You're an n off 1. The facts are quite obvious, young drivers make up a disproportionate number of casualties in auto-accidents. Sure the elderly may also be a high risk group. In-between, however, there's a group who have more experience and fewer accidents.
I didn't comment on Google Glass, I responded to a post above which was questioning whether or not young drivers are actually worse, despite their faster reaction times. I'm pretty sure any actuary will confirm that yes, as a group, young drivers are more dangerous.
Young people in good health, with good motor skills and high response time are the worst drivers, right?
In my experience as a driver, going a little slower, leaving a little more room between vehicles and using turn signals properly all contribute far more to my safety than I would gain from beter motor skills and a faster response time. Your extra tenth of a second in response time is worthless if you've already crashed into the car in front because you were too close.
My experience came the hard way but, alongside, there were some good lessons in not being overconfident.
So the problem isn't so much someone trying to sell a dousing rod as a bomb detector. After all, your dousing rod is worth whatever the market for dousing rods will bear.
Really the problem is international governments' willingness to buy dousing rods for incredible sums without any testing to see if they're fit for purpose.
Duplicty allows for scripted backups with the archives being encrypted by GPG and therefore can be restored to any drive, so long as you know the password.
Have you actually driven a car with a modern Diesel engine?
Yes.
I had a Diesel rental about 20 years ago, and was impressed how little difference there was to a gasoline engine. But yes, you are right, back then Diesels did lack some of the "oomph" that I had come to expect from a high-powered gasoline engine.
In the last couple of years though, Diesel engines have gotten so good, there really is no reason whatsoever to buy a gasoline engine -- unless of course, you drive an incredibly small number of miles, in which case fuel efficiency doesn't matter and the slightly higher cost for the Diesel engine does.
That cost remains pretty significant from a US point of view though.
If you're traveling 12,000 miles per year in a gas car averaging 25mpg, you're looking at $1,656 in fuel costs at the current $3.45 price per gallon.
In a diesel car getting an average of 40 mpg (I'm using U.S. gallons, so that's about 48 miles per UK gallon) you'll pay $1,128 in fuel costs.
The cost difference between an Audi A3 in diesel is about $3100 more than the gas equivalent.
It'll take you six years before you're counting the savings, without making any allowance for the time value of money.
Even doing 18,000 miles per year, you're still at almost five years before you've saved the $3k extra initial outlay.
I'm a big fan of diesel engines and would like to see more of them available in the U.S. but I'm also realistic. There's a psychological and financial barrier that needs to be crossed.
It's also worth bearing in mind what you're comparing against. It's easy to compare a 2.0 tdi favorably against the 1.3l and 1.6l engines that are so common in the UK and on the continent. But family saloons, the Mondeo sized cars here tend to have 2.5l v6 engines. I drive a Ford Focus with a 2.3l engine. The cost of fuel means those sorts of engines would be ridiculous elsewhere.
Well it's pretty obvious why. It's easier and cheaper to get oomph from a petrol (gas) engine. And petrol has historically been very cheap in the US.
It's a hard sell to say, spend an extra $3,000 on the car to get a diesel engine to improve your fuel economy when your 0-60 speed will drop by 15-20% and you'll need to keep the car 8 years to save the extra cost through efficiency.
As the price of fuel has increased, so too has the number of diesel engines on the road in the US. I'd expect that trend to continue.
Besides, DRM for a single game sounds way more like a CEO decision at best and not a board decision.
I'd imagine the bigger problem was when customers found out they'd been lied to by the rapid emergence of a hack enabling offline single-user play. Even if the CEO wasn't involved in the early stages you can bet he was closely involved after the initial Amazon cock-up.
Had they been upfront and honest with customers and pledged to make an offline version available in response to the overwhelming demand, things might not have gotten to be so bad. Instead, someone decided to further propagate a lie.
Even the lowest quality MBA factories teach the basic rule of 'when in a hole stop digging.' The better business schools will teach it frequently. Compounding the problem when the company's back was already against the wall was an elementary mistake and one which rightly cost the CEO his job.
If you're talking about adblocking, the 'proper' place is at your visual cortex where images are processed -- and I know I'm alone in that unpopular view. Blocking ads is like throwing a soda can out a car window in that if one person does it, it's not a problem and it appears to benefit them modestly. But if everyone does it, it ruins the very thing you're enjoying [slashdot.org]. I can understand why you'd do it if the ad was a massive flash blob but many ads by Google or just images aren't resource intensive.
I have to disagree. If we get massively more adblocking, the internet will 'route around the damage'. Eventually we'll have someone set up a workable micropayments system whereby we can pay for the content we want. in an amount that's reasonable. Tenths or hundreds of a cent for a showbiz story, and several cents for an in-depth news piece.
Such a system would have massive benefits for the internet, allowing many many more content producers to be rewarded for their work.
And therein we learn the lesson about closed source software and proprietary methods. If folk had adopted something based on SIP, XMPP, IAX or any other open and documented protocol, we'd be able to communicate using a tried and tested security mechanism.
For something like communications, if you're totally and absolutely reliant upon a third party then you also need to have total and absolute trust in that third party or you should consider all your communications using them to be public.
It's $3,000 to change the A3 from gas to diesel engine at the Audi list price.
You might still be correct that the cost difference isn't worthwhile when comparing raw numbers, but I think the diesel would win if you keep the car for five years and you're comparing to the gas equivalent which gets about 10mpg less.
Personally, I'd be tempted just for the advantage of not having to fill up as often, and knowing that when the fuel light comes on the car is probably still good for another 60-70 miles of driving.
It is the case that, until very recently, there were many very efficient cars available in Europe that are/were not available in the US. Especially diesel models.
For example I rented a very nice Audi A3 Tdi in the UK, and drove over 1,100 miles on 30 US gallons of gas. At the time it wasn't available in the US, but you can buy it here now. Still, there aren't many nice US cars that get 36+ mpg in real world use.
You missed the part where the judge said it was unconstitutionally difficult to challenge the fine. You're basically at the mercy of the enforcement agency and you have to rely on the accuracy of a company which profits massively from fining you.
And if you get a ticket from a police officer in the US? At least in some states, the officer doesn't need to present any evidence other than their own testimony and you'll be fined. Unless you can present some evidence that you were not speeding, did not run the light, did not fail to completely stop for a stop sign, then you're getting a ticket.
Here they have some red light cameras. If you get a ticket for running them you also get a link to a website where you can view a video of the offense. That may be very different from the Ohio system, but it's certainly a whole lot easier to challenge than a similar ticket issued by a police officer.
Why would you have an expectation of privacy in a bar? Crikey, every bar I've been in recently is filled with folk playing with their cell phones. Any one of those could have been recording.
Two seconds on my Facebook feed is enough to see that pictures and video are taken in bars all the time.
Also known as the "micro-transactions aren't micro" problem.
This I think hits the nail on the head. I want to have some equivalent of a wallet that can be built into the browser. Visit a site where you get a preview of an article, get told how many words remain, and then have an option to pay a cent or two for a big article, or a fraction of a cent for a small one and read the rest.
To work it would, of course, have to be cross border, cross browser and cross platform. Ideally, with open standards we could have a choice of payment providers too.
Unfortunately, for all the talk of micro-payments, I've never seen a serious attempt at implementing them.
I don't think you understand. How could Google identify one device from another?
Of course as the user you can manage your passwords in whatever way works best for you. I don't see how Google could manage what the poster above suggested - that the password be tied to a device. From google's end, one IMAP client will look very much like another.
Wasn't the single factor password to be tied to a device and a service though?
The service thing I understand. I'm not sure how you would tie, say an IMAP password, to a device though? What would differentiate two different IMAP clients?
There are only two things voice recognition is useful for: * taking a small number of distinct commands * producing nonsense poetry that keeps rhythm and rhyme with input voice
That's funny, I used voice control of my Nexus 4 yesterday evening to open the email application, pick the correct contact and then dictate an email along the lines of:
Hi _name_,
I've just left work. I'll be home in about ten minutes.
See you then,
_my name_
That certainly seems to be more than a small number of commands. Okay, I'm not going to dictate War and Peace, but it's certainly functional.
In all seriousness, we have incredibly high resolution cameras available for years. I harbor a belief that the cost of these systems reflects a massive premium that we see attached to any 'medical' device, and that those who need them simply have to buy them, whatever the price. Add to this, the benefits we are all reaping from patents...
It's wonderful what these systems do. It's just disheartening that millions are being deprived of the technology, not because they couldn't afford the hardware, but because there's more profit to be made by keeping prices high for those in the west with insurance policies or governments that will pay for the adaptive equipment.
Only a year or so ago, you could have said "If the Tablet won't run iOS then no one will ever buy it. It's an dead investment."
Today we have plenty of Android tablets gaining a footprint. Microsoft aren't going to let go of the market segment easily either, even after their late start and poor initial showing. I'm not sure why you think an Ubuntu tablet is doomed to failure.
What's going to be important is showing it can do things the others can't or won't. Some of the multi-tasking on their video looks impressive and may offer that differentiation.
I seriously hope your sarcasm tags were stripped out by slashdot's html filter.
If not, I think you'll find that shops have existed for quite some time. You'll probably also find Google shops are a bit more colorful and, dare I say it, more fun than the Apple Store.
I think they may be linking the launch of an unmanned US military shuttle shortly before the North Korean satellite launch and the fact their satellite unexpectedly (to them at least) failed to make a stable orbit.
But the message from Microsoft claiming Google 'reads' your email isn't? You don't think there's a difference between algorithmically scanning a message and reading it?
Is spamassassin 'reading' the email on my server? Does Hotmail/Outlook etc. not use algorithmic spam filtering? If so, wouldn't that mean Microsoft are also 'reading' their user's mail?
Well, you've probably heard of the iPad. I'm pretty sure there are now millions of folk using tablets as their primary computing device.
Some folk have probably noticed the lack of a keyboard can be an issue. For anyone using an android tablet, a chromebook would probably be a pretty decent complement and between the two devices you would have a nice complete package. Everything you work on is automagically on both devices, there's next to no management required. It just works.
If my parents need a new computer in the future, I'd have little hesitation in recommending one to them.
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You're an n off 1. The facts are quite obvious, young drivers make up a disproportionate number of casualties in auto-accidents. Sure the elderly may also be a high risk group. In-between, however, there's a group who have more experience and fewer accidents.
I didn't comment on Google Glass, I responded to a post above which was questioning whether or not young drivers are actually worse, despite their faster reaction times. I'm pretty sure any actuary will confirm that yes, as a group, young drivers are more dangerous.
In my experience as a driver, going a little slower, leaving a little more room between vehicles and using turn signals properly all contribute far more to my safety than I would gain from beter motor skills and a faster response time. Your extra tenth of a second in response time is worthless if you've already crashed into the car in front because you were too close.
My experience came the hard way but, alongside, there were some good lessons in not being overconfident.
So the problem isn't so much someone trying to sell a dousing rod as a bomb detector. After all, your dousing rod is worth whatever the market for dousing rods will bear.
Really the problem is international governments' willingness to buy dousing rods for incredible sums without any testing to see if they're fit for purpose.
Duplicty allows for scripted backups with the archives being encrypted by GPG and therefore can be restored to any drive, so long as you know the password.
Yes.
That cost remains pretty significant from a US point of view though.
If you're traveling 12,000 miles per year in a gas car averaging 25mpg, you're looking at $1,656 in fuel costs at the current $3.45 price per gallon.
In a diesel car getting an average of 40 mpg (I'm using U.S. gallons, so that's about 48 miles per UK gallon) you'll pay $1,128 in fuel costs.
The cost difference between an Audi A3 in diesel is about $3100 more than the gas equivalent.
It'll take you six years before you're counting the savings, without making any allowance for the time value of money.
Even doing 18,000 miles per year, you're still at almost five years before you've saved the $3k extra initial outlay.
I'm a big fan of diesel engines and would like to see more of them available in the U.S. but I'm also realistic. There's a psychological and financial barrier that needs to be crossed.
It's also worth bearing in mind what you're comparing against. It's easy to compare a 2.0 tdi favorably against the 1.3l and 1.6l engines that are so common in the UK and on the continent. But family saloons, the Mondeo sized cars here tend to have 2.5l v6 engines. I drive a Ford Focus with a 2.3l engine. The cost of fuel means those sorts of engines would be ridiculous elsewhere.
Well it's pretty obvious why. It's easier and cheaper to get oomph from a petrol (gas) engine. And petrol has historically been very cheap in the US.
It's a hard sell to say, spend an extra $3,000 on the car to get a diesel engine to improve your fuel economy when your 0-60 speed will drop by 15-20% and you'll need to keep the car 8 years to save the extra cost through efficiency.
As the price of fuel has increased, so too has the number of diesel engines on the road in the US. I'd expect that trend to continue.
I'd imagine the bigger problem was when customers found out they'd been lied to by the rapid emergence of a hack enabling offline single-user play. Even if the CEO wasn't involved in the early stages you can bet he was closely involved after the initial Amazon cock-up.
Had they been upfront and honest with customers and pledged to make an offline version available in response to the overwhelming demand, things might not have gotten to be so bad. Instead, someone decided to further propagate a lie.
Even the lowest quality MBA factories teach the basic rule of 'when in a hole stop digging.' The better business schools will teach it frequently. Compounding the problem when the company's back was already against the wall was an elementary mistake and one which rightly cost the CEO his job.
I have to disagree. If we get massively more adblocking, the internet will 'route around the damage'. Eventually we'll have someone set up a workable micropayments system whereby we can pay for the content we want. in an amount that's reasonable. Tenths or hundreds of a cent for a showbiz story, and several cents for an in-depth news piece.
Such a system would have massive benefits for the internet, allowing many many more content producers to be rewarded for their work.
And therein we learn the lesson about closed source software and proprietary methods. If folk had adopted something based on SIP, XMPP, IAX or any other open and documented protocol, we'd be able to communicate using a tried and tested security mechanism.
For something like communications, if you're totally and absolutely reliant upon a third party then you also need to have total and absolute trust in that third party or you should consider all your communications using them to be public.
Can you cycle to/from work one or two days a week?
It's $3,000 to change the A3 from gas to diesel engine at the Audi list price.
You might still be correct that the cost difference isn't worthwhile when comparing raw numbers, but I think the diesel would win if you keep the car for five years and you're comparing to the gas equivalent which gets about 10mpg less.
Personally, I'd be tempted just for the advantage of not having to fill up as often, and knowing that when the fuel light comes on the car is probably still good for another 60-70 miles of driving.
It is the case that, until very recently, there were many very efficient cars available in Europe that are/were not available in the US. Especially diesel models.
For example I rented a very nice Audi A3 Tdi in the UK, and drove over 1,100 miles on 30 US gallons of gas. At the time it wasn't available in the US, but you can buy it here now. Still, there aren't many nice US cars that get 36+ mpg in real world use.
And if you get a ticket from a police officer in the US? At least in some states, the officer doesn't need to present any evidence other than their own testimony and you'll be fined. Unless you can present some evidence that you were not speeding, did not run the light, did not fail to completely stop for a stop sign, then you're getting a ticket.
Here they have some red light cameras. If you get a ticket for running them you also get a link to a website where you can view a video of the offense. That may be very different from the Ohio system, but it's certainly a whole lot easier to challenge than a similar ticket issued by a police officer.
I've been barred from better places.
Why would you have an expectation of privacy in a bar? Crikey, every bar I've been in recently is filled with folk playing with their cell phones. Any one of those could have been recording.
Two seconds on my Facebook feed is enough to see that pictures and video are taken in bars all the time.
This I think hits the nail on the head. I want to have some equivalent of a wallet that can be built into the browser. Visit a site where you get a preview of an article, get told how many words remain, and then have an option to pay a cent or two for a big article, or a fraction of a cent for a small one and read the rest.
To work it would, of course, have to be cross border, cross browser and cross platform. Ideally, with open standards we could have a choice of payment providers too.
Unfortunately, for all the talk of micro-payments, I've never seen a serious attempt at implementing them.
I don't think you understand. How could Google identify one device from another?
Of course as the user you can manage your passwords in whatever way works best for you. I don't see how Google could manage what the poster above suggested - that the password be tied to a device. From google's end, one IMAP client will look very much like another.
The service thing I understand. I'm not sure how you would tie, say an IMAP password, to a device though? What would differentiate two different IMAP clients?
That's funny, I used voice control of my Nexus 4 yesterday evening to open the email application, pick the correct contact and then dictate an email along the lines of:
Hi _name_,
I've just left work. I'll be home in about ten minutes.
See you then,
_my name_
That certainly seems to be more than a small number of commands. Okay, I'm not going to dictate War and Peace, but it's certainly functional.
In all seriousness, we have incredibly high resolution cameras available for years. I harbor a belief that the cost of these systems reflects a massive premium that we see attached to any 'medical' device, and that those who need them simply have to buy them, whatever the price. Add to this, the benefits we are all reaping from patents...
It's wonderful what these systems do. It's just disheartening that millions are being deprived of the technology, not because they couldn't afford the hardware, but because there's more profit to be made by keeping prices high for those in the west with insurance policies or governments that will pay for the adaptive equipment.
Only a year or so ago, you could have said "If the Tablet won't run iOS then no one will ever buy it. It's an dead investment."
Today we have plenty of Android tablets gaining a footprint. Microsoft aren't going to let go of the market segment easily either, even after their late start and poor initial showing. I'm not sure why you think an Ubuntu tablet is doomed to failure.
What's going to be important is showing it can do things the others can't or won't. Some of the multi-tasking on their video looks impressive and may offer that differentiation.
I seriously hope your sarcasm tags were stripped out by slashdot's html filter.
If not, I think you'll find that shops have existed for quite some time. You'll probably also find Google shops are a bit more colorful and, dare I say it, more fun than the Apple Store.
I think they may be linking the launch of an unmanned US military shuttle shortly before the North Korean satellite launch and the fact their satellite unexpectedly (to them at least) failed to make a stable orbit.
But the message from Microsoft claiming Google 'reads' your email isn't? You don't think there's a difference between algorithmically scanning a message and reading it?
Is spamassassin 'reading' the email on my server? Does Hotmail/Outlook etc. not use algorithmic spam filtering? If so, wouldn't that mean Microsoft are also 'reading' their user's mail?
Well, you've probably heard of the iPad. I'm pretty sure there are now millions of folk using tablets as their primary computing device.
Some folk have probably noticed the lack of a keyboard can be an issue. For anyone using an android tablet, a chromebook would probably be a pretty decent complement and between the two devices you would have a nice complete package. Everything you work on is automagically on both devices, there's next to no management required. It just works.
If my parents need a new computer in the future, I'd have little hesitation in recommending one to them.