Within my lifetime, gas has gone from.23/gal to 4.00/gal. If we are going to repair roads, etc. I suspect that we will need to double taxes. That will mean that we will within a couple of years pay around 6/gal, and I would not be surprised to see us approaching Europe levels of oil prices.
First, the roads were built with the current gas taxes. Why would we need to double them to maintain the roads?
OK, let's assume gas is $6.00/gallon.
$30000/6=5000 gallons of gas.
At 20 miles per gallon, that's 100,000 miles, or the typical life of an American made car.
How many miles do these batteries last, anyway?
Doesn't matter, if you are buying one of these to save money, you are making a mistake. If you are buying on of these to save the environment, you'd be better off buying a Honda Civic and spending the $30,000 planting trees or something.
my Androids back up all of my contact info to the cloud, and it all gets synced to any phone or tablet I use a few minutes after I log into my Google account on it.
Yeah, about that... bit too big brother for me. After all, Google's blocking sites that allow downloading from Youtube, which they own. Gee, no conflict there. And Google+ trying to muscle in on Facebook? I mean, google, isn't search and email and videos and voice enough, now you want social media too? Boy, let me run out and buy a Google phone too so I can hand my entire life to Google! Do they make Google dildos so they can really get inside people?
No thanks.
Apple, take my money, because at least you're not trying to take my entire life.
Oh good, search engine company is shutting down websites that are downloading music from the video website they own. I see nothing wrong with that, let me go buy a phone the search engine company makes the OS for because I'm sure they'll never use it against me....
Cheap and runs next year's OS? Yes please. Oh wait, no 4.8" OMGLOL screen. Nevermind, because, you know, I buy phones for the hardware, not because it runs the all the apps I want now and next year.
to make us buy windows phone 9 supporting HD in 2013/14... which probably won't work on current windows phone 8 devices.
Sorry M$, everything was good until " Windows Phone 8 won't be coming to current Windows Phone devices". A 2009 iPhone runs 2012 iOS 5.1.1, and I have to tell you it's been pretty nice not having to throw away my phone every time a new OS comes out and being able to download the "latest and greatest" apps because everything new works on my old phone. After all, it's a phone first, not a PC, I don't like the idea of having to throw out my phone with all my contacts and info and all the cases and chargers and everything I've spent supporting it. I don't mind the constant upgrades on a PC, that's the nature of the beast, but I don't want to go through the same mess with my phone. Oh, and my 2009 iPhone will support 2013 iOS 6. Wow, say what you want about Apple, but sometimes they just get it.
A computer is more than a cpu and a screen. It's also a keyboard, and mouse. Do you plan to cart those around? If you want a projector, just buy the Air or other ultrabook, and buy a projector.
What he needs is an older tablet like the Fujitsu p1620. For about $300 he can easily buy a used tablet weighting less than 3 lbs (including battery) running a Core 2 Duo and WXGA (1280x) screen.
Where did he get the idea that a projector would be a great idea and how did he forget netbooks and Mac Airs aren't the only lightweight laptops?
Am I the only one that thinks article is incredibly obvious?
"you lack experience and leadership skills and your team is weak" = Thx Captain Obvious, think every startup is started by the guy with 20+ yrs experience and a terrific team willing to work for ZERO pay?
Then just buy the idea. Facebook would have survived without zuckerberg and all the other great startups out there probably didn't need the person that originally started it. Once the ball is rolling you just need people with the experience and a great team to keep it going.
New numbers show hybrid drives, which combine NAND flash with spinning disk, will double in sales from 1 million to 2 million units this year. Unfortunately for Seagate â" the only manufacturer of hybrids â" solid-state drive sales are expected to hit 18 million units this year and 69 million by 2016.
How is this unfortunate for Seagate? Sure, more pure SSDs are being sold than hybrids, but there is more competition in that market, whereas hybrids are a market Seagate completely owns that is expecting 100% year-to-year growth. Seems to me, there is no bad news for Seagate in that.
I believe that Kickstarter is a new paradigm. People are overly optimistic now.... It will just remind people not to be so stupid and gullible.
and i believe that kickstarter is a new and easier way for crooks to steal money. Come up with some popular idea, something people want and is feasible, put it on Kickstarter and walk away with hundreds of thousands of dollars.
or if you prefer:
1) come up with idea
2) put on kickstarter
3) get hundreds of thousands
4) walk away = PROFIT!
I really don't see this ending well, once attorney states general gets involved kickstarter is going to have to accept some of the responsibility, you just can't take peoples money and say "screw off" for very long.
But you're right, people are gullible for funding kickstarter projects. Crowdfunding will survive, just not kickstarter.
A lot of people who would commit an impulse crime would think twice if they new the police were aware of their research.
Call me a socialist, but I think saving people, and working as a community to help people through troubled times is more important than catching them after they have committed crimes
You're AC, so you're trolling, but is slate.com trolling?
seriously there is no way anyone would actually think "Yeah, police should knock on my door whenever i search for illegal things"
Ultimately it does not matter your domain, what matters is if people can find your website when they search for it, so really Google, Bing and Yahoo are important, not the domain name. It's not 1997 anymore, you don't need to say "go to blahblahjunkwebsite.com", you can say "google "best page in the universe" to find me"
So I still wonder why did Loyola accept him? Yes yes, he's a genius, I got that, but there are a lot of geniuses who are still wasting the first 18 yrs of life going through all 12 years of school before learning something that actually matters.
If you can't tell I'm rather frustrated with the school system in the US, I wish it gave smart students the chance to live to their full potential instead of holding them back and making them wait for the group.
Students should be able to enter college when they're ready, not when they have been alive a certain number of years
Soon, I hope, because if their classes are so easy that students have 600 hours of free time in a 6 month period then they're doing it wrong. That's roughly 4 hrs a day, every day, for 6 months straight. Wish I had that kind of free time when attending MST
IF only the school systems in america werent structured how they are I imagine that we could have many folks finishing schooling much earlier than 18 and college a few years later..
I know many students who were held back merely because they had to wait to go on to the next year.. at best put in an "advanced placement" course..
we could easily have students graduating highschool at 14 or 15...if not sooner.. with the 'smart' ones beating that.. all of the time.. but.... it just doesnt seem to happen
and he got to skip all the school crushs, dances, in-crowd/out-crowd stuff for..... ?
the good stuff?
Come on, you're on/., as if you had anyone crushing on you or went to any of the dances. Even Cowards had a hard time in high school, who wouldn't want to give that up for a few more years in college dorms because *that's* where the fun was
always good to hear that someone is excelling at a young age like this kid. i just hope he doesnt feel like he missed on life experiences later in life. i cant imagine if prodigies feel that they missed out on college-keggers, or proms or things like that.
Yeah, not quite doogie howser. I mean much respect, 21 is young, but I still feel a little let down, he's not a teenager graduating from medical school like doogie so he's no doogie howser so the/. post is very misleading
100Mbps for textbooks? Text. Um. If your text requires 100Mbps you're doing it wrong. And stop throwing around 1,000 users as if all 1,000 are going to download a gigabyte file all at the same time. Maybe a few dozen out of 1,000 would be using the network at the same time, and if they're actually reading books online and not streaming lolz cat videos in HD there is no way 100Mbps is required.
The kind of information they want to put in these codes could just be printed in clear text. This is just one company trying to get into a middle-man position where no middle-man is needed.
Exactly. Or link it to a drivers license or state ID, there's no reason to have an extra sticker that emergency medical personal are trying to search for. I can just see them running around searching for a sticker.
EMT #1: Check his wallet
EMT #2: Not there
EMT #1: Where's the helmet?
EMT #2: I don't see it on there either
EMT #1: Well screw it, we can't spend all night searching for a sticker!
And how is this going to be profitable? Are you going to charge users for the stickers? Maybe a monthly subscription fee? Good luck with that. Or the hospitals should all pay monthly? A project like this is too big for a tiny startup, this needs to be done on a state wide government scale to be successful at all.
Just automatically trigger a banner or something, don't make this more difficult than it has to be.
or better, send me an email with a link I have to click to activate the banner, because honestly, you might be protesting something someday that I dont wanna protest. Yes, SOPA bad, and Internet Defense League sounds frickin awesome (do we get t-shirts or costumes?!?) but i don't know who's going to be eventually running it, Evil Mega Corp might take over the IDL and trigger the banner for Evil purposes, so while I'd like to add the code just one time and leave it there, I'd also like to be given the option to activate the banner when I want to.
Are they nuts? I don't want any outside site having control over my clients' sites. If they are hacked this would give the hackers a quick way to affect any site that signs up with them.
Well intentioned (I hope), but count me out.
I was thinking the same thing:
Me: (reading).....bat signal for internet... "that sounds good"..... participate in future protest..... "great!".....sites would respond to the call to "defend the Internet".... YES!....... "add a bit of code to their sites "...... um, ok, ya, sure, banner or something, i can see that........... " in extreme cases blackout the site"............ WTF NFW
Are they serious? They lost 99% of their support from that one line, "in extreme cases blackout the stie". There is no way in HELL anyone would add any code to their website that would black out the website automatically .
but according to their website that's not how it works: "we'll send you sample alert code to get working in advance. The next time there's an emergency, we'll tell you and send new code. Then it's your decision to pull the trigger."
... what? So, every time there's an emergency, i'm updating code? What sense does that make? LOL come on guys! You can do better than that! First it's blackout site, now it's update code every time? Just automatically trigger a banner or something, don't make this more difficult than it has to be.
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Within my lifetime, gas has gone from .23/gal to 4.00/gal. If we are going to repair roads, etc. I suspect that we will need to double taxes. That will mean that we will within a couple of years pay around 6/gal, and I would not be surprised to see us approaching Europe levels of oil prices.
First, the roads were built with the current gas taxes. Why would we need to double them to maintain the roads?
OK, let's assume gas is $6.00/gallon.
$30000/6=5000 gallons of gas.
At 20 miles per gallon, that's 100,000 miles, or the typical life of an American made car.
How many miles do these batteries last, anyway?
Doesn't matter, if you are buying one of these to save money, you are making a mistake. If you are buying on of these to save the environment, you'd be better off buying a Honda Civic and spending the $30,000 planting trees or something.
You both forgot the price of electricity. It's not free, even though everyone acts like it is. Tesla only gets 5 miles on a 1-hour charge from a 120 volt outlet putting out 1800 watts (120v x 15a). That's more power than running a 12,000 BTU Window AC for an hour and only getting 5 miles from that and look at how high energy bills spike during the summer.
Electric is cheaper than gas per mile, but whatever you pay now for electricity in the summer with the AC pumping, imagine that bill year-round.
my Androids back up all of my contact info to the cloud, and it all gets synced to any phone or tablet I use a few minutes after I log into my Google account on it.
Yeah, about that... bit too big brother for me. After all, Google's blocking sites that allow downloading from Youtube, which they own. Gee, no conflict there. And Google+ trying to muscle in on Facebook? I mean, google, isn't search and email and videos and voice enough, now you want social media too? Boy, let me run out and buy a Google phone too so I can hand my entire life to Google! Do they make Google dildos so they can really get inside people?
No thanks.
Apple, take my money, because at least you're not trying to take my entire life.
Oh good, search engine company is shutting down websites that are downloading music from the video website they own. I see nothing wrong with that, let me go buy a phone the search engine company makes the OS for because I'm sure they'll never use it against me....
" I was referring to the level of loyalty of their fan-base, and the rapidness of their hardcore to upgrade."
They have fans because they make great products and they support those products. A iPhone that runs next year's iOS 6 is only 99 cents.
Cheap and runs next year's OS? Yes please. Oh wait, no 4.8" OMGLOL screen. Nevermind, because, you know, I buy phones for the hardware, not because it runs the all the apps I want now and next year.
Why would you limit the max res like that?
to make us buy windows phone 9 supporting HD in 2013/14... which probably won't work on current windows phone 8 devices.
Sorry M$, everything was good until " Windows Phone 8 won't be coming to current Windows Phone devices". A 2009 iPhone runs 2012 iOS 5.1.1, and I have to tell you it's been pretty nice not having to throw away my phone every time a new OS comes out and being able to download the "latest and greatest" apps because everything new works on my old phone. After all, it's a phone first, not a PC, I don't like the idea of having to throw out my phone with all my contacts and info and all the cases and chargers and everything I've spent supporting it. I don't mind the constant upgrades on a PC, that's the nature of the beast, but I don't want to go through the same mess with my phone. Oh, and my 2009 iPhone will support 2013 iOS 6. Wow, say what you want about Apple, but sometimes they just get it.
See $any_successful_VC-funded_company's list of funding rejections for details.
great point, most lists of companies that have been funded by VCs are complete crap ideas, which makes one wonder "why did they give millions to those people working hard on that really bad idea?"
can't wait to have millions so I can fund bad ideas too!
A computer is more than a cpu and a screen. It's also a keyboard, and mouse. Do you plan to cart those around? If you want a projector, just buy the Air or other ultrabook, and buy a projector.
This. Also his list of "tiny projectors" are usually 1+ pound, cost about $500 and offer only SVGA (800x600) resolution or less and once he adds a computer, keyboard and mouse it's at least another 2 lbs, so he'll be at 3+ lbs.
What he needs is an older tablet like the Fujitsu p1620. For about $300 he can easily buy a used tablet weighting less than 3 lbs (including battery) running a Core 2 Duo and WXGA (1280x) screen.
Where did he get the idea that a projector would be a great idea and how did he forget netbooks and Mac Airs aren't the only lightweight laptops?
The value in a startup is not the idea. Ideas are cheap and abundant.
of course it's the idea, think VCs are handing out millions to kids because "hey, your idea blows, but i like you, here's a few million"
Am I the only one that thinks article is incredibly obvious?
"you lack experience and leadership skills and your team is weak" = Thx Captain Obvious, think every startup is started by the guy with 20+ yrs experience and a terrific team willing to work for ZERO pay?
Then just buy the idea. Facebook would have survived without zuckerberg and all the other great startups out there probably didn't need the person that originally started it. Once the ball is rolling you just need people with the experience and a great team to keep it going.
How is this unfortunate for Seagate? Sure, more pure SSDs are being sold than hybrids, but there is more competition in that market, whereas hybrids are a market Seagate completely owns that is expecting 100% year-to-year growth. Seems to me, there is no bad news for Seagate in that.
but... but... Seagate said SSDs are doomed for at least the next decade or two, they can't possibly be wrong, right?
Like I already said, hard drives are doomed. So sorry seagate didn't see it coming.
Personally, I don't think Apple will let a numeric inconsistency like "iPhone 5 released with iOS 6" stand.
They let the iPhone 3G come out with iOS 2 and the 4S ship with iOS 5. That said, I do agree that they're likely to simply drop the numbering.
Not until iPhone X, then it will be iPhone lion, iPhone snow leopard, etc. Love Apple product numbering
Oh so you are the guy that bought a playbook....
I believe that Kickstarter is a new paradigm. People are overly optimistic now.... It will just remind people not to be so stupid and gullible.
and i believe that kickstarter is a new and easier way for crooks to steal money. Come up with some popular idea, something people want and is feasible, put it on Kickstarter and walk away with hundreds of thousands of dollars.
or if you prefer:
1) come up with idea
2) put on kickstarter
3) get hundreds of thousands
4) walk away = PROFIT!
I really don't see this ending well, once attorney states general gets involved kickstarter is going to have to accept some of the responsibility, you just can't take peoples money and say "screw off" for very long.
But you're right, people are gullible for funding kickstarter projects. Crowdfunding will survive, just not kickstarter.
Can we please stop advertising for Kickstarter?
Kickstarter is a scam.
ZionEyez stole $344,000 and have not delivered anything in 11 months
Diaspora received $200,000, 20x their $10k goal. Suppose to be finished end of summer 2010, still in alpha but is "quite usable for some purposes".
When customers complain, Kickstarter says "no refunds"
Why are we still promoting them? Might as well burn your money and put it on youtube
I think this is good.
A lot of people who would commit an impulse crime would think twice if they new the police were aware of their research.
Call me a socialist, but I think saving people, and working as a community to help people through troubled times is more important than catching them after they have committed crimes
You're AC, so you're trolling, but is slate.com trolling?
seriously there is no way anyone would actually think "Yeah, police should knock on my door whenever i search for illegal things"
What's next? Check out Catcher and the Rye and the police question you? John Lennon was killed by a man with the book, so something must be wrong if you want to read it, right?
And who thinks we have enough police to show up at someone's house every time they do an illegal search?
This story is so ridiculous that it's trolling. Sounds like 1984 with the thought police.
tickets.domain.com
Next?
I could see, maybe, why some people would want this, but $100,000,000 worth? No, never happen, this will never make $100,000,000 in profits.
And it's owned by Paul Stahura who started eNom in 1997, so why did he need $100 million? Is eNom not going that great?
Ultimately it does not matter your domain, what matters is if people can find your website when they search for it, so really Google, Bing and Yahoo are important, not the domain name. It's not 1997 anymore, you don't need to say "go to blahblahjunkwebsite.com", you can say "google "best page in the universe" to find me"
He went to a private university. They're not bound by (most) rules, certainly not ones like requiring a GED.
He went to Loyola University Chicago when he was 9 and their admissions says they require a high school transcript, no exceptions for home school and he was home schooled.
So I still wonder why did Loyola accept him? Yes yes, he's a genius, I got that, but there are a lot of geniuses who are still wasting the first 18 yrs of life going through all 12 years of school before learning something that actually matters.
If you can't tell I'm rather frustrated with the school system in the US, I wish it gave smart students the chance to live to their full potential instead of holding them back and making them wait for the group.
Students should be able to enter college when they're ready, not when they have been alive a certain number of years
Soon, I hope, because if their classes are so easy that students have 600 hours of free time in a 6 month period then they're doing it wrong. That's roughly 4 hrs a day, every day, for 6 months straight. Wish I had that kind of free time when attending MST
IF only the school systems in america werent structured how they are I imagine that we could have many folks finishing schooling much earlier than 18 and college a few years later..
I know many students who were held back merely because they had to wait to go on to the next year.. at best put in an "advanced placement" course..
we could easily have students graduating highschool at 14 or 15 ...if not sooner.. with the 'smart' ones beating that.. all of the time.. but.... it just doesnt seem to happen
^^^^^^^^ THIS
I'm more interested in how he got a college to even *look* at him. I've been looking into it, and I can not find a state that will grant a GED to anyone under 16 and even then you need high school superintendent permission. Without a GED even community colleges won't allow someone to take a class.
So how did this kid cut through all the red tape to get to college without a GED?
and he got to skip all the school crushs, dances, in-crowd/out-crowd stuff for ..... ?
the good stuff?
/., as if you had anyone crushing on you or went to any of the dances. Even Cowards had a hard time in high school, who wouldn't want to give that up for a few more years in college dorms because *that's* where the fun was
Come on, you're on
always good to hear that someone is excelling at a young age like this kid. i just hope he doesnt feel like he missed on life experiences later in life. i cant imagine if prodigies feel that they missed out on college-keggers, or proms or things like that.
Don't worry, he's 21
/. post is very misleading
Yeah, not quite doogie howser. I mean much respect, 21 is young, but I still feel a little let down, he's not a teenager graduating from medical school like doogie so he's no doogie howser so the
100Mbps for textbooks? Text. Um. If your text requires 100Mbps you're doing it wrong. And stop throwing around 1,000 users as if all 1,000 are going to download a gigabyte file all at the same time. Maybe a few dozen out of 1,000 would be using the network at the same time, and if they're actually reading books online and not streaming lolz cat videos in HD there is no way 100Mbps is required.
The kind of information they want to put in these codes could just be printed in clear text. This is just one company trying to get into a middle-man position where no middle-man is needed.
Exactly. Or link it to a drivers license or state ID, there's no reason to have an extra sticker that emergency medical personal are trying to search for. I can just see them running around searching for a sticker.
EMT #1: Check his wallet
EMT #2: Not there
EMT #1: Where's the helmet?
EMT #2: I don't see it on there either
EMT #1: Well screw it, we can't spend all night searching for a sticker!
WE already have state IDs, why not just use those? Even children can get a state ID. Put your ID number in a database and update that with medical information. Done. The irony here is on Lifesquare's website they have the EMT looking at the person's wallet and finding the sticker in the wallet. FAIL.
And how is this going to be profitable? Are you going to charge users for the stickers? Maybe a monthly subscription fee? Good luck with that. Or the hospitals should all pay monthly? A project like this is too big for a tiny startup, this needs to be done on a state wide government scale to be successful at all.
But it looks like Lifesquare is available in Marin County, CA. That's great, funding January 2011 and by June 2012 you have 1 county covered and only 3,140 counties to go.
Whenever I hear about these horrible startups I always wonder how much funding they've received. Unfortunately it doesn't say the amount, but it does say someone gave them venture funding for this really bad startup.
Just automatically trigger a banner or something, don't make this more difficult than it has to be.
or better, send me an email with a link I have to click to activate the banner, because honestly, you might be protesting something someday that I dont wanna protest. Yes, SOPA bad, and Internet Defense League sounds frickin awesome (do we get t-shirts or costumes?!?) but i don't know who's going to be eventually running it, Evil Mega Corp might take over the IDL and trigger the banner for Evil purposes, so while I'd like to add the code just one time and leave it there, I'd also like to be given the option to activate the banner when I want to.
We have the code, we can rebuild it
Are they nuts? I don't want any outside site having control over my clients' sites. If they are hacked this would give the hackers a quick way to affect any site that signs up with them. Well intentioned (I hope), but count me out.
I was thinking the same thing:
... what? So, every time there's an emergency, i'm updating code? What sense does that make? LOL come on guys! You can do better than that! First it's blackout site, now it's update code every time? Just automatically trigger a banner or something, don't make this more difficult than it has to be.
Me: (reading).....bat signal for internet... "that sounds good"..... participate in future protest..... "great!".....sites would respond to the call to "defend the Internet".... YES!....... "add a bit of code to their sites "...... um, ok, ya, sure, banner or something, i can see that........... " in extreme cases blackout the site"............ WTF NFW
Are they serious? They lost 99% of their support from that one line, "in extreme cases blackout the stie". There is no way in HELL anyone would add any code to their website that would black out the website automatically .
but according to their website that's not how it works:
"we'll send you sample alert code to get working in advance. The next time there's an emergency, we'll tell you and send new code. Then it's your decision to pull the trigger."