Really? What's your end to end solution achievable with today's technology at a price that populations and governments will accept, and which doesn't immediately make transportation people and governments already own useless?
As important as both the issues you raise are (and the deforestation one may be the more achievable), the reality of it is that "that's it, no more fossil fuel" without a reasonable alternative will never happen, even if it kills us, because without a reasonable alternative, many of us will likely die anyhow.
As well they should. Any site owner that tolerates these deceptive tactics, which are generally also mal-ware vectors, deserves to have their reputations shredded.
He's like a cat with a laser pointer, else this would have been in market two years ago. Speed of execution is not a strength on that platform, it seems.
I wouldn't expect the 1 million insurance to be in effect during "downtime".
1 million is a lot more than the personal Injury and liability insurance that most individual drivers will EVER carry, so I'm not sure what your angle is there...
If the Taxi industry wasn't a bunch of backroom deal making, monopolistic thugs, Uber and Lyft would never have come into existence in the first place.
You think you're getting jack shit if a fucking TAXI hits you? They have laws for that. They bought them decades ago. Good luck.
The taxi industry in South Florida has (or had) the municipal government in it's back pocket. They tried to shut down Uber, etc, until it became clear that everyone knew that the commission was being bribed, and that federal investigations were incoming unless they started representing the will of the people and not the will of Yellow Cab (Jessie Gaddis, here).
Eh, as long as the drivers have their eyes open and are using Uber, et al as supplimental income as they should do, that's perfectly fine. I look forward to the day that the Taxi industry is as dead as Abe Vigoda, and I'll dance on its grave (unlike Abe's).
I got rid of my car to work a 7 minute walk from my office in a downtown area. I use Uber/Lyft for some things, and car sharing services for others. An automated car service, reasonably priced, where I didn't feel obligated to tip the driver, would be magnificent.
When Taxi's charge around $30 for a 5 mile trip, and then expect a tip on top of it... fuck that. They've dug their own grave. If I still had a car, I'd drive for Uber/Lyft part time while they develop driverless car service just to help them push those fuckers into the grave they've dug.
Let's see. An organization with a vested interest in perpetuating the Taxi industry's grip and pricing doesn't like something about Uber and it's ilk. I think there's a picture of Captain Picard captioned "I've just shat myself with surprise!".
Fuck cabbies. Fuck cab owners. Let 'em all starve like buggy whip manufacturers. Price gouging, monopoly having, tourist and local abusing, talking to their overseas family on the phone motherfuckers.
I don't give a single shit about your labor concerns. You screwed yourself out of that with your attitude, your work ethic, and your lies. Fuck off and die already.
Well it lends itself to accidental nuking if you make a habit of doing operations as root. rm -rf / or any variation of it shouldn't nuke a sstem on it's own. if you don't need sudo before that to do real damage, you're doing it wrong.
I work for a very large global IT firm too, and I remember the last time Exchange hiccuped this week. It's very good at being non-obvious about it's connection issues, until it takes 40 minutes for the person at the desk next to you to receive an email with nothing more than a link they requested.
Better at doing the job IS functionality. Something that can be readily carried into more situations is more usable than something that cannot. When travelling it's more than the weight of one piece of kit, it's the entire group of things.
Another aspect I failed to mention. I'm permanently disabled. It's not "I don't like carrying heavy things" it's "I'm severely restricted in my manner of travel, and cutting the total weight of my luggage allows me to get about without assistance".
AFAIK Home Economics is still a class. Not one that is going to lead to a career, however. 5 hours a week on Programming, vs 5 hours a week on cooking is going to lead to a much better long term career with regards to overall job options.
Having worked in the restaurant industry in my youth, I'm damned glad I didn't stay there for my entire career.
As far as a major investment in education that will benefit the country as a whole, I'd rather we tried to make more computer fluent tech workers than fast food fry cooks.
FWIW I don't disagree with your last point there at all, but in an industry that discards engineers as readily as it does hardware, I don't see that particular consideration (the environment) entering into anything beyond what will make the news and sell more units.
Understood, but the last time I bought a full sized laptop was at least 6 years ago, for the reasons listed. That laptop now lives as the brain of a MAME cabinet I built, where I never have to lug it around again.
The beauty of Displayport, over the HDMI/VGA only capabilities of the full sized laptop I had, is that for about $5 I can get an adapter for the DP port that will let me connect any of those cable types. So I'm not losing any options (provided the OS manufacturer supports the port properly). I'm just shedding weight.
My daily driver for work IS a full sized laptop. I don't lug it around any more than I absolutely have to.
Convenience is functionality. Lugging a 20 (or whatever) lb laptop together with a bunch of other luggage through a crowded airport, or half a mile down a city street from train station to hotel is noticable over time. Certainly you CAN do, but when you can get the same computing power in a lighter package, and travelling is part of your job, why wouldn't you?
Now if I was just driving to the office and walking 60 feet or so at each end, then I could see favoring a heavy laptop, but not just so I could have a VGA port on it. That's what adapters are for.
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Really? What's your end to end solution achievable with today's technology at a price that populations and governments will accept, and which doesn't immediately make transportation people and governments already own useless?
As important as both the issues you raise are (and the deforestation one may be the more achievable), the reality of it is that "that's it, no more fossil fuel" without a reasonable alternative will never happen, even if it kills us, because without a reasonable alternative, many of us will likely die anyhow.
If an item is only available via ebay scalpers, I automatically consider it 'unavailable".
As well they should. Any site owner that tolerates these deceptive tactics, which are generally also mal-ware vectors, deserves to have their reputations shredded.
He's like a cat with a laser pointer, else this would have been in market two years ago. Speed of execution is not a strength on that platform, it seems.
So you'll store everything in the Ubuntu Cloud. Oh right they killed that...
It's an activist investor. Their entire M.O. is pump, dump, and piss on the smoldering crater left behind.
Don't be silly. How could she fulfill her mission of making Carly Fiorina look competent by comparison if she gave up now?
I wouldn't expect the 1 million insurance to be in effect during "downtime".
1 million is a lot more than the personal Injury and liability insurance that most individual drivers will EVER carry, so I'm not sure what your angle is there...
If the Taxi industry wasn't a bunch of backroom deal making, monopolistic thugs, Uber and Lyft would never have come into existence in the first place.
You think you're getting jack shit if a fucking TAXI hits you? They have laws for that. They bought them decades ago. Good luck.
I think that was meant as tongue in cheek. When I came here to say that, that was certainly my intent.
Is this the modern equivalent of shouting "BABA BOOEY!"?
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Eliminate Anonymous Cowards (yea that's sacrilege here, but we're not the same community we were 10 years ago.)
You beat me to that one. I even pictured the shot of Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka that most people use in that meme.
The taxi industry in South Florida has (or had) the municipal government in it's back pocket. They tried to shut down Uber, etc, until it became clear that everyone knew that the commission was being bribed, and that federal investigations were incoming unless they started representing the will of the people and not the will of Yellow Cab (Jessie Gaddis, here).
Eh, as long as the drivers have their eyes open and are using Uber, et al as supplimental income as they should do, that's perfectly fine. I look forward to the day that the Taxi industry is as dead as Abe Vigoda, and I'll dance on its grave (unlike Abe's).
I got rid of my car to work a 7 minute walk from my office in a downtown area. I use Uber/Lyft for some things, and car sharing services for others. An automated car service, reasonably priced, where I didn't feel obligated to tip the driver, would be magnificent.
When Taxi's charge around $30 for a 5 mile trip, and then expect a tip on top of it... fuck that. They've dug their own grave. If I still had a car, I'd drive for Uber/Lyft part time while they develop driverless car service just to help them push those fuckers into the grave they've dug.
Let's see. An organization with a vested interest in perpetuating the Taxi industry's grip and pricing doesn't like something about Uber and it's ilk. I think there's a picture of Captain Picard captioned "I've just shat myself with surprise!".
Fuck cabbies. Fuck cab owners. Let 'em all starve like buggy whip manufacturers. Price gouging, monopoly having, tourist and local abusing, talking to their overseas family on the phone motherfuckers.
I don't give a single shit about your labor concerns. You screwed yourself out of that with your attitude, your work ethic, and your lies. Fuck off and die already.
Guess your family member doesn't play games. Gaming is the only reason I HAVE a windows computer.
Hahahahaah!
wait, you're serious? Allow me to continue,
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHHAH
Half baked mobile OS that was what, three years late to the party? No.
Besides, then you're just leaking data to Canonical.
Well it lends itself to accidental nuking if you make a habit of doing operations as root. rm -rf / or any variation of it shouldn't nuke a sstem on it's own. if you don't need sudo before that to do real damage, you're doing it wrong.
And it applies only to the government, and not to private entities such as Twitter.
That said, let the asshole talk.
I work for a very large global IT firm too, and I remember the last time Exchange hiccuped this week. It's very good at being non-obvious about it's connection issues, until it takes 40 minutes for the person at the desk next to you to receive an email with nothing more than a link they requested.
Better at doing the job IS functionality. Something that can be readily carried into more situations is more usable than something that cannot. When travelling it's more than the weight of one piece of kit, it's the entire group of things.
Another aspect I failed to mention. I'm permanently disabled. It's not "I don't like carrying heavy things" it's "I'm severely restricted in my manner of travel, and cutting the total weight of my luggage allows me to get about without assistance".
AFAIK Home Economics is still a class. Not one that is going to lead to a career, however. 5 hours a week on Programming, vs 5 hours a week on cooking is going to lead to a much better long term career with regards to overall job options.
Having worked in the restaurant industry in my youth, I'm damned glad I didn't stay there for my entire career.
As far as a major investment in education that will benefit the country as a whole, I'd rather we tried to make more computer fluent tech workers than fast food fry cooks.
FWIW I don't disagree with your last point there at all, but in an industry that discards engineers as readily as it does hardware, I don't see that particular consideration (the environment) entering into anything beyond what will make the news and sell more units.
Understood, but the last time I bought a full sized laptop was at least 6 years ago, for the reasons listed. That laptop now lives as the brain of a MAME cabinet I built, where I never have to lug it around again.
The beauty of Displayport, over the HDMI/VGA only capabilities of the full sized laptop I had, is that for about $5 I can get an adapter for the DP port that will let me connect any of those cable types. So I'm not losing any options (provided the OS manufacturer supports the port properly). I'm just shedding weight.
My daily driver for work IS a full sized laptop. I don't lug it around any more than I absolutely have to.
Convenience is functionality. Lugging a 20 (or whatever) lb laptop together with a bunch of other luggage through a crowded airport, or half a mile down a city street from train station to hotel is noticable over time. Certainly you CAN do, but when you can get the same computing power in a lighter package, and travelling is part of your job, why wouldn't you?
Now if I was just driving to the office and walking 60 feet or so at each end, then I could see favoring a heavy laptop, but not just so I could have a VGA port on it. That's what adapters are for.