I think that the common consensus was that Google Fiber was a tactic to scare the telcos and cable companies to improve their broadband speeds in major metropolitan areas.
It kinda worked, too, as the upgraded network speeds help other Google products like YouTube and Google Drive work much better than they did earlier. Sure, people in rural areas are still stuck with slow and unreliable Internet access, but let's face it... Google Fiber was never going to get deployed there anyway even if they were taking this project seriously.
Ah, man... they own Cheetos? That's it, boycott is over. They can cover up the big dipper with a giant Mt. Dew ad for all I care, I'm not giving those up.
I think that the problem is that Tesla still hasn't figured out how the traditional car industry works yet, or they just think that they're somehow above it.
For any other car maker, It's normal to show a shiny cool looking $50,000 car with all of the premium performance and luxury features in your car advertising. They then end that commercial with some bullshit tag line saying "Starting at $30,000" to get people in the door. When they come in, they'll then see some stripped down piece of junk in the $30,000 price range with a cloth interior, tiny wheels, a choice of two drab colors, and a "standard option" list that looks like something from a 2003 Kia.
Most people aren't going to buy that car, but you at least have to have a few of them on the lot in order to convince them to upgrade to the shiny $50,000 car from the ads. Because, hey... the "LX" model is only extra $89 a month if you put down a $5,000 deposit on today's "special" offer and finance the car out for 72 months, right??
That's the part that Tesla got wrong. They were in such a rush to get product out the door that they didn't even bother building a few stripped down base model cars in order to demonstrate to customers what do NOT want to buy. Instead, they tried to standardize their production processes on a single model, and now that's all they have available to sell.
This last minute trick of disabling features like extended range and heated seats in software is also a joke. You know that there will be YouTube tutorials up within a week after shipment showing people how to re-enable these features, quickly followed by the inevitable lawsuits and PR nightmare when Tesla voids their warranties for "unauthorized" modifications to their cars.
Oh, I don't think that they'll start raising the price until they have a few more "Disney+ exclusive" shows that are only available on their new streaming platform.
Then they'll start advertising the hell out of those shows on the Disney cable TV Channels, making sure that your kids will scream their heads off until they get an account.
Worse yet, they might even offer a "free" trial over Christmas break to get your kids hooked on the new shows before the 2020 price increase.
Slow innovation? It's more like practically no innovation in the PC arena.
Good example: I walked into Walmart today for some snacks and just for personal amusement I took a look at their laptop selection. The "best" laptop they had in stock was an $800 Core i5 model with 8 GB of memory and 128 GB of SSD storage. Hell... my Macbook Pro FROM 2013 has better specs than that.
I wish that Google gave you the ability to suppress those warnings as well. I have a few internal development sites with invalid SSL certificates on them, which Google throws an obnoxious "YOUR CONNECTION IS NOT PRIVATE" warning every time I hit them.
Congratulations, Google, you're training people to click on the "Proceed to x (unsafe)" link EVERY time they see that page as a muscle memory reaction, whether or not it's a real security issue or not.
I'd love to hear the thought process behind this one, considering that Ubuntu seems to be the only commercial Linux manufacturer actually invested in supporting the desktop releases. Red Hat and SuSE seem to be happy with slapping a copy of Gnome and LibreOffice on the server version.
This might actually be good for crypto in general, since it will finally convince developers that they need to move away from "Proof Of Work" verification algorithms and less processor intensive verification methods like "Proof Of Stake". It's been on their "To Do" lists for awhile, since environmentalists have been hounding them about how much electricity crypto mining wastes for years now. Like many things in IT, being forced to do something because of government regulation can force change here.
Well... anybody making money mining Bitcoin NOW is probably stealing electricity.
Some people earlier on were either smart enough or lucky enough to get in early and ride the price increase from less than a buck to over $10,000. I doubt that we'll see that happen again any time soon, though.
The funny thing is that the original Apple TV model was perfect for infrequent TV viewers. Just subscribe to the shows you like, and that's all you get.
Unfortunately, it was extremely overpriced. I'm not going to pay something like $30 to watch a season of Westworld in HD when I can probably get for that price on BluRay and probably get a better watching experience. No buffering, no weird compression artifacts in the video or sound, and no slowing down the Internet access for the rest of the house.
Yeah... I'm not going to sign up for CBS All Access subscription just to watch the new Star Trek, either. I would consider trying the free trial if the new Twilight Zone episodes were any good, though, but the reviews for the two episodes out there now have been lackluster.
You got a point... right now, you'll need Sling TV, Netflix, Amazon, CBS All Access, HBO Go, AND Hulu to cover all of the shows most people want to watch.
Soon, you'll get to add Disney TV and Apple TV + to that list. Add up all those subscription fees, and now you're paying a hell of a lot more than you paid for cable.
People asked for All La Carte TV... now they can get it. Let's see if they enjoy it as much as they thought they would.
Yeah, I didn't think of that. Now that Disney is coming up with their own streaming service, there is a good chance that all of that content will no longer be available on Netflix streaming.
I think that US just wants less people using the Huawei network equipment with the Chinese backdoors in it's firmware, and the Cisco network equipment with the NSA backdoors in it's firmware instead. It just makes things a bit easier for our various three letter intelligence agencies. I mean, the Chinese keep changing the passwords on their backdoors, and it's a pain to have to brute force them instead of just looking them up in USpyWiki...
If the impact risk was really significant, wouldn't they would send up Space Force to clean up the mess?
I mean, Space Force is a thing now, right? Trump announced it almost a year ago, so they must have their own fleet of big beautiful space ships by now with lasers and other cool junk cleaning junk on them.
I think that a lot of people will keep using Windows 7 until they can't get application software updates for it anymore, and then they'll go buy whatever $200 Windows 10 laptop they can find on sale at Walmart or Best Buy.
If you think that an average user can handle installing Linux and getting all of the device drivers working correctly on their 5 to 8 year old laptop, you're overestimating the average intelligence of an average computer user.
You think that Windows Vista was better than Windows 2000?? Why? Vista was a resource hog, and basically forced Microsoft to make Windows 7 a bug fix release for Vista.
Yeah, I think that McDonald's could get away with this on a Big Mac pretty easily, since the patties are pretty small and the sauce overpowers everything flavor wise.
A Burger King Whopper wouldn't have been my first choice, since it seems to have a pretty high meat to bun ratio.
I don't know... if you're crazy enough to still be using an OS that basically stopped being updated for anything but Point Of Sale systems 15 years ago, who knows that other weird ideas you might believe in.
Microsoft and Blackberry already had smartphones with e-mail and a web browser before the iPhone came out. Apple just made one that was a hell of a lot more usable.
Yeah, fans don't really work if you're trying to do an IP65 enclosure, as those should be fully sealed.
Honestly, something like this could probably be done with a Raspberry Pi nowadays in terms of CPU power, except that the boards don't really meet the temperature range requirements. I'd imagine that you could find something in your Arrow Electronics catalog that would do the trick, though.
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How much of that goes to union bosses who get paid to stand around on the job site and look important? This is NYC we're talking about here.
I think that the common consensus was that Google Fiber was a tactic to scare the telcos and cable companies to improve their broadband speeds in major metropolitan areas.
It kinda worked, too, as the upgraded network speeds help other Google products like YouTube and Google Drive work much better than they did earlier. Sure, people in rural areas are still stuck with slow and unreliable Internet access, but let's face it... Google Fiber was never going to get deployed there anyway even if they were taking this project seriously.
Ah, man... they own Cheetos? That's it, boycott is over. They can cover up the big dipper with a giant Mt. Dew ad for all I care, I'm not giving those up.
I think that the problem is that Tesla still hasn't figured out how the traditional car industry works yet, or they just think that they're somehow above it.
For any other car maker, It's normal to show a shiny cool looking $50,000 car with all of the premium performance and luxury features in your car advertising. They then end that commercial with some bullshit tag line saying "Starting at $30,000" to get people in the door. When they come in, they'll then see some stripped down piece of junk in the $30,000 price range with a cloth interior, tiny wheels, a choice of two drab colors, and a "standard option" list that looks like something from a 2003 Kia.
Most people aren't going to buy that car, but you at least have to have a few of them on the lot in order to convince them to upgrade to the shiny $50,000 car from the ads. Because, hey... the "LX" model is only extra $89 a month if you put down a $5,000 deposit on today's "special" offer and finance the car out for 72 months, right??
That's the part that Tesla got wrong. They were in such a rush to get product out the door that they didn't even bother building a few stripped down base model cars in order to demonstrate to customers what do NOT want to buy. Instead, they tried to standardize their production processes on a single model, and now that's all they have available to sell.
This last minute trick of disabling features like extended range and heated seats in software is also a joke. You know that there will be YouTube tutorials up within a week after shipment showing people how to re-enable these features, quickly followed by the inevitable lawsuits and PR nightmare when Tesla voids their warranties for "unauthorized" modifications to their cars.
Oh, I don't think that they'll start raising the price until they have a few more "Disney+ exclusive" shows that are only available on their new streaming platform.
Then they'll start advertising the hell out of those shows on the Disney cable TV Channels, making sure that your kids will scream their heads off until they get an account.
Worse yet, they might even offer a "free" trial over Christmas break to get your kids hooked on the new shows before the 2020 price increase.
Slow innovation? It's more like practically no innovation in the PC arena.
Good example: I walked into Walmart today for some snacks and just for personal amusement I took a look at their laptop selection. The "best" laptop they had in stock was an $800 Core i5 model with 8 GB of memory and 128 GB of SSD storage. Hell... my Macbook Pro FROM 2013 has better specs than that.
Like I said, it's an internal development site. I don't want to waste my time setting up and maintaining SSL certificates for it.
All I want is a simple "ignore SSL warnings for this domain" checkbox. It's not a huge ask.
I wish that Google gave you the ability to suppress those warnings as well. I have a few internal development sites with invalid SSL certificates on them, which Google throws an obnoxious "YOUR CONNECTION IS NOT PRIVATE" warning every time I hit them.
Congratulations, Google, you're training people to click on the "Proceed to x (unsafe)" link EVERY time they see that page as a muscle memory reaction, whether or not it's a real security issue or not.
I'd love to hear the thought process behind this one, considering that Ubuntu seems to be the only commercial Linux manufacturer actually invested in supporting the desktop releases. Red Hat and SuSE seem to be happy with slapping a copy of Gnome and LibreOffice on the server version.
This might actually be good for crypto in general, since it will finally convince developers that they need to move away from "Proof Of Work" verification algorithms and less processor intensive verification methods like "Proof Of Stake". It's been on their "To Do" lists for awhile, since environmentalists have been hounding them about how much electricity crypto mining wastes for years now. Like many things in IT, being forced to do something because of government regulation can force change here.
Well... anybody making money mining Bitcoin NOW is probably stealing electricity.
Some people earlier on were either smart enough or lucky enough to get in early and ride the price increase from less than a buck to over $10,000. I doubt that we'll see that happen again any time soon, though.
The funny thing is that the original Apple TV model was perfect for infrequent TV viewers. Just subscribe to the shows you like, and that's all you get.
Unfortunately, it was extremely overpriced. I'm not going to pay something like $30 to watch a season of Westworld in HD when I can probably get for that price on BluRay and probably get a better watching experience. No buffering, no weird compression artifacts in the video or sound, and no slowing down the Internet access for the rest of the house.
Yeah... I'm not going to sign up for CBS All Access subscription just to watch the new Star Trek, either. I would consider trying the free trial if the new Twilight Zone episodes were any good, though, but the reviews for the two episodes out there now have been lackluster.
You got a point... right now, you'll need Sling TV, Netflix, Amazon, CBS All Access, HBO Go, AND Hulu to cover all of the shows most people want to watch.
Soon, you'll get to add Disney TV and Apple TV + to that list. Add up all those subscription fees, and now you're paying a hell of a lot more than you paid for cable.
People asked for All La Carte TV... now they can get it. Let's see if they enjoy it as much as they thought they would.
Yeah, I didn't think of that. Now that Disney is coming up with their own streaming service, there is a good chance that all of that content will no longer be available on Netflix streaming.
I think that US just wants less people using the Huawei network equipment with the Chinese backdoors in it's firmware, and the Cisco network equipment with the NSA backdoors in it's firmware instead. It just makes things a bit easier for our various three letter intelligence agencies. I mean, the Chinese keep changing the passwords on their backdoors, and it's a pain to have to brute force them instead of just looking them up in USpyWiki...
If the impact risk was really significant, wouldn't they would send up Space Force to clean up the mess?
I mean, Space Force is a thing now, right? Trump announced it almost a year ago, so they must have their own fleet of big beautiful space ships by now with lasers and other cool junk cleaning junk on them.
I think that a lot of people will keep using Windows 7 until they can't get application software updates for it anymore, and then they'll go buy whatever $200 Windows 10 laptop they can find on sale at Walmart or Best Buy.
If you think that an average user can handle installing Linux and getting all of the device drivers working correctly on their 5 to 8 year old laptop, you're overestimating the average intelligence of an average computer user.
You think that Windows Vista was better than Windows 2000?? Why? Vista was a resource hog, and basically forced Microsoft to make Windows 7 a bug fix release for Vista.
Yeah, I think that McDonald's could get away with this on a Big Mac pretty easily, since the patties are pretty small and the sauce overpowers everything flavor wise.
A Burger King Whopper wouldn't have been my first choice, since it seems to have a pretty high meat to bun ratio.
I don't know... if you're crazy enough to still be using an OS that basically stopped being updated for anything but Point Of Sale systems 15 years ago, who knows that other weird ideas you might believe in.
The Intel IT department probably had nothing to do with that. That would have been the processor design and engineering teams.
Microsoft and Blackberry already had smartphones with e-mail and a web browser before the iPhone came out. Apple just made one that was a hell of a lot more usable.
Yeah, fans don't really work if you're trying to do an IP65 enclosure, as those should be fully sealed.
Honestly, something like this could probably be done with a Raspberry Pi nowadays in terms of CPU power, except that the boards don't really meet the temperature range requirements. I'd imagine that you could find something in your Arrow Electronics catalog that would do the trick, though.
I'm curious... how practical are disposable utensils made of wood, anyway? I've never seen anyone using them in the US.
Are they as bad as the paper straws that everyone seems to be switching to?