In general, they will lose points for having center screens in landscape mode, especially if they stick up above the dash, and more points if they have every driver safety/assist feature standard. Also, I’m not buying a crossover or SUV. Won’t buy the SUV because I’d get more utility out of a mid-sized truck. I’ve…

Money is one of the smallest considerations I make when it comes to buying a vehicle. I buy a vehicle because I want to drive it, not because it’s more affordable. 

The second gen Leaf does look better than first gen, but that isn’t saying much. It’s still ugly. I really miss the Volt. Even now, years out of production, it still looks decent when I see one on the road.

As of right now, all Teslas are off of my list of candidates for EV Daily Driver. The interiors, the driver…

Also don’t forget states will start taxing ev ownership and/or raise other taxes and fees as gas use -and gas tax revenue- drops. I fully expect some places to make it more expensive to own and operate an electric than a petrol.

Nah. Most electricity use occurs during the day. Most EV charging will happen overnight. For the 70% of Americans in single family homes, it’s already feasible. It’s the remaining 15% or so that own vehicles that live in apartments who will present a challenge.

Without some SERIOUS overhauls of the electrical grid, it’s not going to happen. Look at what happened last summer. SoCal had rolling brown outs because the grid here couldn’t handle the 120° heat. And it’s not just about GENERATING the electricity. It’s about getting the power to the buildings. Most buildings have a…

If they finally start making EV’s that don’t suck I’ll buy one for my daily driver (it needs to be light, nimble, quick, and at least 150mi per charge). I’ll always have a stall in the stable for a V8 roadster though. 

I’m only on Apple’s side cause of principal. I don’t care about either company or their services, but if you’re gonna get the government on your side then you have to live with the results. If you want the gov to force Apple to open up their ecosystem then so do you Epic, you need to stop all of your exclusive deals…

You can, but it’s a different (and intentionally worse) experience. Let’s say you have an iMessage group chat and one friend switches to Android. You either have to switch the entire group chat to SMS (which loses all of the iMessage features like reactions, read receipts, high-quality attachments, etc) or just kick…

I’m pretty sure they calculated it and found 2.2 trillion reasons why they’re not concerned about users like you (and me. #BuyAAPLstocknotAppleproducts).

Why would anyone be on Epic’s side? They spent years making money in Appleland without complaints about a free development evenvironment etc., then deceived Apple with a server-side trick on AppStore and now just want to bite the hand that has fed them fat.

Is anyone actually surprised by this? I for one cannot wait for RCS to be widely adopted so that when I ‘like’ a long message the iOS user that doesn’t use RCS will get the annoying “IckyRickyB liked ‘blah blah blahh’” responses. Then Apple users will be complaining enough that Apple might be forced to do some…

I’m sure they feel like iMessage exclusivity locks users in. But they don’t seem to have calculated how it locks users out. This kind of stuff is the primary reason I don’t use ANY Apple products to this day.

Innovation from Apple: This year it’s LESS round. This year it’s MORE round. This year we removed a feature you love!

“I see you wrote this shit module, we need to refactor it so I am assigning it to you.” “I just fixed a spelling error, otherwise I have no idea how it works.” “Your name is here on the check in.” “Yes, I checked in one file with one line altered, two years ago.” “You own it now.”

I’m glad so far trump’s scotus picks have not been the Scalia clones he promised, and good riddance there.

I am a programmer and line count is a terrible way to determine importance of a section of code.

The construction analogy is that Oracle owns the Grip-Rite#8 x 3 in. 16-Penny nail. According to Oracle, anyone who wants to make a similar nail must get Oracle’s permission. Anyone who wants to build a nail gun that works with this nail must get Oracle’s permission.

This ruling is like saying “a body has to have a heart and the heart has to pump blood, and you can’t copyright that, but you can copyright the details of how the heart does it”. So Google copied the idea of having a heart and which blood vessels connect to it and what it does in general, but built their own heart…

The issue at rest here is that when Google was using the Java API’s and underlying code as the foundation for its fork with Android, the software was a Sun Microsystems product. Sun was pretty tolerant of the use of it’s API’s and products in different platforms, and generally was a fair-use friendly company.