Perhaps we could get fonts that don't suck in all applications without reprogramming. Or improved GUI performance. Or those bugs which are on your database for nearly a decade which never get fixed. Or LINQ. Or unsigned types. No instead we get a new Javascript VM. As if there weren't enough infection vectors already. Thanks Oracle.
When the choice is between people freezing to death this winter from lack of power or the possibility someone may die from a heat wave sometime in the future when the politician is retired there is little wonder why things are proceeding in this fashion.
My guess is that the situation in the US is different from the rest of the world in that with the now widespread access to natural gas reserves and all the gas fired power plants built in the 90s it makes more economic sense to burn gas rather than use coal rather. Nothing to do with the alleged Obama policies.
There is plenty of nuclear power construction in China and elsewhere including Finland. In the EU most of the alleged CO2 reductions are about higher efficiency automobiles and wind power generation. The rest of the situation isn't a whole lot different.
No kidding. You just have to look at Japan which is switching from nuclear to coal generation or Germany which is switching from nuclear to lignite coal to figure this out. In Germany it will certainly be interesting to see what will happen to their energy prices once they shut down their nuclear generators and they lose all that money they are charging nuclear producers of electricity in order to fund wind power generation.
Every western household has a TV but who supplies them? The asians. Yeah, that worked out well, for the asians but the likes of Philips?
Overrated. Most Philips consumer electronics like TVs or VCRs two decades ago had labels saying: manufactured in Japan by Matsushita. Most Philips devices were in fact manufactured by Asian brands. Other times it was Blaupunkt or Grundig doing the manufacturing in Germany. Philips did manufacture lightbulbs and shaving machines but little else. Most was relabeled.
I bought a Sony TV recently and it said: manufactured in Slovakia. The screens supposedly comes somewhere from Asia and are manufactured by Samsung but the assembly is still done in the EU. The manufacturing tools are probably also made in the EU and ASML is an EU company. So things are not that bad, except for the semiconductors which was something the EU never quite got the hang of manufacturing in the first place. EU investors are not interested in high capital expenditure industries with marginal profits so we don't have the fabs nor the chip designers, nor the tools designers we should have.
Who do you think does the bulk of the work which creates the wealth in the first place?
Who do you think invests their money back into the economy?
Elon Musk is one of these people. However not everyone is like him. A lot of these people are investing abroad, not in the US. At least the poor keep their money on US banks where it gets loaned and invested. The money going to the tax shelters abroad is probably not going to be invested in the US.
Do you honestly think these people work 10x more than a middle class citizen to be worth their income, let alone the 1000x or more they earn?
Even in the most socialist and centrally planned economies there is a top 1 percent.
You are being silly if you think even the top echelons of the Soviet Union had the vast differential in wealth the US upper class enjoys. They got a regular car and a summer house and that was it. Even the "nice" car belonged to the State and went back to someone else. Even Stalin himself had to share a house with other people when he was Party Secretary.
the buyers are paying more in taxes than most people on Slashdot make
Or they aren't. Try searching the web for Elon Musk's salary (hint: Wikipedia) and then compute the income tax he's paying from that. He is not an isolated case among the entrepreneur class.
I am not against the tax breaks per se. If more people use electrics pollution and oil use go down. However you are extremely nearsighted if you think the people buying these cars all pay the level of income tax you claim to be paying.
He is one of the PayPal founders but not the only one.
Tesla has produced cars and sold them. Sure they are expensive but what did you expect? You need vast capital expenditures to make a single high-volume factory which is a necessary investment to make a low cost car. He doesn't have the capital required to do this so he makes a lower volume of higher priced cars.
Ariane 5 ECA has over twice the payload. Falcon 9 is competing with Soyuz, Zenit (including Sealaunch), Delta IV medium, Atlas V 4xx.
Falcon 9 Heavy reliability, with 27 (!) engines, is still unproven.
Ariane's customers want reliability. Ariane's flights are known to be easily insurable because of this. If the only driver was cost those clients would be flying their satellites on a Russian rocket. However when the satellite costs more than the Ariane flight itself it is cheaper to go on a more reliable vehicle.
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These guys should just focus on software for smartphones/tablets and calculators for exams where people can't used wired connections.
Imagine a device you can fold so a larger screen surface will take up less space when stored.
No one is "forcing" you do to anything. You can emigrate if you want to.
Try eating at a restaurant and walking away without paying.
Perhaps we could get fonts that don't suck in all applications without reprogramming. Or improved GUI performance. Or those bugs which are on your database for nearly a decade which never get fixed. Or LINQ. Or unsigned types. No instead we get a new Javascript VM. As if there weren't enough infection vectors already. Thanks Oracle.
Why doesn't Ubuntu include Android emulation so people can run their vast catalog of Android apps on their laptop, tablet or the like?
There has been talk of Ubuntu getting more gaming support. Can you elaborate on this?
Did you get to keep your space suit?
How hard was it to start and run a global Internet company in South Africa? Why certificates?
I thought we weren't supposed to read the articles/links in Slashdot! Ok, I'm splitting things up.
When the choice is between people freezing to death this winter from lack of power or the possibility someone may die from a heat wave sometime in the future when the politician is retired there is little wonder why things are proceeding in this fashion.
My guess is that the situation in the US is different from the rest of the world in that with the now widespread access to natural gas reserves and all the gas fired power plants built in the 90s it makes more economic sense to burn gas rather than use coal rather. Nothing to do with the alleged Obama policies.
No kidding. Given the Canadian climate it's probably either that or a lot of people freezing to death.
There is plenty of nuclear power construction in China and elsewhere including Finland. In the EU most of the alleged CO2 reductions are about higher efficiency automobiles and wind power generation. The rest of the situation isn't a whole lot different.
Don't put France in the same bag as the Germans. The situation is totally different.
No kidding. You just have to look at Japan which is switching from nuclear to coal generation or Germany which is switching from nuclear to lignite coal to figure this out. In Germany it will certainly be interesting to see what will happen to their energy prices once they shut down their nuclear generators and they lose all that money they are charging nuclear producers of electricity in order to fund wind power generation.
Every western household has a TV but who supplies them? The asians. Yeah, that worked out well, for the asians but the likes of Philips?
Overrated. Most Philips consumer electronics like TVs or VCRs two decades ago had labels saying: manufactured in Japan by Matsushita. Most Philips devices were in fact manufactured by Asian brands. Other times it was Blaupunkt or Grundig doing the manufacturing in Germany. Philips did manufacture lightbulbs and shaving machines but little else. Most was relabeled.
I bought a Sony TV recently and it said: manufactured in Slovakia. The screens supposedly comes somewhere from Asia and are manufactured by Samsung but the assembly is still done in the EU. The manufacturing tools are probably also made in the EU and ASML is an EU company. So things are not that bad, except for the semiconductors which was something the EU never quite got the hang of manufacturing in the first place. EU investors are not interested in high capital expenditure industries with marginal profits so we don't have the fabs nor the chip designers, nor the tools designers we should have.
Aren't most of those DOS games? They should run on DOSBox in any platform including Linux just fine.
ALSA sucks as an API for game programming. OpenAL is a lot more suitable. Games often either use OpenAL or the proprietary FMOD.
Having an educated and physically fit workforce would also be considered to be an asset by other people but I guess he doesn't get it.
Who do you think pays most of the taxes?
Not by percentage of income.
Who do you think provides the jobs?
Who do you think does the bulk of the work which creates the wealth in the first place?
Who do you think invests their money back into the economy?
Elon Musk is one of these people. However not everyone is like him. A lot of these people are investing abroad, not in the US. At least the poor keep their money on US banks where it gets loaned and invested. The money going to the tax shelters abroad is probably not going to be invested in the US.
Do you honestly think these people work 10x more than a middle class citizen to be worth their income, let alone the 1000x or more they earn?
Even in the most socialist and centrally planned economies there is a top 1 percent.
You are being silly if you think even the top echelons of the Soviet Union had the vast differential in wealth the US upper class enjoys. They got a regular car and a summer house and that was it. Even the "nice" car belonged to the State and went back to someone else. Even Stalin himself had to share a house with other people when he was Party Secretary.
the buyers are paying more in taxes than most people on Slashdot make
Or they aren't. Try searching the web for Elon Musk's salary (hint: Wikipedia) and then compute the income tax he's paying from that. He is not an isolated case among the entrepreneur class.
I am not against the tax breaks per se. If more people use electrics pollution and oil use go down. However you are extremely nearsighted if you think the people buying these cars all pay the level of income tax you claim to be paying.
Tesla has produced cars and sold them. Sure they are expensive but what did you expect? You need vast capital expenditures to make a single high-volume factory which is a necessary investment to make a low cost car. He doesn't have the capital required to do this so he makes a lower volume of higher priced cars.
Ariane 5 ECA has over twice the payload. Falcon 9 is competing with Soyuz, Zenit (including Sealaunch), Delta IV medium, Atlas V 4xx.
Falcon 9 Heavy reliability, with 27 (!) engines, is still unproven.
Ariane's customers want reliability. Ariane's flights are known to be easily insurable because of this. If the only driver was cost those clients would be flying their satellites on a Russian rocket. However when the satellite costs more than the Ariane flight itself it is cheaper to go on a more reliable vehicle.