4SomeReason | 9 years ago | on: We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen
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4SomeReason | 9 years ago | on: We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen
Yup. It'd be like someone stealing your letters from the mailbox, copying the contents, and sending that data to the highest bidder.
4SomeReason | 9 years ago | on: Tesla to raise $1B
The point at which Tesla will become not a pie-in-the-sky wet dream is when the price point matches a run-of-the-mill Honda.
Right now, having a Tesla is like having a Maserati.
I know zero people who have one, my wife (a structural integrationist) _works_ on people who have them, so I am like two social tiers away from thinking of affording one, which, for me, is like dreaming of that Kawasaki Ninja I had postered on my wall as a ten year old boy.
He, and his team, need to dramatically scale down costs somehow. I read something cool today about Chinese charging stations that swap batteies instead of sitting and waiting to recharge. I wonder if something like that with an attendant would work to extend the battery "life" ad infinitum for grids in other nations.
Seems like his head is on straight though. He took profits and looked up. He said, yeah, I could drive down prices on my car by saturating more, but I'll build rockets that don't waste as much on reentry costs instead. That's smart innovation, that's passing the baton in the 400m instead of sprinting 10m and saying "I win!".
I do think there is stigma (even in my own mind, and I really am a fan of Elon) surrounding borrowing money over and over, but the reality is: almost EVERYONE does this. If you aren't Dow, or Ford, or some huge ass fucking company that has a war chest the size of Dubai, you aren't going to weather the stormy market conditions we are facing as a result of globalization (see Brexit et al for moreon that topic of discussion).
Businesses need floating because they don't exist in a vacuum, they exist because they aren't welcomed by their competitors, in fact, they are actively "sabotaged" by those that stand to lose market share, and that, my friends, is a HUGE problems with mercantilism. Unless we decide to get along, it's not going to get better, and corporate espionage has not lessened in my lifetime, not by a moonshot.
So, yeah, play nice and he and those like him will stop having to borrow money, and maybe he will throw us a bone and make a car that doesn't cost as much as my entire post-secondary education (including grad school).
Peace y'all.
4SomeReason | 9 years ago | on: Tesla to raise $1B
Dude's user name is 'losers'. Lol
4SomeReason | 9 years ago | on: What is your pick for the most mind bogglingly incredible software of all time?
As someone who has studied a lot of words, and a lot of CS, I like this challenge. It's like asking what's the best book ever written (which is why I think the first answers are about excel).
Lemme breaka dis down:
Most mind bogglingly incredible....that means that piece of software that is the most difficult to fully grok, but is ostensibly the most useful while simultaneously speaking to the coding mastery of whomever (likelier than not, mor ethan one person) wrote/typed, prolly both, it.
And I have a really good answer that I bet almost nowon reading this illuminated pixel array would have thought.
PLATO, baby, and its TUTOR programming language. Yeah, it's hardware and software, but Steve Jobs would allow it, and I bet Woz wood too. The computational invention that heralds nearly every single computer-oriented advance made since its inception. Made to train GI's to make up for a lack of funds after the dudes and dudettes returning from WWII needed to get their education funded like they were promised. Nothing like making up for overpromising to spur progress way beyond expectations. Moon(shine) landing, anyone? Get this: the dude's name who is credited as being the father of PLATO: Bitzer, adn a dude named Tenczar (Tensor flow?). Fucking Bitzer and 10czar....God, or whtaever logic governs our universe, has an amazing sense of humor.
Anyway, here's a link:
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Balance is the gist of the article.
I can't possibly stay sane _and_ write something if I have to account for every possible reception by every possible buyer of that data. There are too many variables in play, and the data is too easily bought and sold. If we don't regulate, the least scrupulous agent will overtake the competition and it's Thunderdome beyond that.
Do you want to joust for your supper, because I don't.