Uh, when I hit pause it's because I'm answering the phone or something and I need quiet. So now I must hit pause AND mute? This would frustrate me to no end. It's funny how every 'development' with regards to playing video just pushes people further into piracy.
Well I would buy an EV as they stand today but only as a second vehicle to act as an auxiliary... but they are too expensive for that. If I am going to pay a full vehicle price, I would want to perform the same function as my vehicle today at the price of my vehicle today. One of them has to give, or both.
Lol, Tesla Model X starts at $175K Canadian. I can only dream of affording such a vehicle. Even if I could afford it, I would probably stick with the $50K one that meets my needs.
This is Costco. Everything is big. I'm talking about 22.5 kg (50 lb) boxes. We go it to save money and try to make only one trip.
Explorer costs around $50K Canadian. It competes with a Dodge Blazer or a Jeep Grand Cherokee, although I don't think either of those have the third row of seating. We commonly have my mother in law come along with us on trips, so not having the third row would mean her following us with her ICE.
You are miscalculating somewhere. The back of the Explorer was full. My wife literally had to repack it so we could slide the guitar in on the top. Because I apparently don't have a life today, I went and measured the size of the kitty litter. There were actually two differently dimension boxes. One stack of 4 boxes is 30" x 23" x 9". The other stack of two boxes is 30" x 23" x 9". This comes to 20316 cubic inches which is 333 dm. The litter alone would have filled the back of the Zoe, with no room for groceries or a guitar. Furthermore, the Zoe has no third row. Just wouldn't work for us.
I understand that there are a lot of families that this could work for, but we're not that far off an average family. I just think these EVs need to get a lot better.
I would completely purchase a small EV for single person light trips into town, so as a second vehicle like I said before. But what I am not comfortable with is paying almost ICE prices for it. They are far simpler, kind of a glorified golf cart really; they should be far cheaper.
Note that 1396 is just with the third row folded down (and we occasionally do need the third row). With the second row folded down it holds 2313 dm. We were disappointed it couldn't fit sheet rock like our minivan could, but at least it can hold boards 8' long if we feed it through the front seats.
As another comparison, my wife completely rejected the Dodge Journey because she felt claustrophobic in it, and that holds 1047 dm of cargo.
The Zoe holds 338 dm of cargo, and my Explorer holds 1396. How is this even a reasonable comparison? I'm assuming there is less space for passengers as well. This isn't a road trip vehicle, so I would have to fly everywhere. I should really measure our cat carriers, doubtful the Zoe would even fit a couple of them.
Why am I so upset about this? Because I would like to see electric cars get better in a way that most people can use them. Right now they just aren't getting better enough. Yes I understand they work for 20% of people, but they will be a niche until they work for 95%.
Well all I can say is, on the weekend we take the kids into music class and go for a trip to costco.. last weekend we had 8 boxes of kitty litter (it was on sale), plus groceries for a couple weeks, plus an electric guitar and five people. We don't have the time to be making several trips in that circumstance. Also I'm not comfortable taking such a vehicle on road trips. Call it range anxiety if you want, but the thought of getting stuck at a Tim Hortons or any other place for more than 10 minutes really turns me off.
I guess for whatever reason your family just doersn't have very heavy requirements for a vehicle and that's fine, but they obviously aren't for everyone.
Apparently the important thing that was missed is that a plane is fine if it flies straight and on course. An automobile, not so much! Even so, an airplane requires much third party human assistance from the ground plus the pilot and copilot to guide it safely.
Seriously though. An electric vehicle can only be a second vehicle. It can't be a first vehicle. Most people can't even spend $30K on a first vehicle, which makes this a luxury.
It could never hold a single trip to Costco for us. And if we bought one, we wouldn't have a reasonable vehicle for road trips so all that money would get eaten up renting vehicles and flying anyway.
This just seems to do video calls. Also, doesn't seem to be native Windows or MacOS applications. I despise web applications. Browsers are made for websites, not applications.
This is fairly scary. Honest question, does anyone know of an alternative to Skype? It should have the following:
- Work seamlessly on every PC and mobile OS
- Allow mobile sharing of images/files
- Group/solo text messaging
- Voice calls, conference calls
- Group/solo video calling
- File transfers for binaries and screen shots/images
- A company not transcribing calls
You are trying to make it more straight forward and linear than it is. Many companies raise stock dividends every year while keeping their employee base the same, or shedding employees. I doubt there is any such correlation as you suggest.
Most baby boomers I know had defined pension plans which were not market linked. Having a market linked pension is for rubes. Unfortunately I am one because I don't have much of a choice.
Slashdot Mirror
I find remote controls cumbersome enough, I won't be using a service that doubles the fiddling I need to do with it.
Uh, when I hit pause it's because I'm answering the phone or something and I need quiet. So now I must hit pause AND mute? This would frustrate me to no end. It's funny how every 'development' with regards to playing video just pushes people further into piracy.
Well I would buy an EV as they stand today but only as a second vehicle to act as an auxiliary... but they are too expensive for that. If I am going to pay a full vehicle price, I would want to perform the same function as my vehicle today at the price of my vehicle today. One of them has to give, or both.
I don't think I'll ever be able to get used to not picking out my food. Yes we have a lot of cats.
Yes $50K is the new price. I plan to take care of it and drive it into the ground.
Lol, Tesla Model X starts at $175K Canadian. I can only dream of affording such a vehicle. Even if I could afford it, I would probably stick with the $50K one that meets my needs.
This is Costco. Everything is big. I'm talking about 22.5 kg (50 lb) boxes. We go it to save money and try to make only one trip. Explorer costs around $50K Canadian. It competes with a Dodge Blazer or a Jeep Grand Cherokee, although I don't think either of those have the third row of seating. We commonly have my mother in law come along with us on trips, so not having the third row would mean her following us with her ICE.
You are miscalculating somewhere. The back of the Explorer was full. My wife literally had to repack it so we could slide the guitar in on the top. Because I apparently don't have a life today, I went and measured the size of the kitty litter. There were actually two differently dimension boxes. One stack of 4 boxes is 30" x 23" x 9". The other stack of two boxes is 30" x 23" x 9". This comes to 20316 cubic inches which is 333 dm. The litter alone would have filled the back of the Zoe, with no room for groceries or a guitar. Furthermore, the Zoe has no third row. Just wouldn't work for us.
I understand that there are a lot of families that this could work for, but we're not that far off an average family. I just think these EVs need to get a lot better.
I would completely purchase a small EV for single person light trips into town, so as a second vehicle like I said before. But what I am not comfortable with is paying almost ICE prices for it. They are far simpler, kind of a glorified golf cart really; they should be far cheaper.
Note that 1396 is just with the third row folded down (and we occasionally do need the third row). With the second row folded down it holds 2313 dm. We were disappointed it couldn't fit sheet rock like our minivan could, but at least it can hold boards 8' long if we feed it through the front seats.
As another comparison, my wife completely rejected the Dodge Journey because she felt claustrophobic in it, and that holds 1047 dm of cargo.
The Zoe holds 338 dm of cargo, and my Explorer holds 1396. How is this even a reasonable comparison? I'm assuming there is less space for passengers as well. This isn't a road trip vehicle, so I would have to fly everywhere. I should really measure our cat carriers, doubtful the Zoe would even fit a couple of them.
Why am I so upset about this? Because I would like to see electric cars get better in a way that most people can use them. Right now they just aren't getting better enough. Yes I understand they work for 20% of people, but they will be a niche until they work for 95%.
Drive from one coast to the other, and then tell me how good your range is.
Well all I can say is, on the weekend we take the kids into music class and go for a trip to costco.. last weekend we had 8 boxes of kitty litter (it was on sale), plus groceries for a couple weeks, plus an electric guitar and five people. We don't have the time to be making several trips in that circumstance. Also I'm not comfortable taking such a vehicle on road trips. Call it range anxiety if you want, but the thought of getting stuck at a Tim Hortons or any other place for more than 10 minutes really turns me off.
I guess for whatever reason your family just doersn't have very heavy requirements for a vehicle and that's fine, but they obviously aren't for everyone.
Apparently the important thing that was missed is that a plane is fine if it flies straight and on course. An automobile, not so much! Even so, an airplane requires much third party human assistance from the ground plus the pilot and copilot to guide it safely.
Seriously though. An electric vehicle can only be a second vehicle. It can't be a first vehicle. Most people can't even spend $30K on a first vehicle, which makes this a luxury.
Oh, Anonymous Coward hurts my feelings. Sad panda.
It could never hold a single trip to Costco for us. And if we bought one, we wouldn't have a reasonable vehicle for road trips so all that money would get eaten up renting vehicles and flying anyway.
Lol.. Tiny vehicle that barely holds 4 passengers and a grocery bag starts at $30K.. and it isn't a luxury.
This just seems to do video calls. Also, doesn't seem to be native Windows or MacOS applications. I despise web applications. Browsers are made for websites, not applications.
Oh I forgot "free"
This is fairly scary. Honest question, does anyone know of an alternative to Skype? It should have the following: - Work seamlessly on every PC and mobile OS - Allow mobile sharing of images/files - Group/solo text messaging - Voice calls, conference calls - Group/solo video calling - File transfers for binaries and screen shots/images - A company not transcribing calls
Understood, but without a doubt smaller companies need to keep up to what they decide to pay and not the other way around.
Not smaller by market share.
You are trying to make it more straight forward and linear than it is. Many companies raise stock dividends every year while keeping their employee base the same, or shedding employees. I doubt there is any such correlation as you suggest.
Most baby boomers I know had defined pension plans which were not market linked. Having a market linked pension is for rubes. Unfortunately I am one because I don't have much of a choice.