Why does Chroecast open up a port, any port, to the whole wide internet? To the point where it's even uPnP compatible,, not just for network local devices...
What purpose does that serve? When did that seem like a good idea?
So either they force all landlords/etc in the country to install at least one charging point per apartment/tenant or they have to drop their 100% target.
I agree that is a huge hurdle, however that is one reason hydrogen fuel cells will make for a sizable component of electric cars. Otherwise I agree, apartment dwellers would have a rough time with electric cars even if they all cycled out of a nearby charging station once a week or so.
Tesla also reported strong production and sales for the just completed fourth quarter. Total sales were up 8% and Model 3 sales were up even more, about 13%
Slashdot assured me electric car sales were saturated and that electric cars were just a fad.
I don't think Tesla cares much at all that subsidies are fading out - that is as it should be. The subsidies did the job they were designed for, got Tesla off the ground and to a place where they can sell the car on merits alone without any tax advantages. There certainly are few other cars, period, I'd be interested in looking at these days.
Norway generates about 90% of it's electrical power via Hydro.
Irrelevant as people people generally do not think (or care) about where power comes from.
That, and the fact the country could fit into Texas twice
That's a really limited view of how people in Europe live. Sure they country they live in may be tiny, but that just means you can drive to a lot more countries. Don't you think that a lot of people in Norway drive to at least Sweden and Denmark?
The more impressive thing to me is not so much the sheer numbers numbers, but the percentages in an environment that is one of the worst for electric cars (cold temperatures affecting batteries, lots of need for running a heater for the interior).
That meany people (yes 44k is still fair numbers of people) tells you a lot about wider acceptance.
I don't understand what the appeal of watching someone else play a video game.
When I was starting to play Fortnite, I watched a number of videos of people playing to understand what the mechanics of really successful players looked like - to see what was possible.
Sometimes in the past I have watched video (live or otherwise) of people playing because they were going to play a part of a game where I wanted to see what happened, but did not want to put in the time required to see for myself.
Sometimes I'm actually a little surprised games sell so well when so many people could spend less time just watching some people play. That's more for games that are tedious, but it sure seems like a lot of modern games have tedious elements these days.
Also I am sure some people just like being involved in a kind of community, where a bunch of people are supporting some person and they recognize that support in real time. That is kind of an energy boost to be part of something larger than yourself.
The lower you are underground the safer you are, because there is less motion. The closer you get to ground level, and then beyond that, the more the waves from earthquakes amplify motion.
I am not comparing anything, I am explaining how earthquakes work!!!!!!
I have been really impressed with how fast Fortnite has grown.
Just from speaking with friends that have kids, it seems like Fortnite has been kind of addictive (like kids getting in trouble for Fortnite related offenses), and I have to wonder if some of the draw is not kids partly dreaming they will be the next Ninja, earning big bucks by playing games... not unlike kids that wanted to be sports stars or movie actors.
up to a third of Earth's crust was sawn off by Snowball Earth's roaming glaciers and their erosive capabilities.
Let's see, we could worry about the Earth maybe getting a few degrees warmer and having to back away from the ocean a bit.
Or we could worry about ENTIRE CONTINENTS being "sawed off the earth" by glaciers as the rest of us starved because there was nowhere on earth you could grown more than a handful of crops in the icy cold.
Way better in my mind to engineer how to deal with warming - and keep it permanent - rather than let the Earth slide back into yet another long ice age, as it is otherwise bound to do.
Only a small percentage of people want a drone, or a fitbit, an action camera, or a $60k+ electric vehicle (like Tesla found out), or a $1000+ phone (as Apple is finding out)
Wow you are absolute pants at understanding markets.
All of those things have growing markets with a lot of demand.
Fads do indeed have issues with market saturation- but those ain't it, which is why all of those items are in markets with healthy growth (even if some companies may struggle within the space, like Fitbit itself which has a lot of oxygen sucked away by heart-monitoring Apple Watches).
I hesitate to hold out Russia as a positive model for anything, but they have very deep subway stations and the escalators I rode in St Petersburg worked really well, carrying a ton of people (basically one very long escalator down).
There's at least one other city I've been in (I think in Europe) that also had very good deep subways, though which city it was eludes me...
However with Musk's tunnels you don't have very deep entry stations. You get in at a station maybe two stories down, and for longer trips the car or bus transfers to deeper tunnels as needed.
Sorry, just had to follow up with one more thought on this...
D) I just thought through the scenario of hand control for LCD's in front of your seat. That means the people NEXT TO YOU are constantly waving hands around instead of being still like they are supposed to.
Seriously can you think of a bigger nightmare in a situation where everyone around you is annoying already? Can you imagine how many more drinks would be spilled from trays just trying to adjust volume or turn screens off/on or change channels? Nothing like someone next to me sweeping a cup of coffee into my lap...
I will grant the train going from SF down south was fine. I'm talking more about the subways under SF, and especially the creaky ancient Oakland to SF line I took a number of times when staying there,
Although at least it got me there every time, more than I can say for the damn NJ to NYC line I've taken a few times... (well, OK, it got me there - just an hour late).
Seattle may be great now, but have you BEEN on a Caltrain recently anywhere around San Francisco? They are rickety and old and not that far behind NYC in a near state of going to fail soon.
LA may have allocated a ton of money to improve transportation, but it's kind of optimistic to assume it will do anything to help when the can't even get an estimate for high speed rail in CA right within an order of magnitude...
You like having to touch the same screen as a bunch of sick people on a plane
A) I wipe down arm-rests and tray with a Clorox wipe when traveling. You don't??????? I mean, since you seem to care about touching surfaces sick people have touched, and you are sitting there for hours stewing in other people's filth...
B) Why are sick people touching my iPad?
C) Everyone would universally loathe hand gesture controls of airplane screens which is absolutely worst case for accidental triggering. Even if the extra expense to install something like that per seat were to go forward, it would be disabled within a month and never used again. Airplane LCD screens already have the cursed behavior of coming on often when you just want the damn things off, hand-waving activation makes that issues 1000x worse.
I've been to the Highline park and it is hugely popular. You may be right it would be better to use those lines for transport, but there's no arguing that people deeply love the Highline park and building of elevated parks like that will (literally) soar... it makes a tone of sense for dens cities since it lets you have a larger park without disrupting traffic while enabling lots more pedestrians in a narrow corridor.
I honestly think Musk has the right idea here. Leave the surface to people and just build a lot more tunnels cheaply to enable transit between different points in a large city.
Hand waving gestures have always struck me as a dubious control mechanism - way to prone to false input as people move hands naturally. Nothing like going to blow your nose and deleting all your files.
On a side note..
The FCC said the sensors can also be operated aboard aircraft.
Slashdot Mirror
Why does Chroecast open up a port, any port, to the whole wide internet? To the point where it's even uPnP compatible,, not just for network local devices...
What purpose does that serve? When did that seem like a good idea?
what is this "$35K Model 3" you speak off
The tax credit phase-out comes just as Tesla was preparing to sell a $35,000 version of its Model 3 sedan
Your body uses water as food. Would you survive being submerged in it?
I have indeed been swimming several times.
I have also been to the desert, and know that a compete lack of water is far worse for me than a small rainstorm.
My ecosystem ...existed for billions of years..... However, too much CO2 causes the oceans to become increasingly acidic
Sorry to bother you, Mr Auquaman.
Putting tons of CO2 into the air is currently 100% environmentally subsidized and that needs to end before it destroys our ecosystem.
Your ecosystem uses CO2 as food...
So either they force all landlords/etc in the country to install at least one charging point per apartment/tenant or they have to drop their 100% target.
I agree that is a huge hurdle, however that is one reason hydrogen fuel cells will make for a sizable component of electric cars. Otherwise I agree, apartment dwellers would have a rough time with electric cars even if they all cycled out of a nearby charging station once a week or so.
Tesla also reported strong production and sales for the just completed fourth quarter. Total sales were up 8% and Model 3 sales were up even more, about 13%
Slashdot assured me electric car sales were saturated and that electric cars were just a fad.
I don't think Tesla cares much at all that subsidies are fading out - that is as it should be. The subsidies did the job they were designed for, got Tesla off the ground and to a place where they can sell the car on merits alone without any tax advantages. There certainly are few other cars, period, I'd be interested in looking at these days.
Norway generates about 90% of it's electrical power via Hydro.
Irrelevant as people people generally do not think (or care) about where power comes from.
That, and the fact the country could fit into Texas twice
That's a really limited view of how people in Europe live. Sure they country they live in may be tiny, but that just means you can drive to a lot more countries. Don't you think that a lot of people in Norway drive to at least Sweden and Denmark?
Also, Norway is a lot bigger than you think.
you have the perfect place for electric cars.
Certainly not in terms of climate.
The more impressive thing to me is not so much the sheer numbers numbers, but the percentages in an environment that is one of the worst for electric cars (cold temperatures affecting batteries, lots of need for running a heater for the interior).
That meany people (yes 44k is still fair numbers of people) tells you a lot about wider acceptance.
part of an attempt by Western Europe's biggest producer of oil and gas
The best drug dealers know never to use the stuff they sell. :-)
That said, the fact that so many people in Norway can go electric shows the cars are pretty much viable anywhere in large numbers.
I don't understand what the appeal of watching someone else play a video game.
When I was starting to play Fortnite, I watched a number of videos of people playing to understand what the mechanics of really successful players looked like - to see what was possible.
Sometimes in the past I have watched video (live or otherwise) of people playing because they were going to play a part of a game where I wanted to see what happened, but did not want to put in the time required to see for myself.
Sometimes I'm actually a little surprised games sell so well when so many people could spend less time just watching some people play. That's more for games that are tedious, but it sure seems like a lot of modern games have tedious elements these days.
Also I am sure some people just like being involved in a kind of community, where a bunch of people are supporting some person and they recognize that support in real time. That is kind of an energy boost to be part of something larger than yourself.
The lower you are underground the safer you are, because there is less motion. The closer you get to ground level, and then beyond that, the more the waves from earthquakes amplify motion.
I am not comparing anything, I am explaining how earthquakes work!!!!!!
I have been really impressed with how fast Fortnite has grown.
Just from speaking with friends that have kids, it seems like Fortnite has been kind of addictive (like kids getting in trouble for Fortnite related offenses), and I have to wonder if some of the draw is not kids partly dreaming they will be the next Ninja, earning big bucks by playing games... not unlike kids that wanted to be sports stars or movie actors.
It was beyond foolish to produce the game without resolving the IP conflicts which were a known issue from day zero.
I guess sometimes it *is* better to ask for permission rather than beg for forgiveness!
up to a third of Earth's crust was sawn off by Snowball Earth's roaming glaciers and their erosive capabilities.
Let's see, we could worry about the Earth maybe getting a few degrees warmer and having to back away from the ocean a bit.
Or we could worry about ENTIRE CONTINENTS being "sawed off the earth" by glaciers as the rest of us starved because there was nowhere on earth you could grown more than a handful of crops in the icy cold.
Way better in my mind to engineer how to deal with warming - and keep it permanent - rather than let the Earth slide back into yet another long ice age, as it is otherwise bound to do.
How do you account for the fact there are 27 major fault lines in the LA Metro area?
That's EXACTLY why tunnels are the future in places like LA, because they are way safer than surface structures in an earthquake.
As Musk pointed out, rescue workers were able to get inside Mexico City after the huge earthquake there by using the UNDAMAGED subway lines.
You could almost imagine a large network of tunnels under a city as a vital emergency services access measure.
I pay attention to earns reports, not market rumors.
Little tip for you - growth is growth, even if it appears somewhat slower at times.
You said the market was saturated. Which would mean no growth... there is growth, so the market is by definition not saturated.
kthanksbye. You can have then last response since you appear not to understand markets or growth or, well, anything.
Only a small percentage of people want a drone, or a fitbit, an action camera, or a $60k+ electric vehicle (like Tesla found out), or a $1000+ phone (as Apple is finding out)
Wow you are absolute pants at understanding markets.
All of those things have growing markets with a lot of demand.
Fads do indeed have issues with market saturation- but those ain't it, which is why all of those items are in markets with healthy growth (even if some companies may struggle within the space, like Fitbit itself which has a lot of oxygen sucked away by heart-monitoring Apple Watches).
I hesitate to hold out Russia as a positive model for anything, but they have very deep subway stations and the escalators I rode in St Petersburg worked really well, carrying a ton of people (basically one very long escalator down).
There's at least one other city I've been in (I think in Europe) that also had very good deep subways, though which city it was eludes me...
However with Musk's tunnels you don't have very deep entry stations. You get in at a station maybe two stories down, and for longer trips the car or bus transfers to deeper tunnels as needed.
You like having to touch the same screen
Sorry, just had to follow up with one more thought on this...
D) I just thought through the scenario of hand control for LCD's in front of your seat. That means the people NEXT TO YOU are constantly waving hands around instead of being still like they are supposed to.
Seriously can you think of a bigger nightmare in a situation where everyone around you is annoying already? Can you imagine how many more drinks would be spilled from trays just trying to adjust volume or turn screens off/on or change channels? Nothing like someone next to me sweeping a cup of coffee into my lap...
NO THANK YOU SIR I WILL HAVE NONE OF IT.
I will grant the train going from SF down south was fine. I'm talking more about the subways under SF, and especially the creaky ancient Oakland to SF line I took a number of times when staying there,
Although at least it got me there every time, more than I can say for the damn NJ to NYC line I've taken a few times... (well, OK, it got me there - just an hour late).
Seattle may be great now, but have you BEEN on a Caltrain recently anywhere around San Francisco? They are rickety and old and not that far behind NYC in a near state of going to fail soon.
LA may have allocated a ton of money to improve transportation, but it's kind of optimistic to assume it will do anything to help when the can't even get an estimate for high speed rail in CA right within an order of magnitude...
You like having to touch the same screen as a bunch of sick people on a plane
A) I wipe down arm-rests and tray with a Clorox wipe when traveling. You don't??????? I mean, since you seem to care about touching surfaces sick people have touched, and you are sitting there for hours stewing in other people's filth...
B) Why are sick people touching my iPad?
C) Everyone would universally loathe hand gesture controls of airplane screens which is absolutely worst case for accidental triggering. Even if the extra expense to install something like that per seat were to go forward, it would be disabled within a month and never used again. Airplane LCD screens already have the cursed behavior of coming on often when you just want the damn things off, hand-waving activation makes that issues 1000x worse.
I've been to the Highline park and it is hugely popular. You may be right it would be better to use those lines for transport, but there's no arguing that people deeply love the Highline park and building of elevated parks like that will (literally) soar... it makes a tone of sense for dens cities since it lets you have a larger park without disrupting traffic while enabling lots more pedestrians in a narrow corridor.
I honestly think Musk has the right idea here. Leave the surface to people and just build a lot more tunnels cheaply to enable transit between different points in a large city.
Hand waving gestures have always struck me as a dubious control mechanism - way to prone to false input as people move hands naturally. Nothing like going to blow your nose and deleting all your files.
On a side note..
The FCC said the sensors can also be operated aboard aircraft.
OMG no.