The even-bigger red flag is that it is a custom screw. There are literally tens of thousands of screws available in massive bulk from McMaster Carr and others. Tell your engineers to use off-the-shelf connectors unless they can prove a 100% need for that screw - and get VP or higher level approval for it. A screw? Really? Designing a custom screw just tells me you have lazy mechanical engineers...
Sometimes a $3K laptop is needed. I spend probably 70% of my working time remote - at clients, on business travel, etc. I have a fully-loaded Lenovo P71 (about $3800 new) because it has the horsepower needed to do advanced 3D modeling, PCB layout, FEA simulations, etc. Basically it's a portable workstation - and I use it as such. It has, of course, much more power than any equivalent-priced Macbook - but then I use mine to do real stuff, not just e-mail and docs and such.
Reality must really chap your hide, knowing that Apple has never been a market leader, and that Bill Gates was 100% correct when he told Apple what was going to happen - and they ignored him. Apple has always been an interesting "also ran" option, that makes things shiny - but really doesn't innovate. They just copy others, polish, and try to sell for more money.
Yeah, a guy with a Nobel prize in physics for manipulation of light would have very little understanding of semiconductor or material physics. Right. What do you think semiconductors and materials science is based on, if not physics?
This Nobel prize winning physicist won his prize in the field of optics and light - he IS a physicist who specializes in manipulation of light. He's the guy that invents stuff that solar systems engineers eventually end up using...
Doesn't matter about what was "better". what matters is what impacted the world more. Apple products were always 2nd or 3rd place options, and always way behind the leaders. The Commodore 64 dominated until the rise of the IBM PC and the clones. That is what changed the world - a standard, open hardware and OS platform for anyone to work with. Domination in the market as a standard platform enabled an explosion of software. Without the IBM PC and Windows, the entire 1990s Internet/computer revolution would have never happened.
All food that is tainted with GMO food must be labeled. Allowed level for GMO food in human consumer products is at the 1% range...
So, you can or cannot sell GMO food to humans? Because you kind of just said both.
No one really has an issue with eating it.
So why is it down at 1%, if there's no issue - and what about the other slashdotter in this thread who explicitly states otherwise - that they have a big issue eating it?
And somehow I'm the idiot? Of course, you're the one who also didn't realize the US Midwest is East of the Rockies, and wanted to talk about the Florida mountains, so...
Personally, I like the flexibility to choose when I want to stop, and for how long. If I have to stop - I want the flexibility to make it either a long or short stop. Battery pack replacement - or fuel, like gas/diesel or hydrogen - allows for the flexibility. If you want a long stop, go ahead! If you don't, you don't need one. Why have the additional constraints of having to pause for an hour every 250-300 miles, rather than choosing if you even want to pause that long?
That dumb old white guy has already given away $28+ billion, and is literally responsible for thousands of millionaires, and much of the Internet and IT revolution over the last 30 years. Not bad for a dumb old white guy...
As long as that storage is hydrogen - which is the lowest cost mass-storage means, and can also be quickly and easily used for transportation needs, too...
So they take 8-10 times longer than a battery swap. A standardized battery size would solve the other issues - and properly designed (like I've seen over here for BYD, BAIC, and Nio) it will fit a massive variety of cars, with a good sized (60 kWh) pack.
At least with the network I saw used in China, there was no scheduling, a swap was 150 RMB (about half the cost of a tank of gas for the equivalent car), and they had plenty of batteries charged and in-stock. And there is NO NEED to scale your battery pack if you can hot-swap it. Make a standard sized pack, designed to fit on all cars, and call it done. And a 150 mile range is actually fine if you can charge up in a few minutes; during a drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco or Las Vegas, I'd much rather stop every 150 miles for 5 minutes than every 300 miles for 1 hour.
What this shows is that Tesla simply didn't have either the foresight or capital to do an effective battery swap system. What I saw in China could be put into 4, 20 foot containers, with each container being a hot-swap station. That would give 2 changing bays, one bay for the operator/control center, and one bay for automated storage/charging/retrieval of battery packs. When Nio rolls out its network in the US, Tesla is going to find itself looking really old and foolish...
I call BS. Why would people WANT to stop for an hour or two, when they could swap out their battery in 2-3 minutes? You can still stop for an hour if you want - but you don't have to. This is Tesla-spin, pure and simple. And with Nio (who's cars are definitely competitors to Tesla) now having a network of hundreds of battery-swap stations in China - and plans to expand into the US - Tesla is about to find out it's ancient technology. Why plug in? Just change...
I'm over here in China (been here for a week), and right now in Shenzhen and Xiamen, most of the cabs are BAIC electrics. I was in one, when the driver asked if we can "change the battery". Of course! We drove to a station, drove into a little "stall", heard stuff underneath for about 3 minutes, then drove away. Swapped the entire battery pack. That makes a BEV a bit more useful... Telsa needs to get off their "supercharger" kick and either get with the new high-power standard here (350 kW) or a swappable battery like BAIC, BYD, and others use (which all use the same, standardized battery pack of 60 kWh size).
Tariff was on the assembled panels, not the parts. If the companies sunk - even with a 30% tariff applied to their competition - then China was dumping panels (meaning that people are buying them below cost - unrealistic costs for solar power) or the companies aren't competitive in the first place.
Slashdot Mirror
The even-bigger red flag is that it is a custom screw. There are literally tens of thousands of screws available in massive bulk from McMaster Carr and others. Tell your engineers to use off-the-shelf connectors unless they can prove a 100% need for that screw - and get VP or higher level approval for it. A screw? Really? Designing a custom screw just tells me you have lazy mechanical engineers...
Sometimes a $3K laptop is needed. I spend probably 70% of my working time remote - at clients, on business travel, etc. I have a fully-loaded Lenovo P71 (about $3800 new) because it has the horsepower needed to do advanced 3D modeling, PCB layout, FEA simulations, etc. Basically it's a portable workstation - and I use it as such. It has, of course, much more power than any equivalent-priced Macbook - but then I use mine to do real stuff, not just e-mail and docs and such.
Reality must really chap your hide, knowing that Apple has never been a market leader, and that Bill Gates was 100% correct when he told Apple what was going to happen - and they ignored him. Apple has always been an interesting "also ran" option, that makes things shiny - but really doesn't innovate. They just copy others, polish, and try to sell for more money.
Yeah, a guy with a Nobel prize in physics for manipulation of light would have very little understanding of semiconductor or material physics. Right. What do you think semiconductors and materials science is based on, if not physics?
This Nobel prize winning physicist won his prize in the field of optics and light - he IS a physicist who specializes in manipulation of light. He's the guy that invents stuff that solar systems engineers eventually end up using...
Not to mention it was set up to allow the user to "multitask" but it wouldn't do pre-emptive multitasking itself...
Doesn't matter about what was "better". what matters is what impacted the world more. Apple products were always 2nd or 3rd place options, and always way behind the leaders. The Commodore 64 dominated until the rise of the IBM PC and the clones. That is what changed the world - a standard, open hardware and OS platform for anyone to work with. Domination in the market as a standard platform enabled an explosion of software. Without the IBM PC and Windows, the entire 1990s Internet/computer revolution would have never happened.
Only a dumbass would consider a 95 meter hill a "mountain". Hey, did you also figure out that the Midwest is East of the Rockies?
So eating GMO is fine, but you're not supposed to grow it. Got it. That's about as retarded as talking about the Florida Mountains...
This unit would be the smartphone for Zoolander...
Who wants iOS when you can install Linux on the phone? Can't quite get that functionality on an Apple phone, can you...
Samsung J3 3rd edition is free from Verizon Wireless... That's pretty useful, does pretty much everything the SE would do...
I don't remember you ranting against Bill Clinton or Joe Biden...
For animal food GMO is ok.
All food that is tainted with GMO food must be labeled. Allowed level for GMO food in human consumer products is at the 1% range ...
So, you can or cannot sell GMO food to humans? Because you kind of just said both.
No one really has an issue with eating it.
So why is it down at 1%, if there's no issue - and what about the other slashdotter in this thread who explicitly states otherwise - that they have a big issue eating it? And somehow I'm the idiot? Of course, you're the one who also didn't realize the US Midwest is East of the Rockies, and wanted to talk about the Florida mountains, so...
If you could swap that pack in 2-3 minutes - is that a problem? More so than a 30+ minute stop to partially recharge?
Although many EU countries do not grow GMOs, Europe is one of the world’s biggest consumers of them.
And that includes France.
Personally, I like the flexibility to choose when I want to stop, and for how long. If I have to stop - I want the flexibility to make it either a long or short stop. Battery pack replacement - or fuel, like gas/diesel or hydrogen - allows for the flexibility. If you want a long stop, go ahead! If you don't, you don't need one. Why have the additional constraints of having to pause for an hour every 250-300 miles, rather than choosing if you even want to pause that long?
That dumb old white guy has already given away $28+ billion, and is literally responsible for thousands of millionaires, and much of the Internet and IT revolution over the last 30 years. Not bad for a dumb old white guy...
Strange that we did not discover any use during the previous 70 decades, or is it 80 already?
Damn, I had no CLUE that we had nukes back in the middle ages!
As long as that storage is hydrogen - which is the lowest cost mass-storage means, and can also be quickly and easily used for transportation needs, too...
So they take 8-10 times longer than a battery swap. A standardized battery size would solve the other issues - and properly designed (like I've seen over here for BYD, BAIC, and Nio) it will fit a massive variety of cars, with a good sized (60 kWh) pack.
At least with the network I saw used in China, there was no scheduling, a swap was 150 RMB (about half the cost of a tank of gas for the equivalent car), and they had plenty of batteries charged and in-stock. And there is NO NEED to scale your battery pack if you can hot-swap it. Make a standard sized pack, designed to fit on all cars, and call it done. And a 150 mile range is actually fine if you can charge up in a few minutes; during a drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco or Las Vegas, I'd much rather stop every 150 miles for 5 minutes than every 300 miles for 1 hour.
What this shows is that Tesla simply didn't have either the foresight or capital to do an effective battery swap system. What I saw in China could be put into 4, 20 foot containers, with each container being a hot-swap station. That would give 2 changing bays, one bay for the operator/control center, and one bay for automated storage/charging/retrieval of battery packs. When Nio rolls out its network in the US, Tesla is going to find itself looking really old and foolish...
I call BS. Why would people WANT to stop for an hour or two, when they could swap out their battery in 2-3 minutes? You can still stop for an hour if you want - but you don't have to. This is Tesla-spin, pure and simple. And with Nio (who's cars are definitely competitors to Tesla) now having a network of hundreds of battery-swap stations in China - and plans to expand into the US - Tesla is about to find out it's ancient technology. Why plug in? Just change...
I'm over here in China (been here for a week), and right now in Shenzhen and Xiamen, most of the cabs are BAIC electrics. I was in one, when the driver asked if we can "change the battery". Of course! We drove to a station, drove into a little "stall", heard stuff underneath for about 3 minutes, then drove away. Swapped the entire battery pack. That makes a BEV a bit more useful... Telsa needs to get off their "supercharger" kick and either get with the new high-power standard here (350 kW) or a swappable battery like BAIC, BYD, and others use (which all use the same, standardized battery pack of 60 kWh size).
Tariff was on the assembled panels, not the parts. If the companies sunk - even with a 30% tariff applied to their competition - then China was dumping panels (meaning that people are buying them below cost - unrealistic costs for solar power) or the companies aren't competitive in the first place.