Speed is not just about downloading more. It is also about downloading stuff quicker, believe it or not. Even if I wouldn't go anywhere near the cap, I would love that speed if I needed to download a movie or two onto my iPad to take on a long journey, because I might not think about it until it's rather late. If I can do that in 10 minutes, then grand.
And ISP have a clue, believe it or not. They know that only about 0.5% or less of their customers regularly go over the cap, and very few actually find the caps to be a problem. If they could just not take that bothersome 0.5% as customers, they would probably be better off. Here in the UK, I just signed up for a broadband deal that has a 60GB cap, but allows me unlimited downloads that don't count towards my cap between midnight and 8am. That seems a reasonable compromise to me. Downloads as much as you want but don't affect other customers who have lower needs, but who still want to watch Youtube videos in HD.
I don't know about you, but I think Wikileaks is a really bad idea. I think all communications that are meant to be private should be protected by privacy laws, even if they are in the course of the conduct of government business. Society just wouldn't work if we expected people to be broadcast on everything they say. If people really don't want any government secrecy, then vote for someone who promises to stop all secrecy. But we shouldn't be held hostage by an idealist minority who demand and end to secrecy. Secrecy is useful. An imperfect solution in an imperfect world.
Julian Assange needs to respect our democracy. As for Rupert Murdoch, I think he should be taken for everything he has.
In Switzerland I think it is, fines for road offences are based on the nature of the offence and the means of the offender. So you can have fines reaching the millions of dollars (or swiss franc). I think this is a good concept. Punishment for the rich should reflect their riches. So Murdoch, in this case, should lose more, otherwise the rich buy a 'right' to intrude on our privacy for a pitiful sum.
Am not disagreeing (or agreeing either). But by some counts, some of the world's largest mega engineering projects in history are going on today. The fact that they may be by communist party dictat is not the point I am trying to make. Just saying that if they do not seem visible, it may just be because they are not happening in your back yard anymore.
I didn't say Japanese electronics companies were the best. You are making things up. I said Japan makes the _most_ electronics good of any country and are leaders in that respect. The whole best thing is 1) subjective and 2) a strawman. And they are still incredibly innovative, and certainly dominant in some markets. (Game consoles and Digital Cameras).
What emotional investment are you talking about. I am stating facts. Japan is still the largest manufacturer of consumer electronic goods in the world. That is a cold hard fact. Of course Samsung scares the Japanese. In fact, Samsung is the single largest electronics manufacturer in the world. That is also a fact. Nokia is the world's largest mobile manufacturer. The fact that it made less profit than Apple, HTC and Samsung doesn't change that. Unless you now believe that Apple is now the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world!
Japan is still the world's largest electronics manufacturer. Samsung is bad news for Sony, Panasonic, Canon, Sharp, JVC, NEC, Toshiba, LG (a fellow Korean company), Pentax, Nikon, Nintendo, etc.
Um, no. Mega engineering projects still go on today. Just not in the developed world. Too expensive. The Chinese built a fricking large airport at a fraction of the cost of London Heathrow Terminal 5. Mega projects have little pay-off in the developed world nowadays. But in the developing world, they are doing even bigger things. 3 gorges dam, bloody large building in Dubai, high speed rail in China etc.
Yup, that's the idea. Become a terrorist. And quick before politicians have drawn up some anti-terrorism legislation they could use against you. They might even choose a serious sounding name for that act. Something like a PATRIOT Act, you know, 'cause who wants to defend someone who is not a patriot?
No they are not. Japan is still the largest consumer electronics manufacturing country in the world. Japan is bigger than Sony. Japan has Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, NEC, JVC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Canon, Pentax, Nikon, Sanyo and others.
You also have to remember that the Korean companies are conglomerates, and their activity include things like shipbuilding, chemicals and even clothing. That is not to say that the Korean haven't been competing harder. They have.
Yeah. The Pixar guys were really cowed and faceless. People have this idea of Jobs, the CEO being one person, the Apple CEO. But he was also Pixar CEO, and they seemed to do OK. Maybe, he is just a really clever guy who knows how to organise a business to make money. Compare his computer company (I use the term loosely, Apple ceased being that a long time ago) to other computer companies (Dell, HP, Compaq (now HP obviously), Gateway etc). His is the most successful, running on a completely different strategy, making it work. He also ran Pixar, right up until he sold it and they didn't make a single flop movie. Who says he wouldn't have been able to run Google. He proved himself in 2 completely different industries already.
What most people need, is a phone that they can buy, and they can do stuff with. Most people want to tinker with and mod their phones as much as they want to tinker with and mod their cars, which is to say they don't want to tinker.
No it won't. It will be the company that sold the damn car. They would then have to recover their costs from any other supplier. So them creating a subsidiary in the Bahamas that is poorly capitalised won't work. Put it this way. Companies buy insurance against events such as the Ford Explorer debacle. If their insurer goes bust, they can't refuse to pay on the basis that they transferred liability to an insurer.
People love externalising costs. 19 men died this year in a coal mine explosion in New Zealand this year. More have died in other coal mine explosions. It's almost like they have been completely forgotten about. Possibly because it wouldn't have been you, or me, or anyone else.
There are ways of making nuclear safe which are well known and are already being implemented on the latest generation of nuclear plants. There are alos ways of dealing with nuclear waste if countries would agree to deal with it (oceanic disposal, outlawed in deep sea beds in international waters, precisely the place where they would have minimum environmental impact).
I would say people are just completely irrational. Humans could have progressed much further if we didn't let our irrationality take over.
Nothing to do with how engines work. More to do with physics, like how energy lost due to friction/drag etc increases with speed, how much energy is wasted in hard braking and hard acceleration. Given that the car is range constrained already, it is not a stretch that it would do even less well with spirited driving.
By the way, here is Tesla's own plot of range vs speed.
Case sensitivity in the file system is a pet peeve of mine. What are the usage scenarios that demand a case sensitive file system. I can't think of any situation I would be where I would think, It's really good that I can call this file README.txt because I have already got a file called Readme.txt in the same folder! I am on Mac OS X's side on that one.
It's called reductio ad absurdum. I am taking your argument to the logical extreme. If you stop trying to restrict file sharing, or enforce copyrights, then you might as well abolish copyrights. The amount of illegal filesharing going on is a red herring. What I was trying to show is that in the extreme, non-enforcement can lead to individuals ceasing investment in art. And you really shouldn't advocate that laws should change to suit your one use case. Your use case is not affected by strengthening enforcement, but you shouldn't expect others to be forced into your way of doing business.
For example, last year there were more books published, and more ebooks published, than ever before in the history of mankind.
So tell us, vakuona, if a decade of prolific filesharing has not reduced the amount of creative work available for our enjoyment, why do you continue to assume that it will? And how long will it take? Two decades? Fifty years? A century? And what data do you have to support your assertion that it will ever reduce the amount of creative work?
Copyright laws are still being vigorously enforced, not completely successfully, but still nonetheless. If copyright was completely abolished, then Warner Brothers would simply not spend $180m making and marketing Inception, because as soon as they released it, competitors would copy it and sell it legally to the public at a price that reflected their costs, which don't include making the damn film. Now, maybe you like the kind of stuff you find on obscure websites like Jamendo, but the majority of the public do like their big budget blockbusters and their pop entertainment, and are willing to pay for it. The majority of the public would also pay the going rate if it was legal to copy, so they would miss out on these works (whether you like them or not) if copyright was abolished because they simply wouldn't be made. The reason copyright came about in the first place was because it became easier to copy. I am sure these arguments were had in the day too. It is very disingenuous to claim that what we really need is to abolish copyright because copying has become too easy. If anything, that is an argument for strengthening copyright, rather than weakening it. The music and movie industry does need to get with the program and create ways for people to enjoy works without needing to resort to illegal acts, but that is not supposed to be an excuse for anyone to just infringe on their copyrights.
might lead them to reduce the amount of works they create for our enjoyment.
I'm pretty sure artists were creating works "for our enjoyment" before the existence of copyright.
What evidence do you have that they will suddenly stop because of filesharing. There has been digital filesharing for some years now. Do you think that has reduced the number of works artists have created "for our enjoyment"? In fact, the amount of music released, books published and movies made has exploded.
I think your "might lead them to reduce the amount of works they create for our enjoyment" would become a rather hard opinion to which to cling at some point.
Maybe it's time to let that old chestnut go by the wayside, what do you say?
Yes they did, when patrons paid for it. Do you really want to live in a world where most of the art that is created is driven by the tastes of the wealthy and privileged?
OK, here is another example. Every year, thousands of people die in pretty much every country due to road traffic accidents. In fact, each day, more people die on the roads than have ever died due to nuclear plant mishaps. But no one is screaming at the top of their lungs that cars are doomsday devices.
A 40 year old nuclear plant is having issues. after Japan's greatest ever recorded earthquake and tsunami. No shit Sherlock!
Would you really want to be the President who left his warship close to a nuclear incident and have to explain that to a hostile congress, even if nothing came of it. People don't understand nuclear power. They aren't going to understand that the ship was very safe, therefore it is political madness to leave it there.
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Speed is not just about downloading more. It is also about downloading stuff quicker, believe it or not. Even if I wouldn't go anywhere near the cap, I would love that speed if I needed to download a movie or two onto my iPad to take on a long journey, because I might not think about it until it's rather late. If I can do that in 10 minutes, then grand.
And ISP have a clue, believe it or not. They know that only about 0.5% or less of their customers regularly go over the cap, and very few actually find the caps to be a problem. If they could just not take that bothersome 0.5% as customers, they would probably be better off. Here in the UK, I just signed up for a broadband deal that has a 60GB cap, but allows me unlimited downloads that don't count towards my cap between midnight and 8am. That seems a reasonable compromise to me. Downloads as much as you want but don't affect other customers who have lower needs, but who still want to watch Youtube videos in HD.
I don't know about you, but I think Wikileaks is a really bad idea. I think all communications that are meant to be private should be protected by privacy laws, even if they are in the course of the conduct of government business. Society just wouldn't work if we expected people to be broadcast on everything they say. If people really don't want any government secrecy, then vote for someone who promises to stop all secrecy. But we shouldn't be held hostage by an idealist minority who demand and end to secrecy. Secrecy is useful. An imperfect solution in an imperfect world.
Julian Assange needs to respect our democracy. As for Rupert Murdoch, I think he should be taken for everything he has.
In Switzerland I think it is, fines for road offences are based on the nature of the offence and the means of the offender. So you can have fines reaching the millions of dollars (or swiss franc). I think this is a good concept. Punishment for the rich should reflect their riches. So Murdoch, in this case, should lose more, otherwise the rich buy a 'right' to intrude on our privacy for a pitiful sum.
Am not disagreeing (or agreeing either). But by some counts, some of the world's largest mega engineering projects in history are going on today. The fact that they may be by communist party dictat is not the point I am trying to make. Just saying that if they do not seem visible, it may just be because they are not happening in your back yard anymore.
I didn't say Japanese electronics companies were the best. You are making things up. I said Japan makes the _most_ electronics good of any country and are leaders in that respect. The whole best thing is 1) subjective and 2) a strawman. And they are still incredibly innovative, and certainly dominant in some markets. (Game consoles and Digital Cameras).
What emotional investment are you talking about. I am stating facts. Japan is still the largest manufacturer of consumer electronic goods in the world. That is a cold hard fact. Of course Samsung scares the Japanese. In fact, Samsung is the single largest electronics manufacturer in the world. That is also a fact. Nokia is the world's largest mobile manufacturer. The fact that it made less profit than Apple, HTC and Samsung doesn't change that. Unless you now believe that Apple is now the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world!
Japan is still the world's largest electronics manufacturer. Samsung is bad news for Sony, Panasonic, Canon, Sharp, JVC, NEC, Toshiba, LG (a fellow Korean company), Pentax, Nikon, Nintendo, etc.
Um, no. Mega engineering projects still go on today. Just not in the developed world. Too expensive. The Chinese built a fricking large airport at a fraction of the cost of London Heathrow Terminal 5. Mega projects have little pay-off in the developed world nowadays. But in the developing world, they are doing even bigger things. 3 gorges dam, bloody large building in Dubai, high speed rail in China etc.
Profits ebb and flow. But by most measures, Japan still leads the world in electronics.
Yup, that's the idea. Become a terrorist. And quick before politicians have drawn up some anti-terrorism legislation they could use against you. They might even choose a serious sounding name for that act. Something like a PATRIOT Act, you know, 'cause who wants to defend someone who is not a patriot?
And this proves what exactly?
No they are not. Japan is still the largest consumer electronics manufacturing country in the world. Japan is bigger than Sony. Japan has Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, NEC, JVC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Canon, Pentax, Nikon, Sanyo and others.
You also have to remember that the Korean companies are conglomerates, and their activity include things like shipbuilding, chemicals and even clothing. That is not to say that the Korean haven't been competing harder. They have.
Yeah. The Pixar guys were really cowed and faceless. People have this idea of Jobs, the CEO being one person, the Apple CEO. But he was also Pixar CEO, and they seemed to do OK. Maybe, he is just a really clever guy who knows how to organise a business to make money. Compare his computer company (I use the term loosely, Apple ceased being that a long time ago) to other computer companies (Dell, HP, Compaq (now HP obviously), Gateway etc). His is the most successful, running on a completely different strategy, making it work. He also ran Pixar, right up until he sold it and they didn't make a single flop movie. Who says he wouldn't have been able to run Google. He proved himself in 2 completely different industries already.
Lies, damn lies and statistics.
Keep dreaming!
What most people need, is a phone that they can buy, and they can do stuff with. Most people want to tinker with and mod their phones as much as they want to tinker with and mod their cars, which is to say they don't want to tinker.
Sex sells, right?
So how to use sex to promote driverless cars?
One good thing driverless cars could be good for...sex on the motorway!
No it won't. It will be the company that sold the damn car. They would then have to recover their costs from any other supplier. So them creating a subsidiary in the Bahamas that is poorly capitalised won't work. Put it this way. Companies buy insurance against events such as the Ford Explorer debacle. If their insurer goes bust, they can't refuse to pay on the basis that they transferred liability to an insurer.
People love externalising costs. 19 men died this year in a coal mine explosion in New Zealand this year. More have died in other coal mine explosions. It's almost like they have been completely forgotten about. Possibly because it wouldn't have been you, or me, or anyone else.
There are ways of making nuclear safe which are well known and are already being implemented on the latest generation of nuclear plants. There are alos ways of dealing with nuclear waste if countries would agree to deal with it (oceanic disposal, outlawed in deep sea beds in international waters, precisely the place where they would have minimum environmental impact).
I would say people are just completely irrational. Humans could have progressed much further if we didn't let our irrationality take over.
Nothing to do with how engines work. More to do with physics, like how energy lost due to friction/drag etc increases with speed, how much energy is wasted in hard braking and hard acceleration. Given that the car is range constrained already, it is not a stretch that it would do even less well with spirited driving.
By the way, here is Tesla's own plot of range vs speed.
http://webarchive.teslamotors.com/display_data.php?data_name=range_blog5
Yeah, it's normal for cars to just stop like that. Just have to wait for them to cool!
Case sensitivity in the file system is a pet peeve of mine. What are the usage scenarios that demand a case sensitive file system. I can't think of any situation I would be where I would think, It's really good that I can call this file README.txt because I have already got a file called Readme.txt in the same folder! I am on Mac OS X's side on that one.
It's called reductio ad absurdum. I am taking your argument to the logical extreme. If you stop trying to restrict file sharing, or enforce copyrights, then you might as well abolish copyrights. The amount of illegal filesharing going on is a red herring. What I was trying to show is that in the extreme, non-enforcement can lead to individuals ceasing investment in art. And you really shouldn't advocate that laws should change to suit your one use case. Your use case is not affected by strengthening enforcement, but you shouldn't expect others to be forced into your way of doing business.
I'm pretty sure artists were creating works "for our enjoyment" before the existence of copyright.
What evidence do you have that they will suddenly stop because of filesharing. There has been digital filesharing for some years now. Do you think that has reduced the number of works artists have created "for our enjoyment"? In fact, the amount of music released, books published and movies made has exploded.
I think your "might lead them to reduce the amount of works they create for our enjoyment" would become a rather hard opinion to which to cling at some point.
Maybe it's time to let that old chestnut go by the wayside, what do you say?
Yes they did, when patrons paid for it. Do you really want to live in a world where most of the art that is created is driven by the tastes of the wealthy and privileged?
OK, here is another example. Every year, thousands of people die in pretty much every country due to road traffic accidents. In fact, each day, more people die on the roads than have ever died due to nuclear plant mishaps. But no one is screaming at the top of their lungs that cars are doomsday devices. A 40 year old nuclear plant is having issues. after Japan's greatest ever recorded earthquake and tsunami. No shit Sherlock!
Would you really want to be the President who left his warship close to a nuclear incident and have to explain that to a hostile congress, even if nothing came of it. People don't understand nuclear power. They aren't going to understand that the ship was very safe, therefore it is political madness to leave it there.
And crucially, none of them are called iPod. That is a huge downside! No one will sell music you can't play on the iPod. At least no one significant.