Most of these comments are missing the point of Soylent and also the target customer.
I like eating home cooked food. I like time. These two goals are at odds with each other, because making home cooked food takes lots of time.
Some nights, I just don't feel like cooking or I don't have time to cook. I just want something quick to satisfy my hunger. I would probably end up eating fast food, which is terrible for me nutritionally.
Soylent is for those nights for me. When I don't feel like cooking and I just want to feel full. It would be nice to have something filling but also healthy, and that's where Soylent comes in vs just getting fast food.
I imagine that most people who preordered Soylent are similar to me in this sense. Very few people plan to stop eating altogether and subsist solely on Soylent.
It's not about replacing food, so please, get over that idea.
If you've ever come home from work, and hacked away at a project until the wee hours of the night, and thought "damn, I'm so hungry, but finishing what I'm working on is more exciting than eating right now. I wish I could just make my hunger go away so I could focus on what I want to work on." then you might be able to understand my desire for something like Soylent.
Those cash back rewards come from the credit card processing fees that merchants charge. The merchants must raise their prices to include those fees and still make the same profit, so really, you're paying extra every time you make a purchase and then you're waiting for them to give it back to you in the form of a "reward".
You clearly don't understand the purpose of the Raspberry Pi.
Nobody is replacing their computer with this, it's for making projects and experimenting and learning to program. A 9-inch monitor would use useful in many scenarios.
Yes, because PS3 and XBOX wireless controllers are $10 each, right?
Oh wait, they're $45 and $55 each respectively. Seems pretty close to $60 to me. I'd rather pay $60 for a game controller and $3 for each game than $55 for a game controller and $60 for each game.
That's just my opinion, but I'd be surprised if the majority of people (casual gamers) won't feel the same way, especially with portable games improving so much in quality.
Also, just an FYI. All the android gamepads cost around that same price. Google around, the MOGA pro gamepad for android is $50, for example.
I don't think it's really fair to compare the price of the Nexus 4 to the iPhone 5 when Google specifically left out LTE to keep the price of the Nexus 4 down.
Comcast is $29 a month for the first 6 months, not that far off. If you're really desperate you can cancel and renew it every 6 months. Me and my roommates did it in college to save money.
That is false. Take Girl Talk or Skrillex for example. Both of them do many live shows, yet they create their music entirely on a computer before the show. If it can be played on a computer, you can have a live show for it, even if the show is simply the artist standing in front of the laptop dancing to the music, which is essentially what a Girl Talk show is like.
Well to be more accurate (pedantic, I suppose), he would really be bringing a robot into their house to systematically take pictures of everything so that he can reconstruct a virtual 3d version of their house. That's different that just taking every picture yourself, just like it would be a different story if A.Schwartz had taken the time to visit and "print to pdf" every article in JSTOR.
Note: I'm not saying that what Aaron did was wrong or right, just saying that your analogy really isn't apt and needs some corrections to truly be apt.
it's not a walled garden precisely because they let you install linux on it. if they locked down the hardware to prevent that then it would be a walled garden.
weird, because the base macbook pro retina is $2k not $3k and has some pretty sick specs at that base price (latest i7, latest nvidia GPU, 8gb 1600Mhz ddr3, 2880*1800 IPS display). Please, show me a laptop with those specs for less money. I'd love to buy one.
Some people want good hardware and want to run linux. it's not that difficult. Personally I'd just use parallels in OS X but that's my choice. Some people prefer a native install, especially if they plan to fill up the RAM to it's max. But then again, even if the retina MBP starts paging, it's ssd can do 400MB/s read/write speed so it's not gonna make your computer sluggish like paging with a hdd would.
OS X has homebrew which in my opinion is just as good as apt-get, if not better. It doesn't require root privileges like apt-get does, which is a nice feature.
Just one correction. Mac laptops get 7 hours of battery life browsing the web (wifi on). And if you're doing something more CPU intensive you can still expect to get a minimum of 4 hours. So it's not just 1 hour of battery life vs 2.5 hours battery of life, it's 1 hours of battery life vs at least 4 hours of battery life. And that's 4 hours with the CPU pegged, usually much more since most of the time the CPU isn't pegged for long periods unless you're rendering or something.
This is awesome, I had no idea monitors like this existed for this price. I found Shimian for sale on ebay but I can't find Catleap on Google except for some kind of owners club. Could I please have a link to where I can buy these monitors, or are they just on ebay?
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Most of these comments are missing the point of Soylent and also the target customer.
I like eating home cooked food. I like time. These two goals are at odds with each other, because making home cooked food takes lots of time.
Some nights, I just don't feel like cooking or I don't have time to cook. I just want something quick to satisfy my hunger. I would probably end up eating fast food, which is terrible for me nutritionally.
Soylent is for those nights for me. When I don't feel like cooking and I just want to feel full. It would be nice to have something filling but also healthy, and that's where Soylent comes in vs just getting fast food.
I imagine that most people who preordered Soylent are similar to me in this sense. Very few people plan to stop eating altogether and subsist solely on Soylent.
It's not about replacing food, so please, get over that idea.
If you've ever come home from work, and hacked away at a project until the wee hours of the night, and thought "damn, I'm so hungry, but finishing what I'm working on is more exciting than eating right now. I wish I could just make my hunger go away so I could focus on what I want to work on." then you might be able to understand my desire for something like Soylent.
Actually, that rule changed a few weeks ago: http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/11/21/motorola-will-longer-void-warranties-developer-devices-owners-request-unlock-codes/ Unlocking the bootloader on motorola devices no longer voids the warranty.
But, that's why I don't buy nor use them.
If plastic guns are banned, then you can't buy nor use them anyway. You don't even have the option.
Those cash back rewards come from the credit card processing fees that merchants charge. The merchants must raise their prices to include those fees and still make the same profit, so really, you're paying extra every time you make a purchase and then you're waiting for them to give it back to you in the form of a "reward".
HDM-Pi sounds so much better than HDMI-Pi. How did they let that one slip through the cracks?
You clearly don't understand the purpose of the Raspberry Pi. Nobody is replacing their computer with this, it's for making projects and experimenting and learning to program. A 9-inch monitor would use useful in many scenarios.
Yes, because PS3 and XBOX wireless controllers are $10 each, right?
Oh wait, they're $45 and $55 each respectively. Seems pretty close to $60 to me. I'd rather pay $60 for a game controller and $3 for each game than $55 for a game controller and $60 for each game.
That's just my opinion, but I'd be surprised if the majority of people (casual gamers) won't feel the same way, especially with portable games improving so much in quality.
Also, just an FYI. All the android gamepads cost around that same price. Google around, the MOGA pro gamepad for android is $50, for example.
Your point is moot, sir.
I'm letting you know: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-to-license-official-ios-7-game-controllers/
Wish I has modpoints today, you're absolutely correct.
The iPhone 5 also has LTE which the Nexus 4 lacks. It's hardly surprising that a phone with 4G is priced higher than one without it.
I don't think it's really fair to compare the price of the Nexus 4 to the iPhone 5 when Google specifically left out LTE to keep the price of the Nexus 4 down.
Comcast is $29 a month for the first 6 months, not that far off. If you're really desperate you can cancel and renew it every 6 months. Me and my roommates did it in college to save money.
I love how your post is written like a research paper with citations. Very nice sir!
That is false. Take Girl Talk or Skrillex for example. Both of them do many live shows, yet they create their music entirely on a computer before the show. If it can be played on a computer, you can have a live show for it, even if the show is simply the artist standing in front of the laptop dancing to the music, which is essentially what a Girl Talk show is like.
Well to be more accurate (pedantic, I suppose), he would really be bringing a robot into their house to systematically take pictures of everything so that he can reconstruct a virtual 3d version of their house. That's different that just taking every picture yourself, just like it would be a different story if A.Schwartz had taken the time to visit and "print to pdf" every article in JSTOR.
Note: I'm not saying that what Aaron did was wrong or right, just saying that your analogy really isn't apt and needs some corrections to truly be apt.
1920x1080, no thanks. How about a HighDPI display? Or at least 1920x1200?
sounds to me more like he's stealing wifi from a neighbor and doesn't want to lose his free internet.
It will be clearly safer than driving manually. So safety is the point.
Except that Apple complies with the standard by providing an adaptor, and therefore this story is complete BS.
it's not a walled garden precisely because they let you install linux on it. if they locked down the hardware to prevent that then it would be a walled garden.
weird, because the base macbook pro retina is $2k not $3k and has some pretty sick specs at that base price (latest i7, latest nvidia GPU, 8gb 1600Mhz ddr3, 2880*1800 IPS display). Please, show me a laptop with those specs for less money. I'd love to buy one.
Some people want good hardware and want to run linux. it's not that difficult. Personally I'd just use parallels in OS X but that's my choice. Some people prefer a native install, especially if they plan to fill up the RAM to it's max. But then again, even if the retina MBP starts paging, it's ssd can do 400MB/s read/write speed so it's not gonna make your computer sluggish like paging with a hdd would.
Yeah, because that stuff is so easy on Windows. At least compare Apples to Apples (haha)
OS X has homebrew which in my opinion is just as good as apt-get, if not better. It doesn't require root privileges like apt-get does, which is a nice feature.
Just one correction. Mac laptops get 7 hours of battery life browsing the web (wifi on). And if you're doing something more CPU intensive you can still expect to get a minimum of 4 hours. So it's not just 1 hour of battery life vs 2.5 hours battery of life, it's 1 hours of battery life vs at least 4 hours of battery life. And that's 4 hours with the CPU pegged, usually much more since most of the time the CPU isn't pegged for long periods unless you're rendering or something.
This is awesome, I had no idea monitors like this existed for this price. I found Shimian for sale on ebay but I can't find Catleap on Google except for some kind of owners club. Could I please have a link to where I can buy these monitors, or are they just on ebay?