I'm not an aeronautics expert but isn't there a huge risk of snapping the wings off the glider? When you get close to space there's not much air which means the glider will essentially reach freefall and hit terminal velocity. The real problem is when it re-enters atmosphere you go from no wind resistance to wind resistance that shock could rip the glider apart. Hope they have an expert on their project. The "safest" way is to try to nose dive the glider until it reaches enough atmosphere for the wings to generate lift and then to pull up carefully?
While some folks might like disposable products since they "upgrade" so often, I am not in that market and I tend to keep items for a long time. I suspect in most modern phones the part most likely to fail due to heavy usage will be the battery because Lithium Polymers wear out with use. However in my Samsung Note 3, the battery is replaceable so that's less of a concern for me. I'll likely keep using my phone until it can't play youtube anymore. I'm still using a Vaio Z laptop made 5 years ago. It was state of the art in its time so surprisingly it still seems like a fairly modern laptop. It can't run as long on battery and the discrete switch-able graphics are a bit weak but thanks to impressive design, weight wise and size is a match to modern thinish laptop. CPU power is pretty decent too as an i7. So no, I do not like disposable items.
My home router is a NetGear R7000 NightHawk Router with TomatoUSB firmware by Shibby. Tomato firmware is notoriously stable on most of the platforms it supports and it's feature loaded with VPN and a huge number of other features. It also features an extremely nice front end GUI interface and is more than powerful enough for fast Internet applications. I originally ran my Router as a piece of software on my VM Server but eventually found it much nicer to have a dedicated piece of hardware handling it. Besides, if you're not a fan of Tomato then there's also OpenWRT and DD-WRT. Thou I've found DD-WRT to be unstable on some hardware. Regardless, this is probably the cheaper and simpler way of doing it.
One of the first cheap Linux ARM devices I got a hold of was a Linksys NSLU2 that was meant as a slow low powered device that could convert any USB drive into as network NAS device. A huge fanbase figured out how to hack full Debian Linux into the device and how to remove a resistor to "overclock" it to normal speeds. 100mhz to 166 mhz I believe if memory serves. It ended up to be my webserver using a USB stick as it's main filesystem for 1000+ days of continuous uptime before a 6 hour power black-out completely drained the UPS it was attached to. I've long since switched to a AMD athlon 610e system running VMs but it's going to be hard to beat my own personal record.:)
While I don't see Fuel Cells as being very viable for Cars compared to a Lithium Battery, they might serve a good application in this place considering now you neither care about the cost of fuel (or excess CO2 emissions) but the fact that it is silent technology. The downside is you would still need to carry around bottles of Hydrogen Fuel which is explosive although probably not much worse than ammunition or fuel. And while admittedly tanks aren't exactly silent, they do have a point if this is suppose to be used with infantry; You don't want to sound like a lawnmower.
I don't think this article really understands the problem of AI all that well. Our major issue is we don't really understand how intelligence works or even what being "self-aware" actually means as an algorithm. Even with a Billion dollars this project is a real shot in the dark. Asking a capitalist system to fund a billion dollar project where there isn't even a guaranteed response is likely to get the project not funded at all. So having it funded this way isn't a bad way to go.
Even if you could pass a law like this and get people in the US or Canada to agree with it, exactly how are you suppose to stop companies that are located in other countries. This isn't really going to work.
I remember having a similar problem years ago with E-mail in several systems and getting annoyed that everything was in different formats in different E-mail clients. I fixed the problem by setting up my own IMAP server. An IMAP server is a mail server that's compatible with virtually ALL E-mail clients but what's important about them is they act as mail stores unlike POP3 so you can upload mail to an IMAP server without screwing up formatting or anything. Then once you get all your E-mail up to your IMAP server, you can chose to just store it there (just remember to back it up now and then) or you can redownload it all into a Mail folder on ThunderBird (Backup Thunderbird's Mail store folder for protection) ThunderBird probably isn't going away in the foreseeable future but if it does, sometime down the road you can reuse your IMAP server to transfer it to another mail client.
Actually this technology if it could be implemented reliably could be very useful. Imagine if you could have a full heads up display where there's no blind spots coupled with self-driving technology to alert you visibly on the screen if you were about to slam into another object or point out potholes, ect with driving guidance. I imagine the military might want something like this as well as the windows usually arn't as well armoured as the vehicle itself or there's a tonne of blind spots in an actual tank.
I have an SMR 8TB Seagate drive which is marked as an archival drive. It's worked well so far. The problem with Shingle Magnetic Recording drives which I have noticed is that occasionally the drive will "stall" while it rearranges data. This is probably extremely bad for some raid systems as the paranoid ones might think the drive has prematurely died. Still this drive was inexpensive for its size and stores a LOT of data which is handy for backing up my actual RAID NAS system. Just don't use a drive like this in your Raid or you might run into serious problems.
I worry about these helium drives leaking their helium eventually and dying. They claim to have a sealed unit where the seal will last for years which is hopefully the case but you never know...
There's a good reason why wired beats wireless. In wireless your common medium is the air which is common to everyone. Basically it's impossible to transmit without causing interference at some level to someone else in the common area unless you're so far away that wireless is pointless. With a wire, it's now possible to have a dedicated wire strictly for just your communication. In practice this costs too much so it is shared somewhat but it's far better than a common medium for everyone.
I agree with the statement that we probably should do something before it becomes an unfixable problem assuming it hasn't already become an unfixable problem. It's like maintenance for your car. You can get lazy and wait till something breaks but at that point it will probably cost you a great deal more and be far more inconvenient than if you had kept up with maintenance. The reality or problem is that people are rarely ever pro-active and on top of that people who make a living on the "stay the course" lifestyle obviously don't want change because it threatens their living even if it were to all come crashing down someday. And crash it will, although we might be able to weather this storm, there's many in poorer countries that are the end of their rope so to speak. When you have no future, food or home because its underwater there's nothing stopping you from trying to take it by force.
History I suspect will show that we either finally as a species managed to find some sort of co-operation and saved our world or we followed our own selfish interests and imploded.
This is a ridiculous scenario, why would any sane hacker hack the car they just sold to someone else? If something goes wrong, who do you think the authorities might check first? It's about as silly as saying, well what if someone sells you a car with a car bomb in it? You could argue that somehow the hacker doesn't like you but then why would he/she even bother selling you the car in the first place. The whole scenario is highly unlikely. Besides, most people who would pull pranks of this sort are not going to want to know who the victim is or met them personally.
A more likely scenario is as a prank someone crashes an entire network of cars for fun or maybe they dislike the company. Still in this situation, how many of you would knowingly do something that could potentially hurt hundreds or thousands of people? I think most hackers can distinguish between "annoying fun" and outright getting folks killed or injured.
Granted while it is important to have proper security, I doubt any of these scenarios are as dire as one might suspect.
Seeing how space travel isn't exactly safe and virtually all launch systems have at some point blown up, why wouldn't this be insured? You would think NASA or SpaceX would have some sort of insurance to cover for damages. Most of us have car insurance for example because statistically at some point virtually everyone has one car accident in their lifespan. As much as I find SpaceX a nifty company and a good idea. (It's so far had a pretty good track record for cost of launches) making it the most cost effective launch system, there should be some insurance you would think.
I think most folks are not reading this article right. The average starting salary is $66K. Being average, it means that half the graduates are paid far less than that amount. There's no mention of location as well which varies tremendously as living costs vary. I'm paid well under that average but where I live the amount they give me is considered quite good because of low living costs. This survey also probably doesn't include the unemployed as you can't report a salary if you can't find a job which is a major problem for a lot of graduates in my experience.
I think a good summary is that you can make a reasonable living with a computer science education as long as you can find a job after you graduate. I dislike how the article seems to say it's an "Easy Street" job. To be good at this field, you need to have a certain love for it that extends into your personal life. I've seen some CS Majors who went in entirely thinking they would be paid well but without any of the commitment to continue learning about it. I suspect many of those poor graduates won't survive their field in the real world.
One obvious problem with this is that we claim to want to reduce pollution and improve air quality and have poured millions and millions of tax money into private industry all electric vehicles like the Volt. But because of the limited range, many people who would buy a Volt don't get one because they would have to have a second vehicle for longer trips if they did (particularly in single driver households) and be charged liability insurance on both.
Highly incorrect on the Volt. Unlike most EV's the Volt has a gasoline engine that kicks in when you run out of battery power. It is one of the main reasons why I was attracted to the Volt in the first place. Unlike most EV's it won't leave you stranded when you run out of power.
I have to wonder does it honestly matter for Google to be a financial success? Google has historically taken on many projects that would seem to be opposite of financial success that in the end turned out successful regardless or in some way generated a lot of goodwill for the company. I hear YouTube is not a financial success but Google keeps it anyhow because it helps make their own services more popular.
I am sure Google sort of knows what it is doing. Who knows maybe this can be used as an argument in possible up coming anti-trust claims in Europe which have no basis at all.
I agree the Cadillac ELR was a poor response to the Tesla S but the Volt is an excellent car. GM didn't get it all wrong. For starters, the average person finds the Volt slightly expensive to own, nevermind the Telsa S which is even more out of range for the average Joe making it even more of a pipe dream. Another huge problem is that the supercharger network doesn't go everywhere, there's not a single supercharger to be found in NorthWestern Ontario which is fairly remote and we suffer from very extreme winters. If I owned a Telsa S here, I could never leave my city with it.
Every year I go cross country across Canada on a trip equivalent to 1,200 miles one way. I would guess that if a supercharger network existed, it would add four hours to the trip because of the need of having to stop to charge up. If you're in a rush to get through your roadtrip because I often run non-stop, then a supercharger network would definitely be slower. Cars are also suppose to be about freedom right? The fact that there are gas stations virtually everywhere means the Volt can fuel up anywhere with very few worries where I can see from your note that you need to pay special attention to where charging points are.
Tesla uses a version of Laptop Lithium batteries, the Volt uses a much safer phosphate class Lithium battery which you find in some solar lawn lights. It isn't hard to figure out the difference in the news articles. The Volt has not suffered a single battery fire in the real world except when the coolent caught on fire after it dried out. They apparently cracked open a Volt battery pack and left it in the junk yard for a week. In comparison, a Telsa S's battery pack will most certainly catch on fire if you manage to puncture it. There's no magic in Telsa's battery pack. GM decided that they would go with a safer, near impossible to catch on fire battery type but the trade-off is less capacity for weight. Telsa went the riskier way because they have little choice, there's no backup engine and running out of range isn't a solution so a rare fire from shattering the battery pack probably isn't a big deal. Except that GM knew that the public is highly sensitive to this issue.
There's also a question on Tesla's future. Believe it or not they haven't made any money as a company. Their stock sells mostly from hype. Not that GM's that different in that the Volt barely makes GM much money either but at least they are able to use that technology in their other car ventures such as in the hybrid Malibu and other upcoming cars. I don't dislike Tesla, they helped open the door to EV's but to me it seems that their future looks a bit shaky compared to some of Musk's other ventures like SpaceX.
I don't know about you but if you read the article, it almost sounds like this guy feels that because he's older and has so much "experience" that he should have been hired. It sounds like he sued Google because he was upset that the Interview didn't go as smooth as he hoped and he badly wanted to work for them. I've worked everything from Call Centre Internet Support all the way to being an Administrator, to Programmer that I am now. I wouldn't hire this guy judging from his attitude. It sounds like he feels entitled to getting this job. You know how old people complain that the young seem to think they deserve everything?
I've done many Interviews in my lifetime and from the those, I've found you can't blame the Interviewer or even yourself when things go wrong. Sometimes things go well and sometimes they don't. Besides, suing like this is sure fire way of burning your bridges. He's going to be lucky if anyone else is going to want to hire him now.
It looks like Nvidia's starting to abuse their market status by trying to force everyone onto their systems or at least to make it difficult to have alternatives. You can see a similar situation in the current adaptive sync Gsync / Freesync conflict where one became VESA standard (Freesync) and the other became proprietary and in general more expensive. I'm honestly considering avoiding Nvidia products at the rate they're going.
Umm thou this is getting a little off topic. The Volt only provides about 60% of its true capacity because you risk damaging the battery if you charge a lithium up to its maxiumum charge and down to its minimal charge. I know this trick works because my Sony laptop is able to hold the battery charge at 50% and after 5 years of use the battery shows almost no degradation. GM I think decided to go conservative as well and I have noticed the range estimator seems a bit conservative in most situations. The amount of usable power it shows left however is accurate.
Still there's no such thing as no range anxiety on an EV. It's like going to space on a tank of air. Unless you have some way to produce large amounts of it or there's so much it's ridiculous, there will always be some range anxiety.
In a pure EV, Range Anxiety is a huge problem because obviously if you run out of power it will leave you stranded. Even if you could find an outlet to plug it into, it will take a significant amount of time to recharge especially if it is a low wattage 120v outlet. This could happen due to neglecting to charge up, incorrectly estimating range which is easy to do considering it varies depending on weather / driving conditions or in emergency situations. It's a problem because this means you need to plan for almost all your trips instead of the freedom a car is suppose to represent.
This is one of the major reasons why I went with a Chevy Volt, it's basically an EV but when you run out of battery, you have the safety net of using gas. It's a very good safety net as the Volt performs as well on gas with a flat battery as pure battery only modes. You will never hear of any Volt owners stressing over range anxiety but some will try hard to try to maximize their battery use to save gas. In recent studies, it's been shown that Volt owners are one of the few who are willing to risk pushing the battery use right to empty because they can. Most EV owners tend to only use half because it's too risky to run out of power on a trip.
I don't see how a software update could really fix this issue. Maybe there's a way to make the Telsa more efficient but that only gives you more range, it doesn't eliminate range anxiety. Or they design the car to outright lie to the user about how much range is left by severely underestimating.
The interesting thing about Zombies is they're for the most part fictional. In our Canadian winters up here, they'd likely freeze solid and they'd pretty much be easy targets at that point. Even if freezing solid doesn't kill them which is odd, there's no cold-blooded animal out there that is active in winter.
My understanding from what I have read about genetics is that usually genetics only affect about 50% of what makes you, you. The rest of the 50% is due to environmental conditions. A mug shot of you that's only 50% accurate is going to be a challenge to use properly.
Here's one situation where trying to fight the bad guys with a gun turned out bad for the private gun owner. The cops ended up killing the couple so the sad fact is if this guy didn't try to handle the situation himself, he would still be alive. This isn't like the movies, in reality you don't want to be in these kind of conflicts.
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I'm not an aeronautics expert but isn't there a huge risk of snapping the wings off the glider? When you get close to space there's not much air which means the glider will essentially reach freefall and hit terminal velocity. The real problem is when it re-enters atmosphere you go from no wind resistance to wind resistance that shock could rip the glider apart. Hope they have an expert on their project. The "safest" way is to try to nose dive the glider until it reaches enough atmosphere for the wings to generate lift and then to pull up carefully?
While some folks might like disposable products since they "upgrade" so often, I am not in that market and I tend to keep items for a long time. I suspect in most modern phones the part most likely to fail due to heavy usage will be the battery because Lithium Polymers wear out with use. However in my Samsung Note 3, the battery is replaceable so that's less of a concern for me. I'll likely keep using my phone until it can't play youtube anymore. I'm still using a Vaio Z laptop made 5 years ago. It was state of the art in its time so surprisingly it still seems like a fairly modern laptop. It can't run as long on battery and the discrete switch-able graphics are a bit weak but thanks to impressive design, weight wise and size is a match to modern thinish laptop. CPU power is pretty decent too as an i7. So no, I do not like disposable items.
My home router is a NetGear R7000 NightHawk Router with TomatoUSB firmware by Shibby. Tomato firmware is notoriously stable on most of the platforms it supports and it's feature loaded with VPN and a huge number of other features. It also features an extremely nice front end GUI interface and is more than powerful enough for fast Internet applications. I originally ran my Router as a piece of software on my VM Server but eventually found it much nicer to have a dedicated piece of hardware handling it. Besides, if you're not a fan of Tomato then there's also OpenWRT and DD-WRT. Thou I've found DD-WRT to be unstable on some hardware. Regardless, this is probably the cheaper and simpler way of doing it.
One of the first cheap Linux ARM devices I got a hold of was a Linksys NSLU2 that was meant as a slow low powered device that could convert any USB drive into as network NAS device. A huge fanbase figured out how to hack full Debian Linux into the device and how to remove a resistor to "overclock" it to normal speeds. 100mhz to 166 mhz I believe if memory serves. It ended up to be my webserver using a USB stick as it's main filesystem for 1000+ days of continuous uptime before a 6 hour power black-out completely drained the UPS it was attached to. I've long since switched to a AMD athlon 610e system running VMs but it's going to be hard to beat my own personal record. :)
While I don't see Fuel Cells as being very viable for Cars compared to a Lithium Battery, they might serve a good application in this place considering now you neither care about the cost of fuel (or excess CO2 emissions) but the fact that it is silent technology. The downside is you would still need to carry around bottles of Hydrogen Fuel which is explosive although probably not much worse than ammunition or fuel. And while admittedly tanks aren't exactly silent, they do have a point if this is suppose to be used with infantry; You don't want to sound like a lawnmower.
I don't think this article really understands the problem of AI all that well. Our major issue is we don't really understand how intelligence works or even what being "self-aware" actually means as an algorithm. Even with a Billion dollars this project is a real shot in the dark. Asking a capitalist system to fund a billion dollar project where there isn't even a guaranteed response is likely to get the project not funded at all. So having it funded this way isn't a bad way to go.
Even if you could pass a law like this and get people in the US or Canada to agree with it, exactly how are you suppose to stop companies that are located in other countries. This isn't really going to work.
I remember having a similar problem years ago with E-mail in several systems and getting annoyed that everything was in different formats in different E-mail clients. I fixed the problem by setting up my own IMAP server. An IMAP server is a mail server that's compatible with virtually ALL E-mail clients but what's important about them is they act as mail stores unlike POP3 so you can upload mail to an IMAP server without screwing up formatting or anything. Then once you get all your E-mail up to your IMAP server, you can chose to just store it there (just remember to back it up now and then) or you can redownload it all into a Mail folder on ThunderBird (Backup Thunderbird's Mail store folder for protection) ThunderBird probably isn't going away in the foreseeable future but if it does, sometime down the road you can reuse your IMAP server to transfer it to another mail client.
Actually this technology if it could be implemented reliably could be very useful. Imagine if you could have a full heads up display where there's no blind spots coupled with self-driving technology to alert you visibly on the screen if you were about to slam into another object or point out potholes, ect with driving guidance. I imagine the military might want something like this as well as the windows usually arn't as well armoured as the vehicle itself or there's a tonne of blind spots in an actual tank.
I have an SMR 8TB Seagate drive which is marked as an archival drive. It's worked well so far. The problem with Shingle Magnetic Recording drives which I have noticed is that occasionally the drive will "stall" while it rearranges data. This is probably extremely bad for some raid systems as the paranoid ones might think the drive has prematurely died. Still this drive was inexpensive for its size and stores a LOT of data which is handy for backing up my actual RAID NAS system. Just don't use a drive like this in your Raid or you might run into serious problems.
I worry about these helium drives leaking their helium eventually and dying. They claim to have a sealed unit where the seal will last for years which is hopefully the case but you never know...
There's a good reason why wired beats wireless. In wireless your common medium is the air which is common to everyone. Basically it's impossible to transmit without causing interference at some level to someone else in the common area unless you're so far away that wireless is pointless. With a wire, it's now possible to have a dedicated wire strictly for just your communication. In practice this costs too much so it is shared somewhat but it's far better than a common medium for everyone.
I agree with the statement that we probably should do something before it becomes an unfixable problem assuming it hasn't already become an unfixable problem. It's like maintenance for your car. You can get lazy and wait till something breaks but at that point it will probably cost you a great deal more and be far more inconvenient than if you had kept up with maintenance. The reality or problem is that people are rarely ever pro-active and on top of that people who make a living on the "stay the course" lifestyle obviously don't want change because it threatens their living even if it were to all come crashing down someday. And crash it will, although we might be able to weather this storm, there's many in poorer countries that are the end of their rope so to speak. When you have no future, food or home because its underwater there's nothing stopping you from trying to take it by force.
History I suspect will show that we either finally as a species managed to find some sort of co-operation and saved our world or we followed our own selfish interests and imploded.
This is a ridiculous scenario, why would any sane hacker hack the car they just sold to someone else? If something goes wrong, who do you think the authorities might check first? It's about as silly as saying, well what if someone sells you a car with a car bomb in it? You could argue that somehow the hacker doesn't like you but then why would he/she even bother selling you the car in the first place. The whole scenario is highly unlikely. Besides, most people who would pull pranks of this sort are not going to want to know who the victim is or met them personally.
A more likely scenario is as a prank someone crashes an entire network of cars for fun or maybe they dislike the company. Still in this situation, how many of you would knowingly do something that could potentially hurt hundreds or thousands of people? I think most hackers can distinguish between "annoying fun" and outright getting folks killed or injured.
Granted while it is important to have proper security, I doubt any of these scenarios are as dire as one might suspect.
Seeing how space travel isn't exactly safe and virtually all launch systems have at some point blown up, why wouldn't this be insured? You would think NASA or SpaceX would have some sort of insurance to cover for damages. Most of us have car insurance for example because statistically at some point virtually everyone has one car accident in their lifespan. As much as I find SpaceX a nifty company and a good idea. (It's so far had a pretty good track record for cost of launches) making it the most cost effective launch system, there should be some insurance you would think.
I think most folks are not reading this article right. The average starting salary is $66K. Being average, it means that half the graduates are paid far less than that amount. There's no mention of location as well which varies tremendously as living costs vary. I'm paid well under that average but where I live the amount they give me is considered quite good because of low living costs. This survey also probably doesn't include the unemployed as you can't report a salary if you can't find a job which is a major problem for a lot of graduates in my experience.
I think a good summary is that you can make a reasonable living with a computer science education as long as you can find a job after you graduate. I dislike how the article seems to say it's an "Easy Street" job. To be good at this field, you need to have a certain love for it that extends into your personal life. I've seen some CS Majors who went in entirely thinking they would be paid well but without any of the commitment to continue learning about it. I suspect many of those poor graduates won't survive their field in the real world.
One obvious problem with this is that we claim to want to reduce pollution and improve air quality and have poured millions and millions of tax money into private industry all electric vehicles like the Volt. But because of the limited range, many people who would buy a Volt don't get one because they would have to have a second vehicle for longer trips if they did (particularly in single driver households) and be charged liability insurance on both.
Highly incorrect on the Volt. Unlike most EV's the Volt has a gasoline engine that kicks in when you run out of battery power. It is one of the main reasons why I was attracted to the Volt in the first place. Unlike most EV's it won't leave you stranded when you run out of power.
I have to wonder does it honestly matter for Google to be a financial success? Google has historically taken on many projects that would seem to be opposite of financial success that in the end turned out successful regardless or in some way generated a lot of goodwill for the company. I hear YouTube is not a financial success but Google keeps it anyhow because it helps make their own services more popular.
I am sure Google sort of knows what it is doing. Who knows maybe this can be used as an argument in possible up coming anti-trust claims in Europe which have no basis at all.
I agree the Cadillac ELR was a poor response to the Tesla S but the Volt is an excellent car. GM didn't get it all wrong. For starters, the average person finds the Volt slightly expensive to own, nevermind the Telsa S which is even more out of range for the average Joe making it even more of a pipe dream. Another huge problem is that the supercharger network doesn't go everywhere, there's not a single supercharger to be found in NorthWestern Ontario which is fairly remote and we suffer from very extreme winters. If I owned a Telsa S here, I could never leave my city with it.
Every year I go cross country across Canada on a trip equivalent to 1,200 miles one way. I would guess that if a supercharger network existed, it would add four hours to the trip because of the need of having to stop to charge up. If you're in a rush to get through your roadtrip because I often run non-stop, then a supercharger network would definitely be slower. Cars are also suppose to be about freedom right? The fact that there are gas stations virtually everywhere means the Volt can fuel up anywhere with very few worries where I can see from your note that you need to pay special attention to where charging points are.
Tesla uses a version of Laptop Lithium batteries, the Volt uses a much safer phosphate class Lithium battery which you find in some solar lawn lights. It isn't hard to figure out the difference in the news articles. The Volt has not suffered a single battery fire in the real world except when the coolent caught on fire after it dried out. They apparently cracked open a Volt battery pack and left it in the junk yard for a week. In comparison, a Telsa S's battery pack will most certainly catch on fire if you manage to puncture it. There's no magic in Telsa's battery pack. GM decided that they would go with a safer, near impossible to catch on fire battery type but the trade-off is less capacity for weight. Telsa went the riskier way because they have little choice, there's no backup engine and running out of range isn't a solution so a rare fire from shattering the battery pack probably isn't a big deal. Except that GM knew that the public is highly sensitive to this issue.
There's also a question on Tesla's future. Believe it or not they haven't made any money as a company. Their stock sells mostly from hype. Not that GM's that different in that the Volt barely makes GM much money either but at least they are able to use that technology in their other car ventures such as in the hybrid Malibu and other upcoming cars. I don't dislike Tesla, they helped open the door to EV's but to me it seems that their future looks a bit shaky compared to some of Musk's other ventures like SpaceX.
I don't know about you but if you read the article, it almost sounds like this guy feels that because he's older and has so much "experience" that he should have been hired. It sounds like he sued Google because he was upset that the Interview didn't go as smooth as he hoped and he badly wanted to work for them. I've worked everything from Call Centre Internet Support all the way to being an Administrator, to Programmer that I am now. I wouldn't hire this guy judging from his attitude. It sounds like he feels entitled to getting this job. You know how old people complain that the young seem to think they deserve everything?
I've done many Interviews in my lifetime and from the those, I've found you can't blame the Interviewer or even yourself when things go wrong. Sometimes things go well and sometimes they don't. Besides, suing like this is sure fire way of burning your bridges. He's going to be lucky if anyone else is going to want to hire him now.
It looks like Nvidia's starting to abuse their market status by trying to force everyone onto their systems or at least to make it difficult to have alternatives. You can see a similar situation in the current adaptive sync Gsync / Freesync conflict where one became VESA standard (Freesync) and the other became proprietary and in general more expensive. I'm honestly considering avoiding Nvidia products at the rate they're going.
Umm thou this is getting a little off topic. The Volt only provides about 60% of its true capacity because you risk damaging the battery if you charge a lithium up to its maxiumum charge and down to its minimal charge. I know this trick works because my Sony laptop is able to hold the battery charge at 50% and after 5 years of use the battery shows almost no degradation. GM I think decided to go conservative as well and I have noticed the range estimator seems a bit conservative in most situations. The amount of usable power it shows left however is accurate.
Still there's no such thing as no range anxiety on an EV. It's like going to space on a tank of air. Unless you have some way to produce large amounts of it or there's so much it's ridiculous, there will always be some range anxiety.
In a pure EV, Range Anxiety is a huge problem because obviously if you run out of power it will leave you stranded. Even if you could find an outlet to plug it into, it will take a significant amount of time to recharge especially if it is a low wattage 120v outlet. This could happen due to neglecting to charge up, incorrectly estimating range which is easy to do considering it varies depending on weather / driving conditions or in emergency situations. It's a problem because this means you need to plan for almost all your trips instead of the freedom a car is suppose to represent.
This is one of the major reasons why I went with a Chevy Volt, it's basically an EV but when you run out of battery, you have the safety net of using gas. It's a very good safety net as the Volt performs as well on gas with a flat battery as pure battery only modes. You will never hear of any Volt owners stressing over range anxiety but some will try hard to try to maximize their battery use to save gas. In recent studies, it's been shown that Volt owners are one of the few who are willing to risk pushing the battery use right to empty because they can. Most EV owners tend to only use half because it's too risky to run out of power on a trip.
I don't see how a software update could really fix this issue. Maybe there's a way to make the Telsa more efficient but that only gives you more range, it doesn't eliminate range anxiety. Or they design the car to outright lie to the user about how much range is left by severely underestimating.
The interesting thing about Zombies is they're for the most part fictional. In our Canadian winters up here, they'd likely freeze solid and they'd pretty much be easy targets at that point. Even if freezing solid doesn't kill them which is odd, there's no cold-blooded animal out there that is active in winter.
My understanding from what I have read about genetics is that usually genetics only affect about 50% of what makes you, you. The rest of the 50% is due to environmental conditions. A mug shot of you that's only 50% accurate is going to be a challenge to use properly.
Umm you sure about that?
Here's one situation where trying to fight the bad guys with a gun turned out bad for the private gun owner. The cops ended up killing the couple so the sad fact is if this guy didn't try to handle the situation himself, he would still be alive. This isn't like the movies, in reality you don't want to be in these kind of conflicts.
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