Further more, this wasn't a cheat device like the VW/Audi saga.
Emissions testing in Japan operates on the "honour system" as the Americans would say. So they rely on the manufacturers doing their own tests and reporting them. This is far from the first time a Japanese company has been caught slightly misrepresenting the numbers either.
Emissions ratings in the US or Europe will still be determined by testing.
I live in lovely Barkshire in England. Its mid summer here, the sun came up at 4:12 this morning and wont go down until 22:05. Without DST, the sun would come up at 3:12.
"B-B-B-B-But why not just use DST the whole year round then" I hear a droll and dreary voice say... Because in winter it is dark by 17:00 and having it dark at 16:00 will be a whole lot worse.
BTW, the heatwave here is killing all the grass and it's making me depressed because it reminds me of Perth... I want my verdant hills of England damn it.
Let's see here. Producing an entry-level human takes over 16 years of high-intensity work involving dozens of skilled workers. More if he needs a post-graduate degree. Doesn't sound that easy to me.
You're not thinking like a manager...
You can outsource the work and the cost of producing an base model human to other people. Externalities do not come out of my bottom line (or my bonus).
All it costs us is 1 x Iphone per unit, unit obeys Iphone.
The definition (from Merriam-Webster) of capitalism is:
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
There is no requirement for well regulated or anything.
This is an example of the no true Scotsman fallacy. Concretely, pure capitalism seems to lead to monopolies. Instead of accepting this and thus that pure capitalism is not perfect, people try to change the definition of it.
This, free markets require necessary regulation, capitalism requires no such thing. There has never been a true capitalist economy, unlike communism which has been tried and failed, pure capitalism failed before even getting off the ground. Almost all successful economies are mixed, neither pure capitalist or socialist.
OTOH, free markets can be strangled by too much unnecessary regulation. Its a balancing act.
"no individual brand is as predictive of being high-income as owning an Apple iPhone in 2016,"
Seriously? Owning a Bentley is a worse predictor of being high-income than owning an Apple iPhone? Are we sure there are no further qualifications here?
I suspect the "research" was done to fit the Iphone owners opinion of themselves.
Iphones are not a status symbol, the only people who think they are status symbols are hopeless Apple fanboys. For most people they're just another phone, even someone on benefits can get one on a £40 a month contract. Possibly less.
Likewise you don't have to be rich to own a Bentley, there are a few 90's Brooklands or Mulsannes going for less than £10,000. OTOH, there are people still living with their mum so they can afford the minimum repayments on a 13 yr old Lambo Gallardo (they for about £40,000 IIRC).
If you want a true indication of money, look for people who aren't looking at the price tags.
It's got police force logos on it, which implies that they endorse it. If they don't then hopefully they will pay Nextbase a visit to sort that out.
Do you live in the UK?
Have you not seen the thousands of Walts on bycyles with yellow POLITE jackets trying to look like they're cops? That matters not.
For the Johnny Foreigners amongst us, in the UK we've got legions of cyclists wearing vests like this so that you might get them confused with one of these.
Use of police logos is not a crime, hell... we dont even prosecute people who pretend to be police. Also, the logo's are buried down at the bottom of the page next to big writing saying "We support the police". They could have put Royal Mail logos on there for all it matters.
The fact that it doesn't include Scotland, or Northern Ireland doesn't really make it a 'UK National' service.
Given the fact that this is being run by a private company (dashcam brand Nextbase) who are simply submitting the footage to the police on your bahalf, it's not even an English and Welsh service... Its a private service that will likely be ignored by the Police.
Do you have any idea how prosecution of driving offences works in the UK?
The police are regulated because they have been found do abuse traffic laws. The equipment they can use is regulated, the places they can operate are regulated, the way they can detect offences is regulated. And still there is abuse.
There is heavy pressure for you to settle the matter out of court. Pay your fine, go on an "awareness" course, don't fight it in court. If you do fight it, you need to pay for your own defence, and if you lose also the court fees.
Defending yourself can be very tricky. The courts are corrupt and tend to side with the police unless you have extremely powerful evidence of your innocence.
I was with you up until here.
The courts in the UK are far from corrupt, it's just that the police do not prosecute until they have significant evidence. Otherwise they'd get in trouble for wasting court time.
People most often lose traffic ticket defences because they're most often guilty (also, have no idea how to defend themselves). If you can demonstrate your innocence it wont even get to court as you can take the matter up with the police and CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) directly and if you're evidence is even remotely plausible, they'll drop the charge.
The solution to the fact that everyone makes mistakes driving is not to let everyone get away with it. It's to reduce the fines to the point where people who rarely make mistakes can afford it but people who make them constantly can't afford it (this also really requires adjusting fines to the driver's income, but that's a different matter).
The UK system is high fines, but low prosecution numbers. I've passed police cars doing 10MPH or more over the limit, as long as you're being polite and safe you're fine. Cops will only pull you over for doing things that are stupid and/or dangerous.
This is a private run thing by dashcam brand "Nextbase" to try to sell more dashcams. The various police forces in the UK have nothing to do with this what so ever and are not likely to prosecute anyone over it as it's easy to call video evidence not taken by a an authorised officer into doubt.
I'm as concerned about this as I am about being shot.... which in the UK means I'm more concerned about Eastenders... which I never watch.
It's because I'm away or simply because I don't want to answer. (You decide)."
That was my status message on my IM clients and I never used the "away" status. For some reason it worked, because it left to the sender with the responsibility of deciding what was the actual reason for not receiving an answer. And because that simple reason no-one ever felt offended because no-one wanted to think that I do not want to answer.
I find this to be pointless. People trying to contact you fall into two basic categories, someone who always respects my time and someone who never respects my time. The former will not bother me unless it's important if I'm busy, the later doesn't care as they think their problem is more important than anything else. The later will bug you until you respond and really should be told to sod off at an earlier opportunity before they get too emotionally invested.
I think we have a really deep cultural problem, fueled by the IM applications were there is an "expectation" of being available all the time... With the message status confirmations is even worse. Sometimes you simply cannot answer (I.E.: you check your phone in the middle of a meeting and is nothing of importance so you can answer after the meeting is finished).
IM isn't responsible for this, its a bad work culture that is responsible for this. If a worker cannot make it clear that they will be difficult to contact or uncontactable out of hours or when they are busy then you have a broken work culture. Here in the UK, most employers will respect that you're busy, hell you're busy for them so a good line manager will head off disruption at the pass. I've certainly had managers that have said "Dave's busy on the XYZ, we need him to finsih that quickly so can you put it in a ticket" and omit the "like you're meant to do and bloody well know it" unless they're being particularly annoying.
IM just is a tool, an inert, unanthropomorphiseable tool. Its up to people to decide on how its used.
Adblocker and script blocker. I run Ghostery and Ublock Origin and never am I bothered by those things.
What I need is something that gets rid of those stupid "The EU decided that privacy is worth protecting so we're going to fuck with you until you accept our data mining" popups. Right now my response is to close the tab or hit the back button (and don't get me started on apps and sites that don't respect my back button).
Doctor Who has a much bigger problem than a female Doctor, which I'm not sure is a problem at all. The real issue is that the stories just haven't been that interesting the past few series. The format of the show doesn't help here.
This, its down to lazy writing and larger FX budgets being used to compensate. Just throw in another Angel/Dalek/Cyberman story and move on. Its become as bad as Star Trek. It doesn't bother me about the Doctor's gender, what bothers me is that it was thrown in to compensate for crappy writing.
All good points, but ummm, why would you want that in the license plate? Put this inside the vehicle where itâ(TM)s secure, isnâ(TM)t exposed to the elements and wonâ(TM)t have accidental knocks. A digital screen is great if you need to change the contents, but s license plate never changes, so whatâ(TM)s the point?
Not inside the cabin, the min wage flunkie can play with it when it's there.
Hook it up to an ODB II port on the inside of the engine bay... Like UPS and countless other logistics companies already do (in fact tachometers are required by law on lorries here in the EU).
... a piece of cake for Apple to pull off. After all, they've got obscene amounts of money on the bank.
But Apple lacks the experience and the talent.
I guess you're a PM who thinks 9 women can make a baby in 1 month. Building something takes more than money.
It took ages for Google to catch up to ESRI and that was only implementing the features they wanted, ArcGIS still does far more than Google Maps but Google Maps does 90% of what people use it for (and about 60% of what people use ArcGIS for). In the mean time, ESRI was being complacent.
So how long will it take Apple to get to where Google currently is? And do you think Google will be sitting idly by while this happens?
That's good to hear. Maybe the new maps will have all of I-140 around Wilmington, NC. It opened last year before Thanksgiving and still isn't showing up on the map. You can see the damn road in the satellite view. I even sent them an email asking them to add it about 2 months ago.
As an aside, I've noticed that few kids these days, with their iPhones and maps (probably from Google), know where they are. But they all know where they're going.
I thought Google maps taking a whole 2 weeks to add the Shinfield bypass in Reading was taking a while. To be fair, the Shinfield bypass was opened early and for that 2 weeks it was practically my own private motorway.
You'd be surprised the details some people leave on their resumes. Addresses, previous employers. All of this (especially the previous employers bit) is useful for future marketing campaigns and cold calling.
If I had stock in Tesla (or any car company) I would rather want to know how many cars they sell, not how many they produce. Selling makes you rich, not producing. Producing only makes you poor.
Nope. You can sell all you want, but if you have no product people are going to ask for their money back.
Seen plenty of companies try to sell their way out of a production problem, it's never worked. Selling is less important than producing as good products sell themselves.
Finally, the saying your looking for regarding Tesla is "revenue is vanity, profit is sanity". It doesn't matter how much you sell if you're making a loss on each one.
Whipslash, please start deleting this spam. It shows up in just about every article and is totally offtopic. This has nothing to do with my political views and everything to do with not liking spam posts. There's just too much offtopic nonsense (Trump/Hillary posts, APK spam, threads attacking creimer, etc...) polluting just about every story. Please consider removing the spam that's showing up in just about every story.
C'mon... This kind of bollocks is practically a/. tradition.
Off topic, inflammatory post meant to stir shit has been commonplace for years. It used to be things like Switcheuers and Lunix, NAMBLA, or what to do with you n****r sort of posts all modded down to -1. Now its Trump/Hillary (Trillary or perhaps Himp).
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Further more, this wasn't a cheat device like the VW/Audi saga. Emissions testing in Japan operates on the "honour system" as the Americans would say. So they rely on the manufacturers doing their own tests and reporting them. This is far from the first time a Japanese company has been caught slightly misrepresenting the numbers either. Emissions ratings in the US or Europe will still be determined by testing.
There is a rational reason. It is to make people wake up with the sun, more or less.
Here: http://gpinzone.blogspot.com/2...
This... For the love of Crom, this.
I live in lovely Barkshire in England. Its mid summer here, the sun came up at 4:12 this morning and wont go down until 22:05. Without DST, the sun would come up at 3:12.
"B-B-B-B-But why not just use DST the whole year round then" I hear a droll and dreary voice say... Because in winter it is dark by 17:00 and having it dark at 16:00 will be a whole lot worse.
BTW, the heatwave here is killing all the grass and it's making me depressed because it reminds me of Perth... I want my verdant hills of England damn it.
Let's see here. Producing an entry-level human takes over 16 years of high-intensity work involving dozens of skilled workers. More if he needs a post-graduate degree. Doesn't sound that easy to me.
You're not thinking like a manager...
You can outsource the work and the cost of producing an base model human to other people. Externalities do not come out of my bottom line (or my bonus).
All it costs us is 1 x Iphone per unit, unit obeys Iphone.
The definition (from Merriam-Webster) of capitalism is:
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
There is no requirement for well regulated or anything.
This is an example of the no true Scotsman fallacy. Concretely, pure capitalism seems to lead to monopolies. Instead of accepting this and thus that pure capitalism is not perfect, people try to change the definition of it.
This, free markets require necessary regulation, capitalism requires no such thing. There has never been a true capitalist economy, unlike communism which has been tried and failed, pure capitalism failed before even getting off the ground. Almost all successful economies are mixed, neither pure capitalist or socialist.
OTOH, free markets can be strangled by too much unnecessary regulation. Its a balancing act.
"no individual brand is as predictive of being high-income as owning an Apple iPhone in 2016,"
Seriously? Owning a Bentley is a worse predictor of being high-income than owning an Apple iPhone? Are we sure there are no further qualifications here?
I suspect the "research" was done to fit the Iphone owners opinion of themselves.
Iphones are not a status symbol, the only people who think they are status symbols are hopeless Apple fanboys. For most people they're just another phone, even someone on benefits can get one on a £40 a month contract. Possibly less.
Likewise you don't have to be rich to own a Bentley, there are a few 90's Brooklands or Mulsannes going for less than £10,000. OTOH, there are people still living with their mum so they can afford the minimum repayments on a 13 yr old Lambo Gallardo (they for about £40,000 IIRC).
If you want a true indication of money, look for people who aren't looking at the price tags.
It's got police force logos on it, which implies that they endorse it. If they don't then hopefully they will pay Nextbase a visit to sort that out.
Do you live in the UK?
Have you not seen the thousands of Walts on bycyles with yellow POLITE jackets trying to look like they're cops? That matters not.
For the Johnny Foreigners amongst us, in the UK we've got legions of cyclists wearing vests like this so that you might get them confused with one of these.
Use of police logos is not a crime, hell... we dont even prosecute people who pretend to be police. Also, the logo's are buried down at the bottom of the page next to big writing saying "We support the police". They could have put Royal Mail logos on there for all it matters.
The fact that it doesn't include Scotland, or Northern Ireland doesn't really make it a 'UK National' service.
Given the fact that this is being run by a private company (dashcam brand Nextbase) who are simply submitting the footage to the police on your bahalf, it's not even an English and Welsh service... Its a private service that will likely be ignored by the Police.
Do you have any idea how prosecution of driving offences works in the UK?
The police are regulated because they have been found do abuse traffic laws. The equipment they can use is regulated, the places they can operate are regulated, the way they can detect offences is regulated. And still there is abuse.
There is heavy pressure for you to settle the matter out of court. Pay your fine, go on an "awareness" course, don't fight it in court. If you do fight it, you need to pay for your own defence, and if you lose also the court fees.
Defending yourself can be very tricky. The courts are corrupt and tend to side with the police unless you have extremely powerful evidence of your innocence.
I was with you up until here.
The courts in the UK are far from corrupt, it's just that the police do not prosecute until they have significant evidence. Otherwise they'd get in trouble for wasting court time.
People most often lose traffic ticket defences because they're most often guilty (also, have no idea how to defend themselves). If you can demonstrate your innocence it wont even get to court as you can take the matter up with the police and CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) directly and if you're evidence is even remotely plausible, they'll drop the charge.
The solution to the fact that everyone makes mistakes driving is not to let everyone get away with it. It's to reduce the fines to the point where people who rarely make mistakes can afford it but people who make them constantly can't afford it (this also really requires adjusting fines to the driver's income, but that's a different matter).
The UK system is high fines, but low prosecution numbers. I've passed police cars doing 10MPH or more over the limit, as long as you're being polite and safe you're fine. Cops will only pull you over for doing things that are stupid and/or dangerous.
I do live in the UK.
This is a private run thing by dashcam brand "Nextbase" to try to sell more dashcams. The various police forces in the UK have nothing to do with this what so ever and are not likely to prosecute anyone over it as it's easy to call video evidence not taken by a an authorised officer into doubt.
I'm as concerned about this as I am about being shot.... which in the UK means I'm more concerned about Eastenders... which I never watch.
Seeing three movies a week sounds great, until you realize there's about 3 movies A YEAR worth seeing.
Three full movies a year are worth seeing... You're optimistic.
Having income growth levels of 3.25% vs 2.5% (30% more) while the rich double and triple their income doesn't solve the problem.
And right now, this comes from uncertainty in Europe, not anything Trump has done.
It's because I'm away or simply because I don't want to answer. (You decide)."
That was my status message on my IM clients and I never used the "away" status. For some reason it worked, because it left to the sender with the responsibility of deciding what was the actual reason for not receiving an answer. And because that simple reason no-one ever felt offended because no-one wanted to think that I do not want to answer.
I find this to be pointless. People trying to contact you fall into two basic categories, someone who always respects my time and someone who never respects my time. The former will not bother me unless it's important if I'm busy, the later doesn't care as they think their problem is more important than anything else. The later will bug you until you respond and really should be told to sod off at an earlier opportunity before they get too emotionally invested.
I think we have a really deep cultural problem, fueled by the IM applications were there is an "expectation" of being available all the time... With the message status confirmations is even worse. Sometimes you simply cannot answer (I.E.: you check your phone in the middle of a meeting and is nothing of importance so you can answer after the meeting is finished).
IM isn't responsible for this, its a bad work culture that is responsible for this. If a worker cannot make it clear that they will be difficult to contact or uncontactable out of hours or when they are busy then you have a broken work culture. Here in the UK, most employers will respect that you're busy, hell you're busy for them so a good line manager will head off disruption at the pass. I've certainly had managers that have said "Dave's busy on the XYZ, we need him to finsih that quickly so can you put it in a ticket" and omit the "like you're meant to do and bloody well know it" unless they're being particularly annoying. IM just is a tool, an inert, unanthropomorphiseable tool. Its up to people to decide on how its used.
Adblocker and script blocker. I run Ghostery and Ublock Origin and never am I bothered by those things. What I need is something that gets rid of those stupid "The EU decided that privacy is worth protecting so we're going to fuck with you until you accept our data mining" popups. Right now my response is to close the tab or hit the back button (and don't get me started on apps and sites that don't respect my back button).
Doctor Who has a much bigger problem than a female Doctor, which I'm not sure is a problem at all. The real issue is that the stories just haven't been that interesting the past few series. The format of the show doesn't help here.
This, its down to lazy writing and larger FX budgets being used to compensate. Just throw in another Angel/Dalek/Cyberman story and move on. Its become as bad as Star Trek. It doesn't bother me about the Doctor's gender, what bothers me is that it was thrown in to compensate for crappy writing.
All good points, but ummm, why would you want that in the license plate? Put this inside the vehicle where itâ(TM)s secure, isnâ(TM)t exposed to the elements and wonâ(TM)t have accidental knocks. A digital screen is great if you need to change the contents, but s license plate never changes, so whatâ(TM)s the point?
Not inside the cabin, the min wage flunkie can play with it when it's there. Hook it up to an ODB II port on the inside of the engine bay... Like UPS and countless other logistics companies already do (in fact tachometers are required by law on lorries here in the EU).
... a piece of cake for Apple to pull off. After all, they've got obscene amounts of money on the bank.
But Apple lacks the experience and the talent.
I guess you're a PM who thinks 9 women can make a baby in 1 month. Building something takes more than money.
It took ages for Google to catch up to ESRI and that was only implementing the features they wanted, ArcGIS still does far more than Google Maps but Google Maps does 90% of what people use it for (and about 60% of what people use ArcGIS for). In the mean time, ESRI was being complacent.
So how long will it take Apple to get to where Google currently is? And do you think Google will be sitting idly by while this happens?
That's good to hear. Maybe the new maps will have all of I-140 around Wilmington, NC. It opened last year before Thanksgiving and still isn't showing up on the map. You can see the damn road in the satellite view. I even sent them an email asking them to add it about 2 months ago.
As an aside, I've noticed that few kids these days, with their iPhones and maps (probably from Google), know where they are. But they all know where they're going.
I thought Google maps taking a whole 2 weeks to add the Shinfield bypass in Reading was taking a while. To be fair, the Shinfield bypass was opened early and for that 2 weeks it was practically my own private motorway.
Google is a a software company that makes some hardware.
Apple is a hardware company that makes some software.
TSMC is a hardware company, Foxconn is a hardware company, Apple is a marketing company.
Some Uber drivers aren't particularly bright.
If they were bright, they wouldn't be Uber drivers. You've got to be daft to think anyone makes money from Uber (not even Uber themselves make money).
Techies are hired to tech. Not to socialize. HR is hired to socialize.
HR are primarily there to protect the company against it's employees. Never forget that when dealing with HR.
Also data collection.
You'd be surprised the details some people leave on their resumes. Addresses, previous employers. All of this (especially the previous employers bit) is useful for future marketing campaigns and cold calling.
If I had stock in Tesla (or any car company) I would rather want to know how many cars they sell, not how many they produce. Selling makes you rich, not producing. Producing only makes you poor.
Nope. You can sell all you want, but if you have no product people are going to ask for their money back.
Seen plenty of companies try to sell their way out of a production problem, it's never worked. Selling is less important than producing as good products sell themselves.
Finally, the saying your looking for regarding Tesla is "revenue is vanity, profit is sanity". It doesn't matter how much you sell if you're making a loss on each one.
Whipslash, please start deleting this spam. It shows up in just about every article and is totally offtopic. This has nothing to do with my political views and everything to do with not liking spam posts. There's just too much offtopic nonsense (Trump/Hillary posts, APK spam, threads attacking creimer, etc...) polluting just about every story. Please consider removing the spam that's showing up in just about every story.
C'mon... This kind of bollocks is practically a /. tradition.
Off topic, inflammatory post meant to stir shit has been commonplace for years. It used to be things like Switcheuers and Lunix, NAMBLA, or what to do with you n****r sort of posts all modded down to -1. Now its Trump/Hillary (Trillary or perhaps Himp).
Ambiguity exists in all natural languages, and in many forms.
However only English has refined it to a weapons grade.
When most English speakers cant handle words with esoteric or odd meanings, I dont expect AI to.