It wouldn't matter. A strike the size required to take out the US would doom human kind anyway. It would be more than enough to trigger a nuclear winter. When are talking thousands of warheads, a one or a two at the front if that number really won't make the end result all that different.
A strike to doom the US wouldn't require a thousand warheads, a dozen could probably do it. France has enough nukes to wipe out the US... and all the neighbouring countries. Radiation would probably be bad enough that birth defects would start appearing in France within a few months.
If someone decided to take out any country the size of the US with the minimum amount of nukes required then the effects of those bombs alone will be felt worldwide.... that's just the direct effects of the bomb, not even considering the economic and humanitarian fallout (millions of refugee's escaping the fallout zone).
Really? As of last year, Russia held $225 billion in U.S. dollars. So, you think Russia will tank a $17 Trillion dollar economy with $225 billion. I find it helpful to have a sense of perspective when dealing with numbers.
And the energy exports to the EU accounts for around 20% of Russia's GDP.
Besides this, Russia wont go all nuclear, this is just something some stupid presenter said, do Russia go into tizzy every time someone on Fox News says something stupid about Russia (I'm going to bet that's at least a daily occurrence).
they are. You can't get a custom plates in France I think. (Thought, you might be able to get plates from an other european country which might help you here)
You can also get custom plates in Australia and I think England too.
Yeah. It only works in the short term. In the long term what can be done is the same thing they do in Singapore. They have a limited number of license plates for driving all week and those are auctioned. Weekend only license plates have no such restrictions.
They dump the auction profits into the public transportation system.
Singapore is a small, very connected city with a very good public transport system and extremely well regulated taxi system (which makes them incredibly cheap, I've never paid over SG$30 for a cab from any two points in SIN), in fact Singapore taxi's are so well regulated your average libertarian would die of fright (especially considering how cheap they are).
So limiting the number of cars works well in a place like Singapore, but it wouldn't work in many other cities including Paris
You would be surprised by the number of Jeep products running around Paris. The Cherokee-of-old, the Grand Cherokee, and the Liberty (sold as the Cherokee there) are very, very popular, and the Chrysler PT Cruiser is popular as well, which only gets around 20mpg. There are also lots of Chrysler minivans and more than a few 300s.
Mein Gott in Himmel.
And France is supposed to be one of the fashion capital of the world... I'll just have to take that title right off you.
After naming a Renault F series turbo engine the F4RT you think the French would have learned.
No, because it's a ONE DAY BAN, and the first one since 1997. Even-numbered plates today, odd tomorrow. It's a specific measure for specific atmospheric conditions that made things smoggy in Paris at the moment.
99% of the responses below (and above) are irrelevant because they ignore that very simple fact.
Welcome to/.
If jumping to conclusions was an Olympic event, all the gold medallists would be here.
College and the debt that has become synonymous with it has become a tragidy of the commons. It isn't that college is bad. It isn't that taking on debt for college is bad. It is that it is bad when lots of people are doing it.
This, tertiary education was and still is a very good thing.
It's the debts Americans have to take out to get this that's bad.
Australia solved this problem in two ways.
1. HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme), This is essentially an interest free loan from the government to Australian citizens to pay for university courses that can be paid back over time after university. After you earn a certain amount, HECS repayments are mandatory (garnished from your wages if they have to be). There's no interest applied to the loan but it is pegged to the CPI so there's an incentive to pay it off early.
2, Technical collages, called TAFE (Technical And Further Education) provide predominantly (almost entirely) vocational education. Geared towards getting teaching practical, marketable skills (I.E. things you'll use in the workplace) are relatively cheap compared to universities and most trades can be learned through TAFE.
So people can get into a better job, without a huge debt hanging over their heads.
Because microusb has an absolutely atrocious, finnicky connector. I hope they use practically anything but microusb.
Apples Lightning connector would be great, actually, or something very similar. Near unbreakably solid, easy to plug in our out, can be plugged in either way...
I agree - microUSB has those 2 clip-ons which are very delicate & once the spring action is gone, it becomes useless, as I found out w/ a car cord.
I've been using the same cable since 2006 and it's be doing almost daily charging since 2008... I don't get how people can break these cables without a great deal of effort, I'm definitely not using kid gloves.
I've seen a lot of the old 30 pin Apple connectors go and a fair few Lightning ones (they are more fragile than micro USB) but the biggest problem by far are people who lose their cables. This is the number 1 cause of people having to buy a new cable. Now would you rather spend $2 on a micro USB cable found anywhere or trudge down the Apple shop and pay $30 for a propriatary connector.
Because microusb has an absolutely atrocious, finnicky connector. I hope they use practically anything but microusb.
MicroUSB was designed to put the wear on the plug (the cable), not the device. Or so they say. One year with Samsung Galaxy charging everyday - no problems so far.
Same, I'm still charging with a Micro USB charge from a Nokia 6500c I bought in 2006. it's been doing almost daily charges since March 2008
I haven't replaced the charging cable because I've had absolutely no reason to.
GIMP is just a cute acronym for "GNU Image Manipulator," and will in no way make people not take this application seriously or hesitate to adopt it in any serious environment.
Actually it's GNU Image Manipulation Program. With your acronym, it's just GIM and you cant have a GIMP without pee.
For starters, you already did the work of installing Origin and setting up an account. So even if you deleted Origin, you still already have an account so that work is a sunk cost. Second of all, you would have had to install that multi-gigabyte patch regardless of if Origin existed or not because you wouldn't have been able to connect to the game servers and play without it, so that has nothing to do with Origin. Third, the browser plugin is specific the the Battlefield Battle log feature. The game was designed to use a web browser as its server browser. It's something specific to BF and you would have had to do that to play it regardless of if Origin existed or not, and it's not a feature of Titanfall so you wouldn't have had to do that again to play Titanfall.
So right now, if you wanted to play Titanfall, your steps would be:
1. Install Origin.
2. Install Titanfall.
3. Log into Origin.
4. Possibly download a Titanfall patch (I don't know if there's a patch because I didn't buy it because I'm not a fan of CoD style shooters), which you would have had to do regardless of Origin's existence or non-existence.
5. Play.
That's it.
Seriously, 90% of your problems with "Origin" were problems with Battlefield.
Erm no.
I gave up on Battlefield after BF3 not just because the game was so crap, but origin was also just as crap. In fact the clincher was when I went back to play it a month later and Origin decided I needed to download the entire game again. Not just a patch, the entire fucking game. Steam has never forced me to do that, even when a game is highly corrupted it only downloads what it needs to and I've had game installs so corrupted that 60% of the files needed to be re-downloaded on Steam.
After Origin not even giving me the choice and automatically deciding to start the download, I stopped it and uninstalled both Origin and Battlefield 3. 100% of my problems were with both, but ultimately Origin proved to such a pain that keeping it wasn't worth the games it had on it.
Origin isn't the only reason I wont be buying Titanfall, but it may as well be.
>>(35GB of uncompressed audio)
> It was so that lower spec PCs can run it.
OMG have you thought your answer through? that would be effective only for a PC which is powerful enough to manage the graphics and engine and does not spare the cycles for audio.
Given that a 166mhz pc from twenty years ago effortlessly decoded mp3s in realtime, that in the meantime people have improved decoders, encoders, formats that audio playing is parallelizable, that uncompressed audio requires uncompressed IO, I think "aliens wanted that" is a better explanation. The best of course being that a 45gb game is less piratable than a 10gb one.
Except the pirates will compress the audio for quicker downloads.
And that it's pretty much an excursively multiplayer game, making piracy largely irrelevant.
That doesn't make any sense. Why not offer an install option to decompress the audio if that is the case?
I could see them wanting lossless audio, but FLAC isn't very computationally expensive, and fuck we have so many cores these days you could just dedicate one of them to this and only this and you wouldn't lose anything. It is also quite literally impossible to improve audio quality beyond 48/16 FLAC if you have normal human ears, and it costs all of nothing to implement.
Yes, but you're asking audiophiles to make sense.
It's like leaving Lindsey Lohan a line of coke and asking her not to snort it.
A chair is as comfy as a sofa, unless you have a very wide butt.
Only children and people with very wide butts play games in the living room. Proper adult gamers sit at a desk.
Size of my arse not withstanding, it's back support that gets me. A semi-decent computer chair (~100 office chair). I recently played a few hours of Mario Kart 64 (yep, dusted of the old N64) on a couch with some friends and by the end of it, my lower back was killing me. I never get this when I spend 4 hours playing Civ IV.
Say they are doing their best to reassure the domestic population that they are in competent control of the disaster, but they're in over their heads...
Not quite.
MAS is owned by the Malaysian Government holdings company (either wholly or majority, I cant remember which) and the airline has recently had another period of unprofitably. This is less about assuring the Malaysian people of anything and more about trying to do damage control to the rest of the world. Sadly they're doing it in SE Asian style which is more about maintaining face than fixing issues.
In addition to this, MAS is getting a lot of competition from Malaysia's low cost airline Air Asia and anything else that could eat into the MAS's revenue is detrimental to the Malaysian Govt so they're dialling the damage control up to 11.
I have no idea why people would run RAID at home without a rock solid backup solution. Even using RAID 5 or 6 to protect against an individual disk failure leaves you wide open to a controller failure (especially if it's software RAID), I've seen consumer grade RAID controllers fail a lot. Seeing as you dont need the speed RAID provides, JBOD protects you against a controller failure but leaves you open to losing a disk, but would you rather lose a fraction of your pron, erm.. sorry, home media collection or the lot of it.
I ran 2 x 1 TB drives in RAID 1 for a while and all it did was conflict with the audio driver (both were inbuilt into my mobo).
I have a 16 TB media collection at home that I just back up on more hard drives.
External hard drives in USB cases + Robocopy works great for me.
Yep, two storage devices. Once you've got the data onto your backup device, you only have to keep it synced up some how.
Personally I'd use a NAS but 4TB would be plenty for me.
"It can be fitted to a commercial airliner for less than $100,000. But the industry has decided that it's not worth the expense. Tell that the the families of passengers on Flight MH370."
Commercial airplane crashes are extremely rare. Even in these rare instances, it is even more rare not to find the aircraft that crashed.
This, aircraft fatalities are so rare that any single crash is international news, 300+ people die on Western Australian roads each year, there was a fatal truck crash near Yangebup last week... I doubt half the people in Perth, Western Australia would be aware of it.
You obviously don't know about the concept of closure, or care enough about someone else to care about it.
Because some company using a tragedy to peddle their wares that have dubious value and are not even remotely guaranteed to work is closer.
Pot, meed kettle.
FLYHT are scum. Their products have been rejected by the aviation industry because they don't add value but add additional cost (satellite data connections aren't cheap), are just as prone to failure as current methods (relies on instrumentation or manual activation) and have additional points of failure (a dial on demand satellite connection, when a flight disappears from radar and the pilots cannot be raised on the radio and the transponder is gone... WTF makes me think a dial on demand satellite connection will work). And now they're using a tragedy to try to peddle their crud.
I read the article, it's nothing but attacks on the aviation industry and badly used thought terminating cliche's like "tell that to the families". Its the kind of thing an angry pre-pubescent child would write when their parents ground them.
What does it matter, on a plane like the 777 that costs $260 to $377 *million* dollars to acquire? That's less than 4 hundreths of a percent of the acquisition cost. 100K$ is peanuts on the scale of costs it takes to acquire and operate a large airliner.
Costs to acquire are often not the highest costs. Same with this, it may cost $100K to purchase, but how much to keep running?
I read the article, the technology is flawed in two ways.
1, it depends on the instrumentation or pilots detecting something going wrong. One of the leading theories in the AF447 accident was that an instrument was reporting incorrectly.
2. it depends on satellite communication (which isn't cheap) and MH370 disappeared from RADAR and radio communications. What makes you think a dial on demand satellite connection would work.
Besides this, much like the summary the article is full of half baked assumptions, attacks on the aviation industry, emotive language and thought terminating cliche's in the place of fact or at least tests and results. The aviation industry rejected their devices before because they dont add any real value due to the flaws I mentioned above. They are essentially trying to use a tragedy to sell something of dubious value whilst people are too emotional to think critically. I think FLYHT are scum.
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It wouldn't matter. A strike the size required to take out the US would doom human kind anyway. It would be more than enough to trigger a nuclear winter. When are talking thousands of warheads, a one or a two at the front if that number really won't make the end result all that different.
A strike to doom the US wouldn't require a thousand warheads, a dozen could probably do it. France has enough nukes to wipe out the US... and all the neighbouring countries. Radiation would probably be bad enough that birth defects would start appearing in France within a few months.
If someone decided to take out any country the size of the US with the minimum amount of nukes required then the effects of those bombs alone will be felt worldwide.... that's just the direct effects of the bomb, not even considering the economic and humanitarian fallout (millions of refugee's escaping the fallout zone).
Really? As of last year, Russia held $225 billion in U.S. dollars. So, you think Russia will tank a $17 Trillion dollar economy with $225 billion. I find it helpful to have a sense of perspective when dealing with numbers.
And the energy exports to the EU accounts for around 20% of Russia's GDP.
Besides this, Russia wont go all nuclear, this is just something some stupid presenter said, do Russia go into tizzy every time someone on Fox News says something stupid about Russia (I'm going to bet that's at least a daily occurrence).
they are. You can't get a custom plates in France I think. (Thought, you might be able to get plates from an other european country which might help you here)
You can also get custom plates in Australia and I think England too.
Yeah. It only works in the short term. In the long term what can be done is the same thing they do in Singapore. They have a limited number of license plates for driving all week and those are auctioned. Weekend only license plates have no such restrictions.
They dump the auction profits into the public transportation system.
Singapore is a small, very connected city with a very good public transport system and extremely well regulated taxi system (which makes them incredibly cheap, I've never paid over SG$30 for a cab from any two points in SIN), in fact Singapore taxi's are so well regulated your average libertarian would die of fright (especially considering how cheap they are).
So limiting the number of cars works well in a place like Singapore, but it wouldn't work in many other cities including Paris
You would be surprised by the number of Jeep products running around Paris. The Cherokee-of-old, the Grand Cherokee, and the Liberty (sold as the Cherokee there) are very, very popular, and the Chrysler PT Cruiser is popular as well, which only gets around 20mpg. There are also lots of Chrysler minivans and more than a few 300s.
Mein Gott in Himmel.
And France is supposed to be one of the fashion capital of the world... I'll just have to take that title right off you.
After naming a Renault F series turbo engine the F4RT you think the French would have learned.
No, because it's a ONE DAY BAN, and the first one since 1997. Even-numbered plates today, odd tomorrow. It's a specific measure for specific atmospheric conditions that made things smoggy in Paris at the moment.
99% of the responses below (and above) are irrelevant because they ignore that very simple fact.
Welcome to /.
If jumping to conclusions was an Olympic event, all the gold medallists would be here.
Mercury's diameter is 2.11 times that of 134340 Pluto, but its mass is 25.3 that of the puny dwarf planet.
Discounting metallic hydrogen on Jupiter and Saturn, Mercury's definately the most Metal planet in the solar system.
Of course it would be, you don't ever hear of a metal band with some pansy ass name like Jupiter.
College and the debt that has become synonymous with it has become a tragidy of the commons. It isn't that college is bad. It isn't that taking on debt for college is bad. It is that it is bad when lots of people are doing it.
This, tertiary education was and still is a very good thing.
It's the debts Americans have to take out to get this that's bad.
Australia solved this problem in two ways.
1. HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme), This is essentially an interest free loan from the government to Australian citizens to pay for university courses that can be paid back over time after university. After you earn a certain amount, HECS repayments are mandatory (garnished from your wages if they have to be). There's no interest applied to the loan but it is pegged to the CPI so there's an incentive to pay it off early.
2, Technical collages, called TAFE (Technical And Further Education) provide predominantly (almost entirely) vocational education. Geared towards getting teaching practical, marketable skills (I.E. things you'll use in the workplace) are relatively cheap compared to universities and most trades can be learned through TAFE.
So people can get into a better job, without a huge debt hanging over their heads.
Because microusb has an absolutely atrocious, finnicky connector. I hope they use practically anything but microusb.
Apples Lightning connector would be great, actually, or something very similar. Near unbreakably solid, easy to plug in our out, can be plugged in either way...
I agree - microUSB has those 2 clip-ons which are very delicate & once the spring action is gone, it becomes useless, as I found out w/ a car cord.
I've been using the same cable since 2006 and it's be doing almost daily charging since 2008... I don't get how people can break these cables without a great deal of effort, I'm definitely not using kid gloves.
I've seen a lot of the old 30 pin Apple connectors go and a fair few Lightning ones (they are more fragile than micro USB) but the biggest problem by far are people who lose their cables. This is the number 1 cause of people having to buy a new cable. Now would you rather spend $2 on a micro USB cable found anywhere or trudge down the Apple shop and pay $30 for a propriatary connector.
Because microusb has an absolutely atrocious, finnicky connector. I hope they use practically anything but microusb.
MicroUSB was designed to put the wear on the plug (the cable), not the device. Or so they say. One year with Samsung Galaxy charging everyday - no problems so far.
Same, I'm still charging with a Micro USB charge from a Nokia 6500c I bought in 2006. it's been doing almost daily charges since March 2008 I haven't replaced the charging cable because I've had absolutely no reason to.
GIMP is just a cute acronym for "GNU Image Manipulator," and will in no way make people not take this application seriously or hesitate to adopt it in any serious environment.
Actually it's GNU Image Manipulation Program. With your acronym, it's just GIM and you cant have a GIMP without pee.
Named for their founders, Henry Ford and Walter Chrysler respectively.
The next thing you'll expect me to believe is there really was a General Motors.
For starters, you already did the work of installing Origin and setting up an account. So even if you deleted Origin, you still already have an account so that work is a sunk cost. Second of all, you would have had to install that multi-gigabyte patch regardless of if Origin existed or not because you wouldn't have been able to connect to the game servers and play without it, so that has nothing to do with Origin. Third, the browser plugin is specific the the Battlefield Battle log feature. The game was designed to use a web browser as its server browser. It's something specific to BF and you would have had to do that to play it regardless of if Origin existed or not, and it's not a feature of Titanfall so you wouldn't have had to do that again to play Titanfall.
So right now, if you wanted to play Titanfall, your steps would be:
1. Install Origin.
2. Install Titanfall.
3. Log into Origin.
4. Possibly download a Titanfall patch (I don't know if there's a patch because I didn't buy it because I'm not a fan of CoD style shooters), which you would have had to do regardless of Origin's existence or non-existence.
5. Play.
That's it.
Seriously, 90% of your problems with "Origin" were problems with Battlefield.
Erm no.
I gave up on Battlefield after BF3 not just because the game was so crap, but origin was also just as crap. In fact the clincher was when I went back to play it a month later and Origin decided I needed to download the entire game again. Not just a patch, the entire fucking game. Steam has never forced me to do that, even when a game is highly corrupted it only downloads what it needs to and I've had game installs so corrupted that 60% of the files needed to be re-downloaded on Steam.
After Origin not even giving me the choice and automatically deciding to start the download, I stopped it and uninstalled both Origin and Battlefield 3. 100% of my problems were with both, but ultimately Origin proved to such a pain that keeping it wasn't worth the games it had on it.
Origin isn't the only reason I wont be buying Titanfall, but it may as well be.
>>(35GB of uncompressed audio)
> It was so that lower spec PCs can run it.
OMG have you thought your answer through? that would be effective only for a PC which is powerful enough to manage the graphics and engine and does not spare the cycles for audio.
Given that a 166mhz pc from twenty years ago effortlessly decoded mp3s in realtime, that in the meantime people have improved decoders, encoders, formats that audio playing is parallelizable, that uncompressed audio requires uncompressed IO, I think "aliens wanted that" is a better explanation. The best of course being that a 45gb game is less piratable than a 10gb one.
Except the pirates will compress the audio for quicker downloads.
And that it's pretty much an excursively multiplayer game, making piracy largely irrelevant.
That doesn't make any sense. Why not offer an install option to decompress the audio if that is the case?
I could see them wanting lossless audio, but FLAC isn't very computationally expensive, and fuck we have so many cores these days you could just dedicate one of them to this and only this and you wouldn't lose anything. It is also quite literally impossible to improve audio quality beyond 48/16 FLAC if you have normal human ears, and it costs all of nothing to implement.
Yes, but you're asking audiophiles to make sense.
It's like leaving Lindsey Lohan a line of coke and asking her not to snort it.
A chair is as comfy as a sofa, unless you have a very wide butt.
Only children and people with very wide butts play games in the living room. Proper adult gamers sit at a desk.
Size of my arse not withstanding, it's back support that gets me. A semi-decent computer chair (~100 office chair). I recently played a few hours of Mario Kart 64 (yep, dusted of the old N64) on a couch with some friends and by the end of it, my lower back was killing me. I never get this when I spend 4 hours playing Civ IV.
Say they are doing their best to reassure the domestic population that they are in competent control of the disaster, but they're in over their heads...
Not quite.
MAS is owned by the Malaysian Government holdings company (either wholly or majority, I cant remember which) and the airline has recently had another period of unprofitably. This is less about assuring the Malaysian people of anything and more about trying to do damage control to the rest of the world. Sadly they're doing it in SE Asian style which is more about maintaining face than fixing issues.
In addition to this, MAS is getting a lot of competition from Malaysia's low cost airline Air Asia and anything else that could eat into the MAS's revenue is detrimental to the Malaysian Govt so they're dialling the damage control up to 11.
JBOD
I have no idea why people would run RAID at home without a rock solid backup solution. Even using RAID 5 or 6 to protect against an individual disk failure leaves you wide open to a controller failure (especially if it's software RAID), I've seen consumer grade RAID controllers fail a lot. Seeing as you dont need the speed RAID provides, JBOD protects you against a controller failure but leaves you open to losing a disk, but would you rather lose a fraction of your pron, erm.. sorry, home media collection or the lot of it.
I ran 2 x 1 TB drives in RAID 1 for a while and all it did was conflict with the audio driver (both were inbuilt into my mobo).
I have a 16 TB media collection at home that I just back up on more hard drives.
External hard drives in USB cases + Robocopy works great for me.
Yep, two storage devices. Once you've got the data onto your backup device, you only have to keep it synced up some how. Personally I'd use a NAS but 4TB would be plenty for me.
Because so many states are disallowed.
Partner with Koingesseggessegesgeg... Because eventually they'll have to fill out a form to block them and no-one will be able to spell it.
"It can be fitted to a commercial airliner for less than $100,000. But the industry has decided that it's not worth the expense. Tell that the the families of passengers on Flight MH370."
Commercial airplane crashes are extremely rare. Even in these rare instances, it is even more rare not to find the aircraft that crashed.
This, aircraft fatalities are so rare that any single crash is international news, 300+ people die on Western Australian roads each year, there was a fatal truck crash near Yangebup last week... I doubt half the people in Perth, Western Australia would be aware of it.
You obviously don't know about the concept of closure, or care enough about someone else to care about it.
Because some company using a tragedy to peddle their wares that have dubious value and are not even remotely guaranteed to work is closer.
Pot, meed kettle.
FLYHT are scum. Their products have been rejected by the aviation industry because they don't add value but add additional cost (satellite data connections aren't cheap), are just as prone to failure as current methods (relies on instrumentation or manual activation) and have additional points of failure (a dial on demand satellite connection, when a flight disappears from radar and the pilots cannot be raised on the radio and the transponder is gone... WTF makes me think a dial on demand satellite connection will work). And now they're using a tragedy to try to peddle their crud.
I read the article, it's nothing but attacks on the aviation industry and badly used thought terminating cliche's like "tell that to the families". Its the kind of thing an angry pre-pubescent child would write when their parents ground them.
I can see how a constant stream of telemetry might be cost-prohibitive, but what about a squirt of data consisting of -
...sent every five minutes? At least that would give a 'last known' location.
- Flight Number
- Lat / Long
- Airspeed
- Groundspeed
- Altitude
- Compass heeding
Because we get all that from RADAR.
The problem the aviation industry has is that you, the customer want to pay less for flights, not more.
If an aircraft disappears from RADAR and you cant raise the pilots on the radio, such a system would in all likelihood be out of commission as well.
What does it matter, on a plane like the 777 that costs $260 to $377 *million* dollars to acquire? That's less than 4 hundreths of a percent of the acquisition cost. 100K$ is peanuts on the scale of costs it takes to acquire and operate a large airliner.
Costs to acquire are often not the highest costs. Same with this, it may cost $100K to purchase, but how much to keep running?
I read the article, the technology is flawed in two ways.
1, it depends on the instrumentation or pilots detecting something going wrong. One of the leading theories in the AF447 accident was that an instrument was reporting incorrectly.
2. it depends on satellite communication (which isn't cheap) and MH370 disappeared from RADAR and radio communications. What makes you think a dial on demand satellite connection would work.
Besides this, much like the summary the article is full of half baked assumptions, attacks on the aviation industry, emotive language and thought terminating cliche's in the place of fact or at least tests and results. The aviation industry rejected their devices before because they dont add any real value due to the flaws I mentioned above. They are essentially trying to use a tragedy to sell something of dubious value whilst people are too emotional to think critically. I think FLYHT are scum.
Remember 2G? Many cars that predate it are still on the road.
In a couple of years this will be as desirable as mid-90s in-car phones. Meanwhile you will pay higher sticker price.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
In a few years, you'll get a new loan for a new Audi. By then we'll be up to elevnety thousand G.
Signed,
VAG's planned obsolescence department.