> The money saved is never worth it, to me. I always end up wishing I had Intel.
Then you're not doing your research properly. I've bought both Intel and AMD chips and been very pleased with what I purchased because I do the research.
Case in point, here you're looking at Threadripper and then mention games. You don't buy a Threadripper for games, you buy it for workstation tasks. You want games, wait for one of the new 8th Gen i5s in a few weeks or a Ryzen 5 1600X and then take all the money you would have dumped into a $1000 CPU and spend it on a video card instead.
Color me cynical to your cynicsm... There will be applications for ICE for decades to come. Better fuel efficiency for gasoline engines is not a bad thing to pursue. A couple of Euro countries have passed bold legislation to stop selling gasoline cars by 2040. That's still 23 years away, and I personally don't have much faith that when we hit 2040 they won't backpedal a bit and soften the legislation. And even if it does come to pass, we're supposed to toss away 2 decades of better fuel efficiency because it's a segment that will begin to shrink?
And finally, with the current percentages of electric cars on the road compared to gasoline cars, your statement is akin to saying "Well I don't really see why people are still honing their skills to do development for that Windows thing when Linux on the Desktop is finally coming". I'd wait until electric vehicle sales reached 10% of total sales before snarking like that. For reference, in 2016 electric vehicles were 0.86% of the total passenger vehicle sales worldwide. Just a little ways to go yet.
"with the ability to generate enough power to keep much of Europe juiced up" Yeah this hyperbole doesn't do anyone any favors. 4.5GW is great especially from a renewable plant and yes let's have more of that, but saying this is a huge boost is a fabrication. Spain alone - just across the Med from where this plant will be - already generates 6.5 GW of solar. And the total generation capacity for Spain from all sources is 105 GW. Add another 100 GW for France, 100GW for Italy and 200 GW for Germany, and this plant represents less than 1% of just those 4 countries, to say nothing of the rest of Europe.
Europe is a different market. Most people would probably consider a 30 mile commute one way to be utter insanity but that isn't too unusual in North America. Some people commute 60 miles or more. And with gas around $3 in the US, it jumping to $8 combined with those lengthy commutes would absolutely be the first horseman of the Apocalypse showing up.
That said I live in Canada where we have been enjoying $1.20-$1.40 a liter gas for ages. That's one of the reasons I take transit to work.
According to new information compiled, 6.5% of the global GDP goes into fossil fuel subsidies. You want to stop subsidies? I agree. Let's stop ALL of them. Electric cars will be a no brainer when gas is $8 a gallon.
See that little ring in the cap? That's called a gasket. What do you think a gasket does, dumbass? It SEALS things. If gaskets didn't seal things, how many seconds do you think the oil would stay in your engine? Or the radiator fluid in your cooling system?
To sum up. The reservoir has a cap. The cap has a gasket. When the cap and gasket are applied properly and not damaged or worn out, they SEAL the reservoir.
I don't even know how to respond to this level of misinformation, other than to say you pretty much prove that a little knowledge is dangerous. And you have very little knowledge. I'm guessing that someone told you that brake fluid is hygroscopic and you went off reservation from there inventing that little fantasy?
FYI, that picture is a picture of some damn idiot who let his brake rotor be ground away by gross neglect. That vehicle would be making a dead-raising squealing sound just driving around and would have a massive grinding noise every time the brakes were applied. Pretty sure OPs Prius isn't doing that.
To your other idiot point about flushing brake fluid every three years, nobody does that. Mercedes, Audi, VW and a few of the other euro manufacturers recommend changing the fluid frequently because they already have a baked in clientele that's been Stockholm Syndromed into paying $300 for an oil change so they won't blink at forking over more for fluid flushes at ridiculous intervals. Anything less than every 5 years is overkill.
> Brake fluid absorbs water with lowers the boiling point of the fluid
Yes. Yes it does. That's why it's in a SEALED reservoir. So it doesn't absorb water from the air.
> there's more to be gained from talking than the actual doing.
Except DefCon is where he's talking and last I looked presenters don't really get paid. And he's planning on ghosting after the one talk so it's not like he's setting up a lecture circuit with this appearance, so I doubt that.
I would speculate he's doing the talk because he's probably already made all the money he thinks he needs and is retiring from it. It's entirely possible that he is also a hypocrite who was troubled that what he was doing was possible, but not troubled enough to stop doing it for his own benefit but now that (speculated) he is comfortable enough to retire he wants to shine a spotlight on the practice to encourage the affected game companies to close off the holes and prevent anyone else from doing what he did.
Oh I must protest. TOS and TNG followed the same basic formula and were great and I love both of them, but DS9 is my favorite series over and above that, and it's not because of the Defiant. It's because of the scope and what happened when the rubber of Federation ideals hit the road of a hostile frontier that pushed back hard. TNG was great but if I had one criticism of it, it would be that idealism pretty much always won out, with a few scattered exceptions. DS9 showed how under true pressure how fragile that idealism really was, especially the latter seasons, and that made for more realistic storytelling IMO. It also made it that when idealism did win, it seemed to mean more.
That sounds remarkably like you're blaming the sellers for joining the largest marketplace. If you were in their shoes would you a) stick up your own dinky little ecommerce site somewhere and hope that search engine traffic might route a tiny fraction of traffic your way, or b) sell through the place there a large percentage of online shoppers are already going to look for things to buy?
If you answered a) then you're probably the type to open up a 7-11 in the middle of a corn field 25 miles from town and wonder why you're going bankrupt.
Have you ever sold items online? Most customers are fine but there is small percentage that are idiots, scammers, assholes or all three rolled into one. None of these proposed changes are going to make selling items online any easier or more profitable. No, they'll just make sure some sellers decide that the scales have now tipped to the point where it's not worth the bullshit with Amazon reaching into their pockets on behalf of that small subset and making the whole enterprise unprofitable.
And their "returnless refunds" policy was highly requested by sellers? My ass. But the people who already email and say "X was damaged during shipping" or "X was broken" and then ask to have another one shipped out and they'll "keep the other one for their trouble" will be delighted. Sounds like the policy was written by those buyers.
We have a similar shitshow with the TFW program in Canada. I've always said the solution is to force TFW/H1B positions to be paid 150% of market rate for the job, and paid through the TFW/equivalent office, who then pays the worker. The excess would then be used to fund the program and pay for career training programs to address the lack of local talent for those jobs.
That way companies will look a little harder to see if there really is local talent before having to pony up 1.5 times the market rate for that foreign worker.
The general concept is applicable I would say. If you want to hand over your freedom to a company to handle the "security" on your behalf, you don't get to complain when it serves you up on a platter to the powers that be.
Didn't some American say something about those who would trade freedom for temporary security deserve neither? I mean sure, malware is a problem but so is the manufacturer literally telling you what you can and can't do with your own device, guided by the "friend" government.
North America has many engineers (or at least software engineers) who aren't really suited to the field. In my 20+ years in tech I've encountered MANY software devs who got into the field because someone told them it was a good job and a good way to make money. And it shows in the quality of their work (or lack thereof). Many of them don't improve their skills to any degree unless there's a gun to their head, many have zero troubleshooting skills and they see themselves as just a cog in the machine (at larger companies).
I'm not saying everyone needs to be a John Carmack Jr, but there's definitely some issues with devs that don't have the slightest interest in development outside of the paycheck.
I never said it was Google at fault. In fact, I fully place this at the feet of the people themselves, as I have also gotten innumerable Facebook/Twitter/Paypal account password reset requests, indicating the dumbasses are trying to reset the password for the account with my email address. This is doubly funny in Twitter's case as I've never bothered to get a Twitter account, so someone else got an account with that email address (or at least signed up for it) and possibly someone else is trying to reset "their" Twitter account password.
Possible but unlikely. I'm in OP's shoes, though I got (firstcharacterfirstname)(lastname)@gmail.com for my beta invite account. Since then there have been at least 10 people, 2 of them in Australia who think that is their email address. I've only been able to successfully contact 4 of the 10, the other 7 are constantly getting crap like their Delta flight itinerary, cell phone bills (that are password protected!) and various other communications. I even got one guy's HOA newsletter AND an annually updated spreadsheet with all their neighbors' contact info for whatever reason, but got him off of using my account when I gave him a call on the number listed on that same spreadsheet.
Most I have not been able to contact. The most successful avenue I've had so far is waiting until a personal friend or colleague tries contacting them and filling them in on the problem.
> Now I'm going to her and have to explain, that no, things have changed, if you see a green padlock, it no longer means someone at least had to fax some registration papers and pay few bucks so he's traceable.
Things have been changed for a LONG while then. I've been able to get SSL certs with a credit card and no verification outside of an email address from a major vendor since 2009. A wildcard at that.
Because on the surface it sounds completely insane. Stretching out the work day like that so you're not off until well past nightfall most of the year doesn't sound at all appealing.
> The reflective surface does not need to reflect the entire spectrum just the wavelength(s) of the laser.
What are they, the Borg?
You of course realize that the reflective surface will have its performance degraded or neutralized by things like a bit of dust/dirt or even water droplets (like on a boat) adhering to that surface?
It's a fool's errand to try and mitigate the performance of a laser weapon this way, especially in light of the fact that there's only one laser in theater at the moment (or near future) and by coating your assets with this reflective coating you're throwing away any advantages you used to have with low visibility paint jobs that were supposed to help against conventional weapons. In other words, in a pointless attempt to make a laser slightly less effective, you're now coating your assets with a surface that practically screams "HERE I AM" to normal human eyeballs that can send lead and other conventional ordnance towards it.
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> The money saved is never worth it, to me. I always end up wishing I had Intel.
Then you're not doing your research properly. I've bought both Intel and AMD chips and been very pleased with what I purchased because I do the research.
Case in point, here you're looking at Threadripper and then mention games. You don't buy a Threadripper for games, you buy it for workstation tasks. You want games, wait for one of the new 8th Gen i5s in a few weeks or a Ryzen 5 1600X and then take all the money you would have dumped into a $1000 CPU and spend it on a video card instead.
Color me cynical to your cynicsm... There will be applications for ICE for decades to come. Better fuel efficiency for gasoline engines is not a bad thing to pursue. A couple of Euro countries have passed bold legislation to stop selling gasoline cars by 2040. That's still 23 years away, and I personally don't have much faith that when we hit 2040 they won't backpedal a bit and soften the legislation. And even if it does come to pass, we're supposed to toss away 2 decades of better fuel efficiency because it's a segment that will begin to shrink?
And finally, with the current percentages of electric cars on the road compared to gasoline cars, your statement is akin to saying "Well I don't really see why people are still honing their skills to do development for that Windows thing when Linux on the Desktop is finally coming". I'd wait until electric vehicle sales reached 10% of total sales before snarking like that. For reference, in 2016 electric vehicles were 0.86% of the total passenger vehicle sales worldwide. Just a little ways to go yet.
"with the ability to generate enough power to keep much of Europe juiced up" Yeah this hyperbole doesn't do anyone any favors. 4.5GW is great especially from a renewable plant and yes let's have more of that, but saying this is a huge boost is a fabrication. Spain alone - just across the Med from where this plant will be - already generates 6.5 GW of solar. And the total generation capacity for Spain from all sources is 105 GW. Add another 100 GW for France, 100GW for Italy and 200 GW for Germany, and this plant represents less than 1% of just those 4 countries, to say nothing of the rest of Europe.
Europe is a different market. Most people would probably consider a 30 mile commute one way to be utter insanity but that isn't too unusual in North America. Some people commute 60 miles or more. And with gas around $3 in the US, it jumping to $8 combined with those lengthy commutes would absolutely be the first horseman of the Apocalypse showing up.
That said I live in Canada where we have been enjoying $1.20-$1.40 a liter gas for ages. That's one of the reasons I take transit to work.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/aug/07/fossil-fuel-subsidies-are-a-staggering-5-tn-per-year
According to new information compiled, 6.5% of the global GDP goes into fossil fuel subsidies. You want to stop subsidies? I agree. Let's stop ALL of them. Electric cars will be a no brainer when gas is $8 a gallon.
> There no seal on that reservoir you stupid fucking dumbass.
http://www.brakeandfrontend.com/wp-content/uploads/Articles/03_01_2009/1016035Picture0_00000053934.jpg
See that little ring in the cap? That's called a gasket. What do you think a gasket does, dumbass? It SEALS things. If gaskets didn't seal things, how many seconds do you think the oil would stay in your engine? Or the radiator fluid in your cooling system?
To sum up. The reservoir has a cap. The cap has a gasket. When the cap and gasket are applied properly and not damaged or worn out, they SEAL the reservoir.
Idiot.
I don't even know how to respond to this level of misinformation, other than to say you pretty much prove that a little knowledge is dangerous. And you have very little knowledge. I'm guessing that someone told you that brake fluid is hygroscopic and you went off reservation from there inventing that little fantasy?
FYI, that picture is a picture of some damn idiot who let his brake rotor be ground away by gross neglect. That vehicle would be making a dead-raising squealing sound just driving around and would have a massive grinding noise every time the brakes were applied. Pretty sure OPs Prius isn't doing that.
To your other idiot point about flushing brake fluid every three years, nobody does that. Mercedes, Audi, VW and a few of the other euro manufacturers recommend changing the fluid frequently because they already have a baked in clientele that's been Stockholm Syndromed into paying $300 for an oil change so they won't blink at forking over more for fluid flushes at ridiculous intervals. Anything less than every 5 years is overkill.
> Brake fluid absorbs water with lowers the boiling point of the fluid
Yes. Yes it does. That's why it's in a SEALED reservoir. So it doesn't absorb water from the air.
> there's more to be gained from talking than the actual doing.
Except DefCon is where he's talking and last I looked presenters don't really get paid. And he's planning on ghosting after the one talk so it's not like he's setting up a lecture circuit with this appearance, so I doubt that.
I would speculate he's doing the talk because he's probably already made all the money he thinks he needs and is retiring from it. It's entirely possible that he is also a hypocrite who was troubled that what he was doing was possible, but not troubled enough to stop doing it for his own benefit but now that (speculated) he is comfortable enough to retire he wants to shine a spotlight on the practice to encourage the affected game companies to close off the holes and prevent anyone else from doing what he did.
> There is only one formula that works.
Oh I must protest. TOS and TNG followed the same basic formula and were great and I love both of them, but DS9 is my favorite series over and above that, and it's not because of the Defiant. It's because of the scope and what happened when the rubber of Federation ideals hit the road of a hostile frontier that pushed back hard. TNG was great but if I had one criticism of it, it would be that idealism pretty much always won out, with a few scattered exceptions. DS9 showed how under true pressure how fragile that idealism really was, especially the latter seasons, and that made for more realistic storytelling IMO. It also made it that when idealism did win, it seemed to mean more.
It's more of a symbiosis, Amazon owes its growth to people like them as well. Now that Amazon's taking a dump on them, we'll see how that pans out.
> The sellers put all their eggs in one basket.
That sounds remarkably like you're blaming the sellers for joining the largest marketplace. If you were in their shoes would you a) stick up your own dinky little ecommerce site somewhere and hope that search engine traffic might route a tiny fraction of traffic your way, or b) sell through the place there a large percentage of online shoppers are already going to look for things to buy?
If you answered a) then you're probably the type to open up a 7-11 in the middle of a corn field 25 miles from town and wonder why you're going bankrupt.
Have you ever sold items online? Most customers are fine but there is small percentage that are idiots, scammers, assholes or all three rolled into one. None of these proposed changes are going to make selling items online any easier or more profitable. No, they'll just make sure some sellers decide that the scales have now tipped to the point where it's not worth the bullshit with Amazon reaching into their pockets on behalf of that small subset and making the whole enterprise unprofitable.
And their "returnless refunds" policy was highly requested by sellers? My ass. But the people who already email and say "X was damaged during shipping" or "X was broken" and then ask to have another one shipped out and they'll "keep the other one for their trouble" will be delighted. Sounds like the policy was written by those buyers.
> (To be very clear, I say all of this in admiration of Jeff Bezos, not in fear or criticism of him.)
His goons are standing right behind you with a knife, aren't they?
We have a similar shitshow with the TFW program in Canada. I've always said the solution is to force TFW/H1B positions to be paid 150% of market rate for the job, and paid through the TFW/equivalent office, who then pays the worker. The excess would then be used to fund the program and pay for career training programs to address the lack of local talent for those jobs.
That way companies will look a little harder to see if there really is local talent before having to pony up 1.5 times the market rate for that foreign worker.
This administration also recently secured a record for the lowest approval rating ever at the 6 month mark, so there's that.
The general concept is applicable I would say. If you want to hand over your freedom to a company to handle the "security" on your behalf, you don't get to complain when it serves you up on a platter to the powers that be.
Didn't some American say something about those who would trade freedom for temporary security deserve neither? I mean sure, malware is a problem but so is the manufacturer literally telling you what you can and can't do with your own device, guided by the "friend" government.
North America has many engineers (or at least software engineers) who aren't really suited to the field. In my 20+ years in tech I've encountered MANY software devs who got into the field because someone told them it was a good job and a good way to make money. And it shows in the quality of their work (or lack thereof). Many of them don't improve their skills to any degree unless there's a gun to their head, many have zero troubleshooting skills and they see themselves as just a cog in the machine (at larger companies).
I'm not saying everyone needs to be a John Carmack Jr, but there's definitely some issues with devs that don't have the slightest interest in development outside of the paycheck.
I never said it was Google at fault. In fact, I fully place this at the feet of the people themselves, as I have also gotten innumerable Facebook/Twitter/Paypal account password reset requests, indicating the dumbasses are trying to reset the password for the account with my email address. This is doubly funny in Twitter's case as I've never bothered to get a Twitter account, so someone else got an account with that email address (or at least signed up for it) and possibly someone else is trying to reset "their" Twitter account password.
Possible but unlikely. I'm in OP's shoes, though I got (firstcharacterfirstname)(lastname)@gmail.com for my beta invite account. Since then there have been at least 10 people, 2 of them in Australia who think that is their email address. I've only been able to successfully contact 4 of the 10, the other 7 are constantly getting crap like their Delta flight itinerary, cell phone bills (that are password protected!) and various other communications. I even got one guy's HOA newsletter AND an annually updated spreadsheet with all their neighbors' contact info for whatever reason, but got him off of using my account when I gave him a call on the number listed on that same spreadsheet.
Most I have not been able to contact. The most successful avenue I've had so far is waiting until a personal friend or colleague tries contacting them and filling them in on the problem.
> Now I'm going to her and have to explain, that no, things have changed, if you see a green padlock, it no longer means someone at least had to fax some registration papers and pay few bucks so he's traceable.
Things have been changed for a LONG while then. I've been able to get SSL certs with a credit card and no verification outside of an email address from a major vendor since 2009. A wildcard at that.
Because on the surface it sounds completely insane. Stretching out the work day like that so you're not off until well past nightfall most of the year doesn't sound at all appealing.
> The reflective surface does not need to reflect the entire spectrum just the wavelength(s) of the laser.
What are they, the Borg?
You of course realize that the reflective surface will have its performance degraded or neutralized by things like a bit of dust/dirt or even water droplets (like on a boat) adhering to that surface?
It's a fool's errand to try and mitigate the performance of a laser weapon this way, especially in light of the fact that there's only one laser in theater at the moment (or near future) and by coating your assets with this reflective coating you're throwing away any advantages you used to have with low visibility paint jobs that were supposed to help against conventional weapons. In other words, in a pointless attempt to make a laser slightly less effective, you're now coating your assets with a surface that practically screams "HERE I AM" to normal human eyeballs that can send lead and other conventional ordnance towards it.
And you have to be at the gym in 26 minutes too, right? To impress your wife Morgan Fairchild?