350kW chargers have only recently become available, that's why they are only now being installed. They didn't exist before. There are no 800V cars out at the moment either, so it would have been a bit premature to start installing them. Better to get more rapid chargers capable of delivery 150kW to current cars than to push the 350kW ones before they were ready and before anyone could use them.
There are some test sites already active in Europe, on free vend for the moment. Bjorn tested one, it worked great although of course his car couldn't pull 350kW from it.
Up until now, automakers have been cramming EVs into their existing automobile platforms.
That's not really fair. The Nissan Leaf was an EV only from the start. The new Hyundai Kona and Kia Niro were both designed as EVs from the start. The BMW i3 was an EV from the start.
And before someone says they share some common parts with ICE models, so do Tesla. They don't make all the parts for their cars, they buy various bits from other manufacturers.
Most of Europe has set deadlines for the end of general sales of fossil cars, so chances are every manufacturer is viewing this generation as the last that will be primarily fossil fuel based.
Governments will have to step up to get charging sorted out. Some countries are doing really well, adding charging to every lamp post, installing posts along residential streets, and encouraging employers to offer it. Fortunately 99% of the infrastructure is already there, it just needs last 1%, the socket and maybe some metering, to be installed.
We haven't even got to level 3 autonomy yet. Audi tried but it didn't work, even in their demo the guy had to grab the wheel suddenly when the extremely narrow conditions it works under went away (under 40 kph, car in front, car or wall on both sides, decent weather, no difficult lighting like overhead bridges etc.)
If you hadn't noticed China has actually clamped down on the blatant fakes. You used to be able to go to somewhere like the Shenzhen clothes markets and buy fake Prada, fake Louis Vitton, fake Burberry stuff. Now that's mostly gone, you only see stuff that looks similar but lacks the logo or Chinese brands that are now establishing themselves.
Of course copying styles is the norm in the fashion industry. And "fake" stuff is normal too, e.g. Superdry is a London based company and all the Japanese writing on their clothes is gibberish. Kinda like the Chinese stuff with badly translated English scrawled on it, no?
Smartphones are the same. Go on AliExpress and there are loads of Chinese brands, some of which look similar to an iPhone but most of which are now doing their own thing and trying to establish brands like OnePlus, Xaomi, Huwawei and many others have.
Have you tried Pale Moon lately? The UI is very slow, switching tabs is slow, scrolling is laggy and choppy and slow, page loading is slow... It's a very frustrating user experience.
The original theory was that taxis which pick random people up off the street are different to services that are booked over the phone, which at a minimum collect and identifying phone number and probably payment details as well. Booked services also don't clog up the streets with waiting taxis in busy areas.
Before sat nav existed taxi drivers had to have very good knowledge of the city too, especially for mazes like London. Booked services could in theory plan the route before hand with a map so the requirements were less stringent. Booked services could also give a reasonable prediction of the price, or offer a fixed price based on distance and time of day, where as taxis just use a running meter.
Apps changed things a bit by making the booking process more like hailing a passing taxi, and replacing the meter with a combination of measurement and surge pricing.
We tried that. The free market decided that passenger safety was a low priority, well below getting costs down. Because the customers were also having their incomes forced down they were also forced to use the lowest cost taxis, and ended up getting robbed, assaulted, raped and murdered, or just dying in an accident.
Worst of all the taxpayer got to pick up the bill by having to support families that couldn't earn enough to survive, or pay to clean up the consequences of them not surviving. Crime, policing, child services, emergency medical care, it all costs you money.
Lifetime filters exist. Some high end vacuum cleaners use them. They can be cleaned and re-used easily.
But actually they don't need a filter as such, that's just the layman language of the lawsuit. What they need to do is seal the cooling system so that dust which is sucked in doesn't escape and get into the screen and other problematic areas.
In these all-in-one and laptop systems the airflow isn't through the case like a desktop PC, it's through the heatsinks that are connected via heatpipes to areas that need cooling. Everything else is passive, often heatsinked to the case. So a simple seal between the case and the heatsink is usually enough to prevent leakage, and with some sensible design any leakage that does happen can be kept away from areas like the screen.
I also have commercial experience with filters and they work just fine. The point of the filter is that the dust can't pass through, so it accumulates on the outside where it can be wiped away.
Some people use a vacuum cleaner but I don't recommend it because it can force the fan into overspeed and tends to suck air through the exhaust which might not be filtered.
At the very least you need to design it such that dust that is sucked in cannot leave the cooling system, i.e. by sealing it with filters and grommets, otherwise it will accumulate inside the machine and get into the screen etc.
It doesn't matter what everyone else does. What matters is if Apple designed their systems in such a way that dust can get into the screen and other problematic areas. This photo illustrates it well: https://www.hbsslaw.com/case-f...
Apple are not the only ones to suffer from this problem, lots of other all-in-one systems do too.
Problem is everyone else does and then you have trouble opening their projects... And they do the usual thing of abandoning the old one so if you want bug fixes you better upgrade.
Does the GOP need distractions? They have gone so far post-truth that shit just slides off them now. They heard Trump with his "I could shoot someone in the street and no-one would care" thing and went with it.
WPF is actually great, probably the best GUI framework I've come across so far. I'd love to see cross platform support - being able to create say a.NET app with WPF UI that can run under Windows and Mono would be fantastic.
On the other hand can we please slow down with the Visual Studio updates. Do we really need a new version every two years?
The reason that they don't have meltdown insurance is because the government provides it for free. Unlimited value insurance against the tens or hundreds of billions it could cost to put right. It's a massive subsidy.
Seems like rather than trying to make the car pull over to let emergency vehicles pass a sleeping driver, they should install electrodes in the driver's seat to wake them up again.
I used to like Pale Moon but it has severe performance issues, and one of the updates deleted a lot of user data. I don't have confidence in the developers or that performance will ever get competitive. While it doesn't seem to have spying built in, the fact that it's using an old version of the Firefox codebase with known vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild means you will probably be p0wned by someone far worse than Google anyway.
My post above was really just mocking the Slashdot posters who always post about how Chrome is spyware, Firefox is total crap, IE is spyware AND total crap... Without being able to point to any real alternative.
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350kW chargers have only recently become available, that's why they are only now being installed. They didn't exist before. There are no 800V cars out at the moment either, so it would have been a bit premature to start installing them. Better to get more rapid chargers capable of delivery 150kW to current cars than to push the 350kW ones before they were ready and before anyone could use them.
There are some test sites already active in Europe, on free vend for the moment. Bjorn tested one, it worked great although of course his car couldn't pull 350kW from it.
Up until now, automakers have been cramming EVs into their existing automobile platforms.
That's not really fair. The Nissan Leaf was an EV only from the start. The new Hyundai Kona and Kia Niro were both designed as EVs from the start. The BMW i3 was an EV from the start.
And before someone says they share some common parts with ICE models, so do Tesla. They don't make all the parts for their cars, they buy various bits from other manufacturers.
What are these "massive infrastructure upgrades" you speak of?
I was rather hoping that the pause button would also mute the sound and turn the screen off automatically. Saves me a few button presses.
blame Trump, Republicans, and straight white men
2 out of 3 ain't bad.
Have you ever opened a computer and looked at the heatsinks? They get clogged up with dust. Happens to laptops too. They need periodic cleaning.
To make cleaning easier you can install an intake filter. Then the dust builds up on that and is easy removed without having to open the computer.
Most of Europe has set deadlines for the end of general sales of fossil cars, so chances are every manufacturer is viewing this generation as the last that will be primarily fossil fuel based.
Governments will have to step up to get charging sorted out. Some countries are doing really well, adding charging to every lamp post, installing posts along residential streets, and encouraging employers to offer it. Fortunately 99% of the infrastructure is already there, it just needs last 1%, the socket and maybe some metering, to be installed.
We haven't even got to level 3 autonomy yet. Audi tried but it didn't work, even in their demo the guy had to grab the wheel suddenly when the extremely narrow conditions it works under went away (under 40 kph, car in front, car or wall on both sides, decent weather, no difficult lighting like overhead bridges etc.)
If you hadn't noticed China has actually clamped down on the blatant fakes. You used to be able to go to somewhere like the Shenzhen clothes markets and buy fake Prada, fake Louis Vitton, fake Burberry stuff. Now that's mostly gone, you only see stuff that looks similar but lacks the logo or Chinese brands that are now establishing themselves.
Of course copying styles is the norm in the fashion industry. And "fake" stuff is normal too, e.g. Superdry is a London based company and all the Japanese writing on their clothes is gibberish. Kinda like the Chinese stuff with badly translated English scrawled on it, no?
Smartphones are the same. Go on AliExpress and there are loads of Chinese brands, some of which look similar to an iPhone but most of which are now doing their own thing and trying to establish brands like OnePlus, Xaomi, Huwawei and many others have.
You mean like the East Texas court massively favours US companies over everyone else?
Or how the USPO does only the most cursory, minimal check for prior art or obviousness before granting patents on rounded corners?
Let's face it, IP laws and enforcement are screwed up all over and every country abuses them for its own benefit.
Have you tried Pale Moon lately? The UI is very slow, switching tabs is slow, scrolling is laggy and choppy and slow, page loading is slow... It's a very frustrating user experience.
The original theory was that taxis which pick random people up off the street are different to services that are booked over the phone, which at a minimum collect and identifying phone number and probably payment details as well. Booked services also don't clog up the streets with waiting taxis in busy areas.
Before sat nav existed taxi drivers had to have very good knowledge of the city too, especially for mazes like London. Booked services could in theory plan the route before hand with a map so the requirements were less stringent. Booked services could also give a reasonable prediction of the price, or offer a fixed price based on distance and time of day, where as taxis just use a running meter.
Apps changed things a bit by making the booking process more like hailing a passing taxi, and replacing the meter with a combination of measurement and surge pricing.
Let the free market operate.
We tried that. The free market decided that passenger safety was a low priority, well below getting costs down. Because the customers were also having their incomes forced down they were also forced to use the lowest cost taxis, and ended up getting robbed, assaulted, raped and murdered, or just dying in an accident.
Worst of all the taxpayer got to pick up the bill by having to support families that couldn't earn enough to survive, or pay to clean up the consequences of them not surviving. Crime, policing, child services, emergency medical care, it all costs you money.
Lifetime filters exist. Some high end vacuum cleaners use them. They can be cleaned and re-used easily.
But actually they don't need a filter as such, that's just the layman language of the lawsuit. What they need to do is seal the cooling system so that dust which is sucked in doesn't escape and get into the screen and other problematic areas.
In these all-in-one and laptop systems the airflow isn't through the case like a desktop PC, it's through the heatsinks that are connected via heatpipes to areas that need cooling. Everything else is passive, often heatsinked to the case. So a simple seal between the case and the heatsink is usually enough to prevent leakage, and with some sensible design any leakage that does happen can be kept away from areas like the screen.
I also have commercial experience with filters and they work just fine. The point of the filter is that the dust can't pass through, so it accumulates on the outside where it can be wiped away.
Some people use a vacuum cleaner but I don't recommend it because it can force the fan into overspeed and tends to suck air through the exhaust which might not be filtered.
At the very least you need to design it such that dust that is sucked in cannot leave the cooling system, i.e. by sealing it with filters and grommets, otherwise it will accumulate inside the machine and get into the screen etc.
It doesn't matter what everyone else does. What matters is if Apple designed their systems in such a way that dust can get into the screen and other problematic areas. This photo illustrates it well: https://www.hbsslaw.com/case-f...
Apple are not the only ones to suffer from this problem, lots of other all-in-one systems do too.
Problem is everyone else does and then you have trouble opening their projects... And they do the usual thing of abandoning the old one so if you want bug fixes you better upgrade.
Does the GOP need distractions? They have gone so far post-truth that shit just slides off them now. They heard Trump with his "I could shoot someone in the street and no-one would care" thing and went with it.
WPF is actually great, probably the best GUI framework I've come across so far. I'd love to see cross platform support - being able to create say a .NET app with WPF UI that can run under Windows and Mono would be fantastic.
On the other hand can we please slow down with the Visual Studio updates. Do we really need a new version every two years?
The reason that they don't have meltdown insurance is because the government provides it for free. Unlimited value insurance against the tens or hundreds of billions it could cost to put right. It's a massive subsidy.
I'm just applying the standards of the average paranoid Slashdot infosec warrior. They say Chrome spies on you, well Chrome by default has:
- Unique install ID, sent when checking for updates
- Automatic updates
- Malware filtering
Which is the same as Safari. Therefore if Chrome "spies" on you, so does Safari.
Seems like rather than trying to make the car pull over to let emergency vehicles pass a sleeping driver, they should install electrodes in the driver's seat to wake them up again.
Ah okay, shows how long it is since I bothered to look at Safari.
The spying model is the same as Google. Unique install ID, automatic updates, malware database, optional encrypted sync with Apple cloud.
Since people object to Google's spying they must also object to Apple doing the same.
Brave has advertising spyware built in. https://brave.com/about-ad-rep...
They gotta make their money somehow.
I used to like Pale Moon but it has severe performance issues, and one of the updates deleted a lot of user data. I don't have confidence in the developers or that performance will ever get competitive. While it doesn't seem to have spying built in, the fact that it's using an old version of the Firefox codebase with known vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild means you will probably be p0wned by someone far worse than Google anyway.
My post above was really just mocking the Slashdot posters who always post about how Chrome is spyware, Firefox is total crap, IE is spyware AND total crap... Without being able to point to any real alternative.