Compared to Western brands, not in most of the Western countries. The struggle just to break into most Western European markets for them for example was huge and is ongoing.
My understanding is that Tesla imagines the same thing as BYD, it just approaches it from the opposite direction. BYD comes from public transit, where price per passenger and per distance is critical. Tesla comes from the mid end luxury vehicle, where comfort and performance are critical. Both are aiming at the mainstream consumer vehicle market.
We lowered our tax in 2014. Sweden followed up a year or two later. Ignorance of reality is a common theme for Trump's critics that argue about specifics of his economics macro level policies.
Having driven one as my first car, it was amazing. Cheap enough that you can do whatever the fuck you want with it without regrets. I literally drove mine to death by driving just over the legal limit on the road, which was close to maximum rated speed of the car for thousands of kilometres with no maintenance until the housing that held the generator failed from stress and wheel that connects generator to engine via a belt went flying into the radiator. Fun part: car still kept driving. It's just that since cooling system sat on the same belt, coolant fluid went into boiling range quickly.
Also fun as heck, fully mechanical, no computers anywhere, and rear drive. You could do amazing things with it in the snow. Wanted to turn 180 degrees on straight line one lane road? Give it a bit of speed in second hear, turn wheel hard to the left and apply handbrake. It turned literally around its own front wheels on the spot.
He literally only made a claim that our corporate taxes are much lower than those in US. It's a fact that they are. It takes an utterly ignorant nutjob to deny something you can double check with a single question asked from google.
Fun detail: just a few years ago, my native country of Finland and neighbouring Sweden were engaged in small tax war when we lowered our corporate tax rate from 24,5% to 20% which is below theirs, and a few years later, they lowered theirs as they saw clear loss of companies moving to Finland due to lower taxation.
BYD's cars compete on range and are much cheaper. They just don't get sold in much of the West due to regulatory obstacles for foreign entrants as well as image reasons. "Chinese car" tends to get viewed with severe suspicion in markets where even South Korean brands are having trouble breaking into for similar reasons.
This is complete and utter bullshit. BYD makes far more electric vehicles than Tesla at this point, and many of their vehicles are heavy duty, ranging from busses to sedans. So they need more battery capacity per vehicle on average. Tesla iirc is barely in the third place, well behind both BYD and Luxgen.
Unconvincing claim considering that they've been asking you for evidence for last few posts, and you expressly suggest that it's unnecessary because [reasons you listed].
Cheap shots will not stop because revolutionary narrative needs its boogeymen. It cannot function without them.
In case of soviets, it was people doing better than others. In case of nazis, it was jews and other inferiour ethnicities as well as mentally and physically ill. In case of modern progressives, it's Russian trolls and those in their states that serve the evil patriarchy.
Definition being as wide as it is specifically serves the ability to make anyone an enemy as needed. Just like in the Soviet model.
They're not looking to hide produced power. They're just looking to hide the fact that they're being made, as to help with negotiations. This isn't really news, as China operates like this on many fronts. They weren't straight up hiding what they were doing on the man made islands in South China Sea, a much more controversial and contested area. They just looked for plausible deniability for as long as there was some chance that this could go the other way.
Same goes for coal plants being built. While they're being built, people like you and your activist allies you cite on completely unvetted op-ed section of forbes will provide ideological and propagandistic protection for them.
Btw, here's BBC link, since you appear to be unaware about it, which I find highly doubtful if you have any awareness of the subject, as it brought up quite a stink and self-doubt in circles you claim to be your own: https://www.bbc.com/news/scien...
The goal is to cast many nets. Each has a chance to catch something. None of them are effective on their own. Cumulatively, the system appears to be very effective.
Math is simple. Contrast the amount of hatred for US with amount of terrorism in US. The system as a whole is definitely working well.
It's actually not about costs. Those could be managed. The problem is that Saudis are currently massively overextended on the infrastructure projects in terms of actual ability of the state to manage them. With Bin Salman's megacity project in North-West of the country, even strategic upgrades like port facilities in Jeddah are getting stalled. Saudi bureaucracy is inefficient, and there's only so much that it can manage at a time.
This appears to be one of the many projects that simply is so low on the priority list, it was never even started, making it an easy target to drop due to the sheer amount of ongoing infrastructure projects that are far more critical for Saudi interests.
All of that is cute and all, and utter fantasy. Reality is, China is (supposedly secretly, but satellites exist and there are groups monitoring them) building new coal power en masse. BBC had a good story on this just a couple of days ago.
Activists desperate to keep narrative under control obviously keep doing the damage control, good example being your forbes links.
The reason it took so long to get hardware decoding working in x86 in general is because x86 is the bleeding edge in this particular instance. That's where all the newest stuff is tested first.
After the tech is worked out, the rest is usually just a mix of getting drivers for your hardware to actually respect the specs. On linux, that's always been a bitch. On android, it's actually quite well standardized in terms of relevant APIs and specs. Which is why VLC's android page states the following:
VLC can decode video in software and hardware mode. Hardware decoding often provides better performance but is not supported on all devices. If your device Android version is below 4.3, software decoding may be the only supported option for you."
Obviously. Which would cause rapid scale up of mining activities and technological development of extraction and refinement techniques to meet the demand.
Which is exactly what quote I made above references. Attempts of direct extrapolation from current capacity to determine "when we'll run out" are as smart as the infamous "how many weddings cakes you'll need" extrapolation based on having your marriage day tomorrow. No, you're not going to need 365 cakes in the next year, and no, you're not going to run out of zinc just because current mines will run out.
You are wrong in your thinking, because "zinc reserves" mean ores that are currently found and considered economical to mine.
As wikipedia article notes, this is demonstrated in the fact that while refined zinc production went up 80% during 1990-2010 period, the "reserve lifetime" for zinc remained unchanged.
Wikipedia of all places has a very good explanation on why you're wrong:
Identified world zinc resources total about 1.9–2.8 billion tonnes. Large deposits are in Australia, Canada and the United States, with the largest reserves in Iran. The most recent estimate of reserve base for zinc (meets specified minimum physical criteria related to current mining and production practices) was made in 2009 and calculated to be roughly 480 Mt. Zinc reserves, on the other hand, are geologically identified ore bodies whose suitability for recovery is economically based (location, grade, quality, and quantity) at the time of determination. Since exploration and mine development is an ongoing process, the amount of zinc reserves is not a fixed number and sustainability of zinc ore supplies cannot be judged by simply extrapolating the combined mine life of today's zinc mines. This concept is well supported by data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), which illustrates that although refined zinc production increased 80% between 1990 and 2010, the reserve lifetime for zinc has remained unchanged. About 346 million tonnes have been extracted throughout history to 2002, and scholars have estimated that about 109–305 million tonnes are in use.
"Unpopular" didn't refer to "how did the fans of both the game and VR liked it" as common denominator for these two is numerically very low. It referred to the fact that no one else did, which is why they generated no real traction.
Then I guess we'll see soon. Best of luck with the push, if VR actually has any kind of a meaningful breakthrough into mainstream gaming, I'll probably be buying a PC connected HMD myself.
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If you can't comprehend written text, and read it as "you can't buy them", it's indeed nonsense.
Next time, do try to actually comprehend the text before you reply, so you don't look quite as daft as you ended up doing above.
Compared to Western brands, not in most of the Western countries. The struggle just to break into most Western European markets for them for example was huge and is ongoing.
My understanding is that Tesla imagines the same thing as BYD, it just approaches it from the opposite direction. BYD comes from public transit, where price per passenger and per distance is critical. Tesla comes from the mid end luxury vehicle, where comfort and performance are critical. Both are aiming at the mainstream consumer vehicle market.
We lowered our tax in 2014. Sweden followed up a year or two later. Ignorance of reality is a common theme for Trump's critics that argue about specifics of his economics macro level policies.
You're lying again. This is a discussion about electric vehicle manufacturing. You lied about Tesla being on top. It's not.
Now you're trying to shift the discussion toward "battery manufacturing capacity".
So in your view, is Aramco the biggest automotive manufacturer in the world by the same logic?
Having driven one as my first car, it was amazing. Cheap enough that you can do whatever the fuck you want with it without regrets. I literally drove mine to death by driving just over the legal limit on the road, which was close to maximum rated speed of the car for thousands of kilometres with no maintenance until the housing that held the generator failed from stress and wheel that connects generator to engine via a belt went flying into the radiator. Fun part: car still kept driving. It's just that since cooling system sat on the same belt, coolant fluid went into boiling range quickly.
Also fun as heck, fully mechanical, no computers anywhere, and rear drive. You could do amazing things with it in the snow. Wanted to turn 180 degrees on straight line one lane road? Give it a bit of speed in second hear, turn wheel hard to the left and apply handbrake. It turned literally around its own front wheels on the spot.
He literally only made a claim that our corporate taxes are much lower than those in US. It's a fact that they are. It takes an utterly ignorant nutjob to deny something you can double check with a single question asked from google.
Fun detail: just a few years ago, my native country of Finland and neighbouring Sweden were engaged in small tax war when we lowered our corporate tax rate from 24,5% to 20% which is below theirs, and a few years later, they lowered theirs as they saw clear loss of companies moving to Finland due to lower taxation.
Back then, comparable US tax was around 35%.
Considering BYD's success, I suspect that it's actually quite possible in a decade or so.
Granted, probably not in the West, where even South Korean cars have serious problems penetrating the market for image reasons.
BYD's cars compete on range and are much cheaper. They just don't get sold in much of the West due to regulatory obstacles for foreign entrants as well as image reasons. "Chinese car" tends to get viewed with severe suspicion in markets where even South Korean brands are having trouble breaking into for similar reasons.
False. Plug in hybrids exist.
This is complete and utter bullshit. BYD makes far more electric vehicles than Tesla at this point, and many of their vehicles are heavy duty, ranging from busses to sedans. So they need more battery capacity per vehicle on average. Tesla iirc is barely in the third place, well behind both BYD and Luxgen.
Unconvincing claim considering that they've been asking you for evidence for last few posts, and you expressly suggest that it's unnecessary because [reasons you listed].
Cheap shots will not stop because revolutionary narrative needs its boogeymen. It cannot function without them.
In case of soviets, it was people doing better than others. In case of nazis, it was jews and other inferiour ethnicities as well as mentally and physically ill. In case of modern progressives, it's Russian trolls and those in their states that serve the evil patriarchy.
Definition being as wide as it is specifically serves the ability to make anyone an enemy as needed. Just like in the Soviet model.
They're not looking to hide produced power. They're just looking to hide the fact that they're being made, as to help with negotiations. This isn't really news, as China operates like this on many fronts. They weren't straight up hiding what they were doing on the man made islands in South China Sea, a much more controversial and contested area. They just looked for plausible deniability for as long as there was some chance that this could go the other way.
Same goes for coal plants being built. While they're being built, people like you and your activist allies you cite on completely unvetted op-ed section of forbes will provide ideological and propagandistic protection for them.
Btw, here's BBC link, since you appear to be unaware about it, which I find highly doubtful if you have any awareness of the subject, as it brought up quite a stink and self-doubt in circles you claim to be your own:
https://www.bbc.com/news/scien...
The goal is to cast many nets. Each has a chance to catch something. None of them are effective on their own. Cumulatively, the system appears to be very effective.
Math is simple. Contrast the amount of hatred for US with amount of terrorism in US. The system as a whole is definitely working well.
It's actually not about costs. Those could be managed. The problem is that Saudis are currently massively overextended on the infrastructure projects in terms of actual ability of the state to manage them. With Bin Salman's megacity project in North-West of the country, even strategic upgrades like port facilities in Jeddah are getting stalled. Saudi bureaucracy is inefficient, and there's only so much that it can manage at a time.
This appears to be one of the many projects that simply is so low on the priority list, it was never even started, making it an easy target to drop due to the sheer amount of ongoing infrastructure projects that are far more critical for Saudi interests.
All of that is cute and all, and utter fantasy. Reality is, China is (supposedly secretly, but satellites exist and there are groups monitoring them) building new coal power en masse. BBC had a good story on this just a couple of days ago.
Activists desperate to keep narrative under control obviously keep doing the damage control, good example being your forbes links.
FYI even the early symbian phones were "spyware phones". And every single modern phone is.
There's a reason why state security people require that any high security meeting, no phones are allowed in the room.
The reason it took so long to get hardware decoding working in x86 in general is because x86 is the bleeding edge in this particular instance. That's where all the newest stuff is tested first.
After the tech is worked out, the rest is usually just a mix of getting drivers for your hardware to actually respect the specs. On linux, that's always been a bitch. On android, it's actually quite well standardized in terms of relevant APIs and specs. Which is why VLC's android page states the following:
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/d...
"Features: Multi-core and full hardware decoding.
-Decoding performance
VLC can decode video in software and hardware mode. Hardware decoding often provides better performance but is not supported on all devices. If your device Android version is below 4.3, software decoding may be the only supported option for you."
Obviously. Which would cause rapid scale up of mining activities and technological development of extraction and refinement techniques to meet the demand.
Which is exactly what quote I made above references. Attempts of direct extrapolation from current capacity to determine "when we'll run out" are as smart as the infamous "how many weddings cakes you'll need" extrapolation based on having your marriage day tomorrow. No, you're not going to need 365 cakes in the next year, and no, you're not going to run out of zinc just because current mines will run out.
You are wrong in your thinking, because "zinc reserves" mean ores that are currently found and considered economical to mine.
As wikipedia article notes, this is demonstrated in the fact that while refined zinc production went up 80% during 1990-2010 period, the "reserve lifetime" for zinc remained unchanged.
Wikipedia of all places has a very good explanation on why you're wrong:
Identified world zinc resources total about 1.9–2.8 billion tonnes. Large deposits are in Australia, Canada and the United States, with the largest reserves in Iran. The most recent estimate of reserve base for zinc (meets specified minimum physical criteria related to current mining and production practices) was made in 2009 and calculated to be roughly 480 Mt. Zinc reserves, on the other hand, are geologically identified ore bodies whose suitability for recovery is economically based (location, grade, quality, and quantity) at the time of determination. Since exploration and mine development is an ongoing process, the amount of zinc reserves is not a fixed number and sustainability of zinc ore supplies cannot be judged by simply extrapolating the combined mine life of today's zinc mines. This concept is well supported by data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), which illustrates that although refined zinc production increased 80% between 1990 and 2010, the reserve lifetime for zinc has remained unchanged. About 346 million tonnes have been extracted throughout history to 2002, and scholars have estimated that about 109–305 million tonnes are in use.
Exactly.
"Unpopular" didn't refer to "how did the fans of both the game and VR liked it" as common denominator for these two is numerically very low. It referred to the fact that no one else did, which is why they generated no real traction.
Then I guess we'll see soon. Best of luck with the push, if VR actually has any kind of a meaningful breakthrough into mainstream gaming, I'll probably be buying a PC connected HMD myself.