I'll make it a habit to jump around, jump around, jump up jump up and get down when I'm taking pictures in NH, to make sure my feet aren't on the ground for any of them.
Having actually RTFA, it just enforces how poorly most programmers understand relational databases and shouldn't be let near them. It's so consistently wrong it could be just straight trolling (which given it's posted to post-Taco Slashdot, is likely).
"However, the articles also contained data less suited to a traditional database. For example, each article could have multiple authors, so there were actually more authors than there were articles."
This is completely wrong, that's a text book case of something perfectly suited to traditional (relational) database.
Well, based on how many things are wrong in the Java vs C# comparison, too, one can only guess that the "software developer" is just some hack who is comped by Slashdot to drive clicks to their sub-sites.
Man this place has really gone to shit in the last year -- just a waste of time to read. Sucks its hard to break 15 years of habit...
That link is exactly what I came to post. It's clearly overkill, but overkill is the perfect tool to show someone that they are hopelessly outclassed and they should seriously reconsider their actions.
Except they're not hopelessly outclassed. They broke into the questioner's network and the questioner had to ask Slashdot instead of addressing it himself.
He/she's already demonstrated they've been hopelessly outclassed.
A story about North Korea and you guys put a Japanese flag up?
The summary did mention Japan, and if a Slashdot editor actually read a summary, we should be positive and encourage him or her, not fault the missing of the whole point of it. We need to reward improved behavior.
This phone is not acceptable for those two reasons, I don't care how great its screen is or how fast its processor.
Just as any mainstream phone manufacturer wouldn't care about the features you want.
If lack of either of those were an impediment to sales, they'd include them. They're not, so they don't. But I'm sure there's people at HTC who are broken up over an AC on Slashdot declaring its not acceptable to them.
Because it has no value. It didn't take off 15 years ago with VRML, didn't take off any time since then, and won't now. It wasn't a lack of standards, or slow hardware, or poor displays.
Its pure-and-simple, not the way people want to interact with their systems.
I'd be willing to bet good money that even when full-immersive, jack-into-my-skull VR is finally available, virtually everyone will be projecting virtual pages in front of them to interact with, not getting all Lawnmower Man or all "I know this, this is Unix". (For you kids that don't remember the VRML hype, you may not get either of those references either... sorry.)
To a very small extent, yes. Because hybrids have small battery packs, and tend to try to keep them charged all the time (burning gas to do so), there's only just so much regen they can absorb.
You forgot another key thing -- when you take your foot off the gas in a gasoline car, it doesn't start magically creating new fuel and putting it back in your tank the way an EV does.
If an EV instantly goes into regen braking when letting off the throttle, then no thanks. Constant, perceptible deceleration instead of freewheel (or slushbox) coasting would get real old, real quick.
It does, because it needs to mimic the friction you get in a normal drivetrain. As to how much it does, that is selectable on most EVs. Some people (arguably most, from what I've seen) prefer the aggressive regen -- it basically has the same feel as taking your foot of the gas in a manual transmission car.
But overall I am sure an electric car charged by a well tuned power plant will be more efficient than a gasoline car.
You forgot another key thing -- when you take your foot off the gas in a gasoline car, it doesn't start magically creating new fuel and putting it back in your tank the way an EV does.
To me, 270 mile range sounds fantastic (my car only gets 210 miles to a tank). I know charging points aren't yet as ubiquitous as fuel stations and that's the point of these tests, but seriously 270 mile range is more than enough for most people to do 95% of their regular driving without even considering range.
Short of road trips, most people can do just fine on 100% electric in a Volt (40ish miles) or a Leaf or Focus EV (~90).
I mean, really -- if you could fill up the tank in your ICE-based car every night at home, how often would you ever hit a gas station? As much as people like to bitch about the range on EVs, IMO the bitching is based on theoretical wishes for hitting the open road on long road trips they'd like to be doing more so than daily usage that is actually happening.
Did John Broder think that in a car as sophisticated as the Tesla they wouldn't keep event the simplest of logs? My home router keeps more detail than it took to debunk this story. When I'm 30 miles from stranded my far less sophisticated Volt starts nagging and the Nav system offers "Plot a course to the nearest refueling point?" If you ignore this for half an hour, I assume you run out of gas. I'll never know.
You do, and then it goes into a "limp" mode where you can get another mile or two on electric before you're totally dead.
Enjoy your 5 hour battery life, I'll stick with the 10 I get out of my original iPad.
Glad you like your Surface Pro -- but that doesn't mean people aren't getting a lot of use and utility out of both iPad and Android tablets.
And, you enjoy your iPad while I get 30 days of battery life out of my Kindle.
Wait, is that comparing two completely different devices? Yeah, you're probably right, so I'll enjoy the 10-12 hours of battery life I get out of the "original" Surface.
Can you stop this explainable hatred on this tablet? It's a tool aimed at professionals like myself. I want productivity and ability to work with a full OS, not a castrated version barely capable of browsing porn. When iPad/Android will be able to run Diablo 3 on maximum settings we will have an adult discussion.
Its just another example of the daily anti-Microsoft drivel. Some days its better than others, but all days it gets their target audience whipped up into a near-orgasmic frenzy of glee.
Don't drive your car for a month or two and its battery will be dead
That has not been true of any car I've ever owned.
I could possibly see an alarm system doing that, but even there I think a standard car battery should be able to power a few sensors longer than a few months.
They won't, but I suppose its pretty cool that you hit some random sampling of cars that could sit that long just fine. You must buy a lot of cars and not use them?
(FWIW, I do -- and all of them sit on battery tenders, for that reason, because virtually no cars can make two months without turning it over without a drained battery.)
SOGo + Thunderbird/w calendar plugin. If you want a slow migration, or if you actually prefer Outlook as a client you can get native Exchange compatibility if you plug SOGo into Samba4+OpenChange.
Exactly -- which isn't OpenOffice.
There's a lot of reasons corporations pay lots of money for their enterprise software, and not cobbling together things is a big part of that.
Lithium batteries really don't handle cold temperatures very well at all -- one of the many reasons that aircraft have continued to use good old fashioned Nickel-cadmium or lead-acid batteries (until the Dreamliner came along).
When they're too cold, they neither take a full charge, nor do they deliver their rated capacity or maximum current.
Which is why most EVs - the major exception being the Leaf -- actively maintain heir battery temperature.
The reported range dropped overnight because HE FAILED TO PLUG IT IN. Which the manual tells you do.
Screw what the manual tells you to do, if I have an electric thing, and I turn off the electric thing, I should have approximately the same power available when I turn it back on. Electric cars get no exception to this rule.
I can understand some reduced capacity from batteries getting cold but shouldn't they warm up again while driving, and the car knowing the be able to make an accurate revised prediction based on it knowing they would be warmed? Instead it seemed like power was simply gone.
The battery isn't allowed to get cold -- draining power from a cold battery had permanent effect on its lifespan. Power is used to keep it warmed/cooled to the proper temperature range. And, for what its worth, every car drains power when "off". Don't drive your car for a month or two and its battery will be dead, just from things like the radio, alarm, etc.
Tens of miles? Way more than that. I don't have a Tesla or know its numbers, but by way of comparison the Chevy Volt's heater is ~6kw. The car typically gets 4 miles per kWh, so an hour of full tilt heat will cost 24 miles in range. Physics is physics, so I doubt the efficiency of the Tesla is much higher or the heater any smaller. And I believe the Tesla battery is actively temperature controlled like the Volt -- so you use some limited power overnight, as well, to keep it ""warm".
Gimme a program that I can take a picture of the nutritional label that comes on EVERYTHING, and log that I ate it. That's OCR. It's kinda hard.
Its also a stupid way to do it -- there's also a UPC code, and you can get all that information from variously online services. There's already apps doing that.
And, innovation isn't hard, but being successful from it is. You'll put that effort in and some jackass company, likely overseas somewhere, will crank out a cheaper clone along with a thousand other apps, and use their size to get their app showing up higher. Or some other jackass will sue you for one reason or another.
The problem is, its actually *easy* for people to do bad work and get paid, and there's a million of them living in parts of the world where making $500 in total off a knock-off app they threw together in a week is still economically viable.
So to each their own, if you need the features of Microsoft Office, more power to you. I'm sure many here though will chime in that for the majority of users, Open or Libre Office have 99% of what the typical user needs.
Home user, yes. Office? I'd say yes, if you leave out Outlook. And, you could probably use some sort of web-based or other mail client and some other mail server if in some cases, but there's more to Exchange/Outlook than a simple mail program. IMO, the thing that most makes Microsoft Office "sticky" in corporate environments isn't Word or Excel, its Outlook.
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I'll make it a habit to jump around, jump around, jump up jump up and get down when I'm taking pictures in NH, to make sure my feet aren't on the ground for any of them.
Live free or die, my ass.
No, he moved to America.
I haven't seen a single photo of him with an assault rifle and mullet.
Having actually RTFA, it just enforces how poorly most programmers understand relational databases and shouldn't be let near them. It's so consistently wrong it could be just straight trolling (which given it's posted to post-Taco Slashdot, is likely).
"However, the articles also contained data less suited to a traditional database. For example, each article could have multiple authors, so there were actually more authors than there were articles."
This is completely wrong, that's a text book case of something perfectly suited to traditional (relational) database.
Well, based on how many things are wrong in the Java vs C# comparison, too, one can only guess that the "software developer" is just some hack who is comped by Slashdot to drive clicks to their sub-sites.
Man this place has really gone to shit in the last year -- just a waste of time to read. Sucks its hard to break 15 years of habit ...
That link is exactly what I came to post. It's clearly overkill, but overkill is the perfect tool to show someone that they are hopelessly outclassed and they should seriously reconsider their actions.
Except they're not hopelessly outclassed. They broke into the questioner's network and the questioner had to ask Slashdot instead of addressing it himself.
He/she's already demonstrated they've been hopelessly outclassed.
Not legally enforceable, which in many ways is a shame. Until money can be made through space travel, it will never "take off"...
Mod informative, flamebait or funny
Of course, they could just drop the asteroid on the party complaining ... kill two birds with one stone... literally.
A story about North Korea and you guys put a Japanese flag up?
The summary did mention Japan, and if a Slashdot editor actually read a summary, we should be positive and encourage him or her, not fault the missing of the whole point of it. We need to reward improved behavior.
It's 4MP. Many phones have 8MP these days. Seems like an odd corner to cut.
The funniest thing about your reply is the Insightful moderations. Clearly neither you, nor the mods, read the article.
Hint: megapixels effectively never matter when it comes to consumer digital photography...
This phone is not acceptable for those two reasons, I don't care how great its screen is or how fast its processor.
Just as any mainstream phone manufacturer wouldn't care about the features you want.
If lack of either of those were an impediment to sales, they'd include them. They're not, so they don't. But I'm sure there's people at HTC who are broken up over an AC on Slashdot declaring its not acceptable to them.
Because it has no value. It didn't take off 15 years ago with VRML, didn't take off any time since then, and won't now. It wasn't a lack of standards, or slow hardware, or poor displays.
Its pure-and-simple, not the way people want to interact with their systems.
I'd be willing to bet good money that even when full-immersive, jack-into-my-skull VR is finally available, virtually everyone will be projecting virtual pages in front of them to interact with, not getting all Lawnmower Man or all "I know this, this is Unix". (For you kids that don't remember the VRML hype, you may not get either of those references either... sorry.)
Does if you've got a hybrid, though.
To a very small extent, yes. Because hybrids have small battery packs, and tend to try to keep them charged all the time (burning gas to do so), there's only just so much regen they can absorb.
If an EV instantly goes into regen braking when letting off the throttle, then no thanks. Constant, perceptible deceleration instead of freewheel (or slushbox) coasting would get real old, real quick.
It does, because it needs to mimic the friction you get in a normal drivetrain. As to how much it does, that is selectable on most EVs. Some people (arguably most, from what I've seen) prefer the aggressive regen -- it basically has the same feel as taking your foot of the gas in a manual transmission car.
But overall I am sure an electric car charged by a well tuned power plant will be more efficient than a gasoline car.
You forgot another key thing -- when you take your foot off the gas in a gasoline car, it doesn't start magically creating new fuel and putting it back in your tank the way an EV does.
To me, 270 mile range sounds fantastic (my car only gets 210 miles to a tank). I know charging points aren't yet as ubiquitous as fuel stations and that's the point of these tests, but seriously 270 mile range is more than enough for most people to do 95% of their regular driving without even considering range.
Short of road trips, most people can do just fine on 100% electric in a Volt (40ish miles) or a Leaf or Focus EV (~90).
I mean, really -- if you could fill up the tank in your ICE-based car every night at home, how often would you ever hit a gas station? As much as people like to bitch about the range on EVs, IMO the bitching is based on theoretical wishes for hitting the open road on long road trips they'd like to be doing more so than daily usage that is actually happening.
A $100,000 car is "mass market"?
They were originally targeting a $50k price tag with the S but rapidly gave up on that idea. Cool car though.
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And, after the tax break, the low end one is about $50k, only the early-adopter limited edition model is $100k.
Did John Broder think that in a car as sophisticated as the Tesla they wouldn't keep event the simplest of logs? My home router keeps more detail than it took to debunk this story. When I'm 30 miles from stranded my far less sophisticated Volt starts nagging and the Nav system offers "Plot a course to the nearest refueling point?" If you ignore this for half an hour, I assume you run out of gas. I'll never know.
You do, and then it goes into a "limp" mode where you can get another mile or two on electric before you're totally dead.
Enjoy your 5 hour battery life, I'll stick with the 10 I get out of my original iPad.
Glad you like your Surface Pro -- but that doesn't mean people aren't getting a lot of use and utility out of both iPad and Android tablets.
And, you enjoy your iPad while I get 30 days of battery life out of my Kindle.
Wait, is that comparing two completely different devices? Yeah, you're probably right, so I'll enjoy the 10-12 hours of battery life I get out of the "original" Surface.
Can you stop this explainable hatred on this tablet? It's a tool aimed at professionals like myself. I want productivity and ability to work with a full OS, not a castrated version barely capable of browsing porn. When iPad/Android will be able to run Diablo 3 on maximum settings we will have an adult discussion.
Its just another example of the daily anti-Microsoft drivel. Some days its better than others, but all days it gets their target audience whipped up into a near-orgasmic frenzy of glee.
Don't drive your car for a month or two and its battery will be dead
That has not been true of any car I've ever owned.
I could possibly see an alarm system doing that, but even there I think a standard car battery should be able to power a few sensors longer than a few months.
They won't, but I suppose its pretty cool that you hit some random sampling of cars that could sit that long just fine. You must buy a lot of cars and not use them?
(FWIW, I do -- and all of them sit on battery tenders, for that reason, because virtually no cars can make two months without turning it over without a drained battery.)
SOGo + Thunderbird /w calendar plugin. If you want a slow migration, or if you actually prefer Outlook as a client you can get native Exchange compatibility if you plug SOGo into Samba4+OpenChange.
Exactly -- which isn't OpenOffice.
There's a lot of reasons corporations pay lots of money for their enterprise software, and not cobbling together things is a big part of that.
Lithium batteries really don't handle cold temperatures very well at all -- one of the many reasons that aircraft have continued to use good old fashioned Nickel-cadmium or lead-acid batteries (until the Dreamliner came along).
When they're too cold, they neither take a full charge, nor do they deliver their rated capacity or maximum current.
Which is why most EVs - the major exception being the Leaf -- actively maintain heir battery temperature.
The reported range dropped overnight because HE FAILED TO PLUG IT IN. Which the manual tells you do.
Screw what the manual tells you to do, if I have an electric thing, and I turn off the electric thing, I should have approximately the same power available when I turn it back on. Electric cars get no exception to this rule.
I can understand some reduced capacity from batteries getting cold but shouldn't they warm up again while driving, and the car knowing the be able to make an accurate revised prediction based on it knowing they would be warmed? Instead it seemed like power was simply gone.
The battery isn't allowed to get cold -- draining power from a cold battery had permanent effect on its lifespan. Power is used to keep it warmed/cooled to the proper temperature range. And, for what its worth, every car drains power when "off". Don't drive your car for a month or two and its battery will be dead, just from things like the radio, alarm, etc.
Tens of miles? Way more than that. I don't have a Tesla or know its numbers, but by way of comparison the Chevy Volt's heater is ~6kw. The car typically gets 4 miles per kWh, so an hour of full tilt heat will cost 24 miles in range. Physics is physics, so I doubt the efficiency of the Tesla is much higher or the heater any smaller. And I believe the Tesla battery is actively temperature controlled like the Volt -- so you use some limited power overnight, as well, to keep it ""warm".
Gimme a program that I can take a picture of the nutritional label that comes on EVERYTHING, and log that I ate it. That's OCR. It's kinda hard.
Its also a stupid way to do it -- there's also a UPC code, and you can get all that information from variously online services. There's already apps doing that.
And, innovation isn't hard, but being successful from it is. You'll put that effort in and some jackass company, likely overseas somewhere, will crank out a cheaper clone along with a thousand other apps, and use their size to get their app showing up higher. Or some other jackass will sue you for one reason or another.
The problem is, its actually *easy* for people to do bad work and get paid, and there's a million of them living in parts of the world where making $500 in total off a knock-off app they threw together in a week is still economically viable.
So to each their own, if you need the features of Microsoft Office, more power to you. I'm sure many here though will chime in that for the majority of users, Open or Libre Office have 99% of what the typical user needs.
Home user, yes. Office? I'd say yes, if you leave out Outlook. And, you could probably use some sort of web-based or other mail client and some other mail server if in some cases, but there's more to Exchange/Outlook than a simple mail program. IMO, the thing that most makes Microsoft Office "sticky" in corporate environments isn't Word or Excel, its Outlook.
How many people would download OpenOffice if Microsoft Office was free?
How many people would download OpenOffice if it wasn't free?