As for Tesla's leader, Elon Musk, I happen to think that promoting electric cars to help us kick the fossil fuel habit is one of the better things a person could offer humanity. So, yeah, there is literally not much that would be better to do.
Building an electric cargo ship.
The ocean giants that bring your tech toys from China have a pollution impact that dwarves that of small countries, including all their combustion engine cars. Getting rid of those black fumes would do a lot more than a couple thousand electric cars.
are due to be discussed at a supervisory board meeting
That is all you need to know.
They have plans. They don't have a prototype yet, nor a factory setup, nor a delivery schedule nor final pricing or performance numbers. Any or all of those can still change dramatically.
We will see what happens when you can actually buy this car. Until then there is nothing to see.
The list of people interested in the election results is very, very long. Russia certainly is on that list somewhere, but most likely not near the top. There are many others more interested and more motivated to play around.
Russians can be assumed to not be totally stupid. As such they would understand how much theatre US politics is and how little it actually matters who sits in what chair, a few special chairs exempted. Too many decisions are made behind the scenes anyways, but non-elected officials. Too many decisions are influenced by money and lobbyists.
If I were tasked with influencing politics in Washington, hacking an election would be among the last things on my mind. Buying out or planting my people in some of the large lobbying organisations would be much, much higher. And bribing politicians with pictures of that whore they met, or that gay adventure they had would be far above buying Facebook ads.
Why in all nine hells would you ever want to go with MS SQL for anything, at all, ever ?
I've been doing sysadmin stuff all my adult life, even now that I'm a security architect I keep in close contact with sysadmins. Not one of them has ever recommended MS SQL, everyone who used it was unhappy, in most discussions it doesn't even appear as an option.
I'm really curious which strange twisting of dimensions makes you the only person on the planet to seriously consider it who is not forced by external circumstances.
Same with MySql. They have closed source commercial products that compete with both of these.
The percentage of MySQL users that would migrate to Oracle must be something that is a challenge to find even with a microscope. You have a reasonably smooth upgrade path to PostgreSQL, in fact if you are using database abstraction as you should, it's a config option.
I'm not the biggest fan of Amazon, but why should they leave money lying on the table?
From their perspective: They shouldn't.
From the perspective of society: We should force them to. Because that money can pay for schools, hospitals, police, firefighters, roads, electricity, water and a hundred other useful things.
Is being retarded a requirement for holding a public office or does it just help a lot? Half of the times a large company is "searching for a cooperation partner" or some such, they already have a winner in mind. They just need to go through the motions for regulatory or political purposes. And it is quite common to make invitations to tender as a means to press the price of your favorites down somewhat. Even if they understand they are your preferred choice, the competition will force them into making a better offer.
Been there, done that.
The Amazon search was never an open-ended search and anyone with three working brain cells understood that. At best they had only favorites and it maybe might have been possible to sway them. More likely, two spots were already certain and one was a "maybe". Wouldn't be surprised if all of them were certain at the start.
Seriously, to expect any kind of "fair play" behaviour from an international corporation only shows that whatever you are smoking needs to be made illegal. Profit is the only ethics of a corporation, because the entire system is set up like that.
Simple way to stop it - don't allow externalities anymore. Put a price on pollution, on negative social impact, on any behaviour you want to discourage and companies will follow the money. They're like drug addicts. You could start by stopping to compete for company favors and make them compete for your grace again. I've always thought it absurd that counties or cities compete against each other to attract a company.
What makes taking a drug, drinking coffee, or smoking a cigarette an addiction over merely a bad habit? I've heard it somewhere that tobacco use is not an addiction if it's not used more than once per month. So, a person is "addicted" if they like to have a cigarette with his smoking friends when they meet on the weekend for poker and pizza? Are they also addicted to poker and pizza then?
An addiction is mind-altering.
There are certain sweets or drinks that I enjoy greatly. If you put them in front of me together with other snacks, I know which I would pick. But it would never cross my mind to commit a crime to get them, or go into prostitution. If I lose access to them - as happened when I changed country recently with a few of my favorite foods - I will be sad, but I won't go around killing people. And if you come for a surprise visit and bring them, I will be "oh, cool, thank you!" not frothing at the mouth jumping over the table grabbing it from you.
Tobacco, like alcohol and other drugs is mildly addictive if consumed in small quantities. The full addictive effect only kicks in with regular users, there is a habituation effect. So your twice-a-year smoker might very well not be addicted. But the evidence is clear especially in smokers about how hard it is to quit. The evidence is clear in alcoholics how one drink can ruin years of abstinence and plunge them right back into being alcoholics. These clear and numerous facts you cannot just deny. And you will not find comparable examples for poker and pizza.
So given AIs mix of awesome success and amusing failures, we will soon see a feature-length movie featuring disembodied facial hair floating through a forest for two hours, mixed with special effects and a blasting soundtrack ?
Actually, I found that a notebook is a better media consumption device, especially in bed. At least it stands more or less solid. Tablet stands are fragile and the darn thing will fall over if you move under the sheets to change position or something. On a couch, setting the notebook on your lap gives you more stability than any tablet I've ever seen.
I've bought two iPads and my wife got one as a present once, but neither of them see much use and the newer iPad has since been given away to someone who found it useful.
With notebooks becoming smaller and lighter, and phones getting bigger and faster, the niche that tablets fill is becoming smaller and tablets are not taking bites out of the notebooks market because everyone insists on treating them like big phones instead of small notebooks. MS had the right idea with the Surface except that they decided to treat the entire OS like a big phone with Win 10 and "tiles" and the other bullshit.
I'm looking at the iPad Pro and waiting for the day it ships with macOS and not iOS. If I had a proper Unix shell, a tablet might become a replacement for my notebook. Until then, between notebook and phone, I simply don't need one.
The other development is e-Paper. If tablets were flexible the way books are, they might find a niche again. If I could roll it up, put it in my pocket, stuff like that.
90% of politicians messages will be instantly silenced. Negative and false information, about ones opponent, about opposing ideas, and about the current state of the world (to justify your new pet law) is the modus operandi of politics.
That exactly is my point. I had an iPad and a MacBook for a time, but considered it crazy to carry three computing devices (smartphone as well). I understand smartphone plus notebook (my current combination). But you know what my ideal would be? Smart watch that doubles as phone (with earphones or detachable) and tablet that is also a full computer. And then at home a strong desktop machine with Handover or such.
Anyone from Apple reading? You are close, so close, but still so far away.
it looks like a nice machine. If it would run macOS instead of iOS, I would consider it. A tablet like that, which I would use as a notebook replacements, needs to be able to run a shell and a compiler or it isn't a notebook replacement.
I realize I'm a minority, but I still prefer real computers over tablets.
And just like you don't have time to sell to large companies, they don't have time to buy from you alongside a thousand other open source creators, one at a time.
That is right, they don't buy from me. Because I don't ask for money. They couldn't buy from me, even if they wanted to. I'd just point them to gitlab or github or sourceforge or my own website, depending on what it is they want and wherever I put it.
And I'm fine with that, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
But distributors like SuSE and RedHat were controversial from the beginning because even if the legalese fineprint said something else, they did everything in their power to create the impression that they were selling software.
I personally don't have a problem with the business model, save that it could be a bit more honest, but this particular blurb someone in PR wrote is just... stupid, insulting and false.
Most financial crises have nothing to do with a currency's central control entity,
They very much have to do with a financial system built around banks as central entities. A currency used as a barter instrument would not be subject to this kind of speculation.
while bringing along many new problems of its own.
Agreed on that. The only thing I disagree with is this black/white view of the world, from both sides. Cryptocurrencies are neither the salvation nor the end of the world. They are just one more thing in the toolbox.
No, that statement is true, I said cryptocurrencies, not blockchain technology in general.
And the example I gave is for a currency. Every other currency has a centralism problem - someone prints the money (or digitally creates it). If you don't want that, but don't trust anyone enough to hold the keys, a distributed concept works.
There is no practical reason not to have a central control entity.
Why not?
Central control entities have been handling our currency and payments pretty decently overall for centuries.
There are many people who disagree and point out a) the financial crisis and b) the power of banks, which goes far beyond what a simple payment service should have.
environmental and criminal costs and risks of cryptocurrencies, to say nothing of its slowness and general inefficiency.
yes, there are downsides. I am not a cryptocurrency fan. But I do point out that there are legitimate uses.
You could replace "China" with "The United States" in your comment above and you would be absolutely spot-on about the early days of the US, as they blatantly broke British copyright laws, printed books cheaply without paying royalties and such.
Somehow, it seems emerging powers, if large enough, routinely take that route.
Slashdot Mirror
Aging is a scientifically established fact with an overwhelming amount of evidence.
The same cannot be said for car manufacturers plans to come out with a competitive electic care real-soon-now(TM).
As for Tesla's leader, Elon Musk, I happen to think that promoting electric cars to help us kick the fossil fuel habit is one of the better things a person could offer humanity. So, yeah, there is literally not much that would be better to do.
Building an electric cargo ship.
The ocean giants that bring your tech toys from China have a pollution impact that dwarves that of small countries, including all their combustion engine cars. Getting rid of those black fumes would do a lot more than a couple thousand electric cars.
are due to be discussed at a supervisory board meeting
That is all you need to know.
They have plans. They don't have a prototype yet, nor a factory setup, nor a delivery schedule nor final pricing or performance numbers. Any or all of those can still change dramatically.
We will see what happens when you can actually buy this car. Until then there is nothing to see.
The list of people interested in the election results is very, very long. Russia certainly is on that list somewhere, but most likely not near the top. There are many others more interested and more motivated to play around.
Russians can be assumed to not be totally stupid. As such they would understand how much theatre US politics is and how little it actually matters who sits in what chair, a few special chairs exempted. Too many decisions are made behind the scenes anyways, but non-elected officials. Too many decisions are influenced by money and lobbyists.
If I were tasked with influencing politics in Washington, hacking an election would be among the last things on my mind. Buying out or planting my people in some of the large lobbying organisations would be much, much higher. And bribing politicians with pictures of that whore they met, or that gay adventure they had would be far above buying Facebook ads.
Why in all nine hells would you ever want to go with MS SQL for anything, at all, ever ?
I've been doing sysadmin stuff all my adult life, even now that I'm a security architect I keep in close contact with sysadmins. Not one of them has ever recommended MS SQL, everyone who used it was unhappy, in most discussions it doesn't even appear as an option.
I'm really curious which strange twisting of dimensions makes you the only person on the planet to seriously consider it who is not forced by external circumstances.
Same with MySql. They have closed source commercial products that compete with both of these.
The percentage of MySQL users that would migrate to Oracle must be something that is a challenge to find even with a microscope. You have a reasonably smooth upgrade path to PostgreSQL, in fact if you are using database abstraction as you should, it's a config option.
and lean on the government to do your dirty work
You might have missed a few centuries, but ever since we got rid of those kings and stuff, that is exactly what the purpose of the government is.
I honestly don't remember. But you know, you could have easily checked before posting that comment. Too much effort?
More commonly willing agents. I believe in win-win situations and I've made years of successful career manufacturing them.
I'm not the biggest fan of Amazon, but why should they leave money lying on the table?
From their perspective: They shouldn't.
From the perspective of society: We should force them to. Because that money can pay for schools, hospitals, police, firefighters, roads, electricity, water and a hundred other useful things.
And you woke up to that now?
Is being retarded a requirement for holding a public office or does it just help a lot? Half of the times a large company is "searching for a cooperation partner" or some such, they already have a winner in mind. They just need to go through the motions for regulatory or political purposes. And it is quite common to make invitations to tender as a means to press the price of your favorites down somewhat. Even if they understand they are your preferred choice, the competition will force them into making a better offer.
Been there, done that.
The Amazon search was never an open-ended search and anyone with three working brain cells understood that. At best they had only favorites and it maybe might have been possible to sway them. More likely, two spots were already certain and one was a "maybe". Wouldn't be surprised if all of them were certain at the start.
Seriously, to expect any kind of "fair play" behaviour from an international corporation only shows that whatever you are smoking needs to be made illegal. Profit is the only ethics of a corporation, because the entire system is set up like that.
Simple way to stop it - don't allow externalities anymore. Put a price on pollution, on negative social impact, on any behaviour you want to discourage and companies will follow the money. They're like drug addicts. You could start by stopping to compete for company favors and make them compete for your grace again. I've always thought it absurd that counties or cities compete against each other to attract a company.
This.
correlation != causation
The causation could well be the other way around: Psychopaths prefer black coffee.
What makes taking a drug, drinking coffee, or smoking a cigarette an addiction over merely a bad habit? I've heard it somewhere that tobacco use is not an addiction if it's not used more than once per month. So, a person is "addicted" if they like to have a cigarette with his smoking friends when they meet on the weekend for poker and pizza? Are they also addicted to poker and pizza then?
An addiction is mind-altering.
There are certain sweets or drinks that I enjoy greatly. If you put them in front of me together with other snacks, I know which I would pick. But it would never cross my mind to commit a crime to get them, or go into prostitution. If I lose access to them - as happened when I changed country recently with a few of my favorite foods - I will be sad, but I won't go around killing people. And if you come for a surprise visit and bring them, I will be "oh, cool, thank you!" not frothing at the mouth jumping over the table grabbing it from you.
Tobacco, like alcohol and other drugs is mildly addictive if consumed in small quantities. The full addictive effect only kicks in with regular users, there is a habituation effect. So your twice-a-year smoker might very well not be addicted. But the evidence is clear especially in smokers about how hard it is to quit. The evidence is clear in alcoholics how one drink can ruin years of abstinence and plunge them right back into being alcoholics. These clear and numerous facts you cannot just deny. And you will not find comparable examples for poker and pizza.
Addiction is just a mental or physical craving for a substance.
No, it is not.
Are people "addicted" to air? Or food?
You are committing a catagory mistake there.
Air and food are necessary for survival. Coffee is not, alcohol is not, heroin is not, tobacco is not, etc. etc.
An addiction is exactly the condition that tricks your brain into believing that OMG I WILL DIE IF I DON'T GET MY CIGARETTE RIGHT NOW.
Addiction is turning a craving into a behaviour-changing existential need.
So given AIs mix of awesome success and amusing failures, we will soon see a feature-length movie featuring disembodied facial hair floating through a forest for two hours, mixed with special effects and a blasting soundtrack ?
Actually, I found that a notebook is a better media consumption device, especially in bed. At least it stands more or less solid. Tablet stands are fragile and the darn thing will fall over if you move under the sheets to change position or something. On a couch, setting the notebook on your lap gives you more stability than any tablet I've ever seen.
I've bought two iPads and my wife got one as a present once, but neither of them see much use and the newer iPad has since been given away to someone who found it useful.
With notebooks becoming smaller and lighter, and phones getting bigger and faster, the niche that tablets fill is becoming smaller and tablets are not taking bites out of the notebooks market because everyone insists on treating them like big phones instead of small notebooks. MS had the right idea with the Surface except that they decided to treat the entire OS like a big phone with Win 10 and "tiles" and the other bullshit.
I'm looking at the iPad Pro and waiting for the day it ships with macOS and not iOS. If I had a proper Unix shell, a tablet might become a replacement for my notebook. Until then, between notebook and phone, I simply don't need one.
The other development is e-Paper. If tablets were flexible the way books are, they might find a niche again. If I could roll it up, put it in my pocket, stuff like that.
spread negative and false information
Please enable that filter globally.
90% of politicians messages will be instantly silenced. Negative and false information, about ones opponent, about opposing ideas, and about the current state of the world (to justify your new pet law) is the modus operandi of politics.
That exactly is my point. I had an iPad and a MacBook for a time, but considered it crazy to carry three computing devices (smartphone as well). I understand smartphone plus notebook (my current combination). But you know what my ideal would be? Smart watch that doubles as phone (with earphones or detachable) and tablet that is also a full computer. And then at home a strong desktop machine with Handover or such.
Anyone from Apple reading? You are close, so close, but still so far away.
it looks like a nice machine. If it would run macOS instead of iOS, I would consider it. A tablet like that, which I would use as a notebook replacements, needs to be able to run a shell and a compiler or it isn't a notebook replacement.
I realize I'm a minority, but I still prefer real computers over tablets.
And just like you don't have time to sell to large companies, they don't have time to buy from you alongside a thousand other open source creators, one at a time.
That is right, they don't buy from me. Because I don't ask for money. They couldn't buy from me, even if they wanted to. I'd just point them to gitlab or github or sourceforge or my own website, depending on what it is they want and wherever I put it.
And I'm fine with that, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
But distributors like SuSE and RedHat were controversial from the beginning because even if the legalese fineprint said something else, they did everything in their power to create the impression that they were selling software.
I personally don't have a problem with the business model, save that it could be a bit more honest, but this particular blurb someone in PR wrote is just... stupid, insulting and false.
Most financial crises have nothing to do with a currency's central control entity,
They very much have to do with a financial system built around banks as central entities. A currency used as a barter instrument would not be subject to this kind of speculation.
while bringing along many new problems of its own.
Agreed on that. The only thing I disagree with is this black/white view of the world, from both sides. Cryptocurrencies are neither the salvation nor the end of the world. They are just one more thing in the toolbox.
So two wrongs make a right then?
No, actually three wrongs make a right, provided you turn on average 90 degrees.
No, that statement is true, I said cryptocurrencies, not blockchain technology in general.
And the example I gave is for a currency. Every other currency has a centralism problem - someone prints the money (or digitally creates it). If you don't want that, but don't trust anyone enough to hold the keys, a distributed concept works.
There is no practical reason not to have a central control entity.
Why not?
Central control entities have been handling our currency and payments pretty decently overall for centuries.
There are many people who disagree and point out a) the financial crisis and b) the power of banks, which goes far beyond what a simple payment service should have.
environmental and criminal costs and risks of cryptocurrencies, to say nothing of its slowness and general inefficiency.
yes, there are downsides. I am not a cryptocurrency fan. But I do point out that there are legitimate uses.
You could replace "China" with "The United States" in your comment above and you would be absolutely spot-on about the early days of the US, as they blatantly broke British copyright laws, printed books cheaply without paying royalties and such.
Somehow, it seems emerging powers, if large enough, routinely take that route.