Re: “Roads? Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads” (Doc Brown)
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FTTP should do that.
The fibre terminates in a box that's got an RJ45 and (optionally) a phone socket on it.
The RJ45 is actual Ethernet.
In other words, you don't need the ISPs hardware at all, just a PPPoE capable router.
That said, the ISP needs to tell you that username and password.
I'm also somewhat bemused that NordVPN say PPPoE is "no longer widely used".
Walking in VR is still nauseating for many people, the moment you go further than your physical room.
There's a reason why almost all of the successful VR games fling things at a more or less stationary player.
With a few spectacular exceptions, like Eye of the Temple, any virtual space larger than around 2m x 2m has to use teleportation to move the player or else the majority of potential players will simply vomit.
Email client?
How many "retail customers" do you think have an email client other than Microsoft Outlook/Mail or the email app that came with their phone?
Thunderbird has perhaps half a million users, and it's almost certainly the most popular 'other'.
Unless you convinced Microsoft, Apple, Google, or (perhaps) Samsung to add it, no email client feature is ever going to be mass-market.
A standalone app/webapp is literally the only option. It's also what a lot of (most?) people prefer - "everything" apps are often quite annoying as you have to go through many layers to find the thing.
Nobody ever "just wants to compile a few times a year". Absolute minimum to release an iOS app that actually does something is of the order of several weeks of rebuilds and "test flights". It takes several hours to get a Mac configured to build once, what with all the keys that need installing - most of which can't be done automatically as it deliberately requires a human in the loop.
And of course, to remote desktop into that cloud Mac you effectively need a Mac of your own anyway. The Windows/Linux VNC is so incredibly slow as to be almost unusable, and you can't do everything over SSH.
As to why Apple insist you need a Mac to compile for iOS - it's the only reason for Macs to still exist.
If and when Apple permits building iOS apps under any other operating system, they're signalling the end of the Mac as we know it.
I would love to provide a reference to an article in a distinguished scientific journal, but it seems they have all been captured by the religion that is Climate Science and refuse to publish anything which goes against theorthodoxyevidence.
Science doesn't care about your opinions. It cares about evidence.
Would you go jump out of a tall building? Gravity is just a theory, after all.
This isn't a "share of revenue". It's a flat charge per install for as long as the game is being sold.
Even if you believe yesterday's version of the FAQ, it means the developer gets charged every time the end user replaces their device.
You sell your game once, Unity charges you for it repeatedly. You can't budget - how many of your users will upgrade their hardware this month?
Worse, freemium and ad-supported games make 1-2 cents per user. So they'll instantly make a massive loss if they trip the line, and cannot risk using Unity.
So a huge swathe of devs are gone, instantly. That includes a lot of large dev houses - Pokémon Go is definitely well over the line. As written, this would bankrupt Niantic!
And even if they've arranged a special deal, once the hoi polloi leave, there's no canaries finding bugs before they do, raising their costs and delaying releases.
The FCC don't test it, though. Any more than the EU does.
FCC is a paper exercise, you fill out the forms, sign the dotted line and you're good to go.
They can do spot checks if they feel the need, but you you really think they'll do that for products sold by a company the size of Apple?
It's now pretty clear that Apple did exceed the limits, and nobody noticed because nobody tested them.
Most likely this came about because someone noticed a strange result while testing something else, and tracked it down to the phone in their pocket.
Each country is responsible for enforcing the rules within its borders.
The EU Commission and Parliament just put together regulations and vote on whether to accept them. Each member state is then responsible for enforcement, there's no EU-wide police force or anything like that.
The regulations usually specify which state has jurisdiction when it's cross-border to avoid that wrangling. To some extent, anyway.
Gravel is sufficient, no need for special materials. At those speeds it takes very little to disrupt flight surfaces or destroy the engine, and they cannot be effectively armoured due to the weight.
The trouble is that you need to scatter the gravel in front of the incoming weapon, sufficiently accurately that it will pass through the bulk of the cloud, and sufficiently close to it that it cannot avoid the collision.
That's a pretty tight box to aim at, especially as the entire point of hypersonic weapons is that they can manoeuvre. You have to launch the "kill vehicle" before you know where to scatter the gravel.
On the bright side, it doesn't need to go as fast or as far, so it can stay in flight regimes that are better understood and use simpler rocket engines.
Free O will react extremely quickly with whatever is nearby. They use a catalyst to get as much O2 as possible.
The reason for the waste product being CO is twofold:
1. Carbon is quite reactive. It'll grab something else, probably O2 and oxidise back to CO2 quite rapidly, releasing a lot of heat. CO is less reactive so easier to avoid that happening.
2. Carbon-Carbon compounds are solid at reasonable temperatures. It's quite difficult to get rid of a solid, so if that's your output the machine fills up with soot and stops working. CO is a gas, so is quite easy to eject.
There basically jsn't any free oxygen in the Martian atmosphere - any that forms reacts with the dust almost immediately.
MOXIE is breaking down CO2 into oxygen and carbon monoxide.
When it's burned, it becomes CO2 again, released in the gravity well.
Aside from that, the volumes in question are miniscule on a planetary scale. A few hundred tonnes isn't going to make any difference - terraforming Mars would take a huge effort over hundreds of years.
Absolutely.
However, there are two major problems:
1. Every country has at least one major political party who is ideologically opposed to the concept of a skilled and expert civil service, often even the very concept of a neutral civil service.
The moment that party comes into power, they start to break up that team by various techniques, such as cross-promoting or even spinning off entire departments as separate private entities, destroying any capability that had been built up during the previous administration.
2. Private companies will try to poach those skilled workers, and will succeed often enough to ensure a "brain drain" within said civil service.
The only way out of this mess is going to be some kind of Open Source ERP, but it'll take a very brave set of councillors with "safe seats" to start that ball rolling.
It's reasonable to assume that heating/cooling a home is less efficient per person than heating/cooling an office.
However, it's also reasonable to assume that the actual marginal difference is very small, because people need to heat/cool their home for some proportion of the time it is empty during the day, to ensure it is habitable when they return.
The vast majority of properties have the choice of exactly one actual broadband ISP carrier - Openreach - aside from a very few places that have Virgin cable and FTTP.
Almost every ISP is an Openreach reseller. The banks of modems are long gone.
All you're paying extra for is bypassing the CGNAT, and a nicer person to phone when Openreach break it. So it's not surprising that very few people do.
ChoHag, that whooshing sound is the point going over your head.
Cliffwilliams44 says their neighbour controls it now, and not only is it not permitted for Cliffwilliams to ask anyone else to help get their property back, they're not allowed to try themselves either.
It's a strange worldview, if I may be so bold.
The 32bit version of XP supported 4GB.
An individual application would only get access to 3GB of that - unless compiled with a Large Address Aware linker switch to indicate that they could cope with the full address space.
That limitation and switch still exists in Windows 11, as it's part of the 32bit Win32 ABI.
There was also a 64bit version of XP, though I never saw that in the wild.
The way all of this works is that the FAA get handed a massive stack of paperwork that basically says "we did some tests and simulations, it'll be fine".
Historically, the FAA then do a few spot checks on which failure modes have been considered, and that there aren't any glaring issues.
In short, for the most part they believe what Boeing, SpaceX et al tell them.
The Superheavy launch attempt have rather broken that trust. They now have to go through the entire stack and examine everything - almost certainly running their own simulations to verify the SpaceX ones aren't just "the only time this emergency system actually worked".
They may also require some physical tests of particular parts.
That all simply takes a lot more time. Same as with the 737-MAX.
Longer term the regulatory capture problem needs solving, but at the end of the day it's a small industry so a revolving door between the regulator and the businesses is inevitable. Can't regulate if you don't understand the engineering.
The FAA have the legal power to simply end SpaceX.
If they launched without a licence at all, there wouldn't be a fine. The FAA would be legally required to walk in, lock or confiscate everything and shut them down, permanently.
This would of course be followed by a few months of legal wrangling.
The most probable end result of that being a publicly-owned "NuSpace" with a new management team, with Musk (and others) permanently barred from having a controlling interest in any US aerospace business.
The SpaceX management team know this, of course, so they won't do that, no matter what Musk Xits out.
The description given in public very obviously means it simply crashed on unexpected and/or bad data.
And then the backup went ahead and crashed as well, as expected. Same code, same assumptions, same data, same crash.
Worse, it clearly didn't create a useful log (or even core dump?)
If it had done then the staff would have been able to figure out which flight plan crashed the system, remove it from the automated queue and try again before the four hour "major disruption" deadline.
Or at least which small block of 10-100 flight plans contain the problem. Drop those out, continue.
Then they could manually process the funky flight plan(s), and finally set someone to work on figuring out why that flight plan crashed the software - without a nasty deadline hanging over them.
Asking someone to manually process ten flight plans in the knowledge that one of them made the automation fall over is also a very effective way of finding the flaw. Handing them 10,000 is a very effective way of making sure they ... don't.
Probably has something to do with the minor detail that Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding Company and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal own 4% of Xitter.
They also "facilitated" a lot of the financing of His Muskness purchase.
I'm rather wondering how much of this was simply a way to extract a large amount of liquid cash from Twitter while getting someone else to entirely destroy it.
Every situation where W3W is possible to use is machine to machine.
I click "share location" in Google Maps or FB Messenger etc etc, you click the link.
AML automatically shares my location with the emergency services when I dial 999, 112 or 911.
I paste lat/long into an SMS.
At no point is a human actually reading it out, they all get a pin directly on the map.
And if they don't use (or have access to) the same proprietary map system as me, they can copypaste the lat/long from any of them to any other. Something that is deliberately impossible with W3W
It's fairly clear that they didn't even do that, they just assumed the homophones and singular/plural forms would be a long way apart.
And they keep claiming this despite being presented with multiple cases pairs being within 10-20 miles, including in their own advertising.
It would have been relatively simple to (eg) ensure homophones and singular/plural forms were diametrically opposed on the globe.
Heck, even simple duplication would have worked better - it's generally fairly easy to determine if you're in the Pacific Ocean or Europe.