It's rumored that Toyota and Honda have been selling their hybrids at a loss, mainly to keep their CAFE average in conformance as they were selling more SUVs. A small start-up can't afford to do cost-shifting like that.
The major car companies have been selling their sub-compacts at a loss for years due to CAFE averages.
Just goes to show you what regulation really does. It prevents new entries into a established market due to the costs being so high.
No, it prevents new entrants from pulling the same scams that the established companies are getting away with currently. It doesn't prevent new entries into the market where the entrant actually complies with the law (and the "spirit" of the law as the saying goes).
... unlike Chrysler and GM. Between automaker loans and clean-energy, get-off-oil money, there's got to be something to help Tesla out.
Failing that, guys, make cars people can afford. You make a bad ass Roadster. Now make a RegularCar, that I can buy for 75k, and I'll have one in the driveway tomorrow.
You must live an privileged life if what you consider to be "regular cars" sell for 75k. Unless maybe you're talking pesos or yen or something? I think most of us would like to see electric cars in the 20k range (just slightly cheaper than the chevy volt for example).
A ridiculous concept to be sure, but one that is used in real life. A friend of mine found a note in his car from the local police department asserting that they had burgled his car and that he should lock it. Personally I think he should have gone to the trouble of pressing charges against them, but that's beside the point. It's unfortunate that many people today find this sort of practice acceptable. Neither burglary or website hacking is acceptable regardless of the reason you're doing it. Maybe next they'll go around raping women to prove that the women should have been carrying mace and stun guns? Oh wait, I think they do that in Libya right now...
I was under the impression that the only significant dissension on this topic was among non scientists. Are there are credible scientists making arguments against climate change?
These days you don't have to use the interface at all. Works perfectly with both outlook (which I like quite a bit) and even the baked in email program for android. I see the Hotmail UI maybe once a year.
I'm not saying the Hotmail UI isn't horrible, just that there's no need to use it now days.
It's shocking to me that so many people are taking bitcoin seriously. Even before all the news stories started coming out about stuff like this it just sounded like a bad idea to me.. why would anyone want to risk it?
I think it's a whole lot "greyer" than that. True, most applications aren't suited for massively parallel processing but if this improves my application performance by even 1%, why not use it?
Them and pretty much anyone who writes c++ code and wants their software to run faster. I suppose if you're interested in having your software run slower, this may not be for you.
Not sure what your point is here. Are you saying it's hypocritical to advocate for "human rights" while purchasing/using (or even evangelizing) Apple products?
I don't think I ignored your comment; I merely stated that speed to market is only one factor in the decision process. In my opinion not the most important factor. Your analysis of what is cost effective should not _only_ include development time, but also testing, and also time/money spent to support the product. If you sell a product that depends on some third party library and that product fails to work because some user changed the library you can finger point all you want, but in the end it's going to damage your firm's reputation and cost you money supporting the product. I am not referring specifically only to xp; good c or java code could be relatively easily ported from winall to osx or linux or bsd and possibly even iOS/android.
All of these things are factors in cost, unless you're some fly by night firm that's going to sell a product and disappear when it comes time to support it. AFAIK Apple isn't planning on closing their doors anytime soon so that means support (and the associated costs of support) *should* be a consideration.
I agree that a developer need to determine what is cost effective, my point is that speed to market is only one contributing factor to a bigger picture.
... and that is how low quality software products are born.
Is "speed to market" more important to you than being able to sell your software product to the growing number of non windows users? Supportability increases when you write your own code because there are fewer components whose change cycle is not under your direct control. I can't count the number of times I've seen software problems on windows systems due to updates to libraries like.net or even the old vb runtime. Write your code, control your own destiny. That's my opinion. Most times writing your own code is really not a huge deal; for example two weeks ago I wrote an socket level FTP routine (I know, insecure... it wasn't important in this case) rather than using the stuff that comes with java. The result is that my utility will run on pretty much any sun jvm 1.1 and up. Might even work on non sun jvm's because I minimize my dependencies on newer classes.
Speed to market can be a consideration, but in my opinion people put an inappropriate weight on this factor when they should be emphasizing quality and supportability instead.
You can still do the same things if you write your own code rather than trying to use somebody else's (usually bloated) API. Sometimes this is simple, sometimes it's actually a little work to write.
Please don't take this as being rude, but... are you a software developer? Doing what you ask isn't easy at all - it requires a ton of work. And then to on top of that support not only multiple operating systems, but really old versions of said operating systems is a huge, huge chunk of work.
Shouldn't be too tough. Just don't use api's like.net etc. If you write something in straight C or MAYBE c++ (or better, java and have it run on any platform) then it's usually pretty easy to get the thing working on many windows os's. Exceptions would include where you were doing something needing special security rights.. which I would not expect iCloud to need based on description of what it does.
I know, I know. Someone will throw a speed to market related response out there. Let me preemptively say this; Speed to market is usually something amateur devs as an excuse for a lack of proper coding skills.
I would recommend caution in allowing this forum to be co-opted for disseminating political dirty tricks. I mean, really, (a) how does anyone know that the defacement, if even true, was executed by "Palin fans," and (b) isn't it just a bit too convenient that this is inserted on a site known to harbor trolls who will be all too ready to spread any gossip that feeds their predilections and prejudices? Unless, of course, one is all to happy be a political party's bitch. Some people just love dressing up, I guess.
He just said the same people who contribute to Palin pages positively are the same ones editing the Paul Revere page. This rules out people trying to screw her reputation, this rules out trolls. This does not rule out supporters and random lunatics, though.
I fail to see the distinction between the latter two groups. Could you elaborate?
Lulzsec strikes wikipedia, this time stealing knowledge. As proof of the hack, their website features pictures of Paul Revere and xzibit mash-up photos.
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It's rumored that Toyota and Honda have been selling their hybrids at a loss, mainly to keep their CAFE average in conformance as they were selling more SUVs. A small start-up can't afford to do cost-shifting like that.
The major car companies have been selling their sub-compacts at a loss for years due to CAFE averages.
Just goes to show you what regulation really does. It prevents new entries into a established market due to the costs being so high.
No, it prevents new entrants from pulling the same scams that the established companies are getting away with currently. It doesn't prevent new entries into the market where the entrant actually complies with the law (and the "spirit" of the law as the saying goes).
... unlike Chrysler and GM. Between automaker loans and clean-energy, get-off-oil money, there's got to be something to help Tesla out.
Failing that, guys, make cars people can afford. You make a bad ass Roadster. Now make a RegularCar, that I can buy for 75k, and I'll have one in the driveway tomorrow.
You must live an privileged life if what you consider to be "regular cars" sell for 75k. Unless maybe you're talking pesos or yen or something? I think most of us would like to see electric cars in the 20k range (just slightly cheaper than the chevy volt for example).
"Spammers, it turns out, aren't like everyone else: they have fewer friends.
Spammers are assholes, assholes don't have as many friends as non assholes. It wasn't that hard to put together.
A ridiculous concept to be sure, but one that is used in real life. A friend of mine found a note in his car from the local police department asserting that they had burgled his car and that he should lock it. Personally I think he should have gone to the trouble of pressing charges against them, but that's beside the point. It's unfortunate that many people today find this sort of practice acceptable. Neither burglary or website hacking is acceptable regardless of the reason you're doing it. Maybe next they'll go around raping women to prove that the women should have been carrying mace and stun guns? Oh wait, I think they do that in Libya right now...
I can't believe people actually read that guy's drivel.
I was under the impression that the only significant dissension on this topic was among non scientists. Are there are credible scientists making arguments against climate change?
These days you don't have to use the interface at all. Works perfectly with both outlook (which I like quite a bit) and even the baked in email program for android. I see the Hotmail UI maybe once a year.
I'm not saying the Hotmail UI isn't horrible, just that there's no need to use it now days.
It's shocking to me that so many people are taking bitcoin seriously. Even before all the news stories started coming out about stuff like this it just sounded like a bad idea to me.. why would anyone want to risk it?
Your pain is our pleasure!
I think it's a whole lot "greyer" than that. True, most applications aren't suited for massively parallel processing but if this improves my application performance by even 1%, why not use it?
Them and pretty much anyone who writes c++ code and wants their software to run faster. I suppose if you're interested in having your software run slower, this may not be for you.
It's also a pseudo energy drink!
Correct!
Not sure what your point is here. Are you saying it's hypocritical to advocate for "human rights" while purchasing/using (or even evangelizing) Apple products?
That's about the size of it, yes.
Uh do you mean they don't play music older than about 6 months old? Golden Oldies != Top 40.
Private companies are going to pay for multi billion dollar infrastructure without anti competitive exclusive usage of it?
Nope, the republicans will never have that.
I don't think I ignored your comment; I merely stated that speed to market is only one factor in the decision process. In my opinion not the most important factor. Your analysis of what is cost effective should not _only_ include development time, but also testing, and also time/money spent to support the product. If you sell a product that depends on some third party library and that product fails to work because some user changed the library you can finger point all you want, but in the end it's going to damage your firm's reputation and cost you money supporting the product. I am not referring specifically only to xp; good c or java code could be relatively easily ported from winall to osx or linux or bsd and possibly even iOS/android.
All of these things are factors in cost, unless you're some fly by night firm that's going to sell a product and disappear when it comes time to support it. AFAIK Apple isn't planning on closing their doors anytime soon so that means support (and the associated costs of support) *should* be a consideration.
I agree that a developer need to determine what is cost effective, my point is that speed to market is only one contributing factor to a bigger picture.
... and that is how low quality software products are born.
.net or even the old vb runtime. Write your code, control your own destiny. That's my opinion. Most times writing your own code is really not a huge deal; for example two weeks ago I wrote an socket level FTP routine (I know, insecure... it wasn't important in this case) rather than using the stuff that comes with java. The result is that my utility will run on pretty much any sun jvm 1.1 and up. Might even work on non sun jvm's because I minimize my dependencies on newer classes.
Is "speed to market" more important to you than being able to sell your software product to the growing number of non windows users? Supportability increases when you write your own code because there are fewer components whose change cycle is not under your direct control. I can't count the number of times I've seen software problems on windows systems due to updates to libraries like
Speed to market can be a consideration, but in my opinion people put an inappropriate weight on this factor when they should be emphasizing quality and supportability instead.
You can still do the same things if you write your own code rather than trying to use somebody else's (usually bloated) API. Sometimes this is simple, sometimes it's actually a little work to write.
Please don't take this as being rude, but... are you a software developer? Doing what you ask isn't easy at all - it requires a ton of work. And then to on top of that support not only multiple operating systems, but really old versions of said operating systems is a huge, huge chunk of work.
Shouldn't be too tough. Just don't use api's like .net etc. If you write something in straight C or MAYBE c++ (or better, java and have it run on any platform) then it's usually pretty easy to get the thing working on many windows os's. Exceptions would include where you were doing something needing special security rights.. which I would not expect iCloud to need based on description of what it does.
I know, I know. Someone will throw a speed to market related response out there. Let me preemptively say this; Speed to market is usually something amateur devs as an excuse for a lack of proper coding skills.
It's a bank, they ISSUE those things. How could they run the business without storing them?
No, he was merely gifted.
I would recommend caution in allowing this forum to be co-opted for disseminating political dirty tricks. I mean, really, (a) how does anyone know that the defacement, if even true, was executed by "Palin fans," and (b) isn't it just a bit too convenient that this is inserted on a site known to harbor trolls who will be all too ready to spread any gossip that feeds their predilections and prejudices? Unless, of course, one is all to happy be a political party's bitch. Some people just love dressing up, I guess.
A. Because Wikipedia keeps records of edits, and clearly shows who the author was http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Sarah_Palin&diff=prev&oldid=432707166 . Moreover, the author even mentions the edit on his own page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tomwsulcer#Getting_those_quotes_right .
B. No.
He just said the same people who contribute to Palin pages positively are the same ones editing the Paul Revere page. This rules out people trying to screw her reputation, this rules out trolls. This does not rule out supporters and random lunatics, though.
I fail to see the distinction between the latter two groups. Could you elaborate?
Lulzsec strikes wikipedia, this time stealing knowledge. As proof of the hack, their website features pictures of Paul Revere and xzibit mash-up photos.