You're right. What he should have said was 0.002% of computer users upgrade their hardware. 0.00002% upgrade laptops. 0.00000002% upgrade laptops beyond upgrading RAM or swapping in a bigger hard drive.
The first figure is probably not correct, but the others likely aren't too far off.
"simply paying the expert less than it would cost to replace the expensive device."
Yeah, that's the problem. Upgrades, particularly upgrades other than memory and HD, particularly in laptops, are rarely cost effective, especially when you have to pay someone else to do it for you. It's cheaper to sell or repurpose the old device and buy a new one.
Yes, I was thinking of a control line NOT running CAN. A unidirectional CAN bus doesn't make any more sense than a unidirectional TCP/IP network.
However, you could have a doohickey that talks CAN to the transmission on one side, CAN to the radio on the other, and the link between the two sides is a simple one way signal, optoisolated if you want to make absolutely sure. There isn't really any reason the radio has to be on the same CAN bus as the important stuff except convenience.
Ah, back in the good old days where, when you saw "watch this video" it was a hyperlink, clearly telling you where the video was located.
Now that we have abusive ads all over the place and all run flash blockers, but everyone likes to do embedded videos because clicking on links is so old fashioned, none of us can tell when TFV is anymore.
You gave a single redundant system... what are the other two?
If your doors don't open after a crash it's not very likely your windows will. And windows have this great manual override - they break. you do have something to break windows with in your car, don't you?
Studies have suggested that once over 44 hours a week, productivity starts to decline faster than the gains from longer working hours
Studies have shown that working more than 40 hours a week is more productive for the first week. For the second week you break even... you're about as productive as if you'd just worked 40 hours. The third week, and after, you're losing. You're less productive (overall, not per hour) than someone who just worked 40.
There are also studies that show that the people who claim to work more crazy 60, 70, 80 hour work weeks actually don't.
As people (particularly females) become more educated, they have more kids. The industrialized nations all have native populations that are decreasing. Only the third world is still increasing in population and that's slowing down too.
Of course you can get lung cancer from things other than smoking. But smoking does in increase the risk, and by quite a bit. Smoking is the leading cause (by far) of preventable death. It's just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
And your 10% figure understates the danger. Smoking carries around a 30% chance of premature death from all causes. That's like putting two bullets in the chamber and putting the gun to your head because just one is for pussies.
The problem is, people are shit at risk-benefit analysis. This guy is too. There is no alcoholism gene. There are lots of poorly understood genes that slightly increase or decrease your risk.
Yes, we screen for things like cystic fibrosis because those are the very few diseases that are liked overwhelmingly to individual genes. Everything else... is complicated.
What's with the irrelevant anecdotes in the first paragraphs of articles these days? The article is about Ryan, not Kucinich. Mention of Kucinich seems to be entirely gratuitous.
Functionality maybe, but full height cutaways in the case sound like they'd be a build quality issue.
Personally, I'd much rather carry around a dongle for VGA rather than have it built permanently into my notebook. Ditto with the ethernet port (I can't remember the last time I used mine). I've also replaced the optical drive with an SSD because I can't remember the last time I used it. Things that I don't use frequently are quite well left to dongles.
Walled garden? Let's see... yup, I can still install anything I want on my Macbook Pro. Oh, and the flagship IDE and compiler is still free. Comes with GCC too. And Python and Perl out of the box. Maybe you're taking a creative writing class and accidentally posted your poem on Slashdot?
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You're right. What he should have said was 0.002% of computer users upgrade their hardware. 0.00002% upgrade laptops. 0.00000002% upgrade laptops beyond upgrading RAM or swapping in a bigger hard drive.
The first figure is probably not correct, but the others likely aren't too far off.
"simply paying the expert less than it would cost to replace the expensive device."
Yeah, that's the problem. Upgrades, particularly upgrades other than memory and HD, particularly in laptops, are rarely cost effective, especially when you have to pay someone else to do it for you. It's cheaper to sell or repurpose the old device and buy a new one.
So what you're saying is that upgradability was not a real factor in people choosing, or not choosing, the Air.
"When Apple seems like something more than an also-ran in computing"
You know you're talking about the most valuable US company in history, right?
Yes, I was thinking of a control line NOT running CAN. A unidirectional CAN bus doesn't make any more sense than a unidirectional TCP/IP network.
However, you could have a doohickey that talks CAN to the transmission on one side, CAN to the radio on the other, and the link between the two sides is a simple one way signal, optoisolated if you want to make absolutely sure. There isn't really any reason the radio has to be on the same CAN bus as the important stuff except convenience.
Ah, back in the good old days where, when you saw "watch this video" it was a hyperlink, clearly telling you where the video was located.
Now that we have abusive ads all over the place and all run flash blockers, but everyone likes to do embedded videos because clicking on links is so old fashioned, none of us can tell when TFV is anymore.
You gave a single redundant system... what are the other two?
If your doors don't open after a crash it's not very likely your windows will. And windows have this great manual override - they break. you do have something to break windows with in your car, don't you?
"The hard part is making a single RW bus read only in the proper direction at all times."
That's not hard at all. If you want to be really sure you use an optoisolator.
They can't just unblock their OWN ads. That would be too obvious. By unblocking Google's too they can claim it's for "security."
Studies have shown that working more than 40 hours a week is more productive for the first week. For the second week you break even... you're about as productive as if you'd just worked 40 hours. The third week, and after, you're losing. You're less productive (overall, not per hour) than someone who just worked 40.
There are also studies that show that the people who claim to work more crazy 60, 70, 80 hour work weeks actually don't.
Three days a week, of course. Most of it from a hammock.
No, there are currently no stars close enough to us that are also large enough and late enough in their lives to endanger us with a gamma ray pulse.
Fewer kids. Whoops.
As people (particularly females) become more educated, they have more kids. The industrialized nations all have native populations that are decreasing. Only the third world is still increasing in population and that's slowing down too.
Nobel prize winners do seem to have a much higher than normal tendency to go completely off the deep end.
Then they wouldn't have released a statement saying they didn't recognize diplomatic asylum.
MS sells ads. The biggest use of the HOSTS file is blocking ads. Google wishes they could do this.
Of course you can get lung cancer from things other than smoking. But smoking does in increase the risk, and by quite a bit. Smoking is the leading cause (by far) of preventable death. It's just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
And your 10% figure understates the danger. Smoking carries around a 30% chance of premature death from all causes. That's like putting two bullets in the chamber and putting the gun to your head because just one is for pussies.
The problem is, people are shit at risk-benefit analysis. This guy is too. There is no alcoholism gene. There are lots of poorly understood genes that slightly increase or decrease your risk.
Yes, we screen for things like cystic fibrosis because those are the very few diseases that are liked overwhelmingly to individual genes. Everything else... is complicated.
People don't have the ability to assess risks. There are lots of studies. We simply can't do it. The word nuclear isn't necessary.
A ten percent chance of getting lung cancer is very, very high. That's approaching Russian roulette territory.
What's with the irrelevant anecdotes in the first paragraphs of articles these days? The article is about Ryan, not Kucinich. Mention of Kucinich seems to be entirely gratuitous.
No, it's not. You've clearly never developed for an iPad. Or used one much.
That would be lumping the iPad UI in with the desktop. The iPad UI is unique, agreeing with the three groups you stated.
Functionality maybe, but full height cutaways in the case sound like they'd be a build quality issue.
Personally, I'd much rather carry around a dongle for VGA rather than have it built permanently into my notebook. Ditto with the ethernet port (I can't remember the last time I used mine). I've also replaced the optical drive with an SSD because I can't remember the last time I used it. Things that I don't use frequently are quite well left to dongles.
Walled garden? Let's see... yup, I can still install anything I want on my Macbook Pro. Oh, and the flagship IDE and compiler is still free. Comes with GCC too. And Python and Perl out of the box. Maybe you're taking a creative writing class and accidentally posted your poem on Slashdot?