2%? Is this supposed to be some enormous number that other companies don't hit? The only large layoffs I see from the company were in 2008, then last year when they bought Solar City.
I saw predictions 4 months ago that this would happen soon when Tesla released poor Q2 numbers. At that point, with inventory problems, it seemed inevitable that there would be a bit of turnover. What I've also found is that when a company has to cut costs, it often doubles as a way of cutting dead wood. That can be people who used to perform well but no longer don't, and their higher salary makes that problem even worse.
It's not trolling to mod off-topic posts to -1. Complain about it on a climate change story, it has no place here. Yeah yeah I know, "it's too important, we have to spread the word everywhere" says every zealot about every issue. Keep it on topic. If your screed has nothing to do with the story, then it should be modded down to -1, every time.
Banning from all PVP on Steam? Talk about an overreaction. Here's the ugly truth about cheating bans: often you can objectively tell if a user cheated -- they modified the client exe, or the program detected a specific code bot running. But many bans are subjective: there was no proof, but there was a high suspicion that the user cheated to do something in a game. Maybe the user managed to get somewhere the developers thought was impossible. Maybe the user had excellent coordination and managed a lot of headshots (I've been in games where a guy was pretty good, and invariably someone starts accusing him of being a cheater).
So if an overzealous server admin throws down a cheating ban.. should that person be exiled from ALL his games? I know, people are going to "blah blah, EULA, steam can ban anyone at anytime, etcetc" but that won't fly once we talk about someone losing a library of games that represents a real financial investment. Expect lawsuits to start at that point, small claims cases for defamation against server admins for a false report of cheating that caused the client to lose a game library worth $400, etc. No one is going to want to put up with that.
Then there are other 'cheating/not cheating' situations. What about folks who used character model replacers? Technically, there are edge cases where they could give an edge in PvP in certain types of games, but the vast majority of model replacers are there to provide higher-texture versions of in-game characters so they look better, or provide different body types or races that the game makers never programmed in. Since it's all client side, it doesn't affect anyone else's game experience, but it may still be technically against the EULA. It would count as cheating. Would THAT justify the game library death penalty? Where does the line get drawn, who gets to draw that line, and what standard of proof will be required?
No one has to stream, by streaming you are giving this info away freely. In the real world, not using the info would be considered negligent.
Yeah, yeah, whatever. It's not illegal, it's not something that gets you banned, but it's clearly against some "code of honor," that breaks the system. Just don't do it, just like folks who AREN'T assholes don't jiggle the locks on front doors to see if someone negligently left one unlocked.
WoW had an achievement, I think, at one point in time where you would kill the leader NPC in each of the opposing faction's main cities. Whether this still exists, I do not know.
Sure it does, but they respawn pretty quickly, and it's not long before the attacking force gets swamped by defenders hearth back for a nice bruising. So even though the faction leader is killed, it doesn't really set people back for that long. This isn't considered griefing, like clearing out a low-level town and keeping it clear for a period of time, faction-leader-killing is built-in as a part of the game.
Not that I condone cheating (I don't, there are better ways,) but you seem to misunderstand gaming culture. It's not about winning or losing, it's about making your opponent (and sometimes you teammates) rage and reevaluate their life choices/use of time.
That says a lot (not much good) about "gaming culture." But knowing a lot of gamers, I think it only applies to a subset of gaming culture. Plenty of gamers like actual challenge, the testing of real skills, and collaboration in a common goal. It really depends on the sorts of servers you like to hang out and the people drawn to that server type.
Christ, you are a dullard. Seriously, you have no critical thinking skills whatsoever.
Look, the AC had a point. That this was just some sort of "natural phenomena" that we just haven't discovered yet which caused focused brain damage to diplomats strains credibility. It's not 100% impossible, but the odds are so much against that that the onus is on the natural phenomena crowd to prove it.
Just because "blame the foreigners" is commonly used to distract from a country's own failings doesn't mean that foreign governments aren't, in fact, at fault for a good many things.
Your statement that the American public views Cuba as evil is surprising to me, because I don't think that at all.
Depends on who you hang out with. Wander around Florida, or anywhere else that the Cuban expat community has settled, and you'll find that to be pretty common.
Also, older people who formed their political opinions during the Cold War are more likely to think this too. The USSR really was Satan in the minds of the US for a long time, and Cuba was commonly seen as their proxy arm in the Caribbean.
Fortunately, in most of California, you rarely need to heat your home in the first place. Unless you're up in the foothills or mountains, it just doesn't get that cold, and almost no house is going to use electricity for heating -- natural gas furnaces are most common.
Air conditioning is another situation. Many don't have it, but some locations like the central valley will be miserable if you don't have AC.
A greasemonkey script could presumably be used to kill off the bits of JavaScript users donâ(TM)t want to run without impacting other stuff
It could, unfortunately greasemonkeying with a website is like shooting a moving target. Website changes slightly, greasemonkey script breaks and has to be updated, repeat.
People who know that probably use private trackers instead of TPB. TPB is basically to torrents what AOL used to be to the internet.
So where does that leave the casual people who might only be interested in downloading something maybe once every year or so? I'm not interested in torrenting anything most of the time, but I might sometime get the urge to look for something that's not available elsewhere. Pretty much all I'd know is how to load up TPB and grab a magnet link.
There's a name for governments that dictate what people can and cannot buy, that's a dictatorship. The government can set goals all they like. I have a problem when they start telling people what to do to meet that goal
It's not a dictatorship. That assumes that the people hate this move but are powerless to stop it. But these are democratically elected representatives. The country may be small enough and enough of a monoculture so that the people are united behind this. You might have a small minority who doesn't like that decision by the majority, but that's a different political problem than dictatorship.
There are plenty of places where you can charge at the street. It will just be ramped up and become more common. If you have an electrical car, your town may well cooperate to make a charging spot at the kerbstone. (https://www.anwb.nl/auto/themas/elektrisch-rijden/hoe-werkt-opladen)
Bert
Talk about amazingly expensive! There are a lot of curbstones to put chargers at, and concrete work is especially pricey.
They don't like the idea of private persons owning cars because that affords them mobility, and by extension, freedom of movement.
That HATE that. It annoys the living fuck out of them.
I know you love your strawmen, AC, but no, they don't HATE freedom of mobility, no more than partisans and rebels shot at soldiers in Iraq because "they hate our freedoms."
They just don't consider enabling absolute freedom of motion to be the highest societal value, that if it comes in conflict with other values that they cherish, then the freedom that a personal vehicle enables is not the highest priority. IE, it'll be second to air quality, pollution, traffic congestion, and resources (like gas). Even among liberals those folks are a tiny minority, though much like the KKK member at a conservative rally, they certainly attract a disproportionate amount of attention.
Not that this has much to do with a shift to electric from gas, but few people let actual Slashdot stories get in the way of a good political screed. I've certainly fallen for that before.
But then you have to be in a Leaf. He said he got something with a nice interior, and if that was a requirement, then a Leaf was not in the running.
Leafs are ok, but they're certainly not luxury. I certainly wouldn't BUY a Leaf though -- those are lease vehicles. That's why I leased one, because the battery technology was changing too rapidly. I didn't want to drive the same car for seven years, having the battery with a 80 mile range when every new vehicle had a 200-300m range towards the end of that range.
Taxis work, even without the facility for banning people.
Because there's a cab driver RIGHT THERE looking at you. Even if it was someone miles away looking at you through a camera, behavior would change because the driver is not physically present at the car.
Expected by who? (Besides morons and industry shills, obviously.)
Expected by most people who live in the cities and hate the fuss of a car when you don't have a garage, and gas and parking are expensive and hard to find wherever you go. I don't live in a metropolis, but if I did and I wanted to travel from one side of the city to the other, an instance SDC would be far more preferable to a regular car.
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2%? Is this supposed to be some enormous number that other companies don't hit? The only large layoffs I see from the company were in 2008, then last year when they bought Solar City.
I saw predictions 4 months ago that this would happen soon when Tesla released poor Q2 numbers. At that point, with inventory problems, it seemed inevitable that there would be a bit of turnover. What I've also found is that when a company has to cut costs, it often doubles as a way of cutting dead wood. That can be people who used to perform well but no longer don't, and their higher salary makes that problem even worse.
It's not trolling to mod off-topic posts to -1. Complain about it on a climate change story, it has no place here. Yeah yeah I know, "it's too important, we have to spread the word everywhere" says every zealot about every issue. Keep it on topic. If your screed has nothing to do with the story, then it should be modded down to -1, every time.
Banning from all PVP on Steam? Talk about an overreaction.
Here's the ugly truth about cheating bans: often you can objectively tell if a user cheated -- they modified the client exe, or the program detected a specific code bot running. But many bans are subjective: there was no proof, but there was a high suspicion that the user cheated to do something in a game. Maybe the user managed to get somewhere the developers thought was impossible. Maybe the user had excellent coordination and managed a lot of headshots (I've been in games where a guy was pretty good, and invariably someone starts accusing him of being a cheater).
So if an overzealous server admin throws down a cheating ban.. should that person be exiled from ALL his games? I know, people are going to "blah blah, EULA, steam can ban anyone at anytime, etcetc" but that won't fly once we talk about someone losing a library of games that represents a real financial investment. Expect lawsuits to start at that point, small claims cases for defamation against server admins for a false report of cheating that caused the client to lose a game library worth $400, etc. No one is going to want to put up with that.
Then there are other 'cheating/not cheating' situations. What about folks who used character model replacers? Technically, there are edge cases where they could give an edge in PvP in certain types of games, but the vast majority of model replacers are there to provide higher-texture versions of in-game characters so they look better, or provide different body types or races that the game makers never programmed in. Since it's all client side, it doesn't affect anyone else's game experience, but it may still be technically against the EULA. It would count as cheating. Would THAT justify the game library death penalty? Where does the line get drawn, who gets to draw that line, and what standard of proof will be required?
No one has to stream, by streaming you are giving this info away freely. In the real world, not using the info would be considered negligent.
Yeah, yeah, whatever. It's not illegal, it's not something that gets you banned, but it's clearly against some "code of honor," that breaks the system. Just don't do it, just like folks who AREN'T assholes don't jiggle the locks on front doors to see if someone negligently left one unlocked.
WoW had an achievement, I think, at one point in time where you would kill the leader NPC in each of the opposing faction's main cities. Whether this still exists, I do not know.
Sure it does, but they respawn pretty quickly, and it's not long before the attacking force gets swamped by defenders hearth back for a nice bruising. So even though the faction leader is killed, it doesn't really set people back for that long. This isn't considered griefing, like clearing out a low-level town and keeping it clear for a period of time, faction-leader-killing is built-in as a part of the game.
Not that I condone cheating (I don't, there are better ways,) but you seem to misunderstand gaming culture. It's not about winning or losing, it's about making your opponent (and sometimes you teammates) rage and reevaluate their life choices/use of time.
That says a lot (not much good) about "gaming culture."
But knowing a lot of gamers, I think it only applies to a subset of gaming culture. Plenty of gamers like actual challenge, the testing of real skills, and collaboration in a common goal. It really depends on the sorts of servers you like to hang out and the people drawn to that server type.
Fun is what makes games possible. No fun - fuck your stupid game
Then don't play it. If you can only get your kicks by ruining the experience of others, then just stay away.
This is why software engineering is still seen as an immature field compared to other engineering disciplines.
Christ, you are a dullard. Seriously, you have no critical thinking skills whatsoever.
Look, the AC had a point. That this was just some sort of "natural phenomena" that we just haven't discovered yet which caused focused brain damage to diplomats strains credibility. It's not 100% impossible, but the odds are so much against that that the onus is on the natural phenomena crowd to prove it.
Just because "blame the foreigners" is commonly used to distract from a country's own failings doesn't mean that foreign governments aren't, in fact, at fault for a good many things.
Your statement that the American public views Cuba as evil is surprising to me, because I don't think that at all.
Depends on who you hang out with. Wander around Florida, or anywhere else that the Cuban expat community has settled, and you'll find that to be pretty common.
Also, older people who formed their political opinions during the Cold War are more likely to think this too. The USSR really was Satan in the minds of the US for a long time, and Cuba was commonly seen as their proxy arm in the Caribbean.
Why would I go into the lion's den, asshole?
Why wouldn't you? They're such great people, no reason to fear them, why wouldn't you go there? What's stopping you?
Replacing Ballmer with Nadella is a good argument in favor of outsourcing management!
Fortunately, in most of California, you rarely need to heat your home in the first place. Unless you're up in the foothills or mountains, it just doesn't get that cold, and almost no house is going to use electricity for heating -- natural gas furnaces are most common.
Air conditioning is another situation. Many don't have it, but some locations like the central valley will be miserable if you don't have AC.
A greasemonkey script could presumably be used to kill off the bits of JavaScript users donâ(TM)t want to run without impacting other stuff
It could, unfortunately greasemonkeying with a website is like shooting a moving target. Website changes slightly, greasemonkey script breaks and has to be updated, repeat.
People who know that probably use private trackers instead of TPB. TPB is basically to torrents what AOL used to be to the internet.
So where does that leave the casual people who might only be interested in downloading something maybe once every year or so? I'm not interested in torrenting anything most of the time, but I might sometime get the urge to look for something that's not available elsewhere. Pretty much all I'd know is how to load up TPB and grab a magnet link.
Potato potato.
Wait, that's hard to write.
Potato potahto.
Ugh, that's just misspelled.
You and your wife both drive 150-200 miles/day? Like, 60,000 miles/year? While consuming only 11kWh/day for your home?
If you're never at home because you drive 5 hours a day, then maybe your home doesn't consume a lot of power. :-D
There's a name for governments that dictate what people can and cannot buy, that's a dictatorship. The government can set goals all they like. I have a problem when they start telling people what to do to meet that goal
It's not a dictatorship. That assumes that the people hate this move but are powerless to stop it. But these are democratically elected representatives. The country may be small enough and enough of a monoculture so that the people are united behind this. You might have a small minority who doesn't like that decision by the majority, but that's a different political problem than dictatorship.
There are plenty of places where you can charge at the street. It will just be ramped up and become more common. If you have an electrical car, your town may well cooperate to make a charging spot at the kerbstone. (https://www.anwb.nl/auto/themas/elektrisch-rijden/hoe-werkt-opladen)
Bert
Talk about amazingly expensive! There are a lot of curbstones to put chargers at, and concrete work is especially pricey.
They don't like the idea of private persons owning cars because that affords them mobility, and by extension, freedom of movement.
That HATE that. It annoys the living fuck out of them.
I know you love your strawmen, AC, but no, they don't HATE freedom of mobility, no more than partisans and rebels shot at soldiers in Iraq because "they hate our freedoms."
They just don't consider enabling absolute freedom of motion to be the highest societal value, that if it comes in conflict with other values that they cherish, then the freedom that a personal vehicle enables is not the highest priority. IE, it'll be second to air quality, pollution, traffic congestion, and resources (like gas). Even among liberals those folks are a tiny minority, though much like the KKK member at a conservative rally, they certainly attract a disproportionate amount of attention.
Not that this has much to do with a shift to electric from gas, but few people let actual Slashdot stories get in the way of a good political screed. I've certainly fallen for that before.
But then you have to be in a Leaf. He said he got something with a nice interior, and if that was a requirement, then a Leaf was not in the running.
Leafs are ok, but they're certainly not luxury. I certainly wouldn't BUY a Leaf though -- those are lease vehicles. That's why I leased one, because the battery technology was changing too rapidly. I didn't want to drive the same car for seven years, having the battery with a 80 mile range when every new vehicle had a 200-300m range towards the end of that range.
If I could buy a coal-fired car, I WOULD, just to piss off all the POMPOUS ASSHOLES in these electric car threads, that don't even own electric cars.
I'd gladly shovel that coal into the boiler myself with a ginormous shit eating grin on my face.
I've never understood the "I'll cut off my nose to spite my face" attitude. It's just so damned weird.
Taxis work, even without the facility for banning people.
Because there's a cab driver RIGHT THERE looking at you. Even if it was someone miles away looking at you through a camera, behavior would change because the driver is not physically present at the car.
With the expected shift to on-demand SDC taxis,
Expected by who? (Besides morons and industry shills, obviously.)
Expected by most people who live in the cities and hate the fuss of a car when you don't have a garage, and gas and parking are expensive and hard to find wherever you go. I don't live in a metropolis, but if I did and I wanted to travel from one side of the city to the other, an instance SDC would be far more preferable to a regular car.