Desktops have a long lifecycle, they are not replaced as quickly as either laptops or tablets, so comparisons on market demand should take that into account. Even a 10 year old PC can handle a large majority of today's productivity tasks and even a larger majority of an average person's use tasks. Just adding RAM is often all that is needed to keep it going a few more years. The only thing pushing the spec envelope is >1080p video processing, which can be handled to some extent with a video card upgrade.
"Dear President Obama, We are hereby delivering signatures from 1,101,252 people across the world who ask that you use your presidential authority to pardon Edward Snowden.
How many were Russian signatures? They might want to send him back to do more work.
Your post may make sense, I don't follow the space program(s) close enough to know. I got chuckle from this though:
> They could be more competitive on price, if they were given the money
I suppose if taxpayers gave them a trillion dollars, they could charge customers $100. That doesn't make them cheaper - that just changes who is paying the bill.
I think you missed his point, which was that NASA was not given the money to pursue low cost but less reliable launch programs. They have to use appropriations for defined programs, their discretionary spending is quite small.
The whole thing is a publicity stunt. These cheap china made laptop don't worth any where near $25k. But free press coverage they had in the past few day is priceless. Fake news all the way down.
The source article says right up front "*This is currently being debunked. Possible PR stunt.". That somehow got overlooked when posted here.
Sure does. Buy your own product for power and claim it as a capital expense, and get US taxpayers to help with a big tax credit. You get all that plus get to say Solar City sales are increasing. Smart move by Musk.
No doubt. They should go ahead and fine just about every retailer. This is something that consumers figured out a long time ago, Canada is just a little late.
Actally it is sound logic, you may just not follow. If you charge at night, you are not using any solar, so that leaves wind and other conventional sources. Wind output will be whatever it is, demand variances are the supplied by other sources.. If you charge during day peaks, solar output is not going to change, so the increase must be made from other sources. If we are not dispatching wind, then the increase isn't coming from wind either.
Some can come from Hydro, which is dispatched
Until we start dispatching wind or solar, any added load comes at the expense of increasing conventional output.
I'm not claiming I will get a curved TV, nor do I deny that it's _largely_ a gimmick.
However, don't you agree that, in theory, if you were in the center, a spherical screen around you would be the best experience?
I think that the curved TV gimmick was _attempting_ to go slightly towards that, for the one person in the best viewing spot.
That's the thing, there is only 1 place, and at a specific distance, where the perspective could see some improvement, but move off to a side and there are amplified perspective skews on that side of the screen. It makes no sense as a TV. It might make sense as a computer monitor.
With the threshold being dropped from 500GB to 200GB, the latest move will affect customers who weren't using enough data to be caught up in the last round.
Funny way to say more customers will be affected by lowering the threshold.
It'll be the latest thing consumers shrug at, like 3D or the curved screens. Nobody is going to rush out and buy it except for the gotta-have-it set.
Curved screens have to be the most ridiculous TV gimmick I've seen. I get 3D, I even use it on occasion. Besides the occasional movie, I sometimes play around with stereoscopic photography and like to view pics on the big screen. Its fun in a hobby sort of way, but I don't take it seriously.
I occasionally enjoy some animated movies in 3D on my TV. Not sure if I would say they are 'enhanced', but I enjoy it. Lots of 3D movies still being made so there is certainly a market for them.
Content partially, glasses partially, but also home screen size. Stereoscopic needs to be on a huge screen. It works better in the theaters vs the 60 in or smaller home screens. With a big screen you feel a bit more 'in' the scene rather than looking at a tiny model world.
No, I said it was less expensive to upgrade an existing facility, and the reason they may have wanted to spend more on a new one is the lower labor rates in Mexico long term. Maybe you mis-read something.
They usually get their projections from the company, and don't make up their own. Either way, I was just trying to get a little historical perspective on how their projections evolve. They've gotten better as one would expect and were pretty accurate at the start of the year.
Try reading the words "existing facility". Did you consider that maybe it cost less to ramp up at an existing facility and add to existing employees than to start from scratch and train an entire new set of employees? Also, the Mexico sum was apparently intended to be spent over a longer time frame.
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Fewer people have the opportunity to write code and share it.
I can't think of person who has lost the ability to 'write code and share it' except those that have died.
Desktops have a long lifecycle, they are not replaced as quickly as either laptops or tablets, so comparisons on market demand should take that into account. Even a 10 year old PC can handle a large majority of today's productivity tasks and even a larger majority of an average person's use tasks. Just adding RAM is often all that is needed to keep it going a few more years. The only thing pushing the spec envelope is >1080p video processing, which can be handled to some extent with a video card upgrade.
Who wants to risk 10 years in prison?
Evidently this kid did.
"Dear President Obama, We are hereby delivering signatures from 1,101,252 people across the world who ask that you use your presidential authority to pardon Edward Snowden.
How many were Russian signatures? They might want to send him back to do more work.
Since he has not been found guilty of any crime and has not been sentenced to any crime he can't be pardoned.
Why is this so hard for the 1 million petitioners to understand? I consider it a list of idiots who don't understand simple process.
Your post may make sense, I don't follow the space program(s) close enough to know. I got chuckle from this though:
> They could be more competitive on price, if they were given the money
I suppose if taxpayers gave them a trillion dollars, they could charge customers $100. That doesn't make them cheaper - that just changes who is paying the bill.
I think you missed his point, which was that NASA was not given the money to pursue low cost but less reliable launch programs. They have to use appropriations for defined programs, their discretionary spending is quite small.
The whole thing is a publicity stunt. These cheap china made laptop don't worth any where near $25k. But free press coverage they had in the past few day is priceless. Fake news all the way down.
The source article says right up front "*This is currently being debunked. Possible PR stunt.". That somehow got overlooked when posted here.
Totally makes sense.
Sure does. Buy your own product for power and claim it as a capital expense, and get US taxpayers to help with a big tax credit. You get all that plus get to say Solar City sales are increasing. Smart move by Musk.
No doubt. They should go ahead and fine just about every retailer. This is something that consumers figured out a long time ago, Canada is just a little late.
Actally it is sound logic, you may just not follow. If you charge at night, you are not using any solar, so that leaves wind and other conventional sources. Wind output will be whatever it is, demand variances are the supplied by other sources.. If you charge during day peaks, solar output is not going to change, so the increase must be made from other sources. If we are not dispatching wind, then the increase isn't coming from wind either.
Some can come from Hydro, which is dispatched
Until we start dispatching wind or solar, any added load comes at the expense of increasing conventional output.
I'm not claiming I will get a curved TV, nor do I deny that it's _largely_ a gimmick.
However, don't you agree that, in theory, if you were in the center, a spherical screen around you would be the best experience?
I think that the curved TV gimmick was _attempting_ to go slightly towards that, for the one person in the best viewing spot.
That's the thing, there is only 1 place, and at a specific distance, where the perspective could see some improvement, but move off to a side and there are amplified perspective skews on that side of the screen. It makes no sense as a TV. It might make sense as a computer monitor.
With the threshold being dropped from 500GB to 200GB, the latest move will affect customers who weren't using enough data to be caught up in the last round.
Funny way to say more customers will be affected by lowering the threshold.
It'll be the latest thing consumers shrug at, like 3D or the curved screens. Nobody is going to rush out and buy it except for the gotta-have-it set.
Curved screens have to be the most ridiculous TV gimmick I've seen. I get 3D, I even use it on occasion. Besides the occasional movie, I sometimes play around with stereoscopic photography and like to view pics on the big screen. Its fun in a hobby sort of way, but I don't take it seriously.
I occasionally enjoy some animated movies in 3D on my TV. Not sure if I would say they are 'enhanced', but I enjoy it. Lots of 3D movies still being made so there is certainly a market for them.
You'd have to be crazy to live there.
Content partially, glasses partially, but also home screen size. Stereoscopic needs to be on a huge screen. It works better in the theaters vs the 60 in or smaller home screens. With a big screen you feel a bit more 'in' the scene rather than looking at a tiny model world.
"Accidental leak?" That results in free advertising, see above for example.
Blame the Russians and you'll get even more press.
a passwordless admin interface exposed to the internet?
It had to be the Russians, according to federal officials they are the only one's smart enough to pull this off.
No, I said it was less expensive to upgrade an existing facility, and the reason they may have wanted to spend more on a new one is the lower labor rates in Mexico long term. Maybe you mis-read something.
The 100k prediction for 2016 was by a Forbes contributor, not Musk or Tesla. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ch...
They usually get their projections from the company, and don't make up their own. Either way, I was just trying to get a little historical perspective on how their projections evolve. They've gotten better as one would expect and were pretty accurate at the start of the year.
Why would they even consider Mexico then, if it was always going to be cheaper to update an existing facility?
Long term labor cost.
3,200 should be 83,200.
3 years ago they predicted 100,000 in 2016
http://insideevs.com/tesla-pro...
In January of 2016 they were projecting over 3,200
http://www.fool.com/investing/...
Try reading the words "existing facility". Did you consider that maybe it cost less to ramp up at an existing facility and add to existing employees than to start from scratch and train an entire new set of employees? Also, the Mexico sum was apparently intended to be spent over a longer time frame.
It sure is ugly. Looks like something that belongs in a hospital room