Another factor in costs savings (which still with the roadster does not make it cheap, but the model S should be different) is that maintenance costs are significantly cheaper with an electric car. There are fewer moving parts, the moving parts in the motor don't physically touch, there's no oil, no exhaust system. I don't know what the actual savings are through maintenance but it should be relatively significant.
I really liked the thought on some new harbours and canals, but due to the radioactivity it's not viable yet.
I think more accurately, due to radiation it's not viable ever. Maybe using conventional explosives would work but nuclear weapons simply won't, until we develop a mutation that makes radiation impotent to humans (I don't even think this is evolutionarily possible).
This Model S includes a built-in touch screen with 3g internet access for Pandora and Google maps, very high performance, and other luxuries that make go a long way to justify the price (even without the electric motor).
And of the $50k price of the vehicle those amount to probably less than 10%. They toss those in there because they know they can't get a sticker price competitive with an economy car so they opted to add the amenities of a luxury sedan. I think that makes sense. And I read an interview excerpt that says they're planning on making a $30k car, which is very exciting (but I'll wait till I see an actual spec sheet before making any claims about that).
From Tesla's site, the batteries weigh 992lbs. Earlier it was mentioned the batteries get 160Wh/kg = 72.6Wh/lbs. That gives you 72.3 kWh of energy on a full battery. At a high price of $0.17/kWh that gives you a cost per full charge of $12.291, or $0.043/mile. If you take the EPA ratings for a fuel efficient car, say a hybrid pulling 40mpg and $2/gal gas you get a cost of $0.05/mile. So yeah, the tesla is highly cost effective on cost/mile.
What does warm weather have to do with it. Unless my physics knowledge is taking a vacation, cold weather will actually improve performance because there will be less resistance in the line (I'm not even going to try to figure out if this is anything beyond negligible). And I'm pretty sure batteries work better in colder temperatures (I'm less certain on this one).
I'll try not to be too rude, but what the fuck are you talking about. The car is not reaching it's maximum speed at 90kph. That's the way it was driven for the event that it was running. The car's top speed is just above 200kph which means it could handily beat your average speed if the effort was put into it. Now, at a faster speed it might not get to that 280 miles that you traveled, but then again, how often are you going 280 miles in a trip. It's not the perfect car but you should at least be able to grasp that its average speed is not indicative of its actual performance.
Tesla, I believe, will be a luxury sports car brand in the spirit of Ferrari.
I beg to differ. They're already working on a car that has more than two seats and will sell for 1/2 the price of the roadster. I'd say that's quite a jump in affordability. The Model S is nowhere near economy car prices, but it's a large step closer.
How long does it take to make a new sun? I mean...it will run out eventually...
When the Sun runs out it won't matter how much coal we have, (or any other energy source) unless we've used it to ship out far, far away from this solar system. Nothing is truly indefinite so your argument is mostly pointless.
Until you can regularly consume an average of three or four pots of coffee in day (30 to 40 cups)
Since when is a pot considered 10 cups. I usually can get three, maybe four cups of coffee out of a pot. Unless you're referring to the numbering on the side of the pot, which is in no way equivalent to a standard cup of coffee (at least in my book).
Nuclear power stations, which cause cancer when they go wrong.
The biggest problem with the 3-mile Island incident is that it was only a partial meltdown and not a complete meltdown. Because if it had completely melted down then there would be an example of just how good our containment is (suffice to say, it would not have ended up like Chernobyl). Oh well, I guess we'll just have to keep living in a world where people fear what isn't going to happen.
Well, hopefully that first semester of ethics will correct for any lack of "Sunday School" that you might have missed out on as a child. The following courses should be on how to evaluate a situation, how to look at the broad reaching consequences of your decisions, etc. The courses I took on engineering ethics were usually fairly easy because from an engineering standpoint you're looking at whether or not your product is going to harm people. If you could build a bridge with a 10% fail rate or one with a less than.01% fail rate the engineering decisions is very easy. If going for the more expensive and safer option is going to cause people to loss jobs due to your company going under, then business ethics come in and maybe you shouldn't be in the business of building bridges.
The key importance of mandating ethics course is that maybe, just maybe those people will have taken the time to think about ethics and it might inform their decisions later on in life.
And then it's a short hop to recognizing the courts of all countries.
Except when those courts are enforcing rules that fly directly in the face of the law of your nation. I know there's been a lot of constitutional trampling going on over the past decades but that first amendment has held pretty strong for well over 200 years. We citizens of the USA have a special connection to the number 1. We love chanting "We're number 1" and we also love things that are 1st. Coincidentally, free speech is number 1 in the constitution so I have hope that we'll hold on to that for a long time. Seriously, how do you think shows on FoxNEWS, MSNBC, Comedy Central, and the internet as a whole would have held up in the US without a strong love for the 1st amendment.
>>>>all they have to do is claim that your criticisms are libelous and you are in a world of hurt if you refuse to back down.
Cowards. Take me to court. I don't care. It will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I won't have to climb some mountain in Chile to get it. It might even be fun! Plus if you really believe in the rights of man, then you should be willing to fight for them, not just let people trample all over you.
Fair enough. But it is not completely unreasonable for a person who is responsible for others (such as a family) to simply back down under the potential threat of losing their entire wealth (or a sufficiently large quantity of it). Having said that, no one with a spine should back down after the first blow, but after consecutive blows if it becomes apparent that fighting this is going to cost too much then it might be wise to step down.
I agree 100% with the need to change schools for a graduate degree. You get a very different perspective because you'll be working with new people. Also, don't throw away the benefits of knowing even more people when you go looking for a job. Having contacts and networking is not about getting a free pass to a job, it's about getting your foot in the door. You might have a very impressive resume, but unless you've invented something completely novel then you're going to be competing against people that are just as good if not better than you. By having a network of people that can vouch for you, you have a much better chance of getting that interview and being able to actually get the job. You'll probably get a job without those contacts but you'll have a better chance of getting the job you want.
Also, you don't need to know what you want to do for the rest of your life (unless you change your mind and get a PhD) but you better have a fairly good grasp on what you want to do for the next 10 years or so of your life. A masters degree gives you a lot of flexibility in the long run but you will be crowded into a specific field right out of college.
I think choosing the type of degree based on what looks best on your resume isn't the best way to go.
Graduate school is a lot of work. If you pick something just because it looks good on a resume and not because you actually like it, I can't imagine you'd enjoy getting your masters.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you on this one. Sure, if you're going for a PhD you better choose something that you like but with a technical masters degree I believe it's perfectly fine to choose something that is a career advancer above personal preference. Graduate school is a lot of work but if you've got a motivator, like advancing your career, then it's not nearly as difficult to plow through that degree in two years and be done with it. Having said that, I wouldn't recommend choosing something complete out of one's field of interest but from where I'm standing I would guess that an MS in Computer Science and an MS in IT are close enough that one probably won't be completely out of interest.
A top tier school is one that will teach you the fundamental economic and financial concepts of leading a company as well as requiring you to take multiple courses in ethics. Funny thing about those supposed "top tier" schools, it wasn't until after Enron occurred that ethics became a required course. To my knowledge, the only two university business schools that required ethics courses before 2000 were Notre Dame and Boston College (and they both required a minimum of two semesters of ethics). Wouldn't that be nice if people leading the economic power companies of the world actually learned the difference between right and wrong and how to deal with ethically grey issues in a more than flippant manner.
An MBA is a nice degree but it's not really the one to get right out of college. Unless you're in a special program where you get an MBA and a BS degree then it makes more sense to go work for a few years and if you can, get your company to send you to MBA school. Also, if you want to get into management then any type of technical graduate degree is going to help you. If you're going to be leading the tech people having an advanced degree in the work they do will help you connect and work with them.
"When you trust your company's information to Google, you can be confident that your critical information is safe and secure."
Safe and Secure can mean many things. Maybe they're safe and secure from being lost forever in a harddrive crash. Maybe they're safe and secure for viewing anywhere with an internet connection. Marketing quotes don't mean all that much when it comes to technical specs.
Sorry, but those are the breaks. Unless, as you say, you're going to DRM everything, you're not going to be able to control copies of anything published.
That's quite possibly the scariest thing I've read in a while concerning content. I can easily see publishing companies following this logic and trying to slap DRM onto everything ever sold.
Mankind != important in the grand scheme of things, thus nothing we produce is all that important either.
That is more than likely true, but in the the grand scheme of mankind, mankind is the most important thing. So yes, the universe will continue on, but what the grand majority of people are truly concerned about is mankind, and preserving our history is a uniquely interesting aspect of advancing mankind.
Let's go with car analogies cause we seem to love them here.
$3.4 million is expensive for a Toyota but may be just about right for a Ferrari, BUT we're not talking about Toyota's or Ferrari's; we're talking about cars and $3.4 million is definitely expensive for "a car".
What Ferrari are you referring to? You need to brush up on your exotic car pricing.
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Another factor in costs savings (which still with the roadster does not make it cheap, but the model S should be different) is that maintenance costs are significantly cheaper with an electric car. There are fewer moving parts, the moving parts in the motor don't physically touch, there's no oil, no exhaust system. I don't know what the actual savings are through maintenance but it should be relatively significant.
I really liked the thought on some new harbours and canals, but due to the radioactivity it's not viable yet.
I think more accurately, due to radiation it's not viable ever. Maybe using conventional explosives would work but nuclear weapons simply won't, until we develop a mutation that makes radiation impotent to humans (I don't even think this is evolutionarily possible).
This Model S includes a built-in touch screen with 3g internet access for Pandora and Google maps, very high performance, and other luxuries that make go a long way to justify the price (even without the electric motor).
And of the $50k price of the vehicle those amount to probably less than 10%. They toss those in there because they know they can't get a sticker price competitive with an economy car so they opted to add the amenities of a luxury sedan. I think that makes sense. And I read an interview excerpt that says they're planning on making a $30k car, which is very exciting (but I'll wait till I see an actual spec sheet before making any claims about that).
From Tesla's site, the batteries weigh 992lbs. Earlier it was mentioned the batteries get 160Wh/kg = 72.6Wh/lbs. That gives you 72.3 kWh of energy on a full battery. At a high price of $0.17/kWh that gives you a cost per full charge of $12.291, or $0.043/mile. If you take the EPA ratings for a fuel efficient car, say a hybrid pulling 40mpg and $2/gal gas you get a cost of $0.05/mile. So yeah, the tesla is highly cost effective on cost/mile.
What does warm weather have to do with it. Unless my physics knowledge is taking a vacation, cold weather will actually improve performance because there will be less resistance in the line (I'm not even going to try to figure out if this is anything beyond negligible). And I'm pretty sure batteries work better in colder temperatures (I'm less certain on this one).
4 hours is a far cry from 10 hours traveling.
I'll try not to be too rude, but what the fuck are you talking about. The car is not reaching it's maximum speed at 90kph. That's the way it was driven for the event that it was running. The car's top speed is just above 200kph which means it could handily beat your average speed if the effort was put into it. Now, at a faster speed it might not get to that 280 miles that you traveled, but then again, how often are you going 280 miles in a trip. It's not the perfect car but you should at least be able to grasp that its average speed is not indicative of its actual performance.
Tesla, I believe, will be a luxury sports car brand in the spirit of Ferrari.
I beg to differ. They're already working on a car that has more than two seats and will sell for 1/2 the price of the roadster. I'd say that's quite a jump in affordability. The Model S is nowhere near economy car prices, but it's a large step closer.
How long does it take to make a new sun? I mean...it will run out eventually...
When the Sun runs out it won't matter how much coal we have, (or any other energy source) unless we've used it to ship out far, far away from this solar system. Nothing is truly indefinite so your argument is mostly pointless.
ahem.
Or a week ago was April 1 and whoosh.
They're about the only ones left with any money.
But I read a week ago that Microsoft wanted bailout money due to lackluster sales of Vista.
Until you can regularly consume an average of three or four pots of coffee in day (30 to 40 cups)
Since when is a pot considered 10 cups. I usually can get three, maybe four cups of coffee out of a pot. Unless you're referring to the numbering on the side of the pot, which is in no way equivalent to a standard cup of coffee (at least in my book).
Nuclear power stations, which cause cancer when they go wrong.
The biggest problem with the 3-mile Island incident is that it was only a partial meltdown and not a complete meltdown. Because if it had completely melted down then there would be an example of just how good our containment is (suffice to say, it would not have ended up like Chernobyl). Oh well, I guess we'll just have to keep living in a world where people fear what isn't going to happen.
Well, hopefully that first semester of ethics will correct for any lack of "Sunday School" that you might have missed out on as a child. The following courses should be on how to evaluate a situation, how to look at the broad reaching consequences of your decisions, etc. The courses I took on engineering ethics were usually fairly easy because from an engineering standpoint you're looking at whether or not your product is going to harm people. If you could build a bridge with a 10% fail rate or one with a less than .01% fail rate the engineering decisions is very easy. If going for the more expensive and safer option is going to cause people to loss jobs due to your company going under, then business ethics come in and maybe you shouldn't be in the business of building bridges.
The key importance of mandating ethics course is that maybe, just maybe those people will have taken the time to think about ethics and it might inform their decisions later on in life.
And then it's a short hop to recognizing the courts of all countries.
Except when those courts are enforcing rules that fly directly in the face of the law of your nation. I know there's been a lot of constitutional trampling going on over the past decades but that first amendment has held pretty strong for well over 200 years. We citizens of the USA have a special connection to the number 1. We love chanting "We're number 1" and we also love things that are 1st. Coincidentally, free speech is number 1 in the constitution so I have hope that we'll hold on to that for a long time. Seriously, how do you think shows on FoxNEWS, MSNBC, Comedy Central, and the internet as a whole would have held up in the US without a strong love for the 1st amendment.
Freedom of speech means allowing those with invalid criticisms to express them.
Amen brother.
>>>>all they have to do is claim that your criticisms are libelous and you are in a world of hurt if you refuse to back down.
Cowards. Take me to court. I don't care. It will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I won't have to climb some mountain in Chile to get it. It might even be fun! Plus if you really believe in the rights of man, then you should be willing to fight for them, not just let people trample all over you.
Fair enough. But it is not completely unreasonable for a person who is responsible for others (such as a family) to simply back down under the potential threat of losing their entire wealth (or a sufficiently large quantity of it). Having said that, no one with a spine should back down after the first blow, but after consecutive blows if it becomes apparent that fighting this is going to cost too much then it might be wise to step down.
I agree 100% with the need to change schools for a graduate degree. You get a very different perspective because you'll be working with new people. Also, don't throw away the benefits of knowing even more people when you go looking for a job. Having contacts and networking is not about getting a free pass to a job, it's about getting your foot in the door. You might have a very impressive resume, but unless you've invented something completely novel then you're going to be competing against people that are just as good if not better than you. By having a network of people that can vouch for you, you have a much better chance of getting that interview and being able to actually get the job. You'll probably get a job without those contacts but you'll have a better chance of getting the job you want.
Also, you don't need to know what you want to do for the rest of your life (unless you change your mind and get a PhD) but you better have a fairly good grasp on what you want to do for the next 10 years or so of your life. A masters degree gives you a lot of flexibility in the long run but you will be crowded into a specific field right out of college.
I think choosing the type of degree based on what looks best on your resume isn't the best way to go. Graduate school is a lot of work. If you pick something just because it looks good on a resume and not because you actually like it, I can't imagine you'd enjoy getting your masters.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you on this one. Sure, if you're going for a PhD you better choose something that you like but with a technical masters degree I believe it's perfectly fine to choose something that is a career advancer above personal preference. Graduate school is a lot of work but if you've got a motivator, like advancing your career, then it's not nearly as difficult to plow through that degree in two years and be done with it. Having said that, I wouldn't recommend choosing something complete out of one's field of interest but from where I'm standing I would guess that an MS in Computer Science and an MS in IT are close enough that one probably won't be completely out of interest.
What is a "top tier school"?
A top tier school is one that will teach you the fundamental economic and financial concepts of leading a company as well as requiring you to take multiple courses in ethics. Funny thing about those supposed "top tier" schools, it wasn't until after Enron occurred that ethics became a required course. To my knowledge, the only two university business schools that required ethics courses before 2000 were Notre Dame and Boston College (and they both required a minimum of two semesters of ethics). Wouldn't that be nice if people leading the economic power companies of the world actually learned the difference between right and wrong and how to deal with ethically grey issues in a more than flippant manner.
An MBA is a nice degree but it's not really the one to get right out of college. Unless you're in a special program where you get an MBA and a BS degree then it makes more sense to go work for a few years and if you can, get your company to send you to MBA school. Also, if you want to get into management then any type of technical graduate degree is going to help you. If you're going to be leading the tech people having an advanced degree in the work they do will help you connect and work with them.
"When you trust your company's information to Google, you can be confident that your critical information is safe and secure."
Safe and Secure can mean many things. Maybe they're safe and secure from being lost forever in a harddrive crash. Maybe they're safe and secure for viewing anywhere with an internet connection. Marketing quotes don't mean all that much when it comes to technical specs.
Sorry, but those are the breaks. Unless, as you say, you're going to DRM everything, you're not going to be able to control copies of anything published.
That's quite possibly the scariest thing I've read in a while concerning content. I can easily see publishing companies following this logic and trying to slap DRM onto everything ever sold.
Mankind != important in the grand scheme of things, thus nothing we produce is all that important either.
That is more than likely true, but in the the grand scheme of mankind, mankind is the most important thing. So yes, the universe will continue on, but what the grand majority of people are truly concerned about is mankind, and preserving our history is a uniquely interesting aspect of advancing mankind.
Let's go with car analogies cause we seem to love them here.
$3.4 million is expensive for a Toyota but may be just about right for a Ferrari, BUT we're not talking about Toyota's or Ferrari's; we're talking about cars and $3.4 million is definitely expensive for "a car".
What Ferrari are you referring to? You need to brush up on your exotic car pricing.