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  1. Re: Zachary Shahan said WindBourne sucked his cock on Tesla Model 3 Outselling Small, Midsize Luxury Cars In US (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    While 80% seems a bit big. Americans do love their Cars and use them a lot more then other countries. The nations infrastructure was build behind the idea that everyone has a car so if you are without one in most areas of the US (Exception of major urban areas) you are out of luck.
    America is also the richest nation in the world with the 3rd largest population. And German Automotive (With the exception of Volkswagen) has been considered a class symbol to show that you had made it in life.

  2. Re:Regular orders or filling back orders? on Tesla Model 3 Outselling Small, Midsize Luxury Cars In US (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of people cancelling their per-order. But that is in general money in the bank to Testla as their deposit is non-refundable. For the most part I expect it wasn't people loosing interest but couldn't wait for a new car for one reason or an other. Being their backlog every cancel order is extra money to them and closer to finishing up their backlog.
    Just as long the cancellations don't exceed output capacity they should be good.

  3. Re:*Head asplodes* on European Court Ruling Raises Hurdles For CRISPR Crops (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 0

    Our food has been trying to kill us for billions of years.
    Much of the foods we eat is because they have built up some immunity or defense against pest that would most likely eat the food faster then we can. So all foods have a degree of toxicity in them.
    GMO foods change the food so their toxins are better suited for the pests they will confront more.
    For humans it is just as safe as non gmo foods. As these toxins that are in one plant that we eat are just transferred to an other.

  4. Their work in charity is their career. What they do to make a living is a job.

  5. Career vs Job on Slashdot Asks: Which is Better, a Basic Income or a Guaranteed Job? (timharford.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A Job is what you do to make money. A Career is what defines who you are. Sometime a Career may contain Jobs, some that you like and some that you don't.

    Most jobs doesn't have you doing pointless tasks because that are paying you money to do them, so they should have some sort of value to doing the job. However many jobs are not really utilizing your full potential which makes them boring and at the end of the day you do not feel good with yourself.

    You have to find meaning in your work vs. work giving you meaning. No matter what job you do in your career it will feel meaningless.
    I work in Health Care I see Brain Surgeons and Cardiologist who do a fine job, but are worn down to the world, because for them it feels like they do the same thing every day, only to have the patients leave and abuse their bodies again. They are actually saving lives every day but they just don't feel meaning, because they have stopped looking for it.

    The real problem I see is the lack of Empowerment in the modern work culture. I am stuck in a meeting with 2 VP yelling at me, because both of them Got yelled at by the CIO and CFO. Which in tern call me to often have to yell at the vendor because there isn't anything I can do about what they are yelling at me to do, Because the CIO and CFO chose the vendor and the product and passed it down to me to implement, then the Vendor just points to the contract conditions, which then I express back to the VPs which get angry with me, but afraid to to express their problems with the CIO and CFO because that product is their baby. So most everyone is unhappy, because no one has power to do anything to really fix it. And the ones who do done agree on a course of action.

  6. Re:Math is hard on MoviePass Having Outage Issues Because It Couldn't Pay Its Bills (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Being that especially for movies that have been out for a while. The theater is playing for a small crowd, they will even play the movie if no one is there.

    That is where everyone can make money.

  7. Re:Meh on The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The problem is both sides wants the other to secretly suffer to realize how wrong they are to having a different idea.

    I am sure a lot of liberals were hoping for the GDP to drop, today just so they can get on their high horse and say look the other side idea is failing!

    As well a lot of conservative want to shove this metric in the other side face to show them that it is working.

    I am happy that the Economy is strong, I am not happy that Trump is president, I feel he is too focused on short term transactions for the short term gain, leaving problems for the next 4 to 8 years that they will inherit. Only for him to gloat that he didn't have those problems during his presidency.
    Also by alienating us from the rest of the world. Markets will slowly move away from us.

    He has been president for enough time, we have to give him this win. However they are farmers under financial stress directly because of his actions.

  8. Re:I paid for my phone on Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Apps From the Play Store (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You can run mining software off of it, just not with apps from the play store.

    It is like selling your house, because you local hardware store doesn't have that replacement pipe.

  9. Re:This makes no sense on New Crime-Predicting Algorithm Borrows From Apollo Space Mission Tech (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't AI, but just using statistics calculations for their work.
    The problem is most people don't understand statistics. Many who say they do, really don't. Those who do understand it may not be good at it. Many come up with numbers and call it statistics.

    Statistical Mathematics hasn't changed much (Well not in comparison with computational improvement) So the algorithm used in the Apallo Space mission which may had taken a few days to run, and give out a chart of numbers. Can now in a split second run and display on an easy to read map. Also being that most data is now being recorded digitally there is a larger data set to work off of.

    What use to take millions of dollars of computing. Can run on a $20 computer with enough extra resource to play some emulated games.

  10. Except for the fact the people who buy it don't know, don't care about the long term implementations of the product. Besides those expensive lunches are nice and we want to keep on the good graces of the company sales people.

  11. Re:About f**king time. on New York Threatens To Kick Charter Out of State After Broadband Failures (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Governor of NY, Andrew Cuomo, is probably trying for a 2020 bid against Trump, and facing reelection this year. While he has a track record of being conservative for a Democrat, he is trying to rebrand himself as progressive (the Anti-Trump) and pushing agendas he never cared for before.

  12. Re:Cue whining of shills on New York Threatens To Kick Charter Out of State After Broadband Failures (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Living in Charter/Spectrum territory. They have greatly increased internet speed for all the users with 100mbs as the baseline from 30mbs 2 years ago with TWC.
    However their push was them saying how much they are going to expand coverage in the area. And NY should hold them to these claims. Bandwidth improvements is just a flip of a switch.

  13. Re:How about not blowing away work? on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is history has shown that Users will by default say No all the time. Thus a lot of the security problems that use to happen in windows, because of out of date systems.

  14. Re:How about not blowing away work? on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The modern Unix is primarily a server OS. Windows is a Desktop OS.
    I would be just as annoyed if Windows server did its own reboots without manual control.

    However this would be less annoying on a Mac (A Unix based OS)

  15. Re:How about not blowing away work? on Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Saving for me isn't the issue. Sometime in windows world, I am running a long running SQL Call where the PC isn't doing much except for waiting a response from a server. Or on a remote system where a disconnect will log me out while something is processing.

    For some people they actually want to leave the computer while it does its thing like in the good old days.

  16. Redundancy error correction I expect is used for some of that space.
    Being that normal consumers will but some wear on these things scratches and the like can kill a lot of data when you have 12 terabits per square inch.

  17. With all these storage enhancements I read about the time it takes for them to come out and be tested. useful and affordable. Comes in during the normal trending of storage.

    20 years ago. My System had a 1 Gig drive. which was standard amount. 20 years later 1 TB drives are standard. 1000x improvement. same form factor.

  18. Re:I would be careful Microsoft. on Microsoft Says Price Increases Coming For Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise Users (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it good enough?
    Being that most of the work is done on the server, the important processing is done there much more efficient.

  19. Re:I would be careful Microsoft. on Microsoft Says Price Increases Coming For Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise Users (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't follow your logic.
    Why would a Form Based Application be superior to a Web Form based web app?

    The current stuff that isn't "web-alized" is stuff that requires a lot of graphics (CAD, Games, Graphics Designing) for retail (high volume) Web is actually a better fit, because you need servers with data integration, so you have a high end web server talking to your database server and sending data to other sources is much easier and manageable.

    Being that you have a low ID, I expect you are Old like me, however you are stuck in your ways and trying to stop your institution from changing.

  20. Re:Good. on DRAM Industry Likely To Face Oversupply in 2019 (digitimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Well what will happen with current demand is the real question.

    PC Sales are up again (most likely because their old PC which are now 7 and 8 years old now) are getting out of date. So people are getting new ones now. Thus more people may want the RAM faster then the supply.
       

  21. I would be careful Microsoft. on Microsoft Says Price Increases Coming For Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise Users (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Windows isn't as dependent to the institutions as they use to be.

    Except for Windows Clients, you can have iOS, Andoid, ChromeOS, Linux, OS X as well that will just Citrix into that App or more often then not the applications are web based so you don't need windows for as much stuff.

  22. Re:Mozilla Can't Win on Mozilla to Remove Support for Built-In Feed Reader From Firefox (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Well what is the cost/benefit analysis of removing the feature that has already been there. Will it save a meg of storage? or does this feature adversely affect overall performance?

  23. Re:Why do I use Firefox Again? on Mozilla to Remove Support for Built-In Feed Reader From Firefox (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    In many ways RSS isn't needed as much. Back in the dial up days and broadband that is less then 1mbs RSS was almost nessary as we could get the info we wanted without waiting for pictures to load up, crazy ads, Javascript that was not well coded, and the crazy plugin feature. RSS were clean way to get data.

    However today, we have data aggregation sites, and bandwidth is often not a big deal, even a heavy website, is fast to load.

    That being said, I don't get the reason behind removing it, unless its maintenance is that much harder to manage then it is worth. But how many bugs does that feature get that needs to be fixed.

    I can see Google getting rid of it, because of Ad revenue. But for Mozilla?

  24. I expect inevertant programmed racial bias. on Amazon's Facial Recognition Wrongly Identifies 28 Lawmakers, ACLU Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt that the Amazon Programmers were intending the program to be racially bias, but the fact that the tech sector isn't as diverse as it should be, means lack of experience with living in a homogeneous culture, means factors to help differentiate people are not as well programmed in.

  25. There were a bunch of Y2K bugs that happened during Y2k it wasn't end of the world stuff, because critical date/time information was not internally stored as yy/mm/dd or mm/dd/yy because of the complexity of date/time calculations these critical system just stored numbers such a utime. It would make reporting a bit funny though.

    I have been more concerned about the approaching 2038. There have been patches and most systems are now 64bit. but there are those crazy systems that people are afraid to upgrade or patch. That could have the 2038 problem, without all the press, because it is more difficult to explain. This affects the internal clock counter so it will have more reaching problem then the cosmetic changes.