At 3000km, that's shorter than even a severe-duty oil change interval. One long trip and it's done. Seriously, say I wanted to drive from Dallas to Las Vegas; the battery lasts just long enough to get me there in one shot. Sure, the rechargable pack lasts long enough for the short drives once I'm there, but the return trip is going to suck with the repeated stops for recharging, especially with the lack of SuperCharger stations along the way. So by the end of 2015 I'll be able to make it, according to Tesla, but what do I do until then? I suppose if I can afford a Model S I'm probably affluent enough to pick up a plane ticket instead?
This "battery swap" is going to be nowhere near cheap, and we're talking about adding 220lbs to an already relatively porky sedan. I think I like my chances with next-gen rechargables better than this.
Anyone notice that he "hidden" or blanked out addresses were still listed in clear text just below the erased entries, albeit in slightly smaller text? Best part is they still let you see the protocol types the sites responded to. Telnet for the win, are they serious?
You should never, ever, EVER do this with factory tires, or any tires that have a tread pattern on them. The burnout box is for drag slicks _only_. The tread on your tires will do nothing other than pick up that water and deposit it into the launch area, creating a dangerous situation for not only you but the other racers. In most tracks, you will be instructed to drive around the burnout box if you're sporting anything other than an honest-to-god race car, and kicked out should you do otherwise.
You've got to be joking. To see a rise in sea levels, you have to melt land-based ice, of which the only significant volume is on Antarctica. Even the IPCC admits that to see appreciable rise would take over 10,000 years. This is a cruel joke, with us as the punchline.
It's another way to strip people of power sources that enable modern standards of living in the here and now.
Here's the problem with electrics: what do you do when you run out of charge? A gallon of 3,3,2 isooctane contains enough energy to move a 6,000-pound vehicle carrying half a ton of cargo or occupants ten miles in ten minutes, and it can be carried in a bucket. Not so much with it's electric counterpart.
Crash-tests: your Prius isn't up against a Suburban in the IIHS crash standards, it's facing off against a four-foot steel-plated, rebar-reinforced concrete cube, anchored to a poured, steel-reinforced concrete foundation. Eventually, mass wins. There's only so much you can do with fold-y bits and energy-absorbing impact zones. Sooner or later you simply have to add more metal.
Engine efficiency: Carnot-cycle heat engines have, at most, a 60% maximum conversion efficiency. In four-stroke motors, about a third of that gets eaten just operating the engine. There is an upper limit. Hope you won't miss that nine-second 0-60, because you won't have it much longer.
Electric dragsters outrace the best gasoline and diesel vehicle? Not at the track. You remind me of a talks-out-his-ass ex-coworker, who claimed that jet dragsters were getting 1.5s 1/4mi times. He doesn't have a job anymore. I'm honestly not surprised. Top fuel cars use nitromethane, and you don't even have to get into the exotic fuels before you outrun one of the turbine-powered cars. Top-fuel and funnycar classes have been ahead of the Jet-A boys for nearly two decades now.
Suffice to say, when the tech actually exists, we'll have electrics. Not that we don't want to make them, they're still really unfeasible for a large array of needs.
As I see it, this violates at least one Amendment (#4, right against search and seizure without warrant) and maybe more (I can probably make a case against #6 as a violation of the fact there's no act or cause of accusation and maybe #5 as a violation of my right to not self-incriminate). This is sick. This kid should be drummed out of Yale due to his gross misunderstanding of the fundamental tenants of criminal law in the United States.
Eh, I have a real problem with prosecuting the people for "making available." Prosecuting people that share their music for having enabled copyright infrigement is essentially like prosecuting people for leaving their doors unlocked and having enabled burglary.
Because it's not legal in the U.S., nor is there any precedent of case law to suggest Tenenbaum's actions were legal? In fact, all the case law to date only reinforces the concept that what Joel did was illegal, and essentially sets fire to any and all copyright law that's ever existed.
This "defense" cooked up by Neeson's retard students is absolute malarkey. The judge's ruling against fair use as a defense is spot-on. There's no "fair use" here, only some kid violating copyright for the hell of violating copyright. This is going to end badly for Joel, and his crybaby defense scheme is only going to set bad precedent. Someone somewhere will only extend this case's outcome to further wreck the place. The whole thing stinks to high heaven of a bunch of whiny Harvard assholes who simply didn't get what they want and would rather push a shitty agenda rather than work through rational means.
Here's a concern. Given the degree to which morons are let enter data to run-of-the-mill DBs like the one in the article, what's the level of accuracy? How many times has some nimrod phoned you up to generate harassment due to bad data? How many times have you yourself called to correct something only to be told "well, the computer says so, it must be right!"
People will make serious policy decisions based on this bad data.
Voluminous quantities of stupid and failure are certain to follow.
Seriously, no FireWire? I know they tried to screw the IEEE 1394 working group with the bait-and-switch license pricing tactic, and the beating they took in the industry was well deserved. But 1394 is superior from an operational standpoint, even if the controllers are a bit of unwieldy packaging-wise and expensive to boot. To have removed it completely from the low-end laptop doesn't bode well for it's future in the rest of the consumer hardware line, although lots of people still have MiniDV cams that use it. USB2/3 will in no way be able to fill that gap, even with the coming surge in hard-disk video cameras.
You fail, Apple. No FW400 (at a freakin' minimum, come on), no sale. I'll get the Dell or the Lenovo and Hackintosh the bejeezus out of it.
Having worked for Verizon, and directly supported the system responsible for this bullshit, I can confirm the idiocy in the story. It is physically impossible to get anything done through customer service, the development teams run by Verizon IT are made of failure and shame, and they really do reboot every system at midnight so that it passes Sheygan Kheradpir's (the IT company's president) 1am "system check," where he logs in to everything personally to make sure it's working.
It is a culture of scapegoatism and "we made the date" development, with zero regard for code quality or robustness, or even "does it work?" Ever pay your bill online? Ever wonder why there's now only a single path through the website that will actually get it paid? This is why. Anecdote: The support team on which I worked hired a Java programmer to assist with the forensic troubleshooting of the "netservices.verizon.net" site, since development never delivered the documentation of the site's design and function (I am certain it didn't exist), and after he solved two major problems by inverting two lines and reducing a 200 line module to 11 lines, he was locked out of the CVS repository, presumably to keep him from making the IT developers look bad.
They are colossal failures inside Verizon, and the company as a whole has been working to drive out every last bit of talent since Chuck Lee sold GTE to Bell Atlantic. The executives are completely disconnected from every aspect of production. Anecdote: the group president was down for a "meet the troops" day, and had been touring the Verizon Online NOC when she had to get on a conference call. Her assistant sat down at one of the work stations (visualize a NASA Mission Control-type layout) and used one of the duty phones to dial in. She then handed the phone to the local executive (which is fine, that's her job). The exec attended the call, and when she was done, rather than simply hang up the phone (which was literally within arms reach), the executive handed the phone back to ther assistant!
The bureaucratic structure is openly worshiped by every member of management (ask me how I know) regardless of the detriment to the business.It was absolutely unreal. Manipulation of performance statistics is commonplace. There is zero management accountability in any department. Check out some of the deeper pages in the "pay my bill online" section of the web site. The "Help and Support" section pages generate 404 errors. There is no way to actually order service over the phone, so if you don't already have some kind of internet service, you can't order anything from Verizon.
The only thing keeping these guys afloat is the fact that the FiOS product genuinely slays every competing technology available, and they know it.
In Texas, wrongful arrest is equivalent to assault, a crime for which you are allowed the use of deadly force to prevent. I doubt it's ever been tested, but it's on the books. I have no idea what the case history is like.
Do I trust it? I don't know. Tell me the facts. The sheer quantity of internet shenanigans going on of late makes me suspicious. This sounds like they're patching for a remote root exploit, but a protocol issue won't do that. DNS poisons? What is it then?
They're making us patch everything, and aren't telling us what it does. These are my systems, and you're going to tell me precisely what's going on before any of your code gets to run.
That weight is the reason a current Honda Civic can have a 140-mph-closing-speed collision, and the occupants inside can get out and stand around going "wow, wasn't that something!"
You do that trick with the lighter cars of say, twenty years ago, you're going to die.
You shouldn't compare data from different agencies, it's apples to oranges. That said, according to NationMater, the figures for total crimes per capita is 85 for the UK vs 80 for the US, per 1000 people.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever read here. They're valid, as they track the same statistic in their respective countries. If what you said is true, you shouldn't believe your data either, as it does the same thing you just eschewed.
However, wouldn't it be more relevant to look at gun violence, seeing as that's the policy in question? Most of the crime rate in either country has little to do with policy and everything to do with easy modern crimes like identity theft or criminal copyright violations. In Murders with firearms per capita, the US rate is about 30x the UK rate, and I was not even able to find the UK on Homicide rate, where the listing ended at about 9x below the US rate.
No, because the point of gun ownership is to reduce all crime. Criminals are less likely to commit crimes when they have to back up their actions with their lives.
Nope. Britain's is roughly 2.5x that of the US. You are three times more likely to get shivv'd in an alley and relieved of your wallet than in the US, and five times more likely to find your car torched or stolen. I'm using the U.K.'s Home Office crime statistics versus the FBI's stats for the 'States.
The Indians gained their independence by the grace of a first-world, free-press, gun-weilding populace in Britain, who were shocked at the treatment of the Indians at the hands of their own government. Were there controls on free speech and firearms ownership, the British could have done whatever they wanted with the protesters in India, up to and including wholesale slaughter. Only the political inconvenience of doing this prevented the Indians from being cut down at the hands of their oppressors.
I don't see any need to "follow the lead" of countries with higher per capita crime rates than my own, especially when such action results in a diminishing of my rights. Furthermore, it's very disingenuous of you to suggest that "right to privacy" for telephones exists solely overseas. Telephone wiretaps require warrants and due process to be performed. I suspect strongly that these vaunted "european nations" would just as swiftly tap your phone had they the belief it was necessary.
Sure, because I _like_ my $400/mo power bill in the summer.
Fuck that. Additionally, conversion to electric vehicles is a chicken-and-egg problem. Even if we had perfect battery tech tomorrow, the grid and electric power infrastructure couldn't support it. Had nuclear power growth tracked the way it was going before Three Mile Island, we'd have small commuter electric vehicles by the 90's, and with the available resource and real pressure to build a better battery, in all likelihood we'd already have the 300-500 mile ranges seen in hydrocarbon-fueled vehicles today.
Because with a surplus of electrical power and high-temperature water sources, we can more readily convert to an electric and hydrogen-powered vehicle fleet, rather than limping along on the gasoline/diesel infrastructure we have today. The cost of heating/cooling/lighting your home will drop. It's not "too cheap to meter," but it will reduce/stabilize prices in the mid-term (5-10 years).
Gas in Mexico is now at $3/gal. Their price supports will fail eventually. China's subsidy to bring their industrial price of oil to $40/bbl is going to collapse, and that's their own government saying that.
And ebikes won't deliver the groceries from a farm in the Heartland (that's "flyover state" to you) to the corner market in SoHo.
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At 3000km, that's shorter than even a severe-duty oil change interval. One long trip and it's done. Seriously, say I wanted to drive from Dallas to Las Vegas; the battery lasts just long enough to get me there in one shot. Sure, the rechargable pack lasts long enough for the short drives once I'm there, but the return trip is going to suck with the repeated stops for recharging, especially with the lack of SuperCharger stations along the way. So by the end of 2015 I'll be able to make it, according to Tesla, but what do I do until then? I suppose if I can afford a Model S I'm probably affluent enough to pick up a plane ticket instead?
This "battery swap" is going to be nowhere near cheap, and we're talking about adding 220lbs to an already relatively porky sedan. I think I like my chances with next-gen rechargables better than this.
Anyone notice that he "hidden" or blanked out addresses were still listed in clear text just below the erased entries, albeit in slightly smaller text? Best part is they still let you see the protocol types the sites responded to. Telnet for the win, are they serious?
You should never, ever, EVER do this with factory tires, or any tires that have a tread pattern on them. The burnout box is for drag slicks _only_. The tread on your tires will do nothing other than pick up that water and deposit it into the launch area, creating a dangerous situation for not only you but the other racers. In most tracks, you will be instructed to drive around the burnout box if you're sporting anything other than an honest-to-god race car, and kicked out should you do otherwise.
DO NOT DO THIS
Pretty hot to see this bump for the old Alma Mater:
check the fine print at the bottom:
http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2010/10/28-6621_Computer-Scientists-Make-Progress-on-Math-Puzzle_article.html
You've got to be joking. To see a rise in sea levels, you have to melt land-based ice, of which the only significant volume is on Antarctica. Even the IPCC admits that to see appreciable rise would take over 10,000 years. This is a cruel joke, with us as the punchline.
It's another way to strip people of power sources that enable modern standards of living in the here and now.
Here's the problem with electrics: what do you do when you run out of charge? A gallon of 3,3,2 isooctane contains enough energy to move a 6,000-pound vehicle carrying half a ton of cargo or occupants ten miles in ten minutes, and it can be carried in a bucket. Not so much with it's electric counterpart.
Crash-tests: your Prius isn't up against a Suburban in the IIHS crash standards, it's facing off against a four-foot steel-plated, rebar-reinforced concrete cube, anchored to a poured, steel-reinforced concrete foundation. Eventually, mass wins. There's only so much you can do with fold-y bits and energy-absorbing impact zones. Sooner or later you simply have to add more metal.
Engine efficiency: Carnot-cycle heat engines have, at most, a 60% maximum conversion efficiency. In four-stroke motors, about a third of that gets eaten just operating the engine. There is an upper limit. Hope you won't miss that nine-second 0-60, because you won't have it much longer.
Electric dragsters outrace the best gasoline and diesel vehicle? Not at the track. You remind me of a talks-out-his-ass ex-coworker, who claimed that jet dragsters were getting 1.5s 1/4mi times. He doesn't have a job anymore. I'm honestly not surprised. Top fuel cars use nitromethane, and you don't even have to get into the exotic fuels before you outrun one of the turbine-powered cars. Top-fuel and funnycar classes have been ahead of the Jet-A boys for nearly two decades now.
Suffice to say, when the tech actually exists, we'll have electrics. Not that we don't want to make them, they're still really unfeasible for a large array of needs.
As I see it, this violates at least one Amendment (#4, right against search and seizure without warrant) and maybe more (I can probably make a case against #6 as a violation of the fact there's no act or cause of accusation and maybe #5 as a violation of my right to not self-incriminate). This is sick. This kid should be drummed out of Yale due to his gross misunderstanding of the fundamental tenants of criminal law in the United States.
Eh, I have a real problem with prosecuting the people for "making available." Prosecuting people that share their music for having enabled copyright infrigement is essentially like prosecuting people for leaving their doors unlocked and having enabled burglary.
Because it's not legal in the U.S., nor is there any precedent of case law to suggest Tenenbaum's actions were legal? In fact, all the case law to date only reinforces the concept that what Joel did was illegal, and essentially sets fire to any and all copyright law that's ever existed.
This "defense" cooked up by Neeson's retard students is absolute malarkey. The judge's ruling against fair use as a defense is spot-on. There's no "fair use" here, only some kid violating copyright for the hell of violating copyright. This is going to end badly for Joel, and his crybaby defense scheme is only going to set bad precedent. Someone somewhere will only extend this case's outcome to further wreck the place. The whole thing stinks to high heaven of a bunch of whiny Harvard assholes who simply didn't get what they want and would rather push a shitty agenda rather than work through rational means.
Here's a concern. Given the degree to which morons are let enter data to run-of-the-mill DBs like the one in the article, what's the level of accuracy? How many times has some nimrod phoned you up to generate harassment due to bad data? How many times have you yourself called to correct something only to be told "well, the computer says so, it must be right!"
People will make serious policy decisions based on this bad data.
Voluminous quantities of stupid and failure are certain to follow.
Seriously, no FireWire? I know they tried to screw the IEEE 1394 working group with the bait-and-switch license pricing tactic, and the beating they took in the industry was well deserved. But 1394 is superior from an operational standpoint, even if the controllers are a bit of unwieldy packaging-wise and expensive to boot. To have removed it completely from the low-end laptop doesn't bode well for it's future in the rest of the consumer hardware line, although lots of people still have MiniDV cams that use it. USB2/3 will in no way be able to fill that gap, even with the coming surge in hard-disk video cameras.
You fail, Apple. No FW400 (at a freakin' minimum, come on), no sale. I'll get the Dell or the Lenovo and Hackintosh the bejeezus out of it.
Having worked for Verizon, and directly supported the system responsible for this bullshit, I can confirm the idiocy in the story. It is physically impossible to get anything done through customer service, the development teams run by Verizon IT are made of failure and shame, and they really do reboot every system at midnight so that it passes Sheygan Kheradpir's (the IT company's president) 1am "system check," where he logs in to everything personally to make sure it's working.
It is a culture of scapegoatism and "we made the date" development, with zero regard for code quality or robustness, or even "does it work?" Ever pay your bill online? Ever wonder why there's now only a single path through the website that will actually get it paid? This is why. Anecdote: The support team on which I worked hired a Java programmer to assist with the forensic troubleshooting of the "netservices.verizon.net" site, since development never delivered the documentation of the site's design and function (I am certain it didn't exist), and after he solved two major problems by inverting two lines and reducing a 200 line module to 11 lines, he was locked out of the CVS repository, presumably to keep him from making the IT developers look bad.
They are colossal failures inside Verizon, and the company as a whole has been working to drive out every last bit of talent since Chuck Lee sold GTE to Bell Atlantic. The executives are completely disconnected from every aspect of production. Anecdote: the group president was down for a "meet the troops" day, and had been touring the Verizon Online NOC when she had to get on a conference call. Her assistant sat down at one of the work stations (visualize a NASA Mission Control-type layout) and used one of the duty phones to dial in. She then handed the phone to the local executive (which is fine, that's her job). The exec attended the call, and when she was done, rather than simply hang up the phone (which was literally within arms reach), the executive handed the phone back to ther assistant!
The bureaucratic structure is openly worshiped by every member of management (ask me how I know) regardless of the detriment to the business.It was absolutely unreal. Manipulation of performance statistics is commonplace. There is zero management accountability in any department. Check out some of the deeper pages in the "pay my bill online" section of the web site. The "Help and Support" section pages generate 404 errors. There is no way to actually order service over the phone, so if you don't already have some kind of internet service, you can't order anything from Verizon.
The only thing keeping these guys afloat is the fact that the FiOS product genuinely slays every competing technology available, and they know it.
In Texas, wrongful arrest is equivalent to assault, a crime for which you are allowed the use of deadly force to prevent. I doubt it's ever been tested, but it's on the books. I have no idea what the case history is like.
Do I trust it? I don't know. Tell me the facts. The sheer quantity of internet shenanigans going on of late makes me suspicious. This sounds like they're patching for a remote root exploit, but a protocol issue won't do that. DNS poisons? What is it then?
They're making us patch everything, and aren't telling us what it does. These are my systems, and you're going to tell me precisely what's going on before any of your code gets to run.
That weight is the reason a current Honda Civic can have a 140-mph-closing-speed collision, and the occupants inside can get out and stand around going "wow, wasn't that something!"
You do that trick with the lighter cars of say, twenty years ago, you're going to die.
You shouldn't compare data from different agencies, it's apples to oranges. That said, according to NationMater, the figures for total crimes per capita is 85 for the UK vs 80 for the US, per 1000 people.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever read here. They're valid, as they track the same statistic in their respective countries. If what you said is true, you shouldn't believe your data either, as it does the same thing you just eschewed.
However, wouldn't it be more relevant to look at gun violence, seeing as that's the policy in question? Most of the crime rate in either country has little to do with policy and everything to do with easy modern crimes like identity theft or criminal copyright violations. In Murders with firearms per capita, the US rate is about 30x the UK rate, and I was not even able to find the UK on Homicide rate, where the listing ended at about 9x below the US rate.
No, because the point of gun ownership is to reduce all crime. Criminals are less likely to commit crimes when they have to back up their actions with their lives.
Nope. Britain's is roughly 2.5x that of the US. You are three times more likely to get shivv'd in an alley and relieved of your wallet than in the US, and five times more likely to find your car torched or stolen. I'm using the U.K.'s Home Office crime statistics versus the FBI's stats for the 'States.
Hell, Breyer wanted to redefine the grammatical structure of the language. Amazing, these people got through law school?
The Indians gained their independence by the grace of a first-world, free-press, gun-weilding populace in Britain, who were shocked at the treatment of the Indians at the hands of their own government. Were there controls on free speech and firearms ownership, the British could have done whatever they wanted with the protesters in India, up to and including wholesale slaughter. Only the political inconvenience of doing this prevented the Indians from being cut down at the hands of their oppressors.
I don't see any need to "follow the lead" of countries with higher per capita crime rates than my own, especially when such action results in a diminishing of my rights. Furthermore, it's very disingenuous of you to suggest that "right to privacy" for telephones exists solely overseas. Telephone wiretaps require warrants and due process to be performed. I suspect strongly that these vaunted "european nations" would just as swiftly tap your phone had they the belief it was necessary.
Sure, because I _like_ my $400/mo power bill in the summer.
Fuck that. Additionally, conversion to electric vehicles is a chicken-and-egg problem. Even if we had perfect battery tech tomorrow, the grid and electric power infrastructure couldn't support it. Had nuclear power growth tracked the way it was going before Three Mile Island, we'd have small commuter electric vehicles by the 90's, and with the available resource and real pressure to build a better battery, in all likelihood we'd already have the 300-500 mile ranges seen in hydrocarbon-fueled vehicles today.
Sure, because governments always do the right thing with your taxes, and businesses never pass along costs directly to the customer.
You guys also pay a 60% tax on your fuel, as opposed to the 12% tax here in the US.
Because with a surplus of electrical power and high-temperature water sources, we can more readily convert to an electric and hydrogen-powered vehicle fleet, rather than limping along on the gasoline/diesel infrastructure we have today. The cost of heating/cooling/lighting your home will drop. It's not "too cheap to meter," but it will reduce/stabilize prices in the mid-term (5-10 years).
Gas in Mexico is now at $3/gal. Their price supports will fail eventually. China's subsidy to bring their industrial price of oil to $40/bbl is going to collapse, and that's their own government saying that.
And ebikes won't deliver the groceries from a farm in the Heartland (that's "flyover state" to you) to the corner market in SoHo.
Those estimates all include growth.