Holy idiotic assumption from hell batman. And a huge side helping of whatabboutism garnished with the biggest lump of straw man I've ever seen.

That's a SHITLOAD of stupid in one reply. I'm honestly impressed.

Also, MBA don't violently protest, but they absolutely DO lobby government to send in the military to do their bidding. Which as far as violence goes is worse than a riot.

Broken politics, a destroyed environment, debased social fabric, and a degenerate business culture prove his point.

Yes, the planet will eventually recover from our damage. That doesn't help us if that process takes a million years. We need working biosystems now, not in a million years.

Also, you're a fucking retard.

Why the fuck can't we root out this sort of ignorance? It's dumbasses like you voting for dumbass policies that has landed us here. You should not be allowed to vote.

My memory is that I had joined Apple the first time right after Jobs stepped down as CEO, when he remained as Chairman... right before he passed away. Then the Steve Jobs interview was released and I saw it at the Aquarius Theater in Stanford and Cringely was there in person at the showing. Stylish as ever.

To me he represented a whole era of computing, when it was exciting me, before I had really started making a living with computers yet. Back when I really did learn a lot by reading physical magazines.

I agree that it's a shame the S and X were discontinued. Especially the S is so symbolic and the only competitor in the limousine class. It was the one I was considering buying, but I'm a BMW driver and I don't get the all-touchscreen approach, even if it's the current market trend.

But economically, it does make sense to discontinue a product that is maybe 1-2% of your sales but blocks an entire factory. Though converting that to robots is part of what I mean with the "why robots?" comment.

I consider the Plaid models an attempt to revive the S and X, and it didn't work, or worked only for a short time. So from a business perspective, the choice was to either rework those models completely (replace the older tech, improve the manufacturing process to save costs) or just discontinue them. Given the market moving towards cheaper EVs in general, it was probably the right decision. It is a shame, though.

The jump jets aren't under manual control from what we could see. So that risk might be much lower than you think.

Jealous much? Tesla is doing quite ok, especially compared to some other car companies who are closing down factories and firing workers by the thousands.

Is it spectacle? Yeah, it is. It also is a one-of-a-kind car. It's clearly a supercar aimed at the filthy rich who buy stuff they don't really need because it's cool or because they want to brag about it. Fine as well. Last I checked, Ferrari, Lamborghini and Bugatti weren't exactly close to bancruptcy.

Do you know what all of those also have? Models that didn't sell as well as they had hoped. It's part of the business.

What I'm slightly more worried about is the whole humanoid robot stuff. Can't see a use case for that and it's been a money sink for decades. No idea why Tesla got involved with that.

Geez people.... Regardless of who is President, the issue here is worth taking a good look at. $2 billion is a LOT of money to burn through each year! And this is a program that arguably went FAR beyond what people expected it to do (ensuring libraries and schools had an afford Internet connection). Handing out free hotspots to people? Yeah ... I'd rather not fund THAT with my tax money. Just use free public wifi like the rest of us do.

Really, I think most of the hate comes from the way the self-checkout kiosks were handled and deployed. The systems themselves aren't so awful.

Hindsight is 20-20 and all that... but I think they should have only deployed them for the "12 items or less" type of express checkout. That would have helped acceptance and adoption. The people only trying to buy a few items are the ones prioritizing getting in and out quickly, even if it takes doing something differently than before.

Self-checkout gets exponentially frustrating when you have a lot of groceries like fresh foods where you can't just scan them. You've got to look them up on the touchscreen. That and purchases like alcohol where a human still has to check your ID before the process can complete.

Customers start feeling like they're doing a job that cashiers get hired for, so why aren't they getting a discount for it?

This is the one I have my eyes on, though I'd spend money if someone had packaged that with nice hardware for a complete set that I don't need to spend three days to set up.

Your comment sounds like nothing more than another anti-Apple rant with no substance behind it.

Quite a bit of computer tech gets no real "second life" once the manufacturer decides it's no longer supported. It's insane to pretend this is an "Apple thing". Just going through my small pile of formerly useful e-waste, I'd point out such things as one of my old VoIP modems/routers, which was required for a residential VoIP service that's no longer in business. Looked into it to see about potentially re-flashing its firmware to "open source" it again, but came up empty.

iPads registered to users and impossible to unlock is no different than what happens with Samsung tablets, except using Google and Gmail accounts instead of Apple iCloud. If people could be trusted not to steal, this would never have become a thing. (If you can prove you were the original purchaser of a locked iPad or iPhone, there are ways to provide a copy of the sales receipt to Apple support's "unlock team" and they'll unlock the device again for you. I've had to do that before.)

Without buying into the conspiracy theory, but this is why I dislike these short lifetimes. It makes my otherwise 100% autonomous website dependent on an external party. I think I'll go back to also offer the site on unencrypted http instead of making an https redirect.

No, not at all. The gender pay gap is in the training data thousands of times, from online comments, studies, news articles, etc. Since AI is a dumb machine replicating what it has in its training data, it replicates that.

I'm pretty sure you can find religious believe, superstitions of all kinds, human fallacies and whatever in AI if you provide it with the right setup.