It was "Honda's EV" in the sense that it was the only EV with a Honda badge you could actually buy. The three canned models mentioned in the article never even made it into the market.
Europeans and the Japanese were able to buy the Honda e for a few years - this article wrongly states another unreleased model as Honda's first ground up EV.
There's a few other EVs Honda produced in 90s as well, but e probably in running for first ground up new EV platform that made it to market as mass produced Honda product.
The Honda e was a massively compromised vehicle due to the tiny ~29 kWh net battery and high energy consumption. It was released in 2020 but in terms of utility it's really much more like an early 2010s EV.
The blame is somewhat misguided: what's blame to here is cost-cutting, not printing on demand. If you're willing to pay, you can get POD books that, certainly to the untrained enough, are indistinguishable from "real" books.
For example, Lulu's hardcover books with linen wrap, dust jacket, "premium" B&W printing with 60# uncoated cream look pretty darn good: https://www.lulu.com/pricing
Yeah, I'm leaning towards that conclusion as well. While I don't publish my writings, I have a few friends who do. The stuff that comes from Lulu, even the cheapest "models", is honestly fine. The ones from Amazon, not so much.
Of course if you typeset and edit your book like a moron, that's going to impact the quality, but this has nothing to do with POD.
Fewer and fewer books get this treatment by experienced professionals and it is often left to the author to do this work. This is really a great resource!
Hi author here. I've bought a probability textbook from Lulu and it was fine. I don't blame POD but rather misinformation and poor quality. Almost all the POD books I've received from Amazon are very distinguishable from real books.
I'm pretty sure people would read more and click on more ads if they didn't have to endure waiting for 49 MB of crap and then navigating a pop-up obstacle course for each article.
This is why people continue to lament Google Reader (and RSS in general): it was a way to read content on your own terms, without getting hijacked by ads.
something like RSSHub can be used in conjunction with your RSS reader and will generate feeds for sites that dont have them. RSS-Bridge is another option
What on earth do you have to rely on alphabet, an ad company, to read rss for? there are many other options, that are not made by an ad company.
Google Reader was never the answer. It's such a shame that people even here don't realize that relying on Google for that had interests at odds - and you weren't part of the equation at all.
Well, except for your data. You didn't give them enough data. So they shut down shop. Gmail though, ammirite? :D
Yeah I wonder why gmail was not one of the shut down products /s
No, this is deeply disturbing.
The person "whining" is the head of the regulatory body that gets to decide what can be broadcast, a supposedly non-partisan role, and yet he's just straight up threatened to cancel the licenses of everybody who's not vocally supportive of what you term the current regime.
This is.. not huge news? Google is discontinuing its own Widevine server, but Widevine is not going anywhere, you can still run your own server or use any of a number of third-party hosts offering it:
And surprise surprise, the blog post in question appears to be very thinly disguised marketing for one of those third parties.
Also, the Google service was free and came with no SLA or support, meaning anybody remotely serious about DRM was not relying it on in the first place.
> And surprise surprise, the blog post in question appears to be very thinly disguised marketing for one of those third parties.
To be fair, there is no official Google announcement to link to. They seem to have announced this very quietly and it is easy for someone to go to the Widevine docs and build something around the server without realizing it’s going away.
I think that is right technically, but there is still real migration pain here for teams that quietly depended on the free hosted path. The annoying part is usually not swapping providers. It is finding every place license issuance, renewal, and failure handling got baked into the stack and validating it before the old service disappears.
Believe it or not, you're both correct! China is closing more (old, inefficient, polluting) coal plants than anybody else, and opening newer ones than anybody else.
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