I thought Maxwell was going to be under the 800 series. For sure, the 700 series already exists and has used the older Kepler architecture. Why confuse customers with ambiguous product naming?
Don't worry, there's not a chance of that happening, at least not until Elon Musk gets the cheaper next gen cars out en masse, and probably not for a long time after that.
I keep up with the Tesla news very closely, and that guy is on a mission, and its primary goal is not money. He REALLY wants to rid the world of CO2 emissions as much as possible, and he'll do anything to see that goal is met.
As far as I know, fuel cells are not solid-state and require refueling from potentially high pressure gas. It also limits the fuel source type, whereas a battery can use any fuel type (as they can all generate electricity, from coal to solar to fusion).
Have you considered switching careers to developing batteries? In 50, 500, 5000 or even 50,000 years from now, we'll be using batteries because their inherent qualities and convenience make them a better choice than anything else.
I'm not sure you know him very well. He's the most honest, non-greedy, upfront, CEO I know. I'll post you a link to my reply to someone else who wasn't keen on him:
Well if that was their goal, then it would've been FAR better to ask them to define "astrology", and count up the results manually. Otherwise there is definitely an issue where the results are contaminated with people who DO know what 'astrology' means, but ALSO think it's a science too.
I'd have to say - mixing the words up is far less troubling than belief in astrology as a science. Superstitious belief is built upon a whole foundational fabric of misunderstandings, ignorance, and lies. A word mixup is far more innocuous, and easy to correct. One data point instead of potentially thousands.
There's also the case where the graphics can be incredible, but where we still don't imitate reality. And even if they have perfectly formed 3D objects, and global illumination, the landscape and beings could be totally alien.
In the beginning, or near the beginning, Tesla tried to go the dealership route. The result? They rejected Tesla, as they didn't see the promise and potential that Tesla held.
If the law says cutting out the middle man is a crime, then it is.
Well for the states where that is true, Tesla will fight each state, and if they still fail, they will rightly go to the federal level if need be, and then with most likelihood, will win. A win is surely the best thing (as in for society as a whole) morally, economically, AND legally. Dealers are providing unnecessary work, and if you understand the broken window fallacy, you'll know that unnecessary work does not in any way benefit society, and in fact does the reverse.
I agree the 'load more' button should go. I often like to search a whole page of comments without worrying about if there's another page to search through.
Also you can't then see how many more 'load more' pages there are. It's hard to see the size of the number of comments (and therefore how long it would take for you to check through them).
Plus, it's simply a pain to have to press each time.
I would prefer no extensions whatsoever, not country codes, not setup types (like com, net, org). Just the actual domain name itself, perhaps prefaced with just "www.".
That would make for a far more unified and consistent system, as then each website owner can put whatever they want in that name, including dots and dashes if they so wish.
Thanks for your reply. I read the whole of that. I never knew of the story, and it made me think a little less of him. But only a little. And the reason why is because throughout the whole of that saga, it seems Elon was so tied to his work he couldn't make much time for his wife. That's very sad, but the good that he's doing for the world is so immense that I would say it takes priority. Personally, when I worked really hard on a certain programming project, I practically ignored everything else including my family. I regret that deeply, but I was getting little sleep, and it was very frustrating what I was working on (as well as being quite addictive). If I could go back in time, I'd force myself to take more breaks.
Elon gave his old wife an ultimatum, which seemed a bit cold. But I would say that's better than leaving her point blank. She does indeed seem bitter, but not incredibly so. I quote:
Although I am estranged from Elon — when it comes to the children, I deal with his assistant — I don't regret my marriage. I've worked through some anger, both at Elon for rendering me so disposable, and at myself for buying into a fairy tale when I should have known better. But I will always respect the brilliant and visionary person that he is.
You said:
As far as his main motive, I'm curious as to how you think you know what motivates him.
I've seen countless interviews of him. Lots and lots, so you kinda get to know the way he ticks. For example, when Tesla and SpaceX were dying and very almost went bankrupt, he invested his own personal money to keep them alive (they only just pulled through). He does go on about 'saving the planet' and 'global warming', but he's not 100% sure that we ARE wrecking it, but he thinks it's a good idea not to find out, given that obviously even if there's a 5% chance we are wrecking the planet, it's best not to risk even that small chance.
He's an engineer as well as a CEO of course. You can hear that technical passion when he talks about SpaceX and Tesla, and making an electric car that has all the advantages of a gas car and then some. His Hyperloop idea was brought about because he thought the plan for a $68 billion bullet train in California was horrendously expensive and less advanced than the Hyperloop (which would come closer to more like $6 billion). He doesn't currently have the time to pursue it because of Tesla and SpaceX, but he's put the whole idea into the public domain in the hopes that someone else will do it.
And as I said his pricing for the Tesla Model S in China definitely goes against the idea that he's in it for the money too. Supercharger stations (which can get about 100 miles of range in only 15 mins of battery charge) are and will be free of charge to fill up (he uses solar power to help power the superchargers).
Programming is always going to be a mess and there will never stop being new platforms.
That's like saying text encodings will always be a mess. They have been, but UTF-8 has come along to save us all from the hell of multiple incompatible encodings. It's fast getting towards the stage where everyone has standardized on it. Something similar could be said for USB too.
If a beautiful OS takes off (something that ISN'T OS X, Windows, Android OS, iOS or Linux before anyone thinks I'm taking sides), and with it, comes a beautiful language (fast, terse, flexible, and allowing code that's easy to write, maintain and read), then it's very possible we could all unify our tools towards a single solution. Whether this takes a decade, century or millennium is anyone's guess, but it's surely the way forwards.
I would've loved to see the state of batteries had the electric car been popular throughout the decades. We've put up with the stone-age ICE for too long, a technology which has and will barely see any improvement relative to batteries which could be so amazing (even in 5000 years, batteries will be the universal way to power portable appliances like the car).
Love to know why you think he's a jerk. He's one one of the most honest, upfront, ambitious, and transparent CEOs I've ever seen. Heck, they're not overcharging double unlike all the other car companies for the Chinese market, because he wants to be fair, even if the Chinese market would happily pay more. He wants us all to pay pennies for mileage instead of pounds for gas, and have almost zero maintenance for our cars instead of hundreds of dollar repair jobs each year.
His main motive is in fact not money, but switching the world to electric, and (whether global warming is real or not) helping to stop CO2 from wrecking the planet. And he wants to push us towards a base on Mars so we don't die on this rock. He's doing the work of a hundred companies.
If 'spaghetti-strung' racquets create large amounts of spin, and this makes the game boring due to over caution from both players, then would it be far fetched to suggest that racquets with little or no spin would make the game more enjoyable than it is now?
So what are the disadvantages compared to a LIon battery? Does it need much maintenance (such as replacing the sugar)? Can you just plug it into the wall to charge like a normal rechargeable battery? How is the lifespan (cycles) and how quickly does it charge? Is there much vampire drain? How much power can it produce (W/kg)? Is the tech there yet or are there still obstacles to overcome? How cheaply can these be made?
If life is so miserable, then why keep having more children? I'd feel terrible about bringing kids into this world knowing they could die so young, or at least endure a life of poverty. At the very least, it's selfish.
What do you think of the so-called 'prime directive' from Star Trek?
SSDs were stupid expensive, but because the rich bought them, now they're affordable for most people at just over 500$ for a terabyte (affordable at least in first world countries, but obviously eventually for the third world). Had it not been for those rich people, it would have been much harder for SSDs to gain traction.
Have you ever driven a Tesla Model S? I reckon you'd be surprised at the instant torque, acceleration, safety, and silentness. Even if you have infinite money and don't care about the environment much, maintenance and noise is still a pain, along with the general poor air quality in busy cities, and those are factors which are drastically improved with an EV.
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I thought Maxwell was going to be under the 800 series. For sure, the 700 series already exists and has used the older Kepler architecture. Why confuse customers with ambiguous product naming?
Don't worry, there's not a chance of that happening, at least not until Elon Musk gets the cheaper next gen cars out en masse, and probably not for a long time after that.
I keep up with the Tesla news very closely, and that guy is on a mission, and its primary goal is not money. He REALLY wants to rid the world of CO2 emissions as much as possible, and he'll do anything to see that goal is met.
As far as I know, fuel cells are not solid-state and require refueling from potentially high pressure gas. It also limits the fuel source type, whereas a battery can use any fuel type (as they can all generate electricity, from coal to solar to fusion).
Have you considered switching careers to developing batteries? In 50, 500, 5000 or even 50,000 years from now, we'll be using batteries because their inherent qualities and convenience make them a better choice than anything else.
I'm not sure you know him very well. He's the most honest, non-greedy, upfront, CEO I know. I'll post you a link to my reply to someone else who wasn't keen on him:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Well if that was their goal, then it would've been FAR better to ask them to define "astrology", and count up the results manually. Otherwise there is definitely an issue where the results are contaminated with people who DO know what 'astrology' means, but ALSO think it's a science too.
I'd have to say - mixing the words up is far less troubling than belief in astrology as a science. Superstitious belief is built upon a whole foundational fabric of misunderstandings, ignorance, and lies. A word mixup is far more innocuous, and easy to correct. One data point instead of potentially thousands.
There's also the case where the graphics can be incredible, but where we still don't imitate reality. And even if they have perfectly formed 3D objects, and global illumination, the landscape and beings could be totally alien.
If the law says cutting out the middle man is a crime, then it is.
Well for the states where that is true, Tesla will fight each state, and if they still fail, they will rightly go to the federal level if need be, and then with most likelihood, will win. A win is surely the best thing (as in for society as a whole) morally, economically, AND legally. Dealers are providing unnecessary work, and if you understand the broken window fallacy, you'll know that unnecessary work does not in any way benefit society, and in fact does the reverse.
You can store whatever you like on them as long as you're not breaking copyright obviously. Not sure what you mean.
What would be the difference between OwnCloud and just a normal web host? I thought that's what web hosts were for...
I agree the 'load more' button should go. I often like to search a whole page of comments without worrying about if there's another page to search through.
Also you can't then see how many more 'load more' pages there are. It's hard to see the size of the number of comments (and therefore how long it would take for you to check through them).
Plus, it's simply a pain to have to press each time.
I would prefer no extensions whatsoever, not country codes, not setup types (like com, net, org). Just the actual domain name itself, perhaps prefaced with just "www.".
That would make for a far more unified and consistent system, as then each website owner can put whatever they want in that name, including dots and dashes if they so wish.
Elon gave his old wife an ultimatum, which seemed a bit cold. But I would say that's better than leaving her point blank. She does indeed seem bitter, but not incredibly so. I quote:
Although I am estranged from Elon — when it comes to the children, I deal with his assistant — I don't regret my marriage. I've worked through some anger, both at Elon for rendering me so disposable, and at myself for buying into a fairy tale when I should have known better. But I will always respect the brilliant and visionary person that he is.
You said:
As far as his main motive, I'm curious as to how you think you know what motivates him.
I've seen countless interviews of him. Lots and lots, so you kinda get to know the way he ticks. For example, when Tesla and SpaceX were dying and very almost went bankrupt, he invested his own personal money to keep them alive (they only just pulled through). He does go on about 'saving the planet' and 'global warming', but he's not 100% sure that we ARE wrecking it, but he thinks it's a good idea not to find out, given that obviously even if there's a 5% chance we are wrecking the planet, it's best not to risk even that small chance.
He's an engineer as well as a CEO of course. You can hear that technical passion when he talks about SpaceX and Tesla, and making an electric car that has all the advantages of a gas car and then some. His Hyperloop idea was brought about because he thought the plan for a $68 billion bullet train in California was horrendously expensive and less advanced than the Hyperloop (which would come closer to more like $6 billion). He doesn't currently have the time to pursue it because of Tesla and SpaceX, but he's put the whole idea into the public domain in the hopes that someone else will do it.
And as I said his pricing for the Tesla Model S in China definitely goes against the idea that he's in it for the money too. Supercharger stations (which can get about 100 miles of range in only 15 mins of battery charge) are and will be free of charge to fill up (he uses solar power to help power the superchargers).
Programming is always going to be a mess and there will never stop being new platforms.
That's like saying text encodings will always be a mess. They have been, but UTF-8 has come along to save us all from the hell of multiple incompatible encodings. It's fast getting towards the stage where everyone has standardized on it. Something similar could be said for USB too.
If a beautiful OS takes off (something that ISN'T OS X, Windows, Android OS, iOS or Linux before anyone thinks I'm taking sides), and with it, comes a beautiful language (fast, terse, flexible, and allowing code that's easy to write, maintain and read), then it's very possible we could all unify our tools towards a single solution. Whether this takes a decade, century or millennium is anyone's guess, but it's surely the way forwards.
I would've loved to see the state of batteries had the electric car been popular throughout the decades. We've put up with the stone-age ICE for too long, a technology which has and will barely see any improvement relative to batteries which could be so amazing (even in 5000 years, batteries will be the universal way to power portable appliances like the car).
Thanks for clarifying. I thought I was getting mixed impressions. The words 'rechargeable' and 'fuel cell' shouldn't really belong together.
Love to know why you think he's a jerk. He's one one of the most honest, upfront, ambitious, and transparent CEOs I've ever seen. Heck, they're not overcharging double unlike all the other car companies for the Chinese market, because he wants to be fair, even if the Chinese market would happily pay more. He wants us all to pay pennies for mileage instead of pounds for gas, and have almost zero maintenance for our cars instead of hundreds of dollar repair jobs each year.
His main motive is in fact not money, but switching the world to electric, and (whether global warming is real or not) helping to stop CO2 from wrecking the planet. And he wants to push us towards a base on Mars so we don't die on this rock. He's doing the work of a hundred companies.
He's the exact OPPOSITE of what you think of him.
If 'spaghetti-strung' racquets create large amounts of spin, and this makes the game boring due to over caution from both players, then would it be far fetched to suggest that racquets with little or no spin would make the game more enjoyable than it is now?
Same question goes for table tennis.
So what are the disadvantages compared to a LIon battery? Does it need much maintenance (such as replacing the sugar)? Can you just plug it into the wall to charge like a normal rechargeable battery? How is the lifespan (cycles) and how quickly does it charge? Is there much vampire drain? How much power can it produce (W/kg)? Is the tech there yet or are there still obstacles to overcome? How cheaply can these be made?
If life is so miserable, then why keep having more children? I'd feel terrible about bringing kids into this world knowing they could die so young, or at least endure a life of poverty. At the very least, it's selfish.
What do you think of the so-called 'prime directive' from Star Trek?
Let's say you're neither.
SSDs were stupid expensive, but because the rich bought them, now they're affordable for most people at just over 500$ for a terabyte (affordable at least in first world countries, but obviously eventually for the third world). Had it not been for those rich people, it would have been much harder for SSDs to gain traction.
Same will go for OLED TVs and electric cars.
Is it better than 10 people have great lives, or that 50 people have mediocre lives?
Have you ever driven a Tesla Model S? I reckon you'd be surprised at the instant torque, acceleration, safety, and silentness. Even if you have infinite money and don't care about the environment much, maintenance and noise is still a pain, along with the general poor air quality in busy cities, and those are factors which are drastically improved with an EV.