Comment Re:Doesn't matter for its primary mission. (Score 1) 279
I'm not particularly in favor of the F-35 but EOTS is stealthier because it is a passive detection system that does not emit a signal. It is not always wise to do active "pinging."
I'm not particularly in favor of the F-35 but EOTS is stealthier because it is a passive detection system that does not emit a signal. It is not always wise to do active "pinging."
[T]he rules would allow the largest Internet giants to continue scooping up data about users on their own sites and on other sites that include their plug-ins, such as Facebook’s “Like” button or an embedded YouTube video. This giant loophole would make “Do Not Track” meaningless.
So Google is indeed being optimized..for its own advertising. The message to all but the very biggest vendors is that you must pay to show up. No more getting in the back door by being picked up by an price listing service that gets on Google’s first page, or by matching the search terms well.
But as a user, it looks like Google is cooking its own goose. These crappy results makes me much more inclined to go to Amazon and look at Amazon merchants, and compare price at 3 or 4 Apple vendors I know are reliable with returns in case I get a bum machine. The fact that I’m not getting remotely usable results from Google searches and that means I’ll skip them.
How long will it take for advertisers to realize that they are effectively being scammed by Google, that they are often paying for bad clickthroughs because Google is putting them on search results where they don’t belong but the retailer has written successful clickbait ads so they get bad visits? My impression is that Google Adsense reporting is opaque enough that they might not recognized Google’s culpability (indeed, I can see Google optimizing its algos to keep the bad clickthroughs at the highest level that an advertiser would tolerate).
You are forgetting to account for nutation which is why sidereal time is only an average.
I prefer solar time for my particular longitude. Burtthen I am retired and don't travel by air.
Unfortunately both solar and sidereal time have a variable length day that changes by the time of year. UTC finesses the problem of a fixed length day with occasional leap years and leap seconds. Two more cheap watches would not solve this.
A true smartwatch would provide both in addition to time based on UTC. I find it amazing that a purely mechanical watch, albeit those that cost upwards of a quarter of a million dollars can do both (provided you set the cams inside for proper longitude and latitude) but a watch with a computer inside that can do these calculations is unavailable.
You blithering idiots have not exactly solved Hume's fundamental Problem of Induction.
As if there is a meaningful difference. Space opera is still space opera and it is still childish BS.
Mod down for trekkie reference.
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The only thing that the captain of the Costa Concordia needed to avoid those rocks was the ability to read a chart!
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
