What does Therac-25 have anything to do with this? It had a software problem; what does it have to do with the utter inability of cold gas thrusters to ignite anything?
The problem is that Occam used the wrong model: Private memory and slow interconnects based on message passing.
To me, there's no clear indication that this is "the wrong model". That's basically a distributed actor architecture. We may still be forced to do just that one day.
But regarding computers, the books I had back then were predicting that my computer in the year 2000 would be a 100 MHz GaAs machine running Occam, so that turned out to be quite a bit better.
It's not "pure assumption". One of the reasons for the Carolingian Renaissance, for example, was the discovery by Charlemagne that his clergy knew shit (instead of knowing their shit).
The Kona is less than the $35k Model 3 before the tax credit here.
Kona is $30k after tax credit and $37.5k before. The $35k Model 3 is supposed to be $35k before tax credit.
Also note that the Model 3 isn't even available outside the US. If you live in Europe you can't buy one, there is no launch date for the expensive models, and if you order now the earliest delivery you could expect is some time in 2020.
Well, in that case, neither can I buy a Kona at one tenth the manufacturing rate.
Because it doesn't exist. If it did exist then we could compare manufacturing rates but the manufacturing rate of the 35k Model 3 is 0 so it's hardly going to be competitive with anything that has a > 0 manufacturing rate.
Didn't Bolt beat Model 3 to the market by 8 month? And yet, today, Model 3 is being produced at a rate of over 20000 units per month where Bolt remains at 2000 per month or so. So while you may be technically correct, if I mentally time-travel to January 2017, your argument that this somehow predicts future performance falls apart.
They want $35k for a 200 mile range car, when Hyundai and Kia have 260 mile range cars for closer to $30k
Hilarious. Are you talking about the Kona, for $30k - *after* the $7500 tax credit, manufactured at a fraction of the rate of Model 3? Originally planned 30000 vehicles per year! As many manufactured in a month as Tesla does in half a week...competition indeed? How is the $35k model "uncompetitive" against this? The waiting list for this is going to be even worse!
Lignite mining is cheap enough that running the coal plants from it is not a big deal. Whether electricity prices are "stabilized" is debatable, though. They vary from year to year. Right now, they've actually risen by about 50% around here - exactly thing you claim isn't happening is happening (are you Trump?).
You're cute if you think that the Retardicans haven't investigated the shit out whatever they could. They absolutely did not find anywhere near the 2016 difference of almost three million votes, not by multiple orders of magnitude.
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For an emergency brake system, would you rather deal with some loud noise, or with a pile of dead bodies?
What does Therac-25 have anything to do with this? It had a software problem; what does it have to do with the utter inability of cold gas thrusters to ignite anything?
Why would it do any such thing?
Mark Weiser [wikipedia.org] predicted the smart phone (and the tablet) in 1988
Alan Kay predicted it in 1968 and a few years later he was already in the process of implementing it.
The problem is that Occam used the wrong model: Private memory and slow interconnects based on message passing.
To me, there's no clear indication that this is "the wrong model". That's basically a distributed actor architecture. We may still be forced to do just that one day.
But regarding computers, the books I had back then were predicting that my computer in the year 2000 would be a 100 MHz GaAs machine running Occam, so that turned out to be quite a bit better.
If they disagree with his views on a 3000 mile wall, why post a link to page referring to a cherry-picked place?
Does this mean it runs on more devices than Java now?
"AI airbrush ad?"
The ad's motto: "We put the 'AI' in 'airbrush'."...?
I have to note that I actually never said that. But I'm sure that the existence of lying ACs at this site won't come as any surprise to you.
To the surprise of no one, I have never said any such thing.
It's not "pure assumption". One of the reasons for the Carolingian Renaissance, for example, was the discovery by Charlemagne that his clergy knew shit (instead of knowing their shit).
"Soil-ent Green is people!"
the base spec 64kWh Kona
How is the long-range model "base spec"?
is cheaper than the $35k Model 3
How is 39k Euro cheaper than $35k?
And you can order a Kona now, with delivery around late January/February
I hope I'd be luckier than Canadians.
The Kona is less than the $35k Model 3 before the tax credit here.
Kona is $30k after tax credit and $37.5k before. The $35k Model 3 is supposed to be $35k before tax credit.
Also note that the Model 3 isn't even available outside the US. If you live in Europe you can't buy one, there is no launch date for the expensive models, and if you order now the earliest delivery you could expect is some time in 2020.
Well, in that case, neither can I buy a Kona at one tenth the manufacturing rate.
Because it doesn't exist. If it did exist then we could compare manufacturing rates but the manufacturing rate of the 35k Model 3 is 0 so it's hardly going to be competitive with anything that has a > 0 manufacturing rate.
Didn't Bolt beat Model 3 to the market by 8 month? And yet, today, Model 3 is being produced at a rate of over 20000 units per month where Bolt remains at 2000 per month or so. So while you may be technically correct, if I mentally time-travel to January 2017, your argument that this somehow predicts future performance falls apart.
They want $35k for a 200 mile range car, when Hyundai and Kia have 260 mile range cars for closer to $30k
Hilarious. Are you talking about the Kona, for $30k - *after* the $7500 tax credit, manufactured at a fraction of the rate of Model 3? Originally planned 30000 vehicles per year! As many manufactured in a month as Tesla does in half a week...competition indeed? How is the $35k model "uncompetitive" against this? The waiting list for this is going to be even worse!
Value is not determined by how much people would have to be paid to give something up, but rather by how much people would spend to have it.
In a bilateral transaction, isn't this where the two meet?
A lot of them, I imagine. Kessel is rather small, so the runs there can't be very long.
Which will then restrict both supply & competition
Companies failing in capitalism IS competition.
None of them, lignite power generation is more of a matter of Central European geology.
There's no point in exporting coal from Europe. Local consumption is where it's at.
Lignite mining is cheap enough that running the coal plants from it is not a big deal. Whether electricity prices are "stabilized" is debatable, though. They vary from year to year. Right now, they've actually risen by about 50% around here - exactly thing you claim isn't happening is happening (are you Trump?).
Every unprofitable coal mine in the European Union must cease production
Yes, because in capitalism, unprofitable coal mines would be kept afloat instead. :-p
You're cute if you think that the Retardicans haven't investigated the shit out whatever they could. They absolutely did not find anywhere near the 2016 difference of almost three million votes, not by multiple orders of magnitude.