Well, they do have a point. Anyone going to Mars on current technology would be committing suicide. No, you won't survive on Mars. No, it won't be the fun adventure that you thought it would be.
If we had the ability to safely travel to and from Mars, just as you can travel to another country and back, they wouldn't be forbidding the journey.
Oh, are you seriously saying they're being forbidden the trip because suicide is against their beliefs? LOL
You don't want to go to Mars? Please by all means, keep your bullshit on Earth and let us evolved human beings make a fresh new life on a fresh new planet without you!
Unfortunately, "average folks" can't tell the difference, so your point is moot.
Then, those people are not your customers.
You don't usually make good money pandering to the dregs of the land.
You make money by selling to people with money. People with money are willing to spend it too. The more you charge, often the more they think you are worth and will seek you out to give you money.
Well said..I wish I had taken that truth into hand, unfortunately, I undercut myself right into the soup lines...
And more pinball.. lost my windows partition so I've also lost about 300 of them.. I have 150 handy on CD to reibnstall butg the others were sourced from irreplaceable ones.. such as online sales..they don't replace these things if your drive goes down, you know, even if I copuild remember which online retailer I bought them from..this was before the App store and Steam made it easy to replace them beause, since they only lease them to you, they have them handy. At least if your comnnection goes down you can still play app store games.
Of course if you *know* you're going to have an unexpected loss of connectivity, you can plan ahead and activate offline mode;-)
And if you're getting hacks only for non steam games, and they cut you off, isn't that THEM violating the contract? And where in the steam contract anyways does it say they are entitled to look at your private browsing history?
And re offline mode, Valve says there's no time limit and the users say there is.. Who's right?
All these arguments about syncing 4 different hub motors.
Er.. you don't *need* to sync them. At all!. If one electric motor pulls harder, the others just "freewheel". That's the nature of electric motors. They have, in fact, a natural differential. THat's useful for avoiding wear on the tires, but leads to power loss in turns as only the hardest working wheel is supplying full power. In a straight line you may have full power though, but really, that configuration is very poor for GT racing events, or rallying, as there's no engine braking effect. ABS could , theoretically , be fitted, which would help..
Even in a 2 wheel vehicle, such as a bike, dual motors are somewhat inefficient.. iun that if you tried pedaling it instead of leting the motor do the work, it would take much more effort. Alternatively, the increased grip is worth the effort, if that's what you want..
Well, if he had been sympathetic to "S" and provided a blanket . Seriously, if you have a supercar you MUST have a heated garage. Plus he should have extinguished his stogie in the car ashtray;-) (they do have ashtrays inb the Model S)..
The world wide web was designed to make accessible via hyperlinks (URLs) a whole bunch of documents / generated content. Key word being accessible. If someone is stupid enough to put documents intended not to be public on the public world wide web, that's their issue.
It is not a transgression on the part of the person who used the URL to access the content, doing nothing more than the technology is explicitly designed to do.
So people who download copyrighted movies illegally need not worry since it is only the person who put it up there that is responsible?
People who post copyrighted material in a free access format are indeed the guilty party, as this is precisely the main people that the copyright cops go after...
In fact, the only units that I have to convert between regularly are time units, and metric doesn't help you there.
Yeah.. Speaking of time units.. Why the hell are they in such a peculiar format anyways? Why not have 10 hours in a day , 10 in a night, 100 minutes in an hour 100 seconds in a minute.. and for that matter, 100 hours in a week?
Well it looks to me like it has both. All the changes thet were implemented in schools happened the year after I either left, or were implemented inmy grade the year aftert I graguatef to the next one, such as switching to metric, or adding a music course or changing the curriculum (OK there I lucked out), or adding sport such as track and field to the grade I just left. So I missed a lot, and still have to convert celsius to fahrenheit to be able to visualise the temp. That includes a whopping 30% of the populationm, I do believe, who were raised Fahrenheit..
" I would be rather surprised if you can't blow any decent sound system by maxing out its volume knob and sending 200% (or whatever the maximum volume is) VLC music through it." Well.. you can. I have blown some mighty fine speakers that way
Your solution may be that, "the voice coil should be designed to withstand this sort of [ab]use." But that is purely ideological and will likely lead to increased costs for manufacturers; it may also yield less powerful or inferior sound reproduction systems. I'm not sure what the consequences of such a mandate would be, but I'm almost certain neither of us would care for them.
Given that websites can play arbitrary sounds in default configurations of all popular browsers, and have been able to do so for ages (albeit with means varying over time), this is a remote attack vector. If a website can blow out your speakers simply by playing a wave of a certain shape, it's an exploit and has to be fixed. And it seems evident that the proper fix should be on the hardware side of things, since there's too much software out there that would have to be fixed to close the hole.
Wow. Interesting. And you are absolutely correct. Both of you...
Sorry EPA, but the studies sponsored by the [insert industry] industry couldn't reproduce the findings.
You cannot regulate them.
This will be one GIANT loophole for industry.
Doesn't say that the science need be reproducible, or even valid. Just full disclosure. Doesn't mean they couldn't still regulate them, but wouldn't be able to claim scientific studies as the basis for such.
Day 1: It wouldn't stop, the redirecting. At first I thought it was malware. Had my first drink in a long time.
Day 2: Barely had the strength to carry on as the BETA REDIRECTIONS continue.. trying not to talk to hallucinations at the bar and in the bathroom which laugh at me about these redirections.
Day 3: Discovered the BETA redirections were random, and while at first they looked somewhat usable, when I looked at me and my monitor screen in the mirror, a horrible woman with flesh hanging off of her body looked back, trying to lead me into a dance as the word BETA appeared across her rancid breasts.
Day 4: These BETA corridors go on FOREVER! On the plus side, I've taken up disassembling vehicles to corner this BETA beast and sacrifice myself rather than lead others to discovering it. I ate some red snow.
Day 5: Finding it harder to concentrate. I've ate some more of the red snow. The taste is starting to grow on me.
Day 6: This typewriter is the only entertainment I have, apart from throwing things at the walls, trying to get some response from the BETA which is now taking over my mind.
Day 7: Hahahahahha! Would you believe it? I'M STILL BEING REDIRECTED TO SLASHDOT BETA PAGES! AHAHhahahaah! Type, type, ding, ding! Wooo!
Day 8: The hallucinations are actually real! Would you believe it? They have offered to help me if I agree to work for them. I'm thinking about patenting this delicious red snow, the taste is unreal!
Day 9: Having black out sessions where I cannot remember large passings of time. Found some makeup, thought I'd paint a joker smile on my face to amuse the people only I can see!
Day 10: Productive today, part of what I wrote for my new screenplay:
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slas
Maybe Red vs. Blue isn't the right argument here, as in most cases. Maybe the right argument is liberty vs. statism. Do you want to be free to chase your dreams or do you want the government to secure your prosperity?
It's pretty difficult to "chase your dreams" in an economy full of shysters and scam artists..
Except that is not true [bls.gov]. There are five states with unemployment worse than California, and none are red (they all voted for Obama in 2012).
And other states near the bottom of the list: Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia. Also, "voted for Obama" is a poor measure for intrusive state regulations --- one of your "bottom 5" states is Nevada, the place that allows brothels and pretty much anything to go (an "anti-California" when it comes to pervasive regulations). In other words, the picture is far less clear than you claim. Your statement was "This kind of bureaucratic overreach is the reason" (emphasis mine), which is demonstrably false. Fine, if you want to walk it back to "one small part of the problem" --- but it was your own words clinging to the simplistic distortion to support your ideology.
If a school (or any other businesses) appear to be using fraudulent advertising,
Which is what these places appear to be doing, on a wide scale. Thus, the state is placing them under the oversight of the regulatory body with the mandate and expertise to evaluate claims and practices in education. This isn't "throwing up hurdles to everyone that wants to start up a business"; this is putting up hurdles to a very specific class of shady businesses that've raised attention through dubious practices.
Exactly true. Sadly, some folks are so anti-regulation that they're dead set against ones that would legitimately solve serious issues, and consequently throw the baby out with the bathwater, in support of their ill-considered idealism.
I have similar batteries - LiFePO.. I assumed, because I read it everywhere on the net, that the cold could destroy them, or ast least affect it's ability to contain a charge, so I have delayed replacing my lead acid batteries on my bike because of that. Was that an old wives tale then? Or is that the reason that Teslas use the (potentially) more dangerous Lithium Ion batteries, because they're better in the cold?
And please, no snarky comments about how Lithium Ion are "safe" They are, *unless* a spike is driven through them or they are improperly charged, when they can explode.
Slashdot Mirror
If you move to another country and never return, did you kill yourself? Why can't we live on Mars?
Because everybody that goes there will eventually die.
Well, they do have a point. Anyone going to Mars on current technology would be committing suicide. No, you won't survive on Mars. No, it won't be the fun adventure that you thought it would be. If we had the ability to safely travel to and from Mars, just as you can travel to another country and back, they wouldn't be forbidding the journey.
Oh, are you seriously saying they're being forbidden the trip because suicide is against their beliefs? LOL
You don't want to go to Mars? Please by all means, keep your bullshit on Earth and let us evolved human beings make a fresh new life on a fresh new planet without you!
That was my first reaction too ;-)
Then, those people are not your customers.
You don't usually make good money pandering to the dregs of the land.
You make money by selling to people with money. People with money are willing to spend it too. The more you charge, often the more they think you are worth and will seek you out to give you money.
Well said..I wish I had taken that truth into hand, unfortunately, I undercut myself right into the soup lines...
And more pinball.. lost my windows partition so I've also lost about 300 of them.. I have 150 handy on CD to reibnstall butg the others were sourced from irreplaceable ones.. such as online sales..they don't replace these things if your drive goes down, you know, even if I copuild remember which online retailer I bought them from..this was before the App store and Steam made it easy to replace them beause, since they only lease them to you, they have them handy. At least if your comnnection goes down you can still play app store games. Of course if you *know* you're going to have an unexpected loss of connectivity, you can plan ahead and activate offline mode ;-)
And if you're getting hacks only for non steam games, and they cut you off, isn't that THEM violating the contract? And where in the steam contract anyways does it say they are entitled to look at your private browsing history? And re offline mode, Valve says there's no time limit and the users say there is.. Who's right?
Well waddya expect when you let the devil make his own little universe? A simulation.
All these arguments about syncing 4 different hub motors. Er.. you don't *need* to sync them. At all!. If one electric motor pulls harder, the others just "freewheel". That's the nature of electric motors. They have, in fact, a natural differential. THat's useful for avoiding wear on the tires, but leads to power loss in turns as only the hardest working wheel is supplying full power. In a straight line you may have full power though, but really, that configuration is very poor for GT racing events, or rallying, as there's no engine braking effect. ABS could , theoretically , be fitted, which would help.. Even in a 2 wheel vehicle, such as a bike, dual motors are somewhat inefficient.. iun that if you tried pedaling it instead of leting the motor do the work, it would take much more effort. Alternatively, the increased grip is worth the effort, if that's what you want..
If there had been a Honda Civic in the garage they would never have mentioned the car at all. "Burning Tesla" makes good press though..
Well, if he had been sympathetic to "S" and provided a blanket . Seriously, if you have a supercar you MUST have a heated garage. Plus he should have extinguished his stogie in the car ashtray ;-) (they do have ashtrays inb the Model S) ..
I would just love to see a repoter field that question/comment to some arrogant politico. Reading it now it's brilliant!
Hey!
The world wide web was designed to make accessible via hyperlinks (URLs) a whole bunch of documents / generated content. Key word being accessible. If someone is stupid enough to put documents intended not to be public on the public world wide web, that's their issue.
It is not a transgression on the part of the person who used the URL to access the content, doing nothing more than the technology is explicitly designed to do.
So people who download copyrighted movies illegally need not worry since it is only the person who put it up there that is responsible?
People who post copyrighted material in a free access format are indeed the guilty party, as this is precisely the main people that the copyright cops go after...
In fact, the only units that I have to convert between regularly are time units, and metric doesn't help you there.
Yeah.. Speaking of time units.. Why the hell are they in such a peculiar format anyways? Why not have 10 hours in a day , 10 in a night, 100 minutes in an hour 100 seconds in a minute.. and for that matter, 100 hours in a week?
Well it looks to me like it has both. All the changes thet were implemented in schools happened the year after I either left, or were implemented inmy grade the year aftert I graguatef to the next one, such as switching to metric, or adding a music course or changing the curriculum (OK there I lucked out), or adding sport such as track and field to the grade I just left. So I missed a lot, and still have to convert celsius to fahrenheit to be able to visualise the temp. That includes a whopping 30% of the populationm, I do believe, who were raised Fahrenheit..
" I would be rather surprised if you can't blow any decent sound system by maxing out its volume knob and sending 200% (or whatever the maximum volume is) VLC music through it." Well.. you can. I have blown some mighty fine speakers that way
Your solution may be that, "the voice coil should be designed to withstand this sort of [ab]use." But that is purely ideological and will likely lead to increased costs for manufacturers; it may also yield less powerful or inferior sound reproduction systems. I'm not sure what the consequences of such a mandate would be, but I'm almost certain neither of us would care for them.
Given that websites can play arbitrary sounds in default configurations of all popular browsers, and have been able to do so for ages (albeit with means varying over time), this is a remote attack vector. If a website can blow out your speakers simply by playing a wave of a certain shape, it's an exploit and has to be fixed. And it seems evident that the proper fix should be on the hardware side of things, since there's too much software out there that would have to be fixed to close the hole.
Wow. Interesting. And you are absolutely correct. Both of you...
Sorry EPA, but the studies sponsored by the [insert industry] industry couldn't reproduce the findings.
You cannot regulate them.
This will be one GIANT loophole for industry.
Doesn't say that the science need be reproducible, or even valid. Just full disclosure. Doesn't mean they couldn't still regulate them, but wouldn't be able to claim scientific studies as the basis for such.
Could everybody p;ease copy that comment "WE WANT THE CLASSIC SLASHDOT TO REMAIN AS AN OPTION!!!" that denzacar just made and email it to tim?
Day 1: It wouldn't stop, the redirecting. At first I thought it was malware. Had my first drink in a long time.
Day 2: Barely had the strength to carry on as the BETA REDIRECTIONS continue.. trying not to talk to hallucinations at the bar and in the bathroom which laugh at me about these redirections.
Day 3: Discovered the BETA redirections were random, and while at first they looked somewhat usable, when I looked at me and my monitor screen in the mirror, a horrible woman with flesh hanging off of her body looked back, trying to lead me into a dance as the word BETA appeared across her rancid breasts.
Day 4: These BETA corridors go on FOREVER! On the plus side, I've taken up disassembling vehicles to corner this BETA beast and sacrifice myself rather than lead others to discovering it. I ate some red snow.
Day 5: Finding it harder to concentrate. I've ate some more of the red snow. The taste is starting to grow on me.
Day 6: This typewriter is the only entertainment I have, apart from throwing things at the walls, trying to get some response from the BETA which is now taking over my mind.
Day 7: Hahahahahha! Would you believe it? I'M STILL BEING REDIRECTED TO SLASHDOT BETA PAGES! AHAHhahahaah! Type, type, ding, ding! Wooo!
Day 8: The hallucinations are actually real! Would you believe it? They have offered to help me if I agree to work for them. I'm thinking about patenting this delicious red snow, the taste is unreal!
Day 9: Having black out sessions where I cannot remember large passings of time. Found some makeup, thought I'd paint a joker smile on my face to amuse the people only I can see!
Day 10: Productive today, part of what I wrote for my new screenplay:
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA! I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA! I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA! I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA! I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA! I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA! I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA! I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA! I cannot opt out of Slas
(drops of blood on paper)
er.. the snow is blue ..
But isn't IIS a whole lot better than Apache? Yours sincerely.. Bill G.
Maybe Red vs. Blue isn't the right argument here, as in most cases. Maybe the right argument is liberty vs. statism. Do you want to be free to chase your dreams or do you want the government to secure your prosperity?
It's pretty difficult to "chase your dreams" in an economy full of shysters and scam artists..
Except that is not true [bls.gov]. There are five states with unemployment worse than California, and none are red (they all voted for Obama in 2012).
And other states near the bottom of the list: Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia. Also, "voted for Obama" is a poor measure for intrusive state regulations --- one of your "bottom 5" states is Nevada, the place that allows brothels and pretty much anything to go (an "anti-California" when it comes to pervasive regulations). In other words, the picture is far less clear than you claim. Your statement was "This kind of bureaucratic overreach is the reason" (emphasis mine), which is demonstrably false. Fine, if you want to walk it back to "one small part of the problem" --- but it was your own words clinging to the simplistic distortion to support your ideology.
If a school (or any other businesses) appear to be using fraudulent advertising,
Which is what these places appear to be doing, on a wide scale. Thus, the state is placing them under the oversight of the regulatory body with the mandate and expertise to evaluate claims and practices in education. This isn't "throwing up hurdles to everyone that wants to start up a business"; this is putting up hurdles to a very specific class of shady businesses that've raised attention through dubious practices.
Exactly true. Sadly, some folks are so anti-regulation that they're dead set against ones that would legitimately solve serious issues, and consequently throw the baby out with the bathwater, in support of their ill-considered idealism.
Indeed. One lies half of the time, and the other tells the truth half of the time...
I have similar batteries - LiFePO.. I assumed, because I read it everywhere on the net, that the cold could destroy them, or ast least affect it's ability to contain a charge, so I have delayed replacing my lead acid batteries on my bike because of that. Was that an old wives tale then? Or is that the reason that Teslas use the (potentially) more dangerous Lithium Ion batteries, because they're better in the cold? And please, no snarky comments about how Lithium Ion are "safe" They are, *unless* a spike is driven through them or they are improperly charged, when they can explode.
HAve you seen it? It's a stunningly beautiful engine, a real piece of work. And to get 400 horsepower out of that is mind boggling..