Silly NASA still messing around with obsolete rovers. Why aren't they building space factories and Mars colonies and mining asteroids? They obviously don't read Slashdot comments. If they did we would be living on Mars by now.
Sounds familiar:
[The President] asked the then-acting administrator of NASA whether the space agency could send American astronauts to Mars by the end of his first term, and even offered him "all the money you could ever need" to make it happen. The NASA official politely turned him down, explaining that such a fast turnaround to a distant planet wasn't possible.
How would it know its primary communication channel(s) is disrupted? You'd have to have a receiver active at the same time to verify, which could complicate the logic and drain power. You want the recovery system to have relatively simple logic so that bugs or broken sensors inside of itself don't become a problem.
And if you depend on a timer to tell you it's been "too long" since you received communication, you have the similar problem of knowing if the clock is bad.
The recovery system has to consider the possibility of a bad timer (clock), bad transmitter(s), bad receiver(s), bad battery-level sensor, etc., and perhaps combo's.
Even redundancy has trickiness associated with it. For example, what if the second "spare" sensor gives conflicting readings from the first? How do you know which is right? You can fill it up with AI etc. to better guess, but that takes CPU power, which could drain the battery. And it could make re-creating the problem back on Earth difficult, because mirroring AI is trickier than mirroring traditional "flow chart" logic. Mirroring problems on Earth-based replica probes has proven useful in the past.
I'm not against the idea of having tunes that are not tied to a particular artist (for whatever reason). There's no reason to force the association.
However, to group bunches of tune under a single (fake) artist and treat it like a real artist is misleading to the consumer and is a practice that encourages rigging the system to gain more listeners by creating (fake) mega artists.
If they are "anonymous collections", then clearly label them as such so the consumer knows what they are looking at.
It is a Mars rock. The controversy was about whether it contained sufficient evidence of fossilized microbes. The jury is still out on that, by the way.
b) universal distances are vast, and warp drives aren't practical or even possible. As such, other intelligent aliens can't reach us, or even communicate with us.
The distances are only "long" if viewed from a single human's life-span. Multi-generational being and/or robotic nuclear-powered ships can be built. We could make such now if we had enough cash and will-power.
The most efficient interfaces I've ever made were character-based UI's that didn't depend on a mouse. Users grew really productive as I used their feedback to tune it and give them short-cuts for common needs.
However, it did take longer to learn on average than typical GUIs. Keyboard-centric interfaces (KCI) have more potential efficiency, but GUI's are just more intuitive and quicker to learn on average. GUI's trade away max long-term efficiency for a shorter learning curve.
Maybe if the industry settled on KCI standards, then one learns the convention set once and is ready to go for new applications that stick with the KCI convention. But the industry couldn't even stick with GUI standards, bastardizing the menus (M$ cough) and now mixing finger-centric (mobile) UI elements with classic GUI elements to make for a confusing mush.
The industry sure spends a lot of time re-inventing, de-inventing, and mis-inventing UI's to keep up with the UI Joneses, or Kardashians, giving us Kardashian "quality" as a result.
It may be possible to make a GUI that's both mouse-friendly and keyboard-friendly at the same time, but I'm skeptical both can be optimized. The way one goes about designing each to maximize screen real-estate and group items is generally different such that there's not a one-to-one correspondence. If you force a one-to-correspondence, you have to de-optimize at least one side.
The judge will refuse extradition to the U.S. on the base that Trump's comment about using Ms. Meng Wanzhou as a bargaining chip infers the possibility of interference with the judicial process
If the judge has strong evidence Ms. Meng is guilty, wouldn't that override Trump's odd statements? Probable guilt level should be the key factor, not what political leaders say.
Correction re: "There are a lot of annoying visa- and trade-related practices that a majority of Americans would stand behind..."
Reworked version: There are a lot of annoying visa- and trade-related practices for which a majority of Americans would stand behind efforts to resolve.
(It's still awkward. Possible mod-points for the best fixer suggestion...)
I shall also add that even if such practices are arguably "fair" from Europe's standpoint, having somebody working to get better terms and deals would still be satisfying to most Americans, if done in a tasteful way.
[They want to be indexed but not listed under 'news'] Exactly - they want their cake and eat it too.
This is the sort of anti-US-company BS that Trump should and could take on if he were not so distracted by "scary brown people". There are a lot of annoying visa- and trade-related practices that a majority of Americans would stand behind; he could have become a popular "populist". Opportunity wasted.
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Or an election.
Sounds familiar:
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...
Just get the Martians to pay for it. If there are none, plant some.
How would it know its primary communication channel(s) is disrupted? You'd have to have a receiver active at the same time to verify, which could complicate the logic and drain power. You want the recovery system to have relatively simple logic so that bugs or broken sensors inside of itself don't become a problem.
And if you depend on a timer to tell you it's been "too long" since you received communication, you have the similar problem of knowing if the clock is bad.
The recovery system has to consider the possibility of a bad timer (clock), bad transmitter(s), bad receiver(s), bad battery-level sensor, etc., and perhaps combo's.
Even redundancy has trickiness associated with it. For example, what if the second "spare" sensor gives conflicting readings from the first? How do you know which is right? You can fill it up with AI etc. to better guess, but that takes CPU power, which could drain the battery. And it could make re-creating the problem back on Earth difficult, because mirroring AI is trickier than mirroring traditional "flow chart" logic. Mirroring problems on Earth-based replica probes has proven useful in the past.
Is there a decent online English-to/from-Jive translator? (They don't call it "jive" anymore, but the alternatives are arguably not PC.)
I'm not against the idea of having tunes that are not tied to a particular artist (for whatever reason). There's no reason to force the association.
However, to group bunches of tune under a single (fake) artist and treat it like a real artist is misleading to the consumer and is a practice that encourages rigging the system to gain more listeners by creating (fake) mega artists.
If they are "anonymous collections", then clearly label them as such so the consumer knows what they are looking at.
If you complain, a dupe will be posted.
There. Is. NO. "Dark Side". Of. The. Moon!
eSlaps.
Okay, technically there may be a few craters which never get sun at the poles, but that's not a "side".
Treble was louder in the 60's. Global Basing has since dampened it. In 20 years we'll all sound like under-water mumbling.
Yes, Kubrick yelled, "No more loser actors from shit-hole countries! They're all 4's!"
Moon rocks are occasionally found on Earth, as are Mars rocks. I wonder if any Venus rocks have been found?
It is a Mars rock. The controversy was about whether it contained sufficient evidence of fossilized microbes. The jury is still out on that, by the way.
Some more videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (may want to watch at 2x speed to see changes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (sun "rain" near middle, really cool)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (best stuff about 60% way thru)
My TRS-80 ASCII flares have yet to be beat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The big get bigger by being big. Trickle Up.
Bring 'em on.
Prove Python is more secure. Anyhow PEAR is a library, not a language.
The distances are only "long" if viewed from a single human's life-span. Multi-generational being and/or robotic nuclear-powered ships can be built. We could make such now if we had enough cash and will-power.
More like Lunaformed.
So God-did-it! I mean it was aliens. Alien gods?
The most efficient interfaces I've ever made were character-based UI's that didn't depend on a mouse. Users grew really productive as I used their feedback to tune it and give them short-cuts for common needs.
However, it did take longer to learn on average than typical GUIs. Keyboard-centric interfaces (KCI) have more potential efficiency, but GUI's are just more intuitive and quicker to learn on average. GUI's trade away max long-term efficiency for a shorter learning curve.
Maybe if the industry settled on KCI standards, then one learns the convention set once and is ready to go for new applications that stick with the KCI convention. But the industry couldn't even stick with GUI standards, bastardizing the menus (M$ cough) and now mixing finger-centric (mobile) UI elements with classic GUI elements to make for a confusing mush.
The industry sure spends a lot of time re-inventing, de-inventing, and mis-inventing UI's to keep up with the UI Joneses, or Kardashians, giving us Kardashian "quality" as a result.
It may be possible to make a GUI that's both mouse-friendly and keyboard-friendly at the same time, but I'm skeptical both can be optimized. The way one goes about designing each to maximize screen real-estate and group items is generally different such that there's not a one-to-one correspondence. If you force a one-to-correspondence, you have to de-optimize at least one side.
As much as Microsoft has been a super-mega-slimebag for decades, Google needs search competition to reduce their slimebaggativity and monopoly games.
If the judge has strong evidence Ms. Meng is guilty, wouldn't that override Trump's odd statements? Probable guilt level should be the key factor, not what political leaders say.
Correction re: "There are a lot of annoying visa- and trade-related practices that a majority of Americans would stand behind..."
Reworked version: There are a lot of annoying visa- and trade-related practices for which a majority of Americans would stand behind efforts to resolve.
(It's still awkward. Possible mod-points for the best fixer suggestion...)
I shall also add that even if such practices are arguably "fair" from Europe's standpoint, having somebody working to get better terms and deals would still be satisfying to most Americans, if done in a tasteful way.
This is the sort of anti-US-company BS that Trump should and could take on if he were not so distracted by "scary brown people". There are a lot of annoying visa- and trade-related practices that a majority of Americans would stand behind; he could have become a popular "populist". Opportunity wasted.