Assuming it costs $20 to check each car (about a half hour of mechanic time) that's less than $2 million. They're getting a ton of good publicity, good will from their customers--we like to buy stuff from companies that don't want to kill us--and if one of these belts fails and leads to a death they could easily lose that much in just one lawsuit.
It's as if Musk is asking himself "How would GM handle this?", then doing the opposite.
That's a great argument in favor of this app. Not likely that anyone will go through normal channels to report a quick ass grab. But if Drunken Frat Guy is grabbing an ass or two every weekend, that's a problem, and this app makes it trivially easy for his victims to document his behavior. I don't see that as a bad thing.
I live next an elementary school, posted speed limit is 20 mph between 7:00 and 5:00. A few months ago they installed a sign that displays your speed and flashes a bright strobe if you exceed 20. 24/7. You'd think it would be trivial to add a timer to a device that contains a plethora of LEDs and a radar gun, but apparently not.
I never finished the first Witcher, I hit a point in the fourth or fifth chapter that CTD'd every time. Even tried installing on another machine, still couldn't get past that point. Hope you have better luck.
I do get the vast majority of my games from Steam sales. I'm playing Witcher 2 right now. Aside from the annoying "no drinking potions during combat" rule, I'm liking it a lot more than its predecessor.
...and yes, it was buggy. But it was still fun, and patches came out pretty quickly. I don't have a problem with reviewers giving a good review as long as they note that there are bugs. If it's so buggy as to be unplayable, that's another story.
Back when Century Link was Qwest, our service died and it took two on-site visits-that I had to be home for-to determine the problem was in their base station. My compensation for 5 days without service, hours of staying home to wait for their tech, and a couple hours navigating their "service" phone tree? (They closed our ticket when the first tech was dispatched, so I got to go through the whole process twice.) Nothing.
One of the techs who came to our place mentioned that our distance to the base was beyond the DSL spec, which explained our slow data rates. I switched to Comcast a couple days later.
If most of your EV drivers don't need to charge at work, most of them won't want to pay for it, and that will free up spaces for the long-distance commuters. I don't think the free market is the magic bullet that solves every problem, but in this case it seems like the right tool.
You don't want to keep your iPhone forever. iOS 9 is not compatible with anything older than the 4S. My 4S is 3 years old, when iOS 10 comes out next year I doubt it will run it. So if unless you like running an unsupported OS and old apps, 4 years is about the limit.
"Pushing it through the throats of customers" is a bit hyperbolic, but not entirely inaccurate.
I quit smoking 20 years ago, and now I miss work due to illness once every few years. I sat in on a medical conference back when I smoked, and it seemed like every presenter ended with "...and we never see this disease/condition in anyone under 50...except chronic smokers." I quit soon after that.
Yep, I respect some of what Lutz has done but he's a dinosaur. Batteries get cheaper every year, by the time this is in production (won't be 2019) they'll be much more affordable. Electrics aren't the fad he thinks they are. The car business needs shaking up, glad Apple is taking a shot at it.
Or possibly his teacher realized that a good portion of the residents of Irving, TX are idiots and/or racists who would lose their sh*t upon seeing Muslim with a homemade digital clock. Smart guy.
No one is being asked to give up electricity, and nobody cares if they're electricity comes from burning coal or unicorn farts. There all alternatives to burning fossil fuels, and we should be pursuing them. No one has to "give up" anything....except maybe some profits for oil companies. Boo-hoo.
I can buy a 32 gig thumbdrive for 9 bucks. Apple is buying in quantity, 32 GB chips couldn't cost them more than a couple bucks. Screwing your customers for a few cents is a great strategy if you don't want them coming back, this is a stupid move on Apple's part. I was seriously thinking about upgrading to a 6S, now I'm going to hold off.
I'm so frickin' tired of that (looking at you, Sherlock Holmes sequel!). Can't we have a movie about some people, or elves, whatever, who just want to loot a dungeon, and maybe along the way they run into something bigger but does it have to be The Whole World Hangs in the Balance? Basically The Hobbit, but less sucky?
I've only had one car that had it, and yes, temp sensor troubles wacked it. Even when it worked it sucked...set temp for 70 degrees, fan blows at FULL SPEED until cabin temp hits that point. Unless I'm freezing or dripping with sweat, I really don't want to hear the fan that badly.
I have a great temp sensor--I call it "me"--and adjusting the temp takes all of two seconds to move my hand the 10 inches from the steering wheel to the temp knob. Honestly, auto climate is an expensive, buggy solution in search of a problem.
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Honestly, 325 posts and nobody pulled this out?
Assuming it costs $20 to check each car (about a half hour of mechanic time) that's less than $2 million. They're getting a ton of good publicity, good will from their customers--we like to buy stuff from companies that don't want to kill us--and if one of these belts fails and leads to a death they could easily lose that much in just one lawsuit.
It's as if Musk is asking himself "How would GM handle this?", then doing the opposite.
...about suspension bridge structural integrity", I thought I was joking.
That's a great argument in favor of this app. Not likely that anyone will go through normal channels to report a quick ass grab. But if Drunken Frat Guy is grabbing an ass or two every weekend, that's a problem, and this app makes it trivially easy for his victims to document his behavior. I don't see that as a bad thing.
I live next an elementary school, posted speed limit is 20 mph between 7:00 and 5:00. A few months ago they installed a sign that displays your speed and flashes a bright strobe if you exceed 20. 24/7. You'd think it would be trivial to add a timer to a device that contains a plethora of LEDs and a radar gun, but apparently not.
If you have a few minutes to waste, or are passionate about suspension bridge structural integrity, well worth a read.
I never finished the first Witcher, I hit a point in the fourth or fifth chapter that CTD'd every time. Even tried installing on another machine, still couldn't get past that point. Hope you have better luck.
Bethesda has a solid track record of releasing patches. I would agree that a release from an unknown publisher shouldn't get the benefit of the doubt.
I do get the vast majority of my games from Steam sales. I'm playing Witcher 2 right now. Aside from the annoying "no drinking potions during combat" rule, I'm liking it a lot more than its predecessor.
...and yes, it was buggy. But it was still fun, and patches came out pretty quickly. I don't have a problem with reviewers giving a good review as long as they note that there are bugs. If it's so buggy as to be unplayable, that's another story.
Back when Century Link was Qwest, our service died and it took two on-site visits-that I had to be home for-to determine the problem was in their base station. My compensation for 5 days without service, hours of staying home to wait for their tech, and a couple hours navigating their "service" phone tree? (They closed our ticket when the first tech was dispatched, so I got to go through the whole process twice.) Nothing.
One of the techs who came to our place mentioned that our distance to the base was beyond the DSL spec, which explained our slow data rates. I switched to Comcast a couple days later.
If most of your EV drivers don't need to charge at work, most of them won't want to pay for it, and that will free up spaces for the long-distance commuters. I don't think the free market is the magic bullet that solves every problem, but in this case it seems like the right tool.
You don't want to keep your iPhone forever. iOS 9 is not compatible with anything older than the 4S. My 4S is 3 years old, when iOS 10 comes out next year I doubt it will run it. So if unless you like running an unsupported OS and old apps, 4 years is about the limit.
"Pushing it through the throats of customers" is a bit hyperbolic, but not entirely inaccurate.
There's a movie by the same name, starring Jeremy Irons. Slow, but well worth a watch (heh).
I quit smoking 20 years ago, and now I miss work due to illness once every few years. I sat in on a medical conference back when I smoked, and it seemed like every presenter ended with "...and we never see this disease/condition in anyone under 50...except chronic smokers." I quit soon after that.
Japanese companies build a boatload of cars in the US with non-union labor, and VW actually encouraged their employees to join the UAW .
Yep, I respect some of what Lutz has done but he's a dinosaur. Batteries get cheaper every year, by the time this is in production (won't be 2019) they'll be much more affordable. Electrics aren't the fad he thinks they are. The car business needs shaking up, glad Apple is taking a shot at it.
I'm not Lutz's greatest fan, but GM was in Hindenberg mode long before Lutz got there. No turning that ship around.
Or possibly his teacher realized that a good portion of the residents of Irving, TX are idiots and/or racists who would lose their sh*t upon seeing Muslim with a homemade digital clock. Smart guy.
No one is being asked to give up electricity, and nobody cares if they're electricity comes from burning coal or unicorn farts. There all alternatives to burning fossil fuels, and we should be pursuing them. No one has to "give up" anything....except maybe some profits for oil companies. Boo-hoo.
I can buy a 32 gig thumbdrive for 9 bucks. Apple is buying in quantity, 32 GB chips couldn't cost them more than a couple bucks. Screwing your customers for a few cents is a great strategy if you don't want them coming back, this is a stupid move on Apple's part. I was seriously thinking about upgrading to a 6S, now I'm going to hold off.
I'm so frickin' tired of that (looking at you, Sherlock Holmes sequel!). Can't we have a movie about some people, or elves, whatever, who just want to loot a dungeon, and maybe along the way they run into something bigger but does it have to be The Whole World Hangs in the Balance? Basically The Hobbit, but less sucky?
I've only had one car that had it, and yes, temp sensor troubles wacked it. Even when it worked it sucked...set temp for 70 degrees, fan blows at FULL SPEED until cabin temp hits that point. Unless I'm freezing or dripping with sweat, I really don't want to hear the fan that badly.
I have a great temp sensor--I call it "me"--and adjusting the temp takes all of two seconds to move my hand the 10 inches from the steering wheel to the temp knob. Honestly, auto climate is an expensive, buggy solution in search of a problem.
My 7-year-old car which I recently bought has that too. I looked at it and thought "Really, you couldn't have just gone with a USB port?"
And impressive to see Trump has done his homework....assuming he didn't just pull those numbers out of his ass.