A gasoline engine is 25% efficient, an electric engine runs at 90%, and doesn't need to idle.
A modern direct-injection gasoline engine gets close to 40% efficiency, and diesels close to 50%. If you're worried about idling, add a stop-start system like many European cars have.
Most people don't need the range in reality. They only need it once or twice a year. They are paying a healthy premium- WAY over the cost of renting a vehicle for that once or twice a year that they need the range.
Yes, because I really want to have to rent a car that's capable of long distance travel every time I want to actually travel a long distance... when I could just buy one instead.
You don't actually think this is actually about porn, do you?
This is how they'll get the British people to agree to requiring proof of ID to access the Internet, which is the goal all along. Once they have that, they can cut you off the Internet at any moment.
Actually, Google specifically assumes that your privacy does have value to you, and that you should be able to decide what you'll trade it for.
So when are you going to give us the ability to disable permissions on a per-app basis? You know, like you added to the OS a few revisions back, then took away again?
This is the biggest single reason I recommend people not to buy Android these days if they ask. I'm sick of apps asking for all kinds of permissions that I don't want to give them, and not having any way to block them.
The real test will be if the Disney+Abrams films live up to the originals, but the prequels have probably cast their immutable shadow over the entire franchise.
Fortunately, the Abrams 'Star Wars' time-travels into an alternate timeline where the prequels never existed, and Tatooine is destroyed by a rogue band of Ewoks.
Big retail chains are doomed. They can't compete on price with online stores, and they can't compete on service with local stores who don't have to send most of their profits to the stock market. This has little or nothing to do with Harper, unless you believe a more left-wing government would have nationalized Future Shop to keep it open.
We had Future Shop and about four other chains and a ouple of local stores. Then we got Best Buy as well, selling the same things as Future Shop, at the same prices. Now we have Best Buy and about four other chains and a couple of local stores. Hardly a 'monopoly'.
I buy most of my electronics from Amazon or one of the local stores. Future Shop was usually more expensive, and the staff clueless. I never understood why Best Buy kept them around.
There's already been at least one case of a homicidal pilot being overpowered by the other people in the cockpit. if I remember correctly, some people on board died, but, if the pilot had been on his own in the cockpit, they'd probably all have died.
So, if a pilot decides to crash a plane into a mountain, do they think the flight attendant will be able to overpower the pilot and bring the plane back up to a safe cruising altititude on their own? Crashing a plane is a lot easier than flying one safely.
There's a thing called an autopilot. A few hours with MS Flight Sim would be enough to train them how to set a safe altitude and ensure it's turned on.
But that would only matter if the other pilot couldn't get into the cockpit.
Besides which, even someone who's willing to take a ten minute ride to certain death probably wouldn't do so if someone else is sitting there watching them. They could have crashed the plane into the ground during the takeoff or landing, with the captain right beside them, but waited for him to leave instead.
We (almost) have self-driving cars. Aircraft generally self-drive themselves almost all time now. Why not have self-driving aircraft?
Because then everyone dies when the computer fails. Autopilots regularly fail and expect the pilot to take over; sometimes, like AF447, the pilot flies it into the sea, but most times they resolve the problem and continue.
This is particularly problematic when sensors fail, as they did in AF447, and the computer doesn't know what's going on any more.
It would be like the end of Logan's Run, or those bad SF movies of the 70s where you ask the computer to tell you the square root of minus one and it goes into a loop and explodes.
'Our laws' are illogical, contradictory, and impossible for a human to understand. A robot trying to follow them to the letter would be unable to do anything, if it ever reached the point of understanding them all.
However, the real difference is the Israelis actually have highly educated and trained people doing this checking and investigation.
I've obviously never run into those, then.
Back in the real world, a nutter who's expecting to be shagging his seventy-two virgins in two hours is unlikely to be nervous, whereas people faced with the thought of being dragged off for an interrogation if they look nervous.... probably will be.
We don't need emissions controls (well, we do, but I consider that secondart); we need population controls.
Your comrades in China already tried that.
First they told women to have more kids, because they needed soldiers to fight the Evil Americans. Then they realized they were having so many kids that they were going to starve. So they told women to stop having more than one kid. Now they have a massive imbalance between men and women, and a rapidly ageing population, and are looking at importing tens of millions of immigrants to replace the kids they never had.
Your population control has such a wonderful history of success. But you don't care, because it's the control that matters to you, no the consequences.
The 'Greens' were pushing people to drive diesels years ago. Now they're pushing people to stop driving diesels, because, as we pointed out at the time, diesel is a crappy, stinky, carcinogenic monstrosity.
Maybe it would be easier to just stop listening to the 'Greens' in the first place.
On the plus side, that's likely to happen after the next election, as this kind of nonsense just pushes people to vote for parties that haven't been taken over by Watermelons.
OEMs are listening to their mass market customers and what these customers are saying is "Lock it down.. We don't want to tool up and poke around under the hood."
Really? I've never heard a single mass market customer demand that they should be able to do less with their PC.
Fortunately, desktop PCs are only really useful for games and a few other specialized uses these days, so I can always buy an ARM next time.
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A gasoline engine is 25% efficient, an electric engine runs at 90%, and doesn't need to idle.
A modern direct-injection gasoline engine gets close to 40% efficiency, and diesels close to 50%. If you're worried about idling, add a stop-start system like many European cars have.
Most people don't need the range in reality. They only need it once or twice a year. They are paying a healthy premium- WAY over the cost of renting a vehicle for that once or twice a year that they need the range.
Yes, because I really want to have to rent a car that's capable of long distance travel every time I want to actually travel a long distance... when I could just buy one instead.
You don't actually think this is actually about porn, do you?
This is how they'll get the British people to agree to requiring proof of ID to access the Internet, which is the goal all along. Once they have that, they can cut you off the Internet at any moment.
Actually, Google specifically assumes that your privacy does have value to you, and that you should be able to decide what you'll trade it for.
So when are you going to give us the ability to disable permissions on a per-app basis? You know, like you added to the OS a few revisions back, then took away again?
This is the biggest single reason I recommend people not to buy Android these days if they ask. I'm sick of apps asking for all kinds of permissions that I don't want to give them, and not having any way to block them.
So you're claiming that there are people who actually want to be tracked wherever they go on the Internet?
Oh, you must work for an advertising company, right?
The real test will be if the Disney+Abrams films live up to the originals, but the prequels have probably cast their immutable shadow over the entire franchise.
Fortunately, the Abrams 'Star Wars' time-travels into an alternate timeline where the prequels never existed, and Tatooine is destroyed by a rogue band of Ewoks.
Most middle-class Canadians have been, or are being, forced down to a Wal-Mart level of existence.
That'll be why our street is full of new trucks and SUVs. They need them to drive to Wal-Mart, I guess.
Big retail chains are doomed. They can't compete on price with online stores, and they can't compete on service with local stores who don't have to send most of their profits to the stock market. This has little or nothing to do with Harper, unless you believe a more left-wing government would have nationalized Future Shop to keep it open.
We had Future Shop and about four other chains and a ouple of local stores. Then we got Best Buy as well, selling the same things as Future Shop, at the same prices. Now we have Best Buy and about four other chains and a couple of local stores. Hardly a 'monopoly'.
I buy most of my electronics from Amazon or one of the local stores. Future Shop was usually more expensive, and the staff clueless. I never understood why Best Buy kept them around.
Two persons in the cockpit won't help a thing.
There's already been at least one case of a homicidal pilot being overpowered by the other people in the cockpit. if I remember correctly, some people on board died, but, if the pilot had been on his own in the cockpit, they'd probably all have died.
So... BZZT... wrong.
Oh, sorry, I just double-checked, and the Tesla did just win the race :).
No, antique cars really aren't. If you don't believe me then I challenge you to drive a model-T on an expressway.
At least it's faster than a Tesla.
So, if a pilot decides to crash a plane into a mountain, do they think the flight attendant will be able to overpower the pilot and bring the plane back up to a safe cruising altititude on their own? Crashing a plane is a lot easier than flying one safely.
There's a thing called an autopilot. A few hours with MS Flight Sim would be enough to train them how to set a safe altitude and ensure it's turned on.
But that would only matter if the other pilot couldn't get into the cockpit.
Besides which, even someone who's willing to take a ten minute ride to certain death probably wouldn't do so if someone else is sitting there watching them. They could have crashed the plane into the ground during the takeoff or landing, with the captain right beside them, but waited for him to leave instead.
Massive increase in the scope nearly doubled the size of the thing however its still being launched by the same vehicle (Saturn V)
If they're having to restart Saturn V production just to launch the thing, no wonder the cost is so high!
Yeah, they put that crap into Unity a few years ago. It's one of the reasons I gave up on Ubuntu.
Possibly the third, since we still don't know what happened to MH370. This makes the 'pilot killed everyone' scenario look rather more likely.
We (almost) have self-driving cars. Aircraft generally self-drive themselves almost all time now. Why not have self-driving aircraft?
Because then everyone dies when the computer fails. Autopilots regularly fail and expect the pilot to take over; sometimes, like AF447, the pilot flies it into the sea, but most times they resolve the problem and continue.
This is particularly problematic when sensors fail, as they did in AF447, and the computer doesn't know what's going on any more.
It would be like the end of Logan's Run, or those bad SF movies of the 70s where you ask the computer to tell you the square root of minus one and it goes into a loop and explodes.
'Our laws' are illogical, contradictory, and impossible for a human to understand. A robot trying to follow them to the letter would be unable to do anything, if it ever reached the point of understanding them all.
Technology always works better when you let the United Nations design it, rather than the actual people actually building it.
However, the real difference is the Israelis actually have highly educated and trained people doing this checking and investigation.
I've obviously never run into those, then.
Back in the real world, a nutter who's expecting to be shagging his seventy-two virgins in two hours is unlikely to be nervous, whereas people faced with the thought of being dragged off for an interrogation if they look nervous.... probably will be.
Ditto. I had a passcode on my phone until I realized it enabled the retarded 'DIAL 9/11 WITH YOUR ASS!' feature.
We don't need emissions controls (well, we do, but I consider that secondart); we need population controls.
Your comrades in China already tried that.
First they told women to have more kids, because they needed soldiers to fight the Evil Americans.
Then they realized they were having so many kids that they were going to starve. So they told women to stop having more than one kid.
Now they have a massive imbalance between men and women, and a rapidly ageing population, and are looking at importing tens of millions of immigrants to replace the kids they never had.
Your population control has such a wonderful history of success. But you don't care, because it's the control that matters to you, no the consequences.
The 'Greens' were pushing people to drive diesels years ago. Now they're pushing people to stop driving diesels, because, as we pointed out at the time, diesel is a crappy, stinky, carcinogenic monstrosity.
Maybe it would be easier to just stop listening to the 'Greens' in the first place.
On the plus side, that's likely to happen after the next election, as this kind of nonsense just pushes people to vote for parties that haven't been taken over by Watermelons.
What if some brilliant young programmer out there decides he wants to try his/her hand at creating his own OS?
They would immediately be flagged as potential terrist and be sent to Cuba.
OEMs are listening to their mass market customers and what these customers are saying is "Lock it down.. We don't want to tool up and poke around under the hood."
Really? I've never heard a single mass market customer demand that they should be able to do less with their PC.
Fortunately, desktop PCs are only really useful for games and a few other specialized uses these days, so I can always buy an ARM next time.