While I will never own a Tesla, unfortunately, because I won't own a car where the manufacturer can issue over-the-air updates that I cannot control.
When there's an OTA update the car displays a message on the screen asking if you want to update. You can refuse indefinitely if you want. Some years ago a feature was removed, many Tesla owners refused updates for over a year and Tesla never forced them. The feature (auto lowering of the car at highway speeds) was eventually put back in.
People are gonna be pissed when they discover how much it's going to cost them to replace the battery in about 3 years.
My EV is 4.5 years old and the battery has 97% of the capacity it had when it was new. I have not seen any degradation at all the last 3 years, what little I've had was all in the first year. Try again.
It sounds nice, but after 2 years, the capacity of the battery storage facility will be about 70% of what it is today and a couple of years later it will drop to 5%. Let's hope they built the facility with a user replaceable battery.
My 4 year old Tesla (car) battery is at 98% of new capacity, not 5%. Try again.
Portage uses git to sync the portage tree instead of rsync (though I think Gentoo back ported this feature).
Thanks for this. I'm a long time gentoo user but didn't know they added git as a portage tree option. Just switched over to it and it's a lot faster than rsync.
We need a nickname like this for Trump. "Crooked Hillary" is totally apt and accurate, but Trump is equally bad, just in different ways (looking at his cabinet picks here at the moment...), so he needs a suitable nickname in the same vein.
I'm curious. What state do you live in? The pictures I hear people talking about electric vehicles does not seem to match what I see on a day to day basis around where I live.
Probably because EV chargers are less visible than gas stations. You can see public chargers here: http://www.plugshare.com/
And are these superchargers free and spaced (and available for use) every 100 miles?
NO.
Huh? Yes they are. You need a Tesla, but assuming you have one the SuperChargers are both free and spaced about 100 miles apart. See http://supercharge.info/
It's a perfectly practical only car. I've never needed another car the 2.5 years I've had my Tesla. I'm trying to remember the last time I drove over 500 miles. I think it was in 2004. If I need to go far I fly.
Different poster here: I have not only driven an M3, I owned a 2005 M3 for 4 years. Traded it in on a 2012 Mustang Boss 302 (which was faster and better handling than the M3, but had a crappy interior). I traded the Boss 302 in on my 2013 Tesla P85+. The M3 is more nimble than the Tesla, although the Tesla does handle really well. As far as acceleration the Tesla blows the M3 away. The Tesla is much better to drive and live with than the M3.
Of course they could bring them down over land, but I think the unpredictability of exactly where they would land could be marginally terrifying.
They already did a landing on land back in December. The landing site (ocean or land) depends on where the rocket is going. If it needs to reach high orbit like the ISS the 1st stage does not have enough fuel to go back to shore and they do an ocean landing.
During the webcast they mentioned several times that they collect tons of data for each landing attempt, so yes, I expect them to successfully land a very high number of 1st stages going forward.
If the update text has errors in it ( i.e. frunk instead of trunk, ref: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com... ), I hope the feature itself was better QA'd.....
That's not a typo. "Frunk" is Tesla's term for the front trunk.
Part of my concern is my existing Steam library and whether or not I would need to repurchase a majority of the titles I already own.
I'm very impressed with how Valve/Steam handles this situation. When you buy a game on Steam you buy it for all platforms. I used to run Windows and had some Steam games. Then I switched to Linux and any games I had that had a Linux port were available to play. No effort required, they were simply there in the Linux Steam client. A few months later another couple of games I had from the Windows days released Linux ports and they just appeared as available/purchased in my Steam client on their own.
Why shouldn't hybrid and electric owners pay for the roads they use?
We're fine with that as soon as gas cars start paying for health care costs related to pollution as well as middle eastern wars, fracking induced earthquakes and all their other externalities.
Microsoft contributes something (its patents - so others can use them and make money)
Scenario A: Google back when they initially developed Android ran into a design roadblock. They saw no way to solve the particular problem until one of the developers read a MS patent that solved their issue. MS is therefore paid royalties on their patent.
Scenario B: Google developed Android without ever having heard of any MS patents. Once Android became popular MS lawyers studied their patents trying to stretch them enough to find infringement. They bully the Android phone makers into paying billions. In this scenario Android would have been exactly the same product without the MS patents and MS is being paid billions for nothing.
Scenario A is what the patent system was supposed to be. Scenario B is reality most of the time today. Question is if the few cases of Scenario A justifies all the Scenario B's.
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I'm losing track of who ate whom.
Time Warner was consumed by Spectrum. So is AT&T buying Spectrum or some leftover part of Time Warner?
Charter bought the ISP part of Time-Warner and branded it Spectrum. AT&T is now buying the content part (CNN, HBO etc) of Time-Warner.
While I will never own a Tesla, unfortunately, because I won't own a car where the manufacturer can issue over-the-air updates that I cannot control.
When there's an OTA update the car displays a message on the screen asking if you want to update. You can refuse indefinitely if you want. Some years ago a feature was removed, many Tesla owners refused updates for over a year and Tesla never forced them. The feature (auto lowering of the car at highway speeds) was eventually put back in.
Even less of a big deal than that. Power steering is supplied by Bosch and they are covering the recall costs. Doesn't cost Tesla anything.
People are gonna be pissed when they discover how much it's going to cost them to replace the battery in about 3 years.
My EV is 4.5 years old and the battery has 97% of the capacity it had when it was new. I have not seen any degradation at all the last 3 years, what little I've had was all in the first year. Try again.
It sounds nice, but after 2 years, the capacity of the battery storage facility will be about 70% of what it is today and a couple of years later it will drop to 5%. Let's hope they built the facility with a user replaceable battery.
My 4 year old Tesla (car) battery is at 98% of new capacity, not 5%. Try again.
Portage uses git to sync the portage tree instead of rsync (though I think Gentoo back ported this feature).
Thanks for this. I'm a long time gentoo user but didn't know they added git as a portage tree option. Just switched over to it and it's a lot faster than rsync.
We need a nickname like this for Trump. "Crooked Hillary" is totally apt and accurate, but Trump is equally bad, just in different ways (looking at his cabinet picks here at the moment...), so he needs a suitable nickname in the same vein.
"Trumpster fire".
I'm curious. What state do you live in? The pictures I hear people talking about electric vehicles does not seem to match what I see on a day to day basis around where I live.
Probably because EV chargers are less visible than gas stations. You can see public chargers here: http://www.plugshare.com/
And are these superchargers free and spaced (and available for use) every 100 miles?
NO.
Huh? Yes they are. You need a Tesla, but assuming you have one the SuperChargers are both free and spaced about 100 miles apart. See http://supercharge.info/
It's a perfectly practical only car. I've never needed another car the 2.5 years I've had my Tesla. I'm trying to remember the last time I drove over 500 miles. I think it was in 2004. If I need to go far I fly.
Different poster here: I have not only driven an M3, I owned a 2005 M3 for 4 years. Traded it in on a 2012 Mustang Boss 302 (which was faster and better handling than the M3, but had a crappy interior). I traded the Boss 302 in on my 2013 Tesla P85+. The M3 is more nimble than the Tesla, although the Tesla does handle really well. As far as acceleration the Tesla blows the M3 away. The Tesla is much better to drive and live with than the M3.
Star Trek's budget really wasn't that much higher
B5 had a budget of $800K per episode. Star Trek TNG had $2M.
Plasma 5.5 is the default in kubuntu 16.04. If you're on KDE4 now you'll notice quite a big difference (for the better , IMO).
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/ku...
Of course they could bring them down over land, but I think the unpredictability of exactly where they would land could be marginally terrifying.
They already did a landing on land back in December. The landing site (ocean or land) depends on where the rocket is going. If it needs to reach high orbit like the ISS the 1st stage does not have enough fuel to go back to shore and they do an ocean landing.
During the webcast they mentioned several times that they collect tons of data for each landing attempt, so yes, I expect them to successfully land a very high number of 1st stages going forward.
Dear lazy web, any higher quality video out there? Congrats SpaceX, this looks really impressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
SpaceX calls it a drone ship as well.
1st stage is $60M. Fuel is $250K. You do the math.
Would have been helpful if the post had included how old 2.6.32 is.
If the update text has errors in it ( i.e. frunk instead of trunk, ref: http://www.teslamotorsclub.com... ), I hope the feature itself was better QA'd.....
That's not a typo. "Frunk" is Tesla's term for the front trunk.
After having tried many distros, my go-to for easy-to-install, everything-just-works is Mint.
Part of my concern is my existing Steam library and whether or not I would need to repurchase a majority of the titles I already own.
I'm very impressed with how Valve/Steam handles this situation. When you buy a game on Steam you buy it for all platforms. I used to run Windows and had some Steam games. Then I switched to Linux and any games I had that had a Linux port were available to play. No effort required, they were simply there in the Linux Steam client. A few months later another couple of games I had from the Windows days released Linux ports and they just appeared as available/purchased in my Steam client on their own.
Two patent trolls went to court and the bigger one defeated the smaller one.
Why shouldn't hybrid and electric owners pay for the roads they use?
We're fine with that as soon as gas cars start paying for health care costs related to pollution as well as middle eastern wars, fracking induced earthquakes and all their other externalities.
Microsoft contributes something (its patents - so others can use them and make money)
Scenario A: Google back when they initially developed Android ran into a design roadblock. They saw no way to solve the particular problem until one of the developers read a MS patent that solved their issue. MS is therefore paid royalties on their patent.
Scenario B: Google developed Android without ever having heard of any MS patents. Once Android became popular MS lawyers studied their patents trying to stretch them enough to find infringement. They bully the Android phone makers into paying billions. In this scenario Android would have been exactly the same product without the MS patents and MS is being paid billions for nothing.
Scenario A is what the patent system was supposed to be. Scenario B is reality most of the time today. Question is if the few cases of Scenario A justifies all the Scenario B's.