Why in simple hell didn't they go after those individuals?
Where have you been for the last 15 years... That's exactly what they have been doing, suing grandmas and naive parents with a method called "speculative invoicing", threatening legal action if they didn't pay up. It stopped working as they lost in court a few times and people just started ignoring the letters.
Rank Location Number of McDonald's
1 US 14,146
2 Japan 2,975
3 China 2,391
4 Germany 1,470
5 Canada 1,450
6 France 1,419
7 UK 1,274
France has more McDonalds than the UK... We mustn't allow an Obesity Gap. Deep fry that pie immediately.
As required by the UK Ministry of Being British I must now point out that the above is hyperbole, at no point should a pie be fried, deep or otherwise and should be served with a real ale appropriate to the pies flavour.
As required by the UK Ministry of Sarcastic Pragmatism, I have no doubt the McPie will be a thing.
Being from the US it's tempting to make a "freedom of speech" argument, however since this is Australia I won't even go down that path. Looking at it from a purely logistical standpoint - how on Earth is a company supposed to suppress LIVESTREAMS of "extremist content". Even a human reviewer won't know what's going on until sometime specific happens.
The best they could ever hope for would be to just have a really good user reporting system but even with that you're not going to stop the first group of people from seeing it. All this will do is enforced is basically to make tech companies simply not allow livestreaming. And heck even outside of livestreaming for something like Youtube they can't possibly human review all uploaded content to know if it's against the rules.
To me, whether there's nefarious motive behind it or sincerely good intentions, this seems like a governmental push to get us back to the 1950's era of curated content only coming from official sources, rather than people actually sharing information among themselves.
It doesn't make sense because you're thinking the current Australian government has any real credibility. They don't.
Have they even voted to make this a law or is it just some Member's brainfart that made it to the press?
In either case, it will be universally ignored. Both by tech companies and by judges who actually enforce the law. In Australia the courts hold most of the power to determine which laws and what parts of laws are actually enforced.
However there is a federal election in Australia this year, so expect to see a lot of idiocy mentioned that will never actually see the dingy light of a parliamentary debate, let alone pass the senate and Attorney-Generals (basically the Supreme Court for lack of a better analogy).
Keep in mind that Spain is entirely in the wrong timezone It is south of the UK so it should be on the same timezone as the UK but instead it's on Central European time so 10-18 is actually 9-17. Also it's mainly only government offices that take 3h lunch breaks. At least in the Madrid area, the people who actually work for a living mainly get a 1h lunch break.
Keep in mind that many posters here on Slashdot are Americans and a 1 hour lunch break is wanton profligacy to American employers.
The reason behind the tradition of a Siesta is that it was during the warmest part of the day, with modern climate controlled offices this is less of an issue. Often afterwards they'd keep working into the evening, thus a lot of Spanish influenced cultures like South America still have their evening meals later (as in 9 or 10 PM later) even though they've adopted Anglo-American 9 to 5 working hours (well, 9 to 5 ish).
I'd like to know when your numbers came from. Because the age of those numbers is quite important.
However, it can help to force new standards. Even by your numbers (which again, need more detail as to when they are referring to) it lowers the total electricity usage in the US by 5%. That doesn't linearly mean that we produce 5% less pollution. It means that some coal burning plants might get shut down. And that makes a difference. Because, ultimately, plants don't tend to be turned off and on willy-nilly, because turning them on is hugely expensive. So saving energy can have outsized effects.
Also, making LED bulbs required was the only way to get them bought at scale, which was the only way to get them made at scale, which was the best way to make them cheap, which means I bought them, which has saved me money over time.
As would I.
For me, the numbers make sense. I remember as a kid replacing incandescent bulbs every few months, they'd last a year tops. I can recall replacing one CFL in the last 10 years. Not sure about LED bulbs, but given how reliable my other LED's have been, as long as you steer clear of cheap ones off of Ebay/Alibaba/my old dodgy mechanic, they should be fine.
I don't even keep spare bulbs any more. Not that they're expensive. £1.50 from a supermarket, £0.90 from IKEA, it's just that it's faster to drive to Tesco or ASDA than find where I left that spare.
I think it's equally important to recognize that both NASA and the astronauts are putting the mission first.
So will SJWs when they howl in outrage over invented sexism of this situation.
The only one's I've heard howling are people howling about how the WSJ's or whatever are allegedly howling...
We get it, you're afraid that somewhere, someone you don't like is being treated as an equal, but can you just bitch about it in private like you did in the 90's. Fuck I miss that decade.
The problem is that if the automated system can cause a crash, it will look bad. Just look at Boeing and MCAS - we do not know how many crashes it prevented (probably a few, since the plane could not be certified without it), but we know about the crashes it caused.
That is a false dichotomy.
There were not a spate of 737 crashes due to stalling prior to the MAX series, in fact there are many hundreds of 737 NG and Classic's still flying (even a few -100 and -200 no doubt). They aren't regularly stalling and crashing.
The MCAS system was "necessary" because Boeing had changed the design to move the engines forward and up, the MCAS system was there to make it similar to fly as the older NG models so it didn't get a separate type certification necessitating additional pilot training. The anti-stall part is there because the plane can go into an unintended climb due to the aforementioned engine move, placing the thrust directly under the wing rather than behind it like almost every other commercial twinjet.
This wasn't in response to an actual issue with existing planes... It was a decision to try to compensate for bad engineering with software and that never works out well.
I paid for the car. I expect it to protect my life first.
So you would like the machines to be selfish, rather than ethical on your behalf?
As for autonomous vehicles, ethics does not come into it. A car wont know if the person next to it is a Nobel laureate or meth dealer. It'll be programmed to minimise damage, we already have good rules for this which most drivers ignore, are ignorant of or just too silly to use them. One of the classic mistakes is swerving, if you're going to his something head on, don't swerve, if you swerve you risk rolling the car or hitting something side on. Just brake and hit it head on as you're more likely to survive that.
Ethics with AI won't become a real issue until we have actual AI as in Strong AI or Artificial General Intelligence. Until then the ethics part remains the responsibility of the human commanding it.
As a Canadian, I can confidently state that we do, in fact, have to pay health premiums.
In many cases, they are paid for by the employer, but where they are not, they still exist.
Here in BC, a person can spend up to about $40/month on health premiums.
I'm guessing Canada is a lot like the UK where the state provided single payer system provides all your health necessities, but not any of the optional stuff like private rooms in hospitals, elective procedures, et al. which can be insured privately. Strangely enough, for a much lower sum than essential health care in countries without a single payer system.
It's not unusual for a UK employer to include health insurance beyond the NHS provisions as a perk for it's employees... But the NHS is still there so I'm not subservient to my employer for basic medical care.
1. Nice lie. It's not "get rid of CAFE standards". It's "don't price the working class out of cars". Physics is a bitch, and she doesn't care about your green agenda.
I think you mean economics, not physics. But don't worry, it's not the worst factual error you've made.
But here is a novel idea, instead of trying to make cheaper and crappier cars (developing nations have you licked there, they're making cheaper and more modern cars), why don't you try raising your standard of living so that the working class can afford a decent car, instead of having to buy an Ignition Deathtrap that struggles to get 20 MPG due to it's ancient engine design. Raising living standards, just a crazy idea.
3. Keep out them damn immigrants
Favorite source of conservative fear-mongering supported by thinks tanks like CIS
Net result: increased costs for consumers and increased off-shoring of tech jobs (as demonstrated in this article)
Told you so (not you OP, the royal you).
In 2017 when they said Trump was "gunna get the immagrunts out and bring jobs back for real 'Merkins", I said that the jobs themselves will be sent offshore. Well, that's happening isn't it.
From both a business and product design standpoint they could not have made a more moronic decision, this is a godsend to their competitors, and I can bet you that the sales and marketing department of Airbus are currently ecstatic over this.
Short-medium range narrow body aircraft in the 150-200 pax range are going gangbusters at the moment and Airbuses order books for the A320 family are already full. If it drags on, it might be worth Airbus opening another A320 production line.
I think Boeing are eventually going to have to put different engines on the 737 MAX (possibly the same ones used in the NG series) until a new airframe can be produced that can accommodate the CFM LEAP engines. This would still give the advantage to Airbus as they are able offer the CFM LEAP engines in the A320 NEO but Boeing would retain customers who have standardised on a single type (most low cost carriers do this). I definately don't think a software patch or additional sensor will fix the fundamental problem of the engine's being in front of the wing (thus the thrust is going directly underneath the surface of the wing).
The game doesn't even run locally. All you get is streaming video/audio and all the lag you'd expect (including controller lag), which is a recipe for disaster in North America.
It would be a recipe for disaster here in Southern England where you're not going to be far from the datacentre and network connections are pretty good... a 40 ms input lag will see controllers launched with the force required to cross the channel. We'd have declared war on Ireland, Norway and France (again) within a week.
I guess you drove the 900 mile trip without refueling? Is it really so terrible to stop for 30 minutes after 3 hours of driving?
I've driven 1,200 KM in a single day... total trip of 2,289 KM... Having to stop every 3 hours for 4 hours would definitely be terrible.
Given some of my trips into the wilderness, after 1.5 hours you run out of charging points because then you're off of grid power and wont get back to it for thousands of KM without turning around.
You know how many times I've stopped to "fill up" the last 3 months? 0. I take 10 seconds to plug in at night and start each day full. 0 time wasted as the gas station. No diesel or gas on my hands or shoes or fumes breathed. How is it you can write off EVs based on 6 30 minute driving breaks, but not write off gas cars for 52 trips to the gas station?
Not everyone live in Hipster Central. Where I live I'd need a 30 metre extension cord and to leave my house unlocked and open in order to charge a car nightly. Same as most of the other 218,000 others who live in my town which is 45 mins from London.
More over, if I a mate called me and asked "hey, I've got a spare ticket to see Roger Daltry playing in Newquay tonight, want to come" I'd hate to have to say "Sorry, my half charged car simply cant make it the 240 miles to Newquay" where as my half filled car could.
If anything, you've demonstrated that EV's are primarily driven by wankers who've got no idea how normal people live.
The issue isn't the politicians per se, though - It's the voters. Why is Trump imposing tariffs? Because that's what his voters want. Why is Mitch McConnell obstructionist? Because his Trump-supporting voter base want that. You can blame "bribes" all you want - But much of the decision-making by politicians is driven by the will of their voters, plain and simple.
Do you have evidence that is actually what voters want?
I'm pretty sure the farmers are dead set against the tarriffs he's put in, as are most industries that do business with China.
One of the biggest problems with our current form of democracy is that a lot of things get passed against the wishes of voters. Some of it is because it's things people would never have voted for but need (pragmatism) but others like France's war in Libya are ideologically driven and not supported by the majority. Trump is one of the biggest examples of this, he thinks he's a king and not subject the will of anyone else, the fact that voters only directly get a say in it is every 4 years only reinforces that point. The UK parliament and current Tory government is the next biggest example after Trump.
The reason German cars are German Cars is due to the Autobahn. If a car is tight at 180 kph, it will be very good at 90 kph.
Not necessarily, cars designed exclusively for high speed runs like rocket cars and dragsters tend to have very bad low speed handling.
Not all German cars are good either, they produce a lot of mass market crap that Americans never see... However the one's you're thinking of, they're good cars because they've been designed to be good at low and high speeds. 180 KPH (111 MPH) isn't that fast for a modern sporty-ish car. My BMW M240i will go up to about 170 MPH (~280 KPH) if you took the 155 MPH limiter off, however like most road legal cars, the steering starts to get light as you go faster and lose downforce... Where this point is depends on the car, I've had older cars that would start to get light at 90 KPH (Nissan Silvia S15 to be exact).
I have a decent sense of direction, but as far as I can tell it comes from tracking a virtual map, not a magnetic compass. This is especially obvious when walking curved streets or other confusing layouts that can completely mess up my sense of direction.
Living as an antipodean most of my life, it was travelling to the Northern Hemisphere that used to seriously mess up my sense of direction but in the most accurate way. I'd start walking south when I'd think it was north. After a while I learned to transpose north and south when north of the equator. Living in Europe for a while I've adjusted and I'm not sure how I'd handle an antipodean city I didn't know.
I have a decent sense of direction, but as far as I can tell it comes from tracking a virtual map, not a magnetic compass. This is especially obvious when walking curved streets or other confusing layouts that can completely mess up my sense of direction.
A bit of both. I've always been able to tell where north is, but also have an inbuilt ability to orienteer by landmarks. Being able to go N/E/S/W is useless if you don't know which way you're meant to be going.
It's left/right directions that get me lost (not always because the kind of person who gives left/right directions invariably gets it wrong). I honestly struggle to remember how many lefts past Farmer Bumfuchs windmill I'm supposed to take, just give me an address, landmark, GPS or lat/long coordinates and stop waffling on about if "I see the bridge I've gone too far", my phone navigates better than most people could ever hope to.
To maintain a really high end gaming PC takes a lot of time and effort, more than most people are willing to invest
I have spend 0 hours maintaining my high end gaming PC this month, about 10 mins last month clearing a bit of space on my SSD for a new game.
If you spend any significant amount of time managing your gaming PC, you really suck at it and should probably go and join the ranks of the Filthy Console Peasants who spend their time swapping discs(oh, how quaint). Long gone are the days where you need to program custom autoexec.bat files, if you're truly lazy Steam does everything for you (hell, you can even remote install games these days so it's ready to play by the time you've finished your McNuggets).
this service is a way to experience high-end graphics with none of the hardware pains that comes with owning and maintaining a gaming PC. Yes there are downsides but more casual gamers will happily take that tradeoff.
Hahahahahahaha... High end graphics.
Nope, you'll be experiencing average graphics and hideous input lag.
If bandwidth is concerned, it is no different than watching Netflix, Hulu, Twitch, Prime Video, or YouTube. Consumers are already aware of their data caps if they're hitting them.
Data caps aren't a huge issue for anyone with a wired broadband connection. It takes a lot of streaming to hit a 500 GB quota in a month, you need to be doing 1.5 mbps 24/7 just to reach it... And I haven't had a 500 GB quota in years.
The problem is going to be latency, not data caps. Currently streaming services are relatively stutter free because they buffer content, they can do this because the content is static so they can easily download it in advance. Amazon regularly detects my connection as being slow so starts off with a low quality stream until I tell it to use 1080, it still takes a minute before it's gone through the buffer of low quality content.
With streaming games you cant do this. You need to send the input signal over the internet, then return the processed graphics. This creates a huge input lag that will be noticed. Steam Link users complain a lot about input lag and in that case the "server" is a gaming PC in their own house on the same network, not in a datacentre 400 miles and a dozen routers away.
Supporting a Communist nation after the advice USA is Germany going Communist.
Advice isn't enough. America also needs to provide evidence. So far they have none.
If the Trump administration continues to lie about this, they may even start to lose their credibility.
What do you mean by "start to"... As an Australian born Brit, I can assure you that the Trump Administration started with very little credibility (mainly due to the way Trump ran his campaign) and has been trying as hard as they can to lose whatever shreds of credibility they started with.
They wont stop lying though. They're people with no dignity, as long as their lies are believed by someone they'll keep saying them.
Trump doesn't get basic shit. You don't threaten people to get what you want except as a last resort - not a first resort. This is why he sucks at "dealmaking" and has basically failed at every opportunity to do so.
This was a very winnable objective.
We joke over this side of the pond, if Trump had negotiated Brexit then we'd have already adopted the Euro and German as the national language.
The problem with Trump is that his money and family connections meant he was able to walk over smaller people with impunity. That power matters for nought in international trade and diplomacy and you need to actually work with your opponents to secure a good deal. Bluster and impudence will get you at the very best, ignored.
Crytek has published a video showing an ordinary AMD Vega 56 GPU -- which has no raytracing specific circuitry and only costs around $450
Wait a fucking minute. "Only" costs around $450? If I tried to spend $450 on a video card for gaming, my wallet would jump up and slap me on the head. Visa would call me and ask if my credit card had been stolen.
Fairy nuff...
You're not the intended audience. For a PC gamer, US$450 is mid range for a graphics card. High end cards easily cost in the $700 to $1000 range. I tend to buy mid range cards and replace them more often as they become a bottleneck. A CPU and Mainboard will keep trucking for 6 or more years, graphics cards tend to last 2-3.
Yes, there are heaps of memes about how much we spend on gaming, it's the same as any hobby, motorsports, golfing... in fact high end PC ownership is significantly cheaper than being a golfist.
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Why in simple hell didn't they go after those individuals?
Where have you been for the last 15 years... That's exactly what they have been doing, suing grandmas and naive parents with a method called "speculative invoicing", threatening legal action if they didn't pay up. It stopped working as they lost in court a few times and people just started ignoring the letters.
France has more McDonalds than the UK... We mustn't allow an Obesity Gap. Deep fry that pie immediately.
As required by the UK Ministry of Being British I must now point out that the above is hyperbole, at no point should a pie be fried, deep or otherwise and should be served with a real ale appropriate to the pies flavour.
As required by the UK Ministry of Sarcastic Pragmatism, I have no doubt the McPie will be a thing.
This doesn't make any sense to me.
Being from the US it's tempting to make a "freedom of speech" argument, however since this is Australia I won't even go down that path. Looking at it from a purely logistical standpoint - how on Earth is a company supposed to suppress LIVESTREAMS of "extremist content". Even a human reviewer won't know what's going on until sometime specific happens.
The best they could ever hope for would be to just have a really good user reporting system but even with that you're not going to stop the first group of people from seeing it. All this will do is enforced is basically to make tech companies simply not allow livestreaming. And heck even outside of livestreaming for something like Youtube they can't possibly human review all uploaded content to know if it's against the rules.
To me, whether there's nefarious motive behind it or sincerely good intentions, this seems like a governmental push to get us back to the 1950's era of curated content only coming from official sources, rather than people actually sharing information among themselves.
It doesn't make sense because you're thinking the current Australian government has any real credibility. They don't.
Have they even voted to make this a law or is it just some Member's brainfart that made it to the press?
In either case, it will be universally ignored. Both by tech companies and by judges who actually enforce the law. In Australia the courts hold most of the power to determine which laws and what parts of laws are actually enforced.
However there is a federal election in Australia this year, so expect to see a lot of idiocy mentioned that will never actually see the dingy light of a parliamentary debate, let alone pass the senate and Attorney-Generals (basically the Supreme Court for lack of a better analogy).
tech will just take an ausexit then
And what exactly will they be removing from Australia?
This would be like Iran threatening to leave the Mars... They haven't got anything there to leave.
Keep in mind that Spain is entirely in the wrong timezone It is south of the UK so it should be on the same timezone as the UK but instead it's on Central European time so 10-18 is actually 9-17. Also it's mainly only government offices that take 3h lunch breaks. At least in the Madrid area, the people who actually work for a living mainly get a 1h lunch break.
Keep in mind that many posters here on Slashdot are Americans and a 1 hour lunch break is wanton profligacy to American employers.
The reason behind the tradition of a Siesta is that it was during the warmest part of the day, with modern climate controlled offices this is less of an issue. Often afterwards they'd keep working into the evening, thus a lot of Spanish influenced cultures like South America still have their evening meals later (as in 9 or 10 PM later) even though they've adopted Anglo-American 9 to 5 working hours (well, 9 to 5 ish).
I'd like to know when your numbers came from. Because the age of those numbers is quite important.
However, it can help to force new standards. Even by your numbers (which again, need more detail as to when they are referring to) it lowers the total electricity usage in the US by 5%. That doesn't linearly mean that we produce 5% less pollution. It means that some coal burning plants might get shut down. And that makes a difference. Because, ultimately, plants don't tend to be turned off and on willy-nilly, because turning them on is hugely expensive. So saving energy can have outsized effects.
Also, making LED bulbs required was the only way to get them bought at scale, which was the only way to get them made at scale, which was the best way to make them cheap, which means I bought them, which has saved me money over time.
As would I.
For me, the numbers make sense. I remember as a kid replacing incandescent bulbs every few months, they'd last a year tops. I can recall replacing one CFL in the last 10 years. Not sure about LED bulbs, but given how reliable my other LED's have been, as long as you steer clear of cheap ones off of Ebay/Alibaba/my old dodgy mechanic, they should be fine.
I don't even keep spare bulbs any more. Not that they're expensive. £1.50 from a supermarket, £0.90 from IKEA, it's just that it's faster to drive to Tesco or ASDA than find where I left that spare.
I think it's equally important to recognize that both NASA and the astronauts are putting the mission first.
So will SJWs when they howl in outrage over invented sexism of this situation.
The only one's I've heard howling are people howling about how the WSJ's or whatever are allegedly howling...
We get it, you're afraid that somewhere, someone you don't like is being treated as an equal, but can you just bitch about it in private like you did in the 90's. Fuck I miss that decade.
The problem is that if the automated system can cause a crash, it will look bad. Just look at Boeing and MCAS - we do not know how many crashes it prevented (probably a few, since the plane could not be certified without it), but we know about the crashes it caused.
That is a false dichotomy.
There were not a spate of 737 crashes due to stalling prior to the MAX series, in fact there are many hundreds of 737 NG and Classic's still flying (even a few -100 and -200 no doubt). They aren't regularly stalling and crashing.
The MCAS system was "necessary" because Boeing had changed the design to move the engines forward and up, the MCAS system was there to make it similar to fly as the older NG models so it didn't get a separate type certification necessitating additional pilot training. The anti-stall part is there because the plane can go into an unintended climb due to the aforementioned engine move, placing the thrust directly under the wing rather than behind it like almost every other commercial twinjet.
This wasn't in response to an actual issue with existing planes... It was a decision to try to compensate for bad engineering with software and that never works out well.
I paid for the car. I expect it to protect my life first.
So you would like the machines to be selfish, rather than ethical on your behalf?
As for autonomous vehicles, ethics does not come into it. A car wont know if the person next to it is a Nobel laureate or meth dealer. It'll be programmed to minimise damage, we already have good rules for this which most drivers ignore, are ignorant of or just too silly to use them. One of the classic mistakes is swerving, if you're going to his something head on, don't swerve, if you swerve you risk rolling the car or hitting something side on. Just brake and hit it head on as you're more likely to survive that.
Ethics with AI won't become a real issue until we have actual AI as in Strong AI or Artificial General Intelligence. Until then the ethics part remains the responsibility of the human commanding it.
As a Canadian, I can confidently state that we do, in fact, have to pay health premiums.
In many cases, they are paid for by the employer, but where they are not, they still exist.
Here in BC, a person can spend up to about $40/month on health premiums.
I'm guessing Canada is a lot like the UK where the state provided single payer system provides all your health necessities, but not any of the optional stuff like private rooms in hospitals, elective procedures, et al. which can be insured privately. Strangely enough, for a much lower sum than essential health care in countries without a single payer system.
It's not unusual for a UK employer to include health insurance beyond the NHS provisions as a perk for it's employees... But the NHS is still there so I'm not subservient to my employer for basic medical care.
1. Nice lie. It's not "get rid of CAFE standards". It's "don't price the working class out of cars". Physics is a bitch, and she doesn't care about your green agenda.
I think you mean economics, not physics. But don't worry, it's not the worst factual error you've made.
But here is a novel idea, instead of trying to make cheaper and crappier cars (developing nations have you licked there, they're making cheaper and more modern cars), why don't you try raising your standard of living so that the working class can afford a decent car, instead of having to buy an Ignition Deathtrap that struggles to get 20 MPG due to it's ancient engine design. Raising living standards, just a crazy idea.
3. Keep out them damn immigrants
Favorite source of conservative fear-mongering supported by thinks tanks like CIS
Net result: increased costs for consumers and increased off-shoring of tech jobs (as demonstrated in this article)
Told you so (not you OP, the royal you).
In 2017 when they said Trump was "gunna get the immagrunts out and bring jobs back for real 'Merkins", I said that the jobs themselves will be sent offshore. Well, that's happening isn't it.
From both a business and product design standpoint they could not have made a more moronic decision, this is a godsend to their competitors, and I can bet you that the sales and marketing department of Airbus are currently ecstatic over this.
Short-medium range narrow body aircraft in the 150-200 pax range are going gangbusters at the moment and Airbuses order books for the A320 family are already full. If it drags on, it might be worth Airbus opening another A320 production line. I think Boeing are eventually going to have to put different engines on the 737 MAX (possibly the same ones used in the NG series) until a new airframe can be produced that can accommodate the CFM LEAP engines. This would still give the advantage to Airbus as they are able offer the CFM LEAP engines in the A320 NEO but Boeing would retain customers who have standardised on a single type (most low cost carriers do this). I definately don't think a software patch or additional sensor will fix the fundamental problem of the engine's being in front of the wing (thus the thrust is going directly underneath the surface of the wing).
The game doesn't even run locally. All you get is streaming video/audio and all the lag you'd expect (including controller lag), which is a recipe for disaster in North America.
It would be a recipe for disaster here in Southern England where you're not going to be far from the datacentre and network connections are pretty good... a 40 ms input lag will see controllers launched with the force required to cross the channel. We'd have declared war on Ireland, Norway and France (again) within a week.
I guess you drove the 900 mile trip without refueling? Is it really so terrible to stop for 30 minutes after 3 hours of driving?
I've driven 1,200 KM in a single day... total trip of 2,289 KM... Having to stop every 3 hours for 4 hours would definitely be terrible.
Given some of my trips into the wilderness, after 1.5 hours you run out of charging points because then you're off of grid power and wont get back to it for thousands of KM without turning around.
You know how many times I've stopped to "fill up" the last 3 months? 0. I take 10 seconds to plug in at night and start each day full. 0 time wasted as the gas station. No diesel or gas on my hands or shoes or fumes breathed. How is it you can write off EVs based on 6 30 minute driving breaks, but not write off gas cars for 52 trips to the gas station?
Not everyone live in Hipster Central. Where I live I'd need a 30 metre extension cord and to leave my house unlocked and open in order to charge a car nightly. Same as most of the other 218,000 others who live in my town which is 45 mins from London.
More over, if I a mate called me and asked "hey, I've got a spare ticket to see Roger Daltry playing in Newquay tonight, want to come" I'd hate to have to say "Sorry, my half charged car simply cant make it the 240 miles to Newquay" where as my half filled car could.
If anything, you've demonstrated that EV's are primarily driven by wankers who've got no idea how normal people live.
The issue isn't the politicians per se, though - It's the voters. Why is Trump imposing tariffs? Because that's what his voters want. Why is Mitch McConnell obstructionist? Because his Trump-supporting voter base want that. You can blame "bribes" all you want - But much of the decision-making by politicians is driven by the will of their voters, plain and simple.
Do you have evidence that is actually what voters want?
I'm pretty sure the farmers are dead set against the tarriffs he's put in, as are most industries that do business with China.
One of the biggest problems with our current form of democracy is that a lot of things get passed against the wishes of voters. Some of it is because it's things people would never have voted for but need (pragmatism) but others like France's war in Libya are ideologically driven and not supported by the majority. Trump is one of the biggest examples of this, he thinks he's a king and not subject the will of anyone else, the fact that voters only directly get a say in it is every 4 years only reinforces that point. The UK parliament and current Tory government is the next biggest example after Trump.
A drunk toddler could make better policy decisions than most politicians.
They would have to get elected first. Oh wait. Crap.
Isn't Trump a teetotaller?
I think he'd make better decisions if he was a drunkard. We'd at least be able to take him more seriously (in vino veritas and all that).
The reason German cars are German Cars is due to the Autobahn. If a car is tight at 180 kph, it will be very good at 90 kph.
Not necessarily, cars designed exclusively for high speed runs like rocket cars and dragsters tend to have very bad low speed handling.
Not all German cars are good either, they produce a lot of mass market crap that Americans never see... However the one's you're thinking of, they're good cars because they've been designed to be good at low and high speeds. 180 KPH (111 MPH) isn't that fast for a modern sporty-ish car. My BMW M240i will go up to about 170 MPH (~280 KPH) if you took the 155 MPH limiter off, however like most road legal cars, the steering starts to get light as you go faster and lose downforce... Where this point is depends on the car, I've had older cars that would start to get light at 90 KPH (Nissan Silvia S15 to be exact).
I have a decent sense of direction, but as far as I can tell it comes from tracking a virtual map, not a magnetic compass. This is especially obvious when walking curved streets or other confusing layouts that can completely mess up my sense of direction.
Living as an antipodean most of my life, it was travelling to the Northern Hemisphere that used to seriously mess up my sense of direction but in the most accurate way. I'd start walking south when I'd think it was north. After a while I learned to transpose north and south when north of the equator. Living in Europe for a while I've adjusted and I'm not sure how I'd handle an antipodean city I didn't know.
I have a decent sense of direction, but as far as I can tell it comes from tracking a virtual map, not a magnetic compass. This is especially obvious when walking curved streets or other confusing layouts that can completely mess up my sense of direction.
A bit of both. I've always been able to tell where north is, but also have an inbuilt ability to orienteer by landmarks. Being able to go N/E/S/W is useless if you don't know which way you're meant to be going.
It's left/right directions that get me lost (not always because the kind of person who gives left/right directions invariably gets it wrong). I honestly struggle to remember how many lefts past Farmer Bumfuchs windmill I'm supposed to take, just give me an address, landmark, GPS or lat/long coordinates and stop waffling on about if "I see the bridge I've gone too far", my phone navigates better than most people could ever hope to.
To maintain a really high end gaming PC takes a lot of time and effort, more than most people are willing to invest
I have spend 0 hours maintaining my high end gaming PC this month, about 10 mins last month clearing a bit of space on my SSD for a new game.
If you spend any significant amount of time managing your gaming PC, you really suck at it and should probably go and join the ranks of the Filthy Console Peasants who spend their time swapping discs(oh, how quaint). Long gone are the days where you need to program custom autoexec.bat files, if you're truly lazy Steam does everything for you (hell, you can even remote install games these days so it's ready to play by the time you've finished your McNuggets).
this service is a way to experience high-end graphics with none of the hardware pains that comes with owning and maintaining a gaming PC. Yes there are downsides but more casual gamers will happily take that tradeoff.
Hahahahahahaha... High end graphics.
Nope, you'll be experiencing average graphics and hideous input lag.
If bandwidth is concerned, it is no different than watching Netflix, Hulu, Twitch, Prime Video, or YouTube. Consumers are already aware of their data caps if they're hitting them.
Data caps aren't a huge issue for anyone with a wired broadband connection. It takes a lot of streaming to hit a 500 GB quota in a month, you need to be doing 1.5 mbps 24/7 just to reach it... And I haven't had a 500 GB quota in years.
The problem is going to be latency, not data caps. Currently streaming services are relatively stutter free because they buffer content, they can do this because the content is static so they can easily download it in advance. Amazon regularly detects my connection as being slow so starts off with a low quality stream until I tell it to use 1080, it still takes a minute before it's gone through the buffer of low quality content.
With streaming games you cant do this. You need to send the input signal over the internet, then return the processed graphics. This creates a huge input lag that will be noticed. Steam Link users complain a lot about input lag and in that case the "server" is a gaming PC in their own house on the same network, not in a datacentre 400 miles and a dozen routers away.
Supporting a Communist nation after the advice USA is Germany going Communist.
Advice isn't enough. America also needs to provide evidence. So far they have none.
If the Trump administration continues to lie about this, they may even start to lose their credibility.
What do you mean by "start to"... As an Australian born Brit, I can assure you that the Trump Administration started with very little credibility (mainly due to the way Trump ran his campaign) and has been trying as hard as they can to lose whatever shreds of credibility they started with.
They wont stop lying though. They're people with no dignity, as long as their lies are believed by someone they'll keep saying them.
Trump doesn't get basic shit. You don't threaten people to get what you want except as a last resort - not a first resort. This is why he sucks at "dealmaking" and has basically failed at every opportunity to do so.
This was a very winnable objective.
We joke over this side of the pond, if Trump had negotiated Brexit then we'd have already adopted the Euro and German as the national language.
The problem with Trump is that his money and family connections meant he was able to walk over smaller people with impunity. That power matters for nought in international trade and diplomacy and you need to actually work with your opponents to secure a good deal. Bluster and impudence will get you at the very best, ignored.
Wait a fucking minute. "Only" costs around $450? If I tried to spend $450 on a video card for gaming, my wallet would jump up and slap me on the head. Visa would call me and ask if my credit card had been stolen.
Fairy nuff...
You're not the intended audience. For a PC gamer, US$450 is mid range for a graphics card. High end cards easily cost in the $700 to $1000 range. I tend to buy mid range cards and replace them more often as they become a bottleneck. A CPU and Mainboard will keep trucking for 6 or more years, graphics cards tend to last 2-3.
Yes, there are heaps of memes about how much we spend on gaming, it's the same as any hobby, motorsports, golfing... in fact high end PC ownership is significantly cheaper than being a golfist.