"Because there is no money in it. The fact that racing is a test bed for a lot of technology is incidental. Nobody watches auto racing because of that fact and they certainly don't pay money because of it."
No, no-one watches for that reason, but car manufacturers invest in motor racing in part because it can be a test bed for technologies. F1 and other motor racing series are constantly tweaking rules (at manufacturers request) to make the R&D they're doing for racing be more compatible with technology they can use in mass produced automobiles.
I don't know what sport you support but just for clarification. If Apple bought the New York Yankees and turned them into the "New York iPhones" - do you not think Yankees fans would be annoyed?
Or if Microsoft purchased Manchester United and changed their logo to a devil holding up a windows logo.
Perhaps the Dallas Nexus playing in the NFL?
A quiet investment group buying a club or a team... not a big deal, it doesn't impact the public perception of the club. A big corporate entity buying a club and branding it to suit them. That's selling out! I've never liked how American stadiums are all named after corporations. It ruins the aura for me.
The same reason anyone cares about any sports team. Sports are more interesting when you have a vested emotional interest in one team.
Why McLaren? Probably because they're a British based team, and along with Williams, perhaps represent Britain more than any other team. (I happen to be British)
They have a long history of success in Formula One and had two of the most exciting drivers around when I was young and first getting into the sport. One tends to stick with teams that attract them for one reason or another as kids. I also used to have a fondness for "Arrows" for a reason even I'm not sure of, but they no longer exist.
I am glad Apple invented the computer, the smart telephone, the digital music player, the tablet PC, the smart watch and now the paper bag.
Wait?!?!?! What?!?!?!?! They didn't invent any of those things- they just claim credit for it? I don't believe you! Now, excuse me whilst I go watch my streaming TV player that Apple also invented.
"Do you say this about your iPhone or your smart TV or your blueray player or your automobile?"
I've not heard of people installing custom OS on iPhones, but smartphones in general: absolutely. A lot of users choose to install standard Android instead of the bloatware strewn versions of Android that many providers release.
If there were software alternatives for my TV, blueray player or automobile, absolutely I'd prefer a model that could be upgraded by software of my choice. (I don't own a smart tv, bluray player or car with intelligence though).
Microsoft are envious of how Apple get to control everything that runs on their products and want the same level of control. They're just unwilling to cast away all their partners, and standards that let them become a big player in the first place.
No-one wants Apple-level control by Microsoft on a Windows machine. (beside Microsoft that is)
Microsoft are not going to become the new apple- they're just going to piss off their client-base.
Same is happening everywhere. Here in the US, you need Hulu if you want to watch "the Path". Amazon if you want to watch "Man in High Tower". I think Netflix is currently the only place for "Peaky Blinders" or "Luther". New Star Trek is going to be on CBS all Access. My wife's stupid ABC shows are going to be on Yahoo video. Meanwhile BBC is slowly pulling all their content from existing distributors and are setting up their own streaming service - so will need that for Doctor Who or Top Gear.
You have to pick or choose which shows you care to stop watching OR just go back to subscribing to the bloated service that was cable TV because it's getting to the point where the prices are even if you want a good selection of shows.
I miss the days it was just Netflix and Netflix had just about everything.
Netflix and Hulu both do that a lot with British shows in the US
They take a show that was on BBC or ITV and then laud it as "A NETFLIX ORIGINAL" when they reshow it in the US a year later. As if they developed it themselves and it wasn't just rebroadcasting shows that already aired in Britain.
They will quickly drop their plans for a wireless carrier as soon as they discover that they can't force local regions to give them a monopoly on cell phone service.
Seriously, how are Comcast going to survive when they have other companies to compete against?
I've never seen a Steak and Kidney pie (or any kind of Steak pie) in the US after living here for 25 years. They have Chicken Pot Pie- and that's about the extent of American pies (besides sweetened pies). America is very lacking in the pie department. Occasionally, I'll see a Jamaican Pasty.
Hopefully everyone realizes that pounds/shillings/pence is not how things are measured in the UK anymore. Currency was decimalized a long time ago in Britain.
You never know what important information you will learn when pursuing any knowledge. The number of discoveries made by "studying something else" are uncountable: penicillin, dynamite, and amnesia inducing timetravel are just three examples of this.
Most obviously, resurrecting dead species could help us understand evolution better, or even help us with conservation of existing species by examining what is different and what is the same. Bringing mammoths back could help in our understanding of elephants. Resurrecting dinosaurs and studying their immune systems could help us understand the immune system of chickens and other fowl (descended from dinosaurs). We simply can't understand the benefit before we try.
Above all that though is the aesthetics. There is a secondary benefit to all this, replicating the beauty and nature that have been lost to us.
I suspect you're right. He's highly litigious, sounds like he is more interested in working hard to make money without merit than working hard to produce a product people actually want to buy.
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"Because there is no money in it. The fact that racing is a test bed for a lot of technology is incidental. Nobody watches auto racing because of that fact and they certainly don't pay money because of it."
No, no-one watches for that reason, but car manufacturers invest in motor racing in part because it can be a test bed for technologies. F1 and other motor racing series are constantly tweaking rules (at manufacturers request) to make the R&D they're doing for racing be more compatible with technology they can use in mass produced automobiles.
I don't know what sport you support but just for clarification. If Apple bought the New York Yankees and turned them into the "New York iPhones" - do you not think Yankees fans would be annoyed?
Or if Microsoft purchased Manchester United and changed their logo to a devil holding up a windows logo.
Perhaps the Dallas Nexus playing in the NFL?
A quiet investment group buying a club or a team... not a big deal, it doesn't impact the public perception of the club. A big corporate entity buying a club and branding it to suit them. That's selling out! I've never liked how American stadiums are all named after corporations. It ruins the aura for me.
The same reason anyone cares about any sports team. Sports are more interesting when you have a vested emotional interest in one team.
Why McLaren? Probably because they're a British based team, and along with Williams, perhaps represent Britain more than any other team. (I happen to be British)
They have a long history of success in Formula One and had two of the most exciting drivers around when I was young and first getting into the sport. One tends to stick with teams that attract them for one reason or another as kids. I also used to have a fondness for "Arrows" for a reason even I'm not sure of, but they no longer exist.
And before Red Bull, Bennetton.
I never like either of those teams either to be honest.
I am glad Apple invented the computer, the smart telephone, the digital music player, the tablet PC, the smart watch and now the paper bag.
Wait?!?!?! What?!?!?!?! They didn't invent any of those things- they just claim credit for it? I don't believe you! Now, excuse me whilst I go watch my streaming TV player that Apple also invented.
I've been a supporter of McLaren since I was a kid. I could never support an Apple F1 team. (or Google, or Microsoft, or Blackberry, or Facebook)
I know it's a corporate entity and it shouldn't matter who owns/runs them- but on a basic level it would ruin it for me.
"Do you say this about your iPhone or your smart TV or your blueray player or your automobile?"
I've not heard of people installing custom OS on iPhones, but smartphones in general: absolutely. A lot of users choose to install standard Android instead of the bloatware strewn versions of Android that many providers release.
If there were software alternatives for my TV, blueray player or automobile, absolutely I'd prefer a model that could be upgraded by software of my choice. (I don't own a smart tv, bluray player or car with intelligence though).
Microsoft lost in Europe though.
Microsoft are envious of how Apple get to control everything that runs on their products and want the same level of control. They're just unwilling to cast away all their partners, and standards that let them become a big player in the first place.
No-one wants Apple-level control by Microsoft on a Windows machine. (beside Microsoft that is)
Microsoft are not going to become the new apple- they're just going to piss off their client-base.
So I guess this won't be the year of the Linux desktop after all. Thanks Microsoft! :(
Oh... and HBO if you want Game of Thrones!
Same is happening everywhere. Here in the US, you need Hulu if you want to watch "the Path". Amazon if you want to watch "Man in High Tower". I think Netflix is currently the only place for "Peaky Blinders" or "Luther". New Star Trek is going to be on CBS all Access. My wife's stupid ABC shows are going to be on Yahoo video. Meanwhile BBC is slowly pulling all their content from existing distributors and are setting up their own streaming service - so will need that for Doctor Who or Top Gear.
You have to pick or choose which shows you care to stop watching OR just go back to subscribing to the bloated service that was cable TV because it's getting to the point where the prices are even if you want a good selection of shows.
I miss the days it was just Netflix and Netflix had just about everything.
Netflix and Hulu both do that a lot with British shows in the US
They take a show that was on BBC or ITV and then laud it as "A NETFLIX ORIGINAL" when they reshow it in the US a year later. As if they developed it themselves and it wasn't just rebroadcasting shows that already aired in Britain.
He hardly did any good movies since Happy Gilmore, aside from 50 First Dates. Most of them are soiled by his bizarre bathroom humor - like Big Daddy
Tee-hee, you said "soiled".
EU is going to want to punish UK severely as a warning to others to not leave. There will be no easy access to the single market.
"Blind people use the visual cortex for things like echo-location, etc"
Batman would be OK if he went blind then.
(yes, I have read about a handful of blind, and sighted, people who have learnt to maneuver using echo-location).
They're not sure where it's going to land huh?
So when it accidentally hits Tokyo with pinpoint accuracy we're all going to be astonished.
They will quickly drop their plans for a wireless carrier as soon as they discover that they can't force local regions to give them a monopoly on cell phone service.
Seriously, how are Comcast going to survive when they have other companies to compete against?
I've never seen a Steak and Kidney pie (or any kind of Steak pie) in the US after living here for 25 years. They have Chicken Pot Pie- and that's about the extent of American pies (besides sweetened pies). America is very lacking in the pie department. Occasionally, I'll see a Jamaican Pasty.
Hopefully everyone realizes that pounds/shillings/pence is not how things are measured in the UK anymore. Currency was decimalized a long time ago in Britain.
You never know what important information you will learn when pursuing any knowledge. The number of discoveries made by "studying something else" are uncountable: penicillin, dynamite, and amnesia inducing timetravel are just three examples of this.
Most obviously, resurrecting dead species could help us understand evolution better, or even help us with conservation of existing species by examining what is different and what is the same. Bringing mammoths back could help in our understanding of elephants. Resurrecting dinosaurs and studying their immune systems could help us understand the immune system of chickens and other fowl (descended from dinosaurs). We simply can't understand the benefit before we try.
Above all that though is the aesthetics. There is a secondary benefit to all this, replicating the beauty and nature that have been lost to us.
Of course- it could be the mini sprinkler system inside the phone going off to prevent a Galaxy Note 7 event occurring.
We will one day live on every large rocky surface in the solar system... ... just not in Elon Musk's lifetime.
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I suspect you're right. He's highly litigious, sounds like he is more interested in working hard to make money without merit than working hard to produce a product people actually want to buy.