Why would I celebrate stock buybacks?
Also spacex lost like 20 or so Falcons before their first successful mission. Maybe they will explode as many Starships, but they have hit that number yet.
It’s ok to hate Elon, and there are many valid criticisms to make regarding spacex, but they’re the best in the world right now and it isn’t even close.
The biggest issue with Spacex is that Elon needs to be removed before he ruins it like he ruined Tesla.
How has spacex had very few successes? Their Falcon 9 rocket is basically operating like clockwork. They launch more rockets than the rest of the world combined.
The starship failures are higher profile but even those failures are typical when testing new vehicles, especially one as experimental and complex.
SpaceX and Starlink basically have no competition, and if they did, said competitor would also need to be heavily subsidized.
Nope. It’s over. Threads only had momentum from it automatically creating accounts for Meta users. Bluesky is organic.
Unfortunately LG makes the best panels, and many other brands use LG panels(not as good as what LG puts in their own units).
The solution here is to buy their ad subsidized tv and never connect it to the internet.
It’s a weird moral grey zone. Everyone has forgotten the hundreds of people Boeing murdered as a result of their desire to skirt modern safety regulations. I just flew my family across the country yesterday on one of these end-stage-capitalism products for lack of any other option.
Were I to be ash this morning, I would be forgotten too.
But if astronauts were killed, maybe the outrage would finally be enough for all the greased palms to be sheepishly shoved in pockets just long enough to get justice, ground all those affronts to safety, and jail enough executives to maybe make Boeing stop being a global safety risk and a national security concern.
Get a Porsche Maccan.
Your battery probably isn’t supplying sufficient voltage and your laptop is compensating. It is almost random chance in getting a good battery for a machine of that vintage. Using Linux will likely cause unexpected power off at low charge states.
Your best bet is to return that battery to the vendor and try another battery from another supplier.
China has privately held space companies, yes. They are funding them, yes.
If you look at the Artemis mission and think starship is the weakest part of the plan, you are simply not being objective.
Unfortunately that company is the best hope we have to stay ahead. With their low cost they can monopolize the worldwide launch market(except Russia and China). So that funding, strategically, must continue.
What should also happen is funding spacex competitors, so we stay on the bleeding edge.
Microsoft puts ads in the start menu. I could go into a deeper critique, but ultimately that is the canary in the coal mine. Any company with a structure capable of shipping that feature is fucking busted in terms of user experience and ui design.
They only recently announced a laptop chip that beats the m2 in SOME benchmarks, but at a higher power draw, but it is not shipping in any product. Mind you Apple is on M3.
Quest is better in every way
Zuckerberg can’t even buy an SOC to put in the quest to compete with Apple. Qualcomm doesn’t make one. So it can’t be better in every way.
It can be better subjectively to some people. But objectively the Vision Pro has specs other manufacturers literally won’t be able to do for at least 2-3 years, and not for 500 bucks.
Microsoft barely made a PC interface, they’re the last ones i would expect make a proper AR interface.
I don’t see an actual source for this claim. There’s no leak or press release or documentation or extracted resources from an IOS build.
The “source” article is just making unsubstantiated claims.
Take a look at Taiwan’s inventory of anti-ship missiles and coastal defenses and get back to me. Last I checked Taiwan has roughly 1 harpoon for every Chinese combat ship, assuming China wants to commit their entire navy to the invasion.
If China doesn’t commit every ship to the invasion, now you have more than 1 harpoon per Chinese ship.
Nevermind other types of anti-ship defenses and domestically produced missiles.
And again, Taiwan has had these weapons for DECADES. They train on them, then know how to deploy them. It will not take days to respond, because they are ready. They will simply launch and the missiles will sink some ships.
If China decides to invade it will be at the cost of a significant portion of their navy and army before they even reach land. Then China has to face significant risk of retaliation from Taiwan’s cruise missile fleet, some of which can hit as far as Beijing.
Then at this point China will risk their various border disputes being contested.
And all this for what? Some destroyed chip factories and the CCP flag over Taipei?
China can certainly invade Taiwan, but my point is the cost is too high for it to be a logical move.
China invading Taiwan is a fantasy for the foreseeable future.
We have seen what hastily deployed US weapons can do against Russian hardware in the Ukrainian invasion.
Taiwan has been stockpiling US weapons(missiles, jets, tanks) for decades, and Chinese hardware and doctrine is not as proven as the Russians. China will see immense losses for their prize, and that’s if nobody intervenes.
iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, AirTags. None of those products were the first, just the first competent product that offers good usability in a sea of otherwise mediocre options.
As long as electronics makers keep sleeping at the wheel Apple will be able to capitalize on creating things people actually want to use.
The Vision Pro will be the next test. If it fails, and the follow up doesn’t sell, Apple will face a rude awakening and their stock value will drop. If they can’t succeed in the category after that, it will tank.
Laptops. The M series is silly.