From your own page, with options, it can be configured to be more than $101,000. Its likely that they would have a fully loaded demo car, so this is probably right.
Corruption? Weak willed people? You are living in your own little world.
I have a 5km daily commute that I split between biking (in the summer) and driving. I still could not get by with one car that only has a 200 mile range.
I like to go the cabin in the summer and to the mountains in the winter. In good weather I could make it to both one way, but not return. What if I wanted to go visit family in another city? You can charge it once you get there, but it is slow unless you have the special charger, and will restrict your ability to use the car while there.
These are not isolated or rare situations, there are things that people do all the time.
Tesla cars are intriguing and exciting, but there are still real problems with their mass acceptance. Trying to pass off these problems as trivial, corrupt or ignorant is, well, ignorant.
Contracts would still exist, as well as a few other rules, but for the most part there wouldn't be things like a salary cap.
European club soccer is much closer to this model and it both creates really strong competition at the top end and a large spread between the top and bottom teams in a league. It is also very difficult to move from the bottom to the top without a huge amount of outside revenue.
Pro sports leagues in North America tend to operate as a monopoly, allowed because they have a union to balance it out. That's why both the NHL and NBA settled their lockouts right before the unions were able able to de-certify (NHL) or file an anti-trust (after decertifying in the NBA) lawsuit.
European club soccer is much closer to this model and it both creates really strong competition at the top end and a large spread between the top and bottom teams in a league. It is also very difficult to move from the bottom to the top without a huge amount of outside revenue.
No, it doesn't. The disparity in athlete talent and revenues between teams which make the Champions League and those which don't is greater than the disparity between say, the NFL and high school football. For the past decade, the winning teams of the Champions League and its feeder legs have all been one of the top 3 highest-spending teams in their respective leagues. There's simply no contest between, say, Manchester United and some random Irish club. In contrast, most of the professional American leagues reduce the talent disparity enough that either team could realistically win a match.
I may not have picked the best wording, but basically I'm agreeing that overall the disparity is very high. The upside is that games like Man City v Man U or Real Madrid v Barcelona end up being very entertaining.
This really isn't much more than a fluff piece giving an excuse for bad management.
It ignores many of the detailed issues and instead makes it entirely about overall revenue using unsourced and likely made up numbers. Missing was any reference to revenue sharing and fact that some teams are turning large profits while others are losing money year after year, but the league insists on keeping teams in unsuccessful locations. The Phoenix Coyotes are a great example of this full of bad business decisions from the start, and only got worse when Jim Balsillie got involved. This shows little evidence of a successful long term plan.
I am not a fan on unions in general, but I see this as a typical issue with American business. Bad decisions are made and instead of management taking responsibility, the blame is simply put onto labour costs, wages are pushed down and the same mistakes happen again.
Well that is his side of the story, which may or may not have any real truth to it. Personally I do not trust a single thing that Conrad Black says. As a Canadian I am upset at how he seems to have used his political clout to get himself a visa and likely have his citizenship restored.
It is well established that if you denounce your Canadian citizenship, Canada will give it back (and in fact, pretend it never happened), at least the first time. Conrad Black is not special in this regard.
There is a great deal of both misunderstanding and ignorant Microsoft bashing in this comment.
First of all, you are mixing up two completely different concepts.
For character encoding on Windows:
For many functions in the Windows API there two versions of a function, one with an A (for ANSI) at the end and one with a W (for wide). This was added to make it easier to support Win32 on both Windows 95, which used 8-bit characters and codepages and Windows NT which was natively utf-16 unicode. At the time utf-16 was considered the best and most standard choice for supporting unicode. In most cases it is implemented as W function with an A function that is little more than a wrapper.
This has nothing to do with what Raymond is describing.
For the 64-32 bit stuff they ensured that all code would compile and work correctly with both 32/64 bit stuff and built two versions, one for ia32 and one for amd64. The kernel would have to be modified to support the amd64 architecture. This is exactly what Linux, OSX and other operating systems that support multiple architectures do. On top of this, because amd64 supports backwards compatibility, they also included an ia32 environment with it as well, but this is optional, so anything that ships with the OS cannot depend on it. I assume this is what OSX does too, the only difference is that with Windows the two versions ship as different SKAs, and MacOSX ships with both versions and installs the one that the computer originally shipped with.
Second, the number of system calls has nothing do with any of this at all.
The Model S is a revolutionary car, but I really hope the the big touch display without physical buttons doesn't become the norm. I really prefer the feedback you get from them while keeping your eyes on the road, especially for common functions like the temperature and basic stereo control.
People will disagree with me, but I have really grown to like the current iDrive system which lets me keep my looking up high while my hand sits in a comfortable position.
I don't want a touch screen OR voice controls. I want knobs and buttons.
I can use a physical control without looking. It isn't confused by wind noise if my window is down. It doesn't bother a sleeping passenger.
The only disadvantage to physical controls is mapping them to an ever-larger number of functions. The early iPods did that well with their scroll wheels and single button, but there are limits.
Then again, maybe the large number of functions is the problem, not the controls.
I'd really hate to have to have to say "increase driver side temperature by 2 degrees" when I could much more easily just turn a knob without looking, thanks to muscle memory & tactile feedback.
When driving, tactile response is a key safety feature, so you're eyes don't have to leave the road to make sure your button was pushed. However, I totally agree that the voice command is the next step, it is the only time I use Siri!
They really aren't even going head to head with Microsoft, since the Windows 8 app store is only for "Metro" apps and this will only be for regular Windows apps.
The real danger for Valve is that people will release games for Metro instead of Steam, this is probably them trying to hedge against that.
