Actually, Apple alone would likely dump several billion into battery tech if they had a viable way to double the battery capacity of their phones.... which, of course, they'd use to slim down the phone by another.5mm instead of doubling your battery.
So much 'what if' and 'one-off' being used to put down EVs. Funny how it almost universally comes from people who don't own one.
No one actually said a specific EV should meet every. single. automotive. need. In fact, there's a HUGE range of ICE vehicles to meet that same range of needs. Sure, it would be nice to have an EV with 2x the range, but someone will still point out how their specific use case makes it unusable. boo fucking hoo. Some people don't own a car at all.
People have been going on and on promising a 2x, 5x, or 10x increase in battery capacity for years...even decades. We've never had a revolutionary tech just appear overnight though.
In theory, but in practice most people couldn't live on just the pay from walmart or similar low-income jobs without government benefits.
Plus who's to say the data will identify the employees to the company? Most states already have anti-retaliation laws on the books broadly so it's trivial to include a similar passage specific to this bill.
TBH I'd rather get free healthcare from the government than have to pay into my own (far less comprehensive) healthcare plan. I'd rather get price-guaranteed, subsidized housing that I basically can't be evicted from than try to find something vaguely affordable in my area. There are many examples where government benefits are far better than what a typical middle-class income can hope to afford. Heck, I've got "poor" friends living in far larger, nicer, and better located apartments than I could possibly afford.
You have to love the people complaining about pronouns that then go on to assign arbitrary pronouns to everyone else "IN CASE THEY MIGHT BE OFFENDED BY AN ASSIGNED PRONOUN"
SJWs will find fault with whatever you say or do. If somehow they can't, they'll go after whatever they think your intent was. Failing that, well you were probably thinking something inappropriate and hateful. As a last resort, they'll claim that THEY felt attacked, marginalized, or otherwise harmed - and you obviously can't attack someone who is a victim. You victim-blamer you! See? Evil to the end.
Personally i'm offended by any searches of physical attributes that include hair, being bald myself. This surveillance product should be banned!
Reading the title, it implies NYPD is searching for minorities to... well to do something bad.
In reality it's search technology for not only skin color but other traits - none of which is inherently racist at all. If someone reports a crime by a 'white male, approx 50 years of age, 6'2 and about 250 pounds with blonde, shoulder length hair' then searching for that is the same as cops walking the beat looking for the same. It's also NOT RACIST if someone reports a crime by the same person but with darker skin and they search for it.
I'm all for limiting abuses by cops and can certainly agree this COULD be used in bad ways but the article is troll bait, click bait, fake news, and every other horrible thing that's driving our country down the tubes.
And that would harm the ISPs how? They would still be getting a break on the upstream that they claimed was oh so very expensive and congested.
Yup, this. They made such a huge complaint about peering agreements and cost as the focus.
Even if they had other content on the box, it still greatly limited upstream bandwidth (including for that other content!) and reduced those magical peering costs. It's not like the demand for that other 'scary' data goes away either...ISPs need to stop trying to play favorites and actually deliver the experience their customers are seeking.
You're arguing semantics. My car doesn't support HDMI. Is it blocked or not enabled? (yes, it's intentionally a stupid analogy to go along with the stupid point)
Multicast can be supported on almost anything but it isn't, on purpose, because multicast is a great way to break far more than you're fixing most of the time. Plus it typically cannot be routed between subnets, on purpose again, because it's a great way to break far more than you're fixing. Again.
Plus multicast simply doesn't align with the use case for the majority of streaming services except live TV/radio anyway.
Lots of politicians will be able to say they "did something" or at least tried. Those same idiots will be able to blame others when, eventually, someone uses this 3D printed gun to harm or kill someone.
Never mind the thousands of other people killed by legally owned guns, or the millions of non-3D-printed guns in existance. This one will count more.
It really does: build enough housing and the price of housing will go down. We know how to build dense cities, it's something we can do.
Actually, NYC is the test bed for ultra dense 'modern' city life. I'd argue that we don't really know how to do it all that well...or else they wouldn't skimp on things like mass transit maintenance and accountability.
> build more housing
Ha! They are and have been. Guess what though? Virtually all that housing is more expensive than the existing rental units. No one is building a middle class, non-luxury apartment building. They're building ultra-luxury, ultra expensive high rises with a pittance of low income units as require to get their permits and variances.
Stop talking like you 1) know NYC or 2) understand housing markets in major developed cities
NYC has, is, and continues to build more housing (and offices/buildings/etc.)
The problem is the only thing being built is 1) ultra luxury rentals with 2) a few token low income units.
It only makes the housing problem when you add a few thousand new units and they push the average rental price UPWARDS. The lower priced units raise their rent because...well...it's less than the new overpriced units.
And...repeat. Forever.
Oh, and factor in hipsters who take over neighborhood by neighborhood and pay obscene rent because it's a 'trendy place' and then abandon it and move elsewhere in a year or three. Then that area is left with greatly elevated rents and stores that no one else can afford but are stuck with the costs...
welcome to NYC. no place like it on earth - both for the good AND the bad.
First off, no blood from a stone. MP (well, parent company) simply does not have the money to pay out anything substantive in a class action. Lawyers would probably get a few mil for their time and everyone else would get a 'i got f'ed by MP' sticker in the mail.
Besides that, essentially no one who used MP lost out. Seeing one single movie more than covered the monthly MP sub cost is almost every circumstance. Did they not get what was promised? Yep. No argument there. But financial 'damage' to people who saved money by using MP? Get off it.
MP is certainly a mess. No arguments there at all. But... whatever. It was an amazing deal while it lasted. The only people I'd say are legitimately due refunds are of $cost of tickets bought via MP $paid to MP. Everyone else saved money...and none of it was done to trick them out of $ and run away.
Assuming TFS is accurate, the law says 'at least'... meaning the minimum allowable is intended to be 50% women (minus one for odd-numbered boards).
Minimum.
So according to the law if TFS is accurate, it's completely legal for women to be the majority (or unity) but not for men. How does that even vaguely pass the anti-discrimination sniff test?
Usually I'm not a huge fan of lease/lend but in the case of music and movies? It's WAY easier than trying to actually keep copies of everything.
My problem is actually finding ONE place to get all my movie needs met. The 'exclusive content' crap is exhausting and leads me full circle back to one single source which I won't name.
While your point might seem to make sense, it doesn't match up with realty.
There are the literal billions of phones and tablets that have been sold and the number that have failed dangerously is exceedingly small. The few times the failure rate reached approached single digit percentages (Note7, certain 'hoverboards', etc.) have prompted speedy recalls.
So no, it's not one structural breach away from an apocalypse.
It's braindead easy these days. THere's so many how-tos with pictures, tools, and all. You can build one with zero technical expertise.
Now, I do agree there's still some value in having it done for you. When you're in the sub-$100 range it's not a big deal +/- a few bucks to most people for something cool.
But from Nintendo's side where they have the economies of scale, $60 is a very healthy profit margin and even more so on the retro SNES for $100. I doubt their BOM is more than $20-25
Probably because I stopped watching or caring about the NES or SNES after I built a retropie box...which was a revisit of the original Xbox I modded back in the day and still have. And by 'built' I mean 6 screws and copying some files to a SD card. It amazes me that people ever lined up for this when there have been viable, and frankly better, alternatives for a decade and more.
The major difference is keeping a closed ecosystem. Greatly reduces your attack vectors, simplifies patching, simplifies application management...etc. Oh, and it VASTLY simplifies use. Ask a user to wipe and scratch-load windows and they'll go to the GeekSquad or call one of us. As someone to wipe and reload iOS? Oh, that's 3 clicks and done. Even grandpa can do it.
I get it...you want to load some esoteric Linux build on the tablet and so would a few thousand other people if they could. But you're the 1%...or more like the.01%. The vast majority of people use the dumb-simple, closed ecosystem and complain about minor features instead. The VAST majority of people would not benefit from a open/unlocked tablet or phone and, in fact, would have a worse experience for it.
I'm not a fan, but I completely see why and completely understand why it's become so dominant.
The specs need a bump, but comparing to laptops is pointless.
A decent new laptop typically costs less or similar to a current model phone. For the same $1k as the iPhone X you can buy a nice laptop. Hell, you could buy two decent ones, especially on sale...which...oh...never happens for cell phones except for BOGO (with service) type deals.
Warranty: Tesla's older packs have already proven far more durable than expected. This is not a major concern anymore.
Cost: You need to put cost in perspective. Cost per kwh... or per kwh/kg or kwh/m^3 are more important. Same for battery life (irrespective of warranty), current rating, charge cycles, etc. Within reason, quality is much more important than cost.
I'm not familiar with LG's battery plant(s) but Tesla is focused on one cell to rule them all...at least for their applications. They can and have focus all their RD and plant capacity in one place and reap significant economy of scale. Last I heard, they're producing significantly better Li cells than anyone else while remaining competitive on price.
They're also actively pursuing a reduction in the costly metals that go into both batteries and motors. Something they've already achieved substantial success on. Look at their latest electric motor, a partial-PM-SRM. Substantial savings in cost with a very healthy boost to performance and efficiency.
So yah, LG may be sellling cheaper packs and backing them with a longer warranty but that doesn't make them better in ANY functional sense.
Wow you're naive. Market cap is fuzzy money, not cash-in-hand.
The reason TSLA is worth so much is because of the outlook. It's at the forefront of what many analysts expect cars will be. Their IP, their brand, their business model, their cars are all cutting edge and very much an industry disruption.
Market cap doesn't really represent the cash-out value of a company today, but the speculative value in the longer term...which is one of the fundamental principles of the stock market.
Besides, EM has flat out told people to F off and not buy their stock. They aren't trying to push their stock higher at the expense of...well, anything like most companies. The fact that their stock is so high shows the backing of many people with a lot more insight (and money) than you or I.
It's called operating at a loss while you build out your infrastructure and develop your product. Granted, most companies don't spend 15 years doing that but most companies don't jump head-first into something so unique and difficult and heavily regulated.
Never mind they've had multiple successful products over those years and this was literally Musk's plan from the very beginning.
You realize you're referring to two quarters where they very heavily invested in building out their plant? You know...where massive capital and opex investment resulted in a working volume production line that they have today?
Oh wait, you don't. You just want to look at whatever information suits your point in a complete vacuum so no other relevant information can possibly intrude. Kudos for getting me to reply, but 0/10 actually having a defensible point.
Maybe after Q3 you'll come back to tell us how the numbers are just a quirk and won't last? And after Q4 you'll point out how other manufacturers will overtake them any moment and crush them? And some time in late 2019 you'll explain how Musk is actually Satan and been fooling us all with cooked books. Then around 2025 you'll explain how you're driving your very own tesla just so you can 'honestly' speak about all it's horrible faults. Sound about right?
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Actually, Apple alone would likely dump several billion into battery tech if they had a viable way to double the battery capacity of their phones. ... which, of course, they'd use to slim down the phone by another .5mm instead of doubling your battery.
So much 'what if' and 'one-off' being used to put down EVs. Funny how it almost universally comes from people who don't own one.
No one actually said a specific EV should meet every. single. automotive. need. In fact, there's a HUGE range of ICE vehicles to meet that same range of needs. Sure, it would be nice to have an EV with 2x the range, but someone will still point out how their specific use case makes it unusable. boo fucking hoo. Some people don't own a car at all.
People have been going on and on promising a 2x, 5x, or 10x increase in battery capacity for years...even decades. We've never had a revolutionary tech just appear overnight though.
In theory, but in practice most people couldn't live on just the pay from walmart or similar low-income jobs without government benefits.
Plus who's to say the data will identify the employees to the company? Most states already have anti-retaliation laws on the books broadly so it's trivial to include a similar passage specific to this bill.
TBH I'd rather get free healthcare from the government than have to pay into my own (far less comprehensive) healthcare plan. I'd rather get price-guaranteed, subsidized housing that I basically can't be evicted from than try to find something vaguely affordable in my area. There are many examples where government benefits are far better than what a typical middle-class income can hope to afford. Heck, I've got "poor" friends living in far larger, nicer, and better located apartments than I could possibly afford.
You have to love the people complaining about pronouns that then go on to assign arbitrary pronouns to everyone else "IN CASE THEY MIGHT BE OFFENDED BY AN ASSIGNED PRONOUN"
Can't win, don't try.
Can't win, don't try.
SJWs will find fault with whatever you say or do. If somehow they can't, they'll go after whatever they think your intent was. Failing that, well you were probably thinking something inappropriate and hateful. As a last resort, they'll claim that THEY felt attacked, marginalized, or otherwise harmed - and you obviously can't attack someone who is a victim. You victim-blamer you! See? Evil to the end.
Personally i'm offended by any searches of physical attributes that include hair, being bald myself. This surveillance product should be banned!
Seriously.
Reading the title, it implies NYPD is searching for minorities to ... well to do something bad.
In reality it's search technology for not only skin color but other traits - none of which is inherently racist at all. If someone reports a crime by a 'white male, approx 50 years of age, 6'2 and about 250 pounds with blonde, shoulder length hair' then searching for that is the same as cops walking the beat looking for the same. It's also NOT RACIST if someone reports a crime by the same person but with darker skin and they search for it.
I'm all for limiting abuses by cops and can certainly agree this COULD be used in bad ways but the article is troll bait, click bait, fake news, and every other horrible thing that's driving our country down the tubes.
And that would harm the ISPs how? They would still be getting a break on the upstream that they claimed was oh so very expensive and congested.
Yup, this. They made such a huge complaint about peering agreements and cost as the focus.
Even if they had other content on the box, it still greatly limited upstream bandwidth (including for that other content!) and reduced those magical peering costs. It's not like the demand for that other 'scary' data goes away either...ISPs need to stop trying to play favorites and actually deliver the experience their customers are seeking.
You're arguing semantics. My car doesn't support HDMI. Is it blocked or not enabled? (yes, it's intentionally a stupid analogy to go along with the stupid point)
Multicast can be supported on almost anything but it isn't, on purpose, because multicast is a great way to break far more than you're fixing most of the time. Plus it typically cannot be routed between subnets, on purpose again, because it's a great way to break far more than you're fixing. Again.
Plus multicast simply doesn't align with the use case for the majority of streaming services except live TV/radio anyway.
No no no...lots of lawyers will get rich.
Lots of politicians will be able to say they "did something" or at least tried. Those same idiots will be able to blame others when, eventually, someone uses this 3D printed gun to harm or kill someone.
Never mind the thousands of other people killed by legally owned guns, or the millions of non-3D-printed guns in existance. This one will count more.
You assume criminals will obey those laws while ignoring ones like 'don't make people dead'?
It really does: build enough housing and the price of housing will go down. We know how to build dense cities, it's something we can do.
Actually, NYC is the test bed for ultra dense 'modern' city life. I'd argue that we don't really know how to do it all that well...or else they wouldn't skimp on things like mass transit maintenance and accountability.
> build more housing
Ha! They are and have been. Guess what though? Virtually all that housing is more expensive than the existing rental units. No one is building a middle class, non-luxury apartment building. They're building ultra-luxury, ultra expensive high rises with a pittance of low income units as require to get their permits and variances.
Stop talking like you 1) know NYC or 2) understand housing markets in major developed cities
NYC has, is, and continues to build more housing (and offices/buildings/etc.)
The problem is the only thing being built is 1) ultra luxury rentals with 2) a few token low income units.
It only makes the housing problem when you add a few thousand new units and they push the average rental price UPWARDS. The lower priced units raise their rent because...well...it's less than the new overpriced units.
And...repeat. Forever.
Oh, and factor in hipsters who take over neighborhood by neighborhood and pay obscene rent because it's a 'trendy place' and then abandon it and move elsewhere in a year or three. Then that area is left with greatly elevated rents and stores that no one else can afford but are stuck with the costs...
welcome to NYC. no place like it on earth - both for the good AND the bad.
Oh please.
First off, no blood from a stone. MP (well, parent company) simply does not have the money to pay out anything substantive in a class action. Lawyers would probably get a few mil for their time and everyone else would get a 'i got f'ed by MP' sticker in the mail.
Besides that, essentially no one who used MP lost out. Seeing one single movie more than covered the monthly MP sub cost is almost every circumstance. Did they not get what was promised? Yep. No argument there. But financial 'damage' to people who saved money by using MP? Get off it.
MP is certainly a mess. No arguments there at all. But ... whatever. It was an amazing deal while it lasted. The only people I'd say are legitimately due refunds are of $cost of tickets bought via MP $paid to MP. Everyone else saved money...and none of it was done to trick them out of $ and run away.
Assuming TFS is accurate, the law says 'at least' ... meaning the minimum allowable is intended to be 50% women (minus one for odd-numbered boards).
Minimum.
So according to the law if TFS is accurate, it's completely legal for women to be the majority (or unity) but not for men. How does that even vaguely pass the anti-discrimination sniff test?
Ehh
Usually I'm not a huge fan of lease/lend but in the case of music and movies? It's WAY easier than trying to actually keep copies of everything.
My problem is actually finding ONE place to get all my movie needs met. The 'exclusive content' crap is exhausting and leads me full circle back to one single source which I won't name.
While your point might seem to make sense, it doesn't match up with realty.
There are the literal billions of phones and tablets that have been sold and the number that have failed dangerously is exceedingly small. The few times the failure rate reached approached single digit percentages (Note7, certain 'hoverboards', etc.) have prompted speedy recalls.
So no, it's not one structural breach away from an apocalypse.
It's braindead easy these days. THere's so many how-tos with pictures, tools, and all. You can build one with zero technical expertise.
Now, I do agree there's still some value in having it done for you. When you're in the sub-$100 range it's not a big deal +/- a few bucks to most people for something cool.
But from Nintendo's side where they have the economies of scale, $60 is a very healthy profit margin and even more so on the retro SNES for $100. I doubt their BOM is more than $20-25
You realize it's hared to buy a pre-built retropie WITHOUT being loaded with games than with??
I've even seen adds on FB for them. Yup, it's not legal but it's also trivial to do.
Huh...I guess I missed the announcement.
Probably because I stopped watching or caring about the NES or SNES after I built a retropie box...which was a revisit of the original Xbox I modded back in the day and still have. And by 'built' I mean 6 screws and copying some files to a SD card. It amazes me that people ever lined up for this when there have been viable, and frankly better, alternatives for a decade and more.
Yes but...
The major difference is keeping a closed ecosystem. Greatly reduces your attack vectors, simplifies patching, simplifies application management...etc. Oh, and it VASTLY simplifies use. Ask a user to wipe and scratch-load windows and they'll go to the GeekSquad or call one of us. As someone to wipe and reload iOS? Oh, that's 3 clicks and done. Even grandpa can do it.
I get it...you want to load some esoteric Linux build on the tablet and so would a few thousand other people if they could. But you're the 1%...or more like the .01%. The vast majority of people use the dumb-simple, closed ecosystem and complain about minor features instead. The VAST majority of people would not benefit from a open/unlocked tablet or phone and, in fact, would have a worse experience for it.
I'm not a fan, but I completely see why and completely understand why it's become so dominant.
The specs need a bump, but comparing to laptops is pointless.
A decent new laptop typically costs less or similar to a current model phone. For the same $1k as the iPhone X you can buy a nice laptop. Hell, you could buy two decent ones, especially on sale...which...oh...never happens for cell phones except for BOGO (with service) type deals.
Warranty: Tesla's older packs have already proven far more durable than expected. This is not a major concern anymore.
Cost: You need to put cost in perspective. Cost per kwh ... or per kwh/kg or kwh/m^3 are more important. Same for battery life (irrespective of warranty), current rating, charge cycles, etc. Within reason, quality is much more important than cost.
I'm not familiar with LG's battery plant(s) but Tesla is focused on one cell to rule them all...at least for their applications. They can and have focus all their RD and plant capacity in one place and reap significant economy of scale. Last I heard, they're producing significantly better Li cells than anyone else while remaining competitive on price.
They're also actively pursuing a reduction in the costly metals that go into both batteries and motors. Something they've already achieved substantial success on. Look at their latest electric motor, a partial-PM-SRM. Substantial savings in cost with a very healthy boost to performance and efficiency.
So yah, LG may be sellling cheaper packs and backing them with a longer warranty but that doesn't make them better in ANY functional sense.
Wow you're naive. Market cap is fuzzy money, not cash-in-hand.
The reason TSLA is worth so much is because of the outlook. It's at the forefront of what many analysts expect cars will be. Their IP, their brand, their business model, their cars are all cutting edge and very much an industry disruption.
Market cap doesn't really represent the cash-out value of a company today, but the speculative value in the longer term...which is one of the fundamental principles of the stock market.
Besides, EM has flat out told people to F off and not buy their stock. They aren't trying to push their stock higher at the expense of...well, anything like most companies. The fact that their stock is so high shows the backing of many people with a lot more insight (and money) than you or I.
It's not even that business model.
It's called operating at a loss while you build out your infrastructure and develop your product. Granted, most companies don't spend 15 years doing that but most companies don't jump head-first into something so unique and difficult and heavily regulated.
Never mind they've had multiple successful products over those years and this was literally Musk's plan from the very beginning.
Oh man, I try not to feed the trolls but ...
You realize you're referring to two quarters where they very heavily invested in building out their plant? You know...where massive capital and opex investment resulted in a working volume production line that they have today?
Oh wait, you don't. You just want to look at whatever information suits your point in a complete vacuum so no other relevant information can possibly intrude. Kudos for getting me to reply, but 0/10 actually having a defensible point.
Maybe after Q3 you'll come back to tell us how the numbers are just a quirk and won't last? And after Q4 you'll point out how other manufacturers will overtake them any moment and crush them? And some time in late 2019 you'll explain how Musk is actually Satan and been fooling us all with cooked books. Then around 2025 you'll explain how you're driving your very own tesla just so you can 'honestly' speak about all it's horrible faults. Sound about right?