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over my cold dead body (literally) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"2. There's a reason they're talking about the 0-60 time and not the quarter mile time. Significantly cheaper and faster (in terms of top speed, quarter mile and lap times) cars have slower 0-60 times due to traction issues. 0-60 is Tesla's one and only performance party trick, neat as it is"

The refreshed Model S P90D Ludicrous is hitting 2.65s at 060 on stock 19" tires and 10.80 - 10.90 at the 1/4 mile. Those are darn good numbers for a sedan, into *recent* Nissan GTR territory. The "significantly cheaper" cars that are quicker to the 1/4 mile are typically 2-seaters and there are not many of those unmodified that can match a new top-end Tesla.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The Tesla performance models have come a long way in a short time; the P85D had a 0-60 of ~3.2s, a 1/4 mile of 11.7s and needing about 28 secs for 0-150 mph - that last seems slow for a performance sedan but the latest models have cut that by over 20%.
It'll probably take better cooling & perhaps an additonal gear ratio to improve that much more.

http://insideevs.com/tesla-mod...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"2. There's a reason they're talking about the 0-60 time and not the quarter mile time. Significantly cheaper and faster (in terms of top speed, quarter mile and lap times) cars have slower 0-60 times due to traction issues. 0-60 is Tesla's one and only performance party trick, neat as it is"

The refreshed Model S P90D Ludicrous is hitting 2.65s at 060 on stock 19" tires and 10.80 - 10.90 at the 1/4 mile. Those are darn good numbers for a sedan, into *recent* Nissan GTR territory. The "significantly cheaper" cars that are quicker to the 1/4 mile are typically 2-seaters and there are not many of those unmodified that can match a new top-end Tesla.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The Tesla performance models have come a long way in a short time; the P85D had a 0-60 of ~3.2s, a 1/4 mile of 11.7s and needing about 28 secs for 0-150 mph - that last seems slow for a performance sedan but the latest models have cut that by over 20%.
It'll probably take better cooling & perhaps an additonal gear ratio to improve that much more.

http://insideevs.com/tesla-mod...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"2. There's a reason they're talking about the 0-60 time and not the quarter mile time. Significantly cheaper and faster (in terms of top speed, quarter mile and lap times) cars have slower 0-60 times due to traction issues. 0-60 is Tesla's one and only performance party trick, neat as it is"

The refreshed Model S P90D Ludicrous is hitting 2.65s at 060 on stock 19" tires and 10.80 - 10.90 at the 1/4 mile. Those are darn good numbers for a sedan, into *recent* Nissan GTR territory. The "significantly cheaper" cars that are quicker to the 1/4 mile are typically 2-seaters and there are not many of those unmodified that can match a new top-end Tesla.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The Tesla performance models have come a long way in a short time; the P85D had a 0-60 of ~3.2s, a 1/4 mile of 11.7s and needing about 28 secs for 0-150 mph - that last seems slow for a performance sedan but the latest models have cut that by over 20%.
It'll probably take better cooling & perhaps an additonal gear ratio to improve that much more.

http://insideevs.com/tesla-mod...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Just a notice that Pinky and the Brain are back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Very funny video that lays out the case for Johnson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No.

You're in this shit because the FPTP electoral college system makes a two party lock-in inevitable.

• - Nearly 1 in 5 Americans voted for Ross Perot in 1992, and didn't receive any representation in government whatsoever.

• - The last time a "third party" gained traction was 1860, with Lincoln's Republicans. There is a reason it hasn't happened since.

The system is broken. And the two-party duopoly has no interest in fixing it.

I'm sorry but acting like things would get better "if only more people voted for better candidates" is a hopelessly naive pipe dream. That requires viable 3rd party candidates, and the US system makes that effectively impossible.

So I'm afraid I must repeat (and I take no pleasure in saying this, believe me) your only three options this election are Trump, Clinton, or throwing your vote away.

Of course Clinton is horrible. But would you prefer Trump?

Just yesterday Johnson said he *opposed* a Carbon Tax at a rally in Concord, NH

There's a good section in this about birth control in France.

Trump only appears racist because the media likes to portray him that way. Me not being able to find out WTF you are talking about with a jewish accountant does not make me a bad Googler however, as apparently it isn't being widely reported on.

If you really think that Trump is a racist for wanting to build a wall, I have news for you, Hillary wants one too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Ah yes, I remember the opening scene in Ghost Ship. (WARNING: graphic horror-movie stuff)

Oh, and I would be more concerned about a 20MB ATA drive. My first hard drive was a 20MB, but it was MFM.

It actually looked almost exactly like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It was "full height" which took up the equivalent of 2, 5 1/4" drive bays!

I have a 6 Plus and have not had this problem nor heard about it until yesterday, when I saw the story elsewhere. However anecdotal evidence does not necessarily invalidate the claims being made.

What I'd be curious about, though, is the results of a survey attempting to correlate the various problems people have reported with the 6 or 6 Plus (or any large phone, for that matter) with how those same people carry their phones. I see a fair number of people keeping their cell phones in their pant's back pocket - something that seems ridiculously stupid. But then I wear cargo pants pretty much all the time, so I've always got a big stress-free pocket available for my phone.

Love the subtlety. Come across reasonable. Suggest that problem happens all large phones. Suggest that it's because people put in pants pocket. Definitely not a fanboi. 10/10 buddeh.

Than George W. Bush during his presidency? Yes, they are. Sure Republicans these days manage to stay right of Democrats but if you consider their policy on Muslims even Bush would be a pinko commie liberal compared to them.

I presume "they" who were burning Israeli flags were the liberal protestors the actual Democrat officials was giggling at and trying to ignore. Both parties have slid way to the right, to the point where neither party is recognizable.

You need yourself a Magnavolt system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Perhaps more interesting is the semi-detailed presentation about AMD's Zen. Other people have already pointed out that a paltry few hundred million transistors doesn't get you very far. What are the billions of transistors used for? The Zen presentation is quite informative. Loads of cache is a fair chunk of it. Überfancy predictive logic is another big chunk of it. The rest is absorbed by 4 completely parallel ALUs, two parallel AGUs, and a completely independent floating point section with two MUL and two ADD logics. And after all that, what you get is parity with Intel's Broadwell. Barely.

Intel Broadwell E. There's a big difference. And barely being in parity with one of the best performing processors in the world (classified by Intel as an "enthusiast" processor) is a good thing.

So for perspective, that took a decade of hard labor by quite well paid engineers, and there was no low-hanging fruit in the form of the register-starved x86 architecture for AMD to pluck this time. The difference between half a billion and two billion transistors is very very substantial.

Yes it is a factor of 4. Given that Zen is/is to be mass produced in a small process the price/chip are probably skewed strongly towards AMD. Performance is likely to be better for Zen for real world code (read: not embarrassingly parallel).

...Apple's attitude towards security?

Oh, BTW, you may be running Linux or BSD yourself and not even know it -- Android is Linux and Apple is BSD.

And it'd be technically correct* to state that TiVo DVRs run Linux.

But what people mean when they refer to running Linux or BSD on a desktop PC are X11/Linux and X11/FreeBSD. Unlike the majority of window managers for the X Window System, Android prior to Nougat doesn't even have multiple windows on screen as a standard feature, which makes it not ideal for writing one document while referring to another.

* Allegedly the best kind of correct.

There's Order versus Chaos https://www.youtube.com/watch?... , I haven't worked out who has the better deal in this game yet, or how computationally interesting it is. But your game reminded me of it.

Perhaps more interesting is the semi-detailed presentation about AMD's Zen. Other people have already pointed out that a paltry few hundred million transistors doesn't get you very far. What are the billions of transistors used for? The Zen presentation is quite informative. Loads of cache is a fair chunk of it. Überfancy predictive logic is another big chunk of it. The rest is absorbed by 4 completely parallel ALUs, two parallel AGUs, and a completely independent floating point section with two MUL and two ADD logics. And after all that, what you get is parity with Intel's Broadwell. Barely.

So for perspective, that took a decade of hard labor by quite well paid engineers, and there was no low-hanging fruit in the form of the register-starved x86 architecture for AMD to pluck this time. The difference between half a billion and two billion transistors is very very substantial.

Oh great, now I have this looping in my brain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

> just look up Barancles Nerdgasm's "I was fired" video on YouTube

Barnacules Nerdgasm

"Microsoft laid me off after 15 years of service. Life after Microsoft?"

"Published on Jul 21, 2014"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you liked Jessas content you will love Loius Rossmann: https://www.youtube.com/user/r...

...even before humans had any significant CO2 output.

Right. This has been known for at least a decade. What, it doesn't dominate the discussion withing the "scientific consensus"?

For some reason I find this one more impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Lawsuits as a business. The last time I heard about that, I saw it in this video on software patents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you haven't seen it, you should, because it could very well be about you. And this startup may make this even more likely to be the case.

"...and then those crazy ports started showing up on PCs." For the record, PCs had USB ports in "1996," 2 years before the iMac. An update to Windows 95 added USB support.

For the record: most PCs didn't have USB when the iMac came out. To be fair, those with an Intel mobo had them on the mobo, but usually without external ports. And we all remember that all those USB peripherals had translucent blue cases not because of zhe iMac, but because it went nicely with the BSOD Windows liked to give when you used them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZQGRATlwA

Actually, Barancles Nerdgasm used to work for Microsoft and has a few Youtube videos on Windows 10 which he fully admits is a reasonably fine operating system. However, he pulls no punches when it comes to the privacy features of windows 10 which he finds appalling.

I installed Windows 10 Genuine Malware edition :-) on a virtual machine running under Linux and even after turning off all the privacy features the OS still likes to call home ( Wireshark is your friend here) and that is even before I log into the OS. Needless to say, I don't trust Windows 10 and I have not started up its virtual machine since then.

Note: I actually use the following IP address lookup site to determine which machines Windows 10 was talking to and "You Guessed it" they were all owned by Microsoft. It would not be too bad (well maybe) if those sites were in the country where I live which is Australia but they were in other countries including the USA. I can understand authentification at a stretch but the sheer amount of information being sent was ridiculous.

Most important of all, can it do this ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Kinetic Typography FTW

After watching the video, it reminded me of other things crashing very, very slowly. Though this one wasn't quite as entertaining.

How does this thing qualify as an "aircraft" rather than "airship"?

Seriously.

Bill Nye only has a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering.

That's like an electrical engineer telling a geologist that the earth is actually only 6000 years old.

Bill Nye has absolutely no business talking about climate change, and he is merely a mouthpiece of the Rothschild Man Made Global Warming Agenda

Source

Get off the elite's payroll bill nye, you unqualified fuckface

Penn Jillette on Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, And Why He's All in on Gary Johnson — 2 August 2016

I watched this video yesterday. There a fabulous exchange 24:30–30:00 on truth and naievity.

You go through a period when you're sixteen, seventeen, eighteen when truth really obsesses everybody. And then I think you're supposed to kind of sort of grow out of it. And I didn't. It really remains of complete interest to me. ... I'm not bothered at all by people being wrong. ... I have such a naive point of view, to almost not believing it, that people can have information and represent the opposite of that. I just find that so appalling and, in a certain way, fascinating.

Once upon a time I would have ventured that most Slashdot readers would want to view this. It had me thinking about my own life 1985–1995 where I watched the software industry turning into a train wreck, where every seventh train car is painted bright orange and lettered in an ominous Area 51 black stencil font "patch Tuesday", with sparks flying off wheels seized (and reseized) for so long they resemble lopsided pentagons.

I used to think to myself "surely these are just temporary conditions due to the extreme rate of expansion of the software industry, and it will all settle back down to sanity as we crest the exponential growth phase". But no. Like Jillette, I was a die-hard naievitarian. Lesson learned.

I have a 6 Plus and have not had this problem nor heard about it until yesterday, when I saw the story elsewhere. However anecdotal evidence does not necessarily invalidate the claims being made.

What I'd be curious about, though, is the results of a survey attempting to correlate the various problems people have reported with the 6 or 6 Plus (or any large phone, for that matter) with how those same people carry their phones. I see a fair number of people keeping their cell phones in their pant's back pocket - something that seems ridiculously stupid. But then I wear cargo pants pretty much all the time, so I've always got a big stress-free pocket available for my phone.

Firstly, you're correct. Nvidia was thermal expansion/contraction, while this is due to physical bending.

However, if you look at Louis Rossman's videos, the Nvidia issue was due to internal points WITHIN the chip, not due to the BGA points themselves. This means that simply reflowing the chip (or even resurfacing and resoldering the BGA) won't solve the issue. You NEED a new chip.

Heating the chip might slightly reflow the internal connections which may make the device work for a few days or even weeks, but it's going to fail very rapidly again.

The Apple issue is with the BGA points themselves, not inside the chip, which means that, as long as the points aren't super oxidized (as they were in Jessa's video), a reflow might resolve the issue. Fully resurfacing the BGA as Jessa did should completely resolve the issue, but Jessa replaced the chip anyway--I suspect the chip cost is low enough that putting a new chip on just makes more sense--just to make sure.

Source (Louis Rossman):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Skip to 13:00:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Elon can do better, with some help from above.

shoving old men off ledges after screaming a false accusation of sexual assault (caught on live video)

This I have to see.

I *think* he was talking about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But it has happened a few times, so I could be wrong.

Errrr.... ESX is FAKE.

http://www.overclock.net/t/157...

Check this video out by the 'developer' of the program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... . 2:03 gives it away that it is fake.

>"Your philosophy is basically, "Even though the system sucks, I don't have the sack to try and change stuff. Voting for a winner is much more important." "

Actually, my philosophy is that the system does suck, very badly, and we need to focus our efforts on trying to fix the system because the spoiler effect is very real and won't go away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

When faced with the "lesser of two evils", voters can't vote for third parties because they rightfully know their vote will likely work AGAINST what they want. Voting for a third party will almost always mean a vote taken away from a major candidate that is closer to what you want, thus supporting someone you less want to win.

How many more Russian conspiracy stories are going to run from " anonymous government official" ? Just put on your tin hats now. Slashdot fueling the new neo mccarthyism trend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Not the thin ones they use in phones

Lil' Wayne disagrees.

Everyone forgets Hillary saying the exact words (on CNN no less) "We should build a wall."

Hillary's build a wall soliloquy

Not sure why Tim gets credit when hyper-linking was demo'd back in 1968 ...

The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Alan Kay points out the same thing @17:03

Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful
https://youtu.be/FvmTSpJU-Xc?t...

> It's not ironic at all if you understand the concept that "MS" is not a person

Legally, they are.

I would highly recommend watching the excellent documentary The Corporation

Balmer in his typical MS FUD fashion shoots his mouth out without thinking when he refers to Linux instead of meaning the GPL. He also makes makes several ignorant / false statements. The full quote is (emphasis added):

Q: Do you view Linux and the open-source movement as a threat to Microsoft?

A: Yeah. It's good competition. It will force us to be innovative. It will force us to justify the prices and value that we deliver. And that's only healthy. The only thing we have a problem with is when the government funds open-source work. Government funding should be for work that is available to everybody. Open source is not available to commercial companies. The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.

There are several lies here:

1. Open source is not available to commercial companies.
a) Someone should notify their HotMail team! http://betanews.com/2001/06/18...
b) Tell that to Red Hat or Free/Open BSD whose ENTIRE business is based on open source.

2. If you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source
a) Had the man has never heard of Free BSD?
b) This is false; it gives the impression that you can't write close source software while using open source programs. You can.
c) Let's fix this statement so it is actually correct:
If you extend any open-source software, you have to make the rest of that software open source.

3. Linux is not in the public domain. /Oblg. "You keep using this word public, it doesn't mean what you think it means."
The public's rights is what is being preserved with the GPL. So while the GPL is not 100% free with no-strings-attached, like BSD, that is to prevent someone from hoarding their changes. GPL focuses on the public's freedom, BSD focuses on the developer's freedom.

Ironically, MS was complaining about the GPL while using BSD licensed code. Go figure.

This is the same company that obfuscated Windows 7 licensing so much that ZDnet wrote an article about it:
* http://www.zdnet.com/article/w...

I have been studying the topic of Windows licensing for many years. As I have discovered, Microsoft does not have all of this information organized in one convenient location. Much of it, in fact, is buried in long, dry license agreements and on sites that are available only to partners. I couldn't find this information in one convenient place, so I decided to do the job myself. I gathered details from many public and private sources and summarized the various types of Windows 7 license agreements available to consumers and business customers. Note that this table and the accompanying descriptions deliberately exclude a small number of license types: for example, I have omitted academic and government licenses, as well as those provided as part of MSDN and TechNet subscriptions and those included with Action Pack subscriptions for Microsoft partners. With those exceptions, I believe this list includes

Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?...