I like the guy as much as the next nerd. He's truly shaking up the world, but please stick to worshiping the things he does that are actually amazing. There are many cars which already feature self park, hands and foot free. This ultimately is nothing more than a minor itteration of a very common technology by a company that is far less afraid of lawsuits than the big car makers forcing you to remain seated in your car while it does almost the same thing.
I'm rooting for him to win too, but as you said, Bigly, not with minor gimmicks.
What else to add? Is/. now "News for Fashionistas? Does a chipset setting determine the colour? Because if it doesn't, this is garbage news.
The fact that colour is news, IS the news. Are we running out of differentiating tech features in the most popular gadget in the world that we're reduced to making it in various colours?
What the hell are you talking about. The documentation requirement is not in your home town, that's just one way of doing it, and it is most definitely NOT the way European migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, etc. have been doing it.
They may also have had their documents stolen from them by human traffickers and other criminals.
That doesn't stop them being documented. It just makes it difficult to determine their ages and prove their names. Around the world there a 10s of thousdands of refugees that are documented with unclear details. Heck for a while some bad apples were "losing" documents on purpose so when they go through the motions they can claim they are under 18 and get preferential treatment.
Falacy, you don't need to trickle it down to be common. This is a subscriber feature not something that relies on your car getting replaced.
I don't think 2025 is a stretch, not given how much autonomous driving has been developed in the past few years, and how much R&D money is being poured into it by heavyweights.
Why not just stock up a basement with food, guns, and traps like every other prepper out there. Why always default to having to own a car for all those super regular disasters that don't seem to ever affect nearly the entire population of your country?
And how many of these art-house specials are playing at the very-most mass-marketest of mass market AMC theaters?
Probably quite a lot. Most mass market cinemas will even dedicate weeks to playing them if there's a movie festival on somewhere. My own mass market cinema has 22 different films playing right now. Let me guess, your next problem is that not every movie is playing all the time and that you can be less picky to find the three movies that will spark an otherwise dead soul?
Think for a second before you post "submit" on that snide, patronizing crap?
Thought about it, snided, patronised (something you should try and do at the cinema sometime), and submitted anyway.
By a police officer? No. I'm a foreigner and a man. If I get pulled over I get a ticket.
I'm a foreigner and a man too, I guess I just live in a country without a military police. I remember doing 130 in a 90 zone (the zone had changed about a km back). A police officer cruised up beside me, waved at me to slow down and then kept on going.
Not every stupid thing results in tickets in much of the world.
It's not specific. It's quite rare in Europe, and you clearly didn't read my second paragraph at all.
Yes there will always be the odd ball case, the the overwhelming majority of devices fit just fine in European sockets and if they don't, they do if you just spin them.
Australia has a very specific problem with it's default socket outlet layout and default powerboard layout.
There is a simple and very defined reason for the designs: Australia is special enough to want their own polar plug, but not special enough to get vendors to create custom designs for them.
USA and EU plugs are non-polar, or in some cases polar for only a subset of devices. Samsung, Nintendo, Logitech, all my chargers fit without a problem next to each other in a power board. On the only socket in my house which is horizontal as opposed to vertically stacked I can just plug the second Samsung charger in upside down and it fits happily as well.
The problem is very specific and affects a very small subset of people who receive standardised designs accross the world. How standard? They even use the same charger for USA / EU which use different votlages.
On top of that the stupid ranter is ranting for ranting's sake. The one case he found which in Australia specifically addresses his complaints he proceeded to complain about because somehow he managed to find a place where an outlet was installed stupidly close to the ground.
Sorry angry ranter, life's not fair. Stop your whining. We're macho men who spend all day fighting deadly animals and you're sillyness is a blight on our reputation.
You're buying a device that requires DC power, and the manufacturer is not going to decide the converter; it is going to choose an existing DC converter and supply it with the device.
Not at all. Most manufacturers have their own design. They are incredibly trivial to make and have tossed in a moulded case. Additionally most manufacturers now start playing around with various value added things (fast e.g. Super Duper Mega Fast Charging, or whatever).
That said it IS a question of economics. Those designs work just fine for 500million Europeans. It's entirely the fault of the small population of Australia standardising on a power plug design that in America was supposed to replace the Type A plug, but was not very popular and thus phased out in the USA.
Somewhere, there was somebody actually "PAID" to "DESIGN" this crap. Don't you think they should be held accountable for their incompetence?
What incompetence? They were paid to design something to suit a large portion of the population. Those Samsung chargers fit easily next to each other in all powerboards in Europe. Just because a small little country with a very sad looking power outlet decided to standardise on polar sockets stacked in a stupid position horizontally isn't Samsung's problem.
But in any case the entire article is just the rant of a crazy person. The one device which actually suits Australia quite well (Apple charger) he also found issue with.
If homes and offices were wired for DC plugs (Say the High Power USB Standard) then we wouldn't need such bricks
Of coruse you would. Does your device require 5V, 9V, 12V, 15V, 24V? How much power are you drawing during your conversion? Just how much current and how big of a connector do you think your wall outlet would need to deliver the power for your whole PC, TV, or Soundsystem?
If we were wired for DC we would still be converting between voltages, and bonus points we would have far bulkier connectors and super expensive wiring to boot.
The purpose is to avoid you cramming in too many things without a chance of airflow for cooling.
I'd always wondered why the size of the plug was proportional to the power it draws.
Oh wait, I haven't. Because it isn't.
Yes they are. They are directly proportional to the power they draw. They are not always proportional to the power they deliver due to inefficiencies but they are very close to proportional to the power they draw.
Seriously go open a large and small power adapter and be amazed at the lack of free space in both designs.
The problem is specific to Australia. The article questions "why" over and over again, and the answer is simple: You're a country of 21million people you don't get a special design. Especially considering that in the cases where alternative designs were chosen he went out of his way to find a situation where it wouldn't work again. It is a useless angry rant for the purpose of being angry. Seriously, how many people have a plug so close to the ground that they can't plug their Macbook charger in?
Take other countries for instance. The Australian socket forces polarity, but most sockets for such low power applications do not. European, American and other standards often don't force polarity or force it only for higher current devices, end result your Samsung charger can plug in upside down and works just fine in both side by side and vertical applications. Likewise powerboards are at 90degrees compared to wall plugs layouts so you can put as many Samsung chargers in as you want. Or Apple or Nintendo.
Seeing three movies a week sounds great, until you realize there's about 3 movies A YEAR worth seeing.
Oh I take it you think the only movies out there are what is hanging up on large posters and being shown in 5 second shaky cam adverts on TV. For example in the UK over 800 films are released in cinemas every year. If you can only find 3 you like, maybe the problem isn't the movie, but rather you.
The payment model "it" has popularised? What kind of self important drivel is this, I have been getting subscription movie passes since back when the internet consisted of AOL keywords.
But if that kind of extreme bias is the problem, then a two-point scale of "like" and "dislike" is just as useless.
Not at all. It's a completely different kind of useless. That's the problem with survey based studies. They are all flawed in different ways. The yes / no system resolves a whole series of flaws and biases while introducing a whole different set.
I don't know about your country, in mine you are expected to get suspicious of deals that are too good to be true.
So its illegal to be fooled / scammed?
If someone sells you a brand new Mercedes for 50 bucks, you can pretty much expect that the police won't believe you that you didn't even think it could be stolen.
Why would it be stolen? Maybe it's contaminated with a carceongen. Maybe its owner thinks it's possessed by a demon. My own neighbour just bought a $4000 antique for $50 at a garage sale because the owner didn't know what they had. You would do well to remember the proverb: "If it's too good to be true, then it probably is." *emphasis mine.
claiming that you didn't know that it's a pirate station is most likely not going to sit well with a judge
What won't sit well with a judge is that this flimsy waste of time case is brought before him in the first place. I would wager you don't even get the chance to bullshit anyone before it gets tossed out of court.
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I like the guy as much as the next nerd. He's truly shaking up the world, but please stick to worshiping the things he does that are actually amazing. There are many cars which already feature self park, hands and foot free. This ultimately is nothing more than a minor itteration of a very common technology by a company that is far less afraid of lawsuits than the big car makers forcing you to remain seated in your car while it does almost the same thing.
I'm rooting for him to win too, but as you said, Bigly, not with minor gimmicks.
What else to add? Is /. now "News for Fashionistas? Does a chipset setting determine the colour? Because if it doesn't, this is garbage news.
The fact that colour is news, IS the news. Are we running out of differentiating tech features in the most popular gadget in the world that we're reduced to making it in various colours?
I think this is a new low for Slashdot.
You must be new here.
What the hell are you talking about. The documentation requirement is not in your home town, that's just one way of doing it, and it is most definitely NOT the way European migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, etc. have been doing it.
They may also have had their documents stolen from them by human traffickers and other criminals.
That doesn't stop them being documented. It just makes it difficult to determine their ages and prove their names. Around the world there a 10s of thousdands of refugees that are documented with unclear details. Heck for a while some bad apples were "losing" documents on purpose so when they go through the motions they can claim they are under 18 and get preferential treatment.
Falacy, you don't need to trickle it down to be common. This is a subscriber feature not something that relies on your car getting replaced.
I don't think 2025 is a stretch, not given how much autonomous driving has been developed in the past few years, and how much R&D money is being poured into it by heavyweights.
waiting around for a ride share is supposed to save time somehow?
By not waiting around crawling at snails pace on an overfilled highway where every person is using up 15 square meters of space for themselves.
I'll stick to having my own vehicle TYVM.
Why not just stock up a basement with food, guns, and traps like every other prepper out there. Why always default to having to own a car for all those super regular disasters that don't seem to ever affect nearly the entire population of your country?
And how many of these art-house specials are playing at the very-most mass-marketest of mass market AMC theaters?
Probably quite a lot. Most mass market cinemas will even dedicate weeks to playing them if there's a movie festival on somewhere. My own mass market cinema has 22 different films playing right now. Let me guess, your next problem is that not every movie is playing all the time and that you can be less picky to find the three movies that will spark an otherwise dead soul?
Think for a second before you post "submit" on that snide, patronizing crap?
Thought about it, snided, patronised (something you should try and do at the cinema sometime), and submitted anyway.
Worth it!
If they were refugees they wouldn't have a problem with being documented.
By a police officer? No. I'm a foreigner and a man. If I get pulled over I get a ticket.
I'm a foreigner and a man too, I guess I just live in a country without a military police. I remember doing 130 in a 90 zone (the zone had changed about a km back). A police officer cruised up beside me, waved at me to slow down and then kept on going.
Not every stupid thing results in tickets in much of the world.
It's not specific. It's quite rare in Europe, and you clearly didn't read my second paragraph at all.
Yes there will always be the odd ball case, the the overwhelming majority of devices fit just fine in European sockets and if they don't, they do if you just spin them.
Australia has a very specific problem with it's default socket outlet layout and default powerboard layout.
There is a simple and very defined reason for the designs: Australia is special enough to want their own polar plug, but not special enough to get vendors to create custom designs for them.
USA and EU plugs are non-polar, or in some cases polar for only a subset of devices. Samsung, Nintendo, Logitech, all my chargers fit without a problem next to each other in a power board. On the only socket in my house which is horizontal as opposed to vertically stacked I can just plug the second Samsung charger in upside down and it fits happily as well.
The problem is very specific and affects a very small subset of people who receive standardised designs accross the world. How standard? They even use the same charger for USA / EU which use different votlages.
On top of that the stupid ranter is ranting for ranting's sake. The one case he found which in Australia specifically addresses his complaints he proceeded to complain about because somehow he managed to find a place where an outlet was installed stupidly close to the ground.
Sorry angry ranter, life's not fair. Stop your whining. We're macho men who spend all day fighting deadly animals and you're sillyness is a blight on our reputation.
You're buying a device that requires DC power, and the manufacturer is not going to decide the converter; it is going to choose an existing DC converter and supply it with the device.
Not at all. Most manufacturers have their own design. They are incredibly trivial to make and have tossed in a moulded case. Additionally most manufacturers now start playing around with various value added things (fast e.g. Super Duper Mega Fast Charging, or whatever).
That said it IS a question of economics. Those designs work just fine for 500million Europeans. It's entirely the fault of the small population of Australia standardising on a power plug design that in America was supposed to replace the Type A plug, but was not very popular and thus phased out in the USA.
Somewhere, there was somebody actually "PAID" to "DESIGN" this crap. Don't you think they should be held accountable for their incompetence?
What incompetence? They were paid to design something to suit a large portion of the population. Those Samsung chargers fit easily next to each other in all powerboards in Europe. Just because a small little country with a very sad looking power outlet decided to standardise on polar sockets stacked in a stupid position horizontally isn't Samsung's problem.
But in any case the entire article is just the rant of a crazy person. The one device which actually suits Australia quite well (Apple charger) he also found issue with.
Toughen up mate.
If homes and offices were wired for DC plugs (Say the High Power USB Standard) then we wouldn't need such bricks
Of coruse you would. Does your device require 5V, 9V, 12V, 15V, 24V? How much power are you drawing during your conversion? Just how much current and how big of a connector do you think your wall outlet would need to deliver the power for your whole PC, TV, or Soundsystem?
If we were wired for DC we would still be converting between voltages, and bonus points we would have far bulkier connectors and super expensive wiring to boot.
I'd always wondered why the size of the plug was proportional to the power it draws.
Oh wait, I haven't. Because it isn't.
Yes they are. They are directly proportional to the power they draw. They are not always proportional to the power they deliver due to inefficiencies but they are very close to proportional to the power they draw.
Seriously go open a large and small power adapter and be amazed at the lack of free space in both designs.
The problem is specific to Australia. The article questions "why" over and over again, and the answer is simple: You're a country of 21million people you don't get a special design. Especially considering that in the cases where alternative designs were chosen he went out of his way to find a situation where it wouldn't work again. It is a useless angry rant for the purpose of being angry. Seriously, how many people have a plug so close to the ground that they can't plug their Macbook charger in?
Take other countries for instance. The Australian socket forces polarity, but most sockets for such low power applications do not. European, American and other standards often don't force polarity or force it only for higher current devices, end result your Samsung charger can plug in upside down and works just fine in both side by side and vertical applications. Likewise powerboards are at 90degrees compared to wall plugs layouts so you can put as many Samsung chargers in as you want. Or Apple or Nintendo.
As ever, the problem with vigilante justice is the lack of due process and fairness.
This isn't vigilante justice, this is a database of evidence, nothing more. The normal justice system is still very much involved.
However, everyone has done something stupid whilst driving at some point.
Yes. And every stupid thing does not result in a fine. Have you never been given a warning?
9 hours huh? So less than 2 days worth of typical TV for the typical American?
Seeing three movies a week sounds great, until you realize there's about 3 movies A YEAR worth seeing.
Oh I take it you think the only movies out there are what is hanging up on large posters and being shown in 5 second shaky cam adverts on TV.
For example in the UK over 800 films are released in cinemas every year. If you can only find 3 you like, maybe the problem isn't the movie, but rather you.
The payment model "it" has popularised? What kind of self important drivel is this, I have been getting subscription movie passes since back when the internet consisted of AOL keywords.
If you think that being pulled over and going through a felony-stop for not having a license plate is a "plus".
That will be resolved when the very first person gets pulled over and subsequently sues the government.
On a plus side going through a revenue raising camera becomes a lot more fun.
But if that kind of extreme bias is the problem, then a two-point scale of "like" and "dislike" is just as useless.
Not at all. It's a completely different kind of useless. That's the problem with survey based studies. They are all flawed in different ways. The yes / no system resolves a whole series of flaws and biases while introducing a whole different set.
I don't know about your country, in mine you are expected to get suspicious of deals that are too good to be true.
So its illegal to be fooled / scammed?
If someone sells you a brand new Mercedes for 50 bucks, you can pretty much expect that the police won't believe you that you didn't even think it could be stolen.
Why would it be stolen? Maybe it's contaminated with a carceongen. Maybe its owner thinks it's possessed by a demon. My own neighbour just bought a $4000 antique for $50 at a garage sale because the owner didn't know what they had. You would do well to remember the proverb: "If it's too good to be true, then it probably is." *emphasis mine.
claiming that you didn't know that it's a pirate station is most likely not going to sit well with a judge
What won't sit well with a judge is that this flimsy waste of time case is brought before him in the first place. I would wager you don't even get the chance to bullshit anyone before it gets tossed out of court.