"He confessed his transgression to the researchers, and follow-up studies confirmed his account: WIN 18,446 didn’t mix well with booze. Men who combined the two reported heart palpitations, sweating, nausea, and vomiting. The research was quietly abandoned.".
As someone who doesn't drink at all, I would quite like this to be researched more. There are a non-trivial number (some millions in the USA alone) of people who don't drink, for one reason or another, and might be interested in a contraceptive.
A large concern is if you do anything Google doesn't like, they can refuse to licence you the 'premium' apps. Meaning, your new phone doesn't have the google apps your users actually demand. This means, that if you don't have a set of fallback apps, negotiations with google are really problematic.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/ - related.(it's got worse since 2013)
Openmoko dropped the ball in a big pile of manure, and then asked the community to lick it off.
A quick outline of the process - from someone who has been active in openmoko on IRC forever, and bought the early version when I really could not afford it.
Openmoko is a perfect example of how not to do an 'open source - community involved project'.
Firstly, in march 2007 or so, we had a working phone with hardware available, with somewhat clunky but more-or-less usable basic phone and SMS. Battery life was not great - 12h or so.
Basic kernel stuff was unreliable - suspend diddn't work right, clock frequency changing diddn't work,...
Fix the kernel bugs, get the software 50% faster in 6 months, which is not implausible, and you could have had a phone selling for christmas 2007, that had a somewhat clunky phone, SMS, application, bluetooth working, you can play nethack on it (with an external bluetooth keyboard), run any X app, with a several day standby time...
So, the logical thing to do at this point is of course to after no consultation with the community drop a different - though similar - software stack on the community, with no notice other than the CEO saying 'Something really cool is coming up!!' at a conference some weeks before.
This software gets sort-of polished over the next yearish, with still the underlying kernel problems unfixed, and during this period new 'better' hardware is being worked on.
The new slightly evolved hardware arrives, and at the same time the CEO pops up saying 'Something really cool is coming up! And yes, another drastic software change with no notice - from X to Qt.
The kernel bugs are still not fixed, and worse, the new better hardware that was supposed to fix everything turns out to have a graphics accellerator that is at best usually a wash, compared to the earlier version with a processor with half the speed.
Shortly after this - another UI change - this time back to X, and an explosion of 'community' distributions, some of which mostly work.
And some of the kernel bugs are even fixed - but by this time openmoko-corporate has run out of money, at least to do phones, as a new model is going to take a large slice of a million to make a stab at developing.
There is even a gta02-core project - which is a community phone project based on the schematics. But, this again would require a large slice of a million for a 'real' launch.
And the elephant in the room is the n900 now. It makes users think 'For $150 more, I can get the n900, which does x,y,z,...', which is impossible to counter from a small production run as you don't have the margins to slash the price.
Openmoko-corporate never really talked to the community, which was a fundamental failing.
They diddn't say 'We are not working on a,b,c,d,e' - so of course people assumed they were, as they must be - they'd have to be insane not to...
So kernel bugs that made the device unusable went unfixed, and it all kind of went very very wrong.
Openmoko-corporate is now out of the mobile market - they are not employing any engineers on designing new phones or fixing the software stack. They are continuing to sell the hardware - but not even in a fully bugfixed form.
(references to ongoing things in this have probably now died)
Precisely nowhere that I'm aware of has ever had a non-mandated by government, or directly provided by government reliable safety net for those that does not at best cope with one small social group, and ignore others in equal need.
Perhaps you could describe such a system that has never existed throughout history?
" but not through the wasteful and inefficient institution of government." I am confused by what other manner it can be done.
I caught an unfortunate virus when I was 12. It was not through anything particular that I did. I have never been able to work, and progressive relapses have taken me from struggling part time through university, to being almost bedbound.
Due to struggling to keep educating myself in hopes of being able to work, and the difficulty of keeping up with a peer group, I am utterly isolated at the moment.
In addition, I live in a rural poor area, with no church or nearby large social organisations.
Precisely who am I supposed to appeal to for support?
Or are you advocating that those without a close family, who have lost friends due to being able to keep up with them, who are not a member of a church or similar organisation should simply die?
'Quoting commodity launches at a loss' - huh? Given that SpaceX has had no significant (in the context of 35 launches) external funding, what do you mean by 'a loss'. Plus, reusability significantly reduces cost, which rather changes things.
For a satellite that costs (say) two billion, if you save 300m on a launcher, you can afford to lose it about a sixth of the time. F9 is rather more reliable than this, with 33/35 successful launches.
The other poster said falcon heavy is not priced yet - this is incorrect, it has a modest cost increment over falcon 9 (as all first stages are projected to be recovered).
Home delivery is not expensive. Once you start to count all of the costs of driving, even before you count your time collecting stuff, or the cost of running a car, it can rapidly become economic. As one example, I pay (in the UK) $3-8 (depending on time of week) to get deliveries of over $60. This is available from several supermarkets.
Of course, because I can't drive for health reasons, it becomes _WAY_ cheaper than public transport.
Who got out safely, of a supercar, which was designed for lightness, not to be actually safe. If you remove the safety (structural, cooling, crash mitigation) features from the battery, it gets lighter, and your supercar goes faster.
At some point, legitimate questions by someone who is genuinely curious become, if asked by someone else, disruptive. If you're asking repeated questions not to learn, but to debate anything you disagree with, you are often actively interrupting others learning experience.
There are some sane reasons that this might be still a good investment. Tesla is planning to have their autopilot in a state that it can do driveway to driveway from one coast to the other by the end of the year. At this point, there will be some tens of thousands of autopilot-hardware-capable vehicles on the road. It could be that they can get autodrive rolled out and working properly before any competitor. Which could have obvious benefits. Autopilot in a $30K car somewhat kills other vendors which might have tried to launch it only at a superpremium price point. But - a market cap over ford, when even in 2018, they are going to (if all projections go well) a capacity of one quarter of fords total vehicle unit production in 2018,...
No, it isn't. Sometimes someone, despite proper training, management, and instruction does something that goes against all of that training, to the point that no reasonable person given the same instruction and training would have done the same thing.
In some cases you actually do need emergency global 'off' switches that are never meant to be used in normal operation.
'flick it off' may include 'opened the interlocks and keyed in the code as he believed he was doing the correct thing'. This could be a personal failure due to stupidity, a training failure, or he was in fact instructed to turn it off, and though he protested, is now getting scapegoated.
At the moment, there is no reasonable way to tell between various scenarios. It could go all the way from 'worker pressed big red button despite being told not to, signs telling him not to, and having signed an agreement not to', to 'worker followed what they believed was procedure and did what 99% of people would have done', to 'worker did precisely as instructed and are being scapegoated'.
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"He confessed his transgression to the researchers, and follow-up studies confirmed his account: WIN 18,446 didn’t mix well with booze. Men who combined the two reported heart palpitations, sweating, nausea, and vomiting. The research was quietly abandoned.".
As someone who doesn't drink at all, I would quite like this to be researched more. There are a non-trivial number (some millions in the USA alone) of people who don't drink, for one reason or another, and might be interested in a contraceptive.
A large concern is if you do anything Google doesn't like, they can refuse to licence you the 'premium' apps.
Meaning, your new phone doesn't have the google apps your users actually demand.
This means, that if you don't have a set of fallback apps, negotiations with google are really problematic.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/ - related.(it's got worse since 2013)
total sum?
Openmoko dropped the ball in a big pile of manure, and then asked the community to lick it off.
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A quick outline of the process - from someone who has been active in openmoko on IRC forever, and bought the early version when I really could not afford it.
Openmoko is a perfect example of how not to do an 'open source - community involved project'.
Firstly, in march 2007 or so, we had a working phone with hardware available, with somewhat clunky but more-or-less usable basic phone and SMS. Battery life was not great - 12h or so.
Basic kernel stuff was unreliable - suspend diddn't work right, clock frequency changing diddn't work,
Fix the kernel bugs, get the software 50% faster in 6 months, which is not implausible, and you could have had a phone selling for christmas 2007, that had a somewhat clunky phone, SMS, application, bluetooth working, you can play nethack on it (with an external bluetooth keyboard), run any X app, with a several day standby time
So, the logical thing to do at this point is of course to after no consultation with the community drop a different - though similar - software stack on the community, with no notice other than the CEO saying 'Something really cool is coming up!!' at a conference some weeks before.
This software gets sort-of polished over the next yearish, with still the underlying kernel problems unfixed, and during this period new 'better' hardware is being worked on.
The new slightly evolved hardware arrives, and at the same time the CEO pops up saying 'Something really cool is coming up!
And yes, another drastic software change with no notice - from X to Qt.
The kernel bugs are still not fixed, and worse, the new better hardware that was supposed to fix everything turns out to have a graphics accellerator that is at best usually a wash, compared to the earlier version with a processor with half the speed.
Shortly after this - another UI change - this time back to X, and an explosion of 'community' distributions, some of which mostly work.
And some of the kernel bugs are even fixed - but by this time openmoko-corporate has run out of money, at least to do phones, as a new model is going to take a large slice of a million to make a stab at developing.
There is even a gta02-core project - which is a community phone project based on the schematics. But, this again would require a large slice of a million for a 'real' launch.
And the elephant in the room is the n900 now. It makes users think 'For $150 more, I can get the n900, which does x,y,z,...', which is impossible to counter from a small production run as you don't have the margins to slash the price.
Openmoko-corporate never really talked to the community, which was a fundamental failing.
They diddn't say 'We are not working on a,b,c,d,e' - so of course people assumed they were, as they must be - they'd have to be insane not to...
So kernel bugs that made the device unusable went unfixed, and it all kind of went very very wrong.
Openmoko-corporate is now out of the mobile market - they are not employing any engineers on designing new phones or fixing the software stack. They are continuing to sell the hardware - but not even in a fully bugfixed form.
(references to ongoing things in this have probably now died)
You can often not simply install an update as a user. There is no way to do so without the BIOS vendor doing it for you.
Precisely nowhere that I'm aware of has ever had a non-mandated by government, or directly provided by government reliable safety net for those that does not at best cope with one small social group, and ignore others in equal need.
Perhaps you could describe such a system that has never existed throughout history?
" but not through the wasteful and inefficient institution of government." I am confused by what other manner it can be done.
I caught an unfortunate virus when I was 12. It was not through anything particular that I did.
I have never been able to work, and progressive relapses have taken me from struggling part time through university, to being almost bedbound.
Due to struggling to keep educating myself in hopes of being able to work, and the difficulty of keeping up with a peer group, I am utterly isolated at the moment.
In addition, I live in a rural poor area, with no church or nearby large social organisations.
Precisely who am I supposed to appeal to for support?
Or are you advocating that those without a close family, who have lost friends due to being able to keep up with them, who are not a member of a church or similar organisation should simply die?
This assumes they were meaningful and actual competition.
The documentation was bad, the prices were uncompetitive, and this lead to ~0 market share.
The launch types and weights are comparable, and the comparison only gets worse when the capability of F9 heavy is counted.
'Quoting commodity launches at a loss' - huh?
Given that SpaceX has had no significant (in the context of 35 launches) external funding, what do you mean by 'a loss'.
Plus, reusability significantly reduces cost, which rather changes things.
For a satellite that costs (say) two billion, if you save 300m on a launcher, you can afford to lose it about a sixth of the time.
F9 is rather more reliable than this, with 33/35 successful launches.
The other poster said falcon heavy is not priced yet - this is incorrect, it has a modest cost increment over falcon 9 (as all first stages are projected to be recovered).
Home delivery is not expensive.
Once you start to count all of the costs of driving, even before you count your time collecting stuff, or the cost of running a car, it can rapidly become economic.
As one example, I pay (in the UK) $3-8 (depending on time of week) to get deliveries of over $60.
This is available from several supermarkets.
Of course, because I can't drive for health reasons, it becomes _WAY_ cheaper than public transport.
Who got out safely, of a supercar, which was designed for lightness, not to be actually safe. If you remove the safety (structural, cooling, crash mitigation) features from the battery, it gets lighter, and your supercar goes faster.
At some point, legitimate questions by someone who is genuinely curious become, if asked by someone else, disruptive.
If you're asking repeated questions not to learn, but to debate anything you disagree with, you are often actively interrupting others learning experience.
Some parts would be very hard - Stage 2 cutoff is at ~160km altitude, and ~4000km away.
In principle, stage 1 could simply store to SD card.
Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
Or pleading up from actually being innocent.
If more harvard students went to prison, on the other hand, you can guarantee treatment of prisoners would improve.
Transport can be really difficult, to the point that doing 'more expensive' things like online ordering can work out cheaper.
I was referring to stock price, not anything else.
As to 'the market not being there' - he has preorders for 400K cars.
There are some sane reasons that this might be still a good investment. ...
Tesla is planning to have their autopilot in a state that it can do driveway to driveway from one coast to the other by the end of the year.
At this point, there will be some tens of thousands of autopilot-hardware-capable vehicles on the road.
It could be that they can get autodrive rolled out and working properly before any competitor.
Which could have obvious benefits.
Autopilot in a $30K car somewhat kills other vendors which might have tried to launch it only at a superpremium price point.
But - a market cap over ford, when even in 2018, they are going to (if all projections go well) a capacity of one quarter of fords total vehicle unit production in 2018,
Then it can be trivially concealed around the body if this argument is correct. Unless you do cavity searches.
No, it isn't.
Sometimes someone, despite proper training, management, and instruction does something that goes against all of that training, to the point that no reasonable person given the same instruction and training would have done the same thing.
In some cases you actually do need emergency global 'off' switches that are never meant to be used in normal operation.
'flick it off' may include 'opened the interlocks and keyed in the code as he believed he was doing the correct thing'.
This could be a personal failure due to stupidity, a training failure, or he was in fact instructed to turn it off, and though he protested, is now getting scapegoated.
At the moment, there is no reasonable way to tell between various scenarios.
It could go all the way from 'worker pressed big red button despite being told not to, signs telling him not to, and having signed an agreement not to', to 'worker followed what they believed was procedure and did what 99% of people would have done', to 'worker did precisely as instructed and are being scapegoated'.