I have a 1972 Eldorado convertible. It doesn't have excessive plastic, but some parts, such as the molding next to the back seat, which also holds the latch for the parade boot, are showing their age (and then some: that part showed it by disintegrating when I tuned the latch).
Being able to print these would be a big deal. Cadillac isn't going to make any more, and it would be prohibitively expensive if they did. But if a straightforward ways mad to scan these, printing would be a truly desirable option.
>Even if the bus and metro were free, I still value the time lost way higher >than the price of riding with my car.
And here you have what is so often missed in the "ooohhh! mass transit! rah rah Rah1" rush.
To become an option, the opportunity cost, including time and convenience, needs to meet one of two thresholds: 1) the cost of that specific trip needs to be less than gas for a car owner (OK, add a small bit of maintenance in) 2) the cost of always using using it, including cabs ride sharing when not available, is less than the entire cost of owning a car.
The first can be met by low or zero fares where people actually travel. The second requires a hughe network.
In San Francisco and parts of New York, there's one coming soon enough that yo don't ned a schedule (heck, subway trains come faster than parking on some routes0. In most places, though, it's 30-60 minutes, and transferring at leas once, which can mean another huge wait.(Also the Las Vegas Strip: the next bus is usually already in sight)
And then there's the environment on the bus/train: when you have someone playing loud music or raunchy videos for the entire cabin, and not enough patrols to precent it, people will avoid it.
I would be shocked if real-dollar comparisons made a Saturn V launch cheaper than even four or five of these heavies. I suppose it's possible, but once you include all the marginal costs, I'd be shocked.
I saw today the figure that the government estimated 12 years and $36b to design a new lifter, and that musk did this in half the time and 5% of that cost . . .
The electronics alone would gut the costs of the launch support today as compared to the '60s . . .
I've heard but can't verify that NASA has been unable to find significant part of the Saturn V design for decades.
I'm sure I watched the launch, but it's the excitement of the grownups about the talk that I remember (I was only 4, after all).
Mapquesrt has never tried to send me more than 1,700 miles out of my way on a cross-town trip. (asked for directions in San Jose, and they ended in Nebraska with "Enter United States".
Anyway, the merry way is sometimes better--right now in Las Vegas, in a rare round of regulating for passengers rather than the industry, the board is wrestling with modifications that would allow parallel routes to deal with congestion on the Strip, which causes huge tolls for waiting in traffic.
Just because I remember men on the moon doesn't mean I'm over 50.
I've just been 24 for over 24 years . . .
Anyway, if you compare the cost/ton of this to Saturn V, in inflation adjusted dollars, fraction of GDP, or other reasonable terms, it would be *much* cheaper to reach the moon with these.
You send pieces and fuel to orbit on multiple launches, and then send up astronauts.
Let's see Musk land something with only the computational power of an Apple ][, and more powerful machines more than a second away, each way, by radio . . .
I'm not mocking this achievement at all, but I'm still more impressed by landing in lower gravity in that vacuum in the '60s . . .
>I called in "sick" and was trying not to spill my beer.:)
\begin{flashback}
Summer of 1975.
California still had fun summer school stuff for kids, before it was all remedial.
Parents had my brother and I stay home to watch the Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous.
For, err, most of the readership here, the cold war was still in full swing in all its terror. This was a historic cooperation, years before even the CIA realized that the USSR was a paper tiger.
So we watch history, and go to summer school with a note.
The principal went ballistic, and we almost got thrown out . . .
\end{flashback}
hawk, who just dated himself
p.s. yes, I remember the fuss about putting a man on the moon, but not the event itself
Given the semiregularity of these announcements, they will now switch to Ubuntu-style scheduling.
Twice a year, on April 1 and October 1, releases of the latest proof and confirmed cooper will be made. No attempt will be made to keep these going longer than six months.
Every two and a have years, though, a LTN (Long Term Nonsense) will be released, with the wild guesses, speculation, and made up stuff promised to be supported for a full three years, or until you can't read it anyway from your eyes rolling too far from forward, whichever comes first.
>Don't replace me with automation or I'll go on strike!?
It wouldn't be the first time.
Las Vegas used to employ armies of musicians.
They went on strike in the early 90s, the issue being that the casinos wanted to use taped music in smaller venues, but were willing to commit to all live music in the larger shows.
The union drew a hard line on that, and went on strike.
Having no choice, the casinos used taped music during the strike--and discovered that noone noticed or cared! (Realize that the "live" music was played on another floor and piped in . ..)
I'm not sure the casinos bothered going back to the table after that; they certainly didn't make the same offer (live music for big shows).
Today, there are very few musicians here, and they have their own union to thank.
Decades ago searching for something, I found a listing in a lefty coastal rag with the description of Wizard of Oz as "A young girl goes to a foreign land, kills the first person she meets, and sets out to kill again."
It is *far* more important that selling such toys without a volume control be recognized as a crime against humanity than that the (^&*(&Y battery be replaceable . . .
Yes, not being able to replace my car battery without paying a dealer has been *so* much hassle in my life.
(OK, I'll grant that 80s and 90s front drive Cadillacs are a pain, as you have to take off a bar or a plate to get it out [or even lift the back seat on the Deville!])
I have a commercial license to LiveCode (nee Runtime Revolution, neeMetaCard), but there is also an open source version. Basically HyperCard on steroids with support for the modern world, databases, etc.
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I have a 1972 Eldorado convertible. It doesn't have excessive plastic, but some parts, such as the molding next to the back seat, which also holds the latch for the parade boot, are showing their age (and then some: that part showed it by disintegrating when I tuned the latch).
Being able to print these would be a big deal. Cadillac isn't going to make any more, and it would be prohibitively expensive if they did. But if a straightforward ways mad to scan these, printing would be a truly desirable option.
hawk
I've found that in a city, a bicycle can almost always overtake and pass a bus . . .
hawk
>Even if the bus and metro were free, I still value the time lost way higher
>than the price of riding with my car.
And here you have what is so often missed in the "ooohhh! mass transit! rah rah Rah1" rush.
To become an option, the opportunity cost, including time and convenience, needs to meet one of two thresholds:
1) the cost of that specific trip needs to be less than gas for a car owner (OK, add a small bit of maintenance in)
2) the cost of always using using it, including cabs ride sharing when not available, is less than the entire cost of owning a car.
The first can be met by low or zero fares where people actually travel. The second requires a hughe network.
In San Francisco and parts of New York, there's one coming soon enough that yo don't ned a schedule (heck, subway trains come faster than parking on some routes0. In most places, though, it's 30-60 minutes, and transferring at leas once, which can mean another huge wait.(Also the Las Vegas Strip: the next bus is usually already in sight)
And then there's the environment on the bus/train: when you have someone playing loud music or raunchy videos for the entire cabin, and not enough patrols to precent it, people will avoid it.
hawk
I would be shocked if real-dollar comparisons made a Saturn V launch cheaper than even four or five of these heavies. I suppose it's possible, but once you include all the marginal costs, I'd be shocked.
I saw today the figure that the government estimated 12 years and $36b to design a new lifter, and that musk did this in half the time and 5% of that cost . . .
The electronics alone would gut the costs of the launch support today as compared to the '60s . . .
I've heard but can't verify that NASA has been unable to find significant part of the Saturn V design for decades.
I'm sure I watched the launch, but it's the excitement of the grownups about the talk that I remember (I was only 4, after all).
hawk
There are already private toll roads in some states which price by congestion and advertise real-time estimates of time savings.
hawk
More satisfying than a button would be inertial sensors allowing you to slap it silly . . . :)
hawk
Mapquesrt has never tried to send me more than 1,700 miles out of my way on a cross-town trip. (asked for directions in San Jose, and they ended in Nebraska with "Enter United States".
Anyway, the merry way is sometimes better--right now in Las Vegas, in a rare round of regulating for passengers rather than the industry, the board is wrestling with modifications that would allow parallel routes to deal with congestion on the Strip, which causes huge tolls for waiting in traffic.
hawk
>How is that different to any website or webapp?
Because these are *progressive* web apps, and that makes you a bd person if you don't use them.
Next we'll have conservative CWAs, and alt-binary versions, SWAs, and so forth . . .
hawk :)
Grangoogle, so much hardware you have!
The better to spy on you, my dear . . .
Just because I remember men on the moon doesn't mean I'm over 50.
I've just been 24 for over 24 years . . .
Anyway, if you compare the cost/ton of this to Saturn V, in inflation adjusted dollars, fraction of GDP, or other reasonable terms, it would be *much* cheaper to reach the moon with these.
You send pieces and fuel to orbit on multiple launches, and then send up astronauts.
hawk
Have spacesuit . . .
> And lesson there is hubris is fucking awesome, and those obnoxious Greek gods can go suck it.
OK, comment of the year there :)
hawk
Not the same at all.
Let's see Musk land something with only the computational power of an Apple ][, and more powerful machines more than a second away, each way, by radio . . .
I'm not mocking this achievement at all, but I'm still more impressed by landing in lower gravity in that vacuum in the '60s . . .
hawk
>I called in "sick" and was trying not to spill my beer. :)
\begin{flashback}
Summer of 1975.
California still had fun summer school stuff for kids, before it was all remedial.
Parents had my brother and I stay home to watch the Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous.
For, err, most of the readership here, the cold war was still in full swing in all its terror. This was a historic cooperation, years before even the CIA realized that the USSR was a paper tiger.
So we watch history, and go to summer school with a note.
The principal went ballistic, and we almost got thrown out . . .
\end{flashback}
hawk, who just dated himself
p.s. yes, I remember the fuss about putting a man on the moon, but not the event itself
Given the semiregularity of these announcements, they will now switch to Ubuntu-style scheduling.
Twice a year, on April 1 and October 1, releases of the latest proof and confirmed cooper will be made. No attempt will be made to keep these going longer than six months.
Every two and a have years, though, a LTN (Long Term Nonsense) will be released, with the wild guesses, speculation, and made up stuff promised to be supported for a full three years, or until you can't read it anyway from your eyes rolling too far from forward, whichever comes first.
hawk
>Don't replace me with automation or I'll go on strike!?
It wouldn't be the first time.
Las Vegas used to employ armies of musicians.
They went on strike in the early 90s, the issue being that the casinos wanted to use taped music in smaller venues, but were willing to commit to all live music in the larger shows.
The union drew a hard line on that, and went on strike.
Having no choice, the casinos used taped music during the strike--and discovered that noone noticed or cared! (Realize that the "live" music was played on another floor and piped in . . .)
I'm not sure the casinos bothered going back to the table after that; they certainly didn't make the same offer (live music for big shows).
Today, there are very few musicians here, and they have their own union to thank.
hawk
BSD has been dying almost as long as Apple has been going out of business . . .
hawk
Wait a minute, you can make money at that?
We sure blew it at the VRWC back in the day.
We were there for the rides on the black helicopters, and those chocolate chip cookies Barbara Bush always bought.
But we could have made *money* at this while having all that fun???
*sigh*
hawk
Decades ago searching for something, I found a listing in a lefty coastal rag with the description of Wizard of Oz as "A young girl goes to a foreign land, kills the first person she meets, and sets out to kill again."
It's probably still out there, somewhere.
hawk
>the browser should let the user define a quota per hour, minute, or user gesture.
You need that 3-D recognition stuff to recognize the "user gesture" that occurs when some idiot site reloads while we try to read . . . :)
hawk
>Are these cases common?
Gosh, you must not watch enough television.
About weekly during primetime.
Not quite as common as jumping out the perpetually unguarded fire escape because all the cops, once again, came in the front door . . . :)
hawk
Ahh, but autonomous mobile donut shops can solve this . . . :)
hawk
It is *far* more important that selling such toys without a volume control be recognized as a crime against humanity than that the (^&*(&Y battery be replaceable . . .
hawk
Yes, not being able to replace my car battery without paying a dealer has been *so* much hassle in my life.
(OK, I'll grant that 80s and 90s front drive Cadillacs are a pain, as you have to take off a bar or a plate to get it out [or even lift the back seat on the Deville!])
hawk
I have a commercial license to LiveCode (nee Runtime Revolution, neeMetaCard), but there is also an open source version.
Basically HyperCard on steroids with support for the modern world, databases, etc.
hawk