The Jaguar I-PACE looks to be a better car than the equivalent Tesla.
Looks ugly as fuck! It might be a better car, I wouldn't know but can you imagine sitting in that thing thinking you're all smug with out realising what a massive twat you look?! Not that teslas are much different mind.
I agree master-slave is problematic, but what are you going to use in place?
Dom-sub? Capitalist-proletariat? PHB-engineer?
Do they really want to open this can of worms?
Why is it problematic? Because it perfectly describes the relationship between the devices? Slavery has been going on since one caveman had a bigger stick than the next and doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon, it's a lot bigger than a ~250 year period in one country that ended ~150 years ago. With all due respect to the USA, you need to get over that shit.
So let it fail. Let something fail for once, to show just how useless and corrupt this system of placing narrow minded beliefs over reality is. Let something big fail in front of everyone for all to see, so maybe the system is replaced before the failure becomes the entire planet, becomes billions dead because a few coal mining CEOs needed that second yacht. Let the idiots shoot themselves before they take everyone else with them.
Funny, that's what we thought about Trump but let's see how that one ends.
Your unlocked phone is linked to whichever service it's initially activated with. Even an unlocked phone, you can't take out an AT&T card and swap in a Sprint card and just turn it back on and have it work.
Does unlocked mean something different over there? Because that's exactly what unlocked means, at least here in the uk, unless this is a thing specific to iphones which really wouldn't surprise me.
Apple really doesn't like that, and they are basically tossing an invite to the entire industry to follow along and start down a more restrictive path.
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If what you write is true, and it seems like it probably is, all thinking people should never buy Apple products again.
You're right about that. The only reason to buy apple is if you're style over substance type.
How often did you need to record from the headphone jack? Did you realize that you can connect your iPhone via USB or Lightning cable to record its screen and sound using QuickTime Player and get superior video and sound quality?
No, they did not. They paid for a 60kWh battery, and they are getting 60kWh.
You don't get to claim they bought a 75kWh battery when the owner has no receipt for it, explicitly told the sales guy they don't want the 75kWh battery and only want to pay for the 60kWh battery, and only have a receipt for a 60kWh battery.
You are simply lying, they did NOT pay for what they don't have.
You're just a thief that wants more more more for free free free.
They said they wanted the 60 so they got the 75 that was locked to 60. If they didn't how would tesla be able to magic them extra electricity?
Whether its using the full 75kwh or software throttled to 60kwh, its still the same battery and Tesla's manufacturing cost is exactly the same.
But their manufacturing costs are a lot lower if they build a lot of one model than if they design two models, build less of both, and manage more inventory items and assembly combinations. This can be enough to make a big battery pack software-crippled to 4/5ths of its potential capacity be substantially cheaper than building a 4/5th sized one to start with.
It also means that the packs are not discharged as far, which can extend their life and reduce warranty costs.
Still better, it lets them unlock the extra capacity in emergencies and spend a little extra warranty risk to maybe save the lives, families, pets, and valuables of some customers. Even a psychopath can see the financial benefit of keeping some customers alive and happy enough with your product to buy more in the future, even if it costs a few warranty repairs later.
If it's cheaper to them why is it more expensive to the consumer? And if the unlocked battery is going to be more expensive to maintain, then why is it more expensive to buy? Also why even bother having two models using the exact same parts, just sell the one to everyone and put the price in the middle. I guess it's nice to know some benevolent overlord can give your car extra power in moments of crisis if you ignore the fact they can basically fuck with car from distance whenever they want and you're lugging extra weight so they can save a few bucks and charge you some extra down the road.
Nor do I. But I do approve of banning things that are addictive, designed specifically to appeal to kids, and are incredibly difficult to actually prevent kids from getting.
Just smoke your regular vape/cigarettes that taste terrible to kids inititially. The reason they ban the damn things is BECAUSE teen smoking rates are now skyrocketing.
Vaping and smoking aren't the same things. Alcohol also appeals to kids, especially alcopops, should that be made illegal too, especially considering how harmful alcohol is to society on the whole not just the individual. Something tells me that might not work so well so better to have something sensible like an age limit. Maybe you could do that with vaping products and anyone selling to an underage would get the same as selling alcohol or cigarettes to underage customers do. Also kids, really like sweets that are loaded up with sugar and under no ones definition are 'good' for you, what do you propose is done about that? And if you say that's not a drug you've obviously never seen a little kid on a sugar rush after a bag of haribo.
News sites will be rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect of being paid to be linked to, in reality what's going to happen is those links will stop when news aggregators etc decide fuck this. Then we'll be in for the crying that their business is going even further down the pan.
Assuming your ACA statistics are correct, it doesn't change the fact that insurance premiums went up tremendously after its passing. The skyrocketing premiums are directly related to the ACA. If you drove a nice car and I passed a law that made it two or three times as expensive to keep, would I be 98.5% correct in saying that, "if you like your current car, you can keep it?"
We didn't even see those kinds of rapid premium increases under the George W. Bush administration, one of the worst presidents in living memory. He would likely be the worst president in living memory if it weren't for the fact that Obama provides such stiff competition.
Yet, if you went all the way and had a properly funded health care system you would have no premiums at all.
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Samsung is the only company to ever have misconceived a product so badly that they had to recall it twice and it was banned from airlines.
Who said anything about samsung? If your best defence for a product is worse things have existed that's not a great position.
Remember when you used to buy games and just unlock stuff as you go? Ah, simpler times.
The Jaguar I-PACE looks to be a better car than the equivalent Tesla.
Looks ugly as fuck! It might be a better car, I wouldn't know but can you imagine sitting in that thing thinking you're all smug with out realising what a massive twat you look?! Not that teslas are much different mind.
Yeah because if I ran a company I sure as hell wouldn’t make over prices poorly built piece of shit golf carts.
It wouldn't be a US company if it wasn't making over priced, poorly built pieces of shit.
Always kill the children before you terminate the parent.
Yeah, if you leave the children alive they usually come back looking for revenge 10-20 years later.
I agree master-slave is problematic, but what are you going to use in place?
Dom-sub? Capitalist-proletariat? PHB-engineer?
Do they really want to open this can of worms?
Why is it problematic? Because it perfectly describes the relationship between the devices? Slavery has been going on since one caveman had a bigger stick than the next and doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon, it's a lot bigger than a ~250 year period in one country that ended ~150 years ago. With all due respect to the USA, you need to get over that shit.
Dropping Master & Slave is an offense to Islamic cultures that regularly practice slavery right now!
Why can't we be more inclusive of Sharia law? Why are these pro-Trumpists trying to be islamophobic?!?!?
The bible also is pretty pro-salvery. Has instructions and all so I guess we can expect to see a good ol' christian defence to this.
So what about people who are unable to have children, will they get offended by references to 'parent'? This has gotten out of hand, definitely.
What about orphans, will they take kindly to constantly be reminded of parents? Why won't anyone think of the childrens?
Claiming that it was a multinational invention is globalist fiction.
As is the claim it's american property.
So let it fail. Let something fail for once, to show just how useless and corrupt this system of placing narrow minded beliefs over reality is. Let something big fail in front of everyone for all to see, so maybe the system is replaced before the failure becomes the entire planet, becomes billions dead because a few coal mining CEOs needed that second yacht. Let the idiots shoot themselves before they take everyone else with them.
Funny, that's what we thought about Trump but let's see how that one ends.
Your unlocked phone is linked to whichever service it's initially activated with. Even an unlocked phone, you can't take out an AT&T card and swap in a Sprint card and just turn it back on and have it work.
Does unlocked mean something different over there? Because that's exactly what unlocked means, at least here in the uk, unless this is a thing specific to iphones which really wouldn't surprise me.
It's about $1400 for all that, plus $600 in dongles so it can actually be used.
Don't forget applecare.
Maybe, but I don't see Apple particularly caring about this.
Then you are blind.
Apple really doesn't like that, and they are basically tossing an invite to the entire industry to follow along and start down a more restrictive path.
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If what you write is true, and it seems like it probably is, all thinking people should never buy Apple products again.
You're right about that. The only reason to buy apple is if you're style over substance type.
How often did you need to record from the headphone jack? Did you realize that you can connect your iPhone via USB or Lightning cable to record its screen and sound using QuickTime Player and get superior video and sound quality?
Quicktime? Blech!
No, they did not. They paid for a 60kWh battery, and they are getting 60kWh.
You don't get to claim they bought a 75kWh battery when the owner has no receipt for it, explicitly told the sales guy they don't want the 75kWh battery and only want to pay for the 60kWh battery, and only have a receipt for a 60kWh battery.
You are simply lying, they did NOT pay for what they don't have.
You're just a thief that wants more more more for free free free.
They said they wanted the 60 so they got the 75 that was locked to 60. If they didn't how would tesla be able to magic them extra electricity?
you should have full access to what you paid for
Except ... they didn't pay for it.
The buyers made an explicit choice to NOT pay for the additional range, in the full understanding that they wouldn't get that feature.
But they got the exact same hardware anyway.
Whether its using the full 75kwh or software throttled to 60kwh, its still the same battery and Tesla's manufacturing cost is exactly the same.
But their manufacturing costs are a lot lower if they build a lot of one model than if they design two models, build less of both, and manage more inventory items and assembly combinations. This can be enough to make a big battery pack software-crippled to 4/5ths of its potential capacity be substantially cheaper than building a 4/5th sized one to start with.
It also means that the packs are not discharged as far, which can extend their life and reduce warranty costs.
Still better, it lets them unlock the extra capacity in emergencies and spend a little extra warranty risk to maybe save the lives, families, pets, and valuables of some customers. Even a psychopath can see the financial benefit of keeping some customers alive and happy enough with your product to buy more in the future, even if it costs a few warranty repairs later.
If it's cheaper to them why is it more expensive to the consumer? And if the unlocked battery is going to be more expensive to maintain, then why is it more expensive to buy? Also why even bother having two models using the exact same parts, just sell the one to everyone and put the price in the middle. I guess it's nice to know some benevolent overlord can give your car extra power in moments of crisis if you ignore the fact they can basically fuck with car from distance whenever they want and you're lugging extra weight so they can save a few bucks and charge you some extra down the road.
Nor do I. But I do approve of banning things that are addictive, designed specifically to appeal to kids, and are incredibly difficult to actually prevent kids from getting.
Just smoke your regular vape/cigarettes that taste terrible to kids inititially. The reason they ban the damn things is BECAUSE teen smoking rates are now skyrocketing.
Vaping and smoking aren't the same things. Alcohol also appeals to kids, especially alcopops, should that be made illegal too, especially considering how harmful alcohol is to society on the whole not just the individual. Something tells me that might not work so well so better to have something sensible like an age limit. Maybe you could do that with vaping products and anyone selling to an underage would get the same as selling alcohol or cigarettes to underage customers do. Also kids, really like sweets that are loaded up with sugar and under no ones definition are 'good' for you, what do you propose is done about that? And if you say that's not a drug you've obviously never seen a little kid on a sugar rush after a bag of haribo.
Ban cigarettes while your at it dipshit.
Freedom, fuck yeah. Also, you're the dipshit it seems.
Had enough of fake news? Get ready for pirate news!
...suddenly doesn't look quite so bad, does it?
We get blue passports and memes, fucking hell yeah! Brexit is paying out big time :|
News sites will be rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect of being paid to be linked to, in reality what's going to happen is those links will stop when news aggregators etc decide fuck this. Then we'll be in for the crying that their business is going even further down the pan.
Assuming your ACA statistics are correct, it doesn't change the fact that insurance premiums went up tremendously after its passing. The skyrocketing premiums are directly related to the ACA. If you drove a nice car and I passed a law that made it two or three times as expensive to keep, would I be 98.5% correct in saying that, "if you like your current car, you can keep it?"
We didn't even see those kinds of rapid premium increases under the George W. Bush administration, one of the worst presidents in living memory. He would likely be the worst president in living memory if it weren't for the fact that Obama provides such stiff competition.
Yet, if you went all the way and had a properly funded health care system you would have no premiums at all.
To be honest, one or more is a problem.