I'd rather them put a tape deck with batteries that will slowly reduce voltage so the tape plays slower... and slower... and... slow... er... Something like the Rolling Stones' Time Is On My Side.
That's part of the reasoning for using it. It's not especially valuable in the grand scheme of things, but it's not a lump of steel or concrete either. It's like when server manufacturers throw a piece of candy or two into the box when they ship product, something to look forward to.
...were clandestinely building a means to soft-land the car on its wheels on the planet. Even funnier if they landed it in the pathway of one of the rovers...
The only thing they've come up with that could be described as an innovation and just not an attempt at skirting customer protection regulations to gain an edge over competitors is the ordering system and that's easily adapted for the rest of the taxi industry. Uber could easily pivot the company and make a very profitable business out of cooperating with taxi companies, but they don't because they think they can be more profitable by being a taxi company that ignores anything that causes them extra costs.
Uber right now is a caterpillar. Uber wants to be the butterfly ready to emerge with the advent of fully self-driving cars. The current business is merely a stop-gap to achieve that goal.
If they played by the rules then I would not care, but because they've demonstrated time and again that they will break the rules, I hope that they implode before self-driving cars are ready.
When I use my Android phone's navigation it shows me the name of the street that I need to turn on to next, the direction of the turn, and the distance to that turn. If it's a long way away I think it shows me a rough time to reach there at current speed, can't say for certain.
Besides, maps on the phone are not as complexly-filled-in as maps on the PC. And that's just fine with me.
I'm much more concerned by their ignoring passenger livery laws than anything else. If stupid people want to wear-out their own personal cars for minimum wage, fine, more power to them. But I expect commercial insurance, driver background checks, and in congested places, them to comply with whatever vehicle-count licensing system exists.
If you're waking up at 4 a.m. to write 1,000 words about how you write 1,000 words every day, what are you actually getting done? Just stay in bed.
Yet, there were movies starring real actors about fake actors making fake movies. There are stage-shows starring real actors about making fake stage shows. There are movies starring real actors about fake actors making fake shows. Same for television shows, etc. The point is, if they're being paid then who are they to not take the easy approach? Write or otherwise create content for what you know if they'll pay for for it.
Now, it's pretty stupid for everyone else (or anyone else) to pay good money for this kind of stuff, but that's another discussion.
That's usually the reason why someone in a position of power criticizes a new idea from someone having demonstrated technical proficiency in their sphere of influence.
So if I interpret right, the extra supply (from the battery) meant that the generating station didn't bog-down and the grid was able to ramp-up to 50Hz again.
So I'll bite, why would there be enough advantage to a space-based solar array to offset the problems that a space-based solar array would have over a terrestrial solar array?
'cause a terrestrial array is damn simple to maintain. Can send a $50,000/year employee in a pickup truck with a toolbox for minor service, or a crew of three guys with a small crane truck to replace an outright failed panel.
First, I'm going to bet that they err on the side of not placing drivers on the commercial list. They'll probably start with only the most blatantly obvious commercial drivers, which for a taxi-type vehicle would probably include things like slowing up to the curb frequently without actually parking, spending only a certain amount of time in this pulled-off mode, etc. Those who drive for commercial purposes as a part-time side job probably wouldn't even trip the alert.
Second, if it was disclosed at-purchase that the supercharger network was for private noncommercial use, then the commercial users have used the superchargers despite not having supposed to in the first place.
Third, despite your claims otherwise there are places to charge electric cars for-pay. My local college has a lot of such charging stations, and I know of one at a local bookstore. Those are the ones that I know of not being an electric car owner and not even looking for them, so I have to assume that there are more than that too, and that commercial entities should bear the expense of putting their own charging stations in at their various operations if they want to use electric cars.
Fourth, perhaps commercial users, down the road, will have the ability to pay Tesla to use the charging stations at a normal rate. That would help fund the build-out of more charging stations.
One can receive signals and use existing onboard maps to determine routes and other information. There's no need to transmit that information to anyone else.
I think that Tesla the manufacturer's point is that commercial users should set up their own infrastructure, or should contract as a business expense for someone else's commercial infrastructure. It harms the totality of the electric car market by letting one fairly small segment of the market monopolize the recharging stations.
If I interpret this right, this is not the same as Chevron stating that one could not fuel-up because Tesla is giving the electric power to the customer, not charging them for it. If Chevron gave away fuel but wanted to charge commercial users would that be different?
Around here there are the normal gas stations for regular drivers, and there are perhaps one to two special gas stations for commercial accounts in a 50 sq mile area. These commercial fuel stations don't have convenience stores, don't have attendants, don't even have credit card readers. One has to have an existing account to get fuel, and enter credentials at the pump to activate it. This sort of setup would make sense for commercial electric users too, where they don't charge their cars at their residences or at their places of business.
I have never heard of this before. Admittedly I do not play in the forced-induction world, but for naturally-aspirated vehicles, of which are the vast majority, vehicle performance degrades over time as wear on the rings reduces effective compression and wear on the various bearings increases friction. This takes far more miles than a simple 20,000 mile major service interval. You're talking hitting upwards of 100,000 miles before it's a major issue.
And basically this is entirely invalidated by designing the phone such that the battery is not user-replaceable.
Apple designed a device that will intentionally run slower without the end user paying someone else to disassemble the phone to replace parts. Given the cost to service an older device weighed against the cost of a new device, a lot of users are going to opt for the new device, especially if they don't realize that the reason the phone is operating poorly is because of the battery.
An attacker's own keylogger might well be recognized as malicious and blocked from communicating with the network stack or otherwise blocked by not appearing in a whitelist in a corporate environment. The trusted device driver for the keyboard would probably be whitelisted and since vendor software is usually allowed to talk to the Internet so that it can check for updates, allowed to communicate. With these in-mind, the attacker's own payload to activate the keylogger might make so few changes as to not be recognized for what it is by such security software. Also, if someone were to hack HP or Synaptics' systems they could potentially enable it subtly where it might not be obvious that it has been enabled.
Additionally those traveling internationally with these laptops where the computer may be 'inspected' by a foreign government could find such a logger enabled and again, the security software on the computer might not recognize that it has happened while it might recognize third-party software. If that government would have a second opportunity to inspect the computer then they could retrieve the contents of the log.
I started out using Slackware over twenty years ago. Biggest reason I left it was the libc5/glibc2 debacle. It became nonviable for me to remain on Slackware at that time. Bounced around through several package-managed distros and eventually ended up on Debian. I've now watched Debian become increasingly complex, sometimes needlessly, and sometimes because different major components have features that other major components lack. This means even if one is running something like xfce for the windowmanager one has to have a lot of Gnome or KDE stuff installed for basic stuff to work.
It's gotten worse since Systemd entered the picture. Honestly pulseaudio is still not mature, not sure how the person who didn't get that working right was entrusted to replace init.
...not liking sports. Even though these grown men never played anything more than flag-football or a coed softball game they carry on about their favorite teams with the pronoun, "we," like they had something to do with the team's success. Many are huge fans of teams for whom they've never lived in the state that the team is based in and only attend games when that team comes to town for one game against the local one.
At least Sony has seen the light and agreed to work directly with Marvel. I was a bit disappointed that they rebooted after the three Raimi-directed films (thought they were decent for when they were made) but what I saw of the trailers for the two that followed made me not bother. Haven't seen the current one yet but if they've followed the formula from Captain America: Civil War then I expect it'll be alright.
The Fantastic 4 movies that had Alba on the cast were OK, not great. Could have been better. The most recent one though, just looked terrible. Didn't bother to see it either.
I'd say on the whole the X-Men franchise that FOX has been producing has been above average, though not perfect. We'll see what they do as the actors age-out. Not sure how they'll handle it if Hugh Jackman can't play Wolverine anymore.
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I'd rather them put a tape deck with batteries that will slowly reduce voltage so the tape plays slower... and slower ... and ... slow ... er... Something like the Rolling Stones' Time Is On My Side.
That's part of the reasoning for using it. It's not especially valuable in the grand scheme of things, but it's not a lump of steel or concrete either. It's like when server manufacturers throw a piece of candy or two into the box when they ship product, something to look forward to.
...were clandestinely building a means to soft-land the car on its wheels on the planet. Even funnier if they landed it in the pathway of one of the rovers...
The only thing they've come up with that could be described as an innovation and just not an attempt at skirting customer protection regulations to gain an edge over competitors is the ordering system and that's easily adapted for the rest of the taxi industry. Uber could easily pivot the company and make a very profitable business out of cooperating with taxi companies, but they don't because they think they can be more profitable by being a taxi company that ignores anything that causes them extra costs.
Uber right now is a caterpillar. Uber wants to be the butterfly ready to emerge with the advent of fully self-driving cars. The current business is merely a stop-gap to achieve that goal.
If they played by the rules then I would not care, but because they've demonstrated time and again that they will break the rules, I hope that they implode before self-driving cars are ready.
When I use my Android phone's navigation it shows me the name of the street that I need to turn on to next, the direction of the turn, and the distance to that turn. If it's a long way away I think it shows me a rough time to reach there at current speed, can't say for certain.
Besides, maps on the phone are not as complexly-filled-in as maps on the PC. And that's just fine with me.
Wherever you have four priests, you have a fifth.
I'm much more concerned by their ignoring passenger livery laws than anything else. If stupid people want to wear-out their own personal cars for minimum wage, fine, more power to them. But I expect commercial insurance, driver background checks, and in congested places, them to comply with whatever vehicle-count licensing system exists.
And here I was thinking of Kiss Me Kate and Royal Wedding.
...European court rules that Uber is a pathological liar for claiming to be a tech firm in the first place.
If you're waking up at 4 a.m. to write 1,000 words about how you write 1,000 words every day, what are you actually getting done? Just stay in bed.
Yet, there were movies starring real actors about fake actors making fake movies. There are stage-shows starring real actors about making fake stage shows. There are movies starring real actors about fake actors making fake shows. Same for television shows, etc. The point is, if they're being paid then who are they to not take the easy approach? Write or otherwise create content for what you know if they'll pay for for it.
Now, it's pretty stupid for everyone else (or anyone else) to pay good money for this kind of stuff, but that's another discussion.
That's usually the reason why someone in a position of power criticizes a new idea from someone having demonstrated technical proficiency in their sphere of influence.
Those dunny things are terrifying.
So if I interpret right, the extra supply (from the battery) meant that the generating station didn't bog-down and the grid was able to ramp-up to 50Hz again.
So I'll bite, why would there be enough advantage to a space-based solar array to offset the problems that a space-based solar array would have over a terrestrial solar array?
'cause a terrestrial array is damn simple to maintain. Can send a $50,000/year employee in a pickup truck with a toolbox for minor service, or a crew of three guys with a small crane truck to replace an outright failed panel.
First, I'm going to bet that they err on the side of not placing drivers on the commercial list. They'll probably start with only the most blatantly obvious commercial drivers, which for a taxi-type vehicle would probably include things like slowing up to the curb frequently without actually parking, spending only a certain amount of time in this pulled-off mode, etc. Those who drive for commercial purposes as a part-time side job probably wouldn't even trip the alert.
Second, if it was disclosed at-purchase that the supercharger network was for private noncommercial use, then the commercial users have used the superchargers despite not having supposed to in the first place.
Third, despite your claims otherwise there are places to charge electric cars for-pay. My local college has a lot of such charging stations, and I know of one at a local bookstore. Those are the ones that I know of not being an electric car owner and not even looking for them, so I have to assume that there are more than that too, and that commercial entities should bear the expense of putting their own charging stations in at their various operations if they want to use electric cars.
Fourth, perhaps commercial users, down the road, will have the ability to pay Tesla to use the charging stations at a normal rate. That would help fund the build-out of more charging stations.
One thin mint?
One can receive signals and use existing onboard maps to determine routes and other information. There's no need to transmit that information to anyone else.
I think that Tesla the manufacturer's point is that commercial users should set up their own infrastructure, or should contract as a business expense for someone else's commercial infrastructure. It harms the totality of the electric car market by letting one fairly small segment of the market monopolize the recharging stations.
If I interpret this right, this is not the same as Chevron stating that one could not fuel-up because Tesla is giving the electric power to the customer, not charging them for it. If Chevron gave away fuel but wanted to charge commercial users would that be different?
Around here there are the normal gas stations for regular drivers, and there are perhaps one to two special gas stations for commercial accounts in a 50 sq mile area. These commercial fuel stations don't have convenience stores, don't have attendants, don't even have credit card readers. One has to have an existing account to get fuel, and enter credentials at the pump to activate it. This sort of setup would make sense for commercial electric users too, where they don't charge their cars at their residences or at their places of business.
And you're a tech enthusiast, possibly a tech professional.
Now, how does the average nontechnical end user even know that the battery is why the phone is running slowly to begin with?
I have never heard of this before. Admittedly I do not play in the forced-induction world, but for naturally-aspirated vehicles, of which are the vast majority, vehicle performance degrades over time as wear on the rings reduces effective compression and wear on the various bearings increases friction. This takes far more miles than a simple 20,000 mile major service interval. You're talking hitting upwards of 100,000 miles before it's a major issue.
And basically this is entirely invalidated by designing the phone such that the battery is not user-replaceable.
Apple designed a device that will intentionally run slower without the end user paying someone else to disassemble the phone to replace parts. Given the cost to service an older device weighed against the cost of a new device, a lot of users are going to opt for the new device, especially if they don't realize that the reason the phone is operating poorly is because of the battery.
An attacker's own keylogger might well be recognized as malicious and blocked from communicating with the network stack or otherwise blocked by not appearing in a whitelist in a corporate environment. The trusted device driver for the keyboard would probably be whitelisted and since vendor software is usually allowed to talk to the Internet so that it can check for updates, allowed to communicate. With these in-mind, the attacker's own payload to activate the keylogger might make so few changes as to not be recognized for what it is by such security software. Also, if someone were to hack HP or Synaptics' systems they could potentially enable it subtly where it might not be obvious that it has been enabled.
Additionally those traveling internationally with these laptops where the computer may be 'inspected' by a foreign government could find such a logger enabled and again, the security software on the computer might not recognize that it has happened while it might recognize third-party software. If that government would have a second opportunity to inspect the computer then they could retrieve the contents of the log.
I started out using Slackware over twenty years ago. Biggest reason I left it was the libc5/glibc2 debacle. It became nonviable for me to remain on Slackware at that time. Bounced around through several package-managed distros and eventually ended up on Debian. I've now watched Debian become increasingly complex, sometimes needlessly, and sometimes because different major components have features that other major components lack. This means even if one is running something like xfce for the windowmanager one has to have a lot of Gnome or KDE stuff installed for basic stuff to work.
It's gotten worse since Systemd entered the picture. Honestly pulseaudio is still not mature, not sure how the person who didn't get that working right was entrusted to replace init.
...not liking sports. Even though these grown men never played anything more than flag-football or a coed softball game they carry on about their favorite teams with the pronoun, "we," like they had something to do with the team's success. Many are huge fans of teams for whom they've never lived in the state that the team is based in and only attend games when that team comes to town for one game against the local one.
At least Sony has seen the light and agreed to work directly with Marvel. I was a bit disappointed that they rebooted after the three Raimi-directed films (thought they were decent for when they were made) but what I saw of the trailers for the two that followed made me not bother. Haven't seen the current one yet but if they've followed the formula from Captain America: Civil War then I expect it'll be alright.
The Fantastic 4 movies that had Alba on the cast were OK, not great. Could have been better. The most recent one though, just looked terrible. Didn't bother to see it either.
I'd say on the whole the X-Men franchise that FOX has been producing has been above average, though not perfect. We'll see what they do as the actors age-out. Not sure how they'll handle it if Hugh Jackman can't play Wolverine anymore.