Eh? First off, $50 a fill up? It costs closer to £80 over here, if not more. I'll let you do that conversion.
Secondly as you'd 'fill up' in electricity overnight, the demands on the 'station' would be much less, ie those who need a charge quickly or those who need a new battery. This makes inventory management much easier.
And, er, wouldn't excess batteries stay in the whatever you store them in? Why is having batteries around a overhead but having petrol isn't?
The GP was talking about downfalls other than range anxiety, specifically:
Managing that battery inventory is going to be a huge problem. How are you going to make sure each 'gas station' has enough batteries on hand. Since they're not cheap, it's a huge cost.
Petrol isn't cheep, and a petrol station has a finite amount of storage, yet they manage. At least with batteries, if you're running short but the station up the road has some spare you can move them across for a minimal cost.
...but you're talking about an expensive batter than can be 'easily swapped out'. Something tells me that makes it 'easy to steal'.
Same again for petrol, in fact nowadays theft of petrol from cars is a problem. At least battery packs are heavy making their removal a bit harder that just having to carry around a jerry can and a piece of hose..../P
I'm pretty sure you can replace everything you've just typed there with respects to a battery and use the word petrol.
Also presumably you'd only need a new battery when the life in the one you have is exhausted, or you need instant charge. Either way surly that's a easier logistical problem that ensuring the local forecourt has petrol?
I honestly dont get this. Smaller changes is surly better as there is less changing each increment so less can go wrong, plus it gets new features that are developed to us faster instead of having to wait 6months to a year. Thats win win?
> * Incrementing the major version number with every slight tweak is annoying.
> * Worse yet, the reasoning behind it is stupid. They just want their version number to be big, like IE.
Why, just why does this matter?! Whats the difference in going 5, 6, 7, 8, instead of 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8? None. It makes no difference at all. If it annoys you so much, just knock up an addon that puts a decimal point in from of the release number....
Frankly as a geek, you should know integer versioning is far more efficient than some floating point number, so you should be all for it.
Now factor in the cost of your time vs working in a 'normal' job, time spent in both learning the new technology, writing the app and then supporting it.
Gotta ask, which 3-5 extensions for BASIC browsing? I don't even understand your memory comment, if an addon is, um, loaded into a tab some how, would it not use memory?
This whole browser thing makes me laugh. You've got people all over the place stating quite loudly that one browser is rubbish, not worth even looking at and that another is a veritable Gods gift. It's almost worse than the Nintendo / Sega nerd wars...
>The team's video demonstrates how inserting the inexpensive electronic device into the voting machine can offer a "bad guy" virtually complete control over the machine.
If you can do this, you're going to have no protection at all. Just like paper votes, if the people who run the voting stations are corrupt, then the system can be fiddled. This shouldn't come as a surprise.
Wow, so CNet are advocating holding a iPod in place with a magnet?! Wonder how many people will complain after the HD in their iPod gets wiped or worse...
Shocking advice from a tech site!!
What I love about that press release is how they are talking about how popular TPB is, by comparing it to CNN.COM in Sweden. How is that even comparible, maybe a Swedish news site, but CCN.COM?! Come on, seriously?! It would seem the MPAA are even more up their own asses than I thought before!
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Eh? First off, $50 a fill up? It costs closer to £80 over here, if not more. I'll let you do that conversion.
Secondly as you'd 'fill up' in electricity overnight, the demands on the 'station' would be much less, ie those who need a charge quickly or those who need a new battery. This makes inventory management much easier.
And, er, wouldn't excess batteries stay in the whatever you store them in? Why is having batteries around a overhead but having petrol isn't?
The GP was talking about downfalls other than range anxiety, specifically:
Managing that battery inventory is going to be a huge problem. How are you going to make sure each 'gas station' has enough batteries on hand. Since they're not cheap, it's a huge cost.
Petrol isn't cheep, and a petrol station has a finite amount of storage, yet they manage. At least with batteries, if you're running short but the station up the road has some spare you can move them across for a minimal cost.
Same again for petrol, in fact nowadays theft of petrol from cars is a problem. At least battery packs are heavy making their removal a bit harder that just having to carry around a jerry can and a piece of hose..../P
I'm pretty sure you can replace everything you've just typed there with respects to a battery and use the word petrol.
Also presumably you'd only need a new battery when the life in the one you have is exhausted, or you need instant charge. Either way surly that's a easier logistical problem that ensuring the local forecourt has petrol?
Or they could bring the battery to you....
Then dont upgrade it?
I honestly dont get this. Smaller changes is surly better as there is less changing each increment so less can go wrong, plus it gets new features that are developed to us faster instead of having to wait 6months to a year. Thats win win?
Yet people still complain?! Crazy madness!
Which would be harder to parse and store and a straight int32?
> * Incrementing the major version number with every slight tweak is annoying.
> * Worse yet, the reasoning behind it is stupid. They just want their version number to be big, like IE.
Why, just why does this matter?! Whats the difference in going 5, 6, 7, 8, instead of 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8? None. It makes no difference at all. If it annoys you so much, just knock up an addon that puts a decimal point in from of the release number....
Frankly as a geek, you should know integer versioning is far more efficient than some floating point number, so you should be all for it.
Fair enough if you're unemployed, but I'd certainly not cost my free time at zero!
Now factor in the cost of your time vs working in a 'normal' job, time spent in both learning the new technology, writing the app and then supporting it.
Funny, exactly the same thing can be said when entering the USA.
Gotta ask, which 3-5 extensions for BASIC browsing? I don't even understand your memory comment, if an addon is, um, loaded into a tab some how, would it not use memory?
This whole browser thing makes me laugh. You've got people all over the place stating quite loudly that one browser is rubbish, not worth even looking at and that another is a veritable Gods gift. It's almost worse than the Nintendo / Sega nerd wars...
>The team's video demonstrates how inserting the inexpensive electronic device into the voting machine can offer a "bad guy" virtually complete control over the machine. If you can do this, you're going to have no protection at all. Just like paper votes, if the people who run the voting stations are corrupt, then the system can be fiddled. This shouldn't come as a surprise.
Wow, so CNet are advocating holding a iPod in place with a magnet?! Wonder how many people will complain after the HD in their iPod gets wiped or worse... Shocking advice from a tech site!!
What I love about that press release is how they are talking about how popular TPB is, by comparing it to CNN.COM in Sweden. How is that even comparible, maybe a Swedish news site, but CCN.COM?! Come on, seriously?! It would seem the MPAA are even more up their own asses than I thought before!