inclined to follow in the foot steps of Erdogan and alike
One is arresting people associated with a ballot and bypassing banned material. The other actively killed opponents, arrested people with wide ranging roles including the media in attempt to silence opposition all while passing laws to gain additional power over people and also the judicial system.
Spain's government may not be acting in the purest of democratic ways, but comparing this to what is going on in Turkey severely undermines just how bad the situation in Turkey really is.
How many went from pro-union to pro-independence due to this nonsense?
Not relevant. Catalonia well and truly has the support for independence already anyway. It's only the Spanish government that is derailing multiple efforts to make it independent *again* (It used to be one).
I have repaired screens. Where replacement screens can cost upwards of $150, on many OLED phones it's possible to actually separate the display from the glass front. I repaired a Galaxy S5 for $11 and those $11 included every tool except of the hot air gun. It not only included UV curing glue but even included the UV lamp needed to cure it.
The repair world quotes based on rip/replace prices. An intermittent problem with the heaphone jack? Replace the entire main circuit board, fixed for $250. No one "repairs" anything anymore except for the tinkerers.
Take it to some backyard-workshop for repairs? Warranty is gone.
If you had warranty you wouldn't take it to a backyard workshop, you'd just send it in and they'd send you a fixed device back.
Why are people so hell-bent on saving every cent on repairs for a device that (now) can cost well above 1k USD?
Because of the cost. Cracked screen on my mum's phone: Quote: $175 to replace. Actual cost: $11, and the ebay kit even included every tool I needed. But the repair takes time which is why companies will insist on replacing the entire display / touch assembly to fix a crack while a backyard shop will just replace the glass on the front of the screen for a very labour intensive job and still charge less than 1/3rd of the cost.
That's like people buying a Ferrari or a Rolls Royce Wraith and then complaining about the cost of ownership because an oil-change or break-pad exchange or fixing a ding costs a fortune.
No. The problem with Ferrari and Rolls Royce is that they are difficult to maintain, and the backyard repair shops will charge you just as much for that damn oil change as Ferrari would. What you are describing is complaining that instead of an oil change Ferrari insist on replacing the entire engine, and that happens just as much in the car world as anywhere else. (Toyota quoted my parents $350 to replace the entire instrument cluster because of a broken lamp, the local garage quoted $120 of which $105 was the several hours work to disassemble half the car to get at the lamp.)
Unfortunately, many times that I am in need of water I am neither in my bathroom (or even in my house at all), nor is it raining.
That's an interesting thought. I'm in the same position often but I can't say I've ever bought bottled water as a result. Does your city not have water fountains available for the public? Or laws that required places that serve alcohol to also serve water for free?
I always figured the problem was cultural or pollution based (i.e. I did drink bottled water in China because I was told to,... but I never paid for it), it didn't occur to me that some western cities don't actually provide water to people.
Mind you given the cost of water in some places I'll probably still drink beer instead.
For instance, is the right to free speech an entitlement, because the government is benevolent enough to not kill you before you exercise it?
Yes. The right to free speech was granted to you by your government (through the moderation of war). It along with a lot of your other "rights" are always at the mercy of the more powerful (4th amendment free zones anyone?)
Personally I don't have a right to free speech. I live in a place where that is not inscribed in our constitution. That doesn't mean the government is persecuting me right now. A "right" is nothing more than a legal protection concept and legal protections don't stand up to truly powerful and benevolent actors.
No. It's an old truth. Civilians used to get a degraded signal. In 1996 Clinton declared GPS a dual use technology which ultimately paved the way to the military discontinuing the practice of degrading the signal a few years later.
You think this is for the solar CEOs? Man, pull back one layer of onion and I already smell big oil here.
Why would it? It's not like Oil is used for primary electrical energy in the USA. There's a lot of big polluters here to smell, but oil doesn't really pass the sniff test (pun intended).
If you want the non MS kernel you can still use it by not using Microsoft's cloud platform in the first place
There. FTFY.
Yeah, negotiating an enterprise license with an alternative vendor sounds much easier than typing 3 lines into a console:-)
Now, this is a serious question, but what reason could someone have for running Linux on Azure? Are there not any of a multitude of other better platforms out there for running Linux?
There are, but how many of those fit into existing enterprise agreements? How many of those use the same services by the same vendor as you're already doing business with?
Ubuntu (or any other Linux) on Azure is something that simply does not make sense to me.
You don't have a purchasing department or enterprise licenses where you work do you? The choice of vendor is often one you don't get to make. Be thankful that you have the technical options available to you from the existing vendors.
Smart locks are exactly the opposite too. If it's connected to the internet, it's hackable. End of story. Not to mention, a simple kick and the door opens anyway.
So you have no problem with smart locks then. I mean who would hack a lock when they could just push through it?
You can also construct your own definition of human rights
Sure you can. But can it be enforced anywhere? Those people who do are typically the ones we see on those funny cop videos "shouting" this is abuse I know my rights as they are getting arrested.
What the fuck is Renault Zoe? There are 8 different models of Zoe and the Zoe and the R90 has a 250 MILE range.
Stop being dishonest. Also there's a website which compares lists of EVs and breaks the NEDC range down into kwh/100miles http://pushevs.com/2017/05/23/... and you will note that nearly every car on that list is between 20-25kwh / 100miles. What an amazing technological advantage the 24kWh/100miles Tesla has.
This simply is not occurring.
The first public 350kWh charger is not a Tesla charger and is already in operation. Additionally Ultra-E (the consortium made up of European car manufacturers + ford) will have 400 chargers with higher capacity than the Telsa superchargers in place throughout Europe by 2020 with the first set already under construction now that the EC has signed off on the partnership.
I've been following "EVs displayed at motor shows" is one of the most meaningless metrics out there.
Yeah indeed. Showing off what your R&D is being spent on is meaningless. Let's completely ignore that I'm not talking concept cars here (You've been to motorshows so you should know there is a clear difference between the cars that won't see the light of day and the cars they are actively planning to sell/already selling). Let's ignore the fact that every car company is actively pushing these products and some are actively taking pre-orders for the cars on display.
It's amazing how many of the people exhibiting EVs don't even know much about them beyond what was handed to them to memorize.
Oh I remember now. Engineering and R&D departments are staffed completely with girls with D cups or greater. Yeah such a shock that some eye-candy doesn't know technical stuff. None the less motor shows show industry trends very well. Maybe you should actually think back to the ones you went to and re-analyse what it was you were being shown.... Or go to a better motor show.
Point is, if you think other companies aren't actively working on EVs now you're delusional, and if you think Tesla has any kind of magic battery tech that will keep them ahead of all others then likewise.
To be fair, Nestle SHOULD be painted evil in all this after their CEO's statement that he didn't think water was a human right.
And how is he wrong? Show me where the list of human rights includes water. Water may be cheap. It may be free in some cases and still controlled by people who provide it. It may be donated in vast quantities to the poor. But it sure as hell isn't a "right". You can't sue your local government for charging for water. I can't take my government to the court of human rights for sending me a monthly bill. I sure as hell can't fault Nestle for paying for water at the rate at which it was sold to them.
Water is important. Collecting your own water makes it yours. But the liquid itself isn't a "human right".
Admitidally skipping the S moniker has confused things
That confused things? I thought introducing a new premium product that somehow is uglier and more confusing than it's cheaper counterparts and cost almost twice as much as my first car is what confused things.
LOL. I haven't heard that said about apple for at least 5 generations. I remember the wonders of their seamless integration. Removing perfectly functioning hardware features, releasing products not compatible with each other without a backpack full of dongles, basic things like the ability to use features like fast charging being optional extras, incompatibility with the most popular computers in the world, lack of up to date bluetooth standards, and my personal favourite: iTunes deleting my sister's data not once but twice (this drove her to dump Apple completely and call her brother for advice on how to transfer her iTunes library off that bucket of shit).
The best camera is the one you have with you when you need it. And despite having over $10k in camera gear my phone is the camera that comes with me everywhere.
Competitors like Nissan are still using battery packs that don't even have climate control.
Climate control is a piece needed in a very limited range of climate scenarios. That has an effect only if you're trying to complete with Tesla globally. It's certainly not a required R&D component for a long range fast charging EV in much of the world.
The only company that's even tried to threaten them on range is GM (barely), but it comes in the form of an econobox vehicle at BMW prices. Nobody comes even close to threatening them on charge times (miles range per minute charging).
You haven't looked very hard if you think no one is even close. There are cars that are range competitive with Tesla's offerings (hell the Zoe will match the Model 3 on that for a cool $5000 less), and every other car manufacturer is about to come to the market with equal and better. Tesla's superchargers aren't the most powerful, Porsche took that crown and their EVs are due out next year.
The thing is you're saying Tesla is miles ahead because of some amazing technology, but the reality is Tesla is ahead only because they took the market seriously. With other companies actually seeing that Elon Musk wasn't just bluffing they are coming in strong, hard, and fast. Last year Tesla was one of the few showing off EVs in Frankfurt's motorshow. This year there was barely a car company there that didn't have an multiple upcoming EVs on display. The charging speed of Teslas is due exclusively to them building their own infrastructure, while compatibility with existing infrastructure is ultimately the only thing holding back the competition. However with open infrastructure rapidly closing the gap (and with major plans in motion to overtake) Tesla can't enjoy that lead for very long either.
Not that any of this is a bad thing. Telsa's original remit was to kick the industry hard in the arse, not to become a major automotive company. And I think they've done that.
You're somewhat wrong on the third. Luck is something that the majority of rich people made for themselves. Genetic lottery is how the rich get super rich. The general rich on the other hand get there by what you call "luck" only due to the fact that you don't witness their many failures.
Slashdot Mirror
Just think of what could have been achieved if they had put that effort into something useful.
Like posting on Slashdot? You really showed them.
inclined to follow in the foot steps of Erdogan and alike
One is arresting people associated with a ballot and bypassing banned material.
The other actively killed opponents, arrested people with wide ranging roles including the media in attempt to silence opposition all while passing laws to gain additional power over people and also the judicial system.
Spain's government may not be acting in the purest of democratic ways, but comparing this to what is going on in Turkey severely undermines just how bad the situation in Turkey really is.
Nazis are the modern equivalent of 1940s Jews. Does that blow anyone else's mind?
Cataluña entered Spain voluntarily, more than 500 years ago.
They entered Spain as voluntarily as Confederate states joined the union: they lost a war.
How many went from pro-union to pro-independence due to this nonsense?
Not relevant. Catalonia well and truly has the support for independence already anyway. It's only the Spanish government that is derailing multiple efforts to make it independent *again* (It used to be one).
I have replaced screens.
I have repaired screens. Where replacement screens can cost upwards of $150, on many OLED phones it's possible to actually separate the display from the glass front. I repaired a Galaxy S5 for $11 and those $11 included every tool except of the hot air gun. It not only included UV curing glue but even included the UV lamp needed to cure it.
The repair world quotes based on rip/replace prices. An intermittent problem with the heaphone jack? Replace the entire main circuit board, fixed for $250. No one "repairs" anything anymore except for the tinkerers.
Take it to some backyard-workshop for repairs? Warranty is gone.
If you had warranty you wouldn't take it to a backyard workshop, you'd just send it in and they'd send you a fixed device back.
Why are people so hell-bent on saving every cent on repairs for a device that (now) can cost well above 1k USD?
Because of the cost. Cracked screen on my mum's phone: Quote: $175 to replace. Actual cost: $11, and the ebay kit even included every tool I needed. But the repair takes time which is why companies will insist on replacing the entire display / touch assembly to fix a crack while a backyard shop will just replace the glass on the front of the screen for a very labour intensive job and still charge less than 1/3rd of the cost.
That's like people buying a Ferrari or a Rolls Royce Wraith and then complaining about the cost of ownership because an oil-change or break-pad exchange or fixing a ding costs a fortune.
No. The problem with Ferrari and Rolls Royce is that they are difficult to maintain, and the backyard repair shops will charge you just as much for that damn oil change as Ferrari would. What you are describing is complaining that instead of an oil change Ferrari insist on replacing the entire engine, and that happens just as much in the car world as anywhere else. (Toyota quoted my parents $350 to replace the entire instrument cluster because of a broken lamp, the local garage quoted $120 of which $105 was the several hours work to disassemble half the car to get at the lamp.)
Unfortunately, many times that I am in need of water I am neither in my bathroom (or even in my house at all), nor is it raining.
That's an interesting thought. I'm in the same position often but I can't say I've ever bought bottled water as a result. Does your city not have water fountains available for the public? Or laws that required places that serve alcohol to also serve water for free?
I always figured the problem was cultural or pollution based (i.e. I did drink bottled water in China because I was told to, ... but I never paid for it), it didn't occur to me that some western cities don't actually provide water to people.
Mind you given the cost of water in some places I'll probably still drink beer instead.
For instance, is the right to free speech an entitlement, because the government is benevolent enough to not kill you before you exercise it?
Yes. The right to free speech was granted to you by your government (through the moderation of war). It along with a lot of your other "rights" are always at the mercy of the more powerful (4th amendment free zones anyone?)
Personally I don't have a right to free speech. I live in a place where that is not inscribed in our constitution. That doesn't mean the government is persecuting me right now. A "right" is nothing more than a legal protection concept and legal protections don't stand up to truly powerful and benevolent actors.
is that simply an old myth?
No. It's an old truth. Civilians used to get a degraded signal. In 1996 Clinton declared GPS a dual use technology which ultimately paved the way to the military discontinuing the practice of degrading the signal a few years later.
Er nevermind. I forgot about gas.
You think this is for the solar CEOs? Man, pull back one layer of onion and I already smell big oil here.
Why would it? It's not like Oil is used for primary electrical energy in the USA. There's a lot of big polluters here to smell, but oil doesn't really pass the sniff test (pun intended).
If you want the non MS kernel you can still use it by not using Microsoft's cloud platform in the first place
There. FTFY.
Yeah, negotiating an enterprise license with an alternative vendor sounds much easier than typing 3 lines into a console :-)
Now, this is a serious question, but what reason could someone have for running Linux on Azure? Are there not any of a multitude of other better platforms out there for running Linux?
There are, but how many of those fit into existing enterprise agreements? How many of those use the same services by the same vendor as you're already doing business with?
Ubuntu (or any other Linux) on Azure is something that simply does not make sense to me.
You don't have a purchasing department or enterprise licenses where you work do you? The choice of vendor is often one you don't get to make. Be thankful that you have the technical options available to you from the existing vendors.
Smart locks are exactly the opposite too. If it's connected to the internet, it's hackable. End of story. Not to mention, a simple kick and the door opens anyway.
So you have no problem with smart locks then. I mean who would hack a lock when they could just push through it?
You can also construct your own definition of human rights
Sure you can. But can it be enforced anywhere? Those people who do are typically the ones we see on those funny cop videos "shouting" this is abuse I know my rights as they are getting arrested.
Wrong.
Model 3 SR, MOdel 3 LR, And a Renault Zoe.
What the fuck is Renault Zoe? There are 8 different models of Zoe and the Zoe and the R90 has a 250 MILE range.
Stop being dishonest. Also there's a website which compares lists of EVs and breaks the NEDC range down into kwh/100miles http://pushevs.com/2017/05/23/... and you will note that nearly every car on that list is between 20-25kwh / 100miles. What an amazing technological advantage the 24kWh/100miles Tesla has.
This simply is not occurring.
The first public 350kWh charger is not a Tesla charger and is already in operation. Additionally Ultra-E (the consortium made up of European car manufacturers + ford) will have 400 chargers with higher capacity than the Telsa superchargers in place throughout Europe by 2020 with the first set already under construction now that the EC has signed off on the partnership.
I've been following "EVs displayed at motor shows" is one of the most meaningless metrics out there.
Yeah indeed. Showing off what your R&D is being spent on is meaningless. Let's completely ignore that I'm not talking concept cars here (You've been to motorshows so you should know there is a clear difference between the cars that won't see the light of day and the cars they are actively planning to sell/already selling). Let's ignore the fact that every car company is actively pushing these products and some are actively taking pre-orders for the cars on display.
It's amazing how many of the people exhibiting EVs don't even know much about them beyond what was handed to them to memorize.
Oh I remember now. Engineering and R&D departments are staffed completely with girls with D cups or greater. Yeah such a shock that some eye-candy doesn't know technical stuff. None the less motor shows show industry trends very well. Maybe you should actually think back to the ones you went to and re-analyse what it was you were being shown. ... Or go to a better motor show.
Point is, if you think other companies aren't actively working on EVs now you're delusional, and if you think Tesla has any kind of magic battery tech that will keep them ahead of all others then likewise.
you do not own the water that falls onto that land.
The trick is to catch it before it hits the land anyway. Otherwise it gets dirty.
To be fair, Nestle SHOULD be painted evil in all this after their CEO's statement that he didn't think water was a human right.
And how is he wrong? Show me where the list of human rights includes water. Water may be cheap. It may be free in some cases and still controlled by people who provide it. It may be donated in vast quantities to the poor. But it sure as hell isn't a "right". You can't sue your local government for charging for water. I can't take my government to the court of human rights for sending me a monthly bill. I sure as hell can't fault Nestle for paying for water at the rate at which it was sold to them.
Water is important. Collecting your own water makes it yours. But the liquid itself isn't a "human right".
Admitidally skipping the S moniker has confused things
That confused things? I thought introducing a new premium product that somehow is uglier and more confusing than it's cheaper counterparts and cost almost twice as much as my first car is what confused things.
all fully and seamlessly integrated.
LOL. I haven't heard that said about apple for at least 5 generations. I remember the wonders of their seamless integration. Removing perfectly functioning hardware features, releasing products not compatible with each other without a backpack full of dongles, basic things like the ability to use features like fast charging being optional extras, incompatibility with the most popular computers in the world, lack of up to date bluetooth standards, and my personal favourite: iTunes deleting my sister's data not once but twice (this drove her to dump Apple completely and call her brother for advice on how to transfer her iTunes library off that bucket of shit).
Apple: it just works*
*playing with your dongle.
Frankly people who say "it's a telephone" should go find themselves another forum.
Here's a suitable one: http://www.mapministry.org/for...
that's really awesome
[Citation needed]
The best camera is the one you have with you when you need it. And despite having over $10k in camera gear my phone is the camera that comes with me everywhere.
Competitors like Nissan are still using battery packs that don't even have climate control.
Climate control is a piece needed in a very limited range of climate scenarios. That has an effect only if you're trying to complete with Tesla globally. It's certainly not a required R&D component for a long range fast charging EV in much of the world.
The only company that's even tried to threaten them on range is GM (barely), but it comes in the form of an econobox vehicle at BMW prices. Nobody comes even close to threatening them on charge times (miles range per minute charging).
You haven't looked very hard if you think no one is even close. There are cars that are range competitive with Tesla's offerings (hell the Zoe will match the Model 3 on that for a cool $5000 less), and every other car manufacturer is about to come to the market with equal and better. Tesla's superchargers aren't the most powerful, Porsche took that crown and their EVs are due out next year.
The thing is you're saying Tesla is miles ahead because of some amazing technology, but the reality is Tesla is ahead only because they took the market seriously. With other companies actually seeing that Elon Musk wasn't just bluffing they are coming in strong, hard, and fast. Last year Tesla was one of the few showing off EVs in Frankfurt's motorshow. This year there was barely a car company there that didn't have an multiple upcoming EVs on display. The charging speed of Teslas is due exclusively to them building their own infrastructure, while compatibility with existing infrastructure is ultimately the only thing holding back the competition. However with open infrastructure rapidly closing the gap (and with major plans in motion to overtake) Tesla can't enjoy that lead for very long either.
Not that any of this is a bad thing. Telsa's original remit was to kick the industry hard in the arse, not to become a major automotive company. And I think they've done that.
You're somewhat wrong on the third. Luck is something that the majority of rich people made for themselves. Genetic lottery is how the rich get super rich. The general rich on the other hand get there by what you call "luck" only due to the fact that you don't witness their many failures.