The irony of it all is cable companies exactly fit the bill for this, except they basically worked themselves out of their own market by abusing customers and refusing to give them what they actually wanted. It's doubly so since most (nearly all?) cable TV is now an on-demand stream anyhow. Even 'normal' channels are still an IP video stream, just without the ability to select a start point.
I wonder if cable 2.0 will come and be an aggregator of streaming services. I hope not, since cable companies are still utter scum.
Some streaming services are getting smarter and allowing an offline mode. THAT will drive down piracy if it's robust enough. Well, that and ending this idiocy of exclusive movies and all. It's one thing if you (netflix, amazon, etc.) make your own shows that only you host...but playing that game with movies? Broadcast TV shows? Yah...cut that shit out.
Amazon wasn't forced to pay $15/hr. They decided to freely do so... which i'll admit comes ahead of an eventual bill that would have cost them significantly more.
Still, they do set a new standard which will drag up a lot of other companies around them. I still wonder what happened to uber. Their rates have gone up, not down, yet drivers seem to be making substantially less than just a few years ago. Too many cars idling and not getting rides? Uber increased their cut? Something else?
Pretty sure I used one last week in atlanta. it's at the gate. you scan your boarding pass, walk through the little gate, next person goes. BFD. Why we have gate agents scanning barcodes is beyond me anyhow.
i have NFI why they're calling this biometric. It's just scanning your barcode... just like the gate agent does. Protip: unless you're flying international you don't show ID to board a plane.
Now, you CAN use biometrics in the airport. Clearme (dot com) uses them at their kiosk which bypasses the security line. It's a gimmick using biometrics over ID but who cares? You literally go straight to the xray/rape-i-scan machine. Oh, and if you have precheck you can skip the rape part usually.
So 1) your 'contribution' is even more redundant and useless and 2) as typical for a PM, you'd more interested in defending your incorrect viewpoint than understanding the context and moving the project forward.
You sound like a few project managers I know. Providing seemingly useful information which instead is both completely obvious and entirely useless.
It would be entirely reasonable for any kitchen serving apples to switch to bananas, barring those cases where it's nutritionally impossible, if there's benefits to cost and taste. I wouldn't be surprised if you started seeing bananas in other kitchens.
Funny, people keep pointing out how ALL THESE EVs are SO MUCH better than the Tesla Model....anything.
Yet they either don't exist, don't compare, or fall far short in several ways. For example, the Kona EV which I assume you're referring to is targeting to have 2,500 delivered this year. Total, not per month or per week.
You also assume that other car manufacturers are pricing these vehicles with the same markup as anything else. Hint: they aren't. They're loss-leaders to drive sales in general and get good PR. Maybe keep up a bit on the EV bandwagon so they aren't completely left behind. No one is approaching EVs from a mass production perspective like Tesla.
First off, $1.5mm won't pay for squat at the corporate level.
Second, when they sold, they had about 315 million daily active users, not 1.5
Third, assuming that plan is all fine and good you'd ALSO lose 30% of that revenue to the app store overhead PLUS the cost of supporting issues/billing/complaints etc.
Would $200 million a year be sufficient? Maybe so... assuming everyone paid which is absolutely not what would have happened.
As opposed to someone who created whatsapp...giving him the power/ability/money to do the Next Big Thing when he's already shown to be capable. Elon Musk for example...love em or hate em he took his money and built a successful fscking rocket company and a (more or less) successful car company.
Nah, the billionaires club is a whole different world. 50 million is spendable money. 19 billion is where you can invest in larger things you believe in. Hell, it'd buy a pretty good privacy campaign against FB now that we're on the topic.
Let's all be perfectly honest here. For ONE billion dollars (much less 19) we'd all sell out pretty much anything or anyone.
It's the same reasons executives will cut staff even if a company isn't in dire straights...because it boosts their P/L and stock price which drives multi-million dollar bonuses for them. Hell, people will sell our their OWN privacy for a free trinket or movie ticket.
Have you used an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy in the last ~5 years? They've sold 100's of millions of these and the vast majority of people use fingerprint unlock.
Those readers are almost definitely dated equipment. Modern readers are far, far faster and more reliable.
But this whole debate is literally to NOT require dealer service.
Saying it's not viable for another player to enter the market because they don't have the service centers that the farmers don't want to use in the first place makes no sense.
You realize that farmers tend to be pretty handy folks and there are PLENTY of mechanics which can work in diesel and hydraulics. What they can't do is get into the computer that controls everything.
You're comparing a long-established traditional car manufacturer's sales numbers against another company that's still building out their manufacturing line. There was a time that FB had only a fraction of the traffic that myspace did too.
While we're using BS numbers, can we compare the sales growth rate of Tesla over the last 12 months with...basically any car manufacturer? Nonsense statistics are nonsense.
Ok, so Huawei actually listened to the (many) customers and gave them 30% more battery instead of making the phone 0.1mm thinner. Granted they took away the headphones jack and their android implementation leaves something to be desired...
Ok, so when you finish reading the whitepaper and go scan 100's if not 1000's of things a day let me know if you NEVER get a mis-scan.
In reality, there are many ways that you can have issues - ranging from a misprinted label to dirt and many other things. People are GREAT at breaking things. I mean, if an airline can permanently lose a 50 pound bag full of dirty clothes on a regular basis then I think a barcode scanner can miss now and then.
Besides, what are you going to do for every mis-scan? Log it? Ok...and then what? You ask the driver about that package mis-scan after he's scanned 100's of boxes, delieverd them, scanned them again and gone back to depot. The answer? "Uh...i dunno. Was there?" It's a solution looking for a problem...
I was OK with the $500 phones, tolerated the $600 phones...kind of suffered through the $700 phones because they we're mini tablets (Galaxy Note)...
But this new $1k+ standard for a phone is utterly, completely ridiculous. It's a mini computer, I get it...but nothing it does is so much more fantastic than a much more basic phone (except the camera).
iOS 11 -> 12 is MUCH more of an improvement than iPhone X -> XS... and even that is pretty minor. It's not about being a Luddite here, it's the simple truth that there's such small incremental benefit to new phones that it's really, really stupid of people to go out in droves to buy them.
You didn't miss anything. Cherry-picking reviews to try to tell a narrative is kinda lame if you ask me.
Granted, I've personally done literal side-by-side over the last few generations of Apple vs. Samsung since I get/test/use both for work. Samsung consistently out-performs Apple in low-light. Usually by a large margin too. My 2c of course, but I trust what I personally experience way more than what some reviewer justifying his/her existence says.
Yup. People look at me like i'm crazy when I take pictures with my dSLR.... and then they go crazy looking at the pictures I took because they're so much better.
... are all they're selling because there's nothing new otherwise.
Remember when Apple would launch a cool new feature (like MMS... lol) with each phone generation? Now they launch percentages and benchmarks.
Other than the necessity to keep reasonably current for support and updates, there's just no significant benefit to upgrading your phone these days. Apples presentation makes that crystal clear if you compare it to one for a few years back.
Alkaline D-cell capacity varies of course, but is typically 18-27Wh depending on brand, current draw, etc. A modern rechargeable NiMH clocks in around 12-15Wh
So no. At best your phone comes short of a SINGLE Alkaline (old-skool) D-cell battery and ties a single, modern NiMH. At least check your facts before ranting on...
No, they're talking about building a MW/h scale demonstration plant. That's not commercial (full) scale which is in the 100's, if not 1000's of MW/h.
Plenty of other vaporware items got funding to build their demo rounds of equipment. That's how people scam and skim their millions of personal profit and run away. Maybe this is legit. Hell, I hope it's legit. But based on the previous track record of...well everyone, breakthroughs like this simply do not happen.
Battery technology isn't just a simple capacity issue. It's energy density over volume, also over weight. Charge/discharge rate. Self discharge rate. Product lifecycle. Recycling/disposal. Safety. Ancillary equipment required for use. Then factor in manufacturing cost...because even if you have the Best Battery Ever (TM) it's not much use if it costs $1mm/kwh.
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The irony of it all is cable companies exactly fit the bill for this, except they basically worked themselves out of their own market by abusing customers and refusing to give them what they actually wanted. It's doubly so since most (nearly all?) cable TV is now an on-demand stream anyhow. Even 'normal' channels are still an IP video stream, just without the ability to select a start point.
I wonder if cable 2.0 will come and be an aggregator of streaming services. I hope not, since cable companies are still utter scum.
Some streaming services are getting smarter and allowing an offline mode. THAT will drive down piracy if it's robust enough. Well, that and ending this idiocy of exclusive movies and all. It's one thing if you (netflix, amazon, etc.) make your own shows that only you host...but playing that game with movies? Broadcast TV shows? Yah...cut that shit out.
Amazon wasn't forced to pay $15/hr. They decided to freely do so ... which i'll admit comes ahead of an eventual bill that would have cost them significantly more.
Still, they do set a new standard which will drag up a lot of other companies around them. I still wonder what happened to uber. Their rates have gone up, not down, yet drivers seem to be making substantially less than just a few years ago. Too many cars idling and not getting rides? Uber increased their cut? Something else?
Pretty sure I used one last week in atlanta. it's at the gate. you scan your boarding pass, walk through the little gate, next person goes. BFD. Why we have gate agents scanning barcodes is beyond me anyhow.
i have NFI why they're calling this biometric. It's just scanning your barcode ... just like the gate agent does. Protip: unless you're flying international you don't show ID to board a plane.
Now, you CAN use biometrics in the airport. Clearme (dot com) uses them at their kiosk which bypasses the security line. It's a gimmick using biometrics over ID but who cares? You literally go straight to the xray/rape-i-scan machine. Oh, and if you have precheck you can skip the rape part usually.
So 1) your 'contribution' is even more redundant and useless and 2) as typical for a PM, you'd more interested in defending your incorrect viewpoint than understanding the context and moving the project forward.
No one said we were making Apple pies.
You sound like a few project managers I know. Providing seemingly useful information which instead is both completely obvious and entirely useless.
It would be entirely reasonable for any kitchen serving apples to switch to bananas, barring those cases where it's nutritionally impossible, if there's benefits to cost and taste. I wouldn't be surprised if you started seeing bananas in other kitchens.
Funny, people keep pointing out how ALL THESE EVs are SO MUCH better than the Tesla Model....anything.
Yet they either don't exist, don't compare, or fall far short in several ways. For example, the Kona EV which I assume you're referring to is targeting to have 2,500 delivered this year. Total, not per month or per week.
You also assume that other car manufacturers are pricing these vehicles with the same markup as anything else. Hint: they aren't. They're loss-leaders to drive sales in general and get good PR. Maybe keep up a bit on the EV bandwagon so they aren't completely left behind. No one is approaching EVs from a mass production perspective like Tesla.
Imagine! Allowing employment 'contracts' to circumvent federal law and getting the SCOTUS to somehow agree that it was OK.
Next up? A contract that says a lender can murder someone if they don't repay that 100% daily interest loan?
I have to say, your post is an impressive fail.
First off, $1.5mm won't pay for squat at the corporate level.
Second, when they sold, they had about 315 million daily active users, not 1.5
Third, assuming that plan is all fine and good you'd ALSO lose 30% of that revenue to the app store overhead PLUS the cost of supporting issues/billing/complaints etc.
Would $200 million a year be sufficient? Maybe so ... assuming everyone paid which is absolutely not what would have happened.
And you'd retire and do...nothing.
As opposed to someone who created whatsapp...giving him the power/ability/money to do the Next Big Thing when he's already shown to be capable. Elon Musk for example...love em or hate em he took his money and built a successful fscking rocket company and a (more or less) successful car company.
Nah, the billionaires club is a whole different world. 50 million is spendable money. 19 billion is where you can invest in larger things you believe in. Hell, it'd buy a pretty good privacy campaign against FB now that we're on the topic.
Let's all be perfectly honest here. For ONE billion dollars (much less 19) we'd all sell out pretty much anything or anyone.
It's the same reasons executives will cut staff even if a company isn't in dire straights...because it boosts their P/L and stock price which drives multi-million dollar bonuses for them. Hell, people will sell our their OWN privacy for a free trinket or movie ticket.
Yah, not bats...but dragonflies are good for eating mosquitoes. Plus dragonflies don't sting and most people view them as harmless/not scary.
IDK what's involved in breeding dragonflies but if I had a bunch of property with woods, I'd be breeding dragonflies.
Have you used an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy in the last ~5 years? They've sold 100's of millions of these and the vast majority of people use fingerprint unlock.
Those readers are almost definitely dated equipment. Modern readers are far, far faster and more reliable.
But this whole debate is literally to NOT require dealer service.
Saying it's not viable for another player to enter the market because they don't have the service centers that the farmers don't want to use in the first place makes no sense.
You realize that farmers tend to be pretty handy folks and there are PLENTY of mechanics which can work in diesel and hydraulics. What they can't do is get into the computer that controls everything.
False premise.
You're comparing a long-established traditional car manufacturer's sales numbers against another company that's still building out their manufacturing line. There was a time that FB had only a fraction of the traffic that myspace did too.
While we're using BS numbers, can we compare the sales growth rate of Tesla over the last 12 months with...basically any car manufacturer? Nonsense statistics are nonsense.
Ok, so Huawei actually listened to the (many) customers and gave them 30% more battery instead of making the phone 0.1mm thinner. Granted they took away the headphones jack and their android implementation leaves something to be desired...
Ok, so when you finish reading the whitepaper and go scan 100's if not 1000's of things a day let me know if you NEVER get a mis-scan.
In reality, there are many ways that you can have issues - ranging from a misprinted label to dirt and many other things. People are GREAT at breaking things. I mean, if an airline can permanently lose a 50 pound bag full of dirty clothes on a regular basis then I think a barcode scanner can miss now and then.
Besides, what are you going to do for every mis-scan? Log it? Ok...and then what? You ask the driver about that package mis-scan after he's scanned 100's of boxes, delieverd them, scanned them again and gone back to depot. The answer? "Uh...i dunno. Was there?" It's a solution looking for a problem ...
"most of us" includes a ton of people who just have a phone because they need one...not because they use any of the features.
If "most of us" is meant to include the tech-friendly generations then upgrades are about every two years.
I was OK with the $500 phones, tolerated the $600 phones...kind of suffered through the $700 phones because they we're mini tablets (Galaxy Note)...
But this new $1k+ standard for a phone is utterly, completely ridiculous. It's a mini computer, I get it...but nothing it does is so much more fantastic than a much more basic phone (except the camera).
iOS 11 -> 12 is MUCH more of an improvement than iPhone X -> XS ... and even that is pretty minor. It's not about being a Luddite here, it's the simple truth that there's such small incremental benefit to new phones that it's really, really stupid of people to go out in droves to buy them.
You didn't miss anything. Cherry-picking reviews to try to tell a narrative is kinda lame if you ask me.
Granted, I've personally done literal side-by-side over the last few generations of Apple vs. Samsung since I get/test/use both for work. Samsung consistently out-performs Apple in low-light. Usually by a large margin too. My 2c of course, but I trust what I personally experience way more than what some reviewer justifying his/her existence says.
Yup. People look at me like i'm crazy when I take pictures with my dSLR. ... and then they go crazy looking at the pictures I took because they're so much better.
... are all they're selling because there's nothing new otherwise.
Remember when Apple would launch a cool new feature (like MMS ... lol) with each phone generation? Now they launch percentages and benchmarks.
Other than the necessity to keep reasonably current for support and updates, there's just no significant benefit to upgrading your phone these days. Apples presentation makes that crystal clear if you compare it to one for a few years back.
If you're going to try and technical, at least read what's being replied to...which was "old school" flashlight batteries.
But fine...take a modern NiMH D-cell which is 12-15Wh. That still puts a single D-cell on-par with what's in a phone.
The S9+ has a 13.48Wh battery.
Alkaline D-cell capacity varies of course, but is typically 18-27Wh depending on brand, current draw, etc.
A modern rechargeable NiMH clocks in around 12-15Wh
So no. At best your phone comes short of a SINGLE Alkaline (old-skool) D-cell battery and ties a single, modern NiMH. At least check your facts before ranting on...
No, they're talking about building a MW/h scale demonstration plant. That's not commercial (full) scale which is in the 100's, if not 1000's of MW/h.
Plenty of other vaporware items got funding to build their demo rounds of equipment. That's how people scam and skim their millions of personal profit and run away. Maybe this is legit. Hell, I hope it's legit. But based on the previous track record of...well everyone, breakthroughs like this simply do not happen.
Battery technology isn't just a simple capacity issue. It's energy density over volume, also over weight. Charge/discharge rate. Self discharge rate. Product lifecycle. Recycling/disposal. Safety. Ancillary equipment required for use. Then factor in manufacturing cost...because even if you have the Best Battery Ever (TM) it's not much use if it costs $1mm/kwh.