But on a highway, typically you will get FAR better milage on cruise control rather than trying to manage yourself. It is possible to beat cruise control, but people just arent perfect and nowhere near as consistent as CC is.
And the idea that somehow breaking --> regenerative breaking nets you more energy than simply not breaking at all? In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics....
And thats fine. The knickers are in a twist because a journalist let his own emotional hangups about a particular topic get in the way of honest journalism.
Are we just supposed to say "ah, screw it, who cares if we catch a journalist making crap up"?
A boss who wont stand behind his employees when they do right is a boss who will shortly need new employees. If Tesla did everything right, there is no way they should make crap up just to look good for the media. If Broder is lying, he needs to be called out and preferably fired.
Broder's response makes no sense. What rep would EVER suggest
. I was given battery-conservation advice at that time (turn off the cruise control; alternately slow down and speed up to take advantage of regenerative braking)
since both of those are very obviously bad for the battery? What person would believe that advice?
And his explanation for how he came up with 45mph and frigid cabin temperatures when the logs utterly contradict that are lame at best.
You can look at the other points any which way, but this smells of furiously trying to come up with an excuse for a smear attempt.
And the car salesman doesn't like his half-baked vehicle to be reviewed negatively
How about "Car maker reacts poorly to a supposedly reputable publication putting out blatantly false statements that damage their reputation, having the data to back their complaint up"?
"Half baked" is kind of out in left field here-- the car did better than it should have, but could not complete an impossible task. Did you actually read Musk's blog entry? You know, the one with all of the data backing his "ramblings" up? Or the part where another journalist completed this exact same task with no issues?
Chrome will prompt you to kill popups / download requests if it gets too many, and after a script has hung for some time will give you a prompt to kill it. I believe Firefox has that second feature as well.
Back when our campus got hit with MS Blaster and everyone had ~1kbps in their dorms, my roommate showed me Opera and how it loaded webpages roughly 2-3x faster than others. I dont recall whether turbo was out at this point, but IIRC Opera was doing something that grabbed page data much quicker than whatever else I was using at the time.
Thats like saying "its unfair that Lexus charges $35k for a luxury car. I want a lexus, and I dont have a choice about how much to pay."
Unless you can show something like collaboration (not sure if thats the right term) between Adobe and competitors, thats not how it works. Adobe offers a product that you want, and there are alternatives-- some free-- in this market. According to econ 101, they will set whatever price the market can bear, and if people pay that price then Adobe is providing a service to its customers.
Maybe ive just been drinking that crazy-person capitalism kool-aid tho, maybe we should just switch to government-owned means of production. I hear that works super well.
The main failing of the GIMP IMO is that it takes the approach that the best way to design a UI is to present every option, widget, and tool to you at once, and hope that eventually you will get used to it. The reality is that I immediately close it and go to something that I dont have to study to use, because life is too short to have to use a manual to use a photo editor once in a blue moon.
Specifics? For one, the decision to have all the parts of its GUI as free-floating items that can fall under other desktop windows independently has always been an annoyance. For another it does not clearly label a lot of its GUI elements; instead it just throws a bunch of random taskbars on screen, disjointed from each other, and youre kind of expected to make sense of it all. For a third, the decision to put the docks under "windows" rather than "view" (As if they are separate entities from the workspace, rather than a part of it) is bizarre.
Compare to paint.Net, where the layers dock is clearly labeled "layers", the amount of crap they throw at you when you open it is minimal, and everything is clearly contained in the paint.Net window.
It is my opinion that people who bash Word and Excel and claim that OOo / LO are equivalent simply havent used Word / Excel very much, or else dont have very many requirements.
it has the inherent requirement that followers believe that their religion and belief is right, and everyone elses is wrong.
Every system of belief that one believes has this. Including atheism. Or do you deny that Philip Pulman, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins think every other non-atheistic form of belief is wrong?
The problem is that religion actively encourages, preaches, and exacerbates the problem of tribalism-
I know at the least that in Christianity, divisiveness and factionalism are seen as serious enough problems to put someone out of the church for causing them; See 1 Corinthians 3 where Paul basically chides the Corinthians for being "petty, problematic, and tribal".
accept that your tribe's (religion's) way is the only correct way - the root of just about all of humanity's problems with each other, whereas atheism does not.
Maybe some atheists do not care, but there are sufficient numbers of high-profile atheists who's motto is "atheism or bust" to give the lie to your words. Ah, you say, but atheists dont worry about the particulars as long as you agree with the general premise! Aside from the problem of making vague generalizations like this, I can make the same claim about christianity: I have friends who are presbyterian, and who disagree with calvinism, and I myself am calvinist, reformed, and baptist. We disagree with each other on many issues, but we still get along and I would have no problem going to their churches (just would not join).
At the end of the day the best you could come up with to prove your point is some wars about a thousand years ago, the inquisition about half a thousand years ago, and regional instability in the middle east. On the plate of "atheism" I could heap basically the entire 20th century and its conflicts with communism. You tell me which was worse, and then try to explain why atheism has the high ground here.
I guess something about free software made easily available bothers some people?
Im going to hazard that most people who have used The Gimp have some familiarity with Linux, and no problem with Linux.
At some point youre going to have to stop and ask why of all OSS apps, The Gimp is the most consistently slammed for having terrible design.
Paint.net has always been far, far superior in my eyes, and costs roughly the same. That I cant view the source code really is no incentive for me to use a terrible, painful to use UI.
Well, Im also assuming that by "sugar" we're not including things like cellulose. I suppose that WOULD make a substantial difference, unless youre a big fan of roughage.
5% less fructose doesn't sound like much, until you think of a hard core addict drinking 3 cans/day thats 1000 cans/yr or about 5 kilos less of fructose.
It would be ~2kilos extra of fructose out of ~40kilos of glucose / frutose, and that extra 2 kilos isnt the problem, his diet is.
I dont think anyone is defending cops discharging weapons at unidentified vehicles.
Its just, thats really nothing like what Dorner is doing, and its a little disgusting that people are trying to equate the two. For one, the LAPD have killed noone so far. For another, there is a massive difference in intent.
The LAPD tried to intentionally murder people in the pickup trucks they shot up like swiss cheese.
What a load of bull, if the intent was to kill them they would be dead. They tried to shoot who they thought was Dorner; otherwise youre going to have to explain why they didnt finish the job once it was clear who they shot.
It was stupid and probably illegal, but the LAPD is not generally going on a killing spree. You certainly cannot blame the dead cops for what others in the LAPD have done since their death, and you certainly cannot justify Dorner's actions just because there are some trigger-happy idiots in the LAPD whose actions injured some civilians.
Theres bad (police misusing potentially lethal force), and then theres serially murdering several people. If you cant see the difference, theres not much hope for you.
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But on a highway, typically you will get FAR better milage on cruise control rather than trying to manage yourself. It is possible to beat cruise control, but people just arent perfect and nowhere near as consistent as CC is.
And the idea that somehow breaking --> regenerative breaking nets you more energy than simply not breaking at all? In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics....
And thats fine. The knickers are in a twist because a journalist let his own emotional hangups about a particular topic get in the way of honest journalism.
Are we just supposed to say "ah, screw it, who cares if we catch a journalist making crap up"?
The detail here as to where Musk went astray was in assuming bad faith on the part of Broder.
You dont have to assume bad faith after reading Broder's article. Neither Broder nor Musk are here to make friends.
Thank you.
A boss who wont stand behind his employees when they do right is a boss who will shortly need new employees. If Tesla did everything right, there is no way they should make crap up just to look good for the media. If Broder is lying, he needs to be called out and preferably fired.
Dont 99% of customer service lines have some sort of disclaimer which says "this call may be monitored for customer service purposes"?
You think they have no oversight into what their reps are saying?
Broder's response makes no sense. What rep would EVER suggest
. I was given battery-conservation advice at that time (turn off the cruise control; alternately slow down and speed up to take advantage of regenerative braking)
since both of those are very obviously bad for the battery? What person would believe that advice?
And his explanation for how he came up with 45mph and frigid cabin temperatures when the logs utterly contradict that are lame at best.
You can look at the other points any which way, but this smells of furiously trying to come up with an excuse for a smear attempt.
And the car salesman doesn't like his half-baked vehicle to be reviewed negatively
How about "Car maker reacts poorly to a supposedly reputable publication putting out blatantly false statements that damage their reputation, having the data to back their complaint up"?
"Half baked" is kind of out in left field here-- the car did better than it should have, but could not complete an impossible task. Did you actually read Musk's blog entry? You know, the one with all of the data backing his "ramblings" up? Or the part where another journalist completed this exact same task with no issues?
Like slashdot?
You dont actually live in the DC area, do you?
Chrome will prompt you to kill popups / download requests if it gets too many, and after a script has hung for some time will give you a prompt to kill it. I believe Firefox has that second feature as well.
Back when our campus got hit with MS Blaster and everyone had ~1kbps in their dorms, my roommate showed me Opera and how it loaded webpages roughly 2-3x faster than others. I dont recall whether turbo was out at this point, but IIRC Opera was doing something that grabbed page data much quicker than whatever else I was using at the time.
Thats like saying "its unfair that Lexus charges $35k for a luxury car. I want a lexus, and I dont have a choice about how much to pay."
Unless you can show something like collaboration (not sure if thats the right term) between Adobe and competitors, thats not how it works. Adobe offers a product that you want, and there are alternatives-- some free-- in this market. According to econ 101, they will set whatever price the market can bear, and if people pay that price then Adobe is providing a service to its customers.
Maybe ive just been drinking that crazy-person capitalism kool-aid tho, maybe we should just switch to government-owned means of production. I hear that works super well.
nor do I own a car with a battery.
Do tell? Do you have to start it lawnmower style?
The main failing of the GIMP IMO is that it takes the approach that the best way to design a UI is to present every option, widget, and tool to you at once, and hope that eventually you will get used to it. The reality is that I immediately close it and go to something that I dont have to study to use, because life is too short to have to use a manual to use a photo editor once in a blue moon.
Specifics?
For one, the decision to have all the parts of its GUI as free-floating items that can fall under other desktop windows independently has always been an annoyance. For another it does not clearly label a lot of its GUI elements; instead it just throws a bunch of random taskbars on screen, disjointed from each other, and youre kind of expected to make sense of it all. For a third, the decision to put the docks under "windows" rather than "view" (As if they are separate entities from the workspace, rather than a part of it) is bizarre.
Compare to paint.Net, where the layers dock is clearly labeled "layers", the amount of crap they throw at you when you open it is minimal, and everything is clearly contained in the paint.Net window.
It is my opinion that people who bash Word and Excel and claim that OOo / LO are equivalent simply havent used Word / Excel very much, or else dont have very many requirements.
"Get away with" as fancy-speak for "people were willing to pay that price".
You know, that old fundamental of economics 101.
it has the inherent requirement that followers believe that their religion and belief is right, and everyone elses is wrong.
Every system of belief that one believes has this. Including atheism. Or do you deny that Philip Pulman, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins think every other non-atheistic form of belief is wrong?
The problem is that religion actively encourages, preaches, and exacerbates the problem of tribalism-
I know at the least that in Christianity, divisiveness and factionalism are seen as serious enough problems to put someone out of the church for causing them; See 1 Corinthians 3 where Paul basically chides the Corinthians for being "petty, problematic, and tribal".
accept that your tribe's (religion's) way is the only correct way - the root of just about all of humanity's problems with each other, whereas atheism does not.
Maybe some atheists do not care, but there are sufficient numbers of high-profile atheists who's motto is "atheism or bust" to give the lie to your words.
Ah, you say, but atheists dont worry about the particulars as long as you agree with the general premise! Aside from the problem of making vague generalizations like this, I can make the same claim about christianity: I have friends who are presbyterian, and who disagree with calvinism, and I myself am calvinist, reformed, and baptist. We disagree with each other on many issues, but we still get along and I would have no problem going to their churches (just would not join).
At the end of the day the best you could come up with to prove your point is some wars about a thousand years ago, the inquisition about half a thousand years ago, and regional instability in the middle east. On the plate of "atheism" I could heap basically the entire 20th century and its conflicts with communism. You tell me which was worse, and then try to explain why atheism has the high ground here.
EXTORTION.
You keep using this word....
I guess something about free software made easily available bothers some people?
Im going to hazard that most people who have used The Gimp have some familiarity with Linux, and no problem with Linux.
At some point youre going to have to stop and ask why of all OSS apps, The Gimp is the most consistently slammed for having terrible design.
Paint.net has always been far, far superior in my eyes, and costs roughly the same. That I cant view the source code really is no incentive for me to use a terrible, painful to use UI.
Well, Im also assuming that by "sugar" we're not including things like cellulose. I suppose that WOULD make a substantial difference, unless youre a big fan of roughage.
AFAIK in double blind studies people cannot distinguish the difference.
However, I do remember preferring throwback-- even if it was all in my mind (psychosomatic?).
5% less fructose doesn't sound like much, until you think of a hard core addict drinking 3 cans/day thats 1000 cans/yr or about 5 kilos less of fructose.
It would be ~2kilos extra of fructose out of ~40kilos of glucose / frutose, and that extra 2 kilos isnt the problem, his diet is.
I dont think anyone is defending cops discharging weapons at unidentified vehicles.
Its just, thats really nothing like what Dorner is doing, and its a little disgusting that people are trying to equate the two. For one, the LAPD have killed noone so far. For another, there is a massive difference in intent.
The LAPD tried to intentionally murder people in the pickup trucks they shot up like swiss cheese.
What a load of bull, if the intent was to kill them they would be dead. They tried to shoot who they thought was Dorner; otherwise youre going to have to explain why they didnt finish the job once it was clear who they shot.
It was stupid and probably illegal, but the LAPD is not generally going on a killing spree. You certainly cannot blame the dead cops for what others in the LAPD have done since their death, and you certainly cannot justify Dorner's actions just because there are some trigger-happy idiots in the LAPD whose actions injured some civilians.
Theres bad (police misusing potentially lethal force), and then theres serially murdering several people. If you cant see the difference, theres not much hope for you.
It also didnt matter if you werent Jewish at all and were just a Romani.
The Jews were just a convenient group to hate, all the more convenient because of historical animosity towards them.