Not so much. They need to build the plant anyway. Even if Texas doesn't start making it easier for Tesla to sell directly, the plant will still function. It's not like building it in a another state will make Texas happy. It's a Win/draw situation for building in Texas to help the Texas and southern market, not a win/lose.
Now of course there are lots of other factors at play about where the factory will be built, but I'm pointing out that revenge is an absolutely terrible metric to use when making business decisions.
This is why you're not a CEO or politician. Building this factory in Texas would make it harder for politicians to fight "Texas Made" cars. Sure the mouth pieces and opposition will still be there, but the mouth pieces promoting the cars would get a lot louder. Once you get Texas on board, a lot of southern states are easier. They are looking how to move forward, not punish for history.
Remember the next round of Tesla cars will be SUVs and bog standard sedans. Not pick up truck territory, but certainly Texas soccer mom and Austin city car markets.
Ah... the apology that puts blame on the victim. A hall mark of abusers and sociopath's everywhere.
Now everyone would of notice that they are only apologising for the mis-communication, not the act of physiological experimentation (as if we would be OK with it if they had told us). But it goes deeper...
Notice that they put the action and apology in two difference sentences, followed quickly by a "We never meant to upset you." Putting the emotional blame back on us. As if we were just accidentally bumped bystanders, not the actual targets of the actions.
And never ever use the word "Sorry". Only the big weasel phrase "we appologise". This apology goes right along with the classic phoney apologies...
I'm sorry you that you got upset.
I'm sorry that you feel that way.
I'm sorry that you made me do that.
And every modern browser sandboxes the fuck out of those environments. Google and Microsoft will give you cash if you can show how running any of those technologies can get you 0wned.
The biggest security problems at the moment are tracking from Facebook buttons and Google ads. But this is not getting "0wned", it is simply the websites you visit behaving as intended. They are the ones who happily put these features there. If you don't like the way these websites work you have some choices...
1. Don't visit them.
2. Install one of the many, many blockers.
3. Disable cookies, or have them trashed on page exit.
And the number one rule of the Internet. If you type information into a website, that company has that information, and what you clicked on.
That company may share that information with anyone they want. Generally assume: User data goes to marketing and parent corp., clicks go to Google and Facebook, everything goes to DHS/NSA/CIA/FBI/(redacted).
tl;dr Don't worry about the information or the technology, worry about YOUR information.
I just got back from my run. I pass 3 robot lawnmowers along my path. The Swiss love their robot mowers even though they only need them 6 months a year. Husqvarna is by far the most popular brand. I can count another 4 or 5 houses in my head with robot lawn mowers. that are within a 10 minute walk.
Surely there is one person in your street or at work that you can ask to crash on a couch for a night. Not every problem is solved by the cloud. Human interaction will get you a long way.
FYI: Banks, courts, and the Government issued ID have processes for people who have lost everything. It generally involves someone signing a document that vouches for your identity. It's not a big deal. If you really want to speed the process, a couple of scans of your documents emailed to yourself will help them simply look up a record and reprint the documents.
Also for the hotel problem. If you really don't have a neighbour that would let you spend the night (just what did you do to them?) the fire department and police department have contacts of places you can stay and worry about the bill later.
TLDR; You live in a society, when your house blows up, it is time to redeem your credit. Relax.
Don't forget that every time we try to count them, there turns out to be more than expected.
While this telescope is focused on high accuracy of closer stars, so it may not be finding any more galaxies, I wouldn't be surprised if it finds even more stars in the Milky Way than we previously estimated. This seems to happen every time we take a closer look.
From the article
it is likely also to see a colossal number of objects that have hitherto gone unrecorded - such as comets, asteroids, planets beyond our Solar System, cold dead stars, and even tepid stars that never quite fired into life.
It seems even the definition of star isn't always clear.
$200? Nope. And you have to within range of a base station that transmits the differential signal. And they aren't cheap.
Most of the error (enough to turn meters into mm) in GPS is identical for a few km, so a base station is placed statically, spends some serious time with a high quality antenna getting its true location and then transmits the error to a compatible receiver. Base stations and GPS receivers with radios are not cheap. ($2000- $20000).
It's not quite the easy solution AC makes it out to be above.
While I understand your sentiment, if I was an astronaut aboard the ISS I don't think I would appreciate a unknown, unexpected, untested, unverified rocket hurtling towards my fragile little home.
"Don't worry, the boosters will shut-off in time. I wrote the code myself!"
"How hard could it possibly be to hit a 1 meter capture ring? And if we miss it'll bounce right off those solar panels."
"Com'on! Open your pressurised habitat to our craft. We used like a whole tube of silicone to seal it up."
"Oh... You might not want to eat the chilli-dogs I packed you after all. Uncle Billy has spent a week on the toilet after eating three."
And these are some of the best case scenarios that I imagined.
We could spend the entire GDP solving potential or theoretical problems.
OT I know.
I think it is cute that there are still people who think that government spending is limited to the GDP.
Get with the times man! Free your mind from the inferior thinking that spending must be less than income.
Why with modern financing we could spend hundreds of times the GDP on solving the problem of getting politicians elected.
Does anyone have any insight into these electro-static orbits.
I'm curious if the orbit would decay naturally if this was done in a vacuum. Is the air friction the only thing stealing the droplets velocity or is there a change in the droplet (and needle) charge, resulting in a electromagnetic force against the droplet?
"STS-335, the rescue mission that would fly only if needed to bring home the members of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission, currently the final scheduled shuttle flight. "
Could you please elaborate where Google has "Done More Evil". People questioned the privacy of their searches and they have since stated their privacy terms clearly (years ago). Google has advocated more open format and open source solutions backed with real money and development. They lobby for net neutrality and open access. I really don't see how they are doing evil.
People have to get used to the idea that if you type information into a website, that website has that information. It's pretty straight forward and there is no way around it. Even if they state they they will delete it, you can't verify that they have and should treat it as such. If you want to remain untrackable from any service, you have to use a proxy; end of story. PS. There isn't a shred of evidence that Google doesn't abide by their terms of service.
Without a specific grievance, it sounds like you are just rebelling against the popular and successful to make yourself feel special.
Go watch television if you don't want involvement. This is not a website for breaking news and generating content. Slashdot links to those things... and heres the kicker, discusses them as a community. Not all the comments are worthy of a pulitzer prize but some cream generally floats to the top. For this reason some discussions don't even focus on the linked article and are more focused on the commenter's own experiences. This is clearly one of those discussions. The summary has the question right there. There are millions of webpages out there. Don't bitch when one of them for one day doesn't perfectly satisfy your whims. It is clearly making other people here happy.
You are using pulled-out-of-your-ass numbers. This is a rampant problem everywhere these day, worse when done by engineers, scientists, IT workers, and managers. You hear a number, then simply add/subtract 10%, 50%, 2/3rds... whatever. And then act like its a well thought out and resonable response. FAA says they need 150% - you fart and come up with 200%. iTunes sells music at 99c, somebody rants that 66c is the one true fair price. Engineers say a process will take 10 weeks - management gives them 9, just because they think it will inspire hard work.
These number have nothing to do with the reality of the problem... just someone trying to sound smart.
Here's a hint... FAA engineers probably thought pretty hard when deciding there safety margins including plenty extras, that 150% would be of already maxed out expectations of stress. Anything more is just adding pointless weight which would start reducing power/weight safety ratios...
Imagine refulling your car by simply stopping at the traffic lights. A swipe system like the toll roads handles payment, and your off again. It would not be hard to have a recharge every 50 - 100km on the highway if they aren't manned. Just a drive though pitstop - and your back on your way.
Who cares if electric cars don't have huge range if recharge stations are everywhere. And if your a "but I like to spend 4 days driving in the wilderness", then you take extra storage... just like you do with petrol.
Oh,... and it would not be hard to fix the complaint about exploding capacitors... Seal them in plastic so there water tight. Only two wires in/out... A very small amount of circuitry would allow high current in for recharging, and have a current limiter on the way out. Not crush proof, but certainly water/short circuit/toddler proof.
Linux.org, Mandrake, and sourceforge have listings as well. But there should be a really kick ass one that all the linux fans could link to from their homepages.
WTF?
1. It's not a tracking device. Its a one way GPS system with a map. That 'satellite positioning system' thats tracking the cars movement. Its in the car, not the sky. Tracking the car against a map is a fundamental part to make the system work.
2. What about when I need to speed to avoid an accident? Once again - WTF? Maybe if you were following at a safe distance and speed you wouldn't get into situations where speed was required to get you out of it. (There are extreem exceptions I know, but there are thousands of acciedents a day where less speed is a good thing).
3. It's a research trial. I think its great that somewhere has finally managed to implement a system that many have wondered about, finaly give a real trial. Yes, results can be manipulated and misinterpreted to a politicians viewpoint, but as long as the reseach, methodologies, and results are sound, I'm all for research.
4. People will just remove them. Well, concidering it is volentary at the moment, I guess that's the idea. If they were mandatory, removing them would be illegal. Ahh, Just like it is illegal to speed right now. Police would be given powers to check if you are breaking the law. And they could hand out fines and court dates. Just like they do with speeding today. Its an interesting system.
Monthly subscription do several things, in this setting: they limit the life of your music, they limit your financial flexibility, and they lock you into a particular vendor.
WRONNG
Some subscription models might do what you describe. Not this one.
If I choose to not pay the subscription for one month. Fine, I don't have music for a month. But then I can start again next month and get ALL my music back plus ANY song they EVER released.
Hell you only might want to subscribe one month a year and get ANY song they EVER released to play at your Birthday party. Hmm, that sounds like a good idea.
It is a DIFFERENT licence that you are buying, one that has good points and bad points, the good point is that you get ANY and EVERY sony they have EVER release for a whole month for just $15. THERE IS NO LOCK IN.
Is summary, *The same thing that has been said a thousand times* It is good for some people, not for others. YMMV
Why don't you use this 'free' software?
Because it doesn't come with an email client!
Why don't you use a 'free' email client?
Because it doesn't come with a web browser!
Why don't you use a 'free' web browser...
I know this sounds reasonable to a slashdotter, but it is actually a good point about why OO and similar 'nix based office programs aren't being adopted as fast as was expected.
The average user just wants to install an office suite that does every thing from one CD, from email and web-browsing to word-processing and spreadsheets. Hell, they even want their databases installed at the same time.
I know that many distributions work towards such goals of providing a total solution with all the necessary components, but they still have a long way to go until they can integrate their office environment in linux like they do in windows.
sure I'm interested in seeing the code to a space shuttles OS...
but I doubt the code to any really useful stuff like the image stabilization software VISAR will be available.
Slashdot Mirror
Not so much. They need to build the plant anyway. Even if Texas doesn't start making it easier for Tesla to sell directly, the plant will still function. It's not like building it in a another state will make Texas happy. It's a Win/draw situation for building in Texas to help the Texas and southern market, not a win/lose.
Now of course there are lots of other factors at play about where the factory will be built, but I'm pointing out that revenge is an absolutely terrible metric to use when making business decisions.
This is why you're not a CEO or politician. Building this factory in Texas would make it harder for politicians to fight "Texas Made" cars. Sure the mouth pieces and opposition will still be there, but the mouth pieces promoting the cars would get a lot louder. Once you get Texas on board, a lot of southern states are easier. They are looking how to move forward, not punish for history.
Remember the next round of Tesla cars will be SUVs and bog standard sedans. Not pick up truck territory, but certainly Texas soccer mom and Austin city car markets.
Ah... the apology that puts blame on the victim. A hall mark of abusers and sociopath's everywhere.
Now everyone would of notice that they are only apologising for the mis-communication, not the act of physiological experimentation (as if we would be OK with it if they had told us). But it goes deeper...
Notice that they put the action and apology in two difference sentences, followed quickly by a "We never meant to upset you." Putting the emotional blame back on us. As if we were just accidentally bumped bystanders, not the actual targets of the actions.
And never ever use the word "Sorry". Only the big weasel phrase "we appologise". This apology goes right along with the classic phoney apologies...
I'm sorry you that you got upset.
I'm sorry that you feel that way.
I'm sorry that you made me do that.
And every modern browser sandboxes the fuck out of those environments. Google and Microsoft will give you cash if you can show how running any of those technologies can get you 0wned.
The biggest security problems at the moment are tracking from Facebook buttons and Google ads. But this is not getting "0wned", it is simply the websites you visit behaving as intended. They are the ones who happily put these features there. If you don't like the way these websites work you have some choices...
1. Don't visit them.
2. Install one of the many, many blockers.
3. Disable cookies, or have them trashed on page exit.
And the number one rule of the Internet. If you type information into a website, that company has that information, and what you clicked on.
That company may share that information with anyone they want. Generally assume: User data goes to marketing and parent corp., clicks go to Google and Facebook, everything goes to DHS/NSA/CIA/FBI/(redacted).
tl;dr Don't worry about the information or the technology, worry about YOUR information.
I just got back from my run. I pass 3 robot lawnmowers along my path. The Swiss love their robot mowers even though they only need them 6 months a year. Husqvarna is by far the most popular brand. I can count another 4 or 5 houses in my head with robot lawn mowers. that are within a 10 minute walk.
Surely there is one person in your street or at work that you can ask to crash on a couch for a night. Not every problem is solved by the cloud. Human interaction will get you a long way.
FYI: Banks, courts, and the Government issued ID have processes for people who have lost everything. It generally involves someone signing a document that vouches for your identity. It's not a big deal. If you really want to speed the process, a couple of scans of your documents emailed to yourself will help them simply look up a record and reprint the documents.
Also for the hotel problem. If you really don't have a neighbour that would let you spend the night (just what did you do to them?) the fire department and police department have contacts of places you can stay and worry about the bill later.
TLDR; You live in a society, when your house blows up, it is time to redeem your credit. Relax.
While this telescope is focused on high accuracy of closer stars, so it may not be finding any more galaxies, I wouldn't be surprised if it finds even more stars in the Milky Way than we previously estimated. This seems to happen every time we take a closer look.
From the article
it is likely also to see a colossal number of objects that have hitherto gone unrecorded - such as comets, asteroids, planets beyond our Solar System, cold dead stars, and even tepid stars that never quite fired into life.
It seems even the definition of star isn't always clear.
$200? Nope. And you have to within range of a base station that transmits the differential signal. And they aren't cheap.
Most of the error (enough to turn meters into mm) in GPS is identical for a few km, so a base station is placed statically, spends some serious time with a high quality antenna getting its true location and then transmits the error to a compatible receiver. Base stations and GPS receivers with radios are not cheap. ($2000- $20000).
It's not quite the easy solution AC makes it out to be above.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Kinematic
Why does this sound like GATTACA?
Because it is very much like GATTACA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl68ca3Yzpo
NERVE CONDITION - PROBABILITY 60%
MANIC DEPRESSION - 42%
OBESITY - 66%
ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER - 89%
HEART DISORDER - 99%
"EARLY FATAL POTENTIAL."
LIFE EXPECTANCY - 33 YEARS.
While I understand your sentiment, if I was an astronaut aboard the ISS I don't think I would appreciate a unknown, unexpected, untested, unverified rocket hurtling towards my fragile little home.
"Don't worry, the boosters will shut-off in time. I wrote the code myself!"
"How hard could it possibly be to hit a 1 meter capture ring? And if we miss it'll bounce right off those solar panels."
"Com'on! Open your pressurised habitat to our craft. We used like a whole tube of silicone to seal it up."
"Oh... You might not want to eat the chilli-dogs I packed you after all. Uncle Billy has spent a week on the toilet after eating three."
And these are some of the best case scenarios that I imagined.
We could spend the entire GDP solving potential or theoretical problems.
OT I know.
I think it is cute that there are still people who think that government spending is limited to the GDP.
Get with the times man! Free your mind from the inferior thinking that spending must be less than income.
Why with modern financing we could spend hundreds of times the GDP on solving the problem of getting politicians elected.
Does anyone have any insight into these electro-static orbits.
I'm curious if the orbit would decay naturally if this was done in a vacuum. Is the air friction the only thing stealing the droplets velocity or is there a change in the droplet (and needle) charge, resulting in a electromagnetic force against the droplet?
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/sep/HQ_10-222_LON_Annc.html
http://www.nickrobinson.info/origami/diagrams/shuttle1.htm
http://www.nickrobinson.info/origami/diagrams/shuttle2.htm
Could you please elaborate where Google has "Done More Evil". People questioned the privacy of their searches and they have since stated their privacy terms clearly (years ago). Google has advocated more open format and open source solutions backed with real money and development. They lobby for net neutrality and open access. I really don't see how they are doing evil.
People have to get used to the idea that if you type information into a website, that website has that information. It's pretty straight forward and there is no way around it. Even if they state they they will delete it, you can't verify that they have and should treat it as such. If you want to remain untrackable from any service, you have to use a proxy; end of story. PS. There isn't a shred of evidence that Google doesn't abide by their terms of service.
Without a specific grievance, it sounds like you are just rebelling against the popular and successful to make yourself feel special.
Go watch television if you don't want involvement. This is not a website for breaking news and generating content. Slashdot links to those things... and heres the kicker, discusses them as a community. Not all the comments are worthy of a pulitzer prize but some cream generally floats to the top. For this reason some discussions don't even focus on the linked article and are more focused on the commenter's own experiences. This is clearly one of those discussions. The summary has the question right there. There are millions of webpages out there. Don't bitch when one of them for one day doesn't perfectly satisfy your whims. It is clearly making other people here happy.
firefox -no-remote will open a new instance on linux, I have no idea about windows. --ProfileManager to get the profile manager
You are using pulled-out-of-your-ass numbers. This is a rampant problem everywhere these day, worse when done by engineers, scientists, IT workers, and managers. You hear a number, then simply add/subtract 10%, 50%, 2/3rds... whatever. And then act like its a well thought out and resonable response. FAA says they need 150% - you fart and come up with 200%. iTunes sells music at 99c, somebody rants that 66c is the one true fair price. Engineers say a process will take 10 weeks - management gives them 9, just because they think it will inspire hard work.
These number have nothing to do with the reality of the problem... just someone trying to sound smart.
Here's a hint... FAA engineers probably thought pretty hard when deciding there safety margins including plenty extras, that 150% would be of already maxed out expectations of stress. Anything more is just adding pointless weight which would start reducing power/weight safety ratios...
Imagine refulling your car by simply stopping at the traffic lights. A swipe system like the toll roads handles payment, and your off again. It would not be hard to have a recharge every 50 - 100km on the highway if they aren't manned. Just a drive though pitstop - and your back on your way.
Who cares if electric cars don't have huge range if recharge stations are everywhere. And if your a "but I like to spend 4 days driving in the wilderness", then you take extra storage... just like you do with petrol.
Oh,... and it would not be hard to fix the complaint about exploding capacitors... Seal them in plastic so there water tight. Only two wires in/out... A very small amount of circuitry would allow high current in for recharging, and have a current limiter on the way out. Not crush proof, but certainly water/short circuit/toddler proof.
Here are the ones I use...
... http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/ b le.shtml
The best
An older one, but still useful http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/ta
Even the gentoo package listing is useful http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/
Linux.org, Mandrake, and sourceforge have listings as well. But there should be a really kick ass one that all the linux fans could link to from their homepages.
WTF?
1. It's not a tracking device. Its a one way GPS system with a map. That 'satellite positioning system' thats tracking the cars movement. Its in the car, not the sky. Tracking the car against a map is a fundamental part to make the system work.
2. What about when I need to speed to avoid an accident? Once again - WTF? Maybe if you were following at a safe distance and speed you wouldn't get into situations where speed was required to get you out of it. (There are extreem exceptions I know, but there are thousands of acciedents a day where less speed is a good thing).
3. It's a research trial. I think its great that somewhere has finally managed to implement a system that many have wondered about, finaly give a real trial. Yes, results can be manipulated and misinterpreted to a politicians viewpoint, but as long as the reseach, methodologies, and results are sound, I'm all for research.
4. People will just remove them. Well, concidering it is volentary at the moment, I guess that's the idea. If they were mandatory, removing them would be illegal. Ahh, Just like it is illegal to speed right now. Police would be given powers to check if you are breaking the law. And they could hand out fines and court dates. Just like they do with speeding today. Its an interesting system.
Some subscription models might do what you describe. Not this one.
If I choose to not pay the subscription for one month. Fine, I don't have music for a month. But then I can start again next month and get ALL my music back plus ANY song they EVER released.
Hell you only might want to subscribe one month a year and get ANY song they EVER released to play at your Birthday party. Hmm, that sounds like a good idea.
It is a DIFFERENT licence that you are buying, one that has good points and bad points, the good point is that you get ANY and EVERY sony they have EVER release for a whole month for just $15. THERE IS NO LOCK IN.
Is summary, *The same thing that has been said a thousand times* It is good for some people, not for others. YMMV
We need to be able to provide a little *feedback* into the devices to help the *education* of the students. I can see it now...
"Please stay inside the yellow line. Do not cross the yellow lines. Do not cross the Red lines."
Ohw, Ohw... No we should have electronic colloars that are paired to another unknown student. If one of them trys to play hookie, ka-boomie.
Serriously, to make sure the students carry them just put a Nike mark on it and charge $125+ for them. Now its a must have fassion accessory.
I know this sounds reasonable to a slashdotter, but it is actually a good point about why OO and similar 'nix based office programs aren't being adopted as fast as was expected.
The average user just wants to install an office suite that does every thing from one CD, from email and web-browsing to word-processing and spreadsheets. Hell, they even want their databases installed at the same time.
I know that many distributions work towards such goals of providing a total solution with all the necessary components, but they still have a long way to go until they can integrate their office environment in linux like they do in windows.
sure I'm interested in seeing the code to a space shuttles OS...
but I doubt the code to any really useful stuff like the image stabilization software VISAR will be available.