If Tesla really wants to be a good automaker, they need a good resale value.

http://www.teslamotors.com/for...

Does that mean all we have to do is make the next music player out of a million discrete 74xx IC and we will get a write up saying how good our product is?

You'll probably sell a ton to the bozos buying vinyl, tube amps, and expensive cables, because they think they're better.

I'd say that's actually WORSE for the consumer, since now I'm sort of subsidizing the premium model, and not getting the benefit.

I'd expect the lower cost models to cost significantly less to make!

A mushroom walks into a bar.

The bartender says "We don't serve your kind here."

The mushrooms says "Why not, I'm a fungi."

OK, who thought of this song first upon reading the summary?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

(I have no idea which of the versions listed I've heard.. maybe the Muppet show.. but it's one of those songs where I definitely haven't seen the _original_, or at least not in its entirety, but still know the song.)

If, however, you're gullible enough to buy a cordless electrical device with a non-user-replaceable battery, when you know perfectly well that the battery will almost certainly be the first thing to fail, well then that's *your* problem.

Many electric razors have a regular consumer rechargeable battery (e.g. AA) *soldered in*. Sigh.

Let them fight it out.

Tesla is out to prove that EV's are a viable alternative to ICE cars. Which thus far every other auto maker has failed miserably to do.

Absolutely false. I am using an electric car as my car. I do _own_ another car, but the only times I have driven it are a couple of times to make sure it keeps running. I should sell it now that I realize I don't have "range anxiety" like everyone fears.

We need electric cars for the masses not the classes.

They already exist. Nissan Leaf. Smart electric. Fiat 500e. Chevy Spark. Probably a zillion more I haven't mentioned. I own one of the 2nd one I listed.

Transporters. Just the standing on the spot and the transporter engineer guy pushing the lever takes a couple of seconds.

Solar is already possible, wind is already possible, electric cars already exist... etc..

Just because they're not the majority of energy production/usage today doesn't mean it's not possible to use a lot more of them in the future.

(BTW, I'm probably far more "right wing" than you are in many areas.)

temporarily increasing your bandwidth

So that's different from what they actually advertise, speeding up the first X megabytes or whatever? (I _think_ that's what Xfinity Blast is, but I can't actually find a description on their site at the moment.)

I'm happy to suspend disbelief for a good show. Scorpion is not a good show. It's impossible to suspend that much disbelief for the junk they threw at us.

The first episode was AWFUL. I think it has gotten better since then, though. It is absolutely not "great", but is a somewhat enjoyable "dumb action show".. I think "Person of Interest" is a better show, but both are completely ridiculous technologically, but they're both enjoyable "dumb action shows".

Actually, that's speculation on your part. Because WE don't understand it, it doesn't mean it's mimicry. Since dolphins do indeed seem to have language, names and definitely can understand sentence structures (as we do), it's more likely your speculation is wrong.

But that doesn't mean that a dolphin can understand the _language_ and _sentence structures_ of whales.. (this story was actually about the reverse, whales mimicing dolphins.. but the hypothesis goes both ways.)

Even if it can mimic the sounds of the other species, it doesn't mean it understands it and can have a two way conversation. If further proof happens that this is possible, that would be awesome.

That is why a car can be repossessed in 5 minutes, a house can take 60 days to a year to take away from you. (among other reasons)

I know you were talking about leasing, but it's been in the news recently about people with cars that were shut off remotely for late payment of car loans have been threatening to sue due to laws in some states about a loan not being delinquent for 30 days, yet the car would be remotely turned off within a few days of the "due date" on the monthly payment.