Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 341
Well, this thread was confusing.
Comment Did they ever fix your Prius? (Score 1) 612
Did they ever fix your Prius?
Comment Re:Doctor Who fans ahoy? (Score 1) 658
If you have a time machine and still need to work a day job, you're doing it wrong. Think lottery tickets, sports almanacs, stock markets, etc...
Comment Re:I hear that... (Score 1) 378
Ah! Well played good sir. By cleverly managing to debunk his statistically-backed citation by insisting "nuh uh", and proving your own point not by using another citation (because that's what they'd expect), but instead by capitalizing "FACT" and "DO", you have managed to convince me.
Comment Doesn't sound too bad... (Score 1) 229
I didn't follow what this three-strikes law is all about very closely but from what I gather from the article it doesn't sound nearly as bad as the crap that goes on over here in the US. You get three warnings and then they slap you with a $150 fine? Sounds way more reasonable than Jammie Thomas getting $80000 per song or whatever. Could someone who knows more be kind enough to explain the issue?
Comment Re:No managers (Score 4, Insightful) 151
What you're not accounting for is the fact that even though he chooses to run the company like there is no leader, in reality GabeN technically is still the owner and could change the management structure as he saw fit if things started going downhill. Considering his success I'm pretty confident that he'd be smart enough to realize that nobody was working anymore and that he needed a new plan.
Comment Re:./ed (Score 1) 608
This was far more entertaining and far less blatantly biased than I was expecting. Wish I had mod points.
Comment Re:A more likely use (Score 1) 150
Or Project Glass.
Comment Re:A class act (Score 2) 480
I'd be afraid to take one out on the highway, never mind all the way to the moon.
Well yea, I don't think they have wheels or blinkers or anything.... I don't think Mr. Armstrong would've taken one on the highway either.
Comment Re:No matter what the outcome actually is.... (Score 5, Funny) 1184
Thats funny. My office of 5000+ is about to buy iPhones for 20% of them to replace aging Blackberry phones. With that they have already purchased mass provisioning and corporate app distribution capabilities.
Guess personal anecdotes only tell a narrow picture of the landscape.
We really only have your personal anecdote to back up the assertion that personal anecdotes only tell a narrow picture.
Comment Re:Pepper-spraying sitting protesters (Score 1) 299
So basically the protestors were blocking the police from going where they needed to go
Bullshit. At the very beginning of the video the cop steps *over* the line without trouble, clearly the rest of the cops could have done the same if they just wanted to get somewhere.
Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir 360
derekmead writes "I'm not sure that Dutch artist Bart Jansen had political commentary in mind when he created the Orvillecopter — combining a stuffed cat with a quadrotor, and naming it after Orville Wright — but indeed it's art, whose meaning will lie in the eye of the beholder. And for those that say stitching up a dead animal around the guts of a helicopter and flying it around is 'sick,' what of the massive drone industry, which, more than just producing a symbol, actually is creating flying death?"
Senators To Unveil the 'Ex-Patriot Act' To Respond To Facebook's Saverin 716
An anonymous reader writes "Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again." See this earlier story on Saverin's plan to make the leap out of the U.S. tax system.
Best Buy Closing 50 Stores 407
An anonymous reader tips news that electronics retailer Best Buy will be closing 50 of its big-box stores across the U.S. this year, and laying off hundreds of corporate workers besides. The company plans to start testing new types of outlets as it tries to adapt to the changing face of retail sales. From the article:
"Best Buy shares were off 7.7% at $24.56 on Thursday afternoon on the New York Stock Exchange. Also Thursday, Best Buy reported a $1.7 billion loss for its fourth quarter ended March 3. ... Consumers armed with mobile phones are increasingly using stores as showrooms to check out merchandise they later purchase for less online, a trend greatly benefiting Internet retailers such as Amazon.com Inc. that aren't encumbered by the costs of running physical locations and in many cases don't have to collect sales tax. Meanwhile Apple Inc.'s phones and tablets, showcased in its own namesake stores, have eroded the status of specialty chains as the one-stop shop for the latest in gadgetry. In response, Best Buy said it will launch large-scale tests of what it calls new 'connected store' formats in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., as well as San Antonio. The stores, which will emphasize services such as technology support and wireless connections, will feature large new hubs at their center to assist shoppers, as well as reconfigured checkout lanes and new areas to accelerate the pickup of items purchased earlier online."
Comment Re:Buy low sell high. (Score 1) 570
Don't get me wrong, I understand investments. It's just that the stock market isn't the only way to invest. When I invest in something, it's because I actually believe in the company based on something more than just erratic market trends.
As someone who doesn't really understand investments, mind if I ask what you are talking about here? VC stuff or just investing in businesses that you personally have a relationship with the owner?
