Why do you assume he was actually rude to the company
He was actually rude to Musk instead, saying he should be ashamed etc etc. That is a bit different to what you have assumed. Would you like to try again now that you have something a little closer to the actual situation to base your comment on?
I doubt his complaints made it to the CEO of BMW either or addressed it to him personally, telling him he should be "ashamed", so that's another point of difference.
Was it on an unedited blog? A "review" that is nothing but a rant about not being able to even use the item to be reviewed is a non-story that would normally not be published.
It's not a government service paid for by the community so Elon can deal or not deal with people as he wishes. Consumer protection laws only come into force when the deal is done. Cancellation and refund is fair even for the most petty of reasons.
Also known as a hand grenade, with a slight difference to the usual meaning of the term in it blowing up the hard of the person firing it. ABS plastic is a worse choice than many types of wood for the bits that have to deal with high pressure gas. Laser metal sintering is looking like a different story since it's getting close to zero porosity - so none of those holes that plagued cannon builders over the ages. Any gun small enough has been made out of forged metal for a reason.
Or better yet, print brass casings for all those guns whose cartridges are no longer produced
Brass is very easy to work even with hand tools and a 3D printed replacement would have to be something different to the original since most of the strength comes from working the brass. I used to work with a guy that made his own cartridges from lengths of brass tube. I think you've hit a situation where 3D printing adds complications and expense instead of reducing it.
If you wanted to get 3D printing regulated then making a lot of attention seeking noise about how people can make zip guns using it is a good way to do it.
You can't even do the barrel and ABS plastic is far less suitable for the other parts than even most hardwoods so it's stirring up hysteria over nothing IMHO.
The "market" structure in California was famously fucked up and has been, possibly still is, outright corrupt. It was crony capitalism preserved by law, hopefully it is recovering from that now. In general terms worldwide however pricing is arranged to encourage large customers to consume at night to result in "base load" and avoid the very expensive and wasteful process of having to shut down a lot of thermal capacity at night. There are also price incentives to encourage very large customers to site their operations in the distribution area of various utilities. Tiered pricing in general is an artifact of those things - to sum up those with a lot to spend can shop around so tiered pricing exists. Does that answer it? Did you even need that answer? What does California do at this moment and is it an artifact of encouraging consumption to match what can be supplied or is it a persistent artifact of poor management and corruption?
Yes, but on the other side of the coin it's the old story of piecework with a race to the bottom plus deliberate criminal action even if the laws broken are unfair. It's like bringing a little bit of the third world home or digging up a 19th century robber baron. There is nobody to cheer for in this situation. Unfair monopoly versus a new player that wants to take over the unfair monopoly and move a lot of cost onto their employees. The lie of "ride sharing" as a smokescreen is an especially blatant lie and is being used as a pretended point of difference to get around laws protecting the current local monopolies.
California - vast established economy but still brownouts just like a developing nation yet you use the word "works"? That "energy market" with Enron etc then probably worse since is an international joke.
XP is still on a pile of office machines out there. Compatibility issues with label printing stuff and a pile of other little applications prevented a move to Win7, especially since MS Office still works on XP. Because IE is unfit for use in the ongoing malware swamp such machines have had firefox, chrome etc since initial installation. Yes a VM can run that stuff that win7 can't. You'd do it that way, I'd do it that way, but people who already have an XP machine seem to be really annoyed by the extra steps and the entire confusing concept of another desktop on their desktop. It's not ideal but it seems to be why there are still so many XP things out there on recent hardware that can happily run Win7 or later.
At least that's something. Win7 even does annoying shit like deciding on the fly to rearrange things and move an active window to a monitor that is turned off - very annoying when watching movies or playing video games. WinXP didn't do that. Neither did Win2k.
It's said that politics is the art of the possible, hence the insurance scam that continues to pay Danegild to those that used their influence to stop anything else.
According to you, I should spend everything I own and my whole life's labor paying for the healthcare of everyone else, including whores, addicts, and people with incurable fatal genetic defects.
What's the wild man of the woods doing in some place with electricity and network infrastructure - doesn't he know that his weird "I've got mine" ideology is supposed to depend on operating outside society or otherwise he'll just look like a sociopathic prick? Civilisation means sharing the load, even for those that in a far more brutal society would be left out in the snow to die.
You used to be capped around 3.25GB due to hardware I/O mapping
It was never the hardware only the way a consumer OS mapped it into memory. Microsoft didn't have this problem with their server operating systems (not even Win2k) and neither did anyone else. It was nothing but a design flaw in a small number of consumer operating systems by a single vendor.
Did you forget the punchline? The above post looks like it should be some sort of joke with the fantasy of having to stop hundreds of drones per minute instead of a few potential operations per year.
If they're doing that, they might as well teach the birds to fly upside down underneath the drones, unscrew the access panel and rewire the electronics to operate on a radio frequency used by the cops so they gain control over it.
You're trying to save the story, but that is pure conjecture.
No. I heard it at the time and the story behind it. An utterly stupid idea and it did have blowback at the time resulting in an immediate loss of trust.
If you actually look into the details of it, there wasn't a script at all
WTF? If you had actually "looked into the details" you would be aware that it was all scripted. It must be on wikipedia or something FFS so LOOK IT UP instead of MAKING IT UP - what is it with idiots that want to bluff with no cards when the facts are against them?
A "pure democracy" is not only redefinition for the sake of confusion but typically a strawman used by utter bastards to try to show that democracy doesn't work so maybe we should let the utter bastards have a go at being King in everything but name. It's better not to be the sort of mindless sheep helping those wolves out. Democracy is democracy. The non-existent extreme democracy is something we'll never have to worry about since the "millions of uninformed sheep" don't just choose a single person so the informed people make a difference as well.
A pure democracy wouldn't work well in any case other than very small systems of government.
Only if you have a very narrow definition of democracy that does not include the democracies that actually exist. I know personal word redefinition is a thing that even made it to US academia but ultimately it is nothing other than a barrier to communication and a means of petty trickery even if it is especially popular in politics and talk radio.
That's only one subset (there's a lot of traffic that is not encrypted) and IMHO an incredibly stupid thing to do but people still do it. I'm waiting for the obvious to happen and someone in charge of one of the devices with fake certs running off with a pile of credit card details resulting in a bank suing the criminals employer into oblivion. Those increasingly common firewalls with the MITM attack are mostly just there to keep people off facebook on work time and few have worked out how much of a liability they are. Change your employee computer usage agreement to include "we will spy on all your credit card transactions" and see how they react, because that is exactly what these things do. If you deploy them you need very good reasons (eg. classified info upstream), need to be able to trust anyone with access to the system and need the users to be aware that everything they send "securely" now has extra people with access to it. Most things like this fail on all counts and do not have a good reason to be there other than somebody read about them in Forbes.
The ones who deserve contempt are the drone pilots. They're walking, talking embodiments of cowardice, deserving of utter contempt.
If anyone ever deserves contempt it's the people giving the drone pilots contemptible orders. The pilots don't set the missions or pick targets. Do you also think pilots flying in a clear sky with no risk of anti-aircraft fire are also cowards?
Nasty little trick - demand people run around finding things for you that you have already seen and then when they find it, just ignore it. If it's there, it's there, no matter who wrote it.
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WTF? Looks like a comment about stuff that annoys me shook up some sort of ticking time bomb blaming the world for his problems. I suppose that explains the attack from nowhere and the refusal to admit that things were discussed to death in earlier articles.
Now since you are big on ignoring comments you don't like and pretend they don't exist, how about ignoring any comments that reference those comments you don't like instead of trying to start some sort of fight? We would have avoided all this pointless idiocy and your goading to sift through all that slime again.
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He was actually rude to Musk instead, saying he should be ashamed etc etc.
That is a bit different to what you have assumed.
Would you like to try again now that you have something a little closer to the actual situation to base your comment on?
I doubt his complaints made it to the CEO of BMW either or addressed it to him personally, telling him he should be "ashamed", so that's another point of difference.
Was it on an unedited blog? A "review" that is nothing but a rant about not being able to even use the item to be reviewed is a non-story that would normally not be published.
It's not a government service paid for by the community so Elon can deal or not deal with people as he wishes. Consumer protection laws only come into force when the deal is done. Cancellation and refund is fair even for the most petty of reasons.
Also known as a hand grenade, with a slight difference to the usual meaning of the term in it blowing up the hard of the person firing it. ABS plastic is a worse choice than many types of wood for the bits that have to deal with high pressure gas.
Laser metal sintering is looking like a different story since it's getting close to zero porosity - so none of those holes that plagued cannon builders over the ages. Any gun small enough has been made out of forged metal for a reason.
Brass is very easy to work even with hand tools and a 3D printed replacement would have to be something different to the original since most of the strength comes from working the brass. I used to work with a guy that made his own cartridges from lengths of brass tube. I think you've hit a situation where 3D printing adds complications and expense instead of reducing it.
If you wanted to get 3D printing regulated then making a lot of attention seeking noise about how people can make zip guns using it is a good way to do it.
You can't even do the barrel and ABS plastic is far less suitable for the other parts than even most hardwoods so it's stirring up hysteria over nothing IMHO.
Will we see fuss about dremel made guns next?
The "market" structure in California was famously fucked up and has been, possibly still is, outright corrupt. It was crony capitalism preserved by law, hopefully it is recovering from that now.
In general terms worldwide however pricing is arranged to encourage large customers to consume at night to result in "base load" and avoid the very expensive and wasteful process of having to shut down a lot of thermal capacity at night. There are also price incentives to encourage very large customers to site their operations in the distribution area of various utilities. Tiered pricing in general is an artifact of those things - to sum up those with a lot to spend can shop around so tiered pricing exists.
Does that answer it? Did you even need that answer? What does California do at this moment and is it an artifact of encouraging consumption to match what can be supplied or is it a persistent artifact of poor management and corruption?
Yes, but on the other side of the coin it's the old story of piecework with a race to the bottom plus deliberate criminal action even if the laws broken are unfair. It's like bringing a little bit of the third world home or digging up a 19th century robber baron.
There is nobody to cheer for in this situation. Unfair monopoly versus a new player that wants to take over the unfair monopoly and move a lot of cost onto their employees. The lie of "ride sharing" as a smokescreen is an especially blatant lie and is being used as a pretended point of difference to get around laws protecting the current local monopolies.
California - vast established economy but still brownouts just like a developing nation yet you use the word "works"?
That "energy market" with Enron etc then probably worse since is an international joke.
XP is still on a pile of office machines out there. Compatibility issues with label printing stuff and a pile of other little applications prevented a move to Win7, especially since MS Office still works on XP. Because IE is unfit for use in the ongoing malware swamp such machines have had firefox, chrome etc since initial installation.
Yes a VM can run that stuff that win7 can't. You'd do it that way, I'd do it that way, but people who already have an XP machine seem to be really annoyed by the extra steps and the entire confusing concept of another desktop on their desktop. It's not ideal but it seems to be why there are still so many XP things out there on recent hardware that can happily run Win7 or later.
At least that's something. Win7 even does annoying shit like deciding on the fly to rearrange things and move an active window to a monitor that is turned off - very annoying when watching movies or playing video games.
WinXP didn't do that. Neither did Win2k.
It's said that politics is the art of the possible, hence the insurance scam that continues to pay Danegild to those that used their influence to stop anything else.
What's the wild man of the woods doing in some place with electricity and network infrastructure - doesn't he know that his weird "I've got mine" ideology is supposed to depend on operating outside society or otherwise he'll just look like a sociopathic prick?
Civilisation means sharing the load, even for those that in a far more brutal society would be left out in the snow to die.
It was never the hardware only the way a consumer OS mapped it into memory. Microsoft didn't have this problem with their server operating systems (not even Win2k) and neither did anyone else. It was nothing but a design flaw in a small number of consumer operating systems by a single vendor.
Since I know the story and you do not it is very clear that you did not.
You are not only pointlessly arguing about an analogy, you are also getting it wrong.
Did you forget the punchline?
The above post looks like it should be some sort of joke with the fantasy of having to stop hundreds of drones per minute instead of a few potential operations per year.
If they're doing that, they might as well teach the birds to fly upside down underneath the drones, unscrew the access panel and rewire the electronics to operate on a radio frequency used by the cops so they gain control over it.
They are birds not Border Collies.
No. I heard it at the time and the story behind it. An utterly stupid idea and it did have blowback at the time resulting in an immediate loss of trust.
WTF? If you had actually "looked into the details" you would be aware that it was all scripted. It must be on wikipedia or something FFS so LOOK IT UP instead of MAKING IT UP - what is it with idiots that want to bluff with no cards when the facts are against them?
A "pure democracy" is not only redefinition for the sake of confusion but typically a strawman used by utter bastards to try to show that democracy doesn't work so maybe we should let the utter bastards have a go at being King in everything but name. It's better not to be the sort of mindless sheep helping those wolves out.
Democracy is democracy. The non-existent extreme democracy is something we'll never have to worry about since the "millions of uninformed sheep" don't just choose a single person so the informed people make a difference as well.
Only if you have a very narrow definition of democracy that does not include the democracies that actually exist. I know personal word redefinition is a thing that even made it to US academia but ultimately it is nothing other than a barrier to communication and a means of petty trickery even if it is especially popular in politics and talk radio.
That's only one subset (there's a lot of traffic that is not encrypted) and IMHO an incredibly stupid thing to do but people still do it. I'm waiting for the obvious to happen and someone in charge of one of the devices with fake certs running off with a pile of credit card details resulting in a bank suing the criminals employer into oblivion. Those increasingly common firewalls with the MITM attack are mostly just there to keep people off facebook on work time and few have worked out how much of a liability they are.
Change your employee computer usage agreement to include "we will spy on all your credit card transactions" and see how they react, because that is exactly what these things do. If you deploy them you need very good reasons (eg. classified info upstream), need to be able to trust anyone with access to the system and need the users to be aware that everything they send "securely" now has extra people with access to it. Most things like this fail on all counts and do not have a good reason to be there other than somebody read about them in Forbes.
If anyone ever deserves contempt it's the people giving the drone pilots contemptible orders. The pilots don't set the missions or pick targets.
Do you also think pilots flying in a clear sky with no risk of anti-aircraft fire are also cowards?
WTF?
Looks like a comment about stuff that annoys me shook up some sort of ticking time bomb blaming the world for his problems. I suppose that explains the attack from nowhere and the refusal to admit that things were discussed to death in earlier articles.
Now since you are big on ignoring comments you don't like and pretend they don't exist, how about ignoring any comments that reference those comments you don't like instead of trying to start some sort of fight? We would have avoided all this pointless idiocy and your goading to sift through all that slime again.
And she read out a script, which is of course acting.
It was pretty stupid because the secret was going to get out and make people question the real stuff.
Citation needed for an opinion :)
OK then - "I think so" - me.
Some stuff I listed above just annoys me but your mileage may vary.