The ruined presentations are ones that I've actually attended and had to sit through Windows suddenly deciding to reboot and the presenter not knowing what to do, and the attendees having to sit through the installation process. Or ones that I watched live streamed.
I do digital painting from live model, after a few times of having Windows install an update for 40 minutes or botching a driver update that took me a similar amount of time to figure out how to fix, that's the limited time I have with the model, and the money paid wasted, I'm not enabling updates on this device again.
Now on my main desktop I still have Windows 7 so I'm less apprehensive and do update manually every couple of months.
Because getting some kind of virus is a hypothetical, while seeing several people's presentations ruined, my own work stopped for half an hour on three occasions, bad drivers installed multiple times, all those are tangible experiences.
They also have tiles without solar cells in them which are presumably cheaper, so you can choose what percentage of the roof's surface generates power.
You conveniently forgot to mention that this particular monologue wasn't actually about Trump's policies but rather about him calling the journalist interviewing him 'fake media' and referring to his show as 'deface the nation'. It was Colbert reciprocating the name-calling Trump is famous for, and while you might find it distasteful Colbert would stoop to that level, one is a television comedian while the other is supposed to be the president.
I don't know how things work in IT specifically, but if I see someone stumbling out of the office exhausted at 1AM and a life hasn't been saved, I see a major failure of staffing, or scheduling, or otherwise someone fucking up their job.
They did some testing with battery replacement but it doesn't look like it led to anything useful so far. It's also a very limited solution. The battery is essentially the whole underside of the car. You need a mechanism that unscrews the underside of the car, disconnects all connectors, takes the battery into a storage facility and gets you a new battery, then reconnects everything. You also need to do this for multiple models, at different sizes, so probably some kind of movable robotic screwdriver arm, you probably need to house it in some sort of drive-through structure, pay mechanics to maintain each one. How many of those do you think they'd find cost-effective to build, for the few people who can't stop and charge for half an hour after driving 300 miles straight? And if the do build them, great, they've created a solution for Tesla customers, but they don't server any car like a gas station would.
Alternatively, put more research into higher powered charging. Tesla recently filed a patent for a system that also pushes coolant from the charging station through the battery pack's cooling system, which should reduce the charging time significantly due to heat generation being a significant part of the problem.
Nice try, but every time I've upgraded your browser it broke or removed features I use, and added useless junk on top.
I used to upgrade to the latest software as soon as it came out, but it feels like the likes of Microsoft and Mozilla are intentionally trying to train me to treat every software update with utmost suspicion and as a measure of last resort.
23K a year may sound like peanuts, but imagine, if it saves him but one trip to Mar A Lago to meet with undisclosed donors, we're starting to talk real money here.
Well, they do share some new and useful data with NASA, for example their R&D on the PICA-X ablative heat shield and data collected from retro-burn landing that might be used for Mars landings in the future.
Of course there are also the ITAR restrictions on what information can be publicly shared on rocket technology.
But yeah, it's mainly working with engineering and economics that are available to everyone, a lot of off-the-shelf components in fact, just a better use of them. It's not like there's an inordinate amount of innovation going on between landing on a flat surface on land and a different one at sea *cough* *cough*.
5% in this case in not nearly enough. Elon himself owns somewhere around 25%, and he has some sway over the remaining large holders. Also, there are some super-majority rules that require over 66.6% vote for stuff like appointing a new CEO.
Tesla delivered 22,200 cars last quarter. Take into account that those are much more expensive, and Tesla is production-constrained, and the Model 3 Had around 400K reservations last we heard (this might have decreased, but it'll still take years to fulfill the orders even if it's half that).
I don't really know the Bolt situation in depth, maybe they're not making an effort to produce and sell them because they're just meant to fill a regulatory quota, maybe the car itself is not that appealing, or maybe the dealership sales model is indeed biased against electric cars, but I wouldn't extrapolate from it to electric cars in general.
"But what many people may not realise is that there is actually more than one Boaty. The name covers a trio of vehicles in the new Autosub Long Range class of underwater robots developed at Southampton's National Oceanography Centre (NOC)." Three? My extensive research of Scottish culture left me under the impression that there can be only one! I hope this doesn't invalidate the authenticity of my traditional Clan McBoatface tartan kilt.
You seem to be comparing a professional tool to consumer goods. A tractor is going to cost a significant amount of money and it being out of commission at a critical time can cost you a lot of money and possibly your whole crop. If you run a kitchen you buy professional grade stoves and professional grade blenders and professional grade pots. If you run a VFX company, you're going to buy workstations with ECC RAM that would prevent random bit flips and a chasis that allows you to slide out a fried PSU and replace it in 30 seconds so your artist can continue working and you don't miss the deadline, and you're not going to worry too much about it surviving for 20 years because by that time a newer machine will be 1000x as efficient and your old machine will be an historical curiosity.
If you're sitting at a Starbucks, pretending you're working on your novel on your Macbook Air, there are completely different considerations in play, like how evenly lit the Apple logo is on the back, or how heavy it will be to carry on your way to the Whole Foods, but that is a completely different class of product.
I remember I had a whole semester at some point in grade school where I had to sit in front of a computer and use some stupid educational application that made me move a turtle around from one point to another. It's only when I got to college and one of our instructors mentioned Logo that I realized I was supposed to be learning a programming language. I can't even imagine what infinitesimal fraction of an impression an hour would leave, I doubt you could even fully teach how a for loop works in that amount time.
As far as I know they offered free supercharging for five years, and anyone who bought a car in that time period still has it, hardly bait and switch. Do you expect a company to continue offering an option in perpetuity once it's been introduced, regardless of how the scale and economics change?
A few years ago I used to visit Gametrailers.com daily. One day I started viewing a trailer and I got a message that I must disable my ad blocker to continue viewing.
I'm fucking actively seeking out ads on my own volition and you're trying to waste my time with other ads I'm not interested in?
I stopped visiting that site then.
A few weeks ago I decided to check out what it looks like now, and apparently it redirects to a Youtube channel, I guess they couldn't make enough money pushing all those extra ads to maintain a site.
As mentioned by others, Tesla produces and sells the panels themselves, they don't build heliostats. In addition, they have a lot of rooftop real-estate at their factory and presumably it's a lot easier and cheaper to cover the roof with panels than construct a heliostat on a neighboring piece of land.
I'm sure that at a certain point one monolithic power plant has advantages in efficiency and other economies of scale, but I don't think Tesla+SolarCity is looking to become a traditional power utility company, and there are advantages to the approach of small nodes of power generation and storage that might be connected in a mesh-network to balance loads, cover local failures, and don't require running long distance power lines to isolated locations.
And don't forget Microsoft's purchase of LinkedIn for $26.2B, that puts things in perspective for me. A social network that no one actually uses is worth more than twice the entire revenue of of the movie industry in North America on a record breaking year.
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If you can download the whole new season all at once, it's probably Netflix.
So what, they're bored with the simple incremental numerical naming scheme already?
Are they rebooting the franchise?
The ruined presentations are ones that I've actually attended and had to sit through Windows suddenly deciding to reboot and the presenter not knowing what to do, and the attendees having to sit through the installation process.
Or ones that I watched live streamed.
I do digital painting from live model, after a few times of having Windows install an update for 40 minutes or botching a driver update that took me a similar amount of time to figure out how to fix, that's the limited time I have with the model, and the money paid wasted, I'm not enabling updates on this device again.
Now on my main desktop I still have Windows 7 so I'm less apprehensive and do update manually every couple of months.
Because getting some kind of virus is a hypothetical, while seeing several people's presentations ruined, my own work stopped for half an hour on three occasions, bad drivers installed multiple times, all those are tangible experiences.
They also have tiles without solar cells in them which are presumably cheaper, so you can choose what percentage of the roof's surface generates power.
You conveniently forgot to mention that this particular monologue wasn't actually about Trump's policies but rather about him calling the journalist interviewing him 'fake media' and referring to his show as 'deface the nation'.
It was Colbert reciprocating the name-calling Trump is famous for, and while you might find it distasteful Colbert would stoop to that level, one is a television comedian while the other is supposed to be the president.
I don't know how things work in IT specifically, but if I see someone stumbling out of the office exhausted at 1AM and a life hasn't been saved, I see a major failure of staffing, or scheduling, or otherwise someone fucking up their job.
They did some testing with battery replacement but it doesn't look like it led to anything useful so far.
It's also a very limited solution.
The battery is essentially the whole underside of the car.
You need a mechanism that unscrews the underside of the car, disconnects all connectors, takes the battery into a storage facility and gets you a new battery, then reconnects everything.
You also need to do this for multiple models, at different sizes, so probably some kind of movable robotic screwdriver arm, you probably need to house it in some sort of drive-through structure, pay mechanics to maintain each one.
How many of those do you think they'd find cost-effective to build, for the few people who can't stop and charge for half an hour after driving 300 miles straight?
And if the do build them, great, they've created a solution for Tesla customers, but they don't server any car like a gas station would.
Alternatively, put more research into higher powered charging.
Tesla recently filed a patent for a system that also pushes coolant from the charging station through the battery pack's cooling system, which should reduce the charging time significantly due to heat generation being a significant part of the problem.
Nice try, but every time I've upgraded your browser it broke or removed features I use, and added useless junk on top.
I used to upgrade to the latest software as soon as it came out, but it feels like the likes of Microsoft and Mozilla are intentionally trying to train me to treat every software update with utmost suspicion and as a measure of last resort.
23K a year may sound like peanuts, but imagine, if it saves him but one trip to Mar A Lago to meet with undisclosed donors, we're starting to talk real money here.
Well, they do share some new and useful data with NASA, for example their R&D on the PICA-X ablative heat shield and data collected from retro-burn landing that might be used for Mars landings in the future.
Of course there are also the ITAR restrictions on what information can be publicly shared on rocket technology.
But yeah, it's mainly working with engineering and economics that are available to everyone, a lot of off-the-shelf components in fact, just a better use of them.
It's not like there's an inordinate amount of innovation going on between landing on a flat surface on land and a different one at sea *cough* *cough*.
5% in this case in not nearly enough.
Elon himself owns somewhere around 25%, and he has some sway over the remaining large holders.
Also, there are some super-majority rules that require over 66.6% vote for stuff like appointing a new CEO.
Tesla delivered 22,200 cars last quarter.
Take into account that those are much more expensive, and Tesla is production-constrained, and the Model 3 Had around 400K reservations last we heard (this might have decreased, but it'll still take years to fulfill the orders even if it's half that).
I don't really know the Bolt situation in depth, maybe they're not making an effort to produce and sell them because they're just meant to fill a regulatory quota, maybe the car itself is not that appealing, or maybe the dealership sales model is indeed biased against electric cars, but I wouldn't extrapolate from it to electric cars in general.
Owning stock doesn't mean you can just walking into the company's HQ and take whatever you want.
"But what many people may not realise is that there is actually more than one Boaty. The name covers a trio of vehicles in the new Autosub Long Range class of underwater robots developed at Southampton's National Oceanography Centre (NOC)."
Three? My extensive research of Scottish culture left me under the impression that there can be only one!
I hope this doesn't invalidate the authenticity of my traditional Clan McBoatface tartan kilt.
You seem to be comparing a professional tool to consumer goods.
A tractor is going to cost a significant amount of money and it being out of commission at a critical time can cost you a lot of money and possibly your whole crop.
If you run a kitchen you buy professional grade stoves and professional grade blenders and professional grade pots.
If you run a VFX company, you're going to buy workstations with ECC RAM that would prevent random bit flips and a chasis that allows you to slide out a fried PSU and replace it in 30 seconds so your artist can continue working and you don't miss the deadline, and you're not going to worry too much about it surviving for 20 years because by that time a newer machine will be 1000x as efficient and your old machine will be an historical curiosity.
If you're sitting at a Starbucks, pretending you're working on your novel on your Macbook Air, there are completely different considerations in play, like how evenly lit the Apple logo is on the back, or how heavy it will be to carry on your way to the Whole Foods, but that is a completely different class of product.
I remember I had a whole semester at some point in grade school where I had to sit in front of a computer and use some stupid educational application that made me move a turtle around from one point to another.
It's only when I got to college and one of our instructors mentioned Logo that I realized I was supposed to be learning a programming language.
I can't even imagine what infinitesimal fraction of an impression an hour would leave, I doubt you could even fully teach how a for loop works in that amount time.
As far as I know they offered free supercharging for five years, and anyone who bought a car in that time period still has it, hardly bait and switch.
Do you expect a company to continue offering an option in perpetuity once it's been introduced, regardless of how the scale and economics change?
How about making an exception for living politicians that become dead politicians as part of the process?
SpaceX does that.
But then, their ships are autonomous.
A few years ago I used to visit Gametrailers.com daily.
One day I started viewing a trailer and I got a message that I must disable my ad blocker to continue viewing.
I'm fucking actively seeking out ads on my own volition and you're trying to waste my time with other ads I'm not interested in?
I stopped visiting that site then.
A few weeks ago I decided to check out what it looks like now, and apparently it redirects to a Youtube channel, I guess they couldn't make enough money pushing all those extra ads to maintain a site.
As mentioned by others, Tesla produces and sells the panels themselves, they don't build heliostats.
In addition, they have a lot of rooftop real-estate at their factory and presumably it's a lot easier and cheaper to cover the roof with panels than construct a heliostat on a neighboring piece of land.
I'm sure that at a certain point one monolithic power plant has advantages in efficiency and other economies of scale, but I don't think Tesla+SolarCity is looking to become a traditional power utility company, and there are advantages to the approach of small nodes of power generation and storage that might be connected in a mesh-network to balance loads, cover local failures, and don't require running long distance power lines to isolated locations.
Well, at least it's not G8...
And don't forget Microsoft's purchase of LinkedIn for $26.2B, that puts things in perspective for me.
A social network that no one actually uses is worth more than twice the entire revenue of of the movie industry in North America on a record breaking year.
Have we just reached peak hipster?