I never had a NES but I have heard that Shinobi was quite a difficult game, so when you say you could get through it in an hour I guess you mean after putting in many many hours of practice.
NES and SMS versions of Shinobi were different games.
The big bad super-hard ninja game on the NES was Ninja Gaiden.
Yeah honestly I wasnt too sure about the touch controls but now when I use my wife volt instead of the model 3 the buttons everywhere feel kind of quaint. I really prefer touch now.
It's perfectly reasonable for automakers to put touch controls into vehicles right now, because they seem modern and cool. But they are actually inferior, because you have to look at the screen. They will make all the sense in the world in self-driving cars, but as long as you're responsible for driving, they are a horrible idea from the standpoint of people who don't want to die.
Nobody cares where anything is made any more, since everything is made in China, and because nobody feels cared for by their governments. Might as well just get theirs before the whole thing catches on fire, or slides into the sea. All people care about is whether the good are any good. China has gotten to the point where they can build a decent car if they try hard enough, so there's no reason why these vehicles can't be successful.
Whether this or something else... it's going to be technological solutions. It's not going to be solved by everyone going stone age,
And your technological utopianism is the problem. Energy is not free. Reversing entropy is very expensive. "Technological solutions" are what got us here in the first place.
Both of you are both right and wrong. Reducing CO2 output and energy consumption is best done through technological solutions. But what's needed to make them happen is the will to bend technology away from yacht-buying, towards ass-saving.
Actually, SCIENCE says cows are a massive problem, and people like Bill Gates agree. Your opine doesn't matter.
While you're correct, career criminal and non-biologist Bill Gates' opinion is irrelevant too, unless he funds a GM fix for bovine flatulence.
We should probably get rid of the cows and bring in more goats. They're already the most popular meat in the world, and they can eat practically any plant. And they're plenty tasty if you know how to cook them, too.
The solution for cows may be anything from some change in diet or a supplement
That'll work fine for CAFOs but not so well for grazers. There's already a supplement.
or somehow capturing the methane and burning it, possibly for energy.
Ha ha no. You can't stick a probe up a cow's ass for gas without it getting clogged with shit. But in feedlots you can at least put the shit into a bioreactor (read: big bag) and capture the methane of its decomposition...
Well, you just waved away R&D and CapEx, which is actually the same thing, proving that you know nothing about finance.
R&D is CapEx if it turns out to be feasible, otherwise it's OpEx, why not just describe it separately? Especially since all the anti-Tesla trolls claim that none of it is feasible?
I'm waiting for some kind of new standard to come along and rescue us from the bloat and hell of HTML/CSS/JS/DOM. (It's fine for web-pages, but sucks for CRUD.)
HTML et al is fine for CRUD, unless you want it to be fancy-pantsy. Then you have to use too much JS. But isn't your whole argument that the bullshit dressing is, uh, bullshit? What really struck me about web forms from the beginning is how similar they are to using mainframe applications with smart terminals. The difference is that using JS, you can do smart form validation before submitting, saving the trouble of making irrelevant round-trips to the server.
Having actually ran Windows 95 and ran betas going to May 1994, the problems with running period-correct software on Win95 were largely related to security vulnerabilities. A better comparison would be to running NT 4.0, similar UI, most applications ran, but underneath the OS was much more stable.
I blew up NT4 regularly. NT4 is actually where it all went to hell. NT3.51 was a rock. In NT4 they merged the kernel and graphics memory spaces in order to get better graphics performance, and that was the end of reliability.
Which was proven false. Tesla loses money on every car it has ever built.
Sure, after R&D and Capex, but what the rest of the class is talking about is whether the vehicle is profitable to make if you're accounting for current expenses, like materials, labor, power, and the like. Try to keep up. As long as they're making a day-to-day profit selling vehicles, which they are doing, they're making up their deficit.
Tesla has never made a profit in its entire existence
Sure.
and never will.
Possible.
They are gonna be out of business very soon now.
Trolls like you have been saying that for years now.
Tesla is also opening a plant in China, and if they continue to increase US sales, they'll probably start building vehicles there for sale here instead of increasing production here.
You can still get a test drive. But also, Tesla doesn't need you. They've got thousands of people lined up to buy these cars. They're probably counting on word of mouth to keep things going for the foreseeable future, and from what I can tell, it's a viable plan.
Tesla unfortunately for them has to make money on each car but thats not my problem.
Munro & Assoc. claims that Tesla will make a profit even at $35k. They didn't start sooner because they had many customers at a higher price point, and more profit is better... plus they did need the money
Good point. Some people aren't aware of how automation leads to starvation. That is why countries that have automated such as America, Western Europe, and Japan, are impoverished and starving,
Well,
For Japan, this is mostly a distant problem. U.N. statistics invariably put this country in the lowest category of children in need. Still, it is estimated that 3.5 million Japanese children live in households that the OECD defines as experiencing relative poverty (at or below half the median national disposable income). Japanâ(TM)s relative rate of poverty has crept up over the last 30 years to hit 16.1 percent in 2012. That is not extreme, but it is too high.
This is what happens when you give money to Mozilla. Instead of spending it to make the browser better, they spend it on unrelated projects, or blow tens of millions on things you don't want to even be part of the default install (i.e. Pocket.) Mozilla is the Wikipedia of web browsers.
Thing is, at least some of these applications are literally just using PCs as terminals with a 3270 emulator. Why can't the emulator let them select fields with the mouse? The inefficiencies of using a web application vs. a 3270 emulator are already in place, because they're not using 3270s any more.
LPT: if the avocados you bought are hard, rubbery & stringy, then it means they're not ripe yet. Let them hang out a bit on your counter until they ripen.
I've been making food with avocados since before my age got out of the double digits. They didn't used to send the super stringy ones to supermarkets, and ripening has no effect on the stringiness whatsoever. Also, lots of these avos never actually ripen, they just go bad.
California and HP have collaborated to keep the shit show at the DMV ongoing for years. Outages abound. Probably a good 20% of the time I go to the DMV, they're having some kind of outage. And then there's the training issue — the system is antiquated, and has to be massaged just so to get it to work, so a huge amount of training is required and employees clearly aren't getting it. The system is actually from the sixties, as I understand it. The ID system has been modernized, but vehicle registration is still grossly antiquated.
I still don't understand how reporting to a facility to be terminated is any better than being blown up directly by a bomb or shot with a rifle or whatever. You're still dead because of war, why would people not see that war had a cost?
Lack of property damage, no suffering from mortal wounds before death, no loss of limbs due to explosions, etc. There are up sides. I stand by my assessment, though. Even if you bred your people to be sheep and lie down, a wolf would eventually stand up.
Slashdot Mirror
I never had a NES but I have heard that Shinobi was quite a difficult game, so when you say you could get through it in an hour I guess you mean after putting in many many hours of practice.
NES and SMS versions of Shinobi were different games.
The big bad super-hard ninja game on the NES was Ninja Gaiden.
If they have thousands of people lined up to buy their cars - then why can I order Model S and Model X in 2 weeks or so?
If they didn't, you could have one tomorrow.
Porsche will take away the buyers from the Model S and X.
Could very well be, but we'll see how it fares in the real world. I think the S will still do OK, but perhaps not the X.
Tesla is probably losing money on the lower end Model 3 (but may have positive cash flow).
Third party analysis says they should be making money on each unit.
Yeah honestly I wasnt too sure about the touch controls but now when I use my wife volt instead of the model 3 the buttons everywhere feel kind of quaint. I really prefer touch now.
It's perfectly reasonable for automakers to put touch controls into vehicles right now, because they seem modern and cool. But they are actually inferior, because you have to look at the screen. They will make all the sense in the world in self-driving cars, but as long as you're responsible for driving, they are a horrible idea from the standpoint of people who don't want to die.
Nobody cares where anything is made any more, since everything is made in China, and because nobody feels cared for by their governments. Might as well just get theirs before the whole thing catches on fire, or slides into the sea. All people care about is whether the good are any good. China has gotten to the point where they can build a decent car if they try hard enough, so there's no reason why these vehicles can't be successful.
Jeff Bezos give 1 billion dollars a year for climate change, even if you live a 100 more years you will never go broke! Problem solved!,
That depends on how many times he gets divorced...
Whether this or something else ... it's going to be technological solutions. It's not going to be solved by everyone going stone age,
And your technological utopianism is the problem. Energy is not free. Reversing entropy is very expensive. "Technological solutions" are what got us here in the first place.
Both of you are both right and wrong. Reducing CO2 output and energy consumption is best done through technological solutions. But what's needed to make them happen is the will to bend technology away from yacht-buying, towards ass-saving.
Actually, SCIENCE says cows are a massive problem, and people like Bill Gates agree. Your opine doesn't matter.
While you're correct, career criminal and non-biologist Bill Gates' opinion is irrelevant too, unless he funds a GM fix for bovine flatulence.
We should probably get rid of the cows and bring in more goats. They're already the most popular meat in the world, and they can eat practically any plant. And they're plenty tasty if you know how to cook them, too.
The solution for cows may be anything from some change in diet or a supplement
That'll work fine for CAFOs but not so well for grazers. There's already a supplement.
or somehow capturing the methane and burning it, possibly for energy.
Ha ha no. You can't stick a probe up a cow's ass for gas without it getting clogged with shit. But in feedlots you can at least put the shit into a bioreactor (read: big bag) and capture the methane of its decomposition...
Well, you just waved away R&D and CapEx, which is actually the same thing, proving that you know nothing about finance.
R&D is CapEx if it turns out to be feasible, otherwise it's OpEx, why not just describe it separately? Especially since all the anti-Tesla trolls claim that none of it is feasible?
Manual cloth seats are a bonus. Leather (or more commonly, "Nappa Leather", aka plastic) looks nicer, but it's inferior in every other way.
Touch controls suck, though
I'm waiting for some kind of new standard to come along and rescue us from the bloat and hell of HTML/CSS/JS/DOM. (It's fine for web-pages, but sucks for CRUD.)
HTML et al is fine for CRUD, unless you want it to be fancy-pantsy. Then you have to use too much JS. But isn't your whole argument that the bullshit dressing is, uh, bullshit? What really struck me about web forms from the beginning is how similar they are to using mainframe applications with smart terminals. The difference is that using JS, you can do smart form validation before submitting, saving the trouble of making irrelevant round-trips to the server.
Having actually ran Windows 95 and ran betas going to May 1994, the problems with running period-correct software on Win95 were largely related to security vulnerabilities. A better comparison would be to running NT 4.0, similar UI, most applications ran, but underneath the OS was much more stable.
I blew up NT4 regularly. NT4 is actually where it all went to hell. NT3.51 was a rock. In NT4 they merged the kernel and graphics memory spaces in order to get better graphics performance, and that was the end of reliability.
Which was proven false. Tesla loses money on every car it has ever built.
Sure, after R&D and Capex, but what the rest of the class is talking about is whether the vehicle is profitable to make if you're accounting for current expenses, like materials, labor, power, and the like. Try to keep up. As long as they're making a day-to-day profit selling vehicles, which they are doing, they're making up their deficit.
Tesla has never made a profit in its entire existence
Sure.
and never will.
Possible.
They are gonna be out of business very soon now.
Trolls like you have been saying that for years now.
Are you seriously claiming that lack of automation leads to higher incomes?
Are you seriously this incapable of reading?
Tesla is also opening a plant in China, and if they continue to increase US sales, they'll probably start building vehicles there for sale here instead of increasing production here.
You can still get a test drive. But also, Tesla doesn't need you. They've got thousands of people lined up to buy these cars. They're probably counting on word of mouth to keep things going for the foreseeable future, and from what I can tell, it's a viable plan.
Tesla unfortunately for them has to make money on each car but thats not my problem.
Munro & Assoc. claims that Tesla will make a profit even at $35k. They didn't start sooner because they had many customers at a higher price point, and more profit is better... plus they did need the money
Automation first brings jobs, then it kills them.
Automation neither creates nor destroys jobs. What it does is make workers more productive, and thus more valuable.
Yes, as long as someone can figure out how to profit from having them do work. After that, it makes them worthless to those who control the capital.
To assert that "automation causes poverty" requires an astounding degree of blindness to historical reality.
That's not what I said, actually, and you don't know how quote marks work. They are for literals.
Good point. Some people aren't aware of how automation leads to starvation. That is why countries that have automated such as America, Western Europe, and Japan, are impoverished and starving,
Well,
Automation first brings jobs, then it kills them.
This is what happens when you give money to Mozilla. Instead of spending it to make the browser better, they spend it on unrelated projects, or blow tens of millions on things you don't want to even be part of the default install (i.e. Pocket.) Mozilla is the Wikipedia of web browsers.
So instead of charging it, you just search furiously? Or maybe the energy for propulsion comes from the cloud. 1.21 gigawatts, right?
Thing is, at least some of these applications are literally just using PCs as terminals with a 3270 emulator. Why can't the emulator let them select fields with the mouse? The inefficiencies of using a web application vs. a 3270 emulator are already in place, because they're not using 3270s any more.
LPT: if the avocados you bought are hard, rubbery & stringy, then it means they're not ripe yet. Let them hang out a bit on your counter until they ripen.
I've been making food with avocados since before my age got out of the double digits. They didn't used to send the super stringy ones to supermarkets, and ripening has no effect on the stringiness whatsoever. Also, lots of these avos never actually ripen, they just go bad.
California and HP have collaborated to keep the shit show at the DMV ongoing for years. Outages abound. Probably a good 20% of the time I go to the DMV, they're having some kind of outage. And then there's the training issue — the system is antiquated, and has to be massaged just so to get it to work, so a huge amount of training is required and employees clearly aren't getting it. The system is actually from the sixties, as I understand it. The ID system has been modernized, but vehicle registration is still grossly antiquated.
I still don't understand how reporting to a facility to be terminated is any better than being blown up directly by a bomb or shot with a rifle or whatever. You're still dead because of war, why would people not see that war had a cost?
Lack of property damage, no suffering from mortal wounds before death, no loss of limbs due to explosions, etc. There are up sides. I stand by my assessment, though. Even if you bred your people to be sheep and lie down, a wolf would eventually stand up.