Manufacturers make money by selling stuff, repeatedly. The fact that you buy a bottle of ketchup and that you cannot use every last drop of it is your problem, not the manufacturers. In fact, if you could use more of what you bought then you would buy less of it and that means in economic terms that (a) consumer gets more product, (b) manufacturer gets less revenue *and* more costs as they now need to coat the inside of the bottle.
It may have its uses, but absolutely not in the FMCG (Faast Moving Consumer Goods) segment
I was hacked, and I found out when Spotify told me my music was playing in "Luke's Van".
These guys had been listening to gangsta rap by the truckload.
The worst thing is that my Discover Weekly recommendations are all screwed; this was the single feature I liked the most about my account - good music recommendations.
An email to and response from Spotify customer support says that there's nothing they can do about resetting my tastes.
Thanks Spotify - I now hope google or Amazon comes and eats your cake
Dropbox still has one key feature that Google Drive can't figure out: incremental updates.
That means that small changes in big files do not require the entire file to be uploaded again. IN your case, a large Truecrypt continuer will change frequently (or parts thereof). Dropbox won't blink an eye when it does delta change updates. Google Drive will upload the WHOLE thing once again.
If you're using truecrypt, dropbox is your only practical choice.
What the economist doesn't consider in his argument that "currency is a tool of the state" is that states cannot control currency; take the USD usage outside of the US. In many countries there is an official currency that is in reality superseded by USD (Cuba, many African countries, etc). The local governments hate it but they can't do anything about it because citizens trust more us greenbacks than they do in worthless local currency.
When volatility of bitcoin goes down (as it will when there will be more regular transactions and people using the currency) there will inevitably be people trusting more in bit coins than Ina government printing ever more debt and printing ever more notes (essentially debt to consumers).
Bitcoin wins
Ok, I could have made this a little more explicit.
For something like iMessage, where the client and the server are trusted, but not the communication channel you could very well (for example) input your user name and password on the client, have the client generate hashes of the username and login, sign said hashes with the sever's public key and send them over to the server.
That's one step better than cleartext auth wrapped with SSL but, as someone else remarked, a SRP (or even DH) exchange is pretty straightforward and pretty robust.
The username and password are sent in clear text in the SSL tunnel. So no, people at Starbucks won't get your username and password.
What this suggests is that iMessage should only be sending a hash of the username and password to Apple Servers without ever sending those things even within a SSL tunnel.
I think you know just enough about physics to make a dangerous conclusion.
Following a collision, Either car will go in reverse direction only if there is any kinetic energy left from the impact. The whole point of the much tasked about crumple zones is to absorb the energy from the impact and prevent the cars from behaving like bouncing balls. There is sufficient energy absorption capacity in either car to avoid your scenario. Take for instance a Hummer running dead into a wall at medium speed; it would bounce off the wall very far. The reason is because ask the energy is absorbed in the impact.
The Tesla had enough of a crumple zone (much more than any other car) to avoid a scenario where three is excess energy that would push the car back.
What really kills people are either (a) G forces from an impact (and having a car like a Hummer with little or no energy absorption creates higher impact G forces) or (b) cabin deformation that injures the passengers.
The Tesla scores high on impact absorption and deformation resistance and is therefore the safer car.
When measured against USD, maybe it seems to be. The reality is that it isn't the denomination currency for many goods and services, yet. Once a piece of bread starts being listed for 0.01 Bitcoin no matter the exchange rate, then where is the volatility you refer to?
What happens when people start getting paid for a set amount of work or services in Bitcoins? Would that seem volatile to you then? Exchange rates have always existed and always will. People used to pay with grain in ancient times. What do you think happened to prices of grain when there was a storm or a bad crop? Do you think it was less volatile? Did that mean people didn't use it as currency anymore?
Mr Forbes, with all due respect, your argument is simplistic. Currencies have value and exist because people believe in them. for any national currency, you are basically running credit risk against the national bank that they could ultimately refuse to exchange your Local Currency against another currency. With Bitcoin there is no central agency against which you have exposure to, you are exposed to each single individual using Bitcoins and all the people that are willing to buy them. Your risk is basically that no-one will buy your Bitcoin in exchange for a service or another currency/asset.
the article is not that long so you could have at least skimmed through it. The Tesla guy makes a key point in saying that Linux runs the entertainment system and dahsboard (google maps, speedo, etc.). The cars propulsion system (i.e. what runs the motors, battery, brakes, etc..) is completely separate. The linux front-end can crash completely and the car will continue to drive just fine.
RTFA
Completely agree I have a Blackberry purchased SIM free (i..e without contract) and that I happen to use on Vodafone in the UK. Turns out that the Podcast app's auto-download and syncing function is disabled by Vodafone!
WTF? My phone and my money; I pay for 1GB of data it should be my choice if I want to use all of that on Care Bears podcasts for all I know.
I love my BB but RIM is just bending over backwards to carrier requests. The Storm was also a half-assed attempt at a touchscreen phone from a Vodafone request as they had missed out on the iPhone (o2 was exclusive at the time).
RIM grew half a testi with the playbook's bridge function, but the operators gave them a black-eye and decided not to sell the tablet.
Rim needs to realize that customers buy phones now, no longer just corporate purchase departments. I don't give a rat which network my phone's on, but I care about my terminal.
I am your client RIM, listen to *me*, I'm your customer, the carrier's not your customer.
I know that there are countries in Europe that have lower VAT rates for computers, as opposed to game consoles. I suspect that by adding the Linux option to their PS3s, Sony was able to switch to the reduced VAT level, as hence bag more profits for the same retail price.
This may have been revoked/no longer valid/overturned/whatever recently and hence Sony has no further incentive to offer this feature. Could also be that being classified as a computer made the console eligible for government subsidies to buy "computers" (such as in the UK the Home Access Program - http://www.becta.org.uk/homeaccess)
The reality is that cracking word passed passwords is even simpler than what you are pointing to, even in cases where special punctuation has been used mid word.
No need for crazy wizardry, simple Markov chains technique tell you that there is a probability of using a given character after another. You just need to work your way through the decision tree in descending order with some algorithm.
For instance, In English language there is a y% probability that a "n" character follows a "e" character etc.
If you know which languages are spoken by the person who chose the password you can already zoom in very quickly
in TFA there is no mention of Citigroup looking to buy Redhat; just a mention that a Citigroup stock analyst upgraded his target share price to $17 and kept the recommendation to "hold". Once again everybody on./ has gone and commented on how Oracle culture would be compared to Citigroup's whereas that's not even the point.. Sheesh people, the linked article is probably under 250 words. Could you not have given it a read? Did it not strike you as something strange that a bank would want to buy a software vendor?
a) publishers and Co make sure that ther are less middlemen, but however the prices to the consumer are the same --> more margin for the publisher and hardware vendor
b) you won't be able to rent your games from BB, Netflix etc anymore. Just shut-up and pay full price, no more renting. "Demos should be enough for anybody to make up their mind on a game; if they like it, buy it"
c) forget about re-selling your games or trading them in for new ones. this is just like those nice little DRM tunes from iTunes. no transfer nada. How this works with the first sale doctrine I don't know. "Just shut-up and pay".
It's funny how this is supposed to costs billions in the UK however in France they were able to roll out Fibre with 1000mbs products showing up almost everywhere for a sub 1bn investment (can't locate the source of this at the moment).
Funny how every other country with a successful Internet deploment strategy (France, Sweden, Finland, Japan, Korea, etc.) are all able to get this deployed without anybody getting out of business. The old dinosaur BT however needs oodles of cash. Yeah right.
Guess the old "Rip-off Britain" adage is still true (and I should know for living there!)
I see your point, but isn't the whole question here wheter NVIDIA will be able to build a x86 compatible chip without breaching patents? As far as pure chip design and optimization goes I am sure NVIDIA has a patent or two in their IP portfolio which they can use here too. THe whole point is really if they can build an x86 compatible chip without Intel's consent.
The x86 article on Wikipedia states that the 8086 with x86 instruction set was created in 1978. I asusme that the patents are from that year too. Don't you see any coincidence in the 30 years period to now? Is it not that Intel's patents (if any)on the x86 instructions and design are now expiring and that the x86 is now becoming public domain?
I find it quite fortunate that NVidia is trying to launch something precisely in the 30th year since creation.
Given that this is a sports car they probably wanted to have enough gear reduction so the torque to the wheels was sufficient to hit the target times from 0-60mph. This gear reduction obviously meant that the engine while stil spinning at 14000 rpm would not be able to move the car at the speed where the car's drag ~= to the max motor power to the wheels (i.e. the car's speed would be limited by the rpm-limiter rather than by power), hence the need for a higher demultiplier gear which would allow the car to reach this speed.
Flat torque curves makes this much easier than with IC engines where you need to solve a max speed which you can reach while going through lower torquen bands. Hence the ghigher number of gears to always keep you in "peak torque zone".
The whole reason why you'd want to rev an engine and drop he clutch is to place the engine in it's max torque range. On an electric motor the torque curve is typically flat and so you get just as much torque at 0rpm than at 5000. The one advantage you have with a traditional car is the flywheel's rotational momentum that delivers a little extra surge of power while the engine revs drop.
As for the sound; you could always hook-up one of these el-cheapo V6 engine recordings taht are driven by engine rpm and with a small speaker unercarriage. IMHO, electric motors have a nice little whizz to them reminescent of small turbos and superchargers hich will get your senses goigng!
Gearboxes are really for converting torque to rotation. IC engines have limited rpm ranges and "optimal" torque and power rpm bands. The gearbox is there to allow effficient use of these zones.
Electric motors have a very flat torque curve all along the rpm range (torque starts right after 0 rpm). Also Electric engines usually have a much wider rpm range and their efficiency in converting energy to mechanical energy is much more constant tha for IC engines where the efficiency drops very quickly when you approach max rpm. Hence a gearbox is only so useful for an electric car.
Mind you as well that electric motors have bags ans bags more of torque than IC engines and as such a reduction gear is not really necessary to get teh car in motion (as with a 1st gear in a regular car). This high torque is also a challenge for designers as traiditional design gearboxes flop with electric engines.
Hope that helps you understand why there are only 2 gears on this car.
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Manufacturers make money by selling stuff, repeatedly. The fact that you buy a bottle of ketchup and that you cannot use every last drop of it is your problem, not the manufacturers. In fact, if you could use more of what you bought then you would buy less of it and that means in economic terms that (a) consumer gets more product, (b) manufacturer gets less revenue *and* more costs as they now need to coat the inside of the bottle. It may have its uses, but absolutely not in the FMCG (Faast Moving Consumer Goods) segment
I was hacked, and I found out when Spotify told me my music was playing in "Luke's Van". These guys had been listening to gangsta rap by the truckload. The worst thing is that my Discover Weekly recommendations are all screwed; this was the single feature I liked the most about my account - good music recommendations. An email to and response from Spotify customer support says that there's nothing they can do about resetting my tastes. Thanks Spotify - I now hope google or Amazon comes and eats your cake
They created the bike lanes soon existing car lanes ; that's why car traffic will allow even further and congestion will increase
Dropbox still has one key feature that Google Drive can't figure out: incremental updates. That means that small changes in big files do not require the entire file to be uploaded again. IN your case, a large Truecrypt continuer will change frequently (or parts thereof). Dropbox won't blink an eye when it does delta change updates. Google Drive will upload the WHOLE thing once again. If you're using truecrypt, dropbox is your only practical choice.
What the economist doesn't consider in his argument that "currency is a tool of the state" is that states cannot control currency; take the USD usage outside of the US. In many countries there is an official currency that is in reality superseded by USD (Cuba, many African countries, etc). The local governments hate it but they can't do anything about it because citizens trust more us greenbacks than they do in worthless local currency. When volatility of bitcoin goes down (as it will when there will be more regular transactions and people using the currency) there will inevitably be people trusting more in bit coins than Ina government printing ever more debt and printing ever more notes (essentially debt to consumers). Bitcoin wins
You're right. The task manager was hovering around 100%, and but I forgot there was another chrome window running in the background
The most incredible thing is the speed at which it runs: 11.5 MIPS.
My desktop dual-core Xeon W3503@2.40Ghz barely manages 40 MIPS in Chrome.
The iPhone 5s is crazy fast by most standards
Ok, I could have made this a little more explicit.
For something like iMessage, where the client and the server are trusted, but not the communication channel you could very well (for example) input your user name and password on the client, have the client generate hashes of the username and login, sign said hashes with the sever's public key and send them over to the server.
That's one step better than cleartext auth wrapped with SSL but, as someone else remarked, a SRP (or even DH) exchange is pretty straightforward and pretty robust.
The username and password are sent in clear text in the SSL tunnel. So no, people at Starbucks won't get your username and password.
What this suggests is that iMessage should only be sending a hash of the username and password to Apple Servers without ever sending those things even within a SSL tunnel.
Regarding the Hummer, it wouldn't bounce very far, sorry for the typo
I think you know just enough about physics to make a dangerous conclusion. Following a collision, Either car will go in reverse direction only if there is any kinetic energy left from the impact. The whole point of the much tasked about crumple zones is to absorb the energy from the impact and prevent the cars from behaving like bouncing balls. There is sufficient energy absorption capacity in either car to avoid your scenario. Take for instance a Hummer running dead into a wall at medium speed; it would bounce off the wall very far. The reason is because ask the energy is absorbed in the impact. The Tesla had enough of a crumple zone (much more than any other car) to avoid a scenario where three is excess energy that would push the car back. What really kills people are either (a) G forces from an impact (and having a car like a Hummer with little or no energy absorption creates higher impact G forces) or (b) cabin deformation that injures the passengers. The Tesla scores high on impact absorption and deformation resistance and is therefore the safer car.
When measured against USD, maybe it seems to be. The reality is that it isn't the denomination currency for many goods and services, yet.
Once a piece of bread starts being listed for 0.01 Bitcoin no matter the exchange rate, then where is the volatility you refer to?
What happens when people start getting paid for a set amount of work or services in Bitcoins? Would that seem volatile to you then?
Exchange rates have always existed and always will. People used to pay with grain in ancient times. What do you think happened to prices of grain when there was a storm or a bad crop? Do you think it was less volatile? Did that mean people didn't use it as currency anymore?
Mr Forbes, with all due respect, your argument is simplistic. Currencies have value and exist because people believe in them. for any national currency, you are basically running credit risk against the national bank that they could ultimately refuse to exchange your Local Currency against another currency. With Bitcoin there is no central agency against which you have exposure to, you are exposed to each single individual using Bitcoins and all the people that are willing to buy them. Your risk is basically that no-one will buy your Bitcoin in exchange for a service or another currency/asset.
the article is not that long so you could have at least skimmed through it. The Tesla guy makes a key point in saying that Linux runs the entertainment system and dahsboard (google maps, speedo, etc.). The cars propulsion system (i.e. what runs the motors, battery, brakes, etc..) is completely separate. The linux front-end can crash completely and the car will continue to drive just fine. RTFA
Completely agree
I have a Blackberry purchased SIM free (i..e without contract) and that I happen to use on Vodafone in the UK.
Turns out that the Podcast app's auto-download and syncing function is disabled by Vodafone!
WTF? My phone and my money; I pay for 1GB of data it should be my choice if I want to use all of that on Care Bears podcasts for all I know.
I love my BB but RIM is just bending over backwards to carrier requests. The Storm was also a half-assed attempt at a touchscreen phone from a Vodafone request as they had missed out on the iPhone (o2 was exclusive at the time).
RIM grew half a testi with the playbook's bridge function, but the operators gave them a black-eye and decided not to sell the tablet.
Rim needs to realize that customers buy phones now, no longer just corporate purchase departments.
I don't give a rat which network my phone's on, but I care about my terminal.
I am your client RIM, listen to *me*, I'm your customer, the carrier's not your customer.
I know that there are countries in Europe that have lower VAT rates for computers, as opposed to game consoles.
I suspect that by adding the Linux option to their PS3s, Sony was able to switch to the reduced VAT level, as hence bag more profits for the same retail price.
This may have been revoked/no longer valid/overturned/whatever recently and hence Sony has no further incentive to offer this feature.
Could also be that being classified as a computer made the console eligible for government subsidies to buy "computers" (such as in the UK the Home Access Program - http://www.becta.org.uk/homeaccess)
The reality is that cracking word passed passwords is even simpler than what you are pointing to, even in cases where special punctuation has been used mid word. No need for crazy wizardry, simple Markov chains technique tell you that there is a probability of using a given character after another. You just need to work your way through the decision tree in descending order with some algorithm. For instance, In English language there is a y% probability that a "n" character follows a "e" character etc. If you know which languages are spoken by the person who chose the password you can already zoom in very quickly
Your words should fit perfectly here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-purchase_rationalization
in TFA there is no mention of Citigroup looking to buy Redhat; just a mention that a Citigroup stock analyst upgraded his target share price to $17 and kept the recommendation to "hold". ./ has gone and commented on how Oracle culture would be compared to Citigroup's whereas that's not even the point..
Once again everybody on
Sheesh people, the linked article is probably under 250 words. Could you not have given it a read? Did it not strike you as something strange that a bank would want to buy a software vendor?
a) publishers and Co make sure that ther are less middlemen, but however the prices to the consumer are the same --> more margin for the publisher and hardware vendor
b) you won't be able to rent your games from BB, Netflix etc anymore. Just shut-up and pay full price, no more renting. "Demos should be enough for anybody to make up their mind on a game; if they like it, buy it"
c) forget about re-selling your games or trading them in for new ones. this is just like those nice little DRM tunes from iTunes. no transfer nada. How this works with the first sale doctrine I don't know. "Just shut-up and pay".
It's funny how this is supposed to costs billions in the UK however in France they were able to roll out Fibre with 1000mbs products showing up almost everywhere for a sub 1bn investment (can't locate the source of this at the moment).
Funny how every other country with a successful Internet deploment strategy (France, Sweden, Finland, Japan, Korea, etc.) are all able to get this deployed without anybody getting out of business. The old dinosaur BT however needs oodles of cash. Yeah right.
Guess the old "Rip-off Britain" adage is still true (and I should know for living there!)
I see your point, but isn't the whole question here wheter NVIDIA will be able to build a x86 compatible chip without breaching patents? As far as pure chip design and optimization goes I am sure NVIDIA has a patent or two in their IP portfolio which they can use here too. THe whole point is really if they can build an x86 compatible chip without Intel's consent.
The x86 article on Wikipedia states that the 8086 with x86 instruction set was created in 1978. I asusme that the patents are from that year too.
Don't you see any coincidence in the 30 years period to now? Is it not that Intel's patents (if any)on the x86 instructions and design are now expiring and that the x86 is now becoming public domain?
I find it quite fortunate that NVidia is trying to launch something precisely in the 30th year since creation.
Given that this is a sports car they probably wanted to have enough gear reduction so the torque to the wheels was sufficient to hit the target times from 0-60mph. This gear reduction obviously meant that the engine while stil spinning at 14000 rpm would not be able to move the car at the speed where the car's drag ~= to the max motor power to the wheels (i.e. the car's speed would be limited by the rpm-limiter rather than by power), hence the need for a higher demultiplier gear which would allow the car to reach this speed.
Flat torque curves makes this much easier than with IC engines where you need to solve a max speed which you can reach while going through lower torquen bands. Hence the ghigher number of gears to always keep you in "peak torque zone".
The whole reason why you'd want to rev an engine and drop he clutch is to place the engine in it's max torque range. On an electric motor the torque curve is typically flat and so you get just as much torque at 0rpm than at 5000.
The one advantage you have with a traditional car is the flywheel's rotational momentum that delivers a little extra surge of power while the engine revs drop.
As for the sound; you could always hook-up one of these el-cheapo V6 engine recordings taht are driven by engine rpm and with a small speaker unercarriage. IMHO, electric motors have a nice little whizz to them reminescent of small turbos and superchargers hich will get your senses goigng!
Gearboxes are really for converting torque to rotation. IC engines have limited rpm ranges and "optimal" torque and power rpm bands. The gearbox is there to allow effficient use of these zones.
Electric motors have a very flat torque curve all along the rpm range (torque starts right after 0 rpm). Also Electric engines usually have a much wider rpm range and their efficiency in converting energy to mechanical energy is much more constant tha for IC engines where the efficiency drops very quickly when you approach max rpm. Hence a gearbox is only so useful for an electric car.
Mind you as well that electric motors have bags ans bags more of torque than IC engines and as such a reduction gear is not really necessary to get teh car in motion (as with a 1st gear in a regular car). This high torque is also a challenge for designers as traiditional design gearboxes flop with electric engines.
Hope that helps you understand why there are only 2 gears on this car.