The most deserving ones are obviously those who showed up two weeks early and pitched a tent to be first in line. Also they're wearing their Elon Musk fan club tee-shirt and cosplay as a Tesla Model X at every event that will allow them in. And that includes the strip mall near their home in Dubuque, Iowa.
Yahoo was a 'portal' business more than ever a search engine. More of a curated portal than a general purpose place to find anything and everything on the 'net.
Living as a coddled adult-child in your parent's basement until you are 27 is like being a plant that for some reason got covered up by a piece of yard furniture that you discover when you move the lawn chair. It's pale and wilted and you wonder if it will grow up if you expose it to the sunlight that it's been denied.
Except we are here talking about a life form that has been deliberately coddled, and that has preened and finely tuned it's sensitivity to normal amounts of sunlight, and considers it's pale whiteness and lack of growth to be a good thing.
To the last question, yes, they are planning on living in their parents' basement forever. To the degree that they've ever planned anything at all.
My idea for power capture is large tank circuits near where radio broadcast towers are located. They could be totally passive so not subject to FCC rules regarding transmitting entities. Tune the tank circuit to the frequency of the high power broadcasting station. For a 50,000 watt station, just siphon off a few kilowats, rectify and turn to DC power to charge your battery.
Sure. Apple can just take all their cash and go private. They probably even have rocket engines built into the basement of that new building so they can take off and land anywhere they want. Maybe buy an island somewhere in the Bahamas or something.
And as for peer pressure, you haven't seen anything until you work for a PC centric group that tries to force you onto Windows only solutions.
We've all dealt with you Apple weirdos for years. A cranky old engineer that I had to work with back in the very early 90's comes to mind. He spent so much time ranting about his Macintosh and trying to get working engineering-grade software that would run on it, while the rest of us just did our work.
Go back to Appleinsiders.com where you can feel safe.
A used relative high end Dell Latitude laptop is also a good deal. Much more a good deal that anything Apple. I paid $250 for my four year old i7 Latitude. It's even one of the models well supported if I want to make it into a Hackintosh.
There will be pricey third party covers for the ugly thick white frames. With a cutout area so the Apple logo is still prominently displayed, of course.
I love it when a Wall Street analyst refers to Apple as 'the gadget maker' in a column or opinion piece. That's generally what they are thought of at this point by the people who form the basis of support for their company.
At the moment Apple is the company most successful in Supply Chain shuffle around and tax avoidance. Big and heavy and vulnerable. I hope that big spaceship they are building has rockets in it's foundation so they aren't anchored in place, because they're going to need to move it to somewhere in the Caribbean to keep up with their present business practices.
Apple's not going to be saved by a move to the Motor Industry. They can't just buy a module pre-approved by the FCC like they have with the phone business. The regulatory overhead is much, much deeper and complex in auto. Apple is headed down.
Down.
Too bad for cult members. They're barely keeping the Mac going.
If he works for a company that provided Apple with reference designs, he probably works for a supplier. I.e. reference designs for a touch interface component that they incorporate. And what he said makes it sound like the shits at Apple copp an attitude because 'they are from Apple' even though he works for a company that forms it's expertise in whatever technology they vend and produce reference designs to try to get pukes at the big companies up to speed with.
It sounds like he might work for one of the companies that makes the stuff that Apple integrates, i.e. one of the companies that knows more than how to glue together stuff other people engineered. Not some consultant.
So you've quit working for Apple three times. That indeed does qualify you to add your opinion to this article. Were you laid off three times or did you voluntarily quit?
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Elon will die alone surrounded by people he can buy. Like Howard Hughes did.
The most deserving ones are obviously those who showed up two weeks early and pitched a tent to be first in line. Also they're wearing their Elon Musk fan club tee-shirt and cosplay as a Tesla Model X at every event that will allow them in. And that includes the strip mall near their home in Dubuque, Iowa.
Yahoo was a 'portal' business more than ever a search engine. More of a curated portal than a general purpose place to find anything and everything on the 'net.
Living as a coddled adult-child in your parent's basement until you are 27 is like being a plant that for some reason got covered up by a piece of yard furniture that you discover when you move the lawn chair. It's pale and wilted and you wonder if it will grow up if you expose it to the sunlight that it's been denied.
Except we are here talking about a life form that has been deliberately coddled, and that has preened and finely tuned it's sensitivity to normal amounts of sunlight, and considers it's pale whiteness and lack of growth to be a good thing.
To the last question, yes, they are planning on living in their parents' basement forever. To the degree that they've ever planned anything at all.
My idea for power capture is large tank circuits near where radio broadcast towers are located. They could be totally passive so not subject to FCC rules regarding transmitting entities. Tune the tank circuit to the frequency of the high power broadcasting station. For a 50,000 watt station, just siphon off a few kilowats, rectify and turn to DC power to charge your battery.
Do all of this discretely, of course.
We hate you marketing fucks here in the Engineering Department.
Just so you know.
And this is Slashdot, not fastcompany or forbes.
Fuck off.
I call bullshit.
I didn't get a subsidy when I bought my new Ford truck at the dealer.
You had to link to a fanboy site for your citation??
$19 for the lightening. $8 for the micro usb.
People figure it out after awhile. We're all cheap at heart, though some like to pretend at affluence by spending more on their credit card.
With just a little more focus and market research, Apple can probably become a company that sells exclusively to the 1%.
Ooops. What sort of market share is that???
Sure. Apple can just take all their cash and go private. They probably even have rocket engines built into the basement of that new building so they can take off and land anywhere they want. Maybe buy an island somewhere in the Bahamas or something.
And as for peer pressure, you haven't seen anything until you work for a PC centric group that tries to force you onto Windows only solutions.
We've all dealt with you Apple weirdos for years. A cranky old engineer that I had to work with back in the very early 90's comes to mind. He spent so much time ranting about his Macintosh and trying to get working engineering-grade software that would run on it, while the rest of us just did our work.
Go back to Appleinsiders.com where you can feel safe.
Nobody cares about those companies. Sure, they still exist. But they sell exclusively to the 1%.
I would absolutely and completely love it if Apple became so successful that they only sold their products to the 1%.
A used relative high end Dell Latitude laptop is also a good deal. Much more a good deal that anything Apple. I paid $250 for my four year old i7 Latitude. It's even one of the models well supported if I want to make it into a Hackintosh.
Tesla can't hit 50% market share.
The taxpayer base can't afford that.
Apple's current consumer product focus is the equivalent of Sugar Water for kids.
Sculley already addressed his opinion about that kind of thing.
I saw it coming when everywhere on soda pop caps there were 'free iTunes song' advertisements emblazoned, back in the early to mid 2000's.
We've all forgotten the watch.
Not everybody here hangs out on Appleinsider as our social hub.
There will be pricey third party covers for the ugly thick white frames. With a cutout area so the Apple logo is still prominently displayed, of course.
Howard Hughes had that kinda stuff going for him, too.
What's the gadget equivalent of the Spruce Goose?
Big numbers. WalMart has big numbers, too.
You're nearly bankrupt, Apple fans.
Apple is selling sugar water to kids.
Where the fuck did I hear that before??
I love it when a Wall Street analyst refers to Apple as 'the gadget maker' in a column or opinion piece. That's generally what they are thought of at this point by the people who form the basis of support for their company.
At the moment Apple is the company most successful in Supply Chain shuffle around and tax avoidance. Big and heavy and vulnerable. I hope that big spaceship they are building has rockets in it's foundation so they aren't anchored in place, because they're going to need to move it to somewhere in the Caribbean to keep up with their present business practices.
Apple's not going to be saved by a move to the Motor Industry. They can't just buy a module pre-approved by the FCC like they have with the phone business. The regulatory overhead is much, much deeper and complex in auto. Apple is headed down.
Down.
Too bad for cult members. They're barely keeping the Mac going.
If he works for a company that provided Apple with reference designs, he probably works for a supplier. I.e. reference designs for a touch interface component that they incorporate. And what he said makes it sound like the shits at Apple copp an attitude because 'they are from Apple' even though he works for a company that forms it's expertise in whatever technology they vend and produce reference designs to try to get pukes at the big companies up to speed with.
It sounds like he might work for one of the companies that makes the stuff that Apple integrates, i.e. one of the companies that knows more than how to glue together stuff other people engineered. Not some consultant.
So you've quit working for Apple three times. That indeed does qualify you to add your opinion to this article. Were you laid off three times or did you voluntarily quit?
You have a point. Tesla isn't even good at making ugly cars. They're mainly rent-seekers in the government subsidy feed trough.