Google has AI cars, drone camera planes, street level stiched together photos of a decent % of the planet, 3d views of buildings, the ability to place you on the map using gps or wifi, works with public transit, knows about traffic conditions, allows you to make apps with the maps so you can do things like track flu viruses or other outbreaks, give directions even if you need to take a ferry to get there, cellphone apps letting you update people with your location, geotagged searchable data (images, videos, articles, places to buy or rent...)...
And that's really just the obvious stuff for one of their many many products (and not even a nerdy product). Parts of it weren't new parts were bought. But it still goes to show how NOT technological apple really is.
* Why does power consumption matter? I'm certain the electrical savings won't make up for the Mac tax. If it mattered you could buy laptop with similar specs for the same price. And save more power... and its a laptop... Or buy a mini-atx PC which would be similar.
* Lightroom/Photoshop works flawlessly in windows too obviously.
* Portal/Counter Strike work in windows too obviously.
* I can ssh from my winmo phone... I'm sure you can find a workable ssh for windows... though you'd have to work a bit for a yakuake-style setup.
* This isn't a point... you are just saying you don't want to build a computer... you can just BUY a PC.
I'll add to Khazunga's comment saying that starvation was also a very real issue. But we worked out solutions. Starvation was increasing at a dizzying rate until the 50s came around with the start to the Green Revolution. Food production has increased 10 fold since then. This avoided MILLIONS of unnecessary deaths.
The hair-shirt left you decry seem to have foresight and solutions while the right don't even show hindsight.
Lol why would price matter. I can buy an Engine control unit for less than $1000. That does NOT make the computer in my car a generic PC for corporate use.
I have no idea why you'd need that much for an office machine TBH. I'd probably go with $400 machines and grab a 3 year warranty. Also, I'd likely skimp on drive size since most places will not let you save much stuff on the PC at all making 1TB hilarious overkill... maybe 40Gigs will be used.
Bottles and containers have readily available alternatives... And the other part of my statement was based on yours.... "For some, there are plastics that are good alternatives, but others, it will be some time before alternates can be found. In particular, epoxy binders used wood-based sheet goods production (particle board, chip board, flooring, etc.) are bad and are going to be around for a long time since there is so much of it installed."
It seems pretty obvious that there would be varying levels of replaceability for varying costs. This will follow a bell curve of some sort... So the most valuable uses for BPA would be much much greater than the average... I also think we come into contact with plastic bottles, receipts and so on more than we do epoxy binders or scientific research yadda yadda.
All I'm saying is fix bottles and receipts, don't worry too much about the epoxy. Outright bans can be damaging and wasteful. Taxing a substance leads to something far more flexible. Only use banning when necessary (the example of plastic utensils and children's toys). Sorry if I was unclear.
You can average 133mph from Silicon Valley to Point Reyes? Thats pretty bad ass.
In reality though it is 95miles (each way). And if you follow road laws it is 2.5hours each way...5 hours total (aka more than 1.5...). AND Tesla vehicles CAN manage this trip.
The example of the Yosemite trip IS something that the tesla couldn't do without charging. It is a 4 hour (200mi) drive each way. To make this trip you would have to stop for lunch to charge the car. And I find it unlikely that you will not be taking a 45minute break if you are driving for 8hours in a day. Excepting crazy truck drivers maybe.
My point is that people always bring long road trips up as some horrible impossible to overcome flaw with electric cars. So you might have to take breaks every few hours of driving. So what? That isn't the end of the world. Once or twice a year your car might waste a few minutes of your time? That is nothing. It is an excuse, a rationalization to side with what is comfortable and familiar. It is not a reason.
People complain about Obama not doing enough good or just maintaining the status quo.
People complained about Bush AGGRESSIVELY taking away rights and degrading our situation at a scary rate.
It is best illustrated by the wars. People whine that Obama isn't leaving fast enough or that he is continuing in Afghanistan for some time. Whereas people complained about Bush because he started two wars without real provocation.
There is a pretty damn big difference. Try to keep that in mind.
I'd be less worried about the difficult to get rid of things. Why do we need to worry about those? Chemical bans really need to be doing cost benefit analysis, tax rather than ban to automate the process. If we get rid of BPA in all the low hanging fruit we'll have gotten rid of 99% of the BPA we come into contact with. The last 1% will likely cost 5x as much to get rid of as the first 99%, there is no point in doing so. Perhaps a hard ban in food packaging and children's toys.
Even if a few venues of baby production shut down supply and demand will kick in and the market will move to fill the void. I doubt that the total number of babies produced each year will really drop. They will just take more to get. Though that could result in easier governmental caps or controls. If the number of suppliers is lessened.
True about the shooting. The screen types make it possible though. So it works for video games.
And true that all methods CAN make people sick. But that is only when misused. When talking about the technologies you can't really blame them for directors sucking horribly and making everyone sick.
And ty for the correction on lenticular tracking or the lack thereof. I guess I mixed up with the term autostereoscopic referring to the lack of necessity of goggles. Still with a few dozen viewing angles it probably isn't TOO bad. Parallax is the obvious winner though so it doesn't really matter how lenticular screens work.:P
True!.... Sort of. I think it holds true for any particular product or technology exactly as you stated.
BUT. 3d is JUST as inevitable as HD was. We were always going to move to higher resolutions eventually. Just as we will eventually move to 3d. Only the particular implementations will falter or fail.
"haven't seen Dr. Horrible...don't have time for.... I must have spent 80 hours on "Angry Birds". The same for "Finger Physics". Now I'm starting Doodle Jump. "
Seriously guys. Every time 3d comes up on/. like 50people post something that would have me revoke their nerd cards. Its 3d! What kind of nerd hates new tech.
Circular polarization, Anaglyph(Red-Green), Interference, and shutter glasses allow you to lie down. Only linear polarization and parallax/lenticular barrier types fail there.
For the uninitiated:
Polarization: Good image. Cheap Glasses Required. Expensive Screen. Anaglyph (Red-Green): Shitty image. Cheap Glasses Required. No special screen. Interference: Good image. Really expensive glasses required. Good screen reqd (nothing special though). Shutter: Good image. If improperly done it makes people sick. Expensive Glasses. Medium price screen required. Parralax: Medium priced screen. No glasses. Small viewing angle. Face tracking can auto adjust the viewing angle to your head so you get free range. One person only. Lenticular: Expensive screen. No glasses. Small viewing angle(s) (up to 50 or so available positions). Face tracking can auto adjust the viewing angle to your head so you get free range. One person works best, i believe they have systems supporting up to 8 with tracking (no idea how). Crossing your eyes: Gives headaches. People find it hard to do.
Disclaimer: I didn't fact check anything I typed out. So I'm probably wrong on at least one thing.
Yep. Cellphone companies generally charge 10x what they need to. Its criminal and the government should stomp down on them. Your SMS comment was amusing because SMS cost 0 to send... they literally encode it into messages they were going to send anyways. The wasted data from their pov is in the bits. And they charge 10-15c each for those in many places.
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Google has AI cars, drone camera planes, street level stiched together photos of a decent % of the planet, 3d views of buildings, the ability to place you on the map using gps or wifi, works with public transit, knows about traffic conditions, allows you to make apps with the maps so you can do things like track flu viruses or other outbreaks, give directions even if you need to take a ferry to get there, cellphone apps letting you update people with your location, geotagged searchable data (images, videos, articles, places to buy or rent...)...
And that's really just the obvious stuff for one of their many many products (and not even a nerdy product). Parts of it weren't new parts were bought. But it still goes to show how NOT technological apple really is.
* Why does power consumption matter? I'm certain the electrical savings won't make up for the Mac tax. If it mattered you could buy laptop with similar specs for the same price. And save more power... and its a laptop... Or buy a mini-atx PC which would be similar.
* Lightroom/Photoshop works flawlessly in windows too obviously.
* Portal/Counter Strike work in windows too obviously.
* I can ssh from my winmo phone... I'm sure you can find a workable ssh for windows... though you'd have to work a bit for a yakuake-style setup.
* This isn't a point... you are just saying you don't want to build a computer... you can just BUY a PC.
Isn't rooting the Android n option in the menus though? Instead of effectively virusing yourself.
I'll add to Khazunga's comment saying that starvation was also a very real issue. But we worked out solutions. Starvation was increasing at a dizzying rate until the 50s came around with the start to the Green Revolution. Food production has increased 10 fold since then. This avoided MILLIONS of unnecessary deaths.
The hair-shirt left you decry seem to have foresight and solutions while the right don't even show hindsight.
Lol why would price matter. I can buy an Engine control unit for less than $1000. That does NOT make the computer in my car a generic PC for corporate use.
This is what $1,000 gets you at dell. With no discounts for buying 1000 at a time which I'd imagine are large:
i5 650 @ 3.2GHz
Win 7 home 64bit
20" monitor
8GB DDR3
nVIDIA GeForce G310 512MB
1TB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
Dual Drives: 16x DVD-ROM Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/ dbl layer write capable
Standard KB and mouse
2 year Warranty
http://www.dell.com/us/p/studio-xps-8100/pd?oc=dxdonp1&model_id=studio-xps-8100
I have no idea why you'd need that much for an office machine TBH. I'd probably go with $400 machines and grab a 3 year warranty. Also, I'd likely skimp on drive size since most places will not let you save much stuff on the PC at all making 1TB hilarious overkill... maybe 40Gigs will be used.
Bottles and containers have readily available alternatives... And the other part of my statement was based on yours.... "For some, there are plastics that are good alternatives, but others, it will be some time before alternates can be found. In particular, epoxy binders used wood-based sheet goods production (particle board, chip board, flooring, etc.) are bad and are going to be around for a long time since there is so much of it installed."
It seems pretty obvious that there would be varying levels of replaceability for varying costs. This will follow a bell curve of some sort... So the most valuable uses for BPA would be much much greater than the average... I also think we come into contact with plastic bottles, receipts and so on more than we do epoxy binders or scientific research yadda yadda.
All I'm saying is fix bottles and receipts, don't worry too much about the epoxy. Outright bans can be damaging and wasteful. Taxing a substance leads to something far more flexible. Only use banning when necessary (the example of plastic utensils and children's toys). Sorry if I was unclear.
You can average 133mph from Silicon Valley to Point Reyes? Thats pretty bad ass.
...5 hours total (aka more than 1.5...). AND Tesla vehicles CAN manage this trip.
In reality though it is 95miles (each way). And if you follow road laws it is 2.5hours each way
The example of the Yosemite trip IS something that the tesla couldn't do without charging. It is a 4 hour (200mi) drive each way. To make this trip you would have to stop for lunch to charge the car. And I find it unlikely that you will not be taking a 45minute break if you are driving for 8hours in a day. Excepting crazy truck drivers maybe.
My point is that people always bring long road trips up as some horrible impossible to overcome flaw with electric cars. So you might have to take breaks every few hours of driving. So what? That isn't the end of the world. Once or twice a year your car might waste a few minutes of your time? That is nothing. It is an excuse, a rationalization to side with what is comfortable and familiar. It is not a reason.
http://www.teslamotors.com/models
300miles > 50-100miles.
45minute quick charge or 1minute battery swap > 6hour charge.
120mph>highway speed.
Any other concerns?
People complain about Obama not doing enough good or just maintaining the status quo.
People complained about Bush AGGRESSIVELY taking away rights and degrading our situation at a scary rate.
It is best illustrated by the wars. People whine that Obama isn't leaving fast enough or that he is continuing in Afghanistan for some time. Whereas people complained about Bush because he started two wars without real provocation.
There is a pretty damn big difference. Try to keep that in mind.
I'd be less worried about the difficult to get rid of things. Why do we need to worry about those? Chemical bans really need to be doing cost benefit analysis, tax rather than ban to automate the process. If we get rid of BPA in all the low hanging fruit we'll have gotten rid of 99% of the BPA we come into contact with. The last 1% will likely cost 5x as much to get rid of as the first 99%, there is no point in doing so. Perhaps a hard ban in food packaging and children's toys.
http://www.heyamy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Tomatoes7.jpg ?
Even if a few venues of baby production shut down supply and demand will kick in and the market will move to fill the void. I doubt that the total number of babies produced each year will really drop. They will just take more to get. Though that could result in easier governmental caps or controls. If the number of suppliers is lessened.
Maybe Ireland can go this route... As it is they cancelled leaving the church because to many people were doing so. (Seriously)
"rich unless the society is able to give a poor boy same opportunities."
Probably almost true in a socialist country like Finland.
Read the bible? Lol...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIXH3-A8zMI&fmt=18
Only 1 million Euros? That sounds reasonable compared to riaa prices.
True about the shooting. The screen types make it possible though. So it works for video games.
:P
And true that all methods CAN make people sick. But that is only when misused. When talking about the technologies you can't really blame them for directors sucking horribly and making everyone sick.
And ty for the correction on lenticular tracking or the lack thereof. I guess I mixed up with the term autostereoscopic referring to the lack of necessity of goggles. Still with a few dozen viewing angles it probably isn't TOO bad. Parallax is the obvious winner though so it doesn't really matter how lenticular screens work.
Are you blind in one eye?
True! .... Sort of. I think it holds true for any particular product or technology exactly as you stated.
BUT. 3d is JUST as inevitable as HD was. We were always going to move to higher resolutions eventually. Just as we will eventually move to 3d. Only the particular implementations will falter or fail.
Which the parent corrected... Some types of 3d you do, some you don't...
"haven't seen Dr. Horrible...don't have time for. ... I must have spent 80 hours on "Angry Birds". The same for "Finger Physics". Now I'm starting Doodle Jump. "
Hmmmm. Dr. Horrible is what? an hour?
Colour is a gimmick.
/. like 50people post something that would have me revoke their nerd cards. Its 3d! What kind of nerd hates new tech.
Seriously guys. Every time 3d comes up on
Circular polarization, Anaglyph(Red-Green), Interference, and shutter glasses allow you to lie down. Only linear polarization and parallax/lenticular barrier types fail there.
For the uninitiated:
Polarization: Good image. Cheap Glasses Required. Expensive Screen.
Anaglyph (Red-Green): Shitty image. Cheap Glasses Required. No special screen.
Interference: Good image. Really expensive glasses required. Good screen reqd (nothing special though).
Shutter: Good image. If improperly done it makes people sick. Expensive Glasses. Medium price screen required.
Parralax: Medium priced screen. No glasses. Small viewing angle. Face tracking can auto adjust the viewing angle to your head so you get free range. One person only.
Lenticular: Expensive screen. No glasses. Small viewing angle(s) (up to 50 or so available positions). Face tracking can auto adjust the viewing angle to your head so you get free range. One person works best, i believe they have systems supporting up to 8 with tracking (no idea how).
Crossing your eyes: Gives headaches. People find it hard to do.
Disclaimer: I didn't fact check anything I typed out. So I'm probably wrong on at least one thing.
Yep. Cellphone companies generally charge 10x what they need to. Its criminal and the government should stomp down on them. Your SMS comment was amusing because SMS cost 0 to send ... they literally encode it into messages they were going to send anyways. The wasted data from their pov is in the bits. And they charge 10-15c each for those in many places.