Most (possibly all) political parties ignore their core voters because they have nowhere else to go. What are they going to do? Vote for the other guy?
I used to live in Surrey, so I'd see a Ferrari or two at the local gas station every few days. I've seen one Prius, which was a taxi so it probably made good financial sense.
Plus we used to have an F40 and a 308 GTS in the employee car park on an intermittent basis, but I only counted them once.
I've travelled all over Germany. I've also been to China, where pollution _was_ hideous. I've never found anywhere in Germany where I could barely see a hundred yards through the crud in the air, where I could tell I was approaching a city by the cloud of black crud in the sky ahead and was blowing black crap out of my nose for days afterwards. Everywhere I went in Germany was much cleaner than most places I went in the UK, which is still tame compared to China.
As for buying one, I'm in the market. The costs, however, are prohibitive.
So you want a pony, you just don't want to pay for it.
Where exactly is pollution 'hideous' in Germany? Or do you mean that future pollution from the new coal power plants they're building because their 'renewable' power is far too unreliable for a modern economy?
I want an electric.
Good for you. There are plenty available. Go buy one.
There will never be a large market for electric cars until the infrastructure has been upgraded accordingly.
It's not the 'infrastructure', it's the cars.
Our ancestors tried electric cars in the 19th century and they sucked. They still suck. The only thing that will stop them sucking is a massive improvement in battery technology.
Umm.. that doesn't actually put Android in a particularly good light. Even a Windows upgrade would smoke Android in this metric.
If Windows users had to get their Windows updates from Dell, HP, or the guy at the local computer store who built their PC for them, you might have a point.
Asus shipped the upgrade for my Transformer in a few weeks and the OS upgrade installed faster than a typical Windows update session. It probably rebooted less too.
I am absolutely shocked that, despite the assurances from 'smart meter' fanboys, this data has been handed out to all and sundry just as we expected. How
If you need to install 5000 computers you could be looking at 5 million dollars in cash outlays just for software licences. And as other people point out, when you need to upgrade you need to upgrade a lot of your IT, that can be 5 million dollars all at once. With a subscription cost it makes your expenses less bursty.
Weird. The software I own which went to a subscription model used to charge a couple of hundred dollars a year for an upgrade and now charges a couple of hundred dollars a year for a subscription.
The only difference is that whereas you could previously skip an upgrade, you can't skip the subscription unless you want to buy the software all over again in a few years.
GeForce FX was state of the art when I didn't even have a computer - today it's a dinosaur just like NetBurst P4.
GeForce FX was always a piece of crap compared to ATI cards of its era. It's probably Nvidia's most embarassingly bad product, so I'm not surprised they just want to forget about it.
Last I looked, Republicans were pushing the Senate Launch System while Democrats were pushing for NASA to buy private sector launch services to ISS. Numerous people have commented on what an absurd reversal that is.
Yea, they're doing well because they've gotten the benefits of _both_ the dollars "poured into public spaceflight" AND the private subsidies. What, you think they're reinventing the rocket from the ground up?
NASA spent about the same to put a fake upper stage on a shuttle SRB and launch it into the sea as SpaceX did to develop a brand new rocket engine and two rockets and launch them into space.
Speaking of percentages, I wonder what percentage of anti-virus updates go terribly wrong like this. 0.00001%?
It's got to be more than that. I remember a few years back that several people in my company who were foolish enough to have anti-virus on their Windows PCs configured to auto-fix problems came in in the morning to find it had deleted some essential Windows DLL files.
That software probably only updated once a week, so you're talking more like 0.1%.
I don't, so I expect to live in squalor when robots can do 90% of all jobs.
So, uh, what jobs are those robots going to do? Work in factories making stuff to sell to... oh, but 90% of humans live in squalor so they have no money.
Hmm, perhaps your glorious vision of the future makes no sense?
I still occasionally run the version of Word I had for Windows 3.1 on XP, because it's the only way I can open old Word for Mac files. Newer versions of Word for Windows won't open them, and Open Office won't open them.
Yes they have some bombs but all and all they have been extremely successful selling hardware. If nothing else they have learned a great deal with the xbox - where by the way they came from absolutely nowhere with no experience in the console business to be the dominate player in the marked.
It's easy to 'become the dominant player' if you're willing to lose billions of dollars to do so.
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Most (possibly all) political parties ignore their core voters because they have nowhere else to go. What are they going to do? Vote for the other guy?
NASA is supposed to be SpaceX's primary customer.
Only for deliveries to ISS. Last I looked their manifest had a lot of other customers.
Where the hell do you live? A racetrack?
I used to live in Surrey, so I'd see a Ferrari or two at the local gas station every few days. I've seen one Prius, which was a taxi so it probably made good financial sense.
Plus we used to have an F40 and a 308 GTS in the employee car park on an intermittent basis, but I only counted them once.
I can tell you haven't been there.
Psychic power fail.
I've travelled all over Germany. I've also been to China, where pollution _was_ hideous. I've never found anywhere in Germany where I could barely see a hundred yards through the crud in the air, where I could tell I was approaching a city by the cloud of black crud in the sky ahead and was blowing black crap out of my nose for days afterwards. Everywhere I went in Germany was much cleaner than most places I went in the UK, which is still tame compared to China.
As for buying one, I'm in the market. The costs, however, are prohibitive.
So you want a pony, you just don't want to pay for it.
Pollution is hideous, and costs are high.
Where exactly is pollution 'hideous' in Germany? Or do you mean that future pollution from the new coal power plants they're building because their 'renewable' power is far too unreliable for a modern economy?
I want an electric.
Good for you. There are plenty available. Go buy one.
The Prius was a game changing vehicle. It is the first genuinely popular hybrid vehicle and it proved that there is a market for hybrid powertrains.
I've seen more Ferraris on the road than Priuses.
There will never be a large market for electric cars until the infrastructure has been upgraded accordingly.
It's not the 'infrastructure', it's the cars.
Our ancestors tried electric cars in the 19th century and they sucked. They still suck. The only thing that will stop them sucking is a massive improvement in battery technology.
Umm.. that doesn't actually put Android in a particularly good light. Even a Windows upgrade would smoke Android in this metric.
If Windows users had to get their Windows updates from Dell, HP, or the guy at the local computer store who built their PC for them, you might have a point.
Asus shipped the upgrade for my Transformer in a few weeks and the OS upgrade installed faster than a typical Windows update session. It probably rebooted less too.
Which is fine for the above information, but in many places we have no choice but to use smart meters.
Of course you do. Buy a generator.
You're going to need one pretty soon when they start ramping down the amount of electricity you're 'allowed' to use.
The question isn't whether or not information can or should be collected, but how it's used.
Information that isn't collected can't be abused.
I am absolutely shocked that, despite the assurances from 'smart meter' fanboys, this data has been handed out to all and sundry just as we expected. How
With a shining endorsement like that, who wouldn't want to use it?
That's everything most home users need. And most people doing complex work with spreadsheets should really be using a proper database instead.
If you need to install 5000 computers you could be looking at 5 million dollars in cash outlays just for software licences. And as other people point out, when you need to upgrade you need to upgrade a lot of your IT, that can be 5 million dollars all at once. With a subscription cost it makes your expenses less bursty.
Weird. The software I own which went to a subscription model used to charge a couple of hundred dollars a year for an upgrade and now charges a couple of hundred dollars a year for a subscription.
The only difference is that whereas you could previously skip an upgrade, you can't skip the subscription unless you want to buy the software all over again in a few years.
You seem to have missed the fact that most of us abandoned Ubuntu when they forced Unity on us. So we no longer care whether they go bust.
GeForce FX was state of the art when I didn't even have a computer - today it's a dinosaur just like NetBurst P4.
GeForce FX was always a piece of crap compared to ATI cards of its era. It's probably Nvidia's most embarassingly bad product, so I'm not surprised they just want to forget about it.
89% of market share is irrelevant?
89% of _desktop_ market share, and they're throwing a tablet OS onto future desktop systems so they probably won't even manage to maintain that.
Do you really think people are sitting around saying 'you know, I'd love to buy a tablet, but I won't until they run Windows'?
Where's Anonymous Coward holding a party?
Last I looked, Republicans were pushing the Senate Launch System while Democrats were pushing for NASA to buy private sector launch services to ISS. Numerous people have commented on what an absurd reversal that is.
Yea, they're doing well because they've gotten the benefits of _both_ the dollars "poured into public spaceflight" AND the private subsidies. What, you think they're reinventing the rocket from the ground up?
NASA spent about the same to put a fake upper stage on a shuttle SRB and launch it into the sea as SpaceX did to develop a brand new rocket engine and two rockets and launch them into space.
Speaking of percentages, I wonder what percentage of anti-virus updates go terribly wrong like this. 0.00001%?
It's got to be more than that. I remember a few years back that several people in my company who were foolish enough to have anti-virus on their Windows PCs configured to auto-fix problems came in in the morning to find it had deleted some essential Windows DLL files.
That software probably only updated once a week, so you're talking more like 0.1%.
Wonder how those starving artists who can't sell a CD due to piracy feel about Neil.
So they're popular enough that people pirate their music, but not popular enough that anyone wants to buy it?
I guess they don't feel anything, because they clearly don't exist.
Clearly once this technology was introduced, owning an iPhone would become compulsory for travellers who didn't want to be butt probed.
I don't, so I expect to live in squalor when robots can do 90% of all jobs.
So, uh, what jobs are those robots going to do? Work in factories making stuff to sell to... oh, but 90% of humans live in squalor so they have no money.
Hmm, perhaps your glorious vision of the future makes no sense?
So, it's the same as every other bit of software.
How so?
I still occasionally run the version of Word I had for Windows 3.1 on XP, because it's the only way I can open old Word for Mac files. Newer versions of Word for Windows won't open them, and Open Office won't open them.
Yes they have some bombs but all and all they have been extremely successful selling hardware. If nothing else they have learned a great deal with the xbox - where by the way they came from absolutely nowhere with no experience in the console business to be the dominate player in the marked.
It's easy to 'become the dominant player' if you're willing to lose billions of dollars to do so.