The entire point of the license fee is that because everyone with a TV has to pay it (no matter their political affiliation), the BBC can be relatively unbiased in their reporting. The second you attach advertising or a subscription to it, they end up biased.
Hmm? From the charts it seems like a choice: 1) Compare against the FX8370, in which case the intel is between 5% and 100% faster; and comes with a very good GPU. 2) Compare against the A10 APU, in which case the GPU is roughly on a par, and the CPU is about 100% faster across the board.
That seems like "much faster than any AMD processors" is justified.
The compatibility question is not over the CPU, but over the GPU. While Intel doesn't really market it well, this chip comes with an integrated GPU that's faster than most of AMD's APU GPUs, while the CPU is about twice as fast as any of AMD's APUs.
VW's proposed fix has not been announced yet. All that's been announced is that it will require hardware changes (which the people saying it would reduce milage were assuming it would not).
There are, but they require vandalizing the vehicle. I believe the typical one is to jam a screwdriver in the locking mechanism, but hopefully there's not actually anyone out there doing that.
That would be a fair comment if they'd paid much tax over the past 4 years (the typical life span of share vesting schemes in the tech industry), but Facebook paid £0 corporation tax in the UK in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
The point is not that the tax wasn't paid on the money handed to employees, it's that it clearly wasn't paid on something else.
You don't hand out £35m in bonuses to employees if you only made £15000 profit (what you would approximately need to in order to pay ~£4000 tax). Clearly the company is doing well, and making a large profit, or the management wouldn't feel the need to give everyone bonuses, so why then is the tax bill not higher?
Maybe things work differently in California but TFA seems to a bit strange to me. When I'm charging the charging cable is locked in at both ends. It can't be unplugged without a great amount of force, that will probably damage something.
It's not an "in California" thing - it's an "on some cars" thing. On the eGolf for example, the charger locks, and does not unlock unless the owner comes back and unlocks the vehicle. On the Leaf, it can be set to not lock even during charging (made safe by having control pins disconnect before power pins, and stopping charging as the plug is pulled).
Maybe. Or maybe the businesses will say "Hey, Fuck You. Schedule a stop at a charging station as part of your daily commute." You know, just like the rest of us do with our combustion engine vehicles.
That would be a weird and backwards thing to do. One of the main advantages of EVs is that you don't need to take 10 minutes out of your day to park and wait for hydrocarbons to flow into a tank. You just leave it plugged in while you're stopped for another reason anyway.
At home, that's trivial, you just plug into your charger - there's a 1 charger to 1 car ratio.
At work, supply hasn't yet caught up with demand. That, combined with the fact that companies try to encourage employees being green by making the chargers free, results in petty bickering. All that needs to happen is 1) supply needs to catch up (in reality, this means that eventually pretty much every space needs a charger) 2) employers need to start charging their employees for the electricity they use.
That's exactly what the subsidies do - they expose the costs of pollution to the power companies. They're a method of moving the internalization from the government to the power company (the people with the real control over which is used).
Yep... "The government can't organise anything, lets not let them have any money"... "Hey look, the government are failing to organise something with no resources, clear evidence that the government can't organise anything!"
Yes, but with the million dollars you spent on hardware to run your inefficient code, I hired 5 coders for a year, and got way further down the road with a well designed, architected and thought out system rather than a hack on top of a hack.
Right, but VW might have miss-sold 11 million cars. It looks very much like they have no way to fix those cars in such a way that they meet the advertised specs. With that in mind, it's likely they'll have to offer to buy them all back, which is likely to amount to something in the region of $330bn, before even considering any fine.
Every single one of those customers cared about being able to pass an emissions test, because every single one of those customers wants to drive their car legally on the road.
For example, one of the guidelines here is to always prefer make_shared over std::shared_ptr(new...). That's good advice for a couple of reasons 1) it allocates your memory for the shared_ptr control block and the object contiguously 2) it means you can't separate the allocation from the creation of the shared ptr and end up with an owner who's not looking at the shared ptr in-between.
However, it also means that if you have any weak_ptrs pointing at the end of that shared_ptr, the object itself won't go away until all the weak_ptrs do too (because the control structure won't go away until they do, and they're contiguously allocated).
"solidarity" is just part of the game. What you "leftist bashing" types miss is that when you're playing a game you should use every advantage you have. Forming unions, and creating solidarity between a group of players increases bargaining power, and allows you to make sure that you get the outcome you desire from the market.
Right, I mean, it's not like all these huge capitalist tech companies will adopt wind and solar until it's worth their while, and will please the share holders... Oh... wait, what's that? They all build giant solar farms next to their data centres because it's a hugely valuable investment?
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The entire point of the license fee is that because everyone with a TV has to pay it (no matter their political affiliation), the BBC can be relatively unbiased in their reporting. The second you attach advertising or a subscription to it, they end up biased.
BBC America is not the same as the BBC.
Hmm? From the charts it seems like a choice:
1) Compare against the FX8370, in which case the intel is between 5% and 100% faster; and comes with a very good GPU.
2) Compare against the A10 APU, in which case the GPU is roughly on a par, and the CPU is about 100% faster across the board.
That seems like "much faster than any AMD processors" is justified.
The compatibility question is not over the CPU, but over the GPU. While Intel doesn't really market it well, this chip comes with an integrated GPU that's faster than most of AMD's APU GPUs, while the CPU is about twice as fast as any of AMD's APUs.
Simple solution - socialise your healthcare.
I would bet heavily that the solution is indeed that they'll find room to install an AdBlue system.
VW's proposed fix has not been announced yet. All that's been announced is that it will require hardware changes (which the people saying it would reduce milage were assuming it would not).
There are, but they require vandalizing the vehicle. I believe the typical one is to jam a screwdriver in the locking mechanism, but hopefully there's not actually anyone out there doing that.
That would be a fair comment if they'd paid much tax over the past 4 years (the typical life span of share vesting schemes in the tech industry), but Facebook paid £0 corporation tax in the UK in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
The point is not that the tax wasn't paid on the money handed to employees, it's that it clearly wasn't paid on something else.
You don't hand out £35m in bonuses to employees if you only made £15000 profit (what you would approximately need to in order to pay ~£4000 tax). Clearly the company is doing well, and making a large profit, or the management wouldn't feel the need to give everyone bonuses, so why then is the tax bill not higher?
Maybe things work differently in California but TFA seems to a bit strange to me. When I'm charging the charging cable is locked in at both ends. It can't be unplugged without a great amount of force, that will probably damage something.
It's not an "in California" thing - it's an "on some cars" thing. On the eGolf for example, the charger locks, and does not unlock unless the owner comes back and unlocks the vehicle. On the Leaf, it can be set to not lock even during charging (made safe by having control pins disconnect before power pins, and stopping charging as the plug is pulled).
Maybe. Or maybe the businesses will say "Hey, Fuck You. Schedule a stop at a charging station as part of your daily commute." You know, just like the rest of us do with our combustion engine vehicles.
That would be a weird and backwards thing to do. One of the main advantages of EVs is that you don't need to take 10 minutes out of your day to park and wait for hydrocarbons to flow into a tank. You just leave it plugged in while you're stopped for another reason anyway.
At home, that's trivial, you just plug into your charger - there's a 1 charger to 1 car ratio.
At work, supply hasn't yet caught up with demand. That, combined with the fact that companies try to encourage employees being green by making the chargers free, results in petty bickering. All that needs to happen is 1) supply needs to catch up (in reality, this means that eventually pretty much every space needs a charger) 2) employers need to start charging their employees for the electricity they use.
[quote]The majority of slashdot readers are in the US.[/quote]
Citation Needed.
[quote]The majority of slashdot commenters are in the US as well.[/quote]
Citation Needed.
Why? It's not like Slashdot is a US centric web page... Why does it have to make special mention of the status in the US?
That's exactly what the subsidies do - they expose the costs of pollution to the power companies. They're a method of moving the internalization from the government to the power company (the people with the real control over which is used).
Sounds like an incredibly cheap version of a freight train if the freight lines don't go to the destination.
Yep... "The government can't organise anything, lets not let them have any money"... "Hey look, the government are failing to organise something with no resources, clear evidence that the government can't organise anything!"
Because they didn't have enough money to test the cars properly in 2002...
Yes, but with the million dollars you spent on hardware to run your inefficient code, I hired 5 coders for a year, and got way further down the road with a well designed, architected and thought out system rather than a hack on top of a hack.
Trivial to get enough energy from solar to power air con units.
Right, but VW might have miss-sold 11 million cars. It looks very much like they have no way to fix those cars in such a way that they meet the advertised specs. With that in mind, it's likely they'll have to offer to buy them all back, which is likely to amount to something in the region of $330bn, before even considering any fine.
Every single one of those customers cared about being able to pass an emissions test, because every single one of those customers wants to drive their car legally on the road.
For example, one of the guidelines here is to always prefer make_shared over std::shared_ptr(new ...). That's good advice for a couple of reasons
1) it allocates your memory for the shared_ptr control block and the object contiguously
2) it means you can't separate the allocation from the creation of the shared ptr and end up with an owner who's not looking at the shared ptr in-between.
However, it also means that if you have any weak_ptrs pointing at the end of that shared_ptr, the object itself won't go away until all the weak_ptrs do too (because the control structure won't go away until they do, and they're contiguously allocated).
"solidarity" is just part of the game. What you "leftist bashing" types miss is that when you're playing a game you should use every advantage you have. Forming unions, and creating solidarity between a group of players increases bargaining power, and allows you to make sure that you get the outcome you desire from the market.
Right, I mean, it's not like all these huge capitalist tech companies will adopt wind and solar until it's worth their while, and will please the share holders... Oh... wait, what's that? They all build giant solar farms next to their data centres because it's a hugely valuable investment?
Well, damn...