So? What gives the SJW's the right to bully the Scientist? If the SJW's are correct his scientific peers will do the job for them. Contrary to your view, most Scientists would love come up with novel solution outside the mainstream. The Ulcer example is perfect. The discover won world-fame and a Nobel prize.
I understand it was one of the first of its kind (certainly not bringing any new feature to us being used to having our own FTP server for years). But why would someone use dropbox today? If I choose Google, I get the integration with Email and Google Docs/Sheets which allow easy editing of documents by multiple different people, and pictures get hosted for free on google photos. And the basic storage of 15 GB is much more than dropbox 2GB. If I choose Microsoft, I get the integration with Windows, office 365, and the 5TB plan cost less than dropbox' 2TB.
Dropbox doesn't integrate well with anything, so it's one more account to manage, plus the pricing isn't very interesting.
What's the advantage of Dropbox? Why are people still using it?
Dropbox has really nice gnome integration. I drop files in on one machine or on my phone and I get them on my desktop at work, my laptop and my phone. I'm happy to pay Dropbox $100 per year for 1 TB of cloud storage.
Firstly they have Microsoft telling them they're wrong. Secondly the latest stats I've found show Firefox market share increased by 10% in the most recent monthly statistics plot the top google search shows (from 9.1% to 10.05%)
If all these ISP's just closed up all their offices in California and moved them all inland or to the east coast with a big middle finger to Jerry Brown? They could just say "we don't operate in California, screw your laws"
New providers would set up almost immediately. Probably bank-rolled by Google and Apple. California would have the best internet in the USA.
Within epsilon they did. What is the big deal? Everyone knew it was going to be bloody hard to do and no one else, including BYD has come close to producing 7000 cars with > 60 KWHr battery packs in a week. Now that is a big deal.
It will get worse as more renewable energy is deployed locally and in neighbouring states. It's big factor in the business case for grid-scale storage. Pumped-Hydro is the next big thing in Australia.
My 87 year old mother keeps sending "Legitimate" Charities more money than she can really afford after they send her sob story emails. Because she has a record of supporting them in the past they won't let go. I'll never support a mainstream charity with an email operation again.
Nice of BMW to leave it to Tesla to be the first manufacturer capable of producing over 500,000 BEV's per year. The experience could enable them to continue to be the prime mover in this technology.
I've occasionally visited California and I was struck by the numbers of eucalyptus (gum) trees in the area. Gum tree have dominated Australian forests by their propensity to survive droughts, burn like crazy and then regrow faster than other species. Fire is their weapon for world domination. So I'm wondering how many of these fires are actually from burning gum trees? Is there are speculation about this? ie Is it actually the fault of introduced tree species?
This calculation is absolutely wrong. It vastly over-estimates the costs of Uranium mining and the energy cost of nuclear enrichment. You have to dig into a whole pile of stupid formulas to find it. This is forms a part of the anti-nuclear echo chamber.
Here's a link to paper by Kharecha and Hanson showing the health benefits of nuclear power to 2012. 1.8 million premature deaths avoided due to reduced air pollution.
Tesla produced ~80,000 cars last year, Ford produced 6.7-million. From a purely numbers perspective its pretty much inconceivable that Tesla will approach Ford for decades, obviously Ford also has a correspondingly larger number of assets and there is considerably more risk in Tesla's future than Fords.
Actually it's is quite conceivable they will overtake Ford on *just* volume of cars by the mid-2020's. If all goes according to plan, Tesla will produce 1 million cars per year by 2020. Note that they have over 400,000 reservations for the model 3. That is unprecedented in modern automotive history so it is likely that the demand for the Model 3 is present in the market. After reaching the million per year rate, Tesla will have to start replicating it's production plants and gigafactories around the world and move down manufacturing scaling laws. How well they will do depends on how good their Engineering team is. So far they seem pretty damn good.
Look at it this way. There is a Market for 100 million cars per year world-wide. By the end of the next year Tesla will be the only car manufacturer capable of producing 500K - 1 million electric cars per year. There is a lot of demand for Electric cars. If they pull off autonomous driving there will be an even bigger demand. Tesla is is far and away the leader in electric cars with a potential market over 100 times bigger than their projected volume in 2020. Is Ford going to grow their volume much above 6.7 million cars per year? Not much, if at at all. Will Tesla? They have the chance. Hence the Capitalization.
Oh come on.Tesla is about the geekiest company in the world and one that is doing a hell of a lot of interesting things. Of course we're interested! I was just googling yesterday to see if the latest production numbers were out.
The point about solar city was to put solar panels on your house. You charge your powerwall during the day and fill up your Tesla 3 at night. Simple really.
yeah, me too. I have a great wireless charger in my car. I drop in my phone and drive. It is just so convenient. I don't know why they dropped the wireless charging feature. Looks like I'll be keeping my Nexus 5 a for another year or two.
I actually have a set of bluetooth ear phones (Jaybird X2) that I really like. They connect perfectly, sound great and have an 8 hour battery life. They're much easier to use than wired connection since I can carry my phone in a bum-bag while running or leave on the counter when cooking stuff in the kitchen. It's a much better experience.
"Just because Malthus wasn't right in his lifetime, that doesn't make him wrong. Malthus died in 1834: that's really not that long ago."
Malthus observed a historical phenomena that kept the population of Earth more-or-less constant since the agricultral revolution which in its time increased the population of the Earth by 2-3 orders of magnitude. Since the Industrial revolution and the era of economic growth all such predictions have been dramatically WRONG. Every time time humans appear to run up against a resource limitation, we've found ways around it. The most recent has been crude oil. Who talks about Peak-Oil now?
Our main problem now is that Fossil fuels are too cheap to give up without a global carbon tax.
I just ran the numbers of Melbourne's Desalination plant (http://www.melbournewater.com.au/desalination). As far as I can tell, taking account of the interest on the capital, it costs around $4.67 AUD per 1000 L of water. (http://www.kimwells.com.au/deception-on-water-desalination-costs/)
If you neglect the capital cost, it's $0.66 AUD per 1000 L of water.
Well gee, he went from 0 to selling well over 50,000 fully electric cars per year and an order book for an order of magnitude more. That's real hardware rolling around the streets not vapour-software sitting on a computer not being used.
The article sounds as if it is a good thing that Germany has to pay people to use electricity. Actually it is exactly this problem that sets the upper limit to how much renewable energy can be used in a modern economy with current technology. The market correctly valued that the power produced by renewable sources had negative value, yet the producers of renewable energy were paid exactly the same feed-in tariff as they get on a cold windless evening. Doubling renewable energy production will not result in doubling the amount of electricity usefully used by Germany over the course of a year. It will be dumped somewhere in the system. Germany must solve the engineering problems required to efficiently store and recover vast amounts of energy as well as building more renewable energy generating systems to reach its goals.
I'm totally surprised that this is not a major topic of discourse in a country with such a large body of technical talent.
The iPod nano 5 gen is the peak of their Apples devices. Light, 16 GB, solid, many hours of battery life, awesome click wheel interface but even more awesome is that it is the last iPod that works with libgpod, so you don't need iTunes to run it:-)
*sigh* it was all broken with the ipod nano touch. A truly stupid device and concept. I bought a refurbished gen 5 nano's after washing my old ipod.
BTW I would never ever buy an iPhone for fear I would have to use iTunes to talk to it.
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Dig deeper. What evidence?
So? What gives the SJW's the right to bully the Scientist? If the SJW's are correct his scientific peers will do the job for them. Contrary to your view, most Scientists would love come up with novel solution outside the mainstream. The Ulcer example is perfect. The discover won world-fame and a Nobel prize.
I understand it was one of the first of its kind (certainly not bringing any new feature to us being used to having our own FTP server for years). But why would someone use dropbox today?
If I choose Google, I get the integration with Email and Google Docs/Sheets which allow easy editing of documents by multiple different people, and pictures get hosted for free on google photos. And the basic storage of 15 GB is much more than dropbox 2GB.
If I choose Microsoft, I get the integration with Windows, office 365, and the 5TB plan cost less than dropbox' 2TB.
Dropbox doesn't integrate well with anything, so it's one more account to manage, plus the pricing isn't very interesting.
What's the advantage of Dropbox? Why are people still using it?
Dropbox has really nice gnome integration. I drop files in on one machine or on my phone and I get them on my desktop at work, my laptop and my phone. I'm happy to pay Dropbox $100 per year for 1 TB of cloud storage.
Mozilla is clearly doing something right.
Firstly they have Microsoft telling them they're wrong.
Secondly the latest stats I've found show Firefox market share increased by 10% in the most recent monthly statistics plot the top google search shows (from 9.1% to 10.05%)
See:
https://www.statista.com/stati...
Keep up the good work Firefox devs!
If all these ISP's just closed up all their offices in California and moved them all inland or to the east coast with a big middle finger to Jerry Brown? They could just say "we don't operate in California, screw your laws"
New providers would set up almost immediately. Probably bank-rolled by Google and Apple. California would have the best internet in the USA.
Or contract it out to someone who knows what they're doing, like Jaguar did with the i-Pace
No one knows how to build EV's at the scale Tesla does. They're working it out as they going along too.
Within epsilon they did. What is the big deal? Everyone knew it was going to be bloody hard to do and no one else, including BYD has come close to producing 7000 cars with > 60 KWHr battery packs in a week. Now that is a big deal.
Actually, in the Australian State of South Australia, Wind power is curtailed rather often:
https://reneweconomy.com.au/wi...
It will get worse as more renewable energy is deployed locally and in neighbouring states. It's big factor in the business case for grid-scale storage. Pumped-Hydro is the next big thing in Australia.
My 87 year old mother keeps sending "Legitimate" Charities more money than she can really afford after they send her sob story emails. Because she has a record of supporting them in the past they won't let go. I'll never support a mainstream charity with an email operation again.
Nice of BMW to leave it to Tesla to be the first manufacturer capable of producing over 500,000 BEV's per year. The experience could enable them to continue to be the prime mover in this technology.
Dismissed as bullshit alarmist crap
May be alarmist, but certainly the cracks in the water infrastructure of large cities are showing...
Melbourne, Australia
Mexico City, Mexico
Cape Town, South Africa
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Jakarta, Indonesia
Of that list, Melbourne has essentially solved it's problem with technology, money and good rainfall :-)
I've occasionally visited California and I was struck by the numbers of eucalyptus (gum) trees in the area. Gum tree have dominated Australian forests by their propensity to survive droughts, burn like crazy and then regrow faster than other species. Fire is their weapon for world domination. So I'm wondering how many of these fires are actually from burning gum trees? Is there are speculation about this? ie Is it actually the fault of introduced tree species?
If so we will finally have self-replicating robots and all that they entail...
Here you go.
http://nuclearinfo.net/Nuclear...
The site is way out of date but the critique of Storm and Smith is valid. Sorry for being grumpy.
This calculation is absolutely wrong. It vastly over-estimates the costs of Uranium mining and the energy cost of nuclear enrichment. You have to dig into a whole pile of stupid formulas to find it. This is forms a part of the anti-nuclear echo chamber.
Here's a link to paper by Kharecha and Hanson showing the health benefits of nuclear power to 2012. 1.8 million premature deaths avoided due to reduced air pollution.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10...
Tesla produced ~80,000 cars last year, Ford produced 6.7-million. From a purely numbers perspective its pretty much inconceivable that Tesla will approach Ford for decades, obviously Ford also has a correspondingly larger number of assets and there is considerably more risk in Tesla's future than Fords.
Actually it's is quite conceivable they will overtake Ford on *just* volume of cars by the mid-2020's. If all goes according to plan, Tesla will produce 1 million cars per year by 2020. Note that they have over 400,000 reservations for the model 3. That is unprecedented in modern automotive history so it is likely that the demand for the Model 3 is present in the market. After reaching the million per year rate, Tesla will have to start replicating it's production plants and gigafactories around the world and move down manufacturing scaling laws. How well they will do depends on how good their Engineering team is. So far they seem pretty damn good.
Look at it this way. There is a Market for 100 million cars per year world-wide. By the end of the next year Tesla will be the only car manufacturer capable of producing 500K - 1 million electric cars per year. There is a lot of demand for Electric cars. If they pull off autonomous driving there will be an even bigger demand. Tesla is is far and away the leader in electric cars with a potential market over 100 times bigger than their projected volume in 2020. Is Ford going to grow their volume much above 6.7 million cars per year? Not much, if at at all. Will Tesla? They have the chance. Hence the Capitalization.
Oh come on.Tesla is about the geekiest company in the world and one that is doing a hell of a lot of interesting things. Of course we're interested! I was just googling yesterday to see if the latest production numbers were out.
The point about solar city was to put solar panels on your house. You charge your powerwall during the day and fill up your Tesla 3 at night.
Simple really.
"- I want wireless charging option."
yeah, me too. I have a great wireless charger in my car. I drop in my phone and drive. It is just so convenient. I don't know why they dropped the wireless charging feature. Looks like I'll be keeping my Nexus 5 a for another year or two.
I actually have a set of bluetooth ear phones (Jaybird X2) that I really like. They connect perfectly, sound great and have an 8 hour battery life. They're much easier to use than wired connection since I can carry my phone in a bum-bag while running or leave on the counter when cooking stuff in the kitchen. It's a much better experience.
"Just because Malthus wasn't right in his lifetime, that doesn't make him wrong. Malthus died in 1834: that's really not that long ago."
Malthus observed a historical phenomena that kept the population of Earth more-or-less constant since the agricultral revolution which in its time increased the population of the Earth by 2-3 orders of magnitude. Since the Industrial revolution and the era of economic growth all such predictions have been dramatically WRONG. Every time time humans appear to run up against a resource limitation, we've found ways around it. The most recent has been crude oil. Who talks about Peak-Oil now?
Our main problem now is that Fossil fuels are too cheap to give up without a global carbon tax.
I just ran the numbers of Melbourne's Desalination plant (http://www.melbournewater.com.au/desalination). As far as I can tell, taking account of the interest on the capital, it costs around $4.67 AUD per 1000 L of water. (http://www.kimwells.com.au/deception-on-water-desalination-costs/)
If you neglect the capital cost, it's $0.66 AUD per 1000 L of water.
Well gee, he went from 0 to selling well over 50,000 fully electric cars per year and an order book for an order of magnitude more. That's real hardware rolling around the streets not vapour-software sitting on a computer not being used.
The article sounds as if it is a good thing that Germany has to pay people to use electricity. Actually it is exactly this problem that sets the upper limit to how much renewable energy can be used in a modern economy with current technology. The market correctly valued that the power produced by renewable sources had negative value, yet the producers of renewable energy were paid exactly the same feed-in tariff as they get on a cold windless evening. Doubling renewable energy production will not result in doubling the amount of electricity usefully used by Germany over the course of a year. It will be dumped somewhere in the system. Germany must solve the engineering problems required to efficiently store and recover vast amounts of energy as well as building more renewable energy generating systems to reach its goals.
I'm totally surprised that this is not a major topic of discourse in a country with such a large body of technical talent.
The iPod nano 5 gen is the peak of their Apples devices. Light, 16 GB, solid, many hours of battery life, awesome click wheel interface but even more awesome is that it is the last iPod that works with libgpod, so you don't need iTunes to run it :-)
*sigh* it was all broken with the ipod nano touch. A truly stupid device and concept. I bought a refurbished gen 5 nano's after washing my old ipod.
BTW I would never ever buy an iPhone for fear I would have to use iTunes to talk to it.