What was the problem? Was it the bandwidth costs? AFAIK most of the files you can download from SourceForge are actually not served by SourceForge itself but by mirrors. So those guys are shouldering the brunt of the costs not you. By doing something like this I would not be surprised if some of the mirrors decided they do not want to work with you anymore.
If you wanted the extra revenue by bundling ads with applications you should have done this explicitly with a prior public notification of this being done. For example News.com for a couple of years now bundles their own installer with the downloads they provide. I've seen other places do the same thing. But you should always be able, as a user, to disable the adware installation. Also the user should know before downloading a binary that it has adware in it. Not stealth adding it without people knowing about it. Last but not least hijacking someone else's account for these shenanigans was quite pathetic and fail. This was all handled quite poorly.
A lot of people have been leaving SourceForge as is because it has worse Git integration than other more recent sites and this is just another nail in the coffin.
I was actually quite enthusiastic about the movie. Remember all the early promos we saw of the movie, people even made their own light bikes and the like? The original Tron had a lot of fandom despite not doing so good on its original screening. The guys who worked on the movie exploited this brilliantly. Especially their promo on Comic-Con. They also made a movie that fans liked. You could also tell it was done by people who actually liked Tron.
Oh the idea behind Communism, i.e. state capitalism, is bound to show up again. As everything becomes datamined and interconnected someone is going to want to control every single aspect of everyone's economic lives (and maybe more than just the economic aspects). All it takes is lack of vigilance and moral fiber.
Communism itself was not that new as an economic organization. It was basically a palace economy with fancier agitprops.
This is why we eventually will need to revamp the fiscal system and provide everyone with a base income from the state. In Athens their economy worked great because the Athenian state could fund itself from the income in the silver mines near Athens. The mines were worked on by slaves. The people were paid by the state to act as judges, show up in the parliament to vote, etc. Remember every man born in Athens could vote. Then these people used that money to pay for their own slaves.
It might end up a bit like the economy of Abu Dhabi, i.e. somewhat dysfunctional, but it beats the alternatives.
What will happen is the same thing it happened with trains. Everything will be automated but there will be at least one pilot just for 'emergencies'. Two if its long-haul.
Also you can bomb a city to bits but you can't still clean it out of insurgents just like that. The Germans tried that in Stalingrad but the partisans just hide in the sewers and fought amidst the rubble.
I'll give you an example. During the First Chechen War the Russians sent their infantry and APCs (e.g. BDR armored wheeled vehicles not unlike the Striker) into Grozny. The results were quite horrible. In the Second Chechen War they used WW2 style tactics (hah!) and sent the heavy tanks in front of the infantry (e.g. T-80s and T-72s). This mostly worked except ERA doesn't play well with infantry. So in their next tanks you see some effort to replace ERA with NERA and things like that.
The US had similar experiences in counter-insurgency fighting and in Iraq. So when you look at the TUSK US Abrams upgrades with the infantry phone in the back (another thing that was used in WW2) and the remote controlled weapon station you know they're meant for city fighting.
And I should point out, that those engagements in the middle east showed more a need for APCs rather than tanks. The issue was not the need for a heavy long range gun but rather for an armored car that wouldn't get shredded by smalls arms and IEDs.
No man. If they need a "heavy long range gun" they would get a howitzer not a tank. Tank guns are typically used for mid distance direct fire against other vehicles or fortifications. Tanks are typically used for several missions but the most important ones are anti-vehicle combat and infantry support. It was common during WW2 to rolls tanks ahead of infantry as a moveable shield to protect them from enemy infantry and clean up buildings, etc, in in-city fighting. At the same time the infantry can protect tanks in city fighting from close range RPG rounds, satchel charges, and things like that.
Air power does not replace tanks. You cannot hold ground with aircraft.
In a 2008 blog post, Musk laid out a plan: After the sports car, Tesla would produce a sedan costing "half the $89k price point of the Tesla Roadster and the third model will be even more affordable."
In fact, the second model now typically sells for $100,000, and the much-delayed third model, the Model X sport utility, is expected to sell for a similar price. Timing on a less expensive model — maybe $35,000 or $40,000, after subsidies — remains uncertain.
The Roaster cost more than $89k. That was the value without subsidies. The article is comparing the price of the cheapest model of the Roaster (with subsidies) to the price of the most expensive Model S (without subsidies). Well DUH.
The Model X isn't the third model Musk was talking about. The third model SEDAN is supposedly to be called the Model 3 and unlike what the author said it's planned to be launch in 2017. YMMW. They need the battery factory to be finished so they'll have batteries cheap enough for the Model 3.
Loans that were fully paid back (e.g. the one Tesla got). Space launches for the government that are *cheaper* than the other launch services the government is using. You can't call it a subsidy when they are selling the government a service.
Most of the other clean tax subsidies are given to the clients (e.g. SolarCity, Tesla) not to Musk's companies directly. If they are that rich, as the author claims they are, I think they would still buy the cars to make a kind of fashion statement even if there was no tax break at all.
As for the tax breaks he gets for building that factory its no different from what any other company doing a similar activity would get. Yes I know its crap but its the world goes.
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Its like he said. You don't say a number you say a RANGE.
That's bonkers.
I also want to add that the binary downloads service SourceForge that provided was one of the few remaining distinguishing useful features in it.
s/News.com/Download.com
What was the problem? Was it the bandwidth costs? AFAIK most of the files you can download from SourceForge are actually not served by SourceForge itself but by mirrors. So those guys are shouldering the brunt of the costs not you. By doing something like this I would not be surprised if some of the mirrors decided they do not want to work with you anymore.
If you wanted the extra revenue by bundling ads with applications you should have done this explicitly with a prior public notification of this being done. For example News.com for a couple of years now bundles their own installer with the downloads they provide. I've seen other places do the same thing. But you should always be able, as a user, to disable the adware installation. Also the user should know before downloading a binary that it has adware in it. Not stealth adding it without people knowing about it. Last but not least hijacking someone else's account for these shenanigans was quite pathetic and fail. This was all handled quite poorly.
A lot of people have been leaving SourceForge as is because it has worse Git integration than other more recent sites and this is just another nail in the coffin.
I was actually quite enthusiastic about the movie. Remember all the early promos we saw of the movie, people even made their own light bikes and the like? The original Tron had a lot of fandom despite not doing so good on its original screening. The guys who worked on the movie exploited this brilliantly. Especially their promo on Comic-Con. They also made a movie that fans liked. You could also tell it was done by people who actually liked Tron.
It's a matter of timing. The sequel came at a good time when there wasn't anything quite like it out. Now there's just too many sci-fi movies around.
Well "Edge of Tomorrow" is the Hollywoodized version of the JAPANESE light novel "All You Need Is Kill".
Not that this makes it a bad movie though.
It probably bombed because it had Cruise in it. Or they just couldn't get the message out. I dunno.
Oh the idea behind Communism, i.e. state capitalism, is bound to show up again. As everything becomes datamined and interconnected someone is going to want to control every single aspect of everyone's economic lives (and maybe more than just the economic aspects). All it takes is lack of vigilance and moral fiber.
Communism itself was not that new as an economic organization. It was basically a palace economy with fancier agitprops.
This is why we eventually will need to revamp the fiscal system and provide everyone with a base income from the state. In Athens their economy worked great because the Athenian state could fund itself from the income in the silver mines near Athens. The mines were worked on by slaves. The people were paid by the state to act as judges, show up in the parliament to vote, etc. Remember every man born in Athens could vote. Then these people used that money to pay for their own slaves.
It might end up a bit like the economy of Abu Dhabi, i.e. somewhat dysfunctional, but it beats the alternatives.
That's why we have the free software movement dude. There are similar movements in hardware as well.
All of which were available in the 1970s.
They probably make shovelware and then pay someone else who actually knows how to program to 'fix' it. i.e. do it all over again.
What will happen is the same thing it happened with trains. Everything will be automated but there will be at least one pilot just for 'emergencies'. Two if its long-haul.
You do know you can change your PIN afterwards and check the bank transaction log right?
It also has a kid as the main actor. Puke.
The first line I wrote was about Tomorrowland. The second about Tron. I guess I wasn't explicit enough.
Too much money wasted on big name actors and advertising. Ludicrous story. It goes on and on.
I do think it is too early for another Tron sequel though. If they had made one one year after the last one it would have been ok but not now.
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Also you can bomb a city to bits but you can't still clean it out of insurgents just like that. The Germans tried that in Stalingrad but the partisans just hide in the sewers and fought amidst the rubble.
I'll give you an example. During the First Chechen War the Russians sent their infantry and APCs (e.g. BDR armored wheeled vehicles not unlike the Striker) into Grozny. The results were quite horrible. In the Second Chechen War they used WW2 style tactics (hah!) and sent the heavy tanks in front of the infantry (e.g. T-80s and T-72s). This mostly worked except ERA doesn't play well with infantry. So in their next tanks you see some effort to replace ERA with NERA and things like that.
The US had similar experiences in counter-insurgency fighting and in Iraq. So when you look at the TUSK US Abrams upgrades with the infantry phone in the back (another thing that was used in WW2) and the remote controlled weapon station you know they're meant for city fighting.
And I should point out, that those engagements in the middle east showed more a need for APCs rather than tanks. The issue was not the need for a heavy long range gun but rather for an armored car that wouldn't get shredded by smalls arms and IEDs.
No man. If they need a "heavy long range gun" they would get a howitzer not a tank. Tank guns are typically used for mid distance direct fire against other vehicles or fortifications. Tanks are typically used for several missions but the most important ones are anti-vehicle combat and infantry support. It was common during WW2 to rolls tanks ahead of infantry as a moveable shield to protect them from enemy infantry and clean up buildings, etc, in in-city fighting. At the same time the infantry can protect tanks in city fighting from close range RPG rounds, satchel charges, and things like that.
Air power does not replace tanks. You cannot hold ground with aircraft.
In a 2008 blog post, Musk laid out a plan: After the sports car, Tesla would produce a sedan costing "half the $89k price point of the Tesla Roadster and the third model will be even more affordable."
In fact, the second model now typically sells for $100,000, and the much-delayed third model, the Model X sport utility, is expected to sell for a similar price. Timing on a less expensive model — maybe $35,000 or $40,000, after subsidies — remains uncertain.
The Roaster cost more than $89k. That was the value without subsidies. The article is comparing the price of the cheapest model of the Roaster (with subsidies) to the price of the most expensive Model S (without subsidies). Well DUH.
The Model X isn't the third model Musk was talking about. The third model SEDAN is supposedly to be called the Model 3 and unlike what the author said it's planned to be launch in 2017. YMMW. They need the battery factory to be finished so they'll have batteries cheap enough for the Model 3.
Loans that were fully paid back (e.g. the one Tesla got). Space launches for the government that are *cheaper* than the other launch services the government is using. You can't call it a subsidy when they are selling the government a service.
Most of the other clean tax subsidies are given to the clients (e.g. SolarCity, Tesla) not to Musk's companies directly. If they are that rich, as the author claims they are, I think they would still buy the cars to make a kind of fashion statement even if there was no tax break at all.
As for the tax breaks he gets for building that factory its no different from what any other company doing a similar activity would get. Yes I know its crap but its the world goes.
Russian semiconductor hardware sucks donkey balls though.