Batteries can already outlast humans, so stopping to charge is no problem. In Europe commercial vehicle drivers, including bus drivers, need to take regular breaks during which the vehicle can be charged. It's strictly enforced too, vehicles have devices fitted that monitor for compliance.
Obviously it's a little different in the US where busses apparently do insane 12+ hour runs non-stop, or in Europe where they have multiple drivers for long distance routes. However, the vast, vast majority of busses do sub 100 mile routes, often far far less than that. Even if they have to have a few spare busses so one can charge while another is in use, the fuel savings will make it worth it.
That's why most new busses sold in China are electric now. BYD got the price down well below the point that it makes economic sense. Some models do as little as 60 miles per charge, some as many as 180. That's 180 real miles with passengers and realistic conditions from a 450kWh battery. Maybe equivalent to 7-800 miles if tested the same way as this one.
Thing is, no one actually used the Tesla battery swap system. There is just no demand. Charging is more than good enough already.
I spend less time "fuelling" my car now that I'm driving an EV than I did pumping petrol into my old ICE vehicle. At home plugging in takes about 10 seconds, in public it's about 30 seconds because I have to get the cable out of the boot and maybe another 30 seconds if I need to activate the charger with my phone.
I think the last time I actually had to wait for charging was a couple of years ago when I stopped for 15 minutes to get a top-up in my old 24kWh car. The new 30kWh one wouldn't have needed that.
In the UK it's fairly common for supermarkets to have a petrol station attached to them, with the cost of fuel subsidised by the shop to the point where they sell it at a slight loss. Some are now adding charging points too, which are typically free.
Will people be allowed to travel that easily from the US to China, and if so would they even want to? When travel is that easy culture will quickly homogenize, and transportation of goods will presumably be just as easy and cheap, so the only real reason to go there is tourism. And when VR gets good, it looks a lot easier and cheaper than actually going there.
That was an obviously frivolous interview with the Daily Dot. I notice you didn't link to it, presumably so people can't see the context.
He has every right in law to control the use of his character. People are publishing far right anti-immigration comics using Pepe, and he has a right to ask Amazon to respect his copyright and their own rules on intellectual property.
Consider some if the silly statements that other artists have put out over the years. It doesn't invalidate their copyrights.
This is how they gaslight you. They claim the Kekistan flag isn't related to the Nazi swastika flag at all, but they know that it really is and use it as a signal to each other. If you point this out they accuse you of wild conspiracy theories and of calling everyone a Nazi.
Pepe is just one more symbol that the alt-right has adopted in an attempt to gaslight "normies", i.e. people not part of the movement.
They adopt symbols like the OK hand emoji, brackets around the names of Jews, coded language and other innocuous looking things that have some plausible deniability. When people call it out they claim that it's all innocent and they are seeing conspiracies where there are none, while being able to signal to other members of alt-right.
Pepe in particular was also adopted by 4chan and especially it's/pol and/r9k boards. The latter is a board for "incels", guys who are bitter that they can't get laid. Essentially Pepe was seen as something of an ugly loser, who manages to win and get his revenge on society by screwing with people and getting far right politicians elected. Basically a proxy for many 4chan users.
The numbers given seem insanely low in some areas too. £75k in London is total crap, you will be living in a shoe box or commuting your life away on that kind of money. Maybe it's a formatting error and they dropped the leading 1.
The Essential Phone was the first to do a notch, although it is much smaller. It generally seems to be fine, not annoying or problematic or distracting.
Your conspiracy theory is rather undermined by the fact that FTA includes their fairly reasonable complaints. Therefore your conclusion is unwarranted.
The current proposal is to have the first two slots reserved for Google, and then set a base price for the auction based on Google's bid minus operating costs. Does that seem reasonable to you?
As for "EU first", I think there is some projection from "American First" going on there, but ask yourself this: If that were the policy, why hasn't the EU done more to curb Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, eBay, Amazon and all the rest and more to boost its own competitors? Compare with China, where Chinese services like Baidu and Wechat and QQ dominate because the government firewalled off the competition, and then made setting up local subsidiaries extremely difficult.
In fact, just look at Trump's policies regarding "America First", and ask if the EU is doing any of those things. Look at the trade deal it just did with Canada, does that look like the sort of thing Trump would sign?
Having spoken to a few recruiters it seems that companies are wise to younger applicants padding their CVs, but tend to believe it when older applicants claim to have extensive experience.
I've seen it a few times myself, when recruiters have accidentally emailed me other people's files. People five years out of university who claim to be god level experts in C++ and XML. That's like claiming to have climbed the world's 50 tallest mountains in the last week, and landed on the moon, and also be a ranked grand master at rock, paper, scissors. They usually list every other technology they have ever heard of too, just to flesh out a few more pages.
If someone sold food products that killed 5000 people a year, not to mention all the others who didn't die but got sick, it would be a big deal.
That's what happened here. If they hadn't cheated on the emissions tests, 5000 people a year wouldn't die. Killing people through negligence is not acceptable, let alone killing them by deliberately cheating on safety tests.
Even with the correction, his claims still seem outlandish. He is predicting a five orders of magnitude increase in transaction processing capability in a relatively short amount of time.
Look at creimer/cdreimer or AmiMoJo or PopeRatzo or the many other registered users here who, in my opinion, routinely post idiotic shit.
Unlike Anonymous Coward, who seems to be suffering from multiple split personalities and politically can best be described as a Nazi communist anarcho-authoritarian ballsack.
Still, nice to know the Pope and I are somewhat (in)famous.
10g is survivable by fit and healthy people, but you have to design it so that the majority of people can survive. It's also kind of hard to design a harness that can keep someone in their seat under even 3g of deceleration, isn't uncomfortable to use for moderate periods of time, and is easy to fit.
I'm also not sure any safety system that is likely to result in at least some of the passengers passing out or dying would be accepted.
That limits the capacity of the system to something that allows each train to be spaced far enough apart that it can stop without hitting a stationary one in front. You also have to account for how quickly you can detect a stopped train and with what precision you can locate it.
Current high speed rail in Japan is spaced at least 3 minutes apart for safe stopping distances. Say this thing run 4x as fast, that's 12 minutes gap. And each train only carries a dozen people. It's super fast but very low capacity, where as the new maglev system being built in Japan is designed for 1000 kph (~620 mph) and can carry 800 people.
There was a spate of incidents a few years ago where someone in Japan was leaving 10,000 yen notes (worth about â60) in bathrooms, with a note expressing the hope that they brought whoever found them happiness. I don't know if they ever caught the person behind it.
It's because the Central European Bank, which issues these notes, has said it is going to phase them out by 2018 due to suspected high levels of illegal activity. As on of the highest value bank notes in the world they found favour with criminals.
As such anyone who has them needs to take them to a bank to be exchanged. I guess whoever is doing this has a load of notes they can't legitimately exchange and is trying to dispose of them. My guess would be that they were in a safety deposit box or something in the bank, and that person didn't want to risk trying to walk out with a briefcase full of cash so tried to flush them.
The most effective thing would probably be a motion sensor light. It's great against criminals, the sudden illumination attracts attention as people wonder what triggered it. At the same time it reduces light pollution.
These days they often just provide an HDMI cable and you bring your own laptop. HDMI has video and audio, it can run for 10+ metres no problem. Bring your own laptop and, if required, dongle.
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Batteries can already outlast humans, so stopping to charge is no problem. In Europe commercial vehicle drivers, including bus drivers, need to take regular breaks during which the vehicle can be charged. It's strictly enforced too, vehicles have devices fitted that monitor for compliance.
Obviously it's a little different in the US where busses apparently do insane 12+ hour runs non-stop, or in Europe where they have multiple drivers for long distance routes. However, the vast, vast majority of busses do sub 100 mile routes, often far far less than that. Even if they have to have a few spare busses so one can charge while another is in use, the fuel savings will make it worth it.
That's why most new busses sold in China are electric now. BYD got the price down well below the point that it makes economic sense. Some models do as little as 60 miles per charge, some as many as 180. That's 180 real miles with passengers and realistic conditions from a 450kWh battery. Maybe equivalent to 7-800 miles if tested the same way as this one.
Thing is, no one actually used the Tesla battery swap system. There is just no demand. Charging is more than good enough already.
I spend less time "fuelling" my car now that I'm driving an EV than I did pumping petrol into my old ICE vehicle. At home plugging in takes about 10 seconds, in public it's about 30 seconds because I have to get the cable out of the boot and maybe another 30 seconds if I need to activate the charger with my phone.
I think the last time I actually had to wait for charging was a couple of years ago when I stopped for 15 minutes to get a top-up in my old 24kWh car. The new 30kWh one wouldn't have needed that.
In the UK it's fairly common for supermarkets to have a petrol station attached to them, with the cost of fuel subsidised by the shop to the point where they sell it at a slight loss. Some are now adding charging points too, which are typically free.
Will people be allowed to travel that easily from the US to China, and if so would they even want to? When travel is that easy culture will quickly homogenize, and transportation of goods will presumably be just as easy and cheap, so the only real reason to go there is tourism. And when VR gets good, it looks a lot easier and cheaper than actually going there.
That was an obviously frivolous interview with the Daily Dot. I notice you didn't link to it, presumably so people can't see the context.
He has every right in law to control the use of his character. People are publishing far right anti-immigration comics using Pepe, and he has a right to ask Amazon to respect his copyright and their own rules on intellectual property.
Consider some if the silly statements that other artists have put out over the years. It doesn't invalidate their copyrights.
This is how they gaslight you. They claim the Kekistan flag isn't related to the Nazi swastika flag at all, but they know that it really is and use it as a signal to each other. If you point this out they accuse you of wild conspiracy theories and of calling everyone a Nazi.
Pepe is just one more symbol that the alt-right has adopted in an attempt to gaslight "normies", i.e. people not part of the movement.
They adopt symbols like the OK hand emoji, brackets around the names of Jews, coded language and other innocuous looking things that have some plausible deniability. When people call it out they claim that it's all innocent and they are seeing conspiracies where there are none, while being able to signal to other members of alt-right.
Pepe in particular was also adopted by 4chan and especially it's /pol and /r9k boards. The latter is a board for "incels", guys who are bitter that they can't get laid. Essentially Pepe was seen as something of an ugly loser, who manages to win and get his revenge on society by screwing with people and getting far right politicians elected. Basically a proxy for many 4chan users.
Not really comparable though. Freelancing you have to pay for your own pension, holiday time, sick days, no redundancy money, accountancy overheads...
The numbers given seem insanely low in some areas too. £75k in London is total crap, you will be living in a shoe box or commuting your life away on that kind of money. Maybe it's a formatting error and they dropped the leading 1.
The Essential Phone was the first to do a notch, although it is much smaller. It generally seems to be fine, not annoying or problematic or distracting.
Why even bother trying to transmit the code? Just use time based codes.
Your conspiracy theory is rather undermined by the fact that FTA includes their fairly reasonable complaints. Therefore your conclusion is unwarranted.
The current proposal is to have the first two slots reserved for Google, and then set a base price for the auction based on Google's bid minus operating costs. Does that seem reasonable to you?
As for "EU first", I think there is some projection from "American First" going on there, but ask yourself this: If that were the policy, why hasn't the EU done more to curb Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, eBay, Amazon and all the rest and more to boost its own competitors? Compare with China, where Chinese services like Baidu and Wechat and QQ dominate because the government firewalled off the competition, and then made setting up local subsidiaries extremely difficult.
In fact, just look at Trump's policies regarding "America First", and ask if the EU is doing any of those things. Look at the trade deal it just did with Canada, does that look like the sort of thing Trump would sign?
Idea for a jobs programme: Make the consequences of security failures severe and expensive.
Having spoken to a few recruiters it seems that companies are wise to younger applicants padding their CVs, but tend to believe it when older applicants claim to have extensive experience.
I've seen it a few times myself, when recruiters have accidentally emailed me other people's files. People five years out of university who claim to be god level experts in C++ and XML. That's like claiming to have climbed the world's 50 tallest mountains in the last week, and landed on the moon, and also be a ranked grand master at rock, paper, scissors. They usually list every other technology they have ever heard of too, just to flesh out a few more pages.
If someone sold food products that killed 5000 people a year, not to mention all the others who didn't die but got sick, it would be a big deal.
That's what happened here. If they hadn't cheated on the emissions tests, 5000 people a year wouldn't die. Killing people through negligence is not acceptable, let alone killing them by deliberately cheating on safety tests.
Even with the correction, his claims still seem outlandish. He is predicting a five orders of magnitude increase in transaction processing capability in a relatively short amount of time.
Look at creimer/cdreimer or AmiMoJo or PopeRatzo or the many other registered users here who, in my opinion, routinely post idiotic shit.
Unlike Anonymous Coward, who seems to be suffering from multiple split personalities and politically can best be described as a Nazi communist anarcho-authoritarian ballsack.
Still, nice to know the Pope and I are somewhat (in)famous.
Shane it's this that will get them prosecuted, not the fact that their incompetence fucked over millions of people.
10g is survivable by fit and healthy people, but you have to design it so that the majority of people can survive. It's also kind of hard to design a harness that can keep someone in their seat under even 3g of deceleration, isn't uncomfortable to use for moderate periods of time, and is easy to fit.
I'm also not sure any safety system that is likely to result in at least some of the passengers passing out or dying would be accepted.
That limits the capacity of the system to something that allows each train to be spaced far enough apart that it can stop without hitting a stationary one in front. You also have to account for how quickly you can detect a stopped train and with what precision you can locate it.
Current high speed rail in Japan is spaced at least 3 minutes apart for safe stopping distances. Say this thing run 4x as fast, that's 12 minutes gap. And each train only carries a dozen people. It's super fast but very low capacity, where as the new maglev system being built in Japan is designed for 1000 kph (~620 mph) and can carry 800 people.
There was a spate of incidents a few years ago where someone in Japan was leaving 10,000 yen notes (worth about â60) in bathrooms, with a note expressing the hope that they brought whoever found them happiness. I don't know if they ever caught the person behind it.
It's because the Central European Bank, which issues these notes, has said it is going to phase them out by 2018 due to suspected high levels of illegal activity. As on of the highest value bank notes in the world they found favour with criminals.
As such anyone who has them needs to take them to a bank to be exchanged. I guess whoever is doing this has a load of notes they can't legitimately exchange and is trying to dispose of them. My guess would be that they were in a safety deposit box or something in the bank, and that person didn't want to risk trying to walk out with a briefcase full of cash so tried to flush them.
I think you may have just sabotaged one of the most epic trolls in Slashdot history.
I think it is Egyptian hieroglyphics, it's just that Slashdot's Unicode support is broken...
The most effective thing would probably be a motion sensor light. It's great against criminals, the sudden illumination attracts attention as people wonder what triggered it. At the same time it reduces light pollution.
These days they often just provide an HDMI cable and you bring your own laptop. HDMI has video and audio, it can run for 10+ metres no problem. Bring your own laptop and, if required, dongle.