Just because we don't know the identity of the poster doesn't mean /.'s servers don't contain enough information to identify him.

I think you are saying that if states, counties, and cities all rewrote their tax laws to be easier to enforce, then they wouldn't get much opposition from internet retailers. Eminently true.

> Is it better to have to look down at your dash to view your navigation than to have it
> displayed in the corner of your vision?

Yes, because it doesn't distract me. I only see it when I consciously look at it. Things in my range of sight that flash and change are very distracting.

But that's just my opinion. Some real tests of what is safer would be nice to have.

Absolutely! What I found made it especially interesting is that it is focused on a single time period and a specific location. I feel like I was able to gain something of a picture of the web of predator and prey in the megafauna of prehistoric SoCal. Most museums instead treat you to their most spectacular fossils from any time in the last several hundred million years.

Your numbers are not in line with what people who work with large publishers have been saying for the past few years. I have been reading that physical production costs are 5-10%, not 30%. There's a big difference whether 20% of the publisher's take goes for manufacturing or 60%. These were the numbers from genre fiction authors who might expect a run in the low 100k or at least several 10s of thousands of books working with the largest publishers. I would expect different numbers for different types of books, different size runs, etc.

"I am a bit surprised at the number of people who fight for the cause of remote X."

Well, people use their computers for different things. If you have a hundred people sharing TBs of data and looking at it using massive complex home-grown analysis and modeling packages, remote X makes sense. It's the difference between shipping a few plot windows across the network vs. GB of data. (And X performance can be fine on a wired LAN when you have ping times in ms and no dropped connections. Again, depends on your own personal situation.)

Sure, this is a use case that only applies to a tiny fraction of users, but for those users it is absolutely necessary.

Exactly, and the reply is always from the point of view of the developer. They want to talk about what style of protocol or something that remote apps will use--I don't care. I want to know whether I can run programs the same way that I do now.

A subset of people like me use their desktop as primarily a terminal to connect to more powerful servers. I want to know if Wayland will let me "ssh me@oldserver-running-X xterm" and then use the remote xterm to start a bunch of programs that open their own windows. I don't want to know how it does it, only if it will work.

If the Wayland developers don't want to commit to making something like this work, that's fine. It just means Wayland isn't designed for me. If they *are* going to make it work, I would feel more comfortable is they would come and say for certain that they are committed to supplying this functionality.

This same point comes up again and again. I think that the developers at some level don't understand the question, because there never seems to be an answer that is straightforward and pitched at the level of the user. (Not that anyone *owes* me an answer. I am just making a request.)

There is a major clutter problem. Have you ever looked at a browser on a small 16:9 screen? Count the number of lines of menus/tabs/messages/titles there are on the top and bottom of the already-too-short screen. (Heaven help you if you're also using gnome2.) It's a UI disaster. My solution is to stick with 3:4 screens (and not use gnome), but someday duct tape will not be enough to hold that old thinkpad together.

There are three of us still using seamonkey? More than I thought.

"Ebooks should have less overhead,"

Not true for the publisher. Editing, proofreading, design, artwork, publicity are all the same.

The mass-market paperback market is not the important market to compare to, though. Books make their money on sales of hardbacks--that is what pays the author to write. The publisher and author might get 1/2 of the price of $25 hardback. It's not clear they can stay alive in a world of $10 ebooks.

Absolutely nothing by the ISP. Did you protest to the ISP in writing that you were doing nothing illegal and there must be some mistake? If not, it is a tacit admission of guilt. Good luck if the *AA take you to court for copyright infringement.

I think Musk's plan was to turn this into a shouting contest, because if you look at his graphs, the car did not perform very well in the cold weather. The range was much shorter than the estimated range reported by the computer. Check Musk's graphs--it's right there. Strip away all the drama, and the test was bad for Tesla, unless the main result could be hidden under enough layers of BS.

If Broder were Tesla's biggest fanboi, all he could have done was bury the article--any version of it would have made clear the problems. The range was short--this is undeniable at it is in Musk's graphs. The range/charge measurement is no good on very cold mornings. If these points aren't the obvious takeaways, then it is because Musk is a PR genius.

"Facts should be cut and dry, end of the day."

But they aren't. There are supposed phone calls with no tapes. There are routes with no GPS recorders.

We have a journalist with notes and memories with errors and a businessman with access to uncheckable logs who is also a mind reader (look at how often Musk claims to know why Broder did something).

One fact is clear and consistent from Musk's graphs: Under reasonable winter driving conditions, the actual range on the car was only 75% the estimated range, and that means the charging stations are too far apart.

Have you driven on I-95 in the dark much? Broder's statement about trying to find the charging station seems pretty reasonable from my experience in those giant rest stops.

In general, the first thing that happens is that the ramp splits to separate traffic between parking trucks, parking cars, and gas station traffic. Does these signs say where the charging station is? Is it a sign that you will miss if you glance in your rearview mirror to see if there is an 18-wheeler coming zooming up behind you as you pause to look at signs?

How can you be sure Broder is lying if you haven't been there in the dark yourself? There is no GPS recorder data and there is no camera footage.