It's not a deflection. The technologies each have their pros and cons. You are taking one particular aspect, and saying the way it works for ICE cars is the best way. And in some ways it is. But in other ways it's not.
Yeah, they always had technobabble to explain why TV detector vans work. But the reality is that there is not and never was such a thing. They mocked a few up - vans with interesting looking ariels on top for publicity photos. But there were never any real ones. Purely a scare tactic. These days they don't even bother - they just threaten everyone that hasn't bought a license that they'll come and inspect the property.
We develop the same apps on both iOS and Android. Entirely separate development, no shared code, but based on the same designs. The Android versions take 50% longer to develop and are of lower quality. (The Android team are always complaining about video bugs. And they never seem able to deliver smooth animation. And they are just generally more sluggish.) I don't believe they are worse programmers than the iOS team. I just believe the development environment and the platform are worse. Though I have been told that the development environment got a lot better recently.
It does not move anyone out of poverty, and quite frankly it is abused by a massive amount of people.
It's impossible to abuse UBI, as it's not means tested and you are allowed to spend it on what you like.
Why did they make SNAP all card based and put restrictions on what you can purchase? Because an extremely large percentage of people were not purchasing food for their kids, they were drinking and smoking the money away.
This is right-wing fantasist bullshit. It revolves around the 19th century concept of the "undeserving poor", that people are poor because they make bad decisions, and if only we could make their decisions for them, everything would be better. You can't both believe the idea that wealthy people act in their own rational self-interest, and believe that poor people don't. There are of course some families with social problems, such as alcoholism or drugs that cause them not to look after their children properly. And the answer to that is social wordkers and social services. Not treating everyone who finds themselves on welfare as a child.
Other countries manage to pay welfare in cash, and trust people to look after their children.
Taking from the productive people to give to the unproductive incentivizes non-productivity.
Productivity is a calculation which has labour cost as a divisor. We are heading into a world where the cheapest labour is robots, and most people won't have work producing things. In such a world, people don't have to be productive - machines do. This is a central point - UBI is about a world where we can't even pretend that full employment is possible, or even desirable.
Of course it's good for people to do things. But those things will no longer have to be dictated by an employer, nor be productive.
And to pre-empt your obvious objection... yes there will still be some jobs, and there will be plenty of people who want to do them, because UBI only provides the basics. There are always people that want to work for more than the basics.
The article says that the Florida fatality driver was watching a video. ON the one hand, this is a Darwin award candiate.
On the other hand, seems to me this is something that can be improved upon. I would hope that the video wasn't on the console. If it was, obviously that should not be capable of showing videos whilst the car is in motion.
If the video was on a secondary device, perhaps a camera mounted on the ceiling near the driver's head could look for video devices, and refuse autopilot if so. It'd also check that the camera was not obscured, so it couldn't be easily cheated. Such a camera might also recognise books, newspapers, or the lack of hands anywhere near the wheel.
It's got nothing to do with political correctness. People turned off in droves because Clarkson et al were entertaining and the new presenters weren't. There are plenty of ways of being entertaining other than testing the limits of political correctness.
Yes he was bloodied and dizzy and had to go to hospital. And no they didn't have a drink afterwards. There's no workplace where it's acceptable to punch a colleague other than the boxing ring.
I like the idea of a generator on a trailer for when range is needed. But it's probably not a DIY job, as there's the problem of how to get the electricity into the batteries whilst motoring. EV battery packs have sophisticated battery management systems that have to cooperate in the charging. If the car is in drive mode, it's probably not in charge mode.
On the other hand maybe you could input power on the regenerative brakes input. Dunno.
Just saying it might not be as straight forward as as simple hook up.
That is only if you suppose those green tariffs are the only driving force for renewable electricity production. It isn't. Sometimes renewable is cheaper than the alternatives (hydro, mostly), governments may also enact some regulations favoring renewable.
People who pay for green tariffs want as much renewables as possible. So if there are other drivers too, that's even better. It's not a drawback.
What makes you think it isn't the case in the USA? I read the production is 13% renewable. Is there 13% of the clients (or I should say clients representing 13% of the total production) paying that green tariff?
He/she gets 100% (that is in theory, because in practice the flow of electrons remains the same), while the rest decrease from 10% to 9.999%. No more green energy is produced, or consumed.
As I explained, on average enough green electricity is generated to match the usage of those on green tariffs. Your scenario can only happen when the electric company is already exceeding their responsibility to provide green electricity. As extra consumers sign on for green power, the electric company would fall behind their responsibility and have to create more green generation capacity.
If this sounds like a scam to you, then you didn't understand it.
Don't get me wrong though, I'd prefer government regulations pushing ever upwards towards 100% renewable.
Electricity is fungible. It makes no odds which electrons you get, so long as the renewable energy company puts in the same at the other end. That is of course instantaneously impossible. But averaged over a period of time it's not. The more customers green electricity companies get, the more renewable power generators they build.
You're sending the instructions that go into the GPU, not the pixel data that comes out of the GPU. So you're sending polygon vertices and textures and so on. Worst case is video, and then you are sending an mpeg stream, which is a lot less bandwidth than number of pixels times number of frames.
It's not an either/or. Just because teachers teach children how to be decent members of society doesn't mean parents don't, or shouldn't. Standards of behaviour need to be required both at home and at school.
The very fact that you say this suggests to me that you are not a decent person to be teaching kids social values. And if you do have kids, which hopefully you don't, I'm glad the school is there to fill in what you miss.
For the purpose of how complicated a car is, a part is clearly everything that is manufactured separately. Not the bundle of parts that happens to come in a pack when you order a replacement. Every nut, bolt and ball bearing is a separate part.
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It's not a deflection. The technologies each have their pros and cons. You are taking one particular aspect, and saying the way it works for ICE cars is the best way. And in some ways it is. But in other ways it's not.
Because Facebook has a social network that individual commercial web-sites could only dream of.
Could be. Like bailiffs most of their pay is commission, so individual goons will try whatever tactics they think helps their numbers.
Yeah, they always had technobabble to explain why TV detector vans work. But the reality is that there is not and never was such a thing. They mocked a few up - vans with interesting looking ariels on top for publicity photos. But there were never any real ones. Purely a scare tactic. These days they don't even bother - they just threaten everyone that hasn't bought a license that they'll come and inspect the property.
We develop the same apps on both iOS and Android. Entirely separate development, no shared code, but based on the same designs. The Android versions take 50% longer to develop and are of lower quality. (The Android team are always complaining about video bugs. And they never seem able to deliver smooth animation. And they are just generally more sluggish.) I don't believe they are worse programmers than the iOS team. I just believe the development environment and the platform are worse. Though I have been told that the development environment got a lot better recently.
It does not move anyone out of poverty, and quite frankly it is abused by a massive amount of people.
It's impossible to abuse UBI, as it's not means tested and you are allowed to spend it on what you like.
Why did they make SNAP all card based and put restrictions on what you can purchase? Because an extremely large percentage of people were not purchasing food for their kids, they were drinking and smoking the money away.
This is right-wing fantasist bullshit. It revolves around the 19th century concept of the "undeserving poor", that people are poor because they make bad decisions, and if only we could make their decisions for them, everything would be better. You can't both believe the idea that wealthy people act in their own rational self-interest, and believe that poor people don't. There are of course some families with social problems, such as alcoholism or drugs that cause them not to look after their children properly. And the answer to that is social wordkers and social services. Not treating everyone who finds themselves on welfare as a child.
Other countries manage to pay welfare in cash, and trust people to look after their children.
Taking from the productive people to give to the unproductive incentivizes non-productivity.
Productivity is a calculation which has labour cost as a divisor. We are heading into a world where the cheapest labour is robots, and most people won't have work producing things. In such a world, people don't have to be productive - machines do. This is a central point - UBI is about a world where we can't even pretend that full employment is possible, or even desirable.
Of course it's good for people to do things. But those things will no longer have to be dictated by an employer, nor be productive.
And to pre-empt your obvious objection... yes there will still be some jobs, and there will be plenty of people who want to do them, because UBI only provides the basics. There are always people that want to work for more than the basics.
The article says that the Florida fatality driver was watching a video. ON the one hand, this is a Darwin award candiate.
On the other hand, seems to me this is something that can be improved upon. I would hope that the video wasn't on the console. If it was, obviously that should not be capable of showing videos whilst the car is in motion.
If the video was on a secondary device, perhaps a camera mounted on the ceiling near the driver's head could look for video devices, and refuse autopilot if so. It'd also check that the camera was not obscured, so it couldn't be easily cheated. Such a camera might also recognise books, newspapers, or the lack of hands anywhere near the wheel.
It's got nothing to do with political correctness. People turned off in droves because Clarkson et al were entertaining and the new presenters weren't. There are plenty of ways of being entertaining other than testing the limits of political correctness.
Yes he was bloodied and dizzy and had to go to hospital. And no they didn't have a drink afterwards. There's no workplace where it's acceptable to punch a colleague other than the boxing ring.
I like the idea of a generator on a trailer for when range is needed. But it's probably not a DIY job, as there's the problem of how to get the electricity into the batteries whilst motoring. EV battery packs have sophisticated battery management systems that have to cooperate in the charging. If the car is in drive mode, it's probably not in charge mode.
On the other hand maybe you could input power on the regenerative brakes input. Dunno.
Just saying it might not be as straight forward as as simple hook up.
They are the last remaining 32 bit processors.
I was fixing a 32 bit only bug just today. So I'm pleased they are on the way out.
Where are you getting this idea that the original remains, entirely unused?
No. Apple say that to reinstall an app, you download it from the app store. So the original is clearly not just hidden.
It also means that Apple can update an app without needing to wait for a new OS version.
That's not true. Hydro and batteries can smooth the gaps. And if you have a wide variety of sources, and a spread of locations, the gaps will be few.
But in any case, the fact is that we have to transition to renewables, because non-renewables, by definition, won't last forever.
That is only if you suppose those green tariffs are the only driving force for renewable electricity production. It isn't. Sometimes renewable is cheaper than the alternatives (hydro, mostly), governments may also enact some regulations favoring renewable.
People who pay for green tariffs want as much renewables as possible. So if there are other drivers too, that's even better. It's not a drawback.
What makes you think it isn't the case in the USA? I read the production is 13% renewable. Is there 13% of the clients (or I should say clients representing 13% of the total production) paying that green tariff?
It's per company.
He/she gets 100% (that is in theory, because in practice the flow of electrons remains the same), while the rest decrease from 10% to 9.999%. No more green energy is produced, or consumed.
As I explained, on average enough green electricity is generated to match the usage of those on green tariffs. Your scenario can only happen when the electric company is already exceeding their responsibility to provide green electricity. As extra consumers sign on for green power, the electric company would fall behind their responsibility and have to create more green generation capacity.
If this sounds like a scam to you, then you didn't understand it.
Don't get me wrong though, I'd prefer government regulations pushing ever upwards towards 100% renewable.
Electricity is fungible. It makes no odds which electrons you get, so long as the renewable energy company puts in the same at the other end. That is of course instantaneously impossible. But averaged over a period of time it's not. The more customers green electricity companies get, the more renewable power generators they build.
Ob. There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
I sincerely hope that the open source community are good with the caches and iteration, because they suck at naming.
Don't sent pixels.
You're sending the instructions that go into the GPU, not the pixel data that comes out of the GPU. So you're sending polygon vertices and textures and so on. Worst case is video, and then you are sending an mpeg stream, which is a lot less bandwidth than number of pixels times number of frames.
Yeah, the mini-jack has been around since the 1960s. Time to die.
It's not an either/or. Just because teachers teach children how to be decent members of society doesn't mean parents don't, or shouldn't. Standards of behaviour need to be required both at home and at school.
The very fact that you say this suggests to me that you are not a decent person to be teaching kids social values. And if you do have kids, which hopefully you don't, I'm glad the school is there to fill in what you miss.
there are more parts in a seat than a 4 banger engine
LOL. No there aren't.
You clearly haven't a clue.
So where are the other 29,500 parts that Toyota say are in the average car?
Are the manufacturers right, or are you right. Hmm...
Toyota says a complete car has about 30,000 parts. For sure, more than 1/30th of those are going to be in the engine.
http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/kid...
For the purpose of how complicated a car is, a part is clearly everything that is manufactured separately. Not the bundle of parts that happens to come in a pack when you order a replacement. Every nut, bolt and ball bearing is a separate part.