Assuming that you see nothing wrong with comparing a Civic to a BMW 7-series purely on cost either, then your comparison is valid. Otherwise people might think that it was a wee bit skewed.
Still only barely competitive with a carpool, which is a shame - though again, to be fair roads are also subsidized somewhat.
Urban roads cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $15 million per lane mile (and up from there). Also remember that most roads have at least two lanes. Even adding a lane to an existing road can cost ~$5 million per mile. Commuter rail is usually dirt cheap in comparison to road expansion, but since maintenance and construction costs are so much less they have far fewer voices during bond elections than the concrete guys do.
As long as you consider "no compromise" to mean paying a hundred grand and getting less than 250 miles of range and having to wait extended periods of time to recharge, with the distinct possibility of not having a Supercharger station available before the power runs out. It's a nice car, but it's still not terribly practical for most people.
Most people - especially those in the $80K car market - fly somewhere when they need to go over 300 miles in a single trip without ending up back where they started.
Even their "green" credentials are on very thin ice, what with all those batteries full of Lithium and rare earths that travel all around the world after having been mined and extracted with horrifically polutting methods.
As opposed to oil, which is often extracted with polluting methods then shipped by boat around the world to be refined before being shipped again to its destination? And that happens for every tank, not just for manufacture.
Your calculation misses some crucial points. Refinery energy losses (typically.85) Transmission costs (varies by location since most oil is delivered by boat and gasoline is delivered by truck) Also energy needed to manufacture the engine, refine the steel, etc, pp....
Its telling that the full lifecycle energy cost of a Tesla's power is still better than only one component of an ICE vehicle, don't you think?
It takes very few emissions to send something twice around the world these days. Don't make the mistake of looking at the absolute carbon cost of a modern vessel vs. a single piece of its cargo. A modern container ship can transport somewhere around 18 million cubic feet of cargo from China to the US using ~4,800 tons of fuel (1.3 million gallons). So a gallon of fuel can move approximately 14 cubic feet of stuff from the US to China (or back).
If you're on a macbook, one finger is a "left click" and two fingers is a "right click". Using a keyboard modifier would be odd and uncomfortable IMO. Go to System Preferences -> Trackpad -> Point & Click to enable this if someone's disabled it.
For scroll bars, you can go to System Preferences -> Show Scroll Bars -> Always if you wish. I have mine enabled that way too.
And yet you often see very large parcels of empty land going for millions of dollars. Why? Because many developers understand that its not necessarily the current income that a property produces, but its income potential that you're buying. Sure, there's a discount for buying "potential" rather than "actual" earnings... but an empty tract of land is far from worthless, even if its bringing in less in revenue (cows/towers/etc) than its costing in taxes.
That's what we have with WhatsApp - one of the largest, most attractive "tracts of land" on the internet, currently making little to no revenue. That doesn't mean it never will.
BitTorrent is bigger than Twitter. Twitter isn't that big, it's just mostly visible to the public.
Having 10-11% of the living population of the entire human race using your platform on a regular basis (best guess removing bots, etc) "isn't that big" to you?
And cars today are far, far better about that then they were 5 years ago. Its only a problem if - randomly - sometimes you want one pattern of airflow for a given situation (outside temp/humidity vs inside temp/humidity possibly referenced to location and time of day), and sometimes you want a totally different one, to the point that neither version is even "acceptable" when you want the other.
Turns out that, for most people, those situations are few and far between.
Facebook is going mobile - as are many (most) other players. This is one of the few mobile messaging networks that has a reach big enough to pull users away from Facebook. $19B is a reasonableamount of money to spend on defense to make a network that - internationally - is bigger than Twitter disappear as a risk.
Its not the revenue today, its the customer base (7% of the world population are regular users and its still growing rapidly). We're not used to international phenomenons like this, so of course the numbers look huge as absolutes. $38/customer is still a lot for a pure acquisition, so if they hadn't become large enough to be a credible threat they'd likely never have seen that much, but they did... and the rest is history.
Especially since, buzzword-compliance excepted, they are by far the least scalable part of your architecture.
... unless you're Google perhaps
Just because they've figured out how to scale it (for some jobs - anything needing reliable repeatable results tends to get surprisingly slow) doesn't mean it wasn't still a damn sight harder than scaling the rest of the stack:)
It knows based on how many fingers are touching the screen and if the fingers are all close or all far apart.
I personally hate voice activated things, I don't want to talk to my car, and the touchscreen does suck. The steering wheel mounted buttons are awesome though, right under my thumbs and the screen is by the speedometer. They just need to add all the heating and ac controls there and make the ui fast and responsive.
I'd prefer if they just continued to refine the already-very-good automatic climate control systems. There's no reason to need "immediate" control of the HVAC while driving.
And don't give me that crap about modern cars being quiet inside. Modern cars are a small percentage of the vehicles on the road. Try a van, a truck, a bus, a semi - how are you going to make yourself heard over all that noise?
And how many people are retrofitting noisy non-modern cars with high-end new UIs? That's not something that's typically installed after the fact. Many new vans and trucks are actually quite quiet and remarkably pleasant to drive.
And "this customer gets a 3% discount except on orders in the first month of the quarter when its 5% because they're massive and we want to encourage them to book early..."
Also, you can just assume that you have a reasonable number of connections to an adequately powerful database running in whichever replica is currently correct.
Most of those lines of Java are actually there for a reason, don't'cha'know.
I like achievements, but I do wish I could bypass some of them. Not because they're difficult, but because they require you to do things like play a game with a certain number of friends. I neither have nor want any friends (online or in the real world)
So don't get those achievements. Simple. Once you cheat to get a single one, what's the value in the remaining ones?
I wasn't even able to sign up for an account with SN - got an "invalid-bare" error in multiple browsers even with ad blockers disabled. Not ready for prime time - and that's being kind.
Actually, many of his characters go on to say that in many of his books. It was a minor plot-point in Guards, Guards! for example, with the main characters concerned that nobody ever said, "Its practically a certainty, but it just might work," (or similar) and going to great lengths to get the odds just right.
On the contrary. No single component of the hardware, OS, or software on the iPhone was particularly revolutionary. Putting them together into a single, coherent, supported package was the step that made all the difference. Taking ownership of everything throughout the interaction chain is what allows Apple (and others, but this example is about Apple) to deliver a single high-quality experience, and their adoption rates show it.
You can have great hardware, a great OS, and great software that don't quite jibe together and you end up with great specs on paper but devices that feel unnatural and eventually get left in a drawer. Its a very real problem in the industry. Fixing those continuity errors and adding reasonable sales and support services (for the price) was a game-changer.
BTW, I've been in the tech industry for close on 25 years from peon to CTO - pretty sure I'm okay with my views on it. You don't have to share them, of course.
and here we have it...you've shown us the source of 10^10 fanboi message board arguments...
iOS & Android are **operating systems**
iPhone, etc. are **devices**
if Apple let users run Android on their Apple devices, they would indeed be **one click** away from switching
they wouldn't **have to buy a new phone** because they are already using an Apple **device**
And the same argument would let people switch to any other android device just as easily.
Besides, the reason that Apple delivers a premium experience is that they're neither a hardware vendor, nor an OS vendor, nor a software company. They're a Solutions Provider, and it shows. They offer - or attempt to offer - a tightly integrated experience between the hardware, OS, and userland software. Changing that experience would be corporate suicide.
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Assuming that you see nothing wrong with comparing a Civic to a BMW 7-series purely on cost either, then your comparison is valid. Otherwise people might think that it was a wee bit skewed.
Still only barely competitive with a carpool, which is a shame - though again, to be fair roads are also subsidized somewhat.
Urban roads cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $15 million per lane mile (and up from there). Also remember that most roads have at least two lanes. Even adding a lane to an existing road can cost ~$5 million per mile. Commuter rail is usually dirt cheap in comparison to road expansion, but since maintenance and construction costs are so much less they have far fewer voices during bond elections than the concrete guys do.
As long as you consider "no compromise" to mean paying a hundred grand and getting less than 250 miles of range and having to wait extended periods of time to recharge, with the distinct possibility of not having a Supercharger station available before the power runs out. It's a nice car, but it's still not terribly practical for most people.
Most people - especially those in the $80K car market - fly somewhere when they need to go over 300 miles in a single trip without ending up back where they started.
Even their "green" credentials are on very thin ice, what with all those batteries full of Lithium and rare earths that travel all around the world after having been mined and extracted with horrifically polutting methods.
As opposed to oil, which is often extracted with polluting methods then shipped by boat around the world to be refined before being shipped again to its destination? And that happens for every tank, not just for manufacture.
Your calculation misses some crucial points. .85) ...
Refinery energy losses (typically
Transmission costs (varies by location since most oil is delivered by boat and gasoline is delivered by truck)
Also energy needed to manufacture the engine, refine the steel, etc, pp.
Its telling that the full lifecycle energy cost of a Tesla's power is still better than only one component of an ICE vehicle, don't you think?
It takes very few emissions to send something twice around the world these days. Don't make the mistake of looking at the absolute carbon cost of a modern vessel vs. a single piece of its cargo. A modern container ship can transport somewhere around 18 million cubic feet of cargo from China to the US using ~4,800 tons of fuel (1.3 million gallons). So a gallon of fuel can move approximately 14 cubic feet of stuff from the US to China (or back).
If you're on a macbook, one finger is a "left click" and two fingers is a "right click". Using a keyboard modifier would be odd and uncomfortable IMO. Go to System Preferences -> Trackpad -> Point & Click to enable this if someone's disabled it.
For scroll bars, you can go to System Preferences -> Show Scroll Bars -> Always if you wish. I have mine enabled that way too.
And yet you often see very large parcels of empty land going for millions of dollars. Why? Because many developers understand that its not necessarily the current income that a property produces, but its income potential that you're buying. Sure, there's a discount for buying "potential" rather than "actual" earnings... but an empty tract of land is far from worthless, even if its bringing in less in revenue (cows/towers/etc) than its costing in taxes.
That's what we have with WhatsApp - one of the largest, most attractive "tracts of land" on the internet, currently making little to no revenue. That doesn't mean it never will.
BitTorrent is bigger than Twitter. Twitter isn't that big, it's just mostly visible to the public.
Having 10-11% of the living population of the entire human race using your platform on a regular basis (best guess removing bots, etc) "isn't that big" to you?
What, pray tell, would be?
And cars today are far, far better about that then they were 5 years ago. Its only a problem if - randomly - sometimes you want one pattern of airflow for a given situation (outside temp/humidity vs inside temp/humidity possibly referenced to location and time of day), and sometimes you want a totally different one, to the point that neither version is even "acceptable" when you want the other.
Turns out that, for most people, those situations are few and far between.
Facebook is going mobile - as are many (most) other players. This is one of the few mobile messaging networks that has a reach big enough to pull users away from Facebook. $19B is a reasonableamount of money to spend on defense to make a network that - internationally - is bigger than Twitter disappear as a risk.
Its not the revenue today, its the customer base (7% of the world population are regular users and its still growing rapidly). We're not used to international phenomenons like this, so of course the numbers look huge as absolutes. $38/customer is still a lot for a pure acquisition, so if they hadn't become large enough to be a credible threat they'd likely never have seen that much, but they did... and the rest is history.
Databases are not good development platforms.
Especially since, buzzword-compliance excepted, they are by far the least scalable part of your architecture.
... unless you're Google perhaps
Just because they've figured out how to scale it (for some jobs - anything needing reliable repeatable results tends to get surprisingly slow) doesn't mean it wasn't still a damn sight harder than scaling the rest of the stack :)
It knows based on how many fingers are touching the screen and if the fingers are all close or all far apart.
I personally hate voice activated things, I don't want to talk to my car, and the touchscreen does suck. The steering wheel mounted buttons are awesome though, right under my thumbs and the screen is by the speedometer. They just need to add all the heating and ac controls there and make the ui fast and responsive.
I'd prefer if they just continued to refine the already-very-good automatic climate control systems. There's no reason to need "immediate" control of the HVAC while driving.
And don't give me that crap about modern cars being quiet inside. Modern cars are a small percentage of the vehicles on the road. Try a van, a truck, a bus, a semi - how are you going to make yourself heard over all that noise?
And how many people are retrofitting noisy non-modern cars with high-end new UIs? That's not something that's typically installed after the fact. Many new vans and trucks are actually quite quiet and remarkably pleasant to drive.
And "this customer gets a 3% discount except on orders in the first month of the quarter when its 5% because they're massive and we want to encourage them to book early..."
Also, you can just assume that you have a reasonable number of connections to an adequately powerful database running in whichever replica is currently correct.
Most of those lines of Java are actually there for a reason, don't'cha'know.
Databases are not good development platforms.
Especially since, buzzword-compliance excepted, they are by far the least scalable part of your architecture.
I like achievements, but I do wish I could bypass some of them. Not because they're difficult, but because they require you to do things like play a game with a certain number of friends. I neither have nor want any friends (online or in the real world)
So don't get those achievements. Simple. Once you cheat to get a single one, what's the value in the remaining ones?
Of course it does - there are statistically no viewers and not many comments. Anyone can build a site under those parameters.
I wasn't even able to sign up for an account with SN - got an "invalid-bare" error in multiple browsers even with ad blockers disabled. Not ready for prime time - and that's being kind.
Actually, many of his characters go on to say that in many of his books. It was a minor plot-point in Guards, Guards! for example, with the main characters concerned that nobody ever said, "Its practically a certainty, but it just might work," (or similar) and going to great lengths to get the odds just right.
Simple: the former will tell you how much money in interest you've given to the latter. It'll even put it into a nice pretty graph for you.
Oh, a business relationship? Yeah, I'm not seeing that either.
On the contrary. No single component of the hardware, OS, or software on the iPhone was particularly revolutionary. Putting them together into a single, coherent, supported package was the step that made all the difference. Taking ownership of everything throughout the interaction chain is what allows Apple (and others, but this example is about Apple) to deliver a single high-quality experience, and their adoption rates show it.
You can have great hardware, a great OS, and great software that don't quite jibe together and you end up with great specs on paper but devices that feel unnatural and eventually get left in a drawer. Its a very real problem in the industry. Fixing those continuity errors and adding reasonable sales and support services (for the price) was a game-changer.
BTW, I've been in the tech industry for close on 25 years from peon to CTO - pretty sure I'm okay with my views on it. You don't have to share them, of course.
and here we have it...you've shown us the source of 10^10 fanboi message board arguments...
iOS & Android are **operating systems**
iPhone, etc. are **devices**
if Apple let users run Android on their Apple devices, they would indeed be **one click** away from switching
they wouldn't **have to buy a new phone** because they are already using an Apple **device**
And the same argument would let people switch to any other android device just as easily.
Besides, the reason that Apple delivers a premium experience is that they're neither a hardware vendor, nor an OS vendor, nor a software company. They're a Solutions Provider, and it shows. They offer - or attempt to offer - a tightly integrated experience between the hardware, OS, and userland software. Changing that experience would be corporate suicide.
Pretty convenient that none of the old ones were. Correcting an oversight doesn't get you bonus prizes for being so generous.