Most people don't need the CO alarm, it's for people who regularly heat by burning stuff in their homes: cabins, propane heaters in trailers, not exactly the Nest clientele. It can also be useful in the garage--if you are terminally stupid and drive a 70's car.
While I largely agree with your review, even your 2013 Honda will produce enough carbon monoxide to kill you. It does produce *less* of it though, so be sure you bring along some reading material if you're trying to off yourself in the garage.
I'm right there with you. Cooking may in fact produce smoke. In an ideal world that smoke would all exit the home via an exhaust fan driven range hood while I get a handjob from Rachael Ray
...however back in reality I have to pull the batteries out of the smoke detector in the hall if my kids want some god dammed french fries.
Yes... even with OSS "you can just upgrade it yourself!"... which assumes the average user has the knowhow, skill & a vehicle that is so easily upgraded.
And I shall make a not particularly unlikely prediction that behind this open source platform will be closed source driver libraries, just like there are for Android. Therefore you can't necessarily "just upgrade it yourself".
What we as consumers want and what auto makers want are two different things. We want to upgrade the car we have because there's no good reason to buy a new one because it has 2 extra cupholders and GPS maps that aren't 7 years out of date. Automakers are using planned obsolescence to invent that reason.
FULL DISCLOSURE: None my cars actually have cupholders or GPS....and yet somehow I continue to get by.
Have you heard about their latest data center in Ohio? It apparently regularly shorts out in spectacular fashion shooting bolts of lightning between racks of equipment, killing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment everytime. There's a king sized pissing contest going on as to what the cause is
And I for one blame the disgruntled spirit of Nikola Tesla.
Yes because in real life cops totally give up chasing you after 4 blocks. I mean, it's not like you killed a policema...oh right that's exactly what you did.
Yes, and it hasn't changed substantially. Cable is just as fast as it ever was (*) and DSL is just as slow as it ever was.
(*) except in areas where it competes with FiOS, in which case the cable company is magically able to provide additional bandwidth. Funny how that works.
Also, think about how good your eyes have to be in order to see the differences between 1080p and 4k at common TV sizes (i.e. less than 50")
"I think you should be allowed to own a Humvee - I just think that when you go to buy it you should be hit on the back of the neck with a roll of quarters in a sock. You would wake up in Iraq with a gun, and they're like, 'Oh yeah, you can drive it. You just have to get the gas yourself.'"
(I think America needs to build more refineries but does not thanks to NIMBYs)
I'm sorry, but that's totally not the reason we haven't built refineries. There has been exactly one request for a new (production sized) refinery in the US since the early 1980's and it was approved.
Building refineries is expensive. It's generally cheaper to expand existing facilities...or not, because then you can game the market by shutting down refineries and laughing maniacally when gas prices shoot up. This is what happens when you have two or three players controlling the entire US refining market. Ideally this would prompt additional players to enter the market, but the barriers to entry are quite high in this case.
The problem isn't that Apple refuses to update old iPhones, the problem is that they will update old iPhones and cause them not to work very well due to inferior/missing hardware.
In contrast, the 2011 Android phone isn't updated when a new device comes out, and... it continues to work exactly the way it did before the update.
And the standard response to the "reboot" that happened in the great depression is that the New Deal didn't actually fix the problem.
And neither did whatever it is we did after the "Great Recession". What they did (in the first case) was socialize gains and privatize losses, where as in the second case we've privatized gains and socialized losses. Whether it ultimately 'fixed' the economy or not, it certainly redistributed wealth in a far more equitable way than we're seeing today.
And, you've got two solutions that are at odds. Russia's solution was to move from a central economy to a free market. The New Deal was moving away from the free market and more towards a central economy. (Where the government puts you to work).
So... you know.... pick one.
Why choose? Western Europe certainly didn't. They're not free market democracies (and neither are the USA or Russia, it's an abstract term we throw around), but they also don't employ everyone in state run vodka factories. There is a middle ground where people have a reasonable safety net and yet everything isn't owned by the government...and that's a good thing.
Don't get me wrong, I detest this corporocracy as much as you, but well, I'm howling at your proposed solution. But please, cite some examples of a "re-boot" that happened in an orderly fashion. Please explain how you'd want it to go down.
There are not ideal examples, but I'm going to go with the United States, Iceland and Russia.
During the "Great Depression" existing loan obligations were written down to fair market value to keep the middle class from becoming homeless, a minimum wage bill was passed, and the SEC was created to help regulate the banks. This is of course, substantially different than what unfolded during the "Great Recession".
Both Iceland and Russia faced staggering debt obligations. In both cases they defaulted on them. In both cases other countries (temporarily) stopped lending them money, leading to short term pain, but also reform since A. they could no longer spend money they didn't have and B. since imported goods became much more expensive, local manufacturing flourished. Fast forward a few years and you see thriving economies.
Meanwhile, you have the countries with staggering debt that couldn't default, and they're pretty well screwed in perpetuity since the country sided with the banks even though they have a snowballs chance in hell of paying back the principal no matter how many 'austerity' measures they pass.
No, Apple already has that part down to a science.
Step #1
Hype new iPhone Step #2
Release new iPhone Step #3
Immediately release new iOS update. Step #4
Watch existing iPhone users complain after the iOS update cripples older models. Step #5
Laugh maniacally after existing iPhone users stand in lines waiting for new uncrippled iPhones. Step #6
PROFIT
Shure, UE and Westone (the major brands in this space) all offer models with replaceable cables. If you bought expensive IEMs and they didn't, well next time shop a little more carefully.
Really? I thought more plankton equals more fish and whales. Unfortunately since we've decimated fish stocks worldwide, more plankton equals more jellyfish. Many fish are happy enough in warmer seas, it's the giant nets strewn everywhere that they have a problem with.
Is it? You're allowing the CPU to clock to a higher Mhz rating than it does by default. That is overclocking in a nutshell. Whether it happens in software (your example), firmware (ex. pretty much any MSI/ABIT board ever) or hardware (ex. any recent Intel chip) it's all essentially the same thing.
This is of course, nothing new to CyanogenMod users since they've had this capability (and many more) pretty much forever.
If you pony up for the shiny earbuds (aka "IEMs") the cord is usually replaceable. For those in the $10-$20 earbud crowd, sorry but you are out of luck.
And I for one welcome these strange new Kinko's locations with industrial three phase power and 3,000lb metal laser sintering printers.
I'm sure there will be consumers lining up at the doors, Solidworks 3D models in hand...ignoring the long print times and that your average consumer has never even heard of CAD before.
That's right, and it drove all the Saturn dealers out of business! My point exactly!
Yes, because heaven forbid that dealers sell cars for something like actual MSRP without a 45 minute song and dance involving options, extended warranties and the alleged mood of the salesperson's immediate supervisor.
If dealers can't survive on that model, they were perfectly free to sell something other than Saturns.
So you're arguing that cows take up vastly more land per lb of protein produced vs roaches? I concur. I've never once seen hundreds of cows infesting section 8 housing.
As opposed to the YLOD fiasco at Sony? From what I understand both failures are (at least in part) related to the EU mandate for lead-free solder, because heaven forbid that little Timmy gets sick after eating a few circuit boards.
C) Being nearby when there is an accident. A nearby traffic cop is a first-responder for a traffic accident, and that job saves lives. They also do care-and-comfort during and after accidents. You look in any highway patrolman's trunk, and you'll find a teddy bear to be given to the little kid that survived a traffic accident (whose parent maybe didn't).
You look into any highway patrolman's first aid kit and you'll see a factory seal. Sure they'll call the dispatcher who then sends fire or ambulance staff and throw out some road flares, but that's the extend of their mandate for 'saving lives'.
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While I largely agree with your review, even your 2013 Honda will produce enough carbon monoxide to kill you. It does produce *less* of it though, so be sure you bring along some reading material if you're trying to off yourself in the garage.
I'm right there with you. Cooking may in fact produce smoke. In an ideal world that smoke would all exit the home via an exhaust fan driven range hood while I get a handjob from Rachael Ray
...however back in reality I have to pull the batteries out of the smoke detector in the hall if my kids want some god dammed french fries.
And I shall make a not particularly unlikely prediction that behind this open source platform will be closed source driver libraries, just like there are for Android. Therefore you can't necessarily "just upgrade it yourself".
What we as consumers want and what auto makers want are two different things. We want to upgrade the car we have because there's no good reason to buy a new one because it has 2 extra cupholders and GPS maps that aren't 7 years out of date. Automakers are using planned obsolescence to invent that reason.
FULL DISCLOSURE: None my cars actually have cupholders or GPS....and yet somehow I continue to get by.
And I for one blame the disgruntled spirit of Nikola Tesla.
Yes because in real life cops totally give up chasing you after 4 blocks. I mean, it's not like you killed a policema...oh right that's exactly what you did.
Yes, and it hasn't changed substantially. Cable is just as fast as it ever was (*) and DSL is just as slow as it ever was.
(*) except in areas where it competes with FiOS, in which case the cable company is magically able to provide additional bandwidth. Funny how that works.
Also, think about how good your eyes have to be in order to see the differences between 1080p and 4k at common TV sizes (i.e. less than 50")
"I think you should be allowed to own a Humvee - I just think that when you go to buy it you should be hit on the back of the neck with a roll of quarters in a sock. You would wake up in Iraq with a gun, and they're like, 'Oh yeah, you can drive it. You just have to get the gas yourself.'"
- Patton Oswalt
I'm sorry, but that's totally not the reason we haven't built refineries. There has been exactly one request for a new (production sized) refinery in the US since the early 1980's and it was approved.
Building refineries is expensive. It's generally cheaper to expand existing facilities...or not, because then you can game the market by shutting down refineries and laughing maniacally when gas prices shoot up. This is what happens when you have two or three players controlling the entire US refining market. Ideally this would prompt additional players to enter the market, but the barriers to entry are quite high in this case.
...at what point do we either start bombing ourselves to set up a puppet government and/or get gas prices under $4?
The problem isn't that Apple refuses to update old iPhones, the problem is that they will update old iPhones and cause them not to work very well due to inferior/missing hardware.
In contrast, the 2011 Android phone isn't updated when a new device comes out, and... it continues to work exactly the way it did before the update.
And neither did whatever it is we did after the "Great Recession". What they did (in the first case) was socialize gains and privatize losses, where as in the second case we've privatized gains and socialized losses. Whether it ultimately 'fixed' the economy or not, it certainly redistributed wealth in a far more equitable way than we're seeing today.
Why choose? Western Europe certainly didn't. They're not free market democracies (and neither are the USA or Russia, it's an abstract term we throw around), but they also don't employ everyone in state run vodka factories. There is a middle ground where people have a reasonable safety net and yet everything isn't owned by the government...and that's a good thing.
There are not ideal examples, but I'm going to go with the United States, Iceland and Russia.
During the "Great Depression" existing loan obligations were written down to fair market value to keep the middle class from becoming homeless, a minimum wage bill was passed, and the SEC was created to help regulate the banks. This is of course, substantially different than what unfolded during the "Great Recession".
Both Iceland and Russia faced staggering debt obligations. In both cases they defaulted on them. In both cases other countries (temporarily) stopped lending them money, leading to short term pain, but also reform since A. they could no longer spend money they didn't have and B. since imported goods became much more expensive, local manufacturing flourished. Fast forward a few years and you see thriving economies.
Meanwhile, you have the countries with staggering debt that couldn't default, and they're pretty well screwed in perpetuity since the country sided with the banks even though they have a snowballs chance in hell of paying back the principal no matter how many 'austerity' measures they pass.
No, Apple already has that part down to a science.
Step #1
Hype new iPhone
Step #2
Release new iPhone
Step #3
Immediately release new iOS update.
Step #4
Watch existing iPhone users complain after the iOS update cripples older models.
Step #5
Laugh maniacally after existing iPhone users stand in lines waiting for new uncrippled iPhones.
Step #6
PROFIT
Oh AC?
Shure, UE and Westone (the major brands in this space) all offer models with replaceable cables. If you bought expensive IEMs and they didn't, well next time shop a little more carefully.
Really? I thought more plankton equals more fish and whales. Unfortunately since we've decimated fish stocks worldwide, more plankton equals more jellyfish. Many fish are happy enough in warmer seas, it's the giant nets strewn everywhere that they have a problem with.
Is it? You're allowing the CPU to clock to a higher Mhz rating than it does by default. That is overclocking in a nutshell. Whether it happens in software (your example), firmware (ex. pretty much any MSI/ABIT board ever) or hardware (ex. any recent Intel chip) it's all essentially the same thing.
This is of course, nothing new to CyanogenMod users since they've had this capability (and many more) pretty much forever.
If you pony up for the shiny earbuds (aka "IEMs") the cord is usually replaceable. For those in the $10-$20 earbud crowd, sorry but you are out of luck.
And I for one welcome these strange new Kinko's locations with industrial three phase power and 3,000lb metal laser sintering printers.
I'm sure there will be consumers lining up at the doors, Solidworks 3D models in hand...ignoring the long print times and that your average consumer has never even heard of CAD before.
or you could you know, read the actual article which ignores metric or imperial measurements and just gives percentages...
âoeAbout 2 percent of the soil on the surface of Mars is made up of water, which is a great resource, and interesting scientifically.â
Yes, because heaven forbid that dealers sell cars for something like actual MSRP without a 45 minute song and dance involving options, extended warranties and the alleged mood of the salesperson's immediate supervisor.
If dealers can't survive on that model, they were perfectly free to sell something other than Saturns.
So you're arguing that cows take up vastly more land per lb of protein produced vs roaches? I concur. I've never once seen hundreds of cows infesting section 8 housing.
That rather depends on whether you believe these are going to be used as 'target drones' or drones that take out 'targets'.
We literally have thousands of F-15 and F-16's either in mothballs now or scheduled to be decommissioned in the near future.
Unlikely at best...now a Blade Runner-esque Dystopia, that seems quite likely given who's actually in charge these days.
As opposed to the YLOD fiasco at Sony? From what I understand both failures are (at least in part) related to the EU mandate for lead-free solder, because heaven forbid that little Timmy gets sick after eating a few circuit boards.
You look into any highway patrolman's first aid kit and you'll see a factory seal. Sure they'll call the dispatcher who then sends fire or ambulance staff and throw out some road flares, but that's the extend of their mandate for 'saving lives'.