I have no fondness for Tesla or the "electric car revolution", but car dealers should not be the ones deciding the future either. In fact, the dealership model (in the US) is to make money with volume - which mean cheap, under-optioned and option-packaged cars. This means that unless you are very very motivated, you can't buy a vehicle that is best for you. Dealers can move cheap cars the fastest - they source them with pre-packaged options (e.g. if you want active lane departure prevention, you have to get the top of line model with nappa leather, or go without), and attach the most attractive financing to them. This is why the European car market is so much more diverse, but also more expensive. With the volume of cars sold in the US, dealers can make money selling nicer cars with a la carte options too, but it is more work for them.
Look around you. Look at the sea of mediocrity on the American roads - SUVs barely different from each other except for their hood ornaments, differentiated basically by size from mere super-size to megaladon. Insipid inefficient power-trains. People buying expensive name brands with the barely more options than air-conditioning. The dealership model did this.
Don't buy mediocre junk. Spend a little more and don't settle, maybe it means you have to special order (or buy direct from manufacturer if possible). But you won't be looking again in a couple of years because you couldn't live with the compromises that you'd convinced yourself are worth making to drive with something off the dealership lot today.
The best? That's a high bar. TV stations broadcast Full HD over the air, and this is incapable of receiving them. Sure, the TV monitor you connect to may receive them, but then you're using its tuner and app to watch.
But it doesn't have to do it all by itself. The critical issue is cost. If it can add a kW at steady state to a battery pack, then it'd be a great addition to a mild hybrid vehicle, where all the loads that used to be belt-driven are now electric.
Yeah, more than consumers, manufacturers are even bigger sheeple. Look at every big and small company making bigger and bigger phones with more and more cameras. The only way they can do that at a lower price than Samsung is to make a lower quality product. If I'm looking for a smaller phone say 5" and light with a newer processor - nothing out there. Smaller manufacturers should be developing niche markets and growing them, not chasing lower and lower margins with commodity products.
Everyone's making the same phone - ever increasing screen size, gimmicks like fingerprint reader front or back or under screen, everyone's removing microSD slots, headphone jacks, using the same set of LCD/OLED panels and other components. If they don't want to make something that caters to smaller but real markets (outdoor activities, smaller phones, and in this case, gamers), then they're competing with bigger companies that can throw $$$ into buying customers. So I guess this is good for them... except they aren't ever going to make a phone that's as good as even a gaming laptop... so it is really just for mobile power gamers. I'd have gone for a bigger or multiple niches.
The air up there is very cold. Air is bled off from the engine compressors to heat the cabin. How will an electric aircraft do this? Resistance heating from the batteries, I assume? How many more kW capacity will be need for that?
All smartphones have cameras, but not all have NFC chips, especially the cheaper ones. So QR code payments, used allover Asia, in a few chains in the US (including Walmart, Best Buy) would be more accessible. All that'd be needed is a bank account (Chase, Walmart, etc.).
Fromt he summary, " finding 16 rare 'giant' viruses that are completely new to science... These giant viruses were only discovered this century,"
Well yeah, since they were discovered recently enough to be reported as news, it would be in this century. Oh they mean, "Giant viruses were only discovered this century...", and not these 16 in particular.
Now this is a summary that is basically a cut-n-paste of a summary from another site, but they couldn't bother to even read it first...
Phones are getting bigger - want was called phablet size is now phone size. Even cheap $200 phones have at least a 5.5" screen. The manufacturers say it is because that's what people want, but I think it's the converse - they want people to buy new phones so they mass produce big ones. Anyhow, maybe people are holding on to their old phones cos they can actually carry them around.
They should use the edge-to-edge screens to reduce the size of phones, say a 5" screen in what used to be a case for a 4.5" screen.
"... our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years,"
That's nice, but what they really did was what they do always. They asked themselves, what would Apple do? So they made something where it isn't clear what the timeline is, because posts are all over the page. Where you can't tel; what came when, because they did they same thing they do in GMail, which is something cute like "2 weeks ago", rather than the date itself. To Facebook's credit, they put everything on the page, you may have to look for a setting, but it's all there and it's usually obvious where to go for the commonly-used functions.
Everybody has privacy issues, but Google tells you what they think is important for you and takes away the rest. Then they muck is all up with a pretty-looking but half useful UI.
I'd love to see more 3D, porn or otherwise. I think the format got abandoned prematurely in favor of 4k. There's no reason for both (Full HD 3D and 4k) to co-exist. VR is something else. I suppose in some future, we're headed to 3D interactive VR.
Regular concrete for a lot of applications is way too strong (say non-load-bearing walls). So switch to aerated concrete, AAC for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I was using Google (or Android, or whatever it was called at the time) before Apple Pay was introduced. I been using it since through its various incarnations. It's always been easy - sure the underlying transaction mechanisms have changed - but it's been reasonably transparent to me.
Slashdot, the Verge, and other Apple-fan sites can only view everything through their Apple lens. It is tiresome... just report on the product (it is supposed to be "News for Nerds" after all), ad keep your pre-digested spin to yourself.
I've always wondered about that. Are hospitals (as in individual staff) competent and diligent in basic hygiene? I know they show all kinds of scrubbing in TV shows, but I see people in scrubs all the time on public transit and out and about. Are they all coming off shift?
It is startling how they have been plunging headfirst into electric. While they did cheat with diesel engines, they have huge expertise in that field, and the cheating was for cost and NIH reasons (they didn't want to use MB's SCR tech), not technical. I'd have thought they'd use mild or full hybridization, or even just more advanced actually clean diesels, at least as a transition.
It doesn't save history, etc. etc. but when you open an incognito window, it is in a striking black background with a highly contrasting icon and letters saying "YOU ARE IN INCOGNITO MODE". Hey world, see, this browser window is in INCOGNITO MODE!!! Did you miss that? Here, let me use high contrast theme to tell you that this BROWSER IS IN INCOGNITO MODE!!!
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I have no fondness for Tesla or the "electric car revolution", but car dealers should not be the ones deciding the future either. In fact, the dealership model (in the US) is to make money with volume - which mean cheap, under-optioned and option-packaged cars. This means that unless you are very very motivated, you can't buy a vehicle that is best for you. Dealers can move cheap cars the fastest - they source them with pre-packaged options (e.g. if you want active lane departure prevention, you have to get the top of line model with nappa leather, or go without), and attach the most attractive financing to them. This is why the European car market is so much more diverse, but also more expensive. With the volume of cars sold in the US, dealers can make money selling nicer cars with a la carte options too, but it is more work for them.
Look around you. Look at the sea of mediocrity on the American roads - SUVs barely different from each other except for their hood ornaments, differentiated basically by size from mere super-size to megaladon. Insipid inefficient power-trains. People buying expensive name brands with the barely more options than air-conditioning. The dealership model did this.
Don't buy mediocre junk. Spend a little more and don't settle, maybe it means you have to special order (or buy direct from manufacturer if possible). But you won't be looking again in a couple of years because you couldn't live with the compromises that you'd convinced yourself are worth making to drive with something off the dealership lot today.
The best? That's a high bar. TV stations broadcast Full HD over the air, and this is incapable of receiving them. Sure, the TV monitor you connect to may receive them, but then you're using its tuner and app to watch.
But it doesn't have to do it all by itself. The critical issue is cost. If it can add a kW at steady state to a battery pack, then it'd be a great addition to a mild hybrid vehicle, where all the loads that used to be belt-driven are now electric.
Yeah, more than consumers, manufacturers are even bigger sheeple. Look at every big and small company making bigger and bigger phones with more and more cameras. The only way they can do that at a lower price than Samsung is to make a lower quality product. If I'm looking for a smaller phone say 5" and light with a newer processor - nothing out there. Smaller manufacturers should be developing niche markets and growing them, not chasing lower and lower margins with commodity products.
Everyone's making the same phone - ever increasing screen size, gimmicks like fingerprint reader front or back or under screen, everyone's removing microSD slots, headphone jacks, using the same set of LCD/OLED panels and other components. If they don't want to make something that caters to smaller but real markets (outdoor activities, smaller phones, and in this case, gamers), then they're competing with bigger companies that can throw $$$ into buying customers. So I guess this is good for them... except they aren't ever going to make a phone that's as good as even a gaming laptop... so it is really just for mobile power gamers. I'd have gone for a bigger or multiple niches.
kWh rather.
The air up there is very cold. Air is bled off from the engine compressors to heat the cabin. How will an electric aircraft do this? Resistance heating from the batteries, I assume? How many more kW capacity will be need for that?
All smartphones have cameras, but not all have NFC chips, especially the cheaper ones. So QR code payments, used allover Asia, in a few chains in the US (including Walmart, Best Buy) would be more accessible. All that'd be needed is a bank account (Chase, Walmart, etc.).
Fromt he summary,
" finding 16 rare 'giant' viruses that are completely new to science...
These giant viruses were only discovered this century,"
Well yeah, since they were discovered recently enough to be reported as news, it would be in this century.
Oh they mean, "Giant viruses were only discovered this century...", and not these 16 in particular.
Now this is a summary that is basically a cut-n-paste of a summary from another site, but they couldn't bother to even read it first...
Not having had my coffee yet, I read "One day Amazon will be fair."
Phones are getting bigger - want was called phablet size is now phone size. Even cheap $200 phones have at least a 5.5" screen. The manufacturers say it is because that's what people want, but I think it's the converse - they want people to buy new phones so they mass produce big ones. Anyhow, maybe people are holding on to their old phones cos they can actually carry them around.
They should use the edge-to-edge screens to reduce the size of phones, say a 5" screen in what used to be a case for a 4.5" screen.
"... our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years,"
That's nice, but what they really did was what they do always. They asked themselves, what would Apple do? So they made something where it isn't clear what the timeline is, because posts are all over the page. Where you can't tel; what came when, because they did they same thing they do in GMail, which is something cute like "2 weeks ago", rather than the date itself. To Facebook's credit, they put everything on the page, you may have to look for a setting, but it's all there and it's usually obvious where to go for the commonly-used functions.
Everybody has privacy issues, but Google tells you what they think is important for you and takes away the rest. Then they muck is all up with a pretty-looking but half useful UI.
Five hundred parts per million. Hundred billionths. Ten parts per million.
In the following years, researchers would invent a clear and compact way of representing these numbers.
In the good old days, this would be an appropriate comments for Slashdot, News for Nerds. Now look at the pap in the rest of the comments.
I know any camera in a smartwatch isn't going to light it up on DxOMark, but it'd be something. Samsung used to have one in an earlier watch.
It seems like the strap is coming along for the ride, when it could be made to do something, maybe an e-ink screen, battery cells, or well, a camera.
What's happening is that Samsung won't do it because Apple doesn't. They want to be innovative, but not too much. Ah well, they won't miss my $349.
Rather than 4k, I'd love it if they released new and rescanned titled in 3D FullHD - whether originally shot in 3D or post-processed.
Exactly! A good test would be $100 or even 200, but no, they had to buy a $60 phone. There's no medium left these days. It's basically a joke test.
I'd love to see more 3D, porn or otherwise. I think the format got abandoned prematurely in favor of 4k. There's no reason for both (Full HD 3D and 4k) to co-exist. VR is something else. I suppose in some future, we're headed to 3D interactive VR.
Regular concrete for a lot of applications is way too strong (say non-load-bearing walls). So switch to aerated concrete, AAC for that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I was using Google (or Android, or whatever it was called at the time) before Apple Pay was introduced. I been using it since through its various incarnations. It's always been easy - sure the underlying transaction mechanisms have changed - but it's been reasonably transparent to me.
Slashdot, the Verge, and other Apple-fan sites can only view everything through their Apple lens. It is tiresome... just report on the product (it is supposed to be "News for Nerds" after all), ad keep your pre-digested spin to yourself.
I've always wondered about that. Are hospitals (as in individual staff) competent and diligent in basic hygiene? I know they show all kinds of scrubbing in TV shows, but I see people in scrubs all the time on public transit and out and about. Are they all coming off shift?
Or are those going away in the tax bill?
It is startling how they have been plunging headfirst into electric. While they did cheat with diesel engines, they have huge expertise in that field, and the cheating was for cost and NIH reasons (they didn't want to use MB's SCR tech), not technical. I'd have thought they'd use mild or full hybridization, or even just more advanced actually clean diesels, at least as a transition.
It doesn't save history, etc. etc. but when you open an incognito window, it is in a striking black background with a highly contrasting icon and letters saying "YOU ARE IN INCOGNITO MODE". Hey world, see, this browser window is in INCOGNITO MODE!!! Did you miss that? Here, let me use high contrast theme to tell you that this BROWSER IS IN INCOGNITO MODE!!!