no, i mean it is stupid to ban while driving simply because there are some assholes out there who will use it like retards. using one of those while driving is no more of a distraction than having your buddies in the car. the fact of the matter is that ANYTHING that causes your brain to not be working fully on analyzing the road is dangerous. this includes music, people, bugs, kids, games, movies, signs on the side of the road, hunger, thirst, needing to go to the restroom, etc.
the fact of the matter is that it is absurrd to ban one of these things while driving without banning the others. the problem is that the government realizes they cant ban the rest of them, so they just ban the ones they can.... and this is selective prosecution, which is against the law in the US.
and as i pointed out earlier, it COULD be used to make driving easier, with tools that make it safer as well.
i think 20 million is easily possible. if the campaign hits the kickstarter 11M record, there will be a TON of press and news articles. the word would get out there, thats what the campaign needs most atm. it doesnt need new perks or cheaper phones, it needs ppl to know about it. if the word gets spread out there, the campaign might even get to 32M
if this campaign does not succeed, next year there still wont be anything close to it. why? because the phone manufacturers have no reason to push the limits on hardware when ppl are willing to pay 600-900$ on hardware that is 3-5 years old.
assuming the campaign succeeds, the only thing this will do to the market is show that there is a market for high end phones. the edge willl never be sold on the open market.
but see, in this case, they are punishing the guy who got 6ppl killed, and not everyone who uses a gps. thats the difference, they should be going after assholes and dumbasses instead of everyone. just because a product has been known to cause stupid ppl to injure others doesnt mean that product itself should be banned. the only thing that should be illegal is the misuse of it.
it would be incredibly stupid for the government to ban ladders because a few guys set them up upside down and fall. better yet, we should ban keys because they can be used to scratch other ppls cars. it isnt the intended purpose, but who cares? something needs to be done to stop those assholes.
lol, but again you are assuming that everyone is going to misuse GG in a car. as i posted down below, it is entirely possible for you to JUST be using GG in the car for things that make your driving easier and safer.
google glass, being what it is, is capable of doing two things. one, with apps, it can make driving a much safer activity (calculating velocity, distance from the car in front of you, whether or not the car in front of you is stopping, the difference between the speed of the car in front of you and your car, etc.) and two, it can be used to play games and whatnot while you are in a car.
obviously the latter would be bad, but theres no reason to ban google glass simply because a few retards are going to misuse it. i dont see a law banning you from playing gameboy in the car, or putting a laptop on your dashboard.
lol you misunderstand. it is only 720p on the phone. if you plug it into a monitor, it will give you the full hd 1080p. theres just no reason for a phone to have 1080p, it is just wasted processing. obviously it would need to have 1080 if it were plugged into a monitor.
no man... thats how much a top of the line desktop will cost you if you build it yourself. your gpu will be 400-600$, your psu 100-200$, your CPU will be another 400$, your mobo will be another 200$, a SSD will cost you 200$ for a decently sized one.. if you want a ssd just for your os, it would be around 75$, then you need HDD which would cost you around 100$ for 2TB. a good case that will fit all this will cost you another 100$. a liquid cooling unit will cost you another 100$... is this getting close to 1600? im too lazy to add, lol.
also, the price of phones will NEVER become decent until they are oldschool like nokia phones. since there is no innovation in the market, the manufacturers can set the price at whatever they want, and they will continue to do so because thats what makes them $$$..
if you bought the phone for 700$, you would be able to resell it for 200-300$ profit on ebay. this is a 30% gain... i doubt your bank has that kind of interest.
people in this world do a lot of waiting. we keep our money where we can see it. just because i saved 700$ by not buying something i want doesnt mean im now going to spend that 700$ on something else. if i dont buy something, that money would just sit in my bank collecting dust.
if you had said you were just going to bank the cash, i would have said that banking the cash has no point... you dont get anything from it. if you put in the 700$ fr this phone, you will a) have a cool new phone that you didnt have before, and b) likely be able to resell it on ebay for 800-1000$ after the fact, since it is a limited edition phone. you would be able to sell it to everyone else who said "im not gonna buy one because it doesnt come out until may" or " im not going to buy one because it costs 700$ and i dont know what the specs are going to be like" for 200$ profit. then you will be laughing your ass off because you were smart enough to invest in a piece of amazing technology that hardly anyone actually has the guts to invest in.
sapphire screens are cool... and new. the only reason that the current models of phones DONT have sapphire is that it costs 10x more than gorilla glass and the manufacturers dont think theres any reason to pay that.
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no, i mean it is stupid to ban while driving simply because there are some assholes out there who will use it like retards. using one of those while driving is no more of a distraction than having your buddies in the car. the fact of the matter is that ANYTHING that causes your brain to not be working fully on analyzing the road is dangerous. this includes music, people, bugs, kids, games, movies, signs on the side of the road, hunger, thirst, needing to go to the restroom, etc. the fact of the matter is that it is absurrd to ban one of these things while driving without banning the others. the problem is that the government realizes they cant ban the rest of them, so they just ban the ones they can.... and this is selective prosecution, which is against the law in the US. and as i pointed out earlier, it COULD be used to make driving easier, with tools that make it safer as well.
i think 20 million is easily possible. if the campaign hits the kickstarter 11M record, there will be a TON of press and news articles. the word would get out there, thats what the campaign needs most atm. it doesnt need new perks or cheaper phones, it needs ppl to know about it. if the word gets spread out there, the campaign might even get to 32M
if this campaign does not succeed, next year there still wont be anything close to it. why? because the phone manufacturers have no reason to push the limits on hardware when ppl are willing to pay 600-900$ on hardware that is 3-5 years old.
assuming the campaign succeeds, the only thing this will do to the market is show that there is a market for high end phones. the edge willl never be sold on the open market.
even if you dont like ubuntu, it will still be the most powerful phone being used by people.
but see, in this case, they are punishing the guy who got 6ppl killed, and not everyone who uses a gps. thats the difference, they should be going after assholes and dumbasses instead of everyone. just because a product has been known to cause stupid ppl to injure others doesnt mean that product itself should be banned. the only thing that should be illegal is the misuse of it. it would be incredibly stupid for the government to ban ladders because a few guys set them up upside down and fall. better yet, we should ban keys because they can be used to scratch other ppls cars. it isnt the intended purpose, but who cares? something needs to be done to stop those assholes.
just let ppl take a few days of training for a permit that allows you to have it on you while driving.
thats like banning ladders because 1% of the population sets them up backwards and gets themselves killed.
lol, but again you are assuming that everyone is going to misuse GG in a car. as i posted down below, it is entirely possible for you to JUST be using GG in the car for things that make your driving easier and safer.
google glass, being what it is, is capable of doing two things. one, with apps, it can make driving a much safer activity (calculating velocity, distance from the car in front of you, whether or not the car in front of you is stopping, the difference between the speed of the car in front of you and your car, etc.) and two, it can be used to play games and whatnot while you are in a car. obviously the latter would be bad, but theres no reason to ban google glass simply because a few retards are going to misuse it. i dont see a law banning you from playing gameboy in the car, or putting a laptop on your dashboard.
crowd funding always is fast at the beginning, slow in the middle and super fast at the end. thats just teh way it is.
this is a specs comparison between the ubuntu edge, the new iphone and the new samsung android: http://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1USDawP-A7PucBDhpJbi6gXlfe1HaKerS7bs3FiTNIbo/edit
dont forget that ubuntu os will be available for all phones by then... so there will be a much larger userbase than he thinks.
lol by bitter i mean "not sweet" i only like sweet drinks
it was in the mark shuttleworth AMA.
lol you misunderstand. it is only 720p on the phone. if you plug it into a monitor, it will give you the full hd 1080p. theres just no reason for a phone to have 1080p, it is just wasted processing. obviously it would need to have 1080 if it were plugged into a monitor.
im a guy. i just have yet to find any edible beer. is too bitter for my taste, so as of now, i drink hard liquor and cider .
lol when i say a real desktop, i mean one powerful enough to play games... not one powerful enough to read emails.
no man... thats how much a top of the line desktop will cost you if you build it yourself. your gpu will be 400-600$, your psu 100-200$, your CPU will be another 400$, your mobo will be another 200$, a SSD will cost you 200$ for a decently sized one.. if you want a ssd just for your os, it would be around 75$, then you need HDD which would cost you around 100$ for 2TB. a good case that will fit all this will cost you another 100$. a liquid cooling unit will cost you another 100$... is this getting close to 1600? im too lazy to add, lol.
you are on... though i prefer hard cider. the bet is off if it fails to get the 32M funding.
lol, the idea behind the ouya was stupid at best... id say it would be more like the occulus rift, which is cool as fuck.
also, the price of phones will NEVER become decent until they are oldschool like nokia phones. since there is no innovation in the market, the manufacturers can set the price at whatever they want, and they will continue to do so because thats what makes them $$$..
if you bought the phone for 700$, you would be able to resell it for 200-300$ profit on ebay. this is a 30% gain... i doubt your bank has that kind of interest.
people in this world do a lot of waiting. we keep our money where we can see it. just because i saved 700$ by not buying something i want doesnt mean im now going to spend that 700$ on something else. if i dont buy something, that money would just sit in my bank collecting dust. if you had said you were just going to bank the cash, i would have said that banking the cash has no point... you dont get anything from it. if you put in the 700$ fr this phone, you will a) have a cool new phone that you didnt have before, and b) likely be able to resell it on ebay for 800-1000$ after the fact, since it is a limited edition phone. you would be able to sell it to everyone else who said "im not gonna buy one because it doesnt come out until may" or " im not going to buy one because it costs 700$ and i dont know what the specs are going to be like" for 200$ profit. then you will be laughing your ass off because you were smart enough to invest in a piece of amazing technology that hardly anyone actually has the guts to invest in.
sapphire screens are cool... and new. the only reason that the current models of phones DONT have sapphire is that it costs 10x more than gorilla glass and the manufacturers dont think theres any reason to pay that.