And it's especially unnecessary for a big use case for EVs: commuters and grocery getters. It's only needed for cars intended to do road trips.
And yeah, a phone app is more than sufficient. I do trips infrequently enough that it's totally unnecessary to be built-in.
They have 38,000 kiosks. So that's ~$10k/kiosk.
Honestly, that may be a fair price, assuming these machines are profitable. Vending machines make $4-10k revenue/year. Assuming that holds for RedBox, that should make >$2k profit per year, which would make aquisition reasonable. The question is, is that what they're getting?
If I were in their shoes, I'd expand the options at the kiosks to include console games, and maybe a limited selection of snacks (e.g. popcorn), if it can be retrofitted.
Prices are largely in line with historical prices, after inflation. $70 today is worth about the same as $50 in 2011. IIRC, new releases were often $60 back then, so new games may actually be cheaper today than ever.
That doesn't make it any better though. I'm patient because games don't release in a solid state these days, and by the time they're properly patched, they're on a solid discount. I'm not paying $70 to be a beta tester, I'd rather pay <$50 for a solid, patched game, even better if it's less.
Copyright is not a capitalist idea, it's collectivist. See copyright in the Soviet Union, the initial bill of which was passed in 1925, right near the start of the USSR.
A pure capitalist system would have no copyright, and works would instead be protected through exclusivity (I.e. paywalls) and DRM. Copyright is intended to promote sharing by providing a period of exclusivity (temporary monopoly on a work). Whether it achieves those goals is certainly up for debate.
Long terms go against any benefit to society that copyright might have. I think it does have a benefit, but that benefit is pretty limited and should probably only last 10-15 years. I think eliminating copyright entirely would leave most people worse off and probably mostly benefit large orgs that can afford expensive DRM schemes in much the same way that our current copyright duration disproportionately benefits large orgs.
I've kept Windows installed on a spare drive for years now. I don't remember when I last booted into it on purpose, it was certainly more than a year ago, and was just to install Minecraft Bedrock to play with his friends (his friends bailed). My kids have only ever used Linux. :)
I could probably install Linux on my work MBP, but my boss would make me test on macOS, so it would kind of defeat the point.
At home, everything is Linux except my SO's desktop, and that's a job I'm unwilling to be fired from.
Exactly.
Fortunately, my company doesn't put ads in our product because it's essentially a B2B product and customers pay a lot to use it, and our product being unusable could cost individual customers potentially millions if it blocks their day-to-day activities (we deal with regulations). We do use spyware though (e.g. fullstory), which makes sense given that lens, since being able to solve problems before they report them has a lot of value for our customers. If we did anything unethical, I would push back and potentially quit, since I'm not interested at all in manipulating customers (ads, dark patterns, etc).
I don't think the tools we use to catch issues in the field make ethical sense in other contexts though. So yeah, I block a lot of the stuff we use in our product, and we don't do anything to actively counter blocking in our app either (if you block it, you don't get the pre-emptive bug-fixing).
What's there to control? It's a completely open format. No royalties, no control, nothing.
Nah, just a workaholic IMO.
Idk, I think his tech knowledge is fine. He knows far more about cameras than I ever will (largely because I don't care), and I honestly haven't seen anything where he's lacking on the tech knowledge front. His reviews, when critical, are usually quite comprehensive. For his audience and the products he reviews, he's plenty tech savvy and probably more tech savvy than most of his audience. He just doesn't put that on display unless it's relevant to the video.
His channel is all about "hey, check out this cool tech gadget," and not "let's deep dive into this particular tech niche." Do you want to know how a given EV is to drive? MKBHD got you. Are you trying to decide between EVs? Comparing MKBHD's videos may help narrow it down, but probably isn't sufficient. Do you want a teardown of an EV to repair something? Look elsewhere.
I occasionally watch his videos, but not enough to sub. I like his presentation style and his critical videos are generally pretty insightful.
Exactly. Violation of copyright may be an ethical or unethical act, but that doesn't change the fact that copyright law was violated.
For crying out loud, Jonah! Three days late, covered with slime, and smelling like fish! … And what story have I got to swallow this time?
You know what I’m sayin’? … Me, for example. I couldn’t work in some stuffy little office. … The outdoors just calls to me.
Look! Look, gentlemen! Purple mountains! Spacious skies! Fruited plains! … Is someone writing this down?
Sure, I’m a creature—and I can accept that … but lately it seems I’ve been turning into a miserable creature.
The article specifies a JD Power study, which is an American institution. Seems obvious enough...