I'm not sure why anyone would purchase a drone from a manufacturer that controls where you can fly it.
a) because people don't give a shit b) because they are amongst the most newbie friendly drones on the market to fly
Why do people buy iPhones when you can't sideload apps? Why do people use Windows 10 when it spies on you? Why do people upload their phone numbers to facebook?
Concord was loud taking off because it had 50 year old reheated turboramjet engines that were amazingly advanced for its day, but really shouldn't have been on a commercial airplane.
When it is the last time you flew on an airliner with afterburners?
Yes and? Fast forward to now and the technology has done what exactly? It's not like any modern airliner engine technology is suitable for supersonic flight, and it's not like any of the planes capable of supersonic flight are any quieter now given they have no incentive to reduce their noise.
I think the point of this exercise is to create a mode of travel for people that the saying "time is money" applies to the most, but have the average Joe pay for the R&D through taxes
Tell me about it. People should stick to boats like they always have.
That's outdated thinking. India has come a LONG way in the past 20 years. For example some cars will actually stop at red lights,... on major intersections,... during certain times of the day.
You're welcome, but I won't begin to proclaim to know it all:-) There are some things in this industry that really do your head in, like having a 3rd party terminal take multiple oil shipments of different grades and mix them together before loading them back on a ship and sending them to you so that the oil doesn't bump the units as hard during a crude change.
They were not at all slow in comparison. What they were was horribly documented. You couldn't make the thing work even if you wanted to, even if you had a project that could justify the price, and even if your project had the space and power capacity to handle it.
The hardware itself wasn't a problem. It just wasn't in the same target market as an Arduino despite what the marketing said, and it wasn't supported.... like at all.
To fill in Step 2: Put in a piss weak attempt thinking that the primary concern of the target market boils down to one thing such as cost or performance all while getting that one thing fundamentally wrong.
Intel could have owned the market, but they would have had to understand it first.
I remember that announcement. I also remember then Android came out with flash support and without half the internet broken and then ate Apple's lunch in the smartphone market. That announcement was full of self justifications at a time when they simply weren't true, e.g. Youtube's pitiful library on the iPhone compared to a PC.
The kind of crude that Europe gets is very high-quality and can be fed right into a fractional distillation facility.
There is no "kind of crude that Europe gets". The economics of oil are highly dependent for each refinery. There are refineries that setup to take only local crudes, and there are refineries setup to take the nastiest crap on the market, and they'll get it from anywhere because it's cheap. The type of refineries are very heavily dependent on the consumer market. The largest refinery in Europe has a fantastic upgrading capacity and ability to run the nastiest shit you can think of, the second largest next door is 2 distillation towers and an ancient cat cracker struggling to keep on spec for bunker oil. It's a complete mixed bag.
As a result, diesel tends to be priced pretty well since there is plenty of supply.
The retail price difference between petrol and diesel has far more to do with taxes than supply and demand. The absolute cost of fuels even more so. Mind you saying diesel is priced pretty well should be qualified for an American news site. Priced well in this case means it only costs triple what the USA pay. The price split is very similar. Average diesel price in Chicago is 1c above gasoline right now, average diesel price in Antwerp is only 2c below gasoline.
If the market price for diesel is high, you can make more diesel. If it's gasoline you want, just change the recipe a bit.
That's really not the case at all. Well it is a bit, but the amount of handles you have are very limited. What you do have a handle on is the removal of impurities, but the general mix is hard to alter as the refineries' units are designed to produce an optimum output. I.e. if you decide you don't want to produce as much gasoline as diesel tomorrow and buy the appropriate crude to do so, what you're actually saying is I don't want to run the expensive equipment I bought to it's full utilisation and therefore don't want to make as much money. That's one of the great things about a completely fungible feedstock and product, it will always sell and the sensible option is almost universally to optimise refineries for max throughput regardless of what the market is doing. I briefly worked at a refinery in Australia that wasn't able to sell diesel locally since it lacked the ability to meet the sulphur targets with its feedstock. It was cheaper to run that refinery and export 100% of it's diesel to Asia than it was to buy a feedstock that allowed it to meet the sulphur spec, and at the time Australia was hungry for diesel. (Quite disappointing to see a ship full of diesel leave for Asia passing a ship full of diesel coming from Asia both operated by the same company, but the cost / benefit made that the most profitable option).
If Europe gives up on diesel, they will need to spend billions to build new or to retrofit refineries
To be clear Europe IS giving up on diesel, at least for the consumer market. In my city alone there has been a 90% drop in the number of registered diesel vehicles in the past 10 years. Major cities are implementing bans or have implemented them already. However this doesn't interest refiners much anyway for several reasons: They need to spend billions to retrofit in order to meet new jet standards, increasing emissions standards, flaring standards, they have continuously spent on meeting the ever changing diesel standards, and the next big one coming up: fuel oil standards. Some of the coking refineries need to upgrade as power-plants shut down, others as the iron and aluminium industry shut down.
Basically what I'm saying is investment is continuous and ongoing (even now with the oil price where it is), so changing consumer demand won't impact the industry on the whole much.
That is a load of garbage. NOx emissions are much like sulfur in that they sing intrinsically have a major effect on the global climate but are frigging horrible in concentrations close to population centres. There was no hard-on against muscle cars, there were studied finally showing how NOx emissions negatively affect health.
You're right about the 99% but only by earth surface area, definitely not by target market which is city centre driving.
I've heard it said that 1.5 Billion people use Windows. Even if 0.1% of these spend 30 seconds per year downloading paint (versus using a copy on disk), that's 6 man years lost.
I've heard that 1.5billion people use windows. If only 0.1% of the users need it then it collectively wastes: 10126TB of storage space.
It doesn't take a weatherman to look out the window and take an umbrella either. I feel like you're arguing against language rather than arguing a point.
Either you missed the bit about this being a band on tour, or you have an over inflated view of Hotel WiFi. The big problem here is that if you're bored out of your mind in transit a few GB doesn't go far for entertainment. I have enough problem with downloading offline movies for a 1 week intercontinental trip, let alone going to tour, and the WiFi in the hotel typically barely allows me to get an additional movie in for the day after, let alone cover 14 people in a bus all day.
There is a LOT of data that needs to be planned ahead if you're trying to do this trip without relying on mobile data.
That's a strange approach to the situation. Given the parties involved I would always assume it's 100% United's fault and then be pleasantly surprised when it "turns out" I'm wrong:-)
I tried but ICANN wouldn't let me become my own registrar so I need to pay someone for that privilege.
Also you missed the point. You definitely do not need to own the DNS or hosting. They are both disposable and transferable. You only need to own the domain registration, and more importantly, don't give your credit card to your soon to be ex-wife.
That is a great quote though misdirected. I took an umbrella to work today because of the weather forecasters. Businesses are leaving the UK because of the economists.
The problem with these two, is the former is just taking advice, while the latter leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Yo, cool rant. Does it have anything to do with the case here where a user compiled systemd with a non-default experimental 3rd party library which caused the fault? Didn't think so.
+1 funny. Would laugh at your misdirected angry rant again.
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I'm not sure why anyone would purchase a drone from a manufacturer that controls where you can fly it.
a) because people don't give a shit
b) because they are amongst the most newbie friendly drones on the market to fly
Why do people buy iPhones when you can't sideload apps?
Why do people use Windows 10 when it spies on you?
Why do people upload their phone numbers to facebook?
Concord was loud taking off because it had 50 year old reheated turboramjet engines that were amazingly advanced for its day, but really shouldn't have been on a commercial airplane.
When it is the last time you flew on an airliner with afterburners?
Yes and? Fast forward to now and the technology has done what exactly? It's not like any modern airliner engine technology is suitable for supersonic flight, and it's not like any of the planes capable of supersonic flight are any quieter now given they have no incentive to reduce their noise.
I think the point of this exercise is to create a mode of travel for people that the saying "time is money" applies to the most, but have the average Joe pay for the R&D through taxes
Tell me about it. People should stick to boats like they always have.
That's outdated thinking. India has come a LONG way in the past 20 years. For example some cars will actually stop at red lights, ... on major intersections, ... during certain times of the day.
You're welcome, but I won't begin to proclaim to know it all :-) There are some things in this industry that really do your head in, like having a 3rd party terminal take multiple oil shipments of different grades and mix them together before loading them back on a ship and sending them to you so that the oil doesn't bump the units as hard during a crude change.
They were not at all slow in comparison. What they were was horribly documented. You couldn't make the thing work even if you wanted to, even if you had a project that could justify the price, and even if your project had the space and power capacity to handle it.
The hardware itself wasn't a problem. It just wasn't in the same target market as an Arduino despite what the marketing said, and it wasn't supported. ... like at all.
To fill in Step 2: Put in a piss weak attempt thinking that the primary concern of the target market boils down to one thing such as cost or performance all while getting that one thing fundamentally wrong.
Intel could have owned the market, but they would have had to understand it first.
I remember that announcement. I also remember then Android came out with flash support and without half the internet broken and then ate Apple's lunch in the smartphone market. That announcement was full of self justifications at a time when they simply weren't true, e.g. Youtube's pitiful library on the iPhone compared to a PC.
They were premature.
It'll be open season with all the 0-days.
Good. I hope all of them get ransomwared and each forced to format and reinstall. Then we'll be rid of it once and for all.
The kind of crude that Europe gets is very high-quality and can be fed right into a fractional distillation facility.
There is no "kind of crude that Europe gets". The economics of oil are highly dependent for each refinery. There are refineries that setup to take only local crudes, and there are refineries setup to take the nastiest crap on the market, and they'll get it from anywhere because it's cheap. The type of refineries are very heavily dependent on the consumer market. The largest refinery in Europe has a fantastic upgrading capacity and ability to run the nastiest shit you can think of, the second largest next door is 2 distillation towers and an ancient cat cracker struggling to keep on spec for bunker oil. It's a complete mixed bag.
As a result, diesel tends to be priced pretty well since there is plenty of supply.
The retail price difference between petrol and diesel has far more to do with taxes than supply and demand. The absolute cost of fuels even more so. Mind you saying diesel is priced pretty well should be qualified for an American news site. Priced well in this case means it only costs triple what the USA pay. The price split is very similar. Average diesel price in Chicago is 1c above gasoline right now, average diesel price in Antwerp is only 2c below gasoline.
If the market price for diesel is high, you can make more diesel. If it's gasoline you want, just change the recipe a bit.
That's really not the case at all. Well it is a bit, but the amount of handles you have are very limited. What you do have a handle on is the removal of impurities, but the general mix is hard to alter as the refineries' units are designed to produce an optimum output. I.e. if you decide you don't want to produce as much gasoline as diesel tomorrow and buy the appropriate crude to do so, what you're actually saying is I don't want to run the expensive equipment I bought to it's full utilisation and therefore don't want to make as much money. That's one of the great things about a completely fungible feedstock and product, it will always sell and the sensible option is almost universally to optimise refineries for max throughput regardless of what the market is doing. I briefly worked at a refinery in Australia that wasn't able to sell diesel locally since it lacked the ability to meet the sulphur targets with its feedstock. It was cheaper to run that refinery and export 100% of it's diesel to Asia than it was to buy a feedstock that allowed it to meet the sulphur spec, and at the time Australia was hungry for diesel. (Quite disappointing to see a ship full of diesel leave for Asia passing a ship full of diesel coming from Asia both operated by the same company, but the cost / benefit made that the most profitable option).
If Europe gives up on diesel, they will need to spend billions to build new or to retrofit refineries
To be clear Europe IS giving up on diesel, at least for the consumer market. In my city alone there has been a 90% drop in the number of registered diesel vehicles in the past 10 years. Major cities are implementing bans or have implemented them already. However this doesn't interest refiners much anyway for several reasons: They need to spend billions to retrofit in order to meet new jet standards, increasing emissions standards, flaring standards, they have continuously spent on meeting the ever changing diesel standards, and the next big one coming up: fuel oil standards. Some of the coking refineries need to upgrade as power-plants shut down, others as the iron and aluminium industry shut down.
Basically what I'm saying is investment is continuous and ongoing (even now with the oil price where it is), so changing consumer demand won't impact the industry on the whole much.
Good so lets build the wind farms so we can gather the data.
That is a load of garbage. NOx emissions are much like sulfur in that they sing intrinsically have a major effect on the global climate but are frigging horrible in concentrations close to population centres. There was no hard-on against muscle cars, there were studied finally showing how NOx emissions negatively affect health.
You're right about the 99% but only by earth surface area, definitely not by target market which is city centre driving.
I've heard it said that 1.5 Billion people use Windows. Even if 0.1% of these spend 30 seconds per year downloading paint (versus using a copy on disk), that's 6 man years lost.
I've heard that 1.5billion people use windows. If only 0.1% of the users need it then it collectively wastes: 10126TB of storage space.
They want everyone to forget that there was a world where you didn't need a Microsoft login and an app store to do things on Windows.
Do they now? Is that why they just added the option of downloading things from the app store without any Microsoft account?
How ... devious?... of them?
To use the Windows Store at all (even for free things), you need to log in with your Microsoft account.
No you don't. You only need a Microsoft account to pay for a paid app. You can happily log into windows store without a Microsoft account.
It's like vi on Linux.
Funny that. It seems like the first thing I need to do now when I fire up a new linux install is run apt-get install vi.
So we now need to prove a negative for everything.
2017-07-25 - The day human progress ceased in every field except for generating paperwork.
It doesn't take an economist to figure that out.
It doesn't take a weatherman to look out the window and take an umbrella either. I feel like you're arguing against language rather than arguing a point.
[citation needed] on this affecting specific species in any significant way.
Either you missed the bit about this being a band on tour, or you have an over inflated view of Hotel WiFi. The big problem here is that if you're bored out of your mind in transit a few GB doesn't go far for entertainment. I have enough problem with downloading offline movies for a 1 week intercontinental trip, let alone going to tour, and the WiFi in the hotel typically barely allows me to get an additional movie in for the day after, let alone cover 14 people in a bus all day.
There is a LOT of data that needs to be planned ahead if you're trying to do this trip without relying on mobile data.
Up until a few years ago the TSA is the lowest of the low, then someone at United turned to his friend and said: "hold my beer."
Turns out United is taking full credit
That's a strange approach to the situation. Given the parties involved I would always assume it's 100% United's fault and then be pleasantly surprised when it "turns out" I'm wrong :-)
I tried but ICANN wouldn't let me become my own registrar so I need to pay someone for that privilege.
Also you missed the point. You definitely do not need to own the DNS or hosting. They are both disposable and transferable. You only need to own the domain registration, and more importantly, don't give your credit card to your soon to be ex-wife.
That is a great quote though misdirected. I took an umbrella to work today because of the weather forecasters.
Businesses are leaving the UK because of the economists.
The problem with these two, is the former is just taking advice, while the latter leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Yo, cool rant. Does it have anything to do with the case here where a user compiled systemd with a non-default experimental 3rd party library which caused the fault? Didn't think so.
+1 funny. Would laugh at your misdirected angry rant again.