Because its firggin obvious no internal combustion engines have starting problems below freezing.
I guess you've never seen truck drivers having to start fires under their diesel fuel tanks in order to start when it gets really cold. I have. So you're wrong.
For sure, these days diesel usually comes with additives appropriate to the region and season to it doesn't usually gel up. This is the nature of engineering, whether in internal combustion vehicles or EVs - over time, engineers mitigate the issues.
Tesla (and battery powered cars in general) being fundamentally broken in cold weather...
A problem unique to the Tesla charging cables supplied in Norway is not "fundamentally broken" let alone having any significance to battery powered cars in general.
Tesla just needs to fix the problem and distribute new cables to Norwegian customers. Big fucking deal.
Methinks you have an axe to grind, and truth isn't important to you.
Whilst the USA might be having an unusually cold snap, how often is the temp below 0F there, other than Alaska?
The much warmer 0C is very commonplace throughout every winter in Europe
Add to that the fact that 0C has some significance (snow and ice threshold), whereas 0F is an insignificant temperature.
Plus the fact that fahrenheit is used in very few countries. The vast majority of the world uses Celcius.
So, no, it's certainly not used "just as much". Though a small minority of times the phrase "below zero" is used it might be fahrenheit, worldwide, it far more often means celsius.
And where do you think Apple products are made? Hint, they're not made in the US anymore. They're actually not even made by Apple at all. So...
But the ones contracted out to China, are both designed and labelled "Apple". Unlike Lenovo's PCs which are neight designed nor badged IBM, nor in fact have anything to do with IBM.
However, you have also overlooked that Mac Pros are manufactured by Apple in the USA. For sure that's a minority of Apple products, but it's not nothing.
Where does the middle-man's, the guy who wants to take GPL stuff and rebundle it with some tweaks and then not follow the GPL, sense of entitlement come from?
If it's just some tweaks, what does the GPL community lose if he doesn't release them? On the other hand your post doesn't contain the possibility that it's a significant piece of software, possibly bigger than the GPL software it makes use of.
And somehow you manage to question the sense of entitlement of creators, whilst entirely avoiding my question of where the consumer (who feeds back nothing) gets his sense of entitlement from.
You're a stuck record, and you seem short of a few tracks.
And you don't seem to have the answers to defend GPL.
The difference is that Apple's says ~ you must not remove (our) restrictions on what the end user may do, and the FSF's says ~ you must not add (any) restrictions to what the end user may do.
That is only one of the many things the GPL says. It most certainly says do this, and do that. And it most certainly restricts developers. And it's developers who RMS intends to restrict with the GPL.
Users? Consumers. Why should their free access to stuff outweight the needs of the creators of software. The ones who actually do the work. Where does the GPL consumers sense of entitlement come from?
Doesn't matter what they're called. What matters is where they come from. The division that made IBM-PCs, once owned by IBM still exists and still makes PCs. Just because it's owned by and the products are branded Lenovo is irrelevant. What part of that can't you understand?
The part where you are claiming that IBM PCs are still made. They are not.
So while IBM themselves do not make PCs anymore
Indeed. Therefore there's no contradiction of Schiller's comment here.
When you buy a Lenovo Thinkpad it's made by the same division that used to make IBM Thinkpads -- the same division that's been making PCs since 1981.
Your 2005 news article is very out of date. Lenovo did buy the IBM PC brand, and manufactured them for a while. And then they abandoned the IBM brand and only shipped their own Lenovo brand PCs.
IBM PCs haven't been manufactured for years. Believe I'm wrong? Supply a link to where you can buy new IBM PCs.
IBM evolved and innovated when they sold off their floundering PC division to a company that was prepared to give it the attention that IBM wasn't. And now it's the #1 maker of PCs.
Lenovo do not make IBM PCs any more. They haven't for years. And even if they did, they were not doing so back in the days when the Mac came out.
There are counter-examples to Schiller's off-hand remark. But neither IBM nor Lenovo qualify.
IBM don't make PCs, since they sold the rights to the IBM PC brand to Lenovo. Lenovo only used the IBM brand for a few years, then reverted back to their own brand name. Lenovo don't make anything with the IBM brand anymore.
What is it you are not understanding? Neither company makes IBM PCs any more. Nor does anyone else.
Shit, I can remember hating Apple all the way back to the stupid ][ that sat in the corner of our elementary classroom and never got turned on because there weren't any teachers that wanted to bother teaching us how to use it.
Most Apple hatred is irrational, but that one may be the ultimate.
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No, you'll have to fix the locale specific bug. Just as Tesla will.
BFD.
You can buy gloves that do work with touch screens. (And not just Nokia touch screens either.)
You just haven't owned it long enough. Anecdotes do take time to accumulate.
Sorry, missed the sarcasm on first read.
Because its firggin obvious no internal combustion engines have starting problems below freezing.
I guess you've never seen truck drivers having to start fires under their diesel fuel tanks in order to start when it gets really cold. I have. So you're wrong.
For sure, these days diesel usually comes with additives appropriate to the region and season to it doesn't usually gel up. This is the nature of engineering, whether in internal combustion vehicles or EVs - over time, engineers mitigate the issues.
Tesla (and battery powered cars in general) being fundamentally broken in cold weather...
A problem unique to the Tesla charging cables supplied in Norway is not "fundamentally broken" let alone having any significance to battery powered cars in general.
Tesla just needs to fix the problem and distribute new cables to Norwegian customers. Big fucking deal.
Methinks you have an axe to grind, and truth isn't important to you.
But is the lower range because the motor uses more electricity at lower temperatures (i.e. more expensive per unit distance?
Or is it because the battery has a smaller capacity in cold weather. (i.e. same electricity cost per unit distance)
I suspect the second.
Well, there is that bit about it being the most popular car sold in Norway in September. So it's not THAT niche.
Rain and puddles tends to be the most significant for drivers.
Well as the story is about the temperature in Norway, your antiquated temperature units and meaningless zero level is neither here nor there.
Just as much???
Whilst the USA might be having an unusually cold snap, how often is the temp below 0F there, other than Alaska?
The much warmer 0C is very commonplace throughout every winter in Europe
Add to that the fact that 0C has some significance (snow and ice threshold), whereas 0F is an insignificant temperature.
Plus the fact that fahrenheit is used in very few countries. The vast majority of the world uses Celcius.
So, no, it's certainly not used "just as much". Though a small minority of times the phrase "below zero" is used it might be fahrenheit, worldwide, it far more often means celsius.
And where do you think Apple products are made? Hint, they're not made in the US anymore. They're actually not even made by Apple at all. So...
But the ones contracted out to China, are both designed and labelled "Apple". Unlike Lenovo's PCs which are neight designed nor badged IBM, nor in fact have anything to do with IBM.
However, you have also overlooked that Mac Pros are manufactured by Apple in the USA. For sure that's a minority of Apple products, but it's not nothing.
Where does the middle-man's, the guy who wants to take GPL stuff and rebundle it with some tweaks and then not follow the GPL, sense of entitlement come from?
If it's just some tweaks, what does the GPL community lose if he doesn't release them? On the other hand your post doesn't contain the possibility that it's a significant piece of software, possibly bigger than the GPL software it makes use of.
And somehow you manage to question the sense of entitlement of creators, whilst entirely avoiding my question of where the consumer (who feeds back nothing) gets his sense of entitlement from.
You're a stuck record, and you seem short of a few tracks.
And you don't seem to have the answers to defend GPL.
Right. Just cut out the interesting stuff, and leave the dull enterprise stuff. Great idea.
The difference is that Apple's says ~ you must not remove (our) restrictions on what the end user may do, and the FSF's says ~ you must not add (any) restrictions to what the end user may do.
That is only one of the many things the GPL says. It most certainly says do this, and do that. And it most certainly restricts developers. And it's developers who RMS intends to restrict with the GPL.
Users? Consumers. Why should their free access to stuff outweight the needs of the creators of software. The ones who actually do the work. Where does the GPL consumers sense of entitlement come from?
Same thing. Only you are only looking at the numbers. The difference between a PC and a server is engineering. Server grade memory. RAID etc.
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/...
Doesn't matter what they're called. What matters is where they come from. The division that made IBM-PCs, once owned by IBM still exists and still makes PCs. Just because it's owned by and the products are branded Lenovo is irrelevant. What part of that can't you understand?
The part where you are claiming that IBM PCs are still made. They are not.
So while IBM themselves do not make PCs anymore
Indeed. Therefore there's no contradiction of Schiller's comment here.
When you buy a Lenovo Thinkpad it's made by the same division that used to make IBM Thinkpads -- the same division that's been making PCs since 1981.
It's made by Lenovo, in China.
Your 2005 news article is very out of date. Lenovo did buy the IBM PC brand, and manufactured them for a while. And then they abandoned the IBM brand and only shipped their own Lenovo brand PCs.
IBM PCs haven't been manufactured for years. Believe I'm wrong? Supply a link to where you can buy new IBM PCs.
(And note, that's PCs, not servers.)
The Mac Pro is a PC, and is manufactured in an Apple owned plant in the USA.
There is no argument you can make to contradict this.
IBM evolved and innovated when they sold off their floundering PC division to a company that was prepared to give it the attention that IBM wasn't. And now it's the #1 maker of PCs.
Lenovo do not make IBM PCs any more. They haven't for years. And even if they did, they were not doing so back in the days when the Mac came out.
There are counter-examples to Schiller's off-hand remark. But neither IBM nor Lenovo qualify.
IBM don't make PCs, since they sold the rights to the IBM PC brand to Lenovo.
Lenovo only used the IBM brand for a few years, then reverted back to their own brand name. Lenovo don't make anything with the IBM brand anymore.
What is it you are not understanding? Neither company makes IBM PCs any more. Nor does anyone else.
You'll never know the difference.
You mean they are identical to the ones that IBM last shipped YEARS ago? Oh dear.
So it's a computer that's not from IBM, and isn't branded IBM. In what way are you saying that this proves Schiller wrong?
Doubly irrational. Apple products are consistently at the top of consumer satisfaction surveys.
Shit, I can remember hating Apple all the way back to the stupid ][ that sat in the corner of our elementary classroom and never got turned on because there weren't any teachers that wanted to bother teaching us how to use it.
Most Apple hatred is irrational, but that one may be the ultimate.
Absolutely. Hardware wise they are both direct evolutionary descendants of the IBM PC. But the IBM servers still aren't personal computers.