I agree, the islamic community made sure that their version of history remains only. One full of victimization and excuses, where always other civilizations/countries are responsible for their lack of development.

It's never their fault, they are mostly a simple people. Yea, until they have a weapon in their hands, then they change suddenly.

Tell that to the thousands of girls kidnapped from their homes to serve the isis warriors sexually:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/w...

Christianity generated the crusades? Did you like attend a history class ever?

I do not condone the behaviour of some dumb idiots in the army who started killing any people who they didn't like and used the crusades as an excuse for their personal profit, but the crusades were primarily caused by something very similar to ISIS.

Islam started taking over more and more, slaughtering and robbing villages wherever they could. It took 400 years of farcry to the pope to do something about the islams who were killing everyone who wasn't islamic when the final drop was the conquering of Jerusalem, when they finally decided to take action. Get your facts straight. Yes, I agree there were people among those soldiers/generals who used it as an excuse for their own purposes (aka get rich quick) but believe me, if we won't do something about these ISIS people, they will not stop until they reach the borders of the western world, and by then it will be too late.

Just one of the many sources stating that the crusades were just a reponse, a reaction to Islam agression. http://gatesofvienna.blogspot....

And I am commenting this from my so called 3rd-world country Romania using a 1 Gbps (Fiber to my home directly) connection costing about 19 USD a month with a ton of taxes included. This is the only reason I fear to move in the US, that I will have to pay an arm and a leg for a decent connection...

Maybe some government agency inserted some code there, and the author knows it. That's why he recommends rewriting from scratch, because even he doesn't remember where the code is injected, and it's probably very hard to trace.

Enterprise needs clear, obvious, heavy reasons to push upgrades. It's all about cashflow.. But when you target consumers, it's all about being the shiniest, coolest kid on the block.

Apple knows that, that's why their Mac Pro line is so rarely updated/refreshed. Because enterprise needs something to be worth the upgrade. Consumers just need something shinier and newer.

Don't get me wrong, I own and love Apple products, but I still have an iPhone 4S because I simply can't see why I would upgrade, and I use things like VPN's, Exchange, all that, while the cool kids have 5S and barely know how to restart it.

100 kg? Do you know the weight of an V6 ICE engine? Transmission? 4x4 systems? 100 kg is not that much...

Because that's how Apple's PR works, and always will. Even the monumental iPhone was just rumors and guesses until the unveiling at their keynotes. This is how you get more and more normal people to watch your famous keynote, not just geeks.

If for example Apple would give a list with all the products/specs they would present at the keynote, would anyone watch it? Probably just fans, but it would be pretty boring.

But since you have no clue, you want to watch it, and this way they can and will present it to you as being something revolutionary, and this way people focus on what Apple wants people to focus on, not on what you would usually focus on from articles (things like specs, size, bla bla).

Apple PR at it's best, always worked, always will...

If you think there are no more homogeneous populations you clearly haven't visited North Korea, South Korea, China, Russia, northern europe (norway, finland, all that) lately...they are 99.99% homogeneous. The places you speak of are probably capitalistic global countries like Singapore, Shanghai, US of A, Canada, and all others, where local traditions don't exist, and this mix of all cultures from all over the world who are there because of the economic situation.

One answer could be because now threats are mostly targeted at the biggest weakness: humans. Phishing, scams, and all that are much more profitable and incredibly hard to detect programmatically. Legit websites are hacked daily and injected phishing sites and then removed fast.

They all rely pretty much on human stupidity and ignorance, and that is very hard to stop...

You seriously consider 200k or 300k to be a lot of kilometers in 10/20 years? I did that in a normal 30k car (when new) with no problem at all. You are right though, and that was my point too, a Tesla will last longer simply because of simpler parts/functionality. You don't have to be a fan to understand that. Still they are way too expensive, but when the go under the 50k mark, and then under the 30k mark, the game is pretty much over...

In my country, 380 Volts Triple Phase electric outlets are pretty easy to install, the standard is 220 V.
I understand americans with their tiny 110 V lines for fearing to overload the grid, but in Europe that's not an issue, communists liked their things done BIG.

I think everybody is missing the point of how dangerous Tesla really is to traditional car makers.
Mercedes is still Mercedes, let's not try to fight that argument, they build anything that has 4 wheels, from F1 to sedans, trucks, vans, you name it, they have it.

Tesla is a disruptive technology, search for the book called innovator's dilemma, how a company which is always listening to it's customers, fails to risk anything new can go irrelevant very fast. Mercedes won't build electric cars for the simple fact it will cannibalize it's entire range once people realize they don't need it.

Let's take the big one, range: The truth is that 90% of S Class owners will rarely need more than 250 miles daily. Let's be honest, if you have an S Class, you would likely travel by plane/first class, not sit 10 hours in an S Class, as comfortable as it is, it's a matter of time lost.
And Mercedes knows that very well, BMW does too, and everybody in the high range. They basically offer something you will rarely use.

Second, servicing, yes, let's be honest, we can't compare 100 years worth of time constructing a dealer/service network worldwide, with Tesla which is 7 years old. But Tesla can fight this by simply not having hardware failures. When you battery fails, you go in, they replace it, and you will have a 5 or 10 year old car which is still functional as it was in the first day. And Mercedes knows that too. Try buying a 2001 S Class and see how it works, and then try to find parts for it.

The problem for Mercedes is, that the complexity they need to do all that fancy night vision/pedestrian detecting/road holding/autopilot things is mostly software, and it's by far much easier to implement in an electric car where you have no gearbox, no liquid fuel to control, no camshaft, nothing, just basic electric software controlled controllers like in traditional robots. And let's be honest, the IT revolution did not come from Germany, it came from Silicon Valley, and if anyone has the power to do advanced software/hardware automated systems, it's them. Germans are far better at following and improving rather than innovating. They just like to be safe, stable and not risk anything.

Tesla has still a long way to go, but once the price go down, it would take the world by storm, because you simply rarely need more than 250 miles range daily, and the feeling of having a full tank each morning is simply unbeatable by the traditional dirty/smelly gas station experience.

It is one thing to bundle it preinstalled with the OS, and another to offer it for free to download off the internet.

Don't they already have that recorded by all radars the aircraft goes through?