The real competition for the low cost short range Model 3 is from other EV manufacturers. Hyundai already has their car our, with Kia opening the order book later this month on theirs. Both cost less than $35k and have a higher spec than the base Model 3 in most ways, including the crucial number: range.
Nissan have their new Leaf with similar specs due to launch soon, Kia are updating their family wagon Soul EV this year too... We will probably see an update to the little Renault Zoe and something from BMW soon.
I'm thinking that the short range Model 3 will either be cancelled or won't sell in big numbers. If it had come out a year or two ago then yeah, it would be have been a big deal, but now it actually looks a bit over-priced for what you get. Tesla will concentrate on higher price models and new models instead.
It's worth pointing out that the Chinese and Koreans are perfectly capable of producing top notch cells. Korea in particular supplies a lot of phone batteries that are the highest grade. It's just that economics of large automotive packs mean that the sweet spot on the price/performance curve is in a different place.
BTW I didn't imply LG was Chinese... I had switched to talking about Kia and Hyundai, Korean manufacturers, by that point:-) And it's worth saying that LG is actually the leading automotive battery manufacturer right now, in terms of tech and price per kWh. Their pouch cells look like being the way forward, with higher density and lower weight than cylindrical cells.
A high end phone screen is around 500 PPI and looks visually perfect (no visible aliasing) from 50cm away. To get that on an 80" TV at 3m viewing distance 8k is adequate, 4k is not.
So 8k is probably at the point where we can stop worrying about resolution.
The kinds of people who buy these are already beyond caring about value for money, so manufacturers throw in some tech they want to test out manufacturing for, and to get some feedback from reviewers who will actually try it out.
If this systems sounds decent they will introduce it in cheaper models, if not it gets ditched and they write it off as an R&D expense.
That's not how digital sampling works. Not at all. Those "square waves" you see are not square waves, they are a defect in the way your computer software displays the waveform on screen.
TL;DW is that a "square wave" at 2 samples per wavelength comes out as a perfect sine wave at half the sampling frequency, also known as he Nyquist frequency.
That's why a lot of people buying vinyl rip immediately to their computer. Then apply some noise reduction and click/pop removal. They want the better mastering on the vinyl edition but the convenience of digital, with the best possible sound quality.
It's a shame laser turntables didn't catch on. I know at least one piracy group uses one, and there is one manufacturer in Japan that still makes them. They are the only way to listen that doesn't degrade the record every time.
Chinese battery tech has proven to be reliable and robust in harsh use cases such as commercial vehicles. Buses and taxis running them hard every day, that sort of thing.
With a battery made up for many, many cells it's not necessarily the case that you want the highest quality, because that pushes the price up a lot. It can often be better to over-provision and accept a slightly higher failure rate among individual cells.
For example Kia and Hyundai have both released 64kWh usable capacity cars with lifetime, unlimited mileage battery warranties. Most other manufactures only offer 8 years and 100-120k miles. They don't state the full capacity of the batteries, only the amount they guarantee is available when new and for warranty purposes. The full capacity is probably a trade secret, as it depends on LG's manufacturing capability and how much they need to over-provision to offer the lifetime warranty.
I wonder if they might be planning to export some of those cheap Model 3s. For example they already export from the US to Europe, with some reassembly done in the EU to avoid tariffs. Maybe that's one way they can get the price down far enough to make the $35k model worthwhile.
Of course there are many differences between men and women. But probably not as many as people think.
As for chess... Well there are female chess grand masters who manage to beat the best men. It's impossible to know if excluding all other factors there would be no differences between the genders in that game, because we can't run that experiment, but so far no-one has put forward a compelling reason to suggest that there would be.
Which brings us back to engineering and Damore. In that case there actually is some evidence - women used to be more involved the field of CS, but there has been a decline since the mid 90s. Any explanation of the disparity in participation has to explain that to be credible.
It's hard to tell if Damore was well intentioned. His memo seems that way, but then his later comments on the subject suggest otherwise. I'm really looking forward to the lawsuit, but I worry that the case he has put forward so far is extremely weak and seems to focus more on the behaviour of other staff rather than a defence of his memo.
So you agree with me? Your theory is that it's a social issue, particularly parental influence.
That being the case, why do you assume that in Scandinavian countries there is less influence, not more? That is in direct opposition to what studies looking at this question found.
Makers of consumer devices are required by law to make all data collection and use of online services transparent, with notifications prominently displayed on the packaging and UI to legally mandated visibility standards. Moreover, any data sharing that is not essential for the device to operate must be optional, with user controls that stick once set and are set to full privacy by default. Likewise, the user must explicitly opt-in to activate any online service, even if it is essential for the use of the device. Penalty for failure to comply is 10% of global revenues from sales of the affected devices in the first year and the percentage doubles each year, in addition to any server ever touched without the correct user authority being subject to removal and destruction without compensation.
You just described GDPR.
Opt-in on everything is mandatory. Companies can't force you to opt-in just to use a service unless it's absolutely essential to providing that service. And if they don't comply it's 2% of global turnover.
I guess the trolling would be trying to imply that all their competitors are inferior, when they are not.
Look at how many people on Slashdot drank the coolaid and think that Google tracks your every move via Android and, bizarrely, Chrome. It's not true of course, unless you explicitly opt in to location history, same as you can with Apple devices if you want to make use if their features that rely on it. But that's the myth, and they are perpetuating it.
To be fair there is no evidence that PRISM was voluntary, and in fact the leaked documents show that it worked by attacking those company's networks. Google took very public actions to cut off access after the leak. I'm sure Apple did something too, but didn't say what exactly.
For example, there was that infamous slide showing otherwise protected Gmail data flowing between data centres. A few months later Google had it fully encrypted.
"Free pass", as in hauled before Congress, Secrets leaked by the UK Parliament, multiple lawsuits, so bad they had to start taking out adverts to reassure people?
You also need to understand what each of those companies is actually doing. I mean, Twitter's privacy invasion is pretty minimal. Google makes everything opt-in for the most part, at least in the EU where it is legally requires - maybe the US is worse. So really it's just Facebook, and Facebook is taking a lot of flak for it.
You are arguing that gender inequality somehow forces more women into studying STEM, leading to better paid jobs and more opportunities? Are you suggesting that men are the ones being oppressed in Iran?
I am terrible, aren't I... It's actually quote encouraging that they respond with more than just name calling and accusations like some other AC stalkers do. This one is actually engaged enough to comprehend my statements on some primitive level, and has a more or less coherent response based some some kind of (wrong) political philosophy.
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Maybe... It's hard to take anything Musk says too seriously, let alone his tweets.
The real competition for the low cost short range Model 3 is from other EV manufacturers. Hyundai already has their car our, with Kia opening the order book later this month on theirs. Both cost less than $35k and have a higher spec than the base Model 3 in most ways, including the crucial number: range.
Nissan have their new Leaf with similar specs due to launch soon, Kia are updating their family wagon Soul EV this year too... We will probably see an update to the little Renault Zoe and something from BMW soon.
I'm thinking that the short range Model 3 will either be cancelled or won't sell in big numbers. If it had come out a year or two ago then yeah, it would be have been a big deal, but now it actually looks a bit over-priced for what you get. Tesla will concentrate on higher price models and new models instead.
It's worth pointing out that the Chinese and Koreans are perfectly capable of producing top notch cells. Korea in particular supplies a lot of phone batteries that are the highest grade. It's just that economics of large automotive packs mean that the sweet spot on the price/performance curve is in a different place.
BTW I didn't imply LG was Chinese... I had switched to talking about Kia and Hyundai, Korean manufacturers, by that point :-) And it's worth saying that LG is actually the leading automotive battery manufacturer right now, in terms of tech and price per kWh. Their pouch cells look like being the way forward, with higher density and lower weight than cylindrical cells.
Patent trolls and the East Texas court aren't good for business either. Neither are 70+ year copyright terms.
Nice boost for China though, bring home some of that investment.
A high end phone screen is around 500 PPI and looks visually perfect (no visible aliasing) from 50cm away. To get that on an 80" TV at 3m viewing distance 8k is adequate, 4k is not.
So 8k is probably at the point where we can stop worrying about resolution.
The kinds of people who buy these are already beyond caring about value for money, so manufacturers throw in some tech they want to test out manufacturing for, and to get some feedback from reviewers who will actually try it out.
If this systems sounds decent they will introduce it in cheaper models, if not it gets ditched and they write it off as an R&D expense.
That's not how digital sampling works. Not at all. Those "square waves" you see are not square waves, they are a defect in the way your computer software displays the waveform on screen.
This video explains it in detail: https://youtu.be/cIQ9IXSUzuM
TL;DW is that a "square wave" at 2 samples per wavelength comes out as a perfect sine wave at half the sampling frequency, also known as he Nyquist frequency.
That's why a lot of people buying vinyl rip immediately to their computer. Then apply some noise reduction and click/pop removal. They want the better mastering on the vinyl edition but the convenience of digital, with the best possible sound quality.
It's a shame laser turntables didn't catch on. I know at least one piracy group uses one, and there is one manufacturer in Japan that still makes them. They are the only way to listen that doesn't degrade the record every time.
It doesn't make sense to waste tens of billions of dollars on the wall when the alternative is a shutdown that harms your opponent far more than you.
Chinese battery tech has proven to be reliable and robust in harsh use cases such as commercial vehicles. Buses and taxis running them hard every day, that sort of thing.
With a battery made up for many, many cells it's not necessarily the case that you want the highest quality, because that pushes the price up a lot. It can often be better to over-provision and accept a slightly higher failure rate among individual cells.
For example Kia and Hyundai have both released 64kWh usable capacity cars with lifetime, unlimited mileage battery warranties. Most other manufactures only offer 8 years and 100-120k miles. They don't state the full capacity of the batteries, only the amount they guarantee is available when new and for warranty purposes. The full capacity is probably a trade secret, as it depends on LG's manufacturing capability and how much they need to over-provision to offer the lifetime warranty.
I wonder if they might be planning to export some of those cheap Model 3s. For example they already export from the US to Europe, with some reassembly done in the EU to avoid tariffs. Maybe that's one way they can get the price down far enough to make the $35k model worthwhile.
Of course there are many differences between men and women. But probably not as many as people think.
As for chess... Well there are female chess grand masters who manage to beat the best men. It's impossible to know if excluding all other factors there would be no differences between the genders in that game, because we can't run that experiment, but so far no-one has put forward a compelling reason to suggest that there would be.
Which brings us back to engineering and Damore. In that case there actually is some evidence - women used to be more involved the field of CS, but there has been a decline since the mid 90s. Any explanation of the disparity in participation has to explain that to be credible.
It's hard to tell if Damore was well intentioned. His memo seems that way, but then his later comments on the subject suggest otherwise. I'm really looking forward to the lawsuit, but I worry that the case he has put forward so far is extremely weak and seems to focus more on the behaviour of other staff rather than a defence of his memo.
The guarantees, for example. It would also be interesting to hear how in your model they could be stronger, yet result in lower overhead.
I'll feed any good ideas through to my MEP.
So you agree with me? Your theory is that it's a social issue, particularly parental influence.
That being the case, why do you assume that in Scandinavian countries there is less influence, not more? That is in direct opposition to what studies looking at this question found.
Can you give a specific example of that? I don't know what you are referring to.
Makers of consumer devices are required by law to make all data collection and use of online services transparent, with notifications prominently displayed on the packaging and UI to legally mandated visibility standards. Moreover, any data sharing that is not essential for the device to operate must be optional, with user controls that stick once set and are set to full privacy by default. Likewise, the user must explicitly opt-in to activate any online service, even if it is essential for the use of the device. Penalty for failure to comply is 10% of global revenues from sales of the affected devices in the first year and the percentage doubles each year, in addition to any server ever touched without the correct user authority being subject to removal and destruction without compensation.
You just described GDPR.
Opt-in on everything is mandatory. Companies can't force you to opt-in just to use a service unless it's absolutely essential to providing that service. And if they don't comply it's 2% of global turnover.
Since you can't sideload on Apple products, you can only install Apple approved encryption which is worthless if you are trying to not trust Apple.
I guess the trolling would be trying to imply that all their competitors are inferior, when they are not.
Look at how many people on Slashdot drank the coolaid and think that Google tracks your every move via Android and, bizarrely, Chrome. It's not true of course, unless you explicitly opt in to location history, same as you can with Apple devices if you want to make use if their features that rely on it. But that's the myth, and they are perpetuating it.
To be fair there is no evidence that PRISM was voluntary, and in fact the leaked documents show that it worked by attacking those company's networks. Google took very public actions to cut off access after the leak. I'm sure Apple did something too, but didn't say what exactly.
For example, there was that infamous slide showing otherwise protected Gmail data flowing between data centres. A few months later Google had it fully encrypted.
"Free pass", as in hauled before Congress, Secrets leaked by the UK Parliament, multiple lawsuits, so bad they had to start taking out adverts to reassure people?
You also need to understand what each of those companies is actually doing. I mean, Twitter's privacy invasion is pretty minimal. Google makes everything opt-in for the most part, at least in the EU where it is legally requires - maybe the US is worse. So really it's just Facebook, and Facebook is taking a lot of flak for it.
You are arguing that gender inequality somehow forces more women into studying STEM, leading to better paid jobs and more opportunities? Are you suggesting that men are the ones being oppressed in Iran?
I am terrible, aren't I... It's actually quote encouraging that they respond with more than just name calling and accusations like some other AC stalkers do. This one is actually engaged enough to comprehend my statements on some primitive level, and has a more or less coherent response based some some kind of (wrong) political philosophy.
A cut above the average AC.
Disagreeing = Russian troll trying to stir up unrest, amirite?
Humans are social creatures. It's nothing new.