As the summary said, there will be special use cases for ICE cars all the until 2050 (and possibly longer), but that does not make the concept false. If you go for 800 miles off the grid then you will be one of those people needing an ICE for the forseeable future. For me and my 5000 miles a year usage an EV with around 150 miles of range will be perfect. Our mileages may vary, pun intended.
It does try to stop as soon as obstacle is detected. The detection distance is most likely less than the stopping distance. In any case in sudden cases braking happens faster with brake assist than without one, so end result is better. Anticipation and seeing past the detection distance is left to the driver.
Except all/most auto braking implementations guarantee stopping before impact ONLY if the velocity difference is small enough. Tesla or any other system cannot make a full stop from highway speeds in time.
I'm on the opposite end of consumer habits, I have sold all of my optical discs. If I want to watch/listen something and it's not on Netflix/Spotify, then I just don't. I don't bother with the entertainment that much. Same for PS4, if the game is not available on PSN then I don't play. Changing the mindset from feeling entitled to play/watch/listen something to consuming (or not consuming) things that are on limited number of services helped a lot.
This saves a lot of space near my TV, I just have a simple rack to keep my PS4 there. No shelf or anything else to keep stuff there, also I don't need any big data storage to save my media collections in digital format. I also don't need to spend time to setup my entertainment options, it's either there or not. I recommend this style for everyone.
I got mine too, this is my third windows phone in a row. I feel that the OS itself is a bit rough still and needs several rounds of updates. I don't have confidence that the phone is keeping me informed about messages and emails, as I have noticed several times the tile counters to be out of sync with the actual contents of the folder. I also got few spectacular crashes so far and attaching the phone on the Continuum dock was a painful experience, only few apps work and whole system functioned poorly.
Anyway I had similar feeling with the Lumia 800, but it got fixed into nicely working phone. I'm expecting this to start working as well.
You do realize that the same procedure and costs apply to new cars as well? I have moved my car from US to Finland and the process sounds similar, most of the paperwork was managed by the company I hired to do the move. Over all I saved $10000 when I did the transfer. Car value in US drops much faster than in developing countries as well, it's because in US people can afford letting go of used cars and get new instead. Taxes on cheap cars are less than taxes on new cars because the tax is percentage of the value.
Is a slow catepillar truck having poor quality compared to ferrari? I bet 8TB disk has many uses and desktop drive is not one of the most important of those.
I think real question is if Cubans can skip the wifi and go straight to 4G. City wifi is the worst thing that could happen to them, just give few bucks a month 4G service and nobody misses wifi. Cellular network is better designed to handle handovers, longer range, more users, and easier maintenance. With the population they have cellular data should be the way to go.
For average U.S. person wifi feels better because you get local service (Starbucks) that serves limited number of customers well. The wifi service also appeared to US when there was no cellular alternative that could be fast enough. There is no reason to skip current cellular technologies.
I have different approach. I got Spotify Premium, so I have access to all the music I listen to. When Taylor Swift pulled her songs from the service I said to myself: "I'm not going to bother, I don't have to listen to her songs anymore!". I have same approach with Netflix, if a movie or TV series is not there, I don't watch. I don't feel entitled to listen/watch content that is outside of the services I pay for.
My approach costs less and keeps my free time free from stress. On the other hand if you do enjoy making a private streaming service for your friends and family then by all means, but try justifying your effort better.
I would also add that some policies helped in telco profitability as well. In Finland one of the big ones was that as long as 3G service is available in rural area it is fine for the telco to cut down the physical cable to the household. Telcos removed thousands of kilometers of error prone cables and replaced them with cell towers.
Another great change was that almost all new apartments (since 2000) started treating internet connection as an utility, same way as water or heat with RJ-45 cabling in homes. The bill is included in the maintenance fee so it's easier to get better prices from telcos as they have only 1 bill to send, 1 router to install, 1 fiber to dig. Even old apartment buildings have adopted this practise and cost of high speed internet has gone down significantly.
Third change that was done is that there is a maximum price set for renting the cables. In case a 3rd party wants to serve a customer in an area they don't have cables they can utilize the existing cabling and pay a reasonable rent for that cable.
Last but not least the emergence of 4G has changed the fixed connection offering. It's now very common for a regular household (especially outside of city centers) to only have a 4G router at home instead of ADSL modem, because 4G is faster and cheaper. Only fiber can really compete with 4G anymore.
I understand that there is great concern in immigrants arriving to work in US, but I don't think closing off the borders is solution. You can ask yourself two questions:
1. If you wanted to go and someone was willing to hire you abroad, should you be able to work in an another country? 2. If a person from another county wanted to come and someone was willing to hire that person in US, should he/she be able to work in US?
The whole thing boils down to this, freedom of being employed anywhere in the world. It does sound crazy but we are no longer living in closed societies, at least I do hope that is the case. If H1B visa program is shut down, there are virtually no legal paths to US job market for foreigners.
There needs to be two changes to the work visa rules:
1. H1B worker is able to seek another job during his/her visa duration, as long as the job is similar or better than his current job. Currently not allowed. 2. Is laid off the period for seeking new employment is 6 months before needing to leave. Currently it is 7 days.
Those two changes would make foreign workers able to raise their salaries and leave abusive employers. This would bring healthier work environment for everyone and increases in salary across foreign and domestic workers.
Also I forgot to mention that Apple SSD PCIe drives perform about twice as fast as your average SSD on SATA port... which does not come cheap as well. Together with double capacity you are looking at performance that even money cannot buy for this particular Lenovo machine. Higher-end Lenovo's can easily match that, but it comes with a price.
We can always go and compare a gaming rig to a proper business laptop, but that just doesn't make sense. There are few important things missing from the configuration from Lenovo. First is the IPS panel, you are able to get 4K TFT monitor for far less than retina resolution IPS panel. Second major issue is that Apple comes with proper 8h battery life while Lenovo will run out around 4h. Third is professional Windows license, which OS X certainly compares to.
If you try to get true Lenovo mobile workstation then the $2500 starts to be a bargain. There are valid reasons why you are able to get the machine you linked in that particular price and Lenovo mobile workstations with lesser specifications for far higher price.
Even the biggest companies care about million(s). Reduction in operating expenses are always a good thing and if facebook can shave off million dollars a year without significant downsides they will take it gladly. Big companies didnt get big by being inefficient.
The data you provided was North American web usage. Drawing any conclusion from that is dumb when talking about global market share. You know there are other markets out there, those markets also are bigger than US markets in volume.
It doesn't matter to the original story whether someone uses Netflix or combination of streaming services, it's still streaming. Both of you are happy with your selection. I'm happy with mine, I use Netflix and Apple TV. So based on this empirical study of 3 people we can say that 3 out of 3 are happy with movie streaming. The author of the article has failed.
Valid point unless situation will get so severe that enough water sources actually run dry. Then it is based on luck who gets the water and who doesn't. Perhaps that point is still far away but I wouldn't like bet on it if the drought continues.
I think cell phone with 99.9% reliability that is always in your pocket is much better 100% reliability at your office desk. Out in the countryside 100% reliability for land line is not possible. Especially when there is a strong storms, lightning storms or any major event, which happens at least once a year. For example when lightning strikes inside home via phone line blowing the phone in pieces. When that happens and has happened I much rather use my cell phone to call fire department or ambulance. I also prefer cell phone when storms that make woods fall on phone lines and electric lines.
Finnish operators have had already been able to remove physical wires for a long time now. The requirement is to provide 3G service to those homes that lost the wired connection. That has made country side much safer as the cell phone coverage got much better and cell phones work in times when phone lines are down. Cell phone towers usually work during power outage too.
I don't think the problem here is that IBM worked with the NSA. Problem is that as a shareholder IBM should have said something more about it and keep shareholders informed about the risks towards the share price. At minimum IBM should have stated it is working closely with US government organisations in electronic surveillance programs, which may cause loss of business if political environment changes.
If the assumption is that treatments covered by obamacare are useless or not needed then cost will be huge. If we assume the treatments are justified and needed then obamacare just redistributes the cost among every American. Additionally obamacare maybe helps with overall health of the nation and that is a huge cost saver.
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As the summary said, there will be special use cases for ICE cars all the until 2050 (and possibly longer), but that does not make the concept false. If you go for 800 miles off the grid then you will be one of those people needing an ICE for the forseeable future. For me and my 5000 miles a year usage an EV with around 150 miles of range will be perfect. Our mileages may vary, pun intended.
It does try to stop as soon as obstacle is detected. The detection distance is most likely less than the stopping distance. In any case in sudden cases braking happens faster with brake assist than without one, so end result is better. Anticipation and seeing past the detection distance is left to the driver.
One comparison: https://youtu.be/UK7JqCR7w-g
Except all/most auto braking implementations guarantee stopping before impact ONLY if the velocity difference is small enough. Tesla or any other system cannot make a full stop from highway speeds in time.
I'm on the opposite end of consumer habits, I have sold all of my optical discs. If I want to watch/listen something and it's not on Netflix/Spotify, then I just don't. I don't bother with the entertainment that much. Same for PS4, if the game is not available on PSN then I don't play. Changing the mindset from feeling entitled to play/watch/listen something to consuming (or not consuming) things that are on limited number of services helped a lot.
This saves a lot of space near my TV, I just have a simple rack to keep my PS4 there. No shelf or anything else to keep stuff there, also I don't need any big data storage to save my media collections in digital format. I also don't need to spend time to setup my entertainment options, it's either there or not. I recommend this style for everyone.
I got mine too, this is my third windows phone in a row. I feel that the OS itself is a bit rough still and needs several rounds of updates. I don't have confidence that the phone is keeping me informed about messages and emails, as I have noticed several times the tile counters to be out of sync with the actual contents of the folder. I also got few spectacular crashes so far and attaching the phone on the Continuum dock was a painful experience, only few apps work and whole system functioned poorly.
Anyway I had similar feeling with the Lumia 800, but it got fixed into nicely working phone. I'm expecting this to start working as well.
You do realize that the same procedure and costs apply to new cars as well? I have moved my car from US to Finland and the process sounds similar, most of the paperwork was managed by the company I hired to do the move. Over all I saved $10000 when I did the transfer. Car value in US drops much faster than in developing countries as well, it's because in US people can afford letting go of used cars and get new instead. Taxes on cheap cars are less than taxes on new cars because the tax is percentage of the value.
If you read the article they also compared 5 valve made games with similar results. I have no idea if those games were optimised for Steam OS.
Those disks are almost purely enterprise SSD's, not for consumer.
Is a slow catepillar truck having poor quality compared to ferrari? I bet 8TB disk has many uses and desktop drive is not one of the most important of those.
For most part 3g speeds in Finland are faster than the average 4g speed in US...
I think real question is if Cubans can skip the wifi and go straight to 4G. City wifi is the worst thing that could happen to them, just give few bucks a month 4G service and nobody misses wifi. Cellular network is better designed to handle handovers, longer range, more users, and easier maintenance. With the population they have cellular data should be the way to go.
For average U.S. person wifi feels better because you get local service (Starbucks) that serves limited number of customers well. The wifi service also appeared to US when there was no cellular alternative that could be fast enough. There is no reason to skip current cellular technologies.
I have different approach. I got Spotify Premium, so I have access to all the music I listen to. When Taylor Swift pulled her songs from the service I said to myself: "I'm not going to bother, I don't have to listen to her songs anymore!". I have same approach with Netflix, if a movie or TV series is not there, I don't watch. I don't feel entitled to listen/watch content that is outside of the services I pay for.
My approach costs less and keeps my free time free from stress. On the other hand if you do enjoy making a private streaming service for your friends and family then by all means, but try justifying your effort better.
I would also add that some policies helped in telco profitability as well. In Finland one of the big ones was that as long as 3G service is available in rural area it is fine for the telco to cut down the physical cable to the household. Telcos removed thousands of kilometers of error prone cables and replaced them with cell towers.
Another great change was that almost all new apartments (since 2000) started treating internet connection as an utility, same way as water or heat with RJ-45 cabling in homes. The bill is included in the maintenance fee so it's easier to get better prices from telcos as they have only 1 bill to send, 1 router to install, 1 fiber to dig. Even old apartment buildings have adopted this practise and cost of high speed internet has gone down significantly.
Third change that was done is that there is a maximum price set for renting the cables. In case a 3rd party wants to serve a customer in an area they don't have cables they can utilize the existing cabling and pay a reasonable rent for that cable.
Last but not least the emergence of 4G has changed the fixed connection offering. It's now very common for a regular household (especially outside of city centers) to only have a 4G router at home instead of ADSL modem, because 4G is faster and cheaper. Only fiber can really compete with 4G anymore.
Anchors, harpoons, flywheels and thrusters are used to keep the Philae in place.
Here is a brief introduction to a documentary of a NY prison admin going to Norway to look how the prison works there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I understand that there is great concern in immigrants arriving to work in US, but I don't think closing off the borders is solution. You can ask yourself two questions:
1. If you wanted to go and someone was willing to hire you abroad, should you be able to work in an another country?
2. If a person from another county wanted to come and someone was willing to hire that person in US, should he/she be able to work in US?
The whole thing boils down to this, freedom of being employed anywhere in the world. It does sound crazy but we are no longer living in closed societies, at least I do hope that is the case. If H1B visa program is shut down, there are virtually no legal paths to US job market for foreigners.
There needs to be two changes to the work visa rules:
1. H1B worker is able to seek another job during his/her visa duration, as long as the job is similar or better than his current job. Currently not allowed.
2. Is laid off the period for seeking new employment is 6 months before needing to leave. Currently it is 7 days.
Those two changes would make foreign workers able to raise their salaries and leave abusive employers. This would bring healthier work environment for everyone and increases in salary across foreign and domestic workers.
Also I forgot to mention that Apple SSD PCIe drives perform about twice as fast as your average SSD on SATA port... which does not come cheap as well. Together with double capacity you are looking at performance that even money cannot buy for this particular Lenovo machine. Higher-end Lenovo's can easily match that, but it comes with a price.
We can always go and compare a gaming rig to a proper business laptop, but that just doesn't make sense. There are few important things missing from the configuration from Lenovo. First is the IPS panel, you are able to get 4K TFT monitor for far less than retina resolution IPS panel. Second major issue is that Apple comes with proper 8h battery life while Lenovo will run out around 4h. Third is professional Windows license, which OS X certainly compares to.
If you try to get true Lenovo mobile workstation then the $2500 starts to be a bargain. There are valid reasons why you are able to get the machine you linked in that particular price and Lenovo mobile workstations with lesser specifications for far higher price.
Even the biggest companies care about million(s). Reduction in operating expenses are always a good thing and if facebook can shave off million dollars a year without significant downsides they will take it gladly. Big companies didnt get big by being inefficient.
The data you provided was North American web usage. Drawing any conclusion from that is dumb when talking about global market share. You know there are other markets out there, those markets also are bigger than US markets in volume.
It doesn't matter to the original story whether someone uses Netflix or combination of streaming services, it's still streaming. Both of you are happy with your selection. I'm happy with mine, I use Netflix and Apple TV. So based on this empirical study of 3 people we can say that 3 out of 3 are happy with movie streaming. The author of the article has failed.
Valid point unless situation will get so severe that enough water sources actually run dry. Then it is based on luck who gets the water and who doesn't. Perhaps that point is still far away but I wouldn't like bet on it if the drought continues.
I think cell phone with 99.9% reliability that is always in your pocket is much better 100% reliability at your office desk. Out in the countryside 100% reliability for land line is not possible. Especially when there is a strong storms, lightning storms or any major event, which happens at least once a year. For example when lightning strikes inside home via phone line blowing the phone in pieces. When that happens and has happened I much rather use my cell phone to call fire department or ambulance. I also prefer cell phone when storms that make woods fall on phone lines and electric lines.
Finnish operators have had already been able to remove physical wires for a long time now. The requirement is to provide 3G service to those homes that lost the wired connection. That has made country side much safer as the cell phone coverage got much better and cell phones work in times when phone lines are down. Cell phone towers usually work during power outage too.
I don't think the problem here is that IBM worked with the NSA. Problem is that as a shareholder IBM should have said something more about it and keep shareholders informed about the risks towards the share price. At minimum IBM should have stated it is working closely with US government organisations in electronic surveillance programs, which may cause loss of business if political environment changes.
If the assumption is that treatments covered by obamacare are useless or not needed then cost will be huge. If we assume the treatments are justified and needed then obamacare just redistributes the cost among every American. Additionally obamacare maybe helps with overall health of the nation and that is a huge cost saver.