Because round trips for most people are far less than a single charge?
So I should buy a $100,000 electric 'luxury' car for a five milte commute to work each day?
Because highway driving at avg 60, that is around 10 hours of continuous driving to get 600 miles which most people will maybe do a handful of times in their lifetime?
That's a drive to visit my girlfriend's parents, which we do several times a year, with a five minute stop for fuel along the way.
Because it's not a one size fit all vehicle?
For $100,000, most people expect a car that they can actually use without having to ask the manufacturer whether they can turn the heater on.
The Volt was also the 'Car of the Year' in at least one or two magazines. Didn't help it much.
Heck, car magazines rated the Fiat 500 'Car of the Year' and it's one of the worst cars I've ever driven. About the best I could say about it is that it's better than a Kia.
Uh, electric cars tend to have very good acceleration because of the high torque available from electric motors, so I'd guess they get pretty good 1/4 mile times. It's everything else that sucks.
Ten years ago it was the car companies, now it's the automotive press that seems determined to hasten its demise. Sad.
The electric car died when the first usable ICE cars appeared. Every attempt to resurrect it has been a dismal failure because it still suffers from all the faults that made ICE cars vastly superior.
One day we may have electric cars powered by fusion reactors that only need you to tip a liter of water into the fuel tank every year, but until then they'll continue to suck just as they did a hundred years ago.
It means they take a unit someone else has returned as broken. Wipe it with a rag to get rid of the finger prints and send it to you.
At the hardware company I worked for we would run a batch of tests first, but, yes, that's essentially it. People would buy our hardware from a store, take it home, try it out, decide they didn't like it and return it, and we could no longer then sell it as new. So we'd have to raise the price to everyone in order to pay for people who abused easy return policies.
OK, answer this: The REST of the world, including some really smart folks in some very advanced countries have yet to make the magical tricorder. You'd think SOMEBODY could do it - it doesn't have to be an American invention.
Most of the Western world has socialised medicine, and they have a very strong incentive to not put themselves out of work; if I remember correctly, Britain's National Health Service is the largest single employer in the EU.
And in the rest of the world, a doctor is probably cheaper than a computer.
The last few times we've had to go to a doctor we already knew what the problem was and what to do about it from Google, we just had to get the doctor to sign the prescription form. I've been convinced for years that 90% of what doctors do could easily be replaced by software.
For example, when faced with a dilemma of either eradicating a species or facing an epidemic of disease caused by that species, a conservationist would wipe out the pest while a tree-hugger would not.
Remember IC cars come with their own "don'ts" and "cautions". Really hot weather? Turn off the AC and turn on the heater to keep the engine from over heating.
I haven't had to do that since I last owned a 1980s Fiat.
A Geforce 2 uses much too much energy to be cost efficient. Servers should run headless or use the chipset integrated graphics.
According to a quick web search, a Geforce 2 MX uses 4W. Even high-end PCI cards of that era probably didn't use more power than the PCI slot could provide, which appears to be 25W.
But yes, you're probably better off with whatever integrated graphics chip is on the motherboard.
Why would you be running RHEL on something that you use to browse the web?
Web browsers are not just used to browse the web.
Most of the ancillary hardware in our racks these days has a web management interface which is not accessible through the firewall; some still has ssh or telnet, but that's becoming increasingly rare. So to manage it, I can either log into one of the servers and run a web browser from there, or port forward it through SSH and run one locally.
why would you xforward a browser to a computer that already has a browser?
Because, uh, you want to browse from the other computer?
That said, I'm pretty sure the last time I tried to start a remote copy of Firefox, it helpfully started one on the local machine instead. Because, after all, why would you xforward a browser to a computer that already has a browser?
For anything x86 based; they don't. They expressly require OEMs (and onyone else producing motherboards with a little Windows 8 sticker on the box) to allow the end user to add their own Secure Boot keys, as well as insert Microsoft's key. No end-user modification, no certification.
Well, duh.
They have to do that in order to get Windows Boot in the door, then with Window 9 or 10 they require that it can't be turned off.
Oh, sorry, I forgot, the slippery slope is a logical fallacy so Microsoft would never, ever do such a thing. Can't happen.
I'm almost certain that in the future we'll grant permissions to different apps and websites by answering at the time the app wants access to the resource, not forever.
Like UAC's wonderfully helpful popups, you mean?
'Application Hello Kitty Screensaver wants to: Access Hard Disk. Allow/Deny?'
Yeah, that's going to make life much easier for Joe Know-Nothing to avoid malware. They'll click yes to everything, then disable it after ten minutes because it's popping up all the time.
The only way it can work is to sandbox every app so it can't infect any files but its own. Even then, it also needs a network sandbox so it can't connect to arbitrary network services.
The GTX660 is memory limited, so no CPU will give good frame rates in Metro 2033 at that resolution. It can't even sustain 60fps with the game maxed out at 1920x1080.
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Because round trips for most people are far less than a single charge?
So I should buy a $100,000 electric 'luxury' car for a five milte commute to work each day?
Because highway driving at avg 60, that is around 10 hours of continuous driving to get 600 miles which most people will maybe do a handful of times in their lifetime?
That's a drive to visit my girlfriend's parents, which we do several times a year, with a five minute stop for fuel along the way.
Because it's not a one size fit all vehicle?
For $100,000, most people expect a car that they can actually use without having to ask the manufacturer whether they can turn the heater on.
The Volt was also the 'Car of the Year' in at least one or two magazines. Didn't help it much.
Heck, car magazines rated the Fiat 500 'Car of the Year' and it's one of the worst cars I've ever driven. About the best I could say about it is that it's better than a Kia.
Uh, electric cars tend to have very good acceleration because of the high torque available from electric motors, so I'd guess they get pretty good 1/4 mile times. It's everything else that sucks.
Ten years ago it was the car companies, now it's the automotive press that seems determined to hasten its demise. Sad.
The electric car died when the first usable ICE cars appeared. Every attempt to resurrect it has been a dismal failure because it still suffers from all the faults that made ICE cars vastly superior.
One day we may have electric cars powered by fusion reactors that only need you to tip a liter of water into the fuel tank every year, but until then they'll continue to suck just as they did a hundred years ago.
The vehicle coasted on a freeway off-ramp but then become unmovable once stopped? ..did I miss a step somewhere?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but from reading the post above, I'm guessing you missed the part where he put the parking brake on?
It means they take a unit someone else has returned as broken. Wipe it with a rag to get rid of the finger prints and send it to you.
At the hardware company I worked for we would run a batch of tests first, but, yes, that's essentially it. People would buy our hardware from a store, take it home, try it out, decide they didn't like it and return it, and we could no longer then sell it as new. So we'd have to raise the price to everyone in order to pay for people who abused easy return policies.
OK, answer this: The REST of the world, including some really smart folks in some very advanced countries have yet to make the magical tricorder. You'd think SOMEBODY could do it - it doesn't have to be an American invention.
Most of the Western world has socialised medicine, and they have a very strong incentive to not put themselves out of work; if I remember correctly, Britain's National Health Service is the largest single employer in the EU.
And in the rest of the world, a doctor is probably cheaper than a computer.
Why haven't these things been combined?
Who could possibly be opposed to cheap, automated healthcare?
The last few times we've had to go to a doctor we already knew what the problem was and what to do about it from Google, we just had to get the doctor to sign the prescription form. I've been convinced for years that 90% of what doctors do could easily be replaced by software.
For example, when faced with a dilemma of either eradicating a species or facing an epidemic of disease caused by that species, a conservationist would wipe out the pest while a tree-hugger would not.
Mosquitoes are people too!
Remember IC cars come with their own "don'ts" and "cautions". Really hot weather? Turn off the AC and turn on the heater to keep the engine from over heating.
I haven't had to do that since I last owned a 1980s Fiat.
Bad laws never die, they just get renamed.
A Geforce 2 uses much too much energy to be cost efficient. Servers should run headless or use the chipset integrated graphics.
According to a quick web search, a Geforce 2 MX uses 4W. Even high-end PCI cards of that era probably didn't use more power than the PCI slot could provide, which appears to be 25W.
But yes, you're probably better off with whatever integrated graphics chip is on the motherboard.
What do drone "operator(s)" get paid compared to a helicopter pilot?
The great thing about drone operators is that you can outsource the job to China or India. So probably not much.
Why would you be running RHEL on something that you use to browse the web?
Web browsers are not just used to browse the web.
Most of the ancillary hardware in our racks these days has a web management interface which is not accessible through the firewall; some still has ssh or telnet, but that's becoming increasingly rare. So to manage it, I can either log into one of the servers and run a web browser from there, or port forward it through SSH and run one locally.
why would you xforward a browser to a computer that already has a browser?
Because, uh, you want to browse from the other computer?
That said, I'm pretty sure the last time I tried to start a remote copy of Firefox, it helpfully started one on the local machine instead. Because, after all, why would you xforward a browser to a computer that already has a browser?
I guess just sticking your fingers in your ears and going 'la la la la la' may help.
The interest in Surface PRO is NOT in the nerd community.
Its in the business community that can immediately use PRO without waiting for an RT version of the software they use every day to come out.
And, other than the marketing droids who must have The New Shiny, why would they do that when they can buy a laptop for much less?
I would absolutely buy one if I had not recently bought a high-end notebook. In fact I am thinking about buying it anyways and selling the notebook.
Why?
All the reviews I've seen say it's a heavy, expensive, power-hungry tablet that makes a crappy, expensive laptop.
Nixon was a Dem?
Wage controls? Price controls? He was certainly to the left of Obama.
Because then you have to convince every motherboard manufacturer to install your key too.
For anything x86 based; they don't. They expressly require OEMs (and onyone else producing motherboards with a little Windows 8 sticker on the box) to allow the end user to add their own Secure Boot keys, as well as insert Microsoft's key. No end-user modification, no certification.
Well, duh.
They have to do that in order to get Windows Boot in the door, then with Window 9 or 10 they require that it can't be turned off.
Oh, sorry, I forgot, the slippery slope is a logical fallacy so Microsoft would never, ever do such a thing. Can't happen.
I'm almost certain that in the future we'll grant permissions to different apps and websites by answering at the time the app wants access to the resource, not forever.
Like UAC's wonderfully helpful popups, you mean?
'Application Hello Kitty Screensaver wants to: Access Hard Disk. Allow/Deny?'
Yeah, that's going to make life much easier for Joe Know-Nothing to avoid malware. They'll click yes to everything, then disable it after ten minutes because it's popping up all the time.
The only way it can work is to sandbox every app so it can't infect any files but its own. Even then, it also needs a network sandbox so it can't connect to arbitrary network services.
The GTX660 is memory limited, so no CPU will give good frame rates in Metro 2033 at that resolution. It can't even sustain 60fps with the game maxed out at 1920x1080.
Overall inflation has been shockingly, distressingly, low for the past decade.
You are Ben Bernanke and I claim my $5,000,000,000 ($5 adjusted for inflation).