I guess the point I'm making is that we're long past the time where cell phones are only capable of producing non-blurry images with acceptable exposure suitable for a 6*9 print. They're now good enough to produce pictures that look good when blown up and put on walls or put in books. Or indeed displayed on large screens behind a speaker in a room with 7000 people. I'm not claiming that they are as good as a DSLR or a Hasselblad; I am claiming they're much better than an old film point-and-shoot.
Argh, distracted by kids and hit submit too soon. I was re-writing the start of my comment to say that it's great to see someone on Slashdot willing to change their mind when presented with facts they didn't previously know... but that I thought your comment about least stinky shit was a bit hyperbolic.
It's great to see someone I think talking about least stinky shit is a bit hyperbolic, tbh. There are many circumstances in which an iPhone is completely inadequate for the task at hand, but an iPhone's camera system is now capable of producing some really beautiful photographs, including images capable of being displayed in huge formats (such as the large screen behind the speakers at the iPhone 7 launch).
Or in the real world... a term routinely used by photography professionals for the past ~20 years. For example, this *seven year old* article in a popular photography magazine: https://photographylife.com/wh....
Marketspeak would have meant deliberately *not* using this term for this effect and using a term invented by Apple instead.
The wheel is a concept, just as an audio output jack is a concept.
Specific instances of the wheel include, for example, car wheels and tyres. Would you want a new car whose wheels and tyres hadn't improved in 50 years? Your car would have worse handling, be noisier, use more fuel, go slower, etc etc.
Not only was this claim not made by Apple; Phil Schiller explicitly said: "We are not saying to throw out your DSLRs and that iPhone replaces all the DSLRs. What we are saying, is that this is the best camera we have ever made on an iPhone. This is the best camera ever made in any smartphone."
So there's no need to get worked up over something they didn't say.
I agree about the variance. My pro-tip for people flying into Manhattan was to always choose Newark over JFK, because of the wild difference in immigration lines. Philadelphia is also awful. Orlando is fine.
And you were supposed to have learned about the concept of trade-off. You know, optimising for more than one variable. Like, overall line speed and ability to stay in a line without a toddler tantrum (family). Or overall line speed and ability to start plane boarding (flight crew). etc
This kind of muscular stupidity is really fucking irritating. Intent is not that important. The Israelis stopped a young pregnant woman from boarding a plane in 1986. She'd been duped into carrying a bomb by her boyfriend.
Not so much. For most foreign tourists, the real pain is passport control. I flew in to San Jose two weeks ago on a 789 from London. There were about two hundred non-US citizens in a single line to see a single border guard, who was taking an average 7 minutes to process each person. I was near the front and got away with only a 45 minute wait, but I shudder to think how long the folks at the back would have to wait. I'm sure that once the US citizens were all processed, the guards would start processing non-US, but I still think it would be a four or five hour wait for many. That is beyond ridiculous.
You need a Renault Zoe, although it's still a bit outside your price point and isn't available in the US.
It's 4-door 5 seater -- tiny by US standards, standard supermini size by European standards. Happily goes at freeway speeds, gets about 70 miles in the winter, 90 in the summer. 250 bucks a month, all-in, brand-new. As I say, still pricier than what you're after, but absolutely comparable to similar-size and specc'd ICE cars.
While all of this is true, it does seem a bit... unusual... not to acknowledge that SolarCity and the GigaFactory are specifically aimed at solving a large chunk of this particular problem.
130,000 people live in the city of Norwich. Another 80,000 live in the suburbs around and about. So that's maybe 60,000-plus people* who live in homes which would be suitable for off-street charging. EVs are no kind of panacea, but to claim they're impractical for all because there are significant minority cases where they don't work (as yet**) is poking holes at a straw man.
* (130k*20% plus 80k*50%) ** There's increasing numbers of off-street chargers popping up in London. Hopefully, it'll spread round the rest of the country too
I won't waste my time proving this, any more than I would waste time proving that Trump is, in fact, more prone to lying than Clinton. The facts about homelessness are readily available, yet you did not seek them out prior to forming an opinion. I'm not going to spoon-feed you.
Why should I add information when you don't apply the same standards to yourself? You said, may I remind you, "it seems to me" at the very start of your post. Your entire post is simply an expression of your opinion, and contains no facts at all. I don't see any reason why I should run around providing you with facts that are readily at hand with the help of Google. I'd prefer to attack your thinking instead. Is that mean and cruel and unfair? So be it. Next time, maybe you'll be sufficiently stung by this exchange that there's the remotest chance you'll look up some facts first and allow them to shape your opinion before posting. I admit that's exceptionally unlikely, but whether it happens or not, at least I had the pleasure of calling your misguided thought processes out.
The land inside your head appears to be full of caricatures. Truthiness. Trumpsterism. Ideas that feel right to you, so you are sure they *must be* right. Like the idea that mental disabilities manifest as a propensity to blow cash on pointless tat.
It is so *sweet* watching people get cross about a language over which they have such little command.
Let's quote the OED, shall we? "Cue: 1. A thing said or done that serves as a signal to an actor or other performer to enter or to begin their speech or performance: 'she had not yet been given her cue to come out on to the dais' 1.1 A signal for action: 'his success was the cue for the rest of Fleet Street to forge ahead' 1.2 A circumstance or piece of information which aids the memory in retrieving details not recalled spontaneously. 1.3 A feature of something perceived that is used in the brain’s interpretation of the perception: 'expectancy is communicated both by auditory and visual cues' 1.4 A hint or indication about how to behave in particular circumstances: 'my teacher joked about such attitudes and I followed her cue' 2 [MASS NOUN] A facility for playing through an audio or video recording very rapidly until a desired starting point is reached."
Meanings 1, 1.1 and 2 apply here. "Queue", however, is the wrong word. And you are spectacularly, completely, humiliatingly, utterly, wrong. Twice!! Congratulations. Do you vote for Trump, too?
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I guess the point I'm making is that we're long past the time where cell phones are only capable of producing non-blurry images with acceptable exposure suitable for a 6*9 print. They're now good enough to produce pictures that look good when blown up and put on walls or put in books. Or indeed displayed on large screens behind a speaker in a room with 7000 people. I'm not claiming that they are as good as a DSLR or a Hasselblad; I am claiming they're much better than an old film point-and-shoot.
Was this some kind of joke?
The "over" means "as a result of" and is related to the previous statement.
Argh, distracted by kids and hit submit too soon. I was re-writing the start of my comment to say that it's great to see someone on Slashdot willing to change their mind when presented with facts they didn't previously know... but that I thought your comment about least stinky shit was a bit hyperbolic.
It's great to see someone I think talking about least stinky shit is a bit hyperbolic, tbh. There are many circumstances in which an iPhone is completely inadequate for the task at hand, but an iPhone's camera system is now capable of producing some really beautiful photographs, including images capable of being displayed in huge formats (such as the large screen behind the speakers at the iPhone 7 launch).
Or in the real world... a term routinely used by photography professionals for the past ~20 years. For example, this *seven year old* article in a popular photography magazine: https://photographylife.com/wh....
Marketspeak would have meant deliberately *not* using this term for this effect and using a term invented by Apple instead.
Such a shit analogy.
The wheel is a concept, just as an audio output jack is a concept.
Specific instances of the wheel include, for example, car wheels and tyres. Would you want a new car whose wheels and tyres hadn't improved in 50 years? Your car would have worse handling, be noisier, use more fuel, go slower, etc etc.
Not only was this claim not made by Apple; Phil Schiller explicitly said: "We are not saying to throw out your DSLRs and that iPhone replaces all the DSLRs. What we are saying, is that this is the best camera we have ever made on an iPhone. This is the best camera ever made in any smartphone."
So there's no need to get worked up over something they didn't say.
I agree about the variance. My pro-tip for people flying into Manhattan was to always choose Newark over JFK, because of the wild difference in immigration lines. Philadelphia is also awful. Orlando is fine.
Even if I accepted your argument, which I don't, I can't see how it's connected to the previous discussion.
And you were supposed to have learned about the concept of trade-off. You know, optimising for more than one variable. Like, overall line speed and ability to stay in a line without a toddler tantrum (family). Or overall line speed and ability to start plane boarding (flight crew). etc
This kind of muscular stupidity is really fucking irritating. Intent is not that important. The Israelis stopped a young pregnant woman from boarding a plane in 1986. She'd been duped into carrying a bomb by her boyfriend.
Not so much. For most foreign tourists, the real pain is passport control. I flew in to San Jose two weeks ago on a 789 from London. There were about two hundred non-US citizens in a single line to see a single border guard, who was taking an average 7 minutes to process each person. I was near the front and got away with only a 45 minute wait, but I shudder to think how long the folks at the back would have to wait. I'm sure that once the US citizens were all processed, the guards would start processing non-US, but I still think it would be a four or five hour wait for many. That is beyond ridiculous.
"Russia wasn't really the devil"?
You really need to read One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich.
Of course, the USSR wasn't the only devil, nor was it uniquely devilish. But it was pretty fucking awful.
The lack of vibration is also great. Driving an EV essentially feels like a modern experience, cf driving an ICE.
There's also noise. Once you're used to an EV, ICE cars are unpleasantly loud.
You need a Renault Zoe, although it's still a bit outside your price point and isn't available in the US.
It's 4-door 5 seater -- tiny by US standards, standard supermini size by European standards. Happily goes at freeway speeds, gets about 70 miles in the winter, 90 in the summer. 250 bucks a month, all-in, brand-new. As I say, still pricier than what you're after, but absolutely comparable to similar-size and specc'd ICE cars.
Here in the UK, my excellent little Renault Zoe costs me £160 per month, all-in (including charging costs). That's about $250. It's a great car.
While all of this is true, it does seem a bit ... unusual ... not to acknowledge that SolarCity and the GigaFactory are specifically aimed at solving a large chunk of this particular problem.
130,000 people live in the city of Norwich. Another 80,000 live in the suburbs around and about. So that's maybe 60,000-plus people* who live in homes which would be suitable for off-street charging. EVs are no kind of panacea, but to claim they're impractical for all because there are significant minority cases where they don't work (as yet**) is poking holes at a straw man.
* (130k*20% plus 80k*50%)
** There's increasing numbers of off-street chargers popping up in London. Hopefully, it'll spread round the rest of the country too
Let me think about that for a second.
No.
I won't waste my time proving this, any more than I would waste time proving that Trump is, in fact, more prone to lying than Clinton. The facts about homelessness are readily available, yet you did not seek them out prior to forming an opinion. I'm not going to spoon-feed you.
Empire? Que?
Why should I add information when you don't apply the same standards to yourself? You said, may I remind you, "it seems to me" at the very start of your post. Your entire post is simply an expression of your opinion, and contains no facts at all. I don't see any reason why I should run around providing you with facts that are readily at hand with the help of Google. I'd prefer to attack your thinking instead. Is that mean and cruel and unfair? So be it. Next time, maybe you'll be sufficiently stung by this exchange that there's the remotest chance you'll look up some facts first and allow them to shape your opinion before posting. I admit that's exceptionally unlikely, but whether it happens or not, at least I had the pleasure of calling your misguided thought processes out.
Maybe I'm oversimplifying
Ya think??
Yes. Yes, you are.
The land inside your head appears to be full of caricatures. Truthiness. Trumpsterism. Ideas that feel right to you, so you are sure they *must be* right. Like the idea that mental disabilities manifest as a propensity to blow cash on pointless tat.
You can't control whether other people will behave well. But you can control whether you behave well.
Oh boy. Did you really just do that to yourself?
It is so *sweet* watching people get cross about a language over which they have such little command.
Let's quote the OED, shall we?
"Cue:
1. A thing said or done that serves as a signal to an actor or other performer to enter or to begin their speech or performance:
'she had not yet been given her cue to come out on to the dais'
1.1 A signal for action:
'his success was the cue for the rest of Fleet Street to forge ahead'
1.2 A circumstance or piece of information which aids the memory in retrieving details not recalled spontaneously.
1.3 A feature of something perceived that is used in the brain’s interpretation of the perception:
'expectancy is communicated both by auditory and visual cues'
1.4 A hint or indication about how to behave in particular circumstances:
'my teacher joked about such attitudes and I followed her cue'
2 [MASS NOUN] A facility for playing through an audio or video recording very rapidly until a desired starting point is reached."
Meanings 1, 1.1 and 2 apply here. "Queue", however, is the wrong word. And you are spectacularly, completely, humiliatingly, utterly, wrong. Twice!! Congratulations. Do you vote for Trump, too?