I have a Chromebook, so I already have a lot of this. I'd like my Chromebook to have more battery life, but it's already really good, and I don't want to carry the extra battery weight.
I don't want to pay a monthly for connectivity for my laptop. If I really need connectivity, I'll tether the phone.
This is too much money to lug around. I like my laptops to be cheap enough to lose/get crushed without me getting upset.
But the real show-stopper for this ASUS thing is that it's Windows. Why in heavens name would I want ANYTHING Windows?
Dude, the cheapest EV is about $8.5K. It's a used 2013 Nissan Leaf, and as cost-effective a piece of transportation from home to the grade school to the mall as you are likely to find.
The Prius is a hybrid, and the article's graph says yes, they are more expensive, but it also shows electric is cheaper right off the bat. So they agree with your analysis of the Prius and don't have your lack of data on electrics.
Costs are different in the UK. Mostly they're higher -- labor, electricity, manufactured goods. But they have different choices in cars than we do, and those cars tend to be lighter.
From their analysis, it's pretty clear that in the US, where electricity is cheaper, electric cars are an even better bet on a the-car-is-free-just feed-and-maintain-it level. In Illinois, where it's half the price of the UK, it's obvious. Other states have prices which are higher than UK average.
But the bulk of the yearly cost for the vehicles in the analysis is depreciation. The numbers they give don't make sense to me. NOTHING depreciates like an electric car. A $30k leaf from 2015 is not barely worth $10k. This means that electrics are CLEARLY no-brainer cheaper if you buy a used one, or if you drive the thing for 10 years. (Electrics lose mileage over time, so for some that won't be possible and for some, who just drive to the mall, it won't be an issue at all.)
A cheap used gas will cost you way more. A gas vehicle will cost you way more bought new and kept for a long time.
For part of the market, electric has already won, but as is clear from your post, it will take some time before the average consumer figures that out.
The problem isn't just that they are all using stale data, repeating each other's work, doing a bunch of clicking, etc. though that's all a colossal waste, the problem is that they don't know if it's right. Excel puts business logic (code) in many cells and one could be different than another, it's hard to peer-review, hard to debug, etc. You cannot do real version control on it, because the data changes all the time, etc. Logic which could be expressed in 20 lines of code become bazillions of counter-intuitive cascading codelets all over the sheets. There are probably a bunch of apps which try to address this problem but they're bags on the sides of a crappy system.
Business logic should be peer-reviewable, should be version controlled, should be commented, etc.
This is why we don't make billing systems in Hypercard. This is why no one in a business situation should be using Excel for anything other than making graphs.
Normally I'd think that neither leftists nor rightists want to discourage people from pursuing graduate degrees. Now I'm not so sure. If only the rich can afford to go to school, then only the rich will profit from the rewards of education. Is this what Rs want?
It doesn't seem to make sense -- one would think that uneducated people cost the system more money than they return. But the more I look at our education system, the more I think that it is indeed the case that the rich want to keep the poor and middle class from getting an education.
This tax bill includes a removal of the ability of teachers to deduct a few hundred bucks spent on school supplies for their work. Talk about going out of your way to make things hard for little gain. Seems crazy to suffer the political penalty for doing this unless they really believe that publicly available education should work poorly.
Another myth about Luddites is that they were trying to stop progress/mechanization. They knew their jobs were toast. They wanted retraining and a new economic model which would take care of them and their families. The smashing of frames was a resistance act to lend power to their demands, not an end in itself.
This is silly. Give your kid a chromebook, a bare system with no GPU for linux, and a library card.
He can buy his own windows box with the money he makes working at his after-school job. If he does waste his money on that, then set up a network outside your home router for his windows box, so he has access to the internet but all the viruses he gets can't screw with your machines.
Dude, vowels are the hot new tech. They're much newer than the consonants. Try reading early Latin or any Semitic language before this new vowels tech hit the scene.
Sort of like math using pen and paper is WAY newer than calculators (in the form of the abacus and similar high-tech stuff).
While it doesn't make sense to mine landfills for just this stuff, it might make sense to mine landfills for this and other materials. Pity we really kinda suck at recycling.
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Does it also fix the fast battery draining they so kindly introduced with 11.0 and didn't fix in 11.0.1?
Yeah, because your phone spies on you. But I'd rather have one device spying on me than two.
That's Windows 10 everywhere.
I have a Chromebook, so I already have a lot of this. I'd like my Chromebook to have more battery life, but it's already really good, and I don't want to carry the extra battery weight.
I don't want to pay a monthly for connectivity for my laptop. If I really need connectivity, I'll tether the phone.
This is too much money to lug around. I like my laptops to be cheap enough to lose/get crushed without me getting upset.
But the real show-stopper for this ASUS thing is that it's Windows. Why in heavens name would I want ANYTHING Windows?
Seems like the only clever thing he's ever done.
And in this case, I think "faster" means we go all the way on the first date.
Dude, the cheapest EV is about $8.5K. It's a used 2013 Nissan Leaf, and as cost-effective a piece of transportation from home to the grade school to the mall as you are likely to find.
Wow. Where are you? What's your cents per KWh?
This is the UK, not the US. Yes, they have those: https://www.nissan.co.uk/vehic...
The Prius is a hybrid, and the article's graph says yes, they are more expensive, but it also shows electric is cheaper right off the bat. So they agree with your analysis of the Prius and don't have your lack of data on electrics.
Costs are different in the UK. Mostly they're higher -- labor, electricity, manufactured goods. But they have different choices in cars than we do, and those cars tend to be lighter.
From their analysis, it's pretty clear that in the US, where electricity is cheaper, electric cars are an even better bet on a the-car-is-free-just feed-and-maintain-it level. In Illinois, where it's half the price of the UK, it's obvious. Other states have prices which are higher than UK average.
But the bulk of the yearly cost for the vehicles in the analysis is depreciation. The numbers they give don't make sense to me. NOTHING depreciates like an electric car. A $30k leaf from 2015 is not barely worth $10k. This means that electrics are CLEARLY no-brainer cheaper if you buy a used one, or if you drive the thing for 10 years. (Electrics lose mileage over time, so for some that won't be possible and for some, who just drive to the mall, it won't be an issue at all.)
A cheap used gas will cost you way more. A gas vehicle will cost you way more bought new and kept for a long time.
For part of the market, electric has already won, but as is clear from your post, it will take some time before the average consumer figures that out.
There should be one on gasoline as well, but certainly diesel's should be higher.
Agreed. Diet is also correlated. The more varied the diet the smarter the critter. Dogs have a somewhat more varied diet than cats.
The problem isn't just that they are all using stale data, repeating each other's work, doing a bunch of clicking, etc. though that's all a colossal waste, the problem is that they don't know if it's right. Excel puts business logic (code) in many cells and one could be different than another, it's hard to peer-review, hard to debug, etc. You cannot do real version control on it, because the data changes all the time, etc. Logic which could be expressed in 20 lines of code become bazillions of counter-intuitive cascading codelets all over the sheets. There are probably a bunch of apps which try to address this problem but they're bags on the sides of a crappy system.
Business logic should be peer-reviewable, should be version controlled, should be commented, etc.
This is why we don't make billing systems in Hypercard. This is why no one in a business situation should be using Excel for anything other than making graphs.
No. You're doing it wrong.
A database
is hard to do
That means that it's
expensive too
Burma Shave.
Or to fix the content...
Already have
a database
why is Excel
all over the place?
Burma Shave
Or
One data team
in fertile soils
could wipe you clean
of spreadsheet boils
Burma Shave
Normally I'd think that neither leftists nor rightists want to discourage people from pursuing graduate degrees. Now I'm not so sure. If only the rich can afford to go to school, then only the rich will profit from the rewards of education. Is this what Rs want?
It doesn't seem to make sense -- one would think that uneducated people cost the system more money than they return. But the more I look at our education system, the more I think that it is indeed the case that the rich want to keep the poor and middle class from getting an education.
This tax bill includes a removal of the ability of teachers to deduct a few hundred bucks spent on school supplies for their work. Talk about going out of your way to make things hard for little gain. Seems crazy to suffer the political penalty for doing this unless they really believe that publicly available education should work poorly.
Another myth about Luddites is that they were trying to stop progress/mechanization. They knew their jobs were toast. They wanted retraining and a new economic model which would take care of them and their families. The smashing of frames was a resistance act to lend power to their demands, not an end in itself.
This is silly. Give your kid a chromebook, a bare system with no GPU for linux, and a library card.
He can buy his own windows box with the money he makes working at his after-school job. If he does waste his money on that, then set up a network outside your home router for his windows box, so he has access to the internet but all the viruses he gets can't screw with your machines.
Dude, vowels are the hot new tech. They're much newer than the consonants. Try reading early Latin or any Semitic language before this new vowels tech hit the scene.
Sort of like math using pen and paper is WAY newer than calculators (in the form of the abacus and similar high-tech stuff).
You pay QA people less than you pay devs and it's a different skillset.
So this guy is wasting money and getting a worse product. So win/win.
Please do one. I haven't seen one of those in years, but I think the last one I saw I did dissemble.
While it doesn't make sense to mine landfills for just this stuff, it might make sense to mine landfills for this and other materials. Pity we really kinda suck at recycling.
I agree. I have the new firefox and I REALLY miss firebug.
Well, certainly the youtube sample doesn't make any sense.
So they're saying we should be wary of the consumptive nature of the hive mind in the trunk?
I should have expected no less from Borg Warner.
Doh, wrong story!