Gas tanks are not interchangeable, not all the same size
Because they do not need to be.
Compared to a gas tank, a battery pack is huge and heavy, so it's.. important to.. integrate the design of the battery pack with the car.
So you integrate a standard battery pack design into the car. TBH, in the UK at least, 75% of cars are pretty much the same in general size and layout anyway. In fact car makers use certain standardised "platforms" to cover a suprising range of models https://www.caranddriver.com/c.... The exceptions are the ultra-small bubbles, and the big SUVs - but even the latter are beginning to look like standard cars. I'm sure we could manage with two or three standard interchangeable battery packs, and let any odd ball cars stick to plug-in charging as now - no need to ban it.
It does not "stifle" battery improvements. Such improvements will tend to reduce the size of batteries, which will not cause a problem (just leave some empty space in the module), or increase the range for the same module size.
The "pile of money" is actually just a tax break in the UK. They don't collect all of the VAT on the sale.
It amounts to the same thing. You are also neglecting the other tax breaks, it is not just VAT on the sale. There is massive excise duty on petrol and diesel fuels in the UK, and vehicle excise duty on cars that use them.
So, I clicked on the comments section thinking, "....There's no way anyone is going to be turning this into a negative!" Hello Slashdot. Thanks for finding new ways to disappoint.
When I read this I looked at the poster and sure enough it's Rei, our resident Musk devotee.
I wonder if this time Musk will be taking his showmanship too far. Many people consider space exploration a monumental waste of money and resources (I am not one of them BTW), and a carnival stunt like this will only provide ammunition to those people. It does not matter if the money is supposed to be from Musk's own pocket (is it really, or is he making too much from his contracts?); he would just seem to be firing off extremely expensive rockets for his own amusement. This could be the bursting of his bubble, which is nearing that point anyway.
I would see an equivalent of the chairman of my bank having a money bonfire in public to show everyone how rich he was; disgusting even if it were his own money. It also makes me think of the guy who won the lottery in the UK and used the money to buy a mansion and supercars and then trashed them all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But presumably the Microsoft Campus (I've never seen it) is a sort of city already, so this is a brownfield site, not a greenfield site, which is something. Developers usually hate brownfield sites because they must remove the shit that is already there.
As for low environmental impact, they must be intending to teleport the building materials in, the 2500 building workers will never be seen, and after it is built the traffic to and from it will be in Boring tunnels or something. Or perhaps it willl be self contained with no connection to the outside world so the whole thing can be sunk into the ground and turfed over. Microsoft themselves with it, I hope.
People are the biggest negative environmental impact. They cannot boast about low impact and also boast about how many people they will employ and will live there.
LibreOffice is a no go as it doesn't do free/busy calandar functions for the executives for meetings that they waste time in all day which is a must have for their jobs.
We had a MS meeting scedule and room booking system in our company. I don't know what it was (Outlook? You tell me), but no-one used it because if you tried you found that all the meeting rooms and managers were booked solid for the next six months "just in case they were needed".
To get a meeting room or find a chairman manager you had to go to one of the senior manager's secretaries the previous day who kept the real booking system, which was an unofficial paper diary.
... a Russian minister has said that the country will never legalize bitcoin, just seven months after another government minister said it was considering making it legal
They considered it and as a result of that consideration they decided against it. I have considered and decided against it myself.
If him dying though the process would proves Darwin's theory of evolution, then does it disprove it if he lands and lives?
If he dies it will not prove Darwin, only support it. If he lives it won't mean much - there are millions of other idiots who live and pro-create. Evolution is a gradual and probabilistic process.
Why TF would anyone want an email receipt? I was taken aback when I was first asked if I wanted one, it is so obviously for collecting addresses for spam. It surely takes longer for you to give them your email address than it does for them to give you a paper receipt anyway.
Your tax dollars arent subsidizing my hobby you collosal asshat
Doesn't he pay road tax (or call it whatever else you like) in your country? in the UK I am paying through my VED (Vehicle Excise Duty) about 1 pound for every 10 miles I drive. That is in addition to the tax on fuel.
MS releasing security standards that are legitimate is actual news and deserves legitimate consideration. The ridiculousness of the standard "M$=bad" bullshit responses doesn't help anyone
It is because we are weary of Microsoft's continuous record of lies and dirty tricks. I cannot be bothered to read the detail of MS's scheme, I only know that it is 99.99% likely to be yet another way of shafting users. MS is like some long-term, well-known, neighbourhood con-man who comes knocking on the door for hundredth time, with some new scheme like buying a bridge, and pleading to be given credit because he is a "reformed man". That is the bullshit; we were not born yesterday.
Is convenience of watching YouTube cat videos worth your privacy?
That's a silly comment. I use Youtube a lot but have never watched a cat video. I watch it for car and camera repair techniques, for which it is invaluable.
They specialized in making custom shaped shoes but couldn't shape them to the customers' preference? Sounds like bullshit.
I once bought made-to-measure shoes in Hong Kong where the shop traced the outline of my feet onto sheets of paper. What could possibly go wrong? When made they were as tight as hell. I was later told that Chinese like tight shoes - wasn't that long ago when they used to bind women's feet.
You can grow airport runways and terminal buildings progressively and relatively easily (as you can railway stations - the equivalent) - just buy some more land. Upgrading thousands of miles of railway lines however, including enlarging tunnels and strengthening bridges, is a task of a higher order.
UK railways suffer to this day with having been built too small. Upgrading Hyperloop to take larger vehicles would mean scrapping the entire tube and starting again. Fortunately I don't think that Hyperloop will be successful enough for that ever to be a problem.
People made all the same criticisms about air travel back in the 1920's. Their mistake was assuming that the technology would never develop much further than the (slow, cloth-and-wood framed, 1-2 person) aircraft that were in existence at the time.
You could build and fly bigger aircraft without changing the infrastructure. Not so with Hyperloop. Try a different analogy.
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After 5 hours of driving a half hour break [to recarge the battery] isn't a big deal.
It is if the time when I need to charge is not at a place of my choosing. Perhaps you are satisfied with random greasy-spoon cafes.
Don't keep us in suspense, what are the biggest challenges for fast charging ?
Heat and the capability of the charging supply.
Gas tanks are not interchangeable, not all the same size
Because they do not need to be.
Compared to a gas tank, a battery pack is huge and heavy, so it's .. important to .. integrate the design of the battery pack with the car.
So you integrate a standard battery pack design into the car. TBH, in the UK at least, 75% of cars are pretty much the same in general size and layout anyway. In fact car makers use certain standardised "platforms" to cover a suprising range of models https://www.caranddriver.com/c.... The exceptions are the ultra-small bubbles, and the big SUVs - but even the latter are beginning to look like standard cars. I'm sure we could manage with two or three standard interchangeable battery packs, and let any odd ball cars stick to plug-in charging as now - no need to ban it.
It does not "stifle" battery improvements. Such improvements will tend to reduce the size of batteries, which will not cause a problem (just leave some empty space in the module), or increase the range for the same module size.
The "pile of money" is actually just a tax break in the UK. They don't collect all of the VAT on the sale.
It amounts to the same thing. You are also neglecting the other tax breaks, it is not just VAT on the sale. There is massive excise duty on petrol and diesel fuels in the UK, and vehicle excise duty on cars that use them.
So, I clicked on the comments section thinking, "....There's no way anyone is going to be turning this into a negative!" Hello Slashdot. Thanks for finding new ways to disappoint.
When I read this I looked at the poster and sure enough it's Rei, our resident Musk devotee.
I wonder if this time Musk will be taking his showmanship too far. Many people consider space exploration a monumental waste of money and resources (I am not one of them BTW), and a carnival stunt like this will only provide ammunition to those people. It does not matter if the money is supposed to be from Musk's own pocket (is it really, or is he making too much from his contracts?); he would just seem to be firing off extremely expensive rockets for his own amusement. This could be the bursting of his bubble, which is nearing that point anyway.
I would see an equivalent of the chairman of my bank having a money bonfire in public to show everyone how rich he was; disgusting even if it were his own money. It also makes me think of the guy who won the lottery in the UK and used the money to buy a mansion and supercars and then trashed them all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But presumably the Microsoft Campus (I've never seen it) is a sort of city already, so this is a brownfield site, not a greenfield site, which is something. Developers usually hate brownfield sites because they must remove the shit that is already there.
As for low environmental impact, they must be intending to teleport the building materials in, the 2500 building workers will never be seen, and after it is built the traffic to and from it will be in Boring tunnels or something. Or perhaps it willl be self contained with no connection to the outside world so the whole thing can be sunk into the ground and turfed over. Microsoft themselves with it, I hope.
People are the biggest negative environmental impact. They cannot boast about low impact and also boast about how many people they will employ and will live there.
Try to add a printer to linux.. I. DARE. YOU.
That's funny, mine works.
LibreOffice is a no go as it doesn't do free/busy calandar functions for the executives for meetings that they waste time in all day which is a must have for their jobs.
We had a MS meeting scedule and room booking system in our company. I don't know what it was (Outlook? You tell me), but no-one used it because if you tried you found that all the meeting rooms and managers were booked solid for the next six months "just in case they were needed".
To get a meeting room or find a chairman manager you had to go to one of the senior manager's secretaries the previous day who kept the real booking system, which was an unofficial paper diary.
Exactly. FTFA :
They considered it and as a result of that consideration they decided against it. I have considered and decided against it myself.
This type of mispronunciation is typical of an Asian dialect.
It is not mispronunciation. It is missing out a word, which is bad grammar.
If him dying though the process would proves Darwin's theory of evolution, then does it disprove it if he lands and lives?
If he dies it will not prove Darwin, only support it. If he lives it won't mean much - there are millions of other idiots who live and pro-create. Evolution is a gradual and probabilistic process.
Nevertheless, we should be ready with the award.
The project itself has nothing to do with flat earth.
If he can see his starting point from where he lands, won't that prove the Earth is flat?
Why TF would anyone want an email receipt? I was taken aback when I was first asked if I wanted one, it is so obviously for collecting addresses for spam. It surely takes longer for you to give them your email address than it does for them to give you a paper receipt anyway.
Um, no. Low cost is chalk and a blackboard. Pencil and paper.
I assumed that was what they meant.
FTFA :
These include access to low-cost teaching resources, added value compared to traditional teaching and a complementary solution for teacher training.
Wow, who'd ever have thought of that?
Your tax dollars arent subsidizing my hobby you collosal asshat
Doesn't he pay road tax (or call it whatever else you like) in your country? in the UK I am paying through my VED (Vehicle Excise Duty) about 1 pound for every 10 miles I drive. That is in addition to the tax on fuel.
MS releasing security standards that are legitimate is actual news and deserves legitimate consideration.
The ridiculousness of the standard "M$=bad" bullshit responses doesn't help anyone
It is because we are weary of Microsoft's continuous record of lies and dirty tricks. I cannot be bothered to read the detail of MS's scheme, I only know that it is 99.99% likely to be yet another way of shafting users. MS is like some long-term, well-known, neighbourhood con-man who comes knocking on the door for hundredth time, with some new scheme like buying a bridge, and pleading to be given credit because he is a "reformed man". That is the bullshit; we were not born yesterday.
I hate predictive text. When I search for "BBW" it gives me "BBC", which is not what I want whatever is meant by it.
Connect devices which need updates periodically and then disconnect them.
But do they "need" it/
Is convenience of watching YouTube cat videos worth your privacy?
That's a silly comment. I use Youtube a lot but have never watched a cat video. I watch it for car and camera repair techniques, for which it is invaluable.
Pretty much the only reason I let my "smart" TV connect to the Internet is for firmware updates.
What makes you assume that firmware updates are a good thing? very often they downgrade performance and insert official malware.
The lawyer told me ominously ... that someone with a lot of money was sponsoring SCO . .
I wonder who that could be.
They specialized in making custom shaped shoes but couldn't shape them to the customers' preference? Sounds like bullshit.
I once bought made-to-measure shoes in Hong Kong where the shop traced the outline of my feet onto sheets of paper. What could possibly go wrong? When made they were as tight as hell. I was later told that Chinese like tight shoes - wasn't that long ago when they used to bind women's feet.
You can grow airport runways and terminal buildings progressively and relatively easily (as you can railway stations - the equivalent) - just buy some more land. Upgrading thousands of miles of railway lines however, including enlarging tunnels and strengthening bridges, is a task of a higher order.
UK railways suffer to this day with having been built too small. Upgrading Hyperloop to take larger vehicles would mean scrapping the entire tube and starting again. Fortunately I don't think that Hyperloop will be successful enough for that ever to be a problem.
I read that government is not involved.
People made all the same criticisms about air travel back in the 1920's. Their mistake was assuming that the technology would never develop much further than the (slow, cloth-and-wood framed, 1-2 person) aircraft that were in existence at the time.
You could build and fly bigger aircraft without changing the infrastructure. Not so with Hyperloop. Try a different analogy.