So you suggest that people buy Apple computers even when they fail, I know to RTFA is heresy around these parts, but did you even read the summary? The MacOS didn't "fail", it just doesn't share a kernel with Linux and so is not 100% identical to the environment that he had to deploy to. You could run Linux in a VM to test against. Hell, I've done that before on Windows just to avoid the whole Cygwin thing.
My favorite line from the article:
A basic 15" MacBook Pro will run you $1,800 while you can buy a comparable model from Lenovo for $1,200.
Sure, as long as by "comparable" you mean "heavier, larger, and with a smaller battery".
I know you are being sarcastic, but that's not what I was advocating at all. If you notice, I was recommending raising taxes on the rich or taxes that generally effect the rich to make up for the $400 billion you would lose through the corporate tax revenue loss.
What about this thought: People are real; citizens are real, corporations are not real.
In the same vein as your post - it was the recent SCOTUS decision granting corporations the right to free speech that made me examine what a corporation really is and how we should treat it.
Either you are extremely risk-averse, or you would have to also say that coal power is simply not worth the risk on any large scale.
Or oil.
Which is the worse disaster? The BP oil spill or the ongoing Fukushima emergency? Remember that the BP oil spill actually killed 11 workers and injured 17. Fukushima is ongoing and so hard to predict, but it sure looks like fewer people will die there. Also, look at the context - Fukushima was the result of a much larger tragedy. Perhaps 10,000 have died in a massive earthquake and tsunami. In contrast, the BP oil spill happened during good weather. No earthquake, no hurricane.
Imagine what could happen if an earthquake hit a region with a bunch of deepwater oil rigs?
Can you imagine what happened to all of the chemical storage tanks sitting around in Japan? Honestly, if I lived near that region, I'd be a lot more worried long-term about the new chemicals floating around seeping into my water supply than about a short-term nuclear accident that will get the governments full attention until it is cleaned up.
The most effective way to reduce tax avoidance is to lower the tax rate.
I've recently come around to thinking that it would probably be best to have no corporate tax at all. Raise capital gains taxes or maybe the top tax rate enough to make up the shortfall. Or find something else on the left side of the Laffer Curve. Let anyone and everyone headquarter here, and tax the money as it flows back out to the owners of the companies.
We're talking about $400 billion here - we should be able to make that up easily and without much pain. The upside is a greatly simplified tax code and more companies keeping their profits here.
The downside is politicians getting labeled as "in the pocket of corporations" and economic devastation in tax havens.
Because gambling can be fun. I'm not a big gambler, but I admit that I've dropped money in AC. I've also won money there. It gets the juices flowing and can be exciting, even though you know the odds are against you.
I know a guy who plays the lottery and is otherwise quite smart. I asked him why and he said that $1/week is a very cheap price to get his mind daydreaming about what he'd do with the money. He's not stupid or gullible, he just likes to get his juices going.:)
Or are services like Pandora, Spotify, and even iTunes giving the consumers what they want at a price they want and thus helping to drive pirating down?
I believe that YouTube is the largest service that people go to for music now. And if my wife is any indication, this is accurate. She used to harass me to find this-or-that on P2P. Now she just goes on YouTube, to the extent that I've made sure she can output to the house stereo.
It might also be interesting to insulate cars and put a thermocouple between inside and outside to harness the thermal effects of being parked in the sun.
I don't think thermocouples would work... they are only like 5% efficient. A sterling engine?:)
Also, I'm not sure how this new approach affects the battery's lifespan
For what it's worth, the Nissan Leaf has a 100 A DC plug that lets you get the battery to 80% in 30 minutes. They warn that the pack will not last as long if this is used.
It is only a matter of time before this becomes just as part of China as Hong Kong did.
You mean a peaceful transition that leaves them with some autonomy? Yeah, I think you are correct.
South Korea is also a prize
No, it's a threat. It is the US on their doorstep. They would drop support for North Korea in a heartbeat if the US wasn't so cuddly with South Korea. (Well, there's a bit of an issue about dealing with a refugee flood...)
and the only thing stopping them from this is because they still have intelligence to gain from Western businesses and a benefit from one-sided trade practices.
In other words, we have mutual economic interests. I suspect we will have these mutual interests for a very long time.
You understand that China is not being totally paranoid? They have a huge Russian border, an Indian border, a coastline right across from Japan, and they are physically attached to the Korean Peninsula. The Russians don't exactly love the Chinese, nor do the Indians, and they were sacked and raped by Japan. The US is cozy with Japan, Taiwan, and has a major presence in Korea. I think it is important that we keep all of this in mind when dealing with the Chinese.
Also, your analysis is a bit one-sided. Any military effort on China's part - and it would be a significant effort to invade Taiwan - would pull troops away that could otherwise be used to defend the other borders. It would also reduce their ability to quell internal unrest. I'm pretty sure that terrifies Chinese leaders.
Yeah I think that's the conventional wisdom. Of course, for $1500-3000 you'd have a one-time charge for the service to your house, whereas the battery would be a recurring charge.
Personally, I'd probably just plug the car in for a 5 hour charge each night, which would only require a 20 Amp circuit. A dryer outlet is 30 Amps, so this shouldn't be a big deal. If I needed a quick charge, I'd probably stop by a service station with a quick charger - you could get a lot of charges for $3000!
I'm old enough that a house built in the 80s still sounds new:)
I didn't mean the 100A wire would be as large as my arm - I meant the "5 minute charge" wire that would have to be, what, 600-1200 A? The 100 A DC receptacle on the Leaf is not that absurd, but it is meant for a 80% charge in 30 minutes. Sorry my comments were all over the place:)
I apologize in advance for my lack of electrical knowledge. But would anything resembling modern standard household wiring even be able to handle that?
Older houses are often wired for 60 Amps, and they don't stand a chance.
Some newer houses with big AC units go as high as 200 Amps. More typical I think is 100 Amps. The Nissan Leaf has a 24 kW-h pack. To "quick charge" that in an hour with 100% efficiency would require 24kW (duh). At 240 V that is 24kW / 240V = 100 Amps. So a newish house could do it if it had a separate 100 A 240V feed just for charging the car. I figure that would set you back about $3000, so it's not out of the question.:)
More likely, you'd pull up to a charging station that has a big industrial feed at a higher voltage so that you don't need a copper wire the size of your arm.
Are you here on a discussion forum to discuss, or just spew? Goodness, manners.
I never said that T-Mobile "lost" customers. I also never said that the G1 didn't "gain" them customers. But on balance, the G1 sales were - in the US - about 1/16 that of the iPhone. Clearly, the iPhone drew more customers to AT&T than the G1 did to T-Mobile. And it seems reasonable that the iPhone also retained more customers for AT&T than the G1 did for T-Mobile.
What a joke of an article. It only looks at customers lost from the iphone, and not customers gained once tmobile picked up the G1, their first android phone. Talk about spin.
Spin? This is common sense. The G1 sold maybe a million or thereabouts. Meanwhile, AT&T alone sold about 16 million iPhones last year alone.
On a related note, this is the first time I've felt the need to "hate" the iPhone, as it will directly affect me as a T-Mobile customer.
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I don't doubt that it is "better" for you, since you seem happy with it and haven't run out to buy a new one.
But it's not better as in lighter, it's not better as in thinner, and it's probably not better as in better battery life.
I think you'd catch a lot of flak for reducing the corporate rate - which mostly affects the rich - and replacing it with a tax that affects everyone.
Run a webkit based browser on another OS?
Different scheduler! Different kernel! LOL, just bringing it back to the weird assertion made in TFA.
So you suggest that people buy Apple computers even when they fail,
I know to RTFA is heresy around these parts, but did you even read the summary? The MacOS didn't "fail", it just doesn't share a kernel with Linux and so is not 100% identical to the environment that he had to deploy to. You could run Linux in a VM to test against. Hell, I've done that before on Windows just to avoid the whole Cygwin thing.
My favorite line from the article:
Sure, as long as by "comparable" you mean "heavier, larger, and with a smaller battery".
I know you are being sarcastic, but that's not what I was advocating at all. If you notice, I was recommending raising taxes on the rich or taxes that generally effect the rich to make up for the $400 billion you would lose through the corporate tax revenue loss.
What about this thought: People are real; citizens are real, corporations are not real.
In the same vein as your post - it was the recent SCOTUS decision granting corporations the right to free speech that made me examine what a corporation really is and how we should treat it.
Either you are extremely risk-averse, or you would have to also say that coal power is simply not worth the risk on any large scale.
Or oil.
Which is the worse disaster? The BP oil spill or the ongoing Fukushima emergency? Remember that the BP oil spill actually killed 11 workers and injured 17. Fukushima is ongoing and so hard to predict, but it sure looks like fewer people will die there. Also, look at the context - Fukushima was the result of a much larger tragedy. Perhaps 10,000 have died in a massive earthquake and tsunami. In contrast, the BP oil spill happened during good weather. No earthquake, no hurricane.
Imagine what could happen if an earthquake hit a region with a bunch of deepwater oil rigs?
Can you imagine what happened to all of the chemical storage tanks sitting around in Japan? Honestly, if I lived near that region, I'd be a lot more worried long-term about the new chemicals floating around seeping into my water supply than about a short-term nuclear accident that will get the governments full attention until it is cleaned up.
The most effective way to reduce tax avoidance is to lower the tax rate.
I've recently come around to thinking that it would probably be best to have no corporate tax at all. Raise capital gains taxes or maybe the top tax rate enough to make up the shortfall. Or find something else on the left side of the Laffer Curve. Let anyone and everyone headquarter here, and tax the money as it flows back out to the owners of the companies.
We're talking about $400 billion here - we should be able to make that up easily and without much pain. The upside is a greatly simplified tax code and more companies keeping their profits here.
The downside is politicians getting labeled as "in the pocket of corporations" and economic devastation in tax havens.
How is Ghost Hunting any different?
Because gambling can be fun. I'm not a big gambler, but I admit that I've dropped money in AC. I've also won money there. It gets the juices flowing and can be exciting, even though you know the odds are against you.
I know a guy who plays the lottery and is otherwise quite smart. I asked him why and he said that $1/week is a very cheap price to get his mind daydreaming about what he'd do with the money. He's not stupid or gullible, he just likes to get his juices going. :)
Or are services like Pandora, Spotify, and even iTunes giving the consumers what they want at a price they want and thus helping to drive pirating down?
I believe that YouTube is the largest service that people go to for music now. And if my wife is any indication, this is accurate. She used to harass me to find this-or-that on P2P. Now she just goes on YouTube, to the extent that I've made sure she can output to the house stereo.
It might also be interesting to insulate cars and put a thermocouple between inside and outside to harness the thermal effects of being parked in the sun.
I don't think thermocouples would work... they are only like 5% efficient. A sterling engine? :)
Also, I'm not sure how this new approach affects the battery's lifespan
For what it's worth, the Nissan Leaf has a 100 A DC plug that lets you get the battery to 80% in 30 minutes. They warn that the pack will not last as long if this is used.
It is only a matter of time before this becomes just as part of China as Hong Kong did.
You mean a peaceful transition that leaves them with some autonomy? Yeah, I think you are correct.
South Korea is also a prize
No, it's a threat. It is the US on their doorstep. They would drop support for North Korea in a heartbeat if the US wasn't so cuddly with South Korea. (Well, there's a bit of an issue about dealing with a refugee flood...)
and the only thing stopping them from this is because they still have intelligence to gain from Western businesses and a benefit from one-sided trade practices.
In other words, we have mutual economic interests. I suspect we will have these mutual interests for a very long time.
You understand that China is not being totally paranoid? They have a huge Russian border, an Indian border, a coastline right across from Japan, and they are physically attached to the Korean Peninsula. The Russians don't exactly love the Chinese, nor do the Indians, and they were sacked and raped by Japan. The US is cozy with Japan, Taiwan, and has a major presence in Korea. I think it is important that we keep all of this in mind when dealing with the Chinese.
Also, your analysis is a bit one-sided. Any military effort on China's part - and it would be a significant effort to invade Taiwan - would pull troops away that could otherwise be used to defend the other borders. It would also reduce their ability to quell internal unrest. I'm pretty sure that terrifies Chinese leaders.
Yeah I think that's the conventional wisdom. Of course, for $1500-3000 you'd have a one-time charge for the service to your house, whereas the battery would be a recurring charge.
Personally, I'd probably just plug the car in for a 5 hour charge each night, which would only require a 20 Amp circuit. A dryer outlet is 30 Amps, so this shouldn't be a big deal. If I needed a quick charge, I'd probably stop by a service station with a quick charger - you could get a lot of charges for $3000!
Are you replying to me? I said it's likely you'd pull up to a charging station.
LOL, yup - I have the quote right. I suspect the good Doctor had his reasons... He probably felt strongly about keeping his tenses consistent.
They needed to do a study to figure this one out?
I'm glad that they shared their experience with the rest of us, to save us from duplication of effort.
I'm old enough that a house built in the 80s still sounds new :)
I didn't mean the 100A wire would be as large as my arm - I meant the "5 minute charge" wire that would have to be, what, 600-1200 A? The 100 A DC receptacle on the Leaf is not that absurd, but it is meant for a 80% charge in 30 minutes. Sorry my comments were all over the place :)
LOL, I grew up in a house like that -but it had a second service and meter for the subsidized electric stuff.
It's an old Dr. Seuss book from waaay before the current www.
I apologize in advance for my lack of electrical knowledge. But would anything resembling modern standard household wiring even be able to handle that?
Older houses are often wired for 60 Amps, and they don't stand a chance.
Some newer houses with big AC units go as high as 200 Amps. More typical I think is 100 Amps. The Nissan Leaf has a 24 kW-h pack. To "quick charge" that in an hour with 100% efficiency would require 24kW (duh). At 240 V that is 24kW / 240V = 100 Amps. So a newish house could do it if it had a separate 100 A 240V feed just for charging the car. I figure that would set you back about $3000, so it's not out of the question. :)
More likely, you'd pull up to a charging station that has a big industrial feed at a higher voltage so that you don't need a copper wire the size of your arm.
Can you get goatse to show up on tineye? That would be a pretty good trick.
Yeah, the image shows up a LOT on the web - but no mention of a movie.
Are you here on a discussion forum to discuss, or just spew? Goodness, manners.
I never said that T-Mobile "lost" customers. I also never said that the G1 didn't "gain" them customers. But on balance, the G1 sales were - in the US - about 1/16 that of the iPhone. Clearly, the iPhone drew more customers to AT&T than the G1 did to T-Mobile. And it seems reasonable that the iPhone also retained more customers for AT&T than the G1 did for T-Mobile.
What a joke of an article. It only looks at customers lost from the iphone, and not customers gained once tmobile picked up the G1, their first android phone. Talk about spin.
Spin? This is common sense. The G1 sold maybe a million or thereabouts. Meanwhile, AT&T alone sold about 16 million iPhones last year alone.
On a related note, this is the first time I've felt the need to "hate" the iPhone, as it will directly affect me as a T-Mobile customer.