Every copy of them you make is different than the original, and degraded along the way. Let me guess, you think that makes them sound better because you're an audiophile? And you know how its supposed to sound with your Monster brand HDMI cable thanks to its superior signal quality for those digital bits.
Nice man of straw you've assembled for yourself there. I never mentioned copying anything, or anything about audio fidelity or picture quality, and we're all very aware, thank you, of the limitations each type of media has.
My media are stored in a cool, dry environment. I have Laserdiscs with "Discovision" on them that work just fine. None of the collection has "Laser Rot" and they're stored so they won't warp. Why should I re-purchase?
In fact we do re-purchase, but with a two-format rule. If we have it on VHS it has to be on at least DVD. If it's on Laserdisc it has to be Blu-Ray, or it has to be so inexpensive on DVD as to make it a pocket-change purchase.
I'm not going to spend my money without a real improvement. I've held-off buying movies like Hatari! again because the technical reviews of the transfers have cited them as lacking, so unless the quality actually improves it's not worthwhile. Back in the day I'd bought a DVD version of Highlander only to find that it was digitally blocky, somehow the encoding had gotten screwed up. The Laserdisc looks far better.
But Lego wins on quality and nothing beats Lego. Everything else is a cheap knock off. Lego blocks are nearly indestructible and will last forever, so costing a little bit more for something you can continue to pass down through many generations of your off spring isn't that bad of an investment.
Lasting forever, from the supplier's perspective, is not necessarily a good thing as there's the possibiltiy of the market peaking and a decline in demand due to saturation. That's probably why Lego continually works on theme sets and tie-ins with movies and the like.
As for nothing beating Lego, tha only works so long as Lego continues to maintain its own quality. Those molds are considered good for a set number of batches. That number is very, very high, but there is a limit. If Lego finds itself in financial trouble again down the road, an enterprising executive that doesn't care about quality might push the mold usage past its functional life, or might use cheaper plastics or a worse blend to reduce costs. It's also conceivable that a competitor could produce a block that is just as good as Lego's, but depending on where they choose to produce it that block might be less expensive even with the quality control. All it would take would be a few missteps by Lego to be unseated.
What Lego could do for me would be to offer kits of bulk pieces that are not intended to build something specific, at a good price. Older kits were a lot more like that, the number of odd triangle wing-like bits and hinge pieces and the like used to be very limited, I had the fire station, the police station, the Shell station, the vehicles, the airport set, the shuttle, and the vast majority of those kits were generic parts. I would love to be able to buy bins of generic parts if they're priced right.
This reminds me of why I am forever reluctant to trade the music I have locally (on CDs, hard drives, and a few bits of vinyl I've been unwilling to jettison) for any kind of streaming service
Absolutely. Yes, it can be a pain to store physical media. Yes, it can be a pain when media formats change over time. Yes, it can be a pain when one makes the wrong choice when new competing formats come out and the one chosen ends up being the loser.
On the other hand all of the media that I own, across vinyl, cassette tape, compact disc, VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, and Blu-Ray can be played at any time and so long as my machines continue to work, will always be playable, and given that I still find good used machines for all of these formats I don't expect to be in the situation of not being able to find a functional player in my lifetime.
And all of this is even before getting to the concept of ripping the content to digital.
We're going to do our best to keep/bring back that "news for nerds" ethos and hopefully keep you here.
I do have one suggestion, since you appear to be participating... Please take care with the distinction between nerd stuff and fandom. The two have a lot of overlap, but at the moment fandom is seeing a popular resurgence that takes it far away from nerdy subjects. It can be fun, but part of the reason that Slashdot became successful in the first place was that it catered to a subculture rather than catering entirely to mainstream culture.
There is a limit on the size that something can grow when it doesn't embrace mainstream culture, but entities that attempt to make that transition usually falter as they alienate their subculture userbase far faster than they attract mainstream participation. That may mean that Slashdot and other sites like it have an upper bound, but it's better than closing up shop.
I think this is roughly all our experience. I can't remember exactly as I was very young, but it was probably either the classroom or the Library back before they started calling them Media Centers.
School districts usually have staff whose job is to provide counseling to students when they're subject to stressful situations that are school-caused. I don't know how the hell they did it back then, when nearly every child in the entire country was subjected to a stressful situation that was, in-part, school-caused through their choice to show the launch to us live.
Someone came and talked to us. Can't remember much about that either. I guess being very young was probably almost helpful as we didn't understand as much going-in to begin with.
I wonder how older kids, like high school age or older, felt. As a young tech worker I'd been laid-off not long before Sept 11th happened and I made the mistake, being that I was home, of watching the proceedings after a friend of mine called and woke me to tell me that something was going on. On my video projector with a 100" picture. For two days straight. Learn from my mistake, don't do that. Don't watch news coverage of a live event that isn't in your immediate area, check on it from time to time, but avoid all the speculation and the moment-by-moment bits that really are entirely beyond your influence.
If they set it up right, then yes, their usage won't count against your plan.
Unfortunately they don't have a history of setting it up right. Plus, even if it doesn't count against your counters, the actual connection is only so fast, so if someone else is using then available bandwidth for you will decrease.
I too run my own equipment and will for as long as possible. If it comes down to having to use their equipment, well, that's what carefully wrapped chicken wire is for.
Uh, I think that's the point of these meetings, to allow for service providers to now establish their own links with Cuba. Competition should dramatically reduce the cost. The nearest large mainland city is Miami, and being able to tie into the United States' network there, as opposed to having to go through Jamaica or Haiti or the Cayman Islands or through rural Mexico should have quite the impact on cost.
Surely if you have more than a couple of satellites in view it will discard the 13.7mS one as a multipath. The chance of it actually giving you a reading thats off by 4km would be quite low I'd say
What if you're coming out of a tunnel or out of a parking garage?
Couple of things to look for products that might be appropriate...
The metric system was built to allow simple conversions, with 1:1 relationships between energy, mass, volume, temperature, etc. Something like that could be handy as it explains those relationships if it plays with them.
For me, physics-through-calculus was a lot better than physics as taught by the high school physics program. Specifically we learned how distance, velocity, and acceleration are derivatives. This is a real-world application for the math, and being able to see how the math actually does something in real life makes it a lot more fun to learn it. Calculus is probably too advanced for even a precocious ten year old, but there might othe mathematics disciplines with their own real-world components that would be good to explore.
I can't deny a certain amount of sophormoric enjoyment changing the screen to identify that a particular color cartride is out, on a black and white printer...
William Gibson is a fairly smart guy, if he wrote stuff into the screenplay that was inspired by real stuff, even if carried to borderline-insane extremes.
Had they not had that ridiculous, poorly-animated dolphin swimming through the mind thing I might consider it halfway decent movie, at least up there with the original Total Recall. That dolphin thing though, just too much.
More to the point, in an IPv6 world and in an IPv4 world that didn't run out of addresses, this is actually how it's supposed to work. Every device is supposed to have a valid routable address, and it's up to firewalling, not non-routable networks, to create security.
It's been quite some time since I played heavily with the settings on network printers, but there were a lot of options for how the network configuration could be set up. There were multiple protocols and options within each protocol including for things like management, web, and the like.
Makes me wonder if this current scare is simply a case of technical staff not doing their jobs and setting up the printers correctly, just leaving everything default. Who needs IPX or NetBEUI on their printers now anyway?
Parks around here now have "no model rockets" on their signs.
Fortunately I know of one spot that is technically a city park, but is undeveloped and lacks any signage, and the person at the city responsible for the parks department has given written permission to fly model rockets there to specific groups when she's been asked. It's annoying that we have to play cloak-and-dagger to launch toy rockets 400' into the air, but at least it's still possible.
The guy was involved with big money and for big corporations. He might not have the best mindset sit at the board of a charity. Some time ago the Mozilla foundation sold itself to the advertisers. Nobody wants another disaster like that with the WMF, which is so much more relevant to everybody. I have no opinion on the guy but I find it great that the editors check that the board of trustees is actually composed of people who can be trusted.
I used to try to contribute edits to Wikipedia complete with sources only to find that people that spend an inordinate amount of time on the site roll-back my edits for reasons that were never justified. So while on the one hand I may not like people that look at no-poach agreements favorably, on the other hand, screw those involved with Wikipedia that have overinflated opinions of themselves and their position.
If you're wondering how they know what to send in the first place, they can infer a lot about you based on your insurance and your demographic information.
Hell, the entire practice of insurance is statistics based on analyzing demographic information. Insurance companies are in the business of predicting the odds of occurrences that might result in a claim, and building sets that best quantify risk groups for those odds. They can look at your age, your gender, the history of the area in which you live, your marital status, the number of children that you have, and the type of dwelling that you inhabit, and the kind of car(s) you own to start to build a risk profile. Then they can look at your claims history, your accident history, the claims and accidents history of your immediate family, and the kinds of insurance you're looking for in order to develop a further refinement on what they think may befall you. Analyzing that risk dictates how much they want to charge you and others like you such that they continue to profit despite the claims they'll have to pay out.
It also lets them make guesses about what you will want to do in the future, and to advertise services that you might find valuable. You might be approaching 40, have a house mostly paid-off, have a retirement account that's starting to look healthy, and want to protect above your normal thresholds, so they remind you that they offer umbrella policies to cover you for liability above and beyond the normal thresholds. They might offer you riders for expensive home furnishings or firearms or tools if they predict that you're going to have a lot of that sort of thing. They might remind you of optional coverage for things like floods that you didn't get when you were younger but you might want now for peace-of-mind.
There's all kinds of statistics, and they're capitalizing on that.
You two are arguing semantics at this point. His citation that this is the very definition of a backdoor is probably meant to illustrate that this thing in all cases in which it is found is a backdoor. There is no case for which this isn't a backdoor.
From a language point-of-view, since dictionaries often list multiple definitions for a word or expression, this set of circumstances undoubtedly matches one definition exactly, even if other definitions for the term exist as variations on a theme.
You ever try to deal with the legal department of a large company?
First they ignore you. They do this for quite some time. Quite some time being months to years.
If they eventually do respond, they don't know what you're talking about.
If you keep pestering then eventually they call officers for the company for whom they represent. Those officers, knowing nothing themselves, tell the lawyers that there is no problem, which is what they tell you.
If you still keep pestering eventually the bill that the company receives starts attracting attention and the officer is asked by someone else what's going on, and that officer then gets annoyed and may start asking his department heads. They don't know either, so eventually due to managerial badgering they start asking their subordinates.
If the subordinates find anything then it gets forwarded back through the section manager to the officer to the lawyer, being revised at each stage by the management layer. Your response from the lawyer is BS. Eventually your back and forth with the lawyer casues the company to finally ask for original reports from the employee to be sent to the lawyer, at which time they look at the actual issues and compare it to their knowledge of the law to now start looking for a way to form a defense.
Then it finally starts to get somewhere, if you can afford these legal proceedings.
The legal case involving SCO took something like a decade to essentially resolve, and there are still loose strings to tie-up. In the end it'll probably be twenty years before it's completely done and buried. That was with a company that wasn't healthy financially, that was grasping at straws to find any way it could to survive, how ever underhanded, and with actual companies on the other side that could afford their own extensive legal teams to do battle.
You as a person do not really stand a chance in these circumstances. Even if you do get an entity like the EFF to take the case for you it'll still take a decade to get somewhere.
Around my area, there's much more than simple seniority to higher pay. Teachers have to take continuing education classes, they have to meet performance criteria, and they have to take on extra-curricular activities, like being the sponsor/minder of after-school activities. Two of those are subject to the whims of the administrator- if the admin doesn't like the teacher they can deny them sponsoring activities, and can give them poor evaluations. All the continuing-education in the world won't help if the teacher is seen as under-performing.
This is an amateurish approach. If you really want to change how a subject is taught, you go through the curriculum departments of the school districts. Of course, for that to work you have to require teachers to put in training hours, and you might have to pay them for that time.
If a school dislikes how a science teacher doesn't teach science, they can find any number of reasons to grade that teacher as underperforming, and that teacher won't advance in pay. It will be impossible to prove that it was because the administrator took punitive action against a creationst teacher if the administrator plays his or her card close to the chest and doesn't even discuss the religious issues when doing the grading or when the controversy rears it's ugly head.
I don't think that the differences in the vehicles in your analogy reflects the disparity between the two rockets.
I think Blue Origin is more like an electric city-car like the one Ford has based on the Focus, or the electric version of the Fiat 500. Very short range, no significant cargo capacity, can move a few people around a short distance and is severely range-limited. By contrast the SpaceX rocket is more like a small box-truck or large high-roof van. Certainly not the carrying capacity of a tractor trailer or a huge box truck, but suited to leaving the city and with several times the range of the electric.
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Nice man of straw you've assembled for yourself there. I never mentioned copying anything, or anything about audio fidelity or picture quality, and we're all very aware, thank you, of the limitations each type of media has.
My media are stored in a cool, dry environment. I have Laserdiscs with "Discovision" on them that work just fine. None of the collection has "Laser Rot" and they're stored so they won't warp. Why should I re-purchase?
In fact we do re-purchase, but with a two-format rule. If we have it on VHS it has to be on at least DVD. If it's on Laserdisc it has to be Blu-Ray, or it has to be so inexpensive on DVD as to make it a pocket-change purchase.
I'm not going to spend my money without a real improvement. I've held-off buying movies like Hatari! again because the technical reviews of the transfers have cited them as lacking, so unless the quality actually improves it's not worthwhile. Back in the day I'd bought a DVD version of Highlander only to find that it was digitally blocky, somehow the encoding had gotten screwed up. The Laserdisc looks far better.
But Lego wins on quality and nothing beats Lego. Everything else is a cheap knock off. Lego blocks are nearly indestructible and will last forever, so costing a little bit more for something you can continue to pass down through many generations of your off spring isn't that bad of an investment.
Lasting forever, from the supplier's perspective, is not necessarily a good thing as there's the possibiltiy of the market peaking and a decline in demand due to saturation. That's probably why Lego continually works on theme sets and tie-ins with movies and the like.
As for nothing beating Lego, tha only works so long as Lego continues to maintain its own quality. Those molds are considered good for a set number of batches. That number is very, very high, but there is a limit. If Lego finds itself in financial trouble again down the road, an enterprising executive that doesn't care about quality might push the mold usage past its functional life, or might use cheaper plastics or a worse blend to reduce costs. It's also conceivable that a competitor could produce a block that is just as good as Lego's, but depending on where they choose to produce it that block might be less expensive even with the quality control. All it would take would be a few missteps by Lego to be unseated.
What Lego could do for me would be to offer kits of bulk pieces that are not intended to build something specific, at a good price. Older kits were a lot more like that, the number of odd triangle wing-like bits and hinge pieces and the like used to be very limited, I had the fire station, the police station, the Shell station, the vehicles, the airport set, the shuttle, and the vast majority of those kits were generic parts. I would love to be able to buy bins of generic parts if they're priced right.
This reminds me of why I am forever reluctant to trade the music I have locally (on CDs, hard drives, and a few bits of vinyl I've been unwilling to jettison) for any kind of streaming service
Absolutely. Yes, it can be a pain to store physical media. Yes, it can be a pain when media formats change over time. Yes, it can be a pain when one makes the wrong choice when new competing formats come out and the one chosen ends up being the loser.
On the other hand all of the media that I own, across vinyl, cassette tape, compact disc, VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, and Blu-Ray can be played at any time and so long as my machines continue to work, will always be playable, and given that I still find good used machines for all of these formats I don't expect to be in the situation of not being able to find a functional player in my lifetime.
And all of this is even before getting to the concept of ripping the content to digital.
We're going to do our best to keep/bring back that "news for nerds" ethos and hopefully keep you here.
I do have one suggestion, since you appear to be participating... Please take care with the distinction between nerd stuff and fandom. The two have a lot of overlap, but at the moment fandom is seeing a popular resurgence that takes it far away from nerdy subjects. It can be fun, but part of the reason that Slashdot became successful in the first place was that it catered to a subculture rather than catering entirely to mainstream culture.
There is a limit on the size that something can grow when it doesn't embrace mainstream culture, but entities that attempt to make that transition usually falter as they alienate their subculture userbase far faster than they attract mainstream participation. That may mean that Slashdot and other sites like it have an upper bound, but it's better than closing up shop.
I think this is roughly all our experience. I can't remember exactly as I was very young, but it was probably either the classroom or the Library back before they started calling them Media Centers.
School districts usually have staff whose job is to provide counseling to students when they're subject to stressful situations that are school-caused. I don't know how the hell they did it back then, when nearly every child in the entire country was subjected to a stressful situation that was, in-part, school-caused through their choice to show the launch to us live.
Someone came and talked to us. Can't remember much about that either. I guess being very young was probably almost helpful as we didn't understand as much going-in to begin with.
I wonder how older kids, like high school age or older, felt. As a young tech worker I'd been laid-off not long before Sept 11th happened and I made the mistake, being that I was home, of watching the proceedings after a friend of mine called and woke me to tell me that something was going on. On my video projector with a 100" picture. For two days straight. Learn from my mistake, don't do that. Don't watch news coverage of a live event that isn't in your immediate area, check on it from time to time, but avoid all the speculation and the moment-by-moment bits that really are entirely beyond your influence.
Because that stops the police from going to the judge with the address of the hotspot to get a no-knock warrant...
If they set it up right, then yes, their usage won't count against your plan.
Unfortunately they don't have a history of setting it up right. Plus, even if it doesn't count against your counters, the actual connection is only so fast, so if someone else is using then available bandwidth for you will decrease.
I too run my own equipment and will for as long as possible. If it comes down to having to use their equipment, well, that's what carefully wrapped chicken wire is for.
it just means you make a few more commits before pushing and pulling
Funny, I got the same suggestions in health class in high school...
Uh, I think that's the point of these meetings, to allow for service providers to now establish their own links with Cuba. Competition should dramatically reduce the cost. The nearest large mainland city is Miami, and being able to tie into the United States' network there, as opposed to having to go through Jamaica or Haiti or the Cayman Islands or through rural Mexico should have quite the impact on cost.
I'm more worried about the USS Eldridge...
Surely if you have more than a couple of satellites in view it will discard the 13.7mS one as a multipath. The chance of it actually giving you a reading thats off by 4km would be quite low I'd say
What if you're coming out of a tunnel or out of a parking garage?
Imagine the entertainment as thousands of self-driving cars suddenly try to correct their positions without notice...
Couple of things to look for products that might be appropriate...
The metric system was built to allow simple conversions, with 1:1 relationships between energy, mass, volume, temperature, etc. Something like that could be handy as it explains those relationships if it plays with them.
For me, physics-through-calculus was a lot better than physics as taught by the high school physics program. Specifically we learned how distance, velocity, and acceleration are derivatives. This is a real-world application for the math, and being able to see how the math actually does something in real life makes it a lot more fun to learn it. Calculus is probably too advanced for even a precocious ten year old, but there might othe mathematics disciplines with their own real-world components that would be good to explore.
I can't deny a certain amount of sophormoric enjoyment changing the screen to identify that a particular color cartride is out, on a black and white printer...
William Gibson is a fairly smart guy, if he wrote stuff into the screenplay that was inspired by real stuff, even if carried to borderline-insane extremes.
Had they not had that ridiculous, poorly-animated dolphin swimming through the mind thing I might consider it halfway decent movie, at least up there with the original Total Recall. That dolphin thing though, just too much.
More to the point, in an IPv6 world and in an IPv4 world that didn't run out of addresses, this is actually how it's supposed to work. Every device is supposed to have a valid routable address, and it's up to firewalling, not non-routable networks, to create security.
It's been quite some time since I played heavily with the settings on network printers, but there were a lot of options for how the network configuration could be set up. There were multiple protocols and options within each protocol including for things like management, web, and the like.
Makes me wonder if this current scare is simply a case of technical staff not doing their jobs and setting up the printers correctly, just leaving everything default. Who needs IPX or NetBEUI on their printers now anyway?
Parks around here now have "no model rockets" on their signs.
Fortunately I know of one spot that is technically a city park, but is undeveloped and lacks any signage, and the person at the city responsible for the parks department has given written permission to fly model rockets there to specific groups when she's been asked. It's annoying that we have to play cloak-and-dagger to launch toy rockets 400' into the air, but at least it's still possible.
The guy was involved with big money and for big corporations. He might not have the best mindset sit at the board of a charity. Some time ago the Mozilla foundation sold itself to the advertisers. Nobody wants another disaster like that with the WMF, which is so much more relevant to everybody. I have no opinion on the guy but I find it great that the editors check that the board of trustees is actually composed of people who can be trusted.
I used to try to contribute edits to Wikipedia complete with sources only to find that people that spend an inordinate amount of time on the site roll-back my edits for reasons that were never justified. So while on the one hand I may not like people that look at no-poach agreements favorably, on the other hand, screw those involved with Wikipedia that have overinflated opinions of themselves and their position.
Wonder how they can send me this info.
If you're wondering how they know what to send in the first place, they can infer a lot about you based on your insurance and your demographic information.
Hell, the entire practice of insurance is statistics based on analyzing demographic information. Insurance companies are in the business of predicting the odds of occurrences that might result in a claim, and building sets that best quantify risk groups for those odds. They can look at your age, your gender, the history of the area in which you live, your marital status, the number of children that you have, and the type of dwelling that you inhabit, and the kind of car(s) you own to start to build a risk profile. Then they can look at your claims history, your accident history, the claims and accidents history of your immediate family, and the kinds of insurance you're looking for in order to develop a further refinement on what they think may befall you. Analyzing that risk dictates how much they want to charge you and others like you such that they continue to profit despite the claims they'll have to pay out.
It also lets them make guesses about what you will want to do in the future, and to advertise services that you might find valuable. You might be approaching 40, have a house mostly paid-off, have a retirement account that's starting to look healthy, and want to protect above your normal thresholds, so they remind you that they offer umbrella policies to cover you for liability above and beyond the normal thresholds. They might offer you riders for expensive home furnishings or firearms or tools if they predict that you're going to have a lot of that sort of thing. They might remind you of optional coverage for things like floods that you didn't get when you were younger but you might want now for peace-of-mind.
There's all kinds of statistics, and they're capitalizing on that.
You two are arguing semantics at this point. His citation that this is the very definition of a backdoor is probably meant to illustrate that this thing in all cases in which it is found is a backdoor. There is no case for which this isn't a backdoor.
From a language point-of-view, since dictionaries often list multiple definitions for a word or expression, this set of circumstances undoubtedly matches one definition exactly, even if other definitions for the term exist as variations on a theme.
You ever try to deal with the legal department of a large company?
First they ignore you. They do this for quite some time. Quite some time being months to years.
If they eventually do respond, they don't know what you're talking about.
If you keep pestering then eventually they call officers for the company for whom they represent. Those officers, knowing nothing themselves, tell the lawyers that there is no problem, which is what they tell you.
If you still keep pestering eventually the bill that the company receives starts attracting attention and the officer is asked by someone else what's going on, and that officer then gets annoyed and may start asking his department heads. They don't know either, so eventually due to managerial badgering they start asking their subordinates.
If the subordinates find anything then it gets forwarded back through the section manager to the officer to the lawyer, being revised at each stage by the management layer. Your response from the lawyer is BS. Eventually your back and forth with the lawyer casues the company to finally ask for original reports from the employee to be sent to the lawyer, at which time they look at the actual issues and compare it to their knowledge of the law to now start looking for a way to form a defense.
Then it finally starts to get somewhere, if you can afford these legal proceedings.
The legal case involving SCO took something like a decade to essentially resolve, and there are still loose strings to tie-up. In the end it'll probably be twenty years before it's completely done and buried. That was with a company that wasn't healthy financially, that was grasping at straws to find any way it could to survive, how ever underhanded, and with actual companies on the other side that could afford their own extensive legal teams to do battle.
You as a person do not really stand a chance in these circumstances. Even if you do get an entity like the EFF to take the case for you it'll still take a decade to get somewhere.
Around my area, there's much more than simple seniority to higher pay. Teachers have to take continuing education classes, they have to meet performance criteria, and they have to take on extra-curricular activities, like being the sponsor/minder of after-school activities. Two of those are subject to the whims of the administrator- if the admin doesn't like the teacher they can deny them sponsoring activities, and can give them poor evaluations. All the continuing-education in the world won't help if the teacher is seen as under-performing.
This is an amateurish approach. If you really want to change how a subject is taught, you go through the curriculum departments of the school districts. Of course, for that to work you have to require teachers to put in training hours, and you might have to pay them for that time.
If a school dislikes how a science teacher doesn't teach science, they can find any number of reasons to grade that teacher as underperforming, and that teacher won't advance in pay. It will be impossible to prove that it was because the administrator took punitive action against a creationst teacher if the administrator plays his or her card close to the chest and doesn't even discuss the religious issues when doing the grading or when the controversy rears it's ugly head.
I don't think that the differences in the vehicles in your analogy reflects the disparity between the two rockets.
I think Blue Origin is more like an electric city-car like the one Ford has based on the Focus, or the electric version of the Fiat 500. Very short range, no significant cargo capacity, can move a few people around a short distance and is severely range-limited. By contrast the SpaceX rocket is more like a small box-truck or large high-roof van. Certainly not the carrying capacity of a tractor trailer or a huge box truck, but suited to leaving the city and with several times the range of the electric.