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Comment: Re:Consumer acceptance? (Score 1) 236

by Maxwell (#46350065) Attached to: Tesla Used A Third of All Electric-Car Batteries Last Year

Apparently average ownership up to 57 months now, recession, better reliability and all....point still applies: you don't plan for engine swaps, why plan for battery swaps?


Comment: Re:Consumer acceptance? (Score 2) 236

by Maxwell (#46348525) Attached to: Tesla Used A Third of All Electric-Car Batteries Last Year

I've been in (several) taxi Prius with over 400,000 km on the clock. These cars spend most of their life on battery mode so they (likely, perhaps) get as intense a battery workout as the Tesla. The average car is kept 3 years. Unless you plan to keep it ten + years, is this really a concern?

Comment: Never. (Score 1) 263

by Maxwell (#46336801) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: When Is a Better Career Opportunity Worth a Pay Cut?


If you are serious, have your payroll deposited into two accounts. One is the lower salary of the exciting job. The other is the 'bonus' money of your current job. You'll find the bonus money piles up and allows you freedom to pursue other interests outside of work.

Comment: Re:Burning Chrome (Score 1) 125

by Maxwell (#46313415) Attached to: Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page

The UI has been there for a long time. Some diehards found a (somewhat secret, somewhat obscure) developer switch that allowed the 'old way' to hang around a little longer.

I had to go back and forth from the article to a new tab page to try and figure out what they were talking about as I saw no change at all in 33.

Comment: Re:Why? (Score 1) 2219

by Maxwell (#46191579) Attached to: Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds!

I would like to know what business problem the beta is trying to solve? Slashdot survived because it is pretty darn good at managing the things users expect, Notifications, quoting, filtering etc. It is a recognized leader in the field of forum and comment management.

So what is the point of the Beta?

"We have work to do on four big areas: feature parity (especially for commenting); the overall UI, especially in terms of information density and headline scanning; plain old bugs;" You will wind up back at Classic.


What wider audience? Are there any Nerds who haven't heard of /.? Or are you looking beyond the News for Nerds demographic? What is the new demographic? and what changes would they want ? Who are they?



Comment: Re:Haven't had this issue with GMail, but with oth (Score 1) 388

by Maxwell (#45930417) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email?

Because you stupidly chose j.smith@gmail.com thinking it would be totally unique in the whole universe? Duh. Time to own up on the bad decisions and pick something that uniquely identifies YOU. You will never stop getting others email unless you change. The others wont either but at least you can walk away...

Comment: Re:bah, you guys are no fun (Score 1) 388

by Maxwell (#45930401) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email?

Gmail counts foo.bar.baz.bot@gmail.com, foobarbazbot@gmail.com, foobar.bazb.ot@gmail.com, and any such variations as the same. (BTW, none of those is mine.) If you own one of those as your gmail account, you own all of them, and nobody else owns any of them.

This is wrong, but I hear it all the time and I really wonder why people think this is true? Try emailing your account at gmail without the periods. You may find someone else on the other end. I know this because my gmail counterpart uses my exact account without the periods. I get a lot of his email. Sometimes I forward it, mostly I don't.

  foo.bar.baz.bot@gmail.com, foobarbazbot@gmail.com can be two different accounts.

Comment: Preliminary injunction (Score 1) 211




Comment: Re:Why can't I? (Score 1) 124



