I'm getting very tired of reading this same comment over and over. It never comes with any indication of where you expect these jobs will come from. Don't bring up buggy whips and horse carriages either, because the automobile actually increased domestic employment so in that case there was somewhere for people to go.
Don't blame the American public for taking advantage. They have been trained to fill the consumer role in capitalism which is to look for the best price always. Just as a corporations role is to make the most profit always. The failing rests solely with government, which is the only entity that was supposed to be independent enough to prevent this from happening.
IF that is true... the heartbeat is inaccurate but ultimately the calories burned is accurate. then they should have totally avoided the problem by only tracking the heart internally and not displaying the rate as it sees it. If people look down and see a heart rate why the heck wouldn't they believe it?
There is a lot of ground between the reality and the claim here. The claim is that it is not a medical device, but that leaves a lot open to interpretation. Common sense would indicate if it shows you a number then it must be a useful number. I've used a polar heart rate monitor and it flashes if it feels it is not getting an accurate reading. Sadly, the quest for profits knows no common sense.
Back when I was running a lot I would use a chest strap monitor as a guide to pace myself. After all, what better way to know how much work your body is doing to measure your heart. If I were running today I might very well be using a fitbit because, while it has a disclaimer that it is not a medical device, I am a healthy individual so why should I not be able to trust it to monitor my heart accurately? At the end of my running days my resting heart rate with around 70BPM and around 90BPM when working out. If it is missing beats then that's at least better then adding beats, but I would be pissed as hell right now either way because this is being advertised as a fitness tool that is not giving you an accurate idea of how much of a workout you are getting at all.
Unless there is a disclaimer somewhere that "this is not to be used as a fitness tool" which is really more accurate wording.
Why would this be a surprise to people? I thought it was well established that these companies glean information from you to make money and that they felt completely justified in doing so because they don't charge you for anything. Imagine how much confidential information they gather... I know for a fact people at my place of business use these services for work conference calls. I consider it totally irresponsible to subject a friend to it unknowingly, never mind using the services for work purposes.
I'm pretty sure EVs are better then current fuel cell vehicles, so no argument there. However, I'm pretty sure making EVs sound better than they are. A lot of the things you say are based on a lot of promises. First of all, it doesn't matter to me if I go on zero road trips a year, I'm not spending that much money on a new vehicle if it will limit me in any way or make anything less convenient. Right now we need a minivan to hold the whole family and to my knowledge there are no EV minivans that I can find. I need the interior of the vehicle to be a comfortable temperature whether it is -30 or 95 which means heating and air-conditioning, and no one seems to be able to tell me how this will affect the range. The fact that no one really seems to give me a hard number worries me right there. Also, on a long trip it's nice to play a couple of movies in the vehicle, so an entertainment center or video game console is important. Really what I want to know is what is my realistic range of a minivan sized vehicle blowing heat at a 50 degree differential to the outside with the entertainment center playing, once they invent such a vehicle.
If someone could tell me that, then I could determine how realistic you assertion is that I will be able to drive all day and only charge at lunch and dinner and that there will always be a charging station available for me to pull up to. If the charging stations are even there right now; or perhaps that is another promise.
As I said.. they dont want to pay for block heaters, they definitely won't pay for charging. I'm sure they have the minimum lighting as required by law.
No matter what I think electric is going to be more of a hassle then gas. For a very long time least. As long as I am buying a new vehicle I'm going to want more convenience not less. This got me wondering, do EVs even come with full video entertainment centers or power for a video game console? That would give the family something to do while charging at least.
Our 'second car' is never the one we take on trips. It's the older one that is being driven into the ground so is less reliable. Too expensive to have two cars that are 'fresh'.
We're talking about being in an area with only over night charging. If I get caught without gas there is always a station nearby and its 5 mins to fill. If your running low in an EV your done for at least an hour.
It's stressful to be driving anywhere and be down less then 1/3 battery. I hate it when it happens on my phone, can't imagine dealing with a battery in a car.
So in other words, Hydrogen can work for people who want to go on long trips. EVs don't currently work for those people and might never work. If I'm on a road trip I want to go straight there and not stop for an hour every 100 miles.
We have a cabin in the woods that is 64 miles away. The grid around the cabin definitely doesn't support anything high-current. I can't see the little gas station getting a bank of chargers. It's going to make it pretty difficult for us to justify an EV if we ever want to go there and still be able to drive around the area for a reasonable amount of time.
Hm, so I must leave my car and subject myself to a business selling me and tempting my kids with things, forcing me to say 'no' two dozen times. As I keep saying, that's a reason to stick with gas right there. It makes long trips practically unworkable.
Until you can run an EV all day on a single night charge, there will be a need to external chargers. I live in a cold climate where we need engine block heaters and parking lots don't even want to pay for those. They put them on an on-off cycle and give you the minimum amount of electricity to keep the car starting. Charging an EV in a parking lot will be expensive.
Personally I think making affordable devices, and providing a platform on which those devices can be made is laudable. While the markup that Apple applies to each device, without totally releasing ownership of that device to the user is an embarrassment. To each their own.
Why is this news? There's only a conspiracy if the ratio of applicants' races differs greatly to those hired, and if there is proof that high quality applicants were turned away. Maybe African Americans and Hispanics just don't want to work 16 hour days with an expensive mortgage to cover.
Also, none of the things you mentioned is a several hundred dollar device that fits in a pocket and can get easily broken or stolen. Nor do any of those things go with them inside the school. Having this new distraction at school is the biggest problem. Teachers try to control it but it's not something that is controllable. My kids have friends that are chatting with one another in the morning before school, at school, and until 11:30 at night. We're not sure if their parents are aware how much they are on the things, or if they simply don't care.
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I'm getting very tired of reading this same comment over and over. It never comes with any indication of where you expect these jobs will come from. Don't bring up buggy whips and horse carriages either, because the automobile actually increased domestic employment so in that case there was somewhere for people to go.
Don't blame the American public for taking advantage. They have been trained to fill the consumer role in capitalism which is to look for the best price always. Just as a corporations role is to make the most profit always. The failing rests solely with government, which is the only entity that was supposed to be independent enough to prevent this from happening.
My wife belongs to a group that set up a phpbb board to keep track of each other. It's not hard. None of them are particularly tech savvy.
IF that is true... the heartbeat is inaccurate but ultimately the calories burned is accurate. then they should have totally avoided the problem by only tracking the heart internally and not displaying the rate as it sees it. If people look down and see a heart rate why the heck wouldn't they believe it?
There is a lot of ground between the reality and the claim here. The claim is that it is not a medical device, but that leaves a lot open to interpretation. Common sense would indicate if it shows you a number then it must be a useful number. I've used a polar heart rate monitor and it flashes if it feels it is not getting an accurate reading. Sadly, the quest for profits knows no common sense.
But even the term "health monitoring device" needs to be qualified. It is a health monitoring device only at low intensity.
Back when I was running a lot I would use a chest strap monitor as a guide to pace myself. After all, what better way to know how much work your body is doing to measure your heart. If I were running today I might very well be using a fitbit because, while it has a disclaimer that it is not a medical device, I am a healthy individual so why should I not be able to trust it to monitor my heart accurately? At the end of my running days my resting heart rate with around 70BPM and around 90BPM when working out. If it is missing beats then that's at least better then adding beats, but I would be pissed as hell right now either way because this is being advertised as a fitness tool that is not giving you an accurate idea of how much of a workout you are getting at all.
Unless there is a disclaimer somewhere that "this is not to be used as a fitness tool" which is really more accurate wording.
Why would this be a surprise to people? I thought it was well established that these companies glean information from you to make money and that they felt completely justified in doing so because they don't charge you for anything. Imagine how much confidential information they gather... I know for a fact people at my place of business use these services for work conference calls. I consider it totally irresponsible to subject a friend to it unknowingly, never mind using the services for work purposes.
I'm pretty sure EVs are better then current fuel cell vehicles, so no argument there. However, I'm pretty sure making EVs sound better than they are. A lot of the things you say are based on a lot of promises. First of all, it doesn't matter to me if I go on zero road trips a year, I'm not spending that much money on a new vehicle if it will limit me in any way or make anything less convenient. Right now we need a minivan to hold the whole family and to my knowledge there are no EV minivans that I can find. I need the interior of the vehicle to be a comfortable temperature whether it is -30 or 95 which means heating and air-conditioning, and no one seems to be able to tell me how this will affect the range. The fact that no one really seems to give me a hard number worries me right there. Also, on a long trip it's nice to play a couple of movies in the vehicle, so an entertainment center or video game console is important. Really what I want to know is what is my realistic range of a minivan sized vehicle blowing heat at a 50 degree differential to the outside with the entertainment center playing, once they invent such a vehicle.
If someone could tell me that, then I could determine how realistic you assertion is that I will be able to drive all day and only charge at lunch and dinner and that there will always be a charging station available for me to pull up to. If the charging stations are even there right now; or perhaps that is another promise.
As I said.. they dont want to pay for block heaters, they definitely won't pay for charging. I'm sure they have the minimum lighting as required by law.
No matter what I think electric is going to be more of a hassle then gas. For a very long time least. As long as I am buying a new vehicle I'm going to want more convenience not less. This got me wondering, do EVs even come with full video entertainment centers or power for a video game console? That would give the family something to do while charging at least.
Our 'second car' is never the one we take on trips. It's the older one that is being driven into the ground so is less reliable. Too expensive to have two cars that are 'fresh'.
But if I'm going to have to have more than one car, the more expensive one isn't going to be the less capable one.
We're talking about being in an area with only over night charging. If I get caught without gas there is always a station nearby and its 5 mins to fill. If your running low in an EV your done for at least an hour.
It's stressful to be driving anywhere and be down less then 1/3 battery. I hate it when it happens on my phone, can't imagine dealing with a battery in a car.
Meh, it's not something I want to worry about. When I'm recreationing I don't need the stress.
So in other words, Hydrogen can work for people who want to go on long trips. EVs don't currently work for those people and might never work. If I'm on a road trip I want to go straight there and not stop for an hour every 100 miles.
We have a cabin in the woods that is 64 miles away. The grid around the cabin definitely doesn't support anything high-current. I can't see the little gas station getting a bank of chargers. It's going to make it pretty difficult for us to justify an EV if we ever want to go there and still be able to drive around the area for a reasonable amount of time.
Hm, so I must leave my car and subject myself to a business selling me and tempting my kids with things, forcing me to say 'no' two dozen times. As I keep saying, that's a reason to stick with gas right there. It makes long trips practically unworkable.
Until you can run an EV all day on a single night charge, there will be a need to external chargers. I live in a cold climate where we need engine block heaters and parking lots don't even want to pay for those. They put them on an on-off cycle and give you the minimum amount of electricity to keep the car starting. Charging an EV in a parking lot will be expensive.
Personally I think making affordable devices, and providing a platform on which those devices can be made is laudable. While the markup that Apple applies to each device, without totally releasing ownership of that device to the user is an embarrassment. To each their own.
No Apple fan anywhere saw that as supporting terrorists. The people that did probably don't buy Apple.
Well, the choice to that is not having a workable market at all, so good thing for regulations.
Why is this news? There's only a conspiracy if the ratio of applicants' races differs greatly to those hired, and if there is proof that high quality applicants were turned away. Maybe African Americans and Hispanics just don't want to work 16 hour days with an expensive mortgage to cover.
Also, none of the things you mentioned is a several hundred dollar device that fits in a pocket and can get easily broken or stolen. Nor do any of those things go with them inside the school. Having this new distraction at school is the biggest problem. Teachers try to control it but it's not something that is controllable. My kids have friends that are chatting with one another in the morning before school, at school, and until 11:30 at night. We're not sure if their parents are aware how much they are on the things, or if they simply don't care.