A cropduster takes 300 Gallons of pesticide up and can spray for several hours. A drone with similar abilities is huge, very expensive, requires massive batteries and charge systems. I think cropdusters will have the economical advantage for quite some time to come.
'Really good open source software' doesn't say much. The business model, if there is one at all, depends very much on the audience you target. Enterprise companies will have different incentives to pay you than school kids do. There's quite a difference between making money from the 1000th Flappy Birds clone, or from some financial statistics system that may change a business forever.
Perhaps if your goal is to make a living writing software, get yourself a well-paying job as a developer or start your own closed-source business, and make open source programs on the side without a business model.
A couple of years ago I would be offended. Now I see this as just another snowflake comment, melting away. By all standards that SJW's are trying to set, I'm a bigot, a racist, a nazi, alt-right extremist and an islamofobe. Can't care less anymore. By my own standards I'm just an average working-class guy with a job and a family wondering what the hell is happening to the world.
s/dividing/divided.. USA has been divided for years and it's not something that started all of a sudden when Trump took office. America is undergoing the tyranny of SJW's and has been for years. Trump simply exposes it for the hysteria that it is. He's very clumsy in doing so, but at least he isn't walking away from the over-inflated snowflake issues and all that comes from it. He may be a big bad bully but that doesn't make him wrong on all accounts.
Oh, and for the record, I'm not a US citizen, I'm looking at this from the other side of the ocean, wondering WTF got into you people.
Is it me, or has Slashdot become a media outlet for the left? I have this site set as my start page for the past 15 years or so, looking for news for nerds, and stuff that matters. This Trump-bashfest isn't for nerds, and it does not matter.
Protip #2: Nothing involving money enters my phone. No banking apps, no credit card apps, no NFC payments, nothing. Saves a whole lot of hassle if my phone ever decides to disappear, fail or explode (not necessarily in that order).
The fact that there is no way to properly shutdown a system when an update is scheduled. The shutdown option changes to 'update and shutdown' and instead of the 20 minute margin you allowed yourself to the next customer visit, you now are *forced* to wait for the updates to complete, and run late for an otherwise comfortable start of the meeting.
Well, for one it would make all religions redundant, as obviously the Earth and Humans turn out not to be Gods special snowflake, but just one of billions of planets that host life. So I'm all fore showing proof of life on Mars, either on the past or still there.
When a US company decides to set up shop in a foreign country, it has to play by the laws of that country. US law does not trump (ouch..) other country's law.
So when Twitter gets orders to stifle free speech in Germany because it goes against German law, Twitter has three options: 1) Lobby to get German law changed. 2) Obey German law. or 3) Pull out of Germany.
Check the article please. It isn't Twitter who sets these rules (which would be OK, as it's their company). It is political bodies like EU who abuse their power to make companies like Twitter push their agenda. EU gets to decide what is hate speech. And that could be anything that goes against the interest of EU (the organisation, not the people..)
Exactly this. Twitter is now blocking elected politicians in some countries because they call out EU on their migration policies. Who the f*ck are they to decide what is hateful, and to whom??
A financial stimulus by any other name is 'subsidy'. It's a means to persuade people to buy one product over the other, using tax money. Not collecting tax is also a form of spending tax money that would otherwise have been due.
A similar, even more ridiculous example exists in The Netherlands. Company cars can be used for private travel, but in return you have to pay income tax over a percentage of the car's list value. Up until 2016, hybrid cars had a tariff of only 4%. So if you bought a car of €50.000, each year you'd have to add 4% or €2000 to your income and pay tax on that (which can be as high as 52%). So net out of pocket you'd pay just over €1000 per year to use the car.
Now compare that to regular diesel or petrol company cars, where the tarif wasn't 4% but 20 - 25% instead. Do the math.
Then Mitsubishy launched their Outlander PHEV. Hideous car. About €50.000, a range of only 40km on battery, so 98% of all travel miles was on regular petrol with a less-than-efficient engine. But in the 4% tarif class, so The Netherlands bought the entire world-wide manufacturing capacity of PHEV's. Then in 2016, hybrid cars were put into the 22% tarif. Guess what. Zero sales. None.
"You still find COBOL coders in financial companies because their systems are built on that" Fixed that for you. And those guys make a pretty bunch, for being obsolete.
That's like saying that any welder should be able to be a proficient carpenter in a short time span. Or anyone who speaks English should be able to speak Mandarin on a proficient level in three months. Programming languages are indeed tools, but being proficient at handling those tools is a skill that takes time to develop. Retraining after many years isn't a given for everyone.
100% right. If this is a car then a Cessna 172 is also a car.
Just because it has wheels and can taxi around doesn't make it a car. They'll need something to remove or stowe the wings before it can be used on public roads. That will make it a lot heavier, eating into any useful load the aircraft may have. It's a long way from prototype to product.
Instead of having hip music in the demo movie, I'd like to hear what noise level this contraption produces.
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A cropduster takes 300 Gallons of pesticide up and can spray for several hours. A drone with similar abilities is huge, very expensive, requires massive batteries and charge systems. I think cropdusters will have the economical advantage for quite some time to come.
... AVAST AntiVirus! Who would have guessed that a great tool like CCleaner would be messed up by Avast in no time at all.
'Really good open source software' doesn't say much. The business model, if there is one at all, depends very much on the audience you target. Enterprise companies will have different incentives to pay you than school kids do. There's quite a difference between making money from the 1000th Flappy Birds clone, or from some financial statistics system that may change a business forever.
Perhaps if your goal is to make a living writing software, get yourself a well-paying job as a developer or start your own closed-source business, and make open source programs on the side without a business model.
If the track record for any of the thousands of naïve aid projects are any indication, I'd guess the odds are about 100%
A couple of years ago I would be offended. Now I see this as just another snowflake comment, melting away. By all standards that SJW's are trying to set, I'm a bigot, a racist, a nazi, alt-right extremist and an islamofobe. Can't care less anymore. By my own standards I'm just an average working-class guy with a job and a family wondering what the hell is happening to the world.
s/dividing/divided .. USA has been divided for years and it's not something that started all of a sudden when Trump took office. America is undergoing the tyranny of SJW's and has been for years. Trump simply exposes it for the hysteria that it is. He's very clumsy in doing so, but at least he isn't walking away from the over-inflated snowflake issues and all that comes from it. He may be a big bad bully but that doesn't make him wrong on all accounts.
Oh, and for the record, I'm not a US citizen, I'm looking at this from the other side of the ocean, wondering WTF got into you people.
Is it me, or has Slashdot become a media outlet for the left? I have this site set as my start page for the past 15 years or so, looking for news for nerds, and stuff that matters. This Trump-bashfest isn't for nerds, and it does not matter.
In fact, he wrote a 10-page memo identifying the problem. Go read it, it's enlightning.
Protip #2: Nothing involving money enters my phone. No banking apps, no credit card apps, no NFC payments, nothing. Saves a whole lot of hassle if my phone ever decides to disappear, fail or explode (not necessarily in that order).
The fact that there is no way to properly shutdown a system when an update is scheduled. The shutdown option changes to 'update and shutdown' and instead of the 20 minute margin you allowed yourself to the next customer visit, you now are *forced* to wait for the updates to complete, and run late for an otherwise comfortable start of the meeting.
For f*ck sake, I want control over *MY* computer!
Server lives Matter!
Yuck..
Quite simple really.. The Model F have a market today, you can sell them to enthousiasts who used to own one.
Owners of the Model M on the other hand are still enjoying their original product every day and have no reason to buy anything else today.
Isn't that akin to making burglary illegal?
You beat me to it. But I'm sure the target audience will (politically) correct that.
Well, for one it would make all religions redundant, as obviously the Earth and Humans turn out not to be Gods special snowflake, but just one of billions of planets that host life. So I'm all fore showing proof of life on Mars, either on the past or still there.
Now travel to, say, North Korea and repeat this statement.
When a US company decides to set up shop in a foreign country, it has to play by the laws of that country. US law does not trump (ouch..) other country's law.
So when Twitter gets orders to stifle free speech in Germany because it goes against German law, Twitter has three options: 1) Lobby to get German law changed. 2) Obey German law. or 3) Pull out of Germany.
Then follow the money.
Check the article please. It isn't Twitter who sets these rules (which would be OK, as it's their company). It is political bodies like EU who abuse their power to make companies like Twitter push their agenda. EU gets to decide what is hate speech. And that could be anything that goes against the interest of EU (the organisation, not the people..)
Exactly this. Twitter is now blocking elected politicians in some countries because they call out EU on their migration policies. Who the f*ck are they to decide what is hateful, and to whom??
Time to move out of those countries then.
Several millions are doing that right now, flooding Europe. The problem is, they don't leave their garbage ideology behind.
A financial stimulus by any other name is 'subsidy'. It's a means to persuade people to buy one product over the other, using tax money. Not collecting tax is also a form of spending tax money that would otherwise have been due.
A similar, even more ridiculous example exists in The Netherlands. Company cars can be used for private travel, but in return you have to pay income tax over a percentage of the car's list value. Up until 2016, hybrid cars had a tariff of only 4%. So if you bought a car of €50.000, each year you'd have to add 4% or €2000 to your income and pay tax on that (which can be as high as 52%). So net out of pocket you'd pay just over €1000 per year to use the car.
Now compare that to regular diesel or petrol company cars, where the tarif wasn't 4% but 20 - 25% instead. Do the math.
Then Mitsubishy launched their Outlander PHEV. Hideous car. About €50.000, a range of only 40km on battery, so 98% of all travel miles was on regular petrol with a less-than-efficient engine. But in the 4% tarif class, so The Netherlands bought the entire world-wide manufacturing capacity of PHEV's. Then in 2016, hybrid cars were put into the 22% tarif. Guess what. Zero sales. None.
People buy what's good for their wallet.
The headline is incorrect. This Indian VP dude is afraid it will hurt HIS industry, not THE industry.
"You still find COBOL coders in financial companies because their systems are built on that"
Fixed that for you. And those guys make a pretty bunch, for being obsolete.
That's like saying that any welder should be able to be a proficient carpenter in a short time span. Or anyone who speaks English should be able to speak Mandarin on a proficient level in three months. Programming languages are indeed tools, but being proficient at handling those tools is a skill that takes time to develop. Retraining after many years isn't a given for everyone.
100% right. If this is a car then a Cessna 172 is also a car.
Just because it has wheels and can taxi around doesn't make it a car. They'll need something to remove or stowe the wings before it can be used on public roads. That will make it a lot heavier, eating into any useful load the aircraft may have. It's a long way from prototype to product.
Instead of having hip music in the demo movie, I'd like to hear what noise level this contraption produces.