here in Philly it's possible to get a ticket if you're found to 'too frequently' happen to be parked at broken meters. the assumption is that you're a vandal. if those broken meters happened to actually be vandalized, you may find yourself having a longer conversation than a parking ticket.
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/45599557.html
wow, you must really be full of electric car hate to make up a '6 months to replace the battery' FUD fact. And, way to tack on the little 'other maintenance fees there at the end. Subtle.
There isn't regularly scheduled maintenance for a Tesla. Batteries do degrade, but they give 70% performance after 50,000 miles or 5 years. In the life of the car there are no oil changes, and likely no break jobs. This car costs less to maintain during its first half decade than even the cheapest cars.
Last thought - in general, do you think that the people that like to buy $50-60k cars try to eke 200,000 miles out of them, or do they tend to be people that like to have a new car every few years?
My friend's father built an electric porche for 12k in the early 90s.
Shit, if the starting cost of a Porsche was so low, that even after buying expensive batteries and investing in the install tools, it still comes out to 12 grand, the brand must not be nearly as fancy as I was led to believe. I have a $12k Toyota, maybe I'll trade it in for a pair of Porsches with gas engines! I hope you're referring to the 911!
[1] Ask a bunch of IT people, on an IT focused site, that worry about outsourcing what they think about the workers that may get their jobs in the future. [2] Get back a long list of responses about how Indians aren't any better and the USA is the rulez. [3] Veil overt racism under the premise of cost of living and "reasonable" employee expectations. [4] ??? [5] Profit? or layoff?
Why do you think a BS is inherently better than a BA? There are plenty of very fancy bachelors programs in this country that award an arts degree for majoring in physics, and the physics department is generally part of the college of arts and sciences at universities, making it a liberal arts major.
I went to a liberal arts school and have a BA, physics major. If you go to Harvard or Princeton and major in physics you get an AB.
He did earn an AA, which as you point out is not as rigorous as a BA/BS, but it is still a degree that he has been awarded. I don't understand all the snootiness - when he's a 16 year old earning his bachelor's degree, will everyone here be consistent and complain that it's not like he finished his PhD already?
On the assumption that 1) he's right in the mileage difference and cost difference, and 2) that gas is $4/gallon, the crossover distance for that $6000 recover is 75,000 miles.
Now, this may not seem like a long distance for a modern car. But, I do know many people who don't like to keep cars past this point, because this is a safe point to assume that more driving in the future will likely lead to things that start to fail. So, people that don't like the idea of repairs or mechanical failure tend to bail at this point.
Also, notice that this is assuming $4/gallon. Right now gas is less than $2, which essentially doubles that crossover distance - meaning that if gas prices stay low, you'd have to drive 150,000 miles to recover the initial $6k investment.
Now, maybe the OP didn't take into account certain financial benefits, such as tax breaks or free HOV use, etc, but by his process he didn't make the wrong decision.
Personally, I'd still get the prius between the two. My parents are on their second one, and it's always been very nice to ride in. It's not terribly fun to drive (neither is the corolla), but it's well insulated from the road noise, and has plenty of leg room. When I bought my current car, in 2001, I chose the echo, because the space was the same, the gas difference was <5mpg, and the cost was almost half. I simply didn't have the other half.
I've read this complaint a lot, but I don't really understand it. Yes it would be fantastic if this device could do *everything*, just as it would be kick ass if an Eee PC could run Crysis at 40 fps. But that's not what this is designed to do.
This is simply a pleasure device. It can't replace your laptop for all of it's connectivity and display abilities for technical papers.
While I too wish I could read a journal paper on the kindle (the math doesn't convert - at all), that's not what I got the device for. I partly understand where you're coming from, but at the same time it's like complaining that the first few gens of the iPod didn't have video support.
Maybe at some point appropriate scaling of pdf's will no longer be a problem and we'll see fantastic pdf support and you can load all your papers onto this. In the meantime, you're far better served by carrying your laptop for this task than buying a kindle - it's not for what you want to accomplish.
There is a large up-front cost, but long term you could come out ahead, depending on what you read.
You can get most beyond copyright works for free from several sources, and if this is your primary interest, then any device is just as good.
But if you want to read the newest out hardbacks, this is where the savings really lies. These books are $10 on the kindle, as opposed to the ~$25 you'd pay at your local book store (or $18 you'd pay to amazon). Depending on how much you read and buy books this could be significant.
Paperbacks, too, tend to be a couple bucks less than the standard $7.99.
I've had a kindle for about a year (which I got as a gift, so the initial cost wasn't part of my emotional commitment), and I've noticed a significant savings in what I spend on reading.
uh, except the first version already held a few hundred books (without using an SD card), and the battery would give several days of reading and several weeks of standby already.
Sure, the new numbers are better, but not so much that one would now find their older version 'useless'. 7 times more than you need is still more than you need.
Books aren't like songs - there's not really a lot to gain by having 1500 with you at all times. I keep ~5 books on mine at any time usually, just because there's not really any motivation to have more. I tend to only read one book at a time or two in parallel.
My main complaint with the gen 1 device is that even though it has a mini USB port, it can't be charged that way with any standard cell phone charger. It has it's own charger and connection, which means one more charger that I have to travel with. I haven't seen anything that says if this has been changed with the updated device.
Actually, I think it's important for lawyers to try to exploit loopholes and try absurd tactics.
Our legal system is precedence based. By finding loopholes and trying them out in court we're actually fine tuning our system in a much better way than trying to preemptively legislate and define all possible outcomes.
By presenting loopholes into the courts, those loopholes get squeezed out. Our law is better for challenges to the ambiguous.
Yes, it takes a devious person to actually try these things out on a grandmother or teenager, and wreak havoc on lives, but it's also a necessary part of how are laws become defined and used for the future.
One reason is so that you can roll it up for small storage. Just think if you could take a 30" monitor with you in your carry on.... All the real estate you'd ever want with a netbook while traveling.
I worked on LCDs for years, and the grail was always the rollup screen. One nifty use is that your window shades can be your displays - during the day the sun is your light source (talk about green!), and when you use the display you're shutting out the outside light automatically. At night or for interiors you can light traditionally.
uh, I needed an appointment with a specialist, based on a referral from my GP.
When I called the specialist's office in August I was told I could have an appointment in February. It was the same at several other offices I called.
This in Philadelphia, and I'm professionally affiliated with UPenn, who provides my insurance. These two things mean that I'm closer, and have supposed access to FAR more doctors for many things (this specialization included) than a massive portion of the country.
So, what's the magic situation where we don't have to wait for healthcare because we're not socialists again?
Or, maybe, we never really got over our red fear from the '50s and we just knee jerk at everything that begins to sound like pinko communism?
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So, a day after posting the oh so helpful "I didn't know Spore had DRM - now I won't buy it" comment, you're giving a review of the playability?
Are you a hypocrite, a pirate, or a liar? And if you're a liar, was the lie about not buying it, or was it about having played it?
I just want to know if I can trust your reviews or your statements of principle. Clearly, I can't do both.
I'll attribute your tone to the greater internet fuckwad theory. In your desire to antagonize you've misinterpreted what I was saying. Perhaps since you're saying that because you've given us a link to a paper about chemically induced cancers, we should all be extra paranoid about RF induced cancer? Because that would make sense?
Maybe you can point out a study or two that shows that cell phones have affected any of the things you mention besides temperature? Look, here's a list of recent research findings. I'll even take temperature effects if you can show something that's actually inside the brain, and not just skin surface - we all know that batteries get hot.
My claim was not that cell phones CANNOT pose a risk. I simply said that currently we do not see enough of a risk to consider them. I point out that this may change in 10 years, but since we don't understand any physical connection for a risk and we don't have people falling over dead, I think we can say that the danger from cell phones still lies in texting while driving and whatnot.
Except that our current understanding of biology gives no physical mechanism through which non-ionizing microwave wavelength radiation can damage DNA to cause cancer.
Maybe that understanding will change at some point in the future - biology and genetics have been developing quickly in recent decades, but in the mean time we have no reason to be worried, compared to all the other risks we take in a day.
It's anti-science to go to fear-mongering due to ignorance simply because there's a technology involved. That's not just being cautious, that's being reckless in a non-conventional direction.
The tips include warnings not to use your phone on a bus, so as not to passively expose others. I'll take that as text book FUD.
In the video footage that accompanies the news piece here, when asked why there's a lack of evidence to support such advice the answer is that "you [don't] want to have enough sick or dead people, before you take action, to prevent harm...". Apparently, there's not enough data about cell phones leading to death simply because we don't want people to die.
The current evidence infers that we should have minimal concerns for this issue. Does that make this public health warning unethical, or just proactively cautious? A brief review of the clinical research is here.
I personally think this is worth losing his position over. In my view panic-inducing pseudo-concern ends up with a backlash against science. We should trust our MDs to advise us for our health, and this is not currently a health issue. If the research changes that in a decade, we can talk about it then.
You're making quite the assumption that he's not using bittorent FOR his business. It could be low priority, and still be business necessary. He made it clear that his bittorent use was above board, yet you're still deciding that it's inappropriate.
Of course, then you wouldn't get to be high and mighty about separating business stuff from personal stuff, and you'd actually have to address his question.
Slashdot Mirror
sound certainly goes through HDMI on my machine...
here in Philly it's possible to get a ticket if you're found to 'too frequently' happen to be parked at broken meters. the assumption is that you're a vandal. if those broken meters happened to actually be vandalized, you may find yourself having a longer conversation than a parking ticket. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/stu_bykofsky/45599557.html
Thanks - you're right:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Group
I clicked on TFA to find out what BT is, but that sentence was just lifted from the link which also doesn't clarify.
That's some nice summerizin'.
wow, you must really be full of electric car hate to make up a '6 months to replace the battery' FUD fact. And, way to tack on the little 'other maintenance fees there at the end. Subtle.
There isn't regularly scheduled maintenance for a Tesla. Batteries do degrade, but they give 70% performance after 50,000 miles or 5 years. In the life of the car there are no oil changes, and likely no break jobs. This car costs less to maintain during its first half decade than even the cheapest cars.
Last thought - in general, do you think that the people that like to buy $50-60k cars try to eke 200,000 miles out of them, or do they tend to be people that like to have a new car every few years?
My friend's father built an electric porche for 12k in the early 90s.
Shit, if the starting cost of a Porsche was so low, that even after buying expensive batteries and investing in the install tools, it still comes out to 12 grand, the brand must not be nearly as fancy as I was led to believe. I have a $12k Toyota, maybe I'll trade it in for a pair of Porsches with gas engines! I hope you're referring to the 911!
[1] Ask a bunch of IT people, on an IT focused site, that worry about outsourcing what they think about the workers that may get their jobs in the future.
[2] Get back a long list of responses about how Indians aren't any better and the USA is the rulez.
[3] Veil overt racism under the premise of cost of living and "reasonable" employee expectations.
[4] ???
[5] Profit? or layoff?
Why do you think a BS is inherently better than a BA? There are plenty of very fancy bachelors programs in this country that award an arts degree for majoring in physics, and the physics department is generally part of the college of arts and sciences at universities, making it a liberal arts major.
I went to a liberal arts school and have a BA, physics major. If you go to Harvard or Princeton and major in physics you get an AB.
He did earn an AA, which as you point out is not as rigorous as a BA/BS, but it is still a degree that he has been awarded. I don't understand all the snootiness - when he's a 16 year old earning his bachelor's degree, will everyone here be consistent and complain that it's not like he finished his PhD already?
Actually, he's not being unreasonable.
On the assumption that 1) he's right in the mileage difference and cost difference, and 2) that gas is $4/gallon, the crossover distance for that $6000 recover is 75,000 miles.
Now, this may not seem like a long distance for a modern car. But, I do know many people who don't like to keep cars past this point, because this is a safe point to assume that more driving in the future will likely lead to things that start to fail. So, people that don't like the idea of repairs or mechanical failure tend to bail at this point.
Also, notice that this is assuming $4/gallon. Right now gas is less than $2, which essentially doubles that crossover distance - meaning that if gas prices stay low, you'd have to drive 150,000 miles to recover the initial $6k investment.
Now, maybe the OP didn't take into account certain financial benefits, such as tax breaks or free HOV use, etc, but by his process he didn't make the wrong decision.
Personally, I'd still get the prius between the two. My parents are on their second one, and it's always been very nice to ride in. It's not terribly fun to drive (neither is the corolla), but it's well insulated from the road noise, and has plenty of leg room. When I bought my current car, in 2001, I chose the echo, because the space was the same, the gas difference was <5mpg, and the cost was almost half. I simply didn't have the other half.
I've read this complaint a lot, but I don't really understand it. Yes it would be fantastic if this device could do *everything*, just as it would be kick ass if an Eee PC could run Crysis at 40 fps. But that's not what this is designed to do.
This is simply a pleasure device. It can't replace your laptop for all of it's connectivity and display abilities for technical papers.
While I too wish I could read a journal paper on the kindle (the math doesn't convert - at all), that's not what I got the device for. I partly understand where you're coming from, but at the same time it's like complaining that the first few gens of the iPod didn't have video support.
Maybe at some point appropriate scaling of pdf's will no longer be a problem and we'll see fantastic pdf support and you can load all your papers onto this. In the meantime, you're far better served by carrying your laptop for this task than buying a kindle - it's not for what you want to accomplish.
That is simply not true.
There is a large up-front cost, but long term you could come out ahead, depending on what you read.
You can get most beyond copyright works for free from several sources, and if this is your primary interest, then any device is just as good.
But if you want to read the newest out hardbacks, this is where the savings really lies. These books are $10 on the kindle, as opposed to the ~$25 you'd pay at your local book store (or $18 you'd pay to amazon). Depending on how much you read and buy books this could be significant.
Paperbacks, too, tend to be a couple bucks less than the standard $7.99.
I've had a kindle for about a year (which I got as a gift, so the initial cost wasn't part of my emotional commitment), and I've noticed a significant savings in what I spend on reading.
YMMV, of course.
uh, except the first version already held a few hundred books (without using an SD card), and the battery would give several days of reading and several weeks of standby already.
Sure, the new numbers are better, but not so much that one would now find their older version 'useless'. 7 times more than you need is still more than you need.
Books aren't like songs - there's not really a lot to gain by having 1500 with you at all times. I keep ~5 books on mine at any time usually, just because there's not really any motivation to have more. I tend to only read one book at a time or two in parallel.
My main complaint with the gen 1 device is that even though it has a mini USB port, it can't be charged that way with any standard cell phone charger. It has it's own charger and connection, which means one more charger that I have to travel with. I haven't seen anything that says if this has been changed with the updated device.
Actually, I think it's important for lawyers to try to exploit loopholes and try absurd tactics.
Our legal system is precedence based. By finding loopholes and trying them out in court we're actually fine tuning our system in a much better way than trying to preemptively legislate and define all possible outcomes.
By presenting loopholes into the courts, those loopholes get squeezed out. Our law is better for challenges to the ambiguous.
Yes, it takes a devious person to actually try these things out on a grandmother or teenager, and wreak havoc on lives, but it's also a necessary part of how are laws become defined and used for the future.
One reason is so that you can roll it up for small storage. Just think if you could take a 30" monitor with you in your carry on.... All the real estate you'd ever want with a netbook while traveling.
I worked on LCDs for years, and the grail was always the rollup screen. One nifty use is that your window shades can be your displays - during the day the sun is your light source (talk about green!), and when you use the display you're shutting out the outside light automatically. At night or for interiors you can light traditionally.
No kidding.
I wondered what SOA was a whopping 35 times as I RTFA'd.
Damn.
I was hoping it was:
Sex Opportunities Abound
But would have believed it was:
Subterfuge-Only Acronym
Stupid Obtuse Abbreviation
Slashdot Offers Aggravation
uh, I needed an appointment with a specialist, based on a referral from my GP.
When I called the specialist's office in August I was told I could have an appointment in February. It was the same at several other offices I called.
This in Philadelphia, and I'm professionally affiliated with UPenn, who provides my insurance. These two things mean that I'm closer, and have supposed access to FAR more doctors for many things (this specialization included) than a massive portion of the country.
So, what's the magic situation where we don't have to wait for healthcare because we're not socialists again?
Or, maybe, we never really got over our red fear from the '50s and we just knee jerk at everything that begins to sound like pinko communism?
So, a day after posting the oh so helpful "I didn't know Spore had DRM - now I won't buy it" comment, you're giving a review of the playability?
Are you a hypocrite, a pirate, or a liar? And if you're a liar, was the lie about not buying it, or was it about having played it?
I just want to know if I can trust your reviews or your statements of principle. Clearly, I can't do both.
"I'm actually trying to sleep with your girlfriend" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dyeHESSjQM
ah, touche!
I am now completely convinced, because you have not only not provided citations, but you've decided to retort anonymously!
If only Lincoln or Douglas had possessed your skill!
I'll attribute your tone to the greater internet fuckwad theory. In your desire to antagonize you've misinterpreted what I was saying. Perhaps since you're saying that because you've given us a link to a paper about chemically induced cancers, we should all be extra paranoid about RF induced cancer? Because that would make sense?
Maybe you can point out a study or two that shows that cell phones have affected any of the things you mention besides temperature? Look, here's a list of recent research findings. I'll even take temperature effects if you can show something that's actually inside the brain, and not just skin surface - we all know that batteries get hot.
My claim was not that cell phones CANNOT pose a risk. I simply said that currently we do not see enough of a risk to consider them. I point out that this may change in 10 years, but since we don't understand any physical connection for a risk and we don't have people falling over dead, I think we can say that the danger from cell phones still lies in texting while driving and whatnot.
I maintain that technophobia is anti-science.
Except that our current understanding of biology gives no physical mechanism through which non-ionizing microwave wavelength radiation can damage DNA to cause cancer.
Maybe that understanding will change at some point in the future - biology and genetics have been developing quickly in recent decades, but in the mean time we have no reason to be worried, compared to all the other risks we take in a day.
It's anti-science to go to fear-mongering due to ignorance simply because there's a technology involved. That's not just being cautious, that's being reckless in a non-conventional direction.
The tips include warnings not to use your phone on a bus, so as not to passively expose others. I'll take that as text book FUD. In the video footage that accompanies the news piece here, when asked why there's a lack of evidence to support such advice the answer is that "you [don't] want to have enough sick or dead people, before you take action, to prevent harm...". Apparently, there's not enough data about cell phones leading to death simply because we don't want people to die. The current evidence infers that we should have minimal concerns for this issue. Does that make this public health warning unethical, or just proactively cautious? A brief review of the clinical research is here. I personally think this is worth losing his position over. In my view panic-inducing pseudo-concern ends up with a backlash against science. We should trust our MDs to advise us for our health, and this is not currently a health issue. If the research changes that in a decade, we can talk about it then.
I find it interesting and a little surprising that most of the complaints on that Smoking Gun link are from cops and troopers.
Really, if you're supposed to have 'seen it all' shouldn't RU-HRNY make you chuckle, rather than reach for your badge?
You're making quite the assumption that he's not using bittorent FOR his business. It could be low priority, and still be business necessary. He made it clear that his bittorent use was above board, yet you're still deciding that it's inappropriate.
Of course, then you wouldn't get to be high and mighty about separating business stuff from personal stuff, and you'd actually have to address his question.