This makes my head hurt. I've never even heard of electric can openers. The linked can opener is a very advanced non-electric one. I mean, people should know how to use a pocket-knife can-opener.
And if you don't have that, a knife will do - as long as it's not a nice, sharp knife that you value.
As a kid, my parents had a 30" TV or thereabouts. I remember seeing a huge 42" one. It was SO BIG. Fast forward 15 years, and I bought myself a 50" plasma TV. 7 years ago or so I bought myself a 60" one. I've been salivating for 80" ones for a couple of years now
My point is simply that as the TVs get bigger, there's simply room for more pixels. And of course one wants it to be more detailed the closer you are.
Silly premise. The future will bring us 8K, and heck, much better resolutions than that too. There are quite a few things leading to it not being popular *yet*.
1. Something needs to drive it, without jitter. That means whatever storage medium the movies/series are on, needs to have enough processing power to decode the video and ship it to the TV. This is less of a problem now in 2025, but my original Popcorn Hour box had problems with 1024p. And that was in 2015.
2. There need to be enough bandwidth, everywhere, for folks to actually be able to watch content over streams. Sure, lots of us have GB connectivity and fiber et al - but that's far from everywhere. Even in 2025. If you don't have enough bandwidth - why would you be interested in this?
3. Even Blue-Ray would not be able to store a movie w/o heavy compression, and what's the point of 8K if you have compression artifacts all over the place? A 2 hour movie needs 100G+ , and if it's not compressed to hell and back - probably quite a bit more.
4. Connectivity. You need to be able to deliver this over a single cable, which needs to be standardized. This might have happened by now - but it needs to be everywhere. Specially designed non-standard stuff won't cut it.
5. Pricing. Very few people will fork out $2K+ for a TV. I still don't even have 4K TVs as they were too expensive last time I refreshed my TVs. Next TV I buy will of course be 4K - as the prices are now OK. For 8K TVs to become mainstream, prices needs to become reasonable.
But we'll get there. We just need the rest of the "delivery technology", standardization, etc. to catch up, in addition to prices to drop. Give it another 10 years.
> If your only goal is to hide things from the police, who have a warrant.
How comfortable would you be with Chinese developed encryption systems, where the Chinese company held the keys, if you were say American or European?
Now, how comfortable do you think it makes non-americans that an american company holds the encryption keys. Especially with the current US administration and how they treat other countries
CAD $50K for four years?! That's something like 36000USD.
To study at the University of Oslo, the tuition (semesteravgift) is about $100USD per 6 months, or
Of course, there are books and living expenses in addition, but the tuition is
I believe the max speed is 1mph, not 2.
You can read more about it on:
You need to look at a map. Seriously. It's entirely true that the land area is pretty small, but you need to look at the shape of the country.
Take a look at this:
https://thetruesize.com/#?bord...
You also have to realize that Norway is quite, quite rural. There's a one "big" city (Oslo), then smaller cities like Bergen, Trondheim, Kristiansand and Stavanger. Tromsà is also considered a relatively big city here - population is 80.000 .
> Code is never produced, vetted, QAâ(TM)d and promoted to production in isolation.
How I yearn to be young and naive again.
As a Norwegian, I'm shocked every time I go further south in Europe. The smell of gas and diesel in every city
After most folks have switched to electric cars here - I'm acutely aware of the difference when going abroad.
> Pick a random European nation and tell me the longest drive a citizen would have to make to get to their nation's capital city.
Norway.
Driving from Hammerfest to Oslo will take you 23 hours if you drive via Finland and Sweden.
If you keep within Norway, approximately 32 hours.
Thing is, coal is expensive. Solar is cheap. If the US goes all in on coal, oil, gas, etc. - she'll lose.
China has built out massive amount of solar and wind, and hunkering down on batteries. That means they get massive amounts of essentially free electricity.
If the US hunkers down on labour intensive, expensive, polluting stuff - then all the worse for her.
First off: I'm not a climate change denier. Secondly: I do worry about the current US administration that seems to be entirely unhinged.
However, I think climate change is a solved problem, it's just the implementation that takes a bit of time. Thing is, solar panels have gotten dirt cheap. Battery prices are also plummeting. The cheapest electricity you can get at the moment is
Which is why China has been doing exactly that for some years now. Which is why India is investing massively. Which is why Chile is building out in the Atacama desert. Which is why southern europe has built out quite a bit. Which is why Australia has built out massively.
Of course, the objections about "what to do when the sun don't shine?" is entierly valid. The answer to that question, however, is batteries. Those prices are also plummeting. I expect to replace the batteries I bought in 2020 in about 2030 - and pay the same price for twice the capacity. They'll be cheaper in reality - due to inflation.
China is currently generating about 20% of their needs from wind+solar. We only need to go 5 years back for that to be less than 5%. In another 5 years, I'll be very surprised if they haven't reached 35-40%.
There's of course the problem of grid inertia. Grid-following is nowhere near as good as grid forming. We do, however, have the technology to fix that too. From flywheels to grid-forming inverters.
Give it 2-3 more years and "everyone" will see that it's solved. Give it 5-6 years and we'll be "on schedule". Give it 10 years and we'll all be surprised that we're ahead of schedule.
And we won't even need government incentives. It'll just be everyone doing what makes economic sense. Unless actively sabotaged through tariffs.
Oh gods no. Drip coffee beats americano any day of the week. Yech. I avoid americano like the plague.
We finally got a drip coffee machine in addition to the espresso machine at work. If I want espresso - I'll have that. If I want a nice "regular black coffee" - drip coffee any day.
> If EVs were the end-all-be-all that every EV pimp on the planet says they are, then there shouldnâ(TM)t be any risk. I mean, the Marketing department would never lie, right?
Hi there; Norwegian here. Not an EV pimp, but rather a guy that bought a used Tesla Model S 2014 back in 2018.
In my "price range", I've never had a nicer car to drive. It's fast, it's fun. Charging has never been a problem for me, but I can imagine it being troublesome for folks who drive long distances often. I charge during the night. If I go on a lengthy trip, I just stop for a bit at superchargers. They're "everywhere" in Norway, so whenever I need a break - I just pop by the closest supercharger and go to the loo, walk around a bit, and 20 minutes later I keep driving.
Of course, a 20 minute break every time you want to refuel might sound extremely annoying to folks that drive long distances often enough that this causes several long breaks a day for them. For me, it means I have to take a break to recharge maybe 5 times a year. I don't drive long distances often enough to need anything but home charging.
That adds another advantage (for me) compared to gasoline cars. The number of times needed to refuel. I don't need to stop at the gas station to refill very often, as the regular 'refueling' (or recharging in my case) is simply done at home, during the night.
I think I see what happened here; With "people" I didn't think of individuals adding it as rooftop solar, although that's nice too. I meant people who make financial decisions for power plant buildouts. People who make financial decisions for where their business is going to get power, etc.
I'm mostly thinking of grid scale projects. Which are already happening in both Texas and Arizona in the US from what I gather from articles in The Economist.
I'm also thinking of places like the Atacama desert between Chile and Peru. Various areas of Mexico. South East Asia. The middle east. Northern Africa. Southern Africa (Namibia, South Africa, etc).
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. -- Poul Anderson
