He should have said modern battery technology, and you're -- pardon my French -- being a pedantic idiot.
Modern lithium-ion batteries are currently declining in price by 15% YOY.
And advancements in battery technology are coming at a rapid clip. Be it carbon-nanotube electrodes that cut charging time by 70% and increase power density by 150% (Samsung), or graphene-based super capacitors that promise 7 minute recharges and 500 mile ranges (Fisker), efficiency improvements are coming.
Too much modern technology (electric cars, computers, phones, tablets) relies on battery technology, and research in that field is hot and heavy.
The thing with Prius is that one should consider the additional cost as insurance paid against gas price fluctuations. And, like most insurance, you hope you don't need it.
If we had (or have) major issues in the mideast or the gulf (war, hurricane, etc.) that caused gas prices to bump back up to $5/gallon or more, then your Prius could more than paid off the difference in price. We didn't, but that was hard to foresee a few years ago.
You also need to factor in maintenance costs, yes? We just spent $300 replacing brakes in a 3-year-old car, whereas the Prius does regenerative braking. Prius tires are also smaller (and thus cheaper) than regular tires. Engine maintenance is required less often. And so on.
As the article indicates, under current conditions, hybrid vehicles are slightly more expensive, but not significantly so.
It's easy to work out if you come at if from the other angle: ISPs aren't pushing for this so they can make LESS money.
So, the "average" individual will pay more, both in fees to ISPs and in increased costs in services passed on to the individual by companies who are in turn paying more for "unthrottled" or even premium internet access.
I could make a fairly strong case for today's multi-core processors being fundamentally different in design and execution than the mini's and mainframes of the 60's. Similarly, today's massively parallel designs in GPUs are also fundamental advances.
If you took a list of jobs, ranked by the number of people who do each one, you'll have to go all of the way down to number 33 on the list to find a new job that didn't exist 100 years ago: computer programmer.
Sure, there have been technological advancements and "new" jobs, but most "new" jobs aren't new at all, because by and large the general categories have remained the same: driver, delivery man, manager, secretary, assembly line worker. It's just today that the assembly line worker snaps together circuit boards and screens as opposed to stamping car parts or sewing together buggy whips.
The website marking expert of today, (a "new job") once managed magazine and newspaper advertising. The Uber driver of today was the cabby of yesterday and the carriage driver of yesteryear, and, if Uber has it's way, replaced by the self-driving car of tomorrow.
It's been estimated that up to 45% of the jobs that people in the US currently do today are up for automation in the next couple of decades. That's 45% of the workforce, and if you're one of the those dislocated you're not going to just be able to switch to another field, because people there have also been dislocated and they're also looking for work.
All told, here in the US we're looking at employment disruptions measured in the tens of millions, and all of them occurring within the next decade.
The Great Depression had an unemployment rate of 25%. What happens when that number hits 45%?
I'd advise that everyone watch the following video, Humans Need Not Apply
"There's very little point, in fact, for a business to ever create a universal AI that can think like a human. "
Have to take exception with this one. Training ML algorithm to solve problems s is a time-intensive, expensive proposition, and training one to play chess (for example) does nothing for playing go, poker, or even tic-tac-toe.
Which means that self-adaptive learning systems would in fact be just the thing for "business" to want to develop.
Actually there's a swift-evolution project where quite a few people (including non-Apple employees) are involved with Swift language design, proposals, and evolution.
Got any good examples as to "order of parameters changing in a method"?
Swift was originally tied pretty closely to the Objective-C API and headers. Swift 3 did do a host of function/parameter renaming, but on the whole they simplified the language and API quite a bit. Besides, one auto-migration and you're done.
And if you're skipping most of the new features, then you're not using optionals, closures, enums, and other new features to your advantage. Apple has some numbers that indicate Swift reduces the number of potential crash errors in your code by about 40% over Obj-C.
Obligated? No. But if you need an excuse for doing the right thing and lending a helping hand to those in need, keep in mind that foreign aid can help stabilize regions and help prevent disaffected youth or other people from forming and/or joining organizations detrimental to the US (e.g. ISIS).
IOW, a little money spent today might prevent a ton of money and lives from being lost when someone decides that they have nothing to lose by running an airliner or two into your country's skyscrapers.
And FWIW, I've found that most of the people who complain the loudest about foreign aid also tend to complain about any tax dollars spent here in the US.
Not to mention changes in technology. Fisker is reportedly about to introduce a car powered by LSG–manganese-dioxide super-capacitors, and they're suggesting a 400-mile range with a 9-minute recharge cycle.
The Apple had about a half-dozen expansion slots and Apple published the schematics and circuit board diagrams. That openness encouraged people to expand it, and even let Apple expand it with the floppy drive controller, serial cards, parallel cards, and RAM cards.
The Pet and the TRS-80 did not.
In fact, I still have an original Apple ][ "red" book...
It's not stitching two real images. The wide angle lens is used to provide depth information that can be used to compute the area captured by the telephone lens that needs to be blurred, as well as to what extent.
Accurate depth information allows the effect to be more gradual in areas near the subject plane and more pronounced for the foreground and background, which in turn makes the result more realistic as opposed to other techniques that simply blur the area around the subject equally.
Funny, I thought Food Stamps, SNAP, EBT, and other "socialist" programs were high among the "entitlements" Conservatives were drooling at the mouth to cut and/or defund...
I do not want web apps to be "first class" citizens. We got rid of Flash precisely because of the security issues giving unknown apps system-level access entailed...
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Ah... which part about "it's a study" is unclear?
And doesn't Prius have one of the highest resale values out there? There's more to your purchase than just the price of gas.
He should have said modern battery technology, and you're -- pardon my French -- being a pedantic idiot.
Modern lithium-ion batteries are currently declining in price by 15% YOY.
And advancements in battery technology are coming at a rapid clip. Be it carbon-nanotube electrodes that cut charging time by 70% and increase power density by 150% (Samsung), or graphene-based super capacitors that promise 7 minute recharges and 500 mile ranges (Fisker), efficiency improvements are coming.
Too much modern technology (electric cars, computers, phones, tablets) relies on battery technology, and research in that field is hot and heavy.
The thing with Prius is that one should consider the additional cost as insurance paid against gas price fluctuations. And, like most insurance, you hope you don't need it.
If we had (or have) major issues in the mideast or the gulf (war, hurricane, etc.) that caused gas prices to bump back up to $5/gallon or more, then your Prius could more than paid off the difference in price. We didn't, but that was hard to foresee a few years ago.
You also need to factor in maintenance costs, yes? We just spent $300 replacing brakes in a 3-year-old car, whereas the Prius does regenerative braking. Prius tires are also smaller (and thus cheaper) than regular tires. Engine maintenance is required less often. And so on.
As the article indicates, under current conditions, hybrid vehicles are slightly more expensive, but not significantly so.
"Your EV wastes more energy than my diesel."
Are those your numbers or Volkswagen's?
Is it? True, anyone can just throws words on the page, but creating and verifying accurate, factual, useful content takes time. And skill. And money.
Some say that ignorance is bliss...
I say ignorance is just ignorance.
"I refuse to pay for anything on the internet."
Then you get nothing but the crap you deserve.
If there's one thing 2017 has taught me, it's that accurate and factual national and international news is definitely essential information.
It's easy to work out if you come at if from the other angle: ISPs aren't pushing for this so they can make LESS money.
So, the "average" individual will pay more, both in fees to ISPs and in increased costs in services passed on to the individual by companies who are in turn paying more for "unthrottled" or even premium internet access.
I could make a fairly strong case for today's multi-core processors being fundamentally different in design and execution than the mini's and mainframes of the 60's. Similarly, today's massively parallel designs in GPUs are also fundamental advances.
If you took a list of jobs, ranked by the number of people who do each one, you'll have to go all of the way down to number 33 on the list to find a new job that didn't exist 100 years ago: computer programmer.
Sure, there have been technological advancements and "new" jobs, but most "new" jobs aren't new at all, because by and large the general categories have remained the same: driver, delivery man, manager, secretary, assembly line worker. It's just today that the assembly line worker snaps together circuit boards and screens as opposed to stamping car parts or sewing together buggy whips.
The website marking expert of today, (a "new job") once managed magazine and newspaper advertising. The Uber driver of today was the cabby of yesterday and the carriage driver of yesteryear, and, if Uber has it's way, replaced by the self-driving car of tomorrow.
It's been estimated that up to 45% of the jobs that people in the US currently do today are up for automation in the next couple of decades. That's 45% of the workforce, and if you're one of the those dislocated you're not going to just be able to switch to another field, because people there have also been dislocated and they're also looking for work.
All told, here in the US we're looking at employment disruptions measured in the tens of millions, and all of them occurring within the next decade.
The Great Depression had an unemployment rate of 25%. What happens when that number hits 45%?
I'd advise that everyone watch the following video, Humans Need Not Apply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'm not a Luddite, but I am worried that our civilization is going to go through a few major tectonic upheavals in a relatively short period of time.
"There's very little point, in fact, for a business to ever create a universal AI that can think like a human. "
Have to take exception with this one. Training ML algorithm to solve problems s is a time-intensive, expensive proposition, and training one to play chess (for example) does nothing for playing go, poker, or even tic-tac-toe.
Which means that self-adaptive learning systems would in fact be just the thing for "business" to want to develop.
Actually there's a swift-evolution project where quite a few people (including non-Apple employees) are involved with Swift language design, proposals, and evolution.
https://github.com/apple/swift...
And as there's a Swift roadmap out there, I don't think the whole "on a whim" thing has merit either.
Got any good examples as to "order of parameters changing in a method"?
Swift was originally tied pretty closely to the Objective-C API and headers. Swift 3 did do a host of function/parameter renaming, but on the whole they simplified the language and API quite a bit. Besides, one auto-migration and you're done.
And if you're skipping most of the new features, then you're not using optionals, closures, enums, and other new features to your advantage. Apple has some numbers that indicate Swift reduces the number of potential crash errors in your code by about 40% over Obj-C.
There's a nice ReactiveX library for Swift. (RxSwift)
Ummm... you forgot optionals and closures being first-class citizens.
As to the OP, if you want to write software for OS X / iOS / Apple TV / Apple Watch, you can't do so in C++.
Obligated? No. But if you need an excuse for doing the right thing and lending a helping hand to those in need, keep in mind that foreign aid can help stabilize regions and help prevent disaffected youth or other people from forming and/or joining organizations detrimental to the US (e.g. ISIS).
IOW, a little money spent today might prevent a ton of money and lives from being lost when someone decides that they have nothing to lose by running an airliner or two into your country's skyscrapers.
And FWIW, I've found that most of the people who complain the loudest about foreign aid also tend to complain about any tax dollars spent here in the US.
Not to mention changes in technology. Fisker is reportedly about to introduce a car powered by LSG–manganese-dioxide super-capacitors, and they're suggesting a 400-mile range with a 9-minute recharge cycle.
If they're in the middle lane, how are they blocking other vehicles from merging?
The Apple had about a half-dozen expansion slots and Apple published the schematics and circuit board diagrams. That openness encouraged people to expand it, and even let Apple expand it with the floppy drive controller, serial cards, parallel cards, and RAM cards.
The Pet and the TRS-80 did not.
In fact, I still have an original Apple ][ "red" book...
It's not stitching two real images. The wide angle lens is used to provide depth information that can be used to compute the area captured by the telephone lens that needs to be blurred, as well as to what extent.
Accurate depth information allows the effect to be more gradual in areas near the subject plane and more pronounced for the foreground and background, which in turn makes the result more realistic as opposed to other techniques that simply blur the area around the subject equally.
"Don't forget that at least 30% of that..."
And then there's the other 70%...
Funny, I thought Food Stamps, SNAP, EBT, and other "socialist" programs were high among the "entitlements" Conservatives were drooling at the mouth to cut and/or defund...
I do not want web apps to be "first class" citizens. We got rid of Flash precisely because of the security issues giving unknown apps system-level access entailed...