It's amazing to see these old videos. The roads were busy than I expected, I thought cars were incredibly expensive back then? (not that they aren't now).
In 60 years time when we're all driving hover cars like the Jetsons imagine how much footage they'll have of us. Dashcams everywhere
About 5 million cars in 1960s vs over 30 million now. But that journey done today would be practically all on the M4, a 3 lane uninterrupted motorway, so capacity has massively increased.
Cars were already mass-produced 60 years ago and, compared to contemporary cars, rather simple. (No electronics, no airbags etc.) So they couldn't have been that expensive.
Also, parking was mostly free, no congestion duties when driving into London... IDK if there were taxes on gasoline and how high.
He's representing a company that took safety shortcuts because government regulations slow innovation, but is also complaining that the government isn't helping them quickly enough in this search.
He thanks the governments, but says they need to move faster. As an adviser, he should be telling this company to have a better emergency plan.
One tip you may appreciate is to use the Australian version of airbnb (.au), their regulators require them to show the true cost of the rental, including all fees in the headline price.
It operates exactly the same as your regional airbnb once you switch the location and currency. For example, switching to USD and searching for apartments in California
Man it's still ongoing, and now the trolls have discovered it. The original thread somehow managed to crash my iphone due to the sheer number of replies.
Amazing GH even made this possible. Not sure if there's also a data leak, I notice my email was CCed, not BCCed. Now they've managed to email nearly half a million people, this could go on for ages as idiots keep responding to the original chains.
Wonder if EpicGames should temporarily mark their account as private till this gets sorted out. Glad I'm not the guy at the end of the phone trying to sort this car crash out.
I'm certainly sympathetic to the frustration of having to support every previous version of your software. If upgrades cost money, then people are incentivized to stay on old versions and then complain about bugs that have been fixed since then, and you can't tell them "just upgrade" because they don't want to pay to upgrade. Web companies almost never need to support old versions of the website, for example, and that makes them much easier to manage from an engineering and customer support standpoint.
You are downvoted but I kind of agree. I don't think their IDEs improved a lot / more since the subscriptions. Indexing is still a resource hog, RAM usage out of control etc.
I also dislike their insistence on copying the grey Adobe's UIs.
I think their model is pretty fair. You subscribe and then are entitled to use that version forever, even if you end your subscription. What you gain in the subscription is the right to use newer versions.
For the stuff I really rely on, I feel good knowing there's a reasonable business model behind it. The ultimate version is $500 / year or $149 / year for business and personal respectively. For a lot of use cases, it doesn't need to save you very much time to pay for itself.
I disagree, although when they first switched to this model (a good while back now), I had the same reaction as you.
On reflection, I think it's a fair model, and fair pricing. They even reduce the renewal price if you renew after the 1st and 2nd years (maybe even more, I don't recall exactly).
Fact is that I love JetBrains products, so I want them to stick around - I want to pay using a subscription model, because that will make it a whole lot more likely.
I use Pycharm and it's such a superior product that I'm happy to support them so they can continuing development. plus it's a pretty nominal fee from an enterprise development cost perspective so it's an easy budgetary sell.
As others said, the community edition is free and extremely capable, so I don't see a reason to complain. It's fantastic that I can use my professional job to support development that benefits free users.
In 60 years time when we're all driving hover cars like the Jetsons imagine how much footage they'll have of us. Dashcams everywhere