We have gone from a post-Truth world to a post-Government world where absolutely everything the government does it does so with emergency powers not intended for that purpose.
- POTUS using executive orders to determine immigration policy. - The purchase and import of German cars is a national security threat. And now this. - Companies (small enough to simply fail) going bust constitutes a natural disaster.
There's a name normally given to a leader who uses powers without oversight or recourse in a way not intended to push through things that wouldn't succeed through a normal political process.
Sure because making a loss and constantly re-tooling the factory is exactly what you do when your price insensitive customers get a few measly dollars tax credit.
They are spending a lot of money trying to increase the production speed only to not increase the production speed and continue burning money by your theory.
When robots install parts, they are always designed to be installed by robots. That's how it's done.
Designed to be installed by robots, and specifically designed to be easier for robots to install are not the same thing.
The battery pack on the Model S was installed partially with adhesives, so....
Not sure how that was relevant. The point here was the the Model S battery pack was designed and demonstrated to be swappable in 40 seconds. The Model 3 not so.
If the components are $18,000, labor is $10,000, and factory depreciation is $10,000 [1], then Tesla should have been making a profit on those $70,000 premium Model 3 sales, but somehow that's not reflected in their Q1 report.
Is that before or after you take into account constant factory modifications? Telsa is ramping up and spending money doing it. And they're not done: https://www.teslarati.com/tesl...
Also that labour estimate is final labour costs of assembly. That doesn't include overhead, rework, factory downtime, production changes, all of which seem to be happening constantly as Tesla tries to ramp up. Looking at the numbers it would seem that they imply a steady state operation.
To say "french" is a bit too generous. German can manufacturers have not put serious efforts into the EV business yet. Neither really has anyone else in Europe with the single notable exception of Renault.
That is changing. 2017 saw the Renault Zoe head and shoulders above all other EV manufacturers. German manufactures had position 3, 7, 8 and 10. With the remainder being a few Asian cars and some Teslas.
In January this year the e-Golf outsold the Zoe for the first time. Year to date paints the Germans in a very different picture:
1: Smart For2 ED 1947 2: VW e-Golf 1905 3: Renault Zoe 1719 4: Kia Soul EV 1668 5: BWM i3 1620 6: VW Golf GTE 1113 7: VW Passat GTE 1066 8: Smart For4 ED 1058 9: BMW 225xe 943 10: Mercedes E350e 813
Number 11, 12, 16 and 18 are also German manufacturers.
Expect to see many more German EVs on German roads.
Ahh but is it. For all the theoretical work that has been done on the topic the impact has been what in real terms of reliability? Where are the buildings falling down, the money disappearing from accounts? Where's the physics simulations gone wrong, or the random data corruption? Where are the reliability problems when serving up content? Where are the lockups and crashes of our devices? Where is the detrimental impact to our communication?
You see, it's so bad that companies who handle truly critical data did a bit of a study and implemented ECC while the entire world itself effectively experiences zero reliability issues.
You want to spend the extra money, go for it, but the reality is our computers are plenty reliable for even very critical tasks (workstations, rather than consumers) without ECC memory, and we have a good 28 years of experience proving that there's no reason at all to roll out ECC as the norm.
You claim my statement is ignorant, all the while ignoring the fact that it's not likelihood that governs our lives. It's risk. And risk is likelihood combined with the consequence, which for the personal computer is so close to insignificant that it... well it's insignificant. The same can not be said for a datacentre processing bank transactions, or Google being paid a fortune to look after critical data for other companies.
But nobody blamed oil paints and canvas for the mental problems of artists.
Erm yes they did. Analysis of paintings and history show that a great many artists went through various stages of depression and suffered various mental health issues pursuing their art. By pointing to "the canvas" and likening it to "Youtube" you have fantastically missed the point. Youtube isn't the canvas, Adobe Premier is the canvas. Youtube is the client who provides you food.
Is YouTube forcing these people to put up content?
Are you forced to go to work?
It's interesting how we're all happy to shit on companies that treat their employees like crap, but suddenly we talk about people making a living off youtube videos and the company gets a pass.
The "you can always find another job" argument is as lame here as it is in any other situation.
Mental health issues are not like a broken leg. There are very big differences between experiencing burnout, depression, withdrawal vs traits precursor to mental health issues that come with seeking stardom.
What you said is the equivalent of: Those who will suffer medical problems at some point in their life are drawn to work. Well. Yes, in a general sense. But you weren't trying to be general.
Do you? Does your company burn you out? Are you battling mental health problems as a result of your work? Something tells me you don't have it as bad, and definitely not worse.
Well you might, but certainly "all" people do not.
If your work leads to burn-out then you're in an incredibly shit job for a company that doesn't care much about you at all, and no protections for your own mental health. Oh wait, American right?
Youtube doesn't need to provide professional help for these attention seeking assholes.
Actually it's quite the opposite. Youtube is a platform that thrives on content to produce advertising dollars. The best advertising dollars come from the most consistent viewership (which is why something like Superbowl leads to very expensive advertisement contracts).
Destroy your top content producers and people will make a move, if you're lucky they stay on the platform and another top content producer takes their place. If you're unlucky they discover the great outdoors.
Yes the world doesn't own these guys shit, but it's far more nuanced than to say you could simply fuckem without any impact at all on the wider scale.
The only thing verifiable here is that you're not getting them. Head over to sammobile.com and see a steady string of officially published firmwares. The latest version 2 weeks ago was the may security update. They literally rolled it out a week after google did. https://www.sammobile.com/2018...
Hell, this article is about that very fact.
If you think that then maybe you should learn to read. This article has nothing to do with regular updates and everything to do with service life.
Samsung does not release updates for every version of every model phone
Hmmm I swear those goalposts were over there a minute ago from your S8. No matter, you'd still be quite wrong. Samsung literally push out several hundreds of firmware updates every year for the line of phones, they are all published and you can go sort through them yourself, no need to take my word for it. Just because you don't get them doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Currently right now the latest security patch level for Android is May 2018. The following Samsung devices have had updated firmware rolled out: Galaxy S7 J2 J1Mini J7 A6 A8. The flagship devices get updated towards the end of the month with a more staged approach, S9/+ S8/+ Note8 already having updated firmware out in Asia, some of the EU, and some US carriers with the remainder expected to be done within the next week or two. Until then if you're on the unlucky list you're just going to have to live with your 3 week old security version (April release). Hell the J2 got the update the same day that Google published it. Their policy is to update flagship phones towards the end of the month (cheaper phones are good for ironing out bugs in security fixes).
My lack of updates was not exclusive to my carrier.
Doesn't need to be, either way it's not Samsung's fault. Your phone has had it's updates published regularly.
Yes, OS updates aren't security updates. They are, however, no less fucking important.
I think you need some perspective. You're owed security, but not an endless string of new features (not that modern Android really has any).
Since they were so tight on space maybe now that they've clearly miniturised components to the point where they can fit more shit in, maybe they could bring the headphone jack back.
Which is of interest to whom? No seriously unless your bank is verifying your house purchase transaction using a Core i5, what benefit is there in ECC RAM for an average user, I mean other than having lighter wallets and less performance?
A) Phone's are nothing more than tiny ARM PC's with built-in screens
There was a time where if it didn't run Windows on an Intel core it wasn't called a PC at all. There was a whole company who claimed that their products were different to PCs, I think their products were called Justin Long, or maybe that was just an actor pretending to be their product, can't remember.
Point is: Go to a random person in the street and ask them what a PC is, I will bet you a Mars bar no one points to your phone. It may be your personal device which can compute, but a PC it ain't.
PCs are more than just 'Personal Computers.' They are phones and all kinds of devices...
Sure, if you pedantically separate the term "personal" and "computer" into it's core components and apply it to everything you own that computes then yes. Back in the real world a PC has a widely accepted definition that sure as heck has nothing to do with your mobile phone or any other kind of device.
R-12 worked a hell of a lot better than R-134a. You can still pick up cans but it's not cheap.
Leaded petrol worked a lot better than unleaded too. What's your point? Fuck over everything for sake of tiny increases in convenience for ancient gear? Phosphoric acid is a better de-scaler and rust remover than it's replacements. Benzine is a better window cleaner than ammonia, not that there's much ammonia in modern cleaners either.
We can achieve a great many things when we don't give a shit about the consequences. R-134a is just fine as a refrigerant.
Errr no. R-134a is a retrofit replacement. If you are crushing things or someone recommended crushing things they were trying to sell you shit you didn't need. Do you even google bro?
All of my cars and refrigerators still require R-12 you intolerant bastard.
And when they break you will most likely be required to capture any R-12 and convert to R-134a. You poor little shitty old inefficient fridge and AC will keep running and the world will be better off because of it.
Everyone wins. Especially those people sick of high UV levels everywhere.
Cool story, thanks for you insight. I mean we all know the rest of south east Asia is a shining example of cleanliness and responsible environmentalism.
I mean you may be right, China is big and has a high population so statistically it could be them. But you didn't use statistics to make your decision, only bias.
Wanking over brand is not the same as film vs digital elitism. Also the overwhelming majority of photographers I know compare brands jokingly knowing full well there's very little that separates them.
Only if the gun has a knife on the end and is used as a sword. The difference between film and digital for photography? One guy needs to unload and reload film every 24 shots while the digital shooters go on coffee break. Unless your course spent a good part of it on developing film then there's no reason to exclude digital cameras other than elitism. There are petty few things different between shooting film and digital and nearly all of the principles of photography and how to use a camera apply to both.
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We have gone from a post-Truth world to a post-Government world where absolutely everything the government does it does so with emergency powers not intended for that purpose.
- POTUS using executive orders to determine immigration policy.
- The purchase and import of German cars is a national security threat.
And now this.
- Companies (small enough to simply fail) going bust constitutes a natural disaster.
There's a name normally given to a leader who uses powers without oversight or recourse in a way not intended to push through things that wouldn't succeed through a normal political process.
Sure because making a loss and constantly re-tooling the factory is exactly what you do when your price insensitive customers get a few measly dollars tax credit.
They are spending a lot of money trying to increase the production speed only to not increase the production speed and continue burning money by your theory.
When robots install parts, they are always designed to be installed by robots. That's how it's done.
Designed to be installed by robots, and specifically designed to be easier for robots to install are not the same thing.
The battery pack on the Model S was installed partially with adhesives, so....
Not sure how that was relevant. The point here was the the Model S battery pack was designed and demonstrated to be swappable in 40 seconds. The Model 3 not so.
If the components are $18,000, labor is $10,000, and factory depreciation is $10,000 [1], then Tesla should have been making a profit on those $70,000 premium Model 3 sales, but somehow that's not reflected in their Q1 report.
Is that before or after you take into account constant factory modifications? Telsa is ramping up and spending money doing it. And they're not done: https://www.teslarati.com/tesl...
Also that labour estimate is final labour costs of assembly. That doesn't include overhead, rework, factory downtime, production changes, all of which seem to be happening constantly as Tesla tries to ramp up. Looking at the numbers it would seem that they imply a steady state operation.
However most EVs sold in Germany are french
To say "french" is a bit too generous. German can manufacturers have not put serious efforts into the EV business yet. Neither really has anyone else in Europe with the single notable exception of Renault.
That is changing. 2017 saw the Renault Zoe head and shoulders above all other EV manufacturers. German manufactures had position 3, 7, 8 and 10. With the remainder being a few Asian cars and some Teslas.
In January this year the e-Golf outsold the Zoe for the first time. Year to date paints the Germans in a very different picture:
1: Smart For2 ED 1947
2: VW e-Golf 1905
3: Renault Zoe 1719
4: Kia Soul EV 1668
5: BWM i3 1620
6: VW Golf GTE 1113
7: VW Passat GTE 1066
8: Smart For4 ED 1058
9: BMW 225xe 943
10: Mercedes E350e 813
Number 11, 12, 16 and 18 are also German manufacturers.
Expect to see many more German EVs on German roads.
It's so bad, that
Ahh but is it. For all the theoretical work that has been done on the topic the impact has been what in real terms of reliability? Where are the buildings falling down, the money disappearing from accounts? Where's the physics simulations gone wrong, or the random data corruption? Where are the reliability problems when serving up content? Where are the lockups and crashes of our devices? Where is the detrimental impact to our communication?
You see, it's so bad that companies who handle truly critical data did a bit of a study and implemented ECC while the entire world itself effectively experiences zero reliability issues.
You want to spend the extra money, go for it, but the reality is our computers are plenty reliable for even very critical tasks (workstations, rather than consumers) without ECC memory, and we have a good 28 years of experience proving that there's no reason at all to roll out ECC as the norm.
You claim my statement is ignorant, all the while ignoring the fact that it's not likelihood that governs our lives. It's risk. And risk is likelihood combined with the consequence, which for the personal computer is so close to insignificant that it... well it's insignificant. The same can not be said for a datacentre processing bank transactions, or Google being paid a fortune to look after critical data for other companies.
A foolish artist who
Yep. She should know she was going to get raped wearing that dress.
But nobody blamed oil paints and canvas for the mental problems of artists.
Erm yes they did. Analysis of paintings and history show that a great many artists went through various stages of depression and suffered various mental health issues pursuing their art. By pointing to "the canvas" and likening it to "Youtube" you have fantastically missed the point. Youtube isn't the canvas, Adobe Premier is the canvas. Youtube is the client who provides you food.
Is YouTube forcing these people to put up content?
Are you forced to go to work?
It's interesting how we're all happy to shit on companies that treat their employees like crap, but suddenly we talk about people making a living off youtube videos and the company gets a pass.
The "you can always find another job" argument is as lame here as it is in any other situation.
Mental health issues are not like a broken leg. There are very big differences between experiencing burnout, depression, withdrawal vs traits precursor to mental health issues that come with seeking stardom.
What you said is the equivalent of: Those who will suffer medical problems at some point in their life are drawn to work. Well. Yes, in a general sense. But you weren't trying to be general.
When we all have jobs that are as bad or worse.
Do you? Does your company burn you out? Are you battling mental health problems as a result of your work? Something tells me you don't have it as bad, and definitely not worse.
Well you might, but certainly "all" people do not.
There is a name for this. It's called work.
If your work leads to burn-out then you're in an incredibly shit job for a company that doesn't care much about you at all, and no protections for your own mental health. Oh wait, American right?
Youtube doesn't need to provide professional help for these attention seeking assholes.
Actually it's quite the opposite. Youtube is a platform that thrives on content to produce advertising dollars. The best advertising dollars come from the most consistent viewership (which is why something like Superbowl leads to very expensive advertisement contracts).
Destroy your top content producers and people will make a move, if you're lucky they stay on the platform and another top content producer takes their place. If you're unlucky they discover the great outdoors.
Yes the world doesn't own these guys shit, but it's far more nuanced than to say you could simply fuckem without any impact at all on the wider scale.
It's a verifiable fact
The only thing verifiable here is that you're not getting them. Head over to sammobile.com and see a steady string of officially published firmwares. The latest version 2 weeks ago was the may security update. They literally rolled it out a week after google did. https://www.sammobile.com/2018...
Hell, this article is about that very fact.
If you think that then maybe you should learn to read. This article has nothing to do with regular updates and everything to do with service life.
Samsung does not release updates for every version of every model phone
Hmmm I swear those goalposts were over there a minute ago from your S8. No matter, you'd still be quite wrong. Samsung literally push out several hundreds of firmware updates every year for the line of phones, they are all published and you can go sort through them yourself, no need to take my word for it. Just because you don't get them doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Currently right now the latest security patch level for Android is May 2018. The following Samsung devices have had updated firmware rolled out: Galaxy S7 J2 J1Mini J7 A6 A8. The flagship devices get updated towards the end of the month with a more staged approach, S9/+ S8/+ Note8 already having updated firmware out in Asia, some of the EU, and some US carriers with the remainder expected to be done within the next week or two. Until then if you're on the unlucky list you're just going to have to live with your 3 week old security version (April release). Hell the J2 got the update the same day that Google published it. Their policy is to update flagship phones towards the end of the month (cheaper phones are good for ironing out bugs in security fixes).
My lack of updates was not exclusive to my carrier.
Doesn't need to be, either way it's not Samsung's fault. Your phone has had it's updates published regularly.
Yes, OS updates aren't security updates. They are, however, no less fucking important.
I think you need some perspective. You're owed security, but not an endless string of new features (not that modern Android really has any).
Since they were so tight on space maybe now that they've clearly miniturised components to the point where they can fit more shit in, maybe they could bring the headphone jack back.
AMD also has ECC.
Which is of interest to whom? No seriously unless your bank is verifying your house purchase transaction using a Core i5, what benefit is there in ECC RAM for an average user, I mean other than having lighter wallets and less performance?
A) Phone's are nothing more than tiny ARM PC's with built-in screens
There was a time where if it didn't run Windows on an Intel core it wasn't called a PC at all. There was a whole company who claimed that their products were different to PCs, I think their products were called Justin Long, or maybe that was just an actor pretending to be their product, can't remember.
Point is: Go to a random person in the street and ask them what a PC is, I will bet you a Mars bar no one points to your phone. It may be your personal device which can compute, but a PC it ain't.
PCs are more than just 'Personal Computers.' They are phones and all kinds of devices...
Sure, if you pedantically separate the term "personal" and "computer" into it's core components and apply it to everything you own that computes then yes. Back in the real world a PC has a widely accepted definition that sure as heck has nothing to do with your mobile phone or any other kind of device.
R-12 worked a hell of a lot better than R-134a. You can still pick up cans but it's not cheap.
Leaded petrol worked a lot better than unleaded too. What's your point? Fuck over everything for sake of tiny increases in convenience for ancient gear? Phosphoric acid is a better de-scaler and rust remover than it's replacements. Benzine is a better window cleaner than ammonia, not that there's much ammonia in modern cleaners either.
We can achieve a great many things when we don't give a shit about the consequences. R-134a is just fine as a refrigerant.
Everybody wins by crushing
Errr no. R-134a is a retrofit replacement. If you are crushing things or someone recommended crushing things they were trying to sell you shit you didn't need. Do you even google bro?
Oooh I know the answer to this! Mastercard!
All of my cars and refrigerators still require R-12 you intolerant bastard.
And when they break you will most likely be required to capture any R-12 and convert to R-134a. You poor little shitty old inefficient fridge and AC will keep running and the world will be better off because of it.
Everyone wins. Especially those people sick of high UV levels everywhere.
Without a doubt.
Cool story, thanks for you insight. I mean we all know the rest of south east Asia is a shining example of cleanliness and responsible environmentalism.
I mean you may be right, China is big and has a high population so statistically it could be them. But you didn't use statistics to make your decision, only bias.
Wanking over brand is not the same as film vs digital elitism. Also the overwhelming majority of photographers I know compare brands jokingly knowing full well there's very little that separates them.
Only if the gun has a knife on the end and is used as a sword. The difference between film and digital for photography? One guy needs to unload and reload film every 24 shots while the digital shooters go on coffee break. Unless your course spent a good part of it on developing film then there's no reason to exclude digital cameras other than elitism. There are petty few things different between shooting film and digital and nearly all of the principles of photography and how to use a camera apply to both.