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Where do you live where construction materials and labor add up to $350 per square foot for a shop? Nice homes in California can be built for $150 per square foot or less. I may be willing to drive a truck of materials there and build it for less.
Would have to agree. That thing maybe comes up to my ribs. A normal person would have to duck to get in and unlike an SUV, you are sitting with your legs out in front like a sports car and not on the floor like a chair. It looks like it has less than half the storage space of an SUV. Still, it has good performance and might make a good secondary vehicle. I'd pay $15k for one.
I've always held that the more expensive the manufacturer is, the uglier their SUV is. Especially with the "luxury line" manufcatures which rebadge their consumer grade vehicles, like Lexus, Infinity and Acura. Lexus takes a standard Toyota Land Cruiser and glues on extra plastic to make it wider (on the outside, not the inside), and gaudier.
One of the things I found very interesting about the video release is the idea that they put sensors in the falcon wing doors that would alter the rate and angle the two pivot points used to open the doors. I had wondered how they were going to prevent what would have probably ended up being expensive damage if the available opening space around the car was either too low or too close. You have to hand it to Tesla, they really do think about how things should work before they rush in and execute. If they put the same kind of design effort into the Model C, they are going to knock it out of the park.
Maybe they should learn from over 100 years of automotive design and make the doors open out instead of up. There are a few cars that copied Mercedes and Lamborghini doors, but the supercars learned their lesson and went back to normal doors.
Selling cars that cost as much as a small house is all well and good if your target market is 1%ers and boomers, but if you want to sell to the mass market you need something that's priced for a generation that will probably never be able to afford to own a home.
Where I live, in the midwest, that is the price of a brand new good sized home.
However, I live in a part of town that is kind of run down and it is not uncommon to see people with vehicles that cost twice as much as their home and twice their annual household income as well.
The F450 IS overpriced, which is one of many reasons why I won't buy one. Others include, you can't park it in a parking spot (this applies to any normal sized pickup or sedan too), it uses too much gas, it won't fit in my garage, and it is a pickup truck.
Teslas are also overpriced, and also have other reasons for which I won't buy one.
Somebody has to pay for all that fraud. Yes there is some profit going on, because the companies wouldn't do it otherwise, but there is a lot of criminal activity going on, and our society has decided that the good hardworking people ought to pay for the consequences of those who decide to abuse the system and also to pay for the incarceration of such people in the event that they are caught. Whenever a corporation is busted for stealing money from somebody, we insist they pay it back with interest (which I agree with), but when a common criminal does the same thing we don't recoup the cost from the criminal, we just make all the law abiding people share the cost.
I'd expect the global uptake to be on par with the number of posts in this thread. But, it's mobile technology and I'm still kind of amazed at what people will be convinced is worth buying for the things they do with it.
Nobody enjoys having their still living flesh ground into a fine paste and fed to ravenous pitbulls, but if they had a mobile app for it, people would still buy it. Especially if it was available ONLY on Apple (or ONLY on Android, etc).
Why reserve all your hate for Samsung? It is equally ludicrous to trust ANY phone vendor with even the smallest amount of financial data. I will not use this. Ever. Well, I mean I WILL use it when the drooling sheeple use it so much that all other forms of payment get phased out and it becomes mandatory to use what will by that time be a chip embedded in your hand right next to the mark of the beast and just to the left of the iPalm skin surface screen. But until then, no way am I using this.
So where is the data on the claimed gaming performance on par with dedicated game consoles?
I can give you one performance metric. In order to enjoy the same immersion as a PC screen 3 feet away or a gaming console on a big screen TV 10 feet away, I have to hold the phone 7 inches from my face. But that is true of all phones, not just the new iPhone.
If it had said the moon will turn to darkness, then it would maybe apply.
I am a Christian, but I don't subscribe to anything that claims to know the beginning of the end. Anyway that claims they know is not being Biblical.
I could come up with a convincing set of numbers that tomorrow is the beginning of the end. I could come up with another set for the day after. There have been hundreds or maybe thousands of astrological and numerical events which people have predicted to be the end of the world, and so far none of the have panned out. One day, one may be right, but it will be just by coincidence.
I have yet to find a mobile game that is transformative enough to embrace the platform's massive shortcomings. PC gaming is moving into Citizen Kane territory, Mobile gaming is devolving into trash TV levels of inanity. Dreck is always popular, its still dreck.
Oh, I play a few mobile games. On the Bluestacks App Player on my PC. I don't play games on the phone. The screen is too small and the UI sucks. Plus I enjoy my gaming time. I don't want to play games when I am out with people, or sitting on the toilet, or waiting for a bus, or whatever. I want to enjoy my gaming time, so I have a time when I do that, and it is when I am at home. When I play games at home, I prefer to play them on a large screen with a good UI.
Well, you wouldn't want them doing that anyway, nor playing with a tablet. That's one more loose and heavy article to go flying around the cabin in the event of an accident or emergency maneuver.
True also, but you had better not be playing games on it. If the family is springing $100 for a meal, then you are going to spend the time with the family. If you want to play games, you can stay home on the console and eat leftover Tuna Salad Casserole.
Actually, Red Lobster is solid middle class, right there with the Olive Garden. Yes, it's no where near as good as other establishments, but for what they offer, it's pretty cheap and kid friendly relatively speaking. Now if it's just you and your significant other (kids not with you or applicable), there are better places to eat out for sure.
It's definitely solid middle class, but the prices are upper class, at least to me. But I gather that for most people spending $100 on a meal is not really a big deal. Unfortunately, I am not in the class of people that can afford to budget $36,000 a year just for dinner.
If one has access to entertainment in a package that is totally portable rather than one that anchors them to the wall, of course the portable option will be the favored one. Why is this news?
Maybe to some people. Other people are not willing to compromise on the screen size and User Interface. Game consoles generally have two multiaxis sticks and 6 or more buttons. On a portable you have the "click here" button. That severely limits the types of games that can be played. Some have built in motion detection, which allows you to play the whole device like a steering wheel, but that is annoying when you keep moving the display around. Mobile devices also have poor battery life when it comes to games that are more complex than Angry Birds. You have to have it plugged in just to play for more than about half an hour, which means it is no longer a portable option. Also, someone may call you or text you in the middle of the game, which is disruptive on a mobile device, but on a console, you can ignore your phone ringing away without interfering with your game.
Given all of these deficiencies, of course the non-portable option will be the favorable one.
I think it is a good idea to know how fuel injection works. I have a book on the K-Jetronic which I had in my Lotus and understood pretty well how it worked, which helped in tearing down the engine and doing a full overhaul and getting it back together and running again.
In today's modern cars, understanding how the Fuel Injection System works IS coding.
I don't think every body should have to be a star programmer, but exposure to programming will help a person to better understand how to use their computer and why it works the way it does. Just like understanding machine language will make you a more efficient 3GL and 4GL programmer.
I don't think that everybody should have to learn to code if they don't want to, though, and I don't think we ought to be singling out people that specifically don't want to learn coding and offer them lots of extra incentives to do something they don't want to do. Rather, we should spend all the money on people who DO want to learn coding.
This sounds like the required Federal testing for students. The Feds give out the information that children must know, and so the administration teaches the children that information.
Are you familiar with the FAA written exams for private pilots? Passing score is 70% and 80% of the questions are known ahead of time. These questions are from exams from previous years, unchanged, and these exams are available for study and practice. The 20% of questions that are "new", largely old questions with the given numbers changed.
Yes, studied past exams and took the test and got a perfect score on the private pilot and then later on the instrument rating. Passed the checkride for Private Pilot first time. Took two tries on the Instrument rating. Turns out studying to the test doesn't correspond to doing well in real world scenarios.
Everything you mention is much better today than it was then. Our houses more efficient, our access to educational material is much greater and easier, and our health care capacities have improved many times over. I'm not suggesting this is the cause but I'm suggesting you failed to take that into account. There was no glory yesteryear. You're just lazier and feel more entitled.
So it is lazier to want to have the same style of living that my parents had on one salary working 40 hours a week instead of having a lower standard of living with two adults working 80 hours a week? With insurance eating up 20% of the paycheck and not being able to afford to go to the doctor because it is either pay insurance OR go to the doctor, not both and since not paying insurance is illegal now, I guess we have to pay insurance. Education costs many times what it used to and you are left with crippling debt after graduation. Maybe healthcare is 20% better than in the 60s, but it costs 10 times as much. Maybe education is 20% better than it was in the 60s, but it costs 10 times as much. Maybe housing is 20% better than it was in the 60s, but it costs 10 times as much. All of the improvements since the 60s seem to benefit somebody that is in an income bracket above the dual wage earner.
I'm pretty sure more people had access to education, housing and healthcare than do now. In fact, the 1960s have been described as the golden age of healthcare. College Education was far cheaper in both real and adjusted dollars, as was housing and transportation. We have somehow managed to spend more money for worse performance in just about every area of social program that I can think of.
Yet the ones the individuals have to take are related to those. In my state is some % from what the car was designed for. The car is designed to that years particular emissions laws.
My state moved to odbII sensor checking instead of tailpipe checks. Cars before 1997 are exempt from the test for that very reason. The tailpipe test was dead easy to fake out. I knew of two 'inspection shacks' that would fake it out for you for an extra 50.
In mt state, you used to have to get your car tested every year before you could get your tag sticker. The inspection was done at licensed repair facilities. As you can imagine, this ended up costing people lots of money to get their inspection sticker because the outfits that inspected also did the "necessary" work, like changing your windshield wipers, emptying your ashtrays, filling up your windshield wiper fluid, installing new shocks. I actually think the windshield wipers were part of the certification according to the state, but I think that a lot of them ended up getting replace that were just fine.
As far as gaming the system, I once had an exhaust leak in the muffler which was causing TOO LITTLE carcinogens to get to the tailpipe, and so my car failed the inspection.
It's very clever (but evil): EPA says the software looks at a variety of factors, including wheel speed, steering wheel position, engine run time, and barometric pressure (!), and compares those data against EPA's published testing guidelines.
This sounds like the required Federal testing for students. The Feds give out the information that children must know, and so the administration teaches the children that information.
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Where do you live where construction materials and labor add up to $350 per square foot for a shop? Nice homes in California can be built for $150 per square foot or less. I may be willing to drive a truck of materials there and build it for less.
Would have to agree. That thing maybe comes up to my ribs. A normal person would have to duck to get in and unlike an SUV, you are sitting with your legs out in front like a sports car and not on the floor like a chair. It looks like it has less than half the storage space of an SUV. Still, it has good performance and might make a good secondary vehicle. I'd pay $15k for one.
I've always held that the more expensive the manufacturer is, the uglier their SUV is. Especially with the "luxury line" manufcatures which rebadge their consumer grade vehicles, like Lexus, Infinity and Acura. Lexus takes a standard Toyota Land Cruiser and glues on extra plastic to make it wider (on the outside, not the inside), and gaudier.
One of the things I found very interesting about the video release is the idea that they put sensors in the falcon wing doors that would alter the rate and angle the two pivot points used to open the doors. I had wondered how they were going to prevent what would have probably ended up being expensive damage if the available opening space around the car was either too low or too close. You have to hand it to Tesla, they really do think about how things should work before they rush in and execute. If they put the same kind of design effort into the Model C, they are going to knock it out of the park.
Maybe they should learn from over 100 years of automotive design and make the doors open out instead of up. There are a few cars that copied Mercedes and Lamborghini doors, but the supercars learned their lesson and went back to normal doors.
Selling cars that cost as much as a small house is all well and good if your target market is 1%ers and boomers, but if you want to sell to the mass market you need something that's priced for a generation that will probably never be able to afford to own a home.
Where I live, in the midwest, that is the price of a brand new good sized home.
However, I live in a part of town that is kind of run down and it is not uncommon to see people with vehicles that cost twice as much as their home and twice their annual household income as well.
The F450 IS overpriced, which is one of many reasons why I won't buy one. Others include, you can't park it in a parking spot (this applies to any normal sized pickup or sedan too), it uses too much gas, it won't fit in my garage, and it is a pickup truck.
Teslas are also overpriced, and also have other reasons for which I won't buy one.
Somebody has to pay for all that fraud. Yes there is some profit going on, because the companies wouldn't do it otherwise, but there is a lot of criminal activity going on, and our society has decided that the good hardworking people ought to pay for the consequences of those who decide to abuse the system and also to pay for the incarceration of such people in the event that they are caught. Whenever a corporation is busted for stealing money from somebody, we insist they pay it back with interest (which I agree with), but when a common criminal does the same thing we don't recoup the cost from the criminal, we just make all the law abiding people share the cost.
And for everything else, there's Mastercard.
I'd expect the global uptake to be on par with the number of posts in this thread. But, it's mobile technology and I'm still kind of amazed at what people will be convinced is worth buying for the things they do with it.
Nobody enjoys having their still living flesh ground into a fine paste and fed to ravenous pitbulls, but if they had a mobile app for it, people would still buy it. Especially if it was available ONLY on Apple (or ONLY on Android, etc).
Why reserve all your hate for Samsung? It is equally ludicrous to trust ANY phone vendor with even the smallest amount of financial data. I will not use this. Ever. Well, I mean I WILL use it when the drooling sheeple use it so much that all other forms of payment get phased out and it becomes mandatory to use what will by that time be a chip embedded in your hand right next to the mark of the beast and just to the left of the iPalm skin surface screen. But until then, no way am I using this.
So where is the data on the claimed gaming performance on par with dedicated game consoles?
I can give you one performance metric. In order to enjoy the same immersion as a PC screen 3 feet away or a gaming console on a big screen TV 10 feet away, I have to hold the phone 7 inches from my face. But that is true of all phones, not just the new iPhone.
If it had said the moon will turn to darkness, then it would maybe apply.
I am a Christian, but I don't subscribe to anything that claims to know the beginning of the end. Anyway that claims they know is not being Biblical.
I could come up with a convincing set of numbers that tomorrow is the beginning of the end. I could come up with another set for the day after. There have been hundreds or maybe thousands of astrological and numerical events which people have predicted to be the end of the world, and so far none of the have panned out. One day, one may be right, but it will be just by coincidence.
I have yet to find a mobile game that is transformative enough to embrace the platform's massive shortcomings. PC gaming is moving into Citizen Kane territory, Mobile gaming is devolving into trash TV levels of inanity. Dreck is always popular, its still dreck.
Oh, I play a few mobile games. On the Bluestacks App Player on my PC. I don't play games on the phone. The screen is too small and the UI sucks. Plus I enjoy my gaming time. I don't want to play games when I am out with people, or sitting on the toilet, or waiting for a bus, or whatever. I want to enjoy my gaming time, so I have a time when I do that, and it is when I am at home. When I play games at home, I prefer to play them on a large screen with a good UI.
It is tough to play games on a PC.
Well, you wouldn't want them doing that anyway, nor playing with a tablet. That's one more loose and heavy article to go flying around the cabin in the event of an accident or emergency maneuver.
Can't exactly bring the console to Red Lobster
True
but you can bring the phone.
True also, but you had better not be playing games on it. If the family is springing $100 for a meal, then you are going to spend the time with the family. If you want to play games, you can stay home on the console and eat leftover Tuna Salad Casserole.
Actually, Red Lobster is solid middle class, right there with the Olive Garden. Yes, it's no where near as good as other establishments, but for what they offer, it's pretty cheap and kid friendly relatively speaking. Now if it's just you and your significant other (kids not with you or applicable), there are better places to eat out for sure.
It's definitely solid middle class, but the prices are upper class, at least to me. But I gather that for most people spending $100 on a meal is not really a big deal. Unfortunately, I am not in the class of people that can afford to budget $36,000 a year just for dinner.
Plus $25 a month for 24 months, maybe hidden in the plan or maybe not, depending on the plan.
If one has access to entertainment in a package that is totally portable rather than one that anchors them to the wall, of course the portable option will be the favored one. Why is this news?
Maybe to some people. Other people are not willing to compromise on the screen size and User Interface. Game consoles generally have two multiaxis sticks and 6 or more buttons. On a portable you have the "click here" button. That severely limits the types of games that can be played. Some have built in motion detection, which allows you to play the whole device like a steering wheel, but that is annoying when you keep moving the display around. Mobile devices also have poor battery life when it comes to games that are more complex than Angry Birds. You have to have it plugged in just to play for more than about half an hour, which means it is no longer a portable option. Also, someone may call you or text you in the middle of the game, which is disruptive on a mobile device, but on a console, you can ignore your phone ringing away without interfering with your game.
Given all of these deficiencies, of course the non-portable option will be the favorable one.
I think it is a good idea to know how fuel injection works. I have a book on the K-Jetronic which I had in my Lotus and understood pretty well how it worked, which helped in tearing down the engine and doing a full overhaul and getting it back together and running again.
In today's modern cars, understanding how the Fuel Injection System works IS coding.
I don't think every body should have to be a star programmer, but exposure to programming will help a person to better understand how to use their computer and why it works the way it does. Just like understanding machine language will make you a more efficient 3GL and 4GL programmer.
I don't think that everybody should have to learn to code if they don't want to, though, and I don't think we ought to be singling out people that specifically don't want to learn coding and offer them lots of extra incentives to do something they don't want to do. Rather, we should spend all the money on people who DO want to learn coding.
This sounds like the required Federal testing for students. The Feds give out the information that children must know, and so the administration teaches the children that information.
Are you familiar with the FAA written exams for private pilots? Passing score is 70% and 80% of the questions are known ahead of time. These questions are from exams from previous years, unchanged, and these exams are available for study and practice. The 20% of questions that are "new", largely old questions with the given numbers changed.
Yes, studied past exams and took the test and got a perfect score on the private pilot and then later on the instrument rating. Passed the checkride for Private Pilot first time. Took two tries on the Instrument rating. Turns out studying to the test doesn't correspond to doing well in real world scenarios.
Everything you mention is much better today than it was then. Our houses more efficient, our access to educational material is much greater and easier, and our health care capacities have improved many times over. I'm not suggesting this is the cause but I'm suggesting you failed to take that into account. There was no glory yesteryear. You're just lazier and feel more entitled.
So it is lazier to want to have the same style of living that my parents had on one salary working 40 hours a week instead of having a lower standard of living with two adults working 80 hours a week? With insurance eating up 20% of the paycheck and not being able to afford to go to the doctor because it is either pay insurance OR go to the doctor, not both and since not paying insurance is illegal now, I guess we have to pay insurance. Education costs many times what it used to and you are left with crippling debt after graduation. Maybe healthcare is 20% better than in the 60s, but it costs 10 times as much. Maybe education is 20% better than it was in the 60s, but it costs 10 times as much. Maybe housing is 20% better than it was in the 60s, but it costs 10 times as much. All of the improvements since the 60s seem to benefit somebody that is in an income bracket above the dual wage earner.
I'm pretty sure more people had access to education, housing and healthcare than do now. In fact, the 1960s have been described as the golden age of healthcare. College Education was far cheaper in both real and adjusted dollars, as was housing and transportation. We have somehow managed to spend more money for worse performance in just about every area of social program that I can think of.
Yet the ones the individuals have to take are related to those. In my state is some % from what the car was designed for. The car is designed to that years particular emissions laws.
My state moved to odbII sensor checking instead of tailpipe checks. Cars before 1997 are exempt from the test for that very reason. The tailpipe test was dead easy to fake out. I knew of two 'inspection shacks' that would fake it out for you for an extra 50.
In mt state, you used to have to get your car tested every year before you could get your tag sticker. The inspection was done at licensed repair facilities. As you can imagine, this ended up costing people lots of money to get their inspection sticker because the outfits that inspected also did the "necessary" work, like changing your windshield wipers, emptying your ashtrays, filling up your windshield wiper fluid, installing new shocks. I actually think the windshield wipers were part of the certification according to the state, but I think that a lot of them ended up getting replace that were just fine.
As far as gaming the system, I once had an exhaust leak in the muffler which was causing TOO LITTLE carcinogens to get to the tailpipe, and so my car failed the inspection.
It's very clever (but evil): EPA says the software looks at a variety of factors, including wheel speed, steering wheel position, engine run time, and barometric pressure (!), and compares those data against EPA's published testing guidelines.
This sounds like the required Federal testing for students. The Feds give out the information that children must know, and so the administration teaches the children that information.
Do they not see the irony of arguing about anything remotely technical on twitter? That's like locking the barn door after the horse has run off.