Comment "Them"? (Score 2) 241
so what's holding them back?
Wrong question. It is open source. If you need it, you fix it.
so what's holding them back?
Wrong question. It is open source. If you need it, you fix it.
Why is Microsoft selling Windows 8 for so much more than Windows XP?
To the best of my knowledge, they have not sold XP since Windows 7 was released. At least not around here. Unless you mean XP starter edition, but that is a crippled version only sold with hardware. A Windows 8 license cost considerably less than XP cost when it was actually sold.
But, you open up many more possibilities when you also have the analog infrastructure, which is ALREADY IN PLACE!
Not quite. Where I live, new houses will get only digital lines. Besides, a lot of people drop house phones anyway. When everybody in the household has a mobile phone, the POTS phone is simply not used, so why pay to keep it?
I have not had analog phone line for more than 10 years.
A common solution to this is to tell people just to text instead of making calls, that helps reduce the load on the cellular infrastructure.
Texting instead of talking will also reduce battery drain, so in an emergency, any phone with decent battery should last at least a few days.
That doesn't necessarily make them more dangerous
Which I did not claim. My last sentence was "Different energy stores, different risks". To compare the risks, we must first understand them.
Initially I would think the fuel is more flammable than the batteries, but I have no research to support that.
The difference is that the batteries can ignite without an external heat source. As in the case mentioned, if the battery short-circuit for any reason, it can ignite. Fuel needs an external heat source to ignite.
Liquid fuel is actually not easily ignited (do not believe what you see in movies
One other factor is how a fast a fire becomes dangerous. If the fuel ignites, you are in big trouble NOW. If the battery ignites, it is quite likely not immediately dangerous, as the flammable material does not spread.
Different energy stores, different risks.
That being said, 1 in 6300 is a lot
That might be significant if it was statistically significant. One incident does not make it significant.
Now, if there were 10 in 63000, that would be significant, but one in 6300 is not.
In addition, this accident was not caused by a car malfunction, it was caused by an external event.
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro