Not entirely accurate. As the OP said, the program is increasingly shifting over to HTML5 output. The most problematic part of Flash has been the Flash Player plugin, which is not needed for HTML5 pages.
Whether Animate CC will produce good HTML5 output is another matter. So is the question of whether browsers will turn out to have serious security flaws in their implementations of HTML5. But at the very least it will be a different set of problems.
The current $5 price for the Pi Zero, assuming you can find one, is just the price at launch. In the long term it appears it is going to sell for more than that. Micro Center, for example, will only sell you one at the $5 price; if you want more than one they cost $10 each. And that's assuming you can even find any; they appear to have sold out for now.
The $9 price of C,H.I.P. (plus shipping), on the other hand, appears to be intended to be its permanent price, at least if you buy it directly from Next Thing Co. They seem to have a tight relationship with Allwinner, the maker of the SOC, so they should be able to sustain that price point so long as Allwinner isn't looking to make a lot of money on the chips. (I believe Allwinner considers C.H.I.P. to primarily be a tool for promoting OEM sales of SOCs rather than a profit center. Raspberry Pi benefits from a similar relationship with Broadcom.) Retail and distributor price and availability remain to be seen.
There is also the little problem that availability of C.H.I.P is still very limited. So far only the Kickstarter backers who paid extra for early access have gotten them; no boards from large scale manufacturing have shipped yet.
Full featured boards like the Raspberry Pi 2 ($30 at Micro Center much of the time) are already cheap enough for just about any application where they are going to replace a full PC, and they are more flexible because of having more ports. What these super-low-cost boards are really about is embedded systems - more powerful replacements for things like Arduino. (But they are not suitable replacements for Arduino in all applications. Having a full blown OS gets in the way of doing time-sensitive bit twiddling, as does the non-deterministic execution time of instructions on a complex CPU like ARM v6 or v7. Some systems will end up using both.)
The total cost of using one or the other will depend on the system's needs. C.H.I.P. has onboard storage and built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, so in many cases it will require nothing additional. The Pi Zero will at the very least require a MicroSD card to boot, making the total cost a wash. C.H.I.P has the edge if the system needs Ethernet and/or Bluetooth connectivity; adding those to Pi Zero will make it more expensive than C.H.I.P. On the other hand, the Pi Zero is more appealing if you need video output because it has an HDMI port; C.H.I.P. has no built-in video output hardware.
The moons of the gas giants might be suitable for colonization. It has been the subject of speculation of many books over the years. Humans could also in theory live on the surface of the most distant planets, though their distance from the sun makes them unappealing.
He doesn't have an 8 core laptop but he might have an 8 core phone. Though they are more accurately thought of as 4+4 core designs rather than a true 8 cores - they are ARM's BIG-little designs that combine four high power cores with four lower power (and slower) cores on the same chip, and allow switching from one to the other to optimize battery use.
Beats never sold music, only rented it. What people may lose are things such as playlists, unless there is some way to transfer them. And if there is music that is available on Beats but not on Apple Music, subscribers will lose the ability to listen to it.
Modern shows aren't written or shot to the old 52 minute length. They're designed for the 42 minutes that a typical network show gets these days. The running time of the disc or Netflix version is marginally longer because it has the full end credits, not the sped-up ones that are used on broadcasts now.
I don't know about the CO2; I don't have the equipment to test that. But on the times I have had the opportunity to drive a hybrid I have done BETTER than the EPA scores.
I expect the default install of Android on a Chromebook will look pretty much like a Chromebook does now. You'll have the option of installing Android apps but you won't have to take it. I also hope they will make the more fully capable version of Chrome from the Chromebook available for other Android devices; it might make sense on large screen tablets.
It's true that if you want the specific things on your list, the choices in the US are limited. Manual transmissions are not popular here, so many models are not offered with them. Station wagons are out of fashion, both because of consumer preference and because fuel mileage standards are biased in favor of crossovers rather than station wagons.
Diesel cars have also never been popular in the US. In the early years there were prejudices against them because of smoky exhaust, poor availability of fuel (most drivers don't want to have to visit a truck stop to fuel their cars), and some ill-fated attempts by American car makers to market diesel cars, notably the Oldsmobile models. More recently, diesels have suffered because of the very strict EPA standards for diesel emissions (which impose tight limits on particulate and NOx, which are problem areas for diesel), which mean that many of the diesel cars sold elsewhere in the world cannot be imported into the US without substantial modification. Conversely, the EU put strict limits on CO2 emissions (where diesels do well) so their regulations were far more friendly to diesel, and the much higher fuel prices that prevail in Europe provided a stronger incentive to buy diesel cars.
Another reason that some cars from other parts of the world are not available in the US is safety standards. Notably, the US has a much stronger requirement for bumper strength than other parts of the world, so nearly every car model from elsewhere in the world has to be modified to include more substantial bumpers. If a company does not see enough market potential for a car to justify making a special US version, the car doesn't get sold here.
Finally, very small cars have been a hard sell in the US. Some companies do not choose to import their smallest models here. Notable examples include the VW Polo and the BMW 1-series, as well as all the Japanese "city cars".
All that said, describing the US as an underdeveloped car market is an exaggeration. There are still plenty of choices, though perhaps not the ones you want. (Like you, I find the paucity of station wagons frustrating.) And the US is the second most successful market in the world for hybrid cars (in part because of economic incentives to buy them), trailing only Japan and far ahead of the EU.
The CARB states include 38% of the US population. So the impact is substantial even if the remaining 62% are not covered. The CARB standards are going national starting with the 2016 model year, though I don't believe that includes a mandate for testing.
Yes, it does. If prices are inelastic, the company may simply have to accept a lower rate of profits. That lower profit rate makes it harder for the company to attract investment for future expansion, but it doesn't immediately put them out of business.
That one has already gotten a name - Xenial Xerus. And last I checked, a xylophone is not an animal.
The release after that has not yet been named. I'm pulling for Yakety Yak from the 1958 song by The Coasters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Or if they prefer they can use the alternate spelling Yakkity Yak from the animated series from Canada and Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What I really want to know is what they will call the release after Zebra. Aambitious Aardvark, aanyone? It can also be argued that they won't actually have the alphabet crisis until they reach D, since the first three releases did not follow the alphabetic naming scheme that started with Dapper Drake. The first two were Warty Warthog and Hoary Hedgehog, and the third was inexplicably Breezy Badger rather than something beginning with C.
Perhaps the second alphabet series will be named for something other than animals. If they do musical instruments we could eventually have Xylophone.
If Mir and Unity 8 aren't out now, then they should be postponed to Yakkity Yak or whatever they end up calling 16.10. An LTS distro is not the right place for the first public release.
Yes. They even still make phones. They released a couple of new BlackBerry models (the Passport and the Classic) last year, though those phones may be the last classic BlackBerry phones. They recently announced a new phone, Priv, which is based on Android with added BlackBerry services and security software. (According to Engadget it will start shipping on November 16 - http://www.engadget.com/2015/1... )
Most likely you don't even have the choice of braving those four lanes of 65mph traffic. Most roads like that are Interstate highways and they ban bicycles, with rare exceptions granted for things like mountain passes where there is no alternate route (also bridges but those will usually have a sidewalk).
And don't forget the maintenance. You'll probably spend at least $2,000 a year to keep an older car running. A new car has fewer maintenance expenses but you won't get it for $5,000 and the taxes will be higher.
One word: Zipcar. (Or one of its competitors; Hertz and Enterprise offer similar services, though they don't have cars in nearly as many locations.) I can pick up one of those by taking a five minute walk from my house, rent it for an hour or two for errands, and park it in the same place when I'm done.
Real reviews from people who didn't buy a product from Amazon are possible. I have done some myself, of products that I bought when another supplier had a better price or Amazon was out of stock.
In the future you will no longer need to own an ultra-luxury car. More affordable electric cars with longer range are on the way, including Tesla's Model 3 and the Chevy Bolt. The next generation of the Nissan Leaf is expected to have more range than the current one and there are rumors of a longer range (200 miles or more) variant; that will almost certainly happen because Nissan will have to make one to remain competitive in the EV market.
These all have projected prices in the $30K to $40K range. They're still not cars for the masses, though the total life cost of owning one is closer to being affordable than the initial price tag is because of lower fuel and maintenance costs. But they are a step in the right direction.
I doubt the Federation would be prudish about porn in the holodeck. We know there are romantic scenarios, because we see them in the series. We don't see out-and-out sexual fantasies but that's because OUR society is prudish and won't allow them on broadcast television. The HBO version of Trek would have much steamier holodeck scenes.
The thing that makes replicators infeasible on Voyager is likely the lack of raw materials. It's unlikely that replicators will ever work by actually creating atoms as needed by fission or fusion; that would be far too energy-intensive. Rather, they will take raw materials that are made available to them, take them apart, and put the atoms back together as needed. Recovery probably isn't absolutely perfect which means you need an occasional input of new raw materials to feed to the system, but Voyager can't regularly pick them up.
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It doesn't even take arrests. Just having a history of sex work can close the doors to a lot of other jobs.
Not entirely accurate. As the OP said, the program is increasingly shifting over to HTML5 output. The most problematic part of Flash has been the Flash Player plugin, which is not needed for HTML5 pages.
Whether Animate CC will produce good HTML5 output is another matter. So is the question of whether browsers will turn out to have serious security flaws in their implementations of HTML5. But at the very least it will be a different set of problems.
Isn't that what your second (or third, fourth, etc.) computer is for? Who has only one these days?
The current $5 price for the Pi Zero, assuming you can find one, is just the price at launch. In the long term it appears it is going to sell for more than that. Micro Center, for example, will only sell you one at the $5 price; if you want more than one they cost $10 each. And that's assuming you can even find any; they appear to have sold out for now.
The $9 price of C,H.I.P. (plus shipping), on the other hand, appears to be intended to be its permanent price, at least if you buy it directly from Next Thing Co. They seem to have a tight relationship with Allwinner, the maker of the SOC, so they should be able to sustain that price point so long as Allwinner isn't looking to make a lot of money on the chips. (I believe Allwinner considers C.H.I.P. to primarily be a tool for promoting OEM sales of SOCs rather than a profit center. Raspberry Pi benefits from a similar relationship with Broadcom.) Retail and distributor price and availability remain to be seen.
There is also the little problem that availability of C.H.I.P is still very limited. So far only the Kickstarter backers who paid extra for early access have gotten them; no boards from large scale manufacturing have shipped yet.
Full featured boards like the Raspberry Pi 2 ($30 at Micro Center much of the time) are already cheap enough for just about any application where they are going to replace a full PC, and they are more flexible because of having more ports. What these super-low-cost boards are really about is embedded systems - more powerful replacements for things like Arduino. (But they are not suitable replacements for Arduino in all applications. Having a full blown OS gets in the way of doing time-sensitive bit twiddling, as does the non-deterministic execution time of instructions on a complex CPU like ARM v6 or v7. Some systems will end up using both.)
The total cost of using one or the other will depend on the system's needs. C.H.I.P. has onboard storage and built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, so in many cases it will require nothing additional. The Pi Zero will at the very least require a MicroSD card to boot, making the total cost a wash. C.H.I.P has the edge if the system needs Ethernet and/or Bluetooth connectivity; adding those to Pi Zero will make it more expensive than C.H.I.P. On the other hand, the Pi Zero is more appealing if you need video output because it has an HDMI port; C.H.I.P. has no built-in video output hardware.
Downloading Linux distros was actually the first widespread use of BitTorrent. Porn and piracy came later.
The moons of the gas giants might be suitable for colonization. It has been the subject of speculation of many books over the years. Humans could also in theory live on the surface of the most distant planets, though their distance from the sun makes them unappealing.
He doesn't have an 8 core laptop but he might have an 8 core phone. Though they are more accurately thought of as 4+4 core designs rather than a true 8 cores - they are ARM's BIG-little designs that combine four high power cores with four lower power (and slower) cores on the same chip, and allow switching from one to the other to optimize battery use.
Beats never sold music, only rented it. What people may lose are things such as playlists, unless there is some way to transfer them. And if there is music that is available on Beats but not on Apple Music, subscribers will lose the ability to listen to it.
Modern shows aren't written or shot to the old 52 minute length. They're designed for the 42 minutes that a typical network show gets these days. The running time of the disc or Netflix version is marginally longer because it has the full end credits, not the sped-up ones that are used on broadcasts now.
There is a mechanism to enforce punishment. It's called jail.
I don't know about the CO2; I don't have the equipment to test that. But on the times I have had the opportunity to drive a hybrid I have done BETTER than the EPA scores.
I expect the default install of Android on a Chromebook will look pretty much like a Chromebook does now. You'll have the option of installing Android apps but you won't have to take it. I also hope they will make the more fully capable version of Chrome from the Chromebook available for other Android devices; it might make sense on large screen tablets.
It's true that if you want the specific things on your list, the choices in the US are limited. Manual transmissions are not popular here, so many models are not offered with them. Station wagons are out of fashion, both because of consumer preference and because fuel mileage standards are biased in favor of crossovers rather than station wagons.
Diesel cars have also never been popular in the US. In the early years there were prejudices against them because of smoky exhaust, poor availability of fuel (most drivers don't want to have to visit a truck stop to fuel their cars), and some ill-fated attempts by American car makers to market diesel cars, notably the Oldsmobile models. More recently, diesels have suffered because of the very strict EPA standards for diesel emissions (which impose tight limits on particulate and NOx, which are problem areas for diesel), which mean that many of the diesel cars sold elsewhere in the world cannot be imported into the US without substantial modification. Conversely, the EU put strict limits on CO2 emissions (where diesels do well) so their regulations were far more friendly to diesel, and the much higher fuel prices that prevail in Europe provided a stronger incentive to buy diesel cars.
Another reason that some cars from other parts of the world are not available in the US is safety standards. Notably, the US has a much stronger requirement for bumper strength than other parts of the world, so nearly every car model from elsewhere in the world has to be modified to include more substantial bumpers. If a company does not see enough market potential for a car to justify making a special US version, the car doesn't get sold here.
Finally, very small cars have been a hard sell in the US. Some companies do not choose to import their smallest models here. Notable examples include the VW Polo and the BMW 1-series, as well as all the Japanese "city cars".
All that said, describing the US as an underdeveloped car market is an exaggeration. There are still plenty of choices, though perhaps not the ones you want. (Like you, I find the paucity of station wagons frustrating.) And the US is the second most successful market in the world for hybrid cars (in part because of economic incentives to buy them), trailing only Japan and far ahead of the EU.
The CARB states include 38% of the US population. So the impact is substantial even if the remaining 62% are not covered. The CARB standards are going national starting with the 2016 model year, though I don't believe that includes a mandate for testing.
Yes, it does. If prices are inelastic, the company may simply have to accept a lower rate of profits. That lower profit rate makes it harder for the company to attract investment for future expansion, but it doesn't immediately put them out of business.
That one has already gotten a name - Xenial Xerus. And last I checked, a xylophone is not an animal.
The release after that has not yet been named. I'm pulling for Yakety Yak from the 1958 song by The Coasters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Or if they prefer they can use the alternate spelling Yakkity Yak from the animated series from Canada and Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What I really want to know is what they will call the release after Zebra. Aambitious Aardvark, aanyone? It can also be argued that they won't actually have the alphabet crisis until they reach D, since the first three releases did not follow the alphabetic naming scheme that started with Dapper Drake. The first two were Warty Warthog and Hoary Hedgehog, and the third was inexplicably Breezy Badger rather than something beginning with C.
Perhaps the second alphabet series will be named for something other than animals. If they do musical instruments we could eventually have Xylophone.
If Mir and Unity 8 aren't out now, then they should be postponed to Yakkity Yak or whatever they end up calling 16.10. An LTS distro is not the right place for the first public release.
Yes. They even still make phones. They released a couple of new BlackBerry models (the Passport and the Classic) last year, though those phones may be the last classic BlackBerry phones. They recently announced a new phone, Priv, which is based on Android with added BlackBerry services and security software. (According to Engadget it will start shipping on November 16 - http://www.engadget.com/2015/1... )
Most likely you don't even have the choice of braving those four lanes of 65mph traffic. Most roads like that are Interstate highways and they ban bicycles, with rare exceptions granted for things like mountain passes where there is no alternate route (also bridges but those will usually have a sidewalk).
And don't forget the maintenance. You'll probably spend at least $2,000 a year to keep an older car running. A new car has fewer maintenance expenses but you won't get it for $5,000 and the taxes will be higher.
One word: Zipcar. (Or one of its competitors; Hertz and Enterprise offer similar services, though they don't have cars in nearly as many locations.) I can pick up one of those by taking a five minute walk from my house, rent it for an hour or two for errands, and park it in the same place when I'm done.
Real reviews from people who didn't buy a product from Amazon are possible. I have done some myself, of products that I bought when another supplier had a better price or Amazon was out of stock.
In the future you will no longer need to own an ultra-luxury car. More affordable electric cars with longer range are on the way, including Tesla's Model 3 and the Chevy Bolt. The next generation of the Nissan Leaf is expected to have more range than the current one and there are rumors of a longer range (200 miles or more) variant; that will almost certainly happen because Nissan will have to make one to remain competitive in the EV market.
These all have projected prices in the $30K to $40K range. They're still not cars for the masses, though the total life cost of owning one is closer to being affordable than the initial price tag is because of lower fuel and maintenance costs. But they are a step in the right direction.
I doubt the Federation would be prudish about porn in the holodeck. We know there are romantic scenarios, because we see them in the series. We don't see out-and-out sexual fantasies but that's because OUR society is prudish and won't allow them on broadcast television. The HBO version of Trek would have much steamier holodeck scenes.
The thing that makes replicators infeasible on Voyager is likely the lack of raw materials. It's unlikely that replicators will ever work by actually creating atoms as needed by fission or fusion; that would be far too energy-intensive. Rather, they will take raw materials that are made available to them, take them apart, and put the atoms back together as needed. Recovery probably isn't absolutely perfect which means you need an occasional input of new raw materials to feed to the system, but Voyager can't regularly pick them up.