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Comment Re:What is the point, seriously? (Score 1) 65

by KenAndCorey (#60628978) Attached to: NASA and Nokia To Install 4G on Lunar Surface

"real-time navigation and streaming..."

Bullshit.

The moon is still over a full light second away from Earth. Adding wireless relay stations on the lunar surface is not going to change that.

It's my understanding that you need tenth of a second or faster response times on a system before you can actually call it "real time".

Maybe the real-time navigation will be done by people ON THE MOON. Doing this means the astronauts won't need to suit-up and get exposed to radiation; just get a remote-controlled robot to do the work. And even from Earth... I've played games with 1-second latency, and it is still possible. You just have to anticipate more, and it is slower going. Not real-time, but possible.

Comment Re:There is no such thing as consensus science (Score 5, Informative) 152

by KenAndCorey (#60610334) Attached to: YouTube Bans Coronavirus Vaccine Misinformation
I would say "scientific consensus" could be interpreted in different ways. If it is just a bunch of scientists saying the same thing, then what Crichton says makes sense. But I see "scientific consensus" as a bunch of scientists reproducing and verifying an experiment backing up a scientific theory. I see that kind of consensus as very scientific. I see it as "reproducible results" which is what Crichton says is relevant.

Comment Re:Risk Factor 9! (Score 2) 118

* citation needed. There were very few countries that "manned up". Sweden is the best known example. Comparing it to its neighbours: Deaths per 1M population: Sweden: 364 Denmark: 94 Norway: 43 Finland: 54 So looks like manning up cost about 300% to 600% higher fatality rate for a given country.

Comment Re:Risk Factor 9! (Score 3, Informative) 118

Looks to be 100,000 died in 3 months in the USA. And that is EVEN WITH staying at home. Would have been 10 times worse if we did nothing and just kept on with business as normal. Keep baseball games and hockey games and basketball games going. Are you okay with 1 million dying? (You might be... to save the economy maybe 1% of the population dying is worth it?!? It's a personal call.)

Comment Re:You need to do much better than this (Score 3) 208

by KenAndCorey (#59509302) Attached to: World's First Fully Electric Commercial Aircraft Takes Flight in Canada
Pretty sure they didn't do it for you personally; they won't be calling you. Yes, it will take development iterations and technology improvements before it is useful for even mid-range flights. But for the short hops around Victoria, Vancouver, and the surrounding islands, it will be great.

Comment Re:Check the range (Score 4, Insightful) 208

by KenAndCorey (#59509288) Attached to: World's First Fully Electric Commercial Aircraft Takes Flight in Canada
That is like saying airplanes will never be useful because the first powered flight only traveled 852 feet. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.... It would be easier to ride a bicycle or walk! This area of the world is a great spot to get this technology going. Lots of short hops between islands.
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Google Announces the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL Smartphones (phonedog.com) 66

Posted by msmash from the new-gadgets dept.
At an event in New York today, Google unveiled Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, its latest flagship smartphones. The Pixel smartphones have over the years set a new benchmark for photography prowess. So you can imagine that a lot is riding on what Google, which has in curtailed several of its hardware ambitions in recent quarters, does with the new Pixel smartphones. From a report: Google makes it a point that the majority of the primary features are the same between the Pixel smartphones, with the primary exception being the display and screen technology. That is the case this year as well, with the Pixel 4 featuring a 5.7-inch Full HD+ P-OLED display, while the Pixel 4 XL boasts a 6.3-inch Quad HD OLED screen. Both panels support a 90Hz refresh rate, though. Inside both handsets is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor, and both smartphones boast 6GB of RAM. The handsets come in either 64GB or 128GB of built-in storage options, but there is no microSD card slot for expandable storage. There is a USB-C port for charging, and both handsets feature stereo speakers as well. The battery in the Pixel 4 measures in at 2800mAh, while the Pixel 4 XL has a 3700mAh battery tucked inside.

Meanwhile, around back, the real star of the show: the cameras. That's right, Google is bumping up the rear camera count to two. It starts with the standard 12-megapixel "Dual Pixel" camera, which is accompanied by a 16-megapixel telephoto lens. The rounded square camera housing also hosts a microphone and a flash. [...] And finally, the front-facing camera is equipped with a radar sensor that gives the handsets much more utility than previous models. It starts with true depth detection while using the front-facing camera to unlock the phone with a face unlock biometric feature. Google is also including a new "Motion Sense" technology, letting the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL support gestures for controlling media playback and more. The pricing for Pixel 4 starts at $799, while its bigger sibling begins at $899. Unlike previous Pixel smartphone models, the Pixel 4 and 4 XL won't offer their users the ability to upload unlimited photos in their original resolution and qualirty to Google Photos at no charge. Both the handsets, though, come bundled with a new voice recorder app that transcribes voice recording in real time for free, Google said.

Comment Re:There's nothing to decode here (Score 1) 49

by KenAndCorey (#59223724) Attached to: 'Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates' Premieres on Netflix

(him mom was on the board of directors at IBM)

Nope. Close, but nope. "In 1980, she discussed her son's company with John Opel, a fellow committee member and the chairman of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other IBM executives. A few weeks later, IBM took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer." https://web.archive.org/web/20...

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