People who actually own electric cars, especially pure electrics say they get used to starting with full charge every day, and gets used to thinking about their trip and a little planning. After that when they get into the other car with half empty tank or suddenly forced to look for gas station, they find it irritating.
I usually drive my cars to death, taking 12 years per car with very little maintenance. Otherwise I will be speaking from my personal experience. My 2006 Prius is still going strong, on the original battery. My cousin's 2004 Prius and my brothers 2005 Prius are all going strong. We are the Skinflints:-). So it is unlikely I will buy a car soon. But when I do it will be an electric. pure plug in electric. Chevy Bolt looks promising.
Yeah, it is bound to happen. Vulture capitalists, like Martin Shkreli, find tablets that are made by just one factory, buy the factory and jack up the price 800%. So many people can not afford the tablets, they buy less.
I don't know why old people who actually speak into the phone bother buying smartphones. It is not meant for them. They should probably stick to a Nokia candybar, they really like fancy four pips for battery and four pips for signal strength on a black and white non backlit LCD screen. That's about the amount of info they can absorb from a screen, any screen.
This iPhone is for the cool kids, who use it to be in touch using many ways of communicating. Even when they want to speak they would rather speak into a whatsapp voicemail app. The idea that you need to speak out a reply because there is a person on the other end, monitoring you in real time hearing you speak and is waiting to respond as soon as you finish talking is unnerving to the younger generation. Asynchronous communication, send out a message, even a multimedia message containing your voice, and give the other side enough time for think, look at a cat video, organize the thoughts, check the twitter feed, formulate a response, check the facebook page, type out/speak out a response, check snapchat, and send a reply, that is the way to do it. In the mean time, instead of monitoring the other guy in real time, you get to check your twitter, snapchat, facebook feeds and look up amazon order status too.
The bug reports are sporadic mainly because very few youngsters actually call each other to talk in real time.
workers who are too distracted by a constant influx of e-mails, Slack messages, Trello notifications, texts, Tweets -- not to mention viral cat videos -- to concentrate for sustained periods
Almost all the sci fi writers since 1960 imagined small devices that will fit into the palm of a person giving access to the entire collective knowledge of human beings. What they failed to imagine was that, half of the collective wisdom of human beings consists of cat videos.
Our basement does not get cable tv. It runs on Roku. So we were watching NBC Sports. Did not log in or anything. NBC probably has whitelisted our Verizon FiOS router.
1. There was no interruption in the last moments. All was normal.
2. All local ads were gone. "Will resume momentarily" notice was displayed, no sound, gave us nice breaks to talk about the game and explain, again, the rules of football to our children. The child trying to be a contrarian and root for the upper dog, and pretending to be nonchalant about the game eventually developed some interest and learned what was first down.
The wealthiest individual is worth less than 100 Billion. These corporations are over 2 trillion. So no single individual is likely to be hit. Anyway corporations just need to split themselves at some size for their own corporate governance sake.
It is the logic similar to blockchain validation. If any one entity controls more than 50% of all the computing power used in blockchain validation, it is game over for all other players. That entity can validate any transaction suo moto.
Number of entities that can influence 50% of the economic output of the country is the key number. We want it to be large. But if we cap it as too low, some of the players might not gain the clout necessary to survive in the global market place.
But, your claim that I am pulling this number out of thin air is valid. We need it to be large enough for our companies to fight in global market place. But it needs to be small enough so that no one company or a cartel controls a very large part of our economy.
No company or bank or institution should be allowed to have assets totaling more than 2% of the GDP of our country.
No bank doing business in America, whether it is domestic or foreign or sovereign, should have assets more than 2% of our GDP.
No investment bank should have FDIC insured deposits.
All retail banks with FDIC insure deposits should have equal access to investment banks.
Courts are ruling corporations are people. All the hard won freedoms and liberties of real citizens is being usurped by these corporations. Once these corporations become more powerful than the government, it is game over for real citizens.
All the cells in all the multicellular organisms are cancerous.
For asexually reproducing organisms, there is nothing called cancer. The cells keep mutating and dividing. So what is cancer for them?
The non germ line cells "know" they will die with the body they are living in. They will obey the "code", they will not undergo uncontrolled cell growth, they will divide on command, and die on command. The command is delivered by the collective signalling of all other cells in the body.
If the body cells "forget" they are part of a multicellular body non germ line cell and they should die on command or forget the secret handshake between all other cells in the body that makes them obey these commands, they go back to single cell way of life. Rest of the body is their environment, nutrient supplier and these cells undergo uncontrolled division forming tumors etc.
All cells will forget the secret handshake eventually, if the body lives long enough. Most bodies die before the cells that have rebelled and declared independence to grow big enough to cause problems. Each cell type creates its own type of cancer. Each cell type has multiple ways to forget the secret handshake.
So it has been 15 years. Still Ansoft HFSS is best in the market and you are still waiting for CST to better it? You are an eternal optimist.
CST is mistaking its worst feature to be its winning feature, and that is its downfall. Its spatial dicretization process is so fuzzy it can not tell correct representation from wrong representation. Because it can not detect mistakes it will always print an answer. They tout "no matter what we give you an answer" as a huge winning feature over Ansoft. They tout it so hard they have started to believe it themselves. But fundamentally it is GIGO. It is the users' responsibility to make sure they dont input garbage, CST has no ability to detect its input is garbage. That is why it is still struggling for decades.
Heck, the solutions by CST is not even self consistent. Change the settings to make the mesh larger, the solution is different. Rotate the entire model by 2 degrees, solution should remain invariant under rigid body transformation. CST solutions don't. Remember, "You are holding the phone wrong!" fiasco? I don't know what Apple was using, but would guess it used some tool that did not handle geometries defined in arbitrary coordinate systems correctly. A tool similar to CST.
BTW, you bought Ansoft personally using your own money? All the sales of Ansoft are to corporations. That is a no holds barred battle, don't take it personally. Given a chance CST will do exactly the same to your employer. Best of luck buddy. 20 years in this business eh? Great field to be in.
South Korea embraced the internet and jumped in early. So early it forced all the banks and other agencies to use some Active X based protocol. Not sure if the country has recovered completely from that fiasco.
CNBC branded the range of $9,000 to $10,000 as "a difficult one for bitcoin to break below" after its surge over $10,000 last year.
I know CNBC has fantastic track record. No matter how unlikely the event is, it would predict it just minutes after it has happened. Just minutes.
How can it be a prediction if it has already happened? The lesser mortals might want to know. So, I will come down from the heights and mingle with the commoners as Scar would like to put it.
Just seconds after an event the fantastic AI powered search will go through the archival footage of CNBC and find one talking head who predicted it. Within one minute that guy will be called. Within 3 minutes the video link would be set up. Within 5 minutes he (or sometimes she) would be on air, looking very intelligent and knowledgeable and explain how he predicted it.
People who fancy themselves to be intelligent, people who worship Scientific Method would ask stupid questions like, "on the same session when this talking head predicted it there were six other talking heads predicted the opposite. What happened to them? Why don't you call for their explanation? How many predictions by this talking head has been proven right?" etc etc ad nauseum.
To them, I say, "You are an index fund investing guy. Why are you even watching CNBC? Just chill, and get lost. CNBC owes you nothing. "
It is your misunderstanding it is going to lock or unlock credit reports. That is not, and has never been, the design intent or goal.
This app and all the densely worded EULA will be read out with a straight face to government regulators by the lawyers of Equifax. Any regulator/ inspector who does not accept all claims by the lawyers as true, will get calls from Reps and Senators. They might even read it out in senate/house hearings and will be accepted as evidence of how hard the company is protecting the customers.
It is the old Indian (dot, not feather) expression "I will act as if I am hitting you, you cry as if you had been hit". For that purpose the App is working very well.
They know so much about such a large population, if they know nothing about you, you stand out. The nail that sticks out gets hammered. The only hope is in being careful and try to hide the tree in a forest.
When IE had this level of dominance, all the Microsoft shills were saying, "it is the most popular browser, that is why it has so many people attacking it. If any other browser is this popular, it too will be attacked this much.".
True, Chrome has its share of vulnerabilities today. But is it as bad as IE was in its hay days, despite attackers being a lot more sophisticated now? Despite the core of Chrome has disclosed the source code through the Chromium project?
Leaving anecdotal evidence aside, if you take a global big picture two things are clear. 1. Microsoft code has a lot more vulnerabilities than others. 2. Open source projects with lots of following are more secure than proprietary software.
IE, ably aided and abetted by Edge, is fighting hard to retain
its third place beating Safari. 77% for chrome, 12% for Firefox,
3% for IE+Edge, 3% for Opera.
No net change in fossil fuel consumption. Assuming your energy consumption remains the same, to cause a real reduction in fossil fuel use, you have to use renewable energy which otherwise wasn't going to be generated e.g. If T-Mobile decided to install new wind turbines on property they owned, that would result in:
This puts more conventional energy in the market, and reduces the supply of renewables. So price of renewable goes up, profits go up, it attracts more investment, and the renewable capacity goes up.
Remember this, the biggest cost for renewables is the initial investment, cost of amortization. Fuel costs zero. Running costs are way below. Anything that attracts investments to renewable sector is a good thing,
The utility scale power plants have no size or weight limits. They use steam turbines, triple heat recovery boilers, and ideal source/sink temperature using cooling towers. Still they are not touching 56% efficiency. The number is close to Carnot efficiency, theoretical maximum.
They are fudging some number to tout this efficiency.
DR DOS was the competitor to Ms-DOS. They kept modifying MS-DOS to make sure Lotus, if maintained compatibility with Ms-DOS would not run in DR-DOS. Well, it is so long ago, may be I am misremembering it..
Apparently the rumors about "DOS is not done till Lotus wont run (in DR-DOS)" has reached the ears of the government. It will start an investigation anytime soon.
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I usually drive my cars to death, taking 12 years per car with very little maintenance. Otherwise I will be speaking from my personal experience. My 2006 Prius is still going strong, on the original battery. My cousin's 2004 Prius and my brothers 2005 Prius are all going strong. We are the Skinflints :-). So it is unlikely I will buy a car soon. But when I do it will be an electric. pure plug in electric. Chevy Bolt looks promising.
Wait...
This is not that kind of tablets, isn't it?
This iPhone is for the cool kids, who use it to be in touch using many ways of communicating. Even when they want to speak they would rather speak into a whatsapp voicemail app. The idea that you need to speak out a reply because there is a person on the other end, monitoring you in real time hearing you speak and is waiting to respond as soon as you finish talking is unnerving to the younger generation. Asynchronous communication, send out a message, even a multimedia message containing your voice, and give the other side enough time for think, look at a cat video, organize the thoughts, check the twitter feed, formulate a response, check the facebook page, type out/speak out a response, check snapchat, and send a reply, that is the way to do it. In the mean time, instead of monitoring the other guy in real time, you get to check your twitter, snapchat, facebook feeds and look up amazon order status too.
The bug reports are sporadic mainly because very few youngsters actually call each other to talk in real time.
workers who are too distracted by a constant influx of e-mails, Slack messages, Trello notifications, texts, Tweets -- not to mention viral cat videos -- to concentrate for sustained periods
Almost all the sci fi writers since 1960 imagined small devices that will fit into the palm of a person giving access to the entire collective knowledge of human beings. What they failed to imagine was that, half of the collective wisdom of human beings consists of cat videos.
1. There was no interruption in the last moments. All was normal.
2. All local ads were gone. "Will resume momentarily" notice was displayed, no sound, gave us nice breaks to talk about the game and explain, again, the rules of football to our children. The child trying to be a contrarian and root for the upper dog, and pretending to be nonchalant about the game eventually developed some interest and learned what was first down.
Thanks, you are well informed. I will learn a lot.
The wealthiest individual is worth less than 100 Billion. These corporations are over 2 trillion. So no single individual is likely to be hit. Anyway corporations just need to split themselves at some size for their own corporate governance sake.
Number of entities that can influence 50% of the economic output of the country is the key number. We want it to be large. But if we cap it as too low, some of the players might not gain the clout necessary to survive in the global market place.
But, your claim that I am pulling this number out of thin air is valid. We need it to be large enough for our companies to fight in global market place. But it needs to be small enough so that no one company or a cartel controls a very large part of our economy.
No bank doing business in America, whether it is domestic or foreign or sovereign, should have assets more than 2% of our GDP.
No investment bank should have FDIC insured deposits.
All retail banks with FDIC insure deposits should have equal access to investment banks.
Courts are ruling corporations are people. All the hard won freedoms and liberties of real citizens is being usurped by these corporations. Once these corporations become more powerful than the government, it is game over for real citizens.
For asexually reproducing organisms, there is nothing called cancer. The cells keep mutating and dividing. So what is cancer for them?
The non germ line cells "know" they will die with the body they are living in. They will obey the "code", they will not undergo uncontrolled cell growth, they will divide on command, and die on command. The command is delivered by the collective signalling of all other cells in the body.
If the body cells "forget" they are part of a multicellular body non germ line cell and they should die on command or forget the secret handshake between all other cells in the body that makes them obey these commands, they go back to single cell way of life. Rest of the body is their environment, nutrient supplier and these cells undergo uncontrolled division forming tumors etc.
All cells will forget the secret handshake eventually, if the body lives long enough. Most bodies die before the cells that have rebelled and declared independence to grow big enough to cause problems. Each cell type creates its own type of cancer. Each cell type has multiple ways to forget the secret handshake.
So The War on Cancer is unwinnable.
If Tesla is making the panels in USA, it will benefit by the tariff on low cost panels from China. But I don't know where Tesla makes its panels.
CST is mistaking its worst feature to be its winning feature, and that is its downfall. Its spatial dicretization process is so fuzzy it can not tell correct representation from wrong representation. Because it can not detect mistakes it will always print an answer. They tout "no matter what we give you an answer" as a huge winning feature over Ansoft. They tout it so hard they have started to believe it themselves. But fundamentally it is GIGO. It is the users' responsibility to make sure they dont input garbage, CST has no ability to detect its input is garbage. That is why it is still struggling for decades.
Heck, the solutions by CST is not even self consistent. Change the settings to make the mesh larger, the solution is different. Rotate the entire model by 2 degrees, solution should remain invariant under rigid body transformation. CST solutions don't. Remember, "You are holding the phone wrong!" fiasco? I don't know what Apple was using, but would guess it used some tool that did not handle geometries defined in arbitrary coordinate systems correctly. A tool similar to CST.
BTW, you bought Ansoft personally using your own money? All the sales of Ansoft are to corporations. That is a no holds barred battle, don't take it personally. Given a chance CST will do exactly the same to your employer. Best of luck buddy. 20 years in this business eh? Great field to be in.
South Korea embraced the internet and jumped in early. So early it forced all the banks and other agencies to use some Active X based protocol. Not sure if the country has recovered completely from that fiasco.
CNBC branded the range of $9,000 to $10,000 as "a difficult one for bitcoin to break below" after its surge over $10,000 last year.
I know CNBC has fantastic track record. No matter how unlikely the event is, it would predict it just minutes after it has happened. Just minutes.
How can it be a prediction if it has already happened? The lesser mortals might want to know. So, I will come down from the heights and mingle with the commoners as Scar would like to put it.
Just seconds after an event the fantastic AI powered search will go through the archival footage of CNBC and find one talking head who predicted it. Within one minute that guy will be called. Within 3 minutes the video link would be set up. Within 5 minutes he (or sometimes she) would be on air, looking very intelligent and knowledgeable and explain how he predicted it.
People who fancy themselves to be intelligent, people who worship Scientific Method would ask stupid questions like, "on the same session when this talking head predicted it there were six other talking heads predicted the opposite. What happened to them? Why don't you call for their explanation? How many predictions by this talking head has been proven right?" etc etc ad nauseum.
To them, I say, "You are an index fund investing guy. Why are you even watching CNBC? Just chill, and get lost. CNBC owes you nothing. "
It was bought and absorbed into Ansys. But when it was around Ansoft was pretty good. It made electronics design analysis tools.
It is your misunderstanding it is going to lock or unlock credit reports. That is not, and has never been, the design intent or goal.
This app and all the densely worded EULA will be read out with a straight face to government regulators by the lawyers of Equifax. Any regulator/ inspector who does not accept all claims by the lawyers as true, will get calls from Reps and Senators. They might even read it out in senate/house hearings and will be accepted as evidence of how hard the company is protecting the customers.
It is the old Indian (dot, not feather) expression "I will act as if I am hitting you, you cry as if you had been hit". For that purpose the App is working very well.
They know so much about such a large population, if they know nothing about you, you stand out. The nail that sticks out gets hammered. The only hope is in being careful and try to hide the tree in a forest.
True, Chrome has its share of vulnerabilities today. But is it as bad as IE was in its hay days, despite attackers being a lot more sophisticated now? Despite the core of Chrome has disclosed the source code through the Chromium project?
Leaving anecdotal evidence aside, if you take a global big picture two things are clear. 1. Microsoft code has a lot more vulnerabilities than others. 2. Open source projects with lots of following are more secure than proprietary software.
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They are all heat engines. They all obey Carnot's law.
No net change in fossil fuel consumption. Assuming your energy consumption remains the same, to cause a real reduction in fossil fuel use, you have to use renewable energy which otherwise wasn't going to be generated e.g. If T-Mobile decided to install new wind turbines on property they owned, that would result in:
This puts more conventional energy in the market, and reduces the supply of renewables. So price of renewable goes up, profits go up, it attracts more investment, and the renewable capacity goes up.
Remember this, the biggest cost for renewables is the initial investment, cost of amortization. Fuel costs zero. Running costs are way below. Anything that attracts investments to renewable sector is a good thing,
They are fudging some number to tout this efficiency.
I know it does not make sense. But renew and cell phone company calls for a joke, and this pathetic excuse is all I could come up in short notice.
In my best jeb impression: Please mod up.
DR DOS was the competitor to Ms-DOS. They kept modifying MS-DOS to make sure Lotus, if maintained compatibility with Ms-DOS would not run in DR-DOS. Well, it is so long ago, may be I am misremembering it..
Apparently the rumors about "DOS is not done till Lotus wont run (in DR-DOS)" has reached the ears of the government. It will start an investigation anytime soon.