Oh, of course. The thing is, both of those require as much or sometimes more physical labour than the navvy, plus training, and often some level of intelligence. Its not everyone that can DO the job of a carpenter, welder, metalworker etc. So when anyone who shows some modicum of intelligence is being pushed towards white collar jobs both by laziness and society, the dollar commanded by the tradesmen is just going to keep climbing.
The physical labour aspect also keeps most anyone that wants a quick buck from just jumping straight in.
Besides which, its no where near billions, and those that try to live a vegan lifestyle, particularly those of european desecent, usually have to stop before they literally kill themselves.
Pesco-Vegetarianism is the closest thing that most anyone of european descent can actually move to without drastic detrimental health-related side effects.
Believe it or not, the folks living in Southeast Asia have had a shortage of meat for so long that they've evolved a digestive system that makes much better use of plant material. Even as such, they are NOT vegetarians by and large, they simply consume a relatively large quantity of plants as a percentage of their diet in comparison to a normal european diet.
Perl is quick, dirty, and extremely useful in real world situations. Only a mostly out-of-touch-with-reality neckbeard would say that learning ASSEMBLY would have any benefit whatsoever to most normal jobs. Perl, VB.Net and SQL are probably the 3 handiest items to have at your disposal.
You're missing the point a bit. You don't need to be a programmer for every job, but having a basic knowledge of coding and maybe being able to churn out a perl script can be extremely useful in almost every job. It's also shit thats really easy to pick up.
The same as Word Processing and Spreadsheet skills are pretty well ubiquitous requirements for any job that can use them, I think some small amount of coding will start seeping in as well.
It always amazes me how many people have no idea either A) The game exists or if they have heard of it then B) That its basically Battlefield, star wars style.
That game was so much fun. WTB Battlefront 3, with AT-ATs.
Now now, let the people who actually understand how modern transmissions, modern engines, and modern cars + wind resistance actually work discuss this.
You go play in your government sanctioned toy box with your government issued books and continue to ignore that things outside your direct daily knowledge and interaction could possibly be done much better than what the government currently states.
FYI German drivers get better MPG numbers because of the autobahn and the fact that most of the cars have a gear for the average speed on the autobahn of 140-150 KM/hr.
You obviously have no understanding of how all of these things interact and deign to call me an idiot. Good job.
Manual transmissions, unless compared against a fairly expensive sport automatic transmission, provide better transfer of power from engine to ground, but you're generally burning more gas to do it. The 3.15 gears vs the 3.91 will get you similar(still usually somewhat better depending on the driver) acceleration as when it was automatic but gets the mileage to the same place as well. 3.91 gears on the manual vs the auto on a straight swap, if the car has any real horsepower you might have some trouble keeping tires on the car if you like to drive it hard:)
The main thrust of what changing the rear end gear does is #1) Increases torque to ground. You'll get more acceleration on the pop the larger the gear is and #2 increases the gas burned.
However you can end up with fuel economy savings on stop and go driving depending on your driving style. If you're getting better fuel economy on a 5 speed manual vs a 4 speed auto on 3.91 rear end you were probably punching that auto pretty hard on the lights and signs.
Mostly directed at people who may have no idea what you were talking about:). Generally someone doing a auto to manual trans swap is well aware of the pros/cons.
There is a point where it gets much worse... but not the force itself, its merely that the force, because its an exponential force, gets worse and worse faster and faster the higher you go.
The point at which it gets unbearable varies from vehicle to vehicle based on several vehicle characteristics, mainly engine horsepower, drivetrain, and aerodynamics. The main thrust of the explanation was to simply and quickly debunk the 65mph bullshit that gets tossed around. Its a force that acts on every car, even when the car is barely moving, but the point at which it becomes untenable is not where it was stated as being.
Headwind drag increasing greatly above 65 is a myth that needs to fucking die. Unless you are driving INTO the wind, wind drag on most modern cars isnt a large concern until at least 80 and for some car designs not even up to 100mph. It is true that wind resistance gets very very bad very very fast after a certain point, but that point is not 65mph. The only vehicles for which its anything close to 60-65mph are transport trucks.
By large concern I mean a gearing change can't take care of the wind resistance mileage loss and more besides.
Consumer reports tends to be a bit sensational. They do get put on a treadmill but the EPA numbers are also based on a circuit of real road driving. 3 tests are done and the average of those tests are then used as the EPA rating.
Additionally theres no such thing as a frictionless treadmill, and the treadmill they use is actually able to adjust its load to simulate real world resistances.
There are plenty of real reasons to bash the EPA ratings, there was no need for consumer reports to exaggerate and make shit up.
It does greatly depend on the car, as I mentioned my old Cavalier was better on fuel at the higher speeds. Now the civic is better than anything else I've ever had just driving around town at ~35mph but it fails badly at highway speeds. Not bashing on Honda, Honda does make some decent reliable vehicles, I did buy one after all. Besides that though the TSX is basically a civic but slightly better in all ways, I wouldn't be surprised if the tranny had an extra half-overdrive gear similar to the one my old cavalier, or at least a shorter final gear. Its entirely possible and even likely that your TSX is better on fuel at those speeds than the civic I'm talking about.
Also I'm not sure how it is where you are but a speed limit of 65 is fairly common everywhere I've driven, and your cruising speed of 78 is extremely common here for any highway/expressway driving when the listed limit is 65. I don't even know why the hell you've listed 65-68 as real world conditions for most people and then straight away admitted your own comfortable cruising speed is at least 10mph higher.
Speed limits and police attitudes are starting to catch up to car technology and ability and the EPA needs to play catch up. They should introduce a new tier of MPG at 75 MPH so that the consumer can buy a vehicle more suited to their own driving conditions and style. When a 350 RWHP 10 year old Mustang is getting better mpg at any sort of highway speed than a new what I consider an "economy" car its fucking frightening.
Thats not even slightly true. The Highway speed limit here is 65mph but normal highway speed is actually 75-80mph. At 80 mph in a 2010 Honda Civic I get WORSE gas mileage than in a 2003 Mustang thats had mods done to it that reduces its gas mileage. Its entirely due to the fact that the last gear on the automatic trans in the civic is designed for optimal gas mileage for the EPA rating @ 60MPH and there is no shorter gear. My old 2000 Chev Cavalier wasn't as bad because there seemed to be some sort of extra half overdrive gear at around 75-78.
My Auto 2011 F-150 and the 2009 Silverado I had before it both had the same problems. They were most efficient sitting right at 60mph... which isn't even the speed limit. 5 over wasn't so bad, but once you hit 10+ over....
With expressways and everything else becoming so prevalent, the 25 minute trip that my wife used to take to get to work is now 15-18 minutes but 10 minutes of that is now at 75+ so she's getting there faster and over a shorter distance but where there should be some gas savings there are none at all.
Idk how you define performance metrics but from what I'm seeing they're 12 months away from -barely matching- current gen consoles...
The Tegra 5 will have a stripped down kepler thats pushed hard for more power efficiency.
The Thermal Design and portable power limitations on these tablets and phones is just too low for what you're talking about.The tech is developing quickly but thats mostly because it was a new tech playing catch up. It still is, but it'll plateau pretty soon. It will keep the performance per watt and per heat unit crown but unless they extend this generation again it won't be doing anything like trouncing current gen consoles while they're still current gen.
I hope you meant to say tablets are 2-3 years from matching current gen consoles, because thats where they are at the moment.
Additionally there are shops all over the place replacing those batteries like mad. My aunt is on her 3rd one in an otherwise fully functional first gen ipad because she has no use for anything else.
Its a small sample group too... but most of the people I know have some form of tablet, and only maybe 2-3 of them use it heavily... of the 20 or so I can think of off the top of my head that have one. Hell, my 4 year old cousin prefers her laptop over the tablet because the tablet is clunky to use for typing anything, even with the attachable keyboard and 4-year old hands.
I maintain its impossible for me to use due to hand size, but maybe theres something else crappy about those keyboards that I can't use them enough to see.
So there is also that fad bubble that doesn't actually legitimately need or even want one that has one now because its the new thing.
Those that have a first gen tablet may upgrade to reduce lag, but everyone thats buying one right now? Its entirely possible they won't need to upgrade except in cases of breaking the existing one for 5+ years. You're going to hit saturation similar to whats happening with desktop and laptop PCs right now, except I believe the total saturation number is much lower than for PCs and we're going to hit that number much sooner because the days of needing to upgrade a tablet every 2-3 years... never existed in the first place.
It is not a fallacy. It has been in the past, but at present the economy, even looking at it on a global scale, is getting to the point where robots are quite literally displacing humans for which NO NEW ECONOMIES OR JOBS are being created for those people to fill because A) Robots in newer high tech fields are actually already better at doing what they do than humans are or B) not everyone can be a programmer.
There is a lump of work to be done, but its a moving target. That moving target directly correlates to a percentage of the global economy.
Automation rates are FAR outpacing growth rates, you do the math.
This is much more likely to fail than any of those simply due to hand positioning... do you always grab the gun exactly the same way?
I'm sure they've got something built in to deal with it but often it takes a gen or two for these types of techs to mature to real usability.
Safety is a safety, as long as its not broken you hit the same switch thats always in the same place. Ensuring every finger on your hand is in the exact right place on a grip is a bit trickier. Same comparison for the rest of the items mentioned.
Fixing a problem as large as the one at microsoft is a top-down job. You absolutely require a new CEO to fix it. Therefore stating that Ballmer is by far their largest problem is entirely accurate.
2012 - Microsoft introduces Metro to much wailing and gnashing of teeth 2013 - Microsoft retracts Metro 2014 - Google/Apple produce a new desktop/laptop interface that is/nearly/ functionally identical to Metro, but better in every single aspect, and preserves a lot of old idioms and computer access schemes in the new format, to the delight of everyone who uses it 2015 - Microsoft re-introduces Metro, is told they are copying, and doing so poorly.
Why do some fools think nested folders were a bad thing?
Some of the retarded lengths companies went to were bad, but nested folders, on the whole, are a VERY good thing. They allow me to organize everything into categories based on what I might want to do. I don't want to see every installed program thrown at me as soon as I open the start screen, and before you start telling me I can organize them the same way on the start screen: Yes, yes I can. Just in a less convenient, less efficient and tile-filled manner.
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Oh, of course. The thing is, both of those require as much or sometimes more physical labour than the navvy, plus training, and often some level of intelligence. Its not everyone that can DO the job of a carpenter, welder, metalworker etc. So when anyone who shows some modicum of intelligence is being pushed towards white collar jobs both by laziness and society, the dollar commanded by the tradesmen is just going to keep climbing.
The physical labour aspect also keeps most anyone that wants a quick buck from just jumping straight in.
Corn is actually so hard for humans to process and so bad for you after you do that you're actually better off letting the cows eat it.
There are other things the land could be used for sure, but I see corn mentioned a lot and thought I'd play devils advocate for a minute :)
Besides which, its no where near billions, and those that try to live a vegan lifestyle, particularly those of european desecent, usually have to stop before they literally kill themselves.
Pesco-Vegetarianism is the closest thing that most anyone of european descent can actually move to without drastic detrimental health-related side effects.
Believe it or not, the folks living in Southeast Asia have had a shortage of meat for so long that they've evolved a digestive system that makes much better use of plant material. Even as such, they are NOT vegetarians by and large, they simply consume a relatively large quantity of plants as a percentage of their diet in comparison to a normal european diet.
Perl is quick, dirty, and extremely useful in real world situations. Only a mostly out-of-touch-with-reality neckbeard would say that learning ASSEMBLY would have any benefit whatsoever to most normal jobs. Perl, VB .Net and SQL are probably the 3 handiest items to have at your disposal.
This is happening all over the place, big time. No one wants to do physical labor anymore, they're all growing up fucking soft.
I am actually a trained programmer(and actually a pretty good one, top of class, etc). I currently build houses. More money in it.
You're missing the point a bit. You don't need to be a programmer for every job, but having a basic knowledge of coding and maybe being able to churn out a perl script can be extremely useful in almost every job. It's also shit thats really easy to pick up.
The same as Word Processing and Spreadsheet skills are pretty well ubiquitous requirements for any job that can use them, I think some small amount of coding will start seeping in as well.
Construction Labourers are about the only ones who wouldn't need it at all.
I wouldn't say unemployable without conding skills, but I can see any sort of upwards momentum being severely limited by a lack of coding skills.
It always amazes me how many people have no idea either A) The game exists or if they have heard of it then B) That its basically Battlefield, star wars style.
That game was so much fun. WTB Battlefront 3, with AT-ATs.
Actually some modern automatic transmissions are better than all but the top 5% of drivers who drive manual transmissions for fuel economy.
Now now, let the people who actually understand how modern transmissions, modern engines, and modern cars + wind resistance actually work discuss this.
You go play in your government sanctioned toy box with your government issued books and continue to ignore that things outside your direct daily knowledge and interaction could possibly be done much better than what the government currently states.
FYI German drivers get better MPG numbers because of the autobahn and the fact that most of the cars have a gear for the average speed on the autobahn of 140-150 KM/hr.
You obviously have no understanding of how all of these things interact and deign to call me an idiot. Good job.
Manual transmissions, unless compared against a fairly expensive sport automatic transmission, provide better transfer of power from engine to ground, but you're generally burning more gas to do it. The 3.15 gears vs the 3.91 will get you similar(still usually somewhat better depending on the driver) acceleration as when it was automatic but gets the mileage to the same place as well. 3.91 gears on the manual vs the auto on a straight swap, if the car has any real horsepower you might have some trouble keeping tires on the car if you like to drive it hard :)
The main thrust of what changing the rear end gear does is #1) Increases torque to ground. You'll get more acceleration on the pop the larger the gear is and #2 increases the gas burned.
However you can end up with fuel economy savings on stop and go driving depending on your driving style. If you're getting better fuel economy on a 5 speed manual vs a 4 speed auto on 3.91 rear end you were probably punching that auto pretty hard on the lights and signs.
Mostly directed at people who may have no idea what you were talking about :). Generally someone doing a auto to manual trans swap is well aware of the pros/cons.
There is a point where it gets much worse... but not the force itself, its merely that the force, because its an exponential force, gets worse and worse faster and faster the higher you go.
The point at which it gets unbearable varies from vehicle to vehicle based on several vehicle characteristics, mainly engine horsepower, drivetrain, and aerodynamics. The main thrust of the explanation was to simply and quickly debunk the 65mph bullshit that gets tossed around. Its a force that acts on every car, even when the car is barely moving, but the point at which it becomes untenable is not where it was stated as being.
Headwind drag increasing greatly above 65 is a myth that needs to fucking die. Unless you are driving INTO the wind, wind drag on most modern cars isnt a large concern until at least 80 and for some car designs not even up to 100mph. It is true that wind resistance gets very very bad very very fast after a certain point, but that point is not 65mph. The only vehicles for which its anything close to 60-65mph are transport trucks.
By large concern I mean a gearing change can't take care of the wind resistance mileage loss and more besides.
Consumer reports tends to be a bit sensational. They do get put on a treadmill but the EPA numbers are also based on a circuit of real road driving. 3 tests are done and the average of those tests are then used as the EPA rating.
Additionally theres no such thing as a frictionless treadmill, and the treadmill they use is actually able to adjust its load to simulate real world resistances.
There are plenty of real reasons to bash the EPA ratings, there was no need for consumer reports to exaggerate and make shit up.
It does greatly depend on the car, as I mentioned my old Cavalier was better on fuel at the higher speeds. Now the civic is better than anything else I've ever had just driving around town at ~35mph but it fails badly at highway speeds. Not bashing on Honda, Honda does make some decent reliable vehicles, I did buy one after all. Besides that though the TSX is basically a civic but slightly better in all ways, I wouldn't be surprised if the tranny had an extra half-overdrive gear similar to the one my old cavalier, or at least a shorter final gear. Its entirely possible and even likely that your TSX is better on fuel at those speeds than the civic I'm talking about.
Also I'm not sure how it is where you are but a speed limit of 65 is fairly common everywhere I've driven, and your cruising speed of 78 is extremely common here for any highway/expressway driving when the listed limit is 65. I don't even know why the hell you've listed 65-68 as real world conditions for most people and then straight away admitted your own comfortable cruising speed is at least 10mph higher.
Speed limits and police attitudes are starting to catch up to car technology and ability and the EPA needs to play catch up. They should introduce a new tier of MPG at 75 MPH so that the consumer can buy a vehicle more suited to their own driving conditions and style. When a 350 RWHP 10 year old Mustang is getting better mpg at any sort of highway speed than a new what I consider an "economy" car its fucking frightening.
Thats not even slightly true. The Highway speed limit here is 65mph but normal highway speed is actually 75-80mph. At 80 mph in a 2010 Honda Civic I get WORSE gas mileage than in a 2003 Mustang thats had mods done to it that reduces its gas mileage. Its entirely due to the fact that the last gear on the automatic trans in the civic is designed for optimal gas mileage for the EPA rating @ 60MPH and there is no shorter gear. My old 2000 Chev Cavalier wasn't as bad because there seemed to be some sort of extra half overdrive gear at around 75-78.
My Auto 2011 F-150 and the 2009 Silverado I had before it both had the same problems. They were most efficient sitting right at 60mph... which isn't even the speed limit. 5 over wasn't so bad, but once you hit 10+ over....
With expressways and everything else becoming so prevalent, the 25 minute trip that my wife used to take to get to work is now 15-18 minutes but 10 minutes of that is now at 75+ so she's getting there faster and over a shorter distance but where there should be some gas savings there are none at all.
Get me an order link and I'll buy like 20 of those. XXL Tall please :P
Idk how you define performance metrics but from what I'm seeing they're 12 months away from -barely matching- current gen consoles...
The Tegra 5 will have a stripped down kepler thats pushed hard for more power efficiency.
The Thermal Design and portable power limitations on these tablets and phones is just too low for what you're talking about.The tech is developing quickly but thats mostly because it was a new tech playing catch up. It still is, but it'll plateau pretty soon. It will keep the performance per watt and per heat unit crown but unless they extend this generation again it won't be doing anything like trouncing current gen consoles while they're still current gen.
I hope you meant to say tablets are 2-3 years from matching current gen consoles, because thats where they are at the moment.
Additionally there are shops all over the place replacing those batteries like mad. My aunt is on her 3rd one in an otherwise fully functional first gen ipad because she has no use for anything else.
Its a small sample group too... but most of the people I know have some form of tablet, and only maybe 2-3 of them use it heavily... of the 20 or so I can think of off the top of my head that have one. Hell, my 4 year old cousin prefers her laptop over the tablet because the tablet is clunky to use for typing anything, even with the attachable keyboard and 4-year old hands.
I maintain its impossible for me to use due to hand size, but maybe theres something else crappy about those keyboards that I can't use them enough to see.
So there is also that fad bubble that doesn't actually legitimately need or even want one that has one now because its the new thing.
You've got it nailed.
Those that have a first gen tablet may upgrade to reduce lag, but everyone thats buying one right now? Its entirely possible they won't need to upgrade except in cases of breaking the existing one for 5+ years. You're going to hit saturation similar to whats happening with desktop and laptop PCs right now, except I believe the total saturation number is much lower than for PCs and we're going to hit that number much sooner because the days of needing to upgrade a tablet every 2-3 years... never existed in the first place.
It is not a fallacy. It has been in the past, but at present the economy, even looking at it on a global scale, is getting to the point where robots are quite literally displacing humans for which NO NEW ECONOMIES OR JOBS are being created for those people to fill because A) Robots in newer high tech fields are actually already better at doing what they do than humans are or B) not everyone can be a programmer.
There is a lump of work to be done, but its a moving target. That moving target directly correlates to a percentage of the global economy.
Automation rates are FAR outpacing growth rates, you do the math.
This is much more likely to fail than any of those simply due to hand positioning... do you always grab the gun exactly the same way?
I'm sure they've got something built in to deal with it but often it takes a gen or two for these types of techs to mature to real usability.
Safety is a safety, as long as its not broken you hit the same switch thats always in the same place. Ensuring every finger on your hand is in the exact right place on a grip is a bit trickier. Same comparison for the rest of the items mentioned.
Fixing a problem as large as the one at microsoft is a top-down job. You absolutely require a new CEO to fix it. Therefore stating that Ballmer is by far their largest problem is entirely accurate.
2012 - Microsoft introduces Metro to much wailing and gnashing of teeth /nearly/ functionally identical to Metro, but better in every single aspect, and preserves a lot of old idioms and computer access schemes in the new format, to the delight of everyone who uses it
2013 - Microsoft retracts Metro
2014 - Google/Apple produce a new desktop/laptop interface that is
2015 - Microsoft re-introduces Metro, is told they are copying, and doing so poorly.
FTFY.
Why do some fools think nested folders were a bad thing?
Some of the retarded lengths companies went to were bad, but nested folders, on the whole, are a VERY good thing. They allow me to organize everything into categories based on what I might want to do. I don't want to see every installed program thrown at me as soon as I open the start screen, and before you start telling me I can organize them the same way on the start screen: Yes, yes I can. Just in a less convenient, less efficient and tile-filled manner.