That is surprising, considering the ubiquity of screenshots showing Pokemon invading players' work desks, kitchen counters and other locations of everyday life.
Pretty much all those screenshots were taken on the first day, then people found out how to turn that shit off and that the game is actually easier when you don't need to hold your smartphone in a specific way to aim at a pokemon.
If anything Pokemon Go showed how little people actually cared to participate in the augmented part.
The writer has undiagnosed clinical depression and is blaming his shitty outlook on the world on technology. I'm genuinely impressed with how much loathing was packed into a short summary.
You know what else deals with transient demands? Gas peaking plants. Like the one that they didn't turn on due to a purely contractual dispute which actually caused the last blackout. That contractual issue was fixed and the state had no problem with power the day after despite having and even higher peak demand than the day the electricity went out.
I applaud Musk for his building, but SA's outages are caused by maintenance and mismanagement, not by capacity.... currently anyway. The 2018 outlook is actually quite bleak for their capacity. The battery may help in the future, but it wouldn't have solved the problems of the past.
One thing to note is that Australia got to their sad state by using some of the alternatives
To be fair, South Australia go to that sad state. Australia as a whole has no problem with power, but they also don't have enough interconnect capacity to SA to help them along.
The problem was no so much that they used some of the alternatives, but more that they didn't use them correctly and were overly keen to cut baseload capacity without testing if the market could handle what they needed.
The September outage was a one in 50 year storm which took out several UHV transmission lines linking to the supply of baseload and the interconnects. The entire grid lost synchronisation. There was plenty of capacity but no baseload to synchronise.
The December outage was again a storm this time taking out 300 individual power lines. There was plenty of capacity.
The February outage was caused by marketing masturbation. There was a capacity shortage due to some peaking plants refusing to power up their generators due to contractual disagreements. The day after the outage energy consumption was actually higher than the day of the outage and yet no problem occurred.
Now while the current problems are the result of storms and market failure, the future is due well and truly due to mismanagement. SA doesn't need batteries, they need either another interconnect or another baseload supplier. Instead they closed 700MW of baseload, and claimed tax credits as a result.
Not at all. The author only speculated that while the system was in place fewer people may have driven into the city. He also offers alternatives for how people used to get into the city before.
is selling a solution for a blackout problem in South Australia.
Actually I think he's selling a battery. How that would have solved the major blackout problems in SA due to grid synchronisation issues when the baseload is cut-off I'm not quite sure yet.
You're right! No company should ever provide anything to the government. People should build their own roads, their own power grids, their own power plant, own water treatment systems, they should maintain it themselves.
This will be of great benefit to all as we'd be living in the dark ages and not have to put up with reading shit posted on the internet by people with no clue.
While I agree in general it's hard to put the blame solely at drivers inability to "see a pallet of cinderblocks".
Firstly those pallets are much larger than any motorcycle. Secondly motorcycles fit in blind spots even with properly adjusted mirrors where small cars would not.
From a behavioral side: I have only once seen a motorbike move with traffic rather than overtake, move faster, or (if the traffic is slow) lanesplit. And that one motorbike was a Harley too big to lanesplit. This is an expectational piece. When I drive I generally keep a view out and know the relative positions of cars around me, but baring a few idiot car drivers (okay a lot of idiot car drivers) motorcyclists are somewhat of a wildcard, they suddenly appear and then disappear soon after.
I can't blame them really, I'd be doing the same thing if I were small enough to fit in between traffic, but in general even the well behaved ones are hard to predict, and the vast majority of accidents involving cars and motorbikes involve merging into them due to the above issues. That is followed not too closely by being rear-ended by them (i.e. cutting them off because they have a far worse stopping ability.)
the tiny detail that the point of Tesla isn't to be a successful car company but rather to push electric cars into the mainstream.
As a matter of interest how do you think this will be achieved in the face of "ANOTHER TESLA CAR BURSTS INTO FLAMES" headlines that they have been battling. You are right in their purpose, but given that the establishment is looking for absolutely any excuse to derail them and even making a few up as they go along, being "the best" even in such side themes as safety is solidly inline with their goal.
Considering recent headlines like VW going all electric and hybrid
To be honest, bad example. I would point to other car companies for some examples. VW royally screwed themselves and their electric direction is a major attempt to reverse their huge emissions scandal. Electric investment even formed a core part of their compensation scheme.
What's going to put it over the top is when the gigafactories (they are building more) start cranking out the new solid state batteries in a few years which will drop the price of electric cars while increasing their mileage.
Agreed, and this is going to have major benefits well beyond cars.
My neighbour just got rid of his Corolla. It had 620000km on it. He got rid of it because he's not allowed to drive it in the city anymore due to emission regulations.
Yeah, comparing a well known company in the media industry which currently produces the world best recording sensor, who's equipment is used in the production of many top blockbusters.... comparing them to an obvious startup scam doesn't smell right.
Yes they do. They may not be in the business of making the safest car, but part of their reputation now is based on this somewhat incidental claim to fame. The incidental part here being the different structural design that was primarily focused on the things that needed to sit in the frame.
Tesla has been lauded as a king of safety for a while now, so that is part of their brand.
Worth noting is if you dig through the bullshit article they are STILL the king of safety and as noted above this test was introduced after the Model S started production, and the only cars currently passing it are 2017 models which you can count on one hand with change.
What an ignorant comment. rsync and cloud storage work in fundamentally different ways. No back end or front end for cloud storage uses rsync, not even the open source ones.
The reason being simple, rsync works by syncing two data sets. Cloud storage systems have to sync across many and the sync needs to be initiated from all sides of the pipe, and it needs to be able to sync in parallel.
Not ever problem is a nail even if you have the biggest hammer in the world.
That's because changes aren't singular. When something changes there's often many changes involved, however we tend to focus on the ones we find worse than the ones we find better.
There are changes for the better in everything we hate, even Windows 10 and the never stationary Google Maps have some fantastic changes, but we spend all of our energy focusing on the downsides. e.g. Would I happily roll back several versions of Maps to get the pre-material layout versions? Hell no, the traffic and incident notification system of the more recent versions is a godsend. Ideally we'd get to pick and chose what we like in each app, but that's never going to happen. Hell we can't even do that on OSes (other than Linux, errr except for Systemd).
Mind you I haven't tried Skype yet, so I'll reserve my right to complain about that later:-)
You're talking about 3 of the most hated companies for just what part of the consumer they actually "value".
The thing is, most of these companies created most of their consumer value before they grew into abusive pieces of crap. Note that it's not the size of the company that is under fire in the EU, but rather a set of very VERY specific decisions about very isolated parts of the business.
Except it's not as vendors are free to install what they want on their devices.
The difference in the Browser wars was that there was no other company offering to sell you a version of windows without IE. Yet there are plenty offering to sell you different services with different stores, and Google even offers the source code up for free for you to roll your own (okay you don't have the resources for this, but the likes of Samsung do).
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It was a nostalgic fad.
One that still has 5million daily users.
The game in question sucked.
Oh you played it for the game? You're doing it wrong. Should have gone out to meet people, join teams, etc.
That is surprising, considering the ubiquity of screenshots showing Pokemon invading players' work desks, kitchen counters and other locations of everyday life.
Pretty much all those screenshots were taken on the first day, then people found out how to turn that shit off and that the game is actually easier when you don't need to hold your smartphone in a specific way to aim at a pokemon.
If anything Pokemon Go showed how little people actually cared to participate in the augmented part.
The writer has undiagnosed clinical depression and is blaming his shitty outlook on the world on technology. I'm genuinely impressed with how much loathing was packed into a short summary.
You know what else deals with transient demands? Gas peaking plants. Like the one that they didn't turn on due to a purely contractual dispute which actually caused the last blackout. That contractual issue was fixed and the state had no problem with power the day after despite having and even higher peak demand than the day the electricity went out.
I applaud Musk for his building, but SA's outages are caused by maintenance and mismanagement, not by capacity. ... currently anyway. The 2018 outlook is actually quite bleak for their capacity. The battery may help in the future, but it wouldn't have solved the problems of the past.
One thing to note is that Australia got to their sad state by using some of the alternatives
To be fair, South Australia go to that sad state. Australia as a whole has no problem with power, but they also don't have enough interconnect capacity to SA to help them along.
The problem was no so much that they used some of the alternatives, but more that they didn't use them correctly and were overly keen to cut baseload capacity without testing if the market could handle what they needed.
The September outage was a one in 50 year storm which took out several UHV transmission lines linking to the supply of baseload and the interconnects. The entire grid lost synchronisation. There was plenty of capacity but no baseload to synchronise.
The December outage was again a storm this time taking out 300 individual power lines. There was plenty of capacity.
The February outage was caused by marketing masturbation. There was a capacity shortage due to some peaking plants refusing to power up their generators due to contractual disagreements. The day after the outage energy consumption was actually higher than the day of the outage and yet no problem occurred.
Now while the current problems are the result of storms and market failure, the future is due well and truly due to mismanagement. SA doesn't need batteries, they need either another interconnect or another baseload supplier. Instead they closed 700MW of baseload, and claimed tax credits as a result.
Not at all. The author only speculated that while the system was in place fewer people may have driven into the city. He also offers alternatives for how people used to get into the city before.
is selling a solution for a blackout problem in South Australia.
Actually I think he's selling a battery. How that would have solved the major blackout problems in SA due to grid synchronisation issues when the baseload is cut-off I'm not quite sure yet.
You're right! No company should ever provide anything to the government. People should build their own roads, their own power grids, their own power plant, own water treatment systems, they should maintain it themselves.
This will be of great benefit to all as we'd be living in the dark ages and not have to put up with reading shit posted on the internet by people with no clue.
Good to see that everything is now worse for everyone?
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
While I agree in general it's hard to put the blame solely at drivers inability to "see a pallet of cinderblocks".
Firstly those pallets are much larger than any motorcycle.
Secondly motorcycles fit in blind spots even with properly adjusted mirrors where small cars would not.
From a behavioral side:
I have only once seen a motorbike move with traffic rather than overtake, move faster, or (if the traffic is slow) lanesplit. And that one motorbike was a Harley too big to lanesplit. This is an expectational piece. When I drive I generally keep a view out and know the relative positions of cars around me, but baring a few idiot car drivers (okay a lot of idiot car drivers) motorcyclists are somewhat of a wildcard, they suddenly appear and then disappear soon after.
I can't blame them really, I'd be doing the same thing if I were small enough to fit in between traffic, but in general even the well behaved ones are hard to predict, and the vast majority of accidents involving cars and motorbikes involve merging into them due to the above issues. That is followed not too closely by being rear-ended by them (i.e. cutting them off because they have a far worse stopping ability.)
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Where do physicists get the stuff they smoke when they describe the world!
the tiny detail that the point of Tesla isn't to be a successful car company but rather to push electric cars into the mainstream.
As a matter of interest how do you think this will be achieved in the face of "ANOTHER TESLA CAR BURSTS INTO FLAMES" headlines that they have been battling. You are right in their purpose, but given that the establishment is looking for absolutely any excuse to derail them and even making a few up as they go along, being "the best" even in such side themes as safety is solidly inline with their goal.
Considering recent headlines like VW going all electric and hybrid
To be honest, bad example. I would point to other car companies for some examples. VW royally screwed themselves and their electric direction is a major attempt to reverse their huge emissions scandal. Electric investment even formed a core part of their compensation scheme.
What's going to put it over the top is when the gigafactories (they are building more) start cranking out the new solid state batteries in a few years which will drop the price of electric cars while increasing their mileage.
Agreed, and this is going to have major benefits well beyond cars.
Why not let things unfold naturally
What major game changer in history has unfolded naturally?
My neighbour just got rid of his Corolla. It had 620000km on it. He got rid of it because he's not allowed to drive it in the city anymore due to emission regulations.
As someone once said
Kenneth S. Deffeyes. A top R&D person at Shell. That adds some extra weight to that quote.
We'll be using oil long after every car, bus, and motorbike in the world has gone electric.
Yeah, comparing a well known company in the media industry which currently produces the world best recording sensor, who's equipment is used in the production of many top blockbusters.... comparing them to an obvious startup scam doesn't smell right.
Passwords? For an SSH session? Is this the 90s or something?
You need an attack vector to implant the malware.
The user.
Done.
I thought you had a problem that would make this not work?
Toyota, Mercedes, and Lincon.
3 cars have passed, all current models, none designed in 2011 like the Model S which we insist on holding to ridiculous standards.
Yes they do. They may not be in the business of making the safest car, but part of their reputation now is based on this somewhat incidental claim to fame. The incidental part here being the different structural design that was primarily focused on the things that needed to sit in the frame.
Tesla has been lauded as a king of safety for a while now, so that is part of their brand.
Worth noting is if you dig through the bullshit article they are STILL the king of safety and as noted above this test was introduced after the Model S started production, and the only cars currently passing it are 2017 models which you can count on one hand with change.
. . . every file system under the sun is supported.
But of course OneDrive can't use rsync, because it wasn't invented here.
What an ignorant comment. rsync and cloud storage work in fundamentally different ways. No back end or front end for cloud storage uses rsync, not even the open source ones.
The reason being simple, rsync works by syncing two data sets. Cloud storage systems have to sync across many and the sync needs to be initiated from all sides of the pipe, and it needs to be able to sync in parallel.
Not ever problem is a nail even if you have the biggest hammer in the world.
Why wouldn't they? Are they better served with non Windows users using a non Microsoft product?
This has nothing to do with Linux.
That's because changes aren't singular. When something changes there's often many changes involved, however we tend to focus on the ones we find worse than the ones we find better.
There are changes for the better in everything we hate, even Windows 10 and the never stationary Google Maps have some fantastic changes, but we spend all of our energy focusing on the downsides. e.g. Would I happily roll back several versions of Maps to get the pre-material layout versions? Hell no, the traffic and incident notification system of the more recent versions is a godsend. Ideally we'd get to pick and chose what we like in each app, but that's never going to happen. Hell we can't even do that on OSes (other than Linux, errr except for Systemd).
Mind you I haven't tried Skype yet, so I'll reserve my right to complain about that later :-)
You're talking about 3 of the most hated companies for just what part of the consumer they actually "value".
The thing is, most of these companies created most of their consumer value before they grew into abusive pieces of crap. Note that it's not the size of the company that is under fire in the EU, but rather a set of very VERY specific decisions about very isolated parts of the business.
Except it's not as vendors are free to install what they want on their devices.
The difference in the Browser wars was that there was no other company offering to sell you a version of windows without IE. Yet there are plenty offering to sell you different services with different stores, and Google even offers the source code up for free for you to roll your own (okay you don't have the resources for this, but the likes of Samsung do).