Yeah, OLED isn’t really the best choice for an e-reader.

There’s a reason e-ink is a thing.

Bam! Fucking mic drop!

Which is a good argument for regulation. Regulation prevents industry from doing things that may be in their individual best interest but are against public best interests or the best interests of the industry as a whole.

But to be fair, article author Michael Le Page isn’t really human, he’s just an australopithecus with a whole bunch of extra human traits.

Nope

I still use steam on Windows 7. I don’t see the problem.

In my experience, as you increase the quality level of a jpeg, the compression level drops significantly, much more than with some other formats, notably PNG. I’d be curious to see comparisons with png and gif. I wouldn’t be surprised if the new jpeg compresses better at some resolutions, but not all, or with only some kind of images.

That sounds like a you problem.

“Our business is so bad and barely viable that it can only survive if you allow us to be overtly unethical”, great pitch guys.

I mean that’s like arguing “our economy is based on slave plantations! If you abolish the practice, you’ll destroy our nation!”

I believe they’re called moonlets. They’re tiny moons, rocks that would be large enough to be called asteroids, but floating around in the rings.

An excellent question!

Ring simulations are hard though, I don’t expect to see a lot in that area.

Yeah, it sounded weird when I had it like that, so I added the disc to the end. Turned out, it was only 4 characters, so not a big imposition.

We are in space near the sun… And we have successfully used solar as far out as Jupiter.

Haha, no I didn’t account for lunar eclipses, but that lasts what, 2 hours?

But yeah, not falling over definitely improves the whole mission. No argument there.

Would it barely work, or would it always work?

If you plan to land on the pole, at a high altitude, you could potentially have direct line of sight to the sun 24/7 all year round. From the ground, the sun would appear to travel left to right along the horizon, making a full circle over the course of a month. You just need your solar panels pointed to the sides, not up.

However, if they aren’t directly on the pole, they could still plan their landing to be in a location that gets sunlight for 15 earth days straight, with 0 interruption. As that might be more than the necessary time period for their experiments, that’s probably perfect. And that doesn’t even require being at a high elevation.

Also, being on the pole doesn’t result in dimmer sunlight than on the equator like it would on earth. No atmosphere means the poles get the same completely unfiltered sunlight.

Look, the vast majority of lunar landers (and there have been quite a few) have used solar power, it’s the obvious choice in space.

I really don’t understand the tall moon lander strategy… I mean, if you’re going to design it with a high center of gravity, then design it to fall over… Just use two landing legs instead of four, to ensure it falls over the right way. Then you put the solar panels on the side, so that when it topples over they’re facing up.

I’ve literally done this in Kerbal space program, it’s a pretty reliable landing system if your probe is tall.

Eh… I think they should stick to solar power. Given how much trouble they’ve been having, let’s not give them any weapons grade isotopes…

For what it’s worth, just last week, Firefly stuck the landIng on their first attempt. They’re seriously killing it these days, I’m happy for them.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say this company that makes DVDs probably also makes Blu-Ray discs.

But the thumbnail, isn’t that just the album cover from Nirvana’s Nevermind?

Apple has a history of being the good guys when it comes to issues of encryption. As a rule, they want to keep your privacy (and theirs). But they also want to continue operating in many countries, and when something like this happens, they may fight it in court, but if they lose, they won’t pull out of the region, they’ll find a way to comply.

In other words, this is a problem with national governments. They need to stop asking app and os developers to do unethical things, there’s enough pressure for them to do that already.

And who knows maybe it also shuffles these developers down a slippery slope… Maybe developers figure “if we must spy on users, we’ve already lost their trust, we might as well make a profit from it”. And that leads us to the relationship we have with technology today, our tech is untrustworthy, we feel the oppression of the surveillance state and we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

I just watched the NASA/firefly live stream. No spoilers 😉

https://www.youtube.com/live/ChEuA1AUJAY

The landing burn begins at about 1:08

Why do people keep trying to do this? The fact is, you can’t beat good encryption and you can’t beat the Internet.

As soon as a country outlaws an app like this, users will simply not be able to download it “officially”. They’ll have to set up an Internet proxy or vpn, and then download it… It may take an extra 10 minutes to install.

They can’t block this… So why try?