Fake News!!!!! Bezos owns the Washington Post, not the NYT.

Ever heard of a metaphor? In this example, buying expensive coffee is a metaphor for frivolous spending.

Yes. AI is nothing more than interpolating data. If you can't find a line of best fit in excel that fits your data...use AI.

It's not even necessary to have a bank account with the same company that you have a credit card with. So your bank account is not linked to your credit card. You still need a convenient way to pay off your credit card, like electronic payments from your account to your credit card or whatever works for you.

* at least this is how it works in Canada, but for whatever reason we seem to be ahead of the US in terms of credit card technology based on what I've been reading (no pin? no tap payments? You still need signatures? Wtf?)

Exactly! I see all of these concerns about credit cards. WHO CARES! You'll never be responsible for paying a fraudulent charge. The hardest thing you have to do is read over your bill at the end of the month and most times your card company will notify you of sketchy activity.

IMHO credit cards are more secure than cash. It's easier to keep track of spending, if you lose your card you get a new one, if somebody steals it you get a new one. Same is not true for cash.

Yes but what do you think this will do to their resale value after 6 years? The tesla and the volt will still have perfectly good battery packs but it's a huge question mark for the leaf considering they've already been sued over battery degradation issues.

If I were you I would consider the battery thermal management system in the electric car. It might be a bit technical for most people, but it has a direct impact on how many years the battery will last. The Leaf doesn't have a thermal management system. The Tesla and the Volt both have sophisticated ones.

I agree. The public needs to have access to these journal articles. Now that I've left academia I don't even have free access to the articles that I wrote myself. (of course I kept the PDFs but if I ever lose them I'd have to pay $40 for every article that I wrote). It really does hold back progress.

Personally I switched from Matlab to python with spyder as the GUI interface and I'll never look back.

Most of those jobs are for "application engineers" and not developers. An application engineer is a little like tech support and a little like sales. They will work closely with existing customers to make Matlab work for their customers application and they'll also try to upsell new features.

Octave wouldn't have the same type of support structure but might have similar numbers of man power contributing to the development.

Translate to french and then we'll let the OP nitpick your grammar.

I agree. The impression that I have from Fisker is that their product was not well engineered compared to competitors like Tesla. The Fisker Karma looked nice but they did have quality problems. Using lithium-ion batteries from A123 was one of their mistakes (even before bankruptacy, A123 had problems).

Same here

To be honest I wouldn't say apple is behind the times when it comes to something like this. They sacrificed this feature to make the user experience better due to battery life limitations. You could argue that they should have anticipated this by coming out with a larger iphone, but IMHO, i dont want a large phone. The impression I get about apple features is that they are conservative with new features because they are paranoid about breaking the user experience, mostly battery life. I don't have first hand knowledge but I'm sure those early android LTE phones didn't have very good battery life.

Here's an easy analogy: being a professor is pretty similar to running a small business. You attract funding, you manage cash flow, you pay your employees and you produce goods (ie. in the case of a professor, the goods are research output). If you don't do these things well, your lab will go bust, just like a business would. Nobody would argue that being a business owner is stress free even though you don't have a boss breathing down your back, so why would being a professor be stress free?