Exotic cars are bought by enthusiasts and they forgive problems that your average Honda buyer will not. The Model X and 3 are now going into the hands of none enthusiasts and even Consumer Reports has taken away it's recommend from the Tesla. Surprise, making cars is hard.
Simple the driver get's to choose to save give their life or save their life. If it is a KKK protest that is breaking the law they may decide that they do not want to die for them. If it is bunch of kids that where playing and ran out in the road they may decide to go for the tree. It is the fact that they are in control and can decide to give their life vs a machine deciding for them.
"f I set up a billion of fans creating wind to move the wind turbines: then your analogy (albeit the fundamentals are correct) would fail." Yes and if you got a million trained hamsters to turn a steam turbine it would no longer be a heat engine. A wind turbine is just the power turbine in a heat engine.
I have to agree. The phones that Motorola came out with after the Google take over where really good. The Moto G set a new standard for the price point.
Wind goes from a high pressure area to a low pressure area. If you had no heat you would have no wind. A wind turbine is part of a heat engine called the earth. It is that simple.
Japan is smaller than California. http://mapfight.appspot.com/jp... It would be a good deal more than a little bit of up front investment. A better choice might be to power them with natural gas or even hydrogen. It is not like you would have to worry about tank size.
How about just a lot of practical reasons. 1. Short range. 2. Low payload. 3. Problems with high wind. 4. Problems with rain. 5. Problems with cold. AKA batteries do not work all that well in cold weather. Drones are great for some tasks but this is beginning to sound way to much like a Helicopter in every garage fantasies from the the late 40s hear 50s. http://www.airspacemag.com/his...
I wonder if nVidia might not get into this space as well. They make ARM cpus and are leaders in the GPU compute space. I tightly coupled ARM/Pascal system could be very interesting. The key would be the interconnects.
There is also PowerPC but again not all that common. I remember seeing the Alpha when it first came out and thinking wow that is cool, too bad it will be a really big hit. I kept asking the rep about mass market products that would use it and they looked at me like I was nuts.
Funny but those things where covered in the news even back then. Maybe not in the 50s and early 60s but by the 70 and 80s it was. Even better you did not have the likes of fox news or MSNBC.
Don't forget about turn around time. That is going to be an issue. Will the second flight of the first stage be as reliable as the first flight and how long and how much to get to the first flight. If you can reuse the stage but you have a good chance of it not working the second, third,...... x time then is it worth it?
I do go to youtube for music videos sometimes. The thing is that the artists do get paid for them. For me YouTube is the replacement for MTV. What is really cool is that sometimes you can find "stolen" content that is just not available anywhere else like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I can not find it for sell anywhere and I can not watch it on Netflix. As for the rest of it. I watch a lot of tech shows, woodworking, car and truck shows, and old education shorts on YouTube
It is worse that that it will feed your bias. Even the true news stories will be tend to be the ones that fit your world view. Frankly I miss the good old days of the news back when it was mostly right in the middle to slightly to the left. What we have on the Internet is terrible because people will pick the news sources they like. Frankly we do not need to see the news that we agree with. We need to see the news that we do not. BTW people take a look at VOANews.com It is the Voice of America news service and because it is a tiny government funded news service it really tries to provide a balance coverage without any spin. The reason is that it does not have to find sponsors and it is so tiny no one in the government bothers with it. Before you dismiss it just take a look at.
I am with you. I do not like Micropayments but at the same time some games are do an ok job with them. For instance Moonbase on Android is fun and if I want I can buy some extra structures if I want. Any game that makes me buy in game purchases just do not work for me. I will pay for a game but I will not do IAP.
That is because Seoul is within artillery range for the DMZ. Our friend would take a lot of casualties if the US just started bombing North Korea. Hell they could just truck a nuke up to the DMZ or tunnel under the DMZ and put a bomb in South Korea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... All such attacks have be done looking at the risks to benefits.
In the US any driver is allowed to use any public road with exceptions made for large trucks that the road can no support. Some towns do put up signs saying no thru traffic but it is very questionable that they are enforceable.
"Now simplistically a road is for "driving on", so this is a controversial case, but if you go to City Hall and check the documents, you'll be able to see what the road's intended usage was, and you'll see that "rat run" is not part of the planned spec."
This is not in the UK. Construction is going the main road so traffic is flowing onto other roads. This is a temporary situation and once construction is done traffic will return to the normal flow. So yes too bad for the people on the street and yes if they really don't like it they can go to city hall and see if they can get traffic calming put in on their streets. Personally I would just wait for the construction to finish than spend the next 20 years dealing with speed bumbs on my road.
Because it is not a sure thing. It is never a sure thing. Let me give you an example. A man flying a 1947 J3 cub landed in a farmer's pasture without permission. The farmer called the police and drove his truck in front of the J3 to stop he from taking off before the police showed up. The pilot took off and hit the van. He sued Piper Aircraft because his 1947 did not meet modern safety standards and won! This is insane but it happened. You can be right a still not win.
"While I am not an expert in the US legal system it seems like having the loser pay the legal bills might reduce some of this predatory litigation." The problem is that it would also prevent a lot of justifiable litigation. Would you risk taking a big company to court if you lost you had to pay their costs?
"Again, you need your desktop to be as big and heavy as possible. Why? It that penis envy?" No I need to upgrade my ram an SSD.
"f only Apple made a machine for video professionals that came with professional video cards. .." Too bad the cpus are 2 generations behind as are the GPUs.
If only I could put in new video cards without waiting for an Apple specific card.
"They are not faster than PCIe based drives which was my point. You wanted Apple to use the slowest possible connector to local storage?" Some professionals" need massive data sets and PC drives are too small to hold them. You then have to get a big clunky thunderbolt enclosure.
"So you want to buy a MacPro workstation aimed at creative professionals like video production and use it for a niche market like GPU computing instead of a machine that is optimized for that like a GPU blade server in a purpose that Apple never intended. I see."
I want options. Where I work we have some MacPros but they are only being used for IOS development and testing for the simple reason that they are too limited and expensive for other projects. Other users are using Linux machines with GPU compute cards and I and other developers are using Xeon based workstations running Windows 7 and Linux in VMs for development.. So you feel that I am not an "average" apple user. That is self defining. since Apple does not offer me the tools I need so it excludes me from it's user base. Funny thing is that I am a Mac user. I have a Macbook Pro that I have added an SSD and ram too. It seems that I used to be an average Mac user until Apple kicked me out. The other funny thing is that I know a number of "creative professionals" that have left the Mac world and gone to windows because they no longer want to be stuck with Apple's slow update cycle for the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro also locks you out of Cuda development. Is the Mac Pro a good video editing computer? Yes. Is it the best Video editing computer? No. Is it a good choice for a workstation class machine? No not really. So I still say that an iMac slightly larger that allows end users to simply upgrade the SSD and ram would be a benefit to all customers. Adding a Mac that uses desktop i3,i5, and i7 cpus and has at least one PCIe slot would offer better performance than the MacMini and iMac for a lower cost and open up the Mac market to more users. I will also say that a real MacPro workstation with slots would be a big win in lots of markets. And a Macbook Pro that allows user expansion would be great for the professional user market. Keep the Air and the Macbook for the light at all costs cround
1. I am an American and I must say that I too am worried about our current candidates, we really can do better. 2. No one person can speak for the rest of the world. 3. Yea it could be worse, look at Putin. 4. This may be a good thing in the long term. In four years maybe we will have some better choices. AKA. This too shall pass.
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You may be surprised just how much less reliable a Mercedes S class or BMW 7 series is than you average Honda is.
Exotic cars are bought by enthusiasts and they forgive problems that your average Honda buyer will not. The Model X and 3 are now going into the hands of none enthusiasts and even Consumer Reports has taken away it's recommend from the Tesla.
Surprise, making cars is hard.
Simple the driver get's to choose to save give their life or save their life. If it is a KKK protest that is breaking the law they may decide that they do not want to die for them. If it is bunch of kids that where playing and ran out in the road they may decide to go for the tree.
It is the fact that they are in control and can decide to give their life vs a machine deciding for them.
"f I set up a billion of fans creating wind to move the wind turbines: then your analogy (albeit the fundamentals are correct) would fail."
Yes and if you got a million trained hamsters to turn a steam turbine it would no longer be a heat engine.
A wind turbine is just the power turbine in a heat engine.
I have to agree. The phones that Motorola came out with after the Google take over where really good. The Moto G set a new standard for the price point.
Wind goes from a high pressure area to a low pressure area. If you had no heat you would have no wind. A wind turbine is part of a heat engine called the earth. It is that simple.
Yes they are. What do you think makes the wind?
Japan is smaller than California. http://mapfight.appspot.com/jp... It would be a good deal more than a little bit of up front investment. A better choice might be to power them with natural gas or even hydrogen. It is not like you would have to worry about tank size.
How about just a lot of practical reasons.
1. Short range.
2. Low payload.
3. Problems with high wind.
4. Problems with rain.
5. Problems with cold. AKA batteries do not work all that well in cold weather.
Drones are great for some tasks but this is beginning to sound way to much like a Helicopter in every garage fantasies from the the late 40s hear 50s.
http://www.airspacemag.com/his...
I wonder if nVidia might not get into this space as well. They make ARM cpus and are leaders in the GPU compute space. I tightly coupled ARM/Pascal system could be very interesting. The key would be the interconnects.
There is also PowerPC but again not all that common.
I remember seeing the Alpha when it first came out and thinking wow that is cool, too bad it will be a really big hit. I kept asking the rep about mass market products that would use it and they looked at me like I was nuts.
Funny but those things where covered in the news even back then.
Maybe not in the 50s and early 60s but by the 70 and 80s it was.
Even better you did not have the likes of fox news or MSNBC.
Don't forget about turn around time. ...... x time then is it worth it?
That is going to be an issue. Will the second flight of the first stage be as reliable as the first flight and how long and how much to get to the first flight.
If you can reuse the stage but you have a good chance of it not working the second, third,
I do go to youtube for music videos sometimes. The thing is that the artists do get paid for them. For me YouTube is the replacement for MTV. What is really cool is that sometimes you can find "stolen" content that is just not available anywhere else like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I can not find it for sell anywhere and I can not watch it on Netflix.
As for the rest of it. I watch a lot of tech shows, woodworking, car and truck shows, and old education shorts on YouTube
It is worse that that it will feed your bias. Even the true news stories will be tend to be the ones that fit your world view. Frankly I miss the good old days of the news back when it was mostly right in the middle to slightly to the left. What we have on the Internet is terrible because people will pick the news sources they like. Frankly we do not need to see the news that we agree with. We need to see the news that we do not.
BTW people take a look at VOANews.com
It is the Voice of America news service and because it is a tiny government funded news service it really tries to provide a balance coverage without any spin. The reason is that it does not have to find sponsors and it is so tiny no one in the government bothers with it.
Before you dismiss it just take a look at.
"I will not register an account with Google or use any commercial app store."
That is cute, you can move along now.
I am with you. I do not like Micropayments but at the same time some games are do an ok job with them. For instance Moonbase on Android is fun and if I want I can buy some extra structures if I want.
Any game that makes me buy in game purchases just do not work for me. I will pay for a game but I will not do IAP.
That is because Seoul is within artillery range for the DMZ. Our friend would take a lot of casualties if the US just started bombing North Korea. Hell they could just truck a nuke up to the DMZ or tunnel under the DMZ and put a bomb in South Korea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All such attacks have be done looking at the risks to benefits.
In the US any driver is allowed to use any public road with exceptions made for large trucks that the road can no support. Some towns do put up signs saying no thru traffic but it is very questionable that they are enforceable.
"Now simplistically a road is for "driving on", so this is a controversial case, but if you go to City Hall and check the documents, you'll be able to see what the road's intended usage was, and you'll see that "rat run" is not part of the planned spec."
This is not in the UK. Construction is going the main road so traffic is flowing onto other roads. This is a temporary situation and once construction is done traffic will return to the normal flow. So yes too bad for the people on the street and yes if they really don't like it they can go to city hall and see if they can get traffic calming put in on their streets.
Personally I would just wait for the construction to finish than spend the next 20 years dealing with speed bumbs on my road.
Because it is not a sure thing. It is never a sure thing. Let me give you an example.
A man flying a 1947 J3 cub landed in a farmer's pasture without permission. The farmer called the police and drove his truck in front of the J3 to stop he from taking off before the police showed up. The pilot took off and hit the van. He sued Piper Aircraft because his 1947 did not meet modern safety standards and won! This is insane but it happened.
You can be right a still not win.
"While I am not an expert in the US legal system it seems like having the loser pay the legal bills might reduce some of this predatory litigation."
The problem is that it would also prevent a lot of justifiable litigation.
Would you risk taking a big company to court if you lost you had to pay their costs?
When an self declares that it is human?
"Again, you need your desktop to be as big and heavy as possible. Why? It that penis envy?"
No I need to upgrade my ram an SSD.
"f only Apple made a machine for video professionals that came with professional video cards. . ."
Too bad the cpus are 2 generations behind as are the GPUs.
If only I could put in new video cards without waiting for an Apple specific card.
"They are not faster than PCIe based drives which was my point. You wanted Apple to use the slowest possible connector to local storage?"
Some professionals" need massive data sets and PC drives are too small to hold them. You then have to get a big clunky thunderbolt enclosure.
"So you want to buy a MacPro workstation aimed at creative professionals like video production and use it for a niche market like GPU computing instead of a machine that is optimized for that like a GPU blade server in a purpose that Apple never intended. I see."
I want options. Where I work we have some MacPros but they are only being used for IOS development and testing for the simple reason that they are too limited and expensive for other projects.
Other users are using Linux machines with GPU compute cards and I and other developers are using Xeon based workstations running Windows 7 and Linux in VMs for development..
So you feel that I am not an "average" apple user. That is self defining. since Apple does not offer me the tools I need so it excludes me from it's user base. Funny thing is that I am a Mac user. I have a Macbook Pro that I have added an SSD and ram too. It seems that I used to be an average Mac user until Apple kicked me out. The other funny thing is that I know a number of "creative professionals" that have left the Mac world and gone to windows because they no longer want to be stuck with Apple's slow update cycle for the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro also locks you out of Cuda development.
Is the Mac Pro a good video editing computer? Yes. Is it the best Video editing computer? No. Is it a good choice for a workstation class machine? No not really.
So I still say that an iMac slightly larger that allows end users to simply upgrade the SSD and ram would be a benefit to all customers.
Adding a Mac that uses desktop i3,i5, and i7 cpus and has at least one PCIe slot would offer better performance than the MacMini and iMac for a lower cost and open up the Mac market to more users.
I will also say that a real MacPro workstation with slots would be a big win in lots of markets.
And a Macbook Pro that allows user expansion would be great for the professional user market. Keep the Air and the Macbook for the light at all costs cround
1. I am an American and I must say that I too am worried about our current candidates, we really can do better.
2. No one person can speak for the rest of the world.
3. Yea it could be worse, look at Putin.
4. This may be a good thing in the long term. In four years maybe we will have some better choices. AKA. This too shall pass.