"What's a 160-miles-per-charge, $50k car worth to you?"
Just to save some time and energy for posts to come. Yes it's over 20K so you aren't interested.
Why can't they make one for under 20K? Batteries are too expensive.
160 miles isn't enough? It wasn't made with you in mind.
Gasoline suits me fine! Then be prepared for $5 and eventually $10 a gallon. Oil is running out and it will happen eventually. If you get solar panels to recharge from the cost of sunlight never goes up and the trend is for solar panels to get cheaper.
Ah it's not their fault that Apple is the only one right now supporting the advanced features. It's very expensive to redo them for multiple formats since there aren't tools out there to output to more generic formats like HTML 5. It sounds more like sour grapes because you don't own an iPad. They are targeting for one market, deal with it. I swear these days if they don't support every format they should be burned as witches. I'm developing similar projects and I'll tell you from first hand experience that it's not possible and at the very least cost effective to master for every device. I'm probably releasing to multiple formats but I'll be throwing out the motion and audio. And for those that hate motion comics, just don't buy them. Personally I'm not doing comics but the interactivity is similar and I do myself like the motion comic format so long as it's done well and they are doing it right. I'm more concerned with the lame stories in many of the motion comics. If it's used as a storytelling tool I don't see the problem. If it's done to cover up bad stories then it'll flop. By the way if you don't believe me do your own research. InDesign is the premiere tool and it doesn't support this type of interaction. I only know of one tool out there and it's iPad only. I guess you can write all the custom code but it'd be cost prohibitive for most. Interactive eBooks are in their infancy. You might as well complain about why they couldn't do Lord of the Rings the way it was in the 70s or 80s. In 10 or 15 years there will be a lot more support but for now being able to do it at all is impressive.
I know you are making a joke, but these stems cells were iPS (induced pluripotent), i.e. taken from adults, not embryos, and therefore not controversial by any stretch of the imagination or in any viewpoint I'm aware of. On the contrary, they show that you don't need embryonic stem cells to produce medical advances.
Not so quick! Can a liver bud one day grow up to be a full grown liver? Sacrificing baby livers in the name of science is offensive. One day they could grow up to be President of the United States!
The smaller makers may have two choices, throw in the towel or embrace Linux. If Microsoft is throwing the hundreds of smaller makers under the bus then they have to focus another OS. They may unintentially create a third OS option for the average person.The software support has been slow in coming but more game engines like Unity are supporting it and all it would take is a truly user friendly version and maybe a portable version to support the indy tablet makers. Create a Linux app store that works like iTunes and provide a good retail option for movies and music and people could flock to it. Look at it this way, Apple can't hog the retina displays forever and what are the odds of Microsoft not shooting itself in the foot? Apple is closed source and Microsoft tends to be on the twitchy side when it comes to hardware and security. Linux could provide an open platform for development without all the jumping through hoops of Apple. I want something a little more like the early days where you could store any kind of files on portables. Also I want more storage which Apple has been loath to do. Imagine a 256 gig iPad that had a full desktop OS and allowed you to store and transport files and sold for $1,000 to $1,200. A bigger screen and 2560X1440 support would be ideal. The point is a desktop replacement that is completely portable and not in the way a notebook is but think, light and instant on. Something that you could walk out to the living room and stream a movie to the big screen or even stream a movie at a friends house to their TV. Bundle in a DVR so you can record your cable programs and have it completely portable. There's no technical reason you couldn't bundle in a TV tuner and an HDMI and tap into TV that way. Don't compete with the iPad make it something else that is more of a media and desktop Swiss Army Knife. Make a tablet that has everyone saying why doesn't iPad do all this and with the security and stability of Linux. Come up with an accessory Blu-ray player that was the size of a Walkman and I could get rid of more than half my electronics and replace them with something I could hold in one hand.
Everyone makes the same silly ones and zeroes argument and they ignore the real issue. Producing the music and advertizing it costs money. Yes digital distribution is dirt cheap but even it isn't free. There's hosting and bandwidth considerations. Also everyone makes the argument every time that artists should only charge for live performances. A little reality check. Small venues don't pay for the music. Yes you make lots of money when you play 10,000 seat houses but the ones that handle a few hundred don't pay they expect bands to do it for exposure. It's been that way since the 80s. What's the point of exposure if people expect you to give away the recordings? The Venues don't want to pay the artists and the fans don't want to pay for the music. Basically no one wants to pay the artists so you might as well get a job at Starbucks, at least there's money in it.
Actually it worked until there was technology for people to easily redistribute the content. Music was successfully sold with few complaints for nearly a hundred years. What changed was not how music was sold perse it was the ability of people to convert the formats and redistribute. People talk like this has been a battle that has been going on from the beginning but it really started showing up in the late 90s and didn't have a major impact until after 2000. There obviously is no debate on the impact since digital distribution and piracy killed the record stores and record industry profits have been dropping for more than a decade. The record companies circling the wagons and focusing on select artists has had a major affect on me, I mostly buy older music. I've only bought one album and a handful of song produced in the last ten years. The music is all crap now.
"Instead, Microsoft showed a... device that integrates a better keyboard option than typing on the screen without adding size or weight. That's where the new keyboard — which doubles as a screen cover — kicks in"
First off like others have noticed that's called a laptop. Without a store I'm not a 100% sure about loading content. Part of the elegance of an iPad is the ease of purchasing and loading content. iTunes does largely suck but it can take seconds to buy a song and it loads passively. eBooks are a big part of iPad's success so I'm assuming it's why they got in bed with Nook but nothing has been said about that intergration. Their $1,000 full OS version sounds a lot like what people thought Apple would come up with when they released the iPad. I say that one is risky because it wouldn't be hard for Apple to come out with a $750 or $800 iPad with a full Mac OS and a retina display which would make the Microsoft one a serious dog. Overall it feels like it's a work in progress and in a couple of years it might be great but Apple has two years already on them and they launched with a tight product and they had years of success with portable OSs before they ever released the iPad. The Kindle Fire has them low balled so they'd be fools to release a cheap version and Apple could kill them there as well if they wanted. The Microsoft one just feels like too little too late and it's primary market are Apple haters.
A sequel is in the works that will involve Hobbits running around on stage and reading their lines live. They also plan to act out commercials and trailers live to give a more movie theater like experience.
Neanderthals were known for shaping stone artwork, the neanderthal Venus are quite well known, so there's no reason to think they lacked the ability to paint. Developmentally Neanderthals were very close to modern humans. There is debate about some problem solving and complex tool making but in many ways they were hard to separate from humans. They even developed music and the flute.
And a few researchers say that the study argues for the slow development of artistic skill over tens of thousands of years mdash; not a swift acquisition of talent, as some had argued.
It may now be considered proper to spell and pronounce Neandertal with a 't' not a 'th' sound, but 'mdash' is still normally written as '—'.
They may be able to paint but they can't spell for shit.
Why is it that Microsoft can't seem to do anything until some one else does it and it's usually Apple? Apple used a windows environment before Microsoft. Zune came after virtually everyone else had a music player so it never had much of a chance. Now they suddenly decide it's time to get into tablets? FYI there are other examples, just making a point. Just seems like a poor business model to wait until market saturation to launch a product. If Apple launches a TV can we expect a Microsoft TV a few years after? I didn't include things like a portable OS because they have tried that before but it didn't take off where as Android and iOS have done well. They just seem to wait until others take the risk then get their feet wet once the pool is full.
So if it's true of Minnesota it must be true of every square inch of the planet. Your playing the blind men and the elephant game. You might as well stick your head out the door and if it isn't raining declare there's a drought. It's called cherry picking data, the very thing the right always accuses climate scientists of doing. Worldwide averages are what count. If instead of Minnesota you picked Alaska and based the percentage of increase for the rest of the country based on those observations the southern half of the country would be like the Equator. The climate is far too complicated to base any conclusions on a single area's temperature.
The odds of weaponized Ebola are fairly small. Viruses are inherently hard to treat so this would have the potential for treating that entire class of virus. A similar approach may even be potentially an option for AIDs since a small percentage of the population produces the antibodies for AIDs. There is reason to think it might work on AIDs since one man was cured when he received a bone marrow transplant from some one that has the natural immunity. The trick is producing enough of the right antibodies.
Harassment is the whole point. Gun owners especially in California are dealing with the death of a thousand cuts. The anti gun groups couldn't win on Constitutional grounds so they are trying to regulate guns to death. When anti gun people talk about "reasonable gun laws" they are talking about laws that make it nearly impossible to own guns. California has had unreasonable gun laws for 20 years or more and it has had no affect on crime. States and cities with the most radical gun laws tend to have the most gun violence so simply trying to legislate them away isn't working. I'm always angered by the fact they don't consult people that know guns to come up with effective safe guards. They don't want effective laws allowing gun ownership because the end game is to get rid of guns and effective laws take away their argument for an outright ban. My favorite silly ban was the ban in California on 50 calibre rifles. It was hailed as a major success. No one bothered to point out that no crime had even been committed by one in the state and the only ones that were affected were a tiny number of long range shooters. No one is going to rob a bank with a 30lb+ rifle with enough recoil to dislocate your shoulder. Not to mention being heard from several miles away when you discharge it bringing every cop in the city. They use pocket 9mm pistols or at the most shotguns. Notice no laws target shotguns? Rich people bird hunt and shoot skeet so they don't go near shotguns. They just want to take them away from regular people.
It's the other side that is chugging Kool-Aide. On one side you have climatologist and environmental scientists that have all agreed for a decade or more that we are seeing a major shift in the climate and we are the cause. On the other side are pundits that have an agenda to avoid changes that will affect lifestyle or corporate profits that have no formal education in climate science that say we can't affect weather no matter what we do to the Earth. Now which side sounds like the Kool-aide drinkers, the scientists or corporate America who are making a fortune off releasing CO2? I've heard claims all my life that we can't seriously affect the environment yet I've seen a massive change in the world over the last 50 years. Cities themselves cause heating because of all the dark roofs and roads so it's obvious we are having an affect on the environment. FYI the pundits are lying about all the experts that deny climate change. There was even a major study by a climate change denial group that had the same results as the climate scientist. Their reaction was to say that there is change but we can't be the cause. There was no proof that we weren't the cause it was their opinion. The carbon we are releasing predates the dinosaurs so it's insane to assume that it can't affect the environment. It took tens of millions of years to store it and we're releasing it in a couple of hundred years. To put it into perspective imagine a 1,000 years worth of your trash, you know those bags you leave out front for the garbage man. Now pile that thousand years of trash bags around your house. The pile would be hundreds of feet high. That's what we are doing when we release 400 million year old stored carbon. Think that ridiculous? Imagine ten million years of your garbage and you are getting closer to the truth. It's not the same thing obviously but it illustrates how extreme the release of CO2 has been over the last 200 years.
So they're basically screwing up the desktop experience on Windows 8 in favor of tablets and smartphones, and on top of that they're pricing it so high that it won't have any reasonable chance of success in the market they want.
I'm betting that Steve Ballmer will be out the door by the time all this is over.
I'm not saying I agree that Ballmer will be out soon but apparently they have removed all chairs from his office.
Professional trolls tend to be the easiest to find. Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh don't exactly broadcast from ships off the coast. Back in the dark ages they may have had to voice their opinions from beneath a bridge but these days they are given a studio and can reach millions.
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Just to save some time and energy for posts to come. Yes it's over 20K so you aren't interested.
Why can't they make one for under 20K? Batteries are too expensive.
160 miles isn't enough? It wasn't made with you in mind.
Gasoline suits me fine! Then be prepared for $5 and eventually $10 a gallon. Oil is running out and it will happen eventually. If you get solar panels to recharge from the cost of sunlight never goes up and the trend is for solar panels to get cheaper.
Ah it's not their fault that Apple is the only one right now supporting the advanced features. It's very expensive to redo them for multiple formats since there aren't tools out there to output to more generic formats like HTML 5. It sounds more like sour grapes because you don't own an iPad. They are targeting for one market, deal with it. I swear these days if they don't support every format they should be burned as witches. I'm developing similar projects and I'll tell you from first hand experience that it's not possible and at the very least cost effective to master for every device. I'm probably releasing to multiple formats but I'll be throwing out the motion and audio. And for those that hate motion comics, just don't buy them. Personally I'm not doing comics but the interactivity is similar and I do myself like the motion comic format so long as it's done well and they are doing it right. I'm more concerned with the lame stories in many of the motion comics. If it's used as a storytelling tool I don't see the problem. If it's done to cover up bad stories then it'll flop. By the way if you don't believe me do your own research. InDesign is the premiere tool and it doesn't support this type of interaction. I only know of one tool out there and it's iPad only. I guess you can write all the custom code but it'd be cost prohibitive for most. Interactive eBooks are in their infancy. You might as well complain about why they couldn't do Lord of the Rings the way it was in the 70s or 80s. In 10 or 15 years there will be a lot more support but for now being able to do it at all is impressive.
They could play off nostalgia and make the default screen color blue.
So... if you treat your (non-lethal) basal cell carcinoma with a radioactive patch, can you accidentally give yourself (highly lethal) melanoma?
More likely if you apply too many patches and wear them too long your skin will turn green and give you big muscles.
Astronauts won't have to bring their own snowcones.
I know you are making a joke, but these stems cells were iPS (induced pluripotent), i.e. taken from adults, not embryos, and therefore not controversial by any stretch of the imagination or in any viewpoint I'm aware of. On the contrary, they show that you don't need embryonic stem cells to produce medical advances.
Not so quick! Can a liver bud one day grow up to be a full grown liver? Sacrificing baby livers in the name of science is offensive. One day they could grow up to be President of the United States!
Now I can start drinking again.
"Japanese scientists have coaxed stem cells into forming a 5-millimeter-long, three-dimensional tissue that the researchers labelled a liver bud "
Very small drinks.
The smaller makers may have two choices, throw in the towel or embrace Linux. If Microsoft is throwing the hundreds of smaller makers under the bus then they have to focus another OS. They may unintentially create a third OS option for the average person.The software support has been slow in coming but more game engines like Unity are supporting it and all it would take is a truly user friendly version and maybe a portable version to support the indy tablet makers. Create a Linux app store that works like iTunes and provide a good retail option for movies and music and people could flock to it. Look at it this way, Apple can't hog the retina displays forever and what are the odds of Microsoft not shooting itself in the foot? Apple is closed source and Microsoft tends to be on the twitchy side when it comes to hardware and security. Linux could provide an open platform for development without all the jumping through hoops of Apple. I want something a little more like the early days where you could store any kind of files on portables. Also I want more storage which Apple has been loath to do. Imagine a 256 gig iPad that had a full desktop OS and allowed you to store and transport files and sold for $1,000 to $1,200. A bigger screen and 2560X1440 support would be ideal. The point is a desktop replacement that is completely portable and not in the way a notebook is but think, light and instant on. Something that you could walk out to the living room and stream a movie to the big screen or even stream a movie at a friends house to their TV. Bundle in a DVR so you can record your cable programs and have it completely portable. There's no technical reason you couldn't bundle in a TV tuner and an HDMI and tap into TV that way. Don't compete with the iPad make it something else that is more of a media and desktop Swiss Army Knife. Make a tablet that has everyone saying why doesn't iPad do all this and with the security and stability of Linux. Come up with an accessory Blu-ray player that was the size of a Walkman and I could get rid of more than half my electronics and replace them with something I could hold in one hand.
Everyone makes the same silly ones and zeroes argument and they ignore the real issue. Producing the music and advertizing it costs money. Yes digital distribution is dirt cheap but even it isn't free. There's hosting and bandwidth considerations. Also everyone makes the argument every time that artists should only charge for live performances. A little reality check. Small venues don't pay for the music. Yes you make lots of money when you play 10,000 seat houses but the ones that handle a few hundred don't pay they expect bands to do it for exposure. It's been that way since the 80s. What's the point of exposure if people expect you to give away the recordings? The Venues don't want to pay the artists and the fans don't want to pay for the music. Basically no one wants to pay the artists so you might as well get a job at Starbucks, at least there's money in it.
Actually it worked until there was technology for people to easily redistribute the content. Music was successfully sold with few complaints for nearly a hundred years. What changed was not how music was sold perse it was the ability of people to convert the formats and redistribute. People talk like this has been a battle that has been going on from the beginning but it really started showing up in the late 90s and didn't have a major impact until after 2000. There obviously is no debate on the impact since digital distribution and piracy killed the record stores and record industry profits have been dropping for more than a decade. The record companies circling the wagons and focusing on select artists has had a major affect on me, I mostly buy older music. I've only bought one album and a handful of song produced in the last ten years. The music is all crap now.
"Instead, Microsoft showed a ... device that integrates a better keyboard option than typing on the screen without adding size or weight. That's where the new keyboard — which doubles as a screen cover — kicks in"
First off like others have noticed that's called a laptop. Without a store I'm not a 100% sure about loading content. Part of the elegance of an iPad is the ease of purchasing and loading content. iTunes does largely suck but it can take seconds to buy a song and it loads passively. eBooks are a big part of iPad's success so I'm assuming it's why they got in bed with Nook but nothing has been said about that intergration. Their $1,000 full OS version sounds a lot like what people thought Apple would come up with when they released the iPad. I say that one is risky because it wouldn't be hard for Apple to come out with a $750 or $800 iPad with a full Mac OS and a retina display which would make the Microsoft one a serious dog. Overall it feels like it's a work in progress and in a couple of years it might be great but Apple has two years already on them and they launched with a tight product and they had years of success with portable OSs before they ever released the iPad. The Kindle Fire has them low balled so they'd be fools to release a cheap version and Apple could kill them there as well if they wanted. The Microsoft one just feels like too little too late and it's primary market are Apple haters.
Can we have a "Please Kill" list as well. I have a neighbor with a dog that barks all night that's just itching for a drone attack.
A sequel is in the works that will involve Hobbits running around on stage and reading their lines live. They also plan to act out commercials and trailers live to give a more movie theater like experience.
I think after listening to people discuss hockey for a few hours I'd feel like blowing my brains out.
Neanderthals were known for shaping stone artwork, the neanderthal Venus are quite well known, so there's no reason to think they lacked the ability to paint. Developmentally Neanderthals were very close to modern humans. There is debate about some problem solving and complex tool making but in many ways they were hard to separate from humans. They even developed music and the flute.
And a few researchers say that the study argues for the slow development of artistic skill over tens of thousands of years mdash; not a swift acquisition of talent, as some had argued.
It may now be considered proper to spell and pronounce Neandertal with a 't' not a 'th' sound, but 'mdash' is still normally written as '—'.
They may be able to paint but they can't spell for shit.
Why is it that Microsoft can't seem to do anything until some one else does it and it's usually Apple? Apple used a windows environment before Microsoft. Zune came after virtually everyone else had a music player so it never had much of a chance. Now they suddenly decide it's time to get into tablets? FYI there are other examples, just making a point. Just seems like a poor business model to wait until market saturation to launch a product. If Apple launches a TV can we expect a Microsoft TV a few years after? I didn't include things like a portable OS because they have tried that before but it didn't take off where as Android and iOS have done well. They just seem to wait until others take the risk then get their feet wet once the pool is full.
Now we can find out if there's intelligent life on Earth!
So if it's true of Minnesota it must be true of every square inch of the planet. Your playing the blind men and the elephant game. You might as well stick your head out the door and if it isn't raining declare there's a drought. It's called cherry picking data, the very thing the right always accuses climate scientists of doing. Worldwide averages are what count. If instead of Minnesota you picked Alaska and based the percentage of increase for the rest of the country based on those observations the southern half of the country would be like the Equator. The climate is far too complicated to base any conclusions on a single area's temperature.
The odds of weaponized Ebola are fairly small. Viruses are inherently hard to treat so this would have the potential for treating that entire class of virus. A similar approach may even be potentially an option for AIDs since a small percentage of the population produces the antibodies for AIDs. There is reason to think it might work on AIDs since one man was cured when he received a bone marrow transplant from some one that has the natural immunity. The trick is producing enough of the right antibodies.
I didn't come from no monkey's butthole
It's an honest mistake. Most people just assume there's a family resemblance.
Harassment is the whole point. Gun owners especially in California are dealing with the death of a thousand cuts. The anti gun groups couldn't win on Constitutional grounds so they are trying to regulate guns to death. When anti gun people talk about "reasonable gun laws" they are talking about laws that make it nearly impossible to own guns. California has had unreasonable gun laws for 20 years or more and it has had no affect on crime. States and cities with the most radical gun laws tend to have the most gun violence so simply trying to legislate them away isn't working. I'm always angered by the fact they don't consult people that know guns to come up with effective safe guards. They don't want effective laws allowing gun ownership because the end game is to get rid of guns and effective laws take away their argument for an outright ban. My favorite silly ban was the ban in California on 50 calibre rifles. It was hailed as a major success. No one bothered to point out that no crime had even been committed by one in the state and the only ones that were affected were a tiny number of long range shooters. No one is going to rob a bank with a 30lb+ rifle with enough recoil to dislocate your shoulder. Not to mention being heard from several miles away when you discharge it bringing every cop in the city. They use pocket 9mm pistols or at the most shotguns. Notice no laws target shotguns? Rich people bird hunt and shoot skeet so they don't go near shotguns. They just want to take them away from regular people.
Wow. That Kool-aid must taste great.
It's the other side that is chugging Kool-Aide. On one side you have climatologist and environmental scientists that have all agreed for a decade or more that we are seeing a major shift in the climate and we are the cause. On the other side are pundits that have an agenda to avoid changes that will affect lifestyle or corporate profits that have no formal education in climate science that say we can't affect weather no matter what we do to the Earth. Now which side sounds like the Kool-aide drinkers, the scientists or corporate America who are making a fortune off releasing CO2? I've heard claims all my life that we can't seriously affect the environment yet I've seen a massive change in the world over the last 50 years. Cities themselves cause heating because of all the dark roofs and roads so it's obvious we are having an affect on the environment. FYI the pundits are lying about all the experts that deny climate change. There was even a major study by a climate change denial group that had the same results as the climate scientist. Their reaction was to say that there is change but we can't be the cause. There was no proof that we weren't the cause it was their opinion. The carbon we are releasing predates the dinosaurs so it's insane to assume that it can't affect the environment. It took tens of millions of years to store it and we're releasing it in a couple of hundred years. To put it into perspective imagine a 1,000 years worth of your trash, you know those bags you leave out front for the garbage man. Now pile that thousand years of trash bags around your house. The pile would be hundreds of feet high. That's what we are doing when we release 400 million year old stored carbon. Think that ridiculous? Imagine ten million years of your garbage and you are getting closer to the truth. It's not the same thing obviously but it illustrates how extreme the release of CO2 has been over the last 200 years.
So they're basically screwing up the desktop experience on Windows 8 in favor of tablets and smartphones, and on top of that they're pricing it so high that it won't have any reasonable chance of success in the market they want.
I'm betting that Steve Ballmer will be out the door by the time all this is over.
I'm not saying I agree that Ballmer will be out soon but apparently they have removed all chairs from his office.
Professional trolls tend to be the easiest to find. Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh don't exactly broadcast from ships off the coast. Back in the dark ages they may have had to voice their opinions from beneath a bridge but these days they are given a studio and can reach millions.