I live in a small college town (> 100k) with a daily commute that takes me nowhere near a freeway, thus 50mph is way more than I need going to/from work. Keeping my 5yr old Saturn to run and down the freeway would satisfy all my travel needs. Unfortunately, the sticker-shock on these exotic powerplant cars means it'd probably cost a multiple of what I paid for the Saturn which begs the question - what kind of crazy math do I have to do to get a decent ROI on the car's purchase?
I see the classroom of the future becoming something very much like the average grocery store over the last few years; a bunch of automated service 'stations' overseen by a central observer who comes over when there's a problem. Or like that 'spacebowl' that Spock was in during the Trek reboot, tho a little less bowl-y I think.
Once the majority of either governors or at least 25% of one of the congress-pools is 3rd party, they won't have a chance. I wish people would figure that out; a viable party isn't going to start in the White House.
That was just featured on one of those science/reality shows; a SmartCar hit a concrete pylon at about 70mph to test out the passenger safety cage; it indeed did not collapse but the narrator did point out that such an impact and rapid deceleration would destroy your organs and you'd be severely injured and/or dead.
The problem with that is schools like Johns Hopkins wants $240K from you whether you get a degree in biomedical engineering or poetry; and between these two careers the former has a bit more chance of enabling the degree holder to get a job that can toss more than a token amount of cash at their mountain of college debt.
>>- They stopped making the Crown Vic, that means 3 child families must use SUVs and Vans
>Minivans are a better option than a full size van or an SUV.
Unfortunately the rental companies have caught on to this; we tried renting a minivan for a family trip last year but the cost at Hertz would have been 2x the cost of the Crown Victoria for my 5person family. Needless to say we rented the Vic; comfy with lots of trunk space and a bit better mileage.
It should be fairly straight-forward enough to put a Raspberry Pi and an 80x20 LCD plus keyboard into a small case w/ keyboard, touchpad and battery approximating the form of a Model 100 but speedier and with LOADS more storage space.
I sometimes think this is the exact same model the movie theater should consider - are they really making more money with 4 people in line to buy the $6 popcorn instead of the 30+ ppl who'd be lined up before the movie to buy a $2.50 box of popcorn? Both containers only cost 11 cents so you're still getting a lot more profit at the lower price than the higher one. Money stays in my pocket when, after seating my family and going by the concession stand, I almost always turn around realizing that for the cost of a soda and popcorn for everyone I can buy 'real' food in 90mins after the movie is over.
I don't have the data in front of me, but I'm sure the Kardashian's reality show probably had better ratings than 'Mythbusters'; tho I can't think of any argument that the former is the better show.
In European city cores, you can take your kids and family, and at worst if you are dressed as an obnoxious foreigner, you might encounter a pickpocket. In England, maybe an obnoxious drunk.
Well, maybe, unless you're murdered
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16334214
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7777635.stm
http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/01/04/men-sentenced-uk-black-teens-murder-infamous-case
If all you want is a cheap display, it seems to me you are a perfect customer for one of those cheapo DealExtreme tablets I denigrated so mightily a few comments back. As long as you're not actually using it as a tablet, it might work for you (I myself and trying to figure a way to get it to stream movies from my Ubuntu server so I can do 22min sessions with it velcro'd to my treadmill as I watch anime episodes - unfortunately the jacked-Android on the thing won't let me install either Netflix nor Crunchyroll)
Having purchased one of these 'el-cheapo' 7" tablets to see how bad an $80 android pad could be; I got this one (or it's brother, don't recall the exact model) two months ago and it is indeed a pile of crap that stinketh verily. Unless HP is spreading magic pixie dust on their sub- $100 tablet, stay far away from these tablets.
Now, the 9.7" Impression i10 I got at Sears for $230 - THAT's a freakin' schweet Android tablet.
I would pay another $1 month if they brought back Firefly. Hell, I'd like Netflix to start an 'ala-carte' service so they could stream stuff that I actually want for an additional fee (i.e. base cost $8/mo + 50cents to $1/show for add-ons) rather than as they've done and sink a bunch of revenues into content I'm not at all interested (that CBS portfolio they just bought - really? Really? What netflix users want most is network re-runs?) ; somewhat like Sprint giving me and other Sprint Premier Gold members the finger when the cancelled the program so they could sink a crapload of cash into iPhones (which as a satisfied Android user/developer I don't see myself EVER buying).
*sigh*
In that vein, Archos is selling what's essentially a smartphone sans cell radio for $80; makes me wonder both why I can't get a similar non-contract phone from the mobile carriers for less than $500, and how DOJ hasn't launched a price-fixing investigation against same.
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And stock brokers often end their rosy historical returns with the statement "past performance is no guarantee of future results".
I live in a small college town (> 100k) with a daily commute that takes me nowhere near a freeway, thus 50mph is way more than I need going to/from work. Keeping my 5yr old Saturn to run and down the freeway would satisfy all my travel needs. Unfortunately, the sticker-shock on these exotic powerplant cars means it'd probably cost a multiple of what I paid for the Saturn which begs the question - what kind of crazy math do I have to do to get a decent ROI on the car's purchase?
I see the classroom of the future becoming something very much like the average grocery store over the last few years; a bunch of automated service 'stations' overseen by a central observer who comes over when there's a problem. Or like that 'spacebowl' that Spock was in during the Trek reboot, tho a little less bowl-y I think.
Once the majority of either governors or at least 25% of one of the congress-pools is 3rd party, they won't have a chance. I wish people would figure that out; a viable party isn't going to start in the White House.
That was just featured on one of those science/reality shows; a SmartCar hit a concrete pylon at about 70mph to test out the passenger safety cage; it indeed did not collapse but the narrator did point out that such an impact and rapid deceleration would destroy your organs and you'd be severely injured and/or dead.
>For sheer city deadness, it's hard to beat Cleveland at night.
Then you haven't been to downtown Los Angeles at 6:05pm.
And I mean downtown LA proper, not Hollywood.
> people who wanted cheap low-power XBMC devices.
Perhaps these folks should use their old Android phones
>Montreal is big in IT stuff and life is great there.
... for the 2 wks per year that the ice melts.
The problem with that is schools like Johns Hopkins wants $240K from you whether you get a degree in biomedical engineering or poetry; and between these two careers the former has a bit more chance of enabling the degree holder to get a job that can toss more than a token amount of cash at their mountain of college debt.
>>- They stopped making the Crown Vic, that means 3 child families must use SUVs and Vans
>Minivans are a better option than a full size van or an SUV.
Unfortunately the rental companies have caught on to this; we tried renting a minivan for a family trip last year but the cost at Hertz would have been 2x the cost of the Crown Victoria for my 5person family. Needless to say we rented the Vic; comfy with lots of trunk space and a bit better mileage.
Geez, that was fast: http://hackaday.com/2012/06/14/raspberry-pi-finds-itself-inside-a-trs-80-model-100/
It should be fairly straight-forward enough to put a Raspberry Pi and an 80x20 LCD plus keyboard into a small case w/ keyboard, touchpad and battery approximating the form of a Model 100 but speedier and with LOADS more storage space.
> how could it see there was in fact a roof and not a bottomless pit?
I'd assume the drone flying overhead a few miles away would tell it.
Is there anywhere in Germany where the cost of housing is as insane as Silicon Valley?
Maybe this will encourage GM to bring back the Hy-Wire platform
I sometimes think this is the exact same model the movie theater should consider - are they really making more money with 4 people in line to buy the $6 popcorn instead of the 30+ ppl who'd be lined up before the movie to buy a $2.50 box of popcorn? Both containers only cost 11 cents so you're still getting a lot more profit at the lower price than the higher one. Money stays in my pocket when, after seating my family and going by the concession stand, I almost always turn around realizing that for the cost of a soda and popcorn for everyone I can buy 'real' food in 90mins after the movie is over.
And if you sign up for PhoneGap Build, you can make mobile apps for the most popular platforms using only javascript and HTML5
I don't have the data in front of me, but I'm sure the Kardashian's reality show probably had better ratings than 'Mythbusters'; tho I can't think of any argument that the former is the better show.
In European city cores, you can take your kids and family, and at worst if you are dressed as an obnoxious foreigner, you might encounter a pickpocket. In England, maybe an obnoxious drunk.
Well, maybe, unless you're murdered
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16334214
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7777635.stm
http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/01/04/men-sentenced-uk-black-teens-murder-infamous-case
No, it was an AirBus 320
..... and they're crap.
If all you want is a cheap display, it seems to me you are a perfect customer for one of those cheapo DealExtreme tablets I denigrated so mightily a few comments back. As long as you're not actually using it as a tablet, it might work for you (I myself and trying to figure a way to get it to stream movies from my Ubuntu server so I can do 22min sessions with it velcro'd to my treadmill as I watch anime episodes - unfortunately the jacked-Android on the thing won't let me install either Netflix nor Crunchyroll)
Having purchased one of these 'el-cheapo' 7" tablets to see how bad an $80 android pad could be; I got this one (or it's brother, don't recall the exact model) two months ago and it is indeed a pile of crap that stinketh verily. Unless HP is spreading magic pixie dust on their sub- $100 tablet, stay far away from these tablets.
Now, the 9.7" Impression i10 I got at Sears for $230 - THAT's a freakin' schweet Android tablet.
I would pay another $1 month if they brought back Firefly. Hell, I'd like Netflix to start an 'ala-carte' service so they could stream stuff that I actually want for an additional fee (i.e. base cost $8/mo + 50cents to $1/show for add-ons) rather than as they've done and sink a bunch of revenues into content I'm not at all interested (that CBS portfolio they just bought - really? Really? What netflix users want most is network re-runs?) ; somewhat like Sprint giving me and other Sprint Premier Gold members the finger when the cancelled the program so they could sink a crapload of cash into iPhones (which as a satisfied Android user/developer I don't see myself EVER buying). *sigh*
In that vein, Archos is selling what's essentially a smartphone sans cell radio for $80; makes me wonder both why I can't get a similar non-contract phone from the mobile carriers for less than $500, and how DOJ hasn't launched a price-fixing investigation against same.