Do you know if they have a similar system in Europe? I believe you can order direct from Audi and actually go over to their factory to pick the car up.
And yea, the dealer only option sucks, as when, for example, you're looking to buy a V8 VW Tuareg, mainly for its compact size and towing capacity, you have to buy one with *all* the options, because that's the only thing that was imported. Very anti-consumer.
If I were you, I'd make sure my nose hair was trimmed properly. Don't want to have people seeing directly into your upturned nostrils being disgusted by the sight.
Out of curiosity, what do you think this app actually does?
When a scientist uses a measuring device to better understand something that he couldn't understand fully with a naked eye, is he cheating? Living a lie? Are we as human beings big frauds because we use microscopes and know about things like bacteria and mold? Should we kill half our population because they should be dead from cholera and do not deserve to be here?
These are some confusing sentiments I'm reading on here regarding a simple data logging app...
You do realize that this app was developed for people riding on closed circuits, right?
The type of rider you describe already has a way to gauge their riding. And that's with chicken strips and top speed. They don't need an app to make them ride recklessly.
What sort of "techniques" are you talking about exactly? Do you think this app is designed to let you recreate the Tom Cruise front wheel one handed stoppie while rotating 180 degrees in order to shoot your uzi at the bad guys?
This is probably nothing more than an advanced lap timer, a data logger, which tells you where you are losing time _on_ _track_. This means, you're braking too early, or you're braking too late, going too deep into a corner resulting in a slow exit speed resulting in a slow top speed down the straight. Sports like F1 have been using stuff like this for years, and it's simply making its way to bikes. I think that for the most part, professional racers use their feel only to know where they're losing time.
Right. You aren't looking at the device while riding. You look at it after putting in a few laps to see where you're losing time. You analyze the data, go back out to alter your braking point, acceleration point, etc, put in a few laps, and compare.
Maybe it's a case of journalists making outlandish claims to generate buzz and views/clicks. Saying that either system serves different audiences, with a good amount of overlap, and continuing to say that both would likely keep finding their place, would be a middle of the road opinion that readers would say "yeah, no sh*t Sherlock" to and not tweet or ``like'' it.
I find it hard to believe that a multi-billion dollar per year industry would a) die off within the next few years and b) wouldn't be able to find ways to compete. The two changes that tablets have brought about is the interface and cheap, casual games. The Wii U and Vita already incorporate touch, and people have shown that they are willing to spend $70 for a game, so what's the revolution, here, again?
You don't have to charge extra for the subtitles to benefit from them financially. For example, if someone sees that an English movie is available with subtitles in their language, they would be more likely to spend the money than if those subtitles weren't available. Careful calling people idiots.
This. You can read bit articles here and there, but you'll have to make sure to dig for various sources covering all related events, as well as varying points of view to account for bias. That is why you go for analysis from a source you trust to give you an unbiased analysis. I enjoyed reading The Economist, I probably should subscribe. Though their ebook releases are apparently awful.
A lot of verbiage to say something simple. Lenovo controls a slightly smaller percentage of the market, but their shipments increased 10% while HP's decreased 16% (info somewhat from memory, read an article about this earlier today). So make your own conclusions. This "not so fast... this other guy says..." nonsense is just silly.
I just ordered one cause I got tired of my wrists going numb from my drive vibrating. That's one benefit no one mentions. And even if these things are three quarters as reliable, who isn't making backups and expecting to replace a drive anyway.
I think it is mostly in the US that holiday time is mainly a trip to the mall to cash in on some deep discounts. In Poland, holidays were taken seriously, with all stores closing, people getting together, having events, etc, and I imagine that might be the case in China. And don't forget that these people move far away from home to look for work. Maybe they go back to visit.
Keys can break no matter the laptop. My point was that my plastic ThinkPad doesn't have a single dent or anything broken. It is better at withstanding those little hits that leave an ugly dent in a metal case. All I'm saying is that a metal case doesn't make the laptop invulnerable.
A coworker that has had about 3 MacBooks and has had issues with each one. One had the slit over the optical drive bend a bit, making it near impossible to eject a CD. Others have dings all over the body. Another coworker had CDs rubbing against the optical drive because a larger ding was pressing against the optical drive. I had a PowerBook way back when and when it fell off my desk, the hinge broke easily. At least with a plastic laptop, if something cracks, it snaps back to its original position, not impeding something else, and sometimes can be mended. My 5 year old Thinkpads look almost new, save for the shiny keyboard keys.
Question is, are all parts of a computer created by and at Foxconn? Did they only consider the assembly line, or every single piece? What about things like insurance, unemployment, etc, etc? And did they consider all people in the chain like managers et al, or only assembly line workers that would be making $12/hour? I'm not convinced that the additional cost would be that little. If it was, then it would make little sense to outsource there as you then have to ship the stuff halfway around the world and still face the scrutiny of sending away US jobs.
But honestly, I never owned one, but used an HP model for work and hated how small and annoying it was. As far as pricing, I don't know whether it was the cheaper components or special pricing, or the smaller screen size, etc. But historically, when you wanted a 1" thick full size laptop, you were paying extra, and you see that now with the Ultrabooks. The only way you'll see them for $600 is if manufacturers sell them for under cost to garner market share.
And honestly, netbooks weren't all that thin. Some were actually bulbous, but their small size came from width and height. If you put a 14" screen with the same thickness, they'd be desktop replacements, not Macbook-like blades. Making a 1" model with a 14" screen takes extra engineering.
Most of their T series have moved to the gum square keyboard that Apple made popular. The keyboard was the main go-to feature to tout about the ThinkPads. I decry the day when they stopped making 3x4 screens and went with the widescreen nonsense. So I'm stuck with my T61s.
Yes, but if you pay your US employee $2000/month, with the Chinese equivalent making $350, how much will you be selling your laptops for, and for that matter, who will actually afford to buy them. Manufacturers go to Asia, India, Eastern Europe and South America because of labor cost difference to the price you can ask for the product in other economies (which I'm sure you understand).
A bit of difference, don't you think? As the summary said, it has been shown that seeing suicide can influence others, therefore that footage is withheld to protect other troubled people. Unless you do want to push people with depression or chronic pain over that last hurdle towards death.
So you're saying that in an organization that employs hundreds of people at all kinds of levels and facilities, there are some people that don't mind this attention or the ratings? Do you care to make any other leaps of faith?
Chases get ratings, and that's part of how stations pay for themselves. And most chases I've seen on live TV do not result in any deaths, so it's not correct to say their intentions were to air it to show death.
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Do you know if they have a similar system in Europe? I believe you can order direct from Audi and actually go over to their factory to pick the car up.
And yea, the dealer only option sucks, as when, for example, you're looking to buy a V8 VW Tuareg, mainly for its compact size and towing capacity, you have to buy one with *all* the options, because that's the only thing that was imported. Very anti-consumer.
You really think this is a petrol engine versus electric thing?
You don't think this is a "I want to make money as a middleman, and don't want this 'direct to customer' sales model to take off" thing, instead?
If I were you, I'd make sure my nose hair was trimmed properly. Don't want to have people seeing directly into your upturned nostrils being disgusted by the sight.
Out of curiosity, what do you think this app actually does?
When a scientist uses a measuring device to better understand something that he couldn't understand fully with a naked eye, is he cheating? Living a lie? Are we as human beings big frauds because we use microscopes and know about things like bacteria and mold? Should we kill half our population because they should be dead from cholera and do not deserve to be here?
These are some confusing sentiments I'm reading on here regarding a simple data logging app...
You do realize that this app was developed for people riding on closed circuits, right?
The type of rider you describe already has a way to gauge their riding. And that's with chicken strips and top speed. They don't need an app to make them ride recklessly.
What sort of "techniques" are you talking about exactly? Do you think this app is designed to let you recreate the Tom Cruise front wheel one handed stoppie while rotating 180 degrees in order to shoot your uzi at the bad guys?
This is probably nothing more than an advanced lap timer, a data logger, which tells you where you are losing time _on_ _track_. This means, you're braking too early, or you're braking too late, going too deep into a corner resulting in a slow exit speed resulting in a slow top speed down the straight. Sports like F1 have been using stuff like this for years, and it's simply making its way to bikes. I think that for the most part, professional racers use their feel only to know where they're losing time.
Right. You aren't looking at the device while riding. You look at it after putting in a few laps to see where you're losing time. You analyze the data, go back out to alter your braking point, acceleration point, etc, put in a few laps, and compare.
Maybe it's a case of journalists making outlandish claims to generate buzz and views/clicks. Saying that either system serves different audiences, with a good amount of overlap, and continuing to say that both would likely keep finding their place, would be a middle of the road opinion that readers would say "yeah, no sh*t Sherlock" to and not tweet or ``like'' it.
I find it hard to believe that a multi-billion dollar per year industry would a) die off within the next few years and b) wouldn't be able to find ways to compete. The two changes that tablets have brought about is the interface and cheap, casual games. The Wii U and Vita already incorporate touch, and people have shown that they are willing to spend $70 for a game, so what's the revolution, here, again?
You don't have to charge extra for the subtitles to benefit from them financially. For example, if someone sees that an English movie is available with subtitles in their language, they would be more likely to spend the money than if those subtitles weren't available. Careful calling people idiots.
This. You can read bit articles here and there, but you'll have to make sure to dig for various sources covering all related events, as well as varying points of view to account for bias. That is why you go for analysis from a source you trust to give you an unbiased analysis. I enjoyed reading The Economist, I probably should subscribe. Though their ebook releases are apparently awful.
Wow, so /. has devolved to the "no, YOU are" argument.
A lot of verbiage to say something simple. Lenovo controls a slightly smaller percentage of the market, but their shipments increased 10% while HP's decreased 16% (info somewhat from memory, read an article about this earlier today). So make your own conclusions. This "not so fast... this other guy says..." nonsense is just silly.
I just ordered one cause I got tired of my wrists going numb from my drive vibrating. That's one benefit no one mentions. And even if these things are three quarters as reliable, who isn't making backups and expecting to replace a drive anyway.
Unfortunately all the people that used to do that to fur wearers are the biggest Apple users now.
I think it is mostly in the US that holiday time is mainly a trip to the mall to cash in on some deep discounts. In Poland, holidays were taken seriously, with all stores closing, people getting together, having events, etc, and I imagine that might be the case in China. And don't forget that these people move far away from home to look for work. Maybe they go back to visit.
Keys can break no matter the laptop. My point was that my plastic ThinkPad doesn't have a single dent or anything broken. It is better at withstanding those little hits that leave an ugly dent in a metal case. All I'm saying is that a metal case doesn't make the laptop invulnerable.
A coworker that has had about 3 MacBooks and has had issues with each one. One had the slit over the optical drive bend a bit, making it near impossible to eject a CD. Others have dings all over the body. Another coworker had CDs rubbing against the optical drive because a larger ding was pressing against the optical drive. I had a PowerBook way back when and when it fell off my desk, the hinge broke easily. At least with a plastic laptop, if something cracks, it snaps back to its original position, not impeding something else, and sometimes can be mended. My 5 year old Thinkpads look almost new, save for the shiny keyboard keys.
Question is, are all parts of a computer created by and at Foxconn? Did they only consider the assembly line, or every single piece? What about things like insurance, unemployment, etc, etc? And did they consider all people in the chain like managers et al, or only assembly line workers that would be making $12/hour? I'm not convinced that the additional cost would be that little. If it was, then it would make little sense to outsource there as you then have to ship the stuff halfway around the world and still face the scrutiny of sending away US jobs.
Cause no one wanted to use them :)
But honestly, I never owned one, but used an HP model for work and hated how small and annoying it was. As far as pricing, I don't know whether it was the cheaper components or special pricing, or the smaller screen size, etc. But historically, when you wanted a 1" thick full size laptop, you were paying extra, and you see that now with the Ultrabooks. The only way you'll see them for $600 is if manufacturers sell them for under cost to garner market share.
And honestly, netbooks weren't all that thin. Some were actually bulbous, but their small size came from width and height. If you put a 14" screen with the same thickness, they'd be desktop replacements, not Macbook-like blades. Making a 1" model with a 14" screen takes extra engineering.
Most of their T series have moved to the gum square keyboard that Apple made popular. The keyboard was the main go-to feature to tout about the ThinkPads. I decry the day when they stopped making 3x4 screens and went with the widescreen nonsense. So I'm stuck with my T61s.
Yes, but if you pay your US employee $2000/month, with the Chinese equivalent making $350, how much will you be selling your laptops for, and for that matter, who will actually afford to buy them. Manufacturers go to Asia, India, Eastern Europe and South America because of labor cost difference to the price you can ask for the product in other economies (which I'm sure you understand).
> sure its not as slim or as light
Well, umm, there you go. Small and light costs money. This has been the case for the past 15 years with laptops.
I've seen so many MacBooks with small dents in them, like a car that had a bad trip to the local shopping mall parking lot.
A bit of difference, don't you think? As the summary said, it has been shown that seeing suicide can influence others, therefore that footage is withheld to protect other troubled people. Unless you do want to push people with depression or chronic pain over that last hurdle towards death.
So you're saying that in an organization that employs hundreds of people at all kinds of levels and facilities, there are some people that don't mind this attention or the ratings? Do you care to make any other leaps of faith?
Chases get ratings, and that's part of how stations pay for themselves. And most chases I've seen on live TV do not result in any deaths, so it's not correct to say their intentions were to air it to show death.