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Comment Re:Good Idea (Score 1) 91

So... complicate the whole scheme by adding graduated licensing by vehicle classification? Yeah... that'll fly. Imagine the bureaucratic nightmare if every time somebody wanted to move to a more capable car they had to certify on it.

Your SCCA license doesn't mean your solution is better than anybody else's.In fact, it might be working against you.

Comment Re:How many direct jobs, Toyota? (Score 1) 39

If you want to know these things have you looked for the answer?

It's Toyota. They are known. They employ over 63,000 Americans already. They are good jobs. This announcement marks the start of producing batteries - not some hazy "agreement" about the future if this and if that and if the other. It's a done deal and it's a good thing.

Comment iPhone format? (Score 2) 128

"on Apple there are a large number of applications which only have phone layouts"

If you are saying that the iPad will begrudgingly run old iPhone-only apps, that's true. But describing it as a limiting factor is not reasonable. Of the dozens of iPad apps I use - and I do use quite a lot - not one is running in iPhone compatibility. No matter what your need is, there are iPad-native apps to meet it. Usually it's the same binary - a universal app.

Besides, it's like complaining that your Ubuntu desktop is lacking because it'll run a bunch of old terminal apps that don't make use of the gui. It's silly.

Comment Re:Is arithmetic that hard? (Score 1) 171

I see all the comments of people putting coins in jars and this is on a tech board where I expect most people to be reasonably good at arithmetic. Or is the problem that you don't have a reliable place to keep the coins?

I seldom have more than five pennies or three quarters on me at any given time because I deliberately pay out whatever it takes to get the next denomination. If price is $1.24 and I don't have exact change, I could pay $1.25 that means another penny in my wallet but if I pay $1.29, those four pennies in my wallet become one nickel. Later, I might toss that nickel at a transaction to get a single quarter back instead of two dimes. And I never pull out a $1 bill if I have four quarters.

The math is not that difficult though I do understand that it depends on me being able to keep my coins together and too many wallets have no useful coin purse.

And there are countries in Europe where if you do NOT do that sort of minimalist transaction arithmetic, you are given such a serious stink eye by the cashier that you think twice about going back again.

I jest ... but only a little.

Comment Re:Depends on the meaning of "shelf life" (Score 1) 59

Not sure because these chips cost so much to operate in energy costs. If enough efficiency gains are made it would be cheaper to buy and run new ones than to run old ones to do the same tasks. When data center companies start building their own nuclear power plants you know there is a LOT of money to be saved by increasing efficiency.

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