Comment Re:Darwin Award... (Score 1) 605
As to ancestors, at least a branch of the gene pool has been cut off. Hopefully, there are no [surviving] offspring.
As to ancestors, at least a branch of the gene pool has been cut off. Hopefully, there are no [surviving] offspring.
We should see fewer laptops being forgotten at TSA security checkpoints if this happens.
You meant to say 'great' cars with 'some' quality problems. Autocorrect can be a bitch...
Many who comment here will have a reason that they chose one carrier over one other carrier. They may have switched carriers. I always found that the latest carrier plan was better than the competition, and that it would go back and forth or be too confusing to come up with one clear answer. I actually have iPhones and aPhones on 5 carriers. I also travel the world quite a bit. Domestically, all the carriers are good for most unless you live in an area not covered by some. I remember times when Verizon was faster but now it seems that AT&T is faster for me, most of the time. I remember when you could buy international data from Verizon that covered 200 countries, while the AT&T list was only about 50 countries. That affected me in places like Russia and South Africa, back then. T-Mobile has incredible data plans for here and away but they don't seem as fast as claimed unless I'm in the store. Sprint has gone far out of their way to help me with issues, including a stolen phone number. Right now I believe that the best carrier I have, for my own needs, is Google Project Fi because the plan works in over 100 countries. You can even order a free data-only SIM for free, without even a shipping charge, to use it on iPads and the like. I would never say that anyone's choice of plan is bad in any way though.
A whole interview rarely carries over. I was asked if I thought Apple would be around in 100 years. My reply even referred to IBM, along the lines of what you can do and how many restarts you can get when you are that big. I facetiously jabbed at the idea of Trump seeking advice from today's huge internet companies by telling the reporter that they would all ask for lower taxes and become larger yet.
Android is probably the least fussy, most widely used Linux based out there for consumers.
Seriously. Get an Android device and go to town.
The brakes are actually fairly interesting. With the proper design, you could do away with the brakes entirely (I'm not saying you should, I'm saying you could). If you increase the resistance in the regenerative braking to the point where it will stop the wheels and hold them in place, you could do away with friction brakes entirely. Of course, you should still keep them as backup, but with a fully 100% backed up braking system, you can virtually eliminate brake failure.
>> At 20 years in and 12,000 miles per year, 240,000 miles, they'll quite likely have 85% of their capacity
Not even close, especially in hot climates like CA and AZ. I used to work for one of the 3 big EV charging station companies and they also have a sister company that does EV battery testing for the government. I can tell you that no EV car battery lasts anything like 20 years. With a normal drive cycle its about 4 years max before you start noticing very significant amounts of dropoff (like 1/3) in max range, and depending on how determined to save money you are, it will be maybe 7-8 years max before even the most determined owner HAS to totally replace the battery.
Tesla is also using the same battery tech as everyone else so they are just as susceptible, no matter what their glossy advertising claims.
This is demonstrably false, as Teslas have been out for more than 4 years and are seeing minimal battery degradation. I have a 2012 Telsa (one of the first 2000 off the line) and the battery degradation is sitting at 96% of its original capacity. It has almost 100,000 miles on it. So I've lost 4% in 4 years and it's been holding steady for the past year at that rate. There are numerous other examples of this in the Tesla world. Do your research. Spewing false facts (ahem, I mean alternative facts) about EV batteries isn't helpful.
Then don't charge your laptop to 100%. Charge it to 80% and try not to let it go below 20% charge and you'll have a laptop that has 94% of it's original capacity after 6 months, 12 months... probably 48 months.
It's when you charge it to 100% each time or drain it past 20% each time that the battery really starts to degrade.
without needing to rely on a central authority.
Because the official blockchain servers are not any sort of central authority.
What official blockchain servers? There's no such thing.
90k isn't exactly luxury. I live in Switzerland, and I'd call that mid range.
Two words: Bull and Shit.
I don't care where you live, $90k USD is most definitely in the Luxury class and it not in any way in the mid-range class.
I own two Teslas and I take a lot of road trips. It takes a bit longer than 10 - 15m for the most part, at least on road trips. If you are just cruising around town, you're probably right. But either way, I'm going to guess you live on one of the coasts. That skews your perspective. In the majority of the country (such as where I live) I have rarely, if ever, seen another Tesla at a Supercharger. All of the Superchargers between St. Louis and Denver are completely empty most of the time and are, quite literally, NEVER full. This change doesn't affect most of th country (geoloation wise), so they should just implement it on congested chargers, not on vacant, little used chargers.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
