How is a 1.5% bump in profit for Cisco or 2% for UPS a rounding error? Most CFOs would kill to find an extra 1.5%, or put another way it's one fewer round of layoffs to meet Wallstreet's latest estimate.

Cost of capital for well rated companies is around 4.25%, at most it will add a few months to the roi if you're looking at 6-7 years otherwise.

The Bay Trail devices are due to low memory, the in ram footprint of 64bit Windows is quite a bit higher when you only have 1-2GB and a cheap flash drive that you want to avoid swapping to at all costs.

I don't care about touch apps, I want all the good under the hood changes to go along with Windows Server 2012/R2, right now a lot of cool features only work if the clients are upgraded to Windows 8 and due to the UI screwups we can't possibly afford to do that so most of the best stuff on the server side goes unused. I'll probably start a major server OS upgrade push once 9 ships, we're already under an EA with software assurance so there's no additional cost for us upgrade once the training barrier goes away.

You seem to be ignoring the fact that Google has already done well over 1m miles of real world testing with their system without any problems caused by their recognition.

They cant make anything decent anymore, and even the highest performance car made, the Corvette, is an utter joke to the rest of the world.

Really?

$64,000 question - what's it like to drive?

In a word: stunning. What the 'Vette team has managed to achieve with the C7 is nothing short of astonishing. You basically get three cars in one. It will comfortably cruise all day, mopping up bumps, sipping fuel and generally letting you go about your business without getting in the way. You'd be happy commuting in it. Equally it has the performance - and luggage space under the rear hatch - to handle long journeys with ease. But the really special bit is, without touching anything more than the chassis set up dial, you can take it to a track and have hours of fun, too. topgear

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Forget all previous Corvette generations - here is the new one. It brings the best Corvette ever produced. A U.S. superstar. A piece of American identity. But most of all she is after 60 years of intense maturity and evolution of one of the most stunning sports car in the world. autozeitung via google translate

Try taking those gambles with the toy systems that Google produces.

You mean like the billions of Android powered devices out there?

It's not even the BOM that it adds to, it's regulatory red tape (cable labs requires a boatload of documentation and takes forever to certify devices, I remember reading the blogs from the guys at Ceton when they were working through the certification process and thinking how much of a nightmare it was). The delay in time to market and the cost in personnel to guide the product through the process just isn't worth it for the .1% of folks interested or even knowledgeable about the feature.

They also usually provide serial over lan which allows CLI control of both Linux and Windows (Yes, Windows supports serial console, has since 2003).

Then figure treble damages as a punitive fine (obviously not if they settle, but if they're found criminally liable) and it starts to add up to real money, even to companies of this size.

Well, you have to figure the wage suppression was worth significantly more than $5,000 per worker, heck it was probably worth between 2 and 4 times that per year and the case involves at least a half decade of bad actions, so make it 10k per worker per year and that works out to ~3.2B. It's certainly not going to bankrupt these companies but it will affect their quarterly results which might be enough to get folks attention.

I don't think using petrochemicals is evil, I think efficiency is good and that accounting for externalities is good. Furthermore I think that future generations are going to be extremely pissed at us that we've used so much of the petrochemical stock for transportation. There are so many wonderful uses for petrochemicals, from plastics to fertilizers, to pharmaceuticals where there does not exist ready alternatives that needlessly wasting them in less efficient transportation than we can reasonably engineer is a travesty. As far as the eventual decline in revenue from increased taxes, so what. We know we're nowhere near that level today because the inflation adjusted cost of the tax today is many times what is was less than a generation ago. Plus if vehicles are so efficient that they're reducing the tax take that will mean that our foreign trade balance will be better and so we can afford more funds from the general budget for infrastructure. Efficiency gains make the equation much better than zero sum.

Gas tax increases are a good pricing signal to increase fuel efficiency (better than CAFE standards or cash for clunkers). They also happen to be regressive so ideally you put in a credit to offset some percentage of the net increase to the poorest folks. I've been saying for a decade that we should have an automatic 5c per year increase in the federal gas tax, it's gentle enough that it doesn't screw over people who just bought an inefficient vehicle but the net effect is enough that future purchases will naturally tend towards more efficient vehicles. If we had started a decade ago today we'd have an extra 50c per gallon incentive to buy a more efficient vehicle and the insolvency of the highway trust fund would be another decade plus in the future.

Well, even with the future state Tesla supercharger map it will be nearly impossible to drive a Tesla from Cleveland Ohio to Cincinnati Ohio, there are no planned supercharger stations between the two cities and the distance is too far for even the largest battery pack version of the Model S to cover. Likewise there are no planned supercharger stations within range along south I77 from Cleveland. So, for my most frequent long distance trips, from home to the Florida Keys (we go every 2 years for xmas) both of the major north south corridors are out if you want to use a Tesla.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll probably pick it up at the first sale post release, summer is now my dead time for gameplay since I tend to take family vacations and go hiking instead of sitting indoors =)