What are you talking about? Tesla's can charge at all charging points.
If you want to use the Supercharger features you need a Tesla unique charging point since Tesla didn't adopt the SAE standard; and even 120V plugs aren't exactly really available I'm parking lots (unless you live somewhere where block heaters are common) and 120 V isn't exactly fast charging.
Damn straight. "We're not in the fuelling / finance / IT / transport / insurance / refining business". Words uttered by MBAs who are afraid to be held accountable for taking a risky (but calculated) step into unknown territory. Just as no one "ever got fired for hiring IBM", no one gets fired these days for sticking to the company's core business. Never mind the fact that the stuff that isn't your core business can still give you a competitive advantage, but that obtaining such from external service providers will likely never yield that advantage. A few companies like Tesla get this. And that's the kind of company and management I'd like to work for. I'm still looking...
For Tesla it's a matter of survival. While some people buy a Tesla to own one, a lot of potential customers want a car that they can take on extended trips. The only way for Tesla to do that is develop their own charging network. Th eaten manufacturers, right now, view EVs as a sideshow demanded by regulations and a market theta may grow so it's worth starting to learn about it. They also realize the best way to address the range issue is to have a lot of charging locations, just like with gas vehicles, and that happens when there is a standard way to charge; hence their adoption of a DC charging standard. Then, just as gas stations added diesel once diesel cars became more popular, they will add EV charging stations and charge for their use. Tesla will either adopt the starred or become an interesting automotive footnote, like Tucker, Stanley, DeLorean, Bricklen, et.al.
Tesla have shown what's possible in terms of building out a fast-charge network quickly. No other car make seems interested. When you ask them, they all say the same thing: "We don't want to get into the fueling business."
Toyota. . . Nissan. . . Porsche. . . Prepare to have your lunch eaten by a car maker that wants to get into the fueling business.
They don't want to because, unlike Tesla, they don't have to. Tesla needs to convince buyers that they can take long trips without having to worry about a dead battery, if they want to grow sales beyond the novelty buyer. EV's are a rounding error for the other manufacturers so they don't really care if you can't drive it beyond the end of your street. So, Tesla chargers buyers $2K for access to their network and is building it out. Tesla also apparently has some issues with people using the stations as local charging stations instead of only on long trips as Tesla wants them to be used.
The other manufacturers already have a network of charging stations, called gas stations, and that's why they are pushing for a standard DC charging system. Once EV's become more mainstream, they'll simply work with gas stations to add fast charge plugs; where drivers will simply pay for watt-minutes instead of gallons.Depending on how technology advances, a charging station could even be solar powered with a battery storage unit or grid backup. Gas stations will simply make money off of another stored form of energy and the manufacturers can build out a network quickly, in more locations, at a lot lower cost than building their own. Like Tesla, they could offer free charging at dealerships to encourage people to come in and browse while the car charges.
Tesla's challenge will be how to keep their lifetime free charging promise and adapt to a standard charger. As long as people will pay $2K for access to a charger you can defray the costs of running the charging network but once a standard charger takes hold people will want it rather than search for your Tesla unit. I see it as a stop gap at best; right now it is a matter of survival rather than a brilliant business model. Even Tesla is trying to get places to install chargers rather than run a network themselves.
if yo get enough people doing this, ideally in a mobile version, you can start tracking and geo-locating vehicles; which can then be correlated with locations on Google maps.
I disagree. In loco parentis allows a school to consider the well-being of the student in a role normally reserved for a parent or other guardian. If a school considers a student's home life to be dangerous, they can intervene with a number of methods, some of which may include medical, psychological, or emotional treatment of a parent.
But I'm guessing that your implied distaste of the "nanny state" will lead you to ignore any actual facts presented, and you would rather this girl die due to a shitty home life than the state act in any way at all.
However, absent a very obvious and present thereat schools are loathe to intervene, first because they re not mental health professionals and thus cannot diagnose conditions and assisted severity and if the student is a danger to themselves or others. In auditor, doing so would leave them open to lawsuits so they simply do not act until in extremis.
But, the human mind is good at rationalizing away such results if you already are convinced. You have a similar situation with a lot of people even here on Slashdot claiming they can easily hear the difference between lossless music formats and a quality 320 kbps lossy codec encoding, when all the double blind tests shows otherwise.
Of course, because a double blind test only prevents them from seeing the music, not hearing it. Duh...
Instead of simply looking down on and being mean to those people, wouldn't it be better to give them a "test for WiFi allergy", wherein wifi is randomly enabled or shut off and they have to indicate how they're feeling? When it's done you show them that they did no better than random and thus aren't allergic. Then they feel they're not being treated as an idiot, yet also feel that they've been tested for it and shown not to have it - even if they choose to believe that such an allergy can exist. Even if this only gets a fraction of these people to stop complaining, it's a win, right?
Ideally with a research in front of them with an on off with and a router in front of the participant to avoid any effects from shielding. Turn off router, light go out, turn on router, lights go on and see if participant notices anything. Have research notice the lights and turn router around to avoid any chance lights impact results. Of course, the "router is an empty box" with that looks like a real outer and the on-off switch merely connects to a dc battery that powers an couple of LEDs
Of course, nut cases, when presented with facts, will argue why your facts are wrong and that there was some other wifi signal causing the problem.
The fact is that on mobile phones and tablets, Firefox is not displaying any "green on green" link.
The other fact is that a link, which comes at a very competitive price nowadays, could have been added within the article.
Well, the string spelling the link IS inside the article, only it's not marked up as a link.
Ah, all those insensitive TXT clods!
Give STEM students first crack at an H1B visa before any others are approved. Once they get the visa, allow them to freely switch companies of the duration of the visa.
Even though places like Kickstarter really try to make it look like some sort of store the projects are all gambles. There are a few areas that seem to have it down right (books, comics, etc) and I have had success, but tech stuff? *low whistle* You have to approach those different.
Kickstarter has a reputation to maintain as well. While they may not promise anything in the fine print, if enough people get screwed and request a chargeback form the credit card company then the card issuers may decide to stop serving KS; even if no money gets refunded. In auditor, at some point a court may rule that despite KS' declaiming any responsibility they indeed do have some and order them to refund money.
One of the first thing you learn in survival school is you can eat a lot of things that you normally would not when you are very hungry. the second thing is a coach roach in a match box is a greta way to get a seat at a crowded bar. Take it out, take a bite, and be polite and offer to share it...
Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech
You might want to revisit the meaning of this, since nowhere can it be found that this applies only to government,
The Congress shall make no law makes it pretty clear it applies to the Federal government; as does the history behind the Bill of Rights. To a rogue that it somehow applies to non-Federal actions; nor that it says anything, beyond preventing the establishment of a religion as to what Congress may do to promote the others.
The government also makes laws that states you could be fired from your job for expressing an opinion,...
True, but as the OP pointed out freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences. The government is not guilty of prior restraint, which would impinge on your free speech rights. Rights don't exist in a vacuum either, and it is necessary to balance one right against the other as well. For example, you may feel that the 1st give you the right to stand in front of someone's house and yell at them with a bullhorn at 2 AM but I would argue that stopping you from doing that after you start is a reasonable action by government and not a violation of your 1st amendment rights.
If even the staunchly illiberal publications like New York Times and The Atlantic complain about there being too many grievances, it must, indeed, be a real problem.
Nah. They just hate Festivus and are against the very principles this country's founders exposed in the Declaration of Independence. So, basically, they hate America.
If they digitize, they could no longer request the same formsevery six months so as to drag out the process years. The current way lets them send you a letter saying they need form X. Sfter you send it in a second time you get another letter months later asking for form Y that you've sent in originally. Finally, the ask for more information not in the original list of required information. After several years later you go for an interview and dicover none of the updated information was sent to the embassy and all they have is your years old package.
That's what it would be called in any other retail environment, and it's illegal. The providers called it unlimited and therefore it should be unlimited. It's not the fault of the consumer for taking them at their advertised word.
Except, of course, courts realize that advertising and marketing have a certain amount of puffery, and thus would look at the actual contract you were offered, read throughly to understand all the details, and then signed.
It's irritating that people can't understand this. Look at the article and the summary: Comcast says the new caps aren't about congestion management, and so people immediately conclude it's about "extracting more money". Nobody can imagine it's about cost management--that a more "Fair and equitable experience" could mean that some guy doing 24x7 max-rate streaming of 8 HD videos while torrenting all the pornography on the Internet might just make the difference between Comcast changing $50/month and Comcast charging $80/month for service.
On some level, this is about the bandwidth 0.1% taking all the resources, and other people paying for their usage.
Actually, I think it's more about being ready for more cord cutting as providers offer content via alternatives to cable. As that happens, the cable companies lose revenue while seeing internet usage increase; and thus want a way to get a cut of the traffic they now carry at a flat fee.
One problem is business view OSS much as any other product, i.e. someone supplied it and thus the expect that person to help solve problems that arise. The do not see the OSS community as a community but as yet another vendor. Other vendors don't say "We'll, if it doesn't work right tell us and we'll see if we want to fix it and if someone is interested in fixing it they'll do so when they get around to it." As a result, there are differing expectation on what OSS really id; which if course does not absolve those acing like jerks.
Companies do not realize they can fix a problem themselves by patching their code even if the community doesn't agree with the fix. Of course, when they break something else they will expect someone else to fix the new problem.
The OSS community bears some blame as well, beyond the toxicity argument. There are those who want wider acceptance and use of OSS without changing the norms and culture that define the OSS community. Unfortunately, as communities grow up they change and such changes are sometimes hard for those who helped build the community to accept.
comcast needs to use there power to make ESPN and Disney channel premium channels that alone can drop the cost of a cable plan by at least $10-$15/mo.
Unfortunately Comcast is in the weaker negotiation position relative to Disney and ESPN so threatening to drop them i they don't go premium is not a viable course of action.
and made a series based on the alternate universe where th Federation was the bad guys lead by an emperor. A very different twist with a lot of potential.
There weren't any nuclear missile silos in Okinawa
Without commenting on the veracity of the story, the missiles in questions were Mace missiles, which, like the Regulus, Bomarc, et. al. were what we today call cruise missiles. So a "silo" is likely to be more like a building than an ICBM silo. They even had Regulus silos on submarines.
Having read Tesla's, the RLG, and the LVS's accounts (which basically was the sam as the other 2), it seems to me the situation escalated to the point it got out of hand. If the guard was writing down the plate I would find it hard to justify hitting the guard with the Jeep.Given the photographer was told the sheriff was on the way it seems to me the reasonable thing to do was to wait and let the sheriff sort out what happened. I doubt the sheriff's response time would be anything but quick given Tesla's clout.
What I don't understand is why the photographer felt it necessary to climb a fence to get a picture. I've shot photos through a fence and wonder what required getting closer? A 200mm tele give you good reach even at a distance. More to the point, most companies will give journalists tours and access to a site, even though you'll get a PR dog and pony show in most cases. But, as a journalist, you need to develop sources if you think something bad is going on. Someone will generally be willing to talk, if off the record, without you needing to trespass and then try to get away. I've cold called companies to get information and it is surprising what people will tell you. You just need to start putting the pieces together, ask more questions, and build a story.
It will be interesting to see what happened as more details come out.
Not taking sides until more info comes in. But interesting is the blog's use of the word "safety manager" for the guys who temporarily detained the journalists. So know everybody's a manager: sanitation manager (janitor), information manager (reporter), image acquisition manager (photographer)...
Title inflation. It's often easier to give someone a more impressive title and pay them less than the title warrants had they really been doing work to justify the title. That's not to say the security managers weren't managers, but I've been at enough companies that had VP's, managers, and engineers where the jobs they do aren't really what the title implies.; and have had managers (real ones) say they give employees title promotions because it is cheaper than a real promotion.
Well, when there is a dispute and you have reports from both sides, that's about as close to the full story as you're going to get. When reports from both sides agree about what happened, especially when one side reports negatively about their own involvement, the stories are much less suspect. Do you have a better source available?
Slashdot. Everything on it is factual and unbiased...
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and this is how we turn decades lasting timepieces into disposable trash.
Yup you can get a nice used TAG for about the same money.
What are you talking about? Tesla's can charge at all charging points.
If you want to use the Supercharger features you need a Tesla unique charging point since Tesla didn't adopt the SAE standard; and even 120V plugs aren't exactly really available I'm parking lots (unless you live somewhere where block heaters are common) and 120 V isn't exactly fast charging.
Damn straight. "We're not in the fuelling / finance / IT / transport / insurance / refining business". Words uttered by MBAs who are afraid to be held accountable for taking a risky (but calculated) step into unknown territory. Just as no one "ever got fired for hiring IBM", no one gets fired these days for sticking to the company's core business. Never mind the fact that the stuff that isn't your core business can still give you a competitive advantage, but that obtaining such from external service providers will likely never yield that advantage. A few companies like Tesla get this. And that's the kind of company and management I'd like to work for. I'm still looking...
For Tesla it's a matter of survival. While some people buy a Tesla to own one, a lot of potential customers want a car that they can take on extended trips. The only way for Tesla to do that is develop their own charging network. Th eaten manufacturers, right now, view EVs as a sideshow demanded by regulations and a market theta may grow so it's worth starting to learn about it. They also realize the best way to address the range issue is to have a lot of charging locations, just like with gas vehicles, and that happens when there is a standard way to charge; hence their adoption of a DC charging standard. Then, just as gas stations added diesel once diesel cars became more popular, they will add EV charging stations and charge for their use. Tesla will either adopt the starred or become an interesting automotive footnote, like Tucker, Stanley, DeLorean, Bricklen, et.al.
Tesla have shown what's possible in terms of building out a fast-charge network quickly. No other car make seems interested. When you ask them, they all say the same thing: "We don't want to get into the fueling business."
Toyota. . . Nissan. . . Porsche. . . Prepare to have your lunch eaten by a car maker that wants to get into the fueling business.
They don't want to because, unlike Tesla, they don't have to. Tesla needs to convince buyers that they can take long trips without having to worry about a dead battery, if they want to grow sales beyond the novelty buyer. EV's are a rounding error for the other manufacturers so they don't really care if you can't drive it beyond the end of your street. So, Tesla chargers buyers $2K for access to their network and is building it out. Tesla also apparently has some issues with people using the stations as local charging stations instead of only on long trips as Tesla wants them to be used.
The other manufacturers already have a network of charging stations, called gas stations, and that's why they are pushing for a standard DC charging system. Once EV's become more mainstream, they'll simply work with gas stations to add fast charge plugs; where drivers will simply pay for watt-minutes instead of gallons.Depending on how technology advances, a charging station could even be solar powered with a battery storage unit or grid backup. Gas stations will simply make money off of another stored form of energy and the manufacturers can build out a network quickly, in more locations, at a lot lower cost than building their own. Like Tesla, they could offer free charging at dealerships to encourage people to come in and browse while the car charges.
Tesla's challenge will be how to keep their lifetime free charging promise and adapt to a standard charger. As long as people will pay $2K for access to a charger you can defray the costs of running the charging network but once a standard charger takes hold people will want it rather than search for your Tesla unit. I see it as a stop gap at best; right now it is a matter of survival rather than a brilliant business model. Even Tesla is trying to get places to install chargers rather than run a network themselves.
if yo get enough people doing this, ideally in a mobile version, you can start tracking and geo-locating vehicles; which can then be correlated with locations on Google maps.
I disagree. In loco parentis allows a school to consider the well-being of the student in a role normally reserved for a parent or other guardian. If a school considers a student's home life to be dangerous, they can intervene with a number of methods, some of which may include medical, psychological, or emotional treatment of a parent.
But I'm guessing that your implied distaste of the "nanny state" will lead you to ignore any actual facts presented, and you would rather this girl die due to a shitty home life than the state act in any way at all.
However, absent a very obvious and present thereat schools are loathe to intervene, first because they re not mental health professionals and thus cannot diagnose conditions and assisted severity and if the student is a danger to themselves or others. In auditor, doing so would leave them open to lawsuits so they simply do not act until in extremis.
But, the human mind is good at rationalizing away such results if you already are convinced. You have a similar situation with a lot of people even here on Slashdot claiming they can easily hear the difference between lossless music formats and a quality 320 kbps lossy codec encoding, when all the double blind tests shows otherwise.
Of course, because a double blind test only prevents them from seeing the music, not hearing it. Duh...
Instead of simply looking down on and being mean to those people, wouldn't it be better to give them a "test for WiFi allergy", wherein wifi is randomly enabled or shut off and they have to indicate how they're feeling? When it's done you show them that they did no better than random and thus aren't allergic. Then they feel they're not being treated as an idiot, yet also feel that they've been tested for it and shown not to have it - even if they choose to believe that such an allergy can exist. Even if this only gets a fraction of these people to stop complaining, it's a win, right?
Ideally with a research in front of them with an on off with and a router in front of the participant to avoid any effects from shielding. Turn off router, light go out, turn on router, lights go on and see if participant notices anything. Have research notice the lights and turn router around to avoid any chance lights impact results. Of course, the "router is an empty box" with that looks like a real outer and the on-off switch merely connects to a dc battery that powers an couple of LEDs
Of course, nut cases, when presented with facts, will argue why your facts are wrong and that there was some other wifi signal causing the problem.
The fact is that on mobile phones and tablets, Firefox is not displaying any "green on green" link. The other fact is that a link, which comes at a very competitive price nowadays, could have been added within the article. Well, the string spelling the link IS inside the article, only it's not marked up as a link. Ah, all those insensitive TXT clods!
Give em a break, it's 25 year old technology....
Give STEM students first crack at an H1B visa before any others are approved. Once they get the visa, allow them to freely switch companies of the duration of the visa.
Even though places like Kickstarter really try to make it look like some sort of store the projects are all gambles. There are a few areas that seem to have it down right (books, comics, etc) and I have had success, but tech stuff? *low whistle* You have to approach those different.
Neal Stephenson's 'Clang' comes to mind. https://www.kickstarter.com/pr... http://www.polygon.com/2014/9/...
Kickstarter has a reputation to maintain as well. While they may not promise anything in the fine print, if enough people get screwed and request a chargeback form the credit card company then the card issuers may decide to stop serving KS; even if no money gets refunded. In auditor, at some point a court may rule that despite KS' declaiming any responsibility they indeed do have some and order them to refund money.
One of the first thing you learn in survival school is you can eat a lot of things that you normally would not when you are very hungry. the second thing is a coach roach in a match box is a greta way to get a seat at a crowded bar. Take it out, take a bite, and be polite and offer to share it...
Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech
You might want to revisit the meaning of this, since nowhere can it be found that this applies only to government,
The Congress shall make no law makes it pretty clear it applies to the Federal government; as does the history behind the Bill of Rights. To a rogue that it somehow applies to non-Federal actions; nor that it says anything, beyond preventing the establishment of a religion as to what Congress may do to promote the others.
The government also makes laws that states you could be fired from your job for expressing an opinion,...
True, but as the OP pointed out freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences. The government is not guilty of prior restraint, which would impinge on your free speech rights. Rights don't exist in a vacuum either, and it is necessary to balance one right against the other as well. For example, you may feel that the 1st give you the right to stand in front of someone's house and yell at them with a bullhorn at 2 AM but I would argue that stopping you from doing that after you start is a reasonable action by government and not a violation of your 1st amendment rights.
If even the staunchly illiberal publications like New York Times and The Atlantic complain about there being too many grievances, it must, indeed, be a real problem.
Nah. They just hate Festivus and are against the very principles this country's founders exposed in the Declaration of Independence. So, basically, they hate America.
See, that was easy, wasn't it?
If they digitize, they could no longer request the same formsevery six months so as to drag out the process years. The current way lets them send you a letter saying they need form X. Sfter you send it in a second time you get another letter months later asking for form Y that you've sent in originally. Finally, the ask for more information not in the original list of required information. After several years later you go for an interview and dicover none of the updated information was sent to the embassy and all they have is your years old package.
That's what it would be called in any other retail environment, and it's illegal. The providers called it unlimited and therefore it should be unlimited. It's not the fault of the consumer for taking them at their advertised word.
Except, of course, courts realize that advertising and marketing have a certain amount of puffery, and thus would look at the actual contract you were offered, read throughly to understand all the details, and then signed.
It's irritating that people can't understand this. Look at the article and the summary: Comcast says the new caps aren't about congestion management, and so people immediately conclude it's about "extracting more money". Nobody can imagine it's about cost management--that a more "Fair and equitable experience" could mean that some guy doing 24x7 max-rate streaming of 8 HD videos while torrenting all the pornography on the Internet might just make the difference between Comcast changing $50/month and Comcast charging $80/month for service.
On some level, this is about the bandwidth 0.1% taking all the resources, and other people paying for their usage.
Actually, I think it's more about being ready for more cord cutting as providers offer content via alternatives to cable. As that happens, the cable companies lose revenue while seeing internet usage increase; and thus want a way to get a cut of the traffic they now carry at a flat fee.
One problem is business view OSS much as any other product, i.e. someone supplied it and thus the expect that person to help solve problems that arise. The do not see the OSS community as a community but as yet another vendor. Other vendors don't say "We'll, if it doesn't work right tell us and we'll see if we want to fix it and if someone is interested in fixing it they'll do so when they get around to it." As a result, there are differing expectation on what OSS really id; which if course does not absolve those acing like jerks.
Companies do not realize they can fix a problem themselves by patching their code even if the community doesn't agree with the fix. Of course, when they break something else they will expect someone else to fix the new problem.
The OSS community bears some blame as well, beyond the toxicity argument. There are those who want wider acceptance and use of OSS without changing the norms and culture that define the OSS community. Unfortunately, as communities grow up they change and such changes are sometimes hard for those who helped build the community to accept.
comcast needs to use there power to make ESPN and Disney channel premium channels that alone can drop the cost of a cable plan by at least $10-$15 /mo.
Unfortunately Comcast is in the weaker negotiation position relative to Disney and ESPN so threatening to drop them i they don't go premium is not a viable course of action.
and made a series based on the alternate universe where th Federation was the bad guys lead by an emperor. A very different twist with a lot of potential.
There weren't any nuclear missile silos in Okinawa
Without commenting on the veracity of the story, the missiles in questions were Mace missiles, which, like the Regulus, Bomarc, et. al. were what we today call cruise missiles. So a "silo" is likely to be more like a building than an ICBM silo. They even had Regulus silos on submarines.
Having read Tesla's, the RLG, and the LVS's accounts (which basically was the sam as the other 2), it seems to me the situation escalated to the point it got out of hand. If the guard was writing down the plate I would find it hard to justify hitting the guard with the Jeep.Given the photographer was told the sheriff was on the way it seems to me the reasonable thing to do was to wait and let the sheriff sort out what happened. I doubt the sheriff's response time would be anything but quick given Tesla's clout.
What I don't understand is why the photographer felt it necessary to climb a fence to get a picture. I've shot photos through a fence and wonder what required getting closer? A 200mm tele give you good reach even at a distance. More to the point, most companies will give journalists tours and access to a site, even though you'll get a PR dog and pony show in most cases. But, as a journalist, you need to develop sources if you think something bad is going on. Someone will generally be willing to talk, if off the record, without you needing to trespass and then try to get away. I've cold called companies to get information and it is surprising what people will tell you. You just need to start putting the pieces together, ask more questions, and build a story.
It will be interesting to see what happened as more details come out.
Not taking sides until more info comes in. But interesting is the blog's use of the word "safety manager" for the guys who temporarily detained the journalists. So know everybody's a manager: sanitation manager (janitor), information manager (reporter), image acquisition manager (photographer) ...
Title inflation. It's often easier to give someone a more impressive title and pay them less than the title warrants had they really been doing work to justify the title. That's not to say the security managers weren't managers, but I've been at enough companies that had VP's, managers, and engineers where the jobs they do aren't really what the title implies.; and have had managers (real ones) say they give employees title promotions because it is cheaper than a real promotion.
Well, when there is a dispute and you have reports from both sides, that's about as close to the full story as you're going to get. When reports from both sides agree about what happened, especially when one side reports negatively about their own involvement, the stories are much less suspect. Do you have a better source available?
Slashdot. Everything on it is factual and unbiased...