It's always annoying when people become successful doing things that you don't believe in. You're just miffed that you didn't think of it first. If your grandchildren are on it, you have to be on it. The end. [But is is a colossal waste of time.]
I would guess the Tesla is absent because their battery packs are made from 6000-7000 laptop batteries and can't take rapid charging. They are in "production" because they use a $40000 battery pack that no one else thought was a good idea.
Any place there is a security screening line is an effective site to set off a bomb. Lots of people standing around and no one has been screened yet. Why bother going through all the trouble to get a device on a plane? Wherever there is a chance that you might be discovered, set it off. You might take out a multi-million dollar scanner! I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet (or has it?).
Cars can have a fairly long life when compared to electronic gadgets. I still drive a 1972 car, but I would not have much use for a 40 year old computer except as a display object. An old car can have substantial value, but old electronics are considered junk. As a result, the more computer stuff that is fitted to an automobile, the worse its long-term usefulness and resale value becomes. More computer hardware means quicker obsolescence.
Other companies must be having fits that Apple can sell shiny bits with rounded corners at high prices while everyone else squeaks by at much lower margins. When I have bought Apple products for my wife or granddaughter, it felt much more like buying jewelry or Steuben glass than a tech purchase. Beautiful and just as sensibly priced. Silly though.
by giving up cable TV and a smart phone. With over the air TV, internet access and smarter friends you really don't need cable and you don't need to pay twice for the same data services.
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You are also allowed to ask what languages a person speaks, but not how they learned them.
Good to know the North Koreans have extra money to send to the Russians and can afford to maintain jamming trucks.
Their address at "South Wacker Drive" explains everything.
No human could move rocks like that.
It's always annoying when people become successful doing things that you don't believe in.
You're just miffed that you didn't think of it first.
If your grandchildren are on it, you have to be on it. The end.
[But is is a colossal waste of time.]
I would guess the Tesla is absent because their battery packs are made from 6000-7000 laptop batteries and can't take rapid charging. They are in "production" because they use a $40000 battery pack that no one else thought was a good idea.
Any place there is a security screening line is an effective site to set off a bomb. Lots of people standing around and no one has been screened yet. Why bother going through all the trouble to get a device on a plane? Wherever there is a chance that you might be discovered, set it off. You might take out a multi-million dollar scanner! I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet (or has it?).
So someone thinks they can model the wind speed on Pluto? Right.
Now they get to sit around watching Al-Qaeda videos so they can keep a eye out for the naughty bits.
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A Chinese company building a replica Titanic? What could possibly go wrong? That movie will just be re-classified as a documentary.
It took a whole minute for you to post this after the article showed up on /. Please try to be faster next time.
You mean "lobbeasts".
Kidney once, shame on you. Kidney twice, shame on me.
1) This formula only works if few people use it.
2) Math formulae don't bankrupt people. Only people bankrupt people.
Cars can have a fairly long life when compared to electronic gadgets. I still drive a 1972 car, but I would not have much use for a 40 year old computer except as a display object. An old car can have substantial value, but old electronics are considered junk. As a result, the more computer stuff that is fitted to an automobile, the worse its long-term usefulness and resale value becomes. More computer hardware means quicker obsolescence.
Isn't this just a good excuse to send people's email addresses off to SPAM central? For a small security fee of course.
Other companies must be having fits that Apple can sell shiny bits with rounded corners at high prices while everyone else squeaks by at much lower margins. When I have bought Apple products for my wife or granddaughter, it felt much more like buying jewelry or Steuben glass than a tech purchase. Beautiful and just as sensibly priced. Silly though.
Clearly years of study and employment in the engineering/scientific world have not prepared me to understand anything of real value, like BitCoin.
Nice of you to mention this. One of my favorites.
This is even better than the news item about how the Psychic Network went out of business due to unforeseen financial difficulties.
by giving up cable TV and a smart phone. With over the air TV, internet access and smarter friends you really don't need cable and you don't need to pay twice for the same data services.
And my luggage.
Well, we should all fear retribution from a group that poisons schoolgirls. They must be a terrifying bunch!
In the future, your body will be on-line all the time, constantly uploading status reports and downloading firmware updates.