>wants to move entire PayPal infrastructure from UNIX to Windows >everyone thinks he's a retard and they remove him as CEO
ITT we laugh at Elon Musk:
>Musk was later ousted from his role as CEO due to disagreements with other company leadership, notably over his desire to move PayPal's Unix-based infrastructure to Microsoft Windows.
Why is this guy suddenly a "tech genius"? He's a living meme.
>tesla >big stupid touchscreen controls in the car, can't drive it for hours while its doing a software update for non-engine related issues (new ui or some shit)
>spacex >lets build rockets that are reusable and shit but make them run on fucking kerosene instead of hydrogen or something that we can synthesize
he is a gliebe
Oliver Kelly
He's a tech industry genius. That doesn't mean he knows dick about technology itself.
Aaron Bailey
>married and divorced the same woman three (3) times seems like a proper genius to me
David James
When you say unix do you mean to say BSD?
Caleb Reyes
Don't forget Solar City going down under with millions of tax dollars embezzled but the media shills obviously won't say a word about it as long as they get paid.
Dominic Parker
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Caleb Young
Billionaire Most important person in the 21st century The reason we'll be able to go to Mars The reason electric vehicles will take off Inventor of what will be the new form of super fast transportation
Ha... Ha... F-faggot
Sebastian King
>Tesla is the only manufacturer of electric cars >Implying he's stupid enough to waste billions on a Mars mission just so some idiot can walk over red chalk dust and it's not just a PR stunt
Parker Turner
It doesn't matter that Tesla isn't the only one. They're the pioneers and it's all because of him.
Didn't even read that other nonsense you typed
Colton Reyes
>They're the pioneers yeah in marketing kek, fuck off nigger
Noah Flores
Hope that bitch takes all his money, fag likes playing savior of the world/sect leader way too much.
Luke Martin
Are you proud of low quality posts kid?
Isaiah Perry
At least i'm not a fanboi/shill so yeah.
Wyatt Peterson
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Cooper Fisher
yeah, you are definitely smarter than him. Keep up the good work.
Ryder Thompson
Excuse me? This is Sup Forums. I run Arch Linux. I seriously doubt Elon Musk has ever even so much as configured, in plaintext, a minimalist tiling window manager like the kind we run. Get btfo.
Michael Robinson
This is really suspicious tbqh. Is he trying to secure his assets in case of audit or criminal investigation?
Sebastian Myers
Is this actually true?
Jaxon Gonzalez
Well, it was 2001, windows was better at the time.
Robert Russell
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Luis Ortiz
They don't have any good plan against that and even want colonize Mars. We have to dealt with our only Earth.
Brody Allen
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Camden Ross
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Jason Ross
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Henry Fisher
Windows would have made a lot more sense back then as Unix support for web servers was still very very early in development. His idea was solid, his board idiots.
Easton Brooks
nice circus trick
Dylan Hill
these are so beautiful the precision required for these must be insane
Brody Cruz
Don't get too triggered
Wyatt Robinson
>Circus trick >Saves literally hundreds of millions of dollars
Yeah go tell that to somebody who isn't a fucking idiot.
Nicholas Ortiz
>Unix support for web servers was still very very early in development.
10-15 years of development (IBM, HP).
Alexander Parker
This is one of the hardest problems, but there are ways to solve it.
To shield astronauts en route to mars one can sprad water and cargo around them.
On mars astronauts will have to work either via telepresence or from inside the rovers. People will live underground.
Wyatt Robinson
>To shield astronauts en route to mars one can sprad water and cargo around them. Great idea. Only their food, water and everything they'll need to live on Mars will be irradiated.
Blake Harris
the only people who think radiation is a serious problem are moon landing conspiracists who think it would have been impossible for humans to get to the moon without dying from radiation
Brandon Foster
Well no, it's a serious problem in the eyes of people who aren't tinfoil hat-wearing neckbeards.
A solar flare could've killed the Apollo 11 crew.
Brayden Jenkins
The guy put $100M of his own cash into Tesla because investors didn't believe in it. We need crazy people like Elon or we'll all have to live with the innovation cycle of a European country.
Oliver Sullivan
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John Myers
>CTO of SpaceX >implying you're smarter because you use a meme OS
you're a fat neckbeard thats either a NEET or barely makes any money in comparison to Musk. He's also not a virgin who faps to 2D waifus
Christopher Myers
>they remove him as CEO
He founded X.com which became PayPal and he sold his company. He didn't get kicked out you fucking dumbass
Kayden Jones
Fucking this, he's like Steve Jobs. They're great at what they do but what they do is business, not tech.
Jayden Fisher
He is no tech genius that normies takie him for. He is entrepreneur who invests in technology that is risky(investment wise), but can bring great profit.
He is the guy who would fund Nikola Tesla projects.
Train? Fuck that 19th country tech - go with near vacuum tube system - which could be faster and cheaper to.operate.
Cars? Fuck gasoline - go with electricity.
Banks? Let's do it over Internet.
Of course all projects cut corners - they need to bring in a profit. So vacuum is replaced by low density air. Cheaper fuel in rockets etc.
Gavin Collins
>Steve Jobs >made consumer shit >Elon Musk >literally pioneering electric vehicles >has his own space program
well memed
Lincoln Lopez
You work for ULA, don't you? kek
Brayden Long
>falling for blatantly obvious fucking trollbait
Angel Long
>Most important person in the 21st century lol
>Inventor of what will be the new form of super fast transportation I wrote a college admission letter on intercontinental maglev trains when I was 17. Please.
Dominic Flores
You're not doing it right, look at the fucking quality. DIsgusting.
Hudson Perry
Yeah, whatever. Most experts outside SpaceX say the plan is ridiculous. Musk has a long history of making grandiose claims with no ability to back them up. It's entirely in character for Musk to claim he'll get to Mars by 2025 without having a plan for dealing with radiation.
Joseph Moore
>He is the guy who would fund Nikola Tesla projects.
Are you honestly comparing someone well-versed in physics, engineering, programming, etc. to J. Pierpont Morgan?
Also, I'm fairly certain that Elon and Kimbal Musk did a LOT of the programming work for Zip2 themselves.
Nathan King
>It's entirely in character for Musk to claim he'll get to Mars by 2025 without having a plan for dealing with radiation.
Wait until September.
Henry Morgan
What happens in September?
Zachary Brooks
Have you read the scientific literature related to spacex he's written himself?
Oliver Price
>tptally not paid for by microsoft to shill windows on his company Its like you don't know how the world works
Austin Hall
>Yeah, whatever
Palpable mad.
Jack Nguyen
Its like hes a real life Bachman Or Bachman was inspired in him most likely
Tyler Reed
why would you make it land on the water? clearly that isn't the best place to land something
Owen Ross
Elon lays out the full plans for Mars colonization, including details on the Mars Colonial Transporter launch system.
Liam Gutierrez
Because the rocket can't hold enough fuel to get back to where it came from so they had to put a landing surface a few hundred miles out for it to land on.
Luis Richardson
For GTO missions, landing on a ship is the only way to recover the entire first stage.
On staging, the first stage is in vacuum, and is traveling nearly horizontally at around 6,000mph. It's physically impossible for it to zero out its velocity and then boost back all the way to the launch site. It's just moving too fast, and doesn't have enough fuel.
It's easier to just use the nitrogen gas maneuvering thrusters to flip the stage, then re-light the main engines briefly to slow down enough for re-entry, then literally fall to the drone ship guided by the grid fins before lighting the engines for the landing burn just above the drone ship. For GTO mission landings, the landing burn is done with three engines initially, then dropping to one for precision. It's pretty dynamic, and goes from 300mph to nothing in just a few seconds.
Brayden Hill
>C_O of any company >knowing anything other than just being a public figure no need to suck daddy musk's musty balls that hard
Josiah Gonzalez
>only way to recover the entire first stage.
That said, if you don't care about recovering the entire stage, simply recovering the engines would work. ULA is planning this for their Vulkan rocket, although I'm not sure catching the engines in mid-air with a helicopter is the smartest idea in the world.
Daniel Young
ULA has shelved these plans for now.
They are in literal freak out mode and can no longer hide their panic , after spending like 10 years saying SpaceX was not a threat and that reusability was a meme.
The disruption of the orbital launch market in the US by SpaceX is one of the most amazing things in capitalism in recent memory.
ULA didnt even bid for the most recent USAF contract.
Benjamin Perry
> Downplaying the success and accomplishments of people who have actually done something for the world meanwhile being a leech on society.
I mean y-you can totally do what he's done. I mean it's easy. It's totally not (you), but the world holding you down. If only you weren't socially awkward.
>man with lots of money forces his way into industry advances >the real masterminds behind his work that actually do the work are left unsaid >some useless front person gets all the fame because he has all the money to fund it
Jonathan Sanders
That's what they get for sitting on their asses for literally decades, getting fat on huge government subsidies. Boeing and Lockheed deserve a huge ass kicking. It'll be good for them.
Ayden Bailey
the advances would happen slower or not at all if he didn't it's also kind of hard to thank the possibly hundreds of engineers and technicians that actually do the things than the figurehead with the cash in charge
Isaiah Martinez
That's kinda how it always is and has. Somebody has to cough up the dough. Unless you want to use Kickstarter.
Oliver Gomez
this
Evan Taylor
NASA literally looks like schoolchildren now, lol
they are stuck 50 years in the past
Lincoln Cook
That's not entirely true. You do know Elon was responsible for most of the early design requirements for SpaceX, right? For example, he laid out the original design for the heat shield of Dragon, and also made the decision to build out a world-class PICA factory rather than buying PICA from a supplier. He oversaw the build-out and initial designs of MOST of the stuff they've built.
Today however, they've grown so big that like any other big company, they have management layers, and more formal design processes. Only a few teams at SpaceX and Tesla still report directly to Elon. For example, autopilot engineers are directly under Elon. Must be odd having him as your direct boss.
Angel Baker
BSD is Unix
Matthew Parker
>posting cgi
Fucking lmao sheeple man
Robert Moore
idiot
Justin Ward
didn't the apollo 11 crew all get killed by some space monster or something?
I'm thinking Florida rednecks might disagree with you.
Samuel Rivera
Stop it.
Bentley Howard
"when you say car, do you mean to say Toyota?" Tart
Elijah Hernandez
He's a good business man but not a tech savvy or. Genius, he's a more productive Steve jobs
Jeremiah Ward
stop comparing him to steve jobs,
jobs is literally a fucking meme compared to musk,
you can't compare a complete faggot who makes overpriced shitty products,
to a pioneer of space travel and other future transportation technology
Brody Torres
Sure is Reddit in here
Asher Adams
He's right though, comparing a marketer to an engineer is asinine.
Justin Evans
>being this new to basic physics do you even speak Newtonian physics?
Hudson Mitchell
When spacex didn't have NASA contracts Musk was in court and speak about ULA monopoly and a lack of competitiveness. And then Russia thing happens. And at that time Musk was bragging about patriotism and other stuff to cut off russian engines to shut down ULA, his only one rival. Isn't it hypocrisy?!
There are also some telsa engineering decisions that are just petty tricks for the sake of PR. like camera instead rearview mirror, touchscreens and doors of model x.
There is no way that they will conduct manned mission on mars in 2025. There are reason to be suspicious about Musk. Let's see how they reuse first stage.
Also, musk fanboys are horrible. At least applefans is not poorfags.
Thomas Walker
Wow what a constructive reply! You surely disproved every single one of his arguments.
William Parker
Food irradiation is a thing. It's a good thing.
Juan Wright
H A I R P L U G S
Gabriel Lewis
Can somebody explain tesla to me?
There were electric cars before, before they were killed by George Bush that is. So why do we praise Musk for doing something so braindead and non-innovative?
Watch "Who killed the electric car"
Joshua Wright
NYC had a fleet of electric taxis in the late 1800s, electric cares aren't even a remotely new idea.
John Cooper
Right, so why does musk get so much credit for it? I really don't get.
Fine, it's a company that's valued high, but they're losing money each period. And it's not like toyota or any other of the big car companies aren't also making electric cars
TL;DR The success of gasoline cars over electric ones is not due to technological reasons, but financial, social, and economic ones. If you've got 1 Billion $ in your pockets, you've got lots of possibilities.
> And it's not like toyota or any other of the big car companies aren't also making electric cars Yes, they really aren't. The big car producers have no reason to go electric except the now upcoming competition. They are way richer than Tesla/Musk have ever been, yet he is beating them by a huge margin. Tesla Model S is considered to be one of the safest cars ever made and one of the fastest cars in its price range (compared to gas cars that is, the electric ones aren't even competing).
Cameron Baker
It's because he came in "out of nowhere" and started beating up the establishment in markets that aren't that competitive