The Model S is comparable in purchase price to an otherwise equivalent gas-powered car. It's a large, high performance luxury sedan, and other cars of that size, horsepower, and trim level run $75 - $100k as well.
It's fine if you want franchise laws to protect existing dealers from their manufacturers. There's nothing wrong with a guarantee that after Bob's Dodge dealership spends a decade investing in the local market that Chrysler doesn't just move in next door and undercut him.
Tesla however doesn't have any existing dealers to screw over, and making them sell through other brand's established dealers is a horrible conflict of interest. The legacy brands made their bed and need to lie in it, but they shouldn't be able to force the upstart to deal with the mess their competitors made.
He stated a year ago he was looking specifically for Apollo 11 and started with estimates of where that particular flight profile would have ended up.
It's possible this stage is from another launch with a similar ground track and they can't confirm it until they find an intact serial number, but it's likely these are Apollo 11.
Transferring fuel and oxidiser sideways between tankage sections under 3-4 gees of thrust and vibration is, as far as I am aware, going to be a first in rocketry.
The Space Shuttle would like a word. What do you think was in that big orange tank that didn't have engines on the bottom of it?
You can argue the benefits and downsides of the Electoral College vs Popular vote all day long.
However, you can't retroactively the specific outcome of a race run under one set of rules as evidence for a switch. The rules of the game determine the entire strategy or the race, and thus the outcome. If both parties were campaigning for a popular vote win in 2000, the results wouldn't be the same as what they actually were with both sides going for a EC win. As long as the election is held under EC rules, the aggregate popular vote is a relatively meaningless number.
It'd be like arguing every score in football should be one point, because you just lost two field goals to a touchdown, but scored on more possessions. Maybe you should change the rules in the future, but you can't go back and rescore a game played where FGs are 3 and touchdowns are 7 and pretend the strategy and outcome of the game wouldn't have changed.
Just to be even more pedantic, since the question was "How long between the last Saturn V carried a human into space and the Shuttle first carried one?" The manned Skylab shots were done on top of a Saturn IB, not a Saturn V, since they were just to LEO. Skylab itself was boosted up on a Saturn V, but no crew.
They didn't start from scratch. There's plenty of press that they acquired at least 2 GIS companies since 2009, and it's fairly evident that they licensed data from TomTom as well.
There have been advances in the technology for storing and transporting hydrogen that make it fairly viable
Like atomically bonding it to long chains of carbon. It's easy to extract energy back out, relatively safe to contain, and the fact that it's a fairly stable liquid at room temperature makes it simple to handle and exchange in commerce.
I don't think you could realistically put a brand new vehicle together that was street legal and met current safety standards for less than $10,000. Arcimoto is aiming for the commuter electric vehicle market, but they're projecting closer to $17k. That's still better than $35k though, and probably within range for a decent size group of early adopters.
And if you think most companies selling boxed software in retail stores or Amazon are walking home with anywhere near 70% of the retail price, I have a bridge to sell you.
The cabin pressure of a typical commercial flight is 8,000 ft or below, even though you're at 35,000. So it'll work just fine.
10,000 just seems to be the standard everyone who isn't making ruggedized parts bothers to test to. I doubt it'd fail catastrophically at 10,001 or even 15,000.
Map data is exceedingly expensive to license, particularly if it contains everything needed to do street routing as well. Map tiles themselves you could generate from TIGER/Line data for free if a company wanted to, but it's still a lot of processing, and TIGER isn't sufficiently detailed to use for routing, and the data is still somewhat out of date compared to the commercial vendors.
Buying the rights to serve it piecemeal like Google Maps does is far cheaper than buying the rights to redistribute the entire dataset to every customer for offline use, and it works for the large majority of customers who just need small portions of the map at any time and don't want to hassle with reloading it from time to time, or chewing up GBs of space on a limited phone.
At least for iOS there are plenty of map programs that do support downloading the dataset ahead of time if you need that sort of thing, but at that point it's a paid app to cover the cost of licensing the map data to you for offline use.
He said buy as much as you could on the initial allocation, and immediately flip it as soon as the stock started trading, not to buy it in the open market, and not to hold it.
Which, if you had done, would have net $4-6 a share, since it opened around $45 and hung on to around $42 for a few hours.
If you travel internationally a lot, it's sometimes cheaper to swap in a foreign prepaid sim while out of the country than pay a US carrier for roaming.
Of course there's no BT profile for BT microphone headsets and mice. This is consistent with Apple practice.
- A microphone headset would let you make private calls with VOIP apps, which might mean less calls on your iphone, or even not need your iphone at all if properly implemented.
Only problem with your conspiracy theory is that it's complete and utter bullshit, since the iPad 2 and up do support HFP: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3647?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US along with every other profile the latest iPhones do except Phone Book, since it can't actually dial a phone.
You can use a BT microphone headset with Skype / Facetime just fine.
Thunderbolt is essentially external PCIe, and there are a few external PCIe enclosures now designed for this use so you can attach a better graphics card to a MacBook Pro or Air when you're at your desk.
Because extortion is always ok as long as the victim can afford it, and in no way encourages someone else to try the same trick again once you make known you'd rather pay an fight. Right?
But if I bought the TV at Best Buy, paid the man in the blue shirt at the register and got a receipt for it, you can't realistically charge me with receiving stolen property if it turns out the cashier was manipulating the register on his day off and just pocketed the money.
Apple isn't claiming they bought it off the back of a truck from some guy, they claim to have done due dilligence and they did actually buy it from a company that should have had legal rights to transfer the rights in several jurisdictions. Proview Taiwan and Proview PRC aren't two companies with the same name, there's a real corporate link between the two.
Either Proview Taiwan fraudulently misrepresented the fact they had been empowered to sell on behalf of their parent company, or once Proview realized who really bought the trademark they figured they let it go too cheap and could extort a bit more money for it.
Only if you're operating under IFR. If you're under visual flight rules, the FAA doesn't have to have a record of the flight.
OTOH, a manned plane under VFR rules must have the N-number registration painted on both sides, and that publicly links back to the registered owner. If you can read the tail number, you can figure out who owns it. Theoretically, a drone in shared airspace and heavy enough to be a collision hazard should have the same registration and markings, but the FAA regs may not say that.
Boycott them entirely instead. Find and support entertainment that isn't their product.
Using this as an excuse to pirate even more just gives them more ammunition for the next round. Having sales fall off a cliff and not being able to blame it on piracy sends a better message, particularly if it means other artists find and thrive on more sustainable means to still earn a living.
It'd also be useful in cases where people have two chargers. Some people keep a charger / docking station / cinema display plugged in on the desk at work or home, and a spare charger in the bag for traveling. That way you don't have to unplug and pack the one at work every day, or worry about accidentally forgetting it one day.
IIRC, the 1st gen TiVos were PPC running at a whopping 50 MHz, about the time Intel was hitting 500 MHz with the Pentium III. The system was designed so the encoder or satellite tuners and video decoder could bus master to and from the IDE interface directly, the main CPU never touched the video stream.
Depends on what you're arguing. If you mean that consumers prefer to buy walled-garden devices like iPads versus programmable computers, I agree that's something we have to fix ourselves, through outreach, PR, making better programming environments, whatever.
You want to make consumers prefer open systems? Outreach and PR shouldn't be your first priorities. Your priorities should be (a) make it usable and accessible to everyone, and (b) make it cost competitive.
The rest of the world wants tools that help them get whatever they want to get done with a minimum of fuss, and get the hell out of the way the rest of the time.
I own several computers I can program. I write code for a living in my day job. I also own an iPad and an iPhone, because some times I don't feel like arguing with technology. And I don't have a guilty conscience that buying those somehow contributes to "Right to Read" becoming a prophecy instead of a bad sci-fi story.
There's always going to be someone starting the next big thing in their garage, but setting that argument aside, "garage hackers" are also important because kids that get exposed to STEM in their childhood, including computers, turn into people who pursue those fields as an adult.
The whole information economy is intertwined. All those big shops still need developers from somewhere, and most of them know their own roots enough to know any proposal along those lines would devastate the pipeline of computer science graduates in this country, and everyone's got to hire new talent from somewhere from time to time.
On top of that, most of the people working as software developers in the US aren't writing commercial apps, they're writing and maintaining in-house business applications for the company they work for; the corollary is that almost every company of more than a few hundred employees has some amount of internal software they depend on, even when software or SaaS isn't their actual product. Restricting the ability of anyone to maintain or run in-house code would kill most companies overnight, let alone the damage it would do to all the IT vendors who sell general purpose hardware. IBM / HP / Dell etc. make way too much money selling computers to run their customer's workloads to ever allow that market to get closed off.
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The Model S is comparable in purchase price to an otherwise equivalent gas-powered car. It's a large, high performance luxury sedan, and other cars of that size, horsepower, and trim level run $75 - $100k as well.
It's fine if you want franchise laws to protect existing dealers from their manufacturers. There's nothing wrong with a guarantee that after Bob's Dodge dealership spends a decade investing in the local market that Chrysler doesn't just move in next door and undercut him.
Tesla however doesn't have any existing dealers to screw over, and making them sell through other brand's established dealers is a horrible conflict of interest. The legacy brands made their bed and need to lie in it, but they shouldn't be able to force the upstart to deal with the mess their competitors made.
He stated a year ago he was looking specifically for Apollo 11 and started with estimates of where that particular flight profile would have ended up.
It's possible this stage is from another launch with a similar ground track and they can't confirm it until they find an intact serial number, but it's likely these are Apollo 11.
Transferring fuel and oxidiser sideways between tankage sections under 3-4 gees of thrust and vibration is, as far as I am aware, going to be a first in rocketry.
The Space Shuttle would like a word. What do you think was in that big orange tank that didn't have engines on the bottom of it?
You can argue the benefits and downsides of the Electoral College vs Popular vote all day long.
However, you can't retroactively the specific outcome of a race run under one set of rules as evidence for a switch. The rules of the game determine the entire strategy or the race, and thus the outcome. If both parties were campaigning for a popular vote win in 2000, the results wouldn't be the same as what they actually were with both sides going for a EC win. As long as the election is held under EC rules, the aggregate popular vote is a relatively meaningless number.
It'd be like arguing every score in football should be one point, because you just lost two field goals to a touchdown, but scored on more possessions. Maybe you should change the rules in the future, but you can't go back and rescore a game played where FGs are 3 and touchdowns are 7 and pretend the strategy and outcome of the game wouldn't have changed.
The original post was correct, Apollo 17 was the last manned launch of a Saturn V. The Apollo half of Apollo-Soyuz went up on a Saturn IB.
Just to be even more pedantic, since the question was "How long between the last Saturn V carried a human into space and the Shuttle first carried one?" The manned Skylab shots were done on top of a Saturn IB, not a Saturn V, since they were just to LEO. Skylab itself was boosted up on a Saturn V, but no crew.
They didn't start from scratch. There's plenty of press that they acquired at least 2 GIS companies since 2009, and it's fairly evident that they licensed data from TomTom as well.
There have been advances in the technology for storing and transporting hydrogen that make it fairly viable
Like atomically bonding it to long chains of carbon. It's easy to extract energy back out, relatively safe to contain, and the fact that it's a fairly stable liquid at room temperature makes it simple to handle and exchange in commerce.
I don't think you could realistically put a brand new vehicle together that was street legal and met current safety standards for less than $10,000. Arcimoto is aiming for the commuter electric vehicle market, but they're projecting closer to $17k. That's still better than $35k though, and probably within range for a decent size group of early adopters.
And if you think most companies selling boxed software in retail stores or Amazon are walking home with anywhere near 70% of the retail price, I have a bridge to sell you.
The cabin pressure of a typical commercial flight is 8,000 ft or below, even though you're at 35,000. So it'll work just fine.
10,000 just seems to be the standard everyone who isn't making ruggedized parts bothers to test to. I doubt it'd fail catastrophically at 10,001 or even 15,000.
Map data is exceedingly expensive to license, particularly if it contains everything needed to do street routing as well. Map tiles themselves you could generate from TIGER/Line data for free if a company wanted to, but it's still a lot of processing, and TIGER isn't sufficiently detailed to use for routing, and the data is still somewhat out of date compared to the commercial vendors.
Buying the rights to serve it piecemeal like Google Maps does is far cheaper than buying the rights to redistribute the entire dataset to every customer for offline use, and it works for the large majority of customers who just need small portions of the map at any time and don't want to hassle with reloading it from time to time, or chewing up GBs of space on a limited phone.
At least for iOS there are plenty of map programs that do support downloading the dataset ahead of time if you need that sort of thing, but at that point it's a paid app to cover the cost of licensing the map data to you for offline use.
He said buy as much as you could on the initial allocation, and immediately flip it as soon as the stock started trading, not to buy it in the open market, and not to hold it.
Which, if you had done, would have net $4-6 a share, since it opened around $45 and hung on to around $42 for a few hours.
If you travel internationally a lot, it's sometimes cheaper to swap in a foreign prepaid sim while out of the country than pay a US carrier for roaming.
Of course there's no BT profile for BT microphone headsets and mice. This is consistent with Apple practice.
- A microphone headset would let you make private calls with VOIP apps, which might mean less calls on your iphone, or even not need your iphone at all if properly implemented.
Only problem with your conspiracy theory is that it's complete and utter bullshit, since the iPad 2 and up do support HFP: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3647?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US along with every other profile the latest iPhones do except Phone Book, since it can't actually dial a phone.
You can use a BT microphone headset with Skype / Facetime just fine.
Thunderbolt is essentially external PCIe, and there are a few external PCIe enclosures now designed for this use so you can attach a better graphics card to a MacBook Pro or Air when you're at your desk.
Because extortion is always ok as long as the victim can afford it, and in no way encourages someone else to try the same trick again once you make known you'd rather pay an fight. Right?
But if I bought the TV at Best Buy, paid the man in the blue shirt at the register and got a receipt for it, you can't realistically charge me with receiving stolen property if it turns out the cashier was manipulating the register on his day off and just pocketed the money.
Apple isn't claiming they bought it off the back of a truck from some guy, they claim to have done due dilligence and they did actually buy it from a company that should have had legal rights to transfer the rights in several jurisdictions. Proview Taiwan and Proview PRC aren't two companies with the same name, there's a real corporate link between the two.
Either Proview Taiwan fraudulently misrepresented the fact they had been empowered to sell on behalf of their parent company, or once Proview realized who really bought the trademark they figured they let it go too cheap and could extort a bit more money for it.
Only if you're operating under IFR. If you're under visual flight rules, the FAA doesn't have to have a record of the flight.
OTOH, a manned plane under VFR rules must have the N-number registration painted on both sides, and that publicly links back to the registered owner. If you can read the tail number, you can figure out who owns it. Theoretically, a drone in shared airspace and heavy enough to be a collision hazard should have the same registration and markings, but the FAA regs may not say that.
Boycott them entirely instead. Find and support entertainment that isn't their product.
Using this as an excuse to pirate even more just gives them more ammunition for the next round. Having sales fall off a cliff and not being able to blame it on piracy sends a better message, particularly if it means other artists find and thrive on more sustainable means to still earn a living.
It'd also be useful in cases where people have two chargers. Some people keep a charger / docking station / cinema display plugged in on the desk at work or home, and a spare charger in the bag for traveling. That way you don't have to unplug and pack the one at work every day, or worry about accidentally forgetting it one day.
IIRC, the 1st gen TiVos were PPC running at a whopping 50 MHz, about the time Intel was hitting 500 MHz with the Pentium III. The system was designed so the encoder or satellite tuners and video decoder could bus master to and from the IDE interface directly, the main CPU never touched the video stream.
Depends on what you're arguing. If you mean that consumers prefer to buy walled-garden devices like iPads versus programmable computers, I agree that's something we have to fix ourselves, through outreach, PR, making better programming environments, whatever.
You want to make consumers prefer open systems? Outreach and PR shouldn't be your first priorities. Your priorities should be (a) make it usable and accessible to everyone, and (b) make it cost competitive.
The rest of the world wants tools that help them get whatever they want to get done with a minimum of fuss, and get the hell out of the way the rest of the time.
I own several computers I can program. I write code for a living in my day job. I also own an iPad and an iPhone, because some times I don't feel like arguing with technology. And I don't have a guilty conscience that buying those somehow contributes to "Right to Read" becoming a prophecy instead of a bad sci-fi story.
There's always going to be someone starting the next big thing in their garage, but setting that argument aside, "garage hackers" are also important because kids that get exposed to STEM in their childhood, including computers, turn into people who pursue those fields as an adult.
The whole information economy is intertwined. All those big shops still need developers from somewhere, and most of them know their own roots enough to know any proposal along those lines would devastate the pipeline of computer science graduates in this country, and everyone's got to hire new talent from somewhere from time to time.
On top of that, most of the people working as software developers in the US aren't writing commercial apps, they're writing and maintaining in-house business applications for the company they work for; the corollary is that almost every company of more than a few hundred employees has some amount of internal software they depend on, even when software or SaaS isn't their actual product. Restricting the ability of anyone to maintain or run in-house code would kill most companies overnight, let alone the damage it would do to all the IT vendors who sell general purpose hardware. IBM / HP / Dell etc. make way too much money selling computers to run their customer's workloads to ever allow that market to get closed off.