As one of the people who supposedly "lost" on the "Full Self Driving" feature let me tell you, you couldn't' be more wrong. Sure, Tesla posted early videos and was overly optimistic about a lot of things but in the end, Tesla is at the top of the self driving capabilities right now. There's nothing you can buy out there that matches what Tesla can do. As a techy, being part of this evolution and revolution, seeing the new features uploaded into my car every few months has been worth more than what I paid and I know that most buyers feel like that. It's always the non-Tesla owners that are screaming on the side-lines that have some kind of anti-progress ax to grind.

I obviously knew that Slashdot had become less popular but this anti-progress, conservative, anti-tech nonsense is not something I expected. You should read the whiny bitchy comments on this article. Not a single Tesla driver but everyone complaining. Get a grip on yourselves.

So this is what Slashdot has become: a bunch of whiny progress fearing afraid of the future. It used to be about cool new things, you know, stuff that matters.

In the mean time I'm driving constantly on Tesla Autopilot and for those parts it supports (highway) it is indeed fully self driving.
Yesterday I drove over 1000 km on Autopilot. The parts it supports, it supports very well. I feel quite safe driving long stretches without any intervention. So keep mind reading Elon Musk and ignore the actual reason why they rushed Autopilot out of the door: to save lives! The stats are very clear: 4x fewer accidents on Autopilot compared to human drivers. It was deemed immoral to NOT roll it out.

Why is it "beyond silly"? Are governments expected to pay for the infrastructure? Should we expect oil companies to pay for it? Perhaps classic car makers who have a vested interest in slow EV adoption so they can take their time and try to save their crumbling empires?

No, the fact of the matter is that indeed other car manufacturers ARE investing in Ionity and other charging networks albeit at an extremely slow pace. Despite the fact that Tesla already has a large network across Europe, they're still expanding faster than any competitor. It's all marketing fluff and Tesla is pretty much the only game in town for high speed charging while traveling across the continent.

Seeking Alpha is just a collection of personal opinions.. which happen to be pretty much exclusively favoring $TSLA short sellers.
Anyway, a lot of the very successful, very big companies we have today, including Apple and Amazon came close to going out of business. It's just on par for being a disruptive company. If you have a good growth plan (both Tesla and SpaceX have this) then there will usually be investors willing to invest.

What is far from opinion is that Tesla produces a shitload of cars and that SpaceX has grabbed most market share of worldwide launch capacity, all in a under a decade. The fundamentals of both companies are such that they will not go out of business in any shape or form. Sure, stupid things can happen and some other company might buy them but right now even that seems very unlikely.

Now folks like the above can go an do personal attacks and what not, it's all pretty much besides the point. What matters is how many cars are being produced and if a solid margin is being made so they can fund growth. Net profit isn't even an issue since they're plenty demand and there are plenty of investors. Future profit is good enough. Amazon showed the way in this regard and a lot of investors have seen that light.

Continuous improvement is what you and many others strive for. It's also what the statistics show. However, this continuous slow improvement over a large period of time (sure: combined with incorrect media coverage) leads to our world view being largely incorrect. I still thought the whole of Africa was one long hopeless story of poverty, starvation, violence and disease. When I saw the actual figures it completely took me by surprise. The world is in many aspects a lot better than we think it is.
Now obviously good news doesn't sell so I guess we'll have to learn to live with the corresponding increase of BS in the news.

And yet, data warehouse data off-load and outright replacement is one of the more popular Big Data applications right now.
The main driver is the prohibitively expensive storage, user license and "per core" cost of traditional databases.

There's also a fundamental questions hidden underneath the big data vs BI dilemma: how do you model against requirements (Kimball) when you don't have the requirements yet and you still want to keep all options open? Another one is how you can successfully open up PBs to end-users without breaking the bank and without a query taking weeks to complete?

And if you want visual drag and drop ETL development and orchestration, use Pentaho Data Integration (a.k.a. Kettle). Comes in open source with an Apache license or professionally supported. Supports visual Map/Reduce development, integration with pig, scoop, oozie, ...
For SQL you can use Hive but try one of the alternative engines like Impala as well.

You can probably read just about anything in the bible. I heard that there are now more types of Christians than there are lines in the Bible.
Science on the other hand doesn't reference any sort of god, simply has no need for it, doesn't enter the equations.

It's a common misconception but fortunately you're wrong. Scientists do their utmost best and make careers out of proving other scientists wrong.
The scientific method of not trusting others and even more importantly not trusting ourselves to be right about anything has proven to work very well to better our understanding of our universe, better than anything else we've tried in the history of mankind.

Not sure what you're talking about. Artwork and Lyrics are shown automatically when they are available.

Yes, it's intended for smart people. I like it that way :-)

I disagree. You can still easily search your collection and adding to a playlist has become much better than it was in the 1.x days. The rest of the "monster" features you mentioned so trollfully are configurable, easy to disable with 2 clicks of the mouse.
I'm still on Amarok 2.5.0 but I'm looking forward to 2.6.

Insert a USB stick so you can actually easily use your data (not just family pictures and movies) without having to go through iTunes.
There might be other reasons, but *that* particular one is an iPad deal-breaker for me.

As for Telenet is concerned: you can prie that 100Mb/s connection out of my cold dead hands. It's great value at a good price. Every time I go abroad (US & EU mainly ) I'm shocked at the bad performance of the networks compared to Telenet. I'm sure you're advocating more oversight and more competition and I sure don't dissagree with that. Just don't exagerate like that, it's not all that bad, trust me.

Also, fellow "Belgian", the EU laws mentioned in TFA are planned to be implemented as law at the end of this month (says the newspapers). The slow adoption is blamed on the slow formation of the Belgian government. So if you want to blame somebody, blame your socialist friends for fscking up your country, not NVA.

No, he was completely numb, not comfortably at all apparently.