What Amazon needs is a checkbox on their page that allows people to choose:
a) I only want guaranteed new goods, charge me premium price and a "restocking" fee for anything I return. b) Returned goods are acceptable to me, charge me regular price.
Clue: It's not because they don't want the cars, it's because the waiting list is so long at the moment.
Bottom line: Tesla can guarantee to sell every car he produces for at least the next five years, more like ten years in reality.
At the end of it he'll have the biggest/best battery factory and the coolest car technology. Any bets on how many pre-orders he'll get for the generation after this one?
If the production cost of a new card can be reduced then you can most likely reduce the cost of the previous-gen card just as easily. Maybe give a small clock speed boost to gain some sales. This already happens with the "Ti" versions of Nvidia graphics cards, etc.
The point is that you release as few new features as possible, hold back as many as you can for the next-gen.
CPUs have pretty much plateaued, people are starting to say that GPUs are plateauing, a smart company will do anything that extends sales by a couple more years.
I imagine this has a lot to do with the announcement during the WWDC keynote that they are working on allowing iOS apps to run in macOS. That's far simpler if they stick with Metal and do away with Open GL.
OpenGL already works on both.
Going from Mac->iOS might be difficult if you didn't plan for it but going from iOS to Mac (ie. OpenGL ES to OpenGL) is easy.
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What Amazon needs is a checkbox on their page that allows people to choose:
a) I only want guaranteed new goods, charge me premium price and a "restocking" fee for anything I return.
b) Returned goods are acceptable to me, charge me regular price.
Does it have to be destroyed on the off-chance?
There's plenty of people out there who'd take that risk if they could pay less than full price.
Ummm... no.
It's about the planet.
At some point people have to wake up and realize it's NOT all about the money.
No they didn't. There is a reason TSLA is the most shorted stock in history. It is because people are making money doing it. That is the proof itself.
It's almost as if you have absolutely no idea what stock shorting is.
Clue: It's not because they don't want the cars, it's because the waiting list is so long at the moment.
Bottom line: Tesla can guarantee to sell every car he produces for at least the next five years, more like ten years in reality.
At the end of it he'll have the biggest/best battery factory and the coolest car technology. Any bets on how many pre-orders he'll get for the generation after this one?
Right, because literally NONE of those could sign up again if the waiting list drops to six months.
Not.
Yep. All this "the most shorted company on wall street" is paid for by traditional car makers.
It's the only weapon they have to fight Tesla with and it's not working.
I'm not particularly bullish on Tesla, but even I don't think you can call it until it actually goes belly up.
He has, like 500,000 Model 3 cars on back-order. That's $2.5 billion+ in orders. Production is ramping up.
Meanwhile he's still selling as many Model S and Model X as he can possibly build (remember those?).
Only a complete idiot would be shorting Tesla right now.
potentially bankrupting many of them and sending some out of the windows of Wall Street skyscrapers
And nothing of value was lost.
This 'story' needs the GIF of Captain Picard going, "Oh, no, not this crap AGAIN".
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The can use it to compute their blockchains.
The future will be awesome with this.
Never mind the puns, how long before somebody steals it?
A bunch of Somalian fishermen with a supply of large inflatable bags will have that thing off the sea floor in no time.
I thought you guys were building a big fucking fence to take care of this.
Cameras and computers and cheaper than border guards.
LOL!
You don't know who's installing/running this, do you?
If any guards are removed you can bet their salary goes into the new boss's pocket.
She's not massless, though.
Plus: Each generation is exponentially more difficult to design.
Giving existing engineers more time to work between generations might be a necessary thing, not a luxury.
You do whatever makes most money for the company.
Engineers are easy to keep happy.
If the production cost of a new card can be reduced then you can most likely reduce the cost of the previous-gen card just as easily. Maybe give a small clock speed boost to gain some sales. This already happens with the "Ti" versions of Nvidia graphics cards, etc.
The point is that you release as few new features as possible, hold back as many as you can for the next-gen.
CPUs have pretty much plateaued, people are starting to say that GPUs are plateauing, a smart company will do anything that extends sales by a couple more years.
You just failed business 101.
New cards should be held back as long as current cards are selling well and there's no serious competition. Anything else is throwing away R&D money.
(because you'll immediately be forced to start spending money on the next generation card)
I imagine this has a lot to do with the announcement during the WWDC keynote that they are working on allowing iOS apps to run in macOS. That's far simpler if they stick with Metal and do away with Open GL.
OpenGL already works on both.
Going from Mac->iOS might be difficult if you didn't plan for it but going from iOS to Mac (ie. OpenGL ES to OpenGL) is easy.
Meh. Not news. Apple already did this with their touchbar.
(facepalm)
Not even the summary says this is the first 5GHz CPU ever.
They don't need to patch every possible exploit, only ones that allow privilege escalation.
Well, if you give them a list of exploits that these tools use, I'll bet they will be more than happy to fix them.
In this case they don't need to patch any exploits, they just need to disable the USB connector.
(the existing 'exploit' appears to be that they don't do that)
I'm sure Elon Musk doesn't care about whether you want to invest in his company or not.
What does that have to do with the viability of the company?
Speculators are speculators, playing games with the stock price, creating clickbait news stories to match their own personal agendas.
None of that alters Tesla's cash flow or how many cars are being shipped.