The problem is that there are multiple classes of vehicle for the CAFE standards. What we should be doing is having ONE pool of all the consumer vehicles that a company makes and requiring them to meet a standard. If that requires the company to change its mix of vehicles, and make fewer SUVs and more small cars, so be it. And if they have to cut the price of the small cars and raise the price of the SUVs to get the demand in alignment with the supply, even better.
I would put work vehicles (ones that are actually used by businesses for hauling, getting to job sites, etc) in a separate pool with different standards. Some vehicles are sold to both groups; those would be assigned in proportion to how they are registered. (Say, if half of all the F-150s sold have commercial plates, half would go in the business CAFE pool and half would go in the consumer pool.
Analog video output would only help if there were also a return to analog video display devices. I don't see CRTs or any other analog display device returning in the foreseeable future. Digital output is better for controlling displays that are inherently digital, such as LCD and OLED panels and DLP projectors.
The Surface 3 isn't a bad piece of hardware; it's a bit underpowered but certainly usable. The two previous versions of the Surface were a bad idea. The appeal of a Windows tablet has always been the ability to run the installed base of software, which you can't do with a tablet with an ARM processor. Surface 3 is overdue for an update but it's not clear that it will ever get one; Microsoft may choose to turn over that price point to OEMs and concentrate on higher-priced devices.
For the most part, items where two day shipping is not available are things that cannot be shipped by air. Those include liquids above a certain size, any type of aerosol, and large lithium ion batteries. (An example is the 20,000 mAh USB charger pack they offered as a pre-Prime Day deal. But I actually got that in two days anyway even though they only promised five.) There are also some large heavy items where the cost of fast shipping would be prohibitive.
It varies. Some companies pay weekly. Some pay every other week. Some pay once or twice a month. People getting government assistance (Social Security and SSI) get paid once a month, but not all on the same day.
Publications like PC World and CNet are a mix of shill and useful information. It has been thus since trade publications were invented.
Sometimes the shill even contains useful information, as it did with Prime Day for many people. After all, the purpose of reading those publications is for advice on what to buy. The advertising and advertorials can help with buying decisions just as much as the supposedly neutral content. You just have to read them knowing that some of the content is supported.
Like all sales, there were some good deals and some bad ones. Good deals included most of Amazon's own devices (there were special prices for multiple tablets, the Paperwhite e-reader, the Fire Stick, and the Echo; Echo Tap was offered as a pre-Prime Day deal) and the TV sets. They offered 30% off a variety of luggage, also a good deal if you were in the market for it. And there were good prices on some videos and computer games.
Some of the worst deals were on computers. They quoted huge discounts off a fictitious list price, while selling them for only slightly below the current market price.
The price on the drone was good, but it's also an example of the ultimate impulse buy. Most people will get it, play with it for a couple of hours, and put it back on the shelf. Kind of hard to justify even the modest price. I own a drone, but I won it at a trade show for visiting somebody's booth; I wouldn't have spent money on it.
And then there is the peculiar fact that they were bribing people to try out their Dash Buttons. The price was cut to 99 cents but you still get the $4.99 credit the first time you use it.
Incited is not the same thing. Incited gets used in a number of contexts. Perhaps the most common phrase using the word is "incited a riot", which means stoking the flames of a mob with passionate words.
You were probably thinking of incented, which is a synonym for incentivized. Both have the specific meaning of getting people to do something by offering rewards, and say exactly what the writer of the article was trying to say. Both are neologisms according to the Oxford Etymology Dictionary, but incentivized is older (1970) than incented (1992). Incentivized is also much more common; it shows up about seven times as often in a search of Google Books.
Because it's more than a statistical blip in the population of developers and system administrators. Those populations matter because they have some say in corporate IT decision making. Not always as much as they would like, but that's another discussion.
The gain in power efficiency in this generation is a strong reason to go with the new card rather than one from the previous generation. The GTX 1060 will about match the current discounted price of the GTX 970, but it will consume significantly less power (and probably make less noise) doing it.
It's a bit more expensive than the current street price of the GTX 960 (around $200), so some market for those may remain until the GTX 1050 is ready. I think we're also likely to see some street price cuts on the 960 to somewhere between $150 and $175.
It may not quite match your Archos, but my 64GB ZenFone 2 plus a 128GB MicroSD card isn't shabby. (The 200GB MicroSD cards from SanDisk are too rich for my blood.) If I had waited a few more months I could have bought the 128GB version of the phone and had 256GB total.
Why should they care? So long as you keep paying the monthly fee they should be happy.
Their primary business is selling connectivity services, not phones. Back when they were still offering subsidies on phones they were LOSING money when they sold you a new phone. Sometimes they still offer deals where they sell you a phone (or multiple phones) at a loss if you are willing to commit to using their services for a while.
From their point of view, the main benefit of selling you a new phone is that you're likely to consume more data with the newer and faster device.
Back in the days before phones had standardized charging jacks and battery packs that could be used to charge a phone, swappable batteries were important for extending the amount of time you could use a phone. But every modern phone has either MicroUSB, USB-C, or one of Apple's charging jacks and can be connected to a 5V power pack to charge.
Swappable batteries are still handy when your phone's battery wears out. Some phones with internal batteries make it easy to replace that battery; others, not so much.
The 190W draw when overclocked is not AMD's problem. If you use the card in an unspecified way and it exceeds its specifications, it's your problem. The excessive power draw from the PCIe bus is certainly a problem and they should fix it in the default configuration. Aside from that, if they can't get the card down to 150W total they should switch to an 8 pin power connector or dual 6 pin connectors. I suspect that third party overclocked cards will do that in any case even if the reference design remains unchanged.
The current XBox One uses an AMD processor and the next one probably will as well. That performance level might mean that they're planning to use the RX 480 as the GPU, which would be consistent with buying AMD. Or perhaps AMD will be making an APU for them that integrates an RX 480-class GPU with the CPU, though I think that level of integration is beyond what AMD can produce for now - even if they could get all those transistors on the chip, getting the heat out would be a problem.
Scorpio is also going to need more CPU muscle to effectively use all that graphic horsepower. Perhaps Microsoft will be getting a new Zen-based CPU or APU.
The 32 bit version of Windows 10 will run with 1GB RAM but it won't be great - basically you'll be able to run one program at a time, and web browsers won't work well. That's the configuration of a lot of the small tablets on the market. The Anniversary Update will increase the official RAM requirement to 2GB, and the 64 bit version already requires 2GB.
18.04 will be an LTS release that continues to get security updates until 2023. By then all the 32 bit hardware is likely to be dead. The downside is that you won't get some new features that will be in releases after 18.04.
Certain types of cars fail to hold value. Electric cars are one example because you're comparing the wrong numbers; the apparent price of the new electric (before tax credits) and the actual price of the used car. (That was true in the early days of hybrids, but I don't think there are any remaining hybrids that qualify for tax credits in most US states.) Volkswagen diesels are another. Prices of cars from companies that fold or withdraw from your country tend to plummet because of doubt about availability of parts and service.
But yes; cars hold their value better nowadays because they last longer. Back in the 60s it was considered unusual for a car to last long enough to turn over its odometer. (Odometers in those days only had five digits plus tenths, so they would turn over when you reached 100,000 miles.) Now you can safely assume that new cars will be capable of reaching that milestone without difficulty.
I know how to change my own oil. I just don't bother. I could save about $10, which is less than the hour or so I would spend to do it is worth to me. A shop can do it in much less time because they have capital equipment like lifts that let them do it quickly; I'd have to run the car up on ramps and crawl under it.
Unless you work on your own car, those maintenance numbers look rather low, especially for such old vehicles. Depreciation will be a larger expense for newer cars. Insurance is much more costly in many areas. And you haven't included taxes; some states and localities have taxes on car ownership.
And that 15 year old Toyota? Less of an option if you live in a snow belt state where salt gets applied to the roads. Cars don't last as long up north.
Bringing down the cost of entry to VR by $100 or so won't make a big difference so long as the headsets continue to sell for $600 and up. It will be a much bigger factor in a year or two when the price of VR headsets drops substantially. Meanwhile, this has also dropped the price of entry level 4K gaming by the same amount and that will have more immediate impact; many people already have 4K TVs. Yes, a small fraction of the total installed base of TVs, but still enough to be a useful market segment to target.
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The problem is that there are multiple classes of vehicle for the CAFE standards. What we should be doing is having ONE pool of all the consumer vehicles that a company makes and requiring them to meet a standard. If that requires the company to change its mix of vehicles, and make fewer SUVs and more small cars, so be it. And if they have to cut the price of the small cars and raise the price of the SUVs to get the demand in alignment with the supply, even better.
I would put work vehicles (ones that are actually used by businesses for hauling, getting to job sites, etc) in a separate pool with different standards. Some vehicles are sold to both groups; those would be assigned in proportion to how they are registered. (Say, if half of all the F-150s sold have commercial plates, half would go in the business CAFE pool and half would go in the consumer pool.
Analog video output would only help if there were also a return to analog video display devices. I don't see CRTs or any other analog display device returning in the foreseeable future. Digital output is better for controlling displays that are inherently digital, such as LCD and OLED panels and DLP projectors.
The Surface 3 isn't a bad piece of hardware; it's a bit underpowered but certainly usable. The two previous versions of the Surface were a bad idea. The appeal of a Windows tablet has always been the ability to run the installed base of software, which you can't do with a tablet with an ARM processor. Surface 3 is overdue for an update but it's not clear that it will ever get one; Microsoft may choose to turn over that price point to OEMs and concentrate on higher-priced devices.
The least expensive FPGAs are now around $8 in distributor quantities. Nintendo could probably get them for $5. Not too expensive.
For the most part, items where two day shipping is not available are things that cannot be shipped by air. Those include liquids above a certain size, any type of aerosol, and large lithium ion batteries. (An example is the 20,000 mAh USB charger pack they offered as a pre-Prime Day deal. But I actually got that in two days anyway even though they only promised five.) There are also some large heavy items where the cost of fast shipping would be prohibitive.
It varies. Some companies pay weekly. Some pay every other week. Some pay once or twice a month. People getting government assistance (Social Security and SSI) get paid once a month, but not all on the same day.
Publications like PC World and CNet are a mix of shill and useful information. It has been thus since trade publications were invented.
Sometimes the shill even contains useful information, as it did with Prime Day for many people. After all, the purpose of reading those publications is for advice on what to buy. The advertising and advertorials can help with buying decisions just as much as the supposedly neutral content. You just have to read them knowing that some of the content is supported.
Like all sales, there were some good deals and some bad ones. Good deals included most of Amazon's own devices (there were special prices for multiple tablets, the Paperwhite e-reader, the Fire Stick, and the Echo; Echo Tap was offered as a pre-Prime Day deal) and the TV sets. They offered 30% off a variety of luggage, also a good deal if you were in the market for it. And there were good prices on some videos and computer games.
Some of the worst deals were on computers. They quoted huge discounts off a fictitious list price, while selling them for only slightly below the current market price.
The price on the drone was good, but it's also an example of the ultimate impulse buy. Most people will get it, play with it for a couple of hours, and put it back on the shelf. Kind of hard to justify even the modest price. I own a drone, but I won it at a trade show for visiting somebody's booth; I wouldn't have spent money on it.
And then there is the peculiar fact that they were bribing people to try out their Dash Buttons. The price was cut to 99 cents but you still get the $4.99 credit the first time you use it.
Incited is not the same thing. Incited gets used in a number of contexts. Perhaps the most common phrase using the word is "incited a riot", which means stoking the flames of a mob with passionate words.
You were probably thinking of incented, which is a synonym for incentivized. Both have the specific meaning of getting people to do something by offering rewards, and say exactly what the writer of the article was trying to say. Both are neologisms according to the Oxford Etymology Dictionary, but incentivized is older (1970) than incented (1992). Incentivized is also much more common; it shows up about seven times as often in a search of Google Books.
Because it's more than a statistical blip in the population of developers and system administrators. Those populations matter because they have some say in corporate IT decision making. Not always as much as they would like, but that's another discussion.
The gain in power efficiency in this generation is a strong reason to go with the new card rather than one from the previous generation. The GTX 1060 will about match the current discounted price of the GTX 970, but it will consume significantly less power (and probably make less noise) doing it.
It's a bit more expensive than the current street price of the GTX 960 (around $200), so some market for those may remain until the GTX 1050 is ready. I think we're also likely to see some street price cuts on the 960 to somewhere between $150 and $175.
Heck, why not 128GB if the phone will accept it? They're only $30 now. Older phones may be limited to 32GB because they don't have SDXC support.
It may not quite match your Archos, but my 64GB ZenFone 2 plus a 128GB MicroSD card isn't shabby. (The 200GB MicroSD cards from SanDisk are too rich for my blood.) If I had waited a few more months I could have bought the 128GB version of the phone and had 256GB total.
Why should they care? So long as you keep paying the monthly fee they should be happy.
Their primary business is selling connectivity services, not phones. Back when they were still offering subsidies on phones they were LOSING money when they sold you a new phone. Sometimes they still offer deals where they sell you a phone (or multiple phones) at a loss if you are willing to commit to using their services for a while.
From their point of view, the main benefit of selling you a new phone is that you're likely to consume more data with the newer and faster device.
Back in the days before phones had standardized charging jacks and battery packs that could be used to charge a phone, swappable batteries were important for extending the amount of time you could use a phone. But every modern phone has either MicroUSB, USB-C, or one of Apple's charging jacks and can be connected to a 5V power pack to charge.
Swappable batteries are still handy when your phone's battery wears out. Some phones with internal batteries make it easy to replace that battery; others, not so much.
The 190W draw when overclocked is not AMD's problem. If you use the card in an unspecified way and it exceeds its specifications, it's your problem. The excessive power draw from the PCIe bus is certainly a problem and they should fix it in the default configuration. Aside from that, if they can't get the card down to 150W total they should switch to an 8 pin power connector or dual 6 pin connectors. I suspect that third party overclocked cards will do that in any case even if the reference design remains unchanged.
Canada shows more restraint in salt use than the northern US states do. I'm sure that helped.
The current XBox One uses an AMD processor and the next one probably will as well. That performance level might mean that they're planning to use the RX 480 as the GPU, which would be consistent with buying AMD. Or perhaps AMD will be making an APU for them that integrates an RX 480-class GPU with the CPU, though I think that level of integration is beyond what AMD can produce for now - even if they could get all those transistors on the chip, getting the heat out would be a problem.
Scorpio is also going to need more CPU muscle to effectively use all that graphic horsepower. Perhaps Microsoft will be getting a new Zen-based CPU or APU.
The way that people use Xbone suggests that the idea of being boned by Microsoft was the intent of the word.
The 32 bit version of Windows 10 will run with 1GB RAM but it won't be great - basically you'll be able to run one program at a time, and web browsers won't work well. That's the configuration of a lot of the small tablets on the market. The Anniversary Update will increase the official RAM requirement to 2GB, and the 64 bit version already requires 2GB.
18.04 will be an LTS release that continues to get security updates until 2023. By then all the 32 bit hardware is likely to be dead. The downside is that you won't get some new features that will be in releases after 18.04.
Certain types of cars fail to hold value. Electric cars are one example because you're comparing the wrong numbers; the apparent price of the new electric (before tax credits) and the actual price of the used car. (That was true in the early days of hybrids, but I don't think there are any remaining hybrids that qualify for tax credits in most US states.) Volkswagen diesels are another. Prices of cars from companies that fold or withdraw from your country tend to plummet because of doubt about availability of parts and service.
But yes; cars hold their value better nowadays because they last longer. Back in the 60s it was considered unusual for a car to last long enough to turn over its odometer. (Odometers in those days only had five digits plus tenths, so they would turn over when you reached 100,000 miles.) Now you can safely assume that new cars will be capable of reaching that milestone without difficulty.
I know how to change my own oil. I just don't bother. I could save about $10, which is less than the hour or so I would spend to do it is worth to me. A shop can do it in much less time because they have capital equipment like lifts that let them do it quickly; I'd have to run the car up on ramps and crawl under it.
Unless you work on your own car, those maintenance numbers look rather low, especially for such old vehicles. Depreciation will be a larger expense for newer cars. Insurance is much more costly in many areas. And you haven't included taxes; some states and localities have taxes on car ownership.
And that 15 year old Toyota? Less of an option if you live in a snow belt state where salt gets applied to the roads. Cars don't last as long up north.
Bringing down the cost of entry to VR by $100 or so won't make a big difference so long as the headsets continue to sell for $600 and up. It will be a much bigger factor in a year or two when the price of VR headsets drops substantially. Meanwhile, this has also dropped the price of entry level 4K gaming by the same amount and that will have more immediate impact; many people already have 4K TVs. Yes, a small fraction of the total installed base of TVs, but still enough to be a useful market segment to target.