NASA has about the same funding (adjusted for inflation) it did in the 60s when they did go to the moon. Technology has cut the costs significantly, the only thing preventing us is corruption, the right hands have to get greased, and political infighting as to which state is getting the production facilities.
They could detect gunshots, that technology exists. As someone above said, they started the censorship with automatically blocking keywords and people that indicated a non-leftist political perspective. Now they have to endure the race to the leftist bottom, where nobody is allowed to speak freely.
And yes, I know that free speech also allows for the most vile disruptive people to have a platform. The founders of the US knew that, everybody that advocates free speech knows that and that's the price we are willing to pay.
Not in the EU, the (unelected, appointed) council and commissioner pass laws. The (elected semi-democratically) parliament can rubber stamp it (but can be overruled) and has the budgetary power (so they could defund) but unlike the US Senate, they don't have full power to regulate the budget on a yearly or per issue basis.
You have obviously no clue how software works. You can transfer state between multiple devices and applications. It's basically like Steam, where you can have your 'save game' in the cloud and it syncs to all your devices, except you load directly into the saved game instead of going through the menus.
It's a very efficient way of transferring state. Apple also does the same for Safari (web browser) where you can have your tabs synced across browsers, messages and phone where you can hand off your cell phone call to your computer and vice versa and similar integrations exists within other apps and devices within the Apple universe.
Keynote currently has the closest model for these games your presentation seamlessly syncs to the big screen or even to remote viewers without ever breaking the presentation flow or showing your controls/notes - try that with PowerPoint and Windows.
Stadia was (you might as well say it will be cancelled) an online game streaming service (the game is executed "in the cloud"). This is an 'app subscription' service where you actually get the app downloaded to your device.
Two different things completely. And yes, you can has a controller (Bluetooth) to iOS.
My old house had a hand-nailed woodwork lattice and plaster over it. Imagine building a house like that now without drywall, without long siding but paying every contractor $120/h for those jobs.
All it says is that (like automation in the Industrial Revolution) one type of job disappeared and another (less automatable) job sprang up. Companies are now choosing to employ this “cheap” available labor (people that were previously in lower-paying, now automated jobs) and paying them a premium over spending the investment in automating a more complex job.
Automating is a risk, there will be people that do it, there will be those that don’t and rather try the true and tested method of just employing people. The availability of labor, makes both decisions competitive until you run out of people willing to do the job for a certain cost.
It costs money to breed and most likely they'll be out of commission. Additionally, you don't get to pick the genes in a 'normal' birth, you can get random variations whereas this is more controlled.
It's an experiment after all, the question remains whether this was just good training of the dog or the dog's or the breed's natural ability.
On the other hand, we've been doing a form of gene-editing on wolves for hundreds of centuries, hence why we have so many dog breeds.
Not the AG's job. Plenty of prosecutors will try to introduce evidence that's not admissible on the hopes that the introduction sways a jury (eg. if it was collected or stored improperly, but it's convincing) or the judge and defence doesn't notice.
In the eyes of the law you've only committed a crime if there is proof, direct or indirect, that you did so, otherwise you are 'innocent' which is the same conclusion as if you had not committed a crime.
If a prosecutor determines a crime was committed, they have to prosecute/indict the person that committed the crime. They can't just determine that not "enough" evidence exists, that's what a jury is for.
It's not a summary, it's the whole report. The report tells literally nothing we didn't already know and doesn't indict anyone that wasn't already indicted. The FBI prosecuted these Russian operators already to the extent possible.
Typically the creation of superbugs is due to poor administration of antibiotics - when you don't finish or share your dose, as often happens in poor countries, you end up not killing the problematic bacteria completely and the remaining population can reproduce without competition of the "weak" variation and thus has by selective pressure evolves to withstand antibiotics.
Nice conspiracy theory but if anything Windows and general IT security has gotten worse over the years, not better, not because of technical flaws per se but because the stuff is explicitly built to be easier and thus also easier to exploit.
We have an entire industry where people just don't care or in many cases don't even know or get educated about security because they need to get the thing out of the door faster, so they set up things like memcached and S3 containers because they're easy without ever locking them down because that would insert all sorts of extra code and delays in the project, and then we turn them on the Internet and a few months later everyone is surprised.
I have clients that are the exact same way, they want the prototype of software out of the door because it's functional and it's a minimal spend. The "behind the scenes" cleanup and security just doesn't happen so they can save a few thousand dollars. So there are entire web apps that have a login page but nothing beyond it is encrypted or secured, pure luck and lack of deep web scanners is what keeps some of these afloat. I've had a client that hadn't updated Drupal in 3 years, they were only lucky enough they didn't get hacked until that point because they were on a subdomain with no direct links to the system.
Which is an iOS device with an HDMI output. HDCP has long been broken (at least a decade), but the cost and effort vs profit has also been a major thing. If your movies can be rented for 99c why bother with a copy. But as the media conglomerates forgot that lesson in the last few years they've been putting "better" content (4K) under premium price ranges and even Netflix is raising prices to the point where pirating is once again viable.
You can also capture the data stream straight from the video buffer. Every frame has to pass a video card or be converted pixel-perfect onto an LCD/LED array. With the right electronics and a cheap ASIC you could do a perfect digital capture.
Same goes for audio, at some point, some buffer in some DAC has to have an unencrypted stream.
There's a BIG difference between the magnetic fields a regular 110/220V line throws out and the earth's magnetic field. Even a 50kV line has negligible magnetic fields if you're standing right under them, the earth's magnetic field is stronger than a household power line in a matter of mm/cm.
The best way of finding out is have a compass nearby, if your compass starts deflecting, then a nearby magnetic field is stronger than earth's. Otherwise, earth's is stronger.
It's obviously poisonous, so drinking large quantities of it is potentially harmful. But the long-term effects of everything from roundup to coffee and wine also cause or cure cancer, there is just not enough data.
Although I agree that Boeing made some major mistakes in their manuals and training, pilots should know a lot more about the planes they're flying. In many countries and throughout many companies, pilots are being scooped up right out of flight school and dismissed a few years later to keep personnel costs down.
These people don't have experience with bigger planes except for simulator action and they're now responsible for 300-something passenger jetliners when all they've done is flown some Cessna that handles completely different, you can shut down all engines on the smaller planes and safely land, a Boeing MAX will just fall like a brick and in certain stall patterns can't even be recovered.
The companies don't care, they get to blame the pilot and collect the insurance money, Boeing doesn't care and in most of those places scrutiny from an FAA-type government agency doesn't exist.
I wouldn't say 32-64GB is too much for some of those tasks, CAD and the like could easily spike 128GB with modern systems. The RAM is just an option because the Intel processor is designed for servers/workstations and simply allows you to. It's also useful if you have a rig of GPU's, which this iMac is capable of powering a number of eGPU systems so for very remote circumstances I can see it being useful.
In comparison, a Dell workstation can run you a lot higher, the CPU and RAM being the primary cost drivers, one of those Xeons by itself can cost upwards of $10k on the street.
This is the cloud, we don't need no backups, we just replicate your primary storage. This is quite literally what Microsoft does with Office365 as well as Box.com, Dropbox and others; they have no backup plans, just storage that could be blown away with a click of the button from a developer.
The point of the cloud is and always should be that you are provider-agnostic hence you don't use the plugs that AWS or Azure provides but write your own middleware for it or use something more generic (eg SSH w/ something like Ansible) to provision.
Modern implementation have forgotten why hosted virtual servers were attractive to begin with and locked themselves into Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon all over again.
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NASA has about the same funding (adjusted for inflation) it did in the 60s when they did go to the moon. Technology has cut the costs significantly, the only thing preventing us is corruption, the right hands have to get greased, and political infighting as to which state is getting the production facilities.
At the same rate, means 1.8 miles and thickening 130 feet annually.
Politicians never calm down. Have you seen the media?
They could detect gunshots, that technology exists. As someone above said, they started the censorship with automatically blocking keywords and people that indicated a non-leftist political perspective. Now they have to endure the race to the leftist bottom, where nobody is allowed to speak freely.
And yes, I know that free speech also allows for the most vile disruptive people to have a platform. The founders of the US knew that, everybody that advocates free speech knows that and that's the price we are willing to pay.
Not in the EU, the (unelected, appointed) council and commissioner pass laws. The (elected semi-democratically) parliament can rubber stamp it (but can be overruled) and has the budgetary power (so they could defund) but unlike the US Senate, they don't have full power to regulate the budget on a yearly or per issue basis.
You have obviously no clue how software works. You can transfer state between multiple devices and applications. It's basically like Steam, where you can have your 'save game' in the cloud and it syncs to all your devices, except you load directly into the saved game instead of going through the menus.
It's a very efficient way of transferring state. Apple also does the same for Safari (web browser) where you can have your tabs synced across browsers, messages and phone where you can hand off your cell phone call to your computer and vice versa and similar integrations exists within other apps and devices within the Apple universe.
Keynote currently has the closest model for these games your presentation seamlessly syncs to the big screen or even to remote viewers without ever breaking the presentation flow or showing your controls/notes - try that with PowerPoint and Windows.
Stadia was (you might as well say it will be cancelled) an online game streaming service (the game is executed "in the cloud"). This is an 'app subscription' service where you actually get the app downloaded to your device.
Two different things completely. And yes, you can has a controller (Bluetooth) to iOS.
My old house had a hand-nailed woodwork lattice and plaster over it. Imagine building a house like that now without drywall, without long siding but paying every contractor $120/h for those jobs.
Houses would cost millions of dollars.
All it says is that (like automation in the Industrial Revolution) one type of job disappeared and another (less automatable) job sprang up. Companies are now choosing to employ this “cheap” available labor (people that were previously in lower-paying, now automated jobs) and paying them a premium over spending the investment in automating a more complex job.
Automating is a risk, there will be people that do it, there will be those that don’t and rather try the true and tested method of just employing people. The availability of labor, makes both decisions competitive until you run out of people willing to do the job for a certain cost.
It costs money to breed and most likely they'll be out of commission. Additionally, you don't get to pick the genes in a 'normal' birth, you can get random variations whereas this is more controlled.
It's an experiment after all, the question remains whether this was just good training of the dog or the dog's or the breed's natural ability.
On the other hand, we've been doing a form of gene-editing on wolves for hundreds of centuries, hence why we have so many dog breeds.
Not the AG's job. Plenty of prosecutors will try to introduce evidence that's not admissible on the hopes that the introduction sways a jury (eg. if it was collected or stored improperly, but it's convincing) or the judge and defence doesn't notice.
In the eyes of the law you've only committed a crime if there is proof, direct or indirect, that you did so, otherwise you are 'innocent' which is the same conclusion as if you had not committed a crime.
If a prosecutor determines a crime was committed, they have to prosecute/indict the person that committed the crime. They can't just determine that not "enough" evidence exists, that's what a jury is for.
It's not a summary, it's the whole report. The report tells literally nothing we didn't already know and doesn't indict anyone that wasn't already indicted. The FBI prosecuted these Russian operators already to the extent possible.
This is a $30-40M waste of taxpayer dollars.
Typically the creation of superbugs is due to poor administration of antibiotics - when you don't finish or share your dose, as often happens in poor countries, you end up not killing the problematic bacteria completely and the remaining population can reproduce without competition of the "weak" variation and thus has by selective pressure evolves to withstand antibiotics.
I'm sure you and your family would've swayed the result when first 17M voted exit and then 33M people voted for parties with exit in their platforms.
Nice conspiracy theory but if anything Windows and general IT security has gotten worse over the years, not better, not because of technical flaws per se but because the stuff is explicitly built to be easier and thus also easier to exploit.
We have an entire industry where people just don't care or in many cases don't even know or get educated about security because they need to get the thing out of the door faster, so they set up things like memcached and S3 containers because they're easy without ever locking them down because that would insert all sorts of extra code and delays in the project, and then we turn them on the Internet and a few months later everyone is surprised.
I have clients that are the exact same way, they want the prototype of software out of the door because it's functional and it's a minimal spend. The "behind the scenes" cleanup and security just doesn't happen so they can save a few thousand dollars. So there are entire web apps that have a login page but nothing beyond it is encrypted or secured, pure luck and lack of deep web scanners is what keeps some of these afloat. I've had a client that hadn't updated Drupal in 3 years, they were only lucky enough they didn't get hacked until that point because they were on a subdomain with no direct links to the system.
Which is an iOS device with an HDMI output. HDCP has long been broken (at least a decade), but the cost and effort vs profit has also been a major thing. If your movies can be rented for 99c why bother with a copy. But as the media conglomerates forgot that lesson in the last few years they've been putting "better" content (4K) under premium price ranges and even Netflix is raising prices to the point where pirating is once again viable.
You can also capture the data stream straight from the video buffer. Every frame has to pass a video card or be converted pixel-perfect onto an LCD/LED array. With the right electronics and a cheap ASIC you could do a perfect digital capture.
Same goes for audio, at some point, some buffer in some DAC has to have an unencrypted stream.
There's a BIG difference between the magnetic fields a regular 110/220V line throws out and the earth's magnetic field. Even a 50kV line has negligible magnetic fields if you're standing right under them, the earth's magnetic field is stronger than a household power line in a matter of mm/cm.
The best way of finding out is have a compass nearby, if your compass starts deflecting, then a nearby magnetic field is stronger than earth's. Otherwise, earth's is stronger.
It's obviously poisonous, so drinking large quantities of it is potentially harmful. But the long-term effects of everything from roundup to coffee and wine also cause or cure cancer, there is just not enough data.
Although I agree that Boeing made some major mistakes in their manuals and training, pilots should know a lot more about the planes they're flying. In many countries and throughout many companies, pilots are being scooped up right out of flight school and dismissed a few years later to keep personnel costs down.
These people don't have experience with bigger planes except for simulator action and they're now responsible for 300-something passenger jetliners when all they've done is flown some Cessna that handles completely different, you can shut down all engines on the smaller planes and safely land, a Boeing MAX will just fall like a brick and in certain stall patterns can't even be recovered.
The companies don't care, they get to blame the pilot and collect the insurance money, Boeing doesn't care and in most of those places scrutiny from an FAA-type government agency doesn't exist.
I wouldn't say 32-64GB is too much for some of those tasks, CAD and the like could easily spike 128GB with modern systems. The RAM is just an option because the Intel processor is designed for servers/workstations and simply allows you to. It's also useful if you have a rig of GPU's, which this iMac is capable of powering a number of eGPU systems so for very remote circumstances I can see it being useful.
In comparison, a Dell workstation can run you a lot higher, the CPU and RAM being the primary cost drivers, one of those Xeons by itself can cost upwards of $10k on the street.
Trust me, somewhere some of your 30 year old code is still running, fully compiled and undocumented and I have to come clean it up.
This is the cloud, we don't need no backups, we just replicate your primary storage. This is quite literally what Microsoft does with Office365 as well as Box.com, Dropbox and others; they have no backup plans, just storage that could be blown away with a click of the button from a developer.
The point of the cloud is and always should be that you are provider-agnostic hence you don't use the plugs that AWS or Azure provides but write your own middleware for it or use something more generic (eg SSH w/ something like Ansible) to provision.
Modern implementation have forgotten why hosted virtual servers were attractive to begin with and locked themselves into Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon all over again.