What the hell are you talking about? I live in Canada, and where I am our winters average between -15 to -30, sometimes -40 on a bad day. Last winter, on all of those days, I saw Tesla's out in full force, including my friend's. It's already proven to be fine. Stop spreading FUD.
Is the battery life not as good as it is in "nominal" (it has problems with very hot temperatures as well)? For sure. Is it unusable? Absolutely not. You can even tell it to start heating from your iWhatever device before you ever get in (or A/C, for that matter).
Lots of people care, including myself. I develop using.NET and this is very useful information for me. This is the exact kind of information I would expect out of Slashdot: tech information that helps me in my tech-oriented job.
.NET is in no way "dead", despite your obvious hatred for it.
That's the whole point of the article - they are paying taxes. Each uber driver is operated as a consultant, and therefore they must pay income taxes on monies earned from uber.
This is perfectly acceptable, and the exact same model used to say hire a contract IT worker for 6 months. The company doesn't pay tax for that worker if they're on contract, but the worker pays income tax when tax time comes in April. It's not that complicated.
There's a pretty big difference in listening for aliens, and actively sending out messages. He was advocating not to do the latter; he never said the former was bad.
What the fuck are you talking about? They have a fucking episode on exactly Jet engine and turbine fan production, here it is: https://youtu.be/vB0MIQVH9Mo
Other episodes show how they make large trains, trucks, boats, etc.
I hire a lot of developers for my company, and recent grads are slotted in our "junior" role (unless they somehow had a lot of experience during university) and the starting salary is between $55-70k depending on many factors that are personal to them. I have never hired anyone out of university for $100k, and I think that is nuts. Companies should pay for quality, not ambition.
My Slashdot layout just changed, there's no more 'read more' button. Just 'share'. You have to find the small annotation in the top right for the comments? What the hell.
Almost all of the submitter's posts are articles which have the first link as dice.com with a campaign ad, and then other links to non-news sites (such as in this one with 3 links to python.org).
That's what you want, and others on Slashdot. But "you" must accept you aren't the typical user.
If these are the features that would help sell phones, then those are the features people would get. Do you seriously think Apple, Samsung, LG etc. does no market research before prepping a new release of a phone? If there was such a huge market out there demanding these phones and willing to spend money on them, of course there will be phones to buy to fill that market and get the money!
This is the same argument about women in the workforce being "cheaper" (underpaid). We hear the (rightful) argument all the time on Slashdot that if women are so much cheaper than men, companies would just hire women and save money. It's the same thing here -- if making these phones is going to all of a sudden give a huge boost to a company's revenue, they would have already done it. Time to face reality - most users don't want these things.
No problem! Always happy when someone takes the time to post real, hard stats that are backed by reputable sources. This is why I read Slashdot, for comments and links like this. Many love to just throw out anecdotal or un-referenced "information", so it's nice to see this.
Plus, these kinds of worldly stats are what I really find interesting. I wish they were more mainstream.
Thank you for posting this link, this is really cool.
For the record, the US 15% number is actually their 2001 stat (14.7%), whereas the 2011 stat is 14.4% (which presumably you would round to 14% instead).
For the record, I have a 6 year old machine running Windows 7 with a RAID-0 setup (asus p5k-e motherboard, WD 250gb drives), and it has never had an issue. It it typically on 24/7, but it has gone through many power outages where the UPS ran out of battery and it hard-reset.
I do, of course, keep all data on a separate regular drive, along with an external back-up of that. So if the RAID-0 did die, it wouldn't be a big deal (and I could finally move to SSD!).
Anyways, the point I am trying to make is that RAID-0 is not as "crazy unreliable" as some people would have you believe.
My last sentence is a testament to the fact that "your" (I don't know if you're American or not) elections are already bought, so what's the difference?
In Canada, they are not, and electronic voting can be fairly secure. Nothing is 100% secure, but it can be made mostly secure.
By the way, all of your examples - hacking, social engineering, threatening, they all already could be done to game the system. After the physical ballets are counted, someone could tamper. Before someone goes into the polls, someone can (and already do by handing out things) tamper. Threatening is obvious. And others, such as using dead people. So why do you worry so much about this?
How is that any different than all the other items I listed that are centralized? Hackers could hack into tax returns and make all the accounts for deposit their own and get a hefty pay-out. They could also change the numbers and bankrupt the government during pay-out.
We already have a verification system in place in any case. The government mails out IDs through physical mail (or hopefully confirmed e-mail later), and you use that ID plus some form of ID (such as some #s from your previous tax return, or your passport #, or whatever) and it is secure enough.
There's always a fairly safe way to do it, enough that nobody can buy an election.
In any case, I'm surprised this is the concern. Elections in the US are already bought by corporation funding. We've all seen the correlation between US election spending and results. So do you really care if it's bought by hackers or by corporations?
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Did not know that!
No, I didn't. We get -40c days here with the wind chill.
Sorry, I forgot this is an american site. Those temperatures are in Celsius.
What the hell are you talking about? I live in Canada, and where I am our winters average between -15 to -30, sometimes -40 on a bad day. Last winter, on all of those days, I saw Tesla's out in full force, including my friend's. It's already proven to be fine. Stop spreading FUD.
Is the battery life not as good as it is in "nominal" (it has problems with very hot temperatures as well)? For sure. Is it unusable? Absolutely not. You can even tell it to start heating from your iWhatever device before you ever get in (or A/C, for that matter).
Lots of people care, including myself. I develop using .NET and this is very useful information for me. This is the exact kind of information I would expect out of Slashdot: tech information that helps me in my tech-oriented job.
.NET is in no way "dead", despite your obvious hatred for it.
That's the whole point of the article - they are paying taxes. Each uber driver is operated as a consultant, and therefore they must pay income taxes on monies earned from uber.
This is perfectly acceptable, and the exact same model used to say hire a contract IT worker for 6 months. The company doesn't pay tax for that worker if they're on contract, but the worker pays income tax when tax time comes in April. It's not that complicated.
There's a pretty big difference in listening for aliens, and actively sending out messages. He was advocating not to do the latter; he never said the former was bad.
What the fuck are you talking about? They have a fucking episode on exactly Jet engine and turbine fan production, here it is: https://youtu.be/vB0MIQVH9Mo Other episodes show how they make large trains, trucks, boats, etc.
My company is in Toronto. But you're right, pay is relative to area as well.
I hire a lot of developers for my company, and recent grads are slotted in our "junior" role (unless they somehow had a lot of experience during university) and the starting salary is between $55-70k depending on many factors that are personal to them. I have never hired anyone out of university for $100k, and I think that is nuts. Companies should pay for quality, not ambition.
It was not 17 years, it was 10. From Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Ahhhh... it read it as HTML. I put "less than or equal to 1024 at least."
I don't understand why anyone working on a website would only test with like 1280 resolution. The first thing you always do is test at at least
Also try shrinking your browser (to make it the same size as any phone) and the stupid icons overlap the summary so you can't even read it.
My Slashdot layout just changed, there's no more 'read more' button. Just 'share'. You have to find the small annotation in the top right for the comments? What the hell.
Check out Power Drive 2000, might be something you'd like.
You can follow their twitter here.
Some of these 'old' style games look way better than new "mainstream ones" to me.
Almost all of the submitter's posts are articles which have the first link as dice.com with a campaign ad, and then other links to non-news sites (such as in this one with 3 links to python.org).
How is this okay?
Minecraft? Really? You do know Microsoft bought them, right?
Not that I have anything against Microsoft, but to call it indie is pretty miss-leading.
That's what you want, and others on Slashdot. But "you" must accept you aren't the typical user.
If these are the features that would help sell phones, then those are the features people would get. Do you seriously think Apple, Samsung, LG etc. does no market research before prepping a new release of a phone? If there was such a huge market out there demanding these phones and willing to spend money on them, of course there will be phones to buy to fill that market and get the money!
This is the same argument about women in the workforce being "cheaper" (underpaid). We hear the (rightful) argument all the time on Slashdot that if women are so much cheaper than men, companies would just hire women and save money. It's the same thing here -- if making these phones is going to all of a sudden give a huge boost to a company's revenue, they would have already done it. Time to face reality - most users don't want these things.
No problem! Always happy when someone takes the time to post real, hard stats that are backed by reputable sources. This is why I read Slashdot, for comments and links like this. Many love to just throw out anecdotal or un-referenced "information", so it's nice to see this.
Plus, these kinds of worldly stats are what I really find interesting. I wish they were more mainstream.
Thank you for posting this link, this is really cool.
For the record, the US 15% number is actually their 2001 stat (14.7%), whereas the 2011 stat is 14.4% (which presumably you would round to 14% instead).
This is from the XLS which I assume you used for the data: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/888932942241.
For the record, I have a 6 year old machine running Windows 7 with a RAID-0 setup (asus p5k-e motherboard, WD 250gb drives), and it has never had an issue. It it typically on 24/7, but it has gone through many power outages where the UPS ran out of battery and it hard-reset.
I do, of course, keep all data on a separate regular drive, along with an external back-up of that. So if the RAID-0 did die, it wouldn't be a big deal (and I could finally move to SSD!).
Anyways, the point I am trying to make is that RAID-0 is not as "crazy unreliable" as some people would have you believe.
Also 1/3 of all English-speaking Canadians use US Netflix, so I am sure this is also helping.
I know it's helping for me personally, as the first thing I do when I want to watch something is check Netflix.
My last sentence is a testament to the fact that "your" (I don't know if you're American or not) elections are already bought, so what's the difference?
In Canada, they are not, and electronic voting can be fairly secure. Nothing is 100% secure, but it can be made mostly secure.
By the way, all of your examples - hacking, social engineering, threatening, they all already could be done to game the system. After the physical ballets are counted, someone could tamper. Before someone goes into the polls, someone can (and already do by handing out things) tamper. Threatening is obvious. And others, such as using dead people. So why do you worry so much about this?
How is that any different than all the other items I listed that are centralized? Hackers could hack into tax returns and make all the accounts for deposit their own and get a hefty pay-out. They could also change the numbers and bankrupt the government during pay-out.
We already have a verification system in place in any case. The government mails out IDs through physical mail (or hopefully confirmed e-mail later), and you use that ID plus some form of ID (such as some #s from your previous tax return, or your passport #, or whatever) and it is secure enough.
There's always a fairly safe way to do it, enough that nobody can buy an election.
In any case, I'm surprised this is the concern. Elections in the US are already bought by corporation funding. We've all seen the correlation between US election spending and results. So do you really care if it's bought by hackers or by corporations?