If there's no alternative transportation, then it's a monopoly and probably doesn't deserve its success.
"Success" in terms of a public transport service should be measured exclusively in its ability to get the right number of people to the right place at the right time. There's no reason why public utilities can't be monopolies. The key is preventing private corporations from milking profits out of that monopoly.
Monopolies themselves aren't bad, it's the abuses thereof that need to be kept in check.
Because my children (not even grandkids) will not derive any income from my writing, I'll have to shelve my idea of this book and go do "real work".
Or you could apply the same principle as every other profession and realise that income doesn't get continuously derived from things you create. If you want your children to inherit something, save it for them or invest it for them.
To compare it to every other property, note that your children won't "derive" income from it. What they do have is something physical with a value based on its current state, nothing more. I built a house recently. If in 95 years I gift it to my children without anything further done to it what they will inherit is a property worth $100000 and a condemned falling apart piece of shit that will likely cost them a small fortune to raze and remove.
Fuck the idea that anything you create is worth perpetual income.
so sending them back full of plastic waste instead of empty still makes sense from an environmental perspective.
Not in several ways. While 500000T is not much in terms of shipping weight it still is 500000T that needs to be moved by ship with the energy required to move it. However that is not the significant aspect of it. By sending the ships back empty maybe some countries can stop using other countries as their own cheap dumping ground and actually start to take responsibility for the waste they generate in the first place.
Sending ships back empty because there is no 500000T to move, or because it is being reprocessed locally is far more environmentally friendly than the alternative, which is a landfill in China.
Yep because training and certification combined with harsh fines have completely eliminated speeding, violation of road rules and car accidents as well.
GP said it right you can't fight human nature, not even with your ban and certification approach.
the first time I will support a thorium-based reactor is if private industry develops and runs a prototype for 5 years in the CEO's backyard, not a moment sooner.
Not going to happen for a good reason. An industry which is treated with fear and contempt will attract dangerous overregulation. That is precisely what happened in the nuclear industry with dedicated one size fits all standards which leave no room for innovation or development. Designing exclusively to the standard has resulted in no proper process developement in many years and the lack of new project (again driven by fear) has left the industry with old equipment lacking even the most basic of modern safety features let alone inherently safer design.
The nuclear and process industries were in the same space in the 60s. Both were massively unsafe. It was DuPont (or BASF, not quite sure anymore) that introduced a policy of the plant manager and his family living in a house next to the plant. This drove wonderful advances in process safety. In the mean time the nuclear industry has taken these advances and trickled them down 20 years behind through very slow moving government regulation. They aren't given the space to do what you propose.
10 years ago dangerous overdesign was a thing discovered in the process industry, it will be a while before the nuclear industry catches on to this.
Meanwhile, in the real world, nuclear power relies heavily on subsidies, has a massive waste problem and is tied in with the political hairy problem of Proliferation.
All three of those problems are nothing to do with the industry and everything to do with the governments. They wouldn't need subsidies if they didn't need to spend impossible amounts of money to meet substandard requirements, they wouldn't have a waste problem if they were allowed to properly reprocess it, and proliferation in general is a political concept and nothing to do with the industry itself.
We understand that that number is incredibly high for a public protection service in the west. We also understand that that number is indefensibly high when dealing with unarmed people and far higher than any other western police force.
If your cell phone CPU can't eventually cause this problem, by drawing more current than it's possible for a worn out battery to provide, triggering a shutdown...
You probably own a Nokia "feature phone", and not a smart phone.
If your cell phone shuts down while attempting to draw even a fraction of the power that is still used to fast charge these old phones, you've stuffed up the design. It's also quite telling that it only effects a subset of Apple models too.
Other cell phone vendors have already stated that "Yes, we do the same thing".
Except where they haven't, where they have outright denied it (just scroll down the Slashdot front page a bit), and where the whole issue seems to be a uniquely Apple problem.
Do you know one company with a sealed battery that's going to want a lawsuit against Apple about this to be successful?
Yeah let's start with all the companies who don't have a problems with their batteries at end of life.
You think that capitalising on popularity is fraud? You could learn something from the Dutch. They are very direct people and it would be far less confusing to others if you simply wrote: "Everyone I don't know what fraud is!"
Apple was not lying about old batteries causing phones to mysteriously shut down for no apparent reason.
Not lying, but not exposing the truth which is the Apple's design was fucked from the onset and that these sudden poweroffs under load are unheard of from any other manufacture. An ancient lithium cell will happily provide 2A of power. If you are able to crash your phone due to that limit you've screwed up your design.
These are real discussions happening at our company because of the distrust that Microsoft has enabled.
We had those as well. But then given that Windows 10 Enterprise versions don't have the telemetry enabled, and that Microsoft is already a trusted partner for cloud services for confidential and secret documents all that happened was that Windows 10 was rubbers stamped for trail roll-out.
For all they've done in the consumer space and small business market, it is largely irrelevant in the enterprise where MS makes most of its money.
Deciding whether to arbitrarily limit the performance of my device is not a decision that someone else can sensibly make for me.
not having my batttery run out or having it make it to the next upgrade cycle is great priority over the absolutely fastest iphone.
No. My phone is never away from a charger more than a few hours at a time. Your specific use case does not apply to me and as such all you achieve is gimping my phone for no reason. Kindly keep your silly ideas away from my phone.
9 months into the PS4 release it had sold 4 million consoles. By your own comparison the PS4 is a huge failure compared to the Switch which has sold more than double that in the same time frame.
makes it a crappy, over priced console and a crappy portable...
Yep and also the best half portable and half console on the market.
War produces surpluses of broken women only. The loss of loved ones, the desperation of fending for one's self, and the inevitable horrific abuse of women that almost universally comes with war is in no way a positive trait, nor is it self balancing as "broken goods" are not preferred.
Come north of the border. People will look at you funny if your start trying to throw cash on the table. Splitting the bill is something effortlessly handled by ever banking app with a quick luck of a button and a review of who hasn't paid.
Not much. The door knockers have gone from asking for single donations to seeing up recurring transactions on credit card. Digitisation had been quite a win for them. Most of them don't even accept cash anymore.
No but handling cash is expensive. Fees exist for cash too, banking, paying people to count it, transporting it, risk of robberies. Often that can work out higher than credit card fees.
No. Thieves thieve things of value for them. If you work at a donut store the lack of a till may not suddenly equate to missing bottles of Pepsi as it can't be converted easily into something of value.
Don't underestimate how inviting it is holding a wad of cash while no one is watching. Or the power given to you by incorrectly running the items through the till with the expectation that you won't get caught since the paper trail will back your story.
How about rather than throwing money at it you attack the root cause of the costs. Nuclear power is actually incredibly cheap once you cut project overheads and investment risk out. Why do you think it was the great saviour of the 80s? Hint: it is cheap, and safer designs do not cost appreciably more.
There's a far more alarming trend than global warming but it's actually correlated to simply talking about global warming. What will kill us is not temperature rise but rather the sharp increase in ignorance per comment.
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What does it do?
Stuff that nerds and geeks who read Slashdot know about.
WhatsApp is the largest used messaging platform in many countries and not at all a social media platform.
Good luck enjoying your new years when you're unable to meet up with your friends because they can't be contacted.
If there's no alternative transportation, then it's a monopoly and probably doesn't deserve its success.
"Success" in terms of a public transport service should be measured exclusively in its ability to get the right number of people to the right place at the right time. There's no reason why public utilities can't be monopolies. The key is preventing private corporations from milking profits out of that monopoly.
Monopolies themselves aren't bad, it's the abuses thereof that need to be kept in check.
Because my children (not even grandkids) will not derive any income from my writing, I'll have to shelve my idea of this book and go do "real work".
Or you could apply the same principle as every other profession and realise that income doesn't get continuously derived from things you create. If you want your children to inherit something, save it for them or invest it for them.
To compare it to every other property, note that your children won't "derive" income from it. What they do have is something physical with a value based on its current state, nothing more. I built a house recently. If in 95 years I gift it to my children without anything further done to it what they will inherit is a property worth $100000 and a condemned falling apart piece of shit that will likely cost them a small fortune to raze and remove.
Fuck the idea that anything you create is worth perpetual income.
The 1998 extension gave the owners of restaurants the right to play the radio or unmute the TV.
What the fuck is wrong with this world! How was this not always a right?
so sending them back full of plastic waste instead of empty still makes sense from an environmental perspective.
Not in several ways. While 500000T is not much in terms of shipping weight it still is 500000T that needs to be moved by ship with the energy required to move it. However that is not the significant aspect of it. By sending the ships back empty maybe some countries can stop using other countries as their own cheap dumping ground and actually start to take responsibility for the waste they generate in the first place.
Sending ships back empty because there is no 500000T to move, or because it is being reprocessed locally is far more environmentally friendly than the alternative, which is a landfill in China.
Yep because training and certification combined with harsh fines have completely eliminated speeding, violation of road rules and car accidents as well.
GP said it right you can't fight human nature, not even with your ban and certification approach.
the first time I will support a thorium-based reactor is if private industry develops and runs a prototype for 5 years in the CEO's backyard, not a moment sooner.
Not going to happen for a good reason. An industry which is treated with fear and contempt will attract dangerous overregulation. That is precisely what happened in the nuclear industry with dedicated one size fits all standards which leave no room for innovation or development. Designing exclusively to the standard has resulted in no proper process developement in many years and the lack of new project (again driven by fear) has left the industry with old equipment lacking even the most basic of modern safety features let alone inherently safer design.
The nuclear and process industries were in the same space in the 60s. Both were massively unsafe. It was DuPont (or BASF, not quite sure anymore) that introduced a policy of the plant manager and his family living in a house next to the plant. This drove wonderful advances in process safety. In the mean time the nuclear industry has taken these advances and trickled them down 20 years behind through very slow moving government regulation. They aren't given the space to do what you propose.
10 years ago dangerous overdesign was a thing discovered in the process industry, it will be a while before the nuclear industry catches on to this.
Meanwhile, in the real world, nuclear power relies heavily on subsidies, has a massive waste problem and is tied in with the political hairy problem of Proliferation.
All three of those problems are nothing to do with the industry and everything to do with the governments. They wouldn't need subsidies if they didn't need to spend impossible amounts of money to meet substandard requirements, they wouldn't have a waste problem if they were allowed to properly reprocess it, and proliferation in general is a political concept and nothing to do with the industry itself.
Slashdotters do understand statistics.
We understand that that number is incredibly high for a public protection service in the west.
We also understand that that number is indefensibly high when dealing with unarmed people and far higher than any other western police force.
Yay statistics.
If your cell phone CPU can't eventually cause this problem, by drawing more current than it's possible for a worn out battery to provide, triggering a shutdown...
You probably own a Nokia "feature phone", and not a smart phone.
If your cell phone shuts down while attempting to draw even a fraction of the power that is still used to fast charge these old phones, you've stuffed up the design. It's also quite telling that it only effects a subset of Apple models too.
Other cell phone vendors have already stated that "Yes, we do the same thing".
Except where they haven't, where they have outright denied it (just scroll down the Slashdot front page a bit), and where the whole issue seems to be a uniquely Apple problem.
Do you know one company with a sealed battery that's going to want a lawsuit against Apple about this to be successful?
Yeah let's start with all the companies who don't have a problems with their batteries at end of life.
So, it's good that they won via fraud?
You think that capitalising on popularity is fraud? You could learn something from the Dutch. They are very direct people and it would be far less confusing to others if you simply wrote: "Everyone I don't know what fraud is!"
Apple was not lying about old batteries causing phones to mysteriously shut down for no apparent reason.
Not lying, but not exposing the truth which is the Apple's design was fucked from the onset and that these sudden poweroffs under load are unheard of from any other manufacture. An ancient lithium cell will happily provide 2A of power. If you are able to crash your phone due to that limit you've screwed up your design.
These are real discussions happening at our company because of the distrust that Microsoft has enabled.
We had those as well. But then given that Windows 10 Enterprise versions don't have the telemetry enabled, and that Microsoft is already a trusted partner for cloud services for confidential and secret documents all that happened was that Windows 10 was rubbers stamped for trail roll-out.
For all they've done in the consumer space and small business market, it is largely irrelevant in the enterprise where MS makes most of its money.
I don't measure the usefulness of a phone by its rated CPU clock speed.
Apple's marketing seems to.
Deciding whether to arbitrarily limit the performance of my device is not a decision that someone else can sensibly make for me.
not having my batttery run out or having it make it to the next upgrade cycle is great priority over the absolutely fastest iphone.
No. My phone is never away from a charger more than a few hours at a time. Your specific use case does not apply to me and as such all you achieve is gimping my phone for no reason. Kindly keep your silly ideas away from my phone.
The PS4 has sold north of 60 million consoles
9 months into the PS4 release it had sold 4 million consoles. By your own comparison the PS4 is a huge failure compared to the Switch which has sold more than double that in the same time frame.
makes it a crappy, over priced console and a crappy portable...
Yep and also the best half portable and half console on the market.
China has mitigating social, cultural and political differences to places like Susan which prevent such wars.
War produces surpluses of broken women only. The loss of loved ones, the desperation of fending for one's self, and the inevitable horrific abuse of women that almost universally comes with war is in no way a positive trait, nor is it self balancing as "broken goods" are not preferred.
Come north of the border. People will look at you funny if your start trying to throw cash on the table. Splitting the bill is something effortlessly handled by ever banking app with a quick luck of a button and a review of who hasn't paid.
Not much. The door knockers have gone from asking for single donations to seeing up recurring transactions on credit card. Digitisation had been quite a win for them. Most of them don't even accept cash anymore.
No but handling cash is expensive. Fees exist for cash too, banking, paying people to count it, transporting it, risk of robberies. Often that can work out higher than credit card fees.
No. Thieves thieve things of value for them. If you work at a donut store the lack of a till may not suddenly equate to missing bottles of Pepsi as it can't be converted easily into something of value.
Don't underestimate how inviting it is holding a wad of cash while no one is watching. Or the power given to you by incorrectly running the items through the till with the expectation that you won't get caught since the paper trail will back your story.
Your country implemented chip and pin poorly of that is the case.
How about rather than throwing money at it you attack the root cause of the costs. Nuclear power is actually incredibly cheap once you cut project overheads and investment risk out. Why do you think it was the great saviour of the 80s? Hint: it is cheap, and safer designs do not cost appreciably more.
There's a far more alarming trend than global warming but it's actually correlated to simply talking about global warming. What will kill us is not temperature rise but rather the sharp increase in ignorance per comment.