It's where I am an cost of living is fairly high, just not quite as high as the bigger cities like New York. Boston has a nice mix of Biotech, Finance, Defense, etc.
As a network engineer, most of my work is largely a lot like the hacking game in Bioshock where you have to move the puzzle pieces to get the path right. The only difference is today it is accomplished via text commands and physical connections. With SDN, it wouldn't surprise me that the interface changes from text based to GUI game based. Pick a packet type or subnet, drag it through a path where you want it to flow, assign a priority via colors, and then push out the routing policy... Hey, I should patent that... (evil grin)
The Superchargers are usually at locations where there's places to eat and stretch ones legs. On my last trip to Lake Tahoe I stopped in Folsom to charge. By the time I was done with my burger my car was charged and ready to go and there was plenty of range left when I got to my destination at 7200 feet near the summit of Kingsbury Grade.
Just make sure you don't get stuck anywhere without a charge. I highly doubt that there are roving tow trucks that carry battery packs with them. All you need with an ICE car is a siphon hose to borrow enough gas to get to the next gas station.
Your standards are low. Americans own over 1.2 cars per driver. So a 2-driver house has 2.4 cars, or about half of all 2-driver households have 3 cars.
With the statistics as they are, it seems you are the one that's out of touch.
No... You are misunderstanding what they mean by vehicles per licensed driver. Taking a look at Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_United_States) licensed passenger vehicles includes Vans, Trucks, cars, etc. a good percentage of which are used for business. In other words, the average family does not have 3 vehicles as you are arguing, but actually 2 or less. The difference is made up by vehicles owned by small businesses, farms, etc. for specific business use. If you dig deep, you'll find that the statistics do not mean what you think they mean.
Secondly, this says nothing about how much the average family pays for cars. Most families that I know have an older car that is used for the daily commute and a bigger hauling vehicle to ferry their kids around. The cars that they do own are valued less than one Tesla. They couldn't afford, either financially or or opportunistically, swapping two cars for one Tesla.
And it starts at $50,000 (take-home price for most people.) Still well in to "luxury" territory for most people, but it's disingenuous to always refer to it as a $100K vehicle.
I can only go by what was printed in the article. If the true take home cost is $50,000 after rebates, tax deductions, etc. then that makes it more affordable. But I can't find anything that backs this figure up.
What makes you think expensive products for individuals aren't consumer products?
CR is not called "Thrifty Reports".
My definition of a consumer item is one that most people can afford, even if it is a tiny bit of a stretch. You have to admit that a $100,000 car is well outside of the price range of most consumers. I'm not saying that it has to be the cheapest POS that everyone can afford. Just that it should be, in my opinion, somewhat affordable...
I don't know about most people, but if I'm driving more than an hour or two, I'm renting a car so as not to put the miles on my own cars. I would never drive my commuter long distances
I do that for work trips but it doesn't work for me for vacation trips. When I drive home for Christmas (6.5 hr drive) in the Northeast we usually have snow, ice, etc. and I wouldn't trust the tires on a rental car as far as I could throw them. During the summer I need to tow stuff and, unfortunately, you cannot rent a tow vehicle...
So, the best car overall is a $100,000 luxury vehicle that can drive, at most, 4 hours and then needs to recharge for 5 hours??? Obviously Consumer Reports has a different set of standards than 99% of people who live in North America. Most of us are lucky if we afford one car worth $30K, let alone two (Tesla for city driving and another one for long distance).
I thought that the Consumer Reports mission was to test and report on consumer items not luxury goods...
The wrong direction down a deadend road? So, once you left the area, you could never return?
I have a Jeep... There is no such thing as a wrong direction down a dead-end road... (grin)
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They have accelerators in the headset. It doesn't do much good when at times the head can move at constant velocity. For sensing gravity and rotational movement, it works well, but translation movement is impossible to do reliably with accelerators lacking any sort of frame of reference.
I agree... Also, the system should track eye movement as well. And what about body suits? Animation companies have been using body suits to track human movement for a while now. Why use an external camera when you can just slip into clothing with sensors in it.
There is a third choice. Data pollution. What I really want is a program that doesn't require me to do it manually - entering in false "tags", random "birthdates", and randomly searching for consumer items I don't necessarily have interest in. Antiphorm was evidently a program developed to do something like this, but it disappeared.
Cookie camouflage, digital haystacks, bitshit, there must be a lot of names for it. Nature almost never evolves invisibility, but evolves camouflage. I haven't been able to interest any programmers in developing this, but think it could just be as simple as a browser hunting forms online and populating them with garbage.
"We all have a civil obligation to generate false data." - Spartacus, 71 BC
One problem with digital haystacks... What if your app randomly hits upon the proverbial needle that is being monitored and is a high priority target? Do you really want to chance your life being turned upside down for 5 to 10 years while you are investigated? or worse, sent to one of the black sites?
It is cost effective and quite competitive to bring broadband to the street corner pillar boxes or the neighbourhoods for telephone companies. It is the "last mile", often fraction of a mile, that connects individual homes and wiring inside the homes that is prohibitively expensive for the new entrant. That is the real barrier to entry. But as WiFi spec improves, the last mile could be done over the air. Already this technique of mostly wire, but end nodes connected over the air is proving to be very cost effective in most third world rural areas. I have seen regular home phones connecting to the local cell tower in Bangalore some 10 or 15 years ago.
Verizon is spending tons of money upgrading last mile to optic fiber.
Verizon, if you do some research, has stopped or severely reduced rolling out their optic networks. They have shifted their strategy towards building out their mobile networks. They see, as you do, that the last mile is likely to be a wireless solution. However, they are betting that it's the mobile market (smart phones, tablets, etc.) that will provide this service. Why pay for a separate broadband wired service when you can get similar speeds and experience from your HD tablet connected to your TV via HDMI or WiDi/AirPlay running over the latest cell technology?
Here in Germany, I pay for 100Mbps/20Mbps (Down-/Upstream) EUR 25 per month (at current exchange rate around 34 USD/month).
Well, at least the company selling the service offers the product as "100Mbps/20Mbps", but in fact when the technician came and connected it, we saw sync-speed of 100Mbps/31Mbps and his comment: "Yeah, we actually sell only what we can guarantee".
I have measured it many times, and it is really effectively 100Mbps/30 Mbps
While I was in the US from 2009 onward, I had the feeling that the US has the worst internet connection (to homes) of all the countries I spent time in (except emerging markets). And it was the most expensive I have seen so far.
And Germany has about 82 million people across an area 15% smaller than the size of California. California has about half the population (38 million people). That's just one state. The US is huge by comparison with a large part that has tiny population densities. I'm just pointing out that providers in other countries with much higher population density can lower their prices because it costs less per customer for infrastructure costs.
Don't get me wrong, the US prices are way too high. However, the US also has a much larger barrier of entry.
The only way, in my opinion, that broadband internet access prices will drop in the US is when the infrastructure piece is taken over by the government and then leases bandwidth to private companies. Its the only way that we will ever get competition parity for established players and new start-ups.
One of life's great mysteries is how achieving wealth tends to make people more greedy. For example, studies have shown that, as a percentage of income, charitable giving tends to be inversely proportional to income. Here you have a company that has found tremendous success, and in response to that success they become more greedy and try to shut everyone down.
I think human nature is not to just want success. Human nature is to want to win and stomp on the corpses of your competition.
It's not a mystery at all. The system is set up in such a way that companies are forced to defend their trademarks. If they don't, they lose them. In addition, people with more are going to go to greater lengths to ensure that they don't lose what they have. Some companies are much more aggressive than others and some resort to what should be categorized as extortion. But, it's not going to change unless we find a way to change the system.
As for charity, you have to go back to the old saying: "lies, dam lies, and statistics". If I'm making $10 and I give $1, then I am giving 10%. If I make $100 and I give $2, then I am giving 2%, despite having doubled (100% increase) my charitable contribution. I am now giving a lower percentage than the guy making $10, but I am also giving twice as much. Now I can pick to write a story about how the rich are giving less to charity or a story about how the rich gives more than the average donor.
maybe Woz does this...idk...but on the merits this is an awesome idea. this is what actual "innovation" in business looks like the iphone running Android would make Google into Apple's bitch...
strategically, you get them on your hardware with the option of using Android software...fine...if Google gets testy, **users can switch to iOS easily** Android users on iPhone would always be *one click* away from iOS...that would let Apple dictate development terms to Android
fanboi disclaimer: I use devices with both Android and iOS so im not pimping one over the other..
. Today users can switch to an IOS device. Does that make Google Apple's bitch? No. Why would make you think that Apple using Android for their iDevices would take away any power from Google? It wouldn't. . Woz is being silly anyway. Apple isn't going to give up their walled garden app store, they make too much money off of it.
But this doesn't actually concede anything, does it?
Main points in this statement:
1: One in four users are still being redirected to the new beta.
2: The current Slashdot layout is still disappearing, to be replaced by the beta.
3: The beta needs development.
So what's so groundbreaking about this announcement? Where's the concession? I'm supposed to be happy about this, I suppose?
This is the part that bothers me:
We want to take our current content and all the stuff that matters to this community and deliver it on a site that still speaks to the interests and habits of our current audience, but that is, at the same time, more accessible and shareable by a wider audience.
So Dice wants the best of both worlds; the tech oriented, intelligent userbase contributions, and a wide audience to monetise those contributions to? It isn't going to work.
The wider audience that they want to appeal to are touch enabled mobile users. I'm guessing that the current format doesn't play well in the mobile space (i.e. different formatting options for different devices with difference screen sizes). Like it or not, mobile is the future...
You can't see how your own comments are moderated without drilling down to them. You can't see if your message has been replied to without drilling down to it. You can't quote the message you're replying to. The comment subject is not autofilled.
. I like Slashdot Beta, but I agree that these things need to be fixed.
I'm definitely not seeing the same screen as you. I am running Firefox 27 and I'm definitely not getting double spaced lines. My comment takes 8 lines, not 11.
Yeah. Shows how out of touch the people in charge of the site have become. They don't understand what keeps people here. I imagine they don't care. I imagine it's about getting new people in and traffic numbers up. There's some project manager who is under pressure to get these numbers. Beta is their baby. I feel bad that they have to keep an optimistic face, and pretend they like the monster that they created... all while knowing they've cock punched their oldest fan base. More of us old-fogeys with 1,000,000 user ids need to speak up.
I like the Slashdot Beta. I'm pretty sure that they understand that the only way for the web site to thrive is to continually get new blood. Compared to other social web sites (And Yes, Slashdot is a social web site, just not as main-stream as Facebook), Slashdot doesn't just look Old, it looks Ancient. It's way past time for a change. Personally, I'm disappointed that they weren't working on a 3D VR interface. Maybe in the next update 15 years from now...
However, what it really shows is just how out of touch the old timers have become. It's time for you guys to buy a tablet (grin). Like it or not, we are entering the age of the touch-screen, mobile computing, completely GUIfied world. I for one welcome our GUI overlords...
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glorifying actors, sports figures, politicians, generals, soldiers, writers, artists, architects, Canadians, cooks, race car drivers, the old, children, dogs, accountants, spies, computer programmers, cowboys, drug smugglers, and the disabled.
Wait... Canadians??? Oh... right... Justin Beiber... Oh, and you forgot cats...
It's where I am an cost of living is fairly high, just not quite as high as the bigger cities like New York. Boston has a nice mix of Biotech, Finance, Defense, etc.
...doesn't it already have game elements?
As a network engineer, most of my work is largely a lot like the hacking game in Bioshock where you have to move the puzzle pieces to get the path right. The only difference is today it is accomplished via text commands and physical connections. With SDN, it wouldn't surprise me that the interface changes from text based to GUI game based. Pick a packet type or subnet, drag it through a path where you want it to flow, assign a priority via colors, and then push out the routing policy... Hey, I should patent that... (evil grin)
Does this mean that I need BSD to become Evil.....?
The Superchargers are usually at locations where there's places to eat and stretch ones legs. On my last trip to Lake Tahoe I stopped in Folsom to charge. By the time I was done with my burger my car was charged and ready to go and there was plenty of range left when I got to my destination at 7200 feet near the summit of Kingsbury Grade.
Just make sure you don't get stuck anywhere without a charge. I highly doubt that there are roving tow trucks that carry battery packs with them. All you need with an ICE car is a siphon hose to borrow enough gas to get to the next gas station.
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Your standards are low. Americans own over 1.2 cars per driver. So a 2-driver house has 2.4 cars, or about half of all 2-driver households have 3 cars.
With the statistics as they are, it seems you are the one that's out of touch.
No... You are misunderstanding what they mean by vehicles per licensed driver. Taking a look at Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_United_States) licensed passenger vehicles includes Vans, Trucks, cars, etc. a good percentage of which are used for business. In other words, the average family does not have 3 vehicles as you are arguing, but actually 2 or less. The difference is made up by vehicles owned by small businesses, farms, etc. for specific business use. If you dig deep, you'll find that the statistics do not mean what you think they mean.
Secondly, this says nothing about how much the average family pays for cars. Most families that I know have an older car that is used for the daily commute and a bigger hauling vehicle to ferry their kids around. The cars that they do own are valued less than one Tesla. They couldn't afford, either financially or or opportunistically, swapping two cars for one Tesla.
And it starts at $50,000 (take-home price for most people.) Still well in to "luxury" territory for most people, but it's disingenuous to always refer to it as a $100K vehicle.
I can only go by what was printed in the article. If the true take home cost is $50,000 after rebates, tax deductions, etc. then that makes it more affordable. But I can't find anything that backs this figure up.
What makes you think expensive products for individuals aren't consumer products?
CR is not called "Thrifty Reports".
My definition of a consumer item is one that most people can afford, even if it is a tiny bit of a stretch. You have to admit that a $100,000 car is well outside of the price range of most consumers. I'm not saying that it has to be the cheapest POS that everyone can afford. Just that it should be, in my opinion, somewhat affordable...
I don't know about most people, but if I'm driving more than an hour or two, I'm renting a car so as not to put the miles on my own cars. I would never drive my commuter long distances
I do that for work trips but it doesn't work for me for vacation trips. When I drive home for Christmas (6.5 hr drive) in the Northeast we usually have snow, ice, etc. and I wouldn't trust the tires on a rental car as far as I could throw them. During the summer I need to tow stuff and, unfortunately, you cannot rent a tow vehicle...
So you don't pay for repairs to the Tesla or any battery replacements?
So, the best car overall is a $100,000 luxury vehicle that can drive, at most, 4 hours and then needs to recharge for 5 hours??? Obviously Consumer Reports has a different set of standards than 99% of people who live in North America. Most of us are lucky if we afford one car worth $30K, let alone two (Tesla for city driving and another one for long distance).
I thought that the Consumer Reports mission was to test and report on consumer items not luxury goods...
The wrong direction down a deadend road? So, once you left the area, you could never return?
I have a Jeep... There is no such thing as a wrong direction down a dead-end road... (grin)
They have accelerators in the headset. It doesn't do much good when at times the head can move at constant velocity. For sensing gravity and rotational movement, it works well, but translation movement is impossible to do reliably with accelerators lacking any sort of frame of reference.
I agree... Also, the system should track eye movement as well. And what about body suits? Animation companies have been using body suits to track human movement for a while now. Why use an external camera when you can just slip into clothing with sensors in it.
There is a third choice. Data pollution. What I really want is a program that doesn't require me to do it manually - entering in false "tags", random "birthdates", and randomly searching for consumer items I don't necessarily have interest in. Antiphorm was evidently a program developed to do something like this, but it disappeared.
Cookie camouflage, digital haystacks, bitshit, there must be a lot of names for it. Nature almost never evolves invisibility, but evolves camouflage. I haven't been able to interest any programmers in developing this, but think it could just be as simple as a browser hunting forms online and populating them with garbage.
"We all have a civil obligation to generate false data." - Spartacus, 71 BC
One problem with digital haystacks... What if your app randomly hits upon the proverbial needle that is being monitored and is a high priority target? Do you really want to chance your life being turned upside down for 5 to 10 years while you are investigated? or worse, sent to one of the black sites?
It is cost effective and quite competitive to bring broadband to the street corner pillar boxes or the neighbourhoods for telephone companies. It is the "last mile", often fraction of a mile, that connects individual homes and wiring inside the homes that is prohibitively expensive for the new entrant. That is the real barrier to entry. But as WiFi spec improves, the last mile could be done over the air. Already this technique of mostly wire, but end nodes connected over the air is proving to be very cost effective in most third world rural areas. I have seen regular home phones connecting to the local cell tower in Bangalore some 10 or 15 years ago.
Verizon is spending tons of money upgrading last mile to optic fiber.
Verizon, if you do some research, has stopped or severely reduced rolling out their optic networks. They have shifted their strategy towards building out their mobile networks. They see, as you do, that the last mile is likely to be a wireless solution. However, they are betting that it's the mobile market (smart phones, tablets, etc.) that will provide this service. Why pay for a separate broadband wired service when you can get similar speeds and experience from your HD tablet connected to your TV via HDMI or WiDi/AirPlay running over the latest cell technology?
Here in Germany, I pay for 100Mbps/20Mbps (Down-/Upstream) EUR 25 per month (at current exchange rate around 34 USD/month).
Well, at least the company selling the service offers the product as "100Mbps/20Mbps", but in fact when the technician came and connected it, we saw sync-speed of 100Mbps/31Mbps and his comment: "Yeah, we actually sell only what we can guarantee".
I have measured it many times, and it is really effectively 100Mbps/30 Mbps
While I was in the US from 2009 onward, I had the feeling that the US has the worst internet connection (to homes) of all the countries I spent time in (except emerging markets). And it was the most expensive I have seen so far.
And Germany has about 82 million people across an area 15% smaller than the size of California. California has about half the population (38 million people). That's just one state. The US is huge by comparison with a large part that has tiny population densities. I'm just pointing out that providers in other countries with much higher population density can lower their prices because it costs less per customer for infrastructure costs.
Don't get me wrong, the US prices are way too high. However, the US also has a much larger barrier of entry.
The only way, in my opinion, that broadband internet access prices will drop in the US is when the infrastructure piece is taken over by the government and then leases bandwidth to private companies. Its the only way that we will ever get competition parity for established players and new start-ups.
..so you're implying that "Hinterhof" is what the kids are calling it these days?
...and here I thought that was Hasselhoff..... (evil grin)
One of life's great mysteries is how achieving wealth tends to make people more greedy. For example, studies have shown that, as a percentage of income, charitable giving tends to be inversely proportional to income. Here you have a company that has found tremendous success, and in response to that success they become more greedy and try to shut everyone down.
I think human nature is not to just want success. Human nature is to want to win and stomp on the corpses of your competition.
It's not a mystery at all. The system is set up in such a way that companies are forced to defend their trademarks. If they don't, they lose them. In addition, people with more are going to go to greater lengths to ensure that they don't lose what they have. Some companies are much more aggressive than others and some resort to what should be categorized as extortion. But, it's not going to change unless we find a way to change the system.
As for charity, you have to go back to the old saying: "lies, dam lies, and statistics". If I'm making $10 and I give $1, then I am giving 10%. If I make $100 and I give $2, then I am giving 2%, despite having doubled (100% increase) my charitable contribution. I am now giving a lower percentage than the guy making $10, but I am also giving twice as much. Now I can pick to write a story about how the rich are giving less to charity or a story about how the rich gives more than the average donor.
Can I have that in a car analogy instead?
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Yeah, it's like us realizing the inevitability of NASCAR turning into robot wars as Google perfects the self-driving car....
maybe Woz does this...idk...but on the merits this is an awesome idea. this is what actual "innovation" in business looks like the iphone running Android would make Google into Apple's bitch...
strategically, you get them on your hardware with the option of using Android software...fine...if Google gets testy, **users can switch to iOS easily**
Android users on iPhone would always be *one click* away from iOS...that would let Apple dictate development terms to Android
fanboi disclaimer: I use devices with both Android and iOS so im not pimping one over the other..
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Today users can switch to an IOS device. Does that make Google Apple's bitch? No. Why would make you think that Apple using Android for their iDevices would take away any power from Google? It wouldn't.
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Woz is being silly anyway. Apple isn't going to give up their walled garden app store, they make too much money off of it.
But this doesn't actually concede anything, does it?
Main points in this statement:
1: One in four users are still being redirected to the new beta.
2: The current Slashdot layout is still disappearing, to be replaced by the beta.
3: The beta needs development.
So what's so groundbreaking about this announcement? Where's the concession? I'm supposed to be happy about this, I suppose?
This is the part that bothers me:
We want to take our current content and all the stuff that matters to this community and deliver it on a site that still speaks to the interests and habits of our current audience, but that is, at the same time, more accessible and shareable by a wider audience.
So Dice wants the best of both worlds; the tech oriented, intelligent userbase contributions, and a wide audience to monetise those contributions to? It isn't going to work.
The wider audience that they want to appeal to are touch enabled mobile users. I'm guessing that the current format doesn't play well in the mobile space (i.e. different formatting options for different devices with difference screen sizes). Like it or not, mobile is the future...
You can't see how your own comments are moderated without drilling down to them.
You can't see if your message has been replied to without drilling down to it.
You can't quote the message you're replying to.
The comment subject is not autofilled.
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I like Slashdot Beta, but I agree that these things need to be fixed.
It's better for reading, viewing, and replying to on mobile devices.
I'm definitely not seeing the same screen as you. I am running Firefox 27 and I'm definitely not getting double spaced lines. My comment takes 8 lines, not 11.
Yeah. Shows how out of touch the people in charge of the site have become. They don't understand what keeps people here. I imagine they don't care. I imagine it's about getting new people in and traffic numbers up. There's some project manager who is under pressure to get these numbers. Beta is their baby. I feel bad that they have to keep an optimistic face, and pretend they like the monster that they created. .. all while knowing they've cock punched their oldest fan base. More of us old-fogeys with 1,000,000 user ids need to speak up.
I like the Slashdot Beta. I'm pretty sure that they understand that the only way for the web site to thrive is to continually get new blood. Compared to other social web sites (And Yes, Slashdot is a social web site, just not as main-stream as Facebook), Slashdot doesn't just look Old, it looks Ancient. It's way past time for a change. Personally, I'm disappointed that they weren't working on a 3D VR interface. Maybe in the next update 15 years from now...
However, what it really shows is just how out of touch the old timers have become. It's time for you guys to buy a tablet (grin). Like it or not, we are entering the age of the touch-screen, mobile computing, completely GUIfied world. I for one welcome our GUI overlords...