The typical urban hipster will certainly see and enjoy the benefits of renting/leasing rides full-time (here in Portland, that's where Zipcar and Car2Go come in, and a huge number of folks downtown don't even bother with owning or even leasing a car, what with parking the thing being hella expensive).
The typical suburbanite *might* see use cases (commuting) where such a thing comes in real handy, but others (hauling kids/crap/groceries, dragging the boat or RV trailer out on vacation, etc) where it makes no sense to lease a ride in some cheap tiny hybrid.
The typical ruralite will just laugh at the idea - and here, I have personal experience. We beat up our vehicles pretty damned hard between carrying heavy loads (and occasional livestock), occasionally moving crap from Acre A to Acre F (e.g. dragging a chicken coop on sleds), driving on poorly-maintained and hellishly narrow twisted (often gravel-paved) roads, driving in all kinds of crazy weather, punishing the odometer with dozens of thousands of miles per year, etc.
Now professional truckers on the other hand should be nervous as hell if self-driving pans out and becomes economic...
Depends on the costs... it these self-driving cars get in enough wrecks, the lawsuits may make it too pricey to continue. If the cars constantly get vandalized, hacked, stolen, whatever, it may end up costing too much to continue.
As someone who automates processes and gets paid well for it, I can say right now that some things do not lend themselves to automation at all, and maybe should wait until there is a more cost-effective and/or reliable means to do it.
The came up with the figure by adding up the accumulated water estimated to raise assumed grains fed to the typical cow (ref here), which is a slightly dishonest metric since grass/pasture-fed cows use far less grain (and some none at all), thus far less water. It also assumes that all the water going into the feed (grass/grain/whatever) comes from irrigation, which is itself also a bad assumption - especially outside of the First World.
TL;DR - there's very likely a bit of scare tactic included in coming up with that figure, and the truth is most likely somewhere a lot lower than the estimate.
Well, there are other factors to take into account...
* zoning laws * HOA covenants/rules (if they exist for the given house) * local infrastructure capacity (in the case of rural coops or PUDs, shingling every roof in the county with panels may well overload the local grid) * engineering of the roofing itself (can it withstand annual/frequent hailstorms, etc?) * to some extent any laws governing homes on runway approaches (if the roof produces glare that bugs pilots, etc)
I'm sure there's a lot more to take into account as well...
Easier yet - buy an unlocked phone of whatever, then tie it to Net10, Tracfone, or whatever... using Verizon's network anyway.
My LG G3 cost me $200 off of Amazon, and does everything I want it to. It took all of an hour to plug it in, set up a $35/mo semi-unlimited plan, and it happily does tx/rx over Verizon's network. I save enough money on average to buy two unlocked slightly-behind-the-times phones a year if I so desired, and if I did that I would still be ahead of the typical Subsidy Schmuck paying Verizon for his new-shiny.
First, most folks can't even spell "Cyanogen", let alone root/mod their phones.
Second, of those that can, most will not think it worth the effort, for fear of bricking their pricey subsidized phones. Easier/faster to disable the app in question and remove all references/shortcuts to it outside of the App Manager.
Third, telcos can retaliate. A more extreme example would be adding language to their little contracts that say something like "For security purposes, if the user installs or modified the operating system without consent or permission from EvilTelco Inc: all warranties will be null and void, and the phone will be forcibly disconnected from the network until such time as the user replaces the phone with an approved one from EvilTelco, or brings/sends it to EvilTelco for repairs at the user's full cost. Note that all unpaid balances accrued towards the purchase/subsidy of that phone will remain in force."
Well, if they were truly talking about Android phones... I'll explain:
First, see, the first image shown in the article itself. Then note that it has the following caption: "Verizon has offered to install marketers' brands directly on new Android subscribers' phones, according to agency executives. Credit: Courtesy Verizon"
Hmm, I'm still only on 2.6. I need to get a wiggle on too!
I know, right?
[root@oneOfMyProdServers ~]# uname -a Linux oneOfMyProdServers 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 11 22:03:14 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
*sigh*... guess it's time to tell my $2bn/yr-revenue employer to get off their asses and get everyone onto systemd while I'm at it (*shudder*).
All joking aside, though... I know of corps still using really ancient RHEL 2.x stuff, mostly because they cannot justify migrating off it, but at the same time the thing still has enough justification to stay plugged-in (albeit on its own isolated network...)
Pretty sure not everyone is going to heed TFA's call, eh?
Hell, given that Microsoft threw their name at it, I'm really curious as to how many elephant tusks or shark fins are traded on the XBox Marketplace...
True, but in SCO's case, every subsequent resurrection is weaker, and weaker... I figure it's at the point where nowadays, IBM just has one of their janitors spend a few minutes each week to check on their status.
But there is nothing illegal about buying milk... so why does this message need to be encrypted?
Funny thing, but "Honey can you get some milk on the way home" may itself be an encryption of sorts that means "Honey, send the kids to Nana's tonight 'cause that shipment from the naughty store came in today."
Dunno; when you consider that most dating sites show nothing but fairly attractive people frequenting such sites, but reality dictates that the majority of humanity is uglier than a moldy sack of rusty hammers...
In Utah's case, there's a couple of solid reasons why that one base is still there:
* There's a bomb/test-range just on the other side of the Great Salt Lake for training and testing purposes. It is also (barely) within 'combat' range of the main Nevada Test Range complex. * Hill AFB is home to depot-level maintenance on the US' nuclear missile fleet - and most of the US missile fleet is scattered throughout an array of surrounding states to the North of it. * It's semi-central location in the US western region means it is one of a handful of bases for what we used to call AFLC (Air Force Logistics Command), and is still the major logistical hub for the western US.
Unlike a lot of bases (I'm looking at California, Texas, Florida), these are actual non-political reasons for it's continued existence.
They tried that a long time ago (see also Utah's UTOPIA initiative), but they didn't get very far before Comcast and Qwest (now part of Centurylink) both brought suit against the State Legislature to squash it. The legislature happily compromised, saying that UTOPIA was not allowed to expand beyond the neighborhoods it already existed in. It currently still exists in a somewhat crippled form: https://www.freeutopia.org/
No need to go full-socialist... just regulate them like any other utility, with the same controls on pricing and service levels, and that should be sufficient.
Threaten any recalcitrant ISPs with loss of DMCA Safe Harbor, and, wait... how the fuck is Comcast able to snoop your packets yet claim common-carrier-like status?
...just saying that I'm damned glad I'm no longer a Comcast user. Satellite Internet may cost a bit (and don't ask about bandwidth caps), but at least I get to keep my privacy.
I would say that flopping over to DSL or a different competitor (if possible) would be a possibility, but I doubt it would be too long before all the other massive telecoms decide that "...hey, let's monetize and intrude the crap out of our customers the same way!"
Basically the idea (as far as I can guess) is that The F-22 will eventually replace the F-15 (first flight in 1972), while the F-35 will replace the F-16 (first flight in 1976).
"first to Red Flag exercises, then as a "theater security package" to Europe and the Asia-Pacific. "
They transposed "security theater."
Cute... though "theater security package" is a specific military term.
Funny thing... the "Rams", aka the 34th Fighter Squadron (part of the 388th FW) was decommissioned in the mis-1990s - it was the very first unit I was assigned to back in 1988, when they did F-16 A/B models.
Trivia bit: the 388th Fighter Wing was the very first recipient of the F-16, way back in the late 1970s.
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I'm looking down at my Mac keyboard, and, well, where the hell is this "backspace" button you keep talking about?
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(note to the clueless: yes, I know it's a "PC" only thing.)
...and they'll still get vandalized, hacked, beaten-up and parts of it stolen (e.g. a meth-head swiping the hood for scrap metal, etc).
Well, not really...
The typical urban hipster will certainly see and enjoy the benefits of renting/leasing rides full-time (here in Portland, that's where Zipcar and Car2Go come in, and a huge number of folks downtown don't even bother with owning or even leasing a car, what with parking the thing being hella expensive).
The typical suburbanite *might* see use cases (commuting) where such a thing comes in real handy, but others (hauling kids/crap/groceries, dragging the boat or RV trailer out on vacation, etc) where it makes no sense to lease a ride in some cheap tiny hybrid.
The typical ruralite will just laugh at the idea - and here, I have personal experience. We beat up our vehicles pretty damned hard between carrying heavy loads (and occasional livestock), occasionally moving crap from Acre A to Acre F (e.g. dragging a chicken coop on sleds), driving on poorly-maintained and hellishly narrow twisted (often gravel-paved) roads, driving in all kinds of crazy weather, punishing the odometer with dozens of thousands of miles per year, etc.
Now professional truckers on the other hand should be nervous as hell if self-driving pans out and becomes economic...
Maybe, maybe not.
Depends on the costs... it these self-driving cars get in enough wrecks, the lawsuits may make it too pricey to continue. If the cars constantly get vandalized, hacked, stolen, whatever, it may end up costing too much to continue.
As someone who automates processes and gets paid well for it, I can say right now that some things do not lend themselves to automation at all, and maybe should wait until there is a more cost-effective and/or reliable means to do it.
The came up with the figure by adding up the accumulated water estimated to raise assumed grains fed to the typical cow (ref here), which is a slightly dishonest metric since grass/pasture-fed cows use far less grain (and some none at all), thus far less water. It also assumes that all the water going into the feed (grass/grain/whatever) comes from irrigation, which is itself also a bad assumption - especially outside of the First World.
TL;DR - there's very likely a bit of scare tactic included in coming up with that figure, and the truth is most likely somewhere a lot lower than the estimate.
Well, there are other factors to take into account...
* zoning laws
* HOA covenants/rules (if they exist for the given house)
* local infrastructure capacity (in the case of rural coops or PUDs, shingling every roof in the county with panels may well overload the local grid)
* engineering of the roofing itself (can it withstand annual/frequent hailstorms, etc?)
* to some extent any laws governing homes on runway approaches (if the roof produces glare that bugs pilots, etc)
I'm sure there's a lot more to take into account as well...
Easier yet - buy an unlocked phone of whatever, then tie it to Net10, Tracfone, or whatever... using Verizon's network anyway.
My LG G3 cost me $200 off of Amazon, and does everything I want it to. It took all of an hour to plug it in, set up a $35/mo semi-unlimited plan, and it happily does tx/rx over Verizon's network. I save enough money on average to buy two unlocked slightly-behind-the-times phones a year if I so desired, and if I did that I would still be ahead of the typical Subsidy Schmuck paying Verizon for his new-shiny.
One small problem I can see (well, three...)
First, most folks can't even spell "Cyanogen", let alone root/mod their phones.
Second, of those that can, most will not think it worth the effort, for fear of bricking their pricey subsidized phones. Easier/faster to disable the app in question and remove all references/shortcuts to it outside of the App Manager.
Third, telcos can retaliate. A more extreme example would be adding language to their little contracts that say something like "For security purposes, if the user installs or modified the operating system without consent or permission from EvilTelco Inc: all warranties will be null and void, and the phone will be forcibly disconnected from the network until such time as the user replaces the phone with an approved one from EvilTelco, or brings/sends it to EvilTelco for repairs at the user's full cost. Note that all unpaid balances accrued towards the purchase/subsidy of that phone will remain in force."
Well, if they were truly talking about Android phones... I'll explain:
First, see, the first image shown in the article itself. Then note that it has the following caption: "Verizon has offered to install marketers' brands directly on new Android subscribers' phones, according to agency executives. Credit: Courtesy Verizon"
Don't you just love advertising execs?
For awhile, it got even worse than that...
Hmm, I'm still only on 2.6. I need to get a wiggle on too!
I know, right?
[root@oneOfMyProdServers ~]# uname -a
Linux oneOfMyProdServers 2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 11 22:03:14 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
*sigh*... guess it's time to tell my $2bn/yr-revenue employer to get off their asses and get everyone onto systemd while I'm at it (*shudder*).
All joking aside, though... I know of corps still using really ancient RHEL 2.x stuff, mostly because they cannot justify migrating off it, but at the same time the thing still has enough justification to stay plugged-in (albeit on its own isolated network...)
Pretty sure not everyone is going to heed TFA's call, eh?
They don't need Amazon or eBay! They got their own website for that
(Though why aficionados don't just journey to their ancestral habitat of the Great Salt Lake is beyond me...)
Hell, given that Microsoft threw their name at it, I'm really curious as to how many elephant tusks or shark fins are traded on the XBox Marketplace...
True, but in SCO's case, every subsequent resurrection is weaker, and weaker... I figure it's at the point where nowadays, IBM just has one of their janitors spend a few minutes each week to check on their status.
But there is nothing illegal about buying milk... so why does this message need to be encrypted?
Funny thing, but "Honey can you get some milk on the way home" may itself be an encryption of sorts that means "Honey, send the kids to Nana's tonight 'cause that shipment from the naughty store came in today."
Dunno; when you consider that most dating sites show nothing but fairly attractive people frequenting such sites, but reality dictates that the majority of humanity is uglier than a moldy sack of rusty hammers...
In Utah's case, there's a couple of solid reasons why that one base is still there:
* There's a bomb/test-range just on the other side of the Great Salt Lake for training and testing purposes. It is also (barely) within 'combat' range of the main Nevada Test Range complex.
* Hill AFB is home to depot-level maintenance on the US' nuclear missile fleet - and most of the US missile fleet is scattered throughout an array of surrounding states to the North of it.
* It's semi-central location in the US western region means it is one of a handful of bases for what we used to call AFLC (Air Force Logistics Command), and is still the major logistical hub for the western US.
Unlike a lot of bases (I'm looking at California, Texas, Florida), these are actual non-political reasons for it's continued existence.
Pretty sure they have a contact sheet that only LEOs and other emergency personnel use.
They tried that a long time ago (see also Utah's UTOPIA initiative), but they didn't get very far before Comcast and Qwest (now part of Centurylink) both brought suit against the State Legislature to squash it. The legislature happily compromised, saying that UTOPIA was not allowed to expand beyond the neighborhoods it already existed in. It currently still exists in a somewhat crippled form: https://www.freeutopia.org/
Go figure, right?
No need to go full-socialist... just regulate them like any other utility, with the same controls on pricing and service levels, and that should be sufficient.
Threaten any recalcitrant ISPs with loss of DMCA Safe Harbor, and, wait... how the fuck is Comcast able to snoop your packets yet claim common-carrier-like status?
...and this is why I always, always use VMs for that kind of crap. Keeps it contained.
(besides, it's not as if Windows was any good at multi-partitions anyway, unless all of those partitions were either FAT32 or NTFS).
You should know that "Steam" does not begin with an "L". :(
...just saying that I'm damned glad I'm no longer a Comcast user. Satellite Internet may cost a bit (and don't ask about bandwidth caps), but at least I get to keep my privacy.
I would say that flopping over to DSL or a different competitor (if possible) would be a possibility, but I doubt it would be too long before all the other massive telecoms decide that "...hey, let's monetize and intrude the crap out of our customers the same way!"
Exactly...
Basically the idea (as far as I can guess) is that The F-22 will eventually replace the F-15 (first flight in 1972), while the F-35 will replace the F-16 (first flight in 1976).
"first to Red Flag exercises, then as a "theater security package" to Europe and the Asia-Pacific. "
They transposed "security theater."
Cute... though "theater security package" is a specific military term.
Funny thing... the "Rams", aka the 34th Fighter Squadron (part of the 388th FW) was decommissioned in the mis-1990s - it was the very first unit I was assigned to back in 1988, when they did F-16 A/B models.
Trivia bit: the 388th Fighter Wing was the very first recipient of the F-16, way back in the late 1970s.