the concept is cool, the car is just not cool. $50k for something that isn't cool, you may as well buy the Nissan Leaf.
I don't know why car companies are sabotaging any real competitor for a successful EV product. Why do EV vehicles always have to be stupid looking or just obscenely expensive. Its like car companies really don't want you to buy EV cars, they just know there is a certain percentage of asshats out there that will buy any ugly or expensive shit they sell just because it is supposed to save the planet or something.
considering how irrelevant both companies are anymore. Sony and Panasonic have lost in the consumer electronics markets, partially because they insist on stuff like this. In an era when everything is moving into the "cloud", Sony and Panasonic are looking to make a new generation of optical disks? Will all their TV's have slots built in to insert these disks in?
I am surprised Sharp and RCA don't join them in their alliance of irrelevancy.
In a few years you won't be able to speed in California, it will be too hard to speed having to weave and dodge around all the stalled Tesla's on the highways.
Lol, actually if it was sponsored by the Canadian telcos they would rather nobody knew the internet existed.
But I am sure Canada is #1 for the cost of Cable TV and Home Phone services because we all know that someone living in Vancouver needs to subsidize having Cable TV infrastructure in Nunavut.
It amazes me that people in Hollywood don't understand they created a dud.
I mean to a certain extent they know. For instance ANY movie released in January to March is crap, and they holly execs know it, so they dump it during the time of the year where people do not go to the movies (paying off their Christmas debt). You might get the occasional hit during the first part of they year, but usually movies released in Jan and Feb are released and forgotten about.
But it amazes me that Hollywood seems incredulous when some big $100+ million summer blockbuster doesn't do well.
I mean for R.I.P.D. anybody watching the trailer knows this movie is garbage. It's MIB except with "ghosts". I don't know how M. Night. Shyamalan is allowed to touch a script these days after repeated fails, he should just be banned from Hollywood, period.
Maybe Hollywood should stop looking at analytics and start actually watching the crap they are producing.
I think by Porn you mean "CSI". 13 years later and not an original plot after the pilot, which was not even original. I mean nobody watches porn for the story anyways.
I mean, you can complain all you want about formulaic content but the reality is society has regressed into an idiotic stupor that allows this type of movie making to succeed.
Look at CSI and all its derivatives. Its the SAME EXACT SHOW week after week. Then look at ALL the crime investigation shows and realize, its the SAME PLOT over and over again. Yet these shows consistently rank in the top 10 because viewers do not want to be challenged with new plot devices. Its why any even remotely unique show is usually cancelled because the idiot masses don't like watching it because its not like CSI or some other derivative tripe.
All movies are coming out the same? Realize that the major demographic for movies are teenagers and early 20 somethings and you understand that this demographic has not yet developed the maturity or patience for investing any thinking power into changing their derivative lifestyles. Eat, sleep, party, fuck, get a tattoo, is about all they can handle so taking 90 minutes out of their "busy" schedule can't be over-complicated by something that challenges or inspires an actual original thought.
So you can blame Hollywood all you want but the reality is that Hollywood makes a product, and the product only sells if consumers want the product, and consumers want this derivative bullshit, period.
We are firmly in the era of the Stupocalypse. Mankind has entered a zombie state where originality, rational thought and common sense are thrown out the window and replaced with a need for immediate entitled gratification with a minimum investment of effort.
Lets put it this way, Tesla would have to outsell Civic and Corolla combined to be even remotely considered analogous to iPhone's success. iPhone replaced shitty economy phones, Tesla has to replace shitty economy vehicles.
A $100k commuter vehicle is a fad, not a revolution.
The Wii generation of games drove me nuts and turned me off Nintendo forever. Things like Mario Galaxy are just to sickly cute to be fun by anybody over the age of 8. Nintendo forgot or has ignored that adults play video games these days, so having to save cartoon princesses and making everything G rated is just not "fun" if you are an adult.
It's like the difference between something like Dora the Explorer and something like Shrek or Dispicable Me. Both are cartoons, yes, but there is no adult in the world that likes watching Dora (and if you do you have major issues) because it is juvenile, repetitive, annoying and clearly intended for children. I cringe when my niece and nephew want to watch it when they visit. However while movies like Shrek or Dispicable Me are created for children, the creators did not forget that adults will be watching the movie, either forced to watch or even by choice. While the obvious themes of these movies are juvenile, there is enough jokes and double entendre to make the movies palatable and even enjoyable by adults. The movies are "fun" for all ages. Dora is fun for 4 years olds only who think a soap bubble is the most awesome thing in the universe.
Nintendo still has yet to figure this out. They can't continue to target children only with sickly cute characters and vapid story lines that are rehashed over and over again if the want to survive to produce another generation of content.
Also, finally, realize that the games you claim are not "fun" make the most money. Obviously adults are driving video game sales these days and Nintendo has decided to ignore a pretty significant demographic just to push out more juvenile crap.
Nintendo can still have their kid games, but they also need to also invent franchises for the 90% of other video gamers that have obviously stopped buying Nintendo products if the Wii U sales are any indication of the trend Nintendo is taking.
Strict as in Canada's Do Not Call list, which only means once every 30 days you get telemarketers calling you, and you ask to be removed for the next 30 days. Also Strict in the sense that you still get hounded by charities and politicians calling you because they are exempt. And strict as in the sense that it's useless because I now get telemarketing from randomly generated phone numbers from foreign countries.
So yes, Canada implemented a useless regulation, again, yay.
The solution to spam is a good email client connected to a great email server. Running your own email server does not count. Creating a law does not work.
I just love when bittorrent is tied into freedom of speech and human rights. It just shows people don't know shit about fuck with regards to freedom of speech and human rights.
I think you couldn't be more ignorant about VS if you tried.
While I agree the UI direction Microsoft took as a whole towards "metro" flat monotone interfaces was a step way back to 1990, if anything Microsoft has made VS more flexible and open then ever.
There is a "HUGE" extension library written by other people that offer more value to VS then out of the box. Also Microsoft beefed up the ability to write your own IDE integration so if you wanted a Python editor based in VS IDE, you could do so, and there is http://pytools.codeplex.com/. You can get all the great intellisense features working for you in whatever language and platform you have to target.
I don't care about FUD, but FUD backed by complete ignorance is inexcusable. Educate yourself and come back to the discussion.
You're assuming Google and Motorola engineers are not as smart as you and so have obviously missed some critical issue that only you figured out just now. Good catch.
If companies would just read the Slashdot comments then all the world's problems would disappear.
Why is this not the next Nexus 4? Why would Google create the Nexus brand, only to promote a Motorola phone as? Why would Google compete with themselves? Why does every Android phone have to have a slightly different set of features and OS versions? Why wouldn't touch-less voice be a part of every Jelly Bean phone?
Would someone please send Google a big crate of Ritalin so maybe they can focus on one business strategy in the phone market that makes sense?
Cops are trained to handle their weapon properly, including responsible use (hopefully) and storage of that weapon. A cop that loses their gun, or lets their gun fall into the wrong hands does not last very long as a cop. If there was a huge issue where cops were losing or allowing their gust to be used by the wrong people, this speaks to a need to revamp the entire law enforcement industry, NOT adopt a safe weapon.
There is ABSOLUTELY no market for this "safe gun" for law enforcement. Any technology that might cause a gun to fail in a situation that requires split second decision making is not going to be a product tolerated by law enforcement.
Anyone saying that law enforcement is already adopting this technology OR that the market for this technology is law agencies are lying and/or woefully out of touch with reality.
Probably because if you hold the gun the cool way on its side, it doesn't work even for the owner. Also I guess these guns haven't hit the black market yet, just wait, I am sure sales will pick up.
However, I have a computer that uses a fingerprint scan to unlock, and I have to drag my finger over it about a dozen times before it recognizes me and lets me in. I am not going to be in a position to draw my gun a dozen times while my assailant waits patiently before the gun unlocks.
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the concept is cool, the car is just not cool. $50k for something that isn't cool, you may as well buy the Nissan Leaf.
I don't know why car companies are sabotaging any real competitor for a successful EV product. Why do EV vehicles always have to be stupid looking or just obscenely expensive. Its like car companies really don't want you to buy EV cars, they just know there is a certain percentage of asshats out there that will buy any ugly or expensive shit they sell just because it is supposed to save the planet or something.
considering how irrelevant both companies are anymore. Sony and Panasonic have lost in the consumer electronics markets, partially because they insist on stuff like this. In an era when everything is moving into the "cloud", Sony and Panasonic are looking to make a new generation of optical disks? Will all their TV's have slots built in to insert these disks in?
I am surprised Sharp and RCA don't join them in their alliance of irrelevancy.
But this robot has about as much to do with Parkour as a Slinky toy.
you are camping and hear "ooowaaaaaahooooooGary".
In a few years you won't be able to speed in California, it will be too hard to speed having to weave and dodge around all the stalled Tesla's on the highways.
I get an ad for the Mazda 5. It really doesn't inspire that much rage out of me.
Lol, actually if it was sponsored by the Canadian telcos they would rather nobody knew the internet existed.
But I am sure Canada is #1 for the cost of Cable TV and Home Phone services because we all know that someone living in Vancouver needs to subsidize having Cable TV infrastructure in Nunavut.
It amazes me that people in Hollywood don't understand they created a dud.
I mean to a certain extent they know. For instance ANY movie released in January to March is crap, and they holly execs know it, so they dump it during the time of the year where people do not go to the movies (paying off their Christmas debt). You might get the occasional hit during the first part of they year, but usually movies released in Jan and Feb are released and forgotten about.
But it amazes me that Hollywood seems incredulous when some big $100+ million summer blockbuster doesn't do well.
I mean for R.I.P.D. anybody watching the trailer knows this movie is garbage. It's MIB except with "ghosts". I don't know how M. Night. Shyamalan is allowed to touch a script these days after repeated fails, he should just be banned from Hollywood, period.
Maybe Hollywood should stop looking at analytics and start actually watching the crap they are producing.
Turn 6 bounds of Kale a day into something a human can actually consume.
I think by Porn you mean "CSI". 13 years later and not an original plot after the pilot, which was not even original. I mean nobody watches porn for the story anyways.
I mean, you can complain all you want about formulaic content but the reality is society has regressed into an idiotic stupor that allows this type of movie making to succeed.
Look at CSI and all its derivatives. Its the SAME EXACT SHOW week after week. Then look at ALL the crime investigation shows and realize, its the SAME PLOT over and over again. Yet these shows consistently rank in the top 10 because viewers do not want to be challenged with new plot devices. Its why any even remotely unique show is usually cancelled because the idiot masses don't like watching it because its not like CSI or some other derivative tripe.
All movies are coming out the same? Realize that the major demographic for movies are teenagers and early 20 somethings and you understand that this demographic has not yet developed the maturity or patience for investing any thinking power into changing their derivative lifestyles. Eat, sleep, party, fuck, get a tattoo, is about all they can handle so taking 90 minutes out of their "busy" schedule can't be over-complicated by something that challenges or inspires an actual original thought.
So you can blame Hollywood all you want but the reality is that Hollywood makes a product, and the product only sells if consumers want the product, and consumers want this derivative bullshit, period.
We are firmly in the era of the Stupocalypse. Mankind has entered a zombie state where originality, rational thought and common sense are thrown out the window and replaced with a need for immediate entitled gratification with a minimum investment of effort.
Lets put it this way, Tesla would have to outsell Civic and Corolla combined to be even remotely considered analogous to iPhone's success. iPhone replaced shitty economy phones, Tesla has to replace shitty economy vehicles.
A $100k commuter vehicle is a fad, not a revolution.
I think you east coasters need to learn what uncapped means.
Lol, define fun please?
The Wii generation of games drove me nuts and turned me off Nintendo forever. Things like Mario Galaxy are just to sickly cute to be fun by anybody over the age of 8. Nintendo forgot or has ignored that adults play video games these days, so having to save cartoon princesses and making everything G rated is just not "fun" if you are an adult.
It's like the difference between something like Dora the Explorer and something like Shrek or Dispicable Me. Both are cartoons, yes, but there is no adult in the world that likes watching Dora (and if you do you have major issues) because it is juvenile, repetitive, annoying and clearly intended for children. I cringe when my niece and nephew want to watch it when they visit. However while movies like Shrek or Dispicable Me are created for children, the creators did not forget that adults will be watching the movie, either forced to watch or even by choice. While the obvious themes of these movies are juvenile, there is enough jokes and double entendre to make the movies palatable and even enjoyable by adults. The movies are "fun" for all ages. Dora is fun for 4 years olds only who think a soap bubble is the most awesome thing in the universe.
Nintendo still has yet to figure this out. They can't continue to target children only with sickly cute characters and vapid story lines that are rehashed over and over again if the want to survive to produce another generation of content.
Also, finally, realize that the games you claim are not "fun" make the most money. Obviously adults are driving video game sales these days and Nintendo has decided to ignore a pretty significant demographic just to push out more juvenile crap.
Nintendo can still have their kid games, but they also need to also invent franchises for the 90% of other video gamers that have obviously stopped buying Nintendo products if the Wii U sales are any indication of the trend Nintendo is taking.
I likes my tablets and phones as rectangles. Just don't make this Apple:
http://phandroid.com/2011/10/06/dunder-mifflin-releases-new-pyramid-tablet-challenges-conventional-rectangle-tablets-video/
Strict as in Canada's Do Not Call list, which only means once every 30 days you get telemarketers calling you, and you ask to be removed for the next 30 days. Also Strict in the sense that you still get hounded by charities and politicians calling you because they are exempt. And strict as in the sense that it's useless because I now get telemarketing from randomly generated phone numbers from foreign countries.
So yes, Canada implemented a useless regulation, again, yay.
The solution to spam is a good email client connected to a great email server. Running your own email server does not count. Creating a law does not work.
I just love when bittorrent is tied into freedom of speech and human rights. It just shows people don't know shit about fuck with regards to freedom of speech and human rights.
First world problems for sure.
I think you couldn't be more ignorant about VS if you tried.
While I agree the UI direction Microsoft took as a whole towards "metro" flat monotone interfaces was a step way back to 1990, if anything Microsoft has made VS more flexible and open then ever.
There is a "HUGE" extension library written by other people that offer more value to VS then out of the box. Also Microsoft beefed up the ability to write your own IDE integration so if you wanted a Python editor based in VS IDE, you could do so, and there is http://pytools.codeplex.com/. You can get all the great intellisense features working for you in whatever language and platform you have to target.
I don't care about FUD, but FUD backed by complete ignorance is inexcusable. Educate yourself and come back to the discussion.
You're assuming Google and Motorola engineers are not as smart as you and so have obviously missed some critical issue that only you figured out just now. Good catch.
If companies would just read the Slashdot comments then all the world's problems would disappear.
Why is this not the next Nexus 4? Why would Google create the Nexus brand, only to promote a Motorola phone as? Why would Google compete with themselves? Why does every Android phone have to have a slightly different set of features and OS versions? Why wouldn't touch-less voice be a part of every Jelly Bean phone?
Would someone please send Google a big crate of Ritalin so maybe they can focus on one business strategy in the phone market that makes sense?
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if it happens every 700 years then how can we blame global warming?
I think the key is if 1 in 700 year events start happening every second Tuesday, then I might be convinced.
Thousands of years ago farmer raising newly domesticated cows, pigs and chickens said "Hey, what are we going to do with all this manure?"
Another farmer said, "Sell it at a premium to the organic vegan hippies. They are already used to eating shit."
Cops are trained to handle their weapon properly, including responsible use (hopefully) and storage of that weapon. A cop that loses their gun, or lets their gun fall into the wrong hands does not last very long as a cop. If there was a huge issue where cops were losing or allowing their gust to be used by the wrong people, this speaks to a need to revamp the entire law enforcement industry, NOT adopt a safe weapon.
There is ABSOLUTELY no market for this "safe gun" for law enforcement. Any technology that might cause a gun to fail in a situation that requires split second decision making is not going to be a product tolerated by law enforcement.
Anyone saying that law enforcement is already adopting this technology OR that the market for this technology is law agencies are lying and/or woefully out of touch with reality.
Probably because if you hold the gun the cool way on its side, it doesn't work even for the owner. Also I guess these guns haven't hit the black market yet, just wait, I am sure sales will pick up.
However, I have a computer that uses a fingerprint scan to unlock, and I have to drag my finger over it about a dozen times before it recognizes me and lets me in. I am not going to be in a position to draw my gun a dozen times while my assailant waits patiently before the gun unlocks.