HubertManne

I am as well but in a bit different way I think. I feel the movie did a good job with the general idea but of course lacked the mecha-armor drop ship type component. It would be great to do it in todays graphics. Then I look at like wheel of time and think that anything they make now will be awful and I rather just stick with the somewhat decent one we have.

yeah and its sorta silly to even pretend that there is private ownership of land given property tax and regulations. The truth is the state owns the land that it holds by military might and the citizens rent portions for their needs.

yeah its the same with patent. I often think both should only be given to individuals and entities should not be able to have them.

Thing is that copywrite did serve a purpose and was for like 20 years before disney got it extended to the nth degree. The idea was the authors had a chance to make money but were expected to be prolific enough to have more writings by the time 20 years was over. I would like to see with patents that once you get one you have a limited time to go to market. Maybe 10 years and if you product is ever not available for purchase (at a cost equivalent to the average cost accounted for inflation or something) you lose the patent so others can produce it. So like stop making an attachment for a product and now anyone can.

citizen kane. I mean I get it. If you geek out on cinematography history and the first of doing stuff but its just plain boring.

I really feel it should not be necessary to ask them to site all sources though. It should be default behavior.

yeah my thought was like how often is a web search “right”. To me ai search is just another version of search. its like at first searching gave you a list of urls, then it gave you a list of urls with human type names as well to make it more clear what it was, then it started giving back little summaries to give an idea of what each page was saying. now it gives you a summary of many pages. My main complaint is these things should be required to giver references and their answers should pretty much look like a wikipedia page but the little drop down carats or roll overs (although I prefer a drop down myself).

meh. I like dinklage but the dwarves are mythical creatures. I mean films with giants have nothing to do with people having gigantism.

was thinking of adding champions online and star trek online but it does not really fit their categories. I always felt they were nice because they were the opposite of l33t first person shooter type things with options to follow someone so that if you have a partner, auto targetting, and decent scripting support. Like in champs you can make a key to make block a toggle and star trek was well know for smashing the spacebar where you setup your abilities to be triggered by spacebar so it would run through them as you pressed it so pressing it like crazy was a thing. Timing was needed for content but not everyone in the group had to have super perfect timing.

honestly I don’t see the thing here. unless its about edge being a respin of chrome. all macs come with safari, all windows edge, ironically its a few linux distros that come with chrome while others use a default foss browser. I feel like their biggest monopoly is windows giving up and using their core rather than making their own.

I get annoyed how putting a source in is not consistantly done with many of them. when you follow up and ask for them you generally get them but im going to look that over. I like when the answer looks like a wikipedia article with little number references.

ooh. plus one for steamdeck. should have mentioned it in my comments.

I use zorin and by and large like it because I install it and can use it right away and maybe install a thing here or there as needed.

im having one of those mandela effects were I already thought there had been 3.

someone with far more experience replied to me and he might be better to ask. Im sorta viewing this as like the equivalent of sputnik for what it is and like how long it took to get civilian gps in the 90’s. So like 30 or 40 years. stuff by and large goes faster now so im thinking this may be something utilized by actual space industries if they can get going in the next ten or twenty years. I mean ten is unlikely but never know. Total peanut gallery opinion from me though. I don’t work in the industry im just a science and technology geek.

Im not sure then why mars was mentioned in the article. Is the power really limiting though assuming solar panels just for lunar transmission (earth retransmissions) and maybe more not only so that some are active at any point (seems almost better than battery but maybe battery would be better) but also using directed antenna to get info to the points we want to get the information to (so like ones that send info to the lagrange point and others that are more for lunar surface gps). I hope im getting what im thinking across clear enough.

I think the plan is to expand it. Put antennas like this at specific points like 6 around the sphere. Im sorta surprised that they don’t use a rover setup to maybe plant them as specific a location as they can. I think the theory is we can use what we have at earth and place beacons around such that you can get more and more exact measurments. Much like gps became more and more accurate. I would expect things put into lagrange points and such to. I mean they will have to do something to get this working out to like mars.

interesting. its not just about the moon:

“LuGRE’s groundbreaking success opens the door for future NASA Artemis missions and other space explorations to use GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signals. This means they can accurately figure out their position, speed, and time without human help. It’s a huge leap forward for navigation systems on the Moon and Mars!”

this should be pretty huge. think about the various failed landings and such you have seen in the news.:

“Traditionally, NASA engineers use a combination of onboard sensors and Earth-based tracking signals to track spacecraft. LuGRE’s demonstration shows that GNSS signals can autonomously aid navigation, even at the Moon’s distance.”

so this really changes space exploration as or more significant to the reusable rocket stages.

I have watched some this week but they were so meh I can’t even remember the titles.

just fyi to folks the word agile here is in a business context like pivot or out of the box thinking and not agile methodology.