So, you have access to all the same information the CBO has access to? There is stuff that should be public, but the actual work computers where people who put the data together shouldn't be open to the public due to potentially sensitive information that shouldn't be available to the public for privacy reasons.

Try going on vacation 450 miles or more each way, the recharge time is a LOT longer than five minutes, so will limit how far you can drive in one day.

We have multiple zip codes in cities, you can't avoid it, unless you live in one of those rural towns where they hate the very idea of EVs, because that would require change. Those are the same people who probably hated the move from leaded to unleaded gasoline in the 1970s.

We have OLD people in control of the government, many of them are anti-technology(besides what they can put money into on the stock market).

Time to recharge to full when at the quarter "tank" mark is how long? Can you do it in five minutes? I recently went on vacation, over 450 miles each way, and you can be sure I'd not be able to just do a "quick" recharge to add a quarter charge when I'm the only one driving on that trip.

Honestly, if they designed EVs so you can quickly and easily pull out a battery pack and replace it with one fully charged, that's when EVs will be more useful for those going on longer trips. With everything going on with air traffic based issues since Trump started destroying the FAA and all other government agencies, you KNOW we have more accidents related to air travel, and it's enough to make people not want to fly if they can avoid it.

Many people misunderstand the concept of a "support lifecycle". Products can be supported without driver updates, or game optimizations, and people get confused about the difference. Optimizations are NOT going to get the same level of attention for products even one generation older, so even if they get optimizations for games, they won't necessarily get them at launch. The more of a difference there is between generations, the more effort there is to optimizing as well.

NVIDIA didn't change all that much from RTX 4000 to 5000 generations, outside of DLSS/AI related improvements, so the same optimizations for the 5000 will probably be the same for the 4000 series as well.

Support for a product is different than giving older products the same level of game release "optimizations". It's not a difficult concept, the current generation gets the focus when it comes to game release optimizations and bug fixes. The last generation also gets a lot of attention. Go back two generations, those products are STILL SUPPORTED, and will continue to be supported, but things like optimizations won't get as much of a focus, and some improvements won't show up for weeks, a month, or longer.

No matter that NVIDIA calls their drivers "game ready", you can be sure RTX 3000 cards aren't getting all that much of a focus, other than fixing BUGS that are discovered. It's not about how long a product will be SUPPORTED, it's about how much attention is given to older products.

No, your reading comprehension missed what was said, because you wanted a reason to be upset. Having game optimizations at game launch is expected for the current and previous generation products. Products that are a bit older will still get updates, but may not get "optimizations" for games at game launch. This is how the industry works, including from NVIDIA where you can't expect RTX 3000 series cards to get the same level of attention when it comes to new game releases. You can expect fixes for problems, but older products do NOT get as much attention compared to new products.

AMD only did what you call a "backtrack", because so many people don't understand the English language to understand what AMD meant.

Buying huge SUVs adds $30,000 to the price most people would have spent if SUVs were not an obsession.

It can be, because there is the front-loading of sales. Oh, the prices will go up in two months, so buy now is something you see all around the world. Companies like Intel and NVIDIA also have done it, they encourage sales in Q1, then you see the sales drop like a rock for Q2 and Q3 and even Q4 in some cases. We knew about tariffs back in February of this year, and many of us knew they were going to cause prices to go up, so people actually purchased stuff in January and February, even when we wouldn't need or use them for six months. It's like the crazy amount of buying before a big storm, storm passes, and even when there was no damage, people have all of that stuff they bought, so won't be buying for days/weeks/months after that, so sales drop like a rock after that. Overall, sales numbers won't have changed much for the YEAR, but you see the surge of buying and then the drop-off when price increases are expected.

Trump getting rid of the EV tax credit, or tax credits for buying things like solar for your home did the same thing, people who COULD buy sooner did it, and those who couldn't afford it now lose the incentive.

With any luck, once Trump is out of office, all of those people involved in the illegal activities by ICE will be charged with crimes, found guilty of breaking the law, and thrown in prison. That would go a long way to helping international relations.

That is the sort of thing that causes problems, and even Trump has a point. If China or another country subsidizes the development and even the sales of products in other countries(meaning, it SHOULD be $25,000 but it comes down to $10,000 because the Chinese government is paying to reduce the prices outside of China), then that's not fair without the US Government turning around and trying to sell more expensive products cheap in China to hurt THEIR domestic companies.

Now, a more realistic and fair comparison, many of those inexpensive vehicles do NOT meet the safety requirements in the USA, so the versions here would need more airbags and other things, so the price goes up. Again, if you get rid of subsidies to sell products outside of the country of origin for less money, those vehicles would probably be more expensive. How much money does it cost to actually transport a car from China to the USA by the manufacturer, it's not going to be cheap.

While the US government gives subsidies to SOME companies, the big subsidies are to arms makers, because the US government is obsessed with war.

The thing that many people do not realize is how many different functions are in the different programming APIs, including a fair number of redundant functions and stuff from previous versions. As a result, a bug in the drivers may be there, but only shows up in a TINY number of games or programs that use a particular function. DirectX 12.x being the latest, but there is support for the old function calls from older versions. If they CHANGE functions, that can break older programs, so, new versions get released to add things, and there are Microsoft-only-knows how many things that are redundant in the latest version as a result.

So, a new game comes out, and some driver bugs are discovered, AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel now have to track down where in their drivers the problem is, and correct them. Improvements in the driver implementations can be figured out in the process, so you get "game optimizations". Unless you have no problem with games BREAKING with each new version of DirectX, there's no good way to remove the redundant functions as well.

High school used to provide enough of an education for most jobs, while that is NOT the case in the modern era.

Remember, if you are worried about, "Unskilled immigrants" taking your job, that probably shows that your skills aren't enough to give you an edge in the job market.

The quality of products has been going down due to companies and these overpaid CEOs looking to reduce quality to save the company money. Things from 14 years ago did have good quality, a new vacuum won't last as long.