Except now that the LA tunnel is drilled, hasn’t Musk walked back the promise of pods there and gone back to his original intent of modified Teslas being the sole vehicle in the tunnel? So do we know he’ll stick with the plan in Vegas?
Cars versus trains is a different argument than people pods versus trains.
When she says "we are considering handing over the reins of our most important industry" - how is this giving control of the casino industry to Musk? Or does she actually consider tunneling to be Las Vegas’ most important industry?
You do realize that there were people taking rides in it all evening, right? Were they in on the conspiracy?
You need to cut back on the caffeine, man.
“Conspiracy”? Seriously? It was a simple question. How does that qualify as an SUV?
I will note that the other responder to my post actually gave a somewhat reasonable explanation - at least that it might be roomier inside than one might imagine from the size. But still, referring to it as an SUV seems like marketing-speak.
Okay, now I've watched the video where Musk introduced it. How the heck is that an SUV? Was the tiny Accord Hatchback I remember from the 1980s also an SUV?
And how are they gonna get seven people crammed into that thing? Unless they're clowns, of course...
I wondered that too. It's hard to tell from the photos I've seen, since there haven't been any humans in there for scale... but this doesn't look large enough to be considered even a smaller SUV; e.g. a Hyundai Santa Fe.
Nice to see the prices coming down somewhat, though. I'd never spend 40K on a car, but I know a lot of people do.
I've been told wet weather is a sign of climate change.
For the western US - the coast in particular - the ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) pretty much trumps everything else. Typically in El Niño years, California is wetter than normal (and my state, Washington, is dryer than normal).
But those are still just percentages - they don't always pan out. Plus this winter's El Niño fizzled out about halfway through. As Freud might've said, "sometimes a wet winter is just a wet winter".
Additionally, multi-year droughts are not uncommon for California. There's a reason they decided to build water reservoirs with multi-year capacity, way back in the say. This may be affected by anthropogenic climate change, one way or the other, but it's also an underlying truth about California's climate.
My Toyota Camry is not that small of a car, and it has a range of between 350-500 miles - depending on the type of driving involved. If it's all freeway I can easily get 500 miles on one tank of gas.
My old 93 Ford Escort GL Wagon routinely got 350 miles per gallon doing mixed driving. Even just driving it 3-4 miles at a time, from my house to where I catch the train, I'd still get 300 miles out of a tank of gas.
Now if you start talking SUVs or trucks... then you are probably right.
No, if you hit “cancel” on the first one (during the initial install request, which was a system pop up), then subsequently with every Dropbox restart you’d get another one with text along the lines of “Dropbox needs to fix permissions in order to function properly”. That was a Dropbox-generated pop up message styled to look like a system pop up.
And Dropbox would still work just fine if you cancelled out that dialog each time, which is what I did while exploring alternatives.
I stopped using Dropbox back when they got caught bahaving like malware on OS X - putting up a fake “system” pop up in order to grab broad system access they didn’t need to function.
Either they were planning to be malicious, or their coders were incompetent, or both.
I use Sync now - a security-focused company based in Canada. Unlike Dropbox, they offer encryption by default and have no direct access to my files.
Soon all TV will do this, better idea is force the TV through a proxy that filters ads...
Why give the television access to your network at all? The manufacturers only support a particular generation for 3-4years at most. For the vast majority of people, that television is going to be in their home significantly longer than that.
Get a Roku, get an Apple TV, get a Fire stick - use that device to feed the shows to the flat screen.
Agreed. I suspect many times people will try an alternative once or twice - often early in that alternative’s life - and then hold that impression for the rest of their lives. Or they won’t even try it and just parrot what their “tech friend” said on the matter.
It’s similar to how, just the other day, I heard some dude railing against MySQL because it didn’t support transactions. He’d apparently heard that 10-15 years ago, and it was still his go-to argument against that product.
It’s funny how many people who work in the rapidly-changing field of tech still fall prey to that tendency.
Yes, Picasa was great. Yes, Google screwed it up. But Google drove Picasa into irrelevance long ago... at this point, I have my doubts very many people are going to notice these newly-broken links.
Is whether a movie is any good. I don’t care about the trolls, who never venture far from the rocks they cower under anyway. And I don’t care about the flag-wavers like this review writer - feel free to listen to your Helen Reddy album on continuous loop, just don’t insist I sing along.
I don’t care what an actor’s or actress’ opinion is, I only care whether they can act. When performers think they’re bigger than they are, we get Clint Eastwood rambling to an empty chair or Morgan Fairchild explaining why the common folk need to be told what to think about the issues of the day.
I’m almost certainly not going to see this movie in the theater anyway. By the time it’s available to watch in my home, the dust will have settled - I can ask my friends whether they’ve see it and if it’s any good. But good grief... it’s just a movie.
Whenever silly anecdotal statements like that are posted anonymously here - as that one was - it’s safe to assume the poster pulled the story out of his rectum.
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Except now that the LA tunnel is drilled, hasn’t Musk walked back the promise of pods there and gone back to his original intent of modified Teslas being the sole vehicle in the tunnel? So do we know he’ll stick with the plan in Vegas?
Cars versus trains is a different argument than people pods versus trains.
When she says "we are considering handing over the reins of our most important industry" - how is this giving control of the casino industry to Musk? Or does she actually consider tunneling to be Las Vegas’ most important industry?
You do realize that there were people taking rides in it all evening, right? Were they in on the conspiracy?
You need to cut back on the caffeine, man.
“Conspiracy”? Seriously? It was a simple question. How does that qualify as an SUV?
I will note that the other responder to my post actually gave a somewhat reasonable explanation - at least that it might be roomier inside than one might imagine from the size. But still, referring to it as an SUV seems like marketing-speak.
Okay, now I've watched the video where Musk introduced it. How the heck is that an SUV? Was the tiny Accord Hatchback I remember from the 1980s also an SUV?
And how are they gonna get seven people crammed into that thing? Unless they're clowns, of course...
I wondered that too. It's hard to tell from the photos I've seen, since there haven't been any humans in there for scale... but this doesn't look large enough to be considered even a smaller SUV; e.g. a Hyundai Santa Fe.
Nice to see the prices coming down somewhat, though. I'd never spend 40K on a car, but I know a lot of people do.
To me it feels like cut and paste is not heavily used on mobile devices, so I'm not sure if this move hurts more than it helps...
I remember way back, when iOS didn't have a(n easily accessible) copy + paste function. Apple got a lot of well-deserved grief over that.
Sometimes you don't realize how often you use something until it is not available to you...
I've been told wet weather is a sign of climate change.
For the western US - the coast in particular - the ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) pretty much trumps everything else. Typically in El Niño years, California is wetter than normal (and my state, Washington, is dryer than normal).
But those are still just percentages - they don't always pan out. Plus this winter's El Niño fizzled out about halfway through. As Freud might've said, "sometimes a wet winter is just a wet winter".
Additionally, multi-year droughts are not uncommon for California. There's a reason they decided to build water reservoirs with multi-year capacity, way back in the say. This may be affected by anthropogenic climate change, one way or the other, but it's also an underlying truth about California's climate.
Uh.....gas cars have ranges of 200-300 miles.
My Toyota Camry is not that small of a car, and it has a range of between 350-500 miles - depending on the type of driving involved. If it's all freeway I can easily get 500 miles on one tank of gas.
My old 93 Ford Escort GL Wagon routinely got 350 miles per gallon doing mixed driving. Even just driving it 3-4 miles at a time, from my house to where I catch the train, I'd still get 300 miles out of a tank of gas.
Now if you start talking SUVs or trucks... then you are probably right.
No, if you hit “cancel” on the first one (during the initial install request, which was a system pop up), then subsequently with every Dropbox restart you’d get another one with text along the lines of “Dropbox needs to fix permissions in order to function properly”. That was a Dropbox-generated pop up message styled to look like a system pop up.
And Dropbox would still work just fine if you cancelled out that dialog each time, which is what I did while exploring alternatives.
I stopped using Dropbox back when they got caught bahaving like malware on OS X - putting up a fake “system” pop up in order to grab broad system access they didn’t need to function.
Either they were planning to be malicious, or their coders were incompetent, or both.
I use Sync now - a security-focused company based in Canada. Unlike Dropbox, they offer encryption by default and have no direct access to my files.
Maybe she won’t marry Sonny this time. ... but then they’ll have to redo the sound track for Groundhog Day.
This in turn may have been inspired by "Backwards' - the first episode of Red Dwarf.
Well, the first episode of Red Dwarf’s third season, anyway...
Being forced to listen to Pharrell Williams would enrage me too.
Soon all TV will do this, better idea is force the TV through a proxy that filters ads...
Why give the television access to your network at all? The manufacturers only support a particular generation for 3-4years at most. For the vast majority of people, that television is going to be in their home significantly longer than that.
Get a Roku, get an Apple TV, get a Fire stick - use that device to feed the shows to the flat screen.
Agreed. I suspect many times people will try an alternative once or twice - often early in that alternative’s life - and then hold that impression for the rest of their lives. Or they won’t even try it and just parrot what their “tech friend” said on the matter.
It’s similar to how, just the other day, I heard some dude railing against MySQL because it didn’t support transactions. He’d apparently heard that 10-15 years ago, and it was still his go-to argument against that product.
It’s funny how many people who work in the rapidly-changing field of tech still fall prey to that tendency.
Oh... maybe that explains why, after I fired up Chrome this morning and let it update, yours was the only comment on this story?
Here's a better alternative link.
Oh man, that's the funniest thing I've seen all day!
"He just said it's not Russia. I will say this: I don't see any reason why it would be."
A million Unix sysadmins' heads would explode.
Killer robots? More like Kuddle robots!
There's no chance these can be hacked by the enemy forces, so they will never be reprogrammed to attack and kill US military field personnel.
Yes, Picasa was great. Yes, Google screwed it up. But Google drove Picasa into irrelevance long ago... at this point, I have my doubts very many people are going to notice these newly-broken links.
Is whether a movie is any good. I don’t care about the trolls, who never venture far from the rocks they cower under anyway. And I don’t care about the flag-wavers like this review writer - feel free to listen to your Helen Reddy album on continuous loop, just don’t insist I sing along.
I don’t care what an actor’s or actress’ opinion is, I only care whether they can act. When performers think they’re bigger than they are, we get Clint Eastwood rambling to an empty chair or Morgan Fairchild explaining why the common folk need to be told what to think about the issues of the day.
I’m almost certainly not going to see this movie in the theater anyway. By the time it’s available to watch in my home, the dust will have settled - I can ask my friends whether they’ve see it and if it’s any good. But good grief... it’s just a movie.
Whenever silly anecdotal statements like that are posted anonymously here - as that one was - it’s safe to assume the poster pulled the story out of his rectum.