Re: But somehow I expect this will only be valid for Bing users in the good ole U S of A!
TFA says no.
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Yeah, the hyperbole isn't helpful here. Mainly it's a question of who will blink first: MS when Win11 is the only supported version and it still isn't growing enough, or enterprise and institutional users getting to the end of Win10 support and refusing to needlessly and expensively upgrade perfectly functional hardware just to meet an artificial OS imposition.
If enough people hold out, MS might just feel pushed relax their hardware requirements. Yeah yeah, it's a pipe dream. It would take a concerted global effort, one I just don't see will happen. Plus MS win either way, since ent's and int's usually must use a supported OS, so they'll have to pay either way. Although it's still a far lower cost than junking perfectly good hardware.
One way that might work is if governments refused to upgrade their estates, on environmental grounds. They're about the only orgs with sufficient might to force MS to relax it's hardware requirements. And of course, if MS did relax them, all the people forced to upgrade beforehand would be rightly pissed off. Some class action potential there.
As has been said a million times, it's nothing to do with capability, but permission. MS chose to shoot themselves in the foot by applying arbitrary hardware requirements that blocked otherwise perfectly capable machines. Talk about not being able to read the room.
Battery swapping is a great idea. Car makers will never go for it though, their batteries are usually structural and part of the their protected IP. Too many manufacturing secrets.
Solar charging on every home is hopelessly impractical. Many homes have no suitable roof surface for solar panels, or a roof that is too small to hold enough panels to effectively charge a car, and who is going to buy, build and install that many panels anyway.
That problem multiplies for things like grocery stores, since you need to provision solar charging for all the store's customers at any one time.
Could cover all the world's car parks with solar panels, and park the cars underneath, but again that is hideously expensive.
Can't harvest and sell juicy user data just by letting them swipe or tap a card. This and making their marks, sorry, customers, feel like they're part of an exclusive club instead of just buying a basic commodity.
Well ok, that's a bit cynical. In theory an app can tell you the nearest available charger on the network. Or, governments could just mandate use of open charging standards and then every car can query every charging network to find the nearest available chargers. No app required.
Regardless, I'm pretty sure mose people would like to just pay for their energy and go. They certainly don't want the privilege of being harvested.
The poor people who can't afford a property with offroad parking will of course be expected to use oh-so-reliable public transport, and put up with the increased travel times, unreliability, overcrowding, and general misery that often goes hand in hand with public transport.
The primary goal of forcing EVs seems to be to reduce the amount of traffic on the roads.
[Icon = only slightly trolling on this. EVs are not a singular solution to everyone's private transport needs, but they're being pushed hard as though they are ]
It ain't the electrons, it's the batteries. Their chemistry just doesn't like getting that cold (hmm so maybe it is the electrons). The batteries still work, but drain much faster and don't hold charge as well. It's like having 30% less capacity.
The reason the Beetle run while other cars didn't is probably because they're air cooled, not water cooled. Don't need a block heater or antifreeze, because there's no coolant to freeze. Oil would be pretty gloopy to start with, but would soon warm up and flow freely. Petrol doesn't go waxy like diesel at those temperatures, to the engire will run ok.
Mostly there would just be a bit more delay between starting the engine and getting full oil circulation.
Bullshit. That's a convenient side effect, which they're hoping enough suckers in government will believe is genuine altruism. Their only real goal is to increase their profits.
(Edit: Upon rereading your post... apologies if it was sarcasm and actually making my point more succinctly than I can).
There certainly was money after the SPMs "repaid" money they didn't actually owe as it was never actually missing. Where the fuck has that all gone? Someone (likely several) has benefited from procedes of crime. There was fraud and theft, but it was by Fujitsu, the Post Office, and their executives, not the SPMs.
A former boss was a complete parasite, had a penchant for not paying company bills, then trying to squeeze a better deal from what were usually small suppliers who really needed the money. There were a few times that even worked. Until he tried it with the office landlord, who was not a small supplier but a multi- multi-millionaire based in New York (we were in London). Hillariously, our landlord promptly had the building staff change the locks and lock us out. He flatly refused to unlock the doors until the enitre due balance was settled by bank transfer. Couldn't have backfired more appropriately.
This is the craziest of crazy ideas I've seen for quite a while.
In your world, nothing is protected from being plagiarised by your competitors. Most software businesses hang their existence on doing something few, or no one, else can do. Either - they believe - uniquely, or better than anyone else.
Forcing all software to publish its source code is the death of pretty much every software company. Forget copyright protections, they will take too long to have any preventative effect. It would come down to who has the deepest pockets, which favours large corporations over small innovators.
Well, you would say that, wouldn't you.
Seems highly counterintuitive that putting way more eggs into way fewer baskets is somehow more resilient when a basket breaks. Unless having AMD CPUs magically makes the non-AMD parts more resilient, less prone to failure. But that's obviously bollocks.
More cores = more power consumed = more heat in a confined space = more chance for themal stresses and instablities to make something go pop. Hard to see how it could be any other way.
In a mugging or robbery where the target isn't specifically the phone, but the victim's cash, jewellery, or other possessions... sure. But that's only one side of the problem. There are also a huge number of direct phone thefts where the phone is just snatched from the owner's hand, bag, pocket etc.
At least this could be a step in the right direction, although factory reset would seem to bypass these protections. They need something that persists beyond factory reset, and that's prety hard to do for a general purpose OS across a huge variety of phones where the hardware might not be up to the task.
Hyperbole much?
This fine is not about hitting the pedestrian (arguably not Cruise' fault, the pedestrian was knocked into its path by another driver), it is all to do with not properly reporting all details to the NHTSA within the mandated time window.
Self-driving is still nowhere near fully autonomous, but the accident rates are still lower than regular human drivers.
Came here to say a similar thing. Shouldn't have to tell the AI to stop once it's done the thing you asked it to. It's only been asked to do that thing. It should always stop afterwards. It should definitely not be following up with a bunch of random, unassigned tasks. Would be interesting to know why it carried on. Some cumulative product of previously assigned tasks?
What do you mean by "consumables"? To most drivers that's things like oil, filters, brake pads and discs, tyres. And a lot of those are still needed for hybrids and EVs.
I suspect you might mean fuel. If so, that's a hell of a lot of mileage for the fuel cost in one or two years to exceed the purchase price of a new EV. And surely you mean purchase price, not build price, since that's the only relevant price for drivers.
I wouldn't say that. It mainly points to the fact that most high quality code is not posted freely on the internet. Mostly it's a mix of dubious SO questions and their varied resplies, and stuff on some random's public githuib. Hardly representative of the best coding humanity has to offer.
Even with all those functions, you could still handle it with multiple wires feeding individual functions. A multiplug. Like cars used to have. Zero need for it to be on the canbus.
Can't really be about saving weight... how much is actually saved by replacing some wires with a module (which has to be hardened to survive vibration and exposure)?
Saving time during the build perhaps? But then whether your techs route one wire or a thicker bundle following the same path doesn't really make any difference either.
So... just because...?
Gotta wonder what it would actually take for manufacturers to stop putting the common functions like ventilation and AC in the touch screen. Go back to physical buttons. And not just in the screen, but elsewhere on the dash - VW, I'm looking at you with your dumbass touch sliders for heater controls. Which don't illuminate at night! (Although in the some of the newest models they have at least illuminated them, but it's still a stupid idea).
A few are maybe starting to get the message, and removing some of the more stupid touch functionality, but it's not enough. Anything you have to take your eyes off the road to operate is outright dangerous and ought to be banned. And I'm not usually in favour of banning things, but this insanity has to stop. It can't be much less distracting than reading a short text message on your mobile, and we made that illegal.
How hard is it to mandate that all new cars sold must have physical, non-touch-sensitive controls for essential functions? Controls you can find by feel and muscle memory, and must be illuminated.
What a strange outlook. All these businesses have to have their accounts audited, and sometimes again by the tax man. The board's collective arse is well and truly on the line if the tax man finds any irregularities. Don't know where you've worked, but everywhere I've worked has been anally strict about properly filing of expenses. I can easily see that being the norm. Can't say the same for your perspective.