I agree that it's not the cash cow that it was before, but it's still the biggest profit maker in the domain. Considering how much money the US military is paying for the Atlas 5 compared to the projected price for Musk's Falcon 9, I'm convinced they will give them huge margin to cover the cost of creating a "US Top secret grade" department.
Good news for them. If there's a sector where Aerospace with a huge margin (if not the only one), it's in the military. Look like SpaceX is entering the major league.
Are you sure? I remember that in January I saw that news about an egg's white "unboiling" machine that was interesting at most but didn't seem to have any useful purpose at the time. Are you saying that this machine was used for cancer prior been used to "un"make breakfast?
Just wondering if I'm the only one around here not using any AV for a long time. AFAIK, you can only get your virus on the internet (unless I'm underestimating USB's key viruses). And with gmail (and other huge mail provider) boosted with virus check procedure, Secured browser like Chrome pimped with Adblock and keeping myself far from the "dark side" of the web, I've never had any problem. Add to this the new lite Microsoft Security Essential (intagrated in Win8) to the lot and I'm surprised those company are still in business.
Google is adding gossip that is enhancing the user experience for 13 year old girls on one hand...and making the default experience worse for more serious minded people, since they now have to or some combination thereof to disable junk results
As I said, the "more serious minded people" will make their search query precise enough to get exactly what they were looking for.
It's freaking Google. There's no way you searched for "Matlab plotyy axis scale" and got any useful result. (OK, in this case, there are useful results, but for many technical but less popular searches my point hold true.)
Typically, you'd need to search for ""Matlab" "plotyy" "axis" "scale"". Knowing Google, if they couldn't find any tweets relevant to your search, your results would have tweets containing any of your search terms. It's better to return twenty million irrelevant results than admit that there are none or very few.
If you search is "Matlab" only, of course I may get some Tweet result, but I certainly don't see any coming on top of the result of mathworks's website or wikipedia's. After all, part of the search result are the popularity of it. And I also doubt any tweet would be popular enough to reach the top10 unless Elon Musk tweet that "Matlab is the first requirement for a job at Tesla or SpaceX" or Obama tweet that "Enter this function in Matlab to draw a cute cat hidden in a pair of boobs". And in those cases, that tweet was probably the reason you were searching "Matlab" at google at the first place.
I get that most people here doesn't give a damn about the blue bird, but everyone is reacting like we're going to have our search filled with tweet.
I've looked up in my history for all the latest google search I did in the last week and I hardly see how most (any) of them would give me tweet result ("Matlab plotyy axis scale"?).
On the other hand, let's say that I'm a 13 years old girls who's googling the latest gossip about Taylor Swift, I get that, in some cases, tweet could become an insightful result.
I say let's give it a chance and see how it goes. Furthermore, Google Search have always been "customizable" and I'm sure us folk would have no problem deactivating tweets from a search (-youtube anyone?).
Yeah I've done some little research but couldn't find anything so I guess you're right. It must have been something else religion-related that was rising.
I think it was a few years after 9/11 while Bush was still in power. I remember because it hit me that, unlike all other developped country, the religion was rising and atheism was shrinking in the US.
I find the GP's post to be a wonderful sarcastic post that encapsulates the ignorance and hypocrisy of the Evangelical Christians in the US - and the Republican base.
It's only a "Troll" to you because you don't like what is being said. But that's usually the case on the Net these days. If one doesn't like what's being said, just call them a "Troll" and be done with it. It's just as bad as exclaiming, "I'm offended!" It's just a cheap way to shut people up that you disagree with.
Whoa, get off your high horse sir
"A wonderful sarcastic post"? Really? You'll have to help me there because I clearly don't see/get it. Personally, "Meh! Fuck yeah America! Praise the Lord, our guns and oil!" joke are too 20th century for my taste. But since it have been modded +5 funny I guess some still love 'em.
And btw, I'm Canadian and far from "offended" or not "agreeing", I just don't give a fuck and find his comment boring and utterly useless.
These scary views of global warming and evolution are causing people to burn for eternity in hell for not believing in GOD!!
We need a pro God president to change the culture of this country so people stop thinking for themselves! It is only a matter of time before we anger him by voting for things Jesus did like providing healthcare and support for the poor and sick and our nation will fear his wrath.
The news here is the date for the unveiling of the new model 3. We knew they would unveil it during 2015-2016 but now we have a specific date. There's a lot of interest in the new Tesla model because it's huge potential for the future of the company (or in other word, prepare yourself to buy a lot of TLSA shares February 2016).
The part about the model X (the SUV) is about the date of the first delivery which is late summer. This is also important because it mark the start of another source of revenue for the company (afaik, part of the vehicle is paid during the purchase and the rest is paid at the delivery).
and you never import dirty power from quebec or the usa...
In what bizarre world you're living to think that Quebec's power is dirty? It's over 90% hydro electricity, you cannot really get more green than that.
In the U.S., the vast majority of electricity still comes from Coal.
As much as I inherently love the idea of a totally-electric car (actually, a true fuel-cell car would be even nicer!), I just can't get past the fact that everyone in the U.S., at least, has to be (conveniently) overlooking the reality of where the electricity comes from.
As long as the answer to that is "Fossil Fuels" (and particularly, coal), then we are doing nothing but trading one smoke-plume for another.
And worse yet, losing overall efficiency in the process.
Please someone who understands the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics better than I, tell me how I am wrong.
Alright, I'll take the bait.
First, if your logic is that the US should wait until it's energy is green before making electric car (and therefore, electric company should wait for electric car to get greener), I doubt never anything will change. Either way the world (except maybe China) is taking a green route and US isn't an exception.
Second, afaik Tesla doesn't sell it's car only in the US. I live in Quebec where over 90% come from hydroelectricity, therefore green.
Third and finally, your whole argument is about debunking that a Tesla isn't "that" green. Which is quite low on my "reason to buy a Tesla" list.
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I agree that it's not the cash cow that it was before, but it's still the biggest profit maker in the domain. Considering how much money the US military is paying for the Atlas 5 compared to the projected price for Musk's Falcon 9, I'm convinced they will give them huge margin to cover the cost of creating a "US Top secret grade" department.
Yeah, forgot to add "sry for my bad English"
Good news for them. If there's a sector where Aerospace with a huge margin (if not the only one), it's in the military. Look like SpaceX is entering the major league.
about a year ago this was posted on /.
Are you sure? I remember that in January I saw that news about an egg's white "unboiling" machine that was interesting at most but didn't seem to have any useful purpose at the time. Are you saying that this machine was used for cancer prior been used to "un"make breakfast?
I read "targeted ads". But are those new ads, or it replace the old ones?
So your opinion is that paid AV is a must for any windows OS? And that Kapersky (or norton) is the only way to be completely protected from viruses?
Just wondering if I'm the only one around here not using any AV for a long time. AFAIK, you can only get your virus on the internet (unless I'm underestimating USB's key viruses). And with gmail (and other huge mail provider) boosted with virus check procedure, Secured browser like Chrome pimped with Adblock and keeping myself far from the "dark side" of the web, I've never had any problem. Add to this the new lite Microsoft Security Essential (intagrated in Win8) to the lot and I'm surprised those company are still in business.
Or am I naive?
Google is adding gossip that is enhancing the user experience for 13 year old girls on one hand ...and making the default experience worse for more serious minded people, since they now have to or some combination thereof to disable junk results
As I said, the "more serious minded people" will make their search query precise enough to get exactly what they were looking for.
It's freaking Google. There's no way you searched for "Matlab plotyy axis scale" and got any useful result. (OK, in this case, there are useful results, but for many technical but less popular searches my point hold true.)
Typically, you'd need to search for ""Matlab" "plotyy" "axis" "scale"". Knowing Google, if they couldn't find any tweets relevant to your search, your results would have tweets containing any of your search terms. It's better to return twenty million irrelevant results than admit that there are none or very few.
If you search is "Matlab" only, of course I may get some Tweet result, but I certainly don't see any coming on top of the result of mathworks's website or wikipedia's. After all, part of the search result are the popularity of it. And I also doubt any tweet would be popular enough to reach the top10 unless Elon Musk tweet that "Matlab is the first requirement for a job at Tesla or SpaceX" or Obama tweet that "Enter this function in Matlab to draw a cute cat hidden in a pair of boobs". And in those cases, that tweet was probably the reason you were searching "Matlab" at google at the first place.
Are you allowed to be using your work computer at Google to post on Slashdot?...
How I would love if it was the case...(work computer at Google....sigh)
I get that most people here doesn't give a damn about the blue bird, but everyone is reacting like we're going to have our search filled with tweet.
I've looked up in my history for all the latest google search I did in the last week and I hardly see how most (any) of them would give me tweet result ("Matlab plotyy axis scale"?).
On the other hand, let's say that I'm a 13 years old girls who's googling the latest gossip about Taylor Swift, I get that, in some cases, tweet could become an insightful result.
I say let's give it a chance and see how it goes. Furthermore, Google Search have always been "customizable" and I'm sure us folk would have no problem deactivating tweets from a search (-youtube anyone?).
There, found an article that show that you were right (and wasn't completly wrong).
http://tobingrant.religionnews.com/2015/03/12/7-5-million-people-left-religion-since-2012-three-graphs-latest-general-social-survey/
According to this article, we can see a slight drop after 2001 but the trend is clearly rising. Good.
Yeah I've done some little research but couldn't find anything so I guess you're right. It must have been something else religion-related that was rising.
I think it was a few years after 9/11 while Bush was still in power. I remember because it hit me that, unlike all other developped country, the religion was rising and atheism was shrinking in the US.
I find the GP's post to be a wonderful sarcastic post that encapsulates the ignorance and hypocrisy of the Evangelical Christians in the US - and the Republican base.
It's only a "Troll" to you because you don't like what is being said. But that's usually the case on the Net these days. If one doesn't like what's being said, just call them a "Troll" and be done with it. It's just as bad as exclaiming, "I'm offended!" It's just a cheap way to shut people up that you disagree with.
Whoa, get off your high horse sir
"A wonderful sarcastic post"? Really? You'll have to help me there because I clearly don't see/get it. Personally, "Meh! Fuck yeah America! Praise the Lord, our guns and oil!" joke are too 20th century for my taste. But since it have been modded +5 funny I guess some still love 'em.
And btw, I'm Canadian and far from "offended" or not "agreeing", I just don't give a fuck and find his comment boring and utterly useless.
These scary views of global warming and evolution are causing people to burn for eternity in hell for not believing in GOD!!
We need a pro God president to change the culture of this country so people stop thinking for themselves! It is only a matter of time before we anger him by voting for things Jesus did like providing healthcare and support for the poor and sick and our nation will fear his wrath.
Not sure if serious or just bad troll...
Sad to see. Christians made America the glory that it is. Non-Christians are destroying it.
Yeah sure, religious state are the most glorious one nowadays. The modern world clearly benefit from them. /sarcasmoff
I'm not sure how many years ago it was, but I thought Christianity was rising in the USA (I even think it was a news in /.).
Either way it's good news. I prefer my superpowers secular.
Jebidiah will be sorely missed.
In my case it's more "the one that sorely missed Jebidiah will be sorely missed".
.....actually, look like most of my Kerbal mission.....
Oh riiiight, how did I forget the 1.21 Gigawatt needed for Doc's DeLorean.
Maybe they need more factory capacity. I suggest adding 21% more to the Gigafactory...
Damn....I don't get it. Help me...please?
The news here is the date for the unveiling of the new model 3. We knew they would unveil it during 2015-2016 but now we have a specific date. There's a lot of interest in the new Tesla model because it's huge potential for the future of the company (or in other word, prepare yourself to buy a lot of TLSA shares February 2016).
The part about the model X (the SUV) is about the date of the first delivery which is late summer. This is also important because it mark the start of another source of revenue for the company (afaik, part of the vehicle is paid during the purchase and the rest is paid at the delivery).
and you never import dirty power from quebec or the usa...
In what bizarre world you're living to think that Quebec's power is dirty? It's over 90% hydro electricity, you cannot really get more green than that.
In the U.S., the vast majority of electricity still comes from Coal. As much as I inherently love the idea of a totally-electric car (actually, a true fuel-cell car would be even nicer!), I just can't get past the fact that everyone in the U.S., at least, has to be (conveniently) overlooking the reality of where the electricity comes from. As long as the answer to that is "Fossil Fuels" (and particularly, coal), then we are doing nothing but trading one smoke-plume for another. And worse yet, losing overall efficiency in the process. Please someone who understands the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics better than I, tell me how I am wrong.
Alright, I'll take the bait.
First, if your logic is that the US should wait until it's energy is green before making electric car (and therefore, electric company should wait for electric car to get greener), I doubt never anything will change. Either way the world (except maybe China) is taking a green route and US isn't an exception.
Second, afaik Tesla doesn't sell it's car only in the US. I live in Quebec where over 90% come from hydroelectricity, therefore green.
Third and finally, your whole argument is about debunking that a Tesla isn't "that" green. Which is quite low on my "reason to buy a Tesla" list.
CEL