Well, they are talking about battery drain which you will need to top off (and pay for in $/kWh). Also, the battery packs are given (when I have looked) with capacity in kWh, so x loss/ total capacity is easier to visualize.
For some values of GPGPU. They are great for MHash(Bit coin last year) but poor for some Boinc projects. Cuda (prior to some specific changes made for AMD to make it par) crunched 5-10x faster than its AMD equivalent.
No, technically, you don't. You are arbitrarily redefining "right" to mean "capability", which it doesn't, because if it did, the whole discussion about natural vs granted or rights at all would be moot. Everything one could possibly do would be a right, which would remove the need to legally describe rights at all, and there'd be not protection under the concept of a right.
Just admit, your first idea about rights was clearly incorrect, and you might as well abandon it because your attempt at defending yourself is only making it worse.
I'm not sure why you think inflation is a bad thing. As long as interest/investments pay out at a rate higher than inflation, you are okay. And, if entitlements are not indexed to inflation, it is a way of making them work over time.
Hyperinflation is a bad thing (money made yesterday is worthless compared to today), but normal inflation is quite a good thing.
Deflation is an entirely different beast, and discourages economic growth in favor of frugality and saving. Those two things don't make the economy run.
"People (especially Americans) do not like change, they assume that the old way is the best way."
Electric cars are not new, and there are several models that are and have been on the market longer than Models that aren't having issues with car fires and aren't in the news. The claim that Americans don't like change is a bullshit blanket statement and you know it.
I have 3x Vertex 3's, 1x Vertex 4, at least 3x sets of RAM, all with year(s) under their belts(oldest SSDs from 2011) and I have never had an inkling of a problem. Newegg reviews seemed to agree.
I'm very surprised at this or perceived quality control issues.
But that is just one factor of it. The other factor is that there is a finite amount of money to be put into them. As it is, the market cap in the past few years has gone up from $140 million to $10b+
At some point, there won't be enough money backing BTC to keep its value high, and the attraction of BTC (as well as the state of the economy, amount people are willing to tie up in an unstable asset) as either a currency of volatile speculative instrument are the only things keeping money backing it. If, at some point, the net gain of cash for investing into BTC stops, so will its cap, and so will the value of BTC. That is, no matter how small you subdivide it, if there is only $15b people are willing to spend on BTC, it will never reach a market cap of $1t.
And, once it stops rising and uncertainty takes over, and people start trying to convert their BTC speculations back into USD, there is the trigger and mechanism of the crash.
Look. That was back in April, it is 10x that now. The value of the BTC market as a currency hasn't gone up 50x in the past year, it only has as a speculative instrument. Usually crashes happen near 'milestone' amounts when people set values in their mind when they want to cash out.
Or you can imagine them going up to 10,000/BTC and becoming worth as much as Apple's entire revenue (revenue mind you, not profit) stream and have legitimate uses such as....
" Now that mining is out of the hands of all but the massive ASIC machines,"
I think you mean botnets. There are huge numbers of BTC being generated for 'free' to the producer. And yes, as BTC speculation is going wild, people are forking out real dollars for them and will until they crash.
ASIC machines are only the most efficient way for the law abiding public to generate them.
"A very pessimistic estimate... 50% of the black market globally"
You mean 50% of the black market in internet sales that deal in bitcoins.
The vast majority of that 1 trillion USD is in drug smuggling and dealing, which I am quite certain that a business that deals in briefcases of cash and in-person cash transition will not be trading in a crypto-currency for decades.
Well, if they were pulling only text content, 1.4kB would actually be pretty close to correct. Using averagr characters/word, 1.4kB would be 350 words of text, which is not far off the estimated 400 words/article as calculated in 2005. I'd expect now it would be 450/article, but still not unreasonable depending on the types of articles added since 2005 (I.e., if every town has their own 1 sentence blurb).
Anyone with a clear head can see that BTC is in a massive speculative bubble, just like the housing market in '06, and.COM companies in '00.
The market will correct itself, and all this nonsense volatility will leave a handful of people wealthy, but 99% of every other speculator losing their hides.
Plenty of time and reason to poo-pooh
Especially now that it has become ineffective as a currency and it isn't being backed by cost of production (vast amounts are produced by botnets, effectively for free to the producers).
For 99.7% of Americans, what he said was correct. For the 0.3% of Americans that were paying for inadequate coverage, he was wrong. Since there are always exceptions to any claim, my threshold for lies is when it is less than 95% true (5% margin of error). By that standard, Barack is as honest as any politician has ever been.
And compared to "Let's invade Iraq to get WMDs" GWB, you can hardly fault Barack for there being a few outliers.
And Barack never made the claim absolute the way you have spun it.
Well, most people don't buy SUVs to commute in, they typically do so to have a vehicle that can do things that the Prius can't (haul heavy loads, tow stuff, get out of its own way). Besides that, many small, more car-like SUVs get well over 25 MPG and some get over 30 MPG highway.
Factor in that gas isn't $5/gallon, it has been $3.15-3.75 for years now, and that math isn't so attractive. Really, there are very few reasons to buy the Prius at all, given that many TDIs get nearly the same gas mileage at 2/3 the price, and no need for replacing expensive battery arrays.
Can't say I agree with you. I have a nice keyboard, and for any game that can interpret 2 directions as a combined direction, keyboard offers the fastest direction change and response of any input. Granted, it can't distinguish between different levels of speed or varying small angles of direction, but many games don't interpret that anyways.
And, for FPS, there is a big advantage to walk left, walk right, walk left, instead of walk left, stop, walk right, stop, walk left.
As others on other news sites have pointed out, Elton's statistics are really bad. Car fires tend to happen in about 1% of auto accidents, while in the Tesla Model S, it has happened in 3/20.
For investors trying to bank on the Tesla stock bubble, this is a very real concern given what happened to Fisker over battery fires.
Sony greatly expanded their target audience by advertising the other OS feature(governments, researchers, anyone doing number crunching), and for them, it wasn't just a minor inconvenience, it was turning the computers into useless gaming consoles and spending lots of time/money replanning clusters because of what was effectively an arbitrary decision on the part of Sony.
It is a bit insensitive to dismiss that and hold up rootkits as the biggest complaint, given that in any other use than gaming, the rootkits wouldn't matter at all (since the clusters wouldn't need to be online except for updates).
I would say both of those were equally valid and serious complaints, and doubly bad for Sony.
I mean, the LHC was a neat project, but what practical benefits to humanity have come from it? Knowledge is great, but the Higg's discovery isn't solving the problems the world faces.
I know money and research into our energy needs could come from lots of places, but when I see massive facility of extreme high tech, employing thousands of physicists and researchers with international funding and support, and Billions of dollars budget, I can't help but think a similar problem with much greater utility is being neglected to all of our detriment.
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Well, they are talking about battery drain which you will need to top off (and pay for in $/kWh). Also, the battery packs are given (when I have looked) with capacity in kWh, so x loss/ total capacity is easier to visualize.
For some values of GPGPU. They are great for MHash(Bit coin last year) but poor for some Boinc projects. Cuda (prior to some specific changes made for AMD to make it par) crunched 5-10x faster than its AMD equivalent.
It sounds like part of the plot of Atlas Shrugged and the response to Rearden Metal.
"technically yes, you do have the right"
No, technically, you don't. You are arbitrarily redefining "right" to mean "capability", which it doesn't, because if it did, the whole discussion about natural vs granted or rights at all would be moot. Everything one could possibly do would be a right, which would remove the need to legally describe rights at all, and there'd be not protection under the concept of a right.
Just admit, your first idea about rights was clearly incorrect, and you might as well abandon it because your attempt at defending yourself is only making it worse.
It will once it stops being volatile. Volatile < deflationary < flat or inflationary.
They are both fair criticisms, just being deflationary is a lesser criticism compared to the current state.
I'm not sure why you think inflation is a bad thing. As long as interest/investments pay out at a rate higher than inflation, you are okay. And, if entitlements are not indexed to inflation, it is a way of making them work over time.
Hyperinflation is a bad thing (money made yesterday is worthless compared to today), but normal inflation is quite a good thing.
Deflation is an entirely different beast, and discourages economic growth in favor of frugality and saving. Those two things don't make the economy run.
"People (especially Americans) do not like change, they assume that the old way is the best way."
Electric cars are not new, and there are several models that are and have been on the market longer than Models that aren't having issues with car fires and aren't in the news. The claim that Americans don't like change is a bullshit blanket statement and you know it.
Why the hell did anyone mod you up?
I have 3x Vertex 3's, 1x Vertex 4, at least 3x sets of RAM, all with year(s) under their belts(oldest SSDs from 2011) and I have never had an inkling of a problem. Newegg reviews seemed to agree.
I'm very surprised at this or perceived quality control issues.
But that is just one factor of it. The other factor is that there is a finite amount of money to be put into them. As it is, the market cap in the past few years has gone up from $140 million to $10b+
At some point, there won't be enough money backing BTC to keep its value high, and the attraction of BTC (as well as the state of the economy, amount people are willing to tie up in an unstable asset) as either a currency of volatile speculative instrument are the only things keeping money backing it. If, at some point, the net gain of cash for investing into BTC stops, so will its cap, and so will the value of BTC. That is, no matter how small you subdivide it, if there is only $15b people are willing to spend on BTC, it will never reach a market cap of $1t.
And, once it stops rising and uncertainty takes over, and people start trying to convert their BTC speculations back into USD, there is the trigger and mechanism of the crash.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/130404044816-chart-bitcoin-value-april-2013-614xa.png
Look. That was back in April, it is 10x that now. The value of the BTC market as a currency hasn't gone up 50x in the past year, it only has as a speculative instrument. Usually crashes happen near 'milestone' amounts when people set values in their mind when they want to cash out.
Or you can imagine them going up to 10,000/BTC and becoming worth as much as Apple's entire revenue (revenue mind you, not profit) stream and have legitimate uses such as....
" Now that mining is out of the hands of all but the massive ASIC machines,"
I think you mean botnets. There are huge numbers of BTC being generated for 'free' to the producer. And yes, as BTC speculation is going wild, people are forking out real dollars for them and will until they crash.
ASIC machines are only the most efficient way for the law abiding public to generate them.
Tons of people said that in 2006 with their house value.
"A very pessimistic estimate... 50% of the black market globally"
You mean 50% of the black market in internet sales that deal in bitcoins.
The vast majority of that 1 trillion USD is in drug smuggling and dealing, which I am quite certain that a business that deals in briefcases of cash and in-person cash transition will not be trading in a crypto-currency for decades.
Well, if they were pulling only text content, 1.4kB would actually be pretty close to correct. Using averagr characters/word, 1.4kB would be 350 words of text, which is not far off the estimated 400 words/article as calculated in 2005. I'd expect now it would be 450/article, but still not unreasonable depending on the types of articles added since 2005 (I.e., if every town has their own 1 sentence blurb).
"but it's not like the energy evaporates"
You mean 'dissipates', and yes, it does, as heat. Poof, right into thin air. In other news, Tesla owners reconsider purchasing garage heaters.
Nope, his calculator does math
Anyone with a clear head can see that BTC is in a massive speculative bubble, just like the housing market in '06, and .COM companies in '00.
The market will correct itself, and all this nonsense volatility will leave a handful of people wealthy, but 99% of every other speculator losing their hides.
Plenty of time and reason to poo-pooh
Especially now that it has become ineffective as a currency and it isn't being backed by cost of production (vast amounts are produced by botnets, effectively for free to the producers).
For 99.7% of Americans, what he said was correct. For the 0.3% of Americans that were paying for inadequate coverage, he was wrong. Since there are always exceptions to any claim, my threshold for lies is when it is less than 95% true (5% margin of error). By that standard, Barack is as honest as any politician has ever been.
And compared to "Let's invade Iraq to get WMDs" GWB, you can hardly fault Barack for there being a few outliers.
And Barack never made the claim absolute the way you have spun it.
Well, most people don't buy SUVs to commute in, they typically do so to have a vehicle that can do things that the Prius can't (haul heavy loads, tow stuff, get out of its own way). Besides that, many small, more car-like SUVs get well over 25 MPG and some get over 30 MPG highway.
Factor in that gas isn't $5/gallon, it has been $3.15-3.75 for years now, and that math isn't so attractive. Really, there are very few reasons to buy the Prius at all, given that many TDIs get nearly the same gas mileage at 2/3 the price, and no need for replacing expensive battery arrays.
Can't say I agree with you. I have a nice keyboard, and for any game that can interpret 2 directions as a combined direction, keyboard offers the fastest direction change and response of any input. Granted, it can't distinguish between different levels of speed or varying small angles of direction, but many games don't interpret that anyways.
And, for FPS, there is a big advantage to walk left, walk right, walk left, instead of walk left, stop, walk right, stop, walk left.
As others on other news sites have pointed out, Elton's statistics are really bad. Car fires tend to happen in about 1% of auto accidents, while in the Tesla Model S, it has happened in 3/20.
For investors trying to bank on the Tesla stock bubble, this is a very real concern given what happened to Fisker over battery fires.
Or a pipe bomb made with PVC.
Sony greatly expanded their target audience by advertising the other OS feature(governments, researchers, anyone doing number crunching), and for them, it wasn't just a minor inconvenience, it was turning the computers into useless gaming consoles and spending lots of time/money replanning clusters because of what was effectively an arbitrary decision on the part of Sony.
It is a bit insensitive to dismiss that and hold up rootkits as the biggest complaint, given that in any other use than gaming, the rootkits wouldn't matter at all (since the clusters wouldn't need to be online except for updates).
I would say both of those were equally valid and serious complaints, and doubly bad for Sony.
It was easy for a lot of people to move on, the ones not using the feature that was removed.
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Big ass distractin from fusion research
I mean, the LHC was a neat project, but what practical benefits to humanity have come from it? Knowledge is great, but the Higg's discovery isn't solving the problems the world faces.
I know money and research into our energy needs could come from lots of places, but when I see massive facility of extreme high tech, employing thousands of physicists and researchers with international funding and support, and Billions of dollars budget, I can't help but think a similar problem with much greater utility is being neglected to all of our detriment.