I read it in its entirety. Im also more willing to recognize sexism than most people in tech it seems. Im not sure why everyone in these comments that disagrees with him is getting modded with "troll". Did slashdot turn into r/TD while I was away?
Im not sure why you got mod pointed as a troll because that was actually a great point. I havent been on slashdot in a few weeks, did it suddenly get hyper conservative or something? I mean theres always been the occasional right wing fanatic, with the majority being pretty moderate either direction, but this whole comment section is ridiculous.
Not employing someone who passes around sexist memos under some guise of "bettering the workplace" doesn't mean they single you out. And not being sexist or being pro-diversity are not political positions. It just so happens that the sexist, racist, and otherwise negatively prejudiced people tend to be conservative. As you should always do when making a statement like that, remember: Correlation does not equal Causation.
I think a lot of the commenters here are speculating a little too hard. As someone who's met him, Newell isn't one to go ceo-marketspeak on everyone. It seems to me that he is simply stating that they want to innovate for innovations sake, and innovation fails sometimes. We all know they are raking in the money with steam, so they don't NEED this to be successful. Outside of that, they are turning a profit on a high ticket item where most of their target audience cant afford it. Gotta give them props for that. And anyone who knows a thing or two about how development of a new product goes (I'm sure most on this site have a decent idea), the early adopters are there to get the train moving so the next version can be cheaper. And because most of their target audience cant afford it until its cheaper, once it gets there sales will go up with it (vive sales in november were 140,000 Msrp $799, PSVR sales were around 2 million Msrp $399). Its unlikely to be anything as big as the home computer, but it will certainly have staying power, and definitely has a demand.
I'm not sure where you live, but I'm in the northwest, and houses here are being sold at nearly the same, or more than they were between 06-08. Sometimes drastically so (sold 2008 for 425k sold last week for 700k.), but the majority are within a few thousand. (sold 2007 245, on the market now for 250). I realize that list price is different than what its worth, but these are still very similar to prices at the height of the bubble.
Anyone else want to check my math, but assuming the average email address is 20 characters long (that's on the low side from what I can find), the list of recipients on each email should be about 24 Megabytes? That's a lot of bandwidth even without these ridiculous quantities. Or is it just a mailing list name on the "TO" line and the mail-server looks up all 1.2 million addresses from its own table?
I wasn't necessarily tying the VW scandal to global warming. I was literally surprised that no one had made such a comment after 14 minutes, knowing how often such a comment appears on slashdot. Especially where one might assume the two are connected.
Yet VW themselves designed a car that gets over 250 miles per gallon 2 years ago. Its not unrealistic, that's just what you've been taught.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nobody is regulating anybody out of business. Go look at VW's stock performance up until this broke. There's just such a thing as too much coming from your tailpipe. If you ever lived in LA during the 60's, or hell, even up through the 90s then you'd understand.
No, it will choke the performance. The code selectively caused the engine to run cleaner which held back performance and mpg, etc. The fix will have to cause the car to run like that all the time, lest it not pass emissions.
I'm genuinely surprised this story has been on the front page this long: a) without a comment, and b) without a comment from someone making a snarky remark about global warming being fake and how its killing businesses. Good on you Slashdot.
The only phone that would've provided everything anyone could want in a phone was killed off to make room for this? I know there were technical/organizational troubles with the ARA. But come on.
Or even simpler: No "hidden" backdoors, No default User/Pass, No Jail Time or Fines. If you sell more than 1000 devices you must have your product certified.
After having a "DOH" moment, I realized that I was thinking of GEO not LEO. And come to find out, they have launched multiple satellites into LEO as well as one into GEO
They arent concentrating on launching into LEO. We've already figured that one out as you pointed out. They are concentrating on trying to make economical and reusable stages to make spaceflight cheaper. There is no point in spending larger amounts of money on a craft to get to LEO (requires more fuel space for return trip) if there is reasonable risk that it will crash when it tries to land. They are smart enough to realize they need to know how to land first. I'm pretty sure they're smart enough to do the same with the radiation problem before they set out for mars.
You also have to consider that the second launch is the more dangerous one. This danger will obviously be mitigated over time, but i think they may be trying to distance themselves from their most recent mistake. Granted it wasn't the fault of the booster at all, but not everybody understands that.
How many times did you fall, learning to ride your first bike? I think this is a wee bit more complex, and the fact that they nailed 6 of their first 11 attempts is pretty incredible.
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I read it in its entirety. Im also more willing to recognize sexism than most people in tech it seems. Im not sure why everyone in these comments that disagrees with him is getting modded with "troll". Did slashdot turn into r/TD while I was away?
Im not sure why you got mod pointed as a troll because that was actually a great point. I havent been on slashdot in a few weeks, did it suddenly get hyper conservative or something? I mean theres always been the occasional right wing fanatic, with the majority being pretty moderate either direction, but this whole comment section is ridiculous.
Not employing someone who passes around sexist memos under some guise of "bettering the workplace" doesn't mean they single you out. And not being sexist or being pro-diversity are not political positions. It just so happens that the sexist, racist, and otherwise negatively prejudiced people tend to be conservative. As you should always do when making a statement like that, remember: Correlation does not equal Causation.
I think a lot of the commenters here are speculating a little too hard. As someone who's met him, Newell isn't one to go ceo-marketspeak on everyone. It seems to me that he is simply stating that they want to innovate for innovations sake, and innovation fails sometimes. We all know they are raking in the money with steam, so they don't NEED this to be successful. Outside of that, they are turning a profit on a high ticket item where most of their target audience cant afford it. Gotta give them props for that. And anyone who knows a thing or two about how development of a new product goes (I'm sure most on this site have a decent idea), the early adopters are there to get the train moving so the next version can be cheaper. And because most of their target audience cant afford it until its cheaper, once it gets there sales will go up with it (vive sales in november were 140,000 Msrp $799, PSVR sales were around 2 million Msrp $399). Its unlikely to be anything as big as the home computer, but it will certainly have staying power, and definitely has a demand.
I'm not sure where you live, but I'm in the northwest, and houses here are being sold at nearly the same, or more than they were between 06-08. Sometimes drastically so (sold 2008 for 425k sold last week for 700k.), but the majority are within a few thousand. (sold 2007 245, on the market now for 250). I realize that list price is different than what its worth, but these are still very similar to prices at the height of the bubble.
Anyone else want to check my math, but assuming the average email address is 20 characters long (that's on the low side from what I can find), the list of recipients on each email should be about 24 Megabytes? That's a lot of bandwidth even without these ridiculous quantities. Or is it just a mailing list name on the "TO" line and the mail-server looks up all 1.2 million addresses from its own table?
With default passwords of course.
A cat lady in Boca Raton who can't spell "organization" is a marketing firm in the employ of a billionaire.
Oh, and she uses GoDaddy to register sites for him.
http://www.whois.com/whois/tru...
Appearantly some Billionaire who runs trumps main website would employ someone who uses GoDaddy...
I wasn't necessarily tying the VW scandal to global warming. I was literally surprised that no one had made such a comment after 14 minutes, knowing how often such a comment appears on slashdot. Especially where one might assume the two are connected.
Yet VW themselves designed a car that gets over 250 miles per gallon 2 years ago. Its not unrealistic, that's just what you've been taught. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Nobody is regulating anybody out of business. Go look at VW's stock performance up until this broke. There's just such a thing as too much coming from your tailpipe. If you ever lived in LA during the 60's, or hell, even up through the 90s then you'd understand.
Ill drink to that.
No, it will choke the performance. The code selectively caused the engine to run cleaner which held back performance and mpg, etc. The fix will have to cause the car to run like that all the time, lest it not pass emissions.
I'm genuinely surprised this story has been on the front page this long: a) without a comment, and b) without a comment from someone making a snarky remark about global warming being fake and how its killing businesses. Good on you Slashdot.
The only phone that would've provided everything anyone could want in a phone was killed off to make room for this? I know there were technical/organizational troubles with the ARA. But come on.
Or even simpler: No "hidden" backdoors, No default User/Pass, No Jail Time or Fines. If you sell more than 1000 devices you must have your product certified.
After having a "DOH" moment, I realized that I was thinking of GEO not LEO. And come to find out, they have launched multiple satellites into LEO as well as one into GEO
They arent concentrating on launching into LEO. We've already figured that one out as you pointed out. They are concentrating on trying to make economical and reusable stages to make spaceflight cheaper. There is no point in spending larger amounts of money on a craft to get to LEO (requires more fuel space for return trip) if there is reasonable risk that it will crash when it tries to land. They are smart enough to realize they need to know how to land first. I'm pretty sure they're smart enough to do the same with the radiation problem before they set out for mars.
Ill respect a guy who can fail and ask for help over a guy who is successful without failure. The latter is always hiding something.
You also have to consider that the second launch is the more dangerous one. This danger will obviously be mitigated over time, but i think they may be trying to distance themselves from their most recent mistake. Granted it wasn't the fault of the booster at all, but not everybody understands that.
How many times did you fall, learning to ride your first bike? I think this is a wee bit more complex, and the fact that they nailed 6 of their first 11 attempts is pretty incredible.