For instance when computers started dropping floppy disk drives.
Bullshit. CDs/DVDs/Flash drives completely and affordably replaced the functionality of floppy drives before they were removed. Bluetooth headphones don't replace corded headphones because you have to charge them, they rely on their own DAC, and the battery gives them a limited lifespan. The dongle doesn't replace the jack because you can't charge and listen at the same time.
People aren't against technology moving on, people are against it moving on before there are adequate alternatives.
You have gotten way off track. The original conversation is why people fill in that huge form of every aspect of their lives in Facebook. If you are proposing that they might as well do it because Facebook can find everything in there out anyway, I don't accept that at all.
I have yet to find a task management app that can sync with all my PCs yet doesn't use a website of some sort. Same for note-keeping apps that can contain both text and images. I started using Keepnote on the PC but no way to integrate that with phone.
Maybe Facebook has requested every marriage license where I am from and populated their database, not ruling that out. Yet maybe they haven't, and I don't need to make it easier for them.
Everyone knew the day was coming where PC manufacturers would limit the low level control you have on your PC so that they can be locked down from doing activities they deem to be wrong, and encourage you to do activities they can monetize. Now the day has come.
When I had a Palm IIIxe I thought, what a marvelous device! This is certainly the future, I can put all my information in here, bring it with me and access it whenever I want; if only the interface was better. Then along came touch screens, and stupidly, I got an iPod touch. The first app I tried needed a login to some website. The second app needed a login to some website. Every app I tried needed a login to some website. I thought to myself, why do I need a website run by someone I don't know that is who knows where, in who knows what country, to do what my Palm could do with a docking device.
This is where the new EU rules are interesting. Now in the EU (and even American companies with EU users), checking 'you may collect my data' they have to specify what the data is being used for, and the default is that the data will only be used for the app. If data is sent to a third party, then there must be clear wording to the affect of "We will send data to X for the purpose of Y".
Yes because low end acceleration relies much more on torque. High end acceleration is horsepower. Size may also a concern with a Leaf, since we shop in bulk, it needs to hold a four or five boxes of groceries. A tesla? I'd never spend that much on a vehicle.
This whole article basically found out that ignorance doesn't equal compliance. You can't blame people for being ignorant if you haven't tried to educate them. Who goes out of their way to educate in the current state of things?
I think the largest problem is, say you DID read the T&C of five competing apps and you WERE able to understand it. They're likely to force you to make completely similar privacy sacrifices. So the real choice for the consumer is to not enjoy in the convenience of mobile apps at all and pretend it is 1990. No one has any interest in mandating a minimum requirement for privacy, which means the high dollars that come from evading policy are going to win out every time. To make matters worse, America has a president that uses his own phone and Tweets freely so the whole privacy issue is certainly not changing this term.
I completely agree, but the problem with that is the total lack of competence in the government, coupled by a complete interest in satisfying corporate interests.
I understand weight versus horsepower. Surely you can understand the ambiguity of the "it performs like a conventional car" comparisons. Also being able to overtake a single car at ease doesn't mention how long the run-up had to be to be able to pass that car or what kind of distance was needed to pass in or if you could pass a row of cars. Although I suppose knowing my truck's curb weight is 4900 lbs and at current HP (which is 345 not what I mentioned before) I am comfortable with it, I could perform the calculations to determine how snappy this would be. Personally I wouldn't buy a common 4-cyl ICE with no turbo if it was to be used on the highway as frequently as mine.
It has been said many times, it's human nature. If you aren't doing the driving, your attention will lapse. Being involved by steering and subtle activity in the brain when you are in control of the vehicle makes a night and day difference. It has become tiresome waiting for the right people to understand this. It's not going to change.
If a defect is being fixed in a garage, I never want to be one of the first ones there because it may not get fixed correctly. Wait a week or two and they are likely to have done it on thousands of vehicles and worked the kinks out. How many thousands of vehicles will be updated OTA before they realize there is a problem?
The other day I was driving down the highway and two 4-bangers pass me going around 20 over the speed limit. They reach two other 4-bangers going ten under the speed limit and I pull up behind them going just a smidge over the speed limit. Up comes the broken line and neither one passes because they have no power to. I end up passing all four easily because I'm in a 345 horsepower vehicle. Now I understand the Chevy Volt has some torque from standing speed because of the electric motor but that isn't going to help you passing on the highway. It has 84 horsepower (!). I can't see that being capable for passing on the highway.
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For instance when computers started dropping floppy disk drives.
Bullshit. CDs/DVDs/Flash drives completely and affordably replaced the functionality of floppy drives before they were removed. Bluetooth headphones don't replace corded headphones because you have to charge them, they rely on their own DAC, and the battery gives them a limited lifespan. The dongle doesn't replace the jack because you can't charge and listen at the same time.
People aren't against technology moving on, people are against it moving on before there are adequate alternatives.
You have gotten way off track. The original conversation is why people fill in that huge form of every aspect of their lives in Facebook. If you are proposing that they might as well do it because Facebook can find everything in there out anyway, I don't accept that at all.
I have yet to find a task management app that can sync with all my PCs yet doesn't use a website of some sort. Same for note-keeping apps that can contain both text and images. I started using Keepnote on the PC but no way to integrate that with phone.
Maybe Facebook has requested every marriage license where I am from and populated their database, not ruling that out. Yet maybe they haven't, and I don't need to make it easier for them.
Everyone knew the day was coming where PC manufacturers would limit the low level control you have on your PC so that they can be locked down from doing activities they deem to be wrong, and encourage you to do activities they can monetize. Now the day has come.
When I had a Palm IIIxe I thought, what a marvelous device! This is certainly the future, I can put all my information in here, bring it with me and access it whenever I want; if only the interface was better. Then along came touch screens, and stupidly, I got an iPod touch. The first app I tried needed a login to some website. The second app needed a login to some website. Every app I tried needed a login to some website. I thought to myself, why do I need a website run by someone I don't know that is who knows where, in who knows what country, to do what my Palm could do with a docking device.
Siemans seems like a smart company. They hire in smaller centers where the labor is cheaper.
Name is fine, but age? Marital status? Why does any of that need to be public?
The first question that comes to my mind is, why would ANYONE be honest when entering their information into Facebook?
Great, so now are they going to prevent it from hanging like a bitch if you start windows without a network?
This is where the new EU rules are interesting. Now in the EU (and even American companies with EU users), checking 'you may collect my data' they have to specify what the data is being used for, and the default is that the data will only be used for the app. If data is sent to a third party, then there must be clear wording to the affect of "We will send data to X for the purpose of Y".
Yes because low end acceleration relies much more on torque. High end acceleration is horsepower. Size may also a concern with a Leaf, since we shop in bulk, it needs to hold a four or five boxes of groceries. A tesla? I'd never spend that much on a vehicle.
This whole article basically found out that ignorance doesn't equal compliance. You can't blame people for being ignorant if you haven't tried to educate them. Who goes out of their way to educate in the current state of things?
AC probably wasn't suggesting they do it on their own. Regulation can force them to do it.
I think the largest problem is, say you DID read the T&C of five competing apps and you WERE able to understand it. They're likely to force you to make completely similar privacy sacrifices. So the real choice for the consumer is to not enjoy in the convenience of mobile apps at all and pretend it is 1990. No one has any interest in mandating a minimum requirement for privacy, which means the high dollars that come from evading policy are going to win out every time. To make matters worse, America has a president that uses his own phone and Tweets freely so the whole privacy issue is certainly not changing this term.
I completely agree, but the problem with that is the total lack of competence in the government, coupled by a complete interest in satisfying corporate interests.
I understand weight versus horsepower. Surely you can understand the ambiguity of the "it performs like a conventional car" comparisons. Also being able to overtake a single car at ease doesn't mention how long the run-up had to be to be able to pass that car or what kind of distance was needed to pass in or if you could pass a row of cars. Although I suppose knowing my truck's curb weight is 4900 lbs and at current HP (which is 345 not what I mentioned before) I am comfortable with it, I could perform the calculations to determine how snappy this would be. Personally I wouldn't buy a common 4-cyl ICE with no turbo if it was to be used on the highway as frequently as mine.
150 hp still doesn't sound like much. How much jam does it have at highway speed for passing?
It has been said many times, it's human nature. If you aren't doing the driving, your attention will lapse. Being involved by steering and subtle activity in the brain when you are in control of the vehicle makes a night and day difference. It has become tiresome waiting for the right people to understand this. It's not going to change.
If a defect is being fixed in a garage, I never want to be one of the first ones there because it may not get fixed correctly. Wait a week or two and they are likely to have done it on thousands of vehicles and worked the kinks out. How many thousands of vehicles will be updated OTA before they realize there is a problem?
Agreed, which is what I mean about Amazon. Cities fall over themselves to host HQ2 but they forget that there should be something in it left for them.
The other day I was driving down the highway and two 4-bangers pass me going around 20 over the speed limit. They reach two other 4-bangers going ten under the speed limit and I pull up behind them going just a smidge over the speed limit. Up comes the broken line and neither one passes because they have no power to. I end up passing all four easily because I'm in a 345 horsepower vehicle. Now I understand the Chevy Volt has some torque from standing speed because of the electric motor but that isn't going to help you passing on the highway. It has 84 horsepower (!). I can't see that being capable for passing on the highway.
So you think they're going to put "Reduce braking capability" as a feature of the firmware before you install it?
I'm quite happy my automaker can't just "fix" my car OTA, because that also means they can break it.
And why would anyone in Tesla do that?
Why would anyone do that in the first place?