In particular, physics doesn't care that the existence of Elon Musk causes you intense emotional distress. It doesn't care how you desperately keep wishing for every one of his ventures to fail, and you're consistently disappointed because it turns out that he kinda knows what he's doing.
We've had satellite internet for quite a while now.
We haven't had LEO satellite internet. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
SpaceX plans to use Ku band communications
Actually they're planning to use Ka and Ku, which stand for 'above' and 'under' the center 'K' band--which is the one where the peak water vapor absorption falls. Sure there will be some attenuation due to weather on the Ka/Ku bands as well--but there's a metric shit-ton of bandwidth available. Broadband that's somewhat degraded in weather is still better than no broadband at all.
Either way, this will be sorted out by the market--and the market doesn't care that the existence of Elon Musk makes you confront your own failed life on a daily basis.
The solution for rural broadband is LEO satellite access. There are multiple companies working on this, including SpaceX. This will be available in a few years. Problem solved.
The second most popular type of laptop computer right now are Chromebooks, which do everything most people need (and will cover a much greater percentage of those left's needs once Crostini is ready.)
He just was unable to get a new copy from Apple, for the reason that Apple did not have the legal right to make that copy per its contractual requirements around region-based licensing, i.e., Apple did not have the 'copyright'.
In other words, 'copyright' doesn't mean what you think it means.
Ditch big pharma, fund drug development at the fed tap managed by a private non-profit with a board of medical researchers
The structure you describe discourages risk-taking & disruption, and encourages groupthink. History has taught us that the engine of progress is decentralized innovation. As soon as you have some sort of central authority planning where innovation where come from then progress stagnates.
Capitalism isn't necessarily the only way to get there, but it's an extremely powerful way to harness human greed & status-seeking behavior. It's foolish to disregard that.
He said "funding is secured"...which is open to interpretation. Musk argues that it meant that he had serious discussions with investors who indicated they were willing to pony up sufficient funds to take Tesla private. My guess is that all he has to do is produce one or more investors who say "yep, we're ready to put up X billion and we've been talking to him about this for awhile" and he is off scot-free, perhaps with an admonishment to be more careful in the future.
In all likelihood, he will take Tesla private, and most likely under the terms he sketches out in his initial tweets. I don't see how you punish a CEO for saying what he's going to do and then doing it. Say what you will about Elon Musk, but he pretty much does what he says he's going to do, no matter how fantastical it sounds...eventually.
That's hilarious. The vast majority of smartphone users have no idea that the Slashdot crowd exists and couldn't care less. Apple has a $1T market cap specifically because they ignore any opinions coming from this site.
At the heart of the matter is the fact that most businesses don't really need programmers to be deep thinkers. For them, it's "just as worthwhile to hire someone from a physics lab who just used Python to massage some data streams from an instrument.
The hilarious part here is that the author is implying that a computer scientist is a deeper thinker than a physicist.
Commercial viability comes from the "makes life better" part--if it makes somebody's life better and that person has money then the two are directly related.
Personally, the very existence of Apple hardware and software makes my life harder. Its widespread incompatibility with non-Apple technologies makes each Apple device a perpetual problem generator
I'm sure life would be easier for bridge designers if they built their bridges out of balsa wood--but life would be a lot harder for the people who need to cross that bridge. Do you understand this at all?
*You" don't matter. For every hacker wannabee like you there are 10,000 grandmas using an iPad to Facetime with their grandchildren. They have the numbers and the purchasing power--which is why they matter and you don't.
The universal definition of technology is "a composition of existing concepts into something useful that makes peoples' lives easier or better".
The Slashdot definition of technology is "a set of concepts which are mystifying to normal people but which I personally enjoy; thus forcing those normal people to pay attention to me and providing me with a measure of self-esteem".
Do you think engineers who design bridges sit around complaining that they had to "dumb down" their bridges so idiots could use them without even understanding how they stay up? Nope, in the rest of the world technology is there precisely to reduce effort and cognitive burden on users--but among Slashdot community that's heresy.
The rest of the world is right. You're wrong. You'll need to find another reason for normal humans to interact with you. Maybe start a band.
We really could have declared a victor a long time ago in this age-old debate of "Apple vs. Slashdot"--but $1T is a nice round number so now's as good a time as ever:
It has now been definitively proven that Apple understands technology better than all the Apple-critics on Slashdot (and around the world). Steve Jobs was smarter than you. Deal with it.
Next up. Elon Musk is in the midst of destroying the Tesla haters on Slashdot.
Can we finally dispense with the notion that Slashdot is a pro-technology website? It is so consistently on the losing side of every technology revolution.
You're assuming horizontal SIMD, and ignoring vertical SIMD. Horizontal SIMD places values in the SIMD lanes corresponding to dimensions 'x', 'y', 'z', etc. Vertical SIMD places values in lanes corresponding to the same dimension across different items: e.g. 'x0', 'x1', x2',....
The former is arguably bounded to a small finite number, the latter isn't.
So iPhone X owners are getting conned out of their money by paying $1K for a "silly phone"--but you owned a >$50K BMW M3? What kind of douchey fucking moron drives around in an expensive BMW with expensive aftermarket mods and then criticizes people for what phone they bought?
I don't own a car at all. I guess I could call you a sheeple who was conned out of their money so you could drive around in a status symbol--but I won't because everyone spends money on luxury items, and people value those items very differently.
Slashdot Mirror
The weird thing is that I suspect most people here know that they are being exploited for their predictable knee-jerk responses--but they don't care.
because the manufacturer goes through a lot of trouble to prevent you from rewriting the SW on your microwave.
Sorry, I mean *your Mom's microwave".
We've had satellite internet for quite a while now.
We haven't had LEO satellite internet. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
SpaceX plans to use Ku band communications
Actually they're planning to use Ka and Ku, which stand for 'above' and 'under' the center 'K' band--which is the one where the peak water vapor absorption falls. Sure there will be some attenuation due to weather on the Ka/Ku bands as well--but there's a metric shit-ton of bandwidth available. Broadband that's somewhat degraded in weather is still better than no broadband at all.
Either way, this will be sorted out by the market--and the market doesn't care that the existence of Elon Musk makes you confront your own failed life on a daily basis.
The solution for rural broadband is LEO satellite access. There are multiple companies working on this, including SpaceX. This will be available in a few years. Problem solved.
SpaceX Starlink
Say what you will about Musk, but at least he’s never boring.
If you're sitting in a Russian interrogation room they can just beat your password out of you.
How long did it take you to write that message then? Are you dictating right now?
The second most popular type of laptop computer right now are Chromebooks, which do everything most people need (and will cover a much greater percentage of those left's needs once Crostini is ready.)
Apple says hello.
He just was unable to get a new copy from Apple, for the reason that Apple did not have the legal right to make that copy per its contractual requirements around region-based licensing, i.e., Apple did not have the 'copyright'.
In other words, 'copyright' doesn't mean what you think it means.
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Ditch big pharma, fund drug development at the fed tap managed by a private non-profit with a board of medical researchers
The structure you describe discourages risk-taking & disruption, and encourages groupthink. History has taught us that the engine of progress is decentralized innovation. As soon as you have some sort of central authority planning where innovation where come from then progress stagnates.
Capitalism isn't necessarily the only way to get there, but it's an extremely powerful way to harness human greed & status-seeking behavior. It's foolish to disregard that.
He said "funding is secured"...which is open to interpretation. Musk argues that it meant that he had serious discussions with investors who indicated they were willing to pony up sufficient funds to take Tesla private. My guess is that all he has to do is produce one or more investors who say "yep, we're ready to put up X billion and we've been talking to him about this for awhile" and he is off scot-free, perhaps with an admonishment to be more careful in the future.
In all likelihood, he will take Tesla private, and most likely under the terms he sketches out in his initial tweets. I don't see how you punish a CEO for saying what he's going to do and then doing it. Say what you will about Elon Musk, but he pretty much does what he says he's going to do, no matter how fantastical it sounds...eventually.
Don't feel bad, it's not like this is a tech site.
That's hilarious. The vast majority of smartphone users have no idea that the Slashdot crowd exists and couldn't care less. Apple has a $1T market cap specifically because they ignore any opinions coming from this site.
At the heart of the matter is the fact that most businesses don't really need programmers to be deep thinkers. For them, it's "just as worthwhile to hire someone from a physics lab who just used Python to massage some data streams from an instrument.
The hilarious part here is that the author is implying that a computer scientist is a deeper thinker than a physicist.
Your tiny little brain can't process Apple's success so your response is to blame it on mass hypnosis. Yawn.
Personally, the very existence of Apple hardware and software makes my life harder. Its widespread incompatibility with non-Apple technologies makes each Apple device a perpetual problem generator
I'm sure life would be easier for bridge designers if they built their bridges out of balsa wood--but life would be a lot harder for the people who need to cross that bridge. Do you understand this at all?
*You" don't matter. For every hacker wannabee like you there are 10,000 grandmas using an iPad to Facetime with their grandchildren. They have the numbers and the purchasing power--which is why they matter and you don't.
The universal definition of technology is "a composition of existing concepts into something useful that makes peoples' lives easier or better".
The Slashdot definition of technology is "a set of concepts which are mystifying to normal people but which I personally enjoy; thus forcing those normal people to pay attention to me and providing me with a measure of self-esteem".
Do you think engineers who design bridges sit around complaining that they had to "dumb down" their bridges so idiots could use them without even understanding how they stay up? Nope, in the rest of the world technology is there precisely to reduce effort and cognitive burden on users--but among Slashdot community that's heresy.
The rest of the world is right. You're wrong. You'll need to find another reason for normal humans to interact with you. Maybe start a band.
We really could have declared a victor a long time ago in this age-old debate of "Apple vs. Slashdot"--but $1T is a nice round number so now's as good a time as ever:
It has now been definitively proven that Apple understands technology better than all the Apple-critics on Slashdot (and around the world). Steve Jobs was smarter than you. Deal with it.
Next up. Elon Musk is in the midst of destroying the Tesla haters on Slashdot.
Can we finally dispense with the notion that Slashdot is a pro-technology website? It is so consistently on the losing side of every technology revolution.
You're assuming horizontal SIMD, and ignoring vertical SIMD. Horizontal SIMD places values in the SIMD lanes corresponding to dimensions 'x', 'y', 'z', etc. Vertical SIMD places values in lanes corresponding to the same dimension across different items: e.g. 'x0', 'x1', x2', ....
The former is arguably bounded to a small finite number, the latter isn't.
so I guess that makes me holier than you? So if I spend that $1K I saved on not buying the world's shittiest car--would that make us even?
"I had a dinan m3 once"
So iPhone X owners are getting conned out of their money by paying $1K for a "silly phone"--but you owned a >$50K BMW M3? What kind of douchey fucking moron drives around in an expensive BMW with expensive aftermarket mods and then criticizes people for what phone they bought?
I don't own a car at all. I guess I could call you a sheeple who was conned out of their money so you could drive around in a status symbol--but I won't because everyone spends money on luxury items, and people value those items very differently.
Grow up.
News to me.
400 miles in a 30 minute charge
Tesla is in talks with electric truck customers to install ‘Megacharger’ stations, report says
Why not just move to Somalia? Libertarian paradise.