Actually, they didn't write the load balancer. They just bought F5s and integrated them with their infrastructure to change their configurations programmatically.
Happened during the great depression as well. Ever read The Grapes of Wrath? Farmers would destroy food because they couldn't sell it, versus giving it away to the starving and the poor. Not much has changed in ~90 years.
Open source, whether in software, music, literature, or knowledge, prevents rent-seeking. The fight will always be between those who want to create/work once and continue to reap the benefits repeatedly vs those who profit for unit of time/energy expended.
I didn't say I didn't do it in under 2 minutes, I said I had to do it for someone. It was to highlight the stupid that exists (and yes, when you argue that Excel is a better datastore when we have a perfectly good app THAT WE WROTE FOR THE PURPOSE with a SQL backend, you're stupid).
I don't know what the solution is, but it is NOT to prevent people from working. That won't prevent the bridges from falling down. It is also not to make a committee to decide how many shoes should be produced in the next 5 years in which places; that has been tried and it failed. Suggestions certainly welcome.
Would you not agree that sites like Kickstarter are exactly how communistic systems would be built to work? Where the people decide exactly what they're willing to assign value to and how much value? It's distributing that "value", or "effort", or "money" that we're running into problems with.
Communisim only works in theory due to human nature, but I'd argue a hybrid between capitalistic market place evolution, socialistic safety nets, and communistic shared community/civilization-owned industrial production is the answer. Someone just needs to figure out the best/worst parts of each components, and their required doses.
That's called working for a giant corporation, where that new fangled "php" thing is considered new and cutting edge, Excel is the corporate database management system where table joins are done by hand by interns.
I laughed, because I had to join two excel spreadsheets by hand for a sales droid yesterday.
Sign me up. I'm 28 and would love to spend time writing code and working on robotics/automation to replace jobs, as long as the fruit of the labor goes to the people I'm replacing and not to one person.
While, yes, we're not at 50% unemployment (yet), we are at 16.5% (http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp). This assumes you use the "correct" U6 statistic, which includes unemployed, underemployed, and those who are part time who would work fulltime if they could.
My solution: Tie efficiency gains to legal maximum hours per week. What's that you say? We only need 4 days a week to do the same job we used to do in 5? Boom. 4 day work week. As efficiency gains increase (self-driving Google cars, more automation/software doing work people previously did), work week continues downward.
Yes, its completely feasible, and prevents the ownership class from continually squeezing the worker class for an extra couple of widgets produced per week.
Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world - "No, you move."
So what you're saying is electric car makers have to deal with unrealistic demands of consumers, right? Because cheap, plentiful, petroleum is pretty much over. If you *need* to refill your internal combustion engine car in 4 minutes, be prepared to pay the significantly higher cost for the privilege.
Funny, Tesla doesn't have any problems building fully electric cars at the ex-NUMMI plant in California, and Chevrolet doesn't have any problems building the range-extended Volt in Hamtramck/Detroit, MI. Sounds like Fisker should have their loan called.
Are you seriously complaining about Tesla making a lackluster or underperforming car when they're almost sold out of Roadsters and have 6000+ Model S deposits? Clearly, whining on Slashdot is easier than making an electric car company.
Funny, I haven't had any problems with my Roadster that would cause me to act like a fool as you've suggested; actually, I've had no problems at all, hence a Model S reservation.
But then again, its not like they need your purchase that badly.
$110K roadster, $60K model S. You see a pattern? Expensive cars are paying towards getting the cheaper cars out the door. The roadster and model s were never marketed to the cheap crowd.
My Tesla Roadster charges from my 240V/70A circuit in under 4 hours. No service entrance adjustment was needed for my home (200A service entrance), just additional wiring from the breaker panel to the garage. I live in the Chicago suburbs. Tell me how my situation is special?
Oh noes! People might need bigger service entrances? Might need to spend some money to get an electrician to run a 90A circuit to their garage or side of the house? Cry me a fucking river. People spend $3k-5k a year in fuel for most cars based on driving 12-15k miles a year. What? You thought moving off a ridiculously energy-dense yet exceedingly hard to come by energy source was going to be easy?
I think you'll get over the whole "nowhere to charge problem" when gas is $5/gal. Not being able to get to work causes you to hash out your first world problems pretty quickly.
Third, the Internet is different from DARPAnet, and would have come about on its own, simply as a result of rapidly improving computers. Just because the government happened to fund the first group to make a network connection doesn't mean it wouldn't have happened without them.
It's shit like this people. You can't just assume things are going to happen because time went by. Hindsight is 20/20. Just because someone did it first doesn't mean someone else would've come up with it eventually. By your logic, no one should do R&D because someone else will do it eventually. *facepalm*
Someone, I think you miss the humor of your post being sent over a network collective created by a federal government agency. States don't provide military protection for the country as a whole, don't do R&D, don't do a whole lot all by themselves. State equivalent of the DOE? The CDC? NASA? Yeah, didn't think so.
While it might have the oil and coal reserves to keep itself afloat, it would still fail because the stingy populous would refuse to pay higher taxes (despite having one of the lowest tax rates in the country). Maybe we could save money by privatizing North Dakota.
The result would probably be Texas. Low taxes, but all the new jobs created are either government jobs or jobs paying minimum wage you can't live on.
Considering that most of our budget is consumed by social security, medicare, and the defense department? Not so bad, considering we'd still have to pay for those three things out of the federal government's budget anyway if we shrunk the federal gov's responsibilities.
The problem isn't wasteful spending, not at all. The problem is that we've accumulated massive liabilities without saving for those liabilities. Yes, you can cut DoD spending, as long as we move to a fuel source that we don't have to defend from the other side of the world. Sure, you can cut social security and medicare, but be prepared to deal with a demographic with sizable influence (AARP) as well as poverty for that age bracket.
No, there are no simple answers. We are going to have to fundamentally change the structure of both our economy and our social safety nets in the US. But I sure as hell can tell you that Ron Paul isn't the answer. In my educated opinion, he's a fucking nutjob.
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Actually, they didn't write the load balancer. They just bought F5s and integrated them with their infrastructure to change their configurations programmatically.
Happened during the great depression as well. Ever read The Grapes of Wrath? Farmers would destroy food because they couldn't sell it, versus giving it away to the starving and the poor. Not much has changed in ~90 years.
Open source, whether in software, music, literature, or knowledge, prevents rent-seeking. The fight will always be between those who want to create/work once and continue to reap the benefits repeatedly vs those who profit for unit of time/energy expended.
What do I need money for if providing me with everything I need is automated?
I didn't say I didn't do it in under 2 minutes, I said I had to do it for someone. It was to highlight the stupid that exists (and yes, when you argue that Excel is a better datastore when we have a perfectly good app THAT WE WROTE FOR THE PURPOSE with a SQL backend, you're stupid).
Automate ALL the fools' jobs!
I don't know what the solution is, but it is NOT to prevent people from working. That won't prevent the bridges from falling down. It is also not to make a committee to decide how many shoes should be produced in the next 5 years in which places; that has been tried and it failed. Suggestions certainly welcome.
Would you not agree that sites like Kickstarter are exactly how communistic systems would be built to work? Where the people decide exactly what they're willing to assign value to and how much value? It's distributing that "value", or "effort", or "money" that we're running into problems with.
Communisim only works in theory due to human nature, but I'd argue a hybrid between capitalistic market place evolution, socialistic safety nets, and communistic shared community/civilization-owned industrial production is the answer. Someone just needs to figure out the best/worst parts of each components, and their required doses.
That's called working for a giant corporation, where that new fangled "php" thing is considered new and cutting edge, Excel is the corporate database management system where table joins are done by hand by interns.
I laughed, because I had to join two excel spreadsheets by hand for a sales droid yesterday.
Sign me up. I'm 28 and would love to spend time writing code and working on robotics/automation to replace jobs, as long as the fruit of the labor goes to the people I'm replacing and not to one person.
While, yes, we're not at 50% unemployment (yet), we are at 16.5% (http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp). This assumes you use the "correct" U6 statistic, which includes unemployed, underemployed, and those who are part time who would work fulltime if they could.
My solution: Tie efficiency gains to legal maximum hours per week. What's that you say? We only need 4 days a week to do the same job we used to do in 5? Boom. 4 day work week. As efficiency gains increase (self-driving Google cars, more automation/software doing work people previously did), work week continues downward.
Yes, its completely feasible, and prevents the ownership class from continually squeezing the worker class for an extra couple of widgets produced per week.
Goodbye Clearwire, hello LightSquared!
You against cancer? Because a fertilized embryo and cancer are the same thing, a collection of cells you want to get rid of.
As Captain America said:
Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world - "No, you move."
So what you're saying is electric car makers have to deal with unrealistic demands of consumers, right? Because cheap, plentiful, petroleum is pretty much over. If you *need* to refill your internal combustion engine car in 4 minutes, be prepared to pay the significantly higher cost for the privilege.
Funny, Tesla doesn't have any problems building fully electric cars at the ex-NUMMI plant in California, and Chevrolet doesn't have any problems building the range-extended Volt in Hamtramck/Detroit, MI. Sounds like Fisker should have their loan called.
Are you seriously complaining about Tesla making a lackluster or underperforming car when they're almost sold out of Roadsters and have 6000+ Model S deposits? Clearly, whining on Slashdot is easier than making an electric car company.
Funny, I haven't had any problems with my Roadster that would cause me to act like a fool as you've suggested; actually, I've had no problems at all, hence a Model S reservation.
But then again, its not like they need your purchase that badly.
There's actually a python script out there for decoding the Roadster logs:
http://www.mybitbox.com/articles/tesla-roadster-log-parsing/
4 hours from a 220-240V circuit isn't exactly long.
$110K roadster, $60K model S. You see a pattern? Expensive cars are paying towards getting the cheaper cars out the door. The roadster and model s were never marketed to the cheap crowd.
My Tesla Roadster charges from my 240V/70A circuit in under 4 hours. No service entrance adjustment was needed for my home (200A service entrance), just additional wiring from the breaker panel to the garage. I live in the Chicago suburbs. Tell me how my situation is special?
Oh noes! People might need bigger service entrances? Might need to spend some money to get an electrician to run a 90A circuit to their garage or side of the house? Cry me a fucking river. People spend $3k-5k a year in fuel for most cars based on driving 12-15k miles a year. What? You thought moving off a ridiculously energy-dense yet exceedingly hard to come by energy source was going to be easy?
I think you'll get over the whole "nowhere to charge problem" when gas is $5/gal. Not being able to get to work causes you to hash out your first world problems pretty quickly.
Third, the Internet is different from DARPAnet, and would have come about on its own, simply as a result of rapidly improving computers. Just because the government happened to fund the first group to make a network connection doesn't mean it wouldn't have happened without them.
It's shit like this people. You can't just assume things are going to happen because time went by. Hindsight is 20/20. Just because someone did it first doesn't mean someone else would've come up with it eventually. By your logic, no one should do R&D because someone else will do it eventually. *facepalm*
Someone, I think you miss the humor of your post being sent over a network collective created by a federal government agency. States don't provide military protection for the country as a whole, don't do R&D, don't do a whole lot all by themselves. State equivalent of the DOE? The CDC? NASA? Yeah, didn't think so.
While it might have the oil and coal reserves to keep itself afloat, it would still fail because the stingy populous would refuse to pay higher taxes (despite having one of the lowest tax rates in the country). Maybe we could save money by privatizing North Dakota.
The result would probably be Texas. Low taxes, but all the new jobs created are either government jobs or jobs paying minimum wage you can't live on.
Considering that most of our budget is consumed by social security, medicare, and the defense department? Not so bad, considering we'd still have to pay for those three things out of the federal government's budget anyway if we shrunk the federal gov's responsibilities.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/designbyseeing/5474288518/sizes/l/in/photostream/
The problem isn't wasteful spending, not at all. The problem is that we've accumulated massive liabilities without saving for those liabilities. Yes, you can cut DoD spending, as long as we move to a fuel source that we don't have to defend from the other side of the world. Sure, you can cut social security and medicare, but be prepared to deal with a demographic with sizable influence (AARP) as well as poverty for that age bracket.
No, there are no simple answers. We are going to have to fundamentally change the structure of both our economy and our social safety nets in the US. But I sure as hell can tell you that Ron Paul isn't the answer. In my educated opinion, he's a fucking nutjob.