that's why i never installed a half dozen different IM clients. ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, blah blah blah. Anybody not on the one I used must not want to talk to me that much, so email can suffice for them.
Now of course I get all the networks under one communicator, so I do have multiple IM network accounts, but that just reinforces the original point.
my check card (debit card that allows you to run it as a credit card anyplace that accepts mastercard, but takes the money from your account with 0% interest owed instead of racking up money you owe to faceless megacorp with 18% interest) has the exact same protections as a credit card.
I'm not sure where all these debit card stories come from. assuming that they are not urban legends, then perhaps people need to find a better bank.
No place I have ever lived has been able to offer DSL connections anything even remotely close to the 20mbps down / 5mbps up -base- connection that comcast gives me.
The fact that I keep checking should let you know how I feel about comcast however.
the ironic thing is this is all a matter of how people feel about a given company. if it was Ballmer who said this about a new microsoft product, or Jobs about a new apple product, with a laughably inflated idea of "affordable", people would be all over it.
While the blurb is -technically- refering to the cost of tesla's previous product, by referencing the current state of the economy it is infering that this product is a good fit for people with reduced financial means, while I submit that's just silly. Anybody who has the means to purchase a $49,900 luxury commuter car either isn't hurting too badly, or is a complete financial whackjob. Either way, the "flagging economy" isn't impacting their purchasing too much.
I was never really trying to insult tesla. I wanted to drive a roadster as much as anybody.
I was more poking fun at the summary that contained "flagging economy" and $50,000 car in the same breath. I just can't see a $50k as "economical". The fact that it's competing against luxury sedans furthers my point. It's not supposed to be 'affordable" and whoever called it that is delusional. I grew up in an upper middle class neighborhood and I still think "affordable" is your $15k to $20k civic or focus.
All that said, I'm quite interested to see what Tesla can do with that $30,000 one.
a source that doesn't accept advertising from the products they review, so they can give us their true opinion? what a concept!
The fact that they're ammusing as well makes it one of the few shows on tv worth watching. It's scripted, and its main goal is entertainment, but it's worthwhile viewing for a car enthuiast as you're not going to get the same honesty these guys provide from too many other sources, either because they're afraid of offending their sponsers, or because "journalists don't say such things!"
Obviously this isn't consumer reports we're talking about here, you have to take their opinion into context, however I've got to say they sure care more about the things I care about when it comes to cars than consumer reports does.
I seem to remember a report from somewhere around 2006 or so (no, I cant' seem to find it to cite it) about how the waiting time for priuses (priuii?) and insights was 6 months or so, and hybrid civics and the like were just sitting around the lot.
People weren't buying the hybrid versions of regular cars because those cars didn't give the immediate visual recognition among their peers that they were driving a hybrid.
An $80,000 nissan GT-R is an absolute bargain of a steal -compared- to $300,000 lamborghinis and ferraris... but only when compared to those cars. Your average consumer, especially the ones who are looking for a "more affordable" car in a "flagging economy" are going to laugh at the $80,000 price tag and pick up something else.
It's the same deal with a $50,000 tesla toyota. Even if it's a bargain compared to a $100,000 tesla, it is NOT a bargain compared to even the $30,000 bmws and audis, let alone $20,000 non-luxary sedans.
The last power outages in CA had nothing to do with power availability and everything to do with Enron's attempt at controlling the market.
Now, I don't live in california, so I don't pay that much attention, but I was under the impression that CA's electricity woes had more to do with lack of building any new power plants in the last 30 years or so, fixed energy prices, and an economy based on buying "spare" power from other areas of the country.
Penn and Teller taught me that the only material that actually makes economic and environmental sense to recycle is aluminum, and the rest (plastic, paper, et al) is all feel-good BS and attempts to create jobs. A good idea that is flawed in practice and doesn't work out as well as one might hope... Just like hybrids.
I suspect that this tradeoff will be a lot more attractive in areas of the world where gasoline/petrol is $7 ($us) a gallon, but here where the price is about 1/3 to 1/2 of that, I'm guessing that the loss of freedom and spontanity is not worth meager price savings.
a lot of people say that "once the US catches up with the rest of the world in gas prices, the demand for hybrid, synthetic (e85), and electric vehicles will shoot up". This is true, the demand will shoot up... but not the means to afford them. gas prices in the US doubling would tank the economy very badly, as this country is built upon cheap gas. Shipping by truck, commuting from suburbs, vacationing by car (we have several states that depend on tourism income), etc.
I'm not saying this is long-term sustainable, but the US trying to ween itself off gasoline nearly cold turkey would have catastrophic economical consequences.
Plus, who the hell wants to walk out to the garage in the morning and say "oh crap, I forgot to plug in the car / the charging outlet it blew a fuse / a rat chewed up the cable" etc.
Electric cars will become popular when: 1. the price is sane compared to similar traditionally powered vehicles 2. the inconvience downsides have been minimized.
no no, I understand this point, but in 49 states of this country, people are still much more likely to say "screw it, i'll buy a comparable regular car for $20,00 - $30,000 less"
I suppose it's ironic that they're basing the plant in the one state that people WILL buy with idealism instead of sense.
Top Gear taught me that Hybrids were garbage years ago, and that even a v8(!) jag deisel can get "hybrid mileage" if driven carefully, while a small 4 cylinder turbo deisel will whallop the mileage of a hybrid
It's just that in THIS country, hollywood celebrities drive, and push the merits of, hybrids, so they MUST be right. I mean, celebrities certainly know way more than we peons do.
A real sound card with good DACs (or even an external dedicated DAC if you're that nuts) is still quite preferable to motherboard sound.
My app/gaming computer outputs via it's digital out to the digial in on my E-MU 1212m on my data server/digital jukebox computer. I quite like the setup.
The 486 DX4s were clocked higher than the pentiums, yes, but the pentiums were just as fast. Their P5 internal architecture was way better than the 486, which was essentially a 386 + 387 + 8kb of cache.
Specifically I remember doom running smooth as silk on a demo pentium 60 at Sears. kicked the crap out of my 486. My father eventually had a an AMD 133mhz 486 chip and my pentium 90 was quite a bit faster.
Anybody who has ever owned a P4 knows that clock speed isn't everything.
plus preemptive multitasking (something not on PCs until 98).
I'm pretty sure that both NT 3.1 and early versions of Linux had pre-emptive multitasking as early as 1993/1994, but I see where you're going with this.
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that's why i never installed a half dozen different IM clients. ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, MSN, blah blah blah. Anybody not on the one I used must not want to talk to me that much, so email can suffice for them.
Now of course I get all the networks under one communicator, so I do have multiple IM network accounts, but that just reinforces the original point.
people want their sacred cows. reality need not interfere.
Instead of asking "is what I'm doing keeping my identity private", it's far more useful to ask "is anybody likely to pay attention to what i'm doing."
The information is out there, the question is what is going to be done with it. The answer, for the vast majority of things, is "not a whole lot"
my check card (debit card that allows you to run it as a credit card anyplace that accepts mastercard, but takes the money from your account with 0% interest owed instead of racking up money you owe to faceless megacorp with 18% interest) has the exact same protections as a credit card.
I'm not sure where all these debit card stories come from. assuming that they are not urban legends, then perhaps people need to find a better bank.
You must have super phone lines in your area.
No place I have ever lived has been able to offer DSL connections anything even remotely close to the 20mbps down / 5mbps up -base- connection that comcast gives me.
The fact that I keep checking should let you know how I feel about comcast however.
My TV is for PS3.
Aside from games, the PS3 is also for streaming video from the media server.
The media server does contain some .avi, .mp4, and .m2ts files of shows that may have been broadcast on tv at some point.
Does that count as watching TV?
you are promoting the idea of intellecual property... on slashdot.
good luck with that.
it is also more affordable than a space shuttle.
the ironic thing is this is all a matter of how people feel about a given company. if it was Ballmer who said this about a new microsoft product, or Jobs about a new apple product, with a laughably inflated idea of "affordable", people would be all over it.
While the blurb is -technically- refering to the cost of tesla's previous product, by referencing the current state of the economy it is infering that this product is a good fit for people with reduced financial means, while I submit that's just silly. Anybody who has the means to purchase a $49,900 luxury commuter car either isn't hurting too badly, or is a complete financial whackjob. Either way, the "flagging economy" isn't impacting their purchasing too much.
which is really kinda ironic considering how many animals they put to death each year themselves.
I was never really trying to insult tesla. I wanted to drive a roadster as much as anybody.
I was more poking fun at the summary that contained "flagging economy" and $50,000 car in the same breath. I just can't see a $50k as "economical". The fact that it's competing against luxury sedans furthers my point. It's not supposed to be 'affordable" and whoever called it that is delusional. I grew up in an upper middle class neighborhood and I still think "affordable" is your $15k to $20k civic or focus.
All that said, I'm quite interested to see what Tesla can do with that $30,000 one.
a source that doesn't accept advertising from the products they review, so they can give us their true opinion? what a concept!
The fact that they're ammusing as well makes it one of the few shows on tv worth watching. It's scripted, and its main goal is entertainment, but it's worthwhile viewing for a car enthuiast as you're not going to get the same honesty these guys provide from too many other sources, either because they're afraid of offending their sponsers, or because "journalists don't say such things!"
Obviously this isn't consumer reports we're talking about here, you have to take their opinion into context, however I've got to say they sure care more about the things I care about when it comes to cars than consumer reports does.
it is because "that's what hybrids look like".
I seem to remember a report from somewhere around 2006 or so (no, I cant' seem to find it to cite it) about how the waiting time for priuses (priuii?) and insights was 6 months or so, and hybrid civics and the like were just sitting around the lot.
People weren't buying the hybrid versions of regular cars because those cars didn't give the immediate visual recognition among their peers that they were driving a hybrid.
I.e. they couldn't act smug enough.
I think you're the one missing something.
An $80,000 nissan GT-R is an absolute bargain of a steal -compared- to $300,000 lamborghinis and ferraris... but only when compared to those cars. Your average consumer, especially the ones who are looking for a "more affordable" car in a "flagging economy" are going to laugh at the $80,000 price tag and pick up something else.
It's the same deal with a $50,000 tesla toyota. Even if it's a bargain compared to a $100,000 tesla, it is NOT a bargain compared to even the $30,000 bmws and audis, let alone $20,000 non-luxary sedans.
The last power outages in CA had nothing to do with power availability and everything to do with Enron's attempt at controlling the market.
Now, I don't live in california, so I don't pay that much attention, but I was under the impression that CA's electricity woes had more to do with lack of building any new power plants in the last 30 years or so, fixed energy prices, and an economy based on buying "spare" power from other areas of the country.
Penn and Teller taught me that the only material that actually makes economic and environmental sense to recycle is aluminum, and the rest (plastic, paper, et al) is all feel-good BS and attempts to create jobs. A good idea that is flawed in practice and doesn't work out as well as one might hope... Just like hybrids.
I suspect that this tradeoff will be a lot more attractive in areas of the world where gasoline/petrol is $7 ($us) a gallon, but here where the price is about 1/3 to 1/2 of that, I'm guessing that the loss of freedom and spontanity is not worth meager price savings.
a lot of people say that "once the US catches up with the rest of the world in gas prices, the demand for hybrid, synthetic (e85), and electric vehicles will shoot up". This is true, the demand will shoot up... but not the means to afford them. gas prices in the US doubling would tank the economy very badly, as this country is built upon cheap gas. Shipping by truck, commuting from suburbs, vacationing by car (we have several states that depend on tourism income), etc.
I'm not saying this is long-term sustainable, but the US trying to ween itself off gasoline nearly cold turkey would have catastrophic economical consequences.
Plus, who the hell wants to walk out to the garage in the morning and say "oh crap, I forgot to plug in the car / the charging outlet it blew a fuse / a rat chewed up the cable" etc.
Electric cars will become popular when:
1. the price is sane compared to similar traditionally powered vehicles
2. the inconvience downsides have been minimized.
no no, I understand this point, but in 49 states of this country, people are still much more likely to say "screw it, i'll buy a comparable regular car for $20,00 - $30,000 less"
I suppose it's ironic that they're basing the plant in the one state that people WILL buy with idealism instead of sense.
Top Gear taught me that Hybrids were garbage years ago, and that even a v8(!) jag deisel can get "hybrid mileage" if driven carefully, while a small 4 cylinder turbo deisel will whallop the mileage of a hybrid
It's just that in THIS country, hollywood celebrities drive, and push the merits of, hybrids, so they MUST be right. I mean, celebrities certainly know way more than we peons do.
"flagging economy"
"more affordable"
"sell for $49,900"
one of these things is not like the others... ?
this is actually one of the more truthful statements I've ever read on slashdot.
A real sound card with good DACs (or even an external dedicated DAC if you're that nuts) is still quite preferable to motherboard sound.
My app/gaming computer outputs via it's digital out to the digial in on my E-MU 1212m on my data server/digital jukebox computer. I quite like the setup.
The 486 DX4s were clocked higher than the pentiums, yes, but the pentiums were just as fast. Their P5 internal architecture was way better than the 486, which was essentially a 386 + 387 + 8kb of cache.
Specifically I remember doom running smooth as silk on a demo pentium 60 at Sears. kicked the crap out of my 486. My father eventually had a an AMD 133mhz 486 chip and my pentium 90 was quite a bit faster.
Anybody who has ever owned a P4 knows that clock speed isn't everything.
No kidding. I loved my diamond monstersound 3d 2.0.
A3d was true 3d positional audio with directional tracing.
EAX 1.0 was reverb.
Came with a ton of software including:
DR. SBAITSO!
I'm pretty sure that Stephan Hawking still uses dr sbaitso.
I wonder if he runs on creative hardware.
plus preemptive multitasking (something not on PCs until 98).
I'm pretty sure that both NT 3.1 and early versions of Linux had pre-emptive multitasking as early as 1993/1994, but I see where you're going with this.
I bought my wife a GBA for the first birthday we spent together.
I bought her a DS for an engagement present (yes, I got her a ring first of course). She bought me a PSP.
SHE is the one who told ME that we should go shopping for more RAM and new video cards a few months back.
you guys married the wrong women.