Is World War II so far away that everyone forgets how fucked up the entire world can become - and it doesn't take long for it all to go to hell either. The NSA has to get their shit together, but we still need real strategical/tactical intelligence inside and outside of the US. So when it does happen (and it will eventually happen) we're prepared not to lose our country, or even the world to the super nuclear powered genetically modified nazi cyborgs.
It's amazing what charisma can do. Apple has acted like an evil censor/gatekeeper since the iPhone was released. Microsoft didn't act anywhere close to this bad in the 90s. And Microsoft is looked down on and Apple is still cool.
I wish I could send this article back in time 20 years. All the prophecies of how the internet would change the social dynamic, and now we see how it has all played out.
Glass is 100% hype. If it were released tomorrow it would flop hard. Any review you read of it is meh, it really does nothing different than your phone and isn't practical to use in social situations or life in general. If you want to see 'real' new technology that people would actually pay money for, check out the Oculus Rift.
I'm not saying the Rift is the same. I'm saying both Glass and the Rift have been hyped a lot. The difference is the Rift really is practical - you see a lot more 'real' people using the Rift and enjoying it vs. Glass.
Can we have a discussion about marketing? Like how does this $60 niche product raise $150k in 2 days? Was it hyped before hand? Did kickstarter hype it? Anyone know the details behind their PR?
The OP wasn't saying, 'this bug isn't a big deal.' He's saying, 'the bug fix shouldn't break existing programs.' Because people, like you, designed around this. Few people, if any, designed their apps to rely on the value in the loop not changing - that's why this 'breaking fix' should break almost no programs.
I program in a lot languages and C# is heads and shoulders above everything. It doesn't feel hacked together at all. It's like someone with a real vision put a lot of work into making a great language. Too bad project requirements usually dictate the language I have to use.
Bitcoin has been at a few 'long term plateaus' right now it's at $100, before it was stuck at $10 for awhile and $5 before that. So yea, in plateau mode, following the dollar makes sense. No doubt though it will jump again.
All a gas station needs to do is hold enough batteries to match the rate of customer arrival over the time it takes to recharge a battery, plus a safety factor of X. Stations can add more batteries to their pool over time as more people start driving electric vehicles. And instead of daily fuel tankers, occasionally a truck comes to the station with replacement batteries for those detected to be worn out. It could be a really great system if Tesla makes it easy to setup and handles most of the work automatically delivering new batteries when demand increases, and replacing worn out ones.
Someone should do the math of how many 'equivelent fill ups' it takes to pay for a battery, and then subtract that from the total amount of fill ups possible before wearing out and electricity cost. I have a feeling this could be a very profitable investment.
Price has been pretty stable for awhile now. There's always 'the crazy periods' when it get's hyped up and the price is all over the place, but in general the price hovers around plateaus. Currently around ~$100.
Tolls should go away as well. Everyone in the economy benefits from transportation whether you're on the road or not (people on the road the personal reasons are a fraction of those on the road for business ones.) That plus toll roads hurt local economies everywhere by suppressing the ability for people to start businesses off exits, and giving monopoly to businesses running inside rest stops. I'm sure everyone has driven on roads that become toll roads only to quickly notice the death of all residence and businesses along these roads.
The value of games on steam is very related to the used game market because there is no used game market on steam, but users still buy old games at used market prices. The difference now is that the money continues to flow to the publisher and not entities with no hand in creating the game.
'Not allowing it to happen' would probably be the most galvanizing thing the world could possibly do. Basically damned if we do, damned if we don't. That's why a new caliphate seems like a real possible outcome. Also a new Islamic empire would most likely ally with Russia and China. Already they veto action on anything middle east related in the UN.
Pretty sure if Turkey falls we'll end up with a new Islamic caliphate in the next 10 years. Who doesn't see one sweeping over this shattered region. For 90% of its history (600 to 1900) the middle east has been under a single empire or another. What we should really be afraid of is some kind of galvanizing leader or force to come out of this.
It's the same cycle Bitcoin has been in for the past few years. The price is stable, but when the hype train starts running it goes on a ride for a month or so until it runs out of steam, and the price eventually stabilizes again. This is a good time to buy.
Everyone is asking for it. The entire Metro UI is one gigantic design mistake. Hell people were complaining about it an entire year before Windows 8 was released. Since then it's been like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
If he gets the manufacturing costs down and the volume up, could the service possibly be cheaper than the typical $50 fill up? That would be a game changer.
Waiting 30 minutes is still a dealbreaker for a lot of people. How about switching out those batteries like propane tanks. I'll let someone else figure out the technical details of that.
I spent an hour tonight debating someone on how the Oculus Rift is revolutionary while Glass is not. The first hand reviews of the Rift vs Glass are night and day. One is the future the other is meh.
Is there anyway to block the traffic that anyone knows of? I hate having to use 'offline mode' because my songs aren't scrobbled. Also as a paying user it's a kick in the teeth to have the client taking my bandwidth AND cpu while I'm not even using it. As a side note, Spotify has some of the worst community relations I've ever seen.