Tesla's plan, from the very beginning of the company, was to create the Roadster (an overpriced concept), to generate the seed money to develop the technology further.
Thanks to the rich folks who spent the 100k+ and supported this company, they were able to take step two which is the 50k luxury sedan. Step 3 is the 30k sedan, which was still part of their plan and where I have always hoped to come into the picture.
I'm removing Slashdot from Google reader and not coming back. The site has been "on the decline" for a very long time, but it's just complete trash now.
I have 10+ devices that could play a DVD and several that can play Blu-Ray. I didn't "intentionally" buy any of them with that express intent. If it *actually* lowers the price on the thing, I am all for this. I do not have the desire to pay for functionality which I do not need.
This is not the way to get the ethos behind file-sharing taken seriously. It's counter-productive and childish.
As are most religions. I love the way they are going about it. Says more about organized religion and the way governments tolerate it than anything about file sharing.
"Following this, the team declared Sony's security to be EPIC FAIL!"
Is it really necessary for everybody to talk like complete dicks nowadays?
To be honest I'm not sure how you can call Sony security a failure. As far as popular consumer devices go, the PS3 lasted for eons. I am both a Sony and Apple fanboy (somewhat), and have to laugh at the hours (literally) it takes any Apple product to be cracked while Sony (as dysfunctional as any company there is) makes a product that lasts for years.
Cracking the keys was inevitable, but Sony should be recognized for making it more difficult than anyone else:)
I still sit on the side of the fence where the damn thing should have been open from the get-go...but meh
Only in your world. You do realize that reverse engineering for interoperability is actually a textbook case case of fair use?
I didn't know "fair use" included charging people monetarily to view the portion you are supposedly "fairly using". Also fair use does not stipulate you can use 100% of the source.
ME. Right now. Why would I want to have my tax dollars on this. I have to pay the mortgage. I have to pay the $320 Comcast bill. Going to Mars isn't going to get me anywhere.
Human mentality...
You're the problem. Go ahead and extend your attitude to everything which has ever been done or researched and let us know how humans progress.
They are a cash cow. Little to no resources are put into them, and students gain (at most) some busy work to do while reading the book on their own. I have taken online courses at three universities. Each one of them charged more per credit hour (~50% more) while I felt like I learned much less from the course.
I'm sure there are good programs out there somewhere, but none in the institutions where I have had experience.
In order to do well in online courses, you need to be a self-starter. MUCH moreso than in a typical classroom environment. My advice, if it applies to your courses, is to use the heck out of MIT's OCW program. Those lectures have gotten me through many online courses where the professors had (for the most part) not even read the current text we were assigned to use.
I have donated several times to MIT because of OCW, it is fantastic.
I agree with above posters, it's amazing to see a useful Slashvertisement. This one, however, has some quality behind it. I had not seen this program and OCR is one area where it's been difficult to find quality OSS solutions.
Thanks for the post.
Good point.
This is partly why we can't have an emotional reaction to a single data point. Showing the arctic ice as melting quickly has to be balanced with the fact the antarctic is melting very slowly.
Perhaps TFA is describing a more complex issue than a simple CO2 change, similar to melting ice caps being more complex than most believe.
I had a chuckle at the "manually edit" part, as well.
The fact is, editing by its vary nature is manual, so the modifier is redundant. The shopping list or letter to grandma in Word, or the one-liner email in Gmail are all manually written and manually edited.
If you've ever worked any sort of support you'd understand that a solid 95% of the American public are terrified to edit anything they didn't write themselves. I completely agree that it's very similar to editing that grocery list, and this would even come with directions!
However, there is a funny thing about directions given to the average person. If they get above 4 or 5 steps (this includes mouse clicks), people see too much and get overwhelmed immediately. I am so blessed as to spend my day job supporting a service force who have been given their own laptops for the last 12 years. I still get many calls every day from technicians (who spend their days disassembling and repairing printers) saying they can't follow a 5 step process for loading firmware into said device.
My favorite ever feedback was "You think in too many steps, please simplify this." The moral of the story is... if there's more than 3, even mouse clicks are hard.
Umm, who cares what happens to a bunch of pirates? Squandered trust is what happens when your Firefox extension comes bundled with malware, designed to silently disable another one of your extensions.
Seconded, don't trust your ISP... for home use the 2 above work just fine. In addition, some of the adult-filtering for curious kids in the house is a WONDERFUL optional side benefit.
Sirius/XM? Meh, I know one person that subscribes to them, I don't think they're growing very fast anymore, if they ever did.
It's a good thing that the people YOU personally know and the success you THINK satellite radio has have no effect on the reality of the situation. While I have to endure tons of "oh my god who would ever pay $12/mo for RADIO" from people I know, I could say the same thing about "omg who would ever pay $90 for TELEVISION every month". The quality of satellite radio is great and the coverage is very good. Anyone who has to drive outside of a metro area for more than 20 minutes for a job would be insane not to drop $12/mo on Sirius/XM.
I never patch my windows unless its a service pack and I run just fine... Always have my Antivirus running and Windows defender with a router with built-in firewall... No complaints for the 7 years since I built my pc....
Would you even know if your PC was a Botnet client?
I didn't mean to make it sound like a knee-jerk reaction against "big companies", and I do not fault them for moving. Jacking up local taxes is SUPPOSED to move companies out, if that isn't happening then things are out of balance.
It isn't "esoteric". Do some research and you will find it is not that hard, and it does work fine.
However, I have to dump Vonage anyways... Even with it being plugged DIRECTLY into the cable modem it doesn't work as well as it should. I've been a Vonage customer for 3 years...and I'm canceling my number this weekend to switch to Skype. I have had zero Skype problems whatsoever, and it is 1/3 the cost for the same features (minus 911, but you can always call the emergency departments directly)
To quote the message that appeared on my Wii from Nintended about the update, 'This update also ads a new feature to the Mii Channel. You can now move a Mii from the Mii Plaza to the Mii Parade. To do this,...'.
I am in Europe, though, so maybe Nintendo held off giving us this one for a while in case it just blew our minds with its promptness. I am in the US, that feature was just added for me in 3.3 as well.
Good to know they researched heavily before firing him. +5, WTF? The company didn't research worth a shit. They handed it over to the prosecution as evidence, and the defense attorney did all the research. If it had been just a "firable but not illegal" offense they probably would have just ghosted it and bye-bye any defense. Not that you really have any defense against being framed out of a job in an at-will state. I see sarcasm is new to you:)
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Tesla's plan, from the very beginning of the company, was to create the Roadster (an overpriced concept), to generate the seed money to develop the technology further. Thanks to the rich folks who spent the 100k+ and supported this company, they were able to take step two which is the 50k luxury sedan. Step 3 is the 30k sedan, which was still part of their plan and where I have always hoped to come into the picture. I'm removing Slashdot from Google reader and not coming back. The site has been "on the decline" for a very long time, but it's just complete trash now.
I have 10+ devices that could play a DVD and several that can play Blu-Ray. I didn't "intentionally" buy any of them with that express intent. If it *actually* lowers the price on the thing, I am all for this. I do not have the desire to pay for functionality which I do not need.
This is not the way to get the ethos behind file-sharing taken seriously. It's counter-productive and childish.
As are most religions. I love the way they are going about it. Says more about organized religion and the way governments tolerate it than anything about file sharing.
"Following this, the team declared Sony's security to be EPIC FAIL!"
Is it really necessary for everybody to talk like complete dicks nowadays?
To be honest I'm not sure how you can call Sony security a failure. As far as popular consumer devices go, the PS3 lasted for eons. I am both a Sony and Apple fanboy (somewhat), and have to laugh at the hours (literally) it takes any Apple product to be cracked while Sony (as dysfunctional as any company there is) makes a product that lasts for years. Cracking the keys was inevitable, but Sony should be recognized for making it more difficult than anyone else :)
I still sit on the side of the fence where the damn thing should have been open from the get-go...but meh
Only in your world. You do realize that reverse engineering for interoperability is actually a textbook case case of fair use?
I didn't know "fair use" included charging people monetarily to view the portion you are supposedly "fairly using". Also fair use does not stipulate you can use 100% of the source.
ME. Right now. Why would I want to have my tax dollars on this. I have to pay the mortgage. I have to pay the $320 Comcast bill. Going to Mars isn't going to get me anywhere. Human mentality...
You're the problem. Go ahead and extend your attitude to everything which has ever been done or researched and let us know how humans progress.
The "victim" still has their product to sell. It's not like I'm "stealing" something from them.
This is a very valid point. They should stop calling this "theft".
They are a cash cow. Little to no resources are put into them, and students gain (at most) some busy work to do while reading the book on their own. I have taken online courses at three universities. Each one of them charged more per credit hour (~50% more) while I felt like I learned much less from the course. I'm sure there are good programs out there somewhere, but none in the institutions where I have had experience. In order to do well in online courses, you need to be a self-starter. MUCH moreso than in a typical classroom environment. My advice, if it applies to your courses, is to use the heck out of MIT's OCW program. Those lectures have gotten me through many online courses where the professors had (for the most part) not even read the current text we were assigned to use. I have donated several times to MIT because of OCW, it is fantastic.
I agree with above posters, it's amazing to see a useful Slashvertisement. This one, however, has some quality behind it. I had not seen this program and OCR is one area where it's been difficult to find quality OSS solutions. Thanks for the post.
Good point. This is partly why we can't have an emotional reaction to a single data point. Showing the arctic ice as melting quickly has to be balanced with the fact the antarctic is melting very slowly. Perhaps TFA is describing a more complex issue than a simple CO2 change, similar to melting ice caps being more complex than most believe.
Take it easy Mr. Nicholson, the OP is exactly right.
Very nice resolution. I can't wait to see further output from the project.
I had a chuckle at the "manually edit" part, as well.
The fact is, editing by its vary nature is manual, so the modifier is redundant. The shopping list or letter to grandma in Word, or the one-liner email in Gmail are all manually written and manually edited.
If you've ever worked any sort of support you'd understand that a solid 95% of the American public are terrified to edit anything they didn't write themselves. I completely agree that it's very similar to editing that grocery list, and this would even come with directions!
However, there is a funny thing about directions given to the average person. If they get above 4 or 5 steps (this includes mouse clicks), people see too much and get overwhelmed immediately. I am so blessed as to spend my day job supporting a service force who have been given their own laptops for the last 12 years. I still get many calls every day from technicians (who spend their days disassembling and repairing printers) saying they can't follow a 5 step process for loading firmware into said device.
My favorite ever feedback was "You think in too many steps, please simplify this." The moral of the story is... if there's more than 3, even mouse clicks are hard.
Umm, who cares what happens to a bunch of pirates? Squandered trust is what happens when your Firefox extension comes bundled with malware, designed to silently disable another one of your extensions.
Using Last.fm makes one a pirate? wtf?
Jesus christ it's Jenny McCarthy, get in the car!!!
208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220
Seconded, don't trust your ISP... for home use the 2 above work just fine. In addition, some of the adult-filtering for curious kids in the house is a WONDERFUL optional side benefit.
Sirius/XM? Meh, I know one person that subscribes to them, I don't think they're growing very fast anymore, if they ever did.
It's a good thing that the people YOU personally know and the success you THINK satellite radio has have no effect on the reality of the situation.
While I have to endure tons of "oh my god who would ever pay $12/mo for RADIO" from people I know, I could say the same thing about "omg who would ever pay $90 for TELEVISION every month".
The quality of satellite radio is great and the coverage is very good. Anyone who has to drive outside of a metro area for more than 20 minutes for a job would be insane not to drop $12/mo on Sirius/XM.
And everyone knows IBM *SHOULD* have done the same, why does Apple get lambasted for it...just because people don't like Stevie?
I never patch my windows unless its a service pack and I run just fine... Always have my Antivirus running and Windows defender with a router with built-in firewall... No complaints for the 7 years since I built my pc....
Would you even know if your PC was a Botnet client?
I didn't mean to make it sound like a knee-jerk reaction against "big companies", and I do not fault them for moving. Jacking up local taxes is SUPPOSED to move companies out, if that isn't happening then things are out of balance.
Same reason Walmart is moving some of its operations to SW Missouri, big companies get to make the laws, not necessarily follow them.
It isn't "esoteric". Do some research and you will find it is not that hard, and it does work fine. However, I have to dump Vonage anyways... Even with it being plugged DIRECTLY into the cable modem it doesn't work as well as it should. I've been a Vonage customer for 3 years...and I'm canceling my number this weekend to switch to Skype. I have had zero Skype problems whatsoever, and it is 1/3 the cost for the same features (minus 911, but you can always call the emergency departments directly)
No serious issues with 10.5, excellent operating system.