- tibbydudezaIndeed.
- Call Of Duty II was one of those games I will never forget in my life - it was like reading Lord Of The Rings.
- Not surprised.
They pulled back out of the EU and other markets like South America and BYD opened up an assembly plant in Brazil.
Turn back the clock and Ford ruled the EU with saloons like the Escort, Mondeo and later the Focus - they were caught unawares with shift to compact SUV's and had the popular Ecosport but never invested in the product line and it was left to wither and die.
They are teaming up with Renault to use their EV platform to maintain a token presence in the EU but consumers today are smarter and more informed and will not buy badge engineered Fords.
- Gimme free hardware first ;).
- Reminds me of Atlassian buying an AI browser.
- Payback - I never factored that in or even thought about that.
I was more concerned about having reliable power and reducing my electricity bill.
The daily 2-hour power cuts were getting out of hand, and I was running my business from my home office, so the tax incentives helped slightly.
The grid is more stable now as new power units became available but a big chunk of middle-class consumers using solar are using way less power now, so the local town councils are having problems balancing their books (town councils re-sells electricity from the national operator).
- Price of Chinese PV panels and inverters and batteries have dropped so much and there has been financing schemes available where you get the installation for free and pay per usage cheaper than what the utility company charges and it is more realiable.
- South Africa - load shedding is a curse word here :).
- I am in Africa - getting 100Mbps/100Mbps symmetric fiber to my home. This is frankly terrible for the biggest economy in the world.
- I had a garden shed with an asbestos roof when we moved in - the first renovation was to get rid of it entirely.
- Cigarettes and Alcohol ?.
- Looking at our roads these days the latest Chinese SUV's and I saw a BYD Shark pickup truck the other day - why on earth would they open dealerships if there is no money to be made ?.
- I always wondered why the hospitals or clinics where they give birth does not register it ?.
It is an ordeal to go the local DHA offices to do anything - the system is offline :).
- Well Musk responded in typical Muskian fashion.
First he is now called Sean Dummy. “Should someone whose biggest claim to fame is climbing trees be running America’s space program?”
- To what end ?.
Mars is a total boondoggle - a colony would require constant supply runs from Earth to support a double-digit population - who is going to field the cost and what are they going to do there ?.
"The Martian" was work of fiction.
A lunar colony is cheaper and way more feasible.
- The Chinese is planning a space habitat - the US is aiming for the same - it is rather different from the Apollo objectives.
Mars is out of reach and not feasible.
- NVidia :).
- Damm they are fast.
- Final stage to AI slop games.
- Good riddance.