Not at all. Batteries can be replaced. The real issue is no one wants to be stuck with outdated tech. EVs second hand value doesn't hold because the industry moves so quickly. A 5 year old EV is just plain garbage (in terms of range, charging capabilities, features etc) compared to a modern one, whereas a 5 year old ICE car is very similar to a modern one.
There's other EV's of course, around what, 30k or so?) Used economy car -> 5-10k ?
There about 14million new cars sold every year. 8/10 of the EVs currently on the market in the USA are cheaper than the median new car cost. Your financial advice while sound in general does not apply to the market.
Also it's quite dishonest to compare a new EV to a used ICE vehicle when talking about an industrial change. I hope that in 20 years we get to a point where your used economy cars ARE EVs.
I'll admit Teslas are pretty fricking cool, but i don't think they should be subsidized by tax breaks.
Tesla aren't subsidized by tax breaks. EVs are subsidized by tax breaks. There's nothing stopping any other car company getting the same tax breaks for producing vehicles that fit the requirements. That's how subsidies work, it's the government handle on pushing an industry in a certain (in this case long term far cleaner) direction.
So are you saying that the government shouldn't be trying to drive adoption of cleaner vehicles through one of the two methods they have to do so (subsidy vs regulation)?
I'm not defending Intel, I'm combating worthless misinformation that helps nobody.
Regardless of what Intel did your post seems to imply that others are not affected which they are, and by extension could prove dangerous advice for those reading your post.
I was going to write that too, just before I came on slashdot yesterday I stepped over my wife lying on the floor with her laptop and 2 textbooks doing some homework for her masters.
Depends on your metric of speed. Personally I don't like giving up modern design for speed, and if you compare modern with modern the snappyness of Windows 10 lays the default Gnome 3 / Unity interfaces many people will first see on Linux to waste, and let's not even begin to talk about games.
That said fluxbox is where it's at if speed is the only metric.:-)
Edge has it's issues (UI, web rendering, the way it handles forms), but your example is completely FUBAR and unheard of. I would wager something went wrong during your install.
I wouldn't say that there's anything that Edge can do that's better than Chrome or Firefox, but it's a far cry from unusable and I know a couple of people who use it without issue for Office 365 (though they are too stubborn to believe it would work better with something else.)
Double reply, but maybe it has something to do with Edge ignoring x-ua-compatible headers. According to the documentation on the MSDN if you run Enterprise licenses for Windows 10 you can force Edge to render with the IE11 engine when the x-ua-compatible header is set appropriately, but normal users are SOL.
Nice try Intel, but phoronix benchmarks prove you wrong, and show even up to 60! % loss in some loads.
They do nothing of the sort. Phoronix benchmarks hardly have anything to do with "average computer users" who provided they aren't surfing some web that is serving up coinhive malware probably don't even exceed the 40% mark on their CPU regularly.
Yeah, notice the part where they tried to spread the blame to other CPU manufacturers.
Yeah, and? There's plenty of blame to go around. Just because AMD isn't affected doesn't make their statement about other CPU manufacturers any less true.
Maybe it's better recently. I haven't used it in well over half a year and ended up purging it from my system. Lots of various login problems, incompatibilities with Sharepoint (LOL), I also remember having difficulties reading the Financial Times.
In any case I don't miss it. If it weren't for the problems then the infuriating interface would have done just as much to drive me away.
And you just failed at reading comprehension. Let me highlight some key parts:
You can literally travel all through the Scandinavian countries on pure EV using only Tesla superchargers and they aren't even the most common charging methods around up there.
Edge IS quite fast, and does a good job with proper page rendering
Really? I guess my normal browsing experiences must hit a lot of Edge cases.
I'd see myself out after that joke, but I'm wearing my serious face right now, I have more trouble rendering pages properly with Edge than any other browser, IE included.
Since hybrid cars still use fossil fuels, they should start subsidizing electric cars to eliminate hybrids.
Better idea: Let's use meaningful policies to drive economic change rather than unrealistic stretch goals that kneecap the industry before it even starts.
There's no such thing as a free market decision then. Every industry has at some point or another been the subject of some form of government subsidy or tax barrier against it.
My guess is all of them? I mean You can literally travel all through the Scandinavian countries on pure EV using only Tesla superchargers and they aren't even the most common charging methods around up there.
We just spent Christmas up at the arctic ocean. While passing Setermoen I couldn't help but notice two Teslas at the supercharger. Now given less than 10% of the only 5million people in Norway inhabit the top 2/3rds of the country, and that Setermoen's population is only a tad over 2000 people like most of the towns up there, I'm going to hazard a guess that those Teslas parked at a truck stop 300km within the arctic circle weren't a bunch of locals.
But sure keep pretending that EV networks aren't built out like they are like you do in every post when you apply your 90s era thinking to the modern state of electric cars and how useful they are.
Appealing to authority is only a logical fallacy when the authority is actually... you know... not an authority in the area. Climate scientists are authority on climate science and therefore trusting what they produce does not at all invoke the appeal to authority fallacy.
Absolutely EVERY undesirable weather phenomenon is blamed on climate change.
Think about what you just said. Humans have established themselves and built their culture around the climate of the area. If that climate were to change for any reason at all it would by its nature bring about resulting undesirable weather phenomenon.
We all like to think that the solution to drought is water, but the result of changing weather patterns in lands not accustomed to it causes major ecological damage.
Not relevant. Selling of lots of stock in CEO levels isn't something that happens quickly. Heck most such sales happen at pre-set intervals and are declared MANY months in advance.
Resist the urge to be human, finding patterns that don't actually exist isn't healthy.
The "design flaw" is that batteries are batteries and electronic circuits take a minimum amount of power to run. In other words not a flaw, it's how the real universe works.
Interesting how only Apple's iPhone has this "not a flaw" and how physics and these products show that you can quite easily still provide enough current for the phone to perfectly function at full rates even with a very degraded battery.
As I said countless times, if you can't pull 2+ amps from an ancient lithium battery you've fucked up the design of the battery.
Replacing a battery because the phone won't run for more than an hour is quite a different story. But please cut it with the minimum power bullshit. Even an old battery has not only enough power to keep a phone going without rebooting, but also enough power to happily catch fire if you short the terminals.
In general that is right, however the only difference between me standing at the stage and me sitting in a restaurant is that the author converted the song into pressure waves and broadcast it to the entire room rather than converting the song to radio waves and broadcasting it to the entire country.
The extreme WTF here isn't about the right to perform, but the right to listen to an already approved performance. Playing a CD or DVD in a restaurant is one thing, but whoever managed to argue that someone isn't allowed to play a radio or TV broadcast in that same setting should have each pubic hair individually removed with tweezers.
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Not at all. Batteries can be replaced. The real issue is no one wants to be stuck with outdated tech. EVs second hand value doesn't hold because the industry moves so quickly. A 5 year old EV is just plain garbage (in terms of range, charging capabilities, features etc) compared to a modern one, whereas a 5 year old ICE car is very similar to a modern one.
There's other EV's of course, around what, 30k or so?)
Used economy car -> 5-10k ?
There about 14million new cars sold every year. 8/10 of the EVs currently on the market in the USA are cheaper than the median new car cost. Your financial advice while sound in general does not apply to the market.
Also it's quite dishonest to compare a new EV to a used ICE vehicle when talking about an industrial change. I hope that in 20 years we get to a point where your used economy cars ARE EVs.
I'll admit Teslas are pretty fricking cool, but i don't think they should be subsidized by tax breaks.
Tesla aren't subsidized by tax breaks. EVs are subsidized by tax breaks. There's nothing stopping any other car company getting the same tax breaks for producing vehicles that fit the requirements. That's how subsidies work, it's the government handle on pushing an industry in a certain (in this case long term far cleaner) direction.
So are you saying that the government shouldn't be trying to drive adoption of cleaner vehicles through one of the two methods they have to do so (subsidy vs regulation)?
I'm not defending Intel, I'm combating worthless misinformation that helps nobody.
Regardless of what Intel did your post seems to imply that others are not affected which they are, and by extension could prove dangerous advice for those reading your post.
I was going to write that too, just before I came on slashdot yesterday I stepped over my wife lying on the floor with her laptop and 2 textbooks doing some homework for her masters.
Depends on your metric of speed. Personally I don't like giving up modern design for speed, and if you compare modern with modern the snappyness of Windows 10 lays the default Gnome 3 / Unity interfaces many people will first see on Linux to waste, and let's not even begin to talk about games.
That said fluxbox is where it's at if speed is the only metric. :-)
Edge has it's issues (UI, web rendering, the way it handles forms), but your example is completely FUBAR and unheard of. I would wager something went wrong during your install.
I wouldn't say that there's anything that Edge can do that's better than Chrome or Firefox, but it's a far cry from unusable and I know a couple of people who use it without issue for Office 365 (though they are too stubborn to believe it would work better with something else.)
Double reply, but maybe it has something to do with Edge ignoring x-ua-compatible headers. According to the documentation on the MSDN if you run Enterprise licenses for Windows 10 you can force Edge to render with the IE11 engine when the x-ua-compatible header is set appropriately, but normal users are SOL.
Nice try Intel, but phoronix benchmarks prove you wrong, and show even up to 60! % loss in some loads.
They do nothing of the sort. Phoronix benchmarks hardly have anything to do with "average computer users" who provided they aren't surfing some web that is serving up coinhive malware probably don't even exceed the 40% mark on their CPU regularly.
Yeah, notice the part where they tried to spread the blame to other CPU manufacturers.
Yeah, and? There's plenty of blame to go around. Just because AMD isn't affected doesn't make their statement about other CPU manufacturers any less true.
Spoiler alert: This isn't even limited to x86.
Maybe it's better recently. I haven't used it in well over half a year and ended up purging it from my system. Lots of various login problems, incompatibilities with Sharepoint (LOL), I also remember having difficulties reading the Financial Times.
In any case I don't miss it. If it weren't for the problems then the infuriating interface would have done just as much to drive me away.
And you just failed at reading comprehension. Let me highlight some key parts:
You can literally travel all through the Scandinavian countries on pure EV using only Tesla superchargers and they aren't even the most common charging methods around up there.
This is exactly what I needed for all those times I use my laptop under the couch.
Edge IS quite fast, and does a good job with proper page rendering
Really? I guess my normal browsing experiences must hit a lot of Edge cases.
I'd see myself out after that joke, but I'm wearing my serious face right now, I have more trouble rendering pages properly with Edge than any other browser, IE included.
right? the nagging that occasionally pops up when running chrome is ...
Whoa. Someone runs Windows 10 without disabling the Tips and Suggestions features in the settings? What the heck is wrong with you!
Since hybrid cars still use fossil fuels, they should start subsidizing electric cars to eliminate hybrids.
Better idea: Let's use meaningful policies to drive economic change rather than unrealistic stretch goals that kneecap the industry before it even starts.
There's no such thing as a free market decision then. Every industry has at some point or another been the subject of some form of government subsidy or tax barrier against it.
I wonder how many of them *travel* with their EV?
My guess is all of them? I mean You can literally travel all through the Scandinavian countries on pure EV using only Tesla superchargers and they aren't even the most common charging methods around up there.
We just spent Christmas up at the arctic ocean. While passing Setermoen I couldn't help but notice two Teslas at the supercharger. Now given less than 10% of the only 5million people in Norway inhabit the top 2/3rds of the country, and that Setermoen's population is only a tad over 2000 people like most of the towns up there, I'm going to hazard a guess that those Teslas parked at a truck stop 300km within the arctic circle weren't a bunch of locals.
But sure keep pretending that EV networks aren't built out like they are like you do in every post when you apply your 90s era thinking to the modern state of electric cars and how useful they are.
Appealing to authority is a logical fallacy.
Appealing to authority is only a logical fallacy when the authority is actually ... you know ... not an authority in the area. Climate scientists are authority on climate science and therefore trusting what they produce does not at all invoke the appeal to authority fallacy.
Trust me about this, I Googled it* once.
*See the difference?
Absolutely EVERY undesirable weather phenomenon is blamed on climate change.
Think about what you just said. Humans have established themselves and built their culture around the climate of the area. If that climate were to change for any reason at all it would by its nature bring about resulting undesirable weather phenomenon.
We all like to think that the solution to drought is water, but the result of changing weather patterns in lands not accustomed to it causes major ecological damage.
I know what the law is, that doesn't make it any less of a WTF scenario.
and google is able to pay higher salaries because they dodge taxes
Take a guess who gets the the majority of those higher salaries, and how little tax they end up paying as a result on their fancy "packages".
Not relevant. Selling of lots of stock in CEO levels isn't something that happens quickly. Heck most such sales happen at pre-set intervals and are declared MANY months in advance.
Resist the urge to be human, finding patterns that don't actually exist isn't healthy.
The "design flaw" is that batteries are batteries and electronic circuits take a minimum amount of power to run. In other words not a flaw, it's how the real universe works.
Interesting how only Apple's iPhone has this "not a flaw" and how physics and these products show that you can quite easily still provide enough current for the phone to perfectly function at full rates even with a very degraded battery.
As I said countless times, if you can't pull 2+ amps from an ancient lithium battery you've fucked up the design of the battery.
Replacing a battery because the phone won't run for more than an hour is quite a different story. But please cut it with the minimum power bullshit. Even an old battery has not only enough power to keep a phone going without rebooting, but also enough power to happily catch fire if you short the terminals.
In general that is right, however the only difference between me standing at the stage and me sitting in a restaurant is that the author converted the song into pressure waves and broadcast it to the entire room rather than converting the song to radio waves and broadcasting it to the entire country.
The extreme WTF here isn't about the right to perform, but the right to listen to an already approved performance. Playing a CD or DVD in a restaurant is one thing, but whoever managed to argue that someone isn't allowed to play a radio or TV broadcast in that same setting should have each pubic hair individually removed with tweezers.
If a website doesn't take any private information from you why does it need ssl/tls?
Because in many places of the world people aren't persecuted based on who takes their credit card, but rather what it is they look at.