I mean, Elon Musk is Elon Musk, whatever Elon Musk does, or doesn't do, is his business - as long as it does not interfere with the life of others.
Comparing Elon Musk to Jobs or Rockefeller or Hughes is just silly - and in fact, TFA is a totally meaningless article.
I know Slashdot has fallen, but even I, a long time visitor, hadn't realized that Slashdot has fallen into such a deeeeep abyss that it had to carry useless article that does nothing but sing hosannas and heap praises to Mr. Elon Musk.
The original intent of the founding fathers have been fcuked left, right, and center, by those power crazy elites.
There supposed to be 3 branches of government, and the 3 branches supposed to be guarding against the other two, preventing any of the branches in usurping power from the people.
But the whole thing no longer work as intended - at least not by the founding fathers' blueprint.
So many of the rights of the people have been taken away, and the saddest part is, most of the citizenry still do not care.
As long as they can continue to enjoy their six packs, and have some one-night-stands, they are satisfied, and they do not care what the politicians, the Demo-Republicrooks, are doing to them, and their children.
I mean, Democrooks are as bad as the Republicrooks - and both are there to fleece the people and to ensure that their power is not challenged by the people.
The Bill of Rights be damned.
The Constitution also be damned.
As long as Washington D.C. is under the control of Demo-Republicrooks, they will continue to allow this charade to continue.
When I was in the States back in the 1980's I got to know some friends - refugees from Cambodia - and they were growing their veges in vertical farms, on very tiny plots of land - not more than 200 square feet - in the backyard of houses in urban center.
The Cambodian vertical farms are different from the one featured in TFA - the Cambodian version consist of different kinds of veges growing on "towers" made of bamboo.
Although I am no longer very active in programming, I can sort of cope with people in modern-day shops with their toytown programming languages and IDEs being a bit sniffy about my assembly, Fortran or C skills, because I can easily prove my ability to code rings around them. What really gets on my nerves are the kiddies whose tech skills run no deeper than an ability to interact with Facebook and Twitter, but who seem to imagine that an old fart like me is clueless about the internet. I usually find it satisfying to rub their noses in it by reminding them that it was old farts like me who built the net in the first place.
I don't even need to rub their noses.
I allow them young ungs to do the rubbing themselves.
We know the pitfalls. We've seen, with our own eyes, the problems that we, and our peers, had gone through - burnt outs, family problems, etc., - and we are looking at the young ungs repeating what we did.
So I let them.
Old fart I may be, but I ain't gonna be pushed around by 'em bloody green noses.
I do not understand why the same company which sued others over some lousy rounded corners refuses to pay royalties over others' patents?
If I expect others to pay me over some lousy rounded corners I expect myself to play the same game - and will pay the royalty I owed to others when I use their patents.
At least, that was been taught to me by my elders.
Maybe Apple Inc has other kinds of "elders" - one who expect others to pay them while refusing to pay others.
Unlike the X86 community, there are so many more competitors in the ARMs camp - companies such as TI and Broadcom from USA, Samsung from Korea, Hitachi from Japan, Allwinner from China, which produces $7 ARM-based SoCs.
AMD, you can't even compete against ONE company in the x86 arena - Intel.
Are you sure you can complete against the whole slew of them, this time??
Please stop using the PC / Tablets / Smartphones - for many of the hardware were designed in Silicon Valley
Please stop using many of the software that you are using - including technologies that enable you to surf the Net
Without the Silicon Valley - and many of its offspring around the world - the author of TFA can whine all he wants, on a column on his local newspaper - if the editor of his local newspaper grant him a column, that is
I dunno about you, but if my company assigns me a top secret prototype I would not bring it to a bar, or a pub, or a nightclub, or a karaoke lounge, or any place near where people are drinking alcohol and getting drunk.
It's known as common sense.
It's also about responsibility - that I'm responsible for my action.
This "lost prototype phone in bar" scene had happened twice to Apple and once to Google.
I hope, from now on, tech companies will learn from this and institute a STRICT RULE prohibiting employees to bring valuable company assets to bars or pubs - and if violation continues, said company could be fired, and then sued, for breach of trust.
That Imran Khan guy is nothing but a Taliban supporter.
The major motive that underlined his call for banning the drone strike is because too many Talibans were killed by the strikes and Imran Khan's heart aches every time yet another Taliban got sent back to his maker by the drone bombing.
I have no sympathy for that Imran Khan guy as I have no sympathy for the Talibans.
I'm surprised that the United States of America still issue entry visa to Taliban lovers such as Imran Khan.
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But why on earth would you want to prevent original documentation from being distributed?
That precisely is what puzzles me. Why in blue blazes would a company want to hinder customers researching or trying to learn to use their products?
The Japanese way of thought is somewhat different from the rest of human kind ... Remember, they bombed Pearl Harbor and they kill whales and dolphins
Quit complaining about something you don't even use anymore.
You sound very much like someone from the central politburo committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
Luckily the CCP has no say in the Linux Scene, or I would be starting to re-learning to use Microsoft Windoze.
I don't know much about manufacturing, but what is it about an iPhone that we need 5+ years to learn to do here?
1. Learn to earn as little as the Chinese workers.
2. Learn to work 16 hours a day, standing.
3. Learn to show up at work 3AM in the morning, on a 15 minute notice.
Oh yes, they will give you a cup of tea and a biscuit when you show up to work at 3AM in the morning.
The find lends credence to the idea that early humans were capable of passing on their clever ideas to the next generation
Why is that so surprising ?
Many other types of animal regularly pass on "knowledges" from one generation to the next - humans are not the only one capable of doing that.
I've seen little sparrows squatting on sand so to trap fine grain sand with their down feather and then carrying the sand back to their nests.
What, like X-Factor you mean
No, he said a star making machine.
.... like Hollywood ??
Do they have to be compared to others?
I mean, Elon Musk is Elon Musk, whatever Elon Musk does, or doesn't do, is his business - as long as it does not interfere with the life of others.
Comparing Elon Musk to Jobs or Rockefeller or Hughes is just silly - and in fact, TFA is a totally meaningless article.
I know Slashdot has fallen, but even I, a long time visitor, hadn't realized that Slashdot has fallen into such a deeeeep abyss that it had to carry useless article that does nothing but sing hosannas and heap praises to Mr. Elon Musk.
The GOP blocked bills that would attempt to get equal pay for women.
This one takes the cake !
What the heck do you mean by "equal pay for women"?
Is it a quota thing or is it a "because the person is [fill in the blank] we gotta pay them higher than what the person is worth"?
Merit is the one thing that matters.
We do not live in a protective world. We live in a world where competition is fierce.
We can no longer offer people higher-than-usual pay just because that person happens to be [fill in the blank].
If Benjamin Franklin knew about the state of the world today there would've no second amendment and healthcare for all.
It has nothing to do with the state of the world, it's America we are talking about.
It's the current state of America that sux to the max.
Even the tiny Singapore fairs much better, in comparison.
It's not the dead white dudes that matter.
It's their intent for the new nation that they fought and won that matters.
The only thing that differentiate America from the rest of the world is the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Without those two very important documents, the United States of America is as good as Zimbabwe or Somalia, in terms of governance.
... doesn't matter, really.
The original intent of the founding fathers have been fcuked left, right, and center, by those power crazy elites.
There supposed to be 3 branches of government, and the 3 branches supposed to be guarding against the other two, preventing any of the branches in usurping power from the people.
But the whole thing no longer work as intended - at least not by the founding fathers' blueprint.
So many of the rights of the people have been taken away, and the saddest part is, most of the citizenry still do not care.
As long as they can continue to enjoy their six packs, and have some one-night-stands, they are satisfied, and they do not care what the politicians, the Demo-Republicrooks, are doing to them, and their children.
Check out the US Deficit Clock
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
http://www.davemanuel.com/us-national-debt-clock.php
Tweedledum lost !
But is there any difference ?
I mean, Democrooks are as bad as the Republicrooks - and both are there to fleece the people and to ensure that their power is not challenged by the people.
The Bill of Rights be damned.
The Constitution also be damned.
As long as Washington D.C. is under the control of Demo-Republicrooks, they will continue to allow this charade to continue.
And no dual boot, and they can continue with the plan to make OSX into desktop iOS, complete with walled garden.
With such impressive "features" they might as well name it Alcatraz.
When I was in the States back in the 1980's I got to know some friends - refugees from Cambodia - and they were growing their veges in vertical farms, on very tiny plots of land - not more than 200 square feet - in the backyard of houses in urban center.
The Cambodian vertical farms are different from the one featured in TFA - the Cambodian version consist of different kinds of veges growing on "towers" made of bamboo.
Although I am no longer very active in programming, I can sort of cope with people in modern-day shops with their toytown programming languages and IDEs being a bit sniffy about my assembly, Fortran or C skills, because I can easily prove my ability to code rings around them. What really gets on my nerves are the kiddies whose tech skills run no deeper than an ability to interact with Facebook and Twitter, but who seem to imagine that an old fart like me is clueless about the internet. I usually find it satisfying to rub their noses in it by reminding them that it was old farts like me who built the net in the first place.
I don't even need to rub their noses.
I allow them young ungs to do the rubbing themselves.
We know the pitfalls. We've seen, with our own eyes, the problems that we, and our peers, had gone through - burnt outs, family problems, etc., - and we are looking at the young ungs repeating what we did.
So I let them.
Old fart I may be, but I ain't gonna be pushed around by 'em bloody green noses.
... before the truth hits, that is.
You've done a very good job as the self-appointed Apple fanboy, so much so that you are telling a flat out lie.
Google never withhold its turn-by-turn voice navigation.
It was Apple which walked away from the discussion - Google's offer still on the table.
I believe another poster has provided the link - please do us all a favor, read TFA and stop lying !
(Sleeping Beauty could not be reached for comment, but it's rumored that she has transitioned to an Apple platform)
I'm pretty sure she's running Linux, hence being unable to resume from sleep.
Please correct me if I am wrong - the last time I checked, Linux has yet to incorporate the BSOD feature.
I do not understand why the same company which sued others over some lousy rounded corners refuses to pay royalties over others' patents?
If I expect others to pay me over some lousy rounded corners I expect myself to play the same game - and will pay the royalty I owed to others when I use their patents.
At least, that was been taught to me by my elders.
Maybe Apple Inc has other kinds of "elders" - one who expect others to pay them while refusing to pay others.
So if I post a headline question with "Is there any intelligent life on Earth?", is that automatically no?
Lemme put it this way ...
If you had to ask the question "Is there any intelligent life on Earth?" you already got the answer, haven't you?
Welcome to the club, AMD !
Unlike the X86 community, there are so many more competitors in the ARMs camp - companies such as TI and Broadcom from USA, Samsung from Korea, Hitachi from Japan, Allwinner from China, which produces $7 ARM-based SoCs.
AMD, you can't even compete against ONE company in the x86 arena - Intel.
Are you sure you can complete against the whole slew of them, this time??
You go respect that Taliban supporter all you want, I don't care
The day Talibans kidnap your female child and gang rape her, please remember to thank that Imran Khan for his support for the Talibans
It's an insults, not to Geeks, but to those PC people.
We Geeks are never politically incorrect nor are we politically correct - we just do not give a fuck of what others think of us
And you know why?
Because we are RIGHT ALL THE TIME !
Without us, what the rest of the humanity they got to show?
Okay, they make poems.
But can they eat poems? Can they wear poems?
They can create lots of Hot Air too - just take a look at those non-Geeks in Washington D.C. and you understand ...
But then, what the fuck they can do with all their hot airs?
Without us Geeks, the world is nothing.
There would be no wheels, no engineering, no industry, no bumper harvest of crops, no nothing.
Labelling us the Geeks as politically incorrect is nothing but asinine.
We do not give a fuck of what the world think - we will do what we do because we like what we do and we know that we are right to do what we do.
... well ...
Please stop using the PC / Tablets / Smartphones - for many of the hardware were designed in Silicon Valley
Please stop using many of the software that you are using - including technologies that enable you to surf the Net
Without the Silicon Valley - and many of its offspring around the world - the author of TFA can whine all he wants, on a column on his local newspaper - if the editor of his local newspaper grant him a column, that is
I dunno about you, but if my company assigns me a top secret prototype I would not bring it to a bar, or a pub, or a nightclub, or a karaoke lounge, or any place near where people are drinking alcohol and getting drunk.
It's known as common sense.
It's also about responsibility - that I'm responsible for my action.
This "lost prototype phone in bar" scene had happened twice to Apple and once to Google.
I hope, from now on, tech companies will learn from this and institute a STRICT RULE prohibiting employees to bring valuable company assets to bars or pubs - and if violation continues, said company could be fired, and then sued, for breach of trust.
That Imran Khan guy is nothing but a Taliban supporter.
The major motive that underlined his call for banning the drone strike is because too many Talibans were killed by the strikes and Imran Khan's heart aches every time yet another Taliban got sent back to his maker by the drone bombing.
I have no sympathy for that Imran Khan guy as I have no sympathy for the Talibans.
I'm surprised that the United States of America still issue entry visa to Taliban lovers such as Imran Khan.