You can't ram a massive slow container ship into a nimble fast destroyer that is not adrift. The destroyer can run rings around a container ship, so either the destroyer was adrift with no power, or the eyeball lookouts on the destroyer weren't doing their job.
They are talking a ponzi currency, that they get to create without creating a debt. Currency backed by the gullible imagination of the people who foolishly buy into it.
Sounds a lot like fiat money. The US has about $1.5 trillion of it floating around in physical form. Back at the turn of the decade, physical money was only about 10% of the US money in circulation - that means about $13.5 trillion USD is digital... So what's the essential difference between ICO and fiat money?
Why create one imaginary unbacked currency.
My take from the article is that the Estonian government would back it. More detail would be appreciated of course.
Tesla model S ~4400 pounds. Battery ~1200 pounds. Range ~315 miles
Truck cab ~17000 - 22000 pounds. Battery would need to be 4600-6000 pounds for same milage
If you want to actually take a full load of ~50,000 pounds (plus 10,000 for trailer) you're looking at around 80,000 pounds total weight. The battery would need to be around 22,000 pounds for the same 315 mile range, assuming everything else is equal (yeah right). That's the same weight as the current heavyweight cabs right now.
Something doesn't seem right, so this convoy effect may be what is required to get an equivalent range, by dropping the drag significantly for all but the first cab.
Too much clutter, too much video, too many massive pictures when it's meant to be a plain text update. A single non-scrolling page is all they get from me now
You could potentially convert the hydrogen, oxygen, plus atmospheric carbon (CO, CO2) into a synthetic fuel using one of the already in use processes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The rest of the storage, distribution and usage infrastructure is already in place, so the challenge is creating an efficient factory that takes in air + water, splits it up, and cranks out gas as an output.
I considered this with the recent birth of my son, however with adult stem cells now identified it didn't seem like they would be needed in the future. Plus the cost was another factor is declining this. All I can do now is cross my fingers and hope that science proceeds apace with adult stem cell processes becoming cost effective for more treatments.
8 seasons, no more. The plans have already been released. Too bad they are going to push out a bunch of spin-offs, though hopefully they will do ok as well.
It is season 7. Unfortunately the service was so popular that the ID authentication system couldn't handle the load so a big chunk of their userbase - including 10's of thousands of new subscribers - couldn't actually watch it when it was aired...
My mouse has buttons to increase / decrease speed, you speed it up for large distances then drop it for precision work. The only other way I can see it being done is by using acceleration to give more distance for high acceleration movements vs small distance for low acceleration. You can be sure that would confuse the heck out of normal users though.
Nope. There is no "beating" the yellow light. I was clear in my example.
You are driving into the intersection and the light changes yellow. Got that? You're IN the intersection.
Yup got it.
The safe course of action is to keep going because the light just turned yellow, you KNOW it's a long yellow, the guy behind you is going as well, so it would be stupid to slam on the brakes & hope to stop near the brake line.
You are legally obliged to 1) not enter an intersection where you cannot clear the intersection - regardless of the color of the light, and 2) clear the intersection after entering it. The length of the yellow time is irrelevant - if it turns red while you are still clearing the intersection you are still in the clear.
The point is you didn't fuck up but a lawyer can pour over the logs and make it look like you did.
You were following the law by clearing an intersection where the light turned yellow. As long as the Tesla can report that it could not safely stop prior to the start of the intersection when the light turned yellow, you are in the clear in regards to whether you should be in the intersection. As to hitting another car, well that's where the argument starts as to who had right of way.
And really, I haven't heard any viable solutions to what looks like a looming labour crises that isn't "let them all starve" or UBI
Seems a common problem. People waffle on about the difficulties in funding a UBI but have no imagination about a nation-state with 80+% of working age people unemployed and needing a hand-out to survive - either through government sanctioned methods or underground.
They wouldn't need to land - solar powered UAVs are already in use - just add an energy based weapon that recharges via surplus solar power. This one has a 5 year flight time & 30kg payload: http://www.energymatters.com.a...
PC's are alive and well in business, but shrinking at home.
There will come a time very soon where PCs will be shrinking in business too. Currently it's just a replacement schedule when lifecycle management dictates that keeping older devices is more expensive than buying new ones, but the horizon has virtual desktops on non-Windows devices in docks (mobiles typically, to reduce the number of devices). MS will still get their Windows user payments (now via Microsoft365 it looks) so no loss of profit there.
How difficult is it going to be to declare Mars life-form free and therefore colonisable by humans? Even now we're discovery life in weird / harsh habitats on earth, so categorically declaring Mars a dead world would mean checking a sizeable portion of the planet, and down several inches or more of regolith as well.
We will take life to Mars, and it will find a niche somewhere - guaranteed. Lichen, fungi, bacteria, something.
1: this offering is aimed at businesses which would much rather have subscriptions to their software in order to skip having to shell out tons of money for the next iterative release.
Yes, this is not for the consumer at all.
2: almost every other software aimed at professionals works this way now, like Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office, and of course every cloud based software.
Not really relevant, but true. With subscriptions you can typically reduce your numbers annually rather than paying for something for 3 years after you've been downsized and lost half your users. There's also a lot of simplification in managing licences and compliance, and reducing or avoiding very expensive (in time and effort) audits. The cost of performing these activities can be significantly more than a piddling amount every month, plus you get certainty about OPEX which is valuable to finance.
3: this offering is aimed at businesses who don't buy their OS bundled with their computer, but use some sort of virtualized environment (either on or off premises).
Hope so, convergence to only a mobile device with docking station hooked up to monitor, KB, mouse, & network is starting to look like where we are headed.
This makes sense for just about any business that plans on keeping their software up to date for their knowledge workers..
Unlike what some people seem to be saying, some large enterprises want to be relatively current. If Win10 is the last version of windows, then that's the last round of training we need to do on an OS. May as well get it out of the way now and get our systems up to date - of course using the Long Term Service Branch. Don't forget staff might be using the latest and greatest out in the wild, then come to work and are expected to use something from last decade? That breeds discontent and makes retaining staff harder. How much does it cost to recruit a skilled person and train then up vs pay a bit extra for recent/decent software?
It's going to be a big shift though, Windows client licenses have been sold to OEMs for ages, and buying a new computer means it comes pre-licensed for the life of the machine.... how many businesses will be happy with having to buy the same software over and over for eternity?
PCs will still be licensed with an OEM version - MS EAs still require your device to have an applicable OS licence, so this won't change. It could potentially make it a lot easier to manage licensing though, which is a complex and expensive activity.
Broadband, like healthcare, is much, much cheaper when it's paid for by the government and they know it. They don't want _you_ knowing it.
I think it's more that government doesn't have that fierce profit motive so they can offer a service at near cost price. Economy of scale re: exiting from the local municipality network might increase costs a bit, but certainly not to the tune of $71/month/connection...
You talking about the Samsung Galaxy S5? "Puddle" water resistance is a far from what it has - I've used it under water in a pool to take photos. Nowadays the clip to hold the bottom clip on has broken off, so I won't be testing that again anytime soon.
Maybe they've finally realised that they can get more money from corps by simplifying their license types and standardising on software subscriptions. Windows, Office, CRM, Azure, CIS. What they need next is a cost effective way to hand back perpetual licences for some temporary discounts on their enterprise subscription products.
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You can't ram a massive slow container ship into a nimble fast destroyer that is not adrift. The destroyer can run rings around a container ship, so either the destroyer was adrift with no power, or the eyeball lookouts on the destroyer weren't doing their job.
They are talking a ponzi currency, that they get to create without creating a debt. Currency backed by the gullible imagination of the people who foolishly buy into it.
Sounds a lot like fiat money. The US has about $1.5 trillion of it floating around in physical form. Back at the turn of the decade, physical money was only about 10% of the US money in circulation - that means about $13.5 trillion USD is digital...
So what's the essential difference between ICO and fiat money?
Why create one imaginary unbacked currency.
My take from the article is that the Estonian government would back it. More detail would be appreciated of course.
Down under we're busy blocking more torrent sites - like that ever worked in stopping piracy...
http://www.news.com.au/technol...
Truck cab ~17000 - 22000 pounds. Battery would need to be 4600-6000 pounds for same milage
If you want to actually take a full load of ~50,000 pounds (plus 10,000 for trailer) you're looking at around 80,000 pounds total weight.
The battery would need to be around 22,000 pounds for the same 315 mile range, assuming everything else is equal (yeah right). That's the same weight as the current heavyweight cabs right now.
Something doesn't seem right, so this convoy effect may be what is required to get an equivalent range, by dropping the drag significantly for all but the first cab.
Too much clutter, too much video, too many massive pictures when it's meant to be a plain text update. A single non-scrolling page is all they get from me now
If you're letting interns write critical code you don't work for a real company.
So...IBM?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The rest of the storage, distribution and usage infrastructure is already in place, so the challenge is creating an efficient factory that takes in air + water, splits it up, and cranks out gas as an output.
I considered this with the recent birth of my son, however with adult stem cells now identified it didn't seem like they would be needed in the future. Plus the cost was another factor is declining this. All I can do now is cross my fingers and hope that science proceeds apace with adult stem cell processes becoming cost effective for more treatments.
That would be "% employed" surely...
8 seasons, no more. The plans have already been released.
Too bad they are going to push out a bunch of spin-offs, though hopefully they will do ok as well.
It is season 7. Unfortunately the service was so popular that the ID authentication system couldn't handle the load so a big chunk of their userbase - including 10's of thousands of new subscribers - couldn't actually watch it when it was aired...
My mouse has buttons to increase / decrease speed, you speed it up for large distances then drop it for precision work. The only other way I can see it being done is by using acceleration to give more distance for high acceleration movements vs small distance for low acceleration.
You can be sure that would confuse the heck out of normal users though.
Nope. There is no "beating" the yellow light. I was clear in my example.
You are driving into the intersection and the light changes yellow. Got that? You're IN the intersection.
Yup got it.
The safe course of action is to keep going because the light just turned yellow, you KNOW it's a long yellow, the guy behind you is going as well, so it would be stupid to slam on the brakes & hope to stop near the brake line.
You are legally obliged to 1) not enter an intersection where you cannot clear the intersection - regardless of the color of the light, and 2) clear the intersection after entering it. The length of the yellow time is irrelevant - if it turns red while you are still clearing the intersection you are still in the clear.
The point is you didn't fuck up but a lawyer can pour over the logs and make it look like you did.
You were following the law by clearing an intersection where the light turned yellow. As long as the Tesla can report that it could not safely stop prior to the start of the intersection when the light turned yellow, you are in the clear in regards to whether you should be in the intersection. As to hitting another car, well that's where the argument starts as to who had right of way.
And really, I haven't heard any viable solutions to what looks like a looming labour crises that isn't "let them all starve" or UBI
Seems a common problem. People waffle on about the difficulties in funding a UBI but have no imagination about a nation-state with 80+% of working age people unemployed and needing a hand-out to survive - either through government sanctioned methods or underground.
They wouldn't need to land - solar powered UAVs are already in use - just add an energy based weapon that recharges via surplus solar power. This one has a 5 year flight time & 30kg payload:
http://www.energymatters.com.a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
PC's are alive and well in business, but shrinking at home.
There will come a time very soon where PCs will be shrinking in business too. Currently it's just a replacement schedule when lifecycle management dictates that keeping older devices is more expensive than buying new ones, but the horizon has virtual desktops on non-Windows devices in docks (mobiles typically, to reduce the number of devices). MS will still get their Windows user payments (now via Microsoft365 it looks) so no loss of profit there.
How difficult is it going to be to declare Mars life-form free and therefore colonisable by humans? Even now we're discovery life in weird / harsh habitats on earth, so categorically declaring Mars a dead world would mean checking a sizeable portion of the planet, and down several inches or more of regolith as well.
We will take life to Mars, and it will find a niche somewhere - guaranteed. Lichen, fungi, bacteria, something.
1: this offering is aimed at businesses which would much rather have subscriptions to their software in order to skip having to shell out tons of money for the next iterative release.
Yes, this is not for the consumer at all.
2: almost every other software aimed at professionals works this way now, like Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office, and of course every cloud based software.
Not really relevant, but true. With subscriptions you can typically reduce your numbers annually rather than paying for something for 3 years after you've been downsized and lost half your users. There's also a lot of simplification in managing licences and compliance, and reducing or avoiding very expensive (in time and effort) audits. The cost of performing these activities can be significantly more than a piddling amount every month, plus you get certainty about OPEX which is valuable to finance.
3: this offering is aimed at businesses who don't buy their OS bundled with their computer, but use some sort of virtualized environment (either on or off premises).
Hope so, convergence to only a mobile device with docking station hooked up to monitor, KB, mouse, & network is starting to look like where we are headed.
This makes sense for just about any business that plans on keeping their software up to date for their knowledge workers. .
Unlike what some people seem to be saying, some large enterprises want to be relatively current. If Win10 is the last version of windows, then that's the last round of training we need to do on an OS. May as well get it out of the way now and get our systems up to date - of course using the Long Term Service Branch.
Don't forget staff might be using the latest and greatest out in the wild, then come to work and are expected to use something from last decade? That breeds discontent and makes retaining staff harder. How much does it cost to recruit a skilled person and train then up vs pay a bit extra for recent/decent software?
It's going to be a big shift though, Windows client licenses have been sold to OEMs for ages, and buying a new computer means it comes pre-licensed for the life of the machine. ... how many businesses will be happy with having to buy the same software over and over for eternity?
PCs will still be licensed with an OEM version - MS EAs still require your device to have an applicable OS licence, so this won't change. It could potentially make it a lot easier to manage licensing though, which is a complex and expensive activity.
Broadband, like healthcare, is much, much cheaper when it's paid for by the government and they know it. They don't want _you_ knowing it.
I think it's more that government doesn't have that fierce profit motive so they can offer a service at near cost price. Economy of scale re: exiting from the local municipality network might increase costs a bit, but certainly not to the tune of $71/month/connection...
You talking about the Samsung Galaxy S5? "Puddle" water resistance is a far from what it has - I've used it under water in a pool to take photos. Nowadays the clip to hold the bottom clip on has broken off, so I won't be testing that again anytime soon.
What about Mick Jagger? Still having kids into his 70s.
Maybe they've finally realised that they can get more money from corps by simplifying their license types and standardising on software subscriptions. Windows, Office, CRM, Azure, CIS. What they need next is a cost effective way to hand back perpetual licences for some temporary discounts on their enterprise subscription products.
People who seek to do harm or drive under the influence will just remove their license tags.
Never seen this, though I would imagine that ANPR systems are already flagging these to police right now - or should be...