"These systems are built quickly, poorly maintained and the engineers have little UI experience. Then they are sold at a huge premium in the higher trim options for the car. "
Automotive engineers seem to suck at electronics noticeably more than electronics engineers suck at automotive systems. Or, maybe they are hobbled by what the bean counters will let them implement.
"Cost of a piece of paper+toner or ink: Less than a nickel."
Cost of the ticket you will get at the accident scene when Officer Friendly sees you were squinting at your treasure map when you ran the light - in many jurisdictions, priceless.
That brings up the other big reason not to use in-car navigation. When you rent, navigation costs extra and it's something else you have to learn how to use. You're much better off using the phone you have with you anyway.
The fare for your terrestrial flying is proportional, roughly, to how much fuel it takes to get to your destination. For air travel this cost goes up linearly up to the range of your aircraft.
The costliest segment of a space flight per unit distance, on the other hand, is the ride to LEO, which can only be accomplished at multiples of G using large amounts of fuel. From there, the thrust requirements drop off substantially. That is why it will eventually cost a lot less to build large space structures orbiting 1000 km from Earth out of asteroidal metals, rather than those lifted from nearby Earth.
"It's interesting to me that you would see refusing vulnerable people fleeing conflict as a virtue. Lot of selfish pricks on this planet. Yeah, I get it, it's "fuck you, I got mine". Fucking charming."
This brings up another advantage the Swiss have over Europeans: they have guns, and have detailed public training in using them.
Like the US, Switzerland accepts sets of refugees from specified countries where there is reason to treat that cohort as having a common background that can be dealt with by the receiving society and who can assimilate into its culture. The Swiss have accepted selected groups of Tamil and Nepalese refugees under this criterion.
Switzerland does not define acceptable "refugees" as an unvetted flood of rapists and terrorists from every hellhole created by Wahhabism, that's all. Neither should the US.
That's where my wife is from. They are very strict about secure borders, control of the money supply, and having the government live within its means. Unlike European countries (Switzerland is totally autonomous and not part of the union) it is not importing refugees.
That's the Great Generation that rebuilt the world after WWII. Baby boomers came later with their loud music, pot smoking and premarital sex.
Music and sex doesn't have anything to do with generational success, and drugs did not destroy the lives of the majority of us. The big difference between the generations is that while Greatests, whatever their political affiliation, were can-do believers in human progress, we went out into an optimistic working world circa 1965 and then proceeded to ruin it with our anti-technology attitudes. Today the Xers and millennials are struggling to escape from the world we made.
For any venture of his type there is an early adopter market of people willing to pay a lot and take high degrees of risk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's pocket change to that company.... They won't change a thing.
This fine is pocket change to the federosaurus also. The FDA fined Google half a billion dollars for the crime of letting Canadian pharmacies use its advertising system to give Americans the idea that everybody else in the world pays a fraction of what we do to get their prescriptions filled.. Meanwhile Comcast gets to screw its customers blind for years and pay...$2.3 million?
That isn't even a slip on the wrist. It's massaging Comcast's wrists at a day spa.
I see this announcement more as being Obama's attempt to establish a position as 21st-century JFK in another ten or twenty years. Even if the first manned landing on Mars is by Chinese in partnership with Silicon Valley billlionaires, Obama will still hope to claim that the mission was in some way his idea. But while the early Sixties were one of the most optimistic periods in American history, with ebullient Roosevelt Democrats in charge coasting on the legacy of the New Deal and WW II, today's command generation is riddled with anti-scientific cultural bias.
A nation that can't build a telescope on one of its own mountaintops when other people are paying the entire cost has no business dreaming of Olympus Mons.
A fact you never hear news on is Mexico's concern with its northern border. Mexico may be happy to export its poor across it, but it is deeply concerned that in return it's importing American guns.
But when you reach Mars, there is soil available to pile up around your habitat. To minimize the amount of digging required, early explorers will make use of these: https://www.google.com/search?...
After those medium-term isotopes have popped off, the main problem with dumping waste is that you would be throwing away the unburned 95% of the fissionable elements in the original fuel. This is why we need to open Yucca Mountain as a safe place to dry-store this stuff until we build reactors that can burn up that remaining usable fuel. Yucca already almost finished, and the $5 billion has already been spent on it. Trump or Johnson just needs to open it and start receiving spent fuel.
"Voting for Stein won't get you any power. Her numbers are too small. If she gets 4% (which would be amazing) it won't influence anyone or get reported."
And if you manage to elect Stein you won't get any power either, because she will take it all away. You will have to hook your computer to a stationary bicycle and communicate with the other people who are doing the same.
And besides, neither Johnson nor Weld is a Randian wackjob. All they want to do is incrementally increase the amount of freedom available to Americans and see how far this can be taken in practice. They alone promise to do rational things like end the abomination (Johnson's term) of civil forfeiture and introduce the concept of competition into healthcare.
Republicans and Democrats see positions like these as a threat, and this is exactly why the Johnson ticket deserves our support.
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"These systems are built quickly, poorly maintained and the engineers have little UI experience. Then they are sold at a huge premium in the higher trim options for the car. "
Automotive engineers seem to suck at electronics noticeably more than electronics engineers suck at automotive systems. Or, maybe they are hobbled by what the bean counters will let them implement.
And furthermore, many of us are Space Nutters too.
"Cost of a piece of paper+toner or ink: Less than a nickel."
Cost of the ticket you will get at the accident scene when Officer Friendly sees you were squinting at your treasure map when you ran the light - in many jurisdictions, priceless.
That brings up the other big reason not to use in-car navigation. When you rent, navigation costs extra and it's something else you have to learn how to use. You're much better off using the phone you have with you anyway.
"...they can free your phone up for other tasks."
When you're driving, it's illegal to use the phone for other tasks.
"Plus the real issue is that a car's metal frame acts as a Faraday cage, blocking the signal."
Ive never had a problem navigating with my iPhone, and we're in a rural area.
The fare for your terrestrial flying is proportional, roughly, to how much fuel it takes to get to your destination. For air travel this cost goes up linearly up to the range of your aircraft.
The costliest segment of a space flight per unit distance, on the other hand, is the ride to LEO, which can only be accomplished at multiples of G using large amounts of fuel. From there, the thrust requirements drop off substantially. That is why it will eventually cost a lot less to build large space structures orbiting 1000 km from Earth out of asteroidal metals, rather than those lifted from nearby Earth.
"It's interesting to me that you would see refusing vulnerable people fleeing conflict as a virtue. Lot of selfish pricks on this planet. Yeah, I get it, it's "fuck you, I got mine". Fucking charming."
This brings up another advantage the Swiss have over Europeans: they have guns, and have detailed public training in using them.
Like the US, Switzerland accepts sets of refugees from specified countries where there is reason to treat that cohort as having a common background that can be dealt with by the receiving society and who can assimilate into its culture. The Swiss have accepted selected groups of Tamil and Nepalese refugees under this criterion.
Switzerland does not define acceptable "refugees" as an unvetted flood of rapists and terrorists from every hellhole created by Wahhabism, that's all. Neither should the US.
That's where my wife is from. They are very strict about secure borders, control of the money supply, and having the government live within its means. Unlike European countries (Switzerland is totally autonomous and not part of the union) it is not importing refugees.
That's the Great Generation that rebuilt the world after WWII. Baby boomers came later with their loud music, pot smoking and premarital sex.
Music and sex doesn't have anything to do with generational success, and drugs did not destroy the lives of the majority of us. The big difference between the generations is that while Greatests, whatever their political affiliation, were can-do believers in human progress, we went out into an optimistic working world circa 1965 and then proceeded to ruin it with our anti-technology attitudes. Today the Xers and millennials are struggling to escape from the world we made.
For any venture of his type there is an early adopter market of people willing to pay a lot and take high degrees of risk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The ultimate getaway? The ISS is closer to you than most destinations on this planet!"
Not in terms of energy expenditure to reach places, which is the measure that really counts.
That's pocket change to that company.... They won't change a thing.
This fine is pocket change to the federosaurus also. The FDA fined Google half a billion dollars for the crime of letting Canadian pharmacies use its advertising system to give Americans the idea that everybody else in the world pays a fraction of what we do to get their prescriptions filled.. Meanwhile Comcast gets to screw its customers blind for years and pay...$2.3 million?
That isn't even a slip on the wrist. It's massaging Comcast's wrists at a day spa.
Land.
Which Mars has more of than the Earth.
I see this announcement more as being Obama's attempt to establish a position as 21st-century JFK in another ten or twenty years. Even if the first manned landing on Mars is by Chinese in partnership with Silicon Valley billlionaires, Obama will still hope to claim that the mission was in some way his idea. But while the early Sixties were one of the most optimistic periods in American history, with ebullient Roosevelt Democrats in charge coasting on the legacy of the New Deal and WW II, today's command generation is riddled with anti-scientific cultural bias.
A nation that can't build a telescope on one of its own mountaintops when other people are paying the entire cost has no business dreaming of Olympus Mons.
"I've yet to find a chatbot able to correctly answer "What did I say three sentences ago?"."
Siri can store assertions, allowing you say "Mary Smith is Home" so you can use the term later to make calls or navigate.
A fact you never hear news on is Mexico's concern with its northern border. Mexico may be happy to export its poor across it, but it is deeply concerned that in return it's importing American guns.
But when you reach Mars, there is soil available to pile up around your habitat. To minimize the amount of digging required, early explorers will make use of these:
https://www.google.com/search?...
After those medium-term isotopes have popped off, the main problem with dumping waste is that you would be throwing away the unburned 95% of the fissionable elements in the original fuel. This is why we need to open Yucca Mountain as a safe place to dry-store this stuff until we build reactors that can burn up that remaining usable fuel. Yucca already almost finished, and the $5 billion has already been spent on it. Trump or Johnson just needs to open it and start receiving spent fuel.
"Voting for Stein won't get you any power. Her numbers are too small. If she gets 4% (which would be amazing) it won't influence anyone or get reported."
And if you manage to elect Stein you won't get any power either, because she will take it all away. You will have to hook your computer to a stationary bicycle and communicate with the other people who are doing the same.
Besides, if you're going to mock Johnson's knowledge of hellpit geography, it would really help is you spelled Aleppo right.
And besides, neither Johnson nor Weld is a Randian wackjob. All they want to do is incrementally increase the amount of freedom available to Americans and see how far this can be taken in practice. They alone promise to do rational things like end the abomination (Johnson's term) of civil forfeiture and introduce the concept of competition into healthcare.
Republicans and Democrats see positions like these as a threat, and this is exactly why the Johnson ticket deserves our support.
By now maybe Adams should outsource his political analysis to Elbonia.
"... except for hydro and geothermal."
Now try to build a hydro or a geothermal plant in any area infested with Greens.