It's obvious and has been for some time. There will be a tipping point at which the increase in EV's with the associated reduction in fossil fuel consumption will lead to the closure of sufficient refilling stations, that refilling an ICE will be a major hassle in finding somewhere to fill up. Once this kicks I strongly suspect that it will accelerate rapidly.
The other data point is here in the UK at least just looking at the vehicles on the road I would estimate that more than 90% are less than 10 years old (the license plate tells you when the car was first registered). Might be different in other countries but I suspect at least western europe is pretty similar.
So even without the network effects pushing people to EV's just stop selling them an with in a decade they will mostly be gone.
The gist of this is correct. However there are plenty of countries outside the USA that are as good if not better than the USA at manufacturing quality goods. Heck even stuff manufactured in China can be as good as anything made in the USA, though admittedly the vast bulk of stuff is not.
Also some "cheap" goods just don't ship well. Apparently for example the vast bulk of your tinsel purchased in the UK is still manufactured in the UK, because stuff shipped via sea from China is rubbish by the time it gets here; it does not take well to being on a ship for six weeks.
Indeed more than 20 years ago when Bill Clinton was trying to get health care reform passed I read a report that said the USA spends more pushing paper around to pay medical bills than the UK spends on the NHS in it's *ENTIRETY*. Now granted the population on the USA is 5-6 times that of the UK, but that should give you reason to stop and think about how inefficient the system actually is in the USA.
All the standard definition TV is MPEG2 based here in Europe or anyone on DVB-T and most of ATCS is MPEG2 based as well. Consequently broadcast TV will in part use MPEG2 for some considerable period of time.
But here is the rub the MPEG2 patents run out in just 15 days time on the 14th of February when 7334248 expires, which managed to sneak a whopping 1394 days extension from first filing. This is the only remaining patent from the MPEG-LA on MPEG2, as 6181712 expires *today*.
Using a backhoe is old school now. Real criminals just insert a tube, squirt some gas inside and then literally blow the ATM up. Gets you instant access to the cash, and it happens too fast for the dye to make the bank note unusable.
If the kid can turn on the TV they can fire up Plex and pick the shows they want. I think you need the Plexpass if you want users with limited libraries etc. but it's what $5 a month or $150 for a lifetime one these days (mine was a lot less).
My three year old niece can do it, even shows Grandma when she is doing it wrong; lots of "no Grandma you need to push that button". Funny really I think it's because at Grandma's they are not allowed to put the TV unless Grandma permits it.
My nephew and niece seem to flit around a lot. They might bing on something when it's new but it does not stay that way for long then they go around watching different stuff. Quite a lot of Highway Rat and PJ Masks at the minute. However lots of other stuff too. My niece still cycles through Peter Rabbit, Peppa Pig, Swashbuckle and Postman Pat for sure.
They quite happily fine EU companies too. Though one suspects that EU companies are more aware what practices are illegal in the EU and are thus less likely to break them and consequently less likely to be fined. However Qualcomm are a multi billion dollar company operating globally, it is not unreasonable to expect them to be aware that what they where doing was illegal in what is the largest single market in the world, and I am not going to cry when they get fined for breaking the law.
In the USA yes. Over in Europe we might use them on a garden shed or summerhouse and then moan that they are junk and constantly need replacing.
Then again house construction standards in the USA are basically entirely alien to Europeans who basically look upon US buildings as little more than glorified sheds.
What I want is active rogue AP defense. That is rather than just alerting one to the fact the rogue AP exists, is that it starts sending deauthentication frames to anything associated with an AP pretending to be one of mine. That way the f@#kers are stopped dead in their tracks.
Think again mate. Just ordered four new login servers for an HPC and they all have nVidia graphics cards in them for remote visualization of results using VirtualGL. They will be in a datacentre becuase where the hell else to you but a few thousand cores? Much easier than downloading say a couple hundred GB or even a TB of data to see your results, when there is a spiffy login node with oodles of RAM and much better graphics card than on your desktop. Our users really like this so much we are ditching the separate login and visualization nodes and just making all the login nodes visualization nodes. Perhaps before opening your mouth next time you might want to check with someone with actual experience of actual data centres, rather than your notions of what a data centre should be. Oh and workstations in data centres is really big in the city too, but what would you know.
Assuming Intel don't get hit with a lawsuit demanding compensation for faulty products. Given the worst performance hit comes from Meltdown and only Intel seem to be vulnerable, there's a case to be answered. So shorting Intel stock seems the way to go as their numbers will be going down.
Except anything less than Berne Convention (thats life plus 50 years) is going to be tough to get going on the international stage and that is kind of important these days.
In fact the life plus 70 years can probably be seen as an equalisation measure with the EU, where the extra 20 years was a push from Germany basically to keep the copyright in Mein Kampf ticking along so they could keep it's publication banned. (The German goverment's position was the copyright resided with the goverment after Hitler's death). Though the actual selling point was because authors had lost royalties due to the two world wars. That really erk's me because millions lost the fucking lives and got little in return and it applies to stuff written after the second world war ended so how does that work then?
Anyway given it's life plus 70 years now, surely the same stuff that is slipping into the public domain in the EU is now slipping into the public domain in the USA?
The problem is when you accidentally miss click and the dam thing then remembers your password. Then you have to mess about making it forget that you put a password in.
So most societies frowning on 12 year old brides clearly does not include the USA then. Hum perhaps looking in the mirror first might be a good idea if you hail from the USA (most likely).
I would add that the volume of training material is huge and varied. Though one imagines that Amazon have easier access to the material through their Audible subsidiary. Audiobooks with wispersync being especially useful.
Exactly how do you propose to provide protective gear to cosmic rays? The higher you are from the earth's mean sea level the greater your exposure to cosmic rays. Clearly being in a plane for a significant period of time which is much higher than normal will result in a higher exposure to radiation than being somewhere on the surface, and consequently a higher dose. This is not rocket science and has been known for decades.
True but part of the issue is that repeat customers for a Rolex or similar watch are low. My Seiko Kinetic is 17 years old and I have no plans on replacing anytime soon. Admittedly it needed a new capacitor this year and it's had several straps over the years (I can't stand metal straps so it's leather and they wear out), and unless it gets destroyed in an accident I don't expect to replace it in the next decade either. I would imagine the same is true of similar higher end watches. Personally I would never own a Rolex or other mechanical watch because I like the precision of quartz, so it's a Kinetic or an Eco-Drive watch for me.
Anyway with low repeat business the sale numbers make more sense. On the other hand a smart watch is likely to be useless lump in five years or less so much more repeat business, and starting with next to no market saturation to being with you are likely to have higher sales numbers.
So in there is probably orders of magnitude more ordinary watches in daily use than smart watches and it's likely to stay that way for many years to come.
If you don't like setting your clocks you could just buy clocks that operate on a LW radio clock. Oh look the German government operates one that covers most of Europe, and in the NW corner the British government operates one too. The only clock I need to change is my watch which invariably needs correcting a bit anyway and my oven clock because nobody does an oven with a radio clock dam it. I carefully chose my microwave to not have a clock. Well OK it does have a clock but if you don't set it then it does not display the time.
The other thing to do is stop running on brain dead OS's that run the hardware clock on the computer in local time; here's looking at you Microsoft.
Making OLED displays is going to be hard for Apple. Firstly there are still a ton of valid patents in the field that would more or less exclude Apple, and given Samsung have invested large sums of money developing OLED displays that's exactly what patents are for, unlike Apples software bull shit patents.
Secondly even in the absence of patents there is a huge amount of just "know how" in actually running a plant that actually produces OLED displays at volume. Again this is something that Samsung have spent many billions of dollars working out over many years and Apple cannot just magic out of nowhere.
So if Apple want to make their own OLED displays they are going to have to negotiate some patent license deals and good luck with that, and then spend many years building the plant and getting the manufacturing processes perfected for the volumes they need. That will take years and billions of dollars, so it's not going to happen.
Wrong there is *VERY* good reason to believe that the first person to actually believe that the first person to set foot on the summit of Everest was neither Edmund Hillary or Tenzing Norgay but most likely George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, but in an analogy to a Saturn V they where unable to descend alive...
My Sony XZ1 Compact seems to have a whole series of battery saving features. Starts with smart charge so that the over ight charge is a trickle charge timed for 100% capacity just befote I wake up. Then there is the 100% charge is not actually 100% because chargi g to the real 100% capacity of the battery is not good for the battery. Time well tell how well this all works of course. Slowing the phone down when the battery is old would be a good idea too, but there should be a notification that you are now on that setting and should look to get your battery replaced.
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It's obvious and has been for some time. There will be a tipping point at which the increase in EV's with the associated reduction in fossil fuel consumption will lead to the closure of sufficient refilling stations, that refilling an ICE will be a major hassle in finding somewhere to fill up. Once this kicks I strongly suspect that it will accelerate rapidly.
The other data point is here in the UK at least just looking at the vehicles on the road I would estimate that more than 90% are less than 10 years old (the license plate tells you when the car was first registered). Might be different in other countries but I suspect at least western europe is pretty similar.
So even without the network effects pushing people to EV's just stop selling them an with in a decade they will mostly be gone.
The gist of this is correct. However there are plenty of countries outside the USA that are as good if not better than the USA at manufacturing quality goods. Heck even stuff manufactured in China can be as good as anything made in the USA, though admittedly the vast bulk of stuff is not.
Also some "cheap" goods just don't ship well. Apparently for example the vast bulk of your tinsel purchased in the UK is still manufactured in the UK, because stuff shipped via sea from China is rubbish by the time it gets here; it does not take well to being on a ship for six weeks.
Indeed more than 20 years ago when Bill Clinton was trying to get health care reform passed I read a report that said the USA spends more pushing paper around to pay medical bills than the UK spends on the NHS in it's *ENTIRETY*. Now granted the population on the USA is 5-6 times that of the UK, but that should give you reason to stop and think about how inefficient the system actually is in the USA.
Why would you drop MPEG2 decoding when it goes patent free in 15 days time. If anything you are more likely to include it now than before.
All the standard definition TV is MPEG2 based here in Europe or anyone on DVB-T and most of ATCS is MPEG2 based as well. Consequently broadcast TV will in part use MPEG2 for some considerable period of time.
But here is the rub the MPEG2 patents run out in just 15 days time on the 14th of February when 7334248 expires, which managed to sneak a whopping 1394 days extension from first filing. This is the only remaining patent from the MPEG-LA on MPEG2, as 6181712 expires *today*.
Using a backhoe is old school now. Real criminals just insert a tube, squirt some gas inside and then literally blow the ATM up. Gets you instant access to the cash, and it happens too fast for the dye to make the bank note unusable.
Plenty of jurisdictions allow voting at 16.
If the kid can turn on the TV they can fire up Plex and pick the shows they want. I think you need the Plexpass if you want users with limited libraries etc. but it's what $5 a month or $150 for a lifetime one these days (mine was a lot less).
My three year old niece can do it, even shows Grandma when she is doing it wrong; lots of "no Grandma you need to push that button". Funny really I think it's because at Grandma's they are not allowed to put the TV unless Grandma permits it.
My nephew and niece seem to flit around a lot. They might bing on something when it's new but it does not stay that way for long then they go around watching different stuff. Quite a lot of Highway Rat and PJ Masks at the minute. However lots of other stuff too. My niece still cycles through Peter Rabbit, Peppa Pig, Swashbuckle and Postman Pat for sure.
They quite happily fine EU companies too. Though one suspects that EU companies are more aware what practices are illegal in the EU and are thus less likely to break them and consequently less likely to be fined. However Qualcomm are a multi billion dollar company operating globally, it is not unreasonable to expect them to be aware that what they where doing was illegal in what is the largest single market in the world, and I am not going to cry when they get fined for breaking the law.
And no none permanent method has a probability of zero, including abstinence because people have a habit of not stopping to abstain.
In the USA yes. Over in Europe we might use them on a garden shed or summerhouse and then moan that they are junk and constantly need replacing.
Then again house construction standards in the USA are basically entirely alien to Europeans who basically look upon US buildings as little more than glorified sheds.
What I want is active rogue AP defense. That is rather than just alerting one to the fact the rogue AP exists, is that it starts sending deauthentication frames to anything associated with an AP pretending to be one of mine. That way the f@#kers are stopped dead in their tracks.
Think again mate. Just ordered four new login servers for an HPC and they all have nVidia graphics cards in them for remote visualization of results using VirtualGL. They will be in a datacentre becuase where the hell else to you but a few thousand cores? Much easier than downloading say a couple hundred GB or even a TB of data to see your results, when there is a spiffy login node with oodles of RAM and much better graphics card than on your desktop. Our users really like this so much we are ditching the separate login and visualization nodes and just making all the login nodes visualization nodes. Perhaps before opening your mouth next time you might want to check with someone with actual experience of actual data centres, rather than your notions of what a data centre should be. Oh and workstations in data centres is really big in the city too, but what would you know.
Assuming Intel don't get hit with a lawsuit demanding compensation for faulty products. Given the worst performance hit comes from Meltdown and only Intel seem to be vulnerable, there's a case to be answered. So shorting Intel stock seems the way to go as their numbers will be going down.
Same as 30 European countries though this will be going down to 29 next year. That market is somewhat larger than the US one.
Except anything less than Berne Convention (thats life plus 50 years) is going to be tough to get going on the international stage and that is kind of important these days.
In fact the life plus 70 years can probably be seen as an equalisation measure with the EU, where the extra 20 years was a push from Germany basically to keep the copyright in Mein Kampf ticking along so they could keep it's publication banned. (The German goverment's position was the copyright resided with the goverment after Hitler's death). Though the actual selling point was because authors had lost royalties due to the two world wars. That really erk's me because millions lost the fucking lives and got little in return and it applies to stuff written after the second world war ended so how does that work then?
Anyway given it's life plus 70 years now, surely the same stuff that is slipping into the public domain in the EU is now slipping into the public domain in the USA?
The problem is when you accidentally miss click and the dam thing then remembers your password. Then you have to mess about making it forget that you put a password in.
So most societies frowning on 12 year old brides clearly does not include the USA then. Hum perhaps looking in the mirror first might be a good idea if you hail from the USA (most likely).
I would add that the volume of training material is huge and varied. Though one imagines that Amazon have easier access to the material through their Audible subsidiary. Audiobooks with wispersync being especially useful.
Exactly how do you propose to provide protective gear to cosmic rays? The higher you are from the earth's mean sea level the greater your exposure to cosmic rays. Clearly being in a plane for a significant period of time which is much higher than normal will result in a higher exposure to radiation than being somewhere on the surface, and consequently a higher dose. This is not rocket science and has been known for decades.
True but part of the issue is that repeat customers for a Rolex or similar watch are low. My Seiko Kinetic is 17 years old and I have no plans on replacing anytime soon. Admittedly it needed a new capacitor this year and it's had several straps over the years (I can't stand metal straps so it's leather and they wear out), and unless it gets destroyed in an accident I don't expect to replace it in the next decade either. I would imagine the same is true of similar higher end watches. Personally I would never own a Rolex or other mechanical watch because I like the precision of quartz, so it's a Kinetic or an Eco-Drive watch for me.
Anyway with low repeat business the sale numbers make more sense. On the other hand a smart watch is likely to be useless lump in five years or less so much more repeat business, and starting with next to no market saturation to being with you are likely to have higher sales numbers.
So in there is probably orders of magnitude more ordinary watches in daily use than smart watches and it's likely to stay that way for many years to come.
If you don't like setting your clocks you could just buy clocks that operate on a LW radio clock. Oh look the German government operates one that covers most of Europe, and in the NW corner the British government operates one too. The only clock I need to change is my watch which invariably needs correcting a bit anyway and my oven clock because nobody does an oven with a radio clock dam it. I carefully chose my microwave to not have a clock. Well OK it does have a clock but if you don't set it then it does not display the time.
The other thing to do is stop running on brain dead OS's that run the hardware clock on the computer in local time; here's looking at you Microsoft.
Making OLED displays is going to be hard for Apple. Firstly there are still a ton of valid patents in the field that would more or less exclude Apple, and given Samsung have invested large sums of money developing OLED displays that's exactly what patents are for, unlike Apples software bull shit patents.
Secondly even in the absence of patents there is a huge amount of just "know how" in actually running a plant that actually produces OLED displays at volume. Again this is something that Samsung have spent many billions of dollars working out over many years and Apple cannot just magic out of nowhere.
So if Apple want to make their own OLED displays they are going to have to negotiate some patent license deals and good luck with that, and then spend many years building the plant and getting the manufacturing processes perfected for the volumes they need. That will take years and billions of dollars, so it's not going to happen.
Wrong there is *VERY* good reason to believe that the first person to actually believe that the first person to set foot on the summit of Everest was neither Edmund Hillary or Tenzing Norgay but most likely George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, but in an analogy to a Saturn V they where unable to descend alive...
My Sony XZ1 Compact seems to have a whole series of battery saving features. Starts with smart charge so that the over ight charge is a trickle charge timed for 100% capacity just befote I wake up. Then there is the 100% charge is not actually 100% because chargi g to the real 100% capacity of the battery is not good for the battery. Time well tell how well this all works of course. Slowing the phone down when the battery is old would be a good idea too, but there should be a notification that you are now on that setting and should look to get your battery replaced.