I hope their electric car initiative comes with a bunch of nook-you-lar plants to provide power, along with the attendant upgrade to the power distribution network. Transportation consumes between 3x and 10x your typical residential application. I need about 11kWh per day to run the homestead. I would need 35-50kWh for my car, and another 35-50kWh for the wife's car. YMMV, but the distribution network in our area can't handle a 2x increase in load, much less a 10x increase.

Sounds an awful lot like this triple-max slam in the outer ring ... Crematoria, I think it's called. I would suggest that you keep an eye out for a bald guy if you ever visit, but by the time you realize he's there, it's too late.

Ya know, China is free to clean-up its internal pollution problems without the Paris Accord. I wonder why they haven't taken the initiative on this ...

Oh wait! Having actually read the Paris Accord, it is clear that the construct IS carefully crafted to, as you noted earlier, "make the US less competitive" in a global marketplace. Specifically, there's a USD$100 BILLION commitment from the "developed" countries ... PER YEAR ... to be wealth-redistributed to other countries for dubious climate-related projects. The vast majority of this funding, if not all of it, is expected to come from the USA.

The Paris Accord is a global wealth-redistrubution program wrapped in a wafer-thin-veneer of "OMG, save the planet."

When AI becomes sentient, will music get its soul back?

Well, that's the way mice work.

Further, basic economics applies - when cost goes to zero, demand approaches infinity.

The article was likely cribbed from "Airplanes for Dummies." You lost the target-demographic when you said "density altitude."

I read the Paris Accord Financial commitment section last night. The "developing" countries are on the hook to contribute $100 Billion EVERY YEAR. There's a huge financial commitment ... and most of it is expected to come from the US.

Yeah, that was my first thought too.

Exactly. If the program is advantageous to product sales, as the market seems to indicate, let them run with it voluntarily.

Agreed. Flash was awful back when it was a MacroMedia property, and all of the awfulness was deeply rooted in the product architecture. Even with Adobe's sizable war chest, they were never able to get rid of the insecurity or resource inefficiency. Vector animations were sorta-useful back when network bandwidth was extremely limited, but that era is gone now. Distribution of video via flash middleware no longer has any value, and in fact carries a plethora of liabilities.

Flash should have been dead years ago. Good riddance.

Awesome. Trying to take public transportation for my 39-mile commute would take 2 hours 49 minutes. I had a 30-mile commute for my previous job, which would have required almost 4 hours of public transportation. Sometimes, it's just not a viable option. My biggest complaint is that the two available train options don't have an "express" that runs the bulk of the distance directly. They insist on running as local-only service, which really limits the people-hours bandwidth. I'm already going to have a car to get to the station. Collect the commuters at a regional station and haul them directly to the next big hub. Stop with the at-grade crossings to pick up 3 people every 2 miles.

Clearly you've never mastered audio for cassette output. Typical compact cassette tape will start rolling-off around 12-14kHz; chrome tape will get you 16kHz; metal will get you close to 20kHz. Tape ain't the holy grail, as limitations of the medium impose compression, filtering, and band limitation (just in the analog domain.)

I just checked, and I can get 100 CD-Rs for $12 retail all day long. So my band can release a single on CD in an audio-CD format, or as a data disc with a raw uncompressed bit file. I can master this from the kitchen of my apartment, just like the article says.

In spite of the article claiming "this isn't another display of analog hipsterism," oh yes it is.

I will be concerned if Amazon Consumer Products' Security Concepts Division starts to deploy law-enforcement services.

I was gonna ask the same question, followed by "Don't we already have this kind of infrastructure in-place with the LTL (Less Than Load) freight services?"