They did just issue a profit warning though. It seems like their plan to get the $35k Model 3 out the door is to forego profit for now and hope to cut costs enough to get back into the black. Hence the closing of stores, with more cost cutting presumably to come.
My employer provides decent lunch meals for people who want them. Zero prep time, they take care of all that.
Before this place I used to go out too, but even then most of that was not spent solely preparing or eating food. In fact much of it was spent reading news or posting on Slashdot.
It doesn't take much. That guy who was being dozens of swatting incidents, the last one resulting in the victim getting killed, was doing it over the slightest thing.
It's certainly changing though. Part of that is due to the shear volume of stuff competing for attention. Remember when there were four TV channels? Now multi-million dollar productions are competing with cat videos on YouTube.
Streaming has also made media transient and disposable. Back in the 90s I modded my brother's Playstation to play imports and backups... Games, even bad ones, used to get huge time investments due to scarcity and high cost, but within a few months he was often spending more time burning the disc at 2x than playing the game. If it wasn't instantly great then move on to the next one.
There is more to it than just competition. People have been burned so many times they are not engaging any more.
All the good stuff on TV gets cancelled, so don't get too engaged with that. Online is full of scams and you find that thing you were really into is just some shitty viral marketing campaign. Everyone you liked turns out to be a milkshake duck.
There is also the rise of streaming that means everything is transient and probably won't be available in a year or two, so no point getting attached to it.
I think some people just like the physical package. Feels more substantial and permanent than a download. Also an opportunity for he band to go beyond just music and do other forms of art.
I did a bit of research because like you I was annoying at being asked to pay twice.
Apparently it comes down to agreements with other companies. The BBC works with other companies on a lot of productions. Even the licence they have covering all the music they use only covers for broadcast on TV, not for sales on other platforms.
That's also the reason why stuff disappears from iPlayer after only a month. Why not keep it there forever? Well some stuff that is wholly a BBC production is available for longer, but particularly on TV hardly anything qualifies.
So we have to pay twice, once for TV/iPlayer limited release and then again if we want to rent it on a streaming service.
It's a shame they don't release any stats on how often people have to intervene to stop Autopilot killing them. Maybe it is reasonably safe, but it seems to have persistent problems with two things that Tesla has been unable to fix.
1. Trailers, just can't see them it seems
2. Forks in the road, it picks one way at random and occasionally goes down the middle
It's actually a level 3 system with Navigate on Autopilot (e.g. makes lane changes, takes exits, etc).
No. That's not level 3. Level 3 is where you don't have to pay attention to it any more. You can read a book or watch a movie while it drives, and when it needs you to take over it will notify you and you have a reasonable amount of time to stop whatever you are doing, take in the situation and start controlling the car.
They're describing what's presently available, which is not FSD, as if that's what's being offered as FSD. Which is just ridiculous.
No. Tesla are selling "Full Self Driving" today. You can go and buy a car with it on their web site right now. And this is how Tesla describes it:
- Navigate on autopilot - Autopark - Summon - Recognize traffic lights and stop signs (coming "later") - Automatic driving on city streets (coming "later")
That last one is untrue. It will be level 2, drive required to pay babysit it at all times. And none of it is "full self driving".
It seems like they are doing this to try to avoid the lawsuits over not delivering the full self driving that they started selling way back in 2016. They promised you could summon the car from the other side of the country, and it would drive thousands of miles and recharge itself. They promised you could get in, do nothing and it would take you to work, then go off and find a parking spot.
None of what they have announced is "full self driving" by their own standard, let along any reasonable person's definition.
that the car can drive in all situations on its own, but you still need a human monitoring it (aka, level 4 autonomy),
That's level 2. To get above level 2 the car has to be able to operate without supervision. Furthermore, to be able to handle "all situations on its own" is level 5. That's not what Tesla are offering, they are only claiming city streets, and even that isn't true.
Also note that in their last filing Tesla said they did zero autonomous miles in the last year.
Assuming you survive... It looks like there was yet another case of Autopilot decapitating a driver due to not seeing a trailer last week.
Calling it "autopilot" was a mistake, calling this "full self driving" is just reckless. Let's level 2 autonomy, you have to not only be ready to take over, but actively monitor it for failures.
What would be the legal consequences? US employees could ask, EU employees could refuse... As long as they set it up so that US employees are locked out it seems like it won't work.
Then why is it only now becoming a big problem? This kind of material has existed for decades but was hard to find and access. Yet suddenly the movement is taking off again. What is your explanation?
The reality is that it's become a big monkey maker for some people, who have figured out how to push it. Where as previously no publisher or movie theatre would have given then a platform, Amazon and YouTube decided they wanted to be the new platforms but that any kind of moderation probably wasn't necessary.
I don't think the "but I said it at normal volume therefore free speech" defence is likely to stand up in court. You can also imagine scenarios where shouting is not necessary.
The more fundamental problem here is people conflating freedom of speech with freedom from consequences. There would be no need to ban people from saying certain things, only to punish them for the consequences. And that has been happening forever, e.g. fraud, true threats, masterminding crimes, leaking classified information etc.
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They did just issue a profit warning though. It seems like their plan to get the $35k Model 3 out the door is to forego profit for now and hope to cut costs enough to get back into the black. Hence the closing of stores, with more cost cutting presumably to come.
My employer provides decent lunch meals for people who want them. Zero prep time, they take care of all that.
Before this place I used to go out too, but even then most of that was not spent solely preparing or eating food. In fact much of it was spent reading news or posting on Slashdot.
You must be preparing very elaborate meals for it to take 2 hours a day. You could surely optimize that.
It doesn't take much. That guy who was being dozens of swatting incidents, the last one resulting in the victim getting killed, was doing it over the slightest thing.
It's certainly changing though. Part of that is due to the shear volume of stuff competing for attention. Remember when there were four TV channels? Now multi-million dollar productions are competing with cat videos on YouTube.
Streaming has also made media transient and disposable. Back in the 90s I modded my brother's Playstation to play imports and backups... Games, even bad ones, used to get huge time investments due to scarcity and high cost, but within a few months he was often spending more time burning the disc at 2x than playing the game. If it wasn't instantly great then move on to the next one.
There is more to it than just competition. People have been burned so many times they are not engaging any more.
All the good stuff on TV gets cancelled, so don't get too engaged with that. Online is full of scams and you find that thing you were really into is just some shitty viral marketing campaign. Everyone you liked turns out to be a milkshake duck.
There is also the rise of streaming that means everything is transient and probably won't be available in a year or two, so no point getting attached to it.
I think some people just like the physical package. Feels more substantial and permanent than a download. Also an opportunity for he band to go beyond just music and do other forms of art.
Let's have a look at the "Explore" page right now...
First post: "There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with Whites being pro-White"
Second post: "REVOLUTION The Story of QAnon and the 2nd American Revolution"
Third post: "YouTube is now censoring content from all the creators and sources mentioned in the Alternative Influence Network report..."
Yeah, it's not an alt-right shithole at all.
I find good music even more distracting because I'm paying attention to how great it is.
Counter example: Nintendo's online stuff. Seems very resilient to trolling. No idea how they do it.
The accounts will have billing details.
I blame autocorrect and laziness
The BBC isn't run by the government. ITV is an private company.
I did a bit of research because like you I was annoying at being asked to pay twice.
Apparently it comes down to agreements with other companies. The BBC works with other companies on a lot of productions. Even the licence they have covering all the music they use only covers for broadcast on TV, not for sales on other platforms.
That's also the reason why stuff disappears from iPlayer after only a month. Why not keep it there forever? Well some stuff that is wholly a BBC production is available for longer, but particularly on TV hardly anything qualifies.
So we have to pay twice, once for TV/iPlayer limited release and then again if we want to rent it on a streaming service.
Who are you and did I steal your wallet?
It's a shame they don't release any stats on how often people have to intervene to stop Autopilot killing them. Maybe it is reasonably safe, but it seems to have persistent problems with two things that Tesla has been unable to fix.
1. Trailers, just can't see them it seems
2. Forks in the road, it picks one way at random and occasionally goes down the middle
It's actually a level 3 system with Navigate on Autopilot (e.g. makes lane changes, takes exits, etc).
No. That's not level 3. Level 3 is where you don't have to pay attention to it any more. You can read a book or watch a movie while it drives, and when it needs you to take over it will notify you and you have a reasonable amount of time to stop whatever you are doing, take in the situation and start controlling the car.
They're describing what's presently available, which is not FSD, as if that's what's being offered as FSD. Which is just ridiculous.
No. Tesla are selling "Full Self Driving" today. You can go and buy a car with it on their web site right now. And this is how Tesla describes it:
- Navigate on autopilot
- Autopark
- Summon
- Recognize traffic lights and stop signs (coming "later")
- Automatic driving on city streets (coming "later")
That last one is untrue. It will be level 2, drive required to pay babysit it at all times. And none of it is "full self driving".
It seems like they are doing this to try to avoid the lawsuits over not delivering the full self driving that they started selling way back in 2016. They promised you could summon the car from the other side of the country, and it would drive thousands of miles and recharge itself. They promised you could get in, do nothing and it would take you to work, then go off and find a parking spot.
None of what they have announced is "full self driving" by their own standard, let along any reasonable person's definition.
that the car can drive in all situations on its own, but you still need a human monitoring it (aka, level 4 autonomy),
That's level 2. To get above level 2 the car has to be able to operate without supervision. Furthermore, to be able to handle "all situations on its own" is level 5. That's not what Tesla are offering, they are only claiming city streets, and even that isn't true.
Also note that in their last filing Tesla said they did zero autonomous miles in the last year.
Assuming you survive... It looks like there was yet another case of Autopilot decapitating a driver due to not seeing a trailer last week.
Calling it "autopilot" was a mistake, calling this "full self driving" is just reckless. Let's level 2 autonomy, you have to not only be ready to take over, but actively monitor it for failures.
What would be the legal consequences? US employees could ask, EU employees could refuse... As long as they set it up so that US employees are locked out it seems like it won't work.
It's definitely not legal in Europe. GDPR requires explicit opt-in permission for tracking and profiling.
Cue the "but Amazon is the government now! Amazon Prime Video is the new town square, the marketplace of ideas!" crowd.
Then why is it only now becoming a big problem? This kind of material has existed for decades but was hard to find and access. Yet suddenly the movement is taking off again. What is your explanation?
The reality is that it's become a big monkey maker for some people, who have figured out how to push it. Where as previously no publisher or movie theatre would have given then a platform, Amazon and YouTube decided they wanted to be the new platforms but that any kind of moderation probably wasn't necessary.
I don't think the "but I said it at normal volume therefore free speech" defence is likely to stand up in court. You can also imagine scenarios where shouting is not necessary.
The more fundamental problem here is people conflating freedom of speech with freedom from consequences. There would be no need to ban people from saying certain things, only to punish them for the consequences. And that has been happening forever, e.g. fraud, true threats, masterminding crimes, leaking classified information etc.
Problem is someone will open an eBay store selling pens.
That someone was trolled by this comment is quite, quite pathetic.