What is the current capitalization of Uber again? At least Tesla is actually shipping products. That's a unicorn company right there.
Agree, I can not see any paths to profitability for Uber. Tesla has a chance, albeit with a lot of risk. I've never seen a company the size of Telsa with so much short interest, and I've learned to never ignore short interest.
You accidentally transposed bears and bulls. Since you made an obvious mistake, some will take the opportunity to insult you rather than respond to what you obviously meant.
I'm not poor, and often drove 9+ hours by myself to visit my dad. At least a few times a year. Also drive with my wife and kids about 8 hours to visit family a couple times a year. Those are the more common, restricting cases. Its not about "driving cross country", which I don't see the OP said anyhow.
BEVs work fine for a lot of use cases. The present offerings don't work for me quite yet, in large part because I often drive cross state for work on short notice, and in large part because the financial case doesn't work for me. I look forward to when they do, we are getting closer, but we are not there yet no matter how many want to claim we are.
The author would have been much more helpful by referring to the device properly and not simply as GPS device. Referring to it as a GPS device might lead many less technical folks to believe that GPS devices can disable vehicles. That is not the case. Had the author correctly described the device, such as a vehicle tracker with disabling capability, then consumers would might better what to look out for in the future.
Does that sound like someone who is "defending against patent trolls to you?
Maybe because those few examples need to be balanced against that very clear statement;
Those big wins aside, most of Iancu's work has been on the defense side
and the article goes on to explain more, but not so prominently as the items highlighted by the author with the intent to paint a picture in your mind, and you seemed willing to allow it to be a canvas.
Kodi might be the 'browser' of choice for streaming video, true, but that doesn't make it a platform for piracy. The only streaming I've done with Kodi has been the YouTube add on.
One guy makes a point that you might not save a lot of money by cord cutting and buying into several streaming services. Then we get a spate of reactionary articles that take some kind of offense like he's out to stop cord cutting. Guess there's not much better to do on a Sunday.
I think it's a bit more complex than that. Oftentimes, you can determine from poor reviews exactly what the shortcomings are, and decide if those shortcomings affect your intended use of the product. If a competing product has no reviews, then you have no way of knowing what the shortcomings are.
I read reviews, but only really pay attention to ones that make sensible explanations of what they do or don't like. Positive reviews can be very helpful if you are looking for a certain functionality, but they have to be precise and not cheerleading. A lot of reviews often means there are more good ones to find, more useless ones as well. For the most part, when I read reviews and then purchase, I wind up getting pretty much what I expect. You can never eliminate the possibility of a surprise when buying products you've never tried before.
The key here is lack of competing services (lack of landline phones for the cell phone case). Delivering something by drone is attractive when the alternative is in the backpack of someone hiking down a footpath. Not so attractive when a UPS or USPS truck will be driving by there every day anyway.
Lack of services and infrastructure, and in some cases higher safety risk, shift the cost benefit analysis toward drone use. Not that surprising.
Its almost too easy to get money from crowd-funding (pre sales). You really don't need to know much about business or convey that knowledge. Many entrepreneurs completely underestimate the cost and challenges of bringing a product to market. They think it will be simple because they have a prototype. Then they realize that haven't worked out final bugs to make it user proof, haven't figured out how to manufacture easily and need to re-design for that. Haven't figured out how to source quality components at reasonable price. Haven't gotten the lawyers to finalized liability warning language. Aren't able to hire workers, salesmen, accountants, distributors, but need all that done. The list grows and they sink.
The VC invests in 30 different companies. 27-29 of them fail. The 30th returns enough on the investment to buy a product from each of the 30, the capital invested in all 30 and a small to health profit on top.
Doesn't really matter how enjoyable the product from one of those 30 is, the VC is coming out ahead of you every time.
VCs own a slice of the company, and can sometimes get some asset value back even if the company fails. But most crowdfunding is simply pre-sales and not ownership investment. Either way, only buy in if you are willing to lose the entire sum.
Drive from PA to SC with my 9yr old daughter. Amazing experience. About 1:50 of totality. We could have gone further south, but we positioned ourselves about a mile from the I95 northbound ramp. As soon as totality ended we drove like hell and actually beat the traffic horror I read about for weeks. Long ass day but we'll worth it.
Similar strategy for me as well , but only 2.5 hours drive. Packed up wife and kids at 4 am, got to a SC State Park at 6:30 with about 10 cars already in line and within minutes 20 more behind us. Hung out for the day, a bit hot but not too bad, and packed up just before the eclipse so we could bolt quickly. We beat the traffic nightmare but had already planned to avoid the main corridors (this was one time I ignored Waze, cause it didn't know what was coming)
The eclipse itself was an awesome experience. Some drama as clouds came and went, catching it occasionally as it progressed, not knowing if we'd see the totality. Just before totality, huge clearing of that area of the sky! So glad my kids could experience it. It got a fair amount darker out than I expected.
Yeah, I would find the percentage of death vs use more interesting... especially if compared to the same statistic for when they shoot people.
153 deaths in 16 years seems like it would be a very small percentage, I imagine they have been used many thousands of times. 10 people per year is a death statistic that bath tubs would love to improve to.
This journalist is negligent for not including all the data required for people to truly understand the extent of the problem. Too bad we can't have nice things when it comes to comprehensive reporting.
Check out the link others found to a TV similar to what I was talking about, and you'll understand. Yes, you'd have to eliminate standard mounts. You could attach to the wall with screw head slots, just like any other flush mount object.
The speakers in TV's are a depth contributor because they moved them to be behind (o partially behind in come cases) the LCD panel in order to have a slimmer bezel.
It's the exact opposite. A simple google search will show thatright wing violence is 74% more common than left.
This shouldn't be surprising. Antifa groups are anarchists. By definition they're unorganized and loose knit. They reject authority on the face of it. The Right OTOH make authority a central plank of their ideology. Better organization leads to more effective violence. That's why militaries use a chain of command instead of voting.
The google search does not given results that say right wing groups are growing. The NPR opinion piece you referred to limits its description of left wing violence to those done by "groups", but compares against all RW violence, individual or group. NPR is not exactly an objective source when it comes to L v R, I guess you know.
Right wing extremist groups are not "propping up everywhere". They only reason they have a platform, and any coverage, of ANY sort... is because the misguided media keeps showing up with their cameras. Left wing extremism is real and it's causing just as many problems, if not more. I don't see Nazi groups destroying property and setting cars on fire over a speech at a college.
Both sides have extremist factions that they ignore, because they like that those extremist factions will do the dirty sh!t that the more "normal" (read: need to get re-elected) people won't do. That is why the president denounced violence on both sides. Problem was, the left isn't used to being called out for such dirty tricks, so they kept at it with "the president needs to apologize the CORRECT way, he needs to only blame the violence on the RIGHT".
THIS. There are no more than there ever were. But the media seeks them out and actually helps them by making it look like a growing movement, sparking idiots on the other side to come and confront. Too bad we can't take the ultra left and ultra right and put them in a room together and lock the door, let the media cover the aftermath.
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What is the current capitalization of Uber again? At least Tesla is actually shipping products. That's a unicorn company right there.
Agree, I can not see any paths to profitability for Uber. Tesla has a chance, albeit with a lot of risk. I've never seen a company the size of Telsa with so much short interest, and I've learned to never ignore short interest.
You accidentally transposed bears and bulls. Since you made an obvious mistake, some will take the opportunity to insult you rather than respond to what you obviously meant.
I'm not poor, and often drove 9+ hours by myself to visit my dad. At least a few times a year. Also drive with my wife and kids about 8 hours to visit family a couple times a year. Those are the more common, restricting cases. Its not about "driving cross country", which I don't see the OP said anyhow.
BEVs work fine for a lot of use cases. The present offerings don't work for me quite yet, in large part because I often drive cross state for work on short notice, and in large part because the financial case doesn't work for me. I look forward to when they do, we are getting closer, but we are not there yet no matter how many want to claim we are.
While people may think this is trying to steal Tesla's thunder, you should remember that Tesla Motors wasn't started to make a buck
Tell that to the investors that Musk is promising returns to.
I suppose if there are enough people who are lonely and clueless enough to invite a stranger into their homes ......
Or possibly just someone looking for a naked twister opponent.
This is slashdot. Less technical folks don't come here. .
Sometimes I'm not so sure that's accurate :)
The author would have been much more helpful by referring to the device properly and not simply as GPS device. Referring to it as a GPS device might lead many less technical folks to believe that GPS devices can disable vehicles. That is not the case. Had the author correctly described the device, such as a vehicle tracker with disabling capability, then consumers would might better what to look out for in the future.
You would would prefer the one who's better at getting away with corruption vs the one that can't get away with anything.
Does that sound like someone who is "defending against patent trolls to you?
Maybe because those few examples need to be balanced against that very clear statement;
Those big wins aside, most of Iancu's work has been on the defense side
and the article goes on to explain more, but not so prominently as the items highlighted by the author with the intent to paint a picture in your mind, and you seemed willing to allow it to be a canvas.
Who else but a patent troll would you think Trump would appoint to run the USPTO?
This guy defended companies against patent trolls. But it appears you don't need factual info to form your opinion.
Kodi might be the 'browser' of choice for streaming video, true, but that doesn't make it a platform for piracy. The only streaming I've done with Kodi has been the YouTube add on.
So this is a handy list for device factory resets.
Interesting info. Thanks
One guy makes a point that you might not save a lot of money by cord cutting and buying into several streaming services. Then we get a spate of reactionary articles that take some kind of offense like he's out to stop cord cutting. Guess there's not much better to do on a Sunday.
I think it's a bit more complex than that. Oftentimes, you can determine from poor reviews exactly what the shortcomings are, and decide if those shortcomings affect your intended use of the product. If a competing product has no reviews, then you have no way of knowing what the shortcomings are.
I read reviews, but only really pay attention to ones that make sensible explanations of what they do or don't like. Positive reviews can be very helpful if you are looking for a certain functionality, but they have to be precise and not cheerleading. A lot of reviews often means there are more good ones to find, more useless ones as well. For the most part, when I read reviews and then purchase, I wind up getting pretty much what I expect. You can never eliminate the possibility of a surprise when buying products you've never tried before.
The key here is lack of competing services (lack of landline phones for the cell phone case). Delivering something by drone is attractive when the alternative is in the backpack of someone hiking down a footpath. Not so attractive when a UPS or USPS truck will be driving by there every day anyway.
Lack of services and infrastructure, and in some cases higher safety risk, shift the cost benefit analysis toward drone use. Not that surprising.
Its almost too easy to get money from crowd-funding (pre sales). You really don't need to know much about business or convey that knowledge. Many entrepreneurs completely underestimate the cost and challenges of bringing a product to market. They think it will be simple because they have a prototype. Then they realize that haven't worked out final bugs to make it user proof, haven't figured out how to manufacture easily and need to re-design for that. Haven't figured out how to source quality components at reasonable price. Haven't gotten the lawyers to finalized liability warning language. Aren't able to hire workers, salesmen, accountants, distributors, but need all that done. The list grows and they sink.
Hmm, no.
The VC invests in 30 different companies. 27-29 of them fail. The 30th returns enough on the investment to buy a product from each of the 30, the capital invested in all 30 and a small to health profit on top.
Doesn't really matter how enjoyable the product from one of those 30 is, the VC is coming out ahead of you every time.
VCs own a slice of the company, and can sometimes get some asset value back even if the company fails. But most crowdfunding is simply pre-sales and not ownership investment. Either way, only buy in if you are willing to lose the entire sum.
Drive from PA to SC with my 9yr old daughter. Amazing experience. About 1:50 of totality. We could have gone further south, but we positioned ourselves about a mile from the I95 northbound ramp. As soon as totality ended we drove like hell and actually beat the traffic horror I read about for weeks. Long ass day but we'll worth it.
Similar strategy for me as well , but only 2.5 hours drive. Packed up wife and kids at 4 am, got to a SC State Park at 6:30 with about 10 cars already in line and within minutes 20 more behind us. Hung out for the day, a bit hot but not too bad, and packed up just before the eclipse so we could bolt quickly. We beat the traffic nightmare but had already planned to avoid the main corridors (this was one time I ignored Waze, cause it didn't know what was coming)
The eclipse itself was an awesome experience. Some drama as clouds came and went, catching it occasionally as it progressed, not knowing if we'd see the totality. Just before totality, huge clearing of that area of the sky! So glad my kids could experience it. It got a fair amount darker out than I expected.
The rest just happened to die after being tazed for some unknown reason.
No, read the article. The rest died for other reasons. They were not unknown.
Yeah, I would find the percentage of death vs use more interesting... especially if compared to the same statistic for when they shoot people.
153 deaths in 16 years seems like it would be a very small percentage, I imagine they have been used many thousands of times. 10 people per year is a death statistic that bath tubs would love to improve to.
This journalist is negligent for not including all the data required for people to truly understand the extent of the problem. Too bad we can't have nice things when it comes to comprehensive reporting.
Check out the link others found to a TV similar to what I was talking about, and you'll understand. Yes, you'd have to eliminate standard mounts. You could attach to the wall with screw head slots, just like any other flush mount object.
The speakers in TV's are a depth contributor because they moved them to be behind (o partially behind in come cases) the LCD panel in order to have a slimmer bezel.
It's the exact opposite. A simple google search will show thatright wing violence is 74% more common than left. This shouldn't be surprising. Antifa groups are anarchists. By definition they're unorganized and loose knit. They reject authority on the face of it. The Right OTOH make authority a central plank of their ideology. Better organization leads to more effective violence. That's why militaries use a chain of command instead of voting.
The google search does not given results that say right wing groups are growing. The NPR opinion piece you referred to limits its description of left wing violence to those done by "groups", but compares against all RW violence, individual or group. NPR is not exactly an objective source when it comes to L v R, I guess you know.
^I'll faint the day we see a major Hollywood movie with leftist extremest as the bad guys. Far right bad guys are a Hollywood staple.
Right wing extremist groups are not "propping up everywhere". They only reason they have a platform, and any coverage, of ANY sort... is because the misguided media keeps showing up with their cameras. Left wing extremism is real and it's causing just as many problems, if not more. I don't see Nazi groups destroying property and setting cars on fire over a speech at a college.
Both sides have extremist factions that they ignore, because they like that those extremist factions will do the dirty sh!t that the more "normal" (read: need to get re-elected) people won't do. That is why the president denounced violence on both sides. Problem was, the left isn't used to being called out for such dirty tricks, so they kept at it with "the president needs to apologize the CORRECT way, he needs to only blame the violence on the RIGHT".
THIS. There are no more than there ever were. But the media seeks them out and actually helps them by making it look like a growing movement, sparking idiots on the other side to come and confront. Too bad we can't take the ultra left and ultra right and put them in a room together and lock the door, let the media cover the aftermath.