In their defense - I thought 'video card box' because this matches a lot of colors/designs Nvidia uses.
Not knowing NVidia I now see that entry into gaming console market has created a rather unfortunate combination of styles. But you'd think that their marketing team would know what anXBox was and looked like.
As soon as I saw the console with its angular X-styled ridges and lime green LED "V-slash" I immediately thought XBox. So possibly not a good choice in styling if you want to stand out from the crowd.
There is also an opposite of the loser edit, but I don't know if it has its own name. It is the edit where by using selective editing the focus is placed on (the mistakes or the perfection) one person in a competition, and minimizes the focus on the person who will eventually win or lose. So that when the final decision is revealed it "surprises" the audience - and hence boosts drama, and hopefully higher ratings.
My feeling is that I see this behavior more than I see a "loser edit"
$56M doesn't really apply here, even if we were talking about a transcontinental hyper loop. I don't know if you've ever driven across the country, but there is a whole lot of empty space. Building stuff there is significantly cheaper than where stuff already exists.
A 4 lane highway in rural areas costs about $5 million per mile (*). And while a road is not an enclosed vacuum tube, the vacuum tube would be many more times complex to build (and maintain) than the road - for example, there its the infrastructure needed to keep the hyperloop pumped down to its working pressure, as you can be sure that leaks will occur.
But that infrastructure will have to be dispersed across the length of the hyper loop, as a pumping station in LA or NYC will not be able to deal with a leak in the midwest until the air introduced in that leak makes its way to either end of the loop - meaning both a huge volume of air, and a huge lag time until it gets there. And huge vacuum pumps will not be cheap, and will have to be powered by something. So there you are building not only the hyper loop, but at a minimum HV transmission lines for the pumping stations and possibly power stations as well (be they solar, wind, nuke or coal), as well as the roads needed to reach that infrastructure . Plus as you say.. you are doing it in the middle of nowhere,which is going to jack up prices in its own way.
So it does't take much for the cost per mile to start adding up.
Actually, it's the Return on investment (ROI) that matter in business. Or in other word, how many time it'll take to make enough profit to cover the cost of the initial investment. And in this case, the US$9.95 billion California High-Speed Rail is a huge example on how much money you can make on transportation.
Using the $56 million per km quoted on California High-Speed Rail as the low estimate of how much it would cost to build a hyper loop, the minimum cost across the US would be $56 million per km * 3000 miles * 1.6 km per mile = $270 Billion dollars MINIMUM. That's going to have a hell of a long ROI, and because of that I can't see anyone in their right mind financing such a project in the near future.
That fact that they need to put a multi page FAQ on their website to explain how to create a login account without a credit card number is telling enough.
You do understand that you don't have to make an account in order to use iTunes?
I thought we were talking about Suppliers shipping bloatware with their *products*... iTunes is REQUIRED if you use you iPod with a PC.
You thought wrong. It is a comparison between what is on an Apple computer when you pull it out of the box vs what is on a Windows computer (of various brands) when you pull it out of the box.
As has been stated previously, iTunes on Windows is an Apples to Oranges comparison. This is the same as complaining that in order to use a Zune on a Mac, you have to install additional software (albeit most likely a better experience than iTunes on Windows)
Yeah, you're right... They are completely incomparable! iTunes is 100000 times worse than anything that comes with Windows. Just having the iTunes/iPos service running (application closed) means your computer uses up about 75% of your available resources.
FFS, the comparison is between Apple supplied software on a new Apple computer vs 3rd party bloatware supplied on a new windows computer.
It is not about how bad Apple sucks at writing Windows software. And don't even start with the forced Safari install with iTunes on Windows.
Apple did a lazy port of iTunes to PC so that people could use their iPods. It sucked because they didn't put much effort into it. Possibly on purpose.
And it may still suck from what I have seen*. But kinda irrelevant to Apple not shipping bloatware on their own computers.
The sucking may be due to a lot of reasons such as Apple not having decent windows programmers, or trying to shoe-horn one set of source code into two different environments. I don't see them doing on purpose.
but I imagine they're even more into the sell more media side, as opposed to a simple and functional media player.
Like with Microsoft Windows, you can consider all the useless features they add to the system that are basically for marketing purposes, as bloatware.
Hardly a direct comparison. Apple has none of the the 3rd party crap pushed on windows that is free trials, upgrades or advertising.
My use of iTunes is to play local media, and free podcasts that I download (from the iTunes store). That is front and center for me and I am never pushed into buying media by Apples advertising dominating my user experience.
Too bad that fruit company has among its practice of bundling bloatware along its software users want to install.
What do you consider is Apple's bloatware? All I see are Apple written, basic applications that are complete in and amongst themselves. No free trials, no upgrades, no advertising.
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In their defense - I thought 'video card box' because this matches a lot of colors/designs Nvidia uses.
Not knowing NVidia I now see that entry into gaming console market has created a rather unfortunate combination of styles. But you'd think that their marketing team would know what anXBox was and looked like.
Styling? What the fuck is wrong with you? This isn't Project Runway.
No, its not. But if you want to make your product stand out, don't make it visually reminiscent of a major player in the same market space.
As soon as I saw the console with its angular X-styled ridges and lime green LED "V-slash" I immediately thought XBox. So possibly not a good choice in styling if you want to stand out from the crowd.
Wasn't this posted a week or two ago?
Yep, it was discussed in Linux Kernel Switching To Linux v4.0, Coming With Many New Addons
There is also an opposite of the loser edit, but I don't know if it has its own name. It is the edit where by using selective editing the focus is placed on (the mistakes or the perfection) one person in a competition, and minimizes the focus on the person who will eventually win or lose. So that when the final decision is revealed it "surprises" the audience - and hence boosts drama, and hopefully higher ratings.
My feeling is that I see this behavior more than I see a "loser edit"
who in the world ever though that refactoring would make code run faster?
Well if you were refactoring a brain dead method into something that had more smarts it is possible for the refactored code to run faster.
I take a lot of that back. Apparently I know fuck all about what a hyper loop actually is. It is not a hard vacuum at all.
$56M doesn't really apply here, even if we were talking about a transcontinental hyper loop. I don't know if you've ever driven across the country, but there is a whole lot of empty space. Building stuff there is significantly cheaper than where stuff already exists.
A 4 lane highway in rural areas costs about $5 million per mile (*). And while a road is not an enclosed vacuum tube, the vacuum tube would be many more times complex to build (and maintain) than the road - for example, there its the infrastructure needed to keep the hyperloop pumped down to its working pressure, as you can be sure that leaks will occur.
But that infrastructure will have to be dispersed across the length of the hyper loop, as a pumping station in LA or NYC will not be able to deal with a leak in the midwest until the air introduced in that leak makes its way to either end of the loop - meaning both a huge volume of air, and a huge lag time until it gets there. And huge vacuum pumps will not be cheap, and will have to be powered by something. So there you are building not only the hyper loop, but at a minimum HV transmission lines for the pumping stations and possibly power stations as well (be they solar, wind, nuke or coal), as well as the roads needed to reach that infrastructure . Plus as you say .. you are doing it in the middle of nowhere,which is going to jack up prices in its own way.
So it does't take much for the cost per mile to start adding up.
* $5 million per mile cost for a 4 lane highway is taken from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association website. And it rises to $9 million in urban areas.
Did Musk ever propose transcontinental hyperloops?
No, but the OP did, in an argument comparing planes to hyper loops.
Actually, it's the Return on investment (ROI) that matter in business. Or in other word, how many time it'll take to make enough profit to cover the cost of the initial investment. And in this case, the US$9.95 billion California High-Speed Rail is a huge example on how much money you can make on transportation.
Using the $56 million per km quoted on California High-Speed Rail as the low estimate of how much it would cost to build a hyper loop, the minimum cost across the US would be $56 million per km * 3000 miles * 1.6 km per mile = $270 Billion dollars MINIMUM. That's going to have a hell of a long ROI, and because of that I can't see anyone in their right mind financing such a project in the near future.
That fact that they need to put a multi page FAQ on their website to explain how to create a login account without a credit card number is telling enough.
You do understand that you don't have to make an account in order to use iTunes?
I thought we were talking about Suppliers shipping bloatware with their *products*... iTunes is REQUIRED if you use you iPod with a PC.
You thought wrong. It is a comparison between what is on an Apple computer when you pull it out of the box vs what is on a Windows computer (of various brands) when you pull it out of the box.
As has been stated previously, iTunes on Windows is an Apples to Oranges comparison. This is the same as complaining that in order to use a Zune on a Mac, you have to install additional software (albeit most likely a better experience than iTunes on Windows)
Yeah, you're right... They are completely incomparable! iTunes is 100000 times worse than anything that comes with Windows. Just having the iTunes/iPos service running (application closed) means your computer uses up about 75% of your available resources.
FFS, the comparison is between Apple supplied software on a new Apple computer vs 3rd party bloatware supplied on a new windows computer.
It is not about how bad Apple sucks at writing Windows software. And don't even start with the forced Safari install with iTunes on Windows.
So how many times did iTunes ask you for your credit card number?
Once. But is not required to hand one over. You only need to do so if you want to purchase things from the iTunes store.
Create an iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store account without a credit card or other payment method
Ok, then how about getting a Mac without iTunes?
And now you have crossed the border into Scotland
Apple did a lazy port of iTunes to PC so that people could use their iPods. It sucked because they didn't put much effort into it. Possibly on purpose.
And it may still suck from what I have seen*. But kinda irrelevant to Apple not shipping bloatware on their own computers.
The sucking may be due to a lot of reasons such as Apple not having decent windows programmers, or trying to shoe-horn one set of source code into two different environments. I don't see them doing on purpose.
but I imagine they're even more into the sell more media side, as opposed to a simple and functional media player.
Like with Microsoft Windows, you can consider all the useless features they add to the system that are basically for marketing purposes, as bloatware.
Hardly a direct comparison. Apple has none of the the 3rd party crap pushed on windows that is free trials, upgrades or advertising.
My use of iTunes is to play local media, and free podcasts that I download (from the iTunes store). That is front and center for me and I am never pushed into buying media by Apples advertising dominating my user experience.
I remember they included Safari by default when you tried to install iTunes on Windows.
Which was when? Your initial statement implied current practices.
Except that you can't fix and replace shit on your own if your decoratory Apple laptop breaks.
Which refutes my statement how?
Have you ever tried using iTunes (to sync your iPod) on a PC?
Thats an Apples to Oranges comparison. I was talking about what Apples ships on a new computer.
But no, I haven't.
Too bad that fruit company has among its practice of bundling bloatware along its software users want to install.
What do you consider is Apple's bloatware? All I see are Apple written, basic applications that are complete in and amongst themselves. No free trials, no upgrades, no advertising.
We all win with at least a single computer maker stopping the insane practice of selling their customers instead of selling TO their customers.
That's one thing you can already say about Apple's computers - no bloatware.
I wouldn't be complaining if that was the case, would I?
There are 4+ time zones in the US alone (*). Bounce around those a couple of times and you'll wonder why you thought DST was such a big deal.
* Depending on whether you count Puerto Rico, Guam or other US locations in addition to the 50 states.
Let's fix it on Earth fist, and stop fucking with our circadian cycles twice a year!
I take it you never leave the safety of the single time-zone in your mom's basement?
you mean "speed up" mars rotation
Speed up, slow down. Whatever. If I'm writing biorhythm programs for a mobile device, do you really think I car along as I get the ad revenue :D