I did not estimate anything. 8-10 years is the expected lifespan of the average car made today as designed (also known as the design lifespan). This is based on a "typical" usage of 20K miles per year (which of course is a lot more miles than many people drive, but less than others). Of course many vehicles last longer then that and many shorter then that. It all depends on how you use them. Likewise, you can expect some of the Tesla vehicles to last more or less years also depending on how they are abused or taken care of.
Additionally, 8-10 years is the typical expected life span of regular gas burning cars today. While you *might* get by with extending a gas burning car's lifetime by rebuilding the engine for less than the cost of a replacement battery pack in a tesla car, it really is probably going to be a wash once you include the other maint costs...maybe even a win for the Tesla car. I really think the Tesla car is on par with it's gas counterparts both in terms of operating costs, range and features. The only fault is it's highish price tag, but it deserves the price tag given that it's a pioneer for technology innovation. They can't be expected to have competitive prices until they have competitors. And nobody else has a vehicle that even comes close. The Volt, leaf, ect are jokes compared to this car's capabilities.
TFA mentioned the planets had lost significant portions of their mass to the intense heat. I doubt there would be anything left for an archaeologist to look at.
Well, there is that...and the whole stability issue. I am still not interested until it gets stable. I guess some people have had some success with it not crashing, but it crashes all the time for me and my wife on different computers/OSs. And no, we don't run any special extensions or anything. Chrome doesn't crash doing the same thing on the same machine...so we use that now.
Yes, but really it's time this happened. Microsoft finally has a half way decent browser, it's been 18 months since IE6 and 7 were end of life'd, there is no reason for people to still be running on IE6/7 other then organizations being too stubborn or bureaucratic to make their stuff work on the new. The last project I was on we as a team of 8 devs + project manager and two testers spent weeks making the app backward compatible with IE6 just because there was other stuff that they refused to fix that only worked on IE6 so parts of the company was stuck on IE6. Obviously updates can be controlled, but hopefully this will start breaking up the log jam of dependencies on broken old version of IE...
And this would be the point where the fact that the Firefox devs have been trying to do too much with a "browser" becomes beyond blatantly obvious. Firefox team: get your stuff together or you will die a slow death of attrition.
Not surprised really. Well, a little surprised it has taken this long for something like this to happen given the leaks about how poorly encrypted (or not encrypted) the control channels are on these things.
I am a USA citizen, but I am really kinda glad they have it and hope they do share the tech with everybody. I think UAVs just serve to further insulate soldiers from the violence of war and make war crimes WAY too easy. If everybody has these little gadgets, then it levels the battlefield a bit as it were.
Seems less likely than Jurassic Park to attract enough tourists to keep such a venture solvent. Besides...what can they really do with one set of DNA? You bring one back from the dead as it were, but wouldn't you need at least two (male and female) to re-start the species...and several to have any remotely healthy genetic diversity? Frozen specimens have shown what the animal was like...not sure what more could be learned from a living example?
Why not use real twins? Seems like it would be cheaper and easier to apply some SNL makeup magic to a set of real twins to make them look the part instead of doing a bunch of digital post processing.
It was less then that actually. Businesses that are looking for a stable platform to work from will generally not even try to hit a target that moves that fast. And consumers are going to get "upgrade fatigue"....already are actually. I stopped using Firefox a few weeks ago and probably will not go back unless they stop this insanity and come up with a better way of doing things. The volume of jokes in these comments accurately reflects what FF has become: a joke.
OTOH, Chrome is treating me very well. It has all the features I need, behaves very well on almost all sites I go to (even ones that I wouldn't expect to work well) and almost NEVER crashes. Oh, and it's perceived speed on windows is WAY faster then FF right now (I could care less about benchmarks, I need my browser to be responsive in the real world)
What would be even more cool is if the software could "put it back"...re-create the look of the original picture. Obviously that would not be possible for some edits...but maybe for some of the airbrushing and such done on models?
Wish I had mod points. This is insightful. The population of the earth stayed relatively under control for centuries do to bloody wars, famines, plagues and the like. Now in the past 100-150 years we start eradicating all these things so we can live longer and what happens? The population goes wild.
The good news is that the GM stuff that is supposed to save lives will probably create some sort of zombie apocalypse that will bring things back into line:)
Here in the "Occupy Portland" camp, crime and related issues were ramping up significantly. Drug overdoses in the camp went from none, to one per week, to multiple per week. Reports of sexual assaults in the tents and makeshift structures were coming out almost daily. Vandalism to the parks and surrounding businesses went out of control (I haven't gone down there myself, but friends of mine that work for the city tell me the parks will require major repairs and some businesses were closed). There was a heavy police presence, but they couldn't be everywhere and where they weren't stuff happened. The last straw was the elements in the camp seeking confrontation stock piling shields and weapons including molatov cocktails, rocks, sticks and homemade frag grenades made with glass and fireworks. I heard people starting to talk about forming an angry mob with their own sticks and rocks to go down and confront the camps if the police didn't do anything. The police chief expressed much frustration with it being allowed to continue. The mayor was/is sympathetic to the protesters but simply had to go with the national effort to crack down because a mutiny in his own police department and community was brewing.
The other advantage the article points out is that it takes considerably less materials to build the Ryno. So it's more "green" and potentially cheaper to build.
Lets not forget that that horribly overpriced blackberry enterprise server was also buggy as *ell and a complete bear to support. I can't count how many times I got paged to log in and restart the blackbery server service because it crashed for some unexplained reason so my bosses could get email. Now they have Iphones and Droids that just work and the blackberry server was retired...and I get a little more sleep.
Adobe has nothing to gain. They lose. I am just saying there were ALOT of people that didn't like flash (Jobs being one of them) and Abobe's bad news is good news to them.
HTML does have a long way to go to be "there". But really, this is more about getting away from flash then going to HTML5. It wasn't just Steve Jobs that hated Flash...there were/are many many other people out there (including me) that passionately wish flash was never born. The wild popularity of flash blocking plugins is a small glimpse of that passion.
I don't know what is causing the issues. But both my wife and I rather consistently had issues on 4 different machines running three different versions of windows and has just gotten worse with each new version of FF we got. We don't run much of anything in the way of plugins, and our usage patterns and sites visited tend to be very different. At the same time I can run Chrome all day long without issues and it meets me needs equally well if not better. So why should I spend any valuable time to give FF another chance?
No, I really liked firefox's features and was loyal user for a very long time. Chrome has quite a few quirks, but has proven itself dependable for me. And like most users, I want something core to my workday like a browser to JUST WORK. I don't have the time or patience to be troubleshooting bugs and filing bug reports on it. My wife is even less forgiving: she doesn't have the time, patience, or wherewithal to be filing bug reports. And she is even more dependent on her browser to get her work done and make money then my job. No, quite certainly the perception and experience drove the decision in this case. Yes, the ff dev team is very active...but then maybe that is the problem? A code base that changes all the time is by definition not stable.
The instability and other issues mentioned by others have spoiled many people's opinions about Firefox. For many of us, a new version just doesn't matter because any improvement would be too late to matter. Ironically, just this morning I personally reached my final level of frustration and decided to quit using Firefox for good. Having a new version to play with is not enough to make me try it again...mostly because I have completely lost faith in the ff dev team in general. Chrome has been my primary browser of choice for some time (not because of any love for Google, but because it works fast and reliably for me). Safari is my new secondary browser now that FF is going in the rubbish bin.
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I did not estimate anything. 8-10 years is the expected lifespan of the average car made today as designed (also known as the design lifespan). This is based on a "typical" usage of 20K miles per year (which of course is a lot more miles than many people drive, but less than others). Of course many vehicles last longer then that and many shorter then that. It all depends on how you use them. Likewise, you can expect some of the Tesla vehicles to last more or less years also depending on how they are abused or taken care of.
Additionally, 8-10 years is the typical expected life span of regular gas burning cars today. While you *might* get by with extending a gas burning car's lifetime by rebuilding the engine for less than the cost of a replacement battery pack in a tesla car, it really is probably going to be a wash once you include the other maint costs...maybe even a win for the Tesla car. I really think the Tesla car is on par with it's gas counterparts both in terms of operating costs, range and features. The only fault is it's highish price tag, but it deserves the price tag given that it's a pioneer for technology innovation. They can't be expected to have competitive prices until they have competitors. And nobody else has a vehicle that even comes close. The Volt, leaf, ect are jokes compared to this car's capabilities.
TFA mentioned the planets had lost significant portions of their mass to the intense heat. I doubt there would be anything left for an archaeologist to look at.
So...your grave still exists on whats left of a scorched rock vs being completely destroyed leaving nothing but particles in space? Sounds WAY better!
Well, there is that...and the whole stability issue. I am still not interested until it gets stable. I guess some people have had some success with it not crashing, but it crashes all the time for me and my wife on different computers/OSs. And no, we don't run any special extensions or anything. Chrome doesn't crash doing the same thing on the same machine...so we use that now.
Yes, but really it's time this happened. Microsoft finally has a half way decent browser, it's been 18 months since IE6 and 7 were end of life'd, there is no reason for people to still be running on IE6/7 other then organizations being too stubborn or bureaucratic to make their stuff work on the new. The last project I was on we as a team of 8 devs + project manager and two testers spent weeks making the app backward compatible with IE6 just because there was other stuff that they refused to fix that only worked on IE6 so parts of the company was stuck on IE6. Obviously updates can be controlled, but hopefully this will start breaking up the log jam of dependencies on broken old version of IE...
And this would be the point where the fact that the Firefox devs have been trying to do too much with a "browser" becomes beyond blatantly obvious. Firefox team: get your stuff together or you will die a slow death of attrition.
So if they "clone" the thing, then attack with the clones, does that mean we will have a CLONE WAR? Sheesh, has start wars affected me or what? :)
Not surprised really. Well, a little surprised it has taken this long for something like this to happen given the leaks about how poorly encrypted (or not encrypted) the control channels are on these things.
I am a USA citizen, but I am really kinda glad they have it and hope they do share the tech with everybody. I think UAVs just serve to further insulate soldiers from the violence of war and make war crimes WAY too easy. If everybody has these little gadgets, then it levels the battlefield a bit as it were.
Seems less likely than Jurassic Park to attract enough tourists to keep such a venture solvent. Besides...what can they really do with one set of DNA? You bring one back from the dead as it were, but wouldn't you need at least two (male and female) to re-start the species...and several to have any remotely healthy genetic diversity? Frozen specimens have shown what the animal was like...not sure what more could be learned from a living example?
Why not use real twins? Seems like it would be cheaper and easier to apply some SNL makeup magic to a set of real twins to make them look the part instead of doing a bunch of digital post processing.
It was less then that actually. Businesses that are looking for a stable platform to work from will generally not even try to hit a target that moves that fast. And consumers are going to get "upgrade fatigue"....already are actually. I stopped using Firefox a few weeks ago and probably will not go back unless they stop this insanity and come up with a better way of doing things. The volume of jokes in these comments accurately reflects what FF has become: a joke.
OTOH, Chrome is treating me very well. It has all the features I need, behaves very well on almost all sites I go to (even ones that I wouldn't expect to work well) and almost NEVER crashes. Oh, and it's perceived speed on windows is WAY faster then FF right now (I could care less about benchmarks, I need my browser to be responsive in the real world)
What would be even more cool is if the software could "put it back"...re-create the look of the original picture. Obviously that would not be possible for some edits...but maybe for some of the airbrushing and such done on models?
Suck on this! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World-Population-1800-2100.png
Graboids! Sweeeeet:)
Wish I had mod points. This is insightful. The population of the earth stayed relatively under control for centuries do to bloody wars, famines, plagues and the like. Now in the past 100-150 years we start eradicating all these things so we can live longer and what happens? The population goes wild. The good news is that the GM stuff that is supposed to save lives will probably create some sort of zombie apocalypse that will bring things back into line:)
That's why I only drink distilled water and pure grain alcohol!
Here in the "Occupy Portland" camp, crime and related issues were ramping up significantly. Drug overdoses in the camp went from none, to one per week, to multiple per week. Reports of sexual assaults in the tents and makeshift structures were coming out almost daily. Vandalism to the parks and surrounding businesses went out of control (I haven't gone down there myself, but friends of mine that work for the city tell me the parks will require major repairs and some businesses were closed). There was a heavy police presence, but they couldn't be everywhere and where they weren't stuff happened. The last straw was the elements in the camp seeking confrontation stock piling shields and weapons including molatov cocktails, rocks, sticks and homemade frag grenades made with glass and fireworks. I heard people starting to talk about forming an angry mob with their own sticks and rocks to go down and confront the camps if the police didn't do anything. The police chief expressed much frustration with it being allowed to continue. The mayor was/is sympathetic to the protesters but simply had to go with the national effort to crack down because a mutiny in his own police department and community was brewing.
The other advantage the article points out is that it takes considerably less materials to build the Ryno. So it's more "green" and potentially cheaper to build.
Lets not forget that that horribly overpriced blackberry enterprise server was also buggy as *ell and a complete bear to support. I can't count how many times I got paged to log in and restart the blackbery server service because it crashed for some unexplained reason so my bosses could get email. Now they have Iphones and Droids that just work and the blackberry server was retired...and I get a little more sleep.
Adobe has nothing to gain. They lose. I am just saying there were ALOT of people that didn't like flash (Jobs being one of them) and Abobe's bad news is good news to them.
HTML does have a long way to go to be "there". But really, this is more about getting away from flash then going to HTML5. It wasn't just Steve Jobs that hated Flash...there were/are many many other people out there (including me) that passionately wish flash was never born. The wild popularity of flash blocking plugins is a small glimpse of that passion.
I don't know what is causing the issues. But both my wife and I rather consistently had issues on 4 different machines running three different versions of windows and has just gotten worse with each new version of FF we got. We don't run much of anything in the way of plugins, and our usage patterns and sites visited tend to be very different. At the same time I can run Chrome all day long without issues and it meets me needs equally well if not better. So why should I spend any valuable time to give FF another chance?
No, I really liked firefox's features and was loyal user for a very long time. Chrome has quite a few quirks, but has proven itself dependable for me. And like most users, I want something core to my workday like a browser to JUST WORK. I don't have the time or patience to be troubleshooting bugs and filing bug reports on it. My wife is even less forgiving: she doesn't have the time, patience, or wherewithal to be filing bug reports. And she is even more dependent on her browser to get her work done and make money then my job. No, quite certainly the perception and experience drove the decision in this case. Yes, the ff dev team is very active...but then maybe that is the problem? A code base that changes all the time is by definition not stable.
The instability and other issues mentioned by others have spoiled many people's opinions about Firefox. For many of us, a new version just doesn't matter because any improvement would be too late to matter. Ironically, just this morning I personally reached my final level of frustration and decided to quit using Firefox for good. Having a new version to play with is not enough to make me try it again...mostly because I have completely lost faith in the ff dev team in general. Chrome has been my primary browser of choice for some time (not because of any love for Google, but because it works fast and reliably for me). Safari is my new secondary browser now that FF is going in the rubbish bin.