I consume about 10 hours of music a day (I work in the music space - audio hardware development). To get 300 hours of any music I could ever want (including finding new things or being told about a great song to check out) for $10 a month is a fabulous bargain. Even if I listened to the same 300 hours every month - that would cost around $4500 at typical purchase prices - about 40 years worth of music consumption at $10/month.
Unless you want to DESIGN that Mac. Then you need a modern parametric 3D CAD package and modern schematics capture/board layout package. And those can only be found on Windows. And thus - you may have a Macbook - you run Windows to design your hardware.
As far as the Federal (and State, at least in CA) buyer's credit goes - why does Tesla advertise the subsidized price? Because it's easier to list as "starts at under $70,000" when you add in the credit on a $75,000 car.
Your own links show you to be wrong. Ford asked for a line of credit - but never used it. It got loans in 2009 - but that's different than the block grants of Chrysler, and outright purchase and restructure of GM. Loans get paid back - the Government lost billions on GM (and GM's secured investors - bond holders - were screwed by the Obama Administration).
You know, most companies make a profit if they can discount things like growth costs, capital expenditures, tooling costs, etc. The problem is - with GAAP you can't discount that stuff. You can talk about gross profit - but net profit (or at the very least EBITDA) is well-defined and means you cannot ignore those costs that Tesla is so fond of downplaying as "not important". Meaning that - even with the Government-mandated funds transfers from other car companies to Tesla, and the subsidies to Tesla, and the big buyer's subsidies from the Government - they still lose money.
I thought Ford was the only one who didn't take a bailout? GM and Chrysler got billions shoveled at them, but Ford didn't take any of the 2008 money...
I put 230K miles on my 1999 Ranger, and it's now logged another 100K down in Guatemala... I sold it do a guy who took it down there to use for construction (rather, I traded him the truck for painting the interior of my home). It's still going strong. Only things changed so far was the oil, brake pads, spark plugs, air filter, and radio (swapped out the factory AM-only radio for a CD player). Still working with the original clutch!
Efficiency. You can get the same range as gas with about half the fuel. Meaning I can fuel up a hybrid diesel truck with 15 gallons of diesel and outperform in terms of efficiency, operating time, and usage the normal 35 gallon diesel-only truck. And I'm not choking on diesel fumes as I sit at stoplights (as a motorcyclist myself, I hate sitting near diesel vehicles at stoplights).
I wonder why, in the spirit of your post, you haven't offshored your own job to a dozen workers in India, China, or the Ukraine? You're costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars and dozens of jobs...
AptX is its own proprietary CODEC and transport protocol that allows for low latency (40 msec typical). It is backwards compatible with standard Bluetooth, but you need AptX on both ends (sender and receiver) to be compliant and benefit from the low latency and higher audio quality.
Apple pays an actual AptX license on every chip that is sold into the Macbooks - I'm sure they do that with full knowledge, it's not a "standard library" that you can use. You buy the licenses from CSR (now Qualcomm) - just like you do in the MFi program.
And the population in those isolated communities, relative to that of the entire world, is? Yes - local power generation can be cheaper for some populations, but to take those tiny corner cases and extrapolate them over the entire world is incorrect. And you can find the LCOE table right now, you'll find that solar can get competitive with NEW generation coming on-line right now, but still loses to natural gas pretty significantly. Note this is for newly planned plants, and does not include hydro (which cleans everyone's clock).
BP was the largest maker of solar panels, worldwide, for over a decade (until China got in and gutted the market with cheap, subsidized panels). XOM is the largest supporter/recipient of carbon sequestration processes. Big Oil is pretty deep into clean energy - energy IS their business.
Lastly, I don't know how much of a focus on energy is within the purview of the SecState - I would think having a guy who knows how not to flinch when in deep, decade-effecting negotiations is of more importance than his past stances on green energy.
I haven't seen anything coming out from President Elect Trump that he wants to kill solar. Rather, I believe he's stated it's time to look at the subsidies and costs all around and let the markets compete. Apparently solar supporters believe solar can compete with coal - so let it. Cut the subsidies and see what happens.
IF we ignore storage and conversion costs, and IF we ignore deployment/construction costs required for other power distribution systems, we can ALMOST reach the average DJIA return on investment.
In 2016, countries from Chile to the United Arab Emirates broke records with deals to generate electricity from sunshine for less than 3 cents a kilowatt-hour, half the average global cost of coal power.
So you took solar power costs from two high-sunshine areas and spread it versys worldwide coal costs. How about ideal solar places versus ideal coal places? Or average global solar costs versus average global coal costs? Cherry picking at its finest, here...
Bluetooth 5 spec is out there. No change in latency. Meaning - you'll still have latency in the 100-600 msec range unless you do something custom (like AptX).
Please see the original context of my reference, RE: Tom Foley in the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. Allusions and innuendo constitute a charge that needs to be considered, from a political standpoint. Even Dan Rather fell back on that position during his FakeNews episode with President Bush and TANG. Simply alluding to something wrong is as damning as an actual conviction - if there's politics involved...
The real story here is that the Euro continues to slide, it's now almost at parity with the dollar. When will it fall below parity? March, May? My guess is by July.
The actual story is "the Russians hacked a couple of people at the Democratic Party (maybe) and embarrassed the hell out of them"
The actual actual story is that the Russians hacked some people at both parties, but selectively chose to release only a selection of the ones stolen from the Democratic party.
You're spreading fake news. Your own source contradicts you: "An initial scan by POLITICO of the Republican-linked emails did not uncover any bombshell revelations". GOP e-mails were released, too - but there was nothing damning in it. Maybe, just maybe, the Democrats are dirtier than the GOP?
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Damn - I guess I didn't just open up a Leonard Cohen album and have it playing... Someone else did that...
I consume about 10 hours of music a day (I work in the music space - audio hardware development). To get 300 hours of any music I could ever want (including finding new things or being told about a great song to check out) for $10 a month is a fabulous bargain. Even if I listened to the same 300 hours every month - that would cost around $4500 at typical purchase prices - about 40 years worth of music consumption at $10/month.
Unless you want to DESIGN that Mac. Then you need a modern parametric 3D CAD package and modern schematics capture/board layout package. And those can only be found on Windows. And thus - you may have a Macbook - you run Windows to design your hardware.
Between $12,500 and $35,000 per car in ZEV credits - forced subsidies by other manufacturers. In 2012 ZEV credits were at least $119 million in the first half of the year. That's not insignificant income. And Tesla STILL loses money with that kind of credit.
As far as the Federal (and State, at least in CA) buyer's credit goes - why does Tesla advertise the subsidized price? Because it's easier to list as "starts at under $70,000" when you add in the credit on a $75,000 car.
And those tax subsidies are?
Your own links show you to be wrong. Ford asked for a line of credit - but never used it. It got loans in 2009 - but that's different than the block grants of Chrysler, and outright purchase and restructure of GM. Loans get paid back - the Government lost billions on GM (and GM's secured investors - bond holders - were screwed by the Obama Administration).
You know, most companies make a profit if they can discount things like growth costs, capital expenditures, tooling costs, etc. The problem is - with GAAP you can't discount that stuff. You can talk about gross profit - but net profit (or at the very least EBITDA) is well-defined and means you cannot ignore those costs that Tesla is so fond of downplaying as "not important". Meaning that - even with the Government-mandated funds transfers from other car companies to Tesla, and the subsidies to Tesla, and the big buyer's subsidies from the Government - they still lose money.
I thought Ford was the only one who didn't take a bailout? GM and Chrysler got billions shoveled at them, but Ford didn't take any of the 2008 money...
I put 230K miles on my 1999 Ranger, and it's now logged another 100K down in Guatemala... I sold it do a guy who took it down there to use for construction (rather, I traded him the truck for painting the interior of my home). It's still going strong. Only things changed so far was the oil, brake pads, spark plugs, air filter, and radio (swapped out the factory AM-only radio for a CD player). Still working with the original clutch!
Efficiency. You can get the same range as gas with about half the fuel. Meaning I can fuel up a hybrid diesel truck with 15 gallons of diesel and outperform in terms of efficiency, operating time, and usage the normal 35 gallon diesel-only truck. And I'm not choking on diesel fumes as I sit at stoplights (as a motorcyclist myself, I hate sitting near diesel vehicles at stoplights).
I wonder why, in the spirit of your post, you haven't offshored your own job to a dozen workers in India, China, or the Ukraine? You're costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars and dozens of jobs...
LCOE takes into account all subsidies. It's a levelized cost. And natural gas wins.
AptX is its own proprietary CODEC and transport protocol that allows for low latency (40 msec typical). It is backwards compatible with standard Bluetooth, but you need AptX on both ends (sender and receiver) to be compliant and benefit from the low latency and higher audio quality.
Apple pays an actual AptX license on every chip that is sold into the Macbooks - I'm sure they do that with full knowledge, it's not a "standard library" that you can use. You buy the licenses from CSR (now Qualcomm) - just like you do in the MFi program.
And the population in those isolated communities, relative to that of the entire world, is? Yes - local power generation can be cheaper for some populations, but to take those tiny corner cases and extrapolate them over the entire world is incorrect. And you can find the LCOE table right now, you'll find that solar can get competitive with NEW generation coming on-line right now, but still loses to natural gas pretty significantly. Note this is for newly planned plants, and does not include hydro (which cleans everyone's clock).
BP was the largest maker of solar panels, worldwide, for over a decade (until China got in and gutted the market with cheap, subsidized panels). XOM is the largest supporter/recipient of carbon sequestration processes. Big Oil is pretty deep into clean energy - energy IS their business.
Lastly, I don't know how much of a focus on energy is within the purview of the SecState - I would think having a guy who knows how not to flinch when in deep, decade-effecting negotiations is of more importance than his past stances on green energy.
I haven't seen anything coming out from President Elect Trump that he wants to kill solar. Rather, I believe he's stated it's time to look at the subsidies and costs all around and let the markets compete. Apparently solar supporters believe solar can compete with coal - so let it. Cut the subsidies and see what happens.
So to summarize:
IF we ignore storage and conversion costs, and IF we ignore deployment/construction costs required for other power distribution systems, we can ALMOST reach the average DJIA return on investment.
In 2016, countries from Chile to the United Arab Emirates broke records with deals to generate electricity from sunshine for less than 3 cents a kilowatt-hour, half the average global cost of coal power.
So you took solar power costs from two high-sunshine areas and spread it versys worldwide coal costs. How about ideal solar places versus ideal coal places? Or average global solar costs versus average global coal costs? Cherry picking at its finest, here...
I'm more interested in your take on why Apple includes AptX support in their OSX products - but not in their iOS products.
Bluetooth 5 spec is out there. No change in latency. Meaning - you'll still have latency in the 100-600 msec range unless you do something custom (like AptX).
Please see the original context of my reference, RE: Tom Foley in the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. Allusions and innuendo constitute a charge that needs to be considered, from a political standpoint. Even Dan Rather fell back on that position during his FakeNews episode with President Bush and TANG. Simply alluding to something wrong is as damning as an actual conviction - if there's politics involved...
The real story here is that the Euro continues to slide, it's now almost at parity with the dollar. When will it fall below parity? March, May? My guess is by July.
The actual story is "the Russians hacked a couple of people at the Democratic Party (maybe) and embarrassed the hell out of them"
The actual actual story is that the Russians hacked some people at both parties, but selectively chose to release only a selection of the ones stolen from the Democratic party.
You're spreading fake news. Your own source contradicts you: "An initial scan by POLITICO of the Republican-linked emails did not uncover any bombshell revelations". GOP e-mails were released, too - but there was nothing damning in it. Maybe, just maybe, the Democrats are dirtier than the GOP?
Tenuous? Speculative? I thought the standard was the seriousness of the charge, the nature of the evidence being irrelevant.
Electricity grid penentrates you!