When we had Teams, it wasn’t really ever “broken” but we did have some users that used Zoom in parallel, (largely for meetings outside the org) so there was ample opportunity to compare them in actual use. At some point we just decided to go all the way.

If they had a price they wanted, and just didn’t accept lower offers, they would be fine. But the question here is did they collude to set prices across multiple families. That is price fixing, and it is illegal. California Forever was being very secretive at the time, because they wanted to negotiate with individual…

Zoom seems to handle larger video meetings better, as well as public meetings outside your org. Teams improved, but never really caught up. When Zoom allowed Microsoft integrated logins, Outlook calendar integration, a landline phone system, and chat with other users, it was a complete replacement for both Teams and…

We did that too, but have since switched to Zoom licenses since Teams wasn’t cutting it.

Pretty standard journalism-speak for a criminal before trial. In theory, it could have been the police that shot it accidentally, aiming for the suspect. But not likely.

Another (closer) example: Betelgeuse is a very bright star relatively close to us. But it has been measured many times at distances as low as 180 ly all the way up to 1300 ly. The most recent measurements puts it at 548 ly, but even that has an uncertainty of +/- 48 ly. When they record observations of the star, they…

Simultaneity is the concept in Relativity that a sequence of events depends on the frame of the observer. The uncertainty of the distance measurement is far greater than the precision with which we can measure when events were observed. It’s just not useful to say an event happened 22,000,000.0001 years ago and anothe…

A Corolla has 18 pounds per horsepower, so that power can make it start and stop quickly. The Dali weighed 4170 pounds per horsepower. And no brakes except reverse thrust. That’s why it can’t stop quickly.

The train companies have consistently complained that, even when they do catch a suspect, they get out with no bail the next day.

It is federated, in that each server has autonomy, but can talk to each other in a standardized way.

They probably tried. Maybe this kind of attention will get the council to act.

It’s not gravity. It’s just that the water that was leaving wherever it stowed away hit the mirror on the way out and froze there. Probably one molecule at a time. The mirrors are probably much colder than the electronics.

We reused the third stage of Shuttle. We currently reuse the first stage of Falcon 9. Starship will be* the first system where we can reuse all stages. (* assuming they succeed.)

I think FAA will want to see better control of the booster’s descent before they allow it to approach land. But I’m confident the next launch will provide much of that assurance.

They can probably replace all the tiles in less time than Shuttle needed for typical refurbishment. It’s good they have about 4 kinds of tiles, instead of the thousands of unique shapes needed for Shuttle.

It was rolling when it hit atmo, but it seemed to stabilize once the flaps had some control authority. That was well before maximum heating. There were times it felt like it was moving, but it was just actuation of the flap which the camera was connected to.

A larger engine could not be throttled down enough for a landing, and would increase the forces involved for gimballing.

A data breach might do it. Or disabling a TV after you bought it.

An intelligence will always have information you don’t know about. Even if you have 120 IQ and meet someone with 90 IQ, there will be things they know and you don’t. (And many things you know that they don’t.) So that in itself does not indicate relative intelligence. AI still have a way to go before they surpass us…

An RTG requires Plutonium-238, which is produced by the Department of Energy in very small batches for NASA to use. (Inside special research nuclear reactors.) There was even a 30-year gap where none was produced. So NASA reserves them for major missions that really need continuous power far from the sun.