Re: Meh
Those are some impressive books that you can watch live sports in.
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Why? Because there are loads of commercial/entertainment applications for large displays. I’ve seen on near me, when’ve get close up to it, it is actually four large displays arranged in a quad to display one image. Then the market for wealthy people who have home cinema rooms.
I don’t think LG had you watching reruns of Knots Landing your kitchen in mind when they designed it.
And my architecture text tells me that when heating was first introduced in London theatres, they were able to maintain the temperature at 12C
That’s interesting, because when theatres get filled up with hundreds of humans they require some effective cooling to stop them getting uncomfortably warm.
Young drivers have far more and far worse accidents than old ones.
Worse accidents, usually yes the oldies tend to be involved in less serious accidents, but they only have less accidents because they are on the road less. Accidents per mile driven for old fogeys is not good reading.
I sound as if "being part of the Raspberry Pi community", like "being part of the crypto community", is just a way of saying "being gullible"
This is the problem with people, some cant accept that their personal preferences and requirements are not universal. When considering that some folk might enjoy a particular pastime, you might not be interested but it's important to remember that it's not all about you.
So you can be a person that enjoys a particular hobby, or you can be a sad basement dwelling undateable that consoles themselves by picking fault with the hobbies of others.
I dumped Faecebook in 2014 and I do miss the local history group I was involved in. My mother lets me know if anything interesting happens there.
I abandoned all forms of social media. Social media I define as anything where any random user can create the topics. If social media was unbalkanised then I would consider dipping in again. But while it involves corporations trying to own the web I remain in protest.
Yes, I remember using the old shilling and two shilling as 5p and 10p, some had some very old dates on.
The two shilling was a sizeable piece of metal.
Sixpences (tanners) remained usable as currency until 1980.
I am not old enough to have used the thruppeny bit (Joey) but it remains my favourite UK coin with its 12 sides and brassy colour. I have a little collection of them.
you can't legally run it [Windows 11 ARM] in a Mac VM
For something that is not legal, the functional insider preview certainly is well advertised, used as a selling point and deliberately enabled in an automated process within Parallels. So if there was no understanding in place Parallels would be in too risky a position to continue like that.
By truly habitable you mean habitable by humans without significant life support systems. A bit like some of the warmer parts of the Earth where modern humans enjoy life by occupying a small enclosed space protected from the UV and using copious amounts of energy to have the heat removed. Like Phoenix and Dubai. They don't grow potatoes in their own sewage in Phoenix though, at least I don't think they do. It's only Idaho where they do that.
Then some of the higher latitudes that have a permanent human presence, but people can't really go out of their heated building without considerable amounts of protective clothing.
Arizona for the win!
By converting different molecules directly from the Martian atmosphere
That's very impressive. It's been known for a long time that water ice on the icy bodies in the outer solar system separates out into its hydrogen and oxygen components when exposed to local radiation and that the atomic oxygen recombines into O2, the hydrogen goes off into space. So breaking up CO2 with plasma is reasonable.
Any organisms evolved for earth conditions will need to evolve quickly to survive being irradiated, starved of oxygen and extremes of temperature on the journey there. When it arrives it will need to fend off clouds of sulphuric acid, 93 bar’s atmospheric pressure and 450 C heat.
It’s all very silly that if I want to communicate with this group, they use signal, and these others use discord and somebody else uses telegram and the chavs all use WhatsApp and if I want to talk to these people I need to have a separate app and account for each. Totally ridiculous. It’s like having to have a Vodafone SIM to talk to vodafone network users, an EE SIM to talk to EE customers etc. Sort it out.
I do enjoy the Aesops fox in these “rich idiots” and the “fool and their money” banality comments.
The idiots can pay for their suborbital flight, and still be a rich idiot afterwards. In fact they barely notice the outlay as over the wait for their flight, they have increased their wealth by many times the cost of the flight.
How very stupid they are.
.... we call them "Newspapers"
I don’t think I can even recall the last time I saw somebody younger than retirement age reading a printed newspaper that wasn’t a free Metro or LES. I guess the websites still do a bit of business.
I stopped trusting any news outlet after I was involved in a major national news story and I didn’t even recognise the event from the way it was reported.
Presumably from 100km the detection of ice is going to be spectral.
So they ought to be able to get a fairly sure estimation of composition and grain size if the target is fairly pure water ice. If it's very dirty then other signatures might mask and make it more uncertain especially as there is already hydrogen in the moon's tenuous atmosphere.
If the moon gets a lot of radiation, maybe during a solar event then radiolytic processing of ice can release oxygen molecules.
I know a company using code written in 1988 for running much of their accounts system.
Presumably the much of their accounts system is flexible and allows its users to reconfigure it to adapt to changing regulatory and tax etc. A lot of companies don't have users with that product knowledge and rely on support backup from the software vendor.
I have an account with a hosting/online dev provider which is free and I have a half written project in there. I'm very proud of the project and I fully believe it will be worth finishing, and I will finish it. But not right now, because another project is in the way.
That provider just requires that I log in and access my project once every three months to avoid their sweeper up process. I think that's fair enough, if people want to keep gitlab projects alive then use them.