The parent of my comment here should get upvoted, to counter the nonsense of the grandparent who suggested the obvious staging that has already been done.

I logged in (for the first time in like a year) to upvote it, but apparently I don't know how to do that anymore.

If you have important files that live only on your computer - especially if they only reside on one computer, then you're an even bigger fool and deserve what you get.

For the most part, cloud providers do a much better job than individual people do. Putting it on Google's servers is generally safer than keeping it only on your own computer.

Also, have you ever tried to back up a Windows host? It's ridiculously complicated! Sure, there are plenty of "easy" solutions, but does that back up SQL Server? That fancy accounting package you spent $4000 for? Where *does* it keep those files?

I found this out recently when I upgraded a hard drive and reloaded the OS onto the new drive. Why would you think it would be so danged difficult to get Quickbooks client files transfered to a new hard drive?

hahahaha

In January 2007, GM unveiled the Chevy Volt concept car, the one you may recall looking like a Camaro. Because the range-extending gas generator allowed the gas engine to be decoupled from the wheels, GM said that the range extender could be any kind of engine, *including turbine*. The enthusiastic response to that concept car led to GM greenlighting the car for production, and then they got serious about the design. Rather quickly they determined that a turbine engine actually SUCKS (ha) for this application because of terrible emissions -- high NOx as I recall.

Power output and weight are not the only parameters to worry about in gas engines.

See other comments for discussion of hydrogen.

Hey can someone get the attention of a moderator / editor to alert them to the fact that they didn't actually link to the article? See parent of this comment for link. (facepalm)

Posting my first comment IN A DECADE to say yeeesssss ^^^THIS^^^. What this guy said. Wireless charging on the move (in roadways) absolutely only exists to soak up VC, government and institutional grant money. It's just the most awesome slow-motion fraud.

STATIONARY wireless charging is absolutely a thing, and I look forward to the J2954 standard finally arriving as a factory installed option, although I'm starting to worry that it won't ever. But in-road wireless? Not happening. Big batteries and DC Fast Charging have already mooted it.

It's like those partisans for cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells. They don't even know that they've already lost the battle with battery electric vehicles. Or, more specifically, their funders don't know it.

I'm a 47 YO GenXer, and I'm retired. No way I want to live there. Nope!!!

You think you can speak for "most average users"? Because you certainly don't speak for me. I'm a professional Linux developer of 20+ years experience (starting with Red Hat Linux 5.0) and things like systemd are a big deal for me! I'm a programmer and systems admin/engineer.

That said, although I have been somewhat slow to adopt systemd, I'm starting to get used to it and I'm actually starting to like it. Things that used to require hackish software like xinetd are really easy to rewrite under systemd. Barely a simple config file and a tad of Google pounding and... it's done. So much simpler than reinventing everything a la messy, 300 line init scripts in bash.

If be very curious about your evidence to support the conclusion that the left is trying to filter your communication.

it probably looked something like this - a video of a windmill shattering in North Europe after its break fail

You probably can't. The issue is finding talent that can do the job that is required. It's not that there aren't competent engineers in other states, it's just that engineers that are competent at the specific needs of something like Facebook are very, very hard to find.

And that, my friends, was the fatal flaw in the Windows Ecosystem.

I understood the change from 6 to 7. WinMo 6 was just awful. But the jump from 7 to 8 was a deal breaker for devs, myself included.

Trust was betrayed.

AFTER pushing Windows Phone 7 as the "new, next big thing" with the weight of Microsoft behind it, it was then immediately followed, AT THE NEXT MAJOR RELEASE, with a "new - new next big thing" that completely trashed any investment in WP7.

Sorry, that's psychotic behavior, I'm not down for that.

HA HA HA! Tell that to your boss who couldn't give 1 rat's sh17 about standards or social good or anything other than it doesn't work in Edge and 19% of the users use Edge.

Who pays for your coffee?

Let supply and demand function without interference in order to establish a market level price.

In order to let supply and demand function, supply has to function. And that's really a problem in big cities like New York with lots of "quality of life" regulations that make it difficult to create new housing. San Francisco faces this problem, Washington, DC faces this problem. So perhaps it's no surprise that these three cities are the most expensive cities in the United States to live in?

You could, of course, take it as a clear sign that those "quality of life" regulations are working.