Posts by imanidiot 4421 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Mar 2012
It's not a matter of IF, it's a matter of when. They are currently cheaper than renting your own office, but that is mainly because there is a massive real estate bubble and office space is way overpriced in most cities worldwide. Once that bubble bursts, they will suddenly have no customers and a lot of very expensive office leases on their hands.
But the founder has already jumped ship with a massive golden parachute (First warning sign of any "start-up" about to die)
Am I really the only one that has basically zero problem with assembling Ikea furniture? It's really, really bleeping simple. First step however if you have a less technically inclined girlfriend/wife/helper is to make the agreement that you know what you are doing and she just leave the room and let you at it. Any other solution will invariably bring on a fight as they put things in backwards, lose screws and generally just slow you down.
If you read carefully what I wrote there you'd see I qualified how I got to aprox. 6 tons. By the time the LM got close to the surface the decent stage was nearly empty. Fueled mass of the decent stage was a tad over 10 tons, fueled mass of the ascent stage was 4 and a bit tons. (The difference is stuff like surface science equipment stowed on the decent stage). IE, burn most of the fuel in the decent stage and you're left with aprox. 6 to 7 tons of vehicle to maneuver close to the surface.
His answer is that "they" never went to the moon.
The other explanation of course is that like any large enough bureaucracy, storing and archiving footage like that is some other departments responsibility so naturally everything just gets lost and/or destroyed. The process is described quite succinctly in the relevant wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes.
The relevant lines being: "Since the real-time broadcast conversion worked, and was widely recorded on both videotape and film, the backup video was not deemed important at the time. In the early 1980s, NASA's Landsat program was facing a severe data tape shortage and it is likely that during this period the tapes were erased and reused."
Yeah, sure flying something the weight and size of a small van on top of a rocket is exactly the same as bringing a 44 meter tall rocket moving at several times the speed of sound back to a gentle landing on it's rear. Totally the same thing!
If you can't tell, that is sarcasm.
The CoG of the F9 first stage is further off the ground at aprox. 14 meters than the total LM was tall (23'3"/7.1 meters) and at 25 tons dry mass the first stage of F9 weighs about 4 times the landed mass of the LM (Aprox. 6 tons, Fueled ascend stage, empty decent stage, effectively only 1 ton on the moon actually). It's the same sort of thing only in general mechanics, but you're saying that because you can drive a go-cart you're qualified to drive a lorry/truck/tractor-trailer/HGV. They're just not the same thing. It also took NASA several years and a lot of trials with the LLRV and LLTV to get it right and some of the best pilots of the time to fly it.
Bureaucracy, lack of political will and constant backstabbing are a much more feasible explanation for that than not going to the moon at all. It was the Apollo program that gave NASA it's focus, but the progress they made before they got the Germans to help them through operation Paperclip, the Apollo 1 accident, the Columbia and Challenger disasters and several smaller fuckups along the way show how inefficient of an organisation NASA actually is without this outside pressure to complete one single goal. In line with every other government organisation in existence.
The overal rocket design was very much a german/von Braun design. The F-1 engine was much more "american" and based more on what they could reliably produced at that size and output power. I'm sure there were reasons to go for an old fashioned brazed tube design over a double walled one. For one thing because, due to lack of modern FEM analysis and limited manual calculating capacity, most of the thermal design on double walled combustion chambers was "try it out and see if it melts", which wouldn't really do on an engine the size of the F-1. A brazed tube design was easier to perform the calculations on.
The swedish court has decided that, since 7 years have passed, far too little reliable evidence [b]now remains[/b] to be sure of anything. They didn't decide there was [b]never[/b] any reliable evidence to convince. Assange seems like just the kind of guy to do exactly what he was accused of doing. He simply managed to stall things long enough to get out of those charges. Not exactly justice for anyone there.
" the publishing of the data by Assange led directly to the death of agents in Iran (and possibly elsewhere.)"
So sayeth the TLAs that have most to lose if someone decides to actually limit or put in check their mass spying and most to gain by setting a harsh and thorough example for anyone who might care to investigate their gross misconduct and abuse of power worldwide.
{Citation needed} as they say.
I don't get why people would even update the firmware. (Or install the BOSE app, which DEMANDS location service is turned on when you open it, yes, really, for an app to control the EQ and settings on a pair of headphones!) They work fine without the app, and I don't see why they'd need new firmware. Ever.
In my opinion the only Bose product worth looking at is the QC35 NC headphones (wearing some right now), and the only alternative that comes close is the Sony WH-1000MX models. For me the difference was only in comfort, I liked the fit of the Bose ones on my head better, I know people who had the opposite.
I really don't understand why people would spend this much money on a soundbar like this. And then accept it when a manufacturer shafts them as hard as Bose is doing. Take them to bloody court if you have to and get your money back.
Musk is very sensitive to getting set "a challenge". Tell him he get's 10 million dollars and another 6 launches on the contract if he get's the in-flight abort and the Crew Demo 2 flown before the end of February, and give him all the support he needs from NASA and KSC. I'd bet he'd get it done.
The little Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly incident the Crew Demo One capsule suffered has already been solved (and succesfully tested), as far as I know SpaceX is preparing the hardware for the In-flight abort test as we speak and the capsule and hardware for CD2 are also already at the cape. They can get it done, if it wasn't for these missions not having the "it must be done right now" priority that some people think they should have.
The first BigDog versions needed very high levels of energy over a duration that could simply not be reached by battery at the time (or currently). A sterling engine might come closer, but is problematic in it's own right. It could certainly have been more quiet even with an IC engine.
How would a neutron star in a binary system collapse into a black hole, but not blow it's companion to bits in the process? I thought black hole formation involved some rather energetic processes (not always supernova levels energetic, but "you don't want to be anywhere in the same star system" levels at least)?
"Swapping battery packs is a better solution as fast charging needs x10 current, with potential issues supplying the charging stations, heavier wiring and even more peak demand infrastructure."
Swapping battery packs doesn't work and will never work (Tesla tried it on their Model S prototypes). The problem is that the battery pack in a well designed BEV is an integral part of the crash structure. If it needs to be swappable it needs to be outside the main crash cage (or inside in such a way it can be removed), which means it suddenly eats up much more space and makes the car much heavier. Turns out it also wasn't all that fast either.
You need quite a lot of pure uranium for it to be dangerous/harmful. They were handling pure chunks of the stuff in Los Alamos without too many ill effects (discounting the one where Slotin dropped a hemisphere and created a prompt critical mass, that is bad). Just a low concentration of uranium in water isn't really all that dangerous unless swallowed. And then it's mostly because Uranium is more poisonous than lead, it's biological half time (how fast the body removes it again) isn't long enough to give you a fatal dose either.
The actinides and fission products really ARE the main concern in a nuclear accident, not the uranium (long term you want to get rid of it, mostly because of the poisonous nature of it). Look at what they've been dealing with in Fukushima, you'll find it's the Strontium that is the main concern right now outside the reactor.
Edit to add:
Uranics are harmful if you STAY in the environment and don't go to a place that isn't contaminated. Obviously then the body can't get rid of the stuff because it keeps getting replenished.Uranium however isn't the acute danger that other radioactive elements present.
This is a job for a company specialized in machinery relocations (Think hauling a bridgeport knee mill or bigger). I don't know how many of them exist in the UK, but they should be pretty common in Germany. The relevant search term would be "Industrieumzüge". These are companies that have forklifts,trucks with loading ramps and experience in moving stuff that's too heavy or large for a standard shipping company to handle.
"(I refuse to use website banking)"
Out of curiosity, may I ask why? I personally don't see how website banking would be less secure or more difficult than using the phone. (Not saying you're stupid or something, I just don't see how I personally would ever prefer to use the phone system of my bank over their phone app or website. Maybe I'm missing something).
Seems like Samsung is breaking the law here. I rather doubt they followed all FAA 101 regulations, thus they need to be 101 exempt. Payload weight can not exceed 12lbs total, divided into packages not exceeding 6 lbs each. Judging from all the steel and metal in there, this payload was definitely heavier. On top of that it's not allowed to be a hazard when landing (even if it was launched under the relevant regulations), and this payload was DEFINITELY a danger to anyone underneath it with all the "sticky outty pokey bits".
Specifically FAA:
§101.33 Operating limitations.
No person may operate an unmanned free balloon—
(e) In such a manner that impact of the balloon, or part thereof including its payload, with the surface creates a hazard to persons or property not associated with the operation.
"Really, had the pilots involved ever learned how to use the trim button instead of trying to muscle the plane's controls it would have been a big annoyance, as occurred in the first incident, rather than the deadly disasters of the second and third incidents."
Please read the incident reports again before spouting non-sense. The pilots (correctly) diagnosed a trim issue and set the trim cut-outs to OFF. Which means the electric trim switches on the yoke don't do anything anymore either. Due to the heavy down trim already applied however (and the huge control forces thus required) the manual trim was also jammed pretty much solid at that point. The pilots then (incorrectly) decided to try re-engaging the trim cut-outs at which point another MCAS cycle occured and put them into the ground.
Handing off control to the FO is normal crew resource management and entirely according to training. Either pilot should be competent in flying the plane. There is/was no reason to assume the hand-off from Captain to FO had any influence on the outcome of the flight.
As to contacting someone else, Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. They had their hands full with the first bit, why would they complicate that further by trying to communicate the problems to someone far away unfamiliar with the problems encountered?
That's not how GPS works... They WERE using GPS. But GPS works one way, it tells you where you are with some clever math from timing signals received from space. You have to get that location data to the researcher somehow. And SMS is the easiest way to do that since it's one of the only options for a compact global low-power comms network available.
"iFixit couldn't find the phone's lauded Pixel Neural Core, which performs much of the AI heavy lifting. iFixit theorises that this is hidden beneath another component, like a memory chip."
I theorize that the "pixel neural core" is pure marketing wank and doesn't actually exist.
As I've stated before I suspect Intel bet the bank on EUV litho for 10nm. While that is now (finally) slowly coming into high volume manufacture, it's too late for Intel. They had to switch to much more error prone and slower multipatterning on DUV litho systems. It remains to be seen whether this is the blow that will bring Chipzilla to it's knees (unlikely imho) it's a sensitive blow nonetheless.
As soon as someone notifies them they are NOT the legitimate recipient and that the intended recipient is no longer the owner of that address, paypal should have taken action (By stopping that accounts "balance updates" for instance). Paypal definitely didn't correctly handle the situation here.
It's like someone moving but forgetting to update their bank details (it happens). If the new homeowner notifies the bank he received post not intended for him, the bank SHOULD stop sending stuff to the old address.
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