This guy wants to be Steve Jobs so bad it's fucking comical. Steve Jobs was unduly idolized and poor musk wants the same thing so badly. You've nor your company have innovated anything. The US Tax Pay funded both Tesla and SolarShitty. Now you think a train is a technological marvel...
Well, in all fairness, he's already done more to help mankind so far than Jobs did. Jobs made some great commercial electronics but nothing revolutionary. The iPhone was a well put together piece of equipment and his best contribution, but it's not like there weren't already similar products before, and co-currently being worked on by other teams. His was just better than anything else in the beginning... the smart phone revolution was dawning anyway- he just made it better and maybe sped it up a year or two.
Musk on the other hand has single handedly pulled the world up and made electric cars a reality. It's not the fringe technology we might develop 20 years from now, in perpetuity any more.
His impact is so big, countries are beginning to mandate electric cars in the future His impact with electric cars has also spurred a battery revolution for solar panels- solar panels were coming anyway, so were home batteries- but he's made big impacts there.
He has leapstarted self driving vehicles. Whilst Google has been floundering for a decade- Tesla has gone ahead and done it and made it a reality. Maybe not whole-hog, maybe not even close, but his baby steps towards self-driving has made the technology a reality and other automanufacturers are taking note.
He's also been leading the only really successful team for privatized space. Sure Virgin Galactic, and a few others are looking promising, but he's pretty much spurred a whole second space-age.
If Hyperloop works and doesn't turn into vapour, it promises to be a massive change on how we think about transport. I'm less optimistic for hyperloop than his other ventures, but it could potentially be a big shaker.
So yeah, Jobs had some nice consumer electronics, but Musk has already done more that is useful to mankind. He's not just turning over a profit, he's doing useful stuff that betters man. He long since overshot Jobs.
I doubt he'll hold onto the trademark for Hyperloop very long. It's already used generically by enough people who don't think of it as a company-specific term.
Trying to hold onto the Hyperloop trademark will cause headaches. Perhaps Musk will need some asprin.
Has there been any other company in recent times that has had so much constant and invariably negative press?
The PR people at Uber must be wondering what they can do to help. Seems like every week there's a negative report about Uber, and almost never anything positive about them.
Seafood isn't meat? You must be, or were raised, Catholic.
Can't speak for other countries but this language permeates all of the US, certainly not just Catholics (only ~20% of population here). There is often a strong association of meat only coming from mammals.
I wouldn't say that is the standard for the US. I would say most people here would consider fish to be "meat". With that said, it's not unheard of for people here to separate the two.
I think it's more a generational and/or regional thing. People in the North East (stronger catholic influence) tend to consider fish to not be meat; also, older people are more likely to have that idea.
Younger people, and people outside the North East generally consider fish to be a meat.
Huh? That double negatives means you wrote "he's one of the minority that is lactose tolerant", and there are too many cats who love (cow's) milk for that to make sense.
I love peanuts, but if I eat more than a small handful more digestive system turns into a sawmill and I poop liquified sawdust and have stomach pains and nausea for days.
I'm still an idiot and go back and eat more peanuts from time-to-time despite the literal buttache it gives me.
Cats are like that with cows milk- cows milk is really not good for cats. They love it, but it upsets their digestive systems.
That's like someone having terminal cancer and just taking pain killers to 'fix' it. You have the fix the root of the problem,
Too late... We're already locked into killer temperature in some parts. Sure, solving the root will help other people and prevent the problem getting worse- but essentially, we knew what was happening in the 80's and almost no one did anything. Now it's too late to come out of this unscathed.
As a consumer, I, and many other people, won't touch e-bay with a 10ft pole. Jet on the otherhand, if it had better variety, like maybe even 1/3 of what Amazon has, would be an excellent place to shop.
Yes, if you want to sit through 18 minutes of advertisements (average) per 60 minutes of programming, sure, use broadcast television.
I hooked up one of our TVs to an antenna recently to get the local channels. Wish I hadn't have bothered. After a decade of living commercial free, I couldn't go back to watching TV that had commercials on them. It was so horrible. I can't believe that I used to watch shows like that.
I'd rather just not watch TV than watch a show filled with commercials every few minutes.
Anyone with even a bit of a critical mind should realize fairly quickly that Bitcoin can't work in wide use or long term (and the more use, the shorter the life).
Anyone with even a bit of common sense and the ability to read some economic theory should figure out the financial theory behind Bitcoin is crap and won't work.
When bitcoin first came out, I thought that; I still don't want anything to do with Bitcoin, but, I've got to give it my grudging respect. Not only has it lasted a lot longer than I (or most people) thought it would, it's got quite a loyal fanbase, keeps evolving and growing, and is (in general) increasing in value at quite a nice rate.
No, it can't go on increasing in value like that forever, but even if it only goes another 10 years before it pops, it's been a very profitable experiment for many people and lasted longer than an average tech company.
News at 11. Amazon is going to suspend sales of Amazon Echo; followed by suspending their entire online shopping site due to "potential" security issues. Almost everything has potential security issues (other than a block of concrete 10 feet under), but as a customer, it's my right to make that trade-off.
As a customer it is your right to make that trade-off. You don't have the right to demand that Amazon be the one to sell it to you though.
It's your right to buy clam chowder but McDonalds doesn't have to sell it. It's your right to drive a Toyota Corolla, but your Honda dealership doesn't have to stock them. You're perfectly in your right to buy and wear a Rolex, but walmart doesn't have to have one waiting for you to buy.
Amazon has the right to choose not to sell BLU phones just as McDonalds has the right to not sell Clam Chowder.
I'm sure they don't want to be associated with spyware, or have negative customer satisfaction from people that buy those phones and incorrectly blame Amazon for selling them a spyware ridden phone. You may not blame Amazon but plenty of less tech savvy people would.
"My Toyota works just as well for getting my kids to school in morning traffic as my Lamborghini does."
I know it's offtopic, but your Toyota would work BETTER for getting your kids to school than a Lamborghini. For one thing, it would be a more comfortable ride, for another, the kids would be able to exit easier, for another, you wouldn't be paranoid the kids would be messing up the interior. Having air-conditioning in a car full of kids is always a plus too. Then there is the whole fact of not needing to stop as often to refuel, which puts a wrinkle in the getting the kids to school ontime during rush hour.
All things considered, you're better off ditching the Lambo... give it to me instead.
Actually, it's a fourth: They believe that open plan offices promote creative interaction while closed offices promote focused productivity, and they choose to favor the former over the latter. There's also an element of flexibility. The theory is that it's easier for people in open-plan offices to use noise-cancelling headphones to focus when they need to be productive than it is for employees to walk out of their office and into a colleague's office when they need to collaborate.
Whereas it is undeniably true that an open office results in more dialogue, I don't think that is the only way to encourage it. Nothing beats face-to-face and easy access to encourage collaboration, but the problem is, not many people are going to want to work like that.
I know I quit a job primarily for the reason of switching to open-office. (I had other issues with the place, but the moment they switched to open-office I updated my resume and started job hunting)
Open office is simply a much less pleasant environment in which to work.
They're projected to be the majority in GB now within 10 years. The whole point of leaving the EU and it didn't work.
Oh good. Should be easier to find some nice beef shawarma when I go home. Get nice Taco trucks whilst in America and Shawarma in the UK. Things are looking up.
..while robot sports may one day be a thing itself, replacing the human equivalent in this way wouldn't happen. I feel like it would be boring...skill is no longer a factor..eventually games would become 100% predictable short of the occasional mechanical failure.
Whereas they wouldn't be completely random, there would have to be a degree of randomness to the robot's actions in order to make it difficult for the other team to counter. I suspect it might not be as predictable as you might suspect. Especially if outdoors and weather patterns impact it.
Do you get the point? That boater dude was demanding to be rescued no matter what the cost was. That demand must be squarely and roundly rejected.
How much do you consider a reasonable amount for saving someone's life? I'm sure for the person whose life is in danger (and remember, it could be you, even if not boating), they wouldn't be thinking, ahh... it'll cost $20,000 to save me, they should just let me die.
I am a tax payer and I am not an avid boater. I have no reason to save you at all costs.
Ahhh... so If you don't have kids, you shouldn't have to pay taxes for schools. If you don't drive, you shouldn't have to pay to up keep roads. You never want us to be at war with another country, so why should you pay taxes to fund the military. You've never had your house robbed, why should your taxes go to pay for the police. You're not expecting to be held up at gunpoint any time soon- screw paying for a police force. You don't go to national parks, why should you have to pay for it? None of your family are unemployed, why should you pay taxes for benefits. You live on a hill, why should you pay for flood control in your city. You're not a woman, why should your taxes pay for rape prevention initiatives.
Which is EXACTLY what we are saying. People who are so depressed that they have problems understanding basic biology should never be in the military in the first place. Transgender is just a symptom of depression.
Which is EXACTLY why you're wrong. You've pigeon-holed all transgenders into one "depressed can't function" box that isn't true for all of them. Just like it's not true all women on their periods would shoot all their company, or that all black people rob the 7/11 each night.
It's a bias that may be true of "some" but certainly not "all", and everyone deserves to be treated as an individual.
The big difference between Myspace and Twitter (and incidentally, Myspace is still open and running) is that MySpace was popular with a bunch of spotty teens with no money but not really the general population or corporations. Twitter is popular with media outlets and service departments. There is money in the pockets of people using Twitter- Twitter just need to learn how to extract it without scaring people off.
I definitely think you're right, they need to cut staff, but I think they could perhaps take payment from the media outlets and service departments that use them. I small fee to all the Walmarts, Wendy's, and BBCs of the world (and every other "Verified account" could make them a lot of money. Keep the general population happy by not charging them.
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This guy wants to be Steve Jobs so bad it's fucking comical. Steve Jobs was unduly idolized and poor musk wants the same thing so badly. You've nor your company have innovated anything. The US Tax Pay funded both Tesla and SolarShitty. Now you think a train is a technological marvel...
Well, in all fairness, he's already done more to help mankind so far than Jobs did. Jobs made some great commercial electronics but nothing revolutionary. The iPhone was a well put together piece of equipment and his best contribution, but it's not like there weren't already similar products before, and co-currently being worked on by other teams. His was just better than anything else in the beginning... the smart phone revolution was dawning anyway- he just made it better and maybe sped it up a year or two.
Musk on the other hand has single handedly pulled the world up and made electric cars a reality. It's not the fringe technology we might develop 20 years from now, in perpetuity any more.
His impact is so big, countries are beginning to mandate electric cars in the future His impact with electric cars has also spurred a battery revolution for solar panels- solar panels were coming anyway, so were home batteries- but he's made big impacts there.
He has leapstarted self driving vehicles. Whilst Google has been floundering for a decade- Tesla has gone ahead and done it and made it a reality. Maybe not whole-hog, maybe not even close, but his baby steps towards self-driving has made the technology a reality and other automanufacturers are taking note.
He's also been leading the only really successful team for privatized space. Sure Virgin Galactic, and a few others are looking promising, but he's pretty much spurred a whole second space-age.
If Hyperloop works and doesn't turn into vapour, it promises to be a massive change on how we think about transport. I'm less optimistic for hyperloop than his other ventures, but it could potentially be a big shaker.
So yeah, Jobs had some nice consumer electronics, but Musk has already done more that is useful to mankind. He's not just turning over a profit, he's doing useful stuff that betters man. He long since overshot Jobs.
I doubt he'll hold onto the trademark for Hyperloop very long. It's already used generically by enough people who don't think of it as a company-specific term.
Trying to hold onto the Hyperloop trademark will cause headaches. Perhaps Musk will need some asprin.
Has there been any other company in recent times that has had so much constant and invariably negative press?
The PR people at Uber must be wondering what they can do to help. Seems like every week there's a negative report about Uber, and almost never anything positive about them.
Seafood isn't meat? You must be, or were raised, Catholic.
Can't speak for other countries but this language permeates all of the US, certainly not just Catholics (only ~20% of population here). There is often a strong association of meat only coming from mammals.
I wouldn't say that is the standard for the US. I would say most people here would consider fish to be "meat". With that said, it's not unheard of for people here to separate the two.
I think it's more a generational and/or regional thing. People in the North East (stronger catholic influence) tend to consider fish to not be meat; also, older people are more likely to have that idea.
Younger people, and people outside the North East generally consider fish to be a meat.
Huh? That double negatives means you wrote "he's one of the minority that is lactose tolerant", and there are too many cats who love (cow's) milk for that to make sense.
I love peanuts, but if I eat more than a small handful more digestive system turns into a sawmill and I poop liquified sawdust and have stomach pains and nausea for days.
I'm still an idiot and go back and eat more peanuts from time-to-time despite the literal buttache it gives me.
Cats are like that with cows milk- cows milk is really not good for cats. They love it, but it upsets their digestive systems.
That's like someone having terminal cancer and just taking pain killers to 'fix' it. You have the fix the root of the problem,
Too late... We're already locked into killer temperature in some parts. Sure, solving the root will help other people and prevent the problem getting worse- but essentially, we knew what was happening in the 80's and almost no one did anything. Now it's too late to come out of this unscathed.
ebay is still a big place to sell your products.
As a consumer, I, and many other people, won't touch e-bay with a 10ft pole. Jet on the otherhand, if it had better variety, like maybe even 1/3 of what Amazon has, would be an excellent place to shop.
Yes, if you want to sit through 18 minutes of advertisements (average) per 60 minutes of programming, sure, use broadcast television.
I hooked up one of our TVs to an antenna recently to get the local channels. Wish I hadn't have bothered. After a decade of living commercial free, I couldn't go back to watching TV that had commercials on them. It was so horrible. I can't believe that I used to watch shows like that.
I'd rather just not watch TV than watch a show filled with commercials every few minutes.
Anyone with even a bit of a critical mind should realize fairly quickly that Bitcoin can't work in wide use or long term (and the more use, the shorter the life).
Anyone with even a bit of common sense and the ability to read some economic theory should figure out the financial theory behind Bitcoin is crap and won't work.
When bitcoin first came out, I thought that; I still don't want anything to do with Bitcoin, but, I've got to give it my grudging respect. Not only has it lasted a lot longer than I (or most people) thought it would, it's got quite a loyal fanbase, keeps evolving and growing, and is (in general) increasing in value at quite a nice rate.
No, it can't go on increasing in value like that forever, but even if it only goes another 10 years before it pops, it's been a very profitable experiment for many people and lasted longer than an average tech company.
News at 11. Amazon is going to suspend sales of Amazon Echo; followed by suspending their entire online shopping site due to "potential" security issues. Almost everything has potential security issues (other than a block of concrete 10 feet under), but as a customer, it's my right to make that trade-off.
As a customer it is your right to make that trade-off. You don't have the right to demand that Amazon be the one to sell it to you though.
It's your right to buy clam chowder but McDonalds doesn't have to sell it. It's your right to drive a Toyota Corolla, but your Honda dealership doesn't have to stock them. You're perfectly in your right to buy and wear a Rolex, but walmart doesn't have to have one waiting for you to buy.
Amazon has the right to choose not to sell BLU phones just as McDonalds has the right to not sell Clam Chowder.
I'm sure they don't want to be associated with spyware, or have negative customer satisfaction from people that buy those phones and incorrectly blame Amazon for selling them a spyware ridden phone. You may not blame Amazon but plenty of less tech savvy people would.
"My Toyota works just as well for getting my kids to school in morning traffic as my Lamborghini does."
I know it's offtopic, but your Toyota would work BETTER for getting your kids to school than a Lamborghini. For one thing, it would be a more comfortable ride, for another, the kids would be able to exit easier, for another, you wouldn't be paranoid the kids would be messing up the interior. Having air-conditioning in a car full of kids is always a plus too. Then there is the whole fact of not needing to stop as often to refuel, which puts a wrinkle in the getting the kids to school ontime during rush hour.
All things considered, you're better off ditching the Lambo... give it to me instead.
Actually, it's a fourth: They believe that open plan offices promote creative interaction while closed offices promote focused productivity, and they choose to favor the former over the latter. There's also an element of flexibility. The theory is that it's easier for people in open-plan offices to use noise-cancelling headphones to focus when they need to be productive than it is for employees to walk out of their office and into a colleague's office when they need to collaborate.
Whereas it is undeniably true that an open office results in more dialogue, I don't think that is the only way to encourage it. Nothing beats face-to-face and easy access to encourage collaboration, but the problem is, not many people are going to want to work like that.
I know I quit a job primarily for the reason of switching to open-office. (I had other issues with the place, but the moment they switched to open-office I updated my resume and started job hunting)
Open office is simply a much less pleasant environment in which to work.
They're projected to be the majority in GB now within 10 years. The whole point of leaving the EU and it didn't work.
Oh good. Should be easier to find some nice beef shawarma when I go home. Get nice Taco trucks whilst in America and Shawarma in the UK. Things are looking up.
..while robot sports may one day be a thing itself, replacing the human equivalent in this way wouldn't happen. I feel like it would be boring...skill is no longer a factor..eventually games would become 100% predictable short of the occasional mechanical failure.
Whereas they wouldn't be completely random, there would have to be a degree of randomness to the robot's actions in order to make it difficult for the other team to counter. I suspect it might not be as predictable as you might suspect. Especially if outdoors and weather patterns impact it.
Or "Innings" rather. It's been a few decades.
What do you mean "we", person who uses the word "inning" in reference to cricket?
An inning is when one team takes a turn at bat. Each team has 2 (or 1 depending on type of game) innings.
Cricket: a horribly boring game to watch, but I used to love playing it as child. As with most sports it's much better to play than watch.
Ah, yes, "Cricket," where no bugs are used.
That's what you think. We ritualistically slaughter thousands of crickets and drink their "blood" before each inning.
It's not real football until Jose Mourinho trains the robots to fall over when they're approached.
Do you get the point? That boater dude was demanding to be rescued no matter what the cost was. That demand must be squarely and roundly rejected.
How much do you consider a reasonable amount for saving someone's life? I'm sure for the person whose life is in danger (and remember, it could be you, even if not boating), they wouldn't be thinking, ahh... it'll cost $20,000 to save me, they should just let me die.
I am a tax payer and I am not an avid boater. I have no reason to save you at all costs.
Ahhh... so
If you don't have kids, you shouldn't have to pay taxes for schools.
If you don't drive, you shouldn't have to pay to up keep roads.
You never want us to be at war with another country, so why should you pay taxes to fund the military.
You've never had your house robbed, why should your taxes go to pay for the police. You're not expecting to be held up at gunpoint any time soon- screw paying for a police force.
You don't go to national parks, why should you have to pay for it?
None of your family are unemployed, why should you pay taxes for benefits.
You live on a hill, why should you pay for flood control in your city.
You're not a woman, why should your taxes pay for rape prevention initiatives.
Whilst a really cool technology, I hope it never makes a mistake and says a real-life situation is really a prank.
The cost of mistake with this tech could be one or more people's lives.
Bravo.
Which is EXACTLY what we are saying. People who are so depressed that they have problems understanding basic biology should never be in the military in the first place. Transgender is just a symptom of depression.
Which is EXACTLY why you're wrong. You've pigeon-holed all transgenders into one "depressed can't function" box that isn't true for all of them. Just like it's not true all women on their periods would shoot all their company, or that all black people rob the 7/11 each night.
It's a bias that may be true of "some" but certainly not "all", and everyone deserves to be treated as an individual.
So was myspace.
The big difference between Myspace and Twitter (and incidentally, Myspace is still open and running) is that MySpace was popular with a bunch of spotty teens with no money but not really the general population or corporations. Twitter is popular with media outlets and service departments. There is money in the pockets of people using Twitter- Twitter just need to learn how to extract it without scaring people off.
I definitely think you're right, they need to cut staff, but I think they could perhaps take payment from the media outlets and service departments that use them. I small fee to all the Walmarts, Wendy's, and BBCs of the world (and every other "Verified account" could make them a lot of money. Keep the general population happy by not charging them.
Indeed, in "happening right now" news, there is no better source. Anything else... meh.