Ever consider that the setup might be to help them *SELL* the bigger more expensive set? Take Bored's example of being able to see that a dude's shirt is striped vs just plain red. I saw videos like that before when they were trying upsell from 480 to 720 to 1080.
Consider that in your case they went from a 70" to an 80" - did you make sure you got ~5" closer to account for the smaller screen with the lower resolution? Were you actually as far away as you would be in your living room, or did you get closer? I'm betting they were showing fairly static scenes as well.
That's without getting into sneakier things like feeding the 70" with a 720 or even a 480 image rather than a true 1080 one. Messing with color balances and such.
Was it part of a proper double blind study? Because just like sound, there's all sorts of ways to make a picture 'look' better in ways other than pixel density. Brightness properly set for the room, angling of the lighting in the room, color balance, etc...
Think about weight loss/exercise before/after pictures, where they feature a grumpy 'before' without any makeup, and a smiling person in makeup and nice clothing afterwards.
The warranty is a legal obligation, and one a company would have a responsibility to fulfill, and if the company is bought by someone else, it becomes their obligation.
It depends on how the company was bought. Once it hits the bankruptcy court everything is up to grabs, and warranty coverage is a debt. Generally a company that buys it 'stock and barrel' will end up honoring the warranties, but it's not a guarantee.
Oh yeah, and I'm reminded of 'Never buy the first year of a new/significantly revised model' my family taught me. I wish the best of luck to Tesla, but it's not only a new car, it's a new car by a new car company, using new technology. I'm shocked they're having as few problems as they are.
Other than it being out of my price range period, give me the model after the model X(the SUV/minivan crossover that's coming out next), after it's been out a couple years.
In addition, there's a difference between a sample size of 150k and 20k. 12 out of 150k is a much more meaningful number than 3 out of 20k. In addition, Ford has developed a physical fix, while Tesla was able to impliment a fix via software update. If they chose to follow that up with a hardware fix, that has to be designed and implimented.
Given that the incidents in question were all after collisions that probably would have totaled most vehicle anyways, and were nice enough to wait long enough for the people to evacuate the car, I'm not sure it's as serious of an issue as 'spontaneously combusts while parked'.
My parents have dogs; dad uses old plastic bags for pick-up duty. It's rare that they can't use more plastic bags...
I'd also like to see the smallest bags go away, especially when I'm buying only 1 thing. They can't hold more than I can stick in my pockets anyways, and I'd rather have one big one than 3 small ones. At least I can use the big one in my bathroom trash can.
Not really, I think. Remember that they've done studies on all sorts of stuff and they pretty much ALWAYS find bacteria. Heck, our toilets tend to be less contaminated than things like toothbrushes and doorknobs. You'd think we stored our dish scrubbers in the sewer from what's on them. Yet we hardly ever get sick from those exposures.
For that matter, e coli? Yes, it has the potential to make us sick, but it's also an essential part of our digestive tract.
What I wish I could find is semi-cheap reusable bags that are both tough* and NOT emblazoned with a message about how 'green' I'm being. I like reusables due to toughness, but as somebody mentioned earlier - I go for the plastic bags every so often just to get them to use for bin liners and such.
The mechanics of resource usage for both disposable and reusable bags can be curious. It can literally take hundreds of disposables to make up for the materials for one reusable(to be fair, the reusable would at that point be both larger and stronger). If you're a clean-freak and want to wash your bags every use(yes, I've seen this mentioned on forums), the energy used to wash, provide the detergent, and sometimes even dry the bags can easily end up using more 'resources' than using and disposing of plastic bags. It's the old milk bottle dilema - more energy is used to wash and sterilize reusable milk bottles than is present in and used to manufacture disposable ones.
I suspect that the bigger question would be whether you find yourself comfortably able to use real estate that is that far out of the center of your field of view
I want to test it! Though at least for windows use I suspect I'd want to install something that modifies 'full screen' behavior. I remember the old days when you needed special software so that 'maximize' didn't spread your app across ALL the windows, and it had the nice feature that it stuck a button on maximized apps that automatically sent it, still maximized, to the other screen. I'm thinking I might end up wanting some software that turns it into ~4 virtual monitors.
Of course, there's still the issue that way too many apps waste far too much space and don't look right if they're not taking up at least half a normal widescreen monitor.
What's interesting is the question on why public transit is viewed so differently than other public functions.
You want to know what's really odd? I'm a moderate libertarian/practical minarchist and thus approach it from a substantially different angle, but come to more or less the same conclusion. I approach it from the point that a city is a economic complex. Consider theme parks - most of them have substantial free transport within them, because that makes it more attractive. Same deal with airports, even some malls.
Now that we're considering a city in the context that it's sort of like a mega-mall, we then have to consider the city's purpose - which in my mind is 'provide it's residents a decent or better life'. Note it's 'better life', not 'more money'. Subtle but important distinction. In order to do that currently you need to provide a climate that attracts businesses that pay wages, property taxes, and everything else. That climate is a mix of not too high taxes combined with the proper services and availability of skilled labor and proper services.
Part of attracting or developing skilled labor is things like how nice the city is to live in - transportation, education, food, water, etc... We're looking specifically at transportation here.
Roads might be step 1, but they have limited capacity, and after a point expanding that capacity costs hilareous amounts of money. After a point, providing alternatives, even if they have to be free to the user, can still be cheaper than expanding the road networks. Especially if you start considering things like air quality as one of the factors for quality of life. As such, view public transit like roads - things you do to make the lives of your citizens better while still attracting enough businesses to keep said citizens employed and provide the tax base to provide said citizens. In considering a 'free to the user' transit system I'd have to do a cost-benefit analysis, of course.
While it could be considered more 'proper' to convert it to watts, I'll note that I was simply reporting from the article. 188 watts is a lot, yes, but it requires people to do (more)math to figure out how much it's costing them, plus the power demand may not be constantly that level.
So saying that a fridge, for example, 'Uses an average of 1.2kwh per day' makes perfect sense.
This just cements my belief that the Canadian criminal system - as imperfect as it is - is better than the American one. Municipalities cannot enact any criminal ordinances and provinces are strictly limited in criminal law. Criminal Law is seen as being Federal Jurisdiction.
At least in the case of the concealed carry thing where the police view an open carry holster as 'concealment', I feel the need to point out that what the police are doing isn't legal. What happened is that the state overrode the city, telling them that yes, due to the state constitution and state law, open carry is legal. So the police of a very anti-gun city within that state went 'creative' with their interpretation of 'concealed'. It's not a matter of the law, it's how the local authorities are interpreting said law. Like I said, it's routinely slapped down when it gets to court.
It's a bit like people who say the second is about authorizing the national guard to have weapons. (It's about regulating* the militia AND preserving the right of the people to arms).
*Which in this context means like a 'regulated watch' or regulated power supply - IE it's designed to stay within specifications, IE work.
I like the idea of a Tesla, but it's way out of my price range. Also not a Tesla engineer, so I'll admit to very little clue. Thinking back to some of the quirks for the roadster I wonder if it's running a cooling pump or keeping the batteries warmed to operating temperature. Even keeping all the electrical doohickeys lit in the cabin shouldn't consume that much power.
Though it's important to remember that Tesla is still a small car manufacturer, I'd expect more 'quirks' with them, much like Lamborghini and such.
Reported drain is between 3-4.5 kwh/day, at 12 cents a kwh for the maximum rate that's basically $200 of electricity a year.
Now consider that you're a Tesla fanboy(because you bought a Tesla), that suing Tesla now might drive them bankrupt(no more Tesla EV's, parts, updates for yours), and that by reports the company tends to be fairly responsive.
Tesla might throw them a freebie and call it good, but they might not want to do that until the issue is actually fixed, so they know the magnitude of what they need to pay.
Keep in mind the legal battle to prove that Tesla said in some legal fashion that vampire drain would be guaranteed to be below 4.5kwh/day.
Probably so, but while details are lacking, vampire draw has been dropping for decades, and took a BIG hit with the switch from CRT to LED. I know I metered my 2008 LED TV and it's standby was 2 watts.
Then the battery will discharge, about 5% of a full charge per day.
OUCH. 60 kwh*5% = 3kwh/day. That's 125 watts, just standing by. As a contrast, most products produced today are limited to.5 watt or less when 'off' to receive energy ratings
The article itself mentions it's 4.5kwh/188 watts, which is 7.5% a day, not 5%. But that's even worse.:(
It's not a law in my state, thank you very much(compartment law), plus remember it's the cops making a very creative interpretation of 'concealed', not actual law, that has them arresting people with OC belt holsters for CCW because it's not visible from their left side(for a right sided carry). Remember that different states are different, heck even moving within a state can expose you to vastly different law enforcement styles.
I've written legislaters before, snail-mail, and dropped them an electronic message far more often. Any cop arguing that a gun was concealed My state has, on average, gotten rid of controls on individuals, not increased them, in the time I've been there.
Oh, and X- a rifle is easy enough to 'hide' in a coat if the coat is big enough. I could hide a bazooka in my parka. The only requirement is that it's concealed enough that you can't go 'yep, it's a gun' from the sight of the package.
Different installers have different levels of ability. It's a bit like complaining that a $5 lock is easier to pick than a $100 one.
I figure the wires were adequately concealed until the cops got an idea that a compartment might be there and went looking for more evidence, which included removing panels to see said wiring.
TFA: "it also outlaws anybody who has been convicted of felony aggravated drug trafficking laws from operating any vehicle with hidden compartments. "
I wonder about my truck in that case - it has a number of 'compartments', such as some trays 'hidden' underneath the rear seats, where the jack and such are and I've added some things like my first aid kit. They aren't big, but still enough to keep pounds of drugs if you wanted to.
Intent to Distribute is just a formal way of saying somebody had more pot than they could ever smoke.
Depends on the drug. At least with smoking pot I figure the stuff can go stale, so this is true. But what about processed cocaine? Pain medication?
If I was addicted to pain pills(I'm not) such as oxycontin, I might consider trying to obtain a year's supply - a greater risk getting it home, once. After that I have my supply and don't have to worry about it anymore. But the law defines anything more than 6 pills(1 day supply) as intent to distribute....
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Ever consider that the setup might be to help them *SELL* the bigger more expensive set? Take Bored's example of being able to see that a dude's shirt is striped vs just plain red. I saw videos like that before when they were trying upsell from 480 to 720 to 1080.
Consider that in your case they went from a 70" to an 80" - did you make sure you got ~5" closer to account for the smaller screen with the lower resolution? Were you actually as far away as you would be in your living room, or did you get closer? I'm betting they were showing fairly static scenes as well.
That's without getting into sneakier things like feeding the 70" with a 720 or even a 480 image rather than a true 1080 one. Messing with color balances and such.
Was it part of a proper double blind study? Because just like sound, there's all sorts of ways to make a picture 'look' better in ways other than pixel density. Brightness properly set for the room, angling of the lighting in the room, color balance, etc...
Think about weight loss/exercise before/after pictures, where they feature a grumpy 'before' without any makeup, and a smiling person in makeup and nice clothing afterwards.
The warranty is a legal obligation, and one a company would have a responsibility to fulfill, and if the company is bought by someone else, it becomes their obligation.
It depends on how the company was bought. Once it hits the bankruptcy court everything is up to grabs, and warranty coverage is a debt. Generally a company that buys it 'stock and barrel' will end up honoring the warranties, but it's not a guarantee.
Oh yeah, and I'm reminded of 'Never buy the first year of a new/significantly revised model' my family taught me. I wish the best of luck to Tesla, but it's not only a new car, it's a new car by a new car company, using new technology. I'm shocked they're having as few problems as they are.
Other than it being out of my price range period, give me the model after the model X(the SUV/minivan crossover that's coming out next), after it's been out a couple years.
In addition, there's a difference between a sample size of 150k and 20k. 12 out of 150k is a much more meaningful number than 3 out of 20k. In addition, Ford has developed a physical fix, while Tesla was able to impliment a fix via software update. If they chose to follow that up with a hardware fix, that has to be designed and implimented.
Given that the incidents in question were all after collisions that probably would have totaled most vehicle anyways, and were nice enough to wait long enough for the people to evacuate the car, I'm not sure it's as serious of an issue as 'spontaneously combusts while parked'.
My parents have dogs; dad uses old plastic bags for pick-up duty. It's rare that they can't use more plastic bags...
I'd also like to see the smallest bags go away, especially when I'm buying only 1 thing. They can't hold more than I can stick in my pockets anyways, and I'd rather have one big one than 3 small ones. At least I can use the big one in my bathroom trash can.
If you want to take your chances with bacteria, salmonella, etc.--go for it.
Keep a distinctive bag for your meat products then. I still think the hazard from 'bacteria everywhere!!!!' is overstated.
In other words, you don't have to remember to bring them to the store, just as long as you remember to bring them to the store.
I'd simply say to remember to toss them back in your vehicle when you're done unloading.
Not really, I think. Remember that they've done studies on all sorts of stuff and they pretty much ALWAYS find bacteria. Heck, our toilets tend to be less contaminated than things like toothbrushes and doorknobs. You'd think we stored our dish scrubbers in the sewer from what's on them. Yet we hardly ever get sick from those exposures.
For that matter, e coli? Yes, it has the potential to make us sick, but it's also an essential part of our digestive tract.
Case in point on there being people who insist on washing the bags every time.
What I wish I could find is semi-cheap reusable bags that are both tough* and NOT emblazoned with a message about how 'green' I'm being. I like reusables due to toughness, but as somebody mentioned earlier - I go for the plastic bags every so often just to get them to use for bin liners and such.
The mechanics of resource usage for both disposable and reusable bags can be curious. It can literally take hundreds of disposables to make up for the materials for one reusable(to be fair, the reusable would at that point be both larger and stronger). If you're a clean-freak and want to wash your bags every use(yes, I've seen this mentioned on forums), the energy used to wash, provide the detergent, and sometimes even dry the bags can easily end up using more 'resources' than using and disposing of plastic bags. It's the old milk bottle dilema - more energy is used to wash and sterilize reusable milk bottles than is present in and used to manufacture disposable ones.
*As in I can wash them.
I suspect that the bigger question would be whether you find yourself comfortably able to use real estate that is that far out of the center of your field of view
I want to test it! Though at least for windows use I suspect I'd want to install something that modifies 'full screen' behavior. I remember the old days when you needed special software so that 'maximize' didn't spread your app across ALL the windows, and it had the nice feature that it stuck a button on maximized apps that automatically sent it, still maximized, to the other screen. I'm thinking I might end up wanting some software that turns it into ~4 virtual monitors.
Of course, there's still the issue that way too many apps waste far too much space and don't look right if they're not taking up at least half a normal widescreen monitor.
What's interesting is the question on why public transit is viewed so differently than other public functions.
You want to know what's really odd? I'm a moderate libertarian/practical minarchist and thus approach it from a substantially different angle, but come to more or less the same conclusion. I approach it from the point that a city is a economic complex. Consider theme parks - most of them have substantial free transport within them, because that makes it more attractive. Same deal with airports, even some malls.
Now that we're considering a city in the context that it's sort of like a mega-mall, we then have to consider the city's purpose - which in my mind is 'provide it's residents a decent or better life'. Note it's 'better life', not 'more money'. Subtle but important distinction. In order to do that currently you need to provide a climate that attracts businesses that pay wages, property taxes, and everything else. That climate is a mix of not too high taxes combined with the proper services and availability of skilled labor and proper services.
Part of attracting or developing skilled labor is things like how nice the city is to live in - transportation, education, food, water, etc... We're looking specifically at transportation here.
Roads might be step 1, but they have limited capacity, and after a point expanding that capacity costs hilareous amounts of money. After a point, providing alternatives, even if they have to be free to the user, can still be cheaper than expanding the road networks. Especially if you start considering things like air quality as one of the factors for quality of life. As such, view public transit like roads - things you do to make the lives of your citizens better while still attracting enough businesses to keep said citizens employed and provide the tax base to provide said citizens. In considering a 'free to the user' transit system I'd have to do a cost-benefit analysis, of course.
(keep in mind that all this is off the cuff).
While it could be considered more 'proper' to convert it to watts, I'll note that I was simply reporting from the article. 188 watts is a lot, yes, but it requires people to do (more)math to figure out how much it's costing them, plus the power demand may not be constantly that level.
So saying that a fridge, for example, 'Uses an average of 1.2kwh per day' makes perfect sense.
This just cements my belief that the Canadian criminal system - as imperfect as it is - is better than the American one. Municipalities cannot enact any criminal ordinances and provinces are strictly limited in criminal law. Criminal Law is seen as being Federal Jurisdiction.
At least in the case of the concealed carry thing where the police view an open carry holster as 'concealment', I feel the need to point out that what the police are doing isn't legal. What happened is that the state overrode the city, telling them that yes, due to the state constitution and state law, open carry is legal. So the police of a very anti-gun city within that state went 'creative' with their interpretation of 'concealed'. It's not a matter of the law, it's how the local authorities are interpreting said law. Like I said, it's routinely slapped down when it gets to court.
It's a bit like people who say the second is about authorizing the national guard to have weapons. (It's about regulating* the militia AND preserving the right of the people to arms).
*Which in this context means like a 'regulated watch' or regulated power supply - IE it's designed to stay within specifications, IE work.
I like the idea of a Tesla, but it's way out of my price range. Also not a Tesla engineer, so I'll admit to very little clue. Thinking back to some of the quirks for the roadster I wonder if it's running a cooling pump or keeping the batteries warmed to operating temperature. Even keeping all the electrical doohickeys lit in the cabin shouldn't consume that much power.
Though it's important to remember that Tesla is still a small car manufacturer, I'd expect more 'quirks' with them, much like Lamborghini and such.
Reported drain is between 3-4.5 kwh/day, at 12 cents a kwh for the maximum rate that's basically $200 of electricity a year.
Now consider that you're a Tesla fanboy(because you bought a Tesla), that suing Tesla now might drive them bankrupt(no more Tesla EV's, parts, updates for yours), and that by reports the company tends to be fairly responsive.
Tesla might throw them a freebie and call it good, but they might not want to do that until the issue is actually fixed, so they know the magnitude of what they need to pay.
Keep in mind the legal battle to prove that Tesla said in some legal fashion that vampire drain would be guaranteed to be below 4.5kwh/day.
Probably so, but while details are lacking, vampire draw has been dropping for decades, and took a BIG hit with the switch from CRT to LED. I know I metered my 2008 LED TV and it's standby was 2 watts.
You might be a little high on an average of 10W on standby. The limit has been 1W since 2010, and is .5W starting this year.
But yeah, I wouldn't be happy with the car I bought to be energy efficient burning almost as much power as I need for my daily commute every day.
Then the battery will discharge, about 5% of a full charge per day.
OUCH. .5 watt or less when 'off' to receive energy ratings
60 kwh*5% = 3kwh/day. That's 125 watts, just standing by. As a contrast, most products produced today are limited to
The article itself mentions it's 4.5kwh/188 watts, which is 7.5% a day, not 5%. But that's even worse. :(
It's not a law in my state, thank you very much(compartment law), plus remember it's the cops making a very creative interpretation of 'concealed', not actual law, that has them arresting people with OC belt holsters for CCW because it's not visible from their left side(for a right sided carry). Remember that different states are different, heck even moving within a state can expose you to vastly different law enforcement styles.
I've written legislaters before, snail-mail, and dropped them an electronic message far more often. Any cop arguing that a gun was concealed My state has, on average, gotten rid of controls on individuals, not increased them, in the time I've been there.
Oh, and X- a rifle is easy enough to 'hide' in a coat if the coat is big enough. I could hide a bazooka in my parka. The only requirement is that it's concealed enough that you can't go 'yep, it's a gun' from the sight of the package.
Different installers have different levels of ability. It's a bit like complaining that a $5 lock is easier to pick than a $100 one.
I figure the wires were adequately concealed until the cops got an idea that a compartment might be there and went looking for more evidence, which included removing panels to see said wiring.
So toss a mp3 player, gold ring and $100 in $20's in there or something.
TFA: "it also outlaws anybody who has been convicted of felony aggravated drug trafficking laws from operating any vehicle with hidden compartments. "
I wonder about my truck in that case - it has a number of 'compartments', such as some trays 'hidden' underneath the rear seats, where the jack and such are and I've added some things like my first aid kit. They aren't big, but still enough to keep pounds of drugs if you wanted to.
Intent to Distribute is just a formal way of saying somebody had more pot than they could ever smoke.
Depends on the drug. At least with smoking pot I figure the stuff can go stale, so this is true. But what about processed cocaine? Pain medication?
If I was addicted to pain pills(I'm not) such as oxycontin, I might consider trying to obtain a year's supply - a greater risk getting it home, once. After that I have my supply and don't have to worry about it anymore. But the law defines anything more than 6 pills(1 day supply) as intent to distribute....
Given that everyone drives at about (max+5) mph, this gives them a perfect excuse to stop anyone at any time.
What's even funnier is if you're not going max+5(10) they'll stop you for 'impeding traffic'. You just can't win.