How so? Batteries can be replaced and get cheaper as the years go by. There are plenty of 10+ year old Hybrids around with new replacement battery packs.
I fully expect there will be replacement Tesla, Leaf, Volt, etc battery packs readily available when their batteries poop out. In all likelihood they will be cheaper than they are now due to economies of scale, and through improvements in energy density, higher in capacity.
Leaf owner here. Yes, you can set a schedule for the car to charge.
We currently don't because we are charging off the slower 110v charger. (Long story.) Once we get into our new house we'll use the 220v wall unit.
Not directly in reply to parent, but I figure I'll comment as a current Leaf owner -
As far as range, more is definitely better. So, would I want the 150 mile version? Hell yeah! However, we get by just fine with what we have. It is currently our only car. We live in the somewhat sprawling Tampa area. As long as we stay within Tampa / Clearwater / St. Pete for our destination, we're fine without worry or need to charge while we're out.
But, for trips to Orlando, or anything really outside 40 miles from home, we typically rent a gas car and use that. Eventually we plan to get a cheap used SUV as our second car for longer trips, but for now this has worked well enough. We've only really needed longer range about 1 time per month since we owned the Leaf, which is about 3 months now. That has basically been 2 trips to Orlando, and 1 trip to Melbourne. Rental cars are cheap here, and I don't mind spending $100 for a 3 or 4 day rental - at least until I can pay cash for a second vehicle.
The only thing that needs to change here IMO is the commenting system. Remove the score limits. +/- 5 is too limiting. Embrace reddit's commenting scoring with unlimited up and down scores.
The look and feel of the site is fine and iconic. Changing it to the Wordpress look-a-like abomination you have for a beta is a travesty. It screams of New Coke marketing thinking to me.
Content is what brings people here and has brought me here for what 15+ years now? Focus on adding good content to the site.
I'm a mage and do ports for free. Most mages will do a port for 3g or less. I've never been charged more than that on any of my 10+ alts of various levels in almost 2 years of playing.
The expansion didn't change the rate for ports at all.
I almost never RTFA here or elsewhere until I've read the first few comments. Its saved me so much time that I highly recommend it.
I understand Slashdot and other sites need to throw up news ever hour or so to keep us clicking their ads, but do they ever read this stuff to see if its worth posting?
I stopped shopping at Best Buy like 3 years ago. The combination of high prices, crappy service, long waits to check out and online horror stories was enough for me.
I found that for almost anything BB sells you can get it online w/ overnight shipping cheaper. Only the very cheapest DVD's being a possible exception.
I don't get why this company is still in business. Do people like dealing with this kind of nightmare?
Some server farm admin at Savvis is scratching his head right now. "Why did Slashdot get hit with 10000 attempts to login, strangely all using the same wrong password?"
Internet censorship is a cat and mouse game that the mouse can always win.
You can get around most any blocker if you use a web proxy. At least until the blocking agent gets smart enough to put the web proxy on the list. When they do, just move to another proxy. Rinse, lather, repeat. A good list of proxies is at http://pxylist.com. That list is better than others as its actually monitored and the proxies are always up.
Of course there are other ways to get around web blockers, but web proxies are the easiest to use.
If a war started tomorrow, how long do you think it would take before:
a) The factories we have running today kicked into war production mode
and
b) All the empty factories in mothballs (think the entire Rust Belt) kicked into production making tanks, bullets, guns, whatever?
I'd say within a couple weeks for (a) and a couple months for (b). The US may not have a current high level of manufacturing but we've got the ability to ramp it up very, very fast. Coupled with our huge amount of natural resources - I'd say that we'd do just fine.
I tried to read the submitters summary, but I just couldn't. It was like he took a bunch of scientific sounding words and put them together randomly. Almost like what a preschooler would do with those little word magnets.
Do the editors try to read these things before posting?
After Slashdot got popular (1998?) I remember I had to plan the timing of my visits to Slashdot. I had to get there first thing in the morning because inevitably if I waited till lunch it was hosed. It was like 11am and ending somewhere around 2pm that Slashdot would be so slow you couldn't get to it. That was before it was bought out of course.
I remember taco telling us it was running on a single server back then. I wonder how many there are now?
I'd never heard of them until today - and I practically live online. They must not have been marketing all that much for me to have not even heard of them.
In any event, it sounds like AnywhereCD had a pretty decent business idea, except maybe that it should be the CD as the "addon" instead of the downloads.
I wonder if Apple or any of the other major retailers will ever offer an option like "buy this digital album for $x and for $y more get a CD copy". I don't see why not. CD's are so cheap you could sell them as add ons for say $5 dollars more than the download and make a nice profit. Plus the buyer will have the permanency of the CD.
FUD or real warning? I guess we'll know soon enough. I have a factory iPhone so I'm not terribly worried either way.
But even if this is a real issue where Apple can brick modded phones - I'd think the hacker community will have fixes in place within hours of the new patch. I mean, can't you just restore to factory settings, patch with the new patch and then rehack? I'm not an iPhone hacker by any means but its not a hard leap of logic to figure that out.
From what I heard they used EDGE instead of 3G because 3G is a huge battery drain on the phone. It wouldn't last a day with 3G. (And this is true of most current 3G phones in general.)
Whereas I can surf periodically over the course of the whole day on EDGE and have 1/2 battery left with my iPhone. EDGE isn't blazing but its good enough for most browsing you'd do on a phone in my experience.
No way Apple is selling at a loss. They wouldn't do that. I think the Margins are probably slimmer than their normal (~10% maybe?) - but they make up for that with a long term share in AT&T Revenue.
I think the reason for the price cut is as it was said. They want to sell a ton of this at the holiday season.
Its the same thing that happened to the PS3. Only a select set of early adopters will plunk down a large amount for the latest gadget. But lower the price and now the more mainstream consumer can buy it.
The submitter of the article compared iPhones to houses and cars. Its a bad comparison. Houses and cars are useful for years, electronics are not. Electronics have a very limited lifespan compared to cars and houses and the markets are very different.
With society as paranoid as it is today you'd think she'd have considered her attire before entering the airport. Not to mention carrying around putty. Who carries around putty anyways?
It may be an overreaction by the cops, but it seems to me she brought it upon herself.
So it works _now_ on the mainframe and that's great. What happens when it breaks? Who's going to fix it if no one has expertise on that dinosaur of a system anymore? Someone who charges a very, very high rate, no doubt, because their skills are exceedingly rare. Not to mention getting parts for it if hardware breaks.
Its the same scenario that we all deal with, with our home PC/Mac systems. Sure we could all surf the net with 10 year old Pentium PC's. But at some point the cost to:
-Find and patch old software -Buy additional 4 GB hard drives when we run out of space -Replace Optical drives -Replace burnt out fans -etc
Plus the cost of our wasted time waiting for old equipment. Eventually, maintaining the old exceeds the cost of purchasing new. This happens with almost every piece of equipment. Cars, tractors, computers, houses, clothes, shoes, etc.
We've made astounding progress in technology in the past 20+ years. Just because something old gets the job done doesn't mean we can't do the same thing a whole lot better/faster/cheaper today with current technology.
There should be a moderation tag "Industry Shill". I would totally use it right now on the parent if there were.
It would be so useful for the RIAA/MPAA/Music Piracy/Microsoft stories around here. There are always a couple industry PR people replying to comments here (and Digg and everywhere else). I wonder if they realize just how obvious they are when they post?
Linux.com favoring OpenOffice? Get out, really? This comparison is more like a 500 word high school paper. There are no real details, no screenshots and few specifics.
If Microsoft wrote a review / comparison this we'd have 200 comments here screaming FUD.
I'm sure Open Office is a great match for Word now, but if the writer wants to make that point, he needs to use some specific metrics.
Wasn't there a federal court case recently that specifically said policies like this were illegal?
I don't remember all the details, but from what I do remember it mandated that parties must be informed of any changes to contracts/agreements. You couldn't have a clause like "we don't need to notify you of changes to this agreement". So, if that is the case, doesn't it kill the entire purpose of this patent?
BTW - I really think things like this should not be patentable. This is not an invention.
I always liked coding in Pascal in college. I don't know what I'd use it for now, except maybe to see if my old code from school would compile and run.
Anyways, its nice to know that someone out there is still supporting the language. Maybe we can replace Javascript with some variant of Pascal? That would be pretty sweet.
You had me until you said "taking PHP off your server".
Being a good Computer Scientist is all about applying sound principles and practices whatever particular problem your working on at the time. Some programmers blame tools and languages for their inability to use them well. (Kind of like blaming the hammer for smashing your thumb.) You _can most definitely_ code in PHP in a structured, easy to maintain way. I've done it, I've seen it done plenty of times. Same goes for Perl, Python, C/C++, Java, etc. Sure some may have better tools than others, but good code can be produced in all of them.
Some languages certainly have better tools, but programmers 30 years ago did just fine without all the wiz-bang development tools we have today. It just took a little more planning and effort - the two items that are lacking in most poorly written projects.
Making a contract easier to read is not going to help anyone who doesn't read it. I'd bet most cell phone customers never read the terms, if they did they wouldn't sign up and agree so easily.
Could it be that its the glass encapsulation that's causing this, rather than the chip itself? I'm sure having the radio transmitter there isn't good but maybe its the glass thats more toxic.
The literal word of the bible is only followed when its convenient for those in control. Depending on the denomination passages, hell, even whole books of the bible are ignored. (Apocrypha)
Beyond that the church will, when its helpful to a particular objective, apply outlandish interpretations of parts of the bible, just to forward their own agendas.
You should really listen to church radio sometimes. I do for the comedy value. Some of the conclusions they reach from the passages they read are a riot.
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I fully expect there will be replacement Tesla, Leaf, Volt, etc battery packs readily available when their batteries poop out. In all likelihood they will be cheaper than they are now due to economies of scale, and through improvements in energy density, higher in capacity.
We currently don't because we are charging off the slower 110v charger. (Long story.) Once we get into our new house we'll use the 220v wall unit.
Not directly in reply to parent, but I figure I'll comment as a current Leaf owner -
As far as range, more is definitely better. So, would I want the 150 mile version? Hell yeah! However, we get by just fine with what we have. It is currently our only car. We live in the somewhat sprawling Tampa area. As long as we stay within Tampa / Clearwater / St. Pete for our destination, we're fine without worry or need to charge while we're out.
But, for trips to Orlando, or anything really outside 40 miles from home, we typically rent a gas car and use that. Eventually we plan to get a cheap used SUV as our second car for longer trips, but for now this has worked well enough. We've only really needed longer range about 1 time per month since we owned the Leaf, which is about 3 months now. That has basically been 2 trips to Orlando, and 1 trip to Melbourne. Rental cars are cheap here, and I don't mind spending $100 for a 3 or 4 day rental - at least until I can pay cash for a second vehicle.
The only thing that needs to change here IMO is the commenting system. Remove the score limits. +/- 5 is too limiting. Embrace reddit's commenting scoring with unlimited up and down scores. The look and feel of the site is fine and iconic. Changing it to the Wordpress look-a-like abomination you have for a beta is a travesty. It screams of New Coke marketing thinking to me. Content is what brings people here and has brought me here for what 15+ years now? Focus on adding good content to the site.
I'm a mage and do ports for free. Most mages will do a port for 3g or less. I've never been charged more than that on any of my 10+ alts of various levels in almost 2 years of playing. The expansion didn't change the rate for ports at all.
I almost never RTFA here or elsewhere until I've read the first few comments. Its saved me so much time that I highly recommend it.
I understand Slashdot and other sites need to throw up news ever hour or so to keep us clicking their ads, but do they ever read this stuff to see if its worth posting?
I stopped shopping at Best Buy like 3 years ago. The combination of high prices, crappy service, long waits to check out and online horror stories was enough for me.
I found that for almost anything BB sells you can get it online w/ overnight shipping cheaper. Only the very cheapest DVD's being a possible exception.
I don't get why this company is still in business. Do people like dealing with this kind of nightmare?
Some server farm admin at Savvis is scratching his head right now. "Why did Slashdot get hit with 10000 attempts to login, strangely all using the same wrong password?"
Internet censorship is a cat and mouse game that the mouse can always win.
You can get around most any blocker if you use a web proxy. At least until the blocking agent gets smart enough to put the web proxy on the list. When they do, just move to another proxy. Rinse, lather, repeat. A good list of proxies is at http://pxylist.com. That list is better than others as its actually monitored and the proxies are always up.
Of course there are other ways to get around web blockers, but web proxies are the easiest to use.
If a war started tomorrow, how long do you think it would take before:
a) The factories we have running today kicked into war production mode
and
b) All the empty factories in mothballs (think the entire Rust Belt) kicked into production making tanks, bullets, guns, whatever?
I'd say within a couple weeks for (a) and a couple months for (b). The US may not have a current high level of manufacturing but we've got the ability to ramp it up very, very fast. Coupled with our huge amount of natural resources - I'd say that we'd do just fine.
I tried to read the submitters summary, but I just couldn't. It was like he took a bunch of scientific sounding words and put them together randomly. Almost like what a preschooler would do with those little word magnets.
Do the editors try to read these things before posting?
Wow, have I been reading this site that long?
After Slashdot got popular (1998?) I remember I had to plan the timing of my visits to Slashdot. I had to get there first thing in the morning because inevitably if I waited till lunch it was hosed. It was like 11am and ending somewhere around 2pm that Slashdot would be so slow you couldn't get to it. That was before it was bought out of course.
I remember taco telling us it was running on a single server back then. I wonder how many there are now?
I'd never heard of them until today - and I practically live online. They must not have been marketing all that much for me to have not even heard of them.
In any event, it sounds like AnywhereCD had a pretty decent business idea, except maybe that it should be the CD as the "addon" instead of the downloads.
I wonder if Apple or any of the other major retailers will ever offer an option like "buy this digital album for $x and for $y more get a CD copy". I don't see why not. CD's are so cheap you could sell them as add ons for say $5 dollars more than the download and make a nice profit. Plus the buyer will have the permanency of the CD.
FUD or real warning? I guess we'll know soon enough. I have a factory iPhone so I'm not terribly worried either way.
But even if this is a real issue where Apple can brick modded phones - I'd think the hacker community will have fixes in place within hours of the new patch. I mean, can't you just restore to factory settings, patch with the new patch and then rehack? I'm not an iPhone hacker by any means but its not a hard leap of logic to figure that out.
From what I heard they used EDGE instead of 3G because 3G is a huge battery drain on the phone. It wouldn't last a day with 3G. (And this is true of most current 3G phones in general.)
Whereas I can surf periodically over the course of the whole day on EDGE and have 1/2 battery left with my iPhone. EDGE isn't blazing but its good enough for most browsing you'd do on a phone in my experience.
No way Apple is selling at a loss. They wouldn't do that. I think the Margins are probably slimmer than their normal (~10% maybe?) - but they make up for that with a long term share in AT&T Revenue.
I think the reason for the price cut is as it was said. They want to sell a ton of this at the holiday season.
Its the same thing that happened to the PS3. Only a select set of early adopters will plunk down a large amount for the latest gadget. But lower the price and now the more mainstream consumer can buy it.
The submitter of the article compared iPhones to houses and cars. Its a bad comparison. Houses and cars are useful for years, electronics are not. Electronics have a very limited lifespan compared to cars and houses and the markets are very different.
I agree.
With society as paranoid as it is today you'd think she'd have considered her attire before entering the airport. Not to mention carrying around putty. Who carries around putty anyways?
It may be an overreaction by the cops, but it seems to me she brought it upon herself.
Yeah, OK.
So it works _now_ on the mainframe and that's great. What happens when it breaks? Who's going to fix it if no one has expertise on that dinosaur of a system anymore? Someone who charges a very, very high rate, no doubt, because their skills are exceedingly rare. Not to mention getting parts for it if hardware breaks.
Its the same scenario that we all deal with, with our home PC/Mac systems. Sure we could all surf the net with 10 year old Pentium PC's. But at some point the cost to:
-Find and patch old software
-Buy additional 4 GB hard drives when we run out of space
-Replace Optical drives
-Replace burnt out fans
-etc
Plus the cost of our wasted time waiting for old equipment. Eventually, maintaining the old exceeds the cost of purchasing new. This happens with almost every piece of equipment. Cars, tractors, computers, houses, clothes, shoes, etc.
We've made astounding progress in technology in the past 20+ years. Just because something old gets the job done doesn't mean we can't do the same thing a whole lot better/faster/cheaper today with current technology.
There should be a moderation tag "Industry Shill". I would totally use it right now on the parent if there were.
It would be so useful for the RIAA/MPAA/Music Piracy/Microsoft stories around here. There are always a couple industry PR people replying to comments here (and Digg and everywhere else). I wonder if they realize just how obvious they are when they post?
Linux.com favoring OpenOffice? Get out, really? This comparison is more like a 500 word high school paper. There are no real details, no screenshots and few specifics.
If Microsoft wrote a review / comparison this we'd have 200 comments here screaming FUD.
I'm sure Open Office is a great match for Word now, but if the writer wants to make that point, he needs to use some specific metrics.
Wasn't there a federal court case recently that specifically said policies like this were illegal?
I don't remember all the details, but from what I do remember it mandated that parties must be informed of any changes to contracts/agreements. You couldn't have a clause like "we don't need to notify you of changes to this agreement". So, if that is the case, doesn't it kill the entire purpose of this patent?
BTW - I really think things like this should not be patentable. This is not an invention.
I always liked coding in Pascal in college. I don't know what I'd use it for now, except maybe to see if my old code from school would compile and run.
Anyways, its nice to know that someone out there is still supporting the language. Maybe we can replace Javascript with some variant of Pascal? That would be pretty sweet.
You had me until you said "taking PHP off your server".
Being a good Computer Scientist is all about applying sound principles and practices whatever particular problem your working on at the time. Some programmers blame tools and languages for their inability to use them well. (Kind of like blaming the hammer for smashing your thumb.) You _can most definitely_ code in PHP in a structured, easy to maintain way. I've done it, I've seen it done plenty of times. Same goes for Perl, Python, C/C++, Java, etc. Sure some may have better tools than others, but good code can be produced in all of them.
Some languages certainly have better tools, but programmers 30 years ago did just fine without all the wiz-bang development tools we have today. It just took a little more planning and effort - the two items that are lacking in most poorly written projects.
Making a contract easier to read is not going to help anyone who doesn't read it. I'd bet most cell phone customers never read the terms, if they did they wouldn't sign up and agree so easily.
Could it be that its the glass encapsulation that's causing this, rather than the chip itself? I'm sure having the radio transmitter there isn't good but maybe its the glass thats more toxic.
Religion is about control.
The literal word of the bible is only followed when its convenient for those in control. Depending on the denomination passages, hell, even whole books of the bible are ignored. (Apocrypha)
Beyond that the church will, when its helpful to a particular objective, apply outlandish interpretations of parts of the bible, just to forward their own agendas.
You should really listen to church radio sometimes. I do for the comedy value. Some of the conclusions they reach from the passages they read are a riot.