If (mighty big if) such a service ever came into being, I'm sure they could strike deals with the private buildings.
I could see some use in an area like DC, where a trip to Dulles can vary unpredictably from 40 minutes to 1.5 hours. I bet a decent number of people would pay $100+ to make that in 15mins (plus the time spent getting to the helipad). There will be a Metro out there at some point, but for many people that will still be at least an hour, often crowded, and often unreliable.
It looks to me like Sprint unlimited is $75 for the first line; this deal seems pretty good if you're looking for unlimited and T-Mo covers you well. It's as good or better than Cricket for multiple lines. For me, 2.5GB high speed is ok, and Cricket's coverage (AT&T towers) is better than T-Mo or Sprint around me.
Yeah, I have Cricket & my kids regularly use up all their data before the end of the month (I never do, so we stay on the lower level plan). 128k is what they get throttled to, and it means that they can't watch youtube etc, but they can stream Pandora just fine and do most everything else they want. I can remember being jealous of people who had an ISDN line back in the day, so I don't feel too bad for them being restricted to that speed on their pocket super computers.
I think this also means that the cars will be restricted to certain areas where they have high quality 3d mapping. The example I read was taxis in Manhattan; they might be restricted to Manhattan, plus a couple of defined routes to the airports etc.
This is my hope - that there will be less cops overall, and less opportunities for people to get pulled over for driving while black and other nonsense which happens all too frequently.
So, you may legitimately be part of the 10% for whom current EV tech is simply not good enough (yet).
Yeah; my point is that I actually want one, but I (and many others) won't be willing to buy one until it actually does what I want, not 90% of it. If I go to the trouble of buying and registering and insuring and maintaining a vehicle, I don't want to then need to rent every other weekend. It's a pain in the ass, and it's way easier right now to just stick with the cheaper, easier option of a conventional car. There certainly are a lot of people who have two cars and who could replace the commuter with an EV right now, but it's not 90% of people.
Your base price for a Leaf doesn't seem too far out of line with US prices (~$37k vs $30k here) - I imagine your import duties are higher and you have VAT too. But even with a $7 tax rebate, it's way more than twice the cost of a basic Versa here (~$12k).
A neighbor leases one of the i3 BMWs; her dealer offers some number of uses of a standard gas vehicle for just this reason. Seems like a pretty good system, it meets her needs.
You know you can RENT a non-EV car for that other 10% right ?
No need to buy two.
But renting a car is just another inconvenience. I have 2 cars right now; the smaller one I hope will last until I can get a self-driving electric car with 150+ miles range; maybe 5 years? The larger one I'll probably replace with an SUV since several times a year I end up in snowy mountains where even my current front wheel drive with Blizzax snow tires on can get stuck, and I regularly come up against the 3500lb tow limit of my current car so I want 5000lbs. I don't see a reasonable electric option for those needs anytime soon.
How is that working for you? I'm hesitant to go that route, especially for DB servers, because of the stories I've read about mirrored SSDs failing close to one another due to the wear being the same on each. Are you seeing any problems like that, or do you swap out drives before there's a problem or anything?
there's not a single damned good reason why these NEED to be connected to the Internet.
Need is a stretch, but there are some compelling uses for an internet connected thermostat. I'm thinking second home, where you want to be able to adjust the thermostat remotely, after your short term renters leave. Sure, it's not imperative, but the positives outweigh the (so far) theoretical negatives. I have an ecobee, and being able to set it to vacation when I'm already an hour away is pretty nice. If it gets hacked, I'll unplug it. Meantime, it has a remote temp sensor so my upstairs temperature is much better than my old thermostat, which was the real reason I got it.
It seems to me that it's even better - they set the lowest price, to beat Amazon et al and build market share, but as far as I can tell they actually are paying their partners their regular price. I imagine that the difference is being made up by venture capital. Back to 2000 - we'll make it up in volume!
I base this on the fact that when I have bought stuff through them (because the price is the lowest) I have got an enclosed receipt from whoever actually shipped it with their normal price on it. Now, it may be that Jet gets a discount from that on the backend, but I doubt it's enough to cover all of it.
AC is correct - I misread. The number is required. I guess you'd want to get a throwaway SIM of a disposable VOIP number for the initial setup, then set the password. Probably harder to do that in Iran than here though.
A spokesman for Telegram said customers can defend against such attacks by not just relying on SMS verification. Telegram allows — though it does not require — customers to create passwords, which can be reset with so-called “recovery” emails.
“If you have a strong Telegram password and your recovery email is secure, there’s nothing an attacker can do,” said Markus Ra, the spokesman.
So, they don't require it. One could argue that they shouldn't even allow it, though.
For dirt cheap SIM voice service I have liked H2O wireless, but there are a ton of others. If you want a reasonable amount of data too, the Cricket plans are hard to beat. For me Cricket's coverage (AT&T towers) is better than TMo or Sprint. Verizon would be better yet, but Cricket is fine for me.
Agreed; and since both Windows 7 and 10 are already pretty darn stable, it's hard to imagine how they could make it substantially more so in a way anyone could notice.
Do you really send a lot of data over the internet without encryption? Your email should all be over TLS at least, and any important web traffic would be https. Sure, they could tell which sites you visited, but so can any ISP.
I assume the phones can do many things, and they are only the end user device. Why not get off the shelf stuff which is reasonably cheap and well understood?
When I travel I find that I can still access Netflix, just some places I can't get all the same stuff as in the US. But I haven't been locked out yet anywhere I've tried it.
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If (mighty big if) such a service ever came into being, I'm sure they could strike deals with the private buildings.
I could see some use in an area like DC, where a trip to Dulles can vary unpredictably from 40 minutes to 1.5 hours. I bet a decent number of people would pay $100+ to make that in 15mins (plus the time spent getting to the helipad). There will be a Metro out there at some point, but for many people that will still be at least an hour, often crowded, and often unreliable.
It looks to me like Sprint unlimited is $75 for the first line; this deal seems pretty good if you're looking for unlimited and T-Mo covers you well. It's as good or better than Cricket for multiple lines. For me, 2.5GB high speed is ok, and Cricket's coverage (AT&T towers) is better than T-Mo or Sprint around me.
Yeah, I have Cricket & my kids regularly use up all their data before the end of the month (I never do, so we stay on the lower level plan). 128k is what they get throttled to, and it means that they can't watch youtube etc, but they can stream Pandora just fine and do most everything else they want. I can remember being jealous of people who had an ISDN line back in the day, so I don't feel too bad for them being restricted to that speed on their pocket super computers.
I think ACs point was that Verizon is the manufacturer's customer, not the end user.
Over half a mile?!? No way am I walking or biking that far! :)
You're not an American, are you? ;)
I think this also means that the cars will be restricted to certain areas where they have high quality 3d mapping. The example I read was taxis in Manhattan; they might be restricted to Manhattan, plus a couple of defined routes to the airports etc.
This is my hope - that there will be less cops overall, and less opportunities for people to get pulled over for driving while black and other nonsense which happens all too frequently.
So, you may legitimately be part of the 10% for whom current EV tech is simply not good enough (yet).
Yeah; my point is that I actually want one, but I (and many others) won't be willing to buy one until it actually does what I want, not 90% of it. If I go to the trouble of buying and registering and insuring and maintaining a vehicle, I don't want to then need to rent every other weekend. It's a pain in the ass, and it's way easier right now to just stick with the cheaper, easier option of a conventional car. There certainly are a lot of people who have two cars and who could replace the commuter with an EV right now, but it's not 90% of people.
Your base price for a Leaf doesn't seem too far out of line with US prices (~$37k vs $30k here) - I imagine your import duties are higher and you have VAT too. But even with a $7 tax rebate, it's way more than twice the cost of a basic Versa here (~$12k).
A neighbor leases one of the i3 BMWs; her dealer offers some number of uses of a standard gas vehicle for just this reason. Seems like a pretty good system, it meets her needs.
You know you can RENT a non-EV car for that other 10% right ?
No need to buy two.
But renting a car is just another inconvenience. I have 2 cars right now; the smaller one I hope will last until I can get a self-driving electric car with 150+ miles range; maybe 5 years? The larger one I'll probably replace with an SUV since several times a year I end up in snowy mountains where even my current front wheel drive with Blizzax snow tires on can get stuck, and I regularly come up against the 3500lb tow limit of my current car so I want 5000lbs. I don't see a reasonable electric option for those needs anytime soon.
Our servers run RAID 10 SSDs.
How is that working for you? I'm hesitant to go that route, especially for DB servers, because of the stories I've read about mirrored SSDs failing close to one another due to the wear being the same on each. Are you seeing any problems like that, or do you swap out drives before there's a problem or anything?
there's not a single damned good reason why these NEED to be connected to the Internet.
Need is a stretch, but there are some compelling uses for an internet connected thermostat. I'm thinking second home, where you want to be able to adjust the thermostat remotely, after your short term renters leave. Sure, it's not imperative, but the positives outweigh the (so far) theoretical negatives. I have an ecobee, and being able to set it to vacation when I'm already an hour away is pretty nice. If it gets hacked, I'll unplug it. Meantime, it has a remote temp sensor so my upstairs temperature is much better than my old thermostat, which was the real reason I got it.
It seems to me that it's even better - they set the lowest price, to beat Amazon et al and build market share, but as far as I can tell they actually are paying their partners their regular price. I imagine that the difference is being made up by venture capital. Back to 2000 - we'll make it up in volume!
I base this on the fact that when I have bought stuff through them (because the price is the lowest) I have got an enclosed receipt from whoever actually shipped it with their normal price on it. Now, it may be that Jet gets a discount from that on the backend, but I doubt it's enough to cover all of it.
AC is correct - I misread. The number is required. I guess you'd want to get a throwaway SIM of a disposable VOIP number for the initial setup, then set the password. Probably harder to do that in Iran than here though.
From TFA:
A spokesman for Telegram said customers can defend against such attacks by not just relying on SMS verification. Telegram allows — though it does not require — customers to create passwords, which can be reset with so-called “recovery” emails.
“If you have a strong Telegram password and your recovery email is secure, there’s nothing an attacker can do,” said Markus Ra, the spokesman.
So, they don't require it. One could argue that they shouldn't even allow it, though.
For dirt cheap SIM voice service I have liked H2O wireless, but there are a ton of others. If you want a reasonable amount of data too, the Cricket plans are hard to beat. For me Cricket's coverage (AT&T towers) is better than TMo or Sprint. Verizon would be better yet, but Cricket is fine for me.
Agreed; and since both Windows 7 and 10 are already pretty darn stable, it's hard to imagine how they could make it substantially more so in a way anyone could notice.
Do you really send a lot of data over the internet without encryption? Your email should all be over TLS at least, and any important web traffic would be https. Sure, they could tell which sites you visited, but so can any ISP.
It's from the early 70s, it's possible that they weren't required. I have a 1970 motorcycle and it has no turn signals, legally.
I assume the phones can do many things, and they are only the end user device. Why not get off the shelf stuff which is reasonably cheap and well understood?
Certainly my Moto X has troubles transitioning from wifi to 4g, even to the point of often killing a phone call in progress.
I trust them as much as I trust hotel reviews (or hotel employees) - I take most things with a pinch of salt.
You might be better off, depending on where you live and how much washing you do, getting a new one just for the water savings over the next 20 years.
When I travel I find that I can still access Netflix, just some places I can't get all the same stuff as in the US. But I haven't been locked out yet anywhere I've tried it.