The article (well, summary) is about how tesla has its own factory now (an old GM/Toyota plant fyi). Deliveries of the model S started last month, albeit to select customers but they are indeed on the road. They may or may not hit their target of 5000 this year but you have a point: why wait when you can just assume failure now for trying something new and difficult?
"the failure of other Android device manufacturers to develop better software than Google"
Isn't that the way its supposed to work? Google maintains android and device manufacturers manufacture devices. All the problems seem to happen when this is ignored.
This is true for sure but I don't think it has anything to do with the article. One reason so many foreign students are authors on research papers is because staying in college for a doctorate is the only way for them to stay in the US. If you look at undergrad and masters programs there are much more native students. Its just that they have a much easier time getting a job and making money because of their immigration status (duh) and especially in STEM, the only real place to work is for the government...which almost always requires US citizenship. So the choice for US citizens is get a decent paycheck or continue slogging it out for some professor. I chose the former.
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Anecdote alert: nearly every foreign national I knew in grad school was from a rich family abroad. That gives them a much better chance of sustaining a college career through a doctorate. I think those factors are whats really swinging academic innovation in favor of foreigners.
The beauty of the future is that it does not have to be restricted based on our current technological inabilities.
That's not quite fair to the vast current technological Capabilities. Sure there's a long way to go but the problem proposed by this story is more due to what humans can do now than what they can't.
Point is, the "I had no idea the job was going to be like this" idea is completely unbelievable to me.
I didn't mean to suggest someone hired to look good doesn't think they'd be ogled all day. They probably don't think it'll be a big deal, just like standing around smiling sounds easy right? My point is there is a difference between being told about it and actually living it. How many HS teachers do you know that went in with a can do attitude and all sorts of techniques of dealing with problem kids and then 5 years later quit because its just too much to deal with (I know and know of a few so take that fwiw)? Those teachers went to HS too so they also experienced it first hand. The booth babe phenomenon (as I just named it) is the same principle.
But isn't that the problem here? The article doesn't go into it much but a lot of these "booth babes" are hired as product representatives (see: the booth babe series on www.thetruthaboutcars.com). They are trained to answer questions on whatever they are standing in front of. And then (as in the article) some company tweets that you have a nice ass or every moron asks "do you come with the ____?". That sounds like they switched the shovel for a spoon to me.
Right, because telling someone they might be uncomfortable on some job has the exact same effect as actually BEING uncomfortable for 8 hours a day indefinitely.
Just a thought going against the slashdot grain...
I don't have a link or anything to back this up but I think I read that something like 80%-90% of all humans believe in some sort of god in the traditional sense of an all powerful being that created a bunch of fun stuff. Maybe that statistic is off by quite a few % but my premise is, most of the world is religious in some way and has been throughout history. Wouldn't that mean that the few % that are NOT religious (including myself) the ones with the unusual mental condition (or illness as you put it)?
Or maybe we're just finally evolving to not need religion anymore. The point is, you need more than a polio comparison before you say almost everyone but yourself has a mental condition. Something along the lines of: not believing in god is evolutionarily (not a word I know) superior for a species because of X. Because the counterpoint is, 90% of humans believe in a deity and that same human race has single handedly expanded to change the face of a planet more so than millions of years of geologic events, and harnessed some of the most powerful forces in the universe (yeah maybe scientists at Los Alamos didn't believe in god but I'd bet if you traced the various discoveries that made that possible back through the ages, you'd find quite a few that did).
In summary, take a good look in the mirror before you call everyone else crazy. And yes, please provide that "X" to me because it seems like a good thing to know.
Most people don't make anywhere near enough money to get even close to these brackets.
Thats true for the highest brackets, but my point still stands for the 25% tax bracket which starts at $35k and encompasses more than half of all workers (median salary in the US is $44k)
The US 33% tax bracket starts at $178K filing single and $217k filing jointly. So if you and your spouse both made $175k pre marriage, just getting married increases your tax rate by 5%. I'm guessing the majority of husbands and wives both work full time nowadays so most people are getting screwed. Those that aren't, have a home maker or trophy wife for a spouse.
In that case, you get those extra 5% in taxes (or $8k) off your tax bill but are also giving up $40k worth of second incomes! And half your assets in the imminent trophy wive divorce (zing!). But if being with your spouse makes you forget about shit like "tax brackets" on every day but April 15, you're good to go. Otherwise you're making a tea party stump speech, grover norquist, or shouldn't be getting married.
When people think of America they think of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo
The fact that people (Americans included) can think of those topics and speak their mind about them says a hell of a lot about America. Hint: that's a good thing. Please list countries with no skeletons in their closet so we can all move there.
Colleges need football teams like fish need bicycles
A better analogy would be "colleges need football teams like congress need lobbyists". Lobbyists bring in tons of money and congress changes laws to make them happy. Much to the chagrin of most everyone else. They have all grown much more dependent on each other than fish and bicycles.
Speaking of bitching about paying taxes, I don't understand the mantra of "higher taxes means people won't invest in job creation" etc... Lets say you're a billionaire and pay 15% tax on your investments that earn you $50M/year. If the tax rate gets raised to 30% does that mean you're going to pull out of all your investments to avoid that extra 15% of taxes...and lose out on the frikkin 70% you still would have made!?!? Bullshit. I guess there is always the "they'll just take their money off shore crap.
Fair enough. There is a ton of crap in the bargain bin...but there is a ton of crap from every generation. That incomparable "old content" is cherry picked and I'd bet the past decade has yielded the same amount of great entertainment as any in the 20th century. Plus, the studios already made money off those bargain bin movies and a DVD cost a few cents to press. If anyone buys one for $4.99 its still a win.
People smart enough to use the loop holes had tons of time to figure it out because they were already rich...or they could afford to hire a team of accountants to do it for them. All the other smart people that aren't rich are busy working and don't have time to read thousands of pages of tax code. I won't deny there is a lot of whining going around but you can't honestly believe that having millions of dollars isn't a huge, perpetuating advantage.
Tell you the little Hollywood secret, they HATE this. If the rubicon of 24fps & 2D is crossed, the film industry and all their flicks will be stamped as outdated '70s era films.
Really? I always thought Hollywood was jamming 3D down our throats. If 48fps takes hold and 3D starts being worthwhile, then the MPAA can just sell us all their old crap again in new "remastered" editions. The Citizen Kane blu ray collectors edition runs for $70!
So your consistent 1000% monthly returns should have made you a multi-millionaire already this year and you're still wasting time posting to slashdot? You should be out trans-world hot air ballooning, visiting the marianas trench, buying sports teams/senators, and doing two chicks at the same time! Unless something crazy happened like, not all of your investments make money...
Hang on a second...First you're mad that the article didn't have any pictures and was just full of words. Now you're mad that those words aren't complicated enough? At war with your inner child perhaps?
Now any other country doing this would not have any issues.
I'm not going to argue that the US isn't grossly hypocritical but you can't call North Korea just another country. Not 2 years ago they torpedoed and sank a south korean navy ship! 2/5 of their population is currently in the military and up to 400k of the rest are in prisions/camps with a 40% mortality rate. The reason the population isn't in constant famine is because of food aid provided by countries such as the US under conditions that they not develop ICBMs! Their grand leader for eternity died decades ago. IMO, north korea filing a flight plan for a rocket launch is about the same as someone guilty of a knife attack applying for a gun. As for Iran, the US should get the hell out of the middle east but a regime who's goal is to destroy a nearby country (Israel) shouldn't get a free pass.
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Tesla is SOL.
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The article (well, summary) is about how tesla has its own factory now (an old GM/Toyota plant fyi). Deliveries of the model S started last month, albeit to select customers but they are indeed on the road. They may or may not hit their target of 5000 this year but you have a point: why wait when you can just assume failure now for trying something new and difficult?
Isn't that the way its supposed to work? Google maintains android and device manufacturers manufacture devices. All the problems seem to happen when this is ignored.
Really mods?? +5 Interesting? Is this your protest of not having a +1 hyperbole? Or +1 greenpeace gone wild? Or is this a ploy to wear out my '?' key?
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Anecdote alert: nearly every foreign national I knew in grad school was from a rich family abroad. That gives them a much better chance of sustaining a college career through a doctorate. I think those factors are whats really swinging academic innovation in favor of foreigners.
The beauty of the future is that it does not have to be restricted based on our current technological inabilities.
That's not quite fair to the vast current technological Capabilities. Sure there's a long way to go but the problem proposed by this story is more due to what humans can do now than what they can't.
Point is, the "I had no idea the job was going to be like this" idea is completely unbelievable to me.
I didn't mean to suggest someone hired to look good doesn't think they'd be ogled all day. They probably don't think it'll be a big deal, just like standing around smiling sounds easy right? My point is there is a difference between being told about it and actually living it. How many HS teachers do you know that went in with a can do attitude and all sorts of techniques of dealing with problem kids and then 5 years later quit because its just too much to deal with (I know and know of a few so take that fwiw)? Those teachers went to HS too so they also experienced it first hand. The booth babe phenomenon (as I just named it) is the same principle.
But isn't that the problem here? The article doesn't go into it much but a lot of these "booth babes" are hired as product representatives (see: the booth babe series on www.thetruthaboutcars.com). They are trained to answer questions on whatever they are standing in front of. And then (as in the article) some company tweets that you have a nice ass or every moron asks "do you come with the ____?". That sounds like they switched the shovel for a spoon to me.
They knew exactly what was going to be involved.
Right, because telling someone they might be uncomfortable on some job has the exact same effect as actually BEING uncomfortable for 8 hours a day indefinitely.
Well shit, if you've seen or heard about those war crime videos and they are soon forgotten, then its your own damn fault.
I don't have a link or anything to back this up but I think I read that something like 80%-90% of all humans believe in some sort of god in the traditional sense of an all powerful being that created a bunch of fun stuff. Maybe that statistic is off by quite a few % but my premise is, most of the world is religious in some way and has been throughout history. Wouldn't that mean that the few % that are NOT religious (including myself) the ones with the unusual mental condition (or illness as you put it)?
Or maybe we're just finally evolving to not need religion anymore. The point is, you need more than a polio comparison before you say almost everyone but yourself has a mental condition. Something along the lines of: not believing in god is evolutionarily (not a word I know) superior for a species because of X. Because the counterpoint is, 90% of humans believe in a deity and that same human race has single handedly expanded to change the face of a planet more so than millions of years of geologic events, and harnessed some of the most powerful forces in the universe (yeah maybe scientists at Los Alamos didn't believe in god but I'd bet if you traced the various discoveries that made that possible back through the ages, you'd find quite a few that did).
In summary, take a good look in the mirror before you call everyone else crazy. And yes, please provide that "X" to me because it seems like a good thing to know.
Studies show that modern teens are having less sex and starting later
I'm flabberghasted! You're right! I assumed the opposite based pop culture (I know I know...) but sure as day, here it is:
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/sexualbehaviors/data.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/TeenPregnancy/AboutTeenPreg.htm
Maybe not "for" but you gotta admit that all this mainstream pop culture stuff is surely news TO nerds.
Most people don't make anywhere near enough money to get even close to these brackets.
Thats true for the highest brackets, but my point still stands for the 25% tax bracket which starts at $35k and encompasses more than half of all workers (median salary in the US is $44k)
The same table shows that as a married couple you can choose to file separately.
Thats true...IF...you each make under $35K. Median US income in 2004 was $44k.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#Year_2012_income_brackets_and_tax_rates
The US 33% tax bracket starts at $178K filing single and $217k filing jointly. So if you and your spouse both made $175k pre marriage, just getting married increases your tax rate by 5%. I'm guessing the majority of husbands and wives both work full time nowadays so most people are getting screwed. Those that aren't, have a home maker or trophy wife for a spouse.
In that case, you get those extra 5% in taxes (or $8k) off your tax bill but are also giving up $40k worth of second incomes! And half your assets in the imminent trophy wive divorce (zing!). But if being with your spouse makes you forget about shit like "tax brackets" on every day but April 15, you're good to go. Otherwise you're making a tea party stump speech, grover norquist, or shouldn't be getting married.
When people think of America they think of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo
The fact that people (Americans included) can think of those topics and speak their mind about them says a hell of a lot about America. Hint: that's a good thing. Please list countries with no skeletons in their closet so we can all move there.
Colleges need football teams like fish need bicycles
A better analogy would be "colleges need football teams like congress need lobbyists". Lobbyists bring in tons of money and congress changes laws to make them happy. Much to the chagrin of most everyone else. They have all grown much more dependent on each other than fish and bicycles.
Speaking of bitching about paying taxes, I don't understand the mantra of "higher taxes means people won't invest in job creation" etc... Lets say you're a billionaire and pay 15% tax on your investments that earn you $50M/year. If the tax rate gets raised to 30% does that mean you're going to pull out of all your investments to avoid that extra 15% of taxes...and lose out on the frikkin 70% you still would have made!?!? Bullshit. I guess there is always the "they'll just take their money off shore crap.
Fair enough. There is a ton of crap in the bargain bin...but there is a ton of crap from every generation. That incomparable "old content" is cherry picked and I'd bet the past decade has yielded the same amount of great entertainment as any in the 20th century. Plus, the studios already made money off those bargain bin movies and a DVD cost a few cents to press. If anyone buys one for $4.99 its still a win.
But I'm still allowed to hate the game, right?
People smart enough to use the loop holes had tons of time to figure it out because they were already rich...or they could afford to hire a team of accountants to do it for them. All the other smart people that aren't rich are busy working and don't have time to read thousands of pages of tax code. I won't deny there is a lot of whining going around but you can't honestly believe that having millions of dollars isn't a huge, perpetuating advantage.
Tell you the little Hollywood secret, they HATE this. If the rubicon of 24fps & 2D is crossed, the film industry and all their flicks will be stamped as outdated '70s era films.
Really? I always thought Hollywood was jamming 3D down our throats. If 48fps takes hold and 3D starts being worthwhile, then the MPAA can just sell us all their old crap again in new "remastered" editions. The Citizen Kane blu ray collectors edition runs for $70!
So your consistent 1000% monthly returns should have made you a multi-millionaire already this year and you're still wasting time posting to slashdot? You should be out trans-world hot air ballooning, visiting the marianas trench, buying sports teams/senators, and doing two chicks at the same time! Unless something crazy happened like, not all of your investments make money...
Hang on a second...First you're mad that the article didn't have any pictures and was just full of words. Now you're mad that those words aren't complicated enough? At war with your inner child perhaps?
Now any other country doing this would not have any issues.
I'm not going to argue that the US isn't grossly hypocritical but you can't call North Korea just another country. Not 2 years ago they torpedoed and sank a south korean navy ship! 2/5 of their population is currently in the military and up to 400k of the rest are in prisions/camps with a 40% mortality rate. The reason the population isn't in constant famine is because of food aid provided by countries such as the US under conditions that they not develop ICBMs! Their grand leader for eternity died decades ago. IMO, north korea filing a flight plan for a rocket launch is about the same as someone guilty of a knife attack applying for a gun. As for Iran, the US should get the hell out of the middle east but a regime who's goal is to destroy a nearby country (Israel) shouldn't get a free pass.