I love all these "I know someone, who isn't me" posts about something.
I actually am a leaf owner. So I'll let you know from personal experience. I bought mine used for $14,000. It had just over 20,000 miles on it. It wasn't the base model it was fully packed older model with a battery in very good condition. And before you ask, the answer is "no my situation is not uncommon". My brother bought his new, and walked out having paid $22,300. If someone actually paid $32,500 for one they got ripped off.
electricity costs.. $2.50 per what?
Per month for me.. I couldn't tell you, honestly I have never been able to notice any solid increase in my bill. I notice more when my wife does a lot of cooking. The charger uses far less electricity than the hot water heater, or the stove.
The older leaf I own has a reliable range of 40-50 miles, I'll agree with that. In the dead of winter when it's freezing out and I'm running the defroster and the heater in traffic I probably wouldn't do more than 40 miles. I've had to use the quick charger a couple times when I had to do a lot of driving or if I forgot to charge at night. No more than ten minutes worth of charging on the quick charger, it's usually if I'm getting low, and I never let it get below 20% so that has to be calculated into the actual range. In the summer even with AC on full time I do more like 60 miles before getting to 20%. I don't give a rats buns about watching my power usage so I couldn't tell you what the range is without using AC, or smoking cars off the lights. The car has quite a nice bit of acceleration, and it handles hella solid in the corners because of the low CG. On top of that, my maintenance costs are zero. No oil changes, no transmission, no engine parts to replace. The regenerative braking kicks in to slow the car until you are almost at a dead stop which means the brakes last a hell of a lot longer.
Also worth noting, Nissan has just announced that starting as soon as August newer cars will be equipped with an improved 30kwh battery up from the existing 24kwh battery. It's just newer tech in the same size battery pack giving the car another 30% usable range.
Personally I don't think electric cars are for everyone. At least not yet. But they are getting there. The cost of Lithium Ion batteries have dropped 50% in the last few years and they are expected to get even cheaper and yield much higher energy densities in the future. When you can buy an electric car (that looks like a normal car, gotta say that) that will give you 200+ miles on a single charge for around the same cost of a ICE car people will opt to buy them.
Exactly, in France much like New York you must purchase a Taxi medallion. In NY these are well over 1M dollars each in France they are over 300K Euros. It's a lot of moola, but it's also an investment. If and when you get out of the biz you can sell the medallion to someone else. Uber has just side stepped all regulation making those medallions worthless . It's much like burning someone’s house down. Most of these people will never be able to get back the investment by simply driving a cab. Which means Uber is stripping much of their retirement fund. So ya their pissed.
You don't understand. By putting his name on the bill, he has automatically destined it for doom. There is no way the Republican congress will vote for "any" bill that is endorsed by Barack Obama.
Terrorists are looking for reaction. We can fairly assume that they are going to tune their actions toward public exposure in any case. If reporters did not choose to report on any terrorist actions, they would simply find the next best thing. Perhaps spending more time working terror at the local level or moving toward bigger and more harmful actions in an attempt to gain a response.
While on the one hand you may be exciting evil doers who's actions were taken to prompt this kind of notoriety, you may also be leaving the public blind to potentially dangerous situations they may not otherwise have gotten themselves into. Some may say that IS stopped kidnapping reporters because there has been less publicity about it, but it might also be said that fewer reporters are putting themselves in those situations.
Simple. Oculus is dropping multi platform support. Valve won't do that. People should have choices. If someone wants to be locked into Oculus-windows, that's fine but it definitely isn't they way I and many other people would have things.
Missile intercepts and Gatling guns are loud and and exciting, but a nice quite laser would let them take out these pesky little things. This would actually be a decent static deployment opportunity.
My wife had an office built out in a building in West Seattle that only offered Comcast as an option. There were plenty of small tech companies in the building so we figured it was a no brainer. It took 8 months of calling them over and over before they even sent anyone out to look at it. It took less than an hour to actually hook up. But that was 8 months of her using her phone to connect to the internet. Not only that but more than one sales person actually lied to her about having sent someone, or not having heard from her. It was indignant and awful.
I loved that book, when I was in 5th grade. The movie, the secret of NIMH was good, but not nearly as good as the book. I'd love to see a full 3d remake.
Yes. Tesla is an exotic car maker. They thrill their owners who want nothing less than a very well designed car that is aesthetically satisfying. In the US the $7000 tax incentive can be taken off the bill on purchase. That means the $35,000 Tesla model 3 is actually $28,000, making it less than a BMW S3 before removing the monthly fuel cost.
If you are looking for an "economy" sub compact EV, you will be looking for some time. The energy density of LI batteries simply do not allow for the kind of range most people want in a car that small. You can't fit enough battery in there, even after they get the price of the battery down. Now I know that you are thinking there are plenty of mid sized cars out there that you could purchase for less than $28,000, you'd be right. But they won't be a Tesla.
So doing a little math, I may be corrected by someone, but here goes. $35000 - $7000 tax refund = $28000. 72 months at 3.7% (wife just got that, some people get better) is $434 per month, -$75 per month for gas (most people I know spend $100 or more on gas per month, and that's at current rates). That's $359 per month, after gas savings. That doesn't account for oil changes, or other normal servicing for internal combustion engines, so I'm giving it some leeway.
That, is actually no small feat. Look around at his major competitors, and tell me which ones you think are cutting edge based on the vision of their CEO. Having the ability to gather great minds, and get them to actually work together is an art in itself. He doesn't need to know everything about each individual field but he does have to understand enough to figure out who is on the ball and who isn't. What ideas he should invest in and when to cut his losses.
There are a lot of executives out there that are just bleeding companies dry, and a lot more who know how to administer, but have almost no clear vision of what their company should be in the future.
The Chevy Bolt is should be a 200 mile $30,000 electric car. The price estimated was, after the $7500 tax credit. Elon Musk said yesterday, that the model 3's price tag of $35000 is before the $7500 tax credit. Making the model 3 about $2500 cheaper.
Of course this is all speculative at this point. Chevy's car is only a concept car, and as we could see by looking at the volt concept may have nothing to do with the actual production model. The same can be said about the model 3 which we haven't even seen concept drawings of
At some point the raw materials could be hydrogen atom, at which point you would have to compress them until you get a supernova and then gather the created elements.. "raw materials" I believe is just relative to the product.
Me and my wife just picked up a Nissan Leaf this weekend. I can honestly tell you that I felt like I needed a shower after we left the dealer, after listening to him blab on about how I had been so smart about doing all the research before buying the car. He had no clue what research I had done, and didn't really know enough to answer any questions I would have had, if I had not done the research. \
PS. the car is for my Wife, she drives less than 40 miles a day at most, and was tired of dealing with car maintenance and gas. I simply ran distance measurements across all of her hypothetical travels around the city (Seattle) and came up with a number that would be sufficient almost any day, given that the low range number reported was around 40 miles. She's been doing fine, even using the heater, and having no idea how to properly conserve energy. (she's a technophobe)
I can't afford Solidworks. I keep dreaming of having the money but I can buy a lot of real equipment for that price. So I've used free 2d cad and Blender for printer modeling. Recently I've been using the nightly builds of Freecad. The UI is a freaking mess as you have already mentioned however the functionality is finally breaking the barrier of usability in the upcoming 0.15 release. The bugs that you mention are appearing less and less, and at least the backend is becoming more stable.
I did a single beginner tutorial a couple years ago that has been viewed more than a few times on youtube and am working steadily on a small series that I hope to release prior to or adjacent to the release of the 0.15 final (maybe it will be 0.16 when done?).
Currently my main focus is how to show a usable tutorial to explain hierarchy in FreeCAD, how to create a complex parent/child object, and how to use edges and vertices to create unlinked objects. While maintaining a structure that will be comprehensible enough so that a user can modify it throughout it's creation.
Anyway, don't give up on it just yet. It may take a few years before anyone gets around to fixing the UI, but the basic functions should be there very soon.
SpaceX has yet to lose a production launch vehicle. Odds are it will hit them eventually, but it's price to product. If your competition can't provide a better launch record for non-test vehicles then you've lost the customers confidence. I'd rather pay 134 million per vehicle than 316 million per vehicle if the chance of loss is relative.
the answer to you last question is yes. If weed is legal in Colorado and I drive from there the Washington state (which also has legal weed) with weed in my car, can I be arrested in states where it is not legal?
If local laws have no value then they have no meaning. If you are a paid driver going through a jurisdiction that requires a minimum wage you are circumspect to that law. Otherwise you are unfairly competing with local drivers that are compliant with the law.
The same can be said for international wages. If we set an a legal wage for employees in this country you cannot just arbitrarily add people to the workforce without compensating them appropriately.
To avoid that, we'll let you install video cameras in our home and inject us with transponders
On the up side, at least we won't have to deal with those awful ankle bracelet transponders. It's good to see modern technology used wisely in the enslavement and control of future citizens. Why I remember way, back when in the 80's when governments had to compile huge warehouses full of paper documents in order to keep current dossiers on all it's people. You kids and your technology.. heh..
Kdenlive, is far and away more advanced than Openshot. It has tons more effects, some of which are keyframeable. It has a built in title page creator and allows importing/exporting of almost any format. It's biggest problem is very large projects that seem to overwhelm it and make it slow and unstable. As long as my scenes aren't to long I don't seem to have a problem, even on my 4 year old AMD desktop.
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There are more than a few people who have good reason to believe that we are living in just such an oligarchy already
I love all these "I know someone, who isn't me" posts about something.
I actually am a leaf owner. So I'll let you know from personal experience. I bought mine used for $14,000. It had just over 20,000 miles on it. It wasn't the base model it was fully packed older model with a battery in very good condition. And before you ask, the answer is "no my situation is not uncommon". My brother bought his new, and walked out having paid $22,300. If someone actually paid $32,500 for one they got ripped off.
electricity costs.. $2.50 per what?
Per month for me.. I couldn't tell you, honestly I have never been able to notice any solid increase in my bill. I notice more when my wife does a lot of cooking. The charger uses far less electricity than the hot water heater, or the stove.
The older leaf I own has a reliable range of 40-50 miles, I'll agree with that. In the dead of winter when it's freezing out and I'm running the defroster and the heater in traffic I probably wouldn't do more than 40 miles. I've had to use the quick charger a couple times when I had to do a lot of driving or if I forgot to charge at night. No more than ten minutes worth of charging on the quick charger, it's usually if I'm getting low, and I never let it get below 20% so that has to be calculated into the actual range. In the summer even with AC on full time I do more like 60 miles before getting to 20%. I don't give a rats buns about watching my power usage so I couldn't tell you what the range is without using AC, or smoking cars off the lights. The car has quite a nice bit of acceleration, and it handles hella solid in the corners because of the low CG. On top of that, my maintenance costs are zero. No oil changes, no transmission, no engine parts to replace. The regenerative braking kicks in to slow the car until you are almost at a dead stop which means the brakes last a hell of a lot longer.
Also worth noting, Nissan has just announced that starting as soon as August newer cars will be equipped with an improved 30kwh battery up from the existing 24kwh battery. It's just newer tech in the same size battery pack giving the car another 30% usable range.
Personally I don't think electric cars are for everyone. At least not yet. But they are getting there. The cost of Lithium Ion batteries have dropped 50% in the last few years and they are expected to get even cheaper and yield much higher energy densities in the future. When you can buy an electric car (that looks like a normal car, gotta say that) that will give you 200+ miles on a single charge for around the same cost of a ICE car people will opt to buy them.
Now if it only ran Linux..
Exactly, in France much like New York you must purchase a Taxi medallion. In NY these are well over 1M dollars each in France they are over 300K Euros. It's a lot of moola, but it's also an investment. If and when you get out of the biz you can sell the medallion to someone else. Uber has just side stepped all regulation making those medallions worthless . It's much like burning someone’s house down. Most of these people will never be able to get back the investment by simply driving a cab. Which means Uber is stripping much of their retirement fund. So ya their pissed.
You don't understand. By putting his name on the bill, he has automatically destined it for doom. There is no way the Republican congress will vote for "any" bill that is endorsed by Barack Obama.
Terrorists are looking for reaction. We can fairly assume that they are going to tune their actions toward public exposure in any case. If reporters did not choose to report on any terrorist actions, they would simply find the next best thing. Perhaps spending more time working terror at the local level or moving toward bigger and more harmful actions in an attempt to gain a response.
While on the one hand you may be exciting evil doers who's actions were taken to prompt this kind of notoriety, you may also be leaving the public blind to potentially dangerous situations they may not otherwise have gotten themselves into. Some may say that IS stopped kidnapping reporters because there has been less publicity about it, but it might also be said that fewer reporters are putting themselves in those situations.
Simple. Oculus is dropping multi platform support. Valve won't do that. People should have choices. If someone wants to be locked into Oculus-windows, that's fine but it definitely isn't they way I and many other people would have things.
Missile intercepts and Gatling guns are loud and and exciting, but a nice quite laser would let them take out these pesky little things. This would actually be a decent static deployment opportunity.
The bill was championed by senate president Bill Cole (R).. duchebaggery is generally bipartisan.
My wife had an office built out in a building in West Seattle that only offered Comcast as an option. There were plenty of small tech companies in the building so we figured it was a no brainer. It took 8 months of calling them over and over before they even sent anyone out to look at it. It took less than an hour to actually hook up. But that was 8 months of her using her phone to connect to the internet. Not only that but more than one sales person actually lied to her about having sent someone, or not having heard from her. It was indignant and awful.
The first time I saw minecraft, my first thought was "oh, he's just ripping the Cube2 engine and making a game out of it". I still kind of think that.
I loved that book, when I was in 5th grade. The movie, the secret of NIMH was good, but not nearly as good as the book. I'd love to see a full 3d remake.
How can you say that Linus is wrong, if you haven't worked on the Linux Kernel?
That is what the statement was about "Linux kernel developers get hired".
Yes. Tesla is an exotic car maker. They thrill their owners who want nothing less than a very well designed car that is aesthetically satisfying. In the US the $7000 tax incentive can be taken off the bill on purchase. That means the $35,000 Tesla model 3 is actually $28,000, making it less than a BMW S3 before removing the monthly fuel cost.
If you are looking for an "economy" sub compact EV, you will be looking for some time. The energy density of LI batteries simply do not allow for the kind of range most people want in a car that small. You can't fit enough battery in there, even after they get the price of the battery down. Now I know that you are thinking there are plenty of mid sized cars out there that you could purchase for less than $28,000, you'd be right. But they won't be a Tesla.
So doing a little math, I may be corrected by someone, but here goes. $35000 - $7000 tax refund = $28000. 72 months at 3.7% (wife just got that, some people get better) is $434 per month, -$75 per month for gas (most people I know spend $100 or more on gas per month, and that's at current rates). That's $359 per month, after gas savings. That doesn't account for oil changes, or other normal servicing for internal combustion engines, so I'm giving it some leeway.
That, is actually no small feat. Look around at his major competitors, and tell me which ones you think are cutting edge based on the vision of their CEO. Having the ability to gather great minds, and get them to actually work together is an art in itself. He doesn't need to know everything about each individual field but he does have to understand enough to figure out who is on the ball and who isn't. What ideas he should invest in and when to cut his losses.
There are a lot of executives out there that are just bleeding companies dry, and a lot more who know how to administer, but have almost no clear vision of what their company should be in the future.
The Chevy Bolt is should be a 200 mile $30,000 electric car. The price estimated was, after the $7500 tax credit. Elon Musk said yesterday, that the model 3's price tag of $35000 is before the $7500 tax credit. Making the model 3 about $2500 cheaper.
Of course this is all speculative at this point. Chevy's car is only a concept car, and as we could see by looking at the volt concept may have nothing to do with the actual production model. The same can be said about the model 3 which we haven't even seen concept drawings of
At some point the raw materials could be hydrogen atom, at which point you would have to compress them until you get a supernova and then gather the created elements.. "raw materials" I believe is just relative to the product.
Bravo, sir.. Bravo.. (light hand clapping).. couldn't have responded better myself.
Me and my wife just picked up a Nissan Leaf this weekend. I can honestly tell you that I felt like I needed a shower after we left the dealer, after listening to him blab on about how I had been so smart about doing all the research before buying the car. He had no clue what research I had done, and didn't really know enough to answer any questions I would have had, if I had not done the research. \
PS. the car is for my Wife, she drives less than 40 miles a day at most, and was tired of dealing with car maintenance and gas. I simply ran distance measurements across all of her hypothetical travels around the city (Seattle) and came up with a number that would be sufficient almost any day, given that the low range number reported was around 40 miles. She's been doing fine, even using the heater, and having no idea how to properly conserve energy. (she's a technophobe)
I can't afford Solidworks. I keep dreaming of having the money but I can buy a lot of real equipment for that price. So I've used free 2d cad and Blender for printer modeling. Recently I've been using the nightly builds of Freecad. The UI is a freaking mess as you have already mentioned however the functionality is finally breaking the barrier of usability in the upcoming 0.15 release. The bugs that you mention are appearing less and less, and at least the backend is becoming more stable.
I did a single beginner tutorial a couple years ago that has been viewed more than a few times on youtube and am working steadily on a small series that I hope to release prior to or adjacent to the release of the 0.15 final (maybe it will be 0.16 when done?).
Currently my main focus is how to show a usable tutorial to explain hierarchy in FreeCAD, how to create a complex parent/child object, and how to use edges and vertices to create unlinked objects. While maintaining a structure that will be comprehensible enough so that a user can modify it throughout it's creation.
Anyway, don't give up on it just yet. It may take a few years before anyone gets around to fixing the UI, but the basic functions should be there very soon.
SpaceX has yet to lose a production launch vehicle. Odds are it will hit them eventually, but it's price to product. If your competition can't provide a better launch record for non-test vehicles then you've lost the customers confidence. I'd rather pay 134 million per vehicle than 316 million per vehicle if the chance of loss is relative.
the answer to you last question is yes. If weed is legal in Colorado and I drive from there the Washington state (which also has legal weed) with weed in my car, can I be arrested in states where it is not legal?
If local laws have no value then they have no meaning. If you are a paid driver going through a jurisdiction that requires a minimum wage you are circumspect to that law. Otherwise you are unfairly competing with local drivers that are compliant with the law.
The same can be said for international wages. If we set an a legal wage for employees in this country you cannot just arbitrarily add people to the workforce without compensating them appropriately.
To avoid that, we'll let you install video cameras in our home and inject us with transponders
On the up side, at least we won't have to deal with those awful ankle bracelet transponders. It's good to see modern technology used wisely in the enslavement and control of future citizens. Why I remember way, back when in the 80's when governments had to compile huge warehouses full of paper documents in order to keep current dossiers on all it's people. You kids and your technology.. heh..
So far, it still doesn't have everything that kdenlive has even after the work I don't see what's better about it?
Kdenlive, is far and away more advanced than Openshot. It has tons more effects, some of which are keyframeable. It has a built in title page creator and allows importing/exporting of almost any format. It's biggest problem is very large projects that seem to overwhelm it and make it slow and unstable. As long as my scenes aren't to long I don't seem to have a problem, even on my 4 year old AMD desktop.