Well no, it opens people up to buying a portable* laptop without having to compromise (as much) on 3d capabilities, while not having to buy a separate computer.
(Or in my case, i have a gaming computer in my living room. Which is great for games that are played with a controller, but for mouse/keyboard titles it's cumbersome at best.. I also have a laptop, and a spare video card. This situation cannot be all that rare, can it?)
But really, that line of thinking is silly; throwing in a TB3 port on a ultra-portable cannot possibly cost *that* much more to manufacture, but would add some flexibility.. and who knows, maybe the eGPU thing would be more popular if there were more options to utilize it.
*intentional.. gaming laptops are not usually very portable.. heavy, overpriced behemoths.
Call me when these come with a fucking thunderbolt 3 port. The ability to have an extremely thin and light laptop/tablet when mobile, but connect to an eGPU for gaming (or any other graphically intensive task) would be fantastic.
side note, why has Intel gone out of their way to gimp eGPU adoption? =/
The problem with that analysis is that you're not taking into account the massive capital investment needed to produce cars with any real output. Sure the existing manufacturers are behind the curve on electrical storage/generation. Tesla however, is even farther behind on manufacturing.
A Ford/GM/Kia plant could outpace Tesla's entire production with a single lane at any of their manufacturing plants. Even if the industry winds up paying a royalty fee and piggybacking off of Tesla's infrastructure, they'll be just fine selling the cars that use it. And if gas stays relatively cheap, they'll be just fine making petrol powered cars too (You don't critique them for not owning the gasoline distribution network, why would it be any different for electric cars?).
As far as autonomous cars go; which would you rather be -- a company that can develop the software, but has trifling production capacity; or a company like F/GM which might be a few years behind the curve on the software side (which isn't necessarily bad, since the bugs and overall approach can be someone else's beta test); but once developed is able to pump out literally millions of cars per year. (Software, you develop it once, and it's infinitely re-usable; not so with figuring out production capacity.)
could we add special lanes for soccer moms driving minivans (or outrageously large SUV's) to keep them out of the left lane?
I feel that i'd be justified in getting a rocket launcher to 'nudge' these people out of the way, but i fear there might be some complicated legal entanglements to contend with.
There is no emotional equal to the contempt one feels at seeing a soccer mom merge onto the freeway, immediately hop into the left lane, and set their cruise control for 60 and just diddle themselves while being COMPLETELY oblivious to the conga line of angry motorists behind them.
It could be worse, some MBA type could be running the company and decide that quarterly profits would be improved greatly if they sold off all their real-estate, production equipment, and instead focused on licensing their patents.
This particular guy didn't do anything particular onerous though. He didn't (as far as we know) sell or use the data. Not to mention, he wasn't the first person to lift the DB.
But really, in this legal climate going to the site in question is almost a sure way to get sued. At least with the journalistic route, the company can be notified of the breach, while the 'hacker' has at least some hope of not being fucked over by the legal system.
Because here in the US, and most common among right leaning folks, we have a very unique mental... 'condition' about the government doing anything other than shows of military force.
These rubes are told: "government is interfering with business", and the knee-jerk reaction is "regulation bad, free enterprise good". And that's how republican voters are conned into voting/supporting things that are absolutely counter their interests.
Basically, you have the FCC/government interfering with free enterprise, which goes against our notion of rustic self reliance. Notice, this only gets trotted out when the government is trying to regulate business, especially if it's in the public interest. Handouts are of course distinct, and definitely a different beast!
Well, if you wound up losing your job (or you know; entire industries shutting down in the rust belt) your standard of living has probably gone down in a meaningful way.
To be perfectly clear though; it's a trade-off. Having clean air and water is a great thing. But if regulations are too onerous -- the cost to manufacture goods increases to a point that companies move production elsewhere, and you're left with modern day Detroit. (which was once the richest city in the United States mind you.)
Again, to reiterate. It's a trade-off. Some pollution is warranted if it helps maintain a middle class (Yes, conflating manufacturing jobs with a middle class is entirely intentional)
The thing w/ environmental regulation is that it almost universally requires a decrease in productivity/standard of living (across just about any metric, pick one). Which is politically, and realistically a non-starter. At least for those who are directly effected by loss of income or a decrease in living standards.
If the air gets marginally cleaner at the cost of X number of jobs, was it worth it? At what value of 'X' does the break-even point occur?
And what do you mean by 'influenced to catch up'? Because cutesy freshman-level idealism aside, how do you propose doing that exactly?
For example, do you think the guy hacking away at the amazon to make grazing land for cattle so he can feed his family cares about deforestation? At least in relation to his livelihood and the well being of his children? Sure we're all worse off as a result of his actions, but how do you tell him his kids are going to starve?
This reminds me of the of the plot from the movie "Outbreak'.
Sure, that chick from Grey's Anatomy started the outbreak by stealing the monkey, but why the fuck was the US gov't weaponizing horrific viruses in the first god damn place?
wishful fucking thinking. Also willing to wager that among people outside of the hipster crowd, those who fetishize technology, or people unfortunate to live in traffic infested ratholes like the bay area they'll have to pry steering wheels out of cold, dead hands.
This meme needs to stop, they've made pretty fucking good cars for at least the past 10+ years. All of the major brands (domestic, Asian -- even Korean) have pretty much reached parity in quality.
i really hope they get the physics right, in their previous iteration of balmer kong, the aero chairs had the exact same trajectory once airborne as a standard lawn chair, totally ruined the immersion.
really what i'd like from MS is an easy way to permanently disable bullshit like skydrive and cortana. I get they want to push these things on users and it's a quaint notion... But FFS, i shouldn't have to manually edit the registry to permanently, completely, utterly remove them.
I will never want to use cortana, and I sure as shit do not ever want to use skydrive.
Just like I shouldn't have to resort to trickery to disable the automatic reboot that some updates foist on me. I don't give a fuck what you think my working hours are -- i'll reboot my machine when *I* choose to.
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Well no, it opens people up to buying a portable* laptop without having to compromise (as much) on 3d capabilities, while not having to buy a separate computer.
(Or in my case, i have a gaming computer in my living room. Which is great for games that are played with a controller, but for mouse/keyboard titles it's cumbersome at best.. I also have a laptop, and a spare video card. This situation cannot be all that rare, can it?)
But really, that line of thinking is silly; throwing in a TB3 port on a ultra-portable cannot possibly cost *that* much more to manufacture, but would add some flexibility.. and who knows, maybe the eGPU thing would be more popular if there were more options to utilize it.
*intentional.. gaming laptops are not usually very portable.. heavy, overpriced behemoths.
Call me when these come with a fucking thunderbolt 3 port. The ability to have an extremely thin and light laptop/tablet when mobile, but connect to an eGPU for gaming (or any other graphically intensive task) would be fantastic.
side note, why has Intel gone out of their way to gimp eGPU adoption? =/
retroviral indeed.
The problem with that analysis is that you're not taking into account the massive capital investment needed to produce cars with any real output. Sure the existing manufacturers are behind the curve on electrical storage/generation. Tesla however, is even farther behind on manufacturing.
A Ford/GM/Kia plant could outpace Tesla's entire production with a single lane at any of their manufacturing plants. Even if the industry winds up paying a royalty fee and piggybacking off of Tesla's infrastructure, they'll be just fine selling the cars that use it. And if gas stays relatively cheap, they'll be just fine making petrol powered cars too (You don't critique them for not owning the gasoline distribution network, why would it be any different for electric cars?).
As far as autonomous cars go; which would you rather be -- a company that can develop the software, but has trifling production capacity; or a company like F/GM which might be a few years behind the curve on the software side (which isn't necessarily bad, since the bugs and overall approach can be someone else's beta test); but once developed is able to pump out literally millions of cars per year. (Software, you develop it once, and it's infinitely re-usable; not so with figuring out production capacity.)
Yes and Mulally worked at Boeing and did a fantastic job at running Ford.
could we add special lanes for soccer moms driving minivans (or outrageously large SUV's) to keep them out of the left lane?
I feel that i'd be justified in getting a rocket launcher to 'nudge' these people out of the way, but i fear there might be some complicated legal entanglements to contend with.
There is no emotional equal to the contempt one feels at seeing a soccer mom merge onto the freeway, immediately hop into the left lane, and set their cruise control for 60 and just diddle themselves while being COMPLETELY oblivious to the conga line of angry motorists behind them.
It's a utensil lacking in privilege. You're probably CIS white male, aren't you?
i wouldn't say he's an 'issue'.
It could be worse, some MBA type could be running the company and decide that quarterly profits would be improved greatly if they sold off all their real-estate, production equipment, and instead focused on licensing their patents.
This particular guy didn't do anything particular onerous though. He didn't (as far as we know) sell or use the data. Not to mention, he wasn't the first person to lift the DB.
But really, in this legal climate going to the site in question is almost a sure way to get sued. At least with the journalistic route, the company can be notified of the breach, while the 'hacker' has at least some hope of not being fucked over by the legal system.
So it's a win-win for everyone involved.
that is such an underrated comment.
Woweee! That totally puts my existing 1920x1080 Kindle Fire 7 inch tablet to shame!
Because here in the US, and most common among right leaning folks, we have a very unique mental ... 'condition' about the government doing anything other than shows of military force.
These rubes are told: "government is interfering with business", and the knee-jerk reaction is "regulation bad, free enterprise good". And that's how republican voters are conned into voting/supporting things that are absolutely counter their interests.
Basically, you have the FCC/government interfering with free enterprise, which goes against our notion of rustic self reliance. Notice, this only gets trotted out when the government is trying to regulate business, especially if it's in the public interest. Handouts are of course distinct, and definitely a different beast!
Well, if you wound up losing your job (or you know; entire industries shutting down in the rust belt) your standard of living has probably gone down in a meaningful way.
To be perfectly clear though; it's a trade-off. Having clean air and water is a great thing. But if regulations are too onerous -- the cost to manufacture goods increases to a point that companies move production elsewhere, and you're left with modern day Detroit. (which was once the richest city in the United States mind you.)
Again, to reiterate. It's a trade-off. Some pollution is warranted if it helps maintain a middle class (Yes, conflating manufacturing jobs with a middle class is entirely intentional)
The thing w/ environmental regulation is that it almost universally requires a decrease in productivity/standard of living (across just about any metric, pick one). Which is politically, and realistically a non-starter. At least for those who are directly effected by loss of income or a decrease in living standards.
If the air gets marginally cleaner at the cost of X number of jobs, was it worth it? At what value of 'X' does the break-even point occur?
And what do you mean by 'influenced to catch up'? Because cutesy freshman-level idealism aside, how do you propose doing that exactly?
For example, do you think the guy hacking away at the amazon to make grazing land for cattle so he can feed his family cares about deforestation? At least in relation to his livelihood and the well being of his children? Sure we're all worse off as a result of his actions, but how do you tell him his kids are going to starve?
Is your viewpoint more valid than his?
This reminds me of the of the plot from the movie "Outbreak'.
Sure, that chick from Grey's Anatomy started the outbreak by stealing the monkey, but why the fuck was the US gov't weaponizing horrific viruses in the first god damn place?
wishful fucking thinking.
Also willing to wager that among people outside of the hipster crowd, those who fetishize technology, or people unfortunate to live in traffic infested ratholes like the bay area they'll have to pry steering wheels out of cold, dead hands.
This meme needs to stop, they've made pretty fucking good cars for at least the past 10+ years. All of the major brands (domestic, Asian -- even Korean) have pretty much reached parity in quality.
the one that comes to mind is craigslist.org. (using the US VPN)
i really hope they get the physics right, in their previous iteration of balmer kong, the aero chairs had the exact same trajectory once airborne as a standard lawn chair, totally ruined the immersion.
the downside to the built in VPN is that many sites outright block it; so while it would be 'nice' -- it's usefulness is somewhat diminished.
for all you know his mom has cancer and he's staying home to help with her medical care, you insensitive clod!
windows 10 home has removed the ability to prevent the automatic reboots. (work machine, for whatever inexplicable reason it's running 10 home.)
careful with that, it could be construed as inciting violence. (which they richly deserve.)
really what i'd like from MS is an easy way to permanently disable bullshit like skydrive and cortana. I get they want to push these things on users and it's a quaint notion... But FFS, i shouldn't have to manually edit the registry to permanently, completely, utterly remove them.
I will never want to use cortana, and I sure as shit do not ever want to use skydrive.
Just like I shouldn't have to resort to trickery to disable the automatic reboot that some updates foist on me. I don't give a fuck what you think my working hours are -- i'll reboot my machine when *I* choose to.
there's also something like sftp net drive, that lets you mount drives via ssh