Comment Re:So, why has nobody reverse engineered it? (Score 1) 118
>> because almost every TV has HDMI.
from a quick look only, most also have displayport.
>> because almost every TV has HDMI.
from a quick look only, most also have displayport.
Congratulations on making the HDMI interface even more irrelevant compared to Displayport.
>> soon or later something better will take that place.
I am under the impression that Displayport already did.
It's already happening in the more civilised parts of the world that even just the replacement rate isn't being met.
Unfortunately the people of most of the underdeveloped/poorer countries are still breeding like rabbits so there is still a net gain in global population numbers.
In terms of average quality of life, humanity as a whole is going backwards fast.
It's actually a terrible idea.
As someone with an SCCA license used to driving racing cars that have much higher performance than nearly everything on the road (including your Tesla), I can tell you that no mass-market road car is hard to drive. The problem is never the car, it's the driver, or more accurately their lack of ability.
To properly solve a problem you need to attack the root cause, not one of it's symptoms.
If there are people out there that can't truly can't handle jthe acceleration of a car or type of car then they shouldn't have been legally allowed to drive it in the first place.
Rather than continually punishing all drivers for the sins of the clueless, how about including car handling (e.g. throttle awareness, skid recovery, etc) in the driving test, such that anyone that proves themselves incapable of being able to drive a fast car properly or safely isn't allowed to?
Perhaps cars need to be put in performance bands, and driving licenses only apply to certain bands depending on the driver's ability.
If they did in fact hit a balloon then it is the aircraft's fault as FAA air laws are that balloons have right of way over any powered aircraft.
MTBF is useful information, but I think it would be more useful in conjunction with factors like active spinning time, total spin up/down counts, cumulative head seek time, total IO, etc. Presumably time-in-service affects the MTBF more than the age of the drive, but to what extent? Is a NIB drive that's two years old going to be as reliable as one that's only a month or two old? So many variables....
The internet is really the best medium for sarcasm.
Pretty sure this opens him up to a legal malpractice suit. Probably more lucrative than whatever the debt was.
I agree that they probably have the supersized egos that also make them mentally incapable of putting fault at their own feet, however all the billionaires building space ships are American meanwhile China are the leading cause of pollution (yes the US is second). It's hard to imagine how Musk and Bezos may be directly at fault for that.
I really don't get your second statement. You sound like those brainwashed woke that try to make everything about race.
I for one welcome our robot overlords.
Maybe we'll finally have dictators that prioritize survival of the entire planet over some short-term profit.
really why all the billionaires are building spaceships?
lasting ecological shifts will hinge on design and long-term care.
We don't really know that for sure. It may improve the odds, but neither desertification nor greening require human intervention, nor is human intervention necessarily going to achieve the desired outcome. Life, uh... finds a way. (Except when it doesn't.) But for all we know (and what seems most likely absent evidence to the contrary), this is just a temporary oasis of sorts that will last only as long as the structures on the site.
Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing?