The Tesla also has a battery composed of so many groups of cells that the battery management system can just stop using a group if it starts performing badly or failing.
So basically, if a small percentage of cells fails, you'll lose a little capacity but not like with a phone where you have ONE cell that, if it fails, that's it, you're done.
Make sure you have overdraft "protection" turned off and that the accounts are not "linked".
If you have it turned on, and someone tries to transfer thousands of dollars from that account, the transfer might succeed, the balance withdrawn from another account. This has screwed people over before, with fraud removing a large amount of money from savings even though checking only had a hundred of so dollars in it.
Overdraft "protection" is a horrible idea. Not only does it allow money to be removed from a different account, but they charge you a free for the privilege. It is FAR better for a mistake to cause a transaction to be declined than to expose your entire balance at a specific bank through a single account number.
The simple truth is if you want a cup of coffee while you're out and about, you're going to be spending > $1 because nobody is selling a cup of coffee for less than that.
The only way to get a cheap cup of coffee is to make it yourself, and you can't really do that unless you're at home or at an office that has a coffeemaker. Coffee shops know this, which is why they charge so much.
I'm not going to give up coffee over a dollar or two. Neither are most people; that's why coffee is $1-$2. It sucks, but what can you do? I can't control what everyone else does, and I want my coffee.
This is ridiculous. When Redbox bought the discs, they bought the codes too, since they are included with the disc.
Just as I can sell my code to someone after buying a personal copy of the movie, Redbox should have the right to sell their code as well. If they don't sell the code, and leave it with the disc, the first person to rent the movie will get the code anyway.
If Disney has a problem with this, they should just stop including the codes with the discs.
It would be nice if there could be some sort of "online news bundle". Pay $10 a month and have access to a dozen or so newspapers. The system would distribute that $10 as appropriate to the papers depending on which ones I read the most.
I don't want to have 15 different subscriptions! This is already becoming a problem in the streaming video world, with every company starting its own streaming service. I don't want it to become a problem for newspapers too.
I have this desire to support the industry but don't want to have so many subscriptions. Find a way to bundle things and I may bite.
The thing is I agree with you; the bugs aren't show stoppers. I even mentioned that in my original comment.
But this is evidence that Apple's attention to detail is not what it used to be. These sort of bugs didn't exist prior to iOS 7. I've been using iOS since version 3, and right around the time of iOS 7 there was a noticeable drop in QC which persists to this day.
There's all kinds of cosmetic and usability bugs floating around, and Apple doesn't seem to be in a hurry to fix them. They're the kind of bugs that aren't showstoppers but are still very annoying or can result in bad data.
The Calculator bug in iOS is one example of a recent bug that can produce bad data and wasn't fixed. Until iOS 11.2 (which isn't out yet!) even though it was reported way back in 11.0 beta, before the OS was released to the public.
Another recent issue, though less important, is that the Weather widget will randomly stop updating, so you'll be seeing last night's weather instead of right now. This bug was also reported several versions ago and is as of yet unfixed in the latest 11.2 beta.
I know bugs happen; nobody is perfect. But these are obvious, reproducible bugs that are not being fixed after being reported months prior. What the hell, Apple?
People will always take a mile when given an inch.
I guess Tesla realized this might happen, and that's why they stopped giving out free supercharger access. An alternate fix would be to deny supercharging if the number of miles drivenon the last charge is too low compared to the amount of energy that's been used.
The street lights on the road behind my house were damaged by hurricane Irma and still have not been fixed, and I'm loving it. The darkness outside at night is beautiful and serene; I hate the ugly yellow-orange glow of sodium lighting.
I wish people would appreciate darkness at night. And even then, "security" lighting can be done so that an area is softly lit without blasting bright light in all directions.
One nice thing about ZFS not being in upstream is that it is currently maintained and updated separate from the Linux kernel.
Now, it would be nice to relicense ZFS under GPL so that it can be included in the kernel. But this should wait until the port is a bit more mature. Right now development is very active on ZFS and we have new versions coming out every few weeks; having to coordinate this with kernel releases will complicate things.
All this said, relicensing ZFS would definitely help Oracle redeem themselves a bit. After mercilessly slaughtering Sun after acquiring them, they have a long way to go to get from the "evil" side back to the forces of good.
Systems are not becoming obsolete as quickly as they used to.
I remember how back in 1995, a computer from 1991 was considered slow as hell and could hardly run any current software.
Now in 2017, a computer from 2013 is still perfectly usable and fast. The rate of performance increase has slowed to an utter crawl. The biggest advancements in recent years have been reduced power consumption and increasing density in solid state storage, and the latter can be an upgrade to your old machine.
Even with gaming systems, unless you're the sort who wants a flashy LED-lit clear-side case that looks like a spaceship, you can build a top-performing system just by buying a mass market machine and selecting the video card you want to put into it.
The enthusiast market is still there, but it's mostly for people who want their computer to look like it belongs on the set of Star Trek. I (sadly?) outgrew that once I was out of my 20s.
A big issue here though is that the right-wing viewpoint is usually "This is forbidden! We will NEVER change that!".
If prostitution were regulated, with mandatory heath examinations, licensing of facilities and a framework that prevents these women from taken advantage of, we could have it both ways: People who want to pay for sex would be able to, with less risk to themselves and their "partner".
A good fictional example is the Companion Guild in the Firefly TV series. In that world they solved the problem through regulation and also elevating the trade so that it's considered prestigious, rather than scandalous.
Why are these so expensive anyway? I mean holy crap, at $80K you're approaching the cost of actual human-carrying aircraft. Isn't the whole point of drones to do this stuff on the cheap?
If cellular bandwidth is so limited in these rural areas, why not just throttle customers after a certain amount of usage, or apply QoS during periods of heavy usage on the tower? You would think Verizon would be able to figure out a solution that doesn't involve kicking off paying customers.
I recall reading that all the Teslas actually had the same capacity, and the only difference was software that only let the battery charge up to a percentage of full.
I don't recall if you could buy an "upgrade" to the higher capacity or not.
Did they actually use smaller batteries in the 75?
An exclusive with one carrier is annoying, but not so bad. An exclusive that changes carriers between the first and second releases of the phone is NOT.
At one point if you wanted to upgrade your Pre to a Pre 2 you had to switch from Sprint to Verizon. Most people don't want to swap carriers just to upgrade their phone.
>Keep in mind unless you are super frugal and hydrate beforehand, 15 dollars is *NOT* the cost of a movie. Once you factor in an overpriced drink and something to eat you are already looking at 30-40 dollars.
Am I the only one who just doesn't eat or drink anything at the theater?
I usually do the classic concept of dinner and a movie. I go out to eat with my friends or my date, then we go to the movies. We are full of food and drink and can enjoy the film without having to munch and drink more.
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The Tesla also has a battery composed of so many groups of cells that the battery management system can just stop using a group if it starts performing badly or failing.
So basically, if a small percentage of cells fails, you'll lose a little capacity but not like with a phone where you have ONE cell that, if it fails, that's it, you're done.
If smart watches actually did look like 80s calculator wrist watches, I might actually get one!
Instead I just wear my 80s style Casio G-Shock. Because it's dorky-retro and I love that.
What good is that going to do? It hasn't done any good the previous several dozen times we've tried it.
Make sure you have overdraft "protection" turned off and that the accounts are not "linked".
If you have it turned on, and someone tries to transfer thousands of dollars from that account, the transfer might succeed, the balance withdrawn from another account. This has screwed people over before, with fraud removing a large amount of money from savings even though checking only had a hundred of so dollars in it.
Overdraft "protection" is a horrible idea. Not only does it allow money to be removed from a different account, but they charge you a free for the privilege. It is FAR better for a mistake to cause a transaction to be declined than to expose your entire balance at a specific bank through a single account number.
The simple truth is if you want a cup of coffee while you're out and about, you're going to be spending > $1 because nobody is selling a cup of coffee for less than that.
The only way to get a cheap cup of coffee is to make it yourself, and you can't really do that unless you're at home or at an office that has a coffeemaker. Coffee shops know this, which is why they charge so much.
I'm not going to give up coffee over a dollar or two. Neither are most people; that's why coffee is $1-$2. It sucks, but what can you do? I can't control what everyone else does, and I want my coffee.
This is ridiculous. When Redbox bought the discs, they bought the codes too, since they are included with the disc.
Just as I can sell my code to someone after buying a personal copy of the movie, Redbox should have the right to sell their code as well. If they don't sell the code, and leave it with the disc, the first person to rent the movie will get the code anyway.
If Disney has a problem with this, they should just stop including the codes with the discs.
This is the problem.
It would be nice if there could be some sort of "online news bundle". Pay $10 a month and have access to a dozen or so newspapers. The system would distribute that $10 as appropriate to the papers depending on which ones I read the most.
I don't want to have 15 different subscriptions! This is already becoming a problem in the streaming video world, with every company starting its own streaming service. I don't want it to become a problem for newspapers too.
I have this desire to support the industry but don't want to have so many subscriptions. Find a way to bundle things and I may bite.
The thing is I agree with you; the bugs aren't show stoppers. I even mentioned that in my original comment.
But this is evidence that Apple's attention to detail is not what it used to be. These sort of bugs didn't exist prior to iOS 7. I've been using iOS since version 3, and right around the time of iOS 7 there was a noticeable drop in QC which persists to this day.
There's all kinds of cosmetic and usability bugs floating around, and Apple doesn't seem to be in a hurry to fix them. They're the kind of bugs that aren't showstoppers but are still very annoying or can result in bad data.
The Calculator bug in iOS is one example of a recent bug that can produce bad data and wasn't fixed. Until iOS 11.2 (which isn't out yet!) even though it was reported way back in 11.0 beta, before the OS was released to the public.
Another recent issue, though less important, is that the Weather widget will randomly stop updating, so you'll be seeing last night's weather instead of right now. This bug was also reported several versions ago and is as of yet unfixed in the latest 11.2 beta.
I know bugs happen; nobody is perfect. But these are obvious, reproducible bugs that are not being fixed after being reported months prior. What the hell, Apple?
People will always take a mile when given an inch.
I guess Tesla realized this might happen, and that's why they stopped giving out free supercharger access. An alternate fix would be to deny supercharging if the number of miles drivenon the last charge is too low compared to the amount of energy that's been used.
The street lights on the road behind my house were damaged by hurricane Irma and still have not been fixed, and I'm loving it. The darkness outside at night is beautiful and serene; I hate the ugly yellow-orange glow of sodium lighting.
I wish people would appreciate darkness at night. And even then, "security" lighting can be done so that an area is softly lit without blasting bright light in all directions.
Android doesn't have an "update overnight" option like iOS does?
Most of my non-techie friends with iPhones just hit "update overnight" and the update is done by morning; no interruption to their routine.
One nice thing about ZFS not being in upstream is that it is currently maintained and updated separate from the Linux kernel.
Now, it would be nice to relicense ZFS under GPL so that it can be included in the kernel. But this should wait until the port is a bit more mature. Right now development is very active on ZFS and we have new versions coming out every few weeks; having to coordinate this with kernel releases will complicate things.
All this said, relicensing ZFS would definitely help Oracle redeem themselves a bit. After mercilessly slaughtering Sun after acquiring them, they have a long way to go to get from the "evil" side back to the forces of good.
>Dammit, now I have to watch Firefly again.
This happens to me every few years. And it's wonderful every time. :)
Systems are not becoming obsolete as quickly as they used to.
I remember how back in 1995, a computer from 1991 was considered slow as hell and could hardly run any current software.
Now in 2017, a computer from 2013 is still perfectly usable and fast. The rate of performance increase has slowed to an utter crawl. The biggest advancements in recent years have been reduced power consumption and increasing density in solid state storage, and the latter can be an upgrade to your old machine.
Yeah, it's sad but true.
Even with gaming systems, unless you're the sort who wants a flashy LED-lit clear-side case that looks like a spaceship, you can build a top-performing system just by buying a mass market machine and selecting the video card you want to put into it.
The enthusiast market is still there, but it's mostly for people who want their computer to look like it belongs on the set of Star Trek. I (sadly?) outgrew that once I was out of my 20s.
A big issue here though is that the right-wing viewpoint is usually "This is forbidden! We will NEVER change that!".
If prostitution were regulated, with mandatory heath examinations, licensing of facilities and a framework that prevents these women from taken advantage of, we could have it both ways: People who want to pay for sex would be able to, with less risk to themselves and their "partner".
A good fictional example is the Companion Guild in the Firefly TV series. In that world they solved the problem through regulation and also elevating the trade so that it's considered prestigious, rather than scandalous.
How in the heck do you accidentally delete command.com? I was a heavy DOS user in the 90s and am boggling at that.
Why are these so expensive anyway? I mean holy crap, at $80K you're approaching the cost of actual human-carrying aircraft. Isn't the whole point of drones to do this stuff on the cheap?
It's up to Verizon to allow their customers to roam onto other networks, though.
They could simply disable data roaming for people who are using more than the allowed data quota.
If cellular bandwidth is so limited in these rural areas, why not just throttle customers after a certain amount of usage, or apply QoS during periods of heavy usage on the tower? You would think Verizon would be able to figure out a solution that doesn't involve kicking off paying customers.
I recall reading that all the Teslas actually had the same capacity, and the only difference was software that only let the battery charge up to a percentage of full.
I don't recall if you could buy an "upgrade" to the higher capacity or not.
Did they actually use smaller batteries in the 75?
Does any of this even slow down piracy though? I see movies on the torrent sites often before their release dates.
An exclusive with one carrier is annoying, but not so bad. An exclusive that changes carriers between the first and second releases of the phone is NOT.
At one point if you wanted to upgrade your Pre to a Pre 2 you had to switch from Sprint to Verizon. Most people don't want to swap carriers just to upgrade their phone.
>Keep in mind unless you are super frugal and hydrate beforehand, 15 dollars is *NOT* the cost of a movie. Once you factor in an overpriced drink and something to eat you are already looking at 30-40 dollars.
Am I the only one who just doesn't eat or drink anything at the theater?
I usually do the classic concept of dinner and a movie. I go out to eat with my friends or my date, then we go to the movies. We are full of food and drink and can enjoy the film without having to munch and drink more.