Comment Only 8k? (Score 2) 263
Silly Apple, my Commodore had 64k way back in 1983!
Silly Apple, my Commodore had 64k way back in 1983!
Where I live, you don't run the heater for comfort, you run it so you can defrost the windshield and the side windows.
At -30C and below, if you drive without the defrost at maximum heat, your windows and windshield will be unusable in 10 minutes.
On the highway, with 4 people in the car, even with the defroster at max you can only defrost small parts of the side windows.
Even when it's hotter, like say 0C or -1C, if you have freezing rain it's hard to get the windshield hot enough so that the rain doesn't freeze on contact and block your view ahead.
If you bought it, you get the strings that come with it.
If it's anything like software music and books, you won't be able to "buy" it, you will rent it or pay a usage license.
Car companies are not dumb, they'll soon see that having a regular income from captive users is much better than selling good products that last decades and can be sold used to someone else.
And self driving cars will give them the opportunity to make this switch.
The way that consumers interact with and operate cars
This sentence is scary.
I'm not a consumer, I'm a driver!
I want to interact with my car by operating a steering wheel, 3 pedals and a shifter.
Please refrain from adding electronics other than basic safety (I personnaly think ABS is useful, as long as it triggers at the limit).
If you don't like to drive and find it a chore, please use public transport.
I personnaly use the subway to go to work even if I love to drive. Even? I'd say that I use the subway BECAUSE I love to drive a car, so that it remains a pleasant activity, and I don't want cars to be banned (so if we all keep usage to a minimum it won't be necessary to ban them). But I know I'm dreaming right there...
Is this "slice of virgin airspace" within shotgun reach?
For example, drivers get a boost button they can use during the race if they're the "fan favourite" before the race.
So the Like button on Facebook will now have an effect on the race!
Well, we would have to study that in depth.
But be careful, it's a slippery slope, you don't want to dig youself in a hole.
Again each time I read an article on Slashdot about autonomous vehicles, I'm amazed at how the same bunch of geeks who would murder someone just so they can retain complete control of their gadgets, computers, websites and houses, can at the same time be happy to let a computer take control of their cars?
I don't understand?
Bug free?
I had a Nokia Lumia 920 for a little more than 2 years. I liked it a lot, loved the WP8 interface, the phone was great with a very good camera.
But there was a major bug, and even with the multiple updates it never was fixed.
Sometimes, for unknown reasons, the phone became very very hot (like almost to hot to touch) and the battery drained about 10% every 5 minutes.
It happened about 1 or 2 time a week, but left me a lot of times with a discharged phone when I wasn't fast enough on the reboot.
I was not alone, here is one thread about it: http://answers.microsoft.com/e...
You will notice that it spans 3 years with no solution... some solutions where proposed, but none worked for me and a lot of others.
It's sad but now I have a cheap Moto G running Android and I no longer fear of losing all my battery power in a hour.
(Right-angle crashes are much more dangerous to the occupants than rear end crashes, so exchanging the former for the latter results in a net improvement in safety.)
Sadly they're both almost as dangerous for motorcycle riders.
Having said that, I rarely keep the heater on for very long.
Then you don't live in a cold climate.
This week in Quebec you have to keep your heater on at full and the fan at almost the highest speed just to keep the windows from frosting (forget fogging, here the fog freezes on the windows IN the car).
Even then, when we're 5 or 6 in the car it can't keep up and you only have the windshield and part of the side windows that stay defrosted. And it's currently only about -20 to -20C, at -35C it's even worse.
And forget about the AC dehumidifier at those temps, even when the AC is turned on the compressor is not running, below a certain temp it's prevented from running because it could be damaged.
The heater is not only for comfort, it's primary use in our cold climate is to safely defrost the windows and see where you're going.
In the end, the rules appear to be nothing but a way of forcing you to use their approved payment processors - yet another way to suck money out of merchants.
I work on aquiring systems for a big bank, and we are bound to those rules as well. They are there for a good reason, I don't want my credit card information handled carelessly by any system half assed together by anybody who calls himself a web developper. Those audits are there to check that some minimum requisits of security are in place.
And believe me it's very costly even for us, but it's much cheaper than having your business name on the news...
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
