Well from my 10,000' view I would say that did look like Starlink had stalled. It certainly didn't seem to be progressing as quickly as I would have hoped. And now that SpaceX has lost some funding from the US military and Tesla wasn't bought out in the "funding secured" fiasco Elon needs to organise his future revenue streams.
He's not getting any younger and he's still working in a car factory... (and doing a bloody good job but that's just a means to an ends).
...Mars sounds peaceful and lacking in corruption... until we humans arrive... but we won't be there long as Mars is about as fertile and life-friendly as the moon.
...it seemed like a bait to try get Apple to buy him out. He's getting bogged down with Tesla and really wants to liquidate and concentrate on SpaceX. Sadly for everyone it didn't work.
We're in an old villa and use "Warm white" bulbs as it looks odd not to architecturally. They are on the redder (actually cooler 3000K) end of the spectrum to emulate your classic tungsten filament lighting. Not the best for reading resistor bands but at least I'll have my eyesight a bit longer... And hey, maybe my wake/sleep cycles will be better than the "Daylight" (6500K, bluer) colour balanced bulbs that everyone is using now.
We will very shortly have camping mode in our Teslas as well as gaming... if only there was a toilet mode in the next software update (and electrically tinted windows)...
...I'm not entirely happy with the attempt to force all parts & repairs through a system that requires a current supported Tesla serial number. I do understand it for when you are welding the front half of one car to the rear half of another... but just requesting a nut?
Maybe they do have a point in that if the car fails catastrophically the Tesla brand will be tarnished; in this current environment it will (thanks "shorts", Auto-manufacturers, Big-oil & Unions). Possibly a solution is to debrand or rebrand such cars? ALSET or EDISON?:)
Anyway watching the video and the closed nature does sadden me a bit...
The way the thing is set up at the moment, as soon as a automaker hits 200,000 cars the subsidy decay clock begins for that automaker. Other manufacturers can amble up to the line and then take their swill from the trough at their leisure knowing their slice is reserved.
A better way would have been to have a larger shared trough of subsidy $ that is gobbled up and gone when it's gone. That would have accelerated EV manufacture as it would encourage more rapid adoption and penalise the slackards.
In one alternate universe nobody owns cars anyway, just autonomous rides requested by us from A to B. Then the shared car goes off and charges itself up in the nearest distributed charging station.
Like Uber you know when your ride is approaching. That time spent being ferried from A to B is time available to you. Look at people now, they would much rather be on a bus/train/ferry/... and bury themselves in/. or whatever rather than have to push through traffic and find/pay-for a carpark; and that carpark probably won't be at that pick-up/drop-off point outside their source/destination. And unlike a train/bus/ferry/... you can totally immerse yourself or even fall asleep as you wont overshoot your destination (assuming the car can rouse you;).
Linus is one of my heros for starting, sharing and managing the kernel.
Musk is two of my heros for SpaceX and Tesla. More so Tesla as it has accelerated the EV acceptance / transition period. Also their battery banks. This is a small step in reducing the sh*tting in our own nest that we seem to be doing.
SpaceX puts the biggest smile on my face but it's long term environmental value is probably less.
When recycling started big time here in NZ we had open recycling crates that were great, everyone could see what was in the bin, not so good for privacy [you drink too much wine]. Later they changed them to larger lidded wheelie bins and then the recycling content was degraded significantly as no-one could see the crap that was being put in there. No doubt China didn't appreciate the hugely lowered quality of recycling material that they were getting.
I suspect we're not the only country that is guilty of this...
Slashdot Mirror
They really should have launched Wednesday"...
FedEx... Time to bring back ICBM numbers in our .sig's :)
I'm a kiwi so may just be biased; it's tradition to sling mud over the ditch...
But we see Aussie in the US' back pocket... sort of a 51st state...
Well from my 10,000' view I would say that did look like Starlink had stalled. It certainly didn't seem to be progressing as quickly as I would have hoped. And now that SpaceX has lost some funding from the US military and Tesla wasn't bought out in the "funding secured" fiasco Elon needs to organise his future revenue streams.
He's not getting any younger and he's still working in a car factory... (and doing a bloody good job but that's just a means to an ends).
...and down the street.
Look out for that bicyclist!
Or else it's Whamo!
Gyro & Accelerometer don't need exposure to the atmosphere... air pressure sensor perhaps?
Lots of light headed Mickey Mouse voices in radiology that day too no?
horse blinkers for people
...Mars sounds peaceful and lacking in corruption... until we humans arrive... but we won't be there long as Mars is about as fertile and life-friendly as the moon.
...people want lots of food but also cars, houses, mobiles, children, holidays... and the powering/maintenance/upgrading of most them all too...
Well they might just be feeding us and tending us as we age/decline too... Like most tech, it depends on how it's implemented.
Banksy's "Balloon Girl" shredded in the auction!
...it seemed like a bait to try get Apple to buy him out. He's getting bogged down with Tesla and really wants to liquidate and concentrate on SpaceX. Sadly for everyone it didn't work.
We're in New Zealand, we're semi-advanced as we run diesel-electric! ;)
Sadly we're phasing out our older electric stock.
And we have hydroelectric galore... Doh!
We're in an old villa and use "Warm white" bulbs as it looks odd not to architecturally. They are on the redder (actually cooler 3000K) end of the spectrum to emulate your classic tungsten filament lighting. Not the best for reading resistor bands but at least I'll have my eyesight a bit longer... And hey, maybe my wake/sleep cycles will be better than the "Daylight" (6500K, bluer) colour balanced bulbs that everyone is using now.
We will very shortly have camping mode in our Teslas as well as gaming... if only there was a toilet mode in the next software update (and electrically tinted windows)...
...so that the reduction will be easy when 2020 ticks over.
It's already happening in Europe:
For the hard-core geeks both electrical and mechanical:
Tesla Model 3 - Exploded
This guy has a brilliant series of videos detailing all aspects os Tesla anatomy.
...I'm not entirely happy with the attempt to force all parts & repairs through a system that requires a current supported Tesla serial number. I do understand it for when you are welding the front half of one car to the rear half of another... but just requesting a nut?
Maybe they do have a point in that if the car fails catastrophically the Tesla brand will be tarnished; in this current environment it will (thanks "shorts", Auto-manufacturers, Big-oil & Unions). Possibly a solution is to debrand or rebrand such cars? ALSET or EDISON? :)
Anyway watching the video and the closed nature does sadden me a bit...
expect to see frequent bot attacks on ...Tesla...
They'll have to queue up behind the massive hate campaign that's being fired at Tesla by the legacy automotive industry and big oil.
(Legacy; a good word for IT types as it has the correct connotation; probably lost on Joe Public.)
I'm sure the stage coaches / wagon drivers / horse riders said the same thing about those newfangled smelly noisy cars. They spooked the horses too.
The way the thing is set up at the moment, as soon as a automaker hits 200,000 cars the subsidy decay clock begins for that automaker. Other manufacturers can amble up to the line and then take their swill from the trough at their leisure knowing their slice is reserved.
A better way would have been to have a larger shared trough of subsidy $ that is gobbled up and gone when it's gone. That would have accelerated EV manufacture as it would encourage more rapid adoption and penalise the slackards.
In one alternate universe nobody owns cars anyway, just autonomous rides requested by us from A to B. Then the shared car goes off and charges itself up in the nearest distributed charging station.
Like Uber you know when your ride is approaching. That time spent being ferried from A to B is time available to you. Look at people now, they would much rather be on a bus/train/ferry/... and bury themselves in /. or whatever rather than have to push through traffic and find/pay-for a carpark; and that carpark probably won't be at that pick-up/drop-off point outside their source/destination. And unlike a train/bus/ferry/... you can totally immerse yourself or even fall asleep as you wont overshoot your destination (assuming the car can rouse you ;).
Linus is one of my heros for starting, sharing and managing the kernel.
Musk is two of my heros for SpaceX and Tesla. More so Tesla as it has accelerated the EV acceptance / transition period. Also their battery banks. This is a small step in reducing the sh*tting in our own nest that we seem to be doing.
SpaceX puts the biggest smile on my face but it's long term environmental value is probably less.
The one thing that actor president did was name his dreams well...
When recycling started big time here in NZ we had open recycling crates that were great, everyone could see what was in the bin, not so good for privacy [you drink too much wine]. Later they changed them to larger lidded wheelie bins and then the recycling content was degraded significantly as no-one could see the crap that was being put in there. No doubt China didn't appreciate the hugely lowered quality of recycling material that they were getting.
I suspect we're not the only country that is guilty of this...