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  1. Re: If you can only complete and sell 15 cars a ye on Tesla Discontinues Its Most Affordable Model S (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not quite. Tesla has high prices because they need to charge that to stay in business. They staying afloat. The luxury yuppie image is purely because those are the people that can afford the vehicles. If they weren't targeting them they would be a historical foot note. Apples prices are high purely because people will pay it. They are practically printing money.

  2. Too bad its stuck to IOS, the OS made specifically for non power users.

  3. Re:The figure that matters... on Samsung Unveils New Electric Car Batteries For Up To 430 Miles of Range (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    And what does that do to the battery pack lifespan? An ICE lives longer and is more efficient with constant highway use vs short city trips. Electric is the opposite.

  4. Re:Canon did this with their early low-end dSLRs on Tesla Temporarily Boosts Battery Capacity For Hurricane Irma (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally I'm less bothered because it makes the car love longer. If cannons cameras became more reliable and robust while those features were off and gave that up to turn them on, people would care less.

  5. Re:Opportunity for hacks? on Tesla Temporarily Boosts Battery Capacity For Hurricane Irma (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    And do what about it? You own it. You can do as you please with it. At most they could invalidate your warranty and stop supplying software updates.

  6. Re:Before jumping to conclusions on Tesla Temporarily Boosts Battery Capacity For Hurricane Irma (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine if the 500GB SSD you bought was actually 650GB with 100GB only used for wear leveling. Compared to another 500GB drive, it's obviously superior. So long as I'm getting the paid for capacity it's a good deal. On that note, every single video card and cpu is done this way. Server grade hardware is too. You pay to unlock additional features. Us DIY folks have been unlocking the extra abilities of our property for ages. So long as the gov doesn't declare you can't modify them, it's all good.

  7. Re:VR is terribly inconvenient. on VR's Tough Demand: Your Undivided Attention (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Both headsets are capable of the same things. Oculus by default only has a sensor setup for front facing. It costs $60 to add a rear camera so you can rotate. Neither require a large area except when simulating a room. It is a pain to take them on and off though. If they had higher resolution to make desktop work more feasible (I can bring up my normal desktop in VR any time) and didn't require to be off to finish installing programs, it would be a non issue.

  8. Re:Compelling reason: VR interactive porn on VR's Tough Demand: Your Undivided Attention (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It exists. Several titles. Look up VR Kanojo. Has better graphics and animation than any of the normal games for it lol.

  9. Re:Can we just get an affordable, usable phone?! on Google Is Apparently Ready To Buy Smartphone Maker HTC (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, I won't buy a phone with a screen smaller than 5.7 I use mine as a portable PC moreso than phone. Everyone else has been going the same direction. Hence the popularity of big phones. The pixel was too small and too expensive for me to look at it.

  10. Re:Practice, practice, practice on Do Code Bootcamps Work? (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    I took a one week T-SQL course. I only got anything out of the first 2 days. The rest was a waste of time and money. It would work better as a single day lecture that gets your feet wet and gives you an idea of what's possible so you know what to Google. The Microsoft courseware C# class I took was even worse. Complete waste of time and money. A million details which I have a zero percent chance of remembering without practice. Bored me to death.

  11. Did any of you read the article? on Tesla's Electric Semi Truck Will Reportedly Get 200-300 Miles Per Charge (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're all super focused on the range. Tesla has not said anything about the range. Some guy gave his theory. Now you're all jumping on that and either crapping on them or supporting them.

  12. Re:Act before it's too late on Smartphone Maker HTC Explores Strategic Options (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why? They have a risk free business that prints money. Why get into a risky hardware business. They want the headsets to exist but they don't have any reason to take a risk making them.

  13. Re:Photoshop on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Pay To See Open Sourced? · · Score: 1

    As someone who uses both, at least with gimp you can learn your way around once and work from there. Photoshop has multiple modes you can activate that just needlessly complicate it. I also found both to be much easier than any 3d modeling program I've tried. I want to see one of those with an understandable interface. I eventually gave up trying to learn them due to sheer frustration.

  14. Re: The Fire Phone failed for a reason. on The Verge's Essential Phone Review: An Arcane Artifact From an Unrealized Future (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    LeEco tried to hit the market with high end stuff for cheap. Didn't work. I have one of their phones and its great hardware. A shame :(

  15. Re:How is this even controversial? on Higher Minimum Wages Bring Automation and Job Losses, Study Suggests (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they scream it will cost jobs, well we are already having to subsidize those workers with government aid to keep them alive and under a roof. Those companies shouldn't get to ride that subsidization train like that.

  16. Re:Speaking just for me on Hollywood's Bad Summer Movies Are Driving a Decline in Movie Ticket Sales (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When you politicize your content, you alienate half the population no matter which direction you lean. Nothing new there. Hollywood seems to have forgotten this because they think California is the world.

  17. Re:Most funny bit of this all on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Dangit, I wish I could edit. Stinking autocorrect. They fire you*

  18. Most funny bit of this all on Google Cancels Town Hall To Discuss Diversity In Its Ranks (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Diversity is always sold as being about getting different points of view and a broader spectrum of backgrounds... but they for you if you actually have a different point of view lol.

  19. Re:sad but predictable on Fired Google Engineer Says Company Execs Shamed and Smeared Him (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe he should sue the reporters for libel. Sure would be nice if there were real penalties for fake news, especially when slanderous.

  20. Re:he's not a whistleblower on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Discriminating again white males by not offering them the same opportunities based on race and gender is though.

  21. Wrongful termination on Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo On Gender Differences (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If he takes them to court and can prove that his statements are scientifically backed at the statistical scale, they they aren't stereotypes and it would be wrongful termination right? I would LOVE to see that happen. So tired of the like that says everyone is genetically the same. It's literally shouting at proof to try and scare it into falsehood.

  22. Never had any power limitations except on prebuilt PCs. A good power supply costs so little extra and adds headroom for age, meaning I can keep it for multiple generations.

  23. Almost no one prints ABS anymore. Its only good property is heat tolerance. PLA is the most popular for things where strength isn't needed. Outside of that there us nylon, petg, polycarbonate, etc....

  24. Why not skip to the end result? on Stem Cell Brain Implants Could 'Slow Aging and Extend Life,' Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They say the cells are releasing small bits of RNA that trigger gene switches. Why not just synthesize that instead of shooting cells into our brains and hoping they do what they are supposed to?

  25. Domain trust relationship... on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    1. No quick and easy way to fix a domain trust relationship problem. Always have to unjoin and rejoin. 2. Windows 10 can't really remove built in apps. They come back. 3. Switching domain users is unintuitive. 4. Changing passwords when screen is locked and password is expired is also unintuitive. Meaning I have to explain it to users weekly.