Does a car move at 100 mph the instant you step hard on the accelerator?

A good one does in about 6 seconds or so....

So we likely will stop at the peat stage

Hey, that's cool....

As long as all this "green" movement doesn't endanger our continued manufacturing of good single malt scotch!!!

I avoid a million dollar lawsuit by paying attention when I am driving and not driving like an asshole.

And...don't forget...staying off the fucking phone!!!

Do your tail lights include radar for detection of vehicles in your blind spot...(?)

God I hope NOT...

Current safety inspections do not test these as there are no standard, non-destructive, tests.

You know not all states require "safety inspections", right?

I'd rather have a car that is MORE basic...take out all the stuff I don't need..I don't need 500 sensors outside the car.

I've been driving long enough to not need lane warnings, I really don't need cameras everywhere, I don't use them...I'm old school and actually turn my HEAD to look where I need to look...and use my mirrors.

This stuff not only is $$ in a minor fender bender, but upfront costs...and maintenance cost. I mean God help you if you get electrical system gremlins in your car.

I want my car to accelerate when I want it to...stop when I want it to and go the direction I steer.

I dont' need a lot of other crap to babysit me.

Bear control is cheap. 12 gauge slugs aren't that expensive.

I'm not sure what that proves, exactly? 2011 was just 13 years ago. It hasn't been that long. I think most of us here have non-Apple hardware as old and older that's still gets regular use.

Well, we're talking about iPads here...or, tablets in general.

The iPads DO have longevity...my iPad Pro from 2017 (I mistakenly said 2015 earlier) is chugging right along, good battery life still, and has held up on a LOT of traveling.

I use it pretty much daily.

Yes, "only" about 7+ years....but anecdotally, most of my friends have burned through 3-6 Android tablets over this time....

And with the iPads...you could generally in the past get better hardware on them....my Android friend back in the day was blow away that I could get .5 TB onboard storage on a tablet that size...apparently Android didn't have an option back then.

The iPad / Apple Pencil combo, is very hard to beat for creatives....using apps like the Affinity Suite (Photo, Designer, Publisher)...Procreate...FCPX and nowadays...Davinci Resolve.

You can run some VERY powerful art/photo/video apps on the iPad....and while the Android and Windows tablets are catching up, all of these apps pretty much first came out on the Apple tablets.

And the new iPad pro's announced today, with the M4 chips can out spec MANY full blow laptops out there on the market.

They are pricy, but I find in the tablet market, you get what you pay for in many cases.

I can take my art work on the road with me easily with the iPad....I can work on things easily on the plane or pool side....and not have to lug around a laptop to get the same power and apps.

Most of the time, the apps that run on the iPad are not paired down, weaker versions of the desktop version...they are the full blown versions only adapted for non-keyboard use...

That's not the story for these apps on other tablet platforms...at least not from what I've found.

I've seen renders of some pretty difficult things (high megapixel, 15+ shot focus stacking ) render on the iPad quicker than the same job on a laptop...

This is nice to have in such a light, easily transportable package.

The investigation was launched after an employee reported the problem to Boeing management, and Boeing informed the FAA.

What's the over/under on this employee being found dead in the next couple weeks?

...inding them guilty of violating national security by passing a law instead of letting the courts decide. I'm no expert on the US consitution

Ok I'll help you.

When something is declared a national security threat, it is not something that is done through the courts, never has been.

Point of order, the federal Dept of Ed is just as complicit in the destruction of the American education system. The department needs to be jettisoned entirely and education monies transferred directly to whichever school a child is enrolled in by their parents.

Disney lies through their teeth about real production costs, and those don't include marketing outlays. Cap Marvel probably cost closer to 200-250 million with at least 150-200 million marketing outlay, possibly more given it's release at the height of Infinity War fever. Disney gets 50% of the run for the first couple of weeks before it drops to 30%. So they maybe made 150-300 million on that movie. The Marvels was significantly worse with production costs after all reshoots of 300-350 million. Probably no more than 100 million in marketing though.

Wow...nice how long these things last, it's only now looking long in the tooth to me, and that's only for some pretty resource intensive apps I want to use...for daily things most people would use, it would still be overkill for most things.

How do the Android tablets stand up to the Apple I pad Pros as far as longevity?

I use mine pretty much daily.

But I'd like to use some of the newer, resource intensive apps on my iPad like Resolve, FCPX, and the newer Affinity products, etc....Logic Pro.

I'll likely keep my current one...maybe just keep it in the kitchen plugged in all the time just to have quick recipe reference there...and get the new one.

I think the 13" would be a bit too large to carry around on travels or to neighborhood pool, or when out and about comfortably....might get the 11" one loaded up....

12mos, interest free with AppleCare+ is just about $200/mo for 12 months. Not too bad...for loaded iPad Pro, with new pencil and the keyboard (I've never had the external keyboard before...might go to store to try that out first to see if I'd really use it).