No, that's not exactly the view. But 6 months ago when there was a 9% layoff the communication at the time was "I also want to emphasize that we are making this hard decision now so that we never have to do this again.”
Are you saying that Tesla's management sees "never" as being only 5 months? Or is this just outright lying to employees to cover mismanagement?
It would still be worse, becuase LCD / LED displays are far more fragile than a sheet of stamped fucking steel.
I don't see lines of people looking to get replacement plates due to damaged plates today, and even if they did the cost is 10% of the replacement cost of one of these. Incredibly more fragile and far more expensive than the incumbent solution is an awesome market advantage.
Number of vehicles registered per year? Number of amber alerts per year? Cost of "digital" plate versus stamped plate? "Unintended" costs to non-abductor users?
I think we can find better solutions that don't disproportionately affect everybody because of the 0.0001% of vehicles used in the commission of an amber-alert disappearance.
No, I think there are companies with solutions looking for problems.
This thing does absolutely nothing better that a printed plate can't do except spy on you, cost far more, and fail more often in ways that are far more severe.
Your hypothesis doesn't contain enough detail and context. For example, with the proper equipment, jumping from an airplane at 30,000 feet and surviving is quite possible with a high order of probability.
I just proved you wrong in about 10 seconds. Come up with a better direct analogy.
The issue really is that Bluetooth can't catch up because you the same basic incompatibility issues caused by proprietary garbage.
Everyone's fallback codec is SBC, which sounds terrible. Various companies have come up with higher fidelity schemes, but they then try to license it to people for $$$ and some companies (especially those with competing "standards") then refuse, so you end up with what we have today - headphones that support AptX, but phones that do not; phones that support AAC but headphones that do not. Older durable goods (cars) that don't support either, and will never get a software update that adds the capability.
So the vast majority end up using SBC and then complain that bluetooth audio sucks. Which, ostensibly, it does due to always using the lowest-common denominator.
Even if Qualcomm or Dolby made AptX and AAC royalty-free tomorrow, you still have to replace a massive amount of Bluetooth devices with new devices that support the codecs, and some of that stuff won't be replaced for quite some time (cars, headphones that are otherwise fine, stereo equipment that would otherwise work fine for a decade or more, etc.)
Bluetooth had it's chance to be far better than it is, and they fucked it up. Fidelity continues to be in the exclusive domain of wires.
... or have an integrated system in your car that actually is good.
There is a marked improvement in audio quality in my car between Bluetooth connection, and plugging in a USB cable to my phone. The SBC codec is garbage.
In the past I had it set to a 100k mailbox size limit and then sent myself a 99k attachment all but guaranteeing a bounce message going back to any spammers
So instead of a receipt that takes less than a second to print, and is completely recyclable you want people at the checkstand to be typing in - or even worse, trying to get the checker to type in by dictation - everyone's email address?
The old lady who writes checks and has a folder of coupons thinks this will slow everything down at a store's front end.
You know that the magnetic field of rocks and shit has nothing to do with the magnetic field that surrounds the earth, right?
OMG the earth's magnetic field is shifting slightly and everyone's magnetic disks and archive tape drives will suddenly stop working! Even though these shifts happen constantly and always have!
When playing Uno do you claim that the person who just got rid of their last card actually lost because you have a full house in your remaining cards? Why don't you try win with the rules of the game being played, rather than rules for some other game that you're only following on your own.
It doesn't matter if Hillary ran up the score in California and New York. 50% + 1 vote wins the state and it's delegation (with few exceptions). And the President is elected by those delegations, not you. It's always been that way, so I don't know why you would think that it's all of a sudden different when your chosen tribe managed to lose an election that basically everyone though was un-loseable through amazing arrogance and disconnection with the voting public.
Maybe next time spend less time shmoozing the coastal elite for money and instagram photos, and actually speak to issues that moderates in the middle of the country want solved. Then you don't historically lose "safe" states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania that a Republican hasn't won in three decades. And then, consequently, we wouldn't have a Dorito-tinted proto-facist sitting in the White House.
The "popular vote" isn't anything but an excuse for those who lost the election. It's a safety net for their massive ego, and the sycophants that can't understand that perhaps there are many other people out there that disagree with you. The nation-wide "popular vote" hasn't EVER been considered for the election of a President in the history of the United States Constitution. Stop moving the goalposts and then attempting to validate obstructionism and straight-out denial through the new position of said goalposts. We get it, you're still bitter that your favored tribe didn't win two years ago and you want to make any excuse or equivocation that you can for why. But the fact is, HILLARY LOST ACCORDING TO THE GOD DAMN ELECTION RULES.
Because that's how leverage works. If you cut all the shit that nobody cares about, or everyone except the government employee unions want cut, then you're just doing your job as a fiscally responsible manager of the Citizens' tax dollars. If you want to move the needle, you have to make noise.
Yes, thank you Democrats for the massive pork-laden highway bills to dig unnecessary tunnel projects that are poorly engineered, unbelievably expensive, late, and still over budget; a flawed health insurance overhaul that didn't go nearly far enough and serves to continue fleecing most US citizens for outrageous premiums at the same time as cutting back coverage and disallowing things that actually saved money like over-the-counter medication purchases with HSA funds; and a collapsing social security system that I'll pay into my entire life, and never see a dime from.
What you just said: "No, we aren't in the business of governing anymore."
The election is over. Now it's time to actually govern, which means working together to get the business of the federal government done.
If you don't want to govern, don't run for government office. If you just want to be a political hack, get a fucking AM radio talk show like all the other hacks.
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Do you really think that they built a multi-billion dollar car factory in a week?
Are you really that thick?
No, that's not exactly the view. But 6 months ago when there was a 9% layoff the communication at the time was "I also want to emphasize that we are making this hard decision now so that we never have to do this again.”
Are you saying that Tesla's management sees "never" as being only 5 months? Or is this just outright lying to employees to cover mismanagement?
It would still be worse, becuase LCD / LED displays are far more fragile than a sheet of stamped fucking steel.
I don't see lines of people looking to get replacement plates due to damaged plates today, and even if they did the cost is 10% of the replacement cost of one of these. Incredibly more fragile and far more expensive than the incumbent solution is an awesome market advantage.
Number of vehicles registered per year?
Number of amber alerts per year?
Cost of "digital" plate versus stamped plate?
"Unintended" costs to non-abductor users?
I think we can find better solutions that don't disproportionately affect everybody because of the 0.0001% of vehicles used in the commission of an amber-alert disappearance.
No, I think there are companies with solutions looking for problems.
This thing does absolutely nothing better that a printed plate can't do except spy on you, cost far more, and fail more often in ways that are far more severe.
Fuck this bullshit.
So you lay off 7% last year, then grow 30% (according to Mr. Musk's email), then lay off 7% again?
Perhaps a little more care should be paid to not hiring more people than your business can support.
Your hypothesis doesn't contain enough detail and context. For example, with the proper equipment, jumping from an airplane at 30,000 feet and surviving is quite possible with a high order of probability.
I just proved you wrong in about 10 seconds. Come up with a better direct analogy.
Yeah, because phones have historically had ports for:
- Printer (parallel port)
- Modem/... (serial port)
- Network (ethernet port)
- Headphone (headphone connector)
- Mouse (USB, usually multiple)
- Monitor (VGA, DVI, HDMI or DP)
- Power (separate power plug)
Please try to keep up with the conversation, or just shut the fuck up. We weren't talking about phones.
The issue really is that Bluetooth can't catch up because you the same basic incompatibility issues caused by proprietary garbage.
Everyone's fallback codec is SBC, which sounds terrible. Various companies have come up with higher fidelity schemes, but they then try to license it to people for $$$ and some companies (especially those with competing "standards") then refuse, so you end up with what we have today - headphones that support AptX, but phones that do not; phones that support AAC but headphones that do not. Older durable goods (cars) that don't support either, and will never get a software update that adds the capability.
So the vast majority end up using SBC and then complain that bluetooth audio sucks. Which, ostensibly, it does due to always using the lowest-common denominator.
Even if Qualcomm or Dolby made AptX and AAC royalty-free tomorrow, you still have to replace a massive amount of Bluetooth devices with new devices that support the codecs, and some of that stuff won't be replaced for quite some time (cars, headphones that are otherwise fine, stereo equipment that would otherwise work fine for a decade or more, etc.)
Bluetooth had it's chance to be far better than it is, and they fucked it up. Fidelity continues to be in the exclusive domain of wires.
Get a USB hub. They've existed for decades.
With all that shit you've got listed, you've also got a desk that you can leave the hub on, and all that shit plugged into it.
Bonus: it's all far more manageable for a notebook computer now, and doesn't cost nearly as much as the port replicators of the past.
Except charging at the same time as having wired audio fidelity?
... or have an integrated system in your car that actually is good.
There is a marked improvement in audio quality in my car between Bluetooth connection, and plugging in a USB cable to my phone. The SBC codec is garbage.
True for various values of "bluetooth audio quality"
It really depends on the profile support of all the devices involved. And the source material you are playing. Hint: garbage in, garbage out.
I don't understand your comment at all.
We are talking about a cold gas thruster - a.k.a. compressed air. On an electric car. No gasoline to spill. Or flame exhaust.
How, exactly, is a "friggin' twenty foot across gas spill" going to occur, much less be ignited by this?
Mine: roundfile@
In the past I had it set to a 100k mailbox size limit and then sent myself a 99k attachment all but guaranteeing a bounce message going back to any spammers
Because Home Depot and Walmart are fortune-100 corporations with an army of IT people and budgets of millions of dollars?
Please think every once in a while.
So instead of a receipt that takes less than a second to print, and is completely recyclable you want people at the checkstand to be typing in - or even worse, trying to get the checker to type in by dictation - everyone's email address?
The old lady who writes checks and has a folder of coupons thinks this will slow everything down at a store's front end.
It's a solution looking for a problem.
It's hilarious that you think governments could keep something like that secret.
Best argument against moon hoaxers as well.
You know that the magnetic field of rocks and shit has nothing to do with the magnetic field that surrounds the earth, right?
OMG the earth's magnetic field is shifting slightly and everyone's magnetic disks and archive tape drives will suddenly stop working! Even though these shifts happen constantly and always have!
Good grief.
Or those zany survivors of Oceanic 815 moved the island again...
When playing Uno do you claim that the person who just got rid of their last card actually lost because you have a full house in your remaining cards? Why don't you try win with the rules of the game being played, rather than rules for some other game that you're only following on your own.
It doesn't matter if Hillary ran up the score in California and New York. 50% + 1 vote wins the state and it's delegation (with few exceptions). And the President is elected by those delegations, not you. It's always been that way, so I don't know why you would think that it's all of a sudden different when your chosen tribe managed to lose an election that basically everyone though was un-loseable through amazing arrogance and disconnection with the voting public.
Maybe next time spend less time shmoozing the coastal elite for money and instagram photos, and actually speak to issues that moderates in the middle of the country want solved. Then you don't historically lose "safe" states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania that a Republican hasn't won in three decades. And then, consequently, we wouldn't have a Dorito-tinted proto-facist sitting in the White House.
The "popular vote" isn't anything but an excuse for those who lost the election. It's a safety net for their massive ego, and the sycophants that can't understand that perhaps there are many other people out there that disagree with you. The nation-wide "popular vote" hasn't EVER been considered for the election of a President in the history of the United States Constitution. Stop moving the goalposts and then attempting to validate obstructionism and straight-out denial through the new position of said goalposts. We get it, you're still bitter that your favored tribe didn't win two years ago and you want to make any excuse or equivocation that you can for why. But the fact is, HILLARY LOST ACCORDING TO THE GOD DAMN ELECTION RULES.
Because that's how leverage works. If you cut all the shit that nobody cares about, or everyone except the government employee unions want cut, then you're just doing your job as a fiscally responsible manager of the Citizens' tax dollars. If you want to move the needle, you have to make noise.
Same as it ever was.
Yes, thank you Democrats for the massive pork-laden highway bills to dig unnecessary tunnel projects that are poorly engineered, unbelievably expensive, late, and still over budget; a flawed health insurance overhaul that didn't go nearly far enough and serves to continue fleecing most US citizens for outrageous premiums at the same time as cutting back coverage and disallowing things that actually saved money like over-the-counter medication purchases with HSA funds; and a collapsing social security system that I'll pay into my entire life, and never see a dime from.
Brilliant.
You'll probably start to know pretty soon as those furloughed workers start not getting paychecks. The economic ripples are going to start.
What you just said:
"No, we aren't in the business of governing anymore."
The election is over. Now it's time to actually govern, which means working together to get the business of the federal government done.
If you don't want to govern, don't run for government office. If you just want to be a political hack, get a fucking AM radio talk show like all the other hacks.