I live in San Francisco and frequently do road trips in my Model X (90kWh).
To date, I've traveled from SF to: - Dallas - Portland - Los Angeles (a bunch) - Random rural parts of Northern CA - Yosemite - Reno/Tahoe
The trip planner on the Model X auto-routes you to charging stops. The on-board energy calculator is pretty accurate, and you can adjust your speed as needed if things are getting dicey (eg: you're approaching 5-10% battery before reaching a charging station). I haven't had range anxiety -- (nor do I really think about the range).
The charging breaks were annoying at first, because you end up stopping for 30-40 mins on road trips. I actually appreciate the charging stops now -- gives you a chance to stretch / recharge your brain. I definitely feel less fatigued when I reach my destination, even though it takes a little longer due to the charging.
I'm not sure I understand the comments about EVs and their viability for road trips -- I definitely prefer driving the Tesla (or rather, letting it drive me w/ Autopilot).
San Francisco also has housing programs like these for folks who make less than a certain amount (i think $70k?) and more than a certain amount (i think $30k)?
They also have other housing options for those who make $30k, which includes career development & placement solutions.
What a bummer... Steve was one of the few people who inspired me to be as crazy as I have been over the years.
It's weird to have chills after hearing the news. As an ex-Apple employee, I hope that the engineering culture he created continues to live on.
EMI from electronic devices do affect navigational systems. If you want a demo of this in your house, put your iPad next to a magnetic compass and watch it swing.
In the little Cessna that I fly, my portable GPS will cause the compass to be off by as much as 3-4 degrees.
I know this is much different than commercial jetliners -- I don't claim to know how commercial jet navigational systems are built. I do know that most of the FAA regulations (such as turning off portable electronic devices) are typically created from incidents that have happened in the past.
Software updates are pulled from the client, not pushed to the client. There's an important difference between the two and the phrases shouldn't be used interchangeably.
For software pushes, see: Amazon Kindle + 1984 book deletion
If the DOT is so afraid of what people can do on airplanes, maybe we should spend money on building out a high-speed rail infrastructure? I'm on vacation in Tokyo right now... it's painful to compare their transit system to ours (I live in SF). A rail infrastructure would bring higher security and would reduce our dependency on oil..a
Now in Leopard, the Objective-C runtime has been updated to include a thoroughly modern and high performance garbage collection system, making memory management a thing of the past.
Garbage collection is included as part of the Obj-C 2.0 runtime... Say bye bye to most memory leaks..:) I think this is turned on by default and is an opt-out option for your code.
I agree with you, however, sometimes the server really is at fault for no apparent reason... That's why I smack the user first, and when that doesn't work, I walk down to the server room and smack the server that's acting up.
Whenever the server is acting up, I typically find the 'voodoo chicken' to be at fault. Smacking the server seems to break the curse 99% of the time...
i completely agree. i think the icon packs that are currently in place are VERY dated and need to be thrown out. for new icons, i'd like to see images with transparency so they could be used in future css modifications (you don't have to muck with the bg for each image)...
the the main logo is also terrible. i think a new logo should be designed and a similar font could be used to give you the same "feel" for the old logo...
i'd also like to see an off-shade of white used, it's MUCH easier on the eyes than #ffffff. and instead of using #000000, a nice dark, but not pitch black color makes things look SO much better... (like #353535)
the forest green #006666 is.. well.. shit.
i agree with the parent poster, it's easy to gripe about the current problems and it's unreasonable to expect a good design when you have to incorporate all of the existing bad elements of design into it. please please please do the readers a favor and lighten up your rules a little bit...
The idea is that coal/nuclear/etc.. power plans are more effecient at producing energy than a small motor in a car. I'd be interested in knowing what the delta is between energy production at the power plant versus in the motor.
(I hope I didn't just sign a death-wish for my karma...)
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If it's developed by the government, and is funded by the government (and our tax money), what exactly is being commercialized?
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Doesn't our government exist to serve the general public? Why aren't more government software development projects open source? Why was it such a battle to make this particular application open source?
Don't get me wrong, this is a great feat by NASA-Ames, but it's something I already expect as a taxpayer...
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How many 1000 mile+ trips have you been on with it? How many times in -20 weather?
I have done many California Texas road trips in my Model X, during winter, issue free.
I live in San Francisco and frequently do road trips in my Model X (90kWh).
To date, I've traveled from SF to:
- Dallas
- Portland
- Los Angeles (a bunch)
- Random rural parts of Northern CA
- Yosemite
- Reno/Tahoe
The trip planner on the Model X auto-routes you to charging stops. The on-board energy calculator is pretty accurate, and you can adjust your speed as needed if things are getting dicey (eg: you're approaching 5-10% battery before reaching a charging station). I haven't had range anxiety -- (nor do I really think about the range).
The charging breaks were annoying at first, because you end up stopping for 30-40 mins on road trips. I actually appreciate the charging stops now -- gives you a chance to stretch / recharge your brain. I definitely feel less fatigued when I reach my destination, even though it takes a little longer due to the charging.
I'm not sure I understand the comments about EVs and their viability for road trips -- I definitely prefer driving the Tesla (or rather, letting it drive me w/ Autopilot).
San Francisco also has housing programs like these for folks who make less than a certain amount (i think $70k?) and more than a certain amount (i think $30k)? They also have other housing options for those who make $30k, which includes career development & placement solutions.
UCSF doesn't even teach computer science; UCSF is a medical school.
The article is about CCSF (a community college).
There's a star thing?!
Two hydrogens and one oxygen walk into a bar. The three get together and say, let's get wet!
It's friday... cut me a break.
What a bummer... Steve was one of the few people who inspired me to be as crazy as I have been over the years.
It's weird to have chills after hearing the news. As an ex-Apple employee, I hope that the engineering culture he created continues to live on.
Maybe they measured the distance between two points using kM instead of KiM which leaves them off by about 24 meters per kM...
EMI from electronic devices do affect navigational systems. If you want a demo of this in your house, put your iPad next to a magnetic compass and watch it swing.
In the little Cessna that I fly, my portable GPS will cause the compass to be off by as much as 3-4 degrees.
I know this is much different than commercial jetliners -- I don't claim to know how commercial jet navigational systems are built. I do know that most of the FAA regulations (such as turning off portable electronic devices) are typically created from incidents that have happened in the past.
Software updates are pulled from the client, not pushed to the client. There's an important difference between the two and the phrases shouldn't be used interchangeably. For software pushes, see: Amazon Kindle + 1984 book deletion
If the DOT is so afraid of what people can do on airplanes, maybe we should spend money on building out a high-speed rail infrastructure? I'm on vacation in Tokyo right now... it's painful to compare their transit system to ours (I live in SF). A rail infrastructure would bring higher security and would reduce our dependency on oil. .a
I'd love to be locked under building 7... It's the BJ's brewhouse that shares the same lot as the Apple campus.. :) Free beer... hurray beer!
You forgot a biggie...
:) I think this is turned on by default and is an opt-out option for your code.
Now in Leopard, the Objective-C runtime has been updated to include a thoroughly modern and high performance garbage collection system, making memory management a thing of the past.
Garbage collection is included as part of the Obj-C 2.0 runtime... Say bye bye to most memory leaks..
I agree with you, however, sometimes the server really is at fault for no apparent reason... That's why I smack the user first, and when that doesn't work, I walk down to the server room and smack the server that's acting up. Whenever the server is acting up, I typically find the 'voodoo chicken' to be at fault. Smacking the server seems to break the curse 99% of the time...
i completely agree. i think the icon packs that are currently in place are VERY dated and need to be thrown out. for new icons, i'd like to see images with transparency so they could be used in future css modifications (you don't have to muck with the bg for each image)...
.. well.. shit.
the the main logo is also terrible. i think a new logo should be designed and a similar font could be used to give you the same "feel" for the old logo...
i'd also like to see an off-shade of white used, it's MUCH easier on the eyes than #ffffff. and instead of using #000000, a nice dark, but not pitch black color makes things look SO much better... (like #353535)
the forest green #006666 is
i agree with the parent poster, it's easy to gripe about the current problems and it's unreasonable to expect a good design when you have to incorporate all of the existing bad elements of design into it. please please please do the readers a favor and lighten up your rules a little bit...
The idea is that coal/nuclear/etc.. power plans are more effecient at producing energy than a small motor in a car. I'd be interested in knowing what the delta is between energy production at the power plant versus in the motor.
FYI, the Keychain Access utility in Mac OS X will do this for you as well..
I need to work for you! :O
Hehe.. Just kidding.. ;)
(I hope I didn't just sign a death-wish for my karma...)
If it's developed by the government, and is funded by the government (and our tax money), what exactly is being commercialized?
Doesn't our government exist to serve the general public? Why aren't more government software development projects open source? Why was it such a battle to make this particular application open source?
Don't get me wrong, this is a great feat by NASA-Ames, but it's something I already expect as a taxpayer...
Or.. for the time being, use this:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/xgrid/
You know, you can have 1 hour service if you pay for that level of support...
.. or even 2 hour service! with a preferred contract
Alliance Support Contract
Funny, I had an opposite reaction. The machine looks like someone took their mac mini and mangled it by trying to mod it.. ;)
They dropped the 40GB mono model... and the new 30gb photo is slimmer than the older 40gb photo... :)