Price. They are too expensive. If the batteries need to be replaced you might as well buy a new car. Too expensive to replace. Some people keep their cars for more than 8 years. I don't know where you work but the place I work at doesn't have electric outlets in the park. If I have an office park to begin with. This is Europe we don't have a lot of space.
Greece is getting poorer and the debt is becoming unpayable. If they lower salaries to become more "competitive" in an open market with free circulation of people all it means is people will move to work elsewhere. And make the pension system even less viable.
I like what Musk is doing. But this just smacks of something akin to Apple's reality distortion field. The article is ostensibly about the Chevy Bolt EV. But it spends half the text talking about the Tesla Model 3 without actually saying anything new about it.
If it is an Internet based business you can site it wherever you want and you can sell across the whole EU single market.
If you don't like the business environment in Belgium you just site somewhere else. I wouldn't be surprised if the main difference is that in Belgium you would need to actually pay people overtime unlike in other places where they expect you to work overtime unpaid. Still how are the regulations on remote workers? I wouldn't be surprised if there was no effective work time limit there.
As for the corporate culture during meetings nothing prevents you from having your own meeting culture. I have been in companies where we did brief stand-up meetings and communicated via IM where the national meeting culture is similar to what you describe in Belgium. The national meeting culture doesn't matter unless you are dealing with local clients or suppliers. Which as an Internet business you will have limited exposure to in the first place.
I am not surprised those cultural problems exist when the company has a lot of exposure with meatspace. But if the exposure to meatspace is small it won't matter.
There's a European Patent Office and there are World Trademarks. I think the whole patenting deal is bunk in the software business though. It hinders more than it actually helps.
The different VAT percentages also exist to a degree in the US in the form of Sales Tax. It's just that US companies can get away with actually breaking the law because its "on the Internet" and the state doesn't enforce actual existing laws.
The USA has 319 million people. The EU has 503 million people. Sure not all of them speak English but the fraction is still significant enough. English is spoken by 47% of EU citizens (i.e. 236 million people) and the fraction of those who speak English has been increasing.
As for the regulations it doesn't explain it. If regulations were the problem why is Silicon Valley in California to begin with and not somewhere else with less regulation?
Worker protection in the EU isn't the problem. There are all sorts of ways to go around the protections. If you had been in business here you would have noticed that. Outsourcing is one of the ways that "problem" gets worked around here. Worker protection for outsourced staff can be quite flimsy.
I would also say that bankruptcies actually happen quite a lot in the EU. What is much less common in the EU are successful restructurings or people who get back on business later and have success at it. Quite often it is legally easier to declare bankruptcy here than to restructure a company, especially if you have a large contingent of long term employees that would otherwise be hard to dismiss, while starting a new business after a failure can be quite problematic. Quite often in Europe people in the business know each other really well, it is a lot smaller, if people know you failed once they will be adverse to doing business with you again unless you provide extraordinary assurances that you probably wouldn't need in the USA. This is a cultural matter. I have noticed people in the USA usually keep to their own business and don't care much what happens around them but I can assure you the opposite is usually true in the EU. For good and bad.
The main issue in the EU is the lack of easy access to funding and the risk-adverseness of those with capital in Europe. They basically expect guaranteed returns on everything they fund. A lot of them got rich off the teat of the government or of government backed monopolies and are not interested in anything remotely competitive. So most innovation ends up happening with small enterprises people start on their own houses, much like in the USA I guess, the problem is then these small businesses cannot scale because there are no viable sources of funding to grow the business. So quite often either the business grows slowly and organically until it becomes massive (e.g. Ikea) or the founders just cash out on the business very early. But quite often the cash out isn't as gargantuan as what you see happening in the USA. It quite often ends up paying out like an order or two of magnitude less. If Facebook had been funded in the EU I bet if they did an IPO there people wouldn't have thrown them all that money just that. Then this money given to founders can be re-invested in new businesses. That's the main problem here. In Europe the founders never get quite enough to bankroll major new investments like what happens over there.
There are also infrastructure problems. The article talks about Silicon Valley. Well there aren't a lot of places where you can do silicon prototyping or manufacturing in the EU. There's Silicon Fen i.e. Cambridge the UK and Grenoble in France but little else. There are quite a lot of software hubs though. Like Silicon Glen in Scotland for games software, or Estonia (a place where Finnish investors usually go to because costs are cheaper and Internet access is fast) where Skype was located. etc.
Most of the "weaker" EU members during the last recession failed due to private banks failing and the state assuming their losses. Most of the talk about entitlements is pure bullshit.
The French Army back then used rifles in considerable amounts while the British Army used muskets. The rifle was more accurate at distance but it was quicker to reload the musket. In massed infantry formations in the open field the muskets had considerable advantage. Provided you could close the gap to get where the enemy was.
Before or after the airplane enters into an uncontrolled crash? If there were no inspections people could just enter with grenades or explosives as well not just handguns.
Good luck trying to get control back when your plane is de-pressurizing and crashing down.
It's not just baggages being lost. It's the airport authorities breaking the locks on your baggage (even when the baggage is unlocked). Or having to carry the baggage around once you get to the destination.
One month is roughly equivalent to a lunar month (29.5 days).
The problem is how to make a calendar that is both lunar and solar at the same time. i.e. one that matches both the lunar and the solar cycle. Where a day is a solar day and a month the length of the lunar cycle and the year is length of the solar cycle.
IIRC the Maya made all months the same length (20 days) and added a couple of spurious holidays in the end of the year to pad the calendar out.
Someone did try a 'metric calendar' at one point. Google 'French Republican Calendar'. It was a disaster.
Most of the time the 'rad hard whatever' is just an old chip manufactured at a lower density factor that is less susceptible to radiation. Like those i486 they put in the Hubble. At one time they did use sapphire substracts, gallium arsenide, and weird shit like that but I doubt they do anymore.
The Chinese have plenty of obsolete chip plants they could use to manufacture something like that. Heck even the Russians probably could manufacture some old SPARC CPU clones in their even more obsolete plants like they already do.
Or they could just do what SpaceX does. Use off-the-shelf consumer electronics and use software to make it resilient. Although I'm unsure of how well that would work on something that needs more lifetime than a rocket launch.
The program is supposed to move from an R&D phase to a hardware production phase. That's the reason for the cost increases.
Cutting funds will only make the program more and more delayed. They already delayed it two years by cutting funding in the past. Elon said they could do it by 2015 if they were properly funded. In 2012 Congress funded NASA Commercial Crew to the tune of half what they requested. That's the cause of the delays.
SLS and Orion are nothing but a money sink just like constellation was.
I quote NASA themselves to cut your bullshit: For fiscal year (FY) 2012, NASA received $397 million for its Commercial Crew Program; less than half its $850 million request. In light of this development, in August 2012, NASA revised its Commercial Crew Acquisition Strategy to rely on Space Act Agreements rather than FAR-based contracts for the integrated design phase of the program. The Agency also delayed the expected completion date of the commercial crew development phase from 2016 to 2017.
The USAF kept dragging their feet with the certification making unreasonable demands which they don't make to the incumbents. Even NASA is guilty of some of this. Check the Commercial Crew program. Boeing gets paid a LOT more money for doing paper delivery milestones while SpaceX actually has to conduct actual finished hardware tests to get paid LESS money.
It's the third time you repeat the same bullshit and lies you astroturfer. The only reason for any delays is that Congress keeps cutting the funds and increasing the requirements. Nothing else. Heck SpaceX could have launched an astronaut to the ISS in the current cargo Dragon yesterday if they really wanted to.
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Price. They are too expensive.
If the batteries need to be replaced you might as well buy a new car. Too expensive to replace. Some people keep their cars for more than 8 years.
I don't know where you work but the place I work at doesn't have electric outlets in the park. If I have an office park to begin with. This is Europe we don't have a lot of space.
Greece is getting poorer and the debt is becoming unpayable. If they lower salaries to become more "competitive" in an open market with free circulation of people all it means is people will move to work elsewhere. And make the pension system even less viable.
Yeah. Actually Bitcoin is a terrible idea. To replace one deflationary currency they can't print (Euro) for another (Bitcoin).
No my dear friend. It's fiat currency they need right now.
What he doesn't get is that the more Tsipras delayed the referendum the more time he gave for people to get their money out of their bank accounts.
That's why it took so long.
I like what Musk is doing. But this just smacks of something akin to Apple's reality distortion field. The article is ostensibly about the Chevy Bolt EV. But it spends half the text talking about the Tesla Model 3 without actually saying anything new about it.
Australia can't have a game with blood in it and Germany can't have a game with Nazis in it.
If it is an Internet based business you can site it wherever you want and you can sell across the whole EU single market.
If you don't like the business environment in Belgium you just site somewhere else. I wouldn't be surprised if the main difference is that in Belgium you would need to actually pay people overtime unlike in other places where they expect you to work overtime unpaid. Still how are the regulations on remote workers? I wouldn't be surprised if there was no effective work time limit there.
As for the corporate culture during meetings nothing prevents you from having your own meeting culture. I have been in companies where we did brief stand-up meetings and communicated via IM where the national meeting culture is similar to what you describe in Belgium. The national meeting culture doesn't matter unless you are dealing with local clients or suppliers. Which as an Internet business you will have limited exposure to in the first place.
I am not surprised those cultural problems exist when the company has a lot of exposure with meatspace. But if the exposure to meatspace is small it won't matter.
There's a European Patent Office and there are World Trademarks. I think the whole patenting deal is bunk in the software business though. It hinders more than it actually helps.
The different VAT percentages also exist to a degree in the US in the form of Sales Tax. It's just that US companies can get away with actually breaking the law because its "on the Internet" and the state doesn't enforce actual existing laws.
Labour laws differ among US states as well.
The USA has 319 million people. The EU has 503 million people. Sure not all of them speak English but the fraction is still significant enough. English is spoken by 47% of EU citizens (i.e. 236 million people) and the fraction of those who speak English has been increasing.
As for the regulations it doesn't explain it. If regulations were the problem why is Silicon Valley in California to begin with and not somewhere else with less regulation?
Worker protection in the EU isn't the problem. There are all sorts of ways to go around the protections. If you had been in business here you would have noticed that. Outsourcing is one of the ways that "problem" gets worked around here. Worker protection for outsourced staff can be quite flimsy.
I would also say that bankruptcies actually happen quite a lot in the EU. What is much less common in the EU are successful restructurings or people who get back on business later and have success at it. Quite often it is legally easier to declare bankruptcy here than to restructure a company, especially if you have a large contingent of long term employees that would otherwise be hard to dismiss, while starting a new business after a failure can be quite problematic. Quite often in Europe people in the business know each other really well, it is a lot smaller, if people know you failed once they will be adverse to doing business with you again unless you provide extraordinary assurances that you probably wouldn't need in the USA. This is a cultural matter. I have noticed people in the USA usually keep to their own business and don't care much what happens around them but I can assure you the opposite is usually true in the EU. For good and bad.
The main issue in the EU is the lack of easy access to funding and the risk-adverseness of those with capital in Europe. They basically expect guaranteed returns on everything they fund. A lot of them got rich off the teat of the government or of government backed monopolies and are not interested in anything remotely competitive. So most innovation ends up happening with small enterprises people start on their own houses, much like in the USA I guess, the problem is then these small businesses cannot scale because there are no viable sources of funding to grow the business. So quite often either the business grows slowly and organically until it becomes massive (e.g. Ikea) or the founders just cash out on the business very early. But quite often the cash out isn't as gargantuan as what you see happening in the USA. It quite often ends up paying out like an order or two of magnitude less. If Facebook had been funded in the EU I bet if they did an IPO there people wouldn't have thrown them all that money just that. Then this money given to founders can be re-invested in new businesses. That's the main problem here. In Europe the founders never get quite enough to bankroll major new investments like what happens over there.
There are also infrastructure problems. The article talks about Silicon Valley. Well there aren't a lot of places where you can do silicon prototyping or manufacturing in the EU. There's Silicon Fen i.e. Cambridge the UK and Grenoble in France but little else. There are quite a lot of software hubs though. Like Silicon Glen in Scotland for games software, or Estonia (a place where Finnish investors usually go to because costs are cheaper and Internet access is fast) where Skype was located. etc.
Most of the "weaker" EU members during the last recession failed due to private banks failing and the state assuming their losses. Most of the talk about entitlements is pure bullshit.
A lot of people in Europe speak English as a second language. The language thing is less of a barrier than people make it out to be.
The French Army back then used rifles in considerable amounts while the British Army used muskets. The rifle was more accurate at distance but it was quicker to reload the musket. In massed infantry formations in the open field the muskets had considerable advantage. Provided you could close the gap to get where the enemy was.
Before or after the airplane enters into an uncontrolled crash? If there were no inspections people could just enter with grenades or explosives as well not just handguns.
Good luck trying to get control back when your plane is de-pressurizing and crashing down.
HTC had the P3300 in 2006. Yet another candy bar style phone with a large screen.
How about the A701 Mio then? It's from 2005. The first iPhone came out in 2007.
Or any other candy bar style phone with a large screen for that matter.
It's not just baggages being lost. It's the airport authorities breaking the locks on your baggage (even when the baggage is unlocked). Or having to carry the baggage around once you get to the destination.
One month is roughly equivalent to a lunar month (29.5 days).
The problem is how to make a calendar that is both lunar and solar at the same time. i.e. one that matches both the lunar and the solar cycle. Where a day is a solar day and a month the length of the lunar cycle and the year is length of the solar cycle.
IIRC the Maya made all months the same length (20 days) and added a couple of spurious holidays in the end of the year to pad the calendar out.
Someone did try a 'metric calendar' at one point. Google 'French Republican Calendar'. It was a disaster.
I used to think the same thing. Then I started playing World of Tanks. It's free to play and each game takes 15 minutes.
Didn't you hear about it? Uncle Vlad knows what's best for you.
Most of the time the 'rad hard whatever' is just an old chip manufactured at a lower density factor that is less susceptible to radiation. Like those i486 they put in the Hubble. At one time they did use sapphire substracts, gallium arsenide, and weird shit like that but I doubt they do anymore.
The Chinese have plenty of obsolete chip plants they could use to manufacture something like that. Heck even the Russians probably could manufacture some old SPARC CPU clones in their even more obsolete plants like they already do.
Or they could just do what SpaceX does. Use off-the-shelf consumer electronics and use software to make it resilient. Although I'm unsure of how well that would work on something that needs more lifetime than a rocket launch.
The program is supposed to move from an R&D phase to a hardware production phase. That's the reason for the cost increases.
Cutting funds will only make the program more and more delayed. They already delayed it two years by cutting funding in the past. Elon said they could do it by 2015 if they were properly funded. In 2012 Congress funded NASA Commercial Crew to the tune of half what they requested. That's the cause of the delays.
SLS and Orion are nothing but a money sink just like constellation was.
It wasn't. They have cut Commercial Crew more than once. They did in 2012 for example.
I quote NASA themselves to cut your bullshit:
For fiscal year (FY) 2012, NASA received $397 million for its Commercial Crew Program; less than half its $850 million request. In light of this development, in August 2012, NASA revised its Commercial Crew Acquisition Strategy to rely on Space Act Agreements rather than FAR-based contracts for the integrated design phase of the program. The Agency also delayed the expected completion date of the commercial crew development phase from 2016 to 2017.
https://oig.nasa.gov/audits/re...
Congress is the cause the delays you little shill. Not SpaceX.
The USAF kept dragging their feet with the certification making unreasonable demands which they don't make to the incumbents. Even NASA is guilty of some of this. Check the Commercial Crew program. Boeing gets paid a LOT more money for doing paper delivery milestones while SpaceX actually has to conduct actual finished hardware tests to get paid LESS money.
It's the third time you repeat the same bullshit and lies you astroturfer. The only reason for any delays is that Congress keeps cutting the funds and increasing the requirements. Nothing else. Heck SpaceX could have launched an astronaut to the ISS in the current cargo Dragon yesterday if they really wanted to.