We're talking about the upcoming Roadster. It's not going to have that issue. They'll be sure to give that thing enough cooling ability to track it all day long.
Those cars go fast by drawing a large amount of current from the battery very quickly. Doing that for a sustained period will not only create a lot of heat, but the bigger problem is if you draw lots of current quickly you use up your charge very quickly as well.
So all day long with a charging break every few laps, perhaps.
They poured so much effort into shaving a couple of tenths of a second off the 0-60 time with a petrol engine, only to be trounced by an electric sedan costing 1/15th as much
Amazon relies heavily on third party sellers these days. It seems like the products from these sellers that are prime eligible just have the shipping costs built into the price. For example, I searched on Amazon "adafruit" (a hobbyist electronics company) and one of the first results is the "Adafruit 328 battery." $18.35 on Amazon, $14.95 on adafruit.com.
Obviously Prime doesn't remove the need to comparison shop. I agree there is a lot of highly overpriced stuff there, and you need to be able to filter that out or you will get ripped off. One would hope if you use it enough to join Prime that would not be a problem but for some people it probably still is.
I remember an NPR story awhile back that many 3rd party sellers were simply buying products on ebay, marking up the price, re-selling on Amazon, and making a killing. People have been trained to use Amazon even when a simple search can find products cheaper from other sources.
No doubt, but dealing with a single source has an advantage as well. So long as the prices are in line with other vendors, I find it easier to just deal with a handful than what would be dozens, probably hundreds of vendors otherwise. Having to sign up for accounts and fill in credit cards with all of them is tedious, and shipping is highly inconsistent. Sure I still use other online sellers for one-offs here and there, but consolidation has a handiness factor.
Next time someone runs over 25 French people, ask yourself what a basically spineless country (with no real military to speak of) could have possibly done?
You obviously know shit about the French military.
...by not being a party to killing civilians in so many foreign countries.
This. The West - the US and Britain more than others, but all the collective West - obsessively meddles in other countries politics, meddles in other countries wars, arms and props up brutal dictatorships, and obviously in doing make lots and lots of enemies.
I have a Pebble Steel. It is not really "smart", but it does what I need it for - basically an auxiliary display for the phone, with a few buttons for sending basic interactions. It works fine with caller ID and texts, but I really only wear it when I am golfing (rangefinder with Free Caddie) and cycling (time/speed/distance with Runkeeper), The rest of the time I wear a mechanical watch.
That said, when my Pebble finally dies, I will be sad, because I don't see anything else out there as inexpensive and simple that I can replace it with. It sure won't be a Fitbit.
Absolutely. If you are a government or a corporation, foreign spying is bad. If you are an individual, foreign spying is a whole lot more benign than domestic spying.
What CEO or corporation would argue with a government willingly knowing that the end result is going to be a cessation of government contracts, barring from export, and anything else the government has that they can legally do that are in there powers?
I don't know, but it suggests that companies barred from government contracts or exports are probably the companies with integrity that you want to do business with.
Yup. Still use em. Remains the cheapest way to give someone (in person) an album, or likewise a DVD for a movie. Sure, I could upload them to a cloud storage and share from there, but burning uses no bandwidth, and USB drives are not yet as cheap as disks if you are giving them away.
I don't think you are far off with that. The spell checker (at least in iOS) learns as you use it, and if you type I.T. a lot maybe it did decide that is the one you prefer.
Take a look at a site like DamnYouAutocorrect. The spell checker did not just decide to use some of those words in horrible context from the start. The user has likely used them routinely before.
You might have noticed it also learns names too if you routinely use ones not built in to its dictionary.
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We're talking about the upcoming Roadster. It's not going to have that issue. They'll be sure to give that thing enough cooling ability to track it all day long.
Those cars go fast by drawing a large amount of current from the battery very quickly. Doing that for a sustained period will not only create a lot of heat, but the bigger problem is if you draw lots of current quickly you use up your charge very quickly as well.
So all day long with a charging break every few laps, perhaps.
They poured so much effort into shaving a couple of tenths of a second off the 0-60 time with a petrol engine, only to be trounced by an electric sedan costing 1/15th as much
As long as you don't expect to do a whole lap....
http://www.thedrive.com/news/5...
Sure, you can do a few ludicrous 0-60 runs before you have to recharge. The petrol engine can do them all day long.
If they can disable it if your don't pay the fee there must be some sort of service running in the background.
Amazon relies heavily on third party sellers these days. It seems like the products from these sellers that are prime eligible just have the shipping costs built into the price. For example, I searched on Amazon "adafruit" (a hobbyist electronics company) and one of the first results is the "Adafruit 328 battery." $18.35 on Amazon, $14.95 on adafruit.com.
Obviously Prime doesn't remove the need to comparison shop. I agree there is a lot of highly overpriced stuff there, and you need to be able to filter that out or you will get ripped off. One would hope if you use it enough to join Prime that would not be a problem but for some people it probably still is.
I remember an NPR story awhile back that many 3rd party sellers were simply buying products on ebay, marking up the price, re-selling on Amazon, and making a killing. People have been trained to use Amazon even when a simple search can find products cheaper from other sources.
No doubt, but dealing with a single source has an advantage as well. So long as the prices are in line with other vendors, I find it easier to just deal with a handful than what would be dozens, probably hundreds of vendors otherwise. Having to sign up for accounts and fill in credit cards with all of them is tedious, and shipping is highly inconsistent. Sure I still use other online sellers for one-offs here and there, but consolidation has a handiness factor.
Exactly. Tell that whiny dude from the FBI that THIS is why Americans need unbreakable encryption.
government is the entity people need to be able to keep secrets from MOST OF ALL.
You would think a country that fought a revolution to escape tyranny would remember that.
However little I trust Apple, AT&T, and NSA......I trust the Chinese government even less, and will avoid entrusting my data to a Chinese-made phone.
I'd rather have the Chinese spying on me than my own government. The former's ability to fuck with your life is much more limited.
Next time someone runs over 25 French people, ask yourself what a basically spineless country (with no real military to speak of) could have possibly done?
You obviously know shit about the French military.
Must be American. Go have some freedom fries.
...by not being a party to killing civilians in so many foreign countries.
This. The West - the US and Britain more than others, but all the collective West - obsessively meddles in other countries politics, meddles in other countries wars, arms and props up brutal dictatorships, and obviously in doing make lots and lots of enemies.
People ask "why do they hate us?".
I ask "what, are you fucking stupid?"
I have a Pebble Steel. It is not really "smart", but it does what I need it for - basically an auxiliary display for the phone, with a few buttons for sending basic interactions. It works fine with caller ID and texts, but I really only wear it when I am golfing (rangefinder with Free Caddie) and cycling (time/speed/distance with Runkeeper), The rest of the time I wear a mechanical watch.
That said, when my Pebble finally dies, I will be sad, because I don't see anything else out there as inexpensive and simple that I can replace it with. It sure won't be a Fitbit.
Very well said.
My first thought as well. There must be some place in the Trump administration for this man!
You know it's a slow night when I'm responding to an OT AC, but just anecdotally speaking most of the gay people I know have kids.
Fortunately I don't live in the USA, so that helps too.
hearing aids are an even bigger ripoff.
Just sayin.
I trust there will always be ISPs who want customers.
I don't want a monthly bill that only covers 1/10th of what I want to watch.
That is what The Pirate Bay is for.
Absolutely. If you are a government or a corporation, foreign spying is bad. If you are an individual, foreign spying is a whole lot more benign than domestic spying.
What CEO or corporation would argue with a government willingly knowing that the end result is going to be a cessation of government contracts, barring from export, and anything else the government has that they can legally do that are in there powers?
I don't know, but it suggests that companies barred from government contracts or exports are probably the companies with integrity that you want to do business with.
i8 is a hybrid.
I would love to own one though....
Remember CD's?
Yup. Still use em. Remains the cheapest way to give someone (in person) an album, or likewise a DVD for a movie. Sure, I could upload them to a cloud storage and share from there, but burning uses no bandwidth, and USB drives are not yet as cheap as disks if you are giving them away.
You can't train a cat to sniff out bombs and you think it is dumb?
I don't think you are far off with that. The spell checker (at least in iOS) learns as you use it, and if you type I.T. a lot maybe it did decide that is the one you prefer.
Take a look at a site like DamnYouAutocorrect. The spell checker did not just decide to use some of those words in horrible context from the start. The user has likely used them routinely before.
You might have noticed it also learns names too if you routinely use ones not built in to its dictionary.
I am waiting to see who the first person is to buy one and turn it into a massively overpowered SUV/truck thing for drag racing.
If it is like any other Tesla is will be fast for one short spurt. Then it will go into limp mode.
http://www.thedrive.com/news/5...
corals have been around for about half a billion years.
Scientists not so much.