That's why other manufacturers put more sensors on their cars and STILL do not make the same bold claims as Tesla. They know that otherwise stupid people will make stupid decisions. Comparisons of the sensors in the Tesla model S and the Mercedes S class of the same year: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-87qz...

If you have to be available via phone for your job (e.g. on-call duty) or if you are expecting an important phone call, don't go to a concert or movie or any other place where you would not be able to access your phone without annoying others. Simple as that. Once every five to six weeks, I have a week of on-call duty for our IT department, and it is not that hard to plan ahead and NOT go to a concert or to the cinema or to a fine restaurant where people would consider it rude to answer the phone during that week.

What's more, the notification windows says right in the middle "CLICK HERE TO CHANGE SCHEDULE OR CANCEL THE UPGRADE": http://core0.staticworld.net/i...
So why do people who do not want the upgrade actually read the text and click there? Are they just mindlessly X-ing everything away?

True, apparently most users think this is the "we will NOW upgrade your PC" dialogue box and just close it to cancel the upgrade. But instead, this is the " We have SCHEDULED your upgrade, and here you can change some options about the schedule or start the upgrade right now" box. And closing the dialogue does nothing about the schedule.

People just seem to click away everything which is put in front of them. If they would actually READ the text, they would see that in the middle of the dialogue, it says "click HERE to change upgrade schedule or cancel scheduled upgrade": http://core0.staticworld.net/i...

But apparently reading text is too hard these days.

Disclaimer: I do not say Microsoft are right in the way they try to distribute this upgrade. But some accusations (like that they changed this dialogue to start the upgrade even though people "X it away") are just stupid. It's just a consequence of them making it a "recommended" update plus the update settings the user himself chose.

I am definitely not a Tesla fanboy (in fact, they annoy me), but in this case it was not really the fault of the car itself. The trailer was invisible to the cars sensors, because - that much is clearly visible on the photos - there was nothing in front of the car in the field of view of the parking sensors. In fact, the car was able to drive several feet UNDER the trailer without crashing into anything. To avoid something like this, the car would need additional sensors at eye level of the driver.

Another thought - with the car in summon mode, do the parking sensors even stop the car if they detect anything? After all, it is a driver activated mode during which the driver can command the car to go forward/backward while pressing buttons on the key. I do not own a Tesla, so maybe someone else can comment if it actually would be possible to command the car to hit e.g. a wall which the sensors could pick up.

Here in Germany, the main issue why people do not buy electric cars is not that they are slightly more expensive than standard cars (talking about stuff like the e-Golf, not Tesla), it is that the infrastructure is not there and so electric cars are not practical. People look at electric cars and ask "where am I supposed to charge that?". Many people park their car on the streets, so they simply cannot charge it over night, or they have a garage with no suitable power outlet, so that the incentives would have to be enough to buy the expensive electric car AND pay for all the work to put a suitable outlet into the garage. 4000 Euros in incentives won't magically make a power outlet appear on the street where you park your car over night. So all these incentives will do is make rich people (who can afford it anyway) save 4000 Euros when they buy a Tesla or i8 as a 2nd or 3rd car.

True. Ever wondered why after the whole VW scandal became known - even though it would be such an excellent thing to capitalize on - none of the other car manufacturers did any large advertising campaigns in which they said "buy our cars, we do not cheat"? This is why. Keep a low profile and nobody will take a closer look at your own cars.

It's the new rule. Smartphones have to receive bigger and bigger screens - until we end up with 7-10" monster phones. While at the same time notebooks receive smaller and smaller screens - until we end up with 7-10" mini notebooks which need a stylus to use the keyboard.

Anecdote: I got a new ultrabook at work, it has a 14" screen with a resolution of 3200x1800. You literally cannot read any text in Windows 7 system dialogues etc. unless you MASSIVELY increase the OS scaling - which many applications do not respect. So I just run the thing at 1920x1080. which is still too small, but at least I do not need a magnifying glass to read anything. I'd gladly take a 17" notebook to work without straining my eyes or having to massively decrease the resolution, but for some reason all we can get are these "easy to carry from meeting to meeting" ultrabooks.

It is nice to see Apple finally accept the fact that a lot of people do NOT want phones to grow larger and larger with every new generation. For me, the old iPhone 4/4s was the perfect size for someone who wants a smartPHONE and does not care about watching videos or playing games on his device.

I had a Macbook Pro 15" two years ago (retina with Nvidia dedicated GPU). When I played GPU/CPU intensive games on it, the battery drained and eventually the notebook turned off EVEN WITH THE POWER SUPPLY PLUGGED IN, because the power supply was undersized and could not deliver enough power - so the battery had to be used, too. When I visited the Apple forums to look into this problem, I found that I was not the only one with this problem - it was apparently well-known, but Apple did not care. That was when I decided to switch to non-Apple notebooks from then on. Apparently having a small, nice-to-look-at power supply was more important for them than having a power supply which actually can handle the notebook being used for more than only browsing and facebooking.

Apple still ships the same 85W power supply for all 15" models of the Macbook Pro. As a random example of another manufacturer, Dell ships the XPS15 with a 130W power supply.

Windows 8.1 is a "service pack" for Windows 8. Microsoft only supports the "service pack-less" version of an OS for one year after the service pack has been made available. So, if you want support for your Windows 8 machine, you need to update to Windows 8.1. It is the same for Windows 7, by the way. Support for Windows 7 *without service pack 1* has already ended in 2013.

Number 11 on the top list of returned refurbished products is a "remote-controlled rechargeable Panzer III". Well, I guess once you have flattened your neighbour's home, there is not much use left for having your own Panzer. Wonder how often that one has already been sold and returned again.

Sadly, most of the people who use "power features" of an application are not the ones who click "next-next-next-finish" when installing, i.e. they are also the ones who opt out of phone-home data collection.

Except that it does not look anything like the actual lunar rovers which were sent to the moon, because this was only a prototype for testing various components...