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Comment Re:Anyone who doesn't like electric cars (Score 1) 609

Distort, mislead, lie? The buzzer is for you. Having given may press interviews I can tell you that reporters always WANT to get the story right, but never do. They just can't get deep enough into the technology to fully understand what they are writing about and there are always subtleties about the situation that are either glossed over or at the least not fully fleshed out. So I know that every news story I read is wrong, I just don't know why. In this case, I believe the NYT way more than Musk. There is no NYT master plan to extract massive readership out of this. There is however, a master plan for Musk to sell lots of cars, and this is a big problem for him. Or maybe not - any publicity is good publicity, especially when the Musk/electric car fanboys rush to call the NYT guy a liar, a tool for big oil (that's rich!), and other insults.
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Submission + - Utah Cafe Charges Liberals $1 Extra For Drinks (ksl.com)

Trip6 writes: "A Utah cafe owner is charging an extra dollar to admitted liberals for drinks in his cafe. George Burnett, the owner, claims his goal isn't to offend, but to "start a conversation about what he sees as the over-regulation of the energy industry and the continued financial problems facing the United States." Just another milepost on the road to the upcoming civil war?"

Comment Re:If you don't care about people (Score 1) 420

There will always be individual gripes about product design tradeoffs. I have many about my Mac, not the least of which is that it cuts my wrists when I type on the damn thing. But the proof is in the pudding: Apple is the most valuable company in the world by making and selling electronic crap. It has to be doing something right.

Comment Re:If you don't care about people (Score 1) 420

Mod parent up. This is EXACTLY Jobs' MO. All Jobs cared about was providing a positive user experience for the technology-ignorant masses. He fought tirelessly against engineers who worked hard inventing features to throw into products and thus were their champions, whether they added to the user experience or not. Look at all the devices where the engineers have too much control over product design and features - way over engineered and complicated, not designed with the user in mind, and nowhere near the market share of your typical like Apple product. Jobs was the consummate product manager, who typically has no power, but he was also in charge.

Comment Too easy (Score 1) 133

Just put unique identifiers on the bot, like colored reflectors, in horizontal sequence. Then you can tell if it's another bot, or your own bot in the mirror. The real trick is to take a random object, with no unique identifiers, and classify it. beep beep - that's a bird - beep beep...

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