Jobs was a famous asshole, but it sure seemed like he actually cared about having a good product. Sure, his "good" was about fashion, but that's what worked for Apple (there's a reason 2 of the 10 richest CEOs are fashion moguls). And while Apple phones seem to be in a downward spiral, quality-wise, they're still way better than Samsung on that front.
Personally, I prefer a phone with a high-quality headphone jack, no "notch", and no exploding battery, but then I'm a nerd with no fashion sense at all.
Betting that TSLA would make its production numbers for Q3 and Q4. Or if it goes too high, realtive to the past couple years, any time I'll get out. Q3 numbers turned out well.
This does seem like a very good outcome for Tesla as a whole, as one way or another the shareholders will choose the new chairman. Musk has clearly been stretched thin of late; far better to let someone else do the desperate fundraising while Elon can now spend only 80 hours a week running Tesla.
Did you pick up some more TSLA Friday? I'm feeling good about my new 100 shares.
Chrome openly sends everything you type into the omnibox to Google "for your protection". Purging all Google products from your life is the only safe way.
Stories about DDG are filled with paid astroturfers from Google. DDG has never fronted Google - that's just another lie. They do front Bing to some extent: when they started, they were just anonymizing front-end to Bing, but they've come a long way since then.
The most basic issue is that meaningful information is never displayed directly in the results. If I search for EURUSD on Google, I get the actual exchange rate. On DDG, I have to click a spammy link to get it.
More astroturf. More lies. You get the exchange rate above the search results.
For many searches, you get an excerpt from Wikipedia above the search results. For many tech searches, you get the most-upvoted answer from stackoverflow above the results.
Plus, the bang codes rock. Try this search: !wa (e^x + e^-x)/2 dx
There were assholes one both sides of gamergate, to be sure. The odd thing was the fringe elements of gaming seemed to be similarly crazy to the mainstream gaming press. But then the gaming press was always a weird fringe of "the press" so I guess that makes sense.
Either way, gamers won, and games remain mostly focused on gameplay (or monetization, but that's a different issue), not pushing a political agenda.
Genre film, and especially comic books, chose a different path, and seem intent on immolating themselves in the fires of political preaching, but gaming has largely escaped that fate. (Computer gaming, anyhow.)
The CoC is not "don't be a dick", which would be a great CoC.
It's "don't insult people with a list of protected characteristics". And it's not limited to "on a mailing list": if history is any guide, it will be used to purge anyone whose public politics are unacceptable.
Perfect polite with everyone in technical interactions, but once gave fincancial support to oppose gay marriage? Out with you!
Remember that Amazon was a failure for almost two decades, then it started eating everybody's lunch.
Amazon has almost always been profitable before re-investment in growing the business. I don't get why people are confused by that - they plowed every dollar they could get their hands on into growth, because the market was there for the first mover. But on any given year, they could have had serious profits if they said "meh, we're big enough".
Tesla is rather more speculative, and their costs don't stop if they decide to stop growing. They have to meet optimistic projections just to service debt, and "cars" are about as mature as a market gets.
50k in a quarter is a very solid number for a sedan in the US. 100k would be amazing - better than Camry sales. Dunno about OP, but I certainly would have bought more.
I would say an active SEC investigation looking to remove the CEO, and a couple of potential DOJ investigations are more relevant.
That won't play out in the next 6 months, which is longer than I plan on holding the stock. And if Tesla survives with stable Model 3 production, are they really worse off without Musk? That might be another buying opportunity.
Well, they sold 0 of those in the US last quarter, so it's still 21,000 cars sold that have a future.
Trucks, crossovers, SUVs - that's what people overwhelmingly buy today.
Well, that's what they buy from Ford, and it is a big market. Toyota still sold 84,000 Camrys last quarter though. I see the Model 3 as a niche car, but if "no dashboard" ever goes mainstream, the market's there.
Ford made about 21,000 mustangs last quarter, which is the only car Ford will be selling in the future. They make lots of trucks though.
Tesla won't be a real American auto company until they sell pickup trucks. Of course, since no US companies can sell a light truck any more (to meet fuel economy regs), Tesla has a waiting market with no competition. Or if they make a full-sized truck, they could run an ad showing a Tesla towing a Chevy towing a Ford towing a boat, which would go over quite well.
If they survive long enough to enter the consumer truck market, they'll grow into their stock price. That's the big question, though, isn't it?
As long as Bezos operates an independent walled garden then he's in the clear to make up his own rules, but as soon as he turns CloudConnect into a global ISP (if that is what he is intending) then he'll come under Net Neutrality rules wherever they apply, and that means on most of the planet.
On the contrary, once the worldwide satellite network is fully operational, all the petty world governments will fold as the Orbital Mind Control Lasers find their targets. And normal tinfoil hats won't help, you'll need special tinfoil only available on Amazon. That's why Bezos is the richest CEO - he thinks these things through.
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Jobs was a famous asshole, but it sure seemed like he actually cared about having a good product. Sure, his "good" was about fashion, but that's what worked for Apple (there's a reason 2 of the 10 richest CEOs are fashion moguls). And while Apple phones seem to be in a downward spiral, quality-wise, they're still way better than Samsung on that front.
Personally, I prefer a phone with a high-quality headphone jack, no "notch", and no exploding battery, but then I'm a nerd with no fashion sense at all.
If it works for me, it can work for you. I'm not particularly special.
Betting that TSLA would make its production numbers for Q3 and Q4. Or if it goes too high, realtive to the past couple years, any time I'll get out. Q3 numbers turned out well.
This does seem like a very good outcome for Tesla as a whole, as one way or another the shareholders will choose the new chairman. Musk has clearly been stretched thin of late; far better to let someone else do the desperate fundraising while Elon can now spend only 80 hours a week running Tesla.
Did you pick up some more TSLA Friday? I'm feeling good about my new 100 shares.
If any court allowed you to retroactively change a license or contract it would destabilize everything.
That may be true, but why on earth would you imagine a court would care about it?
Chrome openly sends everything you type into the omnibox to Google "for your protection". Purging all Google products from your life is the only safe way.
Stories about DDG are filled with paid astroturfers from Google. DDG has never fronted Google - that's just another lie. They do front Bing to some extent: when they started, they were just anonymizing front-end to Bing, but they've come a long way since then.
The most basic issue is that meaningful information is never displayed directly in the results. If I search for EURUSD on Google, I get the actual exchange rate. On DDG, I have to click a spammy link to get it.
More astroturf. More lies. You get the exchange rate above the search results.
For many searches, you get an excerpt from Wikipedia above the search results. For many tech searches, you get the most-upvoted answer from stackoverflow above the results.
Plus, the bang codes rock. Try this search: !wa (e^x + e^-x)/2 dx
This isn't modded "-1" yet? Slashdot used to be better at detecting astroturfers.
It's not about a tweet, it's about manipulating stock prices with false information.
... on Twitter.
I agree with GPP: any information on social media is automatically assumed to be a lie that no reasonable person would believe.
There were assholes one both sides of gamergate, to be sure. The odd thing was the fringe elements of gaming seemed to be similarly crazy to the mainstream gaming press. But then the gaming press was always a weird fringe of "the press" so I guess that makes sense.
Either way, gamers won, and games remain mostly focused on gameplay (or monetization, but that's a different issue), not pushing a political agenda.
Genre film, and especially comic books, chose a different path, and seem intent on immolating themselves in the fires of political preaching, but gaming has largely escaped that fate. (Computer gaming, anyhow.)
That remains to be tested in court, but I tend to agree with you.
Of course, people can walk away, and stop contributing, but that's a different matter.
The CoC is not "don't be a dick", which would be a great CoC.
It's "don't insult people with a list of protected characteristics". And it's not limited to "on a mailing list": if history is any guide, it will be used to purge anyone whose public politics are unacceptable.
Perfect polite with everyone in technical interactions, but once gave fincancial support to oppose gay marriage? Out with you!
The Audi TT goes the other way - no center console screen at all - still making my mind up about it, but definitely better than the reverse!
Remember that Amazon was a failure for almost two decades, then it started eating everybody's lunch.
Amazon has almost always been profitable before re-investment in growing the business. I don't get why people are confused by that - they plowed every dollar they could get their hands on into growth, because the market was there for the first mover. But on any given year, they could have had serious profits if they said "meh, we're big enough".
Tesla is rather more speculative, and their costs don't stop if they decide to stop growing. They have to meet optimistic projections just to service debt, and "cars" are about as mature as a market gets.
and am somewhat annoyed about the SEC taking actions that 99% of TSLA shareholders don't want, in order to "protect shareholders"
Goldman Sacs must be short TSLA, since that's the only "shareholders" the SEC seems to care about - probably because the SEC is mostly Goldman alums.
50k in a quarter is a very solid number for a sedan in the US. 100k would be amazing - better than Camry sales. Dunno about OP, but I certainly would have bought more.
I would say an active SEC investigation looking to remove the CEO, and a couple of potential DOJ investigations are more relevant.
That won't play out in the next 6 months, which is longer than I plan on holding the stock. And if Tesla survives with stable Model 3 production, are they really worse off without Musk? That might be another buying opportunity.
No, Ford will sell the Focus Active as well,
Well, they sold 0 of those in the US last quarter, so it's still 21,000 cars sold that have a future.
Trucks, crossovers, SUVs - that's what people overwhelmingly buy today.
Well, that's what they buy from Ford, and it is a big market. Toyota still sold 84,000 Camrys last quarter though. I see the Model 3 as a niche car, but if "no dashboard" ever goes mainstream, the market's there.
Ford makes about 1.625 million cars each quarter.
Ford made about 21,000 mustangs last quarter, which is the only car Ford will be selling in the future. They make lots of trucks though.
Tesla won't be a real American auto company until they sell pickup trucks. Of course, since no US companies can sell a light truck any more (to meet fuel economy regs), Tesla has a waiting market with no competition. Or if they make a full-sized truck, they could run an ad showing a Tesla towing a Chevy towing a Ford towing a boat, which would go over quite well.
If they survive long enough to enter the consumer truck market, they'll grow into their stock price. That's the big question, though, isn't it?
I saw a Mustang with the joke from a different angle: MPGLOL. Seems the trick to not caring is not caring.
Most materials would shatter at Antarctic temperatures. Hopefully this isn't the only modern physics, but just a backup in cold storage.
I dunno, works for me.
SteamPlay for Linux already works like a champ.
Does it work for any games at all that have non-Steam DRM (i.e., most non-indy games)?
As long as Bezos operates an independent walled garden then he's in the clear to make up his own rules, but as soon as he turns CloudConnect into a global ISP (if that is what he is intending) then he'll come under Net Neutrality rules wherever they apply, and that means on most of the planet.
On the contrary, once the worldwide satellite network is fully operational, all the petty world governments will fold as the Orbital Mind Control Lasers find their targets. And normal tinfoil hats won't help, you'll need special tinfoil only available on Amazon. That's why Bezos is the richest CEO - he thinks these things through.
It definitely ran Azure storage servers circa 2013 - MS Research was proud of that. Maybe it still does, though Wikipedia says it was retired in 2015.