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Even a ducted propeller has additional drag at the tips which this design could eliminate.

I would suspect not given the differences in how they operate. I think nit would have additional disadvantages on large turbines where the cost and weight would increase significantly.

What a time to be alive. We're mere moments away from a world where bots can argue irrelencies against each other while asserting that their basic level of knowledge is actually expertise all at a speed beyond any human dorks wildest dreams.

This is one of the problems with 'anti-piracy' efforts. They work under the assumption that if not for free access millions of people would have instead paid for access to their priduct.

The reality is they would not...

This is the source of the current shortage. It is much more time consuming and expensive just to become a commercial pilot now. This has completely disrupted the progression and training in the pipeline and will not be alleviated by halving the pilot requirements.

When this flight hour change runs head first into a large number of pilots retiring the entire industry is going to be in a state of emergency.

So, their solution to solving a pilot shortage created by sensless changes to existing regulations is to enact more senseless regulation changes?

How about they just revert the flight hour requirements to those that allowed for adequate staffing and safety for decades a d be done with it.

I can't help but suspect the intent is to raise the cost of borh the equipment and pilots required to a point that makes new competition all but impossible.

I have to disagree with the premise that cloud infrastructure was either a faster horse or a car. It's more like a chariot, useful in specific circumstances against certain challenges but hardly the universal, flexible good of the automobile.

Wind, solar and grid scale batteries fall somewhere between pipedreams and nightmares.

The resources needed to build much less maintain these at scale is a disaster, one that's largely inflicted on 'not us' but that requires massive economic transfers through globalization. You're not building these at this scale without globalization.

It is stupid. The exchange rates are a rehearing here. It's likely just a marketing aspect, setting the last digits etc or wlensrluring they don't lose out on a half cent of commission somewhere.

"does the increment you select tell Apple how much they should round by when converting currency?"

Not in anyway beyond simple math...thisnwhole scheme likely has more to do with ensuring and determining commissions that anything else.

I think youre missing several inputs into your feedback loop. The original statement about the US system bearing the brunt of development stands. It's also true that insurers influence the market. Both are true. There are also government inputs into the market, political inputs a d supply chain elements that all feed into this. The one stakeholder will little real input in the end consumer who gets stuck paying whatever the others have decided they'll allow...

The alternative would be to have developers set their price point and currency then allow Apple to still do the international conversion rates. There is zero benefit in these conversions to only having preset price points.

Your answer may be factually true but it is logically flawed.

Unless there is some marketing value here I suspect it has more to do with making sure they don't lose a half cent of commission rather than benefiting anyone else in any real way.

No. Never even considered it. I also plan to replace an electric stove with a gas stove in the near future.

It will be more like a quarter year. As bad as Mac and Windows have become Linux is still Linux and isn't really any more ready for primetime time than it's ever been. A majority of non-dev types who try Linux go back to their old OS.

Linux is never really going to succeed on the desktop because it isn't really well suited for it. The BSD's have a better shot should anyone put the effort in to one.

I'd agree that the decline of windows is a bigger boon for Linux that Linux itself. While Linux isn't bad it certainly isn't good.

The combination of Ubuntu and Mate is one of the worse to start with. Sure, it feels familiar but it's just Linux kiddie edition. Users tend to out grow it quickly or get frustrated with it breaking down from all the Linux goodness.

Don't get ne started on trying to use Ubuntu on any hardware released in the last 3 years...

I'm not sure Steve Jobs is someone you should be taking management advice from.

The truth is that it boils down to the best person for the role to be filled rather than blanket statements based on anecdotes from a notoriously bad manager.

'Vegan Bacon' a moronic oxymoron.

That is a great comment. Not because it raises a valid point but because it is a great example of stringing irrelevant pieces together and pretending there is a valid point.

Starts off by digging back 90 years to pick an example that just barely applies and treating it as if it were a normal thing. Then disparages a fairly rare option while condescending about the recongizeability of foods available now.

All of this while deftly ignoring the original point of the comment it's responding to to dispute its validity without addressing it.

The variability of food over the last century has no bearing on whether you should eat foods you recognize or the adviseability of eating the type of 'food' described in the article.

So the customers are paying for access to the internet to access services and these isp want the services to pay to provide that same service?

Nevermind that the providers are potentially paying for the same internet access.

Wi does 8 made sense to me the first time I picked up a surface pro or a windows phone.

I cannot think of anything good to say about it in any other context though.

That's not really been my experience. I do agree about needing multiple settings windows opened at once, especially when one is already open and you need to open a seemingly unrelated screen and lose your place.

The problems with using Linux generally aren't desktop environment issues but more the diskljpinted nature of Linux. XCFE is my preferred Linux desktop though, flexible without a lot of baggage.

There have been several times when windows made changes to accommodate hardware that didn't catch up as fast as expected. With windows 11 it feels like they're trying to design an os for the hardware of yesteryear instead.

If win11 were running on a surface duo or similar device it might make sense but on the desktop they should be embarrassed by the amount of software and tweaks people use just to make their software usable.

So, it's a marketing problem with the default being issues rather than request?

"until you manually go and filter them out"

You mean, until you manage your project...gasp. How horrible!

Some projects can rack up that many request quickly and overwhelming the maintainer but that isn't the norm. Warranted or not this kind of buildup is usually a sign of neglect.

This didn't even get through the first paragraph still seeming like it was rational in anyway. Just more histrionics.

Your suggestion boils down to developing a business based on deploying and supporting a software product they can neither control nor own. 'Improved by anyone' tends to mean improved by no one who has a real stake in the product.

Who host it for the organization?

Who supports it when something goes wrong?

Who ensures there are a wide base of users trained to use it?

How good are the transition resources?

How much will it really cost to transition to the "free" option...

Had this not been the government deferring to the government I might agree with you.

As an entity with large legal and IT resources at its disposal there is no reason for this scale of violation. Especially if there is a per install license and acknowledgement.

The problem I have with this type of verdict is that it's based on a hypothetical version of what could have happened had the Navy not actually violated the license agreement.

It reeks of deference to a favored party, in this case the Navy. It's doubtful a commercial entity would have received this same deference.