They have some valuable IP (patents and designs around their battery and charging systems, mostly), but none of their physical assets are really worth any more than face value (at the end of the day a battery factory is a battery factory).
Potential buyers would be far better off waiting for them to collapse and then snaffling up the IP on the cheap. Paying their current meme stock price is just throwing money away.
There mostly aren’t standalone Land Rover dealers either. They’re almost always Land Rover and Jaguar, being the two brands of the same company. Again, if they want to give the Range Rover brand more premium billing, it’s not the weirdest thing the context of the history of the brands.
Debatably that’s not strictly true. Both Land Rover and Range Rover were originally two different models under the Rover marque by British Leyland that weren’t really connected other than both being 4x4s. Following the collapse of Leyland, one of the successor companies was Jaguar Land Rover, and Range Rover ended up in that portfolio.
It’s as accurate to say Range Rovers are Jaguars as they are Land Rovers. If JLR want to spin them out under separate branding then it’s really not that weird, all told.
Sure, but the specs aren’t directly comparable.
They also still manufacture the RPi 4, which starts at £33- which is £23 in 2012 money.
but they’re not cheap any more
People say this, but they really are still cheap.
The original Raspberry Pi Model B launched for £22 in 2012. The entry level Raspberry Pi 5 is £46, but adjusted for inflation that’s only £32 in 2012 money. So only £10 more expensive in real terms.
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is only £14.40, which is only £10 in 2012 money. Compare this to the original Raspberry Pi Model A, which launched for £16.
People look at the headline cost of the high end RPi 5s (£115 for the 16GB model, £76 for the 8GB), but fail to recognise that there was nothing comparable to these in the Raspberry Pi lineup before, and these are not the only models in the Raspberry Pi lineup now.
I was really impressed by how lightweight and gorgeous it is.
Maybe a controversial opinion here, but the one thing that everyone says about it is that it looks gorgeous, and I really don’t see it. Never have.
Even back when I first tried it out, maybe 15 years ago, I thought it looked strangely retro. Nowadays, compared to the eye candy that is completely standard in GNOME, KDE, MacOS, Windows etc., it looks incredibly dated.
It’s all hard edges, low res icons, ugly fonts, and eccentric design choices. Yeah, it can make window elements transparent, but you can’t dine out on that one trick for ever.
Quite a lot of the world (including the EU and UK) is committed to banning ICE cars entirely within the next 10 years. Honda simply can’t survive selling exclusively ICE cars to the US and a few fringe markets; either they’re a global player or they’ll disappear.
Obviously if a global apocalypse wipes us all out then none of this matters, but that’s true of everything. It makes commenting on the news in general a bit redundant.
Good advice in general; even contractual fuckery aside, you can’t guarantee a company will even still exist this time next year.
What OS are you going to use on your Smartphone if you remove software from Google and Apple?
People in the FOSS community constantly talk about the best ways to minimise use of Google, Apple and Microsoft products. That is an absolutely valid motivation for choosing to use one project over another.
If someone is willing to use the behaviour of a company or its owners as a factor when choosing a software stack, presumably it’s valid to apply the same sentiment to development teams of smaller projects too.
I don’t know how they do it in the US, but in the UK most big companies outsource application checks to several big clearing houses. They handle the logistics of checking qualifications and obtaining references from previous employers, plus the optional enhanced checking that some companies need (such as DBS/criminal record checks).
In the UK there is a single official centralised system for checking degree qualifications which covers most major universities. It’s also only a 5 minute job to email a university registrar directly. I think most big companies would consider this a bare minimum task when recruiting for any role where a qualification is in any way important.
What’s the consequences of being caught lying on your resume? you lose your good job.
I used to work as a trade union officer representing people at disciplinaries. I’ve represented several people over the years who were sacked for lying on their CVs.
Not only did they lose their job, but they’ll get a “sacked for gross misconduct” reference from that employer making it much more difficult to get another job. Those in regulated roles also ended up with gross misconduct records with the regulator, making it essentially impossible to work in that field again.
So no, it’s not a risk free game.
I’ve never heard of them. What does it stand for?
I’m currently reading Babel by RF Kuang, which definitely can’t be described as woman-centric (indeed, a major criticism is that its female characters are relatively shallow and few and far between). Good book though.
If you want an old classic to try, give Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees a go. Very unique and fairly influential cult classic from 1926.
canonical is (or at least I think it is) South African
Canonical is British. Headquarters are in London.
The founder, Mark Shuttleworth, is a South African born British citizen, hence the African name for the distro. But it is and always has been British.
Pretty much. Anyone who is 50 years old today would have been 8 years old when the NES launched. Lots of dads and mums in their 30s will have been hitting their teenage years well into the PSX era.
Not everyone is or was a gamer, but very few parents with young families today will be old enough to predate gaming being widespread and mainstream.
Long long ago, pubs didn’t have names but they just had signs. People would call the pub whatever was on the sign. “The King’s Head” for pubs with a portrait of a king, “The Wheat Sheaf” for ones with a picture of some wheat or barley, etc.
Lots of old pubs displayed the Stuart coat of arms as a show of loyalty to King James I/VI and his heirs, which is a heraldic red lion. Hence why so many pubs have the same name even though they’re all ancient and unrelated.
You can’t spell “public transport” without “trans”!
Imagine trying to dust that. Just think of the cobwebs.
Maybe I’m just tired at the end of a long day, but I’m also completely unable to parse that headline. Somebody’s mum is fingering what now?
That’s pretty lore accurate, though, right?
Most Links are portrayed as being either kids/teenagers or very young-looking adults, and Zelda is often portrayed as being a more experienced character, still young but often already embroiled in the politics or conflicts that are core to the story’s initial setup. Link usually shows character growth as he rises to the challenge, but Zelda is often a more static character, who starts the story fully fledged.
I’ve never heard of either actor, but a cursory Google to look at their various photos and I can see them working in the roles. Obviously assuming they can act, too.