The other companies have a century of a symbiotic relationship with the huge network of petroleum fuel station owners. They don't need to build their own infrastructure because they don't view it as their objective to put gas stations out of business. Two or three charging stations at many of the existing gas stations sounds pretty good, and also much less expensive to roll out.
True, but Tesla has been saying 'up yours' to the mainstream automotive fuel industry. The other automakers have long and congenial relationships with the established gas station chains. Think of the convenience if there was a charging station added at nearly every gas station in the world. You wouldn't have to frequent a specifiC 'network' of charging stations. Gas stations can just add a charging station or two. Which is a lot cheaper than what Tesla has done.
I know from personal experience that, for one example, the AlbionOnline (MMO game) subreddit is controlled and operated by employees of Sandbox Interactive, the company that makes and sells the game. They quash any meaningful criticism of the game in the Reddit forums.
So that is an example of heavy bias in a Reddit forum where the mods are quite well paid for their effort.
I wouldn't call Alex Jones a 'far right wing' player. I'd call him a nutcase cultist. Back when I used to read the Drudge Report page (I quit frequenting it awhile back) if a link from Drudge took me to infowars.com I had a habit of instantly closing the page, because that site is a loony nest. This was particularly the case during the 2016 election, because you're not doing yourself a favor by hanging out in a loony echo chamber if you have sincere beliefs in a thought out political philosophy. There are similar fever swamps on the left, of course.
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This is an aside, but I was trawling around on the left political sites this weekend and noticed that the main Trotskyite newspaper in the US is now apparently defending Trump of all things.
I bought what I could afford a T.I. SR-56, the year I graduated from High School. There was no way I could afford a full computer. I spent a lot of time programming that thing.
When the US spends $43B on it's military in Germany, the bulk amount of that money goes to US suppliers of said military, plus wages to the US soldiers. Some of that money makes it's way into the German economy, but a bunch of it stays with US companies and citizens.
The original European settlers were settlers, not immigrants. They did not inject themselves into an established country as immigrants. They bootstrapped the whole thing themselves, with encouragement from enlightened Europeans, especially the French.
If you have a sloppy code base, yes, it could be very expensive to come into compliance. Possibly even so expensive that it's just impossible to do business there anymore without significant liability.
No, obviously I know about the other stuff. I have an IBM AIX workstation in my collection that is Microchannel architecture. It's a Power 1 architecture system. The Power 1 chipset is on one of the microchannel cards.
But their microchannel Initiative in the PC market was their failed attempt to pull things back in a proprietary direction after their Open Architecture got way out of their control.
IBM did a ton of things with Minicomputers and Mainframes that I didn't mention.
IBM was a data processing company (punched card decks as databases, with card sorters, readers, printers to print selected fields off of cards, etc.) long before computers even existed. They were an IT company before the digital computer was invented.
IBM designed and championed the open architecture. The ISA bus, with slots with a particular pinout. The BIOS source code for machines up to the PC-AT was published in the tech ref manual which any customer could purchase. And not just the BIOS source code on the motherboard. The BIOS extensions on the EGA card and on the Hard Disk controller card (Xebec generation) were published in source code form. Also stuff like the schematics for the floppy drive, hard drive, power supply, etc. They were very open.
The memory map, the I/O model, the DMA controller model, etc. Some of what they picked was from Intel's reference design but not all of it. They chose the 8250 for the USART instead of Intel's 8251. That's quite a significant departure from Intel's reference design.
Some of their choices were even boneheaded and stunted, like cramming I/O and peripherals at the top of the meory map, boxing the memory scheme into just 640K. (when the IBM-PC first came out, the early motherboards had one row of 16K chips soldered on and three rows of sockets for another 48K of 16K chips. Memory beyond that had to go in a card on the ISA slot)
And what IBM 'created' was an open architecture. They didn't prohibit other vendors from producing ISA bus cards or even motherboards that incorporated ISA bus slots.
They poisoned the 'BIOS cloning' market by publishing the full BIOS source code. Most of the people qualified to write a BIOS clone would have already looked at IBM's commented source code, thus contaminating them as possible programmers to develop a 'compatible' BIOS.
Intel started out in the late 60's as primarily a supplier of DRAM to IBM, incidentally.
We need a filter on slashdot. When the words 'nazi' and 'faggot' appear in a comment it is automatically modded to -2 and a 5 day ip ban is imposed.
People who accuse another of being a nazi and who call somebody else a 'faggot' are completely different. Antifaschists are not homophobes. It's just a crapflooder who needs an ip ban.
He blew it. The proper thing to do would be to have designed and introduced a trojan/worm into the security system. When it reached critical mass, it would be triggered to open all the doors, continue to reopen the doors, and defend itself against removal.
I have it on my shelf to read, but I've been stalled in the middle of the Baroque cycle for so long that Stephenson's newer books are road blocked off.
The existence of the Indian market for cellphone companies to market to is a boon to frugal cellphone customers here in the US. The Galaxy J3 and J7 are hella-good budget handsets targeted to the India market, but they're darn fine for cheapskates like me in the US. I recently upgraded from a J3 to a J7. The J7 is an awesome piece of gear for $150 when you can find one for that price. The J3 is a lot of goodness for just $60 these days. It's kinda the iPhone SE for the frugal.
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Being sexually predatory?
The guys with the calibrated monitors at the gaming studio aren't the ones that get to have the most fun.
In Indiana, 75% of the electricity comes from burning coal.
The other companies have a century of a symbiotic relationship with the huge network of petroleum fuel station owners. They don't need to build their own infrastructure because they don't view it as their objective to put gas stations out of business. Two or three charging stations at many of the existing gas stations sounds pretty good, and also much less expensive to roll out.
Nah, Mercedes isn't a one shot wonder.
True, but Tesla has been saying 'up yours' to the mainstream automotive fuel industry. The other automakers have long and congenial relationships with the established gas station chains. Think of the convenience if there was a charging station added at nearly every gas station in the world. You wouldn't have to frequent a specifiC 'network' of charging stations. Gas stations can just add a charging station or two. Which is a lot cheaper than what Tesla has done.
Fucking astroturfer.
If you'll log in, you won't have to type your signature at the bottom of each post.
I know from personal experience that, for one example, the AlbionOnline (MMO game) subreddit is controlled and operated by employees of Sandbox Interactive, the company that makes and sells the game. They quash any meaningful criticism of the game in the Reddit forums.
So that is an example of heavy bias in a Reddit forum where the mods are quite well paid for their effort.
It was years later before I could afford a calculator without an equal key that blew the stack when you pressed it.
My first was an HP-11c. Damn fine calculator, they still sell on the used market for a lot to people who actually use them.
There is even a company, SwissMicros, selling a modern clone of the HP-15c, and other very nice RPN calculators.
I wouldn't call Alex Jones a 'far right wing' player. I'd call him a nutcase cultist. Back when I used to read the Drudge Report page (I quit frequenting it awhile back) if a link from Drudge took me to infowars.com I had a habit of instantly closing the page, because that site is a loony nest. This was particularly the case during the 2016 election, because you're not doing yourself a favor by hanging out in a loony echo chamber if you have sincere beliefs in a thought out political philosophy. There are similar fever swamps on the left, of course.
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This is an aside, but I was trawling around on the left political sites this weekend and noticed that the main Trotskyite newspaper in the US is now apparently defending Trump of all things.
Now this is a nerd story we can all enjoy.
I bought what I could afford a T.I. SR-56, the year I graduated from High School. There was no way I could afford a full computer. I spent a lot of time programming that thing.
Welcome to Slashdot. Don't let it worry you much. The denizens of Slashdot are in no way shape or form typical Americans.
When the US spends $43B on it's military in Germany, the bulk amount of that money goes to US suppliers of said military, plus wages to the US soldiers. Some of that money makes it's way into the German economy, but a bunch of it stays with US companies and citizens.
Not a lot of Americans know much about the Road and Belt initiative, which is kind of frightening.
The original European settlers were settlers, not immigrants. They did not inject themselves into an established country as immigrants. They bootstrapped the whole thing themselves, with encouragement from enlightened Europeans, especially the French.
If you have a sloppy code base, yes, it could be very expensive to come into compliance. Possibly even so expensive that it's just impossible to do business there anymore without significant liability.
Exactly the same approach?
You have a failed understanding of history and current affairs.
You're perfect. Have any of the major news organizations asked you to apply to work for them?
No, obviously I know about the other stuff. I have an IBM AIX workstation in my collection that is Microchannel architecture. It's a Power 1 architecture system. The Power 1 chipset is on one of the microchannel cards.
But their microchannel Initiative in the PC market was their failed attempt to pull things back in a proprietary direction after their Open Architecture got way out of their control.
IBM did a ton of things with Minicomputers and Mainframes that I didn't mention.
IBM was a data processing company (punched card decks as databases, with card sorters, readers, printers to print selected fields off of cards, etc.) long before computers even existed. They were an IT company before the digital computer was invented.
IBM designed and championed the open architecture. The ISA bus, with slots with a particular pinout. The BIOS source code for machines up to the PC-AT was published in the tech ref manual which any customer could purchase. And not just the BIOS source code on the motherboard. The BIOS extensions on the EGA card and on the Hard Disk controller card (Xebec generation) were published in source code form. Also stuff like the schematics for the floppy drive, hard drive, power supply, etc. They were very open.
The memory map, the I/O model, the DMA controller model, etc. Some of what they picked was from Intel's reference design but not all of it. They chose the 8250 for the USART instead of Intel's 8251. That's quite a significant departure from Intel's reference design.
Some of their choices were even boneheaded and stunted, like cramming I/O and peripherals at the top of the meory map, boxing the memory scheme into just 640K. (when the IBM-PC first came out, the early motherboards had one row of 16K chips soldered on and three rows of sockets for another 48K of 16K chips. Memory beyond that had to go in a card on the ISA slot)
And what IBM 'created' was an open architecture. They didn't prohibit other vendors from producing ISA bus cards or even motherboards that incorporated ISA bus slots.
They poisoned the 'BIOS cloning' market by publishing the full BIOS source code. Most of the people qualified to write a BIOS clone would have already looked at IBM's commented source code, thus contaminating them as possible programmers to develop a 'compatible' BIOS.
Intel started out in the late 60's as primarily a supplier of DRAM to IBM, incidentally.
On Facebook, what else would it be?
We need a filter on slashdot. When the words 'nazi' and 'faggot' appear in a comment it is automatically modded to -2 and a 5 day ip ban is imposed.
People who accuse another of being a nazi and who call somebody else a 'faggot' are completely different. Antifaschists are not homophobes. It's just a crapflooder who needs an ip ban.
A lot of third parties do much better than Google. Google dabbles in a lot of directions, at the whim of their loose and often undirected management.
He blew it. The proper thing to do would be to have designed and introduced a trojan/worm into the security system. When it reached critical mass, it would be triggered to open all the doors, continue to reopen the doors, and defend itself against removal.
I have it on my shelf to read, but I've been stalled in the middle of the Baroque cycle for so long that Stephenson's newer books are road blocked off.
The existence of the Indian market for cellphone companies to market to is a boon to frugal cellphone customers here in the US. The Galaxy J3 and J7 are hella-good budget handsets targeted to the India market, but they're darn fine for cheapskates like me in the US. I recently upgraded from a J3 to a J7. The J7 is an awesome piece of gear for $150 when you can find one for that price. The J3 is a lot of goodness for just $60 these days. It's kinda the iPhone SE for the frugal.