I don't know why I should care about limited compatibility for a subset of devices with another subset of devices. There's some of everything in my home. I found a tool called LocalSend years ago that allows me to do mildly obnoxious data transfers between arbitrary devices regardless of platform.
The perchlorates are a serious sticking issue. While I continue to be amazed at human ingenuity, the remediation problem for Martian soil seems to be very difficult. Not only that, but the perchlorates are *everywhere*, which means the entire environment is fundamentally poisonous to humans. That doesn't make it impossible, but it raises the bar another notch where we are already potentially dealing with low atmospheric pressure, extremely high CO2 concentration, very low O2 concentration, serious cold, etc. Again, not impossible, but Mars is almost as inhospitable as the Moon.
Yeah, their assumption that a sterile planetary body will not spontaneously develop this chemistry is not a really solid null hypothesis, especially given the number of demonstrations that amino acids fall out of proto-Earth conditions.
The destruction was with the previous Doctor, under Chris Chibnall.
If you start messing with the accessibility options for text size on MacOS, you quickly wind up with a blurry mess. This is particularly obnoxious if you're looking at a very high resolution display and very noticeable on the menu bar. It's a wonderful example of Apple's one size fits some design priorities.
MacOS is a third-rate *nix that can run MS Office, but so is ChromeOS. Should I be excited that I suddenly have the option to run Photoshop on a $600 device with as much RAM as the phone I had in 2018, but still can't control the size of system fonts on the desktop? Or is it just a more expensive way to run a browser and an SSH to something I'd rather be using?
I'll give you a hint: It's the second one.
If they're being thorough, Snapdragon, Mediatek and Ampere (server) SoCs are also being sold in traditional PC forms.
I might be interested if this thing could run Linux and had Thinkpad-grade input devices, but as it is, it's just a web terminal that's locked to Apple's ecosystem instead of Google's. That's just not very compelling.
$diety, I wish I had mod points right now -- that's brilliant!
What big European player wants to put $6B on the table though? SAP is the biggest European software company I can name and that doesn't seem like a strategic fit to me.
Maybe it's because I'm a scientist, but I had to use a bot to distill down the example for me:
By getting our friends in the tent with our best practices, we will pressure-test a renewed level of adaptive coherence.
I had to press it to simplify a few times, and it came down to:
Our partners will help us see whether our methods work.
And also, maybe because I speak science-geek, the quote from the abstract
a semantically empty and often confusing style of communication in organizational contexts that leverages abstruse corporate buzzwords and jargon in a functionally misleading way
... makes perfect sense.
The ribbon format is just bad. There is no uniformity to the UI. You have to spend time learning the UI, rather than just using it.
This is definitely a situation where simpler is better, and it's very hard to beat the standard drop-down tree'd menu with modal dialogs at the leaves.
China isn't the only country that does it. Japan has a single timezone for the whole country, for example.
Japan really doesn't span enough longitude to warrant multiple time zones, unlike China which spans something like 5.
Yes, and with DST in the dead of winter, dawn in Boston won't happen until 8 AM. Full on daylight won't be until about 9 AM.
All it will take is one cycle of DST during winter, and everyone will clamor for either going back to the semi-annual shifting, or Standard Time. That's what happened last time this misguided experiment was actually tried.
Oh, dear readers, you didn't realize? Yes, the very same argument --- exactly the same discussion --- happened in the early 1970s, and, for exactly one year, 1974, we went to Standard Time nationwide in the US. Lasted one winter.
So, to everyone who is reading this and was born after that time, for the love of everything holy, look back to learn from the mistakes your predecessors made. You are not nearly as special as you think. This is not the first time.
You forgot to mention random ficticous meeting cancellations.
"Oh what wouldn't I give to be spat at in the face..." -- a prisoner in "Life of Brian"
