I completely understand the concept of supply and demand. My point was that the current demand is based on a marketing fad, not on actual value. Even assuming you're right (which I doubt) about the cost to Tesla of the batteries alone being 30k per car, at 132k you're still paying over 100k for the rest of the car, which is insane.
If the BIOS isn't even robust enough to use defaults for critical variables that can be deleted, then I'm gonna say this is OBVIOUSLY a problem with crappy BIOS code, not with the OS that ran the app that actually did exactly what it was told to do.
Not true unless you buy all new hardware that supports it, and combines the router and modem into a single unit.
I like many people have a separate wifi router connected to a cable modem. My router is a fairly new one so supports firewalling the wifi, but even so, anyone with that setup can;t help but be the same: The traffic going to/from the internet is aggregated by the router and NAT before it even hits the modem, so there is no way for the modem or anything upstream to even be able to tell what individual packets are what user's (at least without doing something like SPI and even that would be unreliable).
Seriously I just can't see it ever happening other than by it being forced on broadband customers, or it being the default setting on all routers and there being enough ignorant owners who don't know to turn it off.(kinda like the "all computers come with windows" model).
Even on routers that segregate wifi clients outside the LAN firewall, the charming person sitting in their car outside your house and surfing child porn sites is still doing so through your IP address. Good luck trying to explain that to the technically clueless judge.
Also the first time your netflix movie is laggy or you keep dying in your favourite online FPS because someone across the street is free-loading a significant chunk of your bandwidth is when you will turn off public access and leave it off.
I agree with all your points, but it seems that AMD might be trying to do another end-run like they did with AMD64 extensions that are now the industry standard that even Intel copied/now use.
I wonder if this is a sign that AMD have completely given up trying to compete against nVidia on outright top end performance gpu-for-gpu (which they've never managed to really pull off) and are now refocussing their strategy to compete based on openness instead. That certainly would seem to be striking at the heart of nVidias biggest perceived weakness, and would probably get them a lot of instant converts/new customers at least in the Linux world, where nVidia have traditionally been more dominant at least partially because of compute. I bet nVidia will quickly come back with their own new announcement around an alternative "open source" initiative that will at least superficially sound good, but will "purely coincidentally" let them keep their drivers closed.
Personally I always find running something in a browser less than ideal compared to an app running locally, so my bias was a factor, but even allowing for that, all the online IDEs I found/tried were far clunkier usability-wise, far slower and obviously less secure than using something running locally.
>> I felt a bit uncomfortable storing SSH credentials "in the cloud" as these are the "keys to the kingdom" for the servers I manage.
Only a bit uncomfortable? You should NEVER put the keys to your production environment in the cloud. If something requires that, then find an alternative,
Very much agreed. It just occurred to me that this is actually pretty analogous to the braindead "lets ban people from owning guns" idea. Both incorrectly presume that for some magical unexplained reason, bad guys will somehow suddenly choose to give up using the "bad thing", except in reality all thats happening is you're now stopping only already law-abiding people from defending themselves so the playing field gets even more unbalanced.
Yeah I feel the same way. I'd love to believe this guy just gets it, but It does very much make me wonder if something like they've just figured out how to get their quantum computer to do general case decryption has just happened though. At least he seems to be bonking the obviously clueless lawmakers over the head for whatever reason, so I'd say its a net win.
It is not a One-true-scottsman argument. There's absolutely nothing ad-hoc about my statement, You can simply check the facts for yourself. Just the September Paris attacks accounted for 129 innocent deaths, and there are radical islaimic suicide bombings and opther attacks happening around the world daily. Can you remember any redical christian attacks that caused equivalent numbers of deaths? You've basically got to go back and total up at least 20 years worth to get a number of deaths even close to just one day's worth of Islaimc attacks: http://www.alternet.org/tea-pa...
All your comebacks so far have all been based on emotional outbursts, attempts to sidetrack the issue, pruposeful misunderstandings, and lame attempts to incorrectly label. Its the only approach you acn make because you have no valid position that you can back up with actual facts or citations, since your emphasis is clearly entirely on enforcing political corerctness rather than having to deal with whats really going on.
If you want further responses from me, stay on track, stop with the emotional/personal attacks, and use facts and references to back up your argument.
The Nicene Creed is just a short (9 sentences or so), basic statement of belief in God and Jesus. I'd be amazed if the majority of Christians couldn't aagree on that much. but If as you say, some Christians still can't even fully agree on just that much, and can still legitimately call themselves Christians, then it just validates my argument that Christianity, without taking at least the New Testament literally, is so woolly as to be essentially meaningless/pointless.
By making that claim, Volvo have shown that they have very seriously underestimated the awesome power of the American general public to continually and creatively take "stupid" to whole other levels.
>> Why do you think that the Bible is either taken literally or irrelevant to Christianity?
Perhaps not being a Christian I just don't get it, but whats the point of a religion having a book or even a name if everyone is just going to make whatever shit up they want and just follow that instead?
Oh come on, just check the world news every day. You really can;t be seriously claiming that Christians are kiling even slightly as many people as Islam just because of their faith.
>> recent Christian missionaries have backed killing gays. Then they aren't actually practicing Christianity.
>> . Same as ISIS Then they are simply being good muslims.
>> Biblical Literalists are a small, very disliked minority of Christianity
I'm not so sure the bible is so irrelevant to Christianity as you seem to think.
>> so why would Islam be different? Because there are far higher levels of fundamentalism in general in Islam than there are in Christianity. For example how many Christians do you know that take a special prayer break 4 times a day? Its a basic way of life for most muslims.
I'n mot sure why there is so much radicalism in Islam but I think its a combination of the viral nature of Islam, the way it fundamentally uses brainwashing and peer pressure, and the relatively poor levels of education in many islamic countries (since Shariah actively suppresses education, especially for the 50% of the population that are female). You can see that Islam really is very viral especially when compared to Christianity.
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I completely understand the concept of supply and demand.
My point was that the current demand is based on a marketing fad, not on actual value.
Even assuming you're right (which I doubt) about the cost to Tesla of the batteries alone being 30k per car, at 132k you're still paying over 100k for the rest of the car, which is insane.
Thats an insane price for that car. Its all just a marketing fad.
Personally I think musk did him a favour and he's better off without it.
There is only a 1.5625% chance that she could hit all 6 just from luck alone.
Seems obviously highly suspicious to me.
If the BIOS isn't even robust enough to use defaults for critical variables that can be deleted, then I'm gonna say this is OBVIOUSLY a problem with crappy BIOS code, not with the OS that ran the app that actually did exactly what it was told to do.
Wait, you're actually surprised that Microsoft is okay with screwing users over something they already paid for?
Not true unless you buy all new hardware that supports it, and combines the router and modem into a single unit.
I like many people have a separate wifi router connected to a cable modem. My router is a fairly new one so supports firewalling the wifi, but even so, anyone with that setup can;t help but be the same: The traffic going to/from the internet is aggregated by the router and NAT before it even hits the modem, so there is no way for the modem or anything upstream to even be able to tell what individual packets are what user's (at least without doing something like SPI and even that would be unreliable).
Seriously I just can't see it ever happening other than by it being forced on broadband customers, or it being the default setting on all routers and there being enough ignorant owners who don't know to turn it off.(kinda like the "all computers come with windows" model).
Even on routers that segregate wifi clients outside the LAN firewall, the charming person sitting in their car outside your house and surfing child porn sites is still doing so through your IP address. Good luck trying to explain that to the technically clueless judge.
Also the first time your netflix movie is laggy or you keep dying in your favourite online FPS because someone across the street is free-loading a significant chunk of your bandwidth is when you will turn off public access and leave it off.
I agree with all your points, but it seems that AMD might be trying to do another end-run like they did with AMD64 extensions that are now the industry standard that even Intel copied/now use.
I wonder if this is a sign that AMD have completely given up trying to compete against nVidia on outright top end performance gpu-for-gpu (which they've never managed to really pull off) and are now refocussing their strategy to compete based on openness instead. That certainly would seem to be striking at the heart of nVidias biggest perceived weakness, and would probably get them a lot of instant converts/new customers at least in the Linux world, where nVidia have traditionally been more dominant at least partially because of compute.
I bet nVidia will quickly come back with their own new announcement around an alternative "open source" initiative that will at least superficially sound good, but will "purely coincidentally" let them keep their drivers closed.
I can't wait for this to come out on DVD.
I guess actually focussing on your driving is a thing of the past.
If this trend away from using CGI also means Hollywood has more budget left for higher quality scriptwriting, then I'm all for it.
I hope that was sarcasm.
Personally I always find running something in a browser less than ideal compared to an app running locally, so my bias was a factor, but even allowing for that, all the online IDEs I found/tried were far clunkier usability-wise, far slower and obviously less secure than using something running locally.
>> I felt a bit uncomfortable storing SSH credentials "in the cloud" as these are the "keys to the kingdom" for the servers I manage.
Only a bit uncomfortable? You should NEVER put the keys to your production environment in the cloud. If something requires that, then find an alternative,
>> Now you will end up with a whole bunch of players from non-accountable organizations.
Totally agree. Well said. If I had mod points you would get them.
>> So mathematically, it looks like (on average) it's better if the gun doesn't go off.
Thats exactly why I just patented the fingerprint-controlled baseball bat.
Very much agreed.
It just occurred to me that this is actually pretty analogous to the braindead "lets ban people from owning guns" idea.
Both incorrectly presume that for some magical unexplained reason, bad guys will somehow suddenly choose to give up using the "bad thing", except in reality all thats happening is you're now stopping only already law-abiding people from defending themselves so the playing field gets even more unbalanced.
Yeah I feel the same way.
I'd love to believe this guy just gets it, but It does very much make me wonder if something like they've just figured out how to get their quantum computer to do general case decryption has just happened though.
At least he seems to be bonking the obviously clueless lawmakers over the head for whatever reason, so I'd say its a net win.
It is not a One-true-scottsman argument. There's absolutely nothing ad-hoc about my statement,
You can simply check the facts for yourself. Just the September Paris attacks accounted for 129 innocent deaths, and there are radical islaimic suicide bombings and opther attacks happening around the world daily.
Can you remember any redical christian attacks that caused equivalent numbers of deaths? You've basically got to go back and total up at least 20 years worth to get a number of deaths even close to just one day's worth of Islaimc attacks: http://www.alternet.org/tea-pa...
All your comebacks so far have all been based on emotional outbursts, attempts to sidetrack the issue, pruposeful misunderstandings, and lame attempts to incorrectly label. Its the only approach you acn make because you have no valid position that you can back up with actual facts or citations, since your emphasis is clearly entirely on enforcing political corerctness rather than having to deal with whats really going on.
If you want further responses from me, stay on track, stop with the emotional/personal attacks, and use facts and references to back up your argument.
The Nicene Creed is just a short (9 sentences or so), basic statement of belief in God and Jesus. I'd be amazed if the majority of Christians couldn't aagree on that much. but If as you say, some Christians still can't even fully agree on just that much, and can still legitimately call themselves Christians, then it just validates my argument that Christianity, without taking at least the New Testament literally, is so woolly as to be essentially meaningless/pointless.
By making that claim, Volvo have shown that they have very seriously underestimated the awesome power of the American general public to continually and creatively take "stupid" to whole other levels.
>> Why do you think that the Bible is either taken literally or irrelevant to Christianity?
Perhaps not being a Christian I just don't get it, but whats the point of a religion having a book or even a name if everyone is just going to make whatever shit up they want and just follow that instead?
Oh come on, just check the world news every day. You really can;t be seriously claiming that Christians are kiling even slightly as many people as Islam just because of their faith.
>> recent Christian missionaries have backed killing gays.
Then they aren't actually practicing Christianity.
>> . Same as ISIS
Then they are simply being good muslims.
See the difference yet?
>> Biblical Literalists are a small, very disliked minority of Christianity
I'm not so sure the bible is so irrelevant to Christianity as you seem to think.
>> so why would Islam be different?
Because there are far higher levels of fundamentalism in general in Islam than there are in Christianity. For example how many Christians do you know that take a special prayer break 4 times a day? Its a basic way of life for most muslims.
I'n mot sure why there is so much radicalism in Islam but I think its a combination of the viral nature of Islam, the way it fundamentally uses brainwashing and peer pressure, and the relatively poor levels of education in many islamic countries (since Shariah actively suppresses education, especially for the 50% of the population that are female). You can see that Islam really is very viral especially when compared to Christianity.