Rand-McNally and Thomas Guides were the go to for the old generation like me. Except I had to remember to go get a new maps set each year or so. Oh, and having AAA membership let me get new maps as a benefit.

I recall that the startups like Google back in the early 90s would spend astronomical sums of money they didn't even earn (they were unprofitable for many years) to make the offices like upscale dorm housing for the employees to literally live there and work without needing a home or apartment. Now that they're making billion$ upon billion$ in profit they want to charge the employees for stuff they gave away in the early days.

indeed. I've watched this surge of "A I" and don't see much intelligence, rather it's a very fast and slick presentation layer that fools people to think it's actually learning.

ahah, I thought I had seen him bowl on TV... was flipping through channels a few weeks ago and saw PBA bowling so I stayed to watch, as I hadn't watched any for some years. I was intrigued by this fellow with the two handed throw and the ridiculous bite when his ball hits the wood just in front of the pins.

Tesla (and Elon) figured that out quite rapidly when attempting a battery swap option early in the company's history. Indeed Elon demostrated a fully automatic battery change that took less than 4 minutes. But the spectre of getting a bum battery pack at that single station in the middle of the California desert took the lustre off the idea. Tesla shutdown that station and deep sixed the idea permanantly.

LADWP is a city owned and operated utility company

thank you so much, kamala

you should go buy an AM radio station and show them how to invest all the money necessary to stay relevant

auto manufacturers are doing their own infotainment systems so they can squeeze out the aftermarket stereo makers

mod +1000

yup, that was the first thing that came to mind for me, that this is a dock for $300 bucks whew

mod +1G When I was a manager of software dev and later of PM and analysis, I used to harp on this very issue all the time when other managers would want to shift everything to the cloud to save money on hardware and licensing maintenance. I stood firm on the assertion that a company should own its data and processes, not just give it into the hand of untrustworthy third parties like Google, MS, AWS, Apple, eieio vendor. The cloud will hiccup and sometime crash, and then what do you do when you have all your mission critical production running on their processes, processors, and databases... what if the vendor goes toes-up, good luck getting your stuff .

8 is the Chinese lucky number...

Hopefully JAXA have collected good telemetry data to determine the problem and rapidly rebuild the second stage engine controls for next attempt.

the thing is, if he runs the house on car battery for 3 days, what happens when he needs to go out for supplies or - heaven forbid needs to evacuate before the power grid is restored? drained battery in the car means he has to abandon everything and walk away, maybe bicycle if he's got one. dude hasn't really thought out the entire set of use cases ...