That's not just the developers that are the problem. The overall environment need to be adapted for those developers to work: what are the processes, the managers, IT, environments, ... I have seen shop where corporate policy prevent a developer to be admin, install software and use another browser than IE7. Others where you have several months of lead time to setup a new database test server, where you cannot run a compiler locally, where only a manager can access the source control system. where bugs cannot be reported internally outside of an official testing phase, where all the feature of the software need to be vetted through a stakeholder committee composed of people with no experience that will never use the software, ...

That's what kills enterprise software.

Oyster and other ( including Lobster I have eard ) can be eaten by vegan, but not vegetarian. The vast majority of vegetarians are vegetarian for religious reason or custom. The line drawn by vegan is either suffering or exploitation ( those that won't eat milk products ). Vegetarian is more based on classification in animal realm or not.

Well, that's one classification. Vegatarian / Vegan in the First World seems to have a special meaning for everybody practicing it.

Sure let see how that looks: IPod vs all the other MP3 player, Linux vs Windows. You can go further: Linux is going strong despite "losing", Apple was profitable despite a negligible market share, ...

That's not even considering that we are talking about Apple vs Android, which should be Sony vs VHS. Sony eventually embraced VHS. Apple did not abandon OSX. Worked for both of them.

High Level comparison like that are only good for fortune cookie type wisdom.

1. Write your MP and express your outrage. Stop using a provider using filtering. Write your new provider CEO and explain why you joined them. Write your old provider and explain why you quit them.
2. Get some friend interested and mount an official protest in front of Westminster Palace. Get all of those people to stop using the bad provider too. Ignore the DailyMail labeling you as a kiddie porn addict wanting to destroy the economy and force toddler to watch hardcore porn and terrorism training video on internet.
3. Continue, get more people on board, get traditional/real media interested. Ignore government promises to oversight the filter list, claim of transparency, ...
4. Continue get more people on board and create your own party. Win the election, change the law.


People do that all the time - like for war, animal abuse, ... If the subject is more popular than important for the government, it works. There are organisation that will help you through that, there are MP that will support you. (see Pirate Party, Touche pas ma pute in France, ...)

If you are cynical about that approach use my previous response.

We are supposed to drown our sorrow by consuming a little bit more.

Not saying it is not garbage journalism, but there is an unidentified guy with a fortune estimated to 1.8 trillion dollar. Much more if bitcoin takes over, up to 5% total Earth Wealth in the unlikely scenario of bitcoin becoming the world currency. I wonder why there is not much more article trying to track him down considering we live in a world that has a fetish for famous people.

Considering that bitcoin by design keep the log of all transaction. Once your ID is linked to a wallet anybody will be able to know whatever you did with your money. Obviously not a big problem to workaround but the risk is a lot higher than with cash transaction.

The vast majority of the software use would not be able to read the source at all.

What they can do is asked other people that can if the software is ok or not. At that stage it does not matter if the code is open source or not. If the community, like malware listing site or others, has vetted the software, it is as good guarantee as they will ever have. Having the source code just make our job easier when trying to help guys with problem.

Well there is a maximum of 21 million bitcoin. If the currency become successful, that 21 million will represent the total wealth of the whole planet. If it does not who knows.

It is not only the price but also the fact that there is no longer a pile of bag available. You need to ask for the right amount of bags, and it gets recorded on your receipt. Cashier will also very often forget to even ask you the question so you end up with your stuff pilling and no bag to pack them until you get the attention of the cashier.

It is all the little annoyance combined that make it work. It seems to work much less in Marc and Spenser Food Only where somebody is packing your stuff for you.

Dude, you asked for the sales figures, the best I had without telling you to go google it yourself.

I added the total sale just because it is interesting to keep things in perspective, especially on /. where people have a tendency to think the most difficult thing in selling cars is choosing the javascript framework for the website. It got you though, "Tesla just need to find a way to cut the price in half and they will sell 2 million cars a years." which is the physical world equivalent of "if they just made Windows opensource, the Linux kernel team will be able to remove all the bugs in no time"

Anyway, the point of the thread is not if electric is good or not, considering that this is /. and you do not really need to sell the idea of electric cars. The question was why is there only 45K electric cars sold in 2013 and not more. The answer seems to be either they are expensive (Tesla) or their range sucks (all others).

According to Tesla, their expected production capacity was 20,000 cars per year. 580,258 cars were sold in the US ... in October 2013 alone.

It is interesting to note that in France it was to other way around. Independent could not compete with Amazon because book price is fixed by law. The "protection" is closing a loophole that allow shop like Amazon and other to offer a discount price and free delivery on top.

France has done nothing to protect the bookstores from the e-book.

Tesla has a lot more surface with batteries so the risk is likely higher. With only few reports it is difficult to say, but apparently the batteries of the Tesla seem to take fire more easily than a regular tank. On the other hand, gazoline cars, when on fire, behave worse than the Tesla.

In any case, worth investigating. Tesla is a unique design, it is bound to have various design issues and that's really no big deal at this stage. After all, that's a high end car, and all high end cars have their own quirks. The stock taking a tumble is quite welcome too. Right now Tesla is valued as if it was ready to take over the world in the next 6 months.

They don't do that - they wait until you have had a crash to then refuse to cover you. In the meanwhile they are happy to milk you for more.