First, Ford has a dealer network and service network that is far greater than anything Tesla can put together.
I see what you're doing there: I've been to said ford dealer, I have no wish to ever experience that again! You see a dealer network as a cool way a company can squeeze every last dollar from the customers, but I see a bunch of dicks wasting my time while they walk back and forth to their manager. As for the service side: Let's make this Telsa thing more fragile so that we can overcharge folk and have them constantly coming back for more.
Second, Ford might well say, we have done well with EcoBoost, what if we offered EV versions of everything we sell. Musk has said that his goal is to promote EVs, not just sell them. If Ford came to him and said, "Merge with Ford and you'll be the head of the EV division, tasked with making EV versions of every Ford product" he might find that idea attractive.
I doubt it. The idea of slapping an EV kit into existing versions of those cars is ass backwards. Take a look at the design decisions of the model 3. We're talking major chassis changes to accommodate that battery pack, you end up with a whole different car. But, I suppose if you tried to sell the idea as, "Let's take that Tesla chassis, and bolt on some Ford styled bodies". At that point you'll ask why bother buying Tesla. Why not pay Telsa a license fee to build their own Telsa clones? If I were Ford, I'd seriously call Musk's bluff and offer to license the Telsa chassis/battery combo. Instead of a free license, $1 per chassis should be enough. So, Ford can build their own clones. Musk keeps saying how their IP is free to copy, so Ford should just make clones. But, we know how that'll go: Ford would just make cheap knock offs and end up killing folk left and right like their current business does.
Finally, while Tesla is growing, they have a huge challenge in front of them. Going from 50,000 cars to 500,000 cars is not nothing, selling and servicing them isn't as simple as you'd think, and many things could yet prevent him from hitting his targets.
That's very true. But, Ford did it 100 years ago. Perhaps it's as hard as, say, sending some mice to Mars..
A lot of people consider Tesla's success to be a forgone conclusion. That is never a good idea and it isn't true either. All companies run into challenges both big and small, some break through and win, some do not.
Very true. It's not as if the government will bail Telsa out if it runs into problems. I'm sure Ford would love to see Tesla fail, so would Mercedes etc.. I'm sure a lot of money is flowing to the US government to help stop this disruptive force in the auto/gasoline business. And that circles back to why Musk won't sell to Ford: because it'll be the death knell of the awesome electric car. They'll declare cool electric cars an unsupportable fad, and return us to crappy golf carts, and try and up sell you to a V8.
Msn.com homepage? You sure they're not just sniffing OS version on the website?
We have a winner! The lame Windows 10 popup triggers from the MSN.COM site.
I have the update, and only saw that popup when going to msn.com - but it only shows the popup once. Closing IE11 and opening MSN.COM does not show the popup again. Maybe a reboot or tomorrow's visit to msn.com might pop it up again.
The #1 show in that list was the Big Bang Theory, raking in $6.5M per episode in commercial spots with a viewership in 2014 of almost 20M people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory). So to generate equivalent revenue, without the bullshit, a viewer could pay just $.33 to watch the episode commercial free, and they'd win.
They re-broadcast that show with new paid for commercials, they sell rights to re-broadcast that show all round the world, then there's the DVD collections, iTunes etc... I'm sure they make a lot of money off that show: Far more than that $.33. They're only selling advertising during that first broadcast because they can. They should consider not showing commercials during the first broadcast - Oh, hold on, isn't that what this article is about?
I think if people stop watching programs with commercials, then they'll stop broadcasting programs with commercials.
Perhaps you should be asking, "How are they fitting in more Ads into those older shows?". They speed up the shows. So, in the future, they'll turn off that speed multiplier.
Currently they're not frequency shifting the sound, I'm sure they'll fix that.
If you look at parking meters in San Francisco http://priceonomics.com/san-fr... you'll see they get about $50 million for paid parking, and get $80 Million in parking violations per year.
Not to mention, that self driving cars will very rarely commit traffic violations (speeding, etc). That will dry up a major revenue source for a lot of smaller towns, another billion dollar industry.
Actually, at first, you'll see the reverse:
Oh, that car in the next lane is driverless - so you know it's safe to cut it off. Stopping at a stop sign and the car to your right is driverless: you know it's safe to go ahead of it. etc.. Driverless cars will start uploading driving violation videos to you tube or some police agency, cities wanting their cut, will start writing tickets as fast as possible based on these videos. Very quickly, drivers will start behaving - but road death rates for the human drivers will still be disproportionately higher. Soccer moms will very quickly use peer pressure to eliminate drivers. Maybe it'll get to the point where, on bad weather days, the roads will be empty.
Also, with all these electric cars driving themselves, owned by some fleet service, what's going to happen to the $50 billion auto service industry?
sorry, not reading the article. But doesn't an iPhone automatically fallback to cellular data when out of wifi range? I'm pretty sure mine does.
What's new here? Is it faster? More fault-tollerant?
Yes, that's what I thought. I had expected this feature to be "ignore crappy wifi that has no route to the internet". I'm disappointed that it's something else. I loath the TWCWiFi around town, some spots work and others turn the phone into a useless brick. All the TCSWiFi spots have the same ID, so the phone happily hooks up to it whenever it sees it - even when the router has no route to the internet. Lame!
I think that power companies should offer more incentives for people to have these in order to smooth out the electricity demand.
Why?
Why is not the optimal consumer incentive which the electric company could offer the price difference between peak and non-peak rates? By "optimal" I mean socially efficient, not the biggest or whatever you happen to want the most.
Here's why you'd want it in the UK. Apparently it's the only country in the world where consumers regularly cause 3 Gigawatt spikes: http://www.geek.com/news/tea-t...
These folk are not going going to notice/care if you charge them double during the spike - because it's peanuts, a small fraction of a KWh. If you try and charge them 100X then they'll rebel and have you investigated for price gouging. So, no, pricing alone won't smooth out these demand spikes.
If each house had a battery and a smart grid could tell each house when to use that battery, then it could smooth out those spikes very nicely.
1. The first thing SCIgen should do is to incorporate SciDetect, to make sure that their random papers pass the SciDetect test.
2. SCIDetect should then improve their algorithms, and SCIgen should again take a snapshot of SciDetect source code and incorporate it.
3. Run this loop a few times and what we'll have is some serious papers
4. Profit!!!
I'm glad the fact that phones being disabled has helped slow down device theft, but I don't think it will go away anytime soon, just because the demand for parts is always there.
Are you suggesting Apple make their new phones non-user serviceable? I can't imagine Apple moving in that direction. Well, maybe not until California mandates that into law too.
I've noticed that they take a fairly liberal definition of "chess", as they simply discard certain rules, such as en passant pawn capture or castling moves, which are pretty important chess moves. It's a bit hard to argue that this is really "chess" if they just decide to leave out inconvenient rules ("chess lite?"). I probably wouldn't complain about other ommissions such as the 3-repetition rule, but castling?
Even so, a very cool accomplishment in micro-optimization techniques.
The game is also a cheat by performing illegal moves. This is not something that counts as a chess program.
Queen takes pawn, K moves next to queen - that's a fail.
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r.b.kr..8
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PPPPK..R2
R.BQ....1
c7g3????
If they have planets, of couse. And if you could intercept and move on to one of those planets, you could observe a much longer chunk of time go by in the rest of the universe. That would be fascinating for any astronomer.
At a third of the speed of light your time dilation would only give you a 5% increase in your time duration. So, not so fascinating. You'd be better off increasing your life span by becoming a eunuch (13.5 extra years of life) - well, maybe on second thoughts you might not be better off after all
Perhaps because, in the USA, don't you physically change the licence plate every year? In the UK the licence plate is permanent and is all that the police nornally need to know. You could physically and illegally change the number plate for a false one, but so you could change my VIN in the windscreen - only looks like a strip of metal stamped with the characters.
You get to drive your new car off a USA car dealer's lot without number plates. You get the plates a month or two afterwards.
Hence why you see lots of cars on the road without number plates. Cops get mad if they can't give you a parking ticket - hence the need for visible VINs.
Also, if you have personalized plates - you get to keep your plates, so your old car's new owner needs to get new plates.
In all honesty, why aren't we already doing this? The problem with the world is dumb people. If we can selectively breed out dumb people, how would the world be worse?
Cardboard tasting Tomatoes: that's why. http://www.geneticliteracyproj...
If you start selectively breeding just for intelligence, you may end up losing other traits. And no, I'm not suggesting our children will start tasting like cardboard. Perhaps that really hot blonde over there is dumber than you, but would you want to hit it?
https://www.mbnashopsafe.com/o...
It's been around for over ten years. It provides disposable numbers. Each new number is locked into a single payee, and you can update/set the expiration date and credit limit for these numbers, so you never have to reveal the "root" CC number - not even for recurring bills.
I don't think you can change the name on the card or the billing address.
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My computer and my data are belong to me. Not to Microsoft. Not to Apple. Not to Google or Oracle or HP or IBM or Samsung. Nobody but me!
Fixed that for you. Reference: http://www.newgrounds.com/port...
Why would Tesla sell to Ford?
Lots of reasons...
First, Ford has a dealer network and service network that is far greater than anything Tesla can put together.
I see what you're doing there: I've been to said ford dealer, I have no wish to ever experience that again! You see a dealer network as a cool way a company can squeeze every last dollar from the customers, but I see a bunch of dicks wasting my time while they walk back and forth to their manager. As for the service side: Let's make this Telsa thing more fragile so that we can overcharge folk and have them constantly coming back for more.
Second, Ford might well say, we have done well with EcoBoost, what if we offered EV versions of everything we sell. Musk has said that his goal is to promote EVs, not just sell them. If Ford came to him and said, "Merge with Ford and you'll be the head of the EV division, tasked with making EV versions of every Ford product" he might find that idea attractive.
I doubt it. The idea of slapping an EV kit into existing versions of those cars is ass backwards. Take a look at the design decisions of the model 3. We're talking major chassis changes to accommodate that battery pack, you end up with a whole different car. But, I suppose if you tried to sell the idea as, "Let's take that Tesla chassis, and bolt on some Ford styled bodies". At that point you'll ask why bother buying Tesla. Why not pay Telsa a license fee to build their own Telsa clones? If I were Ford, I'd seriously call Musk's bluff and offer to license the Telsa chassis/battery combo. Instead of a free license, $1 per chassis should be enough. So, Ford can build their own clones. Musk keeps saying how their IP is free to copy, so Ford should just make clones. But, we know how that'll go: Ford would just make cheap knock offs and end up killing folk left and right like their current business does.
Finally, while Tesla is growing, they have a huge challenge in front of them. Going from 50,000 cars to 500,000 cars is not nothing, selling and servicing them isn't as simple as you'd think, and many things could yet prevent him from hitting his targets.
That's very true. But, Ford did it 100 years ago. Perhaps it's as hard as, say, sending some mice to Mars..
A lot of people consider Tesla's success to be a forgone conclusion. That is never a good idea and it isn't true either. All companies run into challenges both big and small, some break through and win, some do not.
Very true. It's not as if the government will bail Telsa out if it runs into problems. I'm sure Ford would love to see Tesla fail, so would Mercedes etc.. I'm sure a lot of money is flowing to the US government to help stop this disruptive force in the auto/gasoline business. And that circles back to why Musk won't sell to Ford: because it'll be the death knell of the awesome electric car. They'll declare cool electric cars an unsupportable fad, and return us to crappy golf carts, and try and up sell you to a V8.
The new discovery backs up a 138 year old theory that legs and arms evolved from prehistoric fish gills.
FTFY
The bill is going to be useless unless the used phone market is eliminated.
How come these hackers aren't using proper encryption with a government back door?
Are they criminals or something?
Msn.com homepage? You sure they're not just sniffing OS version on the website?
We have a winner! The lame Windows 10 popup triggers from the MSN.COM site. I have the update, and only saw that popup when going to msn.com - but it only shows the popup once. Closing IE11 and opening MSN.COM does not show the popup again. Maybe a reboot or tomorrow's visit to msn.com might pop it up again.
Are there any classic games left where humans have a marked advantage over computers ?
obligatory: Game AIs
A decent statistics class isn't any less difficult than an algebra class.
Agreed. I wonder how many students can even wrap their head around the simple Monty Hall probability problem?
I think the Bertrand paradox would make most students go crying back to calculus for its relative simplicity.
The #1 show in that list was the Big Bang Theory, raking in $6.5M per episode in commercial spots with a viewership in 2014 of almost 20M people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory). So to generate equivalent revenue, without the bullshit, a viewer could pay just $.33 to watch the episode commercial free, and they'd win.
They re-broadcast that show with new paid for commercials, they sell rights to re-broadcast that show all round the world, then there's the DVD collections, iTunes etc... I'm sure they make a lot of money off that show: Far more than that $.33. They're only selling advertising during that first broadcast because they can. They should consider not showing commercials during the first broadcast - Oh, hold on, isn't that what this article is about?
I think if people stop watching programs with commercials, then they'll stop broadcasting programs with commercials.
TV shows are now 23 minutes long.
Perhaps you should be asking, "How are they fitting in more Ads into those older shows?". They speed up the shows. So, in the future, they'll turn off that speed multiplier.
Currently they're not frequency shifting the sound, I'm sure they'll fix that.
people say this a lot. Got any data on that. And citation if you will.
Just for speeding tickets: 6 billion dollars: http://www.statisticbrain.com/... An average of $152 seems a bit low to me.
If you look at parking meters in San Francisco http://priceonomics.com/san-fr... you'll see they get about $50 million for paid parking, and get $80 Million in parking violations per year.
Not to mention, that self driving cars will very rarely commit traffic violations (speeding, etc). That will dry up a major revenue source for a lot of smaller towns, another billion dollar industry.
Actually, at first, you'll see the reverse:
Oh, that car in the next lane is driverless - so you know it's safe to cut it off. Stopping at a stop sign and the car to your right is driverless: you know it's safe to go ahead of it. etc.. Driverless cars will start uploading driving violation videos to you tube or some police agency, cities wanting their cut, will start writing tickets as fast as possible based on these videos. Very quickly, drivers will start behaving - but road death rates for the human drivers will still be disproportionately higher. Soccer moms will very quickly use peer pressure to eliminate drivers. Maybe it'll get to the point where, on bad weather days, the roads will be empty.
Also, with all these electric cars driving themselves, owned by some fleet service, what's going to happen to the $50 billion auto service industry?
Either:
a) You'll be killed on the way home by a vehicle
or
b) You'll be killed by the minefield
sorry, not reading the article. But doesn't an iPhone automatically fallback to cellular data when out of wifi range? I'm pretty sure mine does.
What's new here? Is it faster? More fault-tollerant?
Yes, that's what I thought. I had expected this feature to be "ignore crappy wifi that has no route to the internet". I'm disappointed that it's something else. I loath the TWCWiFi around town, some spots work and others turn the phone into a useless brick. All the TCSWiFi spots have the same ID, so the phone happily hooks up to it whenever it sees it - even when the router has no route to the internet. Lame!
Except that Boeing asked the FAA for a Special Condition to allow just such an interconnection.
Which was granted: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granu...
I think that power companies should offer more incentives for people to have these in order to smooth out the electricity demand.
Why?
Why is not the optimal consumer incentive which the electric company could offer the price difference between peak and non-peak rates? By "optimal" I mean socially efficient, not the biggest or whatever you happen to want the most.
Here's why you'd want it in the UK. Apparently it's the only country in the world where consumers regularly cause 3 Gigawatt spikes:
http://www.geek.com/news/tea-t...
These folk are not going going to notice/care if you charge them double during the spike - because it's peanuts, a small fraction of a KWh. If you try and charge them 100X then they'll rebel and have you investigated for price gouging. So, no, pricing alone won't smooth out these demand spikes.
If each house had a battery and a smart grid could tell each house when to use that battery, then it could smooth out those spikes very nicely.
1. The first thing SCIgen should do is to incorporate SciDetect, to make sure that their random papers pass the SciDetect test.
2. SCIDetect should then improve their algorithms, and SCIgen should again take a snapshot of SciDetect source code and incorporate it.
3. Run this loop a few times and what we'll have is some serious papers
4. Profit!!!
I'm glad the fact that phones being disabled has helped slow down device theft, but I don't think it will go away anytime soon, just because the demand for parts is always there.
Are you suggesting Apple make their new phones non-user serviceable? I can't imagine Apple moving in that direction. Well, maybe not until California mandates that into law too.
I've noticed that they take a fairly liberal definition of "chess", as they simply discard certain rules, such as en passant pawn capture or castling moves, which are pretty important chess moves. It's a bit hard to argue that this is really "chess" if they just decide to leave out inconvenient rules ("chess lite?"). I probably wouldn't complain about other ommissions such as the 3-repetition rule, but castling?
Even so, a very cool accomplishment in micro-optimization techniques.
The game is also a cheat by performing illegal moves. This is not something that counts as a chess program. Queen takes pawn, K moves next to queen - that's a fail.
..n.....6
..b.....5
........4
......PP3
..n.....6
..b.....5
........4
.....KqP3
abcdefgh9
r.b.kr..8
ppq...pp7
PPPPK..R2
R.BQ....1
c7g3????
results in:
abcdefgh9
r.b.kr..8
pp....pp7
PPPP...R2
R.BQ....1
????????
If they have planets, of couse. And if you could intercept and move on to one of those planets, you could observe a much longer chunk of time go by in the rest of the universe. That would be fascinating for any astronomer.
At a third of the speed of light your time dilation would only give you a 5% increase in your time duration. So, not so fascinating. You'd be better off increasing your life span by becoming a eunuch (13.5 extra years of life) - well, maybe on second thoughts you might not be better off after all
Perhaps because, in the USA, don't you physically change the licence plate every year? In the UK the licence plate is permanent and is all that the police nornally need to know. You could physically and illegally change the number plate for a false one, but so you could change my VIN in the windscreen - only looks like a strip of metal stamped with the characters.
You get to drive your new car off a USA car dealer's lot without number plates. You get the plates a month or two afterwards.
Hence why you see lots of cars on the road without number plates. Cops get mad if they can't give you a parking ticket - hence the need for visible VINs.
Also, if you have personalized plates - you get to keep your plates, so your old car's new owner needs to get new plates.
In all honesty, why aren't we already doing this? The problem with the world is dumb people. If we can selectively breed out dumb people, how would the world be worse?
Cardboard tasting Tomatoes: that's why.
http://www.geneticliteracyproj...
If you start selectively breeding just for intelligence, you may end up losing other traits. And no, I'm not suggesting our children will start tasting like cardboard. Perhaps that really hot blonde over there is dumber than you, but would you want to hit it?
Oh, the cardboard tomatoes don't taste bad just due to the lack of sugar: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2...
https://www.mbnashopsafe.com/o... .
It's been around for over ten years. It provides disposable numbers. Each new number is locked into a single payee, and you can update/set the expiration date and credit limit for these numbers, so you never have to reveal the "root" CC number - not even for recurring bills
I don't think you can change the name on the card or the billing address.
More graffitis in cities...
Not if there's a huge army of cleanup drones.. From the look of that video we'll see cleanup drones before graffiti drones.