Energy credits are a government subsidy to support electric car producers, but it's hardly a unique situation. The government subsidizes everything from corn production to aeronautics. If you are arguing that the solar power industry would not be profitable without government subsidies, than you'd have to ask yourself if the same would be true without all the government spending on stabilizing world oil supplies.
I mean if you want to just randomly compare energies why not be just as worried that the cell phone in you pocket is going to undergo fission and go thermonuclear.
The well to wheels efficiency of a battery electric car is still better than that of an ICE car by a factor of about 2, so even if we started generating electricity from the gas that would have been used in the ICE cars we are replacing, we would be better off environmentally.
The reports of 'exploding' (more like incendiary) Note 7's starting popping up days after its release. It was a small fraction of phones, but there is no evidence to say that affected phones would burst into flames within the first couple of weeks, or never at all. More likely, it's a situation that Note 7's have an x% chance of bursting into flames on any given charge cycle, and given enough time, the chance of any given Note 7 having a flame-out over its life would approach 100%.
Every phone I've had for the past 15 years, going back to my flip phones, has had to power on to charge. It boots into a striped down firmware for charging only, but my bet is that the main processor is involved.
Or... FedEx and UPS have 5% and 8% profit margins, respectively. So for every $1B that Amazon pays them each year, $60 million goes to the shipping companies' profits. To Amazon, this is potential savings (or profits) on their balance sheets.
Oft quoted, but done so inaccurately. The McDonald's coffee lawsuit was not simply because the coffee was hot and spilled out of the cup. It's that it was so hot that it delaminated the bottom of the coffee cup, causing the bottom to fall off and the coffee to fall out. If your hot beverage cup is not capable of holding the hot beverage, negligence is a reasonable claim.
It's been about, what, 40 phones in 3 weeks? That doesn't mean that only 40 phones are affected. If there was no recall, it could be 60 by now, and 60 in the next 3 weeks, and 60 the 3 weeks after, etc. We don't know how many devices are affected. Rumors are that it's only the Samsung manufactured batteries, and the Chinese-made batteries are actually fine (ironic) but Samsung isn't admitting anything. It could be a smaller percentage of the overall devices, but a significant percentage of the phones with Samsung batteries, which could have reasonably been picked up in QA testing.
A telnet port isn't vulnerable if it's not used. If it's used locally (as a backdoor console) then it's only vulnerable if your network is already owned.
Removable batteries would have done nothing to improve this situation (being banned on planes). Once a phone model has been recalled for potential battery fires, the entire model is tainted. The TSA or airlines would have no way of knowing by looking at the phone if the battery is affected or not. If they simply could send replacement batteries to affected users, or swap them right in the store because of a removable battery, there could still be potentially thousands of affected batteries out in the wild.
To the contrary, I could see where removable batteries would make the risk of a ban even worse. Suppose Samsung had made the battery user-swappable, and Samsung's batteries didn't have an issue. But a batch of cheap batteries for the model goes up for sale on Amazon/eBay, and suddenly reports of fires start to crop up. Even once the cause of the fires is identified as cheap, aftermarket batteries, airlines could ban the entire phone model because of the risk that users may have replaced the original battery with a cheap knock-off.
Surely, a easily swapped battery might have saved Samsung money in this case by allowing for an easy field replacement of a defective battery, but it wouldn't have saved the Note 7 line from being tainted.
welders and machinists are as much 21st century trades as they were 19th century. We still can't 'program' a new building. Every construction company, factory, power plant, fleet maintenance yard, etc needs welders and machinists.
Autopilot could see through the under-carriage of the semi. It's programmed to ignore obstacles it considers over the top of car so that it doesn't stop at every overpass and road sign. Also, the trailer was gray in color, which matched the color of the sky at the time.
What is 'staying power'? In this context, I don't think it implies that 10 years down the line this game will still be playing this game. But it will certainly still be popular in a few months or even a few years. It's up to Nintendo (and what the markets are betting on) to capitalize on this success and turn it into a resurgence of everything Pokemon (trading cards, stuffed animals, TV show, and follow-up games)
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Energy credits are a government subsidy to support electric car producers, but it's hardly a unique situation. The government subsidizes everything from corn production to aeronautics. If you are arguing that the solar power industry would not be profitable without government subsidies, than you'd have to ask yourself if the same would be true without all the government spending on stabilizing world oil supplies.
What does 67 degrees above absolute zero have to do with km?
I mean if you want to just randomly compare energies why not be just as worried that the cell phone in you pocket is going to undergo fission and go thermonuclear.
Don't give Samsung any ideas for the Note 8.
The well to wheels efficiency of a battery electric car is still better than that of an ICE car by a factor of about 2, so even if we started generating electricity from the gas that would have been used in the ICE cars we are replacing, we would be better off environmentally.
If you are going 20+ mph over the limit on a non-divided highway, you are dangerous. This doesn't apply to 'freeways'.
It's not shouty enough.
The reports of 'exploding' (more like incendiary) Note 7's starting popping up days after its release. It was a small fraction of phones, but there is no evidence to say that affected phones would burst into flames within the first couple of weeks, or never at all. More likely, it's a situation that Note 7's have an x% chance of bursting into flames on any given charge cycle, and given enough time, the chance of any given Note 7 having a flame-out over its life would approach 100%.
Every phone I've had for the past 15 years, going back to my flip phones, has had to power on to charge. It boots into a striped down firmware for charging only, but my bet is that the main processor is involved.
Or... FedEx and UPS have 5% and 8% profit margins, respectively. So for every $1B that Amazon pays them each year, $60 million goes to the shipping companies' profits. To Amazon, this is potential savings (or profits) on their balance sheets.
I beg to differ
Oft quoted, but done so inaccurately. The McDonald's coffee lawsuit was not simply because the coffee was hot and spilled out of the cup. It's that it was so hot that it delaminated the bottom of the coffee cup, causing the bottom to fall off and the coffee to fall out. If your hot beverage cup is not capable of holding the hot beverage, negligence is a reasonable claim.
I don't know why...
and NBC, CNN, FOX, NY Times. This has been all over the news.
It's been about, what, 40 phones in 3 weeks? That doesn't mean that only 40 phones are affected. If there was no recall, it could be 60 by now, and 60 in the next 3 weeks, and 60 the 3 weeks after, etc. We don't know how many devices are affected. Rumors are that it's only the Samsung manufactured batteries, and the Chinese-made batteries are actually fine (ironic) but Samsung isn't admitting anything. It could be a smaller percentage of the overall devices, but a significant percentage of the phones with Samsung batteries, which could have reasonably been picked up in QA testing.
A telnet port isn't vulnerable if it's not used. If it's used locally (as a backdoor console) then it's only vulnerable if your network is already owned.
Removable batteries would have done nothing to improve this situation (being banned on planes). Once a phone model has been recalled for potential battery fires, the entire model is tainted. The TSA or airlines would have no way of knowing by looking at the phone if the battery is affected or not. If they simply could send replacement batteries to affected users, or swap them right in the store because of a removable battery, there could still be potentially thousands of affected batteries out in the wild.
To the contrary, I could see where removable batteries would make the risk of a ban even worse. Suppose Samsung had made the battery user-swappable, and Samsung's batteries didn't have an issue. But a batch of cheap batteries for the model goes up for sale on Amazon/eBay, and suddenly reports of fires start to crop up. Even once the cause of the fires is identified as cheap, aftermarket batteries, airlines could ban the entire phone model because of the risk that users may have replaced the original battery with a cheap knock-off.
Surely, a easily swapped battery might have saved Samsung money in this case by allowing for an easy field replacement of a defective battery, but it wouldn't have saved the Note 7 line from being tainted.
welders and machinists are as much 21st century trades as they were 19th century. We still can't 'program' a new building. Every construction company, factory, power plant, fleet maintenance yard, etc needs welders and machinists.
I have high blood pressure, you insensitive clod.
It comes to less than $15 of electricity per week. As far as employer perks go, it's relatively cheap.
You do realize, just like the fingerprint scanner, you don't HAVE to use the iris scanner.
Debit is chip and pin. Credit is chip and signature. Throughout the US.
Autopilot could see through the under-carriage of the semi. It's programmed to ignore obstacles it considers over the top of car so that it doesn't stop at every overpass and road sign. Also, the trailer was gray in color, which matched the color of the sky at the time.
The value that the market sees isn't in this game. Nintendo owns the Pokemon brand, and that is what they will be able to capitalize on.
What is 'staying power'? In this context, I don't think it implies that 10 years down the line this game will still be playing this game. But it will certainly still be popular in a few months or even a few years. It's up to Nintendo (and what the markets are betting on) to capitalize on this success and turn it into a resurgence of everything Pokemon (trading cards, stuffed animals, TV show, and follow-up games)
A regular skateboard doesn't have the very real possibility of burning down your house. house