You know, the one where he pulled the quickest production car in the world out of the ass-end of an EV semi-truck.
according to the final figures tesla delivered 1770 model 3's in 2017, 1550 of which where in Q4
they're currently at a production rate of 1000 cars per week
The new roadster is not the Model 3, nor is the Model 3 the quickest production car ever built. The OP was referring to the new Roadster that isn't due to be released until 2020. As far as I know there is only one prototype which likely doesn't live up to the specs that were given . So no, one prototype car does not qualify as a production car.
Elon must have missed that lecture in Marketing 101
And you must have missed his last major presentation.
You know, the one where he pulled the quickest production car in the world out of the ass-end of an EV semi-truck.
I must have missed it. How many of those have been produced? Back in the 1960's with GT40's and Cobra's you had to have built (or had frames) for at least 100 cars to qualify as "production" for racing purposes. How many have been delivered to actual paying customers?
Only with that big clunky RAM pack. How much issue do yo have with wobble? Damn near everyone that I knew had that issue. I guess I was lucky as I didn't.
I'm tired of updates that change everything just for the sake of changing it. Security updates, bug fixes, etc. should be rolled out as soon as they've been Q & A'd for not breaking something else. But redoing the entire UI for a program or OS every year just for the hell of it pisses most people off. If a software company is going to do that, then at the very least give the customers the option to revert to the legacy UI, or something close.
I understand that Microsoft wanted to grab the mobile/tablet market using Metro. But what they ended up doing was not only giving their customers the middle finger, they poked them in the eye with it. Why couldn't they simply do all of the under the hood updates on the Windows 7 UI? It's stupid to just change things for the sake of change. When there's a truly useful change, they it's great. But giving us the UI from the hospital scene in Idiocracy is not it.
Firefox has been guilty of this to the point that they pissed away their market share. Constantly breaking add-ons with each update on a weekly basis is just dumb. Copying the Chrome UI is also stupid
I understand the desire to have a cleaner UI, but I wish all software companies would stop cleaning up the interface to the point of making it less usable. If there's a button that's going to be used more than once, don't hide it three levels into a contextual menu.
The last time I had to get rid of a fridge, it was a nightmare. It may depend on where you live, but recycling centers won't take them, many the appliance stores won't remove the old one when you buy a new one, and you can't take it to the dump.
Years ago I had a fridge die when I was renting. The landlord got me a new fridge quickly, but left the old one on my back porch for months. I finally got tired of it. So I use a sheet metal cutter on an air hammer. It cut through it like butter and took less than an hour to chop it up. Since I didn't own a truck it ended up taking around 30 garbage bags.
I'm actually curious to hear some of those reasons.
I would guess that earthquakes are the main reason. Underground power lines are more expensive to manufacture and place as well. I've read that underground lines cost anywhere from 2 to 4 times that of overhead power lines over their service life. They don't tend to need maintenance as much as overhead, but it's more expensive when they do.
Additionally, they tend to slow down Godzilla/Gojira. Which saves a ton in property damage.
Twilight Zone is an episodic series with no continuing storyline. How in the world is it possible to "reboot" that
They'll rehash all of the classic episodes. Except instead of it using ham radios, televisions, and news papers, it'll cellular be phones, computers and 3d printers. The guy that flys his biplane forward in time from WWI to the 50's will now be in a WW2 Era fighter. The aliens will now be fancy cgi rather than a guy in a rubber suit, and a cgi Rod Sering will preach about the dangers of smoking. Wait, that last one would be pretty good, so it won't happen
Its similar to the gestalt principle. the brain knows what the sound should sound like,
I'm pretty sure my brain doesn't really know what a high voltage electric pylon jumping rope sounds like. Maybe that's why I didn't hear anything.
For those of you who have seen this phenomenon, did you also hear the whooshing sound of the wire? I would imagine all of those wire moving through the air at those speeds would be quite audible too.
I can't say that I agree with or support neo-nazi beliefs in any way. But I do believe in free speech. If they are so retarded, then why do you think they need to be removed from the internet? If they are so stupid that anyone can easily see it, what's the need to remove them from a place that you have to go look for them to even hear/read what they have to say? Why allow them to even try to claim some kind of victimhood?
Perhaps,. I guess I don't see what that has to do with intelligence. Though I doubt to many people would like to argue the point with a wolf that's proudly looking down at them from the top of my refrigerator. That was always a funny sight.
I'm not sure why I keep seeing cat owners talk about how a cat can navigate a 3D environment. My wolf used to play with my cat all the time and would jump up on to counters and dressers when they got a little too crazy. I miss mine as well. But that was 30+ years ago. I don't think it would be good in today's environment. Him pinning people to the ground and snarling in their face would probably get me sued these days.
I have dobermans now. They're not quite as smart, but still the brightest dogs I've had. Plus they will actually listen when I tell them to not kill someone. That's a big point in their favor.
As the article points out wild animals seem to be brainier, however a wolf doesn't have a lot of traits that we equate to intelligence that our pet dog has.
For examples Dogs can understand the abstract concept of pointing, while wolves cannot. Dogs can be taught a lot of tricks and behaviors that may be outside their normal instinctive behavior, while wolves do not. However Dogs bark and make a lot of noise, and are much more disorganized in hunting by themselves, which would put them at a disadvantage in a non-human world.
As someone who has owned a wolf in the past, I can assure you that you don't know what you are talking about. I was able to train him to sit, stay, heel, lay down and come in less than half a day. I never saw anything quite like it. I could also point at damn near anything and tell him to get it, and he would bring it to me. This included flies that got into the house. On the occasion that one would land out of his reach (basically the ceiling) he would sit and wait for it to move again. I just wish he would have taken them to the trash can rather then bring them to me.
He was a great companion rather than a pet, but I would never think about doing that again as they are much more independent thinking than a dog. If there was someone or something he felt was a threat, it didn't matter what I said, he wanted to kill it. There were two occasions that I caught him mid air going for someones throat. After that I made sure to keep him away from anyone that he didn't like. He would also pin people to the floor if they moved around me in a threatening manner. Two things that I never quite figured out were why he hated bicycles and anyone having a gun other than myself. If anyone carried a gun onto my property, he would take it and bring it to me.
and then wear your brake pads and drums even more going back down the other side.
Brake pads should get very little wear going down a hill. Apparently you need to take some driving lessons. You are supposed to shift into a lower gear to keep your speed down when descending a hill.
In the case of a car, the the butterfly valve that controls the amount of air entering the engine stays closed until you open it by pressing on the accelerator pedal. This forces the cylinders to work against a high vacuum pressure. By down shifting you increase this vacuum pressure.
Diesel engines work by throttling the amount of fuel rather than air. So they have what is commonly referred to as a Jake Brake. It opens the exhaust valve in a cylinder just after the top of the compression stroke. Which doesn't allow all of that pressure push the cylinder back down. This in turn forces the energy from the turning wheels to compress the next cylinder rather than the energy from the fuel detonation.
If you really believe that adage, you clearly lived a sheltered life. Words can certainly hurt. And the emotional scars associated with a verbally abusive relationship (either in personal life or at work) will stay with you for a long time.
They only hurt if you let them. I'm pretty sure I lived a lot less sheltered life than most on/. I grew up in some really shitty areas and was on my own by my mid teens. I was lucky that all of my run ins with the law were done by the time I was 18, except for a DUI when I was 20. But that wasn't a big deal back then either.
Yeah, we had that a school when I was a kid. Sadly, getting paddled as school wasn't as bad as what I knew was coming when I got home after my parents found out. I'm sure it would be considered abuse today, but looking back it seemed fair and kept me from doing the same stupid thing again.
If someone is curt or rude on occasion, it's not bullying. We're all human and have bad days. Of course no one should take out their personal problems on their coworkers or subordinates.But it's going to happen from time to time. No one is perfect. If your boss looses his temper from time to time, it really sucks. But unless they are doing this on a regular basis and/or actually threatening you, it's not bullying.
I know I can't be the only person on/. old enough to remember the grade school adage, "Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you."
In the first world nations, that's true. Though it still happens under the radar in every nation. While slavery is technically illegal everywhere, there are places those laws are not really enforced.
Netflix has most things in surround sound in the US too. But Netflix doesn't have the rights to show Discovery here in the US. We can only see it by subscribing to CBS's streaming service, which apparently only airs Discovery in stereo. I don't have a subscription to CBS streaming, but that's what other posters seem to be stating.
I'm old enough to remember, very well, the politics of the impeachment of President Nixon.
I'm old enough to remember Nixon too. However your memory is faulty. Nixon was never impeached. He resigned, which put an end to the impeachment process. He was later pardoned by Ford, which allowed Nixon to also avoid any criminal prosecution as well.
Granted, after the House judiciary committee investigation, the impeachment process was formally initiated for three counts. But his resignation put an end to it. There was debate on charging him for the bombing of Cambodia, but that never passed the vote. So he was never in any danger of being impeached for actually killing people.
Putting this in some perspective, it's something less than 20 CT scans
I really hate when CT scans are used as an example. The range of exposure is so wide and varies a lot depending on the type of scanner it is. A cardiac function CT scan on a 10 year old scanner could be 30 mSv or higher. Yet the same scan on a 2 year old scanner would be under 5 mSv. And with a newer sequence from the last 6 months could be as low as 1 mSv. An angiogram from a few years ago could be 16 mSv, but are well under 1 mSv on a modern scanner. There are many scans that are done these days that are at.2 mSv.
It also depends on what body part is being scanned. The exposure in the extremities are different than the head or thorax. The age of a patient is also a big factor. hitting an 85 year old with 10 mSv is a hell of a lot different than a 6 month old.
Crows are smart, but I'm not sure about being smartest. I found an injured crow when I was a kid and took it home to nurse it back to health. It eventually got better, but didn't seem to have any interest in being returned to the wild. Whenever I would take it outside it would flop around like it still had a broken wing. It got to the point that it would start flopping around in the house anytime my mom would start bitching about it. She eventually threw it out the third story window, and it tried to fly back in. As soon as I opened the door to the house, it flew back in. It learned to ring the doorbell to get someone to open the door after a couple of days. I think my mom was happy when we moved, in part, to get rid of my pet crow.
I wonder what the unintended consiquences of rewarding a bunch of crows could be? They may start raiding public trash and ashtrays for food.
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You'd think that, but I wouldn't be so sure. If birds singing in the background of a nature video can supposedly be, then why not white noise.
You know, the one where he pulled the quickest production car in the world out of the ass-end of an EV semi-truck.
according to the final figures tesla delivered 1770 model 3's in 2017, 1550 of which where in Q4 they're currently at a production rate of 1000 cars per week
The new roadster is not the Model 3, nor is the Model 3 the quickest production car ever built. The OP was referring to the new Roadster that isn't due to be released until 2020. As far as I know there is only one prototype which likely doesn't live up to the specs that were given . So no, one prototype car does not qualify as a production car.
Elon must have missed that lecture in Marketing 101
And you must have missed his last major presentation. You know, the one where he pulled the quickest production car in the world out of the ass-end of an EV semi-truck.
I must have missed it. How many of those have been produced? Back in the 1960's with GT40's and Cobra's you had to have built (or had frames) for at least 100 cars to qualify as "production" for racing purposes. How many have been delivered to actual paying customers?
my zx81 has 16k
Only with that big clunky RAM pack. How much issue do yo have with wobble? Damn near everyone that I knew had that issue. I guess I was lucky as I didn't.
I'd prefer to be greeted by being given a hundred dollar bill. I'm not going to expect or demand that it happen.
So are you part of the church of the sub genius or a scientologist?
I'm tired of updates that change everything just for the sake of changing it. Security updates, bug fixes, etc. should be rolled out as soon as they've been Q & A'd for not breaking something else. But redoing the entire UI for a program or OS every year just for the hell of it pisses most people off. If a software company is going to do that, then at the very least give the customers the option to revert to the legacy UI, or something close.
I understand that Microsoft wanted to grab the mobile/tablet market using Metro. But what they ended up doing was not only giving their customers the middle finger, they poked them in the eye with it. Why couldn't they simply do all of the under the hood updates on the Windows 7 UI? It's stupid to just change things for the sake of change. When there's a truly useful change, they it's great. But giving us the UI from the hospital scene in Idiocracy is not it.
Firefox has been guilty of this to the point that they pissed away their market share. Constantly breaking add-ons with each update on a weekly basis is just dumb. Copying the Chrome UI is also stupid
I understand the desire to have a cleaner UI, but I wish all software companies would stop cleaning up the interface to the point of making it less usable. If there's a button that's going to be used more than once, don't hide it three levels into a contextual menu.
The last time I had to get rid of a fridge, it was a nightmare. It may depend on where you live, but recycling centers won't take them, many the appliance stores won't remove the old one when you buy a new one, and you can't take it to the dump.
Years ago I had a fridge die when I was renting. The landlord got me a new fridge quickly, but left the old one on my back porch for months. I finally got tired of it. So I use a sheet metal cutter on an air hammer. It cut through it like butter and took less than an hour to chop it up. Since I didn't own a truck it ended up taking around 30 garbage bags.
I'm actually curious to hear some of those reasons.
I would guess that earthquakes are the main reason. Underground power lines are more expensive to manufacture and place as well. I've read that underground lines cost anywhere from 2 to 4 times that of overhead power lines over their service life. They don't tend to need maintenance as much as overhead, but it's more expensive when they do.
Additionally, they tend to slow down Godzilla/Gojira. Which saves a ton in property damage.
Twilight Zone is an episodic series with no continuing storyline. How in the world is it possible to "reboot" that
They'll rehash all of the classic episodes. Except instead of it using ham radios, televisions, and news papers, it'll cellular be phones, computers and 3d printers. The guy that flys his biplane forward in time from WWI to the 50's will now be in a WW2 Era fighter. The aliens will now be fancy cgi rather than a guy in a rubber suit, and a cgi Rod Sering will preach about the dangers of smoking. Wait, that last one would be pretty good, so it won't happen
Its similar to the gestalt principle. the brain knows what the sound should sound like,
I'm pretty sure my brain doesn't really know what a high voltage electric pylon jumping rope sounds like. Maybe that's why I didn't hear anything.
For those of you who have seen this phenomenon, did you also hear the whooshing sound of the wire? I would imagine all of those wire moving through the air at those speeds would be quite audible too.
It's retard shaming.
I can't say that I agree with or support neo-nazi beliefs in any way. But I do believe in free speech. If they are so retarded, then why do you think they need to be removed from the internet? If they are so stupid that anyone can easily see it, what's the need to remove them from a place that you have to go look for them to even hear/read what they have to say? Why allow them to even try to claim some kind of victimhood?
Perhaps,. I guess I don't see what that has to do with intelligence. Though I doubt to many people would like to argue the point with a wolf that's proudly looking down at them from the top of my refrigerator. That was always a funny sight.
I'm not sure why I keep seeing cat owners talk about how a cat can navigate a 3D environment. My wolf used to play with my cat all the time and would jump up on to counters and dressers when they got a little too crazy. I miss mine as well. But that was 30+ years ago. I don't think it would be good in today's environment. Him pinning people to the ground and snarling in their face would probably get me sued these days.
I have dobermans now. They're not quite as smart, but still the brightest dogs I've had. Plus they will actually listen when I tell them to not kill someone. That's a big point in their favor.
As the article points out wild animals seem to be brainier, however a wolf doesn't have a lot of traits that we equate to intelligence that our pet dog has. For examples Dogs can understand the abstract concept of pointing, while wolves cannot. Dogs can be taught a lot of tricks and behaviors that may be outside their normal instinctive behavior, while wolves do not. However Dogs bark and make a lot of noise, and are much more disorganized in hunting by themselves, which would put them at a disadvantage in a non-human world.
As someone who has owned a wolf in the past, I can assure you that you don't know what you are talking about. I was able to train him to sit, stay, heel, lay down and come in less than half a day. I never saw anything quite like it. I could also point at damn near anything and tell him to get it, and he would bring it to me. This included flies that got into the house. On the occasion that one would land out of his reach (basically the ceiling) he would sit and wait for it to move again. I just wish he would have taken them to the trash can rather then bring them to me.
He was a great companion rather than a pet, but I would never think about doing that again as they are much more independent thinking than a dog. If there was someone or something he felt was a threat, it didn't matter what I said, he wanted to kill it. There were two occasions that I caught him mid air going for someones throat. After that I made sure to keep him away from anyone that he didn't like. He would also pin people to the floor if they moved around me in a threatening manner. Two things that I never quite figured out were why he hated bicycles and anyone having a gun other than myself. If anyone carried a gun onto my property, he would take it and bring it to me.
The USA should step in for the good of Humanity and install responsible adults to replace their current "government".
I can't tell if you're being serious or funny.
and then wear your brake pads and drums even more going back down the other side.
Brake pads should get very little wear going down a hill. Apparently you need to take some driving lessons. You are supposed to shift into a lower gear to keep your speed down when descending a hill.
In the case of a car, the the butterfly valve that controls the amount of air entering the engine stays closed until you open it by pressing on the accelerator pedal. This forces the cylinders to work against a high vacuum pressure. By down shifting you increase this vacuum pressure.
Diesel engines work by throttling the amount of fuel rather than air. So they have what is commonly referred to as a Jake Brake. It opens the exhaust valve in a cylinder just after the top of the compression stroke. Which doesn't allow all of that pressure push the cylinder back down. This in turn forces the energy from the turning wheels to compress the next cylinder rather than the energy from the fuel detonation.
If you really believe that adage, you clearly lived a sheltered life. Words can certainly hurt. And the emotional scars associated with a verbally abusive relationship (either in personal life or at work) will stay with you for a long time.
They only hurt if you let them. I'm pretty sure I lived a lot less sheltered life than most on /. I grew up in some really shitty areas and was on my own by my mid teens. I was lucky that all of my run ins with the law were done by the time I was 18, except for a DUI when I was 20. But that wasn't a big deal back then either.
I'm old enough to remember Corporal Punishment.
Yeah, we had that a school when I was a kid. Sadly, getting paddled as school wasn't as bad as what I knew was coming when I got home after my parents found out. I'm sure it would be considered abuse today, but looking back it seemed fair and kept me from doing the same stupid thing again.
If someone is curt or rude on occasion, it's not bullying. We're all human and have bad days. Of course no one should take out their personal problems on their coworkers or subordinates.But it's going to happen from time to time. No one is perfect. If your boss looses his temper from time to time, it really sucks. But unless they are doing this on a regular basis and/or actually threatening you, it's not bullying.
I know I can't be the only person on /. old enough to remember the grade school adage, "Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you."
In 2000, it's no longer allowed to own people
In the first world nations, that's true. Though it still happens under the radar in every nation. While slavery is technically illegal everywhere, there are places those laws are not really enforced.
Netflix has most things in surround sound in the US too. But Netflix doesn't have the rights to show Discovery here in the US. We can only see it by subscribing to CBS's streaming service, which apparently only airs Discovery in stereo. I don't have a subscription to CBS streaming, but that's what other posters seem to be stating.
Clearly it is Edith.
I never knew she remarried. I wonder if Mr. Intel called her a dingbat and sent her off to the kitchen to get him a beer too.
I'm old enough to remember, very well, the politics of the impeachment of President Nixon.
I'm old enough to remember Nixon too. However your memory is faulty. Nixon was never impeached. He resigned, which put an end to the impeachment process. He was later pardoned by Ford, which allowed Nixon to also avoid any criminal prosecution as well.
Granted, after the House judiciary committee investigation, the impeachment process was formally initiated for three counts. But his resignation put an end to it. There was debate on charging him for the bombing of Cambodia, but that never passed the vote. So he was never in any danger of being impeached for actually killing people.
Putting this in some perspective, it's something less than 20 CT scans
I really hate when CT scans are used as an example. The range of exposure is so wide and varies a lot depending on the type of scanner it is. A cardiac function CT scan on a 10 year old scanner could be 30 mSv or higher. Yet the same scan on a 2 year old scanner would be under 5 mSv. And with a newer sequence from the last 6 months could be as low as 1 mSv. An angiogram from a few years ago could be 16 mSv, but are well under 1 mSv on a modern scanner. There are many scans that are done these days that are at .2 mSv.
It also depends on what body part is being scanned. The exposure in the extremities are different than the head or thorax. The age of a patient is also a big factor. hitting an 85 year old with 10 mSv is a hell of a lot different than a 6 month old.
Crows are smart, but I'm not sure about being smartest. I found an injured crow when I was a kid and took it home to nurse it back to health. It eventually got better, but didn't seem to have any interest in being returned to the wild. Whenever I would take it outside it would flop around like it still had a broken wing. It got to the point that it would start flopping around in the house anytime my mom would start bitching about it. She eventually threw it out the third story window, and it tried to fly back in. As soon as I opened the door to the house, it flew back in. It learned to ring the doorbell to get someone to open the door after a couple of days. I think my mom was happy when we moved, in part, to get rid of my pet crow.
I wonder what the unintended consiquences of rewarding a bunch of crows could be? They may start raiding public trash and ashtrays for food.