Already has, my wife bought one last year, gets 35 mpg (real world experience over the past 6 months) on her drive to work which is mostly open but 45mph two lane road for 30 minutes.
In contrast, my car gets 21:( Of course its also a bit sportier than hers:)
I'm guessing he lives in some shit hole that could walk all over your countries tiny ass shit hole in a heartbeat so you should probably take your attitude and shove it up your arrogant ass.
The statement you made is false for any country of any size. So you're probably northern european, in which case... well, you've got enough of your own personality problems to deal with, no need for me to make fun of you. Good luck, douche.
'SkyActive' isn't engine technology. Its whole car technology. They've done all sorts of shit to reduce rolling friction across the board, not just in the engine. The engine then will also do things like turn off cylinders and conserve fuel when extra power isn't needed. Wheel bearings, drag, transmissions, power take-off components (A/C, Alternator).
The engine is a SMALL component of 'SkyActiv' technology. Its also not anything in particular or special, but its also something that Toyota has been trying to accomplish on the Prius... yet they don't really seem to be able to keep up with anyone else... and hence... Mazda is selling cars that burn gasoline more efficiently than hybrids or all electrics.
And if you knew what regenerative braking actually netted you, you'd stop mentioning it like its something to brag about. Its not, ESPECIALLY in stop and go traffic where you aren't going fast enough to actually generate good solid power out of the motors during breaking. Theres no reason not to have it, but its not really worth mentioning either.
Toyota could do the same thing as Mazda... if they knew how. But if they knew how, they would have done it to the Prius 15 years ago.
EVs are not silent, nice try. Road noise is by far the biggest noise I hear in my car, not the engine. Its ironic that you get stressed out by something that is widely known to be the great way to put someone to sleep.
EV batteries may be made in those countries, where do the raw resources and rare earths come from? hmm?
My tailpipe emits mostly water vapor because my car isn't a POS, as are most modern cars. Thats the great thing about computer controlled direct injected engines, they are extremely efficient (for a combustion engine). Each cylinder runs at optimum efficiency.
My car never 'smells of gasoline', perhaps you should learn how to use a gas pump.
No routine maintenance? So your brakes, tires, shocks, air filters and nothing ever needs lubrication cause apparently in your world, only gasoline vehicles have moving parts or something... and... they never wear on your electric vehicle because... magic? Changing the oil of the life of my engine is going to be far far more friendly and cost effective than your first battery pack, let alone if you bother to buy a second before scrapping your car.
I personally look forward to when I can buy an electric car that doesn't suck ass, but all the crap you're spewing is just fud, ignorance, or just being a fanboy.
Had the soldiers in Vietnam had the full support of congress and the president and the troop deployments they'd asked for... You wouldn't be saying that.
She helped create the problem that was Vietnam, not solve it, but way to miss the forest for the trees.
Most of the people in the country can walk into walmart and get two pairs of decent glasses for $100, including the optometrist fee.
Mind you, some people have problems that the guy at walmart can't help. (I had to go to the Mayo clinic and have surgery just to get back to reasonable so they could try to put glasses on me, muscles around my eye are stupid and cause it to be misshaped, but now I can go to walmart if I choose:) but for the majority of the country with only minor vision problems, $100 and less than an hour and you've got glasses.
I'd wager the number of people in the country that aren't within reasonable distance of a walmart at this stage... is probably as close to 0 as you can get for something like that, they are EVERYWHERE.
As I said, they can't deal with people who have more serious vision issues though where you need a more experienced doctor with better equipment.
I pay less than that for 2 pairs of transitions lenses and frames! I have to have non-toridal lenses because my eyes aren't the right physical shape so the top and bottom of my lenses have different refraction compared to the left and right sides.
You're getting raped if you're paying $300 for just a single pair of lenses. Not ripped off... fucking RAPED.
Yea, and while you may do that, and Google employees may do that... no one else does. Thats the point.
People email XLS files because Excel is light years beyond anything Google has on the drawing board. If you've got some fancy Google sheets page that you think is bad ass... congratulations, you're working with what it was like on the pre-release versions of Lotus 1-2-3. Google sheets is a joke, as is there Docs. They've got all the proprietary disadvantages of Microsoft products. NONE of the advantages, none of the years of development, and in order to use it... you have to not only pay them in one form or another, but you have to accept that they're scanning your documents and can read any data they want.
Using Google Sheets for business purposes shows a serious lack of technical knowledge.
I'm guessing you think Excel is a way to look at rows of a database in the form of a CSV, in which case... you're doing it wrong across the board.
Its a shame rather than listen to what they say people don't look at his voting record.
Had anyone bothered to have actually done so, they would have seen that what he says and what he does/votes are pretty much polar opposites and have been since his first day in the senate.
it's not enough to show that somebody else could have used it.
You can show someone else used it all day long, in America, you are responsible for what happens if you leave your wifi completely unprotected.
You have to PROVE it was someone else, and you have to prove it was someone else specifically. 'Someone I don't know used my open wifi, it wasn't me!!' will be considered guilty for all practical purposes.
The minimum transaction fee changed from 0.0005 BTC to 0.0001 BTC during the runup to $1100
Which is exactly the problem they are referring to. The fee dropped to the point of being not worth it.
There is a central organization, The Bitcoin Foundation [bitcoinfoundation.org], whose authority is explicitly derived from consent of the governed; the miners and users choose to update their software to match recommendations by The Bitcoin Foundation.
Better known as... no central authority. No governing body who can/will enforce things is not a feature, its a bug. Whats even the point? You might as well just all sit around and talk shit on a mailing list, thats just as meaningful... and pointless.
If that summary is an accurate reflection of the research, it sounds like they don't really know much about how Bitcoin works
Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing about you.
I mean, I know that much, and I've only spent a few hours reading about it.
Yes, its fairly obvious that you don't really understand it, you might want to take that into consideration before calling out someone else's research like you know more about it (when you don't) from a couple hours on wikipedia or google, you think you know all about it. Mr Pot, meet Mr Kettle... he's black
The protocol is XMPP. The video and audio is Jingle. Its rather well known and isn't something Google Invented. (maybe they did make Jingle? Can't recall off the top of my head). Not sure how they do the apps and desktop sharing portions.
Have you ever built a ghz+ range radio from scratch?
Do you not understand how much easier it is to fix with some software and flash a phone compared to building your own phone from scratch?
IMEI... security through obscurity... oh geez, can you know less about how it works? Your IMEI identifies the phone. Your sim card authenticates you and tells them who you are. Copying an IMEI is... well, more or less worthless unless you're on some shitty network like verizon which still doesn't use GSM and SIM cards. It has nothing to do with security.
Whats that... you don't realize that everyone is already ON GSM except Verizon?
Its trivial to make an IMEI unchangeable. You make it controlled by fuses. You burn them once, and they simply physically will not ever burn again, thus can't be changed. This isn't anything new and electronics have done this since the 70s when I got into it, not sure when it really started.
Even if you saw what you thought was the baseband, that doesn't mean you're seeing any potential back doors. Thats my point. All ranting and raving about getting at the source so you can make sure you don't have any back doors... because they can't just hard code that right into the chip and never let you see it...
Ranting about some tiny little bit of the device not being open source is retarded with the other 80% is as locked down far tighter than any source code ever.
You trust people constantly, and then pick random things to rant about. Lets go over a list of other things that aren't open and you can't peak at that you still use.
BIOS Chipsets Processor cores Network card cores Graphics card cores Keyboard controllers Your cars ECU Your TVs software (assuming you have one) Your monitors internal software The software for any digital clocks you might have
I could go on for days with all the shit in your world that is not open that you won't bother to worry about... but god damn, you know that baseband is software, and god dman that should FOSS because... because... well, I'm still waiting for someone to tell me magically why baseband (and software in general) is something that must be open, but hardware, you'll use that shit all day long without thinking twice. So if I just embed my code into the processor itself, you won't bitch.
Yes, it makes sense... for the ISPs... no one else gives a shit because traffic is traffic.
The issue is that the ISPs want to sell me the ability to use said bandwidth... but not have a pipe thats fast enough to actually provide it... so if I want to use netflix... they have to have a special... not overloaded because the ISP is a bunch of cheating assholes standard lines to the Internet where they QoS video to all hell and back.
No, they are being told that they will suffer because the ISP isn't going to bother to fix their congested backbone links.
If the ISP does its job and has adequate bandwidth for its customers, there is no reason for Netflix to peer with them directly, they just transit the Internet as normal.
The ONLY reason Netflix should co-lo CDN boxes or Peer with an ISP is to BENEFIT THE ISP BY NOT HAVING TO PAY FOR AS MUCH INTERNET BANDWIDTH.
As a customer, I paid for full speed to the Internet, I did not pay to use their over subscribed service which they refuse to upgrade because its far more profitable to exploit others.
I already paid for ALL THE BANDWIDTH MY ISP USES. Thats what I'm paying for, bandwidth to the Internet. If they provide the bandwidth they sold me, they don't need to peer with Netflix or any one else. They'd be fucking morons, but they don't have to.
You'd be wise to just ignore Mr 'I'm a senior network engineer' because I'm a former network admin for an east coast telco and he's pretty much described it exactly as greedy assholes want it described rather than reality. He's twisting reality and words. He probably works for AT&T or Comcast by the sound of it.
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Already has, my wife bought one last year, gets 35 mpg (real world experience over the past 6 months) on her drive to work which is mostly open but 45mph two lane road for 30 minutes.
In contrast, my car gets 21 :( Of course its also a bit sportier than hers :)
When you use Mythbusters as a reference, you've already lost the argument.
Nothing they do is a valid test, its tv entertainment.
I'm guessing he lives in some shit hole that could walk all over your countries tiny ass shit hole in a heartbeat so you should probably take your attitude and shove it up your arrogant ass.
The statement you made is false for any country of any size. So you're probably northern european, in which case ... well, you've got enough of your own personality problems to deal with, no need for me to make fun of you. Good luck, douche.
'SkyActive' isn't engine technology. Its whole car technology. They've done all sorts of shit to reduce rolling friction across the board, not just in the engine. The engine then will also do things like turn off cylinders and conserve fuel when extra power isn't needed. Wheel bearings, drag, transmissions, power take-off components (A/C, Alternator).
The engine is a SMALL component of 'SkyActiv' technology. Its also not anything in particular or special, but its also something that Toyota has been trying to accomplish on the Prius ... yet they don't really seem to be able to keep up with anyone else ... and hence ... Mazda is selling cars that burn gasoline more efficiently than hybrids or all electrics.
And if you knew what regenerative braking actually netted you, you'd stop mentioning it like its something to brag about. Its not, ESPECIALLY in stop and go traffic where you aren't going fast enough to actually generate good solid power out of the motors during breaking. Theres no reason not to have it, but its not really worth mentioning either.
Toyota could do the same thing as Mazda ... if they knew how. But if they knew how, they would have done it to the Prius 15 years ago.
EVs are not silent, nice try. Road noise is by far the biggest noise I hear in my car, not the engine. Its ironic that you get stressed out by something that is widely known to be the great way to put someone to sleep.
EV batteries may be made in those countries, where do the raw resources and rare earths come from? hmm?
My tailpipe emits mostly water vapor because my car isn't a POS, as are most modern cars. Thats the great thing about computer controlled direct injected engines, they are extremely efficient (for a combustion engine). Each cylinder runs at optimum efficiency.
My car never 'smells of gasoline', perhaps you should learn how to use a gas pump.
No routine maintenance? So your brakes, tires, shocks, air filters and nothing ever needs lubrication cause apparently in your world, only gasoline vehicles have moving parts or something ... and ... they never wear on your electric vehicle because ... magic? Changing the oil of the life of my engine is going to be far far more friendly and cost effective than your first battery pack, let alone if you bother to buy a second before scrapping your car.
I personally look forward to when I can buy an electric car that doesn't suck ass, but all the crap you're spewing is just fud, ignorance, or just being a fanboy.
Had the soldiers in Vietnam had the full support of congress and the president and the troop deployments they'd asked for ... You wouldn't be saying that.
She helped create the problem that was Vietnam, not solve it, but way to miss the forest for the trees.
Theres a plugin that solves that problem.
Actually, if you think about it ... it makes perfect sense.
Glassholes are EXACTLY the type of people who wear shit like Ray Ban and Oakleys instead of the $20 pair at Walmart.
Most of the people in the country can walk into walmart and get two pairs of decent glasses for $100, including the optometrist fee.
Mind you, some people have problems that the guy at walmart can't help. (I had to go to the Mayo clinic and have surgery just to get back to reasonable so they could try to put glasses on me, muscles around my eye are stupid and cause it to be misshaped, but now I can go to walmart if I choose :) but for the majority of the country with only minor vision problems, $100 and less than an hour and you've got glasses.
I'd wager the number of people in the country that aren't within reasonable distance of a walmart at this stage ... is probably as close to 0 as you can get for something like that, they are EVERYWHERE.
As I said, they can't deal with people who have more serious vision issues though where you need a more experienced doctor with better equipment.
WTF!?!
I pay less than that for 2 pairs of transitions lenses and frames! I have to have non-toridal lenses because my eyes aren't the right physical shape so the top and bottom of my lenses have different refraction compared to the left and right sides.
You're getting raped if you're paying $300 for just a single pair of lenses. Not ripped off ... fucking RAPED.
I would really like for you to tell us you're serious.
I would really like to see a 78 year old person on slashdot, that'd make me feel better about my mid life crisis and my path going forward.
I'm sorry, are you being serious or sarcastic? I'm guessing sarcastic, but it almost sounds serious
Yea, and while you may do that, and Google employees may do that ... no one else does. Thats the point.
People email XLS files because Excel is light years beyond anything Google has on the drawing board. If you've got some fancy Google sheets page that you think is bad ass ... congratulations, you're working with what it was like on the pre-release versions of Lotus 1-2-3. Google sheets is a joke, as is there Docs. They've got all the proprietary disadvantages of Microsoft products. NONE of the advantages, none of the years of development, and in order to use it ... you have to not only pay them in one form or another, but you have to accept that they're scanning your documents and can read any data they want.
Using Google Sheets for business purposes shows a serious lack of technical knowledge.
I'm guessing you think Excel is a way to look at rows of a database in the form of a CSV, in which case ... you're doing it wrong across the board.
Thats because nobody you know does anything of importance, and thats really sad in this day and age.
Its a shame rather than listen to what they say people don't look at his voting record.
Had anyone bothered to have actually done so, they would have seen that what he says and what he does/votes are pretty much polar opposites and have been since his first day in the senate.
He's pretty transparent if you open your eyes.
it's not enough to show that somebody else could have used it.
You can show someone else used it all day long, in America, you are responsible for what happens if you leave your wifi completely unprotected.
You have to PROVE it was someone else, and you have to prove it was someone else specifically. 'Someone I don't know used my open wifi, it wasn't me!!' will be considered guilty for all practical purposes.
There is legal precedent for this already.
The minimum transaction fee changed from 0.0005 BTC to 0.0001 BTC during the runup to $1100
Which is exactly the problem they are referring to. The fee dropped to the point of being not worth it.
There is a central organization, The Bitcoin Foundation [bitcoinfoundation.org], whose authority is explicitly derived from consent of the governed; the miners and users choose to update their software to match recommendations by The Bitcoin Foundation.
Better known as ... no central authority. No governing body who can/will enforce things is not a feature, its a bug. Whats even the point? You might as well just all sit around and talk shit on a mailing list, thats just as meaningful ... and pointless.
If that summary is an accurate reflection of the research, it sounds like they don't really know much about how Bitcoin works
Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing about you.
I mean, I know that much, and I've only spent a few hours reading about it.
Yes, its fairly obvious that you don't really understand it, you might want to take that into consideration before calling out someone else's research like you know more about it (when you don't) from a couple hours on wikipedia or google, you think you know all about it. Mr Pot, meet Mr Kettle ... he's black
and what do we know now about the bitcoin transaction fees & economic picture 20 years out).
That it will be a footnote in history ... just like Internet time by Swatch. Thats what we know about bitcoin 20 years out.
...
The protocol is XMPP. The video and audio is Jingle. Its rather well known and isn't something Google Invented. (maybe they did make Jingle? Can't recall off the top of my head). Not sure how they do the apps and desktop sharing portions.
Have you ever built a ghz+ range radio from scratch?
Do you not understand how much easier it is to fix with some software and flash a phone compared to building your own phone from scratch?
IMEI ... security through obscurity ... oh geez, can you know less about how it works? Your IMEI identifies the phone. Your sim card authenticates you and tells them who you are. Copying an IMEI is ... well, more or less worthless unless you're on some shitty network like verizon which still doesn't use GSM and SIM cards. It has nothing to do with security.
Whats that ... you don't realize that everyone is already ON GSM except Verizon?
Its trivial to make an IMEI unchangeable. You make it controlled by fuses. You burn them once, and they simply physically will not ever burn again, thus can't be changed. This isn't anything new and electronics have done this since the 70s when I got into it, not sure when it really started.
Even if you saw what you thought was the baseband, that doesn't mean you're seeing any potential back doors. Thats my point. All ranting and raving about getting at the source so you can make sure you don't have any back doors ... because they can't just hard code that right into the chip and never let you see it ...
Ranting about some tiny little bit of the device not being open source is retarded with the other 80% is as locked down far tighter than any source code ever.
You trust people constantly, and then pick random things to rant about. Lets go over a list of other things that aren't open and you can't peak at that you still use.
BIOS
Chipsets
Processor cores
Network card cores
Graphics card cores
Keyboard controllers
Your cars ECU
Your TVs software (assuming you have one)
Your monitors internal software
The software for any digital clocks you might have
I could go on for days with all the shit in your world that is not open that you won't bother to worry about ... but god damn, you know that baseband is software, and god dman that should FOSS because ... because ... well, I'm still waiting for someone to tell me magically why baseband (and software in general) is something that must be open, but hardware, you'll use that shit all day long without thinking twice. So if I just embed my code into the processor itself, you won't bitch.
Thats just silly.
AT&T isn't the road owner. I am. They built those roads with government handouts from my tax dollars. Same for comcast.
Yes, it makes sense ... for the ISPs ... no one else gives a shit because traffic is traffic.
The issue is that the ISPs want to sell me the ability to use said bandwidth ... but not have a pipe thats fast enough to actually provide it ... so if I want to use netflix ... they have to have a special ... not overloaded because the ISP is a bunch of cheating assholes standard lines to the Internet where they QoS video to all hell and back.
No, they are being told that they will suffer because the ISP isn't going to bother to fix their congested backbone links.
If the ISP does its job and has adequate bandwidth for its customers, there is no reason for Netflix to peer with them directly, they just transit the Internet as normal.
The ONLY reason Netflix should co-lo CDN boxes or Peer with an ISP is to BENEFIT THE ISP BY NOT HAVING TO PAY FOR AS MUCH INTERNET BANDWIDTH.
As a customer, I paid for full speed to the Internet, I did not pay to use their over subscribed service which they refuse to upgrade because its far more profitable to exploit others.
I already paid for ALL THE BANDWIDTH MY ISP USES. Thats what I'm paying for, bandwidth to the Internet. If they provide the bandwidth they sold me, they don't need to peer with Netflix or any one else. They'd be fucking morons, but they don't have to.
You'd be wise to just ignore Mr 'I'm a senior network engineer' because I'm a former network admin for an east coast telco and he's pretty much described it exactly as greedy assholes want it described rather than reality. He's twisting reality and words. He probably works for AT&T or Comcast by the sound of it.