Market share, not economic growth. Even if there is economic decline (netflix eroding cable subs), the screws get tightened when market share is high.
i.e. Once market share reaches the point that consumer choice is crushed, the company can behave abusively (aka 'fully monetize the customer') - as seen in cable TV where you've got 1 provider.
Mashing words together is a trend that started with the beginning of language. English likes to bash with foreign words, 'tele' for distance being a favorite - thus vision/scope/graph/phone. Why do you think English doesn't follow its own grammar and spelling rules?
Lithium batteries are more like flying with thermite though. It's burning at metal melting temps until the battery is consumed. Jet fuel can be extinguished. And jet fuel doesn't spontaneously combust if the fuel tank has been used a lot. Dendrites in a battery causes internal shorts, and those can start a runaway chemical fire. It's less safe, and the mitigation techniques add weight which you can't afford.
Solar Zeppelins! They've got the surface area for a bit of that anyway. (Assuming a breakthrough in cell weight)
Battery recharge rate is a problem too.
Cars spend most of their time at a small fraction of their max power in flat areas, and benefit from regenerative braking in hilly areas. They often spend long times parked.
None of that is true for a commercial aircraft. The article is just virtue signaling. The actual makers of the aircraft seem to be developing a tech demonstrator for private aircraft, which is a different proposition. It looks like they've got a working really light aircraft that has significant operational limitations. That'll set them up for taking advantage of new battery tech as it arrives, but it's not a pathway leading to any sort of useful commercial aircraft unless you're wanting to really torture the definition of useful. (probably two orders of magnitude improvement are needed - mobile devices and increasingly electric cars will gradually pay for improvements, though you can't predict breakthroughs)
They should have collected in-game analytics to determine what in-game weapons/items and in-game gameplay options players liked and used that info to make more appealing games. Kill counts and miles is insufficient.
The use that info to put the popular options behind a micro-payment/extra cost DLC. Game play improvements are insufficient when you haven't fully monetized the 'customer'.
The interior had this rubber coating that peeled off after a few years and made the car look like it had leprosy. The crank position sensor was specially designed to die in engine heat so it went out about every 50k miles. The EGR hoses turned to a brittle mess in engine heat as well. The AC blower fan controller died about that often as well. The power seat switch post was very fragile and in a spot where it'd be bumped getting the car. The switch is fine, this is just a 10 cent plastic cover that pushes the actual switch. Benz will only sell the whole lower seat assembly for $650. ($300 for the identical Crossfire one - but they change one connector so they won't swap - unless you can solder like me - bastards) Many interior parts are glued together, with a glue that falls apart in heat. My car was garage kept at home and work. The door panels and interior trim fell to bits and had to be jigsawed back together and re-glued. WTF?!?!? The convertible top hydraulic cylinders had bad seals and all failed early. There are 5. Benz wanted 1k/each for replacements with revised seals that last normally, plus that much again to install them.
So - the substandard parts are a profit centers... bleh. At least there were ways around some of it, like a place that'd rebuild the hydraulics for less than 1k (they are pressed together so you can't put new seals in with hand tools...) Still, the quality was worse than the Taurus SHO I had before it. WTF?
The sheer volume of virtual machines running in a data center with literally 1000's of computers, all running VMs... yeah, unless you're some state intelligence agency, data center is good enough and secure enough.
Sure... Script kiddies and ransomware must not exist in your world.
6 figure plus targets means an automated attack. Do you think a ransomeware group cares if they destroy 999 VMs to get to 1 owner who pays? Manpower per payment is all that matters, and you're describing a huge group of vulnerable targets.
And that handling North Korea is best done with coordination with China so US policy towards both should and likely will be connected. i.e. US policy of aid to North Korea led to escalation instead of the promised resolution. Engaging China instead to apply coordinated pressure with the US towards reconciliation between the Koreas (i.e. don't repeat the thing that didn't work) will involve negotiating with China. The result may be trade concessions (possibly the ZTE thing). If you first impose tariffs your concession could be simply returning trade to its prior status.
There are many advantages to cooperation with China on N. Korea. It makes possible (just speculating here) a deal where N. Korea normallizes relations with S. Korea and actually halts the nuke program (pinky swear this time) in exchange for sanctions ending and the US committing to halting any clandestine operations and taking military intervention off the table; China agrees to referee in both cases with US trade sanctions that'll be imposed (and the US getting directly involved again) if China doesn't actively do the referee job - while also offering the prospect of the US reducing forces in S. Korea over time if the hoped for improved relations bear fruit.
Also don't be near an officer having a bad day, don't look like someone they're after and especially don't have any valuable property that'd be nice to take via throw down drugs and forfeiture, etc.
And you can force an always on behavioral tracking system that gathers data that can be monetized as well! They'll already be used to the mandatory automated scan systems that require you to agree to give ownership of your work to the 3rd party. This is just one more baby step.
And then you'd find out that FB can actually find out whose behind fake ads if you're 'important', and those politicians can do things directly to you...
Mistakes were made, but bless their little cotton socks it seems that despite all this illegal activity no crimes were committed except by the stock holders who need to pay for this. Shocking! Just shocking I tell you!
Not with the special crime labs. It's cocaine. Once the local crime lab has been caught doing that as common practice (i.e. many times), been 'fixed' and then caught again fixing at least dozens of cases I begin to think the truth isn't what they're interested in.
Yeah, one of you has a financial motive to lie. And the other is a normal driver. And if you don't like your 60 over ticket you can have obstruction and assaulting an officer too.
I'm kind of a fan of the city of Houston's trick. They'll remove traffic signs for a week, write tickets all day enforcing them then put them back up. I located three different places around downtown they rotated between. Also, dashcams pay for themselves. Make sure yours can upload via wifi and a cell phone app. Make sure to keep your mouth shut about the dashcam and cover lights on it though or you may be assaulted.
Yep. They're going to get their $afety cash somehow. Driving the speed limit in a straight line has never been a defense for me when pulled over for speeding, changing lanes without a turn signal and running a light/stop sign. Dash cams do, but you better have one that can upload through your phone or dash cam will have an accident.
This is why I canceled my Oculus pre-order. It became apparent that it wouldn't be separate from the FB style of 'just take it and add an option once you're caught' style of perving on everything.
Network effect. All of the people I need to communicate with are using FB, many exclusively.
That doesn't mean I need to give FB so much info though, nor that I can't keep feeding it disinformation. That's the neat thing about a compulsive data hoover - you can keep feeding wrong info into it.
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It's clear that a lot of people are reeeeeaaally threatened by this stuff.
Yeah, you've totally convinced me to tolerate female bigots and sexists because I might get accused of being sensitive. Again... so soon...
Market share, not economic growth. Even if there is economic decline (netflix eroding cable subs), the screws get tightened when market share is high.
i.e. Once market share reaches the point that consumer choice is crushed, the company can behave abusively (aka 'fully monetize the customer') - as seen in cable TV where you've got 1 provider.
Mashing words together is a trend that started with the beginning of language. English likes to bash with foreign words, 'tele' for distance being a favorite - thus vision/scope/graph/phone. Why do you think English doesn't follow its own grammar and spelling rules?
Possibly because China is involved in the North Korea situation, and negotiations would need to consider China if they're to be successful.
Go somewhere else to concern troll.
Lithium batteries are more like flying with thermite though. It's burning at metal melting temps until the battery is consumed. Jet fuel can be extinguished. And jet fuel doesn't spontaneously combust if the fuel tank has been used a lot. Dendrites in a battery causes internal shorts, and those can start a runaway chemical fire. It's less safe, and the mitigation techniques add weight which you can't afford.
Catapult launch!
I bet that figure actually includes climbing to cruise altitude. Microwave power beaming would also be a death ray...
Solar Zeppelins! They've got the surface area for a bit of that anyway. (Assuming a breakthrough in cell weight)
Battery recharge rate is a problem too.
Cars spend most of their time at a small fraction of their max power in flat areas, and benefit from regenerative braking in hilly areas. They often spend long times parked.
None of that is true for a commercial aircraft. The article is just virtue signaling. The actual makers of the aircraft seem to be developing a tech demonstrator for private aircraft, which is a different proposition. It looks like they've got a working really light aircraft that has significant operational limitations. That'll set them up for taking advantage of new battery tech as it arrives, but it's not a pathway leading to any sort of useful commercial aircraft unless you're wanting to really torture the definition of useful. (probably two orders of magnitude improvement are needed - mobile devices and increasingly electric cars will gradually pay for improvements, though you can't predict breakthroughs)
They should have collected in-game analytics to determine what in-game weapons/items and in-game gameplay options players liked and used that info to make more appealing games. Kill counts and miles is insufficient.
The use that info to put the popular options behind a micro-payment/extra cost DLC. Game play improvements are insufficient when you haven't fully monetized the 'customer'.
There, I fixed that for you.
In this case they can also hold the throw down USB stick.
Why would the handlers need to signal the dog when they 'find' the USB drive that's been hidden in the dogs collar?
I had a 2001 SLK.
The interior had this rubber coating that peeled off after a few years and made the car look like it had leprosy. The crank position sensor was specially designed to die in engine heat so it went out about every 50k miles. The EGR hoses turned to a brittle mess in engine heat as well. The AC blower fan controller died about that often as well. The power seat switch post was very fragile and in a spot where it'd be bumped getting the car. The switch is fine, this is just a 10 cent plastic cover that pushes the actual switch. Benz will only sell the whole lower seat assembly for $650. ($300 for the identical Crossfire one - but they change one connector so they won't swap - unless you can solder like me - bastards) Many interior parts are glued together, with a glue that falls apart in heat. My car was garage kept at home and work. The door panels and interior trim fell to bits and had to be jigsawed back together and re-glued. WTF?!?!? The convertible top hydraulic cylinders had bad seals and all failed early. There are 5. Benz wanted 1k/each for replacements with revised seals that last normally, plus that much again to install them.
So - the substandard parts are a profit centers... bleh. At least there were ways around some of it, like a place that'd rebuild the hydraulics for less than 1k (they are pressed together so you can't put new seals in with hand tools...) Still, the quality was worse than the Taurus SHO I had before it. WTF?
The sheer volume of virtual machines running in a data center with literally 1000's of computers, all running VMs... yeah, unless you're some state intelligence agency, data center is good enough and secure enough.
Sure... Script kiddies and ransomware must not exist in your world.
6 figure plus targets means an automated attack. Do you think a ransomeware group cares if they destroy 999 VMs to get to 1 owner who pays? Manpower per payment is all that matters, and you're describing a huge group of vulnerable targets.
And that handling North Korea is best done with coordination with China so US policy towards both should and likely will be connected. i.e. US policy of aid to North Korea led to escalation instead of the promised resolution. Engaging China instead to apply coordinated pressure with the US towards reconciliation between the Koreas (i.e. don't repeat the thing that didn't work) will involve negotiating with China. The result may be trade concessions (possibly the ZTE thing). If you first impose tariffs your concession could be simply returning trade to its prior status. There are many advantages to cooperation with China on N. Korea. It makes possible (just speculating here) a deal where N. Korea normallizes relations with S. Korea and actually halts the nuke program (pinky swear this time) in exchange for sanctions ending and the US committing to halting any clandestine operations and taking military intervention off the table; China agrees to referee in both cases with US trade sanctions that'll be imposed (and the US getting directly involved again) if China doesn't actively do the referee job - while also offering the prospect of the US reducing forces in S. Korea over time if the hoped for improved relations bear fruit.
Also don't be near an officer having a bad day, don't look like someone they're after and especially don't have any valuable property that'd be nice to take via throw down drugs and forfeiture, etc.
And you can force an always on behavioral tracking system that gathers data that can be monetized as well! They'll already be used to the mandatory automated scan systems that require you to agree to give ownership of your work to the 3rd party. This is just one more baby step.
You also report things like this when you want the Gov't contract feeding trough to be topped up. It's turtles all the way down.
And then you'd find out that FB can actually find out whose behind fake ads if you're 'important', and those politicians can do things directly to you...
Mistakes were made, but bless their little cotton socks it seems that despite all this illegal activity no crimes were committed except by the stock holders who need to pay for this. Shocking! Just shocking I tell you!
Not with the special crime labs. It's cocaine. Once the local crime lab has been caught doing that as common practice (i.e. many times), been 'fixed' and then caught again fixing at least dozens of cases I begin to think the truth isn't what they're interested in.
How would they hire a new police force then?
Yeah, one of you has a financial motive to lie. And the other is a normal driver. And if you don't like your 60 over ticket you can have obstruction and assaulting an officer too.
I'm kind of a fan of the city of Houston's trick. They'll remove traffic signs for a week, write tickets all day enforcing them then put them back up. I located three different places around downtown they rotated between. Also, dashcams pay for themselves. Make sure yours can upload via wifi and a cell phone app. Make sure to keep your mouth shut about the dashcam and cover lights on it though or you may be assaulted.
Yep. They're going to get their $afety cash somehow. Driving the speed limit in a straight line has never been a defense for me when pulled over for speeding, changing lanes without a turn signal and running a light/stop sign. Dash cams do, but you better have one that can upload through your phone or dash cam will have an accident.
This is why I canceled my Oculus pre-order. It became apparent that it wouldn't be separate from the FB style of 'just take it and add an option once you're caught' style of perving on everything.
Network effect. All of the people I need to communicate with are using FB, many exclusively.
That doesn't mean I need to give FB so much info though, nor that I can't keep feeding it disinformation. That's the neat thing about a compulsive data hoover - you can keep feeding wrong info into it.