirates" and ALSO "doing wonderful" at the same time. It seems like a typical mental flapping to tell the enemy it didn't win in order to encourage the enemy to stop bothering trying to win. Either you're suffering from piracy or you're not. Government assistance overrides suffering, thus doesn't count in the argument.
All I can really see as a possible truth is the companies/lawyers having such a scare system in place that it actually worked and only smart people that they aren't gonna outsmart remain, and that's just fine for their numbers. Or even better, perhaps they were fine the whole time and the loss of sales/income was from financial hardships of consumers which has now evened out, giving them the impression that they are fine as a result of their efforts and material; perhaps they would have been not equal but close enough to call it equal, to what would have happened if piracy hadn't consumed their attention and efforts. The economy sucked. When it sucks, you drop in numbers, too. Simple psychological reasoning, and bias as a constant, state that they may be older folks with narcissistic complexes, but "got played" themselves. i.e. There wasn't a huge problem to begin with, and now that you see what you want to, the problem seems to have lowered. Funny part is, the more you try to stop something, the more people do it and circumvent your efforts. How would those numbers look if you just left crap alone and presented new awesome stuff that people would buy when they have the means. Art, visual or auditory, is something you can't TAKE FROM PEOPLE. It's going to go on whether you're part or not.
You only get a piece of the proverbial pie when it's the best and most economical for all in the mix. I'm talking art, FWIW.
"It is the world's first cold atomic clock to operate in space."
Is it really the worlds anything if it's in space??
Article clearly says it's for timing of their geostationary satellite positioning system, so no. Nobody gets anything. At least not until a Russian kid bored out of their mind hacks it in a week. Har har.
Oh, you mean in terms of possession by the planet as an entity.. All I can say is that as long as it's within gravitational pull of Earth, it's Earth's.:)
So they just have to correct it by a second 5 times before the Sun explodes.
Elementary, my dear ememisya! Atomic matter from all of the dead life on Earth, as well as interstellar waves, will fix it all by itself. Has one of those "self-kerrectin' mechanisms" or some junk like that. Heck, one of the carbon atoms from your left eye might be part of the correction that is implemented.00000000000000000000001 picoseconds before the Sun's collapse reaches critical.
Well, since Earth isn't the only thing that has atoms to spread through a dying planetary system, it sounded good, anyway.:)
It's OK, the satellite around it was made in China, so it'll be broken in less than 3 years.
Oh, so they CAN make quality products over there, eh? Now I know what all of the money I've been spending on electronics and sticky note dispensers has been going toward!:)
Why did they put it in a satellite lasting under a millennium in lifespan?
It's not about long-term functionality.. It's all about comparison to other human technology. Just like the comparison of the length of dic/)*Ev& NO CARRIER
Well the atomic clock won't last that long see that second offset!
Statistically, it's more likely to have orbital degradation with the failure of boosting mechanism, damage from orbital junk, damage by solids in space puncturing it and damaging equipment, damage from a nearby supernova's emissions, or failure of comms equipment and/or panels, far before the Chinese make the reading of its clock value available to anyone but their government and satellite-based guidance systems.:)
When Apple had the "courage" to remove headphone jacks to force the sale of expensive bluetooth earbuds, they did so in a way that is pissing people off and losing them business.
Your interpretation of that into "Be salesy! Encourage bluetooth device for listening by making phone courageously explode!" was very poor and might lose you *A LOT OF FUTURE BUSINESS*. Learn to translate the copying of business models./humor
Good point, and now we start with a similar processes to electric cars. The energy doesn't come from nowhere... Energy has to be used to gather energy in your example; people with electric cars forget (of course, those with a massive array of solar panels at their home or geothermal conv. homes etc) that electricity comes from somewhere. Sorry but I can't help saying it... Met with a guy about a transmitter tower near the Ohio River valley. Dude has a kickin' electric car plan; plan to install socket in his garage and buy the next stable Tesla release (geez, never thought I would refer to cars like software). I pointed my finger to our SE at the time, to the Zimmer power plant. He said, "What, you gonna play a trick or something?" I looked in the direction of my point and continued to point. Saw some yellowish-orange emissions from the stack (usual). Again, he said but this time with a chuckle, "What? Is there a UFO over there?" I face-palmed and said, "Sure. That's what I'm pointing at coming from a stack at a power plant. A UFO." Both of us friendly laughing, he said, "I don't get it. What's the joke, sorry?" I said, "Your new vehicle is going to pull power from the grid. No biggie right now, but what happens when everyone down this street and in the town down there [pointing] are all using power at night or at work to charge their Teslas? That thing is gonna have more of that yellow-orange coming out of the stack." He responded, chucking with, "Come on.. This is green energy at work.. They'll come up with a solution before everyone gets one." I ended with, "You're right. It won't get worse. They'll just build another plant. Anyhow, do you have the welder in your truck; ready to go?" *Sigh*
Slashdot Mirror
lolwut?
I remember when a new website was introduced into a hip tech forum and the resulting debilitating traffic load was called being slashdotted...
Doesn't happen that way anymore, and... "You damned redditers get offa my lawn!"
They're allowed to have lawns over there? Dude.. I was given the wrong impression this whole time!
someone probably died for this mistake
That's the whole problem people keep missing! He was killed while he was working on the DNS changes and there was no one set to salute some imaginary spot in the air, while turning their feet like a military maneuver, and resume the changes!
And prices less insane, the pirates will play. Well, most of them. see: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime.
Bonus points for not attacking your customer base.
...yet. Not being a jerk, just adjusting to the common collective behavioral process of top decision makers at large companies. One will probably attack with feelings of grandiosity, the others will follow suit but stay $1 behind, thinking "Ah, what the hell. Eeeeeeasy money*."
I hope I'm wrong.
* Copyright held by whatever owns rights to Terminator 2 this hour of today
Modding and can't promote, but I especially agree with your piece about being the storytellers of culture. Feelings of power and control. Narcissism. Rich narcissist = good if distracted with holiday and fun-fun activities. Rich narcissist = bad if they think they are losing control.
Just as it is probably inconceivable to you that a lot of people, when given the opportunity to pay more for something than they consider it to be worth, just walk away and do without. No twisted justifications for stealing. They simply do without. Weird, eh?
What you say makes sense and is a very good way to live life in a mentally healthy state. There are a couple of things you can't put into that blob, though - communications (arts) and protective instincts (child-rearin').
You can't expect your wife, mother, or other directly tied one who had a child to one day decide they can do without. It's something the species needs to continue and instinctively it's a protected behavior. Communications is another - arts of music and visual; we have those embedded as one of the core drivers and accompanying components of our lives (brains). I, nor anyone with a realistic and working Human brain, can decide that because we no longer, do not, or will not have the means to see video and listen to musical patterns, that it's something we can 'do without'. Unless we want to brainwash all of a generation, and ensure they raise their young with punishment, cannot make music something we can do without. If you can, that's just you. You're a glitch in the matrix of all Human kind covering the globe. Even African tribes and groups that are just now being discovered have music and dance as part of their core beings.
Move away from Humans and you have other animals that rely on and express themselves in visual and auditory ways every day. To be a corporation/group of them/government/group of them that thinks they can put a price tag on music with a "you must do without unless you pay" is on dangerous ground. They're lucky they were getting what they did because of convenience; it was easy to love something heard on the radio and buy it. CDs added higher quality. Digital music added easier spread. It's done. Modeled, it's like a virus that is unstoppable spreading across the globe and infecting everyone (except lucky people like you, that is if you're really not just trolling). It can't be stopped. Finding something new or desirable that adds to the spice of it, so to speak, is the only way.
Go ahead, argue that point. If you do, you're just suffering from a case of cognitive dissonance. It's okay, we all do it. Just remember that this isn't a battle or game with a winner or loser. I'm stating facts, replying to you because you seem to be a bit lacking in knowledge of the facts, or are just in a grumpy mood today and need to seize power by arguing points that can't be argued - just to get in an argument. I'm not going to argue with you. Stating anything outside of basic Human needs and long-term animal instincts as a point of superior logic is nothing more than cognitive dissonance, or a really smart person who should be working on AI - AI can be controlled and dynamically changed per one's desires. :)
... It's so farcical I almost can't believe it's the way our modern economies function.
You have a very interesting and enlightening post here. Gives people something to think about, except for the execs that make the decisions. They're older and HATE changing business models because they're scared of it not turning out where they're in the same tax bracket (sorry for the bad use of terms, but hell...) than they are now. Not to mention the investors, those freaking scumbags that put pressure on the execs to do what THEY, the investors, want to ensure they have a return+++ on their investment. Combine the two, and it's sort of like a bad government setup - people who don't want to muddy the waters too much because there are so many risks to take, and those behind them that are (sorry to say, but they are) threatening them every day to continue instead of giving up and moving toward current technological, psychological, and many other variables in the real-world models.
The execs are also (almost 100% because they were to get in, or are because they got in and feel entitled to way more than they are) narcissistic. There is no way they can change their official operations and opinions/appearances unless it is THEIR idea. Somehow, someone else is going to have to come up with a new world model for A/V arts and step-by-step help them think they (execs) themselves came up with the ideas. That or wait for them to die off from natural causes and, try to help the ones observing and learning to be like them, to think they have a better idea that they came up with all by themselves.
Human behavior is so sad when it's been researched so thoroughly and proven, yet people repeat behaviors and get the same results. I guess one of the K-12 (in the US, anyhow) classes should be behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic psychology. When I saw K-12, I mean every year from K-12. Maybe that would help people more easily realize that something changing doesn't mean you lost a game that your entire self-worth is based on internally; you just changed your opinion or operating behavior because something more effective was found. Not to be off-topic, but same with government... stop sticking to [this] or [that] party line and making sure when you have a stance or opinion that you always stick to it to prove integrity. Prove freakin' integrity by showing you're the same person with good intentions that's simply adapting. I bring this at the end because it ties to business.
I would gladly give every music exec exactly what he deserves, but murder is illegal in my country.
How about an alternative... Freeze all assets, strip them of their belongings, give them an apartment and food for a month, and go make them learn to play a musical instrument. Like Trading Places; get other execs to back it for a reality show. Heck, they'll gain from it so why not screw one of their own over? ;)
I still remember the day I found out just how little of the ~15-20 bucks I spent on a CD actually went to the band. I felt robbed. I felt bad for the bands. I hate rent seekers who use their position of power and influence to take far more than their fair share as an fiefdom tax.
OMG, I know.. If it weren't for the psycho fan risk, it would be nice to be able to give money to the band members directly to ensure it isn't going to get a[n] [over]weighted fee pulled by someone else. Tax reporting isn't brought into this thought, anyone who reads this. That's the band members' responsibility to do what they wish in terms of evasion or reporting.
You nailed that right on the head. Bravo!
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As well as greatly reducing the risk of trojans...
Little edit for ya... They'll be compromised or miss something some day. Dormant trojans are a bitch (insert [heh] joke here if you desire [hehe]).
It baffles me that the rights holders won't allow a discounted price for a movie purchase after you rent it. I'm sure it's on Apple's radar. They'vs been doing something similar for Music for years with "Complete My Album". You get a discount for the album based on the amount that you've paid for each song.
If not, you just put it on their radar. Of course, they have prior art and email chains to cover patents and copyrights. {Hold on a sec... gotta modify a character in an email chain at work.. ok there, done. Now it's shown I proved I told the company about this new proof of concept on 2015-09-22. Sweet.} /sarcasm
I'm not criticizing you, BTW. Just pointing fingers in their direction. 7:)
I love your examples! What the ID-10-T execs don't realize is that their consumer base could (if we had a "movement" other than bowel) completely destroy them. All of them. Their actions that scare, set limits for, and piss off those that can destroy them are narcissistic at best (oh, there are so many more words).
Oh, well. People just repeat the same mistakes again expecting different results because they're "different" than the ones before (more powerful or smarter). Funny how that process repeats and proves that those who believe they are smarter are absolutely not. Laughable.
Quite simply, privacy supports terrorism in many peoples' eyes. The government has backed the concept, but focused on encryption.
It looks like another attempt to rewrite the rules to have a win-win (big shocker there). There's more money in winning.
Win: Government and people who really think that things like encryption limitation will somehow thwart terrorists are now happy. Google gets points and possibly more investment from people.
Win: Google has rewritten the conceptual rules and can now also use that data, which is no longer considered "non-existent", if you will, to use for ad data internally and (oh, a third win), sell off more statistical data.
Not a big shocker on this one. More waves of this care coming.
They should have sent up one of these babies (JILA Strontium Atomic Clock Sets New Records https://www.nist.gov/news-even...). No maintenance required :)
Huh? But that's old news. China's is cooler and better and will last longer. And it comes from CHINA where all of the bestest electronics are Wonka-style constructed!!!1
Wait, I sound like an idiot news reader. /humor
Agree with you completely! What I meant was the young age of old enough to use a music playing device you can purchase through until about mid-late 20s where you start to appreciate your music you've listened to until that point. Certain groups excluded, the demand for buying music released yesterday drops significantly.
I could be wrong, but observation shows me that there are two things at play simultaneously:
1. The majority of the profit comes from younger individuals who [want|need] NOW. They don't tend to think of ways to hack around the bad system that makes them pay for something they shouldn't have to pay for, so their demand and "I [want|need] it NOW" mentality drives them toward the thing that gets them what they want with a payment (slews of different ways to download music and pay). Google makes it easy, Apple makes it easy. Those are the two majority OS players.
2. The individuals generating the numbers are the same ones, or different people under the same superior. It's never okay to say "we lost but we're still alive" when it comes to superiority complexes the corp execs all suffer from, so why not issue the statement, "We are doing great, actually. Better than the last newfangled thing crazy of them CD things. Thanks!" It's a game play. Your move.
I say generating, because there isn't any possible way that they could meet two situational criteria simultaneously without a free handout from the government (which really means you're fine, just getting income from another source); they can't be "suffering" from "pirates" and ALSO "doing wonderful" at the same time. It seems like a typical mental flapping to tell the enemy it didn't win in order to encourage the enemy to stop bothering trying to win. Either you're suffering from piracy or you're not. Government assistance overrides suffering, thus doesn't count in the argument.
All I can really see as a possible truth is the companies/lawyers having such a scare system in place that it actually worked and only smart people that they aren't gonna outsmart remain, and that's just fine for their numbers. Or even better, perhaps they were fine the whole time and the loss of sales/income was from financial hardships of consumers which has now evened out, giving them the impression that they are fine as a result of their efforts and material; perhaps they would have been not equal but close enough to call it equal, to what would have happened if piracy hadn't consumed their attention and efforts. The economy sucked. When it sucks, you drop in numbers, too. Simple psychological reasoning, and bias as a constant, state that they may be older folks with narcissistic complexes, but "got played" themselves. i.e. There wasn't a huge problem to begin with, and now that you see what you want to, the problem seems to have lowered. Funny part is, the more you try to stop something, the more people do it and circumvent your efforts. How would those numbers look if you just left crap alone and presented new awesome stuff that people would buy when they have the means. Art, visual or auditory, is something you can't TAKE FROM PEOPLE. It's going to go on whether you're part or not.
You only get a piece of the proverbial pie when it's the best and most economical for all in the mix. I'm talking art, FWIW.
"It is the world's first cold atomic clock to operate in space."
Is it really the worlds anything if it's in space??
Article clearly says it's for timing of their geostationary satellite positioning system, so no. Nobody gets anything. At least not until a Russian kid bored out of their mind hacks it in a week. Har har.
Oh, you mean in terms of possession by the planet as an entity.. All I can say is that as long as it's within gravitational pull of Earth, it's Earth's. :)
So they just have to correct it by a second 5 times before the Sun explodes.
Elementary, my dear ememisya! Atomic matter from all of the dead life on Earth, as well as interstellar waves, will fix it all by itself. Has one of those "self-kerrectin' mechanisms" or some junk like that. Heck, one of the carbon atoms from your left eye might be part of the correction that is implemented .00000000000000000000001 picoseconds before the Sun's collapse reaches critical.
Well, since Earth isn't the only thing that has atoms to spread through a dying planetary system, it sounded good, anyway. :)
It's OK, the satellite around it was made in China, so it'll be broken in less than 3 years.
Oh, so they CAN make quality products over there, eh? Now I know what all of the money I've been spending on electronics and sticky note dispensers has been going toward! :)
So, how do they compensate for space time dilation?
They don't believe in it.
Too soon? :)
Why did they put it in a satellite lasting under a millennium in lifespan?
It's not about long-term functionality.. It's all about comparison to other human technology. Just like the comparison of the length of dic/)*Ev&
NO CARRIER
I don't want to be late for my dentist appointment in the year 1,000,002,017.
Nice!
I think by then your atoms will be scattered enough that teeth will be the least of... oh, wait, you won't have any worries. :)
Well the atomic clock won't last that long see that second offset!
Statistically, it's more likely to have orbital degradation with the failure of boosting mechanism, damage from orbital junk, damage by solids in space puncturing it and damaging equipment, damage from a nearby supernova's emissions, or failure of comms equipment and/or panels, far before the Chinese make the reading of its clock value available to anyone but their government and satellite-based guidance systems. :)
Dear designers:
When Apple had the "courage" to remove headphone jacks to force the sale of expensive bluetooth earbuds, they did so in a way that is pissing people off and losing them business.
Your interpretation of that into "Be salesy! Encourage bluetooth device for listening by making phone courageously explode!" was very poor and might lose you *A LOT OF FUTURE BUSINESS*. Learn to translate the copying of business models. /humor
Good point, and now we start with a similar processes to electric cars. The energy doesn't come from nowhere... Energy has to be used to gather energy in your example; people with electric cars forget (of course, those with a massive array of solar panels at their home or geothermal conv. homes etc) that electricity comes from somewhere.
Sorry but I can't help saying it... Met with a guy about a transmitter tower near the Ohio River valley. Dude has a kickin' electric car plan; plan to install socket in his garage and buy the next stable Tesla release (geez, never thought I would refer to cars like software). I pointed my finger to our SE at the time, to the Zimmer power plant. He said, "What, you gonna play a trick or something?"
I looked in the direction of my point and continued to point. Saw some yellowish-orange emissions from the stack (usual). Again, he said but this time with a chuckle, "What? Is there a UFO over there?"
I face-palmed and said, "Sure. That's what I'm pointing at coming from a stack at a power plant. A UFO."
Both of us friendly laughing, he said, "I don't get it. What's the joke, sorry?"
I said, "Your new vehicle is going to pull power from the grid. No biggie right now, but what happens when everyone down this street and in the town down there [pointing] are all using power at night or at work to charge their Teslas? That thing is gonna have more of that yellow-orange coming out of the stack."
He responded, chucking with, "Come on.. This is green energy at work.. They'll come up with a solution before everyone gets one."
I ended with, "You're right. It won't get worse. They'll just build another plant. Anyhow, do you have the welder in your truck; ready to go?"
*Sigh*