Comment Re:Aluminium (Score 4, Insightful) 187
And in the 50s we were going to be driving nuclear powered cars by now.
And indeed, some of us are. If you drive an electric car and live near a nuclear power plant, you might be one of them.
And in the 50s we were going to be driving nuclear powered cars by now.
And indeed, some of us are. If you drive an electric car and live near a nuclear power plant, you might be one of them.
Are you a paid shill for Uber, or just a disgusting human being?
Ad hominem attacks are tedious, so for the sake of argument let's take it as given that I'm both. Now that we've got that out of the way, I'll ask again: how are Uber's high prices ripping anyone off? Does anyone actually pay those prices? If so, why? Is Uber pointing a gun to their heads?
Congratulations you've invented the credit card!
I've always kind of wanted a bank account with built-in credit-card functionality. No overdraft fees possible, rather you pay credit-card style interest when your balance is negative, and earn bank-style interest when your balance is positive.
Of course, this is unlikely to be offered for just that reason... to the banks, overdraft fees are a profit center
Then whoever designed the algorithm is purposely ripping people off
Nobody is being forced to pay Uber's prices. There are still taxicabs in Sydney, are there not?
Windows has nothing to do with it. No other music management program pegs the CPU while syncing media over USB. This is purely the fault of Apple programmers not caring or not knowing how to program for Windows.
You don't give Apple programmers enough credit -- the USB transfer routine includes a surreptitious Bitcoin mining thread. That's how Apple builds up its cash reserves.
There's a big difference between saying "We aren't going to do any work to support your stuff," and saying "We are going to work to make sure your stuff can't be supported."
Is the latter action illegal? If so, under what circumstances?
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any particularly compelling reason why company X should be required to permit a competitors' software to make use of the company X's servers.
As a real Sync user (from 2012), my experience has been that its problems have more to do with user interface than "stability". Even if QNX improves on the latter, it does nothing for the former.
Well, it might help indirectly. Every hour the developers don't spend trying to debug the OS is an hour they can instead spend on making the user interface work better. I suspect that a lot of mediocre products appear simply because there were so many showstopping bugs to chase down that there was never any time to smooth out the rough edges.
But, if you end up buying a newer Keurig machine
If there's any justice in the world, Keurig will be getting a lot of post-Christmas returns this year, when people realize that the coffee machine they just upgraded to is incompatible with most of the coffee they wanted to make.
Why in the hell would anybody buy a coffee maker that uses DRM to prevent using "non-genuine" coffee?
When polled on this question, the number one response from consumers was: "What is DRM?"
You can't have a currency that changes value significantly in the time it takes to get to the grocery store.
Agreed, but the hope/expectation is that as the user base grows, the valuation will become less volatile, making it more useful as a currency.
But once it's there it's really not yours anymore. And years down the road it may not exist at all.
There's nothing that says you have to delete your original file after you've uploaded a copy of it to YouTube.
Why would I put my grandchildren's videos on Youtube?
I don't know why you'd do it, but I think the reason many people put their videos on YouTube is because it's an easy way to share said videos with the people they want to share them with. Sending someone a YouTube URL is a lot easier and quicker than figuring out how to get a multi-gigabyte video file from your computer to their computer.
So basically, once global warming takes its course, Earth is going to look like Mars.
If you want a global-warming nightmare scenario, Venus is a better candidate.
Actually, I don't know why they don't "acquiesce" somewhat to the demands - and offer to sell to the dealers at the same price as they sell in other states.
I don't think there is anything stopping a Texas auto dealer from going to Tesla's web site today and buying as many cars as he wants to buy.
The real issue is that the dealer would then want to service and support these cars, which would require a more in-depth working relationship with Tesla; and Tesla (quite reasonably IMO) does not trust dealers to do as good a job with that as Tesla itself can. Without quality service and support, OTOH, there is no reason why a customer should want to buy through a dealership and pay extra for inferior support.
The weirdest thing is that this hatred of "government" seems to come, without a trace of irony, from politicians.
It's perfect cover: as an anti-government politician, if your policies don't work, that's only more proof that government is incompetent and you were right all along to oppose. If they do work, OTOH, you're a hero! You can't lose
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
