It's probably because the $35k model was losing them money, and losing Panasonic money on the batteries. They technically fulfilled Musk's promise, they got the compliance $35k version out, so now they can make it really hard to buy and just sell the profitable models.
Note also that Autopilot isn't an option any more, it's mandatory. They fit the hardware to every car and then used to charge you to turn it on, but it looks like now they just added $2000 to the price and made it standard.
The most annoying part is that if you want heated seats, pretty essential in many places, it's $2500 extra now. Heated seats are standard on most of the competition.
I wonder if Apple has a way to unlock them. When they swap phones out for warranty reasons, for example, they refurb the old one and give it to someone else. The one you get as a warranty replacement is often a refurb.
So are they just throwing the locked ones away, or replacing the motherboard, or do they have some way to unlock them?
I looked at the survey and it demanded a lot of random personal information, I didn't fill it in. So the data from it is biased towards people who freely give up their personal data for no benefit to themselves.
That's a good question... Back in the 60s the UK was Imperial, but for science metric was already in use. I read that the main source of data for the study was the Daily Mail so probably Imperial.
Jaguar are not known for their reliability either. Never have been. They have a luxury sporty brand, and to be fair the i-Pace is very nice. Horribly inefficient but it drives very well and is built to a way higher standard than anything Tesla produce, but if it's anything like their ICE cars then reliability will be just average and repairs will be extremely expensive.
Jaguar do over-the-air software updates too, meaning your car is forever in beta and half of it barely works. Their autopilot systems is pretty janky, for example.
I'd love to know what Disney and Netflix think about The Pirate Bay. How do they factor it into their pricing? Do they keep the monthly cost low enough to compete with it, or is it not a factor at all?
Yeah, but will it be the original original trilogy, or the Laserdisc, or the re-master, or the Bluray re-master, or fan recreation of the 1977 original theatrical release, or some new re-hash?
They could make it like Bandersnatch on Netflix where you get to pick if you want Han to shoot first.
I wonder if Peter Pan will be on it. Hard to edit out the Indians.
Even the later stories are iffy when you think about them. Ariel, at age 16, marries literally the first man she has ever met and ends up murdering Ursula with his help. Jasmine, age 14, ends up marrying Aladdin after just a few days, an adult who takes advantage of her childish naivety by pretending to be a prince.
5 petabytes = 1 black hole of data. We already established that 5000 standard holes will fill the Albert Hall, so now we can calculate the data storage capacity of any concert venue.
Oh... But is that 2^50 bytes or only 10^15? I'm guess black hole manufacturers prefer the decimal definition so they can screw us out of 12%.
Thanks to Snowden we know that the NSA likes to collect and attack email in transit between servers, and doubtless it's popular with other spy agencies. This largely fixes those vulnerabilities.
Consider that it's much riskier for the NSA to infiltrate data centres to get at these emails now. The risk of detection is much higher, compared to simply sniffing them off the wire on some anonymous backbone router somewhere.
I suppose the other consideration for Trump is that Wikileaks appears to be his ally, so having Assange around leaking stuff for the 2020 cycle will help him. It was very convenient last time - no direct collusion apparently, but Wikileaks was happy to publish material obtained from Russia.
It would be silly to set a limit in stone for all time. Society evolves, individual views evolve.
I'll say that encouraging children to kill themselves is always wrong. Terrorist propaganda needs further expansion. People being murdered on camera should, IMHO, be banned as it's a dignity and privacy issue, in consideration of their families and friends, and because it's often used to glorify terrorism. But even then there might be exceptions, such as a documentary film that obtained consent. And there is a grey area in-between.
I know you wanted something black and white, but the world isn't like that. Someone will find some new way of trolling and we will have to think about it. Even the law works that way, usually not getting too specific and allowing courts to figure out the details.
Oh, one last thing. Note how the post you replied to was asking a question. I didn't actually say I would ban those things, I was asking the person I replied to if they would not. So don't accuse me of back-peddling.
I'm starting to think it was a case of hacking. Although the email apparently came from an official address, the agency it claims to be from doesn't actually exist. There is no institute with that name.
Panasonic's problem is that they concentrated too much on meeting Tesla's needs and the rest of the industry went in a different direction.
Tesla uses cylindrical cells. They are high quality and work great in high performance sports cars like the Roadster, but they are also more expensive. Most other manufacturers went with pouch cells, similar to what you get in mobile phones. Cheaper to produce, and more than adequate for 99% of vehicles.
Panasonic needs to pivot and build new factories making the cells that car manufacturers want. The only significant demand for cylindrical cells will be from Tesla and maybe a few other high end manufacturers, with the bulk of the volume requiring new lines and new designs.
It won't be available in my region anyway, and even if it was I doubt my smart TV or Kodi box will support it, so until they fix that it'll be the Pirate Bay for me.
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The company that makes laptops out of glue? Nah, they would never do this.
Scotland is aiming for 200% renewable energy in the next few years. 100% for themselves and the same again to export.
New law: Any action taken to reduce emissions will be dismissed as either insincere or unrealistic.
It's probably because the $35k model was losing them money, and losing Panasonic money on the batteries. They technically fulfilled Musk's promise, they got the compliance $35k version out, so now they can make it really hard to buy and just sell the profitable models.
Note also that Autopilot isn't an option any more, it's mandatory. They fit the hardware to every car and then used to charge you to turn it on, but it looks like now they just added $2000 to the price and made it standard.
The most annoying part is that if you want heated seats, pretty essential in many places, it's $2500 extra now. Heated seats are standard on most of the competition.
I wonder if Apple has a way to unlock them. When they swap phones out for warranty reasons, for example, they refurb the old one and give it to someone else. The one you get as a warranty replacement is often a refurb.
So are they just throwing the locked ones away, or replacing the motherboard, or do they have some way to unlock them?
I looked at the survey and it demanded a lot of random personal information, I didn't fill it in. So the data from it is biased towards people who freely give up their personal data for no benefit to themselves.
That's a good question... Back in the 60s the UK was Imperial, but for science metric was already in use. I read that the main source of data for the study was the Daily Mail so probably Imperial.
I think the whole thing is fake. The institution that the claim purports to come from doesn't seem to exist.
I'd run the experiment but I can't find enough used LTO tapes going cheap on eBay.
The Tolmanâ"Oppenheimerâ"Volkoff limit is around 2.17 solar masses, or 4.3149799e30kg.
A typical LTO tape weighs about 200g. So 2.15748995e31, or 21 nonillion 574 octillion 899 septillion 500 sextillion tapes.
With a typical size of about 102x105x21.5mm you would end up with a sphere ~6.886e19m in diameter. Apparently LTO tapes are not very dense.
Correction: 10,000 holes needed to fill the Albert Hall. Had to to dig out the research from way back in the 60s.
Jaguar are not known for their reliability either. Never have been. They have a luxury sporty brand, and to be fair the i-Pace is very nice. Horribly inefficient but it drives very well and is built to a way higher standard than anything Tesla produce, but if it's anything like their ICE cars then reliability will be just average and repairs will be extremely expensive.
Jaguar do over-the-air software updates too, meaning your car is forever in beta and half of it barely works. Their autopilot systems is pretty janky, for example.
I'd love to know what Disney and Netflix think about The Pirate Bay. How do they factor it into their pricing? Do they keep the monthly cost low enough to compete with it, or is it not a factor at all?
Disney knows it can rely on kids to keep parents subscribed for at least 10 years.
Also Rian Johnson is signed up for another trilogy of movies after Episode IX.
Yeah, but will it be the original original trilogy, or the Laserdisc, or the re-master, or the Bluray re-master, or fan recreation of the 1977 original theatrical release, or some new re-hash?
They could make it like Bandersnatch on Netflix where you get to pick if you want Han to shoot first.
I wonder if Peter Pan will be on it. Hard to edit out the Indians.
Even the later stories are iffy when you think about them. Ariel, at age 16, marries literally the first man she has ever met and ends up murdering Ursula with his help. Jasmine, age 14, ends up marrying Aladdin after just a few days, an adult who takes advantage of her childish naivety by pretending to be a prince.
Best not to think too hard about it.
5 petabytes = 1 black hole of data. We already established that 5000 standard holes will fill the Albert Hall, so now we can calculate the data storage capacity of any concert venue.
Oh... But is that 2^50 bytes or only 10^15? I'm guess black hole manufacturers prefer the decimal definition so they can screw us out of 12%.
Thanks to Snowden we know that the NSA likes to collect and attack email in transit between servers, and doubtless it's popular with other spy agencies. This largely fixes those vulnerabilities.
Consider that it's much riskier for the NSA to infiltrate data centres to get at these emails now. The risk of detection is much higher, compared to simply sniffing them off the wire on some anonymous backbone router somewhere.
I suppose the other consideration for Trump is that Wikileaks appears to be his ally, so having Assange around leaking stuff for the 2020 cycle will help him. It was very convenient last time - no direct collusion apparently, but Wikileaks was happy to publish material obtained from Russia.
It would be silly to set a limit in stone for all time. Society evolves, individual views evolve.
I'll say that encouraging children to kill themselves is always wrong. Terrorist propaganda needs further expansion. People being murdered on camera should, IMHO, be banned as it's a dignity and privacy issue, in consideration of their families and friends, and because it's often used to glorify terrorism. But even then there might be exceptions, such as a documentary film that obtained consent. And there is a grey area in-between.
I know you wanted something black and white, but the world isn't like that. Someone will find some new way of trolling and we will have to think about it. Even the law works that way, usually not getting too specific and allowing courts to figure out the details.
Oh, one last thing. Note how the post you replied to was asking a question. I didn't actually say I would ban those things, I was asking the person I replied to if they would not. So don't accuse me of back-peddling.
True, Trump only advocated shooting them from a distance. Punching risks getting cooties.
I'm starting to think it was a case of hacking. Although the email apparently came from an official address, the agency it claims to be from doesn't actually exist. There is no institute with that name.
Panasonic's problem is that they concentrated too much on meeting Tesla's needs and the rest of the industry went in a different direction.
Tesla uses cylindrical cells. They are high quality and work great in high performance sports cars like the Roadster, but they are also more expensive. Most other manufacturers went with pouch cells, similar to what you get in mobile phones. Cheaper to produce, and more than adequate for 99% of vehicles.
Panasonic needs to pivot and build new factories making the cells that car manufacturers want. The only significant demand for cylindrical cells will be from Tesla and maybe a few other high end manufacturers, with the bulk of the volume requiring new lines and new designs.
It won't be available in my region anyway, and even if it was I doubt my smart TV or Kodi box will support it, so until they fix that it'll be the Pirate Bay for me.