Can you? It's specifically talking about that OS and the phone hardware. Is the phone hardware rootable so that installing another OS image can be done? Is it a burdensome task to do, which a non-IT person could easily do?
"Just install another OS" is a great dismissal of a problem if it's actually something most normal people can figure out without bricking their phone or getting frustrated at having to type in multiple long commands. Most anyone around here already knows that you can root and install another OS, but most phone buyers would look at you like you asked them to crack the atom if you started talking about rooting.
That's why these problems are so insidious - not because it can't be solved, but because the technical barrier to solving it is high for a layman. It's about the same as if someone was complaining about a clunking sound coming from a wheel well when they go over small bumps in their car and I tell them "Oh, you just need to replace the worn sway bar end link." It's probably two bolts, but most people wouldn't have a fucking clue how to do that, or have the necessary tools. For anyone with a bit of mechanical experience and an impact gun, it's child's play.
There is at least one company working on autonomous driving who is publicly talking about your car being able to earn you money while you aren't in it.
The effect is the opposite of what the GP post presented. If two entities collude, they both agree upon a price and sell at that price. Why would they agree on a price that is lower, if they know they aren't going to be undercut? Reality is that collusion inflates prices in order to generate more profit for the entities participating in the collusion. Prices go artificially higher, and the customer gets gouged.
Because clearly it's exactly the same thing. And, by the way, the consequences of failure are just as unimportant in a video game as they are going through a neighborhood with playing children.
Yeah, somehow it's bad that Tesla started work early and had faith in the Aussie government to actually sign the contract, I guess. But if they wouldn't have started early and waited for the papers, it would have been "Why is nothing being done on this project? What the fuck are they waiting for?"
With some people around here, you just can't win. Some people are just salty, and will never be happy with anything.
I don't buy this "verbal approval" nonsense any more than you do, but while the Federal government lacks the authority to make any kind of final approval for such a project, they definitely have the authority to get in the way of such a project and halt it before it starts.
You know that there is no total approval of any kind of wacky tunnel project, because not a single shovel full of dirt has been moved on it yet. And I'm sure that the States this thing would be going through have a few choice words to say about it.
And if the contract were never signed, he would have poured a shitload of concrete and shipped a fuckton of batteries to Australia with no payment coming in. It's called 'risk' and he accepted it. He risked that the papers wouldn't be signed and started a 6 month contract 3 months before finalization, in order to get that 6 month contract done in 3 months.
But somehow he's cheating by taking on the risk himself instead of being like every other government contractor ever and saying "whoops, we're not done on time. Guess you'll just keep paying for it until it is done and we'll pocket the overage!"
Sounds like Australia is getting what they need, at the agreed upon price, on the agreed schedule. How is this a bad thing? Oh, but it's a company headed by Musk, so BOOOO! Boo I say!
You do know that SpaceX and Tesla are two different companies, right? It's not like he's taken guys off the Model 3 production line and has them designing heavy lift rocket engines. Similarly, I doubt that Musk is turning wrenches on the assembly line himself, and production slows down when he has to do a speech / press event or tweet something.
The thought that this might be a hit piece because CNN is fearing competition in the business of spreading bullshit is funny though.
How about we just mod you offtopic instead, because you always are? What the fuck does your "HOSTS file engine" or gun control have to do with this story? And how are they "supporting" a mass murderer who is already dead and gone through using this site's version of a squelch knob to increase the signal-to-noise ratio by making your posts less visible? That's some "if you don't vote for the Patriot Act you're supporting the terrorists!" kind of logic, which is exactly the kind of hypocrisy we've all come to expect from you.
Attempting to get anywhere close to on-topic with this story: is Tesla giving out free bump stocks with the purchase of a Model S and you're the first to break the story? Are the cars using hosts files to prevent connection to anything but the Tesla car network, and those are being updated by your thing you keep prattling on about? No?
Then you're just spraying piss and vinegar because mods are doing exactly what they should be doing. That's not censorship, that's just how the site works. Censorship would be full-up deleting your comments. Anyone can browse at -1 to read your off-topic bullshit. Don't be a dumbass, and you won't get modded into oblivion. Stay on topic - it's only been a rule around here forever, and it's been enforced by the moderation system since it was added well over 15 years ago.
I expect this post to similarly be modded off-topic. And I won't get all butt-hurt about it and start CAPITALIZING every other WORD and spewing NONSENSE in every article comment section like you are.
Why would it take removing the existing grid? Do what they did on the island of T'au in American Samoa - install the solar and batteries, and then just shut off the diesel generators. Keep them there in case the battery storage isn't going to last through several days of clouds, and turn them off when the sun shines again.
Why would you need to rip anything out that isn't broken beyond repair, completely obsolete, or entirely redundant?
They are going to have to incur debt to rebuild anyway - whether it's in the form of bonds that they issue, or in the form of US government treasury notes by way of disaster relief legislation. So replace the oil with solar / battery and rebuild the natural gas for it's peaking abilities. It may be more expensive in the short term, but thinking short term is what gets people into the financial trouble that Puerto Rico is already in, and right now they have a great political advantage that they don't normally have - attention.
I would present the same starter question to you: Are you fucking serious?.5 * energy hitting those square feet of your roof during winter > 0 * energy hitting those square feet of your roof during winter.
Oh no, it's not perfect. Well, better that we do nothing at all and continue burning oil and coal until the perfect solution based on unicorn gall bladders is announced!
In the Cincinnati area, there are a few good places depending on where you are and how far you would like to drive.
West side - Walt's BBQ on Colerain Ave. Fairfield / Colerain Township / Tri-County - Big Art's BBQ Eastgate / Anderson Township / Newtown - Just Q'in. Extra points for having the growler station across the street Mount Adams / Downtown - Eli's BBQ. They also have a truck that shows up at various events.
There's a guy that just set up a trailer and 4 smokers at a busy intersection about a half mile from my house - jury is still out on his stuff.
When did anyone put a cost per human life? How many high speed rail attacks have there been in Europe, China, Japan? Zero. Why? A train derailment doesn't get you anywhere you can't get otherwise, and it's a lot of fucking work in comparison to renting the equivalent of a U-haul truck and driving it over a bunch of people in a busy plaza. Lots of train tunnels in Europe that go under the Alps on existing high speed rail lines - how come they aren't blowing up and collapsing all the time from all the terrorists?
If you haven't noticed, most terrorists are not Bond villains - they're remarkably resourceful at turning everyday tools into incredibly crude weapons in unbelievably cheap ways and claiming credit for brutal attacks on the innocent. Why fuck around with explosives and training and all that when you can just get a knife and start stabbing people in the train station instead? Or grab some guy off the street and cut his head off on the Internet with your black flag in the background?
The sophistication of attacks would have to reverse course in a hurry in order to do anything you are talking about.
Plans and budgets are usually based on what has come before. Tesla has never ramped production on a vehicle to this level, so it's not that shocking that they had the most accurate numbers on doing something they've never done, on a ramp schedule that is very aggressive.
They missed the mark. That doesn't mean they will never get there. And it also doesn't mean they will stop trying because it's hard.
You're citing a source in the attempt to use geographical area to make conclusions about distribution of political disposition. You do know that population density is not equal throughout the State of Nevada, right? Or really any other state, for that matter. You know that there are vast deserts and tracts of highly restricted land in Nevada where they used to actually detonate nuclear weapons because literally nobody is there? It's over 1,200 square miles of nobody.
In your own source, 9 out of 15 of those "red" counties had less than 10,000 total voters in a Presidential election, where the two "blue" counties each had well over 100,000 votes tallied, with Clark County having over 500,000 votes recorded. Are you saying that Eureka County is just as populous as Clark County (2.115 million people per the US Census Bureau), but only had 0.038% voter turnout (798 total votes - your linked source)? Because that's what it sounds like you are saying.
You would probably look at the county election results in Oregon and come to the same conclusion, because of the same basic mistake: Oregon is filled with Republicans because the majority of the counties are red! Except that Hillary carried the state 50 to 40, and the State Legislature is made up of 52 Democrats to 38 Republicans [Senate: 17(D)-13(R); House: 35(D) - 25(R)]. And this isn't an abberation - it's been that way in Oregon for a long time.
Population distribution is not equal across counties, therefore a map showing county election results as "blue" or "red" is not useful for statistically determining anything about the population's political disposition. When you add in the other information on the page you linked, it tells a completely different story - and that story is that you are wrong.
4.5 hours featuring a pleasant boat ride and a bit of microgravity is still better than 15+ hours folded up in coach on your standard airline with a tiny bag of peanuts.
Hyperloop was first mentioned in 2012. Do you expect multi-billion dollar brand new infrastructure that hasn't even been invented yet to just instantaneously appear after a press release of an idea with a slick computer animated video? Especially when it's being developed as a private enterprise and isn't a national effort along the lines of the Manhattan Project, or Gemini / Apollo?
Let's get realistic here. We can't even build a so-called "High Speed Rail" route in 3x that time with buckets of money being thrown at it. Has the California HSR project even finished getting all the right-of-way yet with their $billions, in order to build a train that starts in San Jose and drops you off 100 miles from where you actually want to go?
The question is if this rocket launch creates more pollution per passenger than a current long-haul airliner does.
I have no idea, myself. If this was Slashdot of 10 years ago, there would be someone to crunch the numbers and comment in about 10 minutes. But it's not.
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Can you? It's specifically talking about that OS and the phone hardware. Is the phone hardware rootable so that installing another OS image can be done? Is it a burdensome task to do, which a non-IT person could easily do?
"Just install another OS" is a great dismissal of a problem if it's actually something most normal people can figure out without bricking their phone or getting frustrated at having to type in multiple long commands. Most anyone around here already knows that you can root and install another OS, but most phone buyers would look at you like you asked them to crack the atom if you started talking about rooting.
That's why these problems are so insidious - not because it can't be solved, but because the technical barrier to solving it is high for a layman. It's about the same as if someone was complaining about a clunking sound coming from a wheel well when they go over small bumps in their car and I tell them "Oh, you just need to replace the worn sway bar end link." It's probably two bolts, but most people wouldn't have a fucking clue how to do that, or have the necessary tools. For anyone with a bit of mechanical experience and an impact gun, it's child's play.
Yeah, because that's something that I'm going to expect my mother to do. And fandroids can't figure out why millions of people line up to buy iPhones.
There is at least one company working on autonomous driving who is publicly talking about your car being able to earn you money while you aren't in it.
The effect is the opposite of what the GP post presented. If two entities collude, they both agree upon a price and sell at that price. Why would they agree on a price that is lower, if they know they aren't going to be undercut? Reality is that collusion inflates prices in order to generate more profit for the entities participating in the collusion. Prices go artificially higher, and the customer gets gouged.
That's why it's illegal.
Because clearly it's exactly the same thing. And, by the way, the consequences of failure are just as unimportant in a video game as they are going through a neighborhood with playing children.
Are you serious with that shit?
You know that Tesla Energy (used to be SolarCity) has generated more wattage than Tesla vehicles have used in the entire history of the fleet, right?
I hear that people actually pay money to live UNDERNEATH the new electricity generating plants that HAVE been built. It's called rooftop PV solar.
Yeah, somehow it's bad that Tesla started work early and had faith in the Aussie government to actually sign the contract, I guess. But if they wouldn't have started early and waited for the papers, it would have been "Why is nothing being done on this project? What the fuck are they waiting for?"
With some people around here, you just can't win. Some people are just salty, and will never be happy with anything.
I don't buy this "verbal approval" nonsense any more than you do, but while the Federal government lacks the authority to make any kind of final approval for such a project, they definitely have the authority to get in the way of such a project and halt it before it starts.
You know that there is no total approval of any kind of wacky tunnel project, because not a single shovel full of dirt has been moved on it yet. And I'm sure that the States this thing would be going through have a few choice words to say about it.
And if the contract were never signed, he would have poured a shitload of concrete and shipped a fuckton of batteries to Australia with no payment coming in. It's called 'risk' and he accepted it. He risked that the papers wouldn't be signed and started a 6 month contract 3 months before finalization, in order to get that 6 month contract done in 3 months.
But somehow he's cheating by taking on the risk himself instead of being like every other government contractor ever and saying "whoops, we're not done on time. Guess you'll just keep paying for it until it is done and we'll pocket the overage!"
Sounds like Australia is getting what they need, at the agreed upon price, on the agreed schedule. How is this a bad thing? Oh, but it's a company headed by Musk, so BOOOO! Boo I say!
You're right. Perfection should be all that anyone ever does, and anything less should be considered abject failure.
I really hope that you are never in charge of anything, because with that attitude you will always be wallowing in failure.
You do know that SpaceX and Tesla are two different companies, right? It's not like he's taken guys off the Model 3 production line and has them designing heavy lift rocket engines. Similarly, I doubt that Musk is turning wrenches on the assembly line himself, and production slows down when he has to do a speech / press event or tweet something.
The thought that this might be a hit piece because CNN is fearing competition in the business of spreading bullshit is funny though.
How about we just mod you offtopic instead, because you always are? What the fuck does your "HOSTS file engine" or gun control have to do with this story? And how are they "supporting" a mass murderer who is already dead and gone through using this site's version of a squelch knob to increase the signal-to-noise ratio by making your posts less visible? That's some "if you don't vote for the Patriot Act you're supporting the terrorists!" kind of logic, which is exactly the kind of hypocrisy we've all come to expect from you.
Attempting to get anywhere close to on-topic with this story: is Tesla giving out free bump stocks with the purchase of a Model S and you're the first to break the story? Are the cars using hosts files to prevent connection to anything but the Tesla car network, and those are being updated by your thing you keep prattling on about? No?
Then you're just spraying piss and vinegar because mods are doing exactly what they should be doing. That's not censorship, that's just how the site works. Censorship would be full-up deleting your comments. Anyone can browse at -1 to read your off-topic bullshit. Don't be a dumbass, and you won't get modded into oblivion. Stay on topic - it's only been a rule around here forever, and it's been enforced by the moderation system since it was added well over 15 years ago.
I expect this post to similarly be modded off-topic. And I won't get all butt-hurt about it and start CAPITALIZING every other WORD and spewing NONSENSE in every article comment section like you are.
Why would it take removing the existing grid? Do what they did on the island of T'au in American Samoa - install the solar and batteries, and then just shut off the diesel generators. Keep them there in case the battery storage isn't going to last through several days of clouds, and turn them off when the sun shines again.
Why would you need to rip anything out that isn't broken beyond repair, completely obsolete, or entirely redundant?
They are going to have to incur debt to rebuild anyway - whether it's in the form of bonds that they issue, or in the form of US government treasury notes by way of disaster relief legislation. So replace the oil with solar / battery and rebuild the natural gas for it's peaking abilities. It may be more expensive in the short term, but thinking short term is what gets people into the financial trouble that Puerto Rico is already in, and right now they have a great political advantage that they don't normally have - attention.
People give a crap about moderation? Now that's news.
I would present the same starter question to you: Are you fucking serious? .5 * energy hitting those square feet of your roof during winter > 0 * energy hitting those square feet of your roof during winter.
Oh no, it's not perfect. Well, better that we do nothing at all and continue burning oil and coal until the perfect solution based on unicorn gall bladders is announced!
Don't be an idiot.
In the Cincinnati area, there are a few good places depending on where you are and how far you would like to drive.
West side - Walt's BBQ on Colerain Ave.
Fairfield / Colerain Township / Tri-County - Big Art's BBQ
Eastgate / Anderson Township / Newtown - Just Q'in. Extra points for having the growler station across the street
Mount Adams / Downtown - Eli's BBQ. They also have a truck that shows up at various events.
There's a guy that just set up a trailer and 4 smokers at a busy intersection about a half mile from my house - jury is still out on his stuff.
When did anyone put a cost per human life? How many high speed rail attacks have there been in Europe, China, Japan? Zero. Why? A train derailment doesn't get you anywhere you can't get otherwise, and it's a lot of fucking work in comparison to renting the equivalent of a U-haul truck and driving it over a bunch of people in a busy plaza. Lots of train tunnels in Europe that go under the Alps on existing high speed rail lines - how come they aren't blowing up and collapsing all the time from all the terrorists?
If you haven't noticed, most terrorists are not Bond villains - they're remarkably resourceful at turning everyday tools into incredibly crude weapons in unbelievably cheap ways and claiming credit for brutal attacks on the innocent. Why fuck around with explosives and training and all that when you can just get a knife and start stabbing people in the train station instead? Or grab some guy off the street and cut his head off on the Internet with your black flag in the background?
The sophistication of attacks would have to reverse course in a hurry in order to do anything you are talking about.
Plans and budgets are usually based on what has come before. Tesla has never ramped production on a vehicle to this level, so it's not that shocking that they had the most accurate numbers on doing something they've never done, on a ramp schedule that is very aggressive.
They missed the mark. That doesn't mean they will never get there. And it also doesn't mean they will stop trying because it's hard.
You're citing a source in the attempt to use geographical area to make conclusions about distribution of political disposition. You do know that population density is not equal throughout the State of Nevada, right? Or really any other state, for that matter. You know that there are vast deserts and tracts of highly restricted land in Nevada where they used to actually detonate nuclear weapons because literally nobody is there? It's over 1,200 square miles of nobody.
In your own source, 9 out of 15 of those "red" counties had less than 10,000 total voters in a Presidential election, where the two "blue" counties each had well over 100,000 votes tallied, with Clark County having over 500,000 votes recorded. Are you saying that Eureka County is just as populous as Clark County (2.115 million people per the US Census Bureau), but only had 0.038% voter turnout (798 total votes - your linked source)? Because that's what it sounds like you are saying.
You would probably look at the county election results in Oregon and come to the same conclusion, because of the same basic mistake: Oregon is filled with Republicans because the majority of the counties are red! Except that Hillary carried the state 50 to 40, and the State Legislature is made up of 52 Democrats to 38 Republicans [Senate: 17(D)-13(R); House: 35(D) - 25(R)]. And this isn't an abberation - it's been that way in Oregon for a long time.
Population distribution is not equal across counties, therefore a map showing county election results as "blue" or "red" is not useful for statistically determining anything about the population's political disposition. When you add in the other information on the page you linked, it tells a completely different story - and that story is that you are wrong.
4.5 hours featuring a pleasant boat ride and a bit of microgravity is still better than 15+ hours folded up in coach on your standard airline with a tiny bag of peanuts.
Hyperloop was first mentioned in 2012. Do you expect multi-billion dollar brand new infrastructure that hasn't even been invented yet to just instantaneously appear after a press release of an idea with a slick computer animated video? Especially when it's being developed as a private enterprise and isn't a national effort along the lines of the Manhattan Project, or Gemini / Apollo?
Let's get realistic here. We can't even build a so-called "High Speed Rail" route in 3x that time with buckets of money being thrown at it. Has the California HSR project even finished getting all the right-of-way yet with their $billions, in order to build a train that starts in San Jose and drops you off 100 miles from where you actually want to go?
For people with shitloads of money, time is more valuable. They'll happily pay if it's safe.
The same arguments were probably made about jet travel in the late 1940s.
The question is if this rocket launch creates more pollution per passenger than a current long-haul airliner does.
I have no idea, myself. If this was Slashdot of 10 years ago, there would be someone to crunch the numbers and comment in about 10 minutes. But it's not.
Why not? You're comparing a $400 Dyson to something that is lower priced in your original post...