That's got the range but the 38K MSRP is a killer. I'm thinking prices are going to drop. I bought an HDTV for 600 bucks in 2010 which would have cost me 3,000 in 2005. I'm going to wait a few years.
That's some pretty convoluted and self serving logic there. Externalizing costs on things is a can of worms I don't think we really want to open. Especially when the actual costs are impossible to really define. Anyone can create figures and statistics to support their position.
It's a Tesla though, the costs associated with something like that is out of reach of most people. I've looked at the Nissan Leaf and it's borderline rangewise for a daily driver excluding road trips. It's a crackerbox probably about Honda Civic class and size but over 12 grand more MSRP. EV's are almost there and I figure in 5 years or so I might be getting one. I want one but they're still too range limited and expensive.
I don't think the tech is ready yet for anything outside an urban environment. I don't think it's very far away, maybe only 5 years or so, but right now I don't see anything that really is a good replacement for a daily driver with good range and a decent price equivalent to a gas vehicle. Now if you have Tesla type money then that's another matter.
When I can drive 300 miles, recharge in less than 30 minutes and drive on then I'm in. Oh, and not at twice the price of a gas vehicle. I actually would love an electric car but it's got to do what I need and I can't pay some ridiculous price for it.
Yes. It's a hobbyist board not a workhorse. Considering it's limitations it's amazing what people are doing with them. It's bringing the creativeness out in people.
It's a hobbyist board. It's okay to use as a computer but really I can pick up old junk 10 year old laptops at garage sales for 25 bucks that'll run rings around it. I have one set up with a desktop just to play around and it's maybe a slow P3 speed. It runs the raspbian pixel desktop pretty snappy though if you don't push too hard. I've had it choke a few times on too many open programs. It's amazing for what it is.
I'd say 16GB is the sweet spot. Those cards cost almost nothing now. I store most stuff on USB flash drives now or just stream over the network. The PI2 and 3 are fast enough to be useful. I now have the older original Pi boards retired to security camera duty.
There's a torrent for a 128GB sd image that has damn near every game ever made for NES, SNES and a bunch of other old consoles on it. I downloaded it and after writing it to a card I booted and was playing games a few minutes later. It's so easy it's almost stupid. Rpi3 is great until you get to N64 and dreamcast stuff. That's asking a little too much although some of the N64 games seem playable. Earlier than N64 and it's no problem at all. Haven't tried overclocking it yet.
He doesn't need to say anything. It's already been thoroughly debunked and the only people repeating it are idiots who haven't gotten the word. The whole thing was a scam by a guy at 4chan. Once you actually look at the story it just falls apart on it's own. Even the NYT refused to print it.
We're hitting those kids now. People run over kids all the time that are so small they just don't see them. That's the point, driving is inherently dangerous and right now we have millions of drivers who are unskilled or impaired in some way. I don't say the technology is ready at this minute but it's certainly improving at a rapid pace and isn't that far away.
There's no perfect technology. It only has to be nearly perfect. Considering how many people die on the highway every year I suspect that in another 5 years the driverless cars will be safer than the ones with a human controlling it. 92 people die on the roads in the US every day on average. If auto driving cars can halve that it'll be good enough.
I can see why he's attracted to Eastern European/Russian women. The trophy wife he's got now is awesome. I still don't get what difference it makes about the shower party. It's not my thing but the way the world is now that's actually pretty tame.
If you have to type more than a few sentences a tablet gets very tedious. The screen is less of a limitation. We're talking stuff that most laptops are used for which is mobile computing tasks such as social media and e-mail or general web surfing. Trying to do actual work is of course very annoying on a tablet.
I don't even think I care one way or the other. Although why he'd go all the way to Moscow for that when he could have the same experience in NYC I don't know. Or care. Of all the crazy things he's been accused of this is probably the least important.
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If you're playing that stick through the car's audio system then it shouldn't be a problem for the system to flip over to FM and alert you.
I figured that. Spellchecker doesn't catch those types or errors. :)
That's got the range but the 38K MSRP is a killer. I'm thinking prices are going to drop. I bought an HDTV for 600 bucks in 2010 which would have cost me 3,000 in 2005. I'm going to wait a few years.
That's some pretty convoluted and self serving logic there. Externalizing costs on things is a can of worms I don't think we really want to open. Especially when the actual costs are impossible to really define. Anyone can create figures and statistics to support their position.
Try doing work on it. The graphics are pretty fast but using pypar2 on it or any type of compression software and it starts to lug pretty hard.
640K was never enough. Not even when that quote was made.
It's a moving target as the price on storage tumbles.
I'm up to a 1.5 ratio on it now. Not going much past 2 to 1 so you better get after it.
Also it adds to the purchase price.
It's a Tesla though, the costs associated with something like that is out of reach of most people. I've looked at the Nissan Leaf and it's borderline rangewise for a daily driver excluding road trips. It's a crackerbox probably about Honda Civic class and size but over 12 grand more MSRP. EV's are almost there and I figure in 5 years or so I might be getting one. I want one but they're still too range limited and expensive.
I don't think the tech is ready yet for anything outside an urban environment. I don't think it's very far away, maybe only 5 years or so, but right now I don't see anything that really is a good replacement for a daily driver with good range and a decent price equivalent to a gas vehicle. Now if you have Tesla type money then that's another matter.
When I can drive 300 miles, recharge in less than 30 minutes and drive on then I'm in. Oh, and not at twice the price of a gas vehicle. I actually would love an electric car but it's got to do what I need and I can't pay some ridiculous price for it.
Yes. It's a hobbyist board not a workhorse. Considering it's limitations it's amazing what people are doing with them. It's bringing the creativeness out in people.
It's a hobbyist board. It's okay to use as a computer but really I can pick up old junk 10 year old laptops at garage sales for 25 bucks that'll run rings around it. I have one set up with a desktop just to play around and it's maybe a slow P3 speed. It runs the raspbian pixel desktop pretty snappy though if you don't push too hard. I've had it choke a few times on too many open programs. It's amazing for what it is.
I'd say 16GB is the sweet spot. Those cards cost almost nothing now. I store most stuff on USB flash drives now or just stream over the network. The PI2 and 3 are fast enough to be useful. I now have the older original Pi boards retired to security camera duty.
There's a torrent for a 128GB sd image that has damn near every game ever made for NES, SNES and a bunch of other old consoles on it. I downloaded it and after writing it to a card I booted and was playing games a few minutes later. It's so easy it's almost stupid. Rpi3 is great until you get to N64 and dreamcast stuff. That's asking a little too much although some of the N64 games seem playable. Earlier than N64 and it's no problem at all. Haven't tried overclocking it yet.
Well...I guess if you lay down in front of it you could die. Should die really.
He doesn't need to say anything. It's already been thoroughly debunked and the only people repeating it are idiots who haven't gotten the word. The whole thing was a scam by a guy at 4chan. Once you actually look at the story it just falls apart on it's own. Even the NYT refused to print it.
We're hitting those kids now. People run over kids all the time that are so small they just don't see them. That's the point, driving is inherently dangerous and right now we have millions of drivers who are unskilled or impaired in some way. I don't say the technology is ready at this minute but it's certainly improving at a rapid pace and isn't that far away.
There's no perfect technology. It only has to be nearly perfect. Considering how many people die on the highway every year I suspect that in another 5 years the driverless cars will be safer than the ones with a human controlling it. 92 people die on the roads in the US every day on average. If auto driving cars can halve that it'll be good enough.
It's definitely going to happen. Maybe in the 20's sometime.
If they were trying to kill us it wouldn't be running 15mph.
I can see why he's attracted to Eastern European/Russian women. The trophy wife he's got now is awesome. I still don't get what difference it makes about the shower party. It's not my thing but the way the world is now that's actually pretty tame.
If you have to type more than a few sentences a tablet gets very tedious. The screen is less of a limitation. We're talking stuff that most laptops are used for which is mobile computing tasks such as social media and e-mail or general web surfing. Trying to do actual work is of course very annoying on a tablet.
I don't even think I care one way or the other. Although why he'd go all the way to Moscow for that when he could have the same experience in NYC I don't know. Or care. Of all the crazy things he's been accused of this is probably the least important.