CLIs don't take years to master. Well, maybe the stuff that's so complex that GUIs can't possibly support it, but with the right documentation, most complex CLI tasks shouldn't take more than a couple of days to figure out. A GUI may be easier and therefore faster the first couple of times, but if you do it a lot, it might be worth investing the time to figure out the CLI.
Regardless of what they say, naturalists don't do what they do so they can look at other naked people.
They do what they do so other people will look at them.
Anything else they claim is simply a lie, denial, or an attempt to distract you from the truth.
Naturalists do what they do because they want to look at naked animals and learn from it. Anyone claiming anything else is confusing them with naturists.
Naturists do what they do because they don't want to wear clothes, or because they think social hangups about covering up specific body parts are silly.
People who want other people to look at their naked bodies are called exhibitionists. People who want to look at other naked people are voyeurs. Both might pretend to be naturists, but it's not what naturism is about.
Google gets plenty of criticism on privacy issues (though lately Facebook seems to be the worst offender). But that's completely irrelevant on Google's stance on software patents, which is praiseworthy. Unless you love patents, of course, in which case I can understand you're upset that there's a big player that doesn't serve the Dark Side.
COBOL is a lot of things that aren't appropriate for a family-friendly forum, but it's not in any way a failure. If it had been a failure, nobody would hate it so much.
Java is just so damn slow. Otherwise it's no better or worse than the languages it sought to replace.
I suspect neither of us knows what you are talking about. Java is faster than most modern languages. Java as a language is a lot better put together than C++, which is the language it sought to replace. The JVM is a very good platform, offering a lot of security, stability, threading, performance, checking, garbage collection, etc no matter what OS you run it on.
The two big problems of Java (the language) are these: 1: It inherits too many bad ideas of C and C++, making it too verbose and tedious to program in, 2: A culture of over-engineering grew up around it. Every problem gets drowned in an overdose of architecture.
JVM as a platform is one of the greatest gifts to server programming ever. The problems with the language and its architectural overkill is the reason why new JVM languages like Groovy, JRuby, Scala and Clojure are so popular nowadays.
There are others. A previous employer of mine (Hippo) is doing very well giving their CMS away for free. My current employer isn't that into open source, and while a lot larger, is actually less profitable (though there are many other reasons for that).
That's a good point. Also, a lot of the information in this discussion gives me the impression that while Top Gear's item might be biased and suggestive of things that didn't happen, they weren't really outright lies.
In any case, a judge will have to decide. But the case looks a lot tougher for Tesla than I initially thought.
The world also includes some very normal people who either don't mind if other folk know where they are, or are smart enough not to post photos of their activity to Flickr during times when they want a little privacy.
"Usually it works out fine" is not a great counter to "it can go very wrong". I mean, look at nuclear power plants. The fact that most don't melt down doesn't mean that safety is not a concern.
That's exactly the problem with academics on wikipedia. You can be the most respected authority in the world on a particular subject, and write an excellent wikipedia article on it, and then a teenager comes along and butchers it. And he's an experienced wikipedian with time on his hands, so he's right and you're wrong.
If wikipedia wants to appeal to academics, the main thing they need to do is keep their own editors in check. Too often one of them goes on a rampage and destroys or mangles valuable material.
Why walk by when you can check on facebook to be sure?
It wouldn't surprise me if this could be automated. Check who is suddenly submitting photos from hundreds of km away from where they usually submit their photos, and you've got a nice list of potential candidates. If people are away, they can still return at any time. But when you know they're far away, you know you've got time.
1. The Roadster ran out of charge and had to be pushed into the Top Gear hangar by four men.
4:56 - Top gear doesn't actually state that they ever ran out of battery. They simulated it ("and if it does run out") as an illustration that driving the car as marketed (As a sports car) gives you a much smaller range than the quoted figure. They could have done it for real by driving it around the track for hour, but what does this gain exactly?
Credibility. Proof. Ultimate defense against a libel suit.
My car gets about 22mpg average. On a track day I can expect 8mpg or less. 14x22=308 14x8= 112 That sorta makes the fuel/electric consumption look realistic for a hard used track day, does it not?
Only if an electric engine works the same way as a petrol engine, which might not be the case. In any case, this claim by Top Gear should be rather easy to verify and show for real. Why didn't they?
That's not practical. The average family would make numerous trips in excess of 100 miles per year.
It's a two-seater, not a family car. It's as practical as any other supercar they test there. They're good for short bits of sporty driving, and not meant for long road trips.
Thankfully Tesla doesn't have much to loose on the matter, since there is almost no overlap between Top Gear viewers and potential Tesla customers. For that matter, there is also almost no overlap between slashdot readers and potential Tesla customers, either.
My employer recently bought a Tesla Roadster as our company car. As far as I can tell, the only real downside is the number of speeding tickets we're getting.
Top Gear has also driven a Prius around their track as fast as possible, with a V8 BMW M3 following it to prove that hybrids aren't the end-all of fuel economy (the BMW got far better gas mileage because the Prius was never designed to be driven on a track).
Not just that. The BMW was slipstreaming behind the Prius. That saves quite a bit of fuel. (Also, BMWs are actually pretty efficient.)
The same type of driving is a recipe for using up 100% of an electric car's charge pretty quickly, and given that type of usage, the comments about recharge time are valid.
Comments about recharge times are perfectly valid. Claiming it ran out of power at 25% of the claimed range when it didn't, isn't.
The lawyers for Tesla most likely don't watch Top Gear. If they did, they would know about the episode where Clarkson drove a Prius and ranted about how epically slow it was - something along the lines of "it would be useless as a milk delivery vehicle because all your milk would be bad before you reached the first house". Oddly enough, Toyota did not sue over that one.
Toyota gets plenty of raving reviews at other times. They can handle a single bad review. Tesla has a single product, and Top Gear spread very damaging lies about it.
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The lesson here is that you should use a system that supports a proper CLI. Or even better: a choice of proper command shells.
CLIs don't take years to master. Well, maybe the stuff that's so complex that GUIs can't possibly support it, but with the right documentation, most complex CLI tasks shouldn't take more than a couple of days to figure out. A GUI may be easier and therefore faster the first couple of times, but if you do it a lot, it might be worth investing the time to figure out the CLI.
Honest question - if you actually do have to carry something around to sit on, why not just... wear boxers?
Nothing is more comfortable.
Regardless of what they say, naturalists don't do what they do so they can look at other naked people.
They do what they do so other people will look at them.
Anything else they claim is simply a lie, denial, or an attempt to distract you from the truth.
Naturalists do what they do because they want to look at naked animals and learn from it. Anyone claiming anything else is confusing them with naturists.
Naturists do what they do because they don't want to wear clothes, or because they think social hangups about covering up specific body parts are silly.
People who want other people to look at their naked bodies are called exhibitionists. People who want to look at other naked people are voyeurs. Both might pretend to be naturists, but it's not what naturism is about.
It's a kind of math that can keep secrets.
I thought their games business had some pretty big successes on pretty small budgets.
And if Impulse is the only think keeping them alive, wouldn't it be rather stupid to sell it?
Anyone that tells you they are paying for music means they are still on a dial-up connection at home or are simply ignorant.
I buy CDs and rip them.
Brad is incredibly lucky. He can make business decisions based on what he likes, rather than on what makes the most profit. A very enviable position.
Google gets plenty of criticism on privacy issues (though lately Facebook seems to be the worst offender). But that's completely irrelevant on Google's stance on software patents, which is praiseworthy. Unless you love patents, of course, in which case I can understand you're upset that there's a big player that doesn't serve the Dark Side.
COBOL is a lot of things that aren't appropriate for a family-friendly forum, but it's not in any way a failure. If it had been a failure, nobody would hate it so much.
Java is the new COBOL in more ways than one.
Java is just so damn slow. Otherwise it's no better or worse than the languages it sought to replace.
I suspect neither of us knows what you are talking about. Java is faster than most modern languages. Java as a language is a lot better put together than C++, which is the language it sought to replace. The JVM is a very good platform, offering a lot of security, stability, threading, performance, checking, garbage collection, etc no matter what OS you run it on.
The two big problems of Java (the language) are these:
1: It inherits too many bad ideas of C and C++, making it too verbose and tedious to program in,
2: A culture of over-engineering grew up around it. Every problem gets drowned in an overdose of architecture.
JVM as a platform is one of the greatest gifts to server programming ever. The problems with the language and its architectural overkill is the reason why new JVM languages like Groovy, JRuby, Scala and Clojure are so popular nowadays.
That's ONE.
There are others. A previous employer of mine (Hippo) is doing very well giving their CMS away for free. My current employer isn't that into open source, and while a lot larger, is actually less profitable (though there are many other reasons for that).
That's a good point. Also, a lot of the information in this discussion gives me the impression that while Top Gear's item might be biased and suggestive of things that didn't happen, they weren't really outright lies.
In any case, a judge will have to decide. But the case looks a lot tougher for Tesla than I initially thought.
[T]he world does include some very creepy people
The world also includes some very normal people who either don't mind if other folk know where they are, or are smart enough not to post photos of their activity to Flickr during times when they want a little privacy.
"Usually it works out fine" is not a great counter to "it can go very wrong". I mean, look at nuclear power plants. The fact that most don't melt down doesn't mean that safety is not a concern.
That's exactly the problem with academics on wikipedia. You can be the most respected authority in the world on a particular subject, and write an excellent wikipedia article on it, and then a teenager comes along and butchers it. And he's an experienced wikipedian with time on his hands, so he's right and you're wrong.
If wikipedia wants to appeal to academics, the main thing they need to do is keep their own editors in check. Too often one of them goes on a rampage and destroys or mangles valuable material.
Why walk by when you can check on facebook to be sure?
It wouldn't surprise me if this could be automated. Check who is suddenly submitting photos from hundreds of km away from where they usually submit their photos, and you've got a nice list of potential candidates. If people are away, they can still return at any time. But when you know they're far away, you know you've got time.
1. The Roadster ran out of charge and had to be pushed into the Top Gear hangar by four men.
4:56 - Top gear doesn't actually state that they ever ran out of battery. They simulated it ("and if it does run out") as an illustration that driving the car as marketed (As a sports car) gives you a much smaller range than the quoted figure. They could have done it for real by driving it around the track for hour, but what does this gain exactly?
Credibility. Proof. Ultimate defense against a libel suit.
My car gets about 22mpg average. On a track day I can expect 8mpg or less.
14x22=308
14x8= 112
That sorta makes the fuel/electric consumption look realistic for a hard used track day, does it not?
Only if an electric engine works the same way as a petrol engine, which might not be the case. In any case, this claim by Top Gear should be rather easy to verify and show for real. Why didn't they?
A range limited car?
That's not practical. The average family would make numerous trips in excess of 100 miles per year.
It's a two-seater, not a family car. It's as practical as any other supercar they test there. They're good for short bits of sporty driving, and not meant for long road trips.
It works in an Icelandic rally car. (That was a cool episode too!)
.... in the woooorld.
Well done. That really sounded like Clarkson's voice in my head.
Thankfully Tesla doesn't have much to loose on the matter, since there is almost no overlap between Top Gear viewers and potential Tesla customers. For that matter, there is also almost no overlap between slashdot readers and potential Tesla customers, either.
My employer recently bought a Tesla Roadster as our company car. As far as I can tell, the only real downside is the number of speeding tickets we're getting.
Top Gear has also driven a Prius around their track as fast as possible, with a V8 BMW M3 following it to prove that hybrids aren't the end-all of fuel economy (the BMW got far better gas mileage because the Prius was never designed to be driven on a track).
Not just that. The BMW was slipstreaming behind the Prius. That saves quite a bit of fuel. (Also, BMWs are actually pretty efficient.)
The same type of driving is a recipe for using up 100% of an electric car's charge pretty quickly, and given that type of usage, the comments about recharge time are valid.
Comments about recharge times are perfectly valid. Claiming it ran out of power at 25% of the claimed range when it didn't, isn't.
Yes reverse car analogy.
Thank you for that.
The lawyers for Tesla most likely don't watch Top Gear. If they did, they would know about the episode where Clarkson drove a Prius and ranted about how epically slow it was - something along the lines of "it would be useless as a milk delivery vehicle because all your milk would be bad before you reached the first house". Oddly enough, Toyota did not sue over that one.
Toyota gets plenty of raving reviews at other times. They can handle a single bad review. Tesla has a single product, and Top Gear spread very damaging lies about it.