If that were true vehicles like the Chevy Cruze diesel would have a semi-good review. Which it doesn't!
Look on their website. The Cruze diesel does have a semi-good review.
They give the Cruze a 70, whereas the range of all compact cars is 61-82, so it's near the middle of the pack. They fault all versions of the Cruze for a cramped back seat and much worse than average reliability.
They mention that the diesel is new and hard to find. They also say that handling suffers from the added weight, and that the diesel is loud and unsmooth. They said it's the best choice for those doing a lot of highway driving due to its stellar highway mileage, but not so great for city driving due to its roughness.
Maybe you own one and it actually drives as smooth as silk? Otherwise, I'd say CR's rating looks like a fair assessment.
So, the best car overall is a $100,000 luxury vehicle that can drive, at most, 4 hours and then needs to recharge for 5 hours??? Obviously Consumer Reports has a different set of standards than 99% of people who live in North America..
CR uses a predetermined formula to rate their cars. Their formula puts heavy emphasis on fuel economy, safety, handling, comfort and practicality, and some emphasis on performance, and little or none on things like off-road capability. (As demonstrated by the Jeep Wrangler often coming in dead last in the past.) Other magazines for different audiences obviously use different weights for evaluating cars.
I don't think that they factor price into the formula at all. The formula says how objectively "good" the car is according to their weighting, and they report the price separately for you to judge on your own whether you want to pay for that goodness. They sometimes do reports on high-end luxury cars such as the Audi A8 that command a price in the same ballpark as a Tesla, and I've seen them state that one reason is because high-end cars often highlight future trends for more common cars.
As it happens, the Tesla is an almost perfect fit for CR's formula. I doubt that the formula factors in recharge time, probably because that concept is new and refill time for all gas cars was negligible. I'll bet that if plug-in cars of all types become more popular, they'll have to factor recharge time into their scores, and then the CR Tesla score will drop relative to gas cars.
These vehicles go for over $20 000, I should at least have the option to pay an extra $1000 to chuck the electronic crap.
A few dozen episodes of sudden acceleration, resulting in a handful of deaths, gets headlines.
Meanwhile, nobody pays any attention to the fact that all that "electronic crap" has probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives over the past few decades.
If my code uses bits from that GPL software, Im in a bit of a legal quagmire. My company owns rights to the code I wrote, but the code requires it being GPL'd. Company may simply throw it out as "not worth it".
Maybe you should have thought about the terms of the license you were provided with before you started working on additions?
People who choose to license their code under the GPL have a certain set of goals. Not annoying downstream proprietary developers is not one of those goals.
If you had chosen a proprietary library instead, your boss would probably have to pay a licensing fee to incorporate it into your product. You wouldn't expect to get very far by complaining that: "My boss doesn't like spending money! Why can't you release your library under BSD instead of making us pay? That way there would be more software!"
But using a OSS library means my application is forced to use your licence... no, sorry, that way lies madness..
Now you're talking about the gray area of whether using an exported API creates a derivative work. IMO, that should never be considered a derivative work, but the law apparently disagrees with me. The same legal constructs that prevent you from selling your own Mickey Mouse stories prevent you from linking to GPL'd libraries with proprietary code. It's unfortunate, but the government gives the original software developers that privilege, and you have to abide by it. The law says that even though you own your code, you don't own the program as a whole when you link to other people's code.
As I said in my original post, you can fix the problem by writing your own library. Then you can distribute your new code, which you own, any way you wish.
Why does a calculator app need to access my contact list or location data?
They do that so if you want to compute the sum of all the phone numbers in your contacts, you won't have to waste a bunch of time manually typing them all in.
3. Why then, do we have only 3 spatial dimensions?
The simulation was implemented in a language which was, like most other languages, derived from ALGOL 68. The developers found that if they went beyond three dimensions, the array indexing syntax became too cumbersome to deal with.
I'm so glad Slashdot doesn't allow editing because it preserves shit like this so we can all know to ignore you in the future.
Yeah, isn't that a great feature. It means that your undoubtedly scintillating personality is being immortalized by your long track record of congenial comments.
Alright... let's skip the distraction of tying car fires to house fires. Your report states that there were almost 14,000 car fires on residential properties that didn't start the house on fire. Presumably, many additional car fires started in cars parked in places other than peoples' homes. That adds up to tens of thousands of annual car fires that we should be worrying about in addition to this single Tesla. There ought to be dozens of car fire articles per day here on/. so that we can hash out each one.
Those are probably more common (and I said one of the most common), but modern building codes require fire-resistant construction (like thicker drywall and heavy doors) between the garage and the main house for a good reason.
The GP was correct. The vast majority of weapons that were actually built obtained most of their yield from fission. The exceptions were mainly tests and oddities like neutron bombs.
You don't get any fusion yield without surrounding it with something heavy to squeeze it, so the weight of the actual fusion fuel is irrelevant. They figured that if they needed something heavy in the bomb anyway, it might as well be uranium because that gave 2X to 3X the bang for free.
I never understood what that sentence means anyway. How could you even create a device that doesn't "accept" interference? If you figure out a clever way to filter out noise, you're not allowed to use it?
Maybe schools should raise some more corporate-sponsored cash by doing product placements. For example, it would be easy to monetize homework assignments:
1a. Juan is planning a picnic. He buys packages of Sara Lee® brand 100% Wheat Home Style® Hot Dog Buns which each contain eight buns. He also buys packages of Osar Mayer® Jumbo Deluxe All-Beef Franks®, which each contain 10 wieners. What is the minimum number of Hot Dogs Juan needs to buy so that there are no unmatched buns or wieners?
1b. Juan plans to put 1/2 ounce of Heinz® Sweet Dill® Relish on each hot dog. How many 12-oz jars of relish does he need to buy? What brand of mustard would best complement the relish: (a) Heinz® Classic Yellow Hot Dog® Mustard (b) some other non-specific mustard?
1c. Extra credit: Juan asks his friend Latoya to buy ketchup for his picnic. List three benefits Latoya would receive if she bought genuine Heinz® Classic® Ketchup instead of the discount store brand. Explain how sometimes what appears to be the least expensive choice isn't the greatest value overall.
Of course not. This is just as stupid as asking if you could calculate somebody's phone number.
That's the great thing about close plays in sports: In one instant, you have tiny chaotic fluctuations like the air turbulence or a bounce on rough ground. The next instant, it becomes "destiny", and it gets analyzed and discussed by pundits for decades to come.
And don't rule out older designs, the military used to train pilots in new planes by pitting them against experienced pilots in F4s and other older jets, and routinely the older jets would get kills against the new ones.
Now wait a minute... I seem to recall one of those rah-rah! documentaries on cable, where they were boasting about an exercise where the latest plane (probably an F-22) knocked out a whole squadron of F-16s before they could even detect it. I'm not sure how pilot skill comes into play there, unless "camping" is frowned upon in a real war.
... HP didn't release its first PC until 1980. Apple was releasing computers years earlier. So Apple would have been correct if they said "PCs".
Actually, according to their history page, HP coined the term "Personal Computer" in 1968 for a large programmable desktop calculator (that looks like a prop from the set of Space:1999).
It was the first time I witnessed how hype and a brand name could trump quality, especially because IBM had deliberately chosen a crippled processor (8088 was a 8086 with an 8-bit bus) - that was a harsh lesson.
I think that you're discounting the mechanical quality in the PC's success. IBM PCs were solid machines that had a resemblance to their mainframe terminals. Unlike many competitors of the time, PCs were neither overly clunky nor toy-like. Many business managers, who were not necessarily all that familiar with microcomputers, probably put a lot of weight into the mechanicals when they made purchasing decisions.
Sometimes I wish I still had one of those heavy clicky keyboards and that pleasing green long-persistence phosphor.
Who cares? Its the bank's money not mine. I don't know of a single person that has been held liable for the insecurity of credit cards.
Fixing the problem involves time and stress on the part of the customer. Time and stress are money to me.
I would NEVER trust the security or lack thereof in a credit card. The number is also in plaintext on the easily reprogrammable magnetic stripe on the back.
The magnetic strip is just as idiotic as the embossed number. A non-idiotic system would only use tamper-resistent chips and encryption, as I originally stated. While probably not impossible to hack, it would be orders of magnitude harder than current US cards. More importantly, two-bit merchants like Target would no longer be able siphon of transaction-enabling cleartext data throught their vulnerable systems.
Its the credit card companies that have weighed the cost/benefit analysis on the security of credit cards not the individuals.
Hence, as I mentioned, the need for them to get soundly sued by everyone who has been affected by this breach. The credit companies are in sore need of a major attitude adjustment.
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Thank you, Quebec... For making the product manuals on my bookshelf take up 50% extra space and consume 50% more trees.
If that were true vehicles like the Chevy Cruze diesel would have a semi-good review. Which it doesn't!
Look on their website. The Cruze diesel does have a semi-good review.
They give the Cruze a 70, whereas the range of all compact cars is 61-82, so it's near the middle of the pack. They fault all versions of the Cruze for a cramped back seat and much worse than average reliability.
They mention that the diesel is new and hard to find. They also say that handling suffers from the added weight, and that the diesel is loud and unsmooth. They said it's the best choice for those doing a lot of highway driving due to its stellar highway mileage, but not so great for city driving due to its roughness.
Maybe you own one and it actually drives as smooth as silk? Otherwise, I'd say CR's rating looks like a fair assessment.
So, the best car overall is a $100,000 luxury vehicle that can drive, at most, 4 hours and then needs to recharge for 5 hours??? Obviously Consumer Reports has a different set of standards than 99% of people who live in North America. .
CR uses a predetermined formula to rate their cars. Their formula puts heavy emphasis on fuel economy, safety, handling, comfort and practicality, and some emphasis on performance, and little or none on things like off-road capability. (As demonstrated by the Jeep Wrangler often coming in dead last in the past.) Other magazines for different audiences obviously use different weights for evaluating cars.
I don't think that they factor price into the formula at all. The formula says how objectively "good" the car is according to their weighting, and they report the price separately for you to judge on your own whether you want to pay for that goodness. They sometimes do reports on high-end luxury cars such as the Audi A8 that command a price in the same ballpark as a Tesla, and I've seen them state that one reason is because high-end cars often highlight future trends for more common cars.
As it happens, the Tesla is an almost perfect fit for CR's formula. I doubt that the formula factors in recharge time, probably because that concept is new and refill time for all gas cars was negligible. I'll bet that if plug-in cars of all types become more popular, they'll have to factor recharge time into their scores, and then the CR Tesla score will drop relative to gas cars.
These vehicles go for over $20 000, I should at least have the option to pay an extra $1000 to chuck the electronic crap.
A few dozen episodes of sudden acceleration, resulting in a handful of deaths, gets headlines.
Meanwhile, nobody pays any attention to the fact that all that "electronic crap" has probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives over the past few decades.
If my code uses bits from that GPL software, Im in a bit of a legal quagmire. My company owns rights to the code I wrote, but the code requires it being GPL'd. Company may simply throw it out as "not worth it".
Maybe you should have thought about the terms of the license you were provided with before you started working on additions?
People who choose to license their code under the GPL have a certain set of goals. Not annoying downstream proprietary developers is not one of those goals.
If you had chosen a proprietary library instead, your boss would probably have to pay a licensing fee to incorporate it into your product. You wouldn't expect to get very far by complaining that: "My boss doesn't like spending money! Why can't you release your library under BSD instead of making us pay? That way there would be more software!"
But using a OSS library means my application is forced to use your licence... no, sorry, that way lies madness..
Now you're talking about the gray area of whether using an exported API creates a derivative work. IMO, that should never be considered a derivative work, but the law apparently disagrees with me. The same legal constructs that prevent you from selling your own Mickey Mouse stories prevent you from linking to GPL'd libraries with proprietary code. It's unfortunate, but the government gives the original software developers that privilege, and you have to abide by it. The law says that even though you own your code, you don't own the program as a whole when you link to other people's code.
As I said in my original post, you can fix the problem by writing your own library. Then you can distribute your new code, which you own, any way you wish.
Why does a calculator app need to access my contact list or location data?
They do that so if you want to compute the sum of all the phone numbers in your contacts, you won't have to waste a bunch of time manually typing them all in.
You always own the code you write. What you don't own is the code that other people wrote which you're piggybacking on, free of charge.
If you don't like their terms of use and redistribution, you can easily solve the problem by writing your own implementation of their functionality.
3. Why then, do we have only 3 spatial dimensions?
The simulation was implemented in a language which was, like most other languages, derived from ALGOL 68. The developers found that if they went beyond three dimensions, the array indexing syntax became too cumbersome to deal with.
I'm so glad Slashdot doesn't allow editing because it preserves shit like this so we can all know to ignore you in the future.
Yeah, isn't that a great feature. It means that your undoubtedly scintillating personality is being immortalized by your long track record of congenial comments.
Alright... let's skip the distraction of tying car fires to house fires. Your report states that there were almost 14,000 car fires on residential properties that didn't start the house on fire. Presumably, many additional car fires started in cars parked in places other than peoples' homes. That adds up to tens of thousands of annual car fires that we should be worrying about in addition to this single Tesla. There ought to be dozens of car fire articles per day here on /. so that we can hash out each one.
Those are probably more common (and I said one of the most common), but modern building codes require fire-resistant construction (like thicker drywall and heavy doors) between the garage and the main house for a good reason.
One of the most common causes of house fires has always been parked cars, regardless of propulsion technology.
The GP was correct. The vast majority of weapons that were actually built obtained most of their yield from fission. The exceptions were mainly tests and oddities like neutron bombs.
You don't get any fusion yield without surrounding it with something heavy to squeeze it, so the weight of the actual fusion fuel is irrelevant. They figured that if they needed something heavy in the bomb anyway, it might as well be uranium because that gave 2X to 3X the bang for free.
I never understood what that sentence means anyway. How could you even create a device that doesn't "accept" interference? If you figure out a clever way to filter out noise, you're not allowed to use it?
Maybe schools should raise some more corporate-sponsored cash by doing product placements. For example, it would be easy to monetize homework assignments:
1a. Juan is planning a picnic. He buys packages of Sara Lee® brand 100% Wheat Home Style® Hot Dog Buns which each contain eight buns. He also buys packages of Osar Mayer® Jumbo Deluxe All-Beef Franks®, which each contain 10 wieners. What is the minimum number of Hot Dogs Juan needs to buy so that there are no unmatched buns or wieners?
1b. Juan plans to put 1/2 ounce of Heinz® Sweet Dill® Relish on each hot dog. How many 12-oz jars of relish does he need to buy? What brand of mustard would best complement the relish: (a) Heinz® Classic Yellow Hot Dog® Mustard (b) some other non-specific mustard?
1c. Extra credit: Juan asks his friend Latoya to buy ketchup for his picnic. List three benefits Latoya would receive if she bought genuine Heinz® Classic® Ketchup instead of the discount store brand. Explain how sometimes what appears to be the least expensive choice isn't the greatest value overall.
Of course not. This is just as stupid as asking if you could calculate somebody's phone number.
That's the great thing about close plays in sports: In one instant, you have tiny chaotic fluctuations like the air turbulence or a bounce on rough ground. The next instant, it becomes "destiny", and it gets analyzed and discussed by pundits for decades to come.
And don't rule out older designs, the military used to train pilots in new planes by pitting them against experienced pilots in F4s and other older jets, and routinely the older jets would get kills against the new ones.
Now wait a minute... I seem to recall one of those rah-rah! documentaries on cable, where they were boasting about an exercise where the latest plane (probably an F-22) knocked out a whole squadron of F-16s before they could even detect it. I'm not sure how pilot skill comes into play there, unless "camping" is frowned upon in a real war.
I agree, Schiller's comments were pretty asinine.
It doesn't matter much what he was talking about because it was incorrect.
... HP didn't release its first PC until 1980. Apple was releasing computers years earlier. So Apple would have been correct if they said "PCs".
Actually, according to their history page, HP coined the term "Personal Computer" in 1968 for a large programmable desktop calculator (that looks like a prop from the set of Space:1999).
It was the first time I witnessed how hype and a brand name could trump quality, especially because IBM had deliberately chosen a crippled processor (8088 was a 8086 with an 8-bit bus) - that was a harsh lesson.
I think that you're discounting the mechanical quality in the PC's success. IBM PCs were solid machines that had a resemblance to their mainframe terminals. Unlike many competitors of the time, PCs were neither overly clunky nor toy-like. Many business managers, who were not necessarily all that familiar with microcomputers, probably put a lot of weight into the mechanicals when they made purchasing decisions.
Sometimes I wish I still had one of those heavy clicky keyboards and that pleasing green long-persistence phosphor.
C does what you tell it to.
If you tell it to do something stupid, it will still try to do it.
If it's stupid, then the compiler should have issued an error.
It's up to YOU to not tell it to do stupid things.
Which is silly, because the reason computers exist in the first place is to help us slow, error-prone humans by doing logical computations for us.
Maybe you need a static code checker?
Yes, but the static code checker should have been built into the compiler from day one.
So in other words, 13?
Who cares? Its the bank's money not mine. I don't know of a single person that has been held liable for the insecurity of credit cards.
Fixing the problem involves time and stress on the part of the customer. Time and stress are money to me.
I would NEVER trust the security or lack thereof in a credit card. The number is also in plaintext on the easily reprogrammable magnetic stripe on the back.
The magnetic strip is just as idiotic as the embossed number. A non-idiotic system would only use tamper-resistent chips and encryption, as I originally stated. While probably not impossible to hack, it would be orders of magnitude harder than current US cards. More importantly, two-bit merchants like Target would no longer be able siphon of transaction-enabling cleartext data throught their vulnerable systems.
Its the credit card companies that have weighed the cost/benefit analysis on the security of credit cards not the individuals.
Hence, as I mentioned, the need for them to get soundly sued by everyone who has been affected by this breach. The credit companies are in sore need of a major attitude adjustment.