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Comment Re:Edge cases are a bitch (Score 1) 260

Musk is simply not seeing around A BILLION EDGE CASES.

Watch the video, it's pretty short. Elon pretty much agrees with you. Of course, the headline, "Tesla hopes to have a foundation by the end of this year on which they can teach an autonomous car how to someday be able to handle the tail end of a billion tiny edge cases," just doesn't bring in all the clicks.

Comment This Is Not Even Close To What Was Said (Score 1) 125

This tweet:

How long for the first robotaxi release/ deployment? 2023?

Was responded to by Musk with:

Functionality still looking good for this year. Regulatory approval is the big unknown.

No million robotaxi fleet mentioned, just a sarcastic when will the FIRST release / deployment occur? 2023?.

Comment Re:So what about gas-powered cars? (Score 1) 144

Modern ones are practically engine-silent at these speeds, too.

True. However, a blind person getting killed by an ICE vehicle is an honorable death.

or

True. But, you should be able to smell an ICE car coming.

or

True. But, this would add too much cost to a gas vehicle that is already more expensive to operate than an EV.

or

True. But, if you open the hood and place your decibel meter next to an engine, it's clearly making lots of noise. The EV has no engine.

Comment 15,000 would be 1 every 2.3 sq. km (Score 2) 215

Some quick corrections.
  • There are not 15,000 charging stations in the Netherlands. There might be 15,000 chargers. However, a simple glance at PlugShare confirms a few hundred stations at most. From the PlugShare map, each charging station would have to have nearly 100 chargers for there to be 15,000 chargers.
  • There are 20+ Superchargers in The Netherlands with 6 more under construction. These are ALL fast chargers.
  • Teslas can charge at every single one of those chargers in the Netherlands. For some chargers, an adapter may be needed.
  • The Audi and the i-Pace can charge at all of those chargers that are not Superchargers or Tesla Destination chargers. Although, there is an unofficial adapter for Tesla Destination Chargers.

Comment Early 2017 Model 3 Numbers, 0 (Score 3, Informative) 143

Sounds like "fake news" from shorts if they're asking about Model 3 production numbers before Model 3 production started. According to Wikipedia, first Model 3 came off line in July 2017. While that is 2017 and it isn't late 2017, it's definitely not early 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Story Is informative, Summary is Fake News (Score 5, Informative) 163

This is pretty sensationalist and, overall, poor summarizing. The actual story is nothing like the summary. Yes, the Alexa recorded the conversation and sent it. That is true, but the women's reaction of unplugging them all was immediate and NOT after Amazon's response. This summary portrays the order wrong to sensationalize. Also, the Google Mini issue was limited to very few devices and discovered before general release. The feature (bug) causing the issue was disabled before going on sale to the general public. Then permanently disabled when a fix was not possible. Seriously, the actual story is barely longer than the summary and much better. Do better.

Comment Re:They're a business (Score 1) 291

If you google it you'll find that hyper-v makes up around 18 - 28% based on who doing the counting

Both your articles are from 2009 or earlier. The gartner article put VMWare's market share at 85%. That leaves 15% for the rest. Best case, in 2009, MS had < 15%.
Is there updated data from Gartner?

The dabcc article (who are they first of all) explain their counting at the end. They count shipments for virtualization software, not usage. So, every copy of Windows Server 2008 counted as a Hyper-V purchase. Also, that article is from 2008. It gave VMWare a 78% market share. The IDC article, a year later gave VMWare an 85% market share.

From the provided articles I see a declining trend in Hyper-V usage.

Comment Re:Good to know (Score 1) 758

Any company which presumes something about its employees, because they have written in some language, or presumes that the language isn't good.


for(Employee employee:employees) {
        employee.setHireDate("1 year ago");
        employee.setLanguages("C#;

Now, I know the code example is in Java, but I thought that a code example might explain what was wrong with your sentence. If it doesn't, then these are the points I'm trying to make:
1. Employees already work for said company.
2. Sentences that end before they are finished.
Oops, I did it, too.

Comment Re:Lmao (Score 1) 758

You simply can extend .NET to produce your 1.7 oz burger

I think your argument didn't help. You seem to be saying, like the original article, that you can't make a 1.7oz burger in ".NET", you have to extend .NET to do it.

I'm going to admit, right now, that I have know idea what .NET is, marketing has provided too many definitions. So, your argument might be spot on. I don't think so, though.

I think C# is part of .NET, but I'm not sure. Let's assume so, for now, that C# is part of .NET. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I think one can make a 1.7oz burger in C#. I think I might be able to do it. However, I might have to use Mono and MonoDevelop.

Comment Re:Usual bullshit... (Score 1) 112

...ReplayTV which was founded 2 years before TiVo.

Wikipedia says ReplayTV was founded in 1997, the device was announced in January 1999 at CES and began selling in April.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReplayTV
Tivo was founded in 1997, began early trials to actual users in 1998, was also at CES in 1999 and began selling in March.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo

Luckily your opinion of the interface does not require facts.

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