Well, to be fair he did say he didn't feel right having consumer pay for his streamed music. The radio is free, and FM radio was considered high quality in its day.
But I agree his music overcomes the medium, so he might be one of the least to need to worry about it.
Compression used for streaming certainly affects quality. There is no debate. I can easily tell the difference between low bitrate and high bitrate MP3. It not even close. So you need to be more specific.
320Kbps MP3 can sound great, but often has clipping due to improper gain setting. So as a medium it has its problems.
I oppose it and have no direct financial stake. I do however not want food prices to include the cost of dealing with all the BS bickering and never ending stream of folks that claim certain products are or are not properly labelled. I agree that individual state rules that differ cause labeling problems, and can impact distribution since certain labels would not be allowed in certain states, so you can't just re-direct a shipment.
And, since there is no evidence that GMO foods in general have negative health effects, and since there is a lot of uninformed consumers that hear GMO FUD, I think mandatory labeling makes no sense. If there is a market for foods marked GMO free, then those products will be available. Plenty of foods are already available. Nobody will force you to buy stuff if you don't like the label.
So... would installing a wireless, GMS or even just bluetooth interface on all cars have cost more or less than recalling over 600k vehicles?
Not enough information, and it depends on what particular problem you are trying to solve. A bluetooth interface really saves little time over a hard connector interface. Any system that is fully connected comes with added security overhead. Selective use of separate/independent embedded systems can make sense where safety is involved.
There may be reasons why a major firmware update OTA is not desirable. Maybe some safety checks are in order before turning the vehicle back in to use.
I agree, and think you articulated it well. There is too much abuse of data, often but not always unintentional. Better education in how to work with data should be a good thing. Even in base curricula, not just science.
Well, to be fair, there are not many new large scale cities anywhere, and where they are is not necessarily sparked by railway systems.
Sprawl is not necessarily a bad thing, it has its pluses and minuses, as does highly dense urban areas. I hope I never live in a densely populated city. I don't see addition of new big cities as a sign of progress in a country that really doesn't need any more of them.
Public transpiration systems also reach their limit, and costs to expand them are ever rising. I've been on the trains in Paris and some are so overcrowded it is simply unsafe, a miserable experience that some people face every day. The system cannot handle more trains, and there is little room to add new tracks. At least with roads you can often widen them.
With modern information systems, there are more opportunities to work from home. Making suburban life even more compelling for those that have the opportunity to do so.
This seems to be a uniquely American problem. Why do homeless people ride buses all day,
Because being homeless in the US is better than being homeless anywhere else. And because our buses have air conditioning, something that seems to be missing or at least very undersized in a lot of European public transportation.
You are quite ill informed to think that fuel availability would be an issue. 10 more units is only a small increase in existing production, which is operating below capacity.
They could pocket 100 billion for an accident, which is highly unlikely to happen, and still come out way ahead.
Waste storage costs are already covered per fees on generation, and since facilities will already be required, adding more waste fuel is only a very small cost increase, and a very small risk increase as well.
Is the free transportation locally available? Does it get me where I want to go in a comparable amount of time? Will it be clean? Crowded? Run on time? Available if I need to change my departure time?.....
Had the EU built 10 new nuclear plants instead of plowing hundreds of billions of Euros into solar and wind, they would have just as much clean air energy as they do now, fully paid for, a few hundred billion euro to give to Greece, and pocket money ta boot.
I just have a problem with generalizing what is good or bad behavior. If it is the right things, I'd be more willing to agree. I think the factors that really make the biggest difference may not be accurate across the board.
Many people who speed regularly are not less safe, if that speed is kept in check with road conditions. Meanwhile, people who don't properly use the left hand passing lane on a highway may drive the speed limit but are causing unsafe traffic situations. If the data shows who is really interrupting the flow of traffic then I'm more inclined to accept it. Does the data show how aware a person is of who is behind them? Does the data in any way show secondary effects of driver behavior?
Can they distinguish a panic stop from a controlled rapid stop that was not performed under panic? If they are going to be penalized for stopping quickly, will some idiot hesitate to do so when they might otherwise 'just to be safe'?
When it comes to insurance, I believe the data will almost certainly be used to justify as rate hikes for as many people as possible.
Safe drivers are one's that don't get into accidents, nor cause accidents, and understand how their behavior effects those around them. If the data reflects that accurately, then count me in.
Rear seats do protect better in crashes, but this alternating seat plan is an emergency de-planing nightmare. You basically have to climb over the seats to get to the aisle. What it doesn't show is the exit rows. Adjusting for those may give up some of the extra seat gains claimed.
You clearly said that we should deflect focus from what this kid did and his punishment (which is the story), and by doing so we inevitably avoid the discussion of this kid's particularly offenses and punishment. To me, that reads like an accountability diversion. If you meant that we should ALSO focus on the swat teams IN ADDITION to this kids offenses, then you could have stated it that way.
Correct, but the militarization of SWAT and police in general SHOULD be the focus of the story. These little assholes wouldn't be swatting if it didn't evoke such a massive response from police.
Did you read the list of offenses this kid did? If you think he did all than just because SWAT teams react, and he is not the one that is primarily accountable.,.,.well, I'll just have to assume you are the kid's mother.
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Well, to be fair he did say he didn't feel right having consumer pay for his streamed music. The radio is free, and FM radio was considered high quality in its day.
But I agree his music overcomes the medium, so he might be one of the least to need to worry about it.
Yeah, but his songwriting is elite. Few can overcome rough vocals with their words and music like Young. Dylan did it.
The wire/coat hanger point is irrelevant.
Compression used for streaming certainly affects quality. There is no debate. I can easily tell the difference between low bitrate and high bitrate MP3. It not even close. So you need to be more specific.
320Kbps MP3 can sound great, but often has clipping due to improper gain setting. So as a medium it has its problems.
Or water... that stuff can kill you.
I oppose it and have no direct financial stake. I do however not want food prices to include the cost of dealing with all the BS bickering and never ending stream of folks that claim certain products are or are not properly labelled. I agree that individual state rules that differ cause labeling problems, and can impact distribution since certain labels would not be allowed in certain states, so you can't just re-direct a shipment.
And, since there is no evidence that GMO foods in general have negative health effects, and since there is a lot of uninformed consumers that hear GMO FUD, I think mandatory labeling makes no sense. If there is a market for foods marked GMO free, then those products will be available. Plenty of foods are already available. Nobody will force you to buy stuff if you don't like the label.
So... would installing a wireless, GMS or even just bluetooth interface on all cars have cost more or less than recalling over 600k vehicles?
Not enough information, and it depends on what particular problem you are trying to solve. A bluetooth interface really saves little time over a hard connector interface. Any system that is fully connected comes with added security overhead. Selective use of separate/independent embedded systems can make sense where safety is involved.
There may be reasons why a major firmware update OTA is not desirable. Maybe some safety checks are in order before turning the vehicle back in to use.
I agree, and think you articulated it well. There is too much abuse of data, often but not always unintentional. Better education in how to work with data should be a good thing. Even in base curricula, not just science.
I'd call it a scientific instrument. Like a microscope. Scientists learn how to use it, engineers design and build it.
Why would we place settlements on Mars far apart?
Front pocket = shirt pocket... no?
The belt clip keeps it closer to my genitalia. So I think that is the conservative testing location.
Please, present which facts are distorted.
Well, to be fair, there are not many new large scale cities anywhere, and where they are is not necessarily sparked by railway systems.
Sprawl is not necessarily a bad thing, it has its pluses and minuses, as does highly dense urban areas. I hope I never live in a densely populated city. I don't see addition of new big cities as a sign of progress in a country that really doesn't need any more of them.
Public transpiration systems also reach their limit, and costs to expand them are ever rising. I've been on the trains in Paris and some are so overcrowded it is simply unsafe, a miserable experience that some people face every day. The system cannot handle more trains, and there is little room to add new tracks. At least with roads you can often widen them.
With modern information systems, there are more opportunities to work from home. Making suburban life even more compelling for those that have the opportunity to do so.
Please describe these experiences and their differences.
This seems to be a uniquely American problem. Why do homeless people ride buses all day,
Because being homeless in the US is better than being homeless anywhere else. And because our buses have air conditioning, something that seems to be missing or at least very undersized in a lot of European public transportation.
You are quite ill informed to think that fuel availability would be an issue. 10 more units is only a small increase in existing production, which is operating below capacity.
They could pocket 100 billion for an accident, which is highly unlikely to happen, and still come out way ahead.
Waste storage costs are already covered per fees on generation, and since facilities will already be required, adding more waste fuel is only a very small cost increase, and a very small risk increase as well.
Is the free transportation locally available? Does it get me where I want to go in a comparable amount of time? Will it be clean? Crowded? Run on time? Available if I need to change my departure time? .....
Answer=maybe some
Or, Prince style: The dwarf planet formerly known as the ninth planet from the Sun.
If there are dwarves on that planet, it makes sense that they'd have a prince.
Had the EU built 10 new nuclear plants instead of plowing hundreds of billions of Euros into solar and wind, they would have just as much clean air energy as they do now, fully paid for, a few hundred billion euro to give to Greece, and pocket money ta boot.
So much for being 'in touch'.
Left turn = three right turns. Three times safer, right?
Even safer (or at least sometimes quicker).......one right turn and one U-Turn. I use that one on occasion.
I just have a problem with generalizing what is good or bad behavior. If it is the right things, I'd be more willing to agree. I think the factors that really make the biggest difference may not be accurate across the board.
Many people who speed regularly are not less safe, if that speed is kept in check with road conditions. Meanwhile, people who don't properly use the left hand passing lane on a highway may drive the speed limit but are causing unsafe traffic situations. If the data shows who is really interrupting the flow of traffic then I'm more inclined to accept it. Does the data show how aware a person is of who is behind them? Does the data in any way show secondary effects of driver behavior?
Can they distinguish a panic stop from a controlled rapid stop that was not performed under panic? If they are going to be penalized for stopping quickly, will some idiot hesitate to do so when they might otherwise 'just to be safe'?
When it comes to insurance, I believe the data will almost certainly be used to justify as rate hikes for as many people as possible.
Safe drivers are one's that don't get into accidents, nor cause accidents, and understand how their behavior effects those around them. If the data reflects that accurately, then count me in.
Rear seats do protect better in crashes, but this alternating seat plan is an emergency de-planing nightmare. You basically have to climb over the seats to get to the aisle. What it doesn't show is the exit rows. Adjusting for those may give up some of the extra seat gains claimed.
You clearly said that we should deflect focus from what this kid did and his punishment (which is the story), and by doing so we inevitably avoid the discussion of this kid's particularly offenses and punishment. To me, that reads like an accountability diversion. If you meant that we should ALSO focus on the swat teams IN ADDITION to this kids offenses, then you could have stated it that way.
Correct, but the militarization of SWAT and police in general SHOULD be the focus of the story. These little assholes wouldn't be swatting if it didn't evoke such a massive response from police.
Did you read the list of offenses this kid did? If you think he did all than just because SWAT teams react, and he is not the one that is primarily accountable.,., .well, I'll just have to assume you are the kid's mother.
There already is a category. They call em scabs.