Outlaw "Trick or Treat". Or "demanding moneys with menaces" as it's known in the rest of the world. Only in the USA is such an odious 'tradition' encouraged and made part of the culture. Unfortunately it's spreading to other countries through the usual cultural imperialism. JUST SAY NO!
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Well done for picking on one of my arguments while totally ignoring the other.
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They dominate the desktop market for a reason.
Yes, and that reason has nothing to do with its quality or ease-of-use, technical merit or anything other than a) it was installed by default on every no-name brand PC at the lowest price points and b) it was pirated widely.
Look at the success of iOS and Macs. [] I've had problems with *nix based software as well as Linux distributions in general.
Mac OS X is *nix. It's something that's easy to forget because, unlike others, it never exposes its *nix underpinnings unless you go looking.
The more significant thing is that they can charge it in a few hours on household current.
The roadster has a 53kWh battery. Thus to charge it in a "few", (say, 3) hours will need ~17kW, which is 70A at 240V, assuming you have 240V, which is not the standard voltage in the US, I know. I don't know many homes that would be capable of handling that amount of current, so the claim looks unreasonable.
More realistically, if you had a 240V/35A supply, you'd be looking at 6-7 hours charging. Not so bad, but that's still a very hefty current you're pulling- it's like having an electric oven on full blast for 7 hours. Your bills are going to go through the roof, though I guess it could still work out cheaper than petrol.
A 240V/13A supply will need 17 hours to recharge. That's a typical "household current" socket in the UK, Europe and Australia, but I don't really call that a "few" hours.
Also the text of every novel that will ever be written.
Surely that could be true of an infinitely long purely random number, but not Pi, which is after all, the actual ratio of a circle's diameter to its circumference; i.e. it's not random.
The spacecraft they were flying were all very fragile machines. Please don't imagine a tiny pocket camera. It is likely to be quite heavy. Further with chemicals and batteries etc, there are other hazards too. The mission they were undertaking was extremely dangerous and risky and nothing should have been done with deliberation, forethought and thorough review of every contingency.
Yet that very dangerous item was carried there in the very same spacecraft. Didn't seem to be a problem on the way down.
I can't believe we haven't come up with a better system than the piston engine invented 100's of years ago.
Well, only 125 years ago... but we do have something much, much better than a piston engine. It's called an "electric motor". Unfortunately we still haven't effectively solved the fuelling problem.
No, that is NOT the real question. The real question is why the fuck we are building a society for ourselves that is undoing all the hard-won freedoms we've fought for and earned in the last few hundred years. If one of the ways people exercise those freedoms is to tweet and blog all day long, theta's up to them. You're also free to ignore them.
It actually is less efficient to generate power far away, send it over the wire and charge that car than it is for it to be self powered.
Can you back that claim up with numbers? No, because it's not true. If you mean a car "self-powered" by fossil fuel, you're lucky to see 20% of that energy appear at the wheels. If you look at well-to-wheel efficiency, it's even worse. If you meant "self-powered" by on-board batteries, where did the energy come from that was put into those batteries? Power transmission is actually quite efficient; power generation is also reasonably efficient compared with a small IC engine, and in any case, France has a very high proportion of nuclear energy.
Do they know what an "average' is? That's the problem with averages, one outlying value can skew the result. Maybe they should stop using something as dumb and simplistic as an average to indicate the collective state of stock prices?
Definitely. I can't believe that first comment. No-one wants to see an air crash, that's truly sick. As the blogger said, it's nothing like the movies. I saw a fatal accident at an airshow in the 1970s and it was a horrible, horrible thing to witness. It's as vivid in my mind now as it was right then - you never forget those things.
This is simply tragic and a terrible waste of life. My condolences to all those who have lost loved ones.
Gah! Would it really be so hard for Slashdot to convert line breaks into paragraphs? And My title had a '-->' between the two words. Expecting us to write raw HTML is stupid, even if we are geeks.
My dad built a Heathkit combined hi-fi amplifier/FM receiver when I was about 9 or 10. I got interested and he let me learn soldering using the soldering practice board that came with the kit (he could solder already). That went OK, so next birthday I got a small portable AM radio kit, Heathkit again. I never got it to work - the small audio power stage was very touchy, and used germanium transistors, so it was extremely easy to blow the transistors when setting it up.
Nevertheless I did get interested in electronics despite this setback, and moving on via a Sinclair X-40 kit instruction manual I was given (never could afford the actual kit!), I eventually built stuff successfully from magazines such as Practical Electronics, ETI and Elektor. At 16 I left school and went to work for an electronics company in a R&D capacity - they gave me the job solely on my practical experience with electronics I'd learned as a hobby, not from school results. That company had a similar ethos to Heathkit - extremely high quality components and PCBs, ultra-neat wiring, every transistor sitting on its own "transipad". I felt right at home - I thought that was how all electronics stuff was put together.
Opening up consumer stuff built in Japan to fix it for friends was a shock just how shoddily that stuff was thrown together. On one occasion we were trying desperately to solve the problem of microphony on a frequency synthesiser (any vibration of the PCB or unit would modulate the carrier). I discovered (taking my cue from Jap crap) that dumping candle wax over the sensitive oscillator components did the job very effectively, but my boss absolutely refused to allow it as a solution - apart from perhaps being hard to productionise, it just went against the grain of ultra-neatness that the company insisted on. Needless to say they have been history now for a very long time. Rather sad that such ultra-high build quality is a thing of the past - though perhaps in this day of surface mount it's less of an issue than it used to be.
There've been too many government cover ups, too many covert operations, too many things that the government does that goes against the will of the people.
Yes, and we know about them because sooner or later (usually sooner) they all came to light - someone leaked information, spilt the beans to the press, or just plain got caught. And when those conspiracies to get unravelled, they are usually laughable in their breathtaking arrogance and incompetence. To me, this proves that the moon conspiracy theories can't be true, or we'd all know all about it. It's just impossible that it could have been covered up successfully and competently to the extent that some believe it has.
Back in the day, you could tune into the police on an ordinary FM radio (in the UK). They used the frequencies from 100 to 108 MHz before they got moved.
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You sold it. Hope you got a good price, and it was worth it.
Outlaw "Trick or Treat". Or "demanding moneys with menaces" as it's known in the rest of the world. Only in the USA is such an odious 'tradition' encouraged and made part of the culture. Unfortunately it's spreading to other countries through the usual cultural imperialism. JUST SAY NO!
Well done for picking on one of my arguments while totally ignoring the other.
They dominate the desktop market for a reason.
Yes, and that reason has nothing to do with its quality or ease-of-use, technical merit or anything other than a) it was installed by default on every no-name brand PC at the lowest price points and b) it was pirated widely.
Look at the success of iOS and Macs. [] I've had problems with *nix based software as well as Linux distributions in general.
Mac OS X is *nix. It's something that's easy to forget because, unlike others, it never exposes its *nix underpinnings unless you go looking.
But it's Freemason-like style, it's focus on sight
it's == it is. I think you meant its.
The more significant thing is that they can charge it in a few hours on household current.
The roadster has a 53kWh battery. Thus to charge it in a "few", (say, 3) hours will need ~17kW, which is 70A at 240V, assuming you have 240V, which is not the standard voltage in the US, I know. I don't know many homes that would be capable of handling that amount of current, so the claim looks unreasonable.
More realistically, if you had a 240V/35A supply, you'd be looking at 6-7 hours charging. Not so bad, but that's still a very hefty current you're pulling- it's like having an electric oven on full blast for 7 hours. Your bills are going to go through the roof, though I guess it could still work out cheaper than petrol.
A 240V/13A supply will need 17 hours to recharge. That's a typical "household current" socket in the UK, Europe and Australia, but I don't really call that a "few" hours.
Also the text of every novel that will ever be written.
Surely that could be true of an infinitely long purely random number, but not Pi, which is after all, the actual ratio of a circle's diameter to its circumference; i.e. it's not random.
The big question is, does it turn out to contain the plans for a teleporting device?
It all is. Just Ghastly. Look at me, I'm a personality prototype. You can tell, can't you?
Mac computers are the closest thing to a usable Linux you're going to get off the shelf.
FTFY.
The spacecraft they were flying were all very fragile machines. Please don't imagine a tiny pocket camera. It is likely to be quite heavy. Further with chemicals and batteries etc, there are other hazards too. The mission they were undertaking was extremely dangerous and risky and nothing should have been done with deliberation, forethought and thorough review of every contingency.
Yet that very dangerous item was carried there in the very same spacecraft. Didn't seem to be a problem on the way down.
I can't believe we haven't come up with a better system than the piston engine invented 100's of years ago.
Well, only 125 years ago... but we do have something much, much better than a piston engine. It's called an "electric motor". Unfortunately we still haven't effectively solved the fuelling problem.
No, that is NOT the real question. The real question is why the fuck we are building a society for ourselves that is undoing all the hard-won freedoms we've fought for and earned in the last few hundred years. If one of the ways people exercise those freedoms is to tweet and blog all day long, theta's up to them. You're also free to ignore them.
Cherish it, it clearly isn't going to last.
There, I think I just got Slashdot shut down...
It actually is less efficient to generate power far away, send it over the wire and charge that car than it is for it to be self powered.
Can you back that claim up with numbers? No, because it's not true. If you mean a car "self-powered" by fossil fuel, you're lucky to see 20% of that energy appear at the wheels. If you look at well-to-wheel efficiency, it's even worse. If you meant "self-powered" by on-board batteries, where did the energy come from that was put into those batteries? Power transmission is actually quite efficient; power generation is also reasonably efficient compared with a small IC engine, and in any case, France has a very high proportion of nuclear energy.
:) wish I had mod points - this genuinely made me LOL...
Do they know what an "average' is? That's the problem with averages, one outlying value can skew the result. Maybe they should stop using something as dumb and simplistic as an average to indicate the collective state of stock prices?
Definitely. I can't believe that first comment. No-one wants to see an air crash, that's truly sick. As the blogger said, it's nothing like the movies. I saw a fatal accident at an airshow in the 1970s and it was a horrible, horrible thing to witness. It's as vivid in my mind now as it was right then - you never forget those things.
This is simply tragic and a terrible waste of life. My condolences to all those who have lost loved ones.
Gah! Would it really be so hard for Slashdot to convert line breaks into paragraphs? And My title had a '-->' between the two words. Expecting us to write raw HTML is stupid, even if we are geeks.
My dad built a Heathkit combined hi-fi amplifier/FM receiver when I was about 9 or 10. I got interested and he let me learn soldering using the soldering practice board that came with the kit (he could solder already). That went OK, so next birthday I got a small portable AM radio kit, Heathkit again. I never got it to work - the small audio power stage was very touchy, and used germanium transistors, so it was extremely easy to blow the transistors when setting it up. Nevertheless I did get interested in electronics despite this setback, and moving on via a Sinclair X-40 kit instruction manual I was given (never could afford the actual kit!), I eventually built stuff successfully from magazines such as Practical Electronics, ETI and Elektor. At 16 I left school and went to work for an electronics company in a R&D capacity - they gave me the job solely on my practical experience with electronics I'd learned as a hobby, not from school results. That company had a similar ethos to Heathkit - extremely high quality components and PCBs, ultra-neat wiring, every transistor sitting on its own "transipad". I felt right at home - I thought that was how all electronics stuff was put together. Opening up consumer stuff built in Japan to fix it for friends was a shock just how shoddily that stuff was thrown together. On one occasion we were trying desperately to solve the problem of microphony on a frequency synthesiser (any vibration of the PCB or unit would modulate the carrier). I discovered (taking my cue from Jap crap) that dumping candle wax over the sensitive oscillator components did the job very effectively, but my boss absolutely refused to allow it as a solution - apart from perhaps being hard to productionise, it just went against the grain of ultra-neatness that the company insisted on. Needless to say they have been history now for a very long time. Rather sad that such ultra-high build quality is a thing of the past - though perhaps in this day of surface mount it's less of an issue than it used to be.
Simple. When it comes to paradigms, shifts happen. We're seeing one now.
In the same location I found a hidden app called "Finder"! I wonder what it does?
There've been too many government cover ups, too many covert operations, too many things that the government does that goes against the will of the people.
Yes, and we know about them because sooner or later (usually sooner) they all came to light - someone leaked information, spilt the beans to the press, or just plain got caught. And when those conspiracies to get unravelled, they are usually laughable in their breathtaking arrogance and incompetence. To me, this proves that the moon conspiracy theories can't be true, or we'd all know all about it. It's just impossible that it could have been covered up successfully and competently to the extent that some believe it has.
Back in the day, you could tune into the police on an ordinary FM radio (in the UK). They used the frequencies from 100 to 108 MHz before they got moved.
Isn't that basically the same as the "if you've nothing to hide..." argument? We all know by now (or should) why that one's a non-starter.