My 2013 X had some update that causes the radio to stay switched on after a background request, which is nuking the battery. Other than that awful awful bug (ended up using it as an excuse to buy a Nexus 5x) it's been running great. I do especially miss the OLED screen though, LCD displays look awful in comparison.
I cross a crosswalk in downtown Mountain View every day to get to the office, often it has self-driving cars on it. I can tell you with 100% certainty that I would rather myself or someone I love use a crosswalk in front of a self-driving car rather than a human driver. At least 15% of the time you're not sure if the human driver is going to run you down or not, or doesn't yield right of way. 100% of the time self driving cars yield to pedestrians. Penalties for pedestrian death by vehicle are going to go way, way up when people realize how little attention impatient human drivers pay to pedestrians.
Self-driving cars also don't slam down four pints of beer and then try to drive home on the highway sleep deprived at 2am, like a lot of college age kids do.
The big thing about busses, commuter busses, etc, is that one bus that holds 50 cars worth of people (the average commuter car holding 1 person), only takes up three "car spaces" on the highway, in the city, etc. 50 cars take up the space of 50 cars. Plus the "gap" space between them for safety.
Even if you switched to 12 person buses (three compartments of 4 people each) running a sort of uber pool that ran in a loop, you're looking at huge advantages. And you don't have to worry about graffiti when everyone is authenticating with the GPS tracked cell phone.
Drivers represent something like 80% of the vehicle costs, yes. A diesel powered bus costs about $300,000 as a one time cost + maintenance and last 10 years. and in major US cities a bus driver costs about $60,000-90,0000 per year, plus another $25,000/yr in health costs, retirement costs and administrative costs.
You can buy one additional bus for every three years of employing a bus driver.
And since you don't have to deal with humans, you can run the buses 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at the same frequency that you normally do during rush hour. Which means there's a bus coming by your house every 15 minutes, every day, forever. In my city you can get a bus every 15 minutes from 7am-4:45pm, but then goes to once every 2 hours, which makes it really hard to utilize public transit after work.
My phone upgrades are usually driven by a shitty OS update that makes it unusable, not a hardware problem. My 2013 moto X got some update on the 5.1.x branch that doesn't release the 4g radio after it's been used, so cell standby is eating up between 40 and 70% of my phone. Well I need my phone to work and alarm to go off in the mornings so now it's on ebay and I've picked up a Nexus 5x which recently dropped below $280 if you shop around.
Should it come to any surprise that the people they need don't want to work for the government? Or fled to Berlin to escape a similar fate?
If you keep backdooring encryption and ostracizing your own citizens who are strong on security, you can't expect to have any citizens who particularly want to help you out.
You can't just throw warm bodies at the problem like you can with traditional war. The Germans lost Einstein and countless other academic Jews to countries like the United States and Russia in WW2, and now the same thing is happening with security experts in the United States. Good luck with that.
Err, minus the fact that all of Europe's space-bound payloads launch from French Guyana on the north-eastern coast of South America? Just north of the mouth of the Amazon? Both from europe-mfg Ariane 5 and Russian-mfg Progress launch from there, at least one launch a month. My buddy owns a boat down there and nearly caused them to scrub a launch as he had sailed in to their exclusion zone.
Fuel costs have NOTHING to do with launches, fuel costs make up a tiny, tiny fraction of the total cost of a launch -- about $350,000 per launch out of a $60-200 million dollar launch.
The problem of rocket technology is solved, both SpaceX, Blue Origin and NASA are all 3D printing (laser sintering) rocket engines now and have over a year of flight heritage
Ultra-sensitive force sensors at low prices didn't exist five years ago, is the primary point I'm going to use to defeat your logic here. You could buy them for $50-90 each, but that's not practical to include in a $200 device that's already being sold on razor thin margins. Between high end bicycle cranks and Apple's new trackpads, it's opening up the market and lowering prices dramatically.
I do agree though, there's no killer app yet for this.
If that 25% unemployment stat you're quoting is at all true (which I doubt) then the people still without jobs EIGHT years after this whole thing began, either need to move to a more prosperous location, or learn a new trade, since those jobs aren't coming back, especially to rural areas. There are plenty of jobs in the cities, everyone I know is looking for warm bodies right now. If you can't find a job after 2 years in this economy, either you have no relevant skill set in the modern world, or you're truly just totally unemployable. The jobs exist, you just have to move to a state that doesn't rely on legacy industries that aren't producing more jobs.
Your laptop is much less likely to have a brake failure and mow down some preschoolers in a crosswalk. If your trackpad stops working you just roll back the drivers and nobody dies. The only way your laptop is going flying off that cliff at 60mph is if you throw it off.
It also greatly reduces the number of configurations you have to support, both mechanically and software side of things. If everything is ala carte, you quickly run in to tens of thousands of configurations, which you have to test for. Multiply that by recalled and unrecalled cars, different model years, etc and testing to avoid serious failures quickly reach nightmare levels.
That is not a hinge design of a laptop that I would want to pick up the laptop by the display. The hinge should be both equally strong using the display to pickup the laptop, or the laptop strong enough to pickup the display.
Those flashy hinges look like they were designed by someone in marketing, not someone who actually has to use a laptop.
If you have your choice between this shiny piece of marketing-designed drivel, or an XPS 13 which is known-bulletproof and in at least it's second design revision.. Get the XPS 13.
That drivers need to be more aware of pedestrians, not the other way around. Streets and roads are public spaces for people, cars are a pretty recent phenomenon in the 4000+ year history of mega cities.
Yeah and when desktop digital calculators arrived they were not modular. And even today they are not modular. They come in cereal boxes and are used as promotional items. In six years these things won't cost more than $50.
Same. Another vote in favor. Even if it has no biological effect, the psychological effect is pretty significant. I've been using it on my devices for about 18 months now and never plan to go back.
...Is a pretty strong sign that there's zero interest in digital wearables.
It's been pretty definitively proven that you can't reliably use a smartphone (or smart-device) with a screen smaller than 480 x 360 and about 2.4" (the screen on the most popular Blackberry, the "Curve" in the 2007-2010 era).
Everyone who absolutely needed a smart watch bought one with the initial roll out of the Pebbl and iWatch. People buying it now are simply either just now able to afford one, or...?
Even Apple themselves have said that 4" is about the ideal size for a portable smart device screen. Given that 27-45mm is the ideal size for a watch face, that's way, WAY too small to do what people think it can do.
I can see smart bracelets monitoring heartbeat and miles walked, but it's been pretty conclusively proven that average citizens will never wear a screen of any significant usefulness on their arm.
Someone clearly has never come in contact with a business class laptop. Your complaints about laptops are so 2004. And giving your employees laptops means making them work from home for free! Only the most important employees at my last company were issued both desktops and laptops, everyone else just got a laptop and a docking station at work.
Business class laptops are easy to repair and for the most part upgrade hard drives, ram, and in most cases, even the display (higher res). Not to mention "drop it on the concrete out of your car" reliable. Dell, HP, Lenovo (formerly IBM) have been doing this for years and years and years.
The other problem is that most of the best paying jobs (Google, Apple, HP, etc etc) are south of the city. And the youguns (me included, single, at 32) want to live in the city. Even if you build enough housing for the office space in the city, you still need another huge chunk of housing for the office space going south 40+ miles (Mountain View, Google's Headquarters). Further if you want to throw Apple in to the equation.
The problem is that even if you make $100,000 a year you can barely afford a 1bd/1ba living solo.
Most (all) grade school, kindergarten, high school teachers, and even a good number of college professors do not make $100,000 a year. If you live in the city and your teachers can't afford to live here, the policemen, the firemen, the garbagemen, the street cleaner truck drivers, delivery men, chefs, cooks, waiters.... all the people that make the city WORK cannot afford to live here, how is the city going to function? The Golden Gate and Bay Bridges can only carry a finite number of people per day, especially at peak rush hour, Caltrain is at peak capacity as are the highways leading in to the city from the south. The city is surrounded on three sides by water and all available land is full or reserved for precious little parkland.
But you can't raise a family in a city without teachers.
Yes but those supercomputers are just massively parallel machines. Performance per watt is going up but performance per unit has not budged hardly at all in 4 years.
2011 Sandy Bridge and 2015 Sky Lake are within 10% performance wise. That's what 2.5% per year? Would you still stand by your " _massively_increasing_ " Statement? Intel realized that CPUs were fast enough. Nobody is maxing out their CPU running day to day OS tasks anymore. They mostly sit idle, underclocked to save power and heat, only spinning up to full "turbo" power for brief spikes when loading a web page or a new program. Intel has famously been using these die shrinks not to improve computing power (what would consumers use it for??) but to improve thermal performance and more importantly battery life, as they fight for their lives in the mobile devices space.
SeaFile is about 8x faster than OwnCloud when running on something like a Raspberry Pi. Using a Pi as a file server is an awful idea due to a number of issues with bus sharing but it's a fantastic example to show how much of a cow OwnCloud is from a performance standpoint.
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My 2013 X had some update that causes the radio to stay switched on after a background request, which is nuking the battery. Other than that awful awful bug (ended up using it as an excuse to buy a Nexus 5x) it's been running great. I do especially miss the OLED screen though, LCD displays look awful in comparison.
What you're describing is called "AltspaceVR", they're sort of Second Life, but with all the bugs worked out in a totally cleansheet design.
I cross a crosswalk in downtown Mountain View every day to get to the office, often it has self-driving cars on it. I can tell you with 100% certainty that I would rather myself or someone I love use a crosswalk in front of a self-driving car rather than a human driver. At least 15% of the time you're not sure if the human driver is going to run you down or not, or doesn't yield right of way. 100% of the time self driving cars yield to pedestrians. Penalties for pedestrian death by vehicle are going to go way, way up when people realize how little attention impatient human drivers pay to pedestrians.
Self-driving cars also don't slam down four pints of beer and then try to drive home on the highway sleep deprived at 2am, like a lot of college age kids do.
The big thing about busses, commuter busses, etc, is that one bus that holds 50 cars worth of people (the average commuter car holding 1 person), only takes up three "car spaces" on the highway, in the city, etc. 50 cars take up the space of 50 cars. Plus the "gap" space between them for safety.
Even if you switched to 12 person buses (three compartments of 4 people each) running a sort of uber pool that ran in a loop, you're looking at huge advantages. And you don't have to worry about graffiti when everyone is authenticating with the GPS tracked cell phone.
Drivers represent something like 80% of the vehicle costs, yes. A diesel powered bus costs about $300,000 as a one time cost + maintenance and last 10 years. and in major US cities a bus driver costs about $60,000-90,0000 per year, plus another $25,000/yr in health costs, retirement costs and administrative costs.
You can buy one additional bus for every three years of employing a bus driver.
And since you don't have to deal with humans, you can run the buses 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at the same frequency that you normally do during rush hour. Which means there's a bus coming by your house every 15 minutes, every day, forever. In my city you can get a bus every 15 minutes from 7am-4:45pm, but then goes to once every 2 hours, which makes it really hard to utilize public transit after work.
My phone upgrades are usually driven by a shitty OS update that makes it unusable, not a hardware problem. My 2013 moto X got some update on the 5.1.x branch that doesn't release the 4g radio after it's been used, so cell standby is eating up between 40 and 70% of my phone. Well I need my phone to work and alarm to go off in the mornings so now it's on ebay and I've picked up a Nexus 5x which recently dropped below $280 if you shop around.
Does noone remember the Virtual Boy console from Nintendo? I don't think more than 30,000 or so were manufactured, probably less.
Should it come to any surprise that the people they need don't want to work for the government? Or fled to Berlin to escape a similar fate?
If you keep backdooring encryption and ostracizing your own citizens who are strong on security, you can't expect to have any citizens who particularly want to help you out.
You can't just throw warm bodies at the problem like you can with traditional war. The Germans lost Einstein and countless other academic Jews to countries like the United States and Russia in WW2, and now the same thing is happening with security experts in the United States. Good luck with that.
Err, minus the fact that all of Europe's space-bound payloads launch from French Guyana on the north-eastern coast of South America? Just north of the mouth of the Amazon? Both from europe-mfg Ariane 5 and Russian-mfg Progress launch from there, at least one launch a month. My buddy owns a boat down there and nearly caused them to scrub a launch as he had sailed in to their exclusion zone.
Fuel costs have NOTHING to do with launches, fuel costs make up a tiny, tiny fraction of the total cost of a launch -- about $350,000 per launch out of a $60-200 million dollar launch.
The problem of rocket technology is solved, both SpaceX, Blue Origin and NASA are all 3D printing (laser sintering) rocket engines now and have over a year of flight heritage
Ultra-sensitive force sensors at low prices didn't exist five years ago, is the primary point I'm going to use to defeat your logic here. You could buy them for $50-90 each, but that's not practical to include in a $200 device that's already being sold on razor thin margins. Between high end bicycle cranks and Apple's new trackpads, it's opening up the market and lowering prices dramatically.
I do agree though, there's no killer app yet for this.
If that 25% unemployment stat you're quoting is at all true (which I doubt) then the people still without jobs EIGHT years after this whole thing began, either need to move to a more prosperous location, or learn a new trade, since those jobs aren't coming back, especially to rural areas. There are plenty of jobs in the cities, everyone I know is looking for warm bodies right now. If you can't find a job after 2 years in this economy, either you have no relevant skill set in the modern world, or you're truly just totally unemployable. The jobs exist, you just have to move to a state that doesn't rely on legacy industries that aren't producing more jobs.
Your laptop is much less likely to have a brake failure and mow down some preschoolers in a crosswalk. If your trackpad stops working you just roll back the drivers and nobody dies. The only way your laptop is going flying off that cliff at 60mph is if you throw it off.
It also greatly reduces the number of configurations you have to support, both mechanically and software side of things. If everything is ala carte, you quickly run in to tens of thousands of configurations, which you have to test for. Multiply that by recalled and unrecalled cars, different model years, etc and testing to avoid serious failures quickly reach nightmare levels.
That is not a hinge design of a laptop that I would want to pick up the laptop by the display. The hinge should be both equally strong using the display to pickup the laptop, or the laptop strong enough to pickup the display.
Those flashy hinges look like they were designed by someone in marketing, not someone who actually has to use a laptop.
If you have your choice between this shiny piece of marketing-designed drivel, or an XPS 13 which is known-bulletproof and in at least it's second design revision.. Get the XPS 13.
But, we already have laws against Jay walking? How does this law fix jaywalkers?
That drivers need to be more aware of pedestrians, not the other way around. Streets and roads are public spaces for people, cars are a pretty recent phenomenon in the 4000+ year history of mega cities.
Yeah and when desktop digital calculators arrived they were not modular. And even today they are not modular. They come in cereal boxes and are used as promotional items. In six years these things won't cost more than $50.
Same. Another vote in favor. Even if it has no biological effect, the psychological effect is pretty significant. I've been using it on my devices for about 18 months now and never plan to go back.
...Is a pretty strong sign that there's zero interest in digital wearables.
It's been pretty definitively proven that you can't reliably use a smartphone (or smart-device) with a screen smaller than 480 x 360 and about 2.4" (the screen on the most popular Blackberry, the "Curve" in the 2007-2010 era).
Everyone who absolutely needed a smart watch bought one with the initial roll out of the Pebbl and iWatch. People buying it now are simply either just now able to afford one, or...?
Even Apple themselves have said that 4" is about the ideal size for a portable smart device screen. Given that 27-45mm is the ideal size for a watch face, that's way, WAY too small to do what people think it can do.
I can see smart bracelets monitoring heartbeat and miles walked, but it's been pretty conclusively proven that average citizens will never wear a screen of any significant usefulness on their arm.
Someone clearly has never come in contact with a business class laptop. Your complaints about laptops are so 2004. And giving your employees laptops means making them work from home for free! Only the most important employees at my last company were issued both desktops and laptops, everyone else just got a laptop and a docking station at work.
Business class laptops are easy to repair and for the most part upgrade hard drives, ram, and in most cases, even the display (higher res). Not to mention "drop it on the concrete out of your car" reliable. Dell, HP, Lenovo (formerly IBM) have been doing this for years and years and years.
The other problem is that most of the best paying jobs (Google, Apple, HP, etc etc) are south of the city. And the youguns (me included, single, at 32) want to live in the city. Even if you build enough housing for the office space in the city, you still need another huge chunk of housing for the office space going south 40+ miles (Mountain View, Google's Headquarters). Further if you want to throw Apple in to the equation.
The problem is that even if you make $100,000 a year you can barely afford a 1bd/1ba living solo.
Most (all) grade school, kindergarten, high school teachers, and even a good number of college professors do not make $100,000 a year. If you live in the city and your teachers can't afford to live here, the policemen, the firemen, the garbagemen, the street cleaner truck drivers, delivery men, chefs, cooks, waiters.... all the people that make the city WORK cannot afford to live here, how is the city going to function? The Golden Gate and Bay Bridges can only carry a finite number of people per day, especially at peak rush hour, Caltrain is at peak capacity as are the highways leading in to the city from the south. The city is surrounded on three sides by water and all available land is full or reserved for precious little parkland.
But you can't raise a family in a city without teachers.
Yes but those supercomputers are just massively parallel machines. Performance per watt is going up but performance per unit has not budged hardly at all in 4 years.
2011 Sandy Bridge and 2015 Sky Lake are within 10% performance wise. That's what 2.5% per year? Would you still stand by your " _massively_increasing_ " Statement? Intel realized that CPUs were fast enough. Nobody is maxing out their CPU running day to day OS tasks anymore. They mostly sit idle, underclocked to save power and heat, only spinning up to full "turbo" power for brief spikes when loading a web page or a new program. Intel has famously been using these die shrinks not to improve computing power (what would consumers use it for??) but to improve thermal performance and more importantly battery life, as they fight for their lives in the mobile devices space.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
SeaFile is about 8x faster than OwnCloud when running on something like a Raspberry Pi. Using a Pi as a file server is an awful idea due to a number of issues with bus sharing but it's a fantastic example to show how much of a cow OwnCloud is from a performance standpoint.