So true, people have their priorities so out of whack, they won't even blink at spending $30k on a car they will use 2 hours a day, but gawk at the notion of buying a $2000 monitor or $1000 chair that you use 10 hours a day. I spent almost $1000 on my Aeron, got all the options, chrome, I haven't sat in a better chair.
The 2 best ways to spend money in your office: 1) monitor and 2) chair!
"Quality is not great, even at 2.2 Mbps" "everything is stereo now"
I'll plunk down my $100 and switch to Netflix instantly when HD comes out, Bluray's win didn't last long...
"Netflix is planning HD streaming, and this box will support it. When Netflix gets HD streaming content, they'll update the box by firmware to support HD resolutions at higher bitrates of 4-6mbps, including 5.1 surround."
No movie can live up to what your brain remembers as one of the best movies ever made. If you go into the movie expecting it to be no less than the best of the first movie, then guess what, you will say it sucked. If you have realistic expectations though and are hoping it to be a decent movie without destroying the franchise then you at least are giving the movie a fair chance. It takes a lot of guts to revisit old and successful franchises such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones because you can't satisfy peoples nostalgia, even if the movie is one of the best ever made.
Nothing can match the feeling of seeing the movie with friends and family who may be gone now, or remembering a time in your life when things were better, we tend to forget the bad and remember the good, anything current simply can't compete with your memories all else being equal.
I agree, but the only reason flying is easier is there is almost no one flying, if everyone were flying only a central computer would be able to coordinate flight plans, especially around cities. Driving is cake because if anything goes wrong, there is only one thing you need to know and remember to do, step on the brake, there is no analogy in flying, if something goes wrong in a plane you better have your shit together or you are dead. Also thinking in 3 dimensions rather than 2 is much harder for most people, probably not anyone on this site, but for most people it isn't easy.
If you can afford to get a pilots license and own a plane and store it, or rent a plane, then you can damn well afford $22/day to rent a car. When trying to combine the 2 you end up with a crappy airplane and a crappy car.
How do you know, its not even released yet. Believe it or not the whole country doesn't live on Hawaii and spend 0.35pkwh, the average is more like 0.10. There are several ways to convert electric car power to a MPG measurement, it all depends on how you look at it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster#Equivalent_Petroleum_Fuel_Efficiency
Comparing the Prius to the Tesla car is apples and oranges, the Tesla roadster is MUCH more advanced in every aspect than the Prius.
It's a dealership! No normal mechanics are trained or certified to repair or maintain Teslas cars, so they have to open a dealership in every area they wish to sell cars.
"Tesla Motors will service your car at our Tesla Stores. We plan to open the first Tesla Stores in our five key markets (metropolitan San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Miami), each offering direct sales and support for buyers and owners. Our first two stores will open in early 2008."
They will try it, and it won't work at all, and they will wonder why, and it will probably be because they continued to show normal commercials in addition to the product placements. I could live with one or other, but not both.
The problem is the shitty readers, a reader should be able to read any webpage that a person can see, but because of all the javascript, flash, and images that are prevalent now they probably don't work too well. They need to just render the page as an image, then put it through a OCR program, then read that, then the reader program works as a person does, by seeing and reading the page, not by hacking through the HTML.
Have the blind tried using mobile pages? They are much simpler and would be much easier for a reader I would think.
Until the blind come together and put their money where their needs are and build a program that works, the demand doesn't justify the cost. No soup for you I guess.
While I see what your getting at it can't be the case, the Hummer received the worst crash rating of all SUVs http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-crash26feb26,1,7353733.story , and yet some very small and light cars receive excellent crash ratings. Being light is not mutually exclusive with being safe, crumple zones, airbags, and proper design matter much more than mass and size in a crash. I think with the proper design any of the x price cars can be made into a safe vehicle without adding weight or reducing performance.
Well if you would actually read the article rather than spouting off empty criticisms you would know that heat is MUCH easier to store than electricity, and you would only need a plant big enough for average load as you can store extra heat during off peak usage and use it during peak load.
1) They probably make more profit from HD rentals than a one time Bluray drive purchase. 2) Helping the proliferation of Bluray would help Sony indirectly. 3) You can already rent HD movies through Live. 4) They didn't sell very many HD-DVD drives. 5) Bluray isn't that popular yet, and definetly not mainstream. 6) Pushing your console as a 'movie' device means your customers will play less games, and buy less games. Just look at the PS3 vs. 360 attach rates.
Wow, awesome idea. I think having a whole other trailer though is a bit overkill, perhaps you could make the ICE small enough that you could slide it in a special compartment in the trunk, under the hood, or under the car somewhere. Since the ICE would only be used for recharging it should be pretty light and small.
I LOVE Futurama! I bought the DVD, and will buy the next one. But BBS was a huge letdown for me, I don't know if it was because it was long or what, but it didn't live up to my expectations at all, I hope the second one is better...
Pure robotic driving is too faulty, not because of controlling speed, but because of steering. Let the human do the hard part, steering, and the wireless road network (WRN)control the speeds of cars, basically a step up from cruise control.
This would even out traffic patterns, increase traffic flow, decrease accidents, and be very easy to implement on the roads, and more imporantly VERY easy to retrofit into any car with cruise control (an automated steering/camera system would not).
The system would benefit early adoptors by simplifing driving like cruise control, and once a certain percentage of the traffic flow had this system the benefits would effect the whole traffic flow and road system.
It would also be a great transition to fully automated driving systems for everyone.
It is ridiculous for every major content providor to be a telco, it costs huge amounts of money to buy or build an infrastructure and support it. If every major content providor (100s of them) wanted to run their own network there is not enough physical space to run the cables to do so. If the 3 biggest powers in the tech world, MS, Yahoo, or Google can't even do it, what the hell makes you think anyone else is going to? And even if all of them build their own networks, the 99% of the rest of the internet is going to need an open network to use, so we will still need the telcos.
The only way any of the big content providors are ever going to have their own network is if its a wireless one, and due to the major federal regulations and licensing costs in doing so, even Google is having a hell of time trying to get it done, and even then how much internet activity is done wirelessly, not much.
So if it costs $10,000 per pound to put something into space, why don't we gather these dying satellites and dock them to the ISS for spare parts rather than blowing them up? They could also be sent to the moon for parts in future missions. Perhaps this is technically infesible or the cost of doing so would be more than the parts are worth in space?
I can suggest another awesome upgrade, this $1700 power cable http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PSPREPC&variation=2.0, upgrade that normal power cable which powers your player and experience true video and audio nirvana, it really does work! Never mind the 500ft of unshielded romex inside your wall, its truley the last 6ft of power cord that does make the difference you will see and hear!
Seriously if I ever see one of these in real life that someone has bought I will bitchslap them.
"Perhaps Congress needs to get involved and sort this mess out so HD-DVD users don't get screwed out of their investment"
Yes, I would much rather have Congress dealing with peoples HD-DVD issues than the economic toilet our country is in, the war, oil, or about a 1000 other more important issues.
HD-DVD users are not screwed in the slightest, they knew what they were getting into, and even so, getting a new disc format isn't going to jack squat for them. They can watch their HD-DVD discs on their HD-DVD player for the rest of thier lives just fine, how is getting a Bluray disc of the same movie going to help them when they don't even have a Bluray player?
Simply building and shipping the 50 pound thing will probably consume more energy than it saves in its entire life. You are better off simply buying a high efficiency LED screw in bulb which are available right now for much less and do work.
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So true, people have their priorities so out of whack, they won't even blink at spending $30k on a car they will use 2 hours a day, but gawk at the notion of buying a $2000 monitor or $1000 chair that you use 10 hours a day. I spent almost $1000 on my Aeron, got all the options, chrome, I haven't sat in a better chair.
The 2 best ways to spend money in your office: 1) monitor and 2) chair!
What is this idiot smoking? MS didn't issue a recall, they simply won't charge you $200 to fix your 360 when it breaks due to their design flaw.
Just for trying this crap they should split Verizon in twain. Veri gets the even phone numbers, and Izon gets the odd ones. Ready... Set... Compete!
Your FAQ is from 2000 http://slashdot.org/faq/tech.shtml#te050
Awesome price.
Awesome interface.
Awesome hardware.
Sucky video quality.
Sucky audio.
"Quality is not great, even at 2.2 Mbps"
"everything is stereo now"
I'll plunk down my $100 and switch to Netflix instantly when HD comes out, Bluray's win didn't last long...
"Netflix is planning HD streaming, and this box will support it. When Netflix gets HD streaming content, they'll update the box by firmware to support HD resolutions at higher bitrates of 4-6mbps, including 5.1 surround."
No movie can live up to what your brain remembers as one of the best movies ever made. If you go into the movie expecting it to be no less than the best of the first movie, then guess what, you will say it sucked. If you have realistic expectations though and are hoping it to be a decent movie without destroying the franchise then you at least are giving the movie a fair chance. It takes a lot of guts to revisit old and successful franchises such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones because you can't satisfy peoples nostalgia, even if the movie is one of the best ever made.
Nothing can match the feeling of seeing the movie with friends and family who may be gone now, or remembering a time in your life when things were better, we tend to forget the bad and remember the good, anything current simply can't compete with your memories all else being equal.
I agree, but the only reason flying is easier is there is almost no one flying, if everyone were flying only a central computer would be able to coordinate flight plans, especially around cities. Driving is cake because if anything goes wrong, there is only one thing you need to know and remember to do, step on the brake, there is no analogy in flying, if something goes wrong in a plane you better have your shit together or you are dead. Also thinking in 3 dimensions rather than 2 is much harder for most people, probably not anyone on this site, but for most people it isn't easy.
If you can afford to get a pilots license and own a plane and store it, or rent a plane, then you can damn well afford $22/day to rent a car. When trying to combine the 2 you end up with a crappy airplane and a crappy car.
How do you know, its not even released yet. Believe it or not the whole country doesn't live on Hawaii and spend 0.35pkwh, the average is more like 0.10. There are several ways to convert electric car power to a MPG measurement, it all depends on how you look at it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster#Equivalent_Petroleum_Fuel_Efficiency
Comparing the Prius to the Tesla car is apples and oranges, the Tesla roadster is MUCH more advanced in every aspect than the Prius.
It's a dealership! No normal mechanics are trained or certified to repair or maintain Teslas cars, so they have to open a dealership in every area they wish to sell cars.
"Tesla Motors will service your car at our Tesla Stores. We plan to open the first Tesla Stores in our five key markets (metropolitan San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Miami), each offering direct sales and support for buyers and owners. Our first two stores will open in early 2008."
They will try it, and it won't work at all, and they will wonder why, and it will probably be because they continued to show normal commercials in addition to the product placements. I could live with one or other, but not both.
The problem is the shitty readers, a reader should be able to read any webpage that a person can see, but because of all the javascript, flash, and images that are prevalent now they probably don't work too well. They need to just render the page as an image, then put it through a OCR program, then read that, then the reader program works as a person does, by seeing and reading the page, not by hacking through the HTML.
Have the blind tried using mobile pages? They are much simpler and would be much easier for a reader I would think.
Until the blind come together and put their money where their needs are and build a program that works, the demand doesn't justify the cost. No soup for you I guess.
While I see what your getting at it can't be the case, the Hummer received the worst crash rating of all SUVs http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-crash26feb26,1,7353733.story , and yet some very small and light cars receive excellent crash ratings. Being light is not mutually exclusive with being safe, crumple zones, airbags, and proper design matter much more than mass and size in a crash. I think with the proper design any of the x price cars can be made into a safe vehicle without adding weight or reducing performance.
Well if you would actually read the article rather than spouting off empty criticisms you would know that heat is MUCH easier to store than electricity, and you would only need a plant big enough for average load as you can store extra heat during off peak usage and use it during peak load.
How about a contest where the results can actually benefit a normal car?
http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/
Several reasons:
1) They probably make more profit from HD rentals than a one time Bluray drive purchase.
2) Helping the proliferation of Bluray would help Sony indirectly.
3) You can already rent HD movies through Live.
4) They didn't sell very many HD-DVD drives.
5) Bluray isn't that popular yet, and definetly not mainstream.
6) Pushing your console as a 'movie' device means your customers will play less games, and buy less games. Just look at the PS3 vs. 360 attach rates.
Wow, awesome idea. I think having a whole other trailer though is a bit overkill, perhaps you could make the ICE small enough that you could slide it in a special compartment in the trunk, under the hood, or under the car somewhere. Since the ICE would only be used for recharging it should be pretty light and small.
I LOVE Futurama! I bought the DVD, and will buy the next one. But BBS was a huge letdown for me, I don't know if it was because it was long or what, but it didn't live up to my expectations at all, I hope the second one is better...
Pure robotic driving is too faulty, not because of controlling speed, but because of steering. Let the human do the hard part, steering, and the wireless road network (WRN)control the speeds of cars, basically a step up from cruise control.
This would even out traffic patterns, increase traffic flow, decrease accidents, and be very easy to implement on the roads, and more imporantly VERY easy to retrofit into any car with cruise control (an automated steering/camera system would not).
The system would benefit early adoptors by simplifing driving like cruise control, and once a certain percentage of the traffic flow had this system the benefits would effect the whole traffic flow and road system.
It would also be a great transition to fully automated driving systems for everyone.
It is ridiculous for every major content providor to be a telco, it costs huge amounts of money to buy or build an infrastructure and support it. If every major content providor (100s of them) wanted to run their own network there is not enough physical space to run the cables to do so. If the 3 biggest powers in the tech world, MS, Yahoo, or Google can't even do it, what the hell makes you think anyone else is going to? And even if all of them build their own networks, the 99% of the rest of the internet is going to need an open network to use, so we will still need the telcos.
The only way any of the big content providors are ever going to have their own network is if its a wireless one, and due to the major federal regulations and licensing costs in doing so, even Google is having a hell of time trying to get it done, and even then how much internet activity is done wirelessly, not much.
So if it costs $10,000 per pound to put something into space, why don't we gather these dying satellites and dock them to the ISS for spare parts rather than blowing them up? They could also be sent to the moon for parts in future missions. Perhaps this is technically infesible or the cost of doing so would be more than the parts are worth in space?
At $20 per blank bluray disc and a shitload of wasted time, I think you are better off just buying the movie again. I think the OP is a joke.
I can suggest another awesome upgrade, this $1700 power cable http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PSPREPC&variation=2.0, upgrade that normal power cable which powers your player and experience true video and audio nirvana, it really does work! Never mind the 500ft of unshielded romex inside your wall, its truley the last 6ft of power cord that does make the difference you will see and hear!
Seriously if I ever see one of these in real life that someone has bought I will bitchslap them.
"Perhaps Congress needs to get involved and sort this mess out so HD-DVD users don't get screwed out of their investment"
Yes, I would much rather have Congress dealing with peoples HD-DVD issues than the economic toilet our country is in, the war, oil, or about a 1000 other more important issues.
HD-DVD users are not screwed in the slightest, they knew what they were getting into, and even so, getting a new disc format isn't going to jack squat for them. They can watch their HD-DVD discs on their HD-DVD player for the rest of thier lives just fine, how is getting a Bluray disc of the same movie going to help them when they don't even have a Bluray player?
Simply building and shipping the 50 pound thing will probably consume more energy than it saves in its entire life. You are better off simply buying a high efficiency LED screw in bulb which are available right now for much less and do work.