I never thought about it because I conciensly will not buy such a product, but the way this article is written makes me think of the SciFi novels I read as a teenager. Those novels where there is a mostly hidden but all-encompassing upper layer of monitoring that we at that time thought would only happen in totalitarian states like the GDR or Russia.
Guess what. It's here. And now. Maybe not yet in the way as in the former east-block, but give it some time.
Sure, it can have good side-effects. Someone hearing a child cry for help, why wouldn't you alert 911 to get help. But boy is this a worrying development.
No idea that was what it meant. I'll just say it out loud, POS combined with Windows always translates as piece of shit to me.
Having said that, I'd never think I would say this, but in the light of Windows 10, XP actually was not that big of a POS.
1: the legislation in the EU is that the average pollution of the cars a car manufacturer sell can not be more than a certain level. In 2018 118,5 gram CO2 / km, in 2021 95 gram CO2 / km. I'm not going into a dicsussion if the law is ok or not, but it is a law. So the reduction will happen. This is all a matter of averages, a car manucaturer can still sell high-powered, high-polluting cars like a Lamborghini Aventador when they offset that pollution by selling eco-friendly cars like a e-up! (Lamborgini and VW belong to the same company, VAG).
Since this is a matter of averages, the EU has allowed manufacturers to engage in pools to offset their pollution against a company that produces cars with less pollution. One example of this pool is Mazda and Toyota. Another is now FCA (Fiat/Chrysler), Alfa Romeo and Tesla. The alternative for FCA was either to pay hefty fines to the EU (going into the billions of euros) or stop selling those polluting cars alltogether (which in this case would be most likely Maseratis, Jeeps and Dodge RAMs). This way they can still sell those cars, pay less of a penalty, help a manufacturer that does do what the EU wants and have more money left to invest in their own portfolio to compy with legislation.
2: In what way is Tesla not a succesful company.
3: typical AC comment. You may not agree with the law (and I am no fan of the EU) but this is what it is.
The logic is still not broken. An example of broken logic is "I don't do it like that so it can't be done like that by anyone".
If you drive 12-14 hours straight with no stops, fine, no problem. But don't claim that everyone does that and therefore EV's are unusable.
Uh.....gas cars have ranges of 200-300 miles. Jacking up the requirements to make a point about EVs isn't exactly unbiased.
Maybe in gas-guzzling USA, not in Europe. 45 liter tank is pretty standard and a consumption of 6 l/100 km is too. That makes a range of 750 km or 465 miles. My previous diesel had 45 liter and did 4.4 l/100 km making 1000 km or 630 miles possible.
Larger cars have higher consumption but also fuel tanks of 60 or 80 liter.
I have seen that car too. With empasis on THAT car.
HOW MANY gasoline cars will? With current known battery degradation of Telsa being about 8,5% on 250.000 km and after initial degredation only 1% per 50.000km, 500.000 miles will end up at 80%. Still very usable.
Just so we're clear, you're logic there is completely broken.
I for one love to go on road trip vacations, and the time spent behind the wheel is more like 14-16 hours,
Per day? You will one day fall asleep behind the wheel and probably kill yourself. No way you are not taking any rest stops.
And during a rest stop you can charge your EV. 250 kW chargers are out there now and that means you can charge for the next 2 hour's drive in less than 10 minutes.
And that charging speed will only get better in the future.
(EV's are worthless for taxi's for example. And police cars, and buses, tractor-trailers, etcetc.)
EV's are excellent for taxi's. Most taxi's don't drive that much. Schiphol taxi at Schiphol airport in the Netherlands has had 160 Teslas since 2014 and are now replacing them with new Teslas. Public transport contracts in the Netherlands more and more specify electric buses as mandatory.
Sure, I'll give you tractor-trailers. They use lots of energy and have a driving pattern that is less suited for having to recharge. Police vehicles I'm not so pessimistic. With 500 km range and usually not being in high-speed pursuit, I don't see the problem.
The problem with hybrid cars is you need both kinds of propulsion: gasoline and electric. That is more expensive than gasoline only or electric only. Not only in purchase but also in TCO.
I drive a Prius. I think it is an excellent car. I'm sure the driveability feel of the HSD can be improved (it is now very much focused on efficiency, giving rise to the "howling transmission" complaints when people floor it) but overall it is the best transmission out there. Even though, my next car has to be an electric, just because that's even better than the current HSD. Toyota is also not really moving forward on the PHEV train. Sure, they had a plugin Prius and now a Prius Prime, but it's the same engine with still a very small battery pack. I would have wanted something like the BMW i3 REX or even a Chevy Volt: small efficient gasoline engine with a larger battery. If you're not doing anything too out of the ordinary you only need an average of 30 kW on the motorway. And when the battery is large enough, people will finally realise how infrequently they really drive long stretches (sure, there will always be the one that drives 500 miles every day and thinks change is bad. The current EV is not for him).
I agree with the article: Toyota is losing the race because they are too conservative.
Their comment shows how incomplete these people think. "Oh, you'd have to have access to our secure IT network and no hacker has that!".
Granted, I'll give you that much. But you have. Your government has. And especially that last party can have a very large interest in keeping the power where they think it belongs.
People seem to not realise that even though you can defraud paper ballots, the process is very hard and to be able to make significant impact you need a lot of people in on it. Defrauding an electronic ballot can be done by one person and can cover the complete ballot and can be undetectable. This single vulnerability is the reason why electronic ballots are a Bad Idea(tm).
In other news, first measles infection in the Netherlands in 5 years. A properly inoculated population will be able to cope with this, but the last epidemic in 2013 was allowed to spread because the more religious part of the country has a tendecy not to inoculate.
My HP48(GX) serves as my alarm clock. Never found a better one. Forgot my 48SX once in a sleeper car because I wanted to use it there.
The emulator on my phone is brillant and a little smaller than the real deal (but does not accept expansion cards).
As for the windows calculator, the one biggest flaw it has is that there is no square root button and that the Inv button does not inverse the square button.
I mean, why a cube root and not a square root?
It's only marginaly usefull. Yes, I have been pwned, my email address is listed in the "Anti Public Combo List".
So? With what password? I have to use my email address at many sites to log on and of course I do not reuse my passwords, so one of them is compromised. It doesn't tell me which. So I don't know which password to change.
You may repeat that another thousand times - but it' not true.
Replace coal with lignite and it is true. Garzweiler II is being extended as we speak. They even diverted a section of motorway for it to be dug up.
New supply lines in Germany are heavily debated and sometimes very opposed by the sheeple. Meanwhile the situation is so dire that even Belgium suffers under it because it is unwantingly being used as transmission path for German energy.
Well, he hasn't gotten caught yet, has he? Maybe he has spoofed is MAC address and they're now on the tail of some totally innocent sod who just happens to have this MAC address.
Sure, no one said the US is perfect but as compared to China? Yes, the US is a paragon of freedom and expression or a "Shining City on the Hill".
Only in the sense that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Really, get off your high horse. The US is generally not seen as an example in freedom or democracy.
Why would you have to ask the police to do that? It's my car, why can't I direct the car to go where I want it?
Even more: why can it be stolen in the first place? Why can't I put a software immobiliser on it saying it should remain in place during specified hours? Why would car theft still be an issue with these kinds of connected cars?
You know that you're in a police state when you have to thank the police for their good work and in the process add a totally mindless "obey the rules" to it too.
So true. You look at one cat video and the next 10,000 suggestions are cat videos.
But apart from that, you might think that when you show someone 10 suggestions and he chooses none of them, that person is not really interested in those suggestions so when he reloads you show him something else.
Noooo. Next 10 suggestions are exactly the same. Sometimes even marking the video as "not interested" doesn't do it, it comes right up again.
Youtube's algorithm is flawed on a basic level.
It didn't in 2015, it doesn't now. It only sounds good to Microsoft's markting department. I find it apalling that a "veteran technology columnist" falls for that kind of bullshit. Online organised services like this are never a good idea. Be it software that only works if some server on the internet (or the internet itself) works, be it DRM, the legitimate customer always experiences the problems while the ones that use cracked versions do not.
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I never thought about it because I conciensly will not buy such a product, but the way this article is written makes me think of the SciFi novels I read as a teenager. Those novels where there is a mostly hidden but all-encompassing upper layer of monitoring that we at that time thought would only happen in totalitarian states like the GDR or Russia.
Guess what. It's here. And now. Maybe not yet in the way as in the former east-block, but give it some time.
Sure, it can have good side-effects. Someone hearing a child cry for help, why wouldn't you alert 911 to get help. But boy is this a worrying development.
No idea that was what it meant. I'll just say it out loud, POS combined with Windows always translates as piece of shit to me.
Having said that, I'd never think I would say this, but in the light of Windows 10, XP actually was not that big of a POS.
1: the legislation in the EU is that the average pollution of the cars a car manufacturer sell can not be more than a certain level. In 2018 118,5 gram CO2 / km, in 2021 95 gram CO2 / km. I'm not going into a dicsussion if the law is ok or not, but it is a law. So the reduction will happen. This is all a matter of averages, a car manucaturer can still sell high-powered, high-polluting cars like a Lamborghini Aventador when they offset that pollution by selling eco-friendly cars like a e-up! (Lamborgini and VW belong to the same company, VAG).
Since this is a matter of averages, the EU has allowed manufacturers to engage in pools to offset their pollution against a company that produces cars with less pollution. One example of this pool is Mazda and Toyota. Another is now FCA (Fiat/Chrysler), Alfa Romeo and Tesla. The alternative for FCA was either to pay hefty fines to the EU (going into the billions of euros) or stop selling those polluting cars alltogether (which in this case would be most likely Maseratis, Jeeps and Dodge RAMs). This way they can still sell those cars, pay less of a penalty, help a manufacturer that does do what the EU wants and have more money left to invest in their own portfolio to compy with legislation.
2: In what way is Tesla not a succesful company.
3: typical AC comment. You may not agree with the law (and I am no fan of the EU) but this is what it is.
The logic is still not broken. An example of broken logic is "I don't do it like that so it can't be done like that by anyone".
If you drive 12-14 hours straight with no stops, fine, no problem. But don't claim that everyone does that and therefore EV's are unusable.
Uh.....gas cars have ranges of 200-300 miles. Jacking up the requirements to make a point about EVs isn't exactly unbiased.
Maybe in gas-guzzling USA, not in Europe. 45 liter tank is pretty standard and a consumption of 6 l /100 km is too. That makes a range of 750 km or 465 miles. My previous diesel had 45 liter and did 4.4 l/100 km making 1000 km or 630 miles possible.
Larger cars have higher consumption but also fuel tanks of 60 or 80 liter.
I have seen that car too. With empasis on THAT car.
HOW MANY gasoline cars will? With current known battery degradation of Telsa being about 8,5% on 250.000 km and after initial degredation only 1% per 50.000km, 500.000 miles will end up at 80%. Still very usable.
How many gasoline cars will?
Just so we're clear, you're logic there is completely broken.
I for one love to go on road trip vacations, and the time spent behind the wheel is more like 14-16 hours,
Per day? You will one day fall asleep behind the wheel and probably kill yourself. No way you are not taking any rest stops. And during a rest stop you can charge your EV. 250 kW chargers are out there now and that means you can charge for the next 2 hour's drive in less than 10 minutes.
And that charging speed will only get better in the future.
(EV's are worthless for taxi's for example. And police cars, and buses, tractor-trailers, etcetc.)
EV's are excellent for taxi's. Most taxi's don't drive that much. Schiphol taxi at Schiphol airport in the Netherlands has had 160 Teslas since 2014 and are now replacing them with new Teslas. Public transport contracts in the Netherlands more and more specify electric buses as mandatory.
Sure, I'll give you tractor-trailers. They use lots of energy and have a driving pattern that is less suited for having to recharge. Police vehicles I'm not so pessimistic. With 500 km range and usually not being in high-speed pursuit, I don't see the problem.
The problem with hybrid cars is you need both kinds of propulsion: gasoline and electric. That is more expensive than gasoline only or electric only. Not only in purchase but also in TCO.
I drive a Prius. I think it is an excellent car. I'm sure the driveability feel of the HSD can be improved (it is now very much focused on efficiency, giving rise to the "howling transmission" complaints when people floor it) but overall it is the best transmission out there. Even though, my next car has to be an electric, just because that's even better than the current HSD.
Toyota is also not really moving forward on the PHEV train. Sure, they had a plugin Prius and now a Prius Prime, but it's the same engine with still a very small battery pack. I would have wanted something like the BMW i3 REX or even a Chevy Volt: small efficient gasoline engine with a larger battery. If you're not doing anything too out of the ordinary you only need an average of 30 kW on the motorway. And when the battery is large enough, people will finally realise how infrequently they really drive long stretches (sure, there will always be the one that drives 500 miles every day and thinks change is bad. The current EV is not for him).
I agree with the article: Toyota is losing the race because they are too conservative.
Their comment shows how incomplete these people think. "Oh, you'd have to have access to our secure IT network and no hacker has that!".
Granted, I'll give you that much. But you have. Your government has. And especially that last party can have a very large interest in keeping the power where they think it belongs.
People seem to not realise that even though you can defraud paper ballots, the process is very hard and to be able to make significant impact you need a lot of people in on it. Defrauding an electronic ballot can be done by one person and can cover the complete ballot and can be undetectable. This single vulnerability is the reason why electronic ballots are a Bad Idea(tm).
In other news, first measles infection in the Netherlands in 5 years. A properly inoculated population will be able to cope with this, but the last epidemic in 2013 was allowed to spread because the more religious part of the country has a tendecy not to inoculate.
My HP48(GX) serves as my alarm clock. Never found a better one. Forgot my 48SX once in a sleeper car because I wanted to use it there.
The emulator on my phone is brillant and a little smaller than the real deal (but does not accept expansion cards).
As for the windows calculator, the one biggest flaw it has is that there is no square root button and that the Inv button does not inverse the square button.
I mean, why a cube root and not a square root?
I wish they had actually used "The C Programming Language" at bible school. I would have paid a whole lot more attention.
Only after reading the original article I understood the connection between 210 and 1024. Copy-paste is so wonderful.
I'm still very happy running Office 2002 on Windows 7. I'm not ready for the cloud and I don't think I'll ever be. I will never pay for SaaS.
If you reuse passwords - and even if you don't - https://haveibeenpwned.com/ can be pretty useful.
It's only marginaly usefull. Yes, I have been pwned, my email address is listed in the "Anti Public Combo List".
So? With what password? I have to use my email address at many sites to log on and of course I do not reuse my passwords, so one of them is compromised. It doesn't tell me which. So I don't know which password to change.
It's just proof that a "three strikes and you're out" law has a lot of merit, isn't it?
for one reason or the other.
...Profit!
You may repeat that another thousand times - but it' not true.
Replace coal with lignite and it is true. Garzweiler II is being extended as we speak. They even diverted a section of motorway for it to be dug up.
New supply lines in Germany are heavily debated and sometimes very opposed by the sheeple. Meanwhile the situation is so dire that even Belgium suffers under it because it is unwantingly being used as transmission path for German energy.
I'm very interested what the future brings.
Well, he hasn't gotten caught yet, has he? Maybe he has spoofed is MAC address and they're now on the tail of some totally innocent sod who just happens to have this MAC address.
Sure, no one said the US is perfect but as compared to China? Yes, the US is a paragon of freedom and expression or a "Shining City on the Hill".
Only in the sense that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Really, get off your high horse. The US is generally not seen as an example in freedom or democracy.
Why would you have to ask the police to do that? It's my car, why can't I direct the car to go where I want it?
Even more: why can it be stolen in the first place? Why can't I put a software immobiliser on it saying it should remain in place during specified hours? Why would car theft still be an issue with these kinds of connected cars?
You know that you're in a police state when you have to thank the police for their good work and in the process add a totally mindless "obey the rules" to it too.
So true. You look at one cat video and the next 10,000 suggestions are cat videos.
But apart from that, you might think that when you show someone 10 suggestions and he chooses none of them, that person is not really interested in those suggestions so when he reloads you show him something else.
Noooo. Next 10 suggestions are exactly the same. Sometimes even marking the video as "not interested" doesn't do it, it comes right up again.
Youtube's algorithm is flawed on a basic level.
It didn't in 2015, it doesn't now. It only sounds good to Microsoft's markting department. I find it apalling that a "veteran technology columnist" falls for that kind of bullshit. Online organised services like this are never a good idea. Be it software that only works if some server on the internet (or the internet itself) works, be it DRM, the legitimate customer always experiences the problems while the ones that use cracked versions do not.