I don't think that's going to happen this decade, and maybe never if there's not some fundamental discovery in battery chemistry. The Leaf has an incredibly short range and costs $29k US, even Musk is only targeting 30-40% reduction in battery (not system) costs this decade.
We rented a mini-van a couple times a year for our family vacations because the sedan wasn't big enough.
Why? The cost difference between a family sedan and a minivan plus the small additional cost of fuel is less than renting a minivan one week a year, let alone multiple weeks. I know, I've done the numbers and while I'd like to get my wife a more fuel efficient vehicle for her next one it makes zero economic sense when we take 2-3 weeks of long distance trips (we've been to 38 states so far, most by car).
The same is happening with the big investment banks in NYC -- there's no longer a physical reason to be right next to the stock exchange (though your data center still needs to be.)
Actually the datacenters are all out in NJ since NYSE/Euronext moved their own datacenter over the river to Mahwah in 2010.
Uh, long term leases in the Willis tower are going for $15-20/sq ft, that means even my very modest 1,050 sq ft house with basement would be at least $2,625/month for the same amount of space, my mortgage is less than 1/5th that and it includes an acre of land as a free bonus.
Workers never get to leave the company's premises.
Not true, they leave for Chinese Newyear. I was listening to an interesting piece of NPR and apparently the entire country shuts down for 2-3 weeks and the backlog of orders carries on for 2 months after that so if you outsource you have to have it built into your timetables. Part of the backlog is apparently caused by 15-20% of the workers failing to return because they found work closer to home or they decided that farming wasn't that bad.
Also this is why many high profile people have any assets that require government registration (like vehicles and property) in a holding company, it makes the cyber stalking a little bit harder.
The obvious problem is with the existence of the TSA to begin with, but bureaucracy doesn't work to eliminate itself, only to grow and consume ever greater amounts of resources.
Well, the field mice in the city do have a significantly raised mutation and mortality rate, but outside of the city and the area surrounding the plant things in the exclusion zone aren't really that bad as far as we can tell. The wolves are doing pretty well since there's so much prey with no people or other large predators in the area.
Actually if the hardware will run 4.x it will certainly run Kitkat since Kitkat was optimized for low end hardware. In fact many devices running Gingerbread could run Kitkat if the industry gave a damn. If I hadn't just upgraded my wife from her Optimus V to a Moto X I'd probably work on porting CM11 M2 to it since there's already a CM10 (aka ICS) port. Since the Optimus V can run ICS pretty much any piece of hardware released in the last 4 years can (it was $99 off contract at release 3.5 years ago, hardware doesn't get much cheaper or low end than that).
Btw these kind of issues do point out that RMS isn't completely wrong, if it weren't for the poor quality binary drivers and the locked bootloaders anyone who wanted to could easily upgrade since there are plenty of people willing to make upgrades even with the current anti-consumer state of affairs, with an open system there would be no need for these kinds of vulnerabilities to stick around.
Also it makes me feel good about running adaway, most of the sites hosting this kind of crap will be blocked by one of the ad or malware blocklists I've got in the subscription.
Uh, the subpoenas are for any crime where the police have reasonable cause to obtain the call or location data of a suspect, not just terrorists. To me that seems reasonable, there were 1.2M violent crimes in the US in 2011 according to the FBI, that means the police are only requesting call or location data in at most 1/3rd of such cases (probably many are for non-violent crimes, though it would have to be a fairly major property crime or spree of such for the cops to go through the trouble of doing the paperwork).
No, it has not always been this way! In fact when Akamai first started out ISP's were housing their cache boxes for free because it was cheaper to pay for the bit of power and AC for them then it was to pay for additional upstream bandwidth. Also Tier-1 ISP's have ALWAYS carried traffic in a neutral way and without charge to each other (you've been here long enough that you should know what tariff free peering is). These deals aren't about the costs, providing peering points for traffic is relatively cheap, this is about the last mile providers abusing their monopoly/duopoly positions to rent seek.
The savings aren't enough, I looked at getting my wife a smaller vehicle to replace her minivan as we really only need the size and third row seating for the 2-3 weeks a year where we're traveling long distances. Renting a minivan for 2 weeks costs more than the fuel for her current vehicle for the entire year.
Someone did the math the last time this came up on slashdot and the fires per vehicle produced were about 1/3rd of average for Tesla vs the general pool of vehicles, but the counterargument was that Teslas were much newer than the average vehicle and so it wasn't necessarily a good comparison. I doubt anyone outside of an insurance company's actuary department has enough data on similar vehicle rates to know for sure. All I know is that a Tesla went through a brick wall at a high rate of speed and the driver got out and watched a fire consume the vehicle some minutes later, having crashed a normal car into something much less substantial at a fraction of the speed that tells me everything I need to know about the Teslas safety design.
Nope, no trespassing signs can't help you legally, and in fact can hurt you. If someone is injured on your property and it is marked no trespassing the courts may assume you knew you had a hazard on your property and were trying to keep people away via signage instead of proper methods. It's incredibly stupid but it's the way it is.
would be around 10,000 metric tons or tens of billions of dollars just in launch costs. Or a rounding error in the US and Chinese annual defense budget, it's not that we can't do ambitious things, it's that we choose not to.
Have they recently acquired new executives that are hellbent on selling absolutely everything that isn't mainframes and $$$$$/hour consultants?
Yes, their previous CEO made a stupid goal of $20 operating EPS by 2015 and the new CEO seems to be hell bent on hitting that target, whether that's from an incentive program or ego talking I'm not sure.
Agreed, I went to beta on day one after being a mobile beta participant and what I saw horrified me. I wrote a very detailed writeup about what was wrong with the design and even gave them the tweaks I had made to their CSS using Tampermonkey to make the site less annoying, and yet absolutely nothing of substance changed between when I wrote them and when they foisted it on the larger population. Why the hell am I being asked to give feedback if you're not going to take any of it seriously?
Nah, I've gladly paid more money for HP hardware and support over Dell for the last 10 years, but if HP is actually going to make my life more difficult by putting their crappy website behind a paywall so I can't find the updates I need then I'll take my money elsewhere. I know I'm not alone either because anyone shopping on price alone has been going Dell/Supermicro all along.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think that's going to happen this decade, and maybe never if there's not some fundamental discovery in battery chemistry. The Leaf has an incredibly short range and costs $29k US, even Musk is only targeting 30-40% reduction in battery (not system) costs this decade.
We rented a mini-van a couple times a year for our family vacations because the sedan wasn't big enough.
Why? The cost difference between a family sedan and a minivan plus the small additional cost of fuel is less than renting a minivan one week a year, let alone multiple weeks. I know, I've done the numbers and while I'd like to get my wife a more fuel efficient vehicle for her next one it makes zero economic sense when we take 2-3 weeks of long distance trips (we've been to 38 states so far, most by car).
The same is happening with the big investment banks in NYC -- there's no longer a physical reason to be right next to the stock exchange (though your data center still needs to be.)
Actually the datacenters are all out in NJ since NYSE/Euronext moved their own datacenter over the river to Mahwah in 2010.
Uh, 20% of Foxconn's workers don't return, not 20% of China's population.
Uh, long term leases in the Willis tower are going for $15-20/sq ft, that means even my very modest 1,050 sq ft house with basement would be at least $2,625/month for the same amount of space, my mortgage is less than 1/5th that and it includes an acre of land as a free bonus.
Workers never get to leave the company's premises.
Not true, they leave for Chinese Newyear. I was listening to an interesting piece of NPR and apparently the entire country shuts down for 2-3 weeks and the backlog of orders carries on for 2 months after that so if you outsource you have to have it built into your timetables. Part of the backlog is apparently caused by 15-20% of the workers failing to return because they found work closer to home or they decided that farming wasn't that bad.
Also this is why many high profile people have any assets that require government registration (like vehicles and property) in a holding company, it makes the cyber stalking a little bit harder.
They got their name and address from the DMV and used a data broker to get their email or phone contact information, duh.
The obvious problem is with the existence of the TSA to begin with, but bureaucracy doesn't work to eliminate itself, only to grow and consume ever greater amounts of resources.
Well, the field mice in the city do have a significantly raised mutation and mortality rate, but outside of the city and the area surrounding the plant things in the exclusion zone aren't really that bad as far as we can tell. The wolves are doing pretty well since there's so much prey with no people or other large predators in the area.
Actually if the hardware will run 4.x it will certainly run Kitkat since Kitkat was optimized for low end hardware. In fact many devices running Gingerbread could run Kitkat if the industry gave a damn. If I hadn't just upgraded my wife from her Optimus V to a Moto X I'd probably work on porting CM11 M2 to it since there's already a CM10 (aka ICS) port. Since the Optimus V can run ICS pretty much any piece of hardware released in the last 4 years can (it was $99 off contract at release 3.5 years ago, hardware doesn't get much cheaper or low end than that).
Btw these kind of issues do point out that RMS isn't completely wrong, if it weren't for the poor quality binary drivers and the locked bootloaders anyone who wanted to could easily upgrade since there are plenty of people willing to make upgrades even with the current anti-consumer state of affairs, with an open system there would be no need for these kinds of vulnerabilities to stick around.
Also it makes me feel good about running adaway, most of the sites hosting this kind of crap will be blocked by one of the ad or malware blocklists I've got in the subscription.
Almost every Android manufacturer except Samsung: What are those?
Seriously the average number of OTA updates is slightly under 1 because while a few phones get 2 or 3 there are many that never get any.
Uh, the subpoenas are for any crime where the police have reasonable cause to obtain the call or location data of a suspect, not just terrorists. To me that seems reasonable, there were 1.2M violent crimes in the US in 2011 according to the FBI, that means the police are only requesting call or location data in at most 1/3rd of such cases (probably many are for non-violent crimes, though it would have to be a fairly major property crime or spree of such for the cops to go through the trouble of doing the paperwork).
No, it has not always been this way! In fact when Akamai first started out ISP's were housing their cache boxes for free because it was cheaper to pay for the bit of power and AC for them then it was to pay for additional upstream bandwidth. Also Tier-1 ISP's have ALWAYS carried traffic in a neutral way and without charge to each other (you've been here long enough that you should know what tariff free peering is). These deals aren't about the costs, providing peering points for traffic is relatively cheap, this is about the last mile providers abusing their monopoly/duopoly positions to rent seek.
The savings aren't enough, I looked at getting my wife a smaller vehicle to replace her minivan as we really only need the size and third row seating for the 2-3 weeks a year where we're traveling long distances. Renting a minivan for 2 weeks costs more than the fuel for her current vehicle for the entire year.
Someone did the math the last time this came up on slashdot and the fires per vehicle produced were about 1/3rd of average for Tesla vs the general pool of vehicles, but the counterargument was that Teslas were much newer than the average vehicle and so it wasn't necessarily a good comparison. I doubt anyone outside of an insurance company's actuary department has enough data on similar vehicle rates to know for sure. All I know is that a Tesla went through a brick wall at a high rate of speed and the driver got out and watched a fire consume the vehicle some minutes later, having crashed a normal car into something much less substantial at a fraction of the speed that tells me everything I need to know about the Teslas safety design.
Depends on how the company is organized, if it's a wholly owned subsidiary or a conglomeration then sure, the subunit could have a CEO.
Nope, no trespassing signs can't help you legally, and in fact can hurt you. If someone is injured on your property and it is marked no trespassing the courts may assume you knew you had a hazard on your property and were trying to keep people away via signage instead of proper methods. It's incredibly stupid but it's the way it is.
would be around 10,000 metric tons or tens of billions of dollars just in launch costs.
Or a rounding error in the US and Chinese annual defense budget, it's not that we can't do ambitious things, it's that we choose not to.
Hell, even Intel is putting off equipping Fab 42 due to slack global demand and the huge $5B+ cost.
Have they recently acquired new executives that are hellbent on selling absolutely everything that isn't mainframes and $$$$$/hour consultants?
Yes, their previous CEO made a stupid goal of $20 operating EPS by 2015 and the new CEO seems to be hell bent on hitting that target, whether that's from an incentive program or ego talking I'm not sure.
Agreed, I went to beta on day one after being a mobile beta participant and what I saw horrified me. I wrote a very detailed writeup about what was wrong with the design and even gave them the tweaks I had made to their CSS using Tampermonkey to make the site less annoying, and yet absolutely nothing of substance changed between when I wrote them and when they foisted it on the larger population. Why the hell am I being asked to give feedback if you're not going to take any of it seriously?
No need to be a millionaire, you should be able to buy it for a couple bucks since they already wrote down the value to zero.
Yes, but Intel is an American corporation which only manufactures outside of the USA
Pure B.S.
Nah, I've gladly paid more money for HP hardware and support over Dell for the last 10 years, but if HP is actually going to make my life more difficult by putting their crappy website behind a paywall so I can't find the updates I need then I'll take my money elsewhere. I know I'm not alone either because anyone shopping on price alone has been going Dell/Supermicro all along.