Comment Now that it's traded.... (Score 2) 183
That will be all the "proof" companies like Nestle will require to say "See? It's not a 'right' to water, it's a product!" And the cost will increase because...F U... that's why.
Comment This is because he's mad at Twitter. (Score 1) 511
They keep "fact checking him," which is a nice way of saying he's tired of being called out on his BS and lies. And he doesn't like it.
This is just Don loving on Don. This motherfucker is the modern Narcissus.
Comment Re:REEEÉEEEEEÉEEE (Score 0, Troll) 335
Who the fuck modded this retardation "Informative"?
Comment Re:X Æ A-12 (Score 1) 80
Hollywood disagrees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I'd agree with you if Tesla had done anything meaningful prior to Elon's involvement. Using your analogy, Tesla wasn't even a little backwater restaurant that got investment—it was just a couple of guys who thought it would be neat to make hamburgers.
Comment Re:X Æ A-12 (Score 1) 80
If you exclude the six months spent looking for capital, Musk was there from the very beginning. Before Musk, Telsa was just a couple of guys looking for capital. Musk WAS the capital. He was Tesla's very first investor and has always been Tesla's dominant shareholder.
Comment Re:Musk did not start Tesla (Score 2) 80
Did the incorporated entity do anything consequential in those six months—other than searching for Elon Musk?
Comment Ian told us.... (Score 4, Funny) 35
Life, ... uh,...finds a way.
Comment YT should nuke those accounts (Score 1) 183
They said they were going to remove content that violated WHO recommendations.... Well, conspiracy-theory crap is definitely something that I'm sure the WHO is against. So, YT should just delete the channels spreading this junk and be done with it. Problem solved.
Comment It's most well known product is probably.... (Score 5, Informative) 29
Umm, LastPass? LogMeIn owns LastPass.
It's astonishing that this wasn't mentioned in the Slashdot summary.
LogMeIn Acquired By Private-Equity Firms (techcrunch.com) 29
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: LogMeIn announced this morning that it has agreed to be sold for $4.3 billion to affiliates of Francisco Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation, the private equity affiliate of Elliott Management Corporation. The purchase price comes out to $86.05 per share in an all-cash deal. The company had a 52-week high of $96.87 per share and a low of $62.02. The purchase price represents a 25% premium on the closing share price on September 18th, which the company reports was the day media reports began to leak that the company was up for sale.
Bill Wagner, president and CEO at LogMeIn said in a statement that the price reflects the high value of the company and will give stockholders a meaningful return. As you would expect, he was also was optimistic that the partnership with Francisco and Evergreen will help the company going forward. As for the private equity firms, they are getting a broad portfolio of products including unified communications and collaboration (UCC). LogMeIn bought Jive Communications for $357 million in 2018 to give it deeper penetration in the unified communications market. It's most well known product is probably GoToMeeting, which has had to compete with the likes of Zoom, WebEx, BlueJean, Google Hangouts and others in a crowded video conferencing space. The company bought GoToMeeting from Citrix in 2016 for $1.8 billion Unless it can find a buyer who will offer a higher price, the deal is expected to close in mid 2020 after standard regulatory scrutiny.
Bill Wagner, president and CEO at LogMeIn said in a statement that the price reflects the high value of the company and will give stockholders a meaningful return. As you would expect, he was also was optimistic that the partnership with Francisco and Evergreen will help the company going forward. As for the private equity firms, they are getting a broad portfolio of products including unified communications and collaboration (UCC). LogMeIn bought Jive Communications for $357 million in 2018 to give it deeper penetration in the unified communications market. It's most well known product is probably GoToMeeting, which has had to compete with the likes of Zoom, WebEx, BlueJean, Google Hangouts and others in a crowded video conferencing space. The company bought GoToMeeting from Citrix in 2016 for $1.8 billion Unless it can find a buyer who will offer a higher price, the deal is expected to close in mid 2020 after standard regulatory scrutiny.
Comment Google programming skills (Score 5, Interesting) 91
Add this to the list of rubbish software by Google. People just assume that because a small number of Google projects have legitimately impressing programming prowess that this standard of quality is consistent among the ~30,000 engineers at the company. In my experience, Google software tends to be fairly poor on average.
Legitimately good:
* Some parts of Android
* Chrome (due in no small part to the architectural origins set by KHTML and Apple)
* V8
Assumed to be good because the results are great but who the fuck knows what sort of hacked up garbage is under the hood:
* Google search
* Google maps
* Advertising networks
* ChromeOS
Was already good when they bought the company that made it:
* Google Docs
* Google Earth
* SketchUp
Hot garbage:
* Many parts of Android
* Most of the Android SDK
* Google Desktop, Toolbar, Talk and countless other pieces of shit Windows software
Comment Re:Yes it does (Score 5, Insightful) 91
Yep, it's works until you disable the operating system's protection mechanisms and install shithouse software.
Comment sequester from atmosphere (Score 2) 471
We have the technological capability RIGHT NOW to suck the CO2 right out of the atmosphere and sequester it. Every continent, every nation, needs to build these atmosphere processors to do just that. Imagine, Russia with a thousands of them. Imagine the US and Canada with an equal number. Think the same for Australia (hello to my down-under friends), and Africa with so many it would be hard to count. The building of these processors will take time, yes, and resources--a lot--but the truth of the matter is clear: Do nothing, we all die; do something we all might live. Get them designed, get them built. Do it now and power the things up. There are jobs there--countless jobs--we can make "Saving the planet for human habitation" as the start of the next several centuries' economy of the world.
Comment Re:Maybe so (Score 1) 145
Unquestionably. Tesla are still mid-tier when it comes to materials, fit and finish etc. That said, it's all relative. Compared to other cars made by Porsche, I think the Taycan is fairly ugly—those drippy melty headlights are distractingly hideous. Whereas the Model 3 looks quite nice for an American car.
(I might have bought a Tesla 3 but for the all-glass roof. I hate sunroofs and where I live, the sun is very hot in summer. Also my current car is perfectly fine.)
Comment Re:Cool parlor trick. (Score 1) 145
The quantity of battery isn't just important for range, it also determines the maximum number of watts that can be pulled by the motor—and thus the upper limit of performance.
This is why the upcoming Tesla Roadster is said to have a 200kWh battery pack. It's for performance, not range.
(MAYBE you could replace some battery with comparatively lightweight supercapacitors, but then you've only got max power when the caps are charged. The electric equivalent of turbo lag, perhaps.)
