Queue the many certifications that will pop up for current screens suddenly claiming they aren't affected by wifi to any meaningful degree.

Is that too cynical?

The argument was never "Use metric across the board"; it's "Follow the course of the rest of the world, you lazy, self-asorbed holdouts". Seriously, only two countries use Imperial. And it's provably been the cause of lost mars missions. While that's not a compelling reason in and of itself to convert to metric, it's a shining example of what happens when you refuse to switch away from a system that almost literally no one else uses.

Careful with that. Apparently, NASA and the military use metric already, so you shouldn't lump them in with the people who can't adapt.

My bet's on concurrent projects got rolled together, not unlike Win 98/Win NT=>WinXP

Predictability and adaptability. A backhoe is good for very few things. In the same way, the Curiosity is only good at what it was designed to do. It can't adapt.

Humans, on the other hand can take the tools provide and experiment outside of pre-planned parameters. If something unexpected comes up, we have to build a whole new machine to deal with that and then we have to send it there. IN ADDITION, we can't just send a machine that does just one thing because that's terribly expensive, so we have to wait until a variety of EXTRA test labs can be added to the machine to bring down the cost-per-experiment to reasonable levels.

Also whoosh!

How many parts are there to a slinky? Exactly.

This is actually not often true. It's not one manager reading a report that one guy makes versus one manager logging into a dashboard and sparing one guy some time. It's one guy spending time to make a report so *many* managers can read it in their inbox. It's not one manager spending 30 minutes once to set up the dashboard the way he wants, it's *many* managers having to do it.

In my case, I'm the guy that makes the report every day and sending off one email so that 6 managers above me don't have to each spend 15 minutes messing around with it because their time is better spent elsewhere.

Sword Art Online taught me that lesson.

It's a metaphor. The only people who take it literally are trolls and people who don't know what trolls are.

I doubt most people buy it because it's thin. Most people buy it because it's new, and powerful, and new. Because having the hottest new item is more important than what it looks like.

Me, personally? I buy the iPhones because they are solid and even with all the abuse I've put mine through, they haven't broken or bent except for a single crack across the top of the screen caused when I accidentally allowed it to fall face-first onto a large, sharp rock.

This just in: Peoples opinions can change over time! News at 11!

The best way to generate interest is include it with something the consumer would buy anyway and let them tell their friends what they did with it.

Wait. If an IC Engine stops working, and it costs $15k-$45k to replace, don't people normally scrap their car and get a new one? Isn't that what's being suggested for the electric cars (in essence) when a battery fails, if it costs about the same as an IC Engine?

What are the two biggest price-determining factors in a market economy? Supply and Demand.

With Tesla's Giga-factory, Supply should be adequately covered.
With a $35 000 price point, I'm pretty sure Demand will be more than adequately covered.

I doubt drop in the cost of the batteries will remain constant/linear once the Tesla battery factory(ies) start production.

I don't see why this is such a huge deal in the US. Why not both allow so-called "Fast Lanes" and also mandate a high minimum for the "Not-so-fast Lanes" which will prevent ISPs from serving subpar rates to customers?