the expected life span of a PV panel is 20-25 years
Doubtful, given that many manufacturers offer 30+ year warranties. In fact experience tells us that 40+ years is not unreasonable to expect.
Wind turbines are in the 20 year range, but now the technology is more mature we are at a point where we will want to replace them rather than remove them.
But in any case, the manufacturing process is far less polluting than the lifetime pollution created by any other source of electricity.
This seems to be focused on encouraging users to sell their data though... I'm guessing there is no "don't even collect it, and delete anything accidentally collected, basically just nuke it from orbit" button.
Apple does repair old phones but the repair prices are usually so ridiculous that you might as well buy a new one. When the repair cost is a significant proportion of the price of a new one people balk at getting a device a few years old fixed. That's just how consumers are.
Plus they can't really stop other people offering more reasonably priced repairs. They can try, but especially in China (where a lot of the expected sales were supposed to be) there is a huge, thriving market dealing in Apple repairs.
The 64kWh version is the closet to the Model 3 Short Range spec in terms of price and performance. It's a bit awkward, the Model 3 SR is expected to have about 10-20% better range than the 39kWh Kona, maybe calc, maybe 20-25% less than the 64kWh model, so it's right in the middle.
39k Euro is in Germany and includes tax of 19%. If you deduct that it becomes 31.5k Euro, significantly cheaper than the Model 3 SR. As ever in the US, $35k is before tax.
I was going to suggest a simple Bluetooth headset, perhaps with a mic boom. Find one that allows you to control the gain of the microphone to a decent level, or one that has automatic volume levelling with a wide enough range. Unfortunately you may have to just ask to demo a few in a shop to find a suitable one.
Might be cheaper or less cumbersome than a throat mic.
As I say, it depends where you live. In Europe the base spec 64kWh Kona is cheaper than the $35k Model 3, based on current Tesla USD:EUR pricing conversions. And you can order a Kona now, with delivery around late January/February from what people are reporting. The system tells everyone "September" by default but people who ordered last month are getting emails saying their car is due in a couple of weeks.
Kennedy was planning to do the moon landings as a joint missing with the USSR. He had a good relationship with their leader. But then he was assassinated, and it became the space race.
They are blaming this on poor sales in China, and in China this problem is magnified.
For a start you have a vast market of refurb iPhones takes sales away from new. There are thousands of shops that will strip an iPhone down, wipe it, do any board level repairs required (massive stock of spare parts available), maybe even upgrade the flash memory, and sell on.
Worse still, this has given the iPhone an image as a poor person's phone. Too many refurbs and hand-me-downs, plus all the cool kids are moving on to Huawei and Xaomi. Samsung was making ads about this a decade ago even in the west - the iPhone is an old people's phone, the one your parents and grandparents use. Not cool.
This is a problem that affects all fashion/aspirational brands. Apple is a bit different in that it does provide utility with its products that isn't as easily replicated, i.e. it's not a coat you can replace with any number of other similar coats fulfilling the same function.
That's where real life gets in the way. You have three parameters: very low resistance, small/flexible cable, and low cost. Pick any two.
This issue will keep getting worse as time goes by and we demand faster and faster charging. Even now most phones play it safe by slowly ramping up current draw until the voltage starts to sag too much, figuring that is probably a safe point where the cable won't catch fire.
To be fair I think the main goal is to stop poorly manufactured cables from damaging equipment, not to defend against malicious ones. The uncertified ones can just work with data and 5V charging, but certified ones are supposed to be safe for use at 100W.
Yeah, those old USB protection circuits won't survive 20v/5A on the data lines. And even if they did, the cable catching fire would burn your house down anyway.
In fact there exist malicious devices that destroy USB ports precisely by applying very high voltages to the data lines of USB ports.
Also, it's even harder to protect USB 3.0 ports because they operate at higher speeds over many more lines. On USB 1.1 you had four wires to worry about, and a maximum frequency of 12MHz. On USB 3.0 with a USB-C connector you are looking at 24 lines and gigahertz speeds that require very careful board layout, far from ideal for adding protecting from 20V to. A simple diode is gonna screw up your signal at those speeds.
This happened with a literal Internet of Shit device in Japan recently.
A company made an IoT button you can press when you baby takes a dump. The logs the defecation event to the cloud so that you can keep track of your offspring's bowel movements. I'm assume there was a "post to Facebook" option as well, literally shitting all over your friend's timelines.
Unfortunately a hard coded certificate expired a few months after it went on sale and they had to do a recall. For their shitty shitting internet of shit logger.
It's a real shame that the US won't work with China. The ESA does, but NASA is barred from doing so and it's a loss for everyone.
In a way it might actually be for the best though. Everyone was kind of following the US lead for the longest time, but now have realized that the US isn't really committed and that there are other opportunities, other players, we are starting to see things move more quickly again.
China has been pushing into new areas for some years now. A lot of investment in Africa, for example, with big infrastructure projects. They figure that Africa will be the next big emerging economy and they are getting in early.
I wonder if they see space the same way. Put up a space station with international cooperation, just as the ISS is coming to end of life and either being de-orbited or broken up (the Russians might keep their bits going). And the moon too, and maybe Mars beyond that. They have an opportunity because they can invest in getting there, where as western nations are struggling to fund their public space programmes and are hoping private enterprises see some commercial value in it.
Well the Kona has been benchmarked at 0-60 in 6.3 seconds, which isn't far off the base Model X at 6.0 seconds. Of course the base X costs more than 2x as much.
But it really depends how you define performance. The range of the Kona and Niro is comparable to the most expensive Tesla models, and greatly exceeds the $35k base model. In terms of features they are much higher spec than the base model, and particularly the Niro is more practical too in terms of having more cargo space and a much, much larger boot (trunk) opening.
Also, you can buy both of them outside the US. The Model 3 isn't even available anywhere else yet.
I'm not saying Tesla cars are bad or anything, just that at the affordable end of the market they have been overtaken. That's a good thing, it will drive them to improve hopefully, and means we have more options. Also, I'm not a badge snob, if it's a good car I don't care if it says Kia or Hyundai on it.
The Kona is less than the $35k Model 3 before the tax credit here. They are ramping up production fast too, deliveries scheduled for September are arriving this month.
Also note that the Model 3 isn't even available outside the US. If you live in Europe you can't buy one, there is no launch date for the expensive models, and if you order now the earliest delivery you could expect is some time in 2020.
It won't stop anyone persistent, but it will frustrate bulk surveillance. The goal is to make mass spying more expensive, to the point at which it becomes impractical.
The $35k will be cancelled or dropped fairly quickly. It's just not competitive in terms of performance and features, and actually quite expensive for what it is.
They want $35k for a 200 mile range car, when Hyundai and Kia have 260 mile range cars for closer to $30k, and Nissan are about to release their new Leaf with similar spec. Those two offer you a lot more in terms of features too - by the time you add options to the Tesla to bring it up to the same level it's added $10k to the price.
I'm sure some people will buy one because it's a Tesla, but given how long people have been waiting I think most of the pre-orders will go for more expensive models having had years to save up the extra cash.
This is a good thing of course. Long range EVs got cheaper faster than anyone predicted, and Tesla's seemingly aggressive goal turned out to be pessimistic. In particular LG really stepped up with the battery tech, using pouch cells (like mobile phones) instead of cylindrical ones for lower cost and higher density.
It's interesting how open source projects get into a situation where a lot of people agree that they need some basic usability fixes, but no-one wants to actually do them.
In my (limited) experience it's often because the barrier to entry for contributing improvements is extremely high. Some would say that's to maintain quality, but often it's not because of demanding standards or even lack of resources for code review (hi libusb), but simply the complexity of the code and the time cost of getting started making relatively minor fixes.
I don't know if GIMP is like that but maybe there is a reason, i.e. the only people motivated to work on it are not interested in the basics.
Can he sue the board for using the law as written? Surely the people at fault are the lawmakers who made an unconstitutional law... But even then, wouldn't they just claim that they acted in good faith?
Well, for example, you probably need some way to init the GPU to the point where it can provide a basic display for the OS to boot with, or display a boot menu and error messages. So you need a way to configure arbitrary GPUs, and ideally you don't want it to be like the old BIOS stuff that was just x86 code in a ROM chip. So actually you do need EFI.
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the expected life span of a PV panel is 20-25 years
Doubtful, given that many manufacturers offer 30+ year warranties. In fact experience tells us that 40+ years is not unreasonable to expect.
Wind turbines are in the 20 year range, but now the technology is more mature we are at a point where we will want to replace them rather than remove them.
But in any case, the manufacturing process is far less polluting than the lifetime pollution created by any other source of electricity.
Irradiating food is a bad idea because if we live in a hyper-sterile environment our immune systems suffer.
This seems to be focused on encouraging users to sell their data though... I'm guessing there is no "don't even collect it, and delete anything accidentally collected, basically just nuke it from orbit" button.
Apple does repair old phones but the repair prices are usually so ridiculous that you might as well buy a new one. When the repair cost is a significant proportion of the price of a new one people balk at getting a device a few years old fixed. That's just how consumers are.
Plus they can't really stop other people offering more reasonably priced repairs. They can try, but especially in China (where a lot of the expected sales were supposed to be) there is a huge, thriving market dealing in Apple repairs.
The 64kWh version is the closet to the Model 3 Short Range spec in terms of price and performance. It's a bit awkward, the Model 3 SR is expected to have about 10-20% better range than the 39kWh Kona, maybe calc, maybe 20-25% less than the 64kWh model, so it's right in the middle.
39k Euro is in Germany and includes tax of 19%. If you deduct that it becomes 31.5k Euro, significantly cheaper than the Model 3 SR. As ever in the US, $35k is before tax.
I was going to suggest a simple Bluetooth headset, perhaps with a mic boom. Find one that allows you to control the gain of the microphone to a decent level, or one that has automatic volume levelling with a wide enough range. Unfortunately you may have to just ask to demo a few in a shop to find a suitable one.
Might be cheaper or less cumbersome than a throat mic.
As I say, it depends where you live. In Europe the base spec 64kWh Kona is cheaper than the $35k Model 3, based on current Tesla USD:EUR pricing conversions. And you can order a Kona now, with delivery around late January/February from what people are reporting. The system tells everyone "September" by default but people who ordered last month are getting emails saying their car is due in a couple of weeks.
Kennedy was planning to do the moon landings as a joint missing with the USSR. He had a good relationship with their leader. But then he was assassinated, and it became the space race.
Looking at the photos they should have called it "holy shit balls".
Speaking of public shaming, you are trying to shame imaginary people for an imaginary crime that you fear may possibly happen. Bit of a stretch, no?
Or just karma whoring with a standard anti-sjw rant?
They are blaming this on poor sales in China, and in China this problem is magnified.
For a start you have a vast market of refurb iPhones takes sales away from new. There are thousands of shops that will strip an iPhone down, wipe it, do any board level repairs required (massive stock of spare parts available), maybe even upgrade the flash memory, and sell on.
Worse still, this has given the iPhone an image as a poor person's phone. Too many refurbs and hand-me-downs, plus all the cool kids are moving on to Huawei and Xaomi. Samsung was making ads about this a decade ago even in the west - the iPhone is an old people's phone, the one your parents and grandparents use. Not cool.
This is a problem that affects all fashion/aspirational brands. Apple is a bit different in that it does provide utility with its products that isn't as easily replicated, i.e. it's not a coat you can replace with any number of other similar coats fulfilling the same function.
The resistance should be approximately zero
That's where real life gets in the way. You have three parameters: very low resistance, small/flexible cable, and low cost. Pick any two.
This issue will keep getting worse as time goes by and we demand faster and faster charging. Even now most phones play it safe by slowly ramping up current draw until the voltage starts to sag too much, figuring that is probably a safe point where the cable won't catch fire.
To be fair I think the main goal is to stop poorly manufactured cables from damaging equipment, not to defend against malicious ones. The uncertified ones can just work with data and 5V charging, but certified ones are supposed to be safe for use at 100W.
Yeah, those old USB protection circuits won't survive 20v/5A on the data lines. And even if they did, the cable catching fire would burn your house down anyway.
In fact there exist malicious devices that destroy USB ports precisely by applying very high voltages to the data lines of USB ports.
Also, it's even harder to protect USB 3.0 ports because they operate at higher speeds over many more lines. On USB 1.1 you had four wires to worry about, and a maximum frequency of 12MHz. On USB 3.0 with a USB-C connector you are looking at 24 lines and gigahertz speeds that require very careful board layout, far from ideal for adding protecting from 20V to. A simple diode is gonna screw up your signal at those speeds.
This happened with a literal Internet of Shit device in Japan recently.
A company made an IoT button you can press when you baby takes a dump. The logs the defecation event to the cloud so that you can keep track of your offspring's bowel movements. I'm assume there was a "post to Facebook" option as well, literally shitting all over your friend's timelines.
Unfortunately a hard coded certificate expired a few months after it went on sale and they had to do a recall. For their shitty shitting internet of shit logger.
It's a real shame that the US won't work with China. The ESA does, but NASA is barred from doing so and it's a loss for everyone.
In a way it might actually be for the best though. Everyone was kind of following the US lead for the longest time, but now have realized that the US isn't really committed and that there are other opportunities, other players, we are starting to see things move more quickly again.
China has been pushing into new areas for some years now. A lot of investment in Africa, for example, with big infrastructure projects. They figure that Africa will be the next big emerging economy and they are getting in early.
I wonder if they see space the same way. Put up a space station with international cooperation, just as the ISS is coming to end of life and either being de-orbited or broken up (the Russians might keep their bits going). And the moon too, and maybe Mars beyond that. They have an opportunity because they can invest in getting there, where as western nations are struggling to fund their public space programmes and are hoping private enterprises see some commercial value in it.
Well the Kona has been benchmarked at 0-60 in 6.3 seconds, which isn't far off the base Model X at 6.0 seconds. Of course the base X costs more than 2x as much.
But it really depends how you define performance. The range of the Kona and Niro is comparable to the most expensive Tesla models, and greatly exceeds the $35k base model. In terms of features they are much higher spec than the base model, and particularly the Niro is more practical too in terms of having more cargo space and a much, much larger boot (trunk) opening.
Also, you can buy both of them outside the US. The Model 3 isn't even available anywhere else yet.
I'm not saying Tesla cars are bad or anything, just that at the affordable end of the market they have been overtaken. That's a good thing, it will drive them to improve hopefully, and means we have more options. Also, I'm not a badge snob, if it's a good car I don't care if it says Kia or Hyundai on it.
The Kona is less than the $35k Model 3 before the tax credit here. They are ramping up production fast too, deliveries scheduled for September are arriving this month.
Also note that the Model 3 isn't even available outside the US. If you live in Europe you can't buy one, there is no launch date for the expensive models, and if you order now the earliest delivery you could expect is some time in 2020.
It won't stop anyone persistent, but it will frustrate bulk surveillance. The goal is to make mass spying more expensive, to the point at which it becomes impractical.
The $35k will be cancelled or dropped fairly quickly. It's just not competitive in terms of performance and features, and actually quite expensive for what it is.
They want $35k for a 200 mile range car, when Hyundai and Kia have 260 mile range cars for closer to $30k, and Nissan are about to release their new Leaf with similar spec. Those two offer you a lot more in terms of features too - by the time you add options to the Tesla to bring it up to the same level it's added $10k to the price.
I'm sure some people will buy one because it's a Tesla, but given how long people have been waiting I think most of the pre-orders will go for more expensive models having had years to save up the extra cash.
This is a good thing of course. Long range EVs got cheaper faster than anyone predicted, and Tesla's seemingly aggressive goal turned out to be pessimistic. In particular LG really stepped up with the battery tech, using pouch cells (like mobile phones) instead of cylindrical ones for lower cost and higher density.
Yeah... Proving that could be hard. Can get get discovery, get their internal emails etc?
It's interesting how open source projects get into a situation where a lot of people agree that they need some basic usability fixes, but no-one wants to actually do them.
In my (limited) experience it's often because the barrier to entry for contributing improvements is extremely high. Some would say that's to maintain quality, but often it's not because of demanding standards or even lack of resources for code review (hi libusb), but simply the complexity of the code and the time cost of getting started making relatively minor fixes.
I don't know if GIMP is like that but maybe there is a reason, i.e. the only people motivated to work on it are not interested in the basics.
Can he sue the board for using the law as written? Surely the people at fault are the lawmakers who made an unconstitutional law... But even then, wouldn't they just claim that they acted in good faith?
Well, for example, you probably need some way to init the GPU to the point where it can provide a basic display for the OS to boot with, or display a boot menu and error messages. So you need a way to configure arbitrary GPUs, and ideally you don't want it to be like the old BIOS stuff that was just x86 code in a ROM chip. So actually you do need EFI.