Trump's popularity is not at all surprising because the media loves to give him free marketing and he doesn't come across as part of the establishment.
There is always tiger in my home but that tiger is so afraid of people that when the doorknob turns the tiger goes and hides and he is such a good hider that we can never find him.
I believe Tesla can do just fine if they are producing a pickup truck for non-commercial usage or they build a crossover or SUV as they'll have far more flexibility in their design and engineering which is an advantage to them whenever they can sell the vehicle to the customer as is without the customer needing any further alterations which will encompass practically all non-commercial purchasers. I question their ability to crack into the commercial truck market because they're facing brand loyalty and price competition and to put a bit of pain to it there's a support network for the commercial truck business that is sensitive to the nuances in the engineering in cab and chassis of pickups. Tesla will have to conform to the dimensions utilized by the big manufacturers if they want that support network to be able to be utilized because they cannot reasonably expect those suppliers to produce equipment for Tesla vehicles at a price that is going to be palatable to commercial purchasers. It's a situation that could stick them into a following position whether than a leading position which could cause them to bring vehicles to market later making it more difficult to secure commercial sales.
Believe me, I would love for Tesla to become a player in the commercial truck business as it would be very helpful for my personal life. My suspicion is that Musk is talking about heavy trucks that exceed 10,000 GVW where the bodies are primarily cargo hauling flatbed or box trailers/trucks or lighter GVW box trucks if those even exist.
Pickup buyers are not going to go electric, it's not in their DNA.
A pair of questions. Who do you think is responsible for the majority of purchases of pickup trucks? What if I told you that I know a buyer that was buying so many pickup trucks that GM had to tell them that they could only manufacture a portion of the order?
It does. How quaint that you think the majority of trucks are utilized in urban areas.
Fun fact. One of the larger purchasers of pickup trucks are companies like Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, who routinely run their pickup trucks in exceedingly rural areas that have no road access.
I know of a company with a large fleet of pickup trucks that had placed an order for GMC trucks, four digit quantity, which GMC said the volume was too high for them to fill, by about 700 trucks. That company then went and bought the other 700 from Ford and that was a single year's order. That's the market and the reason why pickup trucks are the best selling vehicles. It's not individuals that are purchasing, it's companies with significant fleets and that's because there's this huge aftermarket for pickup trucks that involve modifying the truck, typically by removing the standard bed body and placing a different body with the cab and chassis and the trucks from each of the manufacturers are just different enough that those bodies are not universal to the truck.
You're probably right that the pickup truck is probably not what he's talking about. Tesla could trivially break into the consumer market for it but there's the huge support network build around Ford, GMC, Toyota, Chrysler, etc that Tesla simply doesn't have when it comes to aftermarket unless they engineer their vehicles to have the same fittings as, for example, a F150 and consequently can utilize Knapheid service bodies for the F150. When you get into larger trucks, where International is the big player, you'll find that the bodies are more custom in their approach, since International typically only builds a cab and chassis, so that's a bit easier for Tesla to break into.
Fortitude is an interesting topic and I would recommend that you read up on it. The operation as a whole encompassed far more deception than was required, which was an unknown fact at the time, but it was two primary factors that contributed to its success. The first was the double cross system. The Brits didn't know that they had acquired every German agent in the country and closely linked to this was the intelligence sent back to the Germans via Garbo, Brutus, and Tricycle (predominantly) was given a very high level of trust especially so in the case of Garbo since they had created a fictitious network of agents working underneath him in order to give reason for the information Garbo was providing. This aided the double cross system as it discouraged the Germans from attempting to infiltrate more agents due to the Garbo network being so good. His network did include informants and sources that were situated in headquarters. The second major factor was that German reconnaissance was poor. The British had expected that the Germans would perform far more aerial reconnaissance than they did in order to verify the radio traffic they were performing as well as the intelligence received via double cross agents. Their visual reconnaissance was almost entirely limited to places where they could observe the British coast from across the channel. The Germans trusted their sources but rarely ever verified them.
Only if you consider body count to be the most important metric and ignore all the material support that made such a body count possible in the first place.
You want to make anything an actor interacts with as real as possible. I still think that Farscape really showcases just how much of a better performance you get out of actors when dealing with decidedly non-human creatures that cannot use makeup and costumes to create. There is an attachment that you can find between the crew of Moya and the Rygel / Pilot puppets that you simply could not replicate with a CGI creature.
Who knew the Jim Henson company was right. Well, practically anyone who paid even the slightest amount of attention. CGI is fine when it's used to touch up or create things you can't reasonable do with practical applications but when you have the actors interact with the creature in question you want something that is adequate for the actor to act with. Ian McKellen interacted with a ball hanging from a stick when dealing with the Balrog in Fellowship.
I will say that Farscape was probably one of the best examples of why you want puppets or animatronics for your non-human entities rather than CGI. You can see so many more levels of interaction between the cast and Rygel and Pilot. The cast could not only touch pilot but could interact and emote with pilot in ways that would seem far less believable if it were CGI. This is what helped bring these two characters to life. The actors were able to react in believable ways so not only were we subjected to the persona of the puppets we were also subjected to how the non-puppet characters reacted to the puppet characters. Life was given.
Hydra keeps getting beat because they'll let guys like Bob join. With that sort of quality control on your personnel, what other outcome would you expect?
I would say it's more likely that the people who first view the request are given a series of yes/no questions with a pre-canned response for the question the request fails.
I don't think the scheme has anything to do with transportation costs. If you may recall there is entrenched interests in many states that make it difficult for Tesla to make sales. That would be a method to work around those interests while opening the market.
There's three corridors of Supercharger stations across the US all along Interstate highways. I-70 is one of these corridors These stations are no more than 170 miles apart.
What Musk is claiming, without explicitly stating it.... factory to home delivery of Tesla vehicles without requiring a car carrier or driver.
There's two keep points to Musk's claim. The first is that the car will self-drive California to New York (not coast to coast or to anywhere in the US) and the second, and this is the more important claim, the car will charge itself on its way. The second part is more key because we can look a map of charging stations that Tesla Motors have setup. Looking at the map we may find strategic placement of these stations which are going to be the primary force dictating the car's possible path's across the US. In light of that, I don't think Musk's claim is all that ambitious.
You can look at the map of Superchargers in place right now and there's three east-west corridors and along these corridors the distance between supercharge stations doesn't exceed 170 miles (the claimed charge from a supercharger station) and that is only in the north corridor. The central corridor follows right along I-70. They also have a map on their website indicating the coverage and locations for Supercharger stations by the end of 2016 and that will pretty much cover the entire continental 48 states in the US as well as routes to service Edmonton and Winnipeg (sorry Canadians, there's no routes across Canada planned at this moment so you have to travel into and out of the US in your tesla).
Google has been driving its cars at 25mph in urban environments which are the far more difficult driving condition to master. Higher speeds for self driving vehicles should be fairly trivial along interstate highways which is really the important thing for cross country travel. So these Tesla's would travel at 25mph when getting off the highway to charge (minor time loss) and at the starting/end positions but the bulk would certainly take place at higher speeds along the highways.
Musk's claim with the layout of Supercharger stations is telling me one thing. The intent is for Tesla to offer factory to home delivery of their vehicles without requiring car carriers and I don't find 2-3 years necessarily unreasonable.
What's more interesting about the remote summoning feature is that you could potentially drive to work, send your car home to charge and summon it a certain amount of time before you have to leave work. Employers that have chronic parking problems would probably love this feature and be more likely to support it than installing charging stations for their employees.
Bah, Wedge Antilles served that role better. Minor character, no plot armor, survives three movies and is the only movie canon character to survive two assaults on death stars including being elevated to integral to blowing up the second death star.
the monsters escaping from the ship, for example, was really well covered by the movie. But then I'd also noticed while watching the movie that it did seem odd that Finn was still alive (dragged) around so much longer; and that WAS weak. The articles explanation that it showed one other guy getting dragged briefly doesn't salvage it.
I don't remember anyone else getting dragged around during that scene. All I remember is the monsters coming up on people and immediately eating them. Throughout the whole scene I was annoyed the Finn was still alive and even if I had noticed the scene with one other person being dragged around it really didn't help. It wasn't significant enough to establish anything. Primarily this is due to the fact that there was nothing the set apart or identify the individual monsters. Had they done that and shown the one grabbing Finn to have previously eaten someone, then I could have written it up as the creature is taking Finn and attempting to find a "nest" to incapacitate him and eat him later.
Ultimately, the problem with Ep7 is that had you seen Ep4 you can't help but notice all the parallels between the two. Death Star plans are replaced with a map fragment. Death Star replaced with a new superweapon that can blow up multiple planets simultaneously. Rebel base under threat from Death Star coming around to blow them up with a new superweapon that has to suck up a sun to blow them up. Trench run. Firing a proton torpedo down a 2 meter gap replaced with a pilot flying into a gap that barely fits his X-Wing. Han Solo takes the place of Obi-Wan while Rey takes the place of Luke (to the point of growing up not know her parents on a desert planet) and the relation between each pair of character is similar (in a training/mentor capacity). Kylo Ren and Han Solo fill the same role as Obi-Wan and Vader in Ep4 although the motivations are mildly different.
That's just all the stuff that readily comes to mind.
Ah, but we have like twenty scenes of Han using or touching Chewie's bowcaster and commenting about how he wants on. It is obviously not like normal blasters and therefore not subjected to the same rules as blasters.
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Trump's popularity is not at all surprising because the media loves to give him free marketing and he doesn't come across as part of the establishment.
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There is always tiger in my home but that tiger is so afraid of people that when the doorknob turns the tiger goes and hides and he is such a good hider that we can never find him.
I think the Republican party would rather have Trump over Cruz.
I believe Tesla can do just fine if they are producing a pickup truck for non-commercial usage or they build a crossover or SUV as they'll have far more flexibility in their design and engineering which is an advantage to them whenever they can sell the vehicle to the customer as is without the customer needing any further alterations which will encompass practically all non-commercial purchasers. I question their ability to crack into the commercial truck market because they're facing brand loyalty and price competition and to put a bit of pain to it there's a support network for the commercial truck business that is sensitive to the nuances in the engineering in cab and chassis of pickups. Tesla will have to conform to the dimensions utilized by the big manufacturers if they want that support network to be able to be utilized because they cannot reasonably expect those suppliers to produce equipment for Tesla vehicles at a price that is going to be palatable to commercial purchasers. It's a situation that could stick them into a following position whether than a leading position which could cause them to bring vehicles to market later making it more difficult to secure commercial sales.
Believe me, I would love for Tesla to become a player in the commercial truck business as it would be very helpful for my personal life. My suspicion is that Musk is talking about heavy trucks that exceed 10,000 GVW where the bodies are primarily cargo hauling flatbed or box trailers/trucks or lighter GVW box trucks if those even exist.
Pickup buyers are not going to go electric, it's not in their DNA.
A pair of questions. Who do you think is responsible for the majority of purchases of pickup trucks? What if I told you that I know a buyer that was buying so many pickup trucks that GM had to tell them that they could only manufacture a portion of the order?
It does. How quaint that you think the majority of trucks are utilized in urban areas.
Fun fact. One of the larger purchasers of pickup trucks are companies like Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, who routinely run their pickup trucks in exceedingly rural areas that have no road access.
I know of a company with a large fleet of pickup trucks that had placed an order for GMC trucks, four digit quantity, which GMC said the volume was too high for them to fill, by about 700 trucks. That company then went and bought the other 700 from Ford and that was a single year's order. That's the market and the reason why pickup trucks are the best selling vehicles. It's not individuals that are purchasing, it's companies with significant fleets and that's because there's this huge aftermarket for pickup trucks that involve modifying the truck, typically by removing the standard bed body and placing a different body with the cab and chassis and the trucks from each of the manufacturers are just different enough that those bodies are not universal to the truck.
You're probably right that the pickup truck is probably not what he's talking about. Tesla could trivially break into the consumer market for it but there's the huge support network build around Ford, GMC, Toyota, Chrysler, etc that Tesla simply doesn't have when it comes to aftermarket unless they engineer their vehicles to have the same fittings as, for example, a F150 and consequently can utilize Knapheid service bodies for the F150. When you get into larger trucks, where International is the big player, you'll find that the bodies are more custom in their approach, since International typically only builds a cab and chassis, so that's a bit easier for Tesla to break into.
May I suggest "bangspam" for your tagging needs.
Sounds more like the name of a pornographic film.
The people that designed and built the SR-71 weren't even part of the government. Skunk Works did the design and construction of that aircraft.
Fortitude is an interesting topic and I would recommend that you read up on it. The operation as a whole encompassed far more deception than was required, which was an unknown fact at the time, but it was two primary factors that contributed to its success. The first was the double cross system. The Brits didn't know that they had acquired every German agent in the country and closely linked to this was the intelligence sent back to the Germans via Garbo, Brutus, and Tricycle (predominantly) was given a very high level of trust especially so in the case of Garbo since they had created a fictitious network of agents working underneath him in order to give reason for the information Garbo was providing. This aided the double cross system as it discouraged the Germans from attempting to infiltrate more agents due to the Garbo network being so good. His network did include informants and sources that were situated in headquarters. The second major factor was that German reconnaissance was poor. The British had expected that the Germans would perform far more aerial reconnaissance than they did in order to verify the radio traffic they were performing as well as the intelligence received via double cross agents. Their visual reconnaissance was almost entirely limited to places where they could observe the British coast from across the channel. The Germans trusted their sources but rarely ever verified them.
Only if you consider body count to be the most important metric and ignore all the material support that made such a body count possible in the first place.
You want to make anything an actor interacts with as real as possible. I still think that Farscape really showcases just how much of a better performance you get out of actors when dealing with decidedly non-human creatures that cannot use makeup and costumes to create. There is an attachment that you can find between the crew of Moya and the Rygel / Pilot puppets that you simply could not replicate with a CGI creature.
Who knew the Jim Henson company was right. Well, practically anyone who paid even the slightest amount of attention. CGI is fine when it's used to touch up or create things you can't reasonable do with practical applications but when you have the actors interact with the creature in question you want something that is adequate for the actor to act with. Ian McKellen interacted with a ball hanging from a stick when dealing with the Balrog in Fellowship.
I will say that Farscape was probably one of the best examples of why you want puppets or animatronics for your non-human entities rather than CGI. You can see so many more levels of interaction between the cast and Rygel and Pilot. The cast could not only touch pilot but could interact and emote with pilot in ways that would seem far less believable if it were CGI. This is what helped bring these two characters to life. The actors were able to react in believable ways so not only were we subjected to the persona of the puppets we were also subjected to how the non-puppet characters reacted to the puppet characters. Life was given.
I felt like I was watching a rehash of Episode IV. My friends and I have taken to calling Han Obiwan Solo.
Hydra keeps getting beat because they'll let guys like Bob join. With that sort of quality control on your personnel, what other outcome would you expect?
I would say it's more likely that the people who first view the request are given a series of yes/no questions with a pre-canned response for the question the request fails.
I don't think the scheme has anything to do with transportation costs. If you may recall there is entrenched interests in many states that make it difficult for Tesla to make sales. That would be a method to work around those interests while opening the market.
$208.70/share for Tesla Motors.
There's three corridors of Supercharger stations across the US all along Interstate highways. I-70 is one of these corridors These stations are no more than 170 miles apart.
What Musk is claiming, without explicitly stating it.... factory to home delivery of Tesla vehicles without requiring a car carrier or driver.
There's two keep points to Musk's claim. The first is that the car will self-drive California to New York (not coast to coast or to anywhere in the US) and the second, and this is the more important claim, the car will charge itself on its way. The second part is more key because we can look a map of charging stations that Tesla Motors have setup. Looking at the map we may find strategic placement of these stations which are going to be the primary force dictating the car's possible path's across the US. In light of that, I don't think Musk's claim is all that ambitious.
You can look at the map of Superchargers in place right now and there's three east-west corridors and along these corridors the distance between supercharge stations doesn't exceed 170 miles (the claimed charge from a supercharger station) and that is only in the north corridor. The central corridor follows right along I-70. They also have a map on their website indicating the coverage and locations for Supercharger stations by the end of 2016 and that will pretty much cover the entire continental 48 states in the US as well as routes to service Edmonton and Winnipeg (sorry Canadians, there's no routes across Canada planned at this moment so you have to travel into and out of the US in your tesla).
Google has been driving its cars at 25mph in urban environments which are the far more difficult driving condition to master. Higher speeds for self driving vehicles should be fairly trivial along interstate highways which is really the important thing for cross country travel. So these Tesla's would travel at 25mph when getting off the highway to charge (minor time loss) and at the starting/end positions but the bulk would certainly take place at higher speeds along the highways.
Musk's claim with the layout of Supercharger stations is telling me one thing. The intent is for Tesla to offer factory to home delivery of their vehicles without requiring car carriers and I don't find 2-3 years necessarily unreasonable.
What's more interesting about the remote summoning feature is that you could potentially drive to work, send your car home to charge and summon it a certain amount of time before you have to leave work. Employers that have chronic parking problems would probably love this feature and be more likely to support it than installing charging stations for their employees.
Bah, Wedge Antilles served that role better. Minor character, no plot armor, survives three movies and is the only movie canon character to survive two assaults on death stars including being elevated to integral to blowing up the second death star.
the monsters escaping from the ship, for example, was really well covered by the movie. But then I'd also noticed while watching the movie that it did seem odd that Finn was still alive (dragged) around so much longer; and that WAS weak. The articles explanation that it showed one other guy getting dragged briefly doesn't salvage it.
I don't remember anyone else getting dragged around during that scene. All I remember is the monsters coming up on people and immediately eating them. Throughout the whole scene I was annoyed the Finn was still alive and even if I had noticed the scene with one other person being dragged around it really didn't help. It wasn't significant enough to establish anything. Primarily this is due to the fact that there was nothing the set apart or identify the individual monsters. Had they done that and shown the one grabbing Finn to have previously eaten someone, then I could have written it up as the creature is taking Finn and attempting to find a "nest" to incapacitate him and eat him later.
Ultimately, the problem with Ep7 is that had you seen Ep4 you can't help but notice all the parallels between the two. Death Star plans are replaced with a map fragment. Death Star replaced with a new superweapon that can blow up multiple planets simultaneously. Rebel base under threat from Death Star coming around to blow them up with a new superweapon that has to suck up a sun to blow them up. Trench run. Firing a proton torpedo down a 2 meter gap replaced with a pilot flying into a gap that barely fits his X-Wing. Han Solo takes the place of Obi-Wan while Rey takes the place of Luke (to the point of growing up not know her parents on a desert planet) and the relation between each pair of character is similar (in a training/mentor capacity). Kylo Ren and Han Solo fill the same role as Obi-Wan and Vader in Ep4 although the motivations are mildly different.
That's just all the stuff that readily comes to mind.
Ah, but we have like twenty scenes of Han using or touching Chewie's bowcaster and commenting about how he wants on. It is obviously not like normal blasters and therefore not subjected to the same rules as blasters.
Po is such a poor replacement for Wedge Antilles and his explanation for survive was so half-assed.