It's a huge capital investment, huge on-going maintenance, outrageously huge decommissioning costs, and the penalty for falling asleep at the wheel (i.e., hiring a few MBAs to improve 'efficiency') is catastrophe. It's also centralized and makes a nice juicy target for terrorism. Oh, and it costs more than solar or wind--once you fully account for all the actual costs. Westinghouse just went out of business (ask South Carolina).
I'm guessing the future [for most of the US] looks like solar roofs with local battery storage, connected to a grid backed by natural gas peaking/backup plants and various other forms of utility power generation and storage.
The fingerprint thing was [for me] always finicky & unreliable. It created a perceptible sense of dread each time I was about to use it in non-optimal conditions. By comparison FaceID is unobtrusive and accurate.
So the article doesn't apply to you. It's for people who haven't been saturated with 50+ years of propaganda that having a car that loudly burns fossil fuels somehow makes you more manly.
Replacing the fingerprint sensor triggered a security check that said "hey somebody is fucking with this critical piece of the authentication chain".
It turns out that a lot of people were getting their home button fixed in unauthorized repair shops and this lead to the brickage. Apple's response was to release a software path to unbrick their phone and update the OS to instead just disable the TouchID when it detected an unauthorized sensor replacement.
OK, I have rambled a bit. But here is my point, what is the lowest cost Tesla and will it still be in use 18 years from it's purchase date
The lowest cost brand new Tesla is $35K (Model 3). If you want a used one then wait a few years. Also learn how to use Google.
Why would I buy a 50k - 60k vehicle with a short life span ( 3-5 years).
What makes you think that an EV only lasts 3-5 years? Why do anti-EV nutjobs always have to lie so blatantly? You think your little monologue makes you sound like an anti-fad classic old soul, but instead it just makes you sound like an uniformed moron.
if Apple was the only brand of computer out there. The problem is you are saying that walled gardens shouldn't exist at all, simply because you don't like them. Nobody in Apple land is arguing that Android/Linux/Windows shouldn't exist (well, maybe Windows).
There are any number of appliances that the average person own which present the same kind of barriers that Apple products do in terms of hackability. Try rewriting the sofware that runs on your microwave or your television and see what happens.
The difference is that you are okay with appliances for some things but not okay with a computing appliance. Probably because you're a dick that doesn't want computers to be easy to use for non-technical people.
> If it's a zero-sum-game (favor profits OR favor customers, pick one), and Apple is making high profits, then why is Apple also ranking first in customer satisfaction [cultofmac.com]?
Most Slashdotters just don't understand technology, in their hearts they believe it exists to give insecure nerds some measure of self-esteem--when in fact it exists to improve the quality-of-life for *regular people*. So/.ers hate Apple and Apple is not aware of their existence.
Companies go where the talent is. Companies choose in Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, etc. because those areas have large populations of potential employees. Why do those areas have large tech populations? Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, UT Austin, etc., etc.
California, like pretty much all progressive blue states, is a net 'giver' to the rest of the country. If brings in more federal tax revenue than it receives. The states which are net 'takers' are pretty much all red states, filled to the brim with illiterate morons like you.
> the firmware is still in the hands of the OEM and susceptible to tampering
The physical phone is in your hands right now. Try to tamper with the firmware and see what happens.
1. Apple has never claimed they would provide 5 years of software updates on iPhones from the last point of manufacture. If you have a cite to show otherwise then please post it.
2. No major phone manufacturer provides a guarantee of 5 years of software updates, Apple is the clear leader in software update lifetime for phones--and it's not close.
3. The SW on an iPhone 4S continues to work just fine, it's just stuck at iOS 9.3.5 and won't benefit from new features.
4. Nobody is forcing you to buy an iPhone, why do you care so much what phone other people use?
The 5 year guarantee is for hardware service & customer support. As of today, iPhone 4S is still supported by Apple in that sense (see here: serviced ).
There is no guarantee that you'll continue getting software updates for 5 years. The last iPhone 4s-compatible iOS update was iOS 9.3.5, released on August 25, 2016, which is almost 5 years from the initial release of the iPhone 4S (October 4, 2011), and that's pretty typical (>4 years of software updates on the newest model).
Feel free to cite another major smartphone manufacturer that does better in terms of customer & hardware support lifetime and OS updates.
If your time is so worthless that you're willing to spend a Saturday searching stackoverflow to print to your wireless printer, then by all means, use Linux.
Otherwise, use a Mac (or an iOS device). To each their own.
How did the stock market crash during the Great Depression?
Perhaps the software world adopted a common term with similar meaning across many industries (crash == "this thing failed unceremoniously") and now they're lecturing the rest of the world on how to use it.
What if instead he had said, "Stop acting like we're all the same. Jews have things to contribute, so adapt the workplace to their needs instead of molding it for a virtual template of a generic humanoid that does not exist"?
Is that still okay?
Your righteous indignation has nothing to do with free speech--it's that you happen to agree with his opinions. Things like: "women should do pair programming because they're naturally more social".
He wasn't fired for being white, he wasn't even fired for his political views, he was fired for spouting off at work and thus causing a lot of internal strife. You can believe whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want at work.
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It's a huge capital investment, huge on-going maintenance, outrageously huge decommissioning costs, and the penalty for falling asleep at the wheel (i.e., hiring a few MBAs to improve 'efficiency') is catastrophe. It's also centralized and makes a nice juicy target for terrorism. Oh, and it costs more than solar or wind--once you fully account for all the actual costs. Westinghouse just went out of business (ask South Carolina).
I'm guessing the future [for most of the US] looks like solar roofs with local battery storage, connected to a grid backed by natural gas peaking/backup plants and various other forms of utility power generation and storage.
Have you tried it?
FaceID used infra-red depth-sensing, which makes it a lot more accurate and harder to fool.
The fingerprint thing was [for me] always finicky & unreliable. It created a perceptible sense of dread each time I was about to use it in non-optimal conditions. By comparison FaceID is unobtrusive and accurate.
I could get by with an electric car, not that it would help the environment much my power is provided by coal.
How many times does this particular brand of FUD need to be debunked?
So the article doesn't apply to you. It's for people who haven't been saturated with 50+ years of propaganda that having a car that loudly burns fossil fuels somehow makes you more manly.
Elon Musk is worth $20B. How about you?
Replacing the fingerprint sensor triggered a security check that said "hey somebody is fucking with this critical piece of the authentication chain".
It turns out that a lot of people were getting their home button fixed in unauthorized repair shops and this lead to the brickage. Apple's response was to release a software path to unbrick their phone and update the OS to instead just disable the TouchID when it detected an unauthorized sensor replacement.
OK, I have rambled a bit. But here is my point, what is the lowest cost Tesla and will it still be in use 18 years from it's purchase date
The lowest cost brand new Tesla is $35K (Model 3). If you want a used one then wait a few years. Also learn how to use Google.
Why would I buy a 50k - 60k vehicle with a short life span ( 3-5 years).
What makes you think that an EV only lasts 3-5 years? Why do anti-EV nutjobs always have to lie so blatantly? You think your little monologue makes you sound like an anti-fad classic old soul, but instead it just makes you sound like an uniformed moron.
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if Apple was the only brand of computer out there. The problem is you are saying that walled gardens shouldn't exist at all, simply because you don't like them. Nobody in Apple land is arguing that Android/Linux/Windows shouldn't exist (well, maybe Windows).
There are any number of appliances that the average person own which present the same kind of barriers that Apple products do in terms of hackability. Try rewriting the sofware that runs on your microwave or your television and see what happens.
The difference is that you are okay with appliances for some things but not okay with a computing appliance. Probably because you're a dick that doesn't want computers to be easy to use for non-technical people.
> If it's a zero-sum-game (favor profits OR favor customers, pick one), and Apple is making high profits, then why is Apple also ranking first in customer satisfaction [cultofmac.com]?
/.ers hate Apple and Apple is not aware of their existence.
Most Slashdotters just don't understand technology, in their hearts they believe it exists to give insecure nerds some measure of self-esteem--when in fact it exists to improve the quality-of-life for *regular people*. So
It's a story as old as [internet] time.
Companies go where the talent is. Companies choose in Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, etc. because those areas have large populations of potential employees. Why do those areas have large tech populations? Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, UT Austin, etc., etc.
California, like pretty much all progressive blue states, is a net 'giver' to the rest of the country. If brings in more federal tax revenue than it receives. The states which are net 'takers' are pretty much all red states, filled to the brim with illiterate morons like you.
Taxes there are $0.
Enjoy.
> the firmware is still in the hands of the OEM and susceptible to tampering The physical phone is in your hands right now. Try to tamper with the firmware and see what happens.
1. Apple has never claimed they would provide 5 years of software updates on iPhones from the last point of manufacture. If you have a cite to show otherwise then please post it.
2. No major phone manufacturer provides a guarantee of 5 years of software updates, Apple is the clear leader in software update lifetime for phones--and it's not close.
3. The SW on an iPhone 4S continues to work just fine, it's just stuck at iOS 9.3.5 and won't benefit from new features.
4. Nobody is forcing you to buy an iPhone, why do you care so much what phone other people use?
"The 4S was discontinued officially on September 9, 2014 following the announcement of the iPhone 6" (the Feb 2016 date was for 'developing markets' which presumably fall under a different policy)
The 5 year guarantee is for hardware service & customer support. As of today, iPhone 4S is still supported by Apple in that sense (see here: serviced ).
There is no guarantee that you'll continue getting software updates for 5 years. The last iPhone 4s-compatible iOS update was iOS 9.3.5, released on August 25, 2016, which is almost 5 years from the initial release of the iPhone 4S (October 4, 2011), and that's pretty typical (>4 years of software updates on the newest model).
Feel free to cite another major smartphone manufacturer that does better in terms of customer & hardware support lifetime and OS updates.
If your time is so worthless that you're willing to spend a Saturday searching stackoverflow to print to your wireless printer, then by all means, use Linux. Otherwise, use a Mac (or an iOS device). To each their own.
Go look up how a plane autopilot works.
It works as an Airplay2 speaker--anything you can play on any Apple device can be redirected to any airplay device.
How did the stock market crash during the Great Depression?
Perhaps the software world adopted a common term with similar meaning across many industries (crash == "this thing failed unceremoniously") and now they're lecturing the rest of the world on how to use it.
What if instead he had said, "Stop acting like we're all the same. Jews have things to contribute, so adapt the workplace to their needs instead of molding it for a virtual template of a generic humanoid that does not exist"?
Is that still okay?
Your righteous indignation has nothing to do with free speech--it's that you happen to agree with his opinions. Things like: "women should do pair programming because they're naturally more social".
He wasn't fired for being white, he wasn't even fired for his political views, he was fired for spouting off at work and thus causing a lot of internal strife. You can believe whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want at work.