Sounds to me like Chevy is picking a range that they can beat, rather than competing with the Tesla. I have a friend with one and it's range is a little better than 280 miles on a full charge. And believe me, on a long trip that difference is critical. He's done several trips (and I've been on one with him) where a 200 mile range just wouldn't have cut it. But if you can't match the Tesla's range, I guess the next best thing is to pick a lower number and call the Tesla's range "over" that so that you can claim to be over that new lower number too.
I'm not a PS4 (or any other console) fanboy, but I read this and can't help wonder: It there anything that stops a user from replacing the hard drive in a PS4 with a larger drive themselves (wonky interfaces? self destruct when opened cases? magic formatting of the drive that can't readily be duplicated?)? Is it a typical 3.5 inch drive or a smaller drive?
Since we are finally admitting that size matters and Sony will still be offering only a 1TB drive, and 2TB drives available well under $75 and 4TB or even larger drives quite affordable, who cares about a 500 gig to 1 TB upgrade? What is the largest capacity hard drive that the PS4 hardware and firmware will support?
If you support DRM by paying money for locked in content then you deserve to lose it when you move or otherwise have an email address change. But you really should at least put the "service provider" through at least as much hassle as you go through yourself. I like explaining to people that I don't have a life, their 800 number is now on speed dial, and I'll just keep calling back until they make things right, running up their 800 number charges in the process. The first line of non-English speaking script readers doesn't care, but if you can explain this to a supervisor it may get the desired result. And always use the 800 numbers even if you have unlimited long distance and a non-800 number for your adversary and don't use their on-line chat.
Absolutely. The two important questions here are why use an ISP's email and why use Verizon? While it would be wrong to talk someone out of dumping Verizon for any reason, no matter who you use for an ISP it is nice to have a better email service and not be dependent on your ISP for email. As this post indicates, you are hesitating to dump your ISP because of the hassle of changing an email address that all of your contacts already have. If you were using a third party email then you could change your ISP provider whenever needed without having to change anything with email.
And in addition to getting a real email account that is free of any ISP, I could also suggest that you use a free forwarding service such as spamgourmet.com. That will let you give out a unique email address to every commercial contact that insists on an email address and even to each of your friends. When spam hits you can just close down the targeted forwarding service addresses rather than abandoning the entire main address, and you can easily see which organization that you gave an email address to is sharing or leaking your information to Russian Porn Spammers and pill pushers. Knowing who leaked your email can be surprising and extremely helpful.
Even giving a unique email address to each friend is a good idea. That way if one of them clicks on something stupid ad exposed their entire address book to spammers, the spammers only get an address that you can disable, not your real email address. And if you decide that you want to change email providers, you are free to do so without the hassle of notifying everyone about the email change, you just need to update your record at the forwarding service.
It says it all through the bible, starting in genesis and running all the way through the ascension of the zombi christ to heaven Here's a start:
12 He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it stood the LORD, and he said: "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac.
Genesis 28:12-13
It's been a great week in the news. This pope, who previously has said "who am I to say what is right and wrong" about clearly moral issues. has decided to say what is right and wrong about clearly scientific issues (the last time I remember them doing that they persecuted Galileo with the inquisition and banned his book, and Copernicus, who's book was also banned, only managed to escape the Inquisition by dying shortly after publishing or they would have got him too). But the best quote from the week was when the pope responded to those who suggested that their might be technical ways to address global warming to "not depend on magical thinking to resolve this"! Isn't it his job to depend on magical thinking?
Personally I believe that we were due for the next ice age that would have wreaked havoc on civilization, but we have been spared or at least it has been delayed by global warming. I realize there are different viewpoints and not everyone shares mine, but I have a lot more evidence to support it than the pope does to support his sky-god with multiple personality disorder.
Re: "Felon" Was it for fraud, embezzlement, abusing child labor, or anything actually relevant to the business?
As a matter of fact, it was. Insider trading is a form of fraud, and it defrauds all other stock market traders who trade in the same stock. It may even have defrauded you if you have an IRA fund or an annuity or any other form of investment that directly or even indirectly deals with the stock market.
I think I get the comment about the avitar, but my username here is not the same as my Google name. What the hell is wrong with Google that they are showing people my google account information when they search based on/. postings? I would really like to know what you found, but please don't post it here. You could try to reach me with this throwaway email address, but it will only be good for the few minutes until the email harvesters get it and the first 9 pieces of spam show up: fromAvitarFinder.kman@spamgourmet.com
I don't gave time to watch the entire interview. All I want to know is if the new CEO was asked about the Makerbot association with a known felon and how that has been received by the community. If so can anyone please post a time code?
and different business units have different goals for this developer platform when it comes to sales and marketing
When you let sales and marketing drive technical decisions, brace for failure.
Years ago I worked for mini-computer maker Data General (a.k.a "Data Who"). One of the things that took down that company was the the engineers, architects and designers built amazing technology that was far ahead of anyone else. Then marketing would come in and say "Fantastic! Great Job! Now we just need you to remove this feature and that feature, because. as it is. this machine out preforms that bigger, older, more expensive system that we are already selling." Look where that company is now.
A chunk of the extra cost comes from small volume production.
That's a flawed circular argument. The small volume production is a result of the greedy excessive pricing (and perhaps also a result of lower quality that consumers don't want to buy). There is no reason that a good affordable high quality repairable phone should suffer from small volume production.
All phones are "repairable" if costs are not a consideration. By making an overpriced phone that will likely have very expensive "replacement modules" to facilitate repair, you create a system where no one can afford to repair their phones and, hopefully, where no one will buy the phone in the first place.
This makes plenty of sense if the next generation of satellite were to standardize some things to plan for this, but is extremely unlikely to work for current satellites that were not designed with service in mind. The current satellites don't even have simple things like standardized and accessible fuel fittings (since it was never expected that this would happen and they were considered disposable) or even physical hold points where a service device could latch on. A good modular design for module replacement that allows for access and plug-ability would obviously help too, even if specific modules had to be lifted into space before a service mission.
Before N.A.S.A. wastes too much of its ever dwindling budget (insert here comment about how we have so much money that we can give the poor free Internet and Obamaphones), they should create a set of standards and see if they can get the industry to willingly adopt them with the expectation that it would facilitate service in the future. Once a fair number of devices that were deigned planning on being able to be serviced if a service station were ever deployed are in orbit, then putting that station in space could make sense.
Lets not stop there. After we give the low income their free porn and Xbox connections, lets keep taking money from those that have it and give it to those who want it for other things too, No downside there, after all, the supply of money to give away is infinite. We can never run out. And we don't have to worry about America's crumbling infrastructure. Once we realize that that is really a problem we can take more money from those who have it. We can just keep taking and giving.
Of course, a slight negative, but not really a downside is that the truly rich can afford lawyers and accountants and even politicians to help them keep their money, and maybe even get some more for not growing something or some other cute tax dodge. But no problem, we can just squeeze more taxes and "fees" from those not making as much and trying to feed and raise their family. And great news for them, by the time we are done they will be eligible for free Internet too, although they may be more focused on just staying alive than on using that government benefit.
See my response to the same question above. Are you by chance a time traveler from the 1800's or earlier? Because I don't see how anyone born since the end of WWII could even ask that question.
I don't want the software/firmware to hide this blatant error in self driving cars, aircraft control systems, air traffic control systems, medical devices (including but not limited to medicine delivery and radiation based treatment and diagnosis), automated or remote controlled military weapons, or even the ABS or power train systems of my current car while I'm driving it in heavy traffic at 70 mph or so. And that is just for starters and a few fairly obvious examples. But pretty much any process control system that affect the real world (meaning all of them) could be capable of inflicting dangers if completely out of control. Other examples could range from anything from automated amusement park rides to computerized legal records (unless you think it is a fun and safe thing to have a dozen over eager SWAT yahoos bust down your door and start getting agressive with their automatic weapons because your finger prints came up a match for who they were looking for, a match that was caused by a complete lack of any similarity in the fingerprints and a divide by zero error).
Absolute idiot. Reminds me of a time years ago when I was working at a University computer center. Despite my cultivated angry looks, a student came up to me with a printout and asked "Uh, what does this mean?" I said, "Oh, you want me to read it to you? It says: Error -divide by zero on line 50." I got a blank stare. So after a minute I further said" It means you are trying to divide by zero on line 50 of your code, which of course you can't do." That was responded to with another blank stare. So I said "look, here is line 50. See those two variables that you are multiplying together and then dividing into those other numbers? One of them must be reaching zero. Since you can't divide by zero the computer is trying to tell you that something has gone wrong. Go back, print out the variables inside the loop right before line 50 and see which one reaches zero. Then figure out why it is zero." The student said nothing and wandered away, apparently unhappy that I just didn't write the code for her.
A few days later one of the student operators who worked for me there said to me "Remember that girl that you tried to help with the divide by zero problem? She's getting a B+ in her computer science class." Such is the state of the education system. This was a while ago, but as far as I can tell, and this post indicates, things have no gotten any better.
No, you don't just ignore this problem and you absolutely don't put a system wide rule in effect to ignore the problem. If you get such an error it indicates a very fundamental problem wit the logic of the program. It is not trivial, and in real world situations could be deadly.
And you don't just return the largest system number rather than zero, as some other idiots have suggested. That would be just as wrong and just as dangerous.
And if you are really seeing this error often, I strongly suggest a change in profession to a short order chef.
Of course, I couldn't want to be labeled a racist, so I would never prohibit an organization from buying a security tool built by the Chinese. Lets all run our secure data through E-Defective!
Amsat can get the stuff. Elon can get the stuff. It might have to be special ordered, but I can't find any law or regulation keeping it out of the hands of Americans. So yes, I expect it can be bought in this country and then it will wander across our notoriously open boarders.
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No matter what they tell you, last Friday's Supreme Court ruling does not say that straight people must accept JQuery.
which tops the 200-mile range
Sounds to me like Chevy is picking a range that they can beat, rather than competing with the Tesla. I have a friend with one and it's range is a little better than 280 miles on a full charge. And believe me, on a long trip that difference is critical. He's done several trips (and I've been on one with him) where a 200 mile range just wouldn't have cut it. But if you can't match the Tesla's range, I guess the next best thing is to pick a lower number and call the Tesla's range "over" that so that you can claim to be over that new lower number too.
So it wasn't because Neil deGrasse Glactus had destroyed Pluto?
I revealed this fact in the previous linked to article, but got little love for it.
I was hoping for a movie of the Pluto / Goofy system.
I'm not a PS4 (or any other console) fanboy, but I read this and can't help wonder: It there anything that stops a user from replacing the hard drive in a PS4 with a larger drive themselves (wonky interfaces? self destruct when opened cases? magic formatting of the drive that can't readily be duplicated?)? Is it a typical 3.5 inch drive or a smaller drive?
Since we are finally admitting that size matters and Sony will still be offering only a 1TB drive, and 2TB drives available well under $75 and 4TB or even larger drives quite affordable, who cares about a 500 gig to 1 TB upgrade? What is the largest capacity hard drive that the PS4 hardware and firmware will support?
Also try reformatting your hard drive.
If you support DRM by paying money for locked in content then you deserve to lose it when you move or otherwise have an email address change. But you really should at least put the "service provider" through at least as much hassle as you go through yourself. I like explaining to people that I don't have a life, their 800 number is now on speed dial, and I'll just keep calling back until they make things right, running up their 800 number charges in the process. The first line of non-English speaking script readers doesn't care, but if you can explain this to a supervisor it may get the desired result. And always use the 800 numbers even if you have unlimited long distance and a non-800 number for your adversary and don't use their on-line chat.
Absolutely. The two important questions here are why use an ISP's email and why use Verizon? While it would be wrong to talk someone out of dumping Verizon for any reason, no matter who you use for an ISP it is nice to have a better email service and not be dependent on your ISP for email. As this post indicates, you are hesitating to dump your ISP because of the hassle of changing an email address that all of your contacts already have. If you were using a third party email then you could change your ISP provider whenever needed without having to change anything with email.
And in addition to getting a real email account that is free of any ISP, I could also suggest that you use a free forwarding service such as spamgourmet.com. That will let you give out a unique email address to every commercial contact that insists on an email address and even to each of your friends. When spam hits you can just close down the targeted forwarding service addresses rather than abandoning the entire main address, and you can easily see which organization that you gave an email address to is sharing or leaking your information to Russian Porn Spammers and pill pushers. Knowing who leaked your email can be surprising and extremely helpful.
Even giving a unique email address to each friend is a good idea. That way if one of them clicks on something stupid ad exposed their entire address book to spammers, the spammers only get an address that you can disable, not your real email address. And if you decide that you want to change email providers, you are free to do so without the hassle of notifying everyone about the email change, you just need to update your record at the forwarding service.
It says it all through the bible, starting in genesis and running all the way through the ascension of the zombi christ to heaven Here's a start: 12 He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it stood the LORD, and he said: "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. Genesis 28:12-13
It's been a great week in the news. This pope, who previously has said "who am I to say what is right and wrong" about clearly moral issues. has decided to say what is right and wrong about clearly scientific issues (the last time I remember them doing that they persecuted Galileo with the inquisition and banned his book, and Copernicus, who's book was also banned, only managed to escape the Inquisition by dying shortly after publishing or they would have got him too). But the best quote from the week was when the pope responded to those who suggested that their might be technical ways to address global warming to "not depend on magical thinking to resolve this"! Isn't it his job to depend on magical thinking?
Personally I believe that we were due for the next ice age that would have wreaked havoc on civilization, but we have been spared or at least it has been delayed by global warming. I realize there are different viewpoints and not everyone shares mine, but I have a lot more evidence to support it than the pope does to support his sky-god with multiple personality disorder.
Re: "Felon" Was it for fraud, embezzlement, abusing child labor, or anything actually relevant to the business?
As a matter of fact, it was. Insider trading is a form of fraud, and it defrauds all other stock market traders who trade in the same stock. It may even have defrauded you if you have an IRA fund or an annuity or any other form of investment that directly or even indirectly deals with the stock market.
I think I get the comment about the avitar, but my username here is not the same as my Google name. What the hell is wrong with Google that they are showing people my google account information when they search based on /. postings? I would really like to know what you found, but please don't post it here. You could try to reach me with this throwaway email address, but it will only be good for the few minutes until the email harvesters get it and the first 9 pieces of spam show up: fromAvitarFinder.kman@spamgourmet.com
I don't gave time to watch the entire interview. All I want to know is if the new CEO was asked about the Makerbot association with a known felon and how that has been received by the community. If so can anyone please post a time code?
and different business units have different goals for this developer platform when it comes to sales and marketing
When you let sales and marketing drive technical decisions, brace for failure.
Years ago I worked for mini-computer maker Data General (a.k.a "Data Who"). One of the things that took down that company was the the engineers, architects and designers built amazing technology that was far ahead of anyone else. Then marketing would come in and say "Fantastic! Great Job! Now we just need you to remove this feature and that feature, because. as it is. this machine out preforms that bigger, older, more expensive system that we are already selling." Look where that company is now.
A chunk of the extra cost comes from small volume production.
That's a flawed circular argument. The small volume production is a result of the greedy excessive pricing (and perhaps also a result of lower quality that consumers don't want to buy). There is no reason that a good affordable high quality repairable phone should suffer from small volume production.
All phones are "repairable" if costs are not a consideration. By making an overpriced phone that will likely have very expensive "replacement modules" to facilitate repair, you create a system where no one can afford to repair their phones and, hopefully, where no one will buy the phone in the first place.
This makes plenty of sense if the next generation of satellite were to standardize some things to plan for this, but is extremely unlikely to work for current satellites that were not designed with service in mind. The current satellites don't even have simple things like standardized and accessible fuel fittings (since it was never expected that this would happen and they were considered disposable) or even physical hold points where a service device could latch on. A good modular design for module replacement that allows for access and plug-ability would obviously help too, even if specific modules had to be lifted into space before a service mission.
Before N.A.S.A. wastes too much of its ever dwindling budget (insert here comment about how we have so much money that we can give the poor free Internet and Obamaphones), they should create a set of standards and see if they can get the industry to willingly adopt them with the expectation that it would facilitate service in the future. Once a fair number of devices that were deigned planning on being able to be serviced if a service station were ever deployed are in orbit, then putting that station in space could make sense.
At least it is just a second. That sudden extra hour of daylight in the spring is really bad for my rose bushes.
Lets not stop there. After we give the low income their free porn and Xbox connections, lets keep taking money from those that have it and give it to those who want it for other things too, No downside there, after all, the supply of money to give away is infinite. We can never run out. And we don't have to worry about America's crumbling infrastructure. Once we realize that that is really a problem we can take more money from those who have it. We can just keep taking and giving.
Of course, a slight negative, but not really a downside is that the truly rich can afford lawyers and accountants and even politicians to help them keep their money, and maybe even get some more for not growing something or some other cute tax dodge. But no problem, we can just squeeze more taxes and "fees" from those not making as much and trying to feed and raise their family. And great news for them, by the time we are done they will be eligible for free Internet too, although they may be more focused on just staying alive than on using that government benefit.
See my response to the same question above. Are you by chance a time traveler from the 1800's or earlier? Because I don't see how anyone born since the end of WWII could even ask that question.
I don't want the software/firmware to hide this blatant error in self driving cars, aircraft control systems, air traffic control systems, medical devices (including but not limited to medicine delivery and radiation based treatment and diagnosis), automated or remote controlled military weapons, or even the ABS or power train systems of my current car while I'm driving it in heavy traffic at 70 mph or so. And that is just for starters and a few fairly obvious examples. But pretty much any process control system that affect the real world (meaning all of them) could be capable of inflicting dangers if completely out of control. Other examples could range from anything from automated amusement park rides to computerized legal records (unless you think it is a fun and safe thing to have a dozen over eager SWAT yahoos bust down your door and start getting agressive with their automatic weapons because your finger prints came up a match for who they were looking for, a match that was caused by a complete lack of any similarity in the fingerprints and a divide by zero error).
Absolute idiot. Reminds me of a time years ago when I was working at a University computer center. Despite my cultivated angry looks, a student came up to me with a printout and asked "Uh, what does this mean?" I said, "Oh, you want me to read it to you? It says: Error -divide by zero on line 50." I got a blank stare. So after a minute I further said" It means you are trying to divide by zero on line 50 of your code, which of course you can't do." That was responded to with another blank stare. So I said "look, here is line 50. See those two variables that you are multiplying together and then dividing into those other numbers? One of them must be reaching zero. Since you can't divide by zero the computer is trying to tell you that something has gone wrong. Go back, print out the variables inside the loop right before line 50 and see which one reaches zero. Then figure out why it is zero." The student said nothing and wandered away, apparently unhappy that I just didn't write the code for her.
A few days later one of the student operators who worked for me there said to me "Remember that girl that you tried to help with the divide by zero problem? She's getting a B+ in her computer science class." Such is the state of the education system. This was a while ago, but as far as I can tell, and this post indicates, things have no gotten any better.
No, you don't just ignore this problem and you absolutely don't put a system wide rule in effect to ignore the problem. If you get such an error it indicates a very fundamental problem wit the logic of the program. It is not trivial, and in real world situations could be deadly.
And you don't just return the largest system number rather than zero, as some other idiots have suggested. That would be just as wrong and just as dangerous.
And if you are really seeing this error often, I strongly suggest a change in profession to a short order chef.
Of course, I couldn't want to be labeled a racist, so I would never prohibit an organization from buying a security tool built by the Chinese. Lets all run our secure data through E-Defective!
Amsat can get the stuff. Elon can get the stuff. It might have to be special ordered, but I can't find any law or regulation keeping it out of the hands of Americans. So yes, I expect it can be bought in this country and then it will wander across our notoriously open boarders.