Github is far too dominant in the online source code repository market. If this causes some people to leave and join other repositories or set up new competitors, that is a good thing.
Your pricing isn't reality. It's 35k for the base + 9k for the extended battery + 5k for the premium interior (all of these are required options right now). So $49k min price right now.
It seems to me you have just explained why the OP is correct. It's not a $35k car, it's at least $49k.
If you order the $49k minimum price version right now, when are you going to get it? If I order one, when am I (in the UK) going to get it? I see from their own web site that international deliveries will not start until next year.
My suspicion is that there will never be a $35k version of the Model 3. I don't think that Tesla can make a margin selling it in that price range. And Elon Musk banging on about more expensive high performance versions at a time when they are having trouble fulfilling their existing orders suggests that he believes the same thing.
What? When I lift off the accelerator, I don't want braking, I want to slow down slowly or not at all e.g. if I am on a slight down hill run. If I want braking, I press the brake pedal with varying degrees of force depending on how quickly I want to slow down.
Given that Tesla's are relatively heavy because of the battery, the idea of applying regenerative braking when you just lift off the accelerator is stupid. Using the kinetic energy off the car to maintain speed will be more efficient than converting it into chemical energy in the battery and then converting it back to kinetic energy via the motor.
No single big bank has a monopoly. Facebook pretty much does have a monopoly in that there are no serious competitors for what it does. However, you are correct that they are not going to break up Facebook and if they did, one of the constituent parts would end up dominating in five years anyway.
The problem is that the whole point of a social media site for the users is to be able to connect to other people on it. The site that has the most people on it that you want to connect to wins which makes it awfully difficult to avoid a monopoly situation.
However, no single company ever grew to dominate email or IRC or news groups or even the web and the reason for this is that they all use a distributed model and the protocols and interfaces were completely open. The only way to reverse the situation with Facebook is to force them to open up their protocols such that anybody can build their own social media site and it will integrate seamlessly with Facebook.
The same applies to other sites where having the most users confers a competitive advantage like eBay.
When you go to the page: https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/au... you are presented with "Full Self driving hardware on All Cars" in large type. You have to scroll down quite a long way before you get to the bit where it says that full self driving is not available yet.
And let's be honest, they don't even know if they really do have enough hardware for full self driving since they are miles away from having it working.
So if I order a base model 3 today, when will it be delivered? Bear in mind that the waiting list is at least two years long and they haven't even started building the $35k version.
Also, Tesla is making the $65k version and is still operating at a loss. How are they going to then make a profit on a car that is substantially the same (i.e. costs nearly as much to make) but sells for $30k less?
It doesn't matter if it's an accurate description or not, it's what people believe that counts. People have heard that autopilot can fly a plane from take off to destination and they even saw a simulator land by itself on Mythbusters. This leads even quite intelligent people to argue for taking the pilots out of the cockpit.
Applications written for X11 will run on systems with X11- which doesn't include most of the hundreds of Linux systems I've owned or administered
Actually, as long as they statically bind the X11 client libraries, they'll run on pretty much any Linux system. The computer that has to have the X11 server software is the one that the user is sitting in front of.
so i dont know how commonplace it is to put jokes in professional code. To the layman, jokes appear unprofessional.
Professional programmers shouldn't be putting jokes in their code although frequently they do. It doesn't matter how good the programmer thought the joke was, someday, when somebody else is debugging the same piece of code, it won't seen nearly as funny.
Furthermore, jokes that could be deemed political should be right off limits. "If I was in charge of the glibc code base, this one would be gone, even though I think vey views on abortion probably align with those of rms.
If Government were actually interested in serving you, they'd also ban advertising of lots of things like tobacco, alcohol,
Cigarette advertising is banned throughout the UK. You can't even put packets of cigarettes on open display if you are selling them. Alcohol advertising is severely restricted but not banned altogether.
My healthcare costs me less than in taxes US health insurance costs in premiums (quite a lot less actually). I don't have to worry about pre-existing conditions, losing health cover if I lose my job, having to pay extortionate bills if I go to or get taken to the wrong hospital or going bankrupt just because I am ill.
The USA could do with a bit of that kind of foisting. Frankly, in the modern world a country that has no universal healthcare system is barely civilised.
What is this Moore's law of batteries of which you speak? The energy density of any particular battery technology depends only on the laws of physics. There is no Moore's law off batteries.
Having said that, it would be surprising ifs there are no breakthroughs in battery technology in the next twenty years - or alternatives like hydrogen fuel cells.
It's not something that really bothers me though. In 2040, I'll be in my mid 70's and unlikely to be buying a new car, unless it has fully autonomous self driving.
I'm British so I am not fully cognisant of US driving rules. Why would a car in a right turn only lane have right of way over a bus in a lane to its left? In the UK, if you change lanes, you have to give way to traffic already in that lane.
It seems to me more likely that the self driving car simply did not detect the bus. Either that or it didn't understand the rules of the road.
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Github is far too dominant in the online source code repository market. If this causes some people to leave and join other repositories or set up new competitors, that is a good thing.
I once put my goods on display in the street. Then I got arrested for frightening the children.
Delivery outside the USA will not happen for any model 3 until 2019 at the earliest, according to their own web site.
So do you get lower range in the winter?
Do you get lower range in the summer when you have to run the air conditioning?
It seems to me you have just explained why the OP is correct. It's not a $35k car, it's at least $49k.
If you order the $49k minimum price version right now, when are you going to get it? If I order one, when am I (in the UK) going to get it? I see from their own web site that international deliveries will not start until next year.
My suspicion is that there will never be a $35k version of the Model 3. I don't think that Tesla can make a margin selling it in that price range. And Elon Musk banging on about more expensive high performance versions at a time when they are having trouble fulfilling their existing orders suggests that he believes the same thing.
What? When I lift off the accelerator, I don't want braking, I want to slow down slowly or not at all e.g. if I am on a slight down hill run. If I want braking, I press the brake pedal with varying degrees of force depending on how quickly I want to slow down.
Given that Tesla's are relatively heavy because of the battery, the idea of applying regenerative braking when you just lift off the accelerator is stupid. Using the kinetic energy off the car to maintain speed will be more efficient than converting it into chemical energy in the battery and then converting it back to kinetic energy via the motor.
ABS doesn't shorten stopping distance.
Surely you'd driver the motor directly off the fuel cell? The battery is only necessary for regenerative braking.
You'd have to jailbreak it in order to open port 25
No single big bank has a monopoly. Facebook pretty much does have a monopoly in that there are no serious competitors for what it does. However, you are correct that they are not going to break up Facebook and if they did, one of the constituent parts would end up dominating in five years anyway.
The problem is that the whole point of a social media site for the users is to be able to connect to other people on it. The site that has the most people on it that you want to connect to wins which makes it awfully difficult to avoid a monopoly situation.
However, no single company ever grew to dominate email or IRC or news groups or even the web and the reason for this is that they all use a distributed model and the protocols and interfaces were completely open. The only way to reverse the situation with Facebook is to force them to open up their protocols such that anybody can build their own social media site and it will integrate seamlessly with Facebook.
The same applies to other sites where having the most users confers a competitive advantage like eBay.
You had to scroll down a long way to get to that text.
When you go to the page: https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/au... you are presented with "Full Self driving hardware on All Cars" in large type. You have to scroll down quite a long way before you get to the bit where it says that full self driving is not available yet.
And let's be honest, they don't even know if they really do have enough hardware for full self driving since they are miles away from having it working.
Exactly like Slashdot. Your point?
Most fiat currency is never realised as physical bank notes.
Most transactions with fiat currencies are just amending numbers in some ledgers held on a computer.
So if I order a base model 3 today, when will it be delivered? Bear in mind that the waiting list is at least two years long and they haven't even started building the $35k version.
Also, Tesla is making the $65k version and is still operating at a loss. How are they going to then make a profit on a car that is substantially the same (i.e. costs nearly as much to make) but sells for $30k less?
It doesn't matter if it's an accurate description or not, it's what people believe that counts. People have heard that autopilot can fly a plane from take off to destination and they even saw a simulator land by itself on Mythbusters. This leads even quite intelligent people to argue for taking the pilots out of the cockpit.
People won't trade with you,, so you turn your weapons on them. Then they won't be able to trade with you, being smudges of ash.
Actually, as long as they statically bind the X11 client libraries, they'll run on pretty much any Linux system. The computer that has to have the X11 server software is the one that the user is sitting in front of.
People are whining because their keyboards stop working when they spill coffee on them,. It's clearly Apple's fault.
I actually quite like the new keyboards although they are more susceptible to having problems if the internals get a bit dirty (in my experience).
Professional programmers shouldn't be putting jokes in their code although frequently they do. It doesn't matter how good the programmer thought the joke was, someday, when somebody else is debugging the same piece of code, it won't seen nearly as funny.
Furthermore, jokes that could be deemed political should be right off limits. "If I was in charge of the glibc code base, this one would be gone, even though I think vey views on abortion probably align with those of rms.
Cigarette advertising is banned throughout the UK. You can't even put packets of cigarettes on open display if you are selling them. Alcohol advertising is severely restricted but not banned altogether.
My healthcare costs me less than in taxes US health insurance costs in premiums (quite a lot less actually). I don't have to worry about pre-existing conditions, losing health cover if I lose my job, having to pay extortionate bills if I go to or get taken to the wrong hospital or going bankrupt just because I am ill.
The USA could do with a bit of that kind of foisting. Frankly, in the modern world a country that has no universal healthcare system is barely civilised.
It amounts to the same thing. Transport for London is a government owned organisation and the Mayor of London is effectively in charge.
This "ban" really amounts to TfL saying "we won't accept advertising from fast food companies anymore".
What is this Moore's law of batteries of which you speak? The energy density of any particular battery technology depends only on the laws of physics. There is no Moore's law off batteries.
Having said that, it would be surprising ifs there are no breakthroughs in battery technology in the next twenty years - or alternatives like hydrogen fuel cells.
It's not something that really bothers me though. In 2040, I'll be in my mid 70's and unlikely to be buying a new car, unless it has fully autonomous self driving.
I'm British so I am not fully cognisant of US driving rules. Why would a car in a right turn only lane have right of way over a bus in a lane to its left? In the UK, if you change lanes, you have to give way to traffic already in that lane.
It seems to me more likely that the self driving car simply did not detect the bus. Either that or it didn't understand the rules of the road.