You don't. You buy it sight unseen and hope you like it enough to not want a refund. I guess Tesla are hoping that good word of mouth and customer satisfaction ensures that gamble pays off.
It only took them 2 years to deliver what they promised in the first place. Interesting how even the press release is trying to upsell people to a version that gets a smidgen of extra range and acceleration for an extra $2000. Want to bet that this model is exactly the same as the base model but for some bytes in a file?
I think the more alarming part is no show rooms, no test drives. Tesla must be hoping to hell that people are so willing to buy their cars without being able to looking at or driving them beforehand and will just drop the cash. If they do then I guess Tesla will do pretty well from it but investors could perceive this as desperation.
Tape sucks. Vinyl sucks. They suck for obvious reasons inherent to their format. The only reason anybody would want to resurrect them is to tap into a rich seam of gullible hipsters who'll buy the same music in an inferior format.
When there is a lot of money riding on a successful launch of a product (movie, game, phone etc.), these companies will drop a LOT of cash on buying positive press. They can easily pressure blogs and websites to toe the line by rewarding the good little sites with freebies and press junkets and punishing the bad little sites by dropping ad campaigns or blackballing them. I don't believe RT is immune to this.
I still remember reading "Ain't it cool news" almost 20 years ago and see it slide from being a gushing fanboy website with interesting news into a shill-for-hire front for studios looking for good word of mouth. Nothing has changed.
It would be naive to think it isn't true unless RT emphatically deny doing it, e.g. by publishing their ethics. Go look at their lead headlines right now and witness an example of what I'm talking about. Not the first time either. It happens a lot with these major studio releases.
And it's funny how their tweets seem to come from a core of blogs which have their own questionable ethical standards. These tweeters clearly don't seem bound by any embargo. It would be naive to assume they're not being paid for this of piffle, the tweeters for "influencing", and RT for aggregating it.
So yeah, maybe it's all completely innocent. The real world suggests money is changing hands. I'd add that the trolls damage studios, not RT, so I wonder too why their actions focus on that and not the bigger issue.
It's not the troll reviews which are the main problem, it is the shill reviews.
For example, whenever a blockbuster is close to release you can expect stories on RT - audience "reactions" from a preview screening, or suspicious embargo busting reviews invariable positive. How are are these allowed to appear? Who greenlights the story in the first place? Why are reviews listed before an embargo? Who hand selects which tweets to highlight?
My suspicion is RT is paid to generate positive feedback, "buzz" for a movie, and so prior to the embargo they fill the vaccum with bullshit and hype. And while troll reviews need to be fixed too, the user section is really is off on one side. I doubt it influences movie goers even a tiny fraction of what appears on the front page.
Not a good argument when excellent phones can be had for a quarter the price of these things. And the assumption that these bendy plastic screens would even last 3 years with so much use without being scratched to bits and possibly other faults - warping, cracks, dead pixels, dead zones etc.
And even if they did it it doesn't negate the argument that the usability of these things is just flawed.
These folding devices are going to have flexible screens so they'll scratch like nobody's business. Samsung clearly worried about that (and how phone covers work) so they put big screen on the inside of the clamshell to give it some protection. But the downside is the outside screen is tiny, barely usable. So you get a phone which is conspicuously worse for every day use unless you have the hands free to open it out.
Huawei seem to have wrapped their screen on the outside of the clamshell. At least means the normal display is reasonable. But since it's plastic it'll scratch and you won't get a case for it either.
And the price of these things... oh boy. Who are they even meant for?
How dare they concoct a ridiculous fictional character and use it like this? I'm outraged. Also, the other character Sun-Man deserves a better story line.
They were like watching a mini series strung out over way too many episodes. They would have made far more compelling TV if the episode count was slashed.
Autopilot would be great if it actively enforced driver attention. Then you get the best of both worlds. The car can perform mundane actions and react faster than any human when it needs to emergency brake etc. But the human is overseeing the car and road conditions and so able to prevent emergencies from developing in the first place.
Sadly Tesla treated driver attention as an afterthought. Drivers are allowed to become inattentive and cannot intervene in time when the car does something dumb. The need to force attention should have been obvious from the beginning. Yet we still see photos of Tesla drivers apparently asleep at the wheel. The fact they can do this and the car does not detect it demonstrates that it is a dangerous system and still not fit for purpose.
Why support a non-proprietary connector when you can use a proprietary one and charge an arm and a leg for peripherals that work with it? And screw customers and the inconveniences they may suffer, profits matter more.
I have Trend micro installed at work, it interferes with the OS, deletes software even code I've written and I'm debugging, locks files, slows down internet access and has annoying popups. I can't delete this junk due to corp policy. I lose hours of productivity every week due to it.
Believe me, if you install TM products to deal with the problem of malware, then now you have two problems.
Knowing Nintendo, they'll probably fix the controllers to the smaller, even crappier Switch and if you want to do the things you say then you'll have to buy a second set for $$$, along with a way to charge them for $$$.
Companies would ask why sell a phone / tablet every 5 years when you can sell a phone / tablet every 2 years if the battery is sealed in. This is something only a government can force them to do and it's way overdue.
Have one phone with your day to day activity. Another burner with your bullshit facebook spyware. Use the burner to browse a few sites and simulate some activity so you get your $20 but otherwise don't do anything that compromises your privacy.
Write the crapware apps to a writable partition of the phone. If people choose to delete the apps, they go away forever. If they choose to keep them, then the app will update like any other, e.g. the Facebook placeholder app gets replaced by the latest from the store. The only slightly tricky part is for a factory reset where the default apps have to be reinstated to the write partition from some tarball which does reside in the read partition for that purpose and no other.
This is moderately more effort to do than burning them into the read only partition but not by much.
These things are going to be smashed, kicked, set on fire, superglued, chewing gummed, cardboard boxed, tossed into dumpsters and all the rest. And even if they're unmolested they'll get stuck, get hit by vehicles, impede pedestrians, run through dogshit and generally be a nuisance. It won't be long before cities start taxing these things for using the sidewalk, and impounding them the way they do for scooters.
Knowing Bezos he's probably micromanaged all this and even if it saves him cents, he'll still do it.
I suppose that depends on whether Stone suddenly proffers up something of genuine value to the investigation. Or maybe Mueller is all done with flipping people. I can't say I have any sympathy with Stone if he spends the rest of his life behind bars.
Gosh, could it be because it's far easier to indict somebody for lying than it is for something more complex? And that after doing that, it is easier to then secure their cooperation, or at least justify to a judge why a warrant is necessary to obtain evidence of other crimes.
The evidence of the text and emails he made are right there in the indictment. The evidence will be easy for any jury or judge to understand. He's toast. It's kind of pathetic to rationalise this away and yet...
Roger Stone is indicted for blatantly lying before congress and witness tampering. This isn't an "oops I forgot some small matter" but conscious and conspicuous lying.
And why he would be indicted with stuff instead of other things is because it's a simple charge to make stick - did he lie under oath? Bigly. Did he intimidate a witness / suborn perjury? Yup.
He's going to go jail and the only question is for how long. That depends on his cooperation with the investigation or not.
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You don't. You buy it sight unseen and hope you like it enough to not want a refund. I guess Tesla are hoping that good word of mouth and customer satisfaction ensures that gamble pays off.
I think the more alarming part is no show rooms, no test drives. Tesla must be hoping to hell that people are so willing to buy their cars without being able to looking at or driving them beforehand and will just drop the cash. If they do then I guess Tesla will do pretty well from it but investors could perceive this as desperation.
Space aliens obviously. Or more mundanely, by a lot of motivated people hauling a bunch of rocks a really long way on logs or a sled of some kind.
Tape sucks. Vinyl sucks. They suck for obvious reasons inherent to their format. The only reason anybody would want to resurrect them is to tap into a rich seam of gullible hipsters who'll buy the same music in an inferior format.
I still remember reading "Ain't it cool news" almost 20 years ago and see it slide from being a gushing fanboy website with interesting news into a shill-for-hire front for studios looking for good word of mouth. Nothing has changed.
It would be naive to think it isn't true unless RT emphatically deny doing it, e.g. by publishing their ethics. Go look at their lead headlines right now and witness an example of what I'm talking about. Not the first time either. It happens a lot with these major studio releases.
And it's funny how their tweets seem to come from a core of blogs which have their own questionable ethical standards. These tweeters clearly don't seem bound by any embargo. It would be naive to assume they're not being paid for this of piffle, the tweeters for "influencing", and RT for aggregating it.
So yeah, maybe it's all completely innocent. The real world suggests money is changing hands. I'd add that the trolls damage studios, not RT, so I wonder too why their actions focus on that and not the bigger issue.
For example, whenever a blockbuster is close to release you can expect stories on RT - audience "reactions" from a preview screening, or suspicious embargo busting reviews invariable positive. How are are these allowed to appear? Who greenlights the story in the first place? Why are reviews listed before an embargo? Who hand selects which tweets to highlight?
My suspicion is RT is paid to generate positive feedback, "buzz" for a movie, and so prior to the embargo they fill the vaccum with bullshit and hype. And while troll reviews need to be fixed too, the user section is really is off on one side. I doubt it influences movie goers even a tiny fraction of what appears on the front page.
And even if they did it it doesn't negate the argument that the usability of these things is just flawed.
Huawei seem to have wrapped their screen on the outside of the clamshell. At least means the normal display is reasonable. But since it's plastic it'll scratch and you won't get a case for it either.
And the price of these things... oh boy. Who are they even meant for?
How dare they concoct a ridiculous fictional character and use it like this? I'm outraged. Also, the other character Sun-Man deserves a better story line.
They were like watching a mini series strung out over way too many episodes. They would have made far more compelling TV if the episode count was slashed.
Autopilot would be great if it actively enforced driver attention. Then you get the best of both worlds. The car can perform mundane actions and react faster than any human when it needs to emergency brake etc. But the human is overseeing the car and road conditions and so able to prevent emergencies from developing in the first place. Sadly Tesla treated driver attention as an afterthought. Drivers are allowed to become inattentive and cannot intervene in time when the car does something dumb. The need to force attention should have been obvious from the beginning. Yet we still see photos of Tesla drivers apparently asleep at the wheel. The fact they can do this and the car does not detect it demonstrates that it is a dangerous system and still not fit for purpose.
Why support a non-proprietary connector when you can use a proprietary one and charge an arm and a leg for peripherals that work with it? And screw customers and the inconveniences they may suffer, profits matter more.
I have Trend micro installed at work, it interferes with the OS, deletes software even code I've written and I'm debugging, locks files, slows down internet access and has annoying popups. I can't delete this junk due to corp policy. I lose hours of productivity every week due to it. Believe me, if you install TM products to deal with the problem of malware, then now you have two problems.
Knowing Nintendo, they'll probably fix the controllers to the smaller, even crappier Switch and if you want to do the things you say then you'll have to buy a second set for $$$, along with a way to charge them for $$$.
Companies would ask why sell a phone / tablet every 5 years when you can sell a phone / tablet every 2 years if the battery is sealed in. This is something only a government can force them to do and it's way overdue.
Perhaps if Musk actually delivered the $35,000 car he promised in the first place, 2 years ago, they might be able to afford it.
Have one phone with your day to day activity. Another burner with your bullshit facebook spyware. Use the burner to browse a few sites and simulate some activity so you get your $20 but otherwise don't do anything that compromises your privacy.
This is moderately more effort to do than burning them into the read only partition but not by much.
Knowing Bezos he's probably micromanaged all this and even if it saves him cents, he'll still do it.
I suppose that depends on whether Stone suddenly proffers up something of genuine value to the investigation. Or maybe Mueller is all done with flipping people. I can't say I have any sympathy with Stone if he spends the rest of his life behind bars.
Gosh, could it be because it's far easier to indict somebody for lying than it is for something more complex? And that after doing that, it is easier to then secure their cooperation, or at least justify to a judge why a warrant is necessary to obtain evidence of other crimes.
The evidence of the text and emails he made are right there in the indictment. The evidence will be easy for any jury or judge to understand. He's toast. It's kind of pathetic to rationalise this away and yet...
Go and read the indictment and stop pretending this was some minor slip-up.
And why he would be indicted with stuff instead of other things is because it's a simple charge to make stick - did he lie under oath? Bigly. Did he intimidate a witness / suborn perjury? Yup.
He's going to go jail and the only question is for how long. That depends on his cooperation with the investigation or not.