Of course, so was MacWorld and the like. Anyone remember what a big deal HotWired was back in the mid nineties?
Gladly, we can kill online ads through ad blockers so the revenue stream for such a magazine doesn't support it as a sustainable "business".
Any meaningful insight comes straight from important folks' blogs, tweets and mouths at conferences. Discussion or editorials are done at places like
I wish I didn't wait through the advert just to hear the guy speak. What's the point of a video of a vehicle that's not moving?
4K displays @ 60Hz with Retina pixel doubling = fantastic coding display [1]
Of course, I don't have this at work - I have two separate 24" monitors but my spend most of my time on my 15" retina screen.
As in why anyone would want a smartphone from Amazon.
I can easily see why amazon would like to add to it's monopoly.
The real question is can it offer ANY advantage to us for using it's hardware? If it can't, then they should give away an app, not try to sell us hardware.
For me, I can't think of anything they can do for me with hardware that they can't do with software.
Why would Amazon want a tablet? Perhaps for the same reason that Microsoft wants Azure? Everything is converging to phone/tablet/laptop combined with branded could services to support the basics (email, calendar, music, video, shopping, app store...), so Amazon is just doing what it feels is necessary to keep up with the Joneses.
Either Apple was very prescient or just lucky to have gotten there first?
I just purchased an 8-core THL w200s from Amazon for 200.00 bucks and Prime shipping. If they preloaded this phone with the Amazon App Store and marketed the hell out of it, they could sell the crap out of these phones for 200.00 bucks a pop. A similar American phone would sell in the 500.00 - 600.00 range.
And that is exactly how they could make a big splash in the Smartphone Market. A kick-butt phone in the 200.00 to sub-200.00 price range...
There is no way that being tied to AT&T will allow them to hit the $200 price point without a dreaded 2 year subscription (when the unsubsidized price hits $500-600) AT&T don't roll like that - that's what their off-brand MVNO is for (Go Phone, etc).
By the by, quality is the degree to which a deliverable satisfies requirements. A car that falls apart after 5 years isn't any higher quality than a car that runs for 50 years, if you're going to replace either in 5 years anyway. If the former is much cheaper to own and maintain for the first 5 years than the latter, then the former is of higher quality; if the latter is cheaper to own and maintain, then the latter is over-engineered and can be stripped back to last 5 years and cost much less, better satisfying quality requirements.
By ignoring resale value, your numbers are completely divorced from reality and lead to irrational conclusions.
t's also why the Prius would get about 40mpg even if it had no hybrid features. If Toyota sold that car, they'd really corner the market, as it would have a better ROI than the hybrid Prius, and wouldn't have any risk about battery replacement (which isn't always covered by warranty).
Why not look it up before spouting untruths? By default Toyota gives you 8 years warranty on the hybrid battery. In CA and other states you get 10.
Regarding the mileage, I truly doubt you'd get 40mpg city with no hybrid drivetrain... more like 30. And I get 50-55mpg highway, not 40. I get closer to 60 if there's a lot of traffic for many commute days (stop/go is a lot like city driving).
It's amazing how many folks spout on about cars and technology they know nothing about.
If I was in the market for a new car, I think by far I'd go for something Tesla.
If you can afford one, go for it. I'd do the same, but then again, I have a 10 year old Prius that's going fine (got a high-voltage battery replacement just last week - but that's covered under my state-mandated 10 year warranty) - cost to upgrade - $75k+, cost to keep my 50+mpg car? close to zero.
Now if I could buy an EV or hybrid minivan (none of this Prius V bullshit, Toyota - you sell the Hybrid Estima in Japan, why not here!?!) - I'd buy one in a heartbeat and replace my Prius.
btw, If you're complaint about the Prius appearance - what's the drag coefficient of your car? Is it as good as my 10 year old Prius? 'Cause that's why it looks like it does - it's part of it's design elegance.
Actually, there is a good online one-stop-shop available: Google (other search engines are available). If I want a book, DVD or pretty much anything else I Google to see who has it available and at what price. If Amazon don't, hey, I probably won't even notice; I'll be busy comparing price and delivery options for the companies that do.
Even better - get same-day delivery if you happen to be in a GSX market. Even more limited supply than Amazon, but same-day has resulted in some pretty awesome results when it comes to almost-forgotten last-minute birthday/anniversary gifts
Largely I think publishers just don't give a fuck about quality anymore. If I judged publishers solely by the piss-poor print-to-e-book conversion jobs they've been doing I have to say they're fucking worthless. I'm reading one book right now on my kindle that makes it painfully clear no one at Bantam bothered to even edit the e-book format. There are so many word fuckups from the OCR process it's not even funny.
Is it the case that the original publisher is also doing the e-book? I know sometimes authors retain rights to the e-book that the publisher doesn't get, and they may have chosen a bad e-book publishing model.
Looks like Google is doubling down on making it harder for you to stay private. Classy move, Google. You make it easier for me to avoid recommending the Play store and Android altogether.
Personally, I look forward with glee to the day when Glass IS build into prescription glasses, some business discriminates against them, and said business is crushed under the ADA. Unfortunately, it does increasingly look like that may be what it takes to finally slap this particular platoon in the luddite brigade down.
Be careful what you wish for. You may not like the result. Using the ADA to further the Google panopticon? I've heard of more ridiculous, but it's not Glass that the ADA is protecting, but the prescription lenses. Maybe the solution is not to bind the two together.
As someone who wears glasses I know that if glass was near universally banned then I wouldn't buy it, but I would happily chose a different movie theatre or bar if some bars ban it and others don't.
Sure. Maybe AMC, Cinemark or Regal might not want to displease you as a discriminating minority, but people go to Alamo for an experience, and a trivial thing like changing out your Glass for other eyewear isn't likely to change your mind about Alamo.
Props to Alamo. Nothing sensational, just put away (and silence) the smartphone and take off the Glass when the lights go down.
For one, I don't want random people in their cars hanging out in front of my house - as we don't have a very large setback and wifi coverage is OK from the street.
Secondly, this signal interferes with my Airport Extreme I have sitting behind it. Once I upgraded to the new modem (only because the old one finally quit on me), I immediately called Comcast to disable the wifi (you can't do that with a button), as I was getting a whole lot of disconnects and failures to connect on wake on my MBPr.
Now it's all copacetic. If they didn't allow me to opt-out, I'd be furious. Typical of Comcast to turn your home into a wifi hotspot - it's so ill designed and inconsiderate. If they ran it outside for folks outside, that'd be much better.
It sounds like if you don't have a smartphone--or don't use it to check into every damn silly little place you visit--then your transportation needs are going to be underrepresented.
You jest. Smartphone penetration in the US populace is quite high. Our babies' nanny has an iPhone5S. Nearly every construction worker on every gig at my property in the past 2 years has had a smartphone, even the ones that looked like they couldn't afford one. Many folks in the doctor's office that I go to have one (older folks tend to have tablets).
Smartphones are way too useful to be niche any longer. YOU may use them to play solitaire or listen to podcasts, but everyday folks use them to shop, text their SOs, plan their daily lives and conduct business.
The smartphone is way more personal than a personal computer, and it's way more affordable than a PC for actually useful things where you need it.
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines." -- Bertrand Russell
