Actually, i think one of the main points of the hyperloop is for it to be in a tube kept at near-vacuum condition. Therefore there will be no 'wall of air' traveling in front of the train, the near vacuum condition prevents air resistance from slowing down the train, and would also prevent a 'wall of air' scenario in front of the tube.
earlier on, musk had proposed a complete vacuum in the tube. This would be extremely costly AND would mean that any crack or leak in the tube would cause loss of operation and perhaps some explosive effects due to the rapid pressure differential. Using an almost-vacuum was supposed to get us the best of both worlds, low air resistance and no disasters when cracks or leaks inevitably form due to normal wear and tear.
Watch me generally act decently with my freedom by no longer doing business with Uber and switching to Lyft, joining an already ongoing market correction of lower revenues for Uber and more for Lyft until the Morally unacceptable company goes out of business and the morally acceptable one gets more profits.
Free market wins again! And yeah people DO generally act decently given freedom of choice, this is why America gives more and has more charities than any other country in the world. And while dueshbaggery companies rise up from time to time, the overall trend is that a 'successful' company is only one that produces a product or service of the highest quality and lowest price while also respecting the social morals of the local culture in which they operate.
YES, YES, YES!
This is how it always starts, the government starts regulating in the name of 'safety'. Then they later go overboard either in search of power, or they are "captured"/bought out by companies that pay them to over-regulate in order to maintain a monopoly.
If more citizens understood this process, we could have more nuanced debates than 'I want government regulations cause safety and evil companies'/'ALL GOVERNMENT IS EVIL TAXATION IS THEFT'
I am running out of excuses for Uber's behavior. As a Libertarian i love their disruptive technology. I cheered them on when they took on over-regulated cities that basically monopolized (in my view) taxi cab services. I cheered on them using the free market to drive down prices. I truly did (and still mosty do) think the uber/lyft business model increases freedom for all, allowing anyone to obtain extra income without having to interview, sign a bunch of paperwork, and punch a 9-5 clock everyday and do exactly as ordered by a manager.
That said, if you are going to tackle regulators and try to bring free-market reforms, a certain percentage of the population is going to perceive that as immoral. In order to stand up against the fierce winds of authoritarianism you better darn make sure your service is as safe and convenient as possible and make sure your business is run in such a way that it stands up against the fiercest of ethical scrutiny.
When you have cars that are killing people, contractors being accused of sexual assault, MANAGERS being accused of sexism/racism in the workplace, and a CEO with a cringe-worthy temper AND evidence that your pricing models are not as transparent and honest as you led people to believe, you are just further reinforcing socialist's/communist's opinions that all companies are greedy, immoral, and care about nothing more than the bottom line. Instead of being a force for good and promoting libertarian ideals, you are just contributing to the decline of freedom and encouraging an excessive bureaucratic government to continue regulating our rights away
They refuse to repair devices in Australia, while at the same time fighting to take away our rights to have third-partys repair apple products in America.
Basically Apple never wants any iDevice repaired, they just want you to keep buying the latest, newest version.
One simple initiative is to begin to recruit talent from people outside of its preferred networks. One way is to extend their recruiting efforts to people who don't have four-year degrees.
One simple initiative is to begin to recruit talent from people outside of its preferred networks. One way is to extend their recruiting efforts to people who don't have four-year degrees.
One simple initiative is to begin to recruit talent from people outside of its preferred networks. One way is to extend their recruiting efforts to people who don't have four-year degrees.
If you live in this town and don't think the uber drivers are being paid enough, you can lobby the city to increase uber subsidies so as to increase uber drivers pay.
This article http://blog.interviewing.io/we... discusses an interesting experiment where males and females had their voices masked for technical interviews so they could analyze the differences in how women perform while controlling for gender discrimination. Some fascinating results that show how women react differently to tech interviews than men, possibly resulting in them getting less employment offers and/or lower salary. I wonder how much this effect can be attributed to the results mentioned in this slashdot article. Like most problems with women's performance/success compared to men, this is mostly a cultural issue. There are things we can all do to pitch in and improve the situation but its not really something the government can legislate away.
On the other hand, i wouldn't be surprised to find the tech industry is actually more discriminating toward women than other industries, given that we already know there is rampant agism (reluctance to hire older programmers) and a culture that encourages workers to forgo family and other commitments in favor of longer hours and 'crunch time'
Another company realizing that the desktop/laptop requirements are fundamentally different from smartphone/tablet requirements. Trying to use one OS/GUI to serve both might sound like a great way to cut development costs for a company, but its also a great way to produce a poor user experience that doesn't deliver 100% on either platform.
He is being intellectually dishonest by lumping wireless Internet providers such as Verizion in the same "Market" as high-speed internet providers such as comcast, charter, etc. These are two different products, my wireless internet on my smartphone is a fraction of the speed i expect from wired internet on my desktop. Also what i expect to do on the smartphone is often different (though there is some overlap) with what I expect to do on a desktop/laptop. Different markets, different products.
ALSO: Google has 81% market share in search because THEY ARE THE BEST SEARCH ENGINE. The marketplace has legitimately decided that they are the best at what they do which is why we all use google so often.
This is markedly different from the home internet market, where comcast and charter control almost 70% market share. They got there certainly not by being the best provider, but by taking advantage of regional regulations and municipal contracts to ensure they are the only provider in the cities they service and agreeing not to compete with each other in those regions.
To buy the "NEW! Super Nintendo Switch Lite Color SP XL" that they will start selling in about 6 months. I bet you the dock for that model will have fans in it.
The movie "Grandma's Boy" set the stereotype of video game developers back by 10 years. No, i don't live with my grandma. No, I don't get to spend all day just 'playing video games' and No, one person cannot make a AAA video game all by themselves.
Then again stoners have had the same stereotype played in hollywood for over two decades. Have you ever seen Tommy Chong in "Cheech and Chong" I don't know any stoners that are actually like that, Thats because the actor Tommy Chong wasn't portraying stoners in real life, he was portraying what Americans THINK stoners are like, hence the artistic genius. The debate is weather portraying outlandish stereotypes helps people realize how silly the stereotypes are, or if they just reinforce existing beliefs.
My mother worked at jack-in-the-box to pay for her college tuition. Yeah that's right, a minimum wage job was able to pay for a bachelors degree in 1970ish.
My grandparents stuffed extra cash under a mattress for a year and then had enough money to buy a house. NOTE: Grandpa was not rich, worked construction at an oil company.
The government federally insures/guarantees housing loans and ~10 years later houses are too expensive to pay for by saving up for a year. About another 10 years later and we have a massive crash in the housing market culminating in the year 2008, the banks got bailed out and many ordinary americans lost their house and where kicked to the street.
The government federally insures/guarantees student loans and ~10 years later tuition is too expensive to pay for with a minimum wage job. About 10 years later we should expect a crash in the student loan market. How do you think the government will react to the banks, federally-funded colleges and students after seeing what they did in the housing crises?
The future doesn't look bright. Hopefully we can all learn our lesson: The Government federally insuring/guaranteeing loans almost always causes terrible market distortions and should almost never be done
Protecting our rights when other Senators don't give a damn.
I'm sure some slashdotters didn't agree with him on some positions in the past, but I doubt any slashdotters would be upset by this bill, or at least the intentions behind it
It can be $24-$45 for a couple to see a movie in a theater (depending on the city/movie screen, i got these numbers by comparing movie ticket prices for 'Ghost in the Shell' in Denver for standard, 3D, and 3D+RPX movie theaters)
Plus everything you can buy in terms of food at a theater STARTS at 3$. For two snacks and a drink that is AT LEAST $9 probably closer to $15.
That comes out to $35-$60 for a couple to be entertained for at least 90 min (yeah a 90 min movie costs the same price as a 150 min movie).
That is a LOT of dough for todays millennial debt-burdened customers to cough up. Yeah yeah i know the theaters and studios will talk about inflation, rising production costs, challenging economic times etc. The point is if they don't work together to reduce these costs then the dwindling audience for movies will continue to decline.
Sadly they don't seem to be working together. The studios constantly try to push movie ticket prices up, giving less and less of a % to the theaters, while the theaters try to push the concession prices up and up to make ends meet.
When ISP's start selling customer browsing history to advertisers, i think they would give the advertising company a weird look if they asked "give us the browsing history of these 400 people"
More likely they would need an agent to purchase browsing history of 'IP addresses in Washington D.C' and then the browsing data would (god i hope) be anonymized, requiring forensic analysis to determine which browsing history belonged to a sentaor/house member. I don't know if you could easily match a particular senator with a particular record of browsing history. You could easily say '20% of congressmen searched for 'teen porn' it the last month' i don't know if you would be able to say 'these particular senators browsed for teen porn'
"Phonographs are killing the piano industry" screamed the piano makers, "Radio is killing the theater" screamed the performers. "Video is killing the radio star" Screamed the radio DJ's, "Netflix is destroying video rental stores" Screamed blockbuster.
And here i sit at my piano, practicing along with a 'how to play piano' video on youtube, produced by a musician/former radio star, whilst watching a London theatrical performance that was recorded and made available for viewing on streaming Netflix.
"AMC's would be exclusively available to consumers who subscribe to a cable TV package"
We already have this kind of arrangement for HBO, Showtime, and basically every other station. We millennials don't want to waste money on cable bills like our parents did. Either sell your shows online or don't. But don't pretend that streaming your shows online for people who already have cable accounts and can already watch your shows on cable is doing anything new. This is not going to make you more money. You will continue to lose money to pirates until you finally just sell your friggin product online for a price.
$5 a month or $.99 an episode is my price. Offer that and I (along with millions of others) will pay. Otherwise i won't.
If we had robust competition in Internet providers and I could just say 'screw you!' to the ISP selling my information to third parties and sign up with the ISP that, like duckduckgo.com, promises to protect my privacy as a selling point.
Unfortunately the current ISP's came from the overly-regulated (at local level) cable providers who used regulatory capture to establish regional monopolies, then politely behind the scenes refused to compete with each other. These business practices (and the county, City, and State regulators that where accomplices) make me sick.
I don't know what 'violently protesting' means, but if they didn't assault another person, if they didn't cause property damage to an individual, then there is no crime.
From what i remember, the only 'violence' at trumps inauguration was a single limousine being set ablaze. Whoever did that should of course be found and jailed for arson. But I sincerely doubt this crime is what the prosecutor is going after.
Actually back in the day, this happened just as often, if not MORE often. I remember having to blow into Nintendo cartridges, and their loading slot was an obvious design failure, one they would fix.... 6 years later. Today the consumers would be complaining on-line within weeks, Nintendo would have to release a statement within the month promising to fix the issue. And no less than 2 months later we would have NES consoles with manufacturing improvements and 6 months later we would have an NES with a top-loading slot instead of a side-loading one to avoid the issue of misalignment altogether.
Here is a picture of the NES i am talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It was released in 1993. I am arguing that if the original NES came out today, we would get the top-loading model in 6 months, not 6 years later.
So really this is a trend of IMPROVING consumer device development, not an appalling lack of competence on behalf of Nintendo
Statement from nintendo:
"A manufacturing variation has resulted in wireless interference with a small number of the left Joy-Con. Moving forward this will not be an issue, as the manufacturing variation has been addressed and corrected at the factory level.
We have determined a simple fix can be made to any affected Joy-Con to improve connectivity."
This is why i'm waiting for a 'Switch lite' or 'Switch SP', or 'NEW Switch XL' to be released before buying the console. Releasing this console in march was basically Nintendo doing a 'soft-launch' this way they sell out day one, knowing all the die hard fanboys will buy it day one, and they get to work out the kinks in the hardware before the holiday season when they have the 'Real Launch' or 'Grand Opening' of the device with less manufacturing defects, and can ensure they have adequate supply for the people who will buy it during holiday season.
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Actually, i think one of the main points of the hyperloop is for it to be in a tube kept at near-vacuum condition. Therefore there will be no 'wall of air' traveling in front of the train, the near vacuum condition prevents air resistance from slowing down the train, and would also prevent a 'wall of air' scenario in front of the tube.
earlier on, musk had proposed a complete vacuum in the tube. This would be extremely costly AND would mean that any crack or leak in the tube would cause loss of operation and perhaps some explosive effects due to the rapid pressure differential. Using an almost-vacuum was supposed to get us the best of both worlds, low air resistance and no disasters when cracks or leaks inevitably form due to normal wear and tear.
Watch me generally act decently with my freedom by no longer doing business with Uber and switching to Lyft, joining an already ongoing market correction of lower revenues for Uber and more for Lyft until the Morally unacceptable company goes out of business and the morally acceptable one gets more profits.
Free market wins again! And yeah people DO generally act decently given freedom of choice, this is why America gives more and has more charities than any other country in the world. And while dueshbaggery companies rise up from time to time, the overall trend is that a 'successful' company is only one that produces a product or service of the highest quality and lowest price while also respecting the social morals of the local culture in which they operate.
YES, YES, YES! This is how it always starts, the government starts regulating in the name of 'safety'. Then they later go overboard either in search of power, or they are "captured"/bought out by companies that pay them to over-regulate in order to maintain a monopoly.
If more citizens understood this process, we could have more nuanced debates than 'I want government regulations cause safety and evil companies'/'ALL GOVERNMENT IS EVIL TAXATION IS THEFT'
I am running out of excuses for Uber's behavior. As a Libertarian i love their disruptive technology. I cheered them on when they took on over-regulated cities that basically monopolized (in my view) taxi cab services. I cheered on them using the free market to drive down prices. I truly did (and still mosty do) think the uber/lyft business model increases freedom for all, allowing anyone to obtain extra income without having to interview, sign a bunch of paperwork, and punch a 9-5 clock everyday and do exactly as ordered by a manager.
That said, if you are going to tackle regulators and try to bring free-market reforms, a certain percentage of the population is going to perceive that as immoral. In order to stand up against the fierce winds of authoritarianism you better darn make sure your service is as safe and convenient as possible and make sure your business is run in such a way that it stands up against the fiercest of ethical scrutiny.
When you have cars that are killing people, contractors being accused of sexual assault, MANAGERS being accused of sexism/racism in the workplace, and a CEO with a cringe-worthy temper AND evidence that your pricing models are not as transparent and honest as you led people to believe, you are just further reinforcing socialist's/communist's opinions that all companies are greedy, immoral, and care about nothing more than the bottom line. Instead of being a force for good and promoting libertarian ideals, you are just contributing to the decline of freedom and encouraging an excessive bureaucratic government to continue regulating our rights away
They refuse to repair devices in Australia, while at the same time fighting to take away our rights to have third-partys repair apple products in America.
Basically Apple never wants any iDevice repaired, they just want you to keep buying the latest, newest version.
One simple initiative is to begin to recruit talent from people outside of its preferred networks. One way is to extend their recruiting efforts to people who don't have four-year degrees. One simple initiative is to begin to recruit talent from people outside of its preferred networks. One way is to extend their recruiting efforts to people who don't have four-year degrees. One simple initiative is to begin to recruit talent from people outside of its preferred networks. One way is to extend their recruiting efforts to people who don't have four-year degrees.
If you live in this town and don't think the uber drivers are being paid enough, you can lobby the city to increase uber subsidies so as to increase uber drivers pay.
This article http://blog.interviewing.io/we... discusses an interesting experiment where males and females had their voices masked for technical interviews so they could analyze the differences in how women perform while controlling for gender discrimination. Some fascinating results that show how women react differently to tech interviews than men, possibly resulting in them getting less employment offers and/or lower salary. I wonder how much this effect can be attributed to the results mentioned in this slashdot article. Like most problems with women's performance/success compared to men, this is mostly a cultural issue. There are things we can all do to pitch in and improve the situation but its not really something the government can legislate away.
On the other hand, i wouldn't be surprised to find the tech industry is actually more discriminating toward women than other industries, given that we already know there is rampant agism (reluctance to hire older programmers) and a culture that encourages workers to forgo family and other commitments in favor of longer hours and 'crunch time'
Another company realizing that the desktop/laptop requirements are fundamentally different from smartphone/tablet requirements. Trying to use one OS/GUI to serve both might sound like a great way to cut development costs for a company, but its also a great way to produce a poor user experience that doesn't deliver 100% on either platform.
He is being intellectually dishonest by lumping wireless Internet providers such as Verizion in the same "Market" as high-speed internet providers such as comcast, charter, etc. These are two different products, my wireless internet on my smartphone is a fraction of the speed i expect from wired internet on my desktop. Also what i expect to do on the smartphone is often different (though there is some overlap) with what I expect to do on a desktop/laptop. Different markets, different products.
ALSO: Google has 81% market share in search because THEY ARE THE BEST SEARCH ENGINE. The marketplace has legitimately decided that they are the best at what they do which is why we all use google so often.
This is markedly different from the home internet market, where comcast and charter control almost 70% market share. They got there certainly not by being the best provider, but by taking advantage of regional regulations and municipal contracts to ensure they are the only provider in the cities they service and agreeing not to compete with each other in those regions.
To buy the "NEW! Super Nintendo Switch Lite Color SP XL" that they will start selling in about 6 months. I bet you the dock for that model will have fans in it.
The movie "Grandma's Boy" set the stereotype of video game developers back by 10 years. No, i don't live with my grandma. No, I don't get to spend all day just 'playing video games' and No, one person cannot make a AAA video game all by themselves.
Then again stoners have had the same stereotype played in hollywood for over two decades. Have you ever seen Tommy Chong in "Cheech and Chong" I don't know any stoners that are actually like that, Thats because the actor Tommy Chong wasn't portraying stoners in real life, he was portraying what Americans THINK stoners are like, hence the artistic genius. The debate is weather portraying outlandish stereotypes helps people realize how silly the stereotypes are, or if they just reinforce existing beliefs.
My mother worked at jack-in-the-box to pay for her college tuition. Yeah that's right, a minimum wage job was able to pay for a bachelors degree in 1970ish. My grandparents stuffed extra cash under a mattress for a year and then had enough money to buy a house. NOTE: Grandpa was not rich, worked construction at an oil company.
The government federally insures/guarantees housing loans and ~10 years later houses are too expensive to pay for by saving up for a year. About another 10 years later and we have a massive crash in the housing market culminating in the year 2008, the banks got bailed out and many ordinary americans lost their house and where kicked to the street.
The government federally insures/guarantees student loans and ~10 years later tuition is too expensive to pay for with a minimum wage job. About 10 years later we should expect a crash in the student loan market. How do you think the government will react to the banks, federally-funded colleges and students after seeing what they did in the housing crises?
The future doesn't look bright. Hopefully we can all learn our lesson: The Government federally insuring/guaranteeing loans almost always causes terrible market distortions and should almost never be done
Protecting our rights when other Senators don't give a damn.
I'm sure some slashdotters didn't agree with him on some positions in the past, but I doubt any slashdotters would be upset by this bill, or at least the intentions behind it
It can be $24-$45 for a couple to see a movie in a theater (depending on the city/movie screen, i got these numbers by comparing movie ticket prices for 'Ghost in the Shell' in Denver for standard, 3D, and 3D+RPX movie theaters) Plus everything you can buy in terms of food at a theater STARTS at 3$. For two snacks and a drink that is AT LEAST $9 probably closer to $15.
That comes out to $35-$60 for a couple to be entertained for at least 90 min (yeah a 90 min movie costs the same price as a 150 min movie). That is a LOT of dough for todays millennial debt-burdened customers to cough up. Yeah yeah i know the theaters and studios will talk about inflation, rising production costs, challenging economic times etc. The point is if they don't work together to reduce these costs then the dwindling audience for movies will continue to decline.
Sadly they don't seem to be working together. The studios constantly try to push movie ticket prices up, giving less and less of a % to the theaters, while the theaters try to push the concession prices up and up to make ends meet.
When ISP's start selling customer browsing history to advertisers, i think they would give the advertising company a weird look if they asked "give us the browsing history of these 400 people"
More likely they would need an agent to purchase browsing history of 'IP addresses in Washington D.C' and then the browsing data would (god i hope) be anonymized, requiring forensic analysis to determine which browsing history belonged to a sentaor/house member. I don't know if you could easily match a particular senator with a particular record of browsing history. You could easily say '20% of congressmen searched for 'teen porn' it the last month' i don't know if you would be able to say 'these particular senators browsed for teen porn'
"Phonographs are killing the piano industry" screamed the piano makers, "Radio is killing the theater" screamed the performers. "Video is killing the radio star" Screamed the radio DJ's, "Netflix is destroying video rental stores" Screamed blockbuster.
And here i sit at my piano, practicing along with a 'how to play piano' video on youtube, produced by a musician/former radio star, whilst watching a London theatrical performance that was recorded and made available for viewing on streaming Netflix.
do they REALLY!??? I would actually be interested, do you have a link?
"AMC's would be exclusively available to consumers who subscribe to a cable TV package"
We already have this kind of arrangement for HBO, Showtime, and basically every other station. We millennials don't want to waste money on cable bills like our parents did. Either sell your shows online or don't. But don't pretend that streaming your shows online for people who already have cable accounts and can already watch your shows on cable is doing anything new. This is not going to make you more money. You will continue to lose money to pirates until you finally just sell your friggin product online for a price.
$5 a month or $.99 an episode is my price. Offer that and I (along with millions of others) will pay. Otherwise i won't.
If we had robust competition in Internet providers and I could just say 'screw you!' to the ISP selling my information to third parties and sign up with the ISP that, like duckduckgo.com, promises to protect my privacy as a selling point.
Unfortunately the current ISP's came from the overly-regulated (at local level) cable providers who used regulatory capture to establish regional monopolies, then politely behind the scenes refused to compete with each other. These business practices (and the county, City, and State regulators that where accomplices) make me sick.
Lies all lies. Just like the Chernobyl incident, we know this was REALLY caused by the humans trying to tinker with decepticon technology.
I don't know what 'violently protesting' means, but if they didn't assault another person, if they didn't cause property damage to an individual, then there is no crime.
From what i remember, the only 'violence' at trumps inauguration was a single limousine being set ablaze. Whoever did that should of course be found and jailed for arson. But I sincerely doubt this crime is what the prosecutor is going after.
Actually back in the day, this happened just as often, if not MORE often. I remember having to blow into Nintendo cartridges, and their loading slot was an obvious design failure, one they would fix.... 6 years later. Today the consumers would be complaining on-line within weeks, Nintendo would have to release a statement within the month promising to fix the issue. And no less than 2 months later we would have NES consoles with manufacturing improvements and 6 months later we would have an NES with a top-loading slot instead of a side-loading one to avoid the issue of misalignment altogether.
Here is a picture of the NES i am talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... It was released in 1993. I am arguing that if the original NES came out today, we would get the top-loading model in 6 months, not 6 years later.
So really this is a trend of IMPROVING consumer device development, not an appalling lack of competence on behalf of Nintendo
to be fair... the linked article has the same title?
Statement from nintendo: "A manufacturing variation has resulted in wireless interference with a small number of the left Joy-Con. Moving forward this will not be an issue, as the manufacturing variation has been addressed and corrected at the factory level. We have determined a simple fix can be made to any affected Joy-Con to improve connectivity."
This is why i'm waiting for a 'Switch lite' or 'Switch SP', or 'NEW Switch XL' to be released before buying the console. Releasing this console in march was basically Nintendo doing a 'soft-launch' this way they sell out day one, knowing all the die hard fanboys will buy it day one, and they get to work out the kinks in the hardware before the holiday season when they have the 'Real Launch' or 'Grand Opening' of the device with less manufacturing defects, and can ensure they have adequate supply for the people who will buy it during holiday season.