Making electric vehicles out of reach of most people is not game changing or paradigm shifting. I don't really need to spend $80k+ to save the world, or at least I shouldn't have to.
Jobs designed products that are a stretch but at least not out of reach of the average consumer. Telsa makes flamboyant overpriced status symbols for the 1%..
Also hoarding technology the way Apple does is not going to change an industry, its doing to destroy it. If Telsa doesn't share and license its technology to companies that actually want to make relevant products for the everyday person then they will make the same mistake that seemingly is starting to drag Apple down today.
If Elon wants to be taken seriously create an everyday car that people will line up to want to buy otherwise he may as well start a company making flying space cars for the complete lack impact he has on the industry and environment.
Telsa (and Elon) is completely irrelevant until they create something that everybody not only wants, but can actually obtain.
Its funny how this story just exploded everywhere recently without any real information based purely on a quote from Steve Jobs:
"It's been 10 years since our transition to the PowerPC, and we think Intel's technology will help us create the best personal computers for the next 10 years."
I don't think Steve Jobs was being literal about only supporting Intel for 10 years, only relating the fact that PowerPC gave them 10 great years so Intel should be "metaphorically" good for the next 10 years.
Some dumb-ass reporter read this quote and did some math like: 10 - 8 years since Apple adopted Intel equals....OMG, Apple will drop Intel soon!.
While I am not saying that Apple has to stick with Intel, I could care less even if they shoved a bunch of squirrels into a Mac and run the things on nuts, this "news" is just retardedly interpreting a Steve Job quote and turning it into something its not.
Seriously, chances of you succeeding in and being something more than a great startup are slim. A shift in the wind and suddenly everybody is selling high density data storage solutions, or someone comes out with some new technology that makes your company obsolete.
If Facebook is interested in buying you out now, take the offer now. Holding out for something better, or thinking you are going to be a huge success 5 years from now in this market climate is going to leave you standing with empty pockets and a lot of regrets.
Bottom line is if you succeeded in attracting one of the big tech companies in your teens, then think what having a few million in investment capital can do for your next big idea and the rest of your life.
So New York is flooded, power is out, and you can drop quarter into a payphone to call someone that cares?
I think this speaks more of the fact we need better power and wireless systems. How can landline service survive when everything else is knocked out? How about getting the people that invented landline phone service to invest a little time and effort making power lines and wireless services a little more resilient.
Also, I think its time that people invent a cell phone that can last more than a day on a charge. I mean 40 years later and my wireless phone still wont work past a day in spite of all the supposed innovation in battery and computer technology.
I mean if civilization is reduced to the stone age do you really want to survive it?
When I see shows like Doomsday Preppers, and the types of people preparing for the end of the world, it further steadies my belief that I in no way want to survive any of these kinds disasters once the yokels crawl out of their caves and spider holes.
No, we all know its Carbon Dioxide that is responsible for global warming, it has nothing to do with the big glowing ball of gas in the sky. The interweb ignores the fact that global warming seems to coincide with the point in the millennial solar cycle it at highest energy output because we have only recorded weather in 'modern" times for the last 100 years or so. 100 years of a global warming trend which happens to coincide with an increase CO2 output means we have done it to ourselves, nature cannot possibly affect the planet in this way.
A company so arrogant that wanted to charge Samsung $30 - $40 per phone for infringing Apple's patents, yet will only offer $1 a phone when they infringe other people's patents. Apple has officially become the smuggest company ever and must be capable of chewing on their own smug farts at this point.
Anyways, Apple aside, the whole software/mobile industry needs to be slapped for both creating and continuing all this patent whoring. The whole point of a patent is to show the world your innovations, and thus encourage cooperation in innovation, not use it as a weapon against competition. What I don't understand is how the hell any company will release a product these days without doing some form of basic patent search.
To say consoles are dead suggests tablets meet or exceed the expectations of ALL gamers. Sadly it falls short in so many ways.
Just because device X sells more than device Y does not mean device Y is dead. I guarantee that the next Xbox and (arguably) the next Playstation will garner 50+ million sales each during their lifetime. Historically this is pretty much what you can expect. In fact you can historically say that any given generation only gets 100 - 200 million consoles sold. So say that is a "failure" is ridiculous just because there are 200+ million iDevices out there. All iDevice users are not gamers, but all game console owners are gamers.
Don't get me wrong, the day I can connect my tablet to a TV and get the same kind of quality and feature set as any dedicated game console will be a great day in my opinion. I think tablet makers are kind of missing a great opportunity to rule the living room by offering REAL connectivity by allowing game controllers and supporting wireless gaming to a TV, not just mirroring the tablet screen. Tablets just don't offer the processing power that consoles offer. Tablets took technology backwards about 15 years and people have accepted that a 1ghz processor as "state of the art". Games look good on tablets the way games looked good on PC's 15 years ago, because they only have to render SVGA resolutions on small screens.
For now while tablets are just an Angry Birds platform, I still want and relish a new generation of game consoles giving me more than just finger flick gaming.
This article states that Google paid (bribed) Mozilla to be their default search provider regardless if there was 1 installation of Firefox or 9 million, so again, Microsoft cost Mozilla nothing because Mozilla already has the money in hand.
You can quibble all you want about details like not having LTE, I mean really, most markets don't deliver full LTE speeds anyways, and most data plans are not going to let you take full advantage of LTE speeds by capping out at some absurdly low amount (maybe its just Canada, but our telcom sucks). Also lack of Micro SD slot and low capacity models is hard to accept. But the reality is that Google is setting a precedent that an unlocked phones should no longer cost $800+.
Its about time someone like Google smacked down the cost of unlocked handsets. We all know Apple makes 2 - 4x profit on an iDevice, its time for a company to set more realistic expectations of what profit on a mobile device should be.
Same goes for their tablets, considerably cheaper than iPads, and if Google (re Samsung) starts offering more features for less money, like uber-high resolutions, Google will be setting the trend for pricing of ALL mobile devices in the very near future.
Its a shame Microsoft chose to follow Apple's pricing and marketing strategy, I think this will hurt Microsoft. When the Lumina 920 is more expensive than an iPhone 5, and Microsoft choose to lock their devices to specific carriers on roll out, this is a huge decision for me not to even bother with the Windows Phone platform. Had Microsoft offered a "Surface" phone, unlocked for $300 - $400, I might have considered.
So, in spite of limited storage and no LTE, the phone is good enough for most people and the unlocked price is attractive to get a near top end Android device. If you feel you can't live without LTE, then enjoy your $800+ phones and your 3 year data plans.
How about realizing one of your predictions before creating another. You never achieved an 80-core PC and barely made a dent into the mobile CPU market so don't bother predicting anything for the mobile market until you are player.
Also Intel, its time to change your architecture. Packing in billions of transistors into a core to support legacy instructions is not an efficient design anymore. I don't want 4, 48 or 80 cores with defunct MMX and obsolete x86 instructions. Stop making CPU's where every core contains the entire history of Intel.
I think that speaks more to the inefficiency of Java ad a development platform if you have to toil with understanding makefiles across many different platforms. If you spend half your time hand coding makefiles and trying to build your project on every conceivable platform you think your software/code might be used on, chances are you are never hitting your deadlines. If you spend the other time running make and having to fix 1000 syntax errors because you spent the last 6 hours writing a text file, then you probably are just not a good developer at all.
Again a GOOD IDE would help you target any platform by efficiently creating the build environments and grabbing the correct libraries. Again I think this is more the fact that Eclipse sucks as an IDE, especially if someone thinks they are more efficient with text files and command lines.
The reason why you break a large "complex" system into small interface files is exactly for EASE of continued development.
This guy wants to write one large file that contains all of his classes and interface (or lack there-of) and therefore only needs a text editor. This guy is not worth his salt as a developer.
You can't build large systems this way. Monolithic FILES (opposed to an IDE) are full of old, unusable code and prone to significant defects when worked on by a team of people.
Also I tire of the idea that I am not a real programmer because I use an IDE which auto-completes and has syntax highlighting. I build apps, I don't spend hours making one line of code execute as efficiently as possible. There is a point of diminished returns where the amount of time you toil over every line of code does not translate into faster more efficient code, so I work at the high level building large complex systems with relative ease, efficiency, and with adequate performance that is acceptable to the clients I work for. Also I finish a project on time rather the going 6 months over.
I am sure this guy is just lamenting the fact that Eclipse isn't the greatest IDE out there, but the idea that you don't need an IDE for the reason that it creates lots of small files that this guy considered "complex" proves he is a moron and should be ignored.
BTW a good IDE allows you to quickly and easily navigate lots of those pesky SOLID code files. If you don't know SOLID, look it up.
I don't know, this makes the Jobs family look like the biggest group of douches in history.
I've said it before that usually when some rich billionaire dies of some kind of disease, there is usually some kind of center for research that the family declares in his honour. I've heard nothing, no donations, nothing from Apple or the Jobs family about giving some of them billions into research that might help prevent other families suffer the results of cancer.
Instead the family happily reveals a superfluous yacht. What a bunch of douches.
Why do people love this company? The create inhuman working conditions so they can produce their devices a 2 - 5x profit margin, rake in billions in profit and then hoard the money away giving absolutely nothing back to society. Yet Bill Gates, who has focused his life to philanthropy, giving away billions, is regarded as an asshole.
Cause its an untapped market. If you want to compete with apps on Android and iTunes, then you are competing with hundreds of thousands of junkware. At least on Windows you are competing with only thousands of junkware.
Because it sucks, Nintendo sucks, that is why. At least people over the age of 8 think so. People over the age of 8 don't need another Mario and Zelda delivery platform with a gimmick controller.
I think Nintendo burnt all their bridges with the Wii, 80 million people have the Wii collecting dust in their closet are not going to invest more money into another Wii.
Slashdot Mirror
problem solved.
Making electric vehicles out of reach of most people is not game changing or paradigm shifting. I don't really need to spend $80k+ to save the world, or at least I shouldn't have to.
Jobs designed products that are a stretch but at least not out of reach of the average consumer. Telsa makes flamboyant overpriced status symbols for the 1%..
Also hoarding technology the way Apple does is not going to change an industry, its doing to destroy it. If Telsa doesn't share and license its technology to companies that actually want to make relevant products for the everyday person then they will make the same mistake that seemingly is starting to drag Apple down today.
If Elon wants to be taken seriously create an everyday car that people will line up to want to buy otherwise he may as well start a company making flying space cars for the complete lack impact he has on the industry and environment.
Telsa (and Elon) is completely irrelevant until they create something that everybody not only wants, but can actually obtain.
....except when it rules in favour of Apple, then you should send them gift baskets and puppies. I am sure you wanted to say.
Its funny how this story just exploded everywhere recently without any real information based purely on a quote from Steve Jobs:
"It's been 10 years since our transition to the PowerPC, and we think Intel's technology will help us create the best personal computers for the next 10 years."
I don't think Steve Jobs was being literal about only supporting Intel for 10 years, only relating the fact that PowerPC gave them 10 great years so Intel should be "metaphorically" good for the next 10 years.
Some dumb-ass reporter read this quote and did some math like: 10 - 8 years since Apple adopted Intel equals....OMG, Apple will drop Intel soon!.
While I am not saying that Apple has to stick with Intel, I could care less even if they shoved a bunch of squirrels into a Mac and run the things on nuts, this "news" is just retardedly interpreting a Steve Job quote and turning it into something its not.
How does one go about laying off a hobbyist?
Because:
The world needs more Pixar movies and not another cure for cancer.
The world also needs more yachts you can't afford.
The world needs more glass buildings to reduce the lineups.
The world needs more video of bald people in black clothes in front of white screens.
The world needs 16 versions of the same thing, and then need 16 more slightly modified versions 6 months later.
The world needs Foxconn to expand their production lines so more children can find work. Think of the children damn you!
The world needs more landfill space to get rid of old iDevices released in the same fiscal year.
The world needs more hyperbole and self gratifying statements.
Seriously, chances of you succeeding in and being something more than a great startup are slim. A shift in the wind and suddenly everybody is selling high density data storage solutions, or someone comes out with some new technology that makes your company obsolete.
If Facebook is interested in buying you out now, take the offer now. Holding out for something better, or thinking you are going to be a huge success 5 years from now in this market climate is going to leave you standing with empty pockets and a lot of regrets.
Bottom line is if you succeeded in attracting one of the big tech companies in your teens, then think what having a few million in investment capital can do for your next big idea and the rest of your life.
So New York is flooded, power is out, and you can drop quarter into a payphone to call someone that cares?
I think this speaks more of the fact we need better power and wireless systems. How can landline service survive when everything else is knocked out? How about getting the people that invented landline phone service to invest a little time and effort making power lines and wireless services a little more resilient.
Also, I think its time that people invent a cell phone that can last more than a day on a charge. I mean 40 years later and my wireless phone still wont work past a day in spite of all the supposed innovation in battery and computer technology.
I mean if civilization is reduced to the stone age do you really want to survive it?
When I see shows like Doomsday Preppers, and the types of people preparing for the end of the world, it further steadies my belief that I in no way want to survive any of these kinds disasters once the yokels crawl out of their caves and spider holes.
No, we all know its Carbon Dioxide that is responsible for global warming, it has nothing to do with the big glowing ball of gas in the sky. The interweb ignores the fact that global warming seems to coincide with the point in the millennial solar cycle it at highest energy output because we have only recorded weather in 'modern" times for the last 100 years or so. 100 years of a global warming trend which happens to coincide with an increase CO2 output means we have done it to ourselves, nature cannot possibly affect the planet in this way.
A company so arrogant that wanted to charge Samsung $30 - $40 per phone for infringing Apple's patents, yet will only offer $1 a phone when they infringe other people's patents. Apple has officially become the smuggest company ever and must be capable of chewing on their own smug farts at this point.
Anyways, Apple aside, the whole software/mobile industry needs to be slapped for both creating and continuing all this patent whoring. The whole point of a patent is to show the world your innovations, and thus encourage cooperation in innovation, not use it as a weapon against competition. What I don't understand is how the hell any company will release a product these days without doing some form of basic patent search.
To say consoles are dead suggests tablets meet or exceed the expectations of ALL gamers. Sadly it falls short in so many ways.
Just because device X sells more than device Y does not mean device Y is dead. I guarantee that the next Xbox and (arguably) the next Playstation will garner 50+ million sales each during their lifetime. Historically this is pretty much what you can expect. In fact you can historically say that any given generation only gets 100 - 200 million consoles sold. So say that is a "failure" is ridiculous just because there are 200+ million iDevices out there. All iDevice users are not gamers, but all game console owners are gamers.
Don't get me wrong, the day I can connect my tablet to a TV and get the same kind of quality and feature set as any dedicated game console will be a great day in my opinion. I think tablet makers are kind of missing a great opportunity to rule the living room by offering REAL connectivity by allowing game controllers and supporting wireless gaming to a TV, not just mirroring the tablet screen. Tablets just don't offer the processing power that consoles offer. Tablets took technology backwards about 15 years and people have accepted that a 1ghz processor as "state of the art". Games look good on tablets the way games looked good on PC's 15 years ago, because they only have to render SVGA resolutions on small screens.
For now while tablets are just an Angry Birds platform, I still want and relish a new generation of game consoles giving me more than just finger flick gaming.
This article states that Google paid (bribed) Mozilla to be their default search provider regardless if there was 1 installation of Firefox or 9 million, so again, Microsoft cost Mozilla nothing because Mozilla already has the money in hand.
9 million * Free Browser = $0
Mozilla should sue Microsoft for $0 worth of damages.
No worries, the rover has been dropping shit around since it landed.
Martian soil contains volcanic residue, and Strawberry Tang, that is why its red.
It was, but then sky--t censored it. Oops, I forgot to post anonymously, I can hear the drone coming now...
Alas, reality stands in the way of pipe dreams.
You can quibble all you want about details like not having LTE, I mean really, most markets don't deliver full LTE speeds anyways, and most data plans are not going to let you take full advantage of LTE speeds by capping out at some absurdly low amount (maybe its just Canada, but our telcom sucks). Also lack of Micro SD slot and low capacity models is hard to accept. But the reality is that Google is setting a precedent that an unlocked phones should no longer cost $800+.
Its about time someone like Google smacked down the cost of unlocked handsets. We all know Apple makes 2 - 4x profit on an iDevice, its time for a company to set more realistic expectations of what profit on a mobile device should be.
Same goes for their tablets, considerably cheaper than iPads, and if Google (re Samsung) starts offering more features for less money, like uber-high resolutions, Google will be setting the trend for pricing of ALL mobile devices in the very near future.
Its a shame Microsoft chose to follow Apple's pricing and marketing strategy, I think this will hurt Microsoft. When the Lumina 920 is more expensive than an iPhone 5, and Microsoft choose to lock their devices to specific carriers on roll out, this is a huge decision for me not to even bother with the Windows Phone platform. Had Microsoft offered a "Surface" phone, unlocked for $300 - $400, I might have considered.
So, in spite of limited storage and no LTE, the phone is good enough for most people and the unlocked price is attractive to get a near top end Android device. If you feel you can't live without LTE, then enjoy your $800+ phones and your 3 year data plans.
I'm still waiting for the 80-core PC.
How about realizing one of your predictions before creating another. You never achieved an 80-core PC and barely made a dent into the mobile CPU market so don't bother predicting anything for the mobile market until you are player.
Also Intel, its time to change your architecture. Packing in billions of transistors into a core to support legacy instructions is not an efficient design anymore. I don't want 4, 48 or 80 cores with defunct MMX and obsolete x86 instructions. Stop making CPU's where every core contains the entire history of Intel.
I think that speaks more to the inefficiency of Java ad a development platform if you have to toil with understanding makefiles across many different platforms. If you spend half your time hand coding makefiles and trying to build your project on every conceivable platform you think your software/code might be used on, chances are you are never hitting your deadlines. If you spend the other time running make and having to fix 1000 syntax errors because you spent the last 6 hours writing a text file, then you probably are just not a good developer at all.
Again a GOOD IDE would help you target any platform by efficiently creating the build environments and grabbing the correct libraries. Again I think this is more the fact that Eclipse sucks as an IDE, especially if someone thinks they are more efficient with text files and command lines.
The reason why you break a large "complex" system into small interface files is exactly for EASE of continued development.
This guy wants to write one large file that contains all of his classes and interface (or lack there-of) and therefore only needs a text editor. This guy is not worth his salt as a developer.
You can't build large systems this way. Monolithic FILES (opposed to an IDE) are full of old, unusable code and prone to significant defects when worked on by a team of people.
Also I tire of the idea that I am not a real programmer because I use an IDE which auto-completes and has syntax highlighting. I build apps, I don't spend hours making one line of code execute as efficiently as possible. There is a point of diminished returns where the amount of time you toil over every line of code does not translate into faster more efficient code, so I work at the high level building large complex systems with relative ease, efficiency, and with adequate performance that is acceptable to the clients I work for. Also I finish a project on time rather the going 6 months over.
I am sure this guy is just lamenting the fact that Eclipse isn't the greatest IDE out there, but the idea that you don't need an IDE for the reason that it creates lots of small files that this guy considered "complex" proves he is a moron and should be ignored.
BTW a good IDE allows you to quickly and easily navigate lots of those pesky SOLID code files. If you don't know SOLID, look it up.
I don't know, this makes the Jobs family look like the biggest group of douches in history.
I've said it before that usually when some rich billionaire dies of some kind of disease, there is usually some kind of center for research that the family declares in his honour. I've heard nothing, no donations, nothing from Apple or the Jobs family about giving some of them billions into research that might help prevent other families suffer the results of cancer.
Instead the family happily reveals a superfluous yacht. What a bunch of douches.
Why do people love this company? The create inhuman working conditions so they can produce their devices a 2 - 5x profit margin, rake in billions in profit and then hoard the money away giving absolutely nothing back to society. Yet Bill Gates, who has focused his life to philanthropy, giving away billions, is regarded as an asshole.
Cause its an untapped market. If you want to compete with apps on Android and iTunes, then you are competing with hundreds of thousands of junkware. At least on Windows you are competing with only thousands of junkware.
Because it sucks, Nintendo sucks, that is why. At least people over the age of 8 think so. People over the age of 8 don't need another Mario and Zelda delivery platform with a gimmick controller.
I think Nintendo burnt all their bridges with the Wii, 80 million people have the Wii collecting dust in their closet are not going to invest more money into another Wii.