That was 12 years ago. A 12 year out of date critique of a web technology that has had ongoing language updates and two entire rewrites in that interval should be viewed with some suspicion. Also, are you really just citing the title of the article and none of the content?

I'm not even defending PHP here, just questioning lazy kneejerk, "but it sucked once, so now I hate it forever" thinking.

Prodigy is an excellent story ... with a caveat. Just like Star Trek: Discovery, the first few episodes are difficult to watch and have turned a lot of people away from the series before it gets great.

It answers the question "what if you put a Star Wars character into a Star Trek universe?" So it opens with a hotshot kid who bends all the rules so he can escape the mining colony where he's held prisoner. And he thinks he can do everything himself, and that he's cool and awesome. He's insufferable and all the other characters basically can't stand him.

By episode 5, he's gotten his tail handed to him a few times too many, so that's the point where he bucks up and accepts that he's part of a team ... and from there, the series beautifully goes into the principles of Star Trek, strength through diversity, boldly going, &c.

S1 is on Netflix right now, with S2 coming to it later this year. For anyone who's curious about it, I recommend watching it up through episode 6 "Kobayashi", which is a love letter from the writers to the fans. That should be enough to know whether it's to your liking.

I'll disagree a little bit: we have heavy lift rockets bringing mass to orbit at a greater rate than any time in history and new larger and more efficient rockets on the cusp of being brought to use, with next generations planned for the future. Space launch technology -- the actual raw launching of mass to orbit, where it can be useful -- has advanced. And mass to orbit means more fuel -- if we really wanted to get something out there faster.

And that's where our statements arrive at the same conclusion: there's little need to do anything but super efficient deep space probes. While I can quibble with your implied assertion about newer technology not making a difference in ability, in a practical sense given our funding of deep space research, the big tech upgrade has been to data collection devices and communication. We'll have to have way cheaper lift capability before extra fuel to cut time off a project makes any kind of sense. But it is now at least plausible as an option.

(Also, this appears to be the only thread that isn't making Trek or Aliens jokes)

I'm a veteran of the browser wars. I remember when Microsoft tried to snuff out its competition by including a fully-featured Internet Explorer with Windows, and justified this by saying that users wanted all the features of a best-in-class app.

I always wondered (sarcastically) why this didn't extend to their word processor, too. Why not include a fully-featured Microsoft Word with Windows?

Maybe now's the time to do that.

In 1998, Apple had recently purchased NeXT announced that Mac OS X would be built atop BSD Unix. There was talk about the potential benefits of Microsoft doing something similar with Windows, making the GUI a component on top of Linux.

I still think that would have been a good move. Microsoft would have benefited from getting a stable and proven multitasking OS (something which was only realized around the time of Windows 7, I'd say) with a broad set of drivers, and Linux would have gotten improvements it needed to provide better support to desktop GUIs.

Yep! Also the same Apple which refused to give the iOS source code to the Chinese government.

I don't mind Apple abiding by Chinese laws to make its hardware and software available in China. I am glad it hasn't bowed to pressure to make its hardware and software modifiable by China.

And not just Star Wars, but also Star Trek! Haven't any of them watched Picard season 3? Remember "Fleet Formation"?!

The fact that China is a surveillance state, whereas Apple has frequently and publicly resisted pressure to add back doors to its devices and software.

What are the other possible interpretations?

Came here to say this. "Enhance cybersecurity" means that China can't bug iPhones to monitor its government employees, so it'll require them to use phones that it has already bugged.

If anything, this is a sign that Apple is doing things right.

I liked Cortana, but I never actually found anything it could do. Sure it could tell jokes and make Halo references, but if I asked it to launch an application, change the volume, shut down the computer, &c., it would give me a generic "I can't do that" message. What was the point?

Slackware has never enabled CONFIG_SMB_SERVER in any kernel.

CCS can go up to around 400kW. Well, actually I think it is 500kW now. Which is 1000VDC x 400A or 500A.

Most BEVs canâ(TM)t go that high. In fact, I think there are only one or two that can actually max out current 350kW chargers for any decent amount of time. Neither of Them T

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Yes, but nobody fast DC charges to 100%. The charge rate drops modestly past 60% and precipitously above 80%. So people only charge to 60-80% and no more. Usually 30-40 minutes max. And if your final destination is close and destination charging is available, only enough to get there. So for trips just beyond the vehicle range, the charging stop can be very short, like 10-15 minutes.

At home, or at a destination, people will charge to 100% overnight if they will be taking a long trip the next day, and otherwise only charge to 70% or 80%. Unless itâ(TM)s a model 3 with a LFP battery, in which case people charge to 100% overnight.

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Yah. The connector standard has settled down, which is good. Chargers are typically only able to do AC or DC anyway, not both. CCS on the vehicle allows both J1772 (AC only) and also has the extra pins for high amperage DC.

L1 (120VAC) 11-16A (in vehicle charger)
L2 (240VAC) 24-80A (in vehicle charger)
L3 (was never implemented)
Fast DC charging, direct DC to battery, dynamically managed up to 1000VDC and 500A.

Limited by the lower of what the external unit can supply and the vehicle can accept.

Chademo is being steadily removed. The cable standard was too limited. So if you own an old leaf, you need to start carrying around an adapter.

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I apologize for the (TM) junk. I donâ(TM)t know why the iPad is doing that. It isnâ(TM)t in my edit box.

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