Oh fuck no. I don't think I can bear watching another actor cry at the death of Martha Wayne, arrive on earth, or get bitten by some radioactive spider.
Superhero movies are garbage? By that I assume you're not actually going to see them? That would explain why you consider the DC movie's low ratings as "unexpected".
Hundreds of movies have come out this year, only a handful of them are superhero films. You don't like them, don't see them, there's plenty of alternatives if you care to look. In the meantime here's a summary:
DC: Horrible directing, crap story telling, poor character development, uncharacteristic actions of the characters, some of it is just an absolute cluster****, and there seems to be some opinion that if Zack Snyder is given enough goes at it eventually he can direct a movie which isn't a huge turd.
Marvel: Each movie builds on the criticisms of the previous one. They have been getting funnier, wittier, and more lighthearted kind of like their source material. The studio seems to actually understand what made the comic books popular and haven't screwed over the fans in the process. The stories and character developments are often not skin deep, and a different director on each movie keeps them feeling fresh.
Normally sequels are garbage, but so far the most recent Thor film has been the best super hero movie to date.
Because too many people are wasting 4 years of their lives in education just so they can get a job.
If what you are doing is a waste, then you're doing it wrong. Sure I could probably do my current job without my university degree, but that doesn't mean I didn't gain a shitload of benefits as a result of doing one.
It's not true. I mean I have no proof, but some concepts are just too stupid to be true, and this is one of them.
More than likely it reduces the applicant pool to those "smarter ones" who have proven adept at navigating the meat grinder. This unfortunately means some very qualified people will slip through.
The problem with Slashdot users is they see every change as change for change's sake.
Changing GUIs just to say they have changed
Microsoft invested millions of dollars in R&D before performing GUI changes. The ribbon had clear and lasting benefits to everyone, including eventually the stubborn people used to seeing everything on one menu. The metro interface... well there were several papers published on information density, problem was that information density and minimising UI interaction were at odds with humans reading from top to bottom.
to the point where the organization of configuration tools makes less sense. Sure, you can find the thing you're looking for because there's a search function
I have yet to find anything in the new GUI that doesn't immediately make sense,... other than the fact that they released it before all settings could be managed from it. Actually today I learnt from you that there's a search function. Cool. Haven't needed it in the past 2 years, probably won't need it in the future. If you know what to search for then you don't need to open settings at all, just hit the windows key and go for it. Hurrah good GUI design.
And, of course, the spyware problem. That one is, frankly, insurmountable.
About the only thing in your comment I agree on.
Even as a volume-licensed corporate customer who has been told they can turn it all off, can you really trust Microsoft
Err yes. It has been demonstrated that Enterprise editions of windows with the privacy settings enabled in group policy, Cortana disabled, and windows update pointed to a local WSUS server is incredibly quiet on the network.
Uh, no. Microsoft's OS is used because of their hostile business practices.
You keep believing that while your alternate OSes are either on unaffordable machines, or lack basic reliability to do things like wake from sleep, not to mention that every attempt to move the alternate OS in a direction towards usability in a normal scenario is met with utter hostility (see pulse audio, network manager, wayland, systemd, etc).
The problem with telephone anything is that you typically have to say your password aloud within earshot of anyone who is listening, into a device that is easily spied on through a network with known flaws.
It's probably not more secure than FaceID, but that's not the benchmark. The benchmark is a shitty phone password, or god forbid basic details such as your date of birth, your mother's maiden name, and your current address.
You mean the same as the almost identical rise in the USA a few weeks later, right around the time that Fox and Friends were reporting massive nuclear fallout was hitting the United States from Fukushima? Also the spike was 1.8% above normal SIDS level in Japan.
I have a feeling that, and let me go out on a limb here, this may not be the last story we see about net neutrality.
Is that because people in general don't just roll over and call it quits when a corrupt official goes against the will of the general public in order to appease a few small corporations?
Semi uses NMC cells, same as Tesla's grid products.
Nitpick: From what I can tell Tesla's grid products use NCA cells, same as their cars. Tesla's home power option uses NMC. The reason behind it makes sense too:
NMC: Designed for long continuous discharge and high depth of discharge and extreme cycling. e.g. A home solar batttery system or a vehicle travelling longs distances on a highway.
NCA: Designed for short bursts and high powered when needed. e.g. A battery to provide grid stabilisation against a very rough swing in demand but not necessarily deep discharge, and stop start city traffic.
Tesla uses different battery chemistry for the stationary storage units.
Not quite. Tesla uses different battery chemistry for their stationary storage units designed specifically for daily cycling, e.g. the Powerwall which has nickel-manganese-cobalt chemistry. Additionally this battery is much safer and less likely to burn your house down due to thermal runaway. Oh but it's more expensive.
The PowerPack (which is their grid storage solution) actually uses nickel-cobalt-aluminum, the same chemistry as their cars. This is mainly due to the load expectations being similar. The grid connected solution is not expected to be cycled on a daily basis and the chemistry favours high rates of charge and discharge which is precisely what is needed in order to stabilise a large grid, especially when the primary reason for the design is to avoid cascading failures due to a breaker opening somewhere.
Now that being said the Powerwall used to come in two different versions, a daily and a backup model, the latter having a larger capacity and also the same nickel-cobalt-aluminum batteries as used in the cars. Not sure if that is still the case though.
Now that ALSO being said, earlier this year Tesla's car division hired an expert who some people believe are the first step to the company shifting the Car / Powerpack chemistries to NMC as well.
The batteries were sitting around waiting for cars to be built so why not put them to use instead. By the time that car production gets ramped up more batteries will have been made.
No they weren't. They specifically had to source them from a different supplier (Samsung SDI) due to a lack of batteries from both Panasonic and their own Gigafactory.
Kinda. He bought the batteries "locally", reducing shipment time by weeks. They were made by Samsung, not Tesla.
Firstly it only takes a couple of "weeks" to ship from the USA in the first place. The difference between shipping from Korea vs USA to South Australia is 25 days vs 30 days (there's basic calculators you can use online for this). Secondly he bought the batteries from Samsung SDI not because of shipping time to Australia, but because of lack of availability from his normal supplier: Panasonic, whose batteries are made right next to South Korea anyway. The gigafactory and "made in America" was never part of the equation, and neither was shipping time.
Any sufficiently motivated municipal electrical engineering company could have bolted all the pieces together.
Most sufficiently motivated people can do most things. The problem is very few consider it as an option due to preconceived ideas about what a solution looks like. This entire exercise was about demonstrating the viability of a solution, not showing off that Tesla has any kind of superior engineering capabilities. This has basically been Tesla's process all along with the vast majority of their stuff actually being incredibly off the shelf, down to the type of batteries they use.
Maybe you should google what a subsidy is and how governments work. Or read it in a book. The "Complete Idiots Guide To Subsidies" may be too complicated for you so I suggest you start with "The Holy Shit You Really Know Nothing At All About Anything Guide To Subsidies". I've prepared you a link.
The last time I saw an unstable Windows machine was like early Vista like 2007-ish, probably a bad driver. If there was a Windows version that promised:
Cool so we agree then and we on Slashdot can stop with the Windows is unstable and shouldn't ever run any important software then. The only difference between your and my comment is the timeline.
But apart from the fact that I fundamentally can't trust Microsoft it's a good OS.
Exactly. Something as I said seems to be lost on much of the IT community who do nothing but repeat tired jokes from the turn of the century. It's actually more telling how popular and widely used Microsoft's OS is *despite* their hostility towards users.
Nobody else wanted his batteries so they had plenty of stock.
Yeah, no one wanted his batteries so much that he was unable to fulfil the order using the existing contractual supplier (Panasonic) or from his existing factory and had to turn to Samsung SDI as an emergency second supplier.
They've been doing it for 10 years now, I'm pretty confident any bumps were long ironed out and everything works pretty decently.
You've never worked in a government have you? In many cases 10 years is just the time it takes to finally get a project cancelled. I'm not saying that's what happened, by all accounts I'm sure the new MS headquarters in Munich, and the new head of the department being a happy MS user in the past had a big hand in it. But assuming that just because something has been in place for 10 years it has had it's bugs ironed out is laughable enough in a large private corporation, in a government such a statement is outright ludicrous.
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Oh fuck no. I don't think I can bear watching another actor cry at the death of Martha Wayne, arrive on earth, or get bitten by some radioactive spider.
Superhero movies are garbage? By that I assume you're not actually going to see them? That would explain why you consider the DC movie's low ratings as "unexpected".
Hundreds of movies have come out this year, only a handful of them are superhero films. You don't like them, don't see them, there's plenty of alternatives if you care to look. In the meantime here's a summary:
DC: Horrible directing, crap story telling, poor character development, uncharacteristic actions of the characters, some of it is just an absolute cluster****, and there seems to be some opinion that if Zack Snyder is given enough goes at it eventually he can direct a movie which isn't a huge turd.
Marvel: Each movie builds on the criticisms of the previous one. They have been getting funnier, wittier, and more lighthearted kind of like their source material. The studio seems to actually understand what made the comic books popular and haven't screwed over the fans in the process. The stories and character developments are often not skin deep, and a different director on each movie keeps them feeling fresh.
Normally sequels are garbage, but so far the most recent Thor film has been the best super hero movie to date.
"We don't know what net neutrality is about, but hear us out while we bitch about walled gardens. I'm sure network neutrality is something like that!"
Relating the evils of Google and Facebook with ISPs is a deliberate attempt to mislead.
I'm not sure it's even an attempt to mislead as much as it is an attempt to show that the write had no frigging idea what net neutrality was about.
Because too many people are wasting 4 years of their lives in education just so they can get a job.
If what you are doing is a waste, then you're doing it wrong. Sure I could probably do my current job without my university degree, but that doesn't mean I didn't gain a shitload of benefits as a result of doing one.
(I don't know if it's true or not)
It's not true. I mean I have no proof, but some concepts are just too stupid to be true, and this is one of them.
More than likely it reduces the applicant pool to those "smarter ones" who have proven adept at navigating the meat grinder. This unfortunately means some very qualified people will slip through.
I haven't been evening since he was quoted as saying this a few days ago. I'm not actually sure if I can even again.
The problem with Slashdot users is they see every change as change for change's sake.
Changing GUIs just to say they have changed
Microsoft invested millions of dollars in R&D before performing GUI changes. The ribbon had clear and lasting benefits to everyone, including eventually the stubborn people used to seeing everything on one menu. The metro interface ... well there were several papers published on information density, problem was that information density and minimising UI interaction were at odds with humans reading from top to bottom.
to the point where the organization of configuration tools makes less sense. Sure, you can find the thing you're looking for because there's a search function
I have yet to find anything in the new GUI that doesn't immediately make sense, ... other than the fact that they released it before all settings could be managed from it. Actually today I learnt from you that there's a search function. Cool. Haven't needed it in the past 2 years, probably won't need it in the future. If you know what to search for then you don't need to open settings at all, just hit the windows key and go for it. Hurrah good GUI design.
And, of course, the spyware problem. That one is, frankly, insurmountable.
About the only thing in your comment I agree on.
Even as a volume-licensed corporate customer who has been told they can turn it all off, can you really trust Microsoft
Err yes. It has been demonstrated that Enterprise editions of windows with the privacy settings enabled in group policy, Cortana disabled, and windows update pointed to a local WSUS server is incredibly quiet on the network.
Uh, no. Microsoft's OS is used because of their hostile business practices.
You keep believing that while your alternate OSes are either on unaffordable machines, or lack basic reliability to do things like wake from sleep, not to mention that every attempt to move the alternate OS in a direction towards usability in a normal scenario is met with utter hostility (see pulse audio, network manager, wayland, systemd, etc).
You default to "corruption" when the reality is there are perfectly logical explanations for all of this. What you need is a better Alufolienhut.
Next time you say "This is not correct" it's worth actually correcting me rather than simply repeating what I said ;-)
The problem with telephone anything is that you typically have to say your password aloud within earshot of anyone who is listening, into a device that is easily spied on through a network with known flaws.
It's probably not more secure than FaceID, but that's not the benchmark. The benchmark is a shitty phone password, or god forbid basic details such as your date of birth, your mother's maiden name, and your current address.
regurgitating talking points debunked earlier this week [slashdot.org]
Having a different opinion does not a debunking make.
Read a dictionary.
You mean the same as the almost identical rise in the USA a few weeks later, right around the time that Fox and Friends were reporting massive nuclear fallout was hitting the United States from Fukushima? Also the spike was 1.8% above normal SIDS level in Japan.
I think our species will endure.
I have a feeling that, and let me go out on a limb here, this may not be the last story we see about net neutrality.
Is that because people in general don't just roll over and call it quits when a corrupt official goes against the will of the general public in order to appease a few small corporations?
Semi uses NMC cells, same as Tesla's grid products.
Nitpick: From what I can tell Tesla's grid products use NCA cells, same as their cars. Tesla's home power option uses NMC. The reason behind it makes sense too:
NMC: Designed for long continuous discharge and high depth of discharge and extreme cycling. e.g. A home solar batttery system or a vehicle travelling longs distances on a highway.
NCA: Designed for short bursts and high powered when needed. e.g. A battery to provide grid stabilisation against a very rough swing in demand but not necessarily deep discharge, and stop start city traffic.
Tesla uses different battery chemistry for the stationary storage units.
Not quite. Tesla uses different battery chemistry for their stationary storage units designed specifically for daily cycling, e.g. the Powerwall which has nickel-manganese-cobalt chemistry. Additionally this battery is much safer and less likely to burn your house down due to thermal runaway. Oh but it's more expensive.
The PowerPack (which is their grid storage solution) actually uses nickel-cobalt-aluminum, the same chemistry as their cars. This is mainly due to the load expectations being similar. The grid connected solution is not expected to be cycled on a daily basis and the chemistry favours high rates of charge and discharge which is precisely what is needed in order to stabilise a large grid, especially when the primary reason for the design is to avoid cascading failures due to a breaker opening somewhere.
Now that being said the Powerwall used to come in two different versions, a daily and a backup model, the latter having a larger capacity and also the same nickel-cobalt-aluminum batteries as used in the cars. Not sure if that is still the case though.
Now that ALSO being said, earlier this year Tesla's car division hired an expert who some people believe are the first step to the company shifting the Car / Powerpack chemistries to NMC as well.
The batteries were sitting around waiting for cars to be built so why not put them to use instead. By the time that car production gets ramped up more batteries will have been made.
No they weren't. They specifically had to source them from a different supplier (Samsung SDI) due to a lack of batteries from both Panasonic and their own Gigafactory.
I'm waaaaaiting....
I'm sure they can complete the battery pack and bolt an off the shelf inverter to it for you.
Kinda. He bought the batteries "locally", reducing shipment time by weeks. They were made by Samsung, not Tesla.
Firstly it only takes a couple of "weeks" to ship from the USA in the first place. The difference between shipping from Korea vs USA to South Australia is 25 days vs 30 days (there's basic calculators you can use online for this).
Secondly he bought the batteries from Samsung SDI not because of shipping time to Australia, but because of lack of availability from his normal supplier: Panasonic, whose batteries are made right next to South Korea anyway. The gigafactory and "made in America" was never part of the equation, and neither was shipping time.
Any sufficiently motivated municipal electrical engineering company could have bolted all the pieces together.
Most sufficiently motivated people can do most things. The problem is very few consider it as an option due to preconceived ideas about what a solution looks like. This entire exercise was about demonstrating the viability of a solution, not showing off that Tesla has any kind of superior engineering capabilities. This has basically been Tesla's process all along with the vast majority of their stuff actually being incredibly off the shelf, down to the type of batteries they use.
without stealing money from taxpayer subsidies
Maybe you should google what a subsidy is and how governments work. Or read it in a book. The "Complete Idiots Guide To Subsidies" may be too complicated for you so I suggest you start with "The Holy Shit You Really Know Nothing At All About Anything Guide To Subsidies". I've prepared you a link.
The last time I saw an unstable Windows machine was like early Vista like 2007-ish, probably a bad driver. If there was a Windows version that promised:
Cool so we agree then and we on Slashdot can stop with the Windows is unstable and shouldn't ever run any important software then. The only difference between your and my comment is the timeline.
But apart from the fact that I fundamentally can't trust Microsoft it's a good OS.
Exactly. Something as I said seems to be lost on much of the IT community who do nothing but repeat tired jokes from the turn of the century. It's actually more telling how popular and widely used Microsoft's OS is *despite* their hostility towards users.
Nobody else wanted his batteries so they had plenty of stock.
Yeah, no one wanted his batteries so much that he was unable to fulfil the order using the existing contractual supplier (Panasonic) or from his existing factory and had to turn to Samsung SDI as an emergency second supplier.
In order to wooosh you need an obvious pun, not something that looks quote common on modern Slashdot: Sheer and utter ignorance.
I only grew up there...
That just makes it all the worse.
They've been doing it for 10 years now, I'm pretty confident any bumps were long ironed out and everything works pretty decently.
You've never worked in a government have you? In many cases 10 years is just the time it takes to finally get a project cancelled. I'm not saying that's what happened, by all accounts I'm sure the new MS headquarters in Munich, and the new head of the department being a happy MS user in the past had a big hand in it. But assuming that just because something has been in place for 10 years it has had it's bugs ironed out is laughable enough in a large private corporation, in a government such a statement is outright ludicrous.