I would buy one right now but it always seems like the retail version is just around the corner. i would rather wait and get a model with tracking and a better screen. I can hardly stop myself from getting the dev model, but I know I won't be able to justify getting the retail one when it comes out then.

That seems a little cynical don't you think? More and more movies are coming out that have a 3D showing if you look I would guess you would notice it trending up for blockbusters and kid movies. I will give you that it doesn't work well at home because passive TVs have been until recently, rare. Passive 3D tv and projectors are also quite expensive right now but watch and I bet you will see a slow trend towards more people buying them as the technology becomes more reasonably priced.

Saying the Oculus is a passing fad is bordering on being a troll, are you a troll? It's more than 3D it makes using your computer an immersed environment. It's like saying TV screens for radio are a silly idea, it brings something that people have been craving for decades. To be right in the action. Think of how much you get into a game and think how much more enjoyable it would be if you could look around, see enemies and depth. Adjust your shots based on distance. Go explore places and feel like you are seeing it as though you are there. Explore 3D models of cars, planes and so on. If they can finish working out the kinks(this article suggests they have made a major leep in doing so) I would snap one up in a heartbeat.

wow you are looking for things to rag on. If you live in an area with a tesla charge station it free to charge in about 30 minutes. If you don't it's not that expensive compared to a regular car. Which you can charge while you are at home. Unless you are traveling in excess of 160miles a day I find it unlikely on average that you will ever need to stop somewhere and charge your car.

Batteries die and it's a huge huge huge expense this is the only one I see relevant in your post.

If you are going somewhere in a tesla S it can reach up to 300miles and there are more and more tesla charging stations popping up. Usually somewhere close to services like food. Most people typically get out and stretch for a bit every few hundred miles. I'm not saying you might have to stop and rest when you don't want to, or that right now you might end-up somewhere that you have to stay over night to charge your car, but that's going to be fade fast if Tesla is able to keep building infrastructure for their cars.

You ran out of a charge on the road, you are just as likely to run out of gas. I think it's easier to find a plugin than a gas station. I think the charge for a tow truck is the same regardless.

Bottom line the only thing that will not be fixed with time(infrastructure and charge times at charging stations) is the battery is going to die. Tesla has been looking at ways to fix this as well. Tesla cars right now are kind of in a beta testing mode, they work, they are cool and most of the flaws have fixes set out for them that need to be implemented. It's going to take time but outside of a battery replacement I don't think having one in the future is going to cost as much as you think.

Tax breaks are an incentive to new and upcoming technology. It's great when it's helping a company like Tesla innovate an electric car. Giving tax breaks to companies that are well established is laughable. In the case of Tesla it's still a question of if they can keep increasing the tech at this level and how much of a benefit is it going to be to everyone. The gov. funds research in this exact same vein. Instead of investing in the company and taking a stock and risk being called a socialist they instead get to fund and support it with tax breaks. It advances science.

Not only that but as JeffAll said as well it keeps jobs local as well as keeps such a major project strictly American.

I wish my phone was 50% more durrable. Having a new phone after my last one that I need to basically treat like an egg is silly. I have to get it clear coated and put in a case. I want something I can throw around without fear, make a call do some texting and maybe have some internet time on.

Depends on what you are using to read on. If I use my phone or tablet I get eye strain after a long read. If I read on my kindle 2 I don't have any issues at all with eye strain. I can read it almost anywhere I read a regular book as well(took it in the bath one time felt nervous the whole time). Real issue with it is the battery, which lasts forever if I have wireless turned off.

The real big thing I dislike about the ebook is the pricing is crappy and I can't really share my books easily(US has a way to loan out certain books but I'm Canadian)

I think the e-ink craze kind of died off though which is unfortunate for ebooks.

Or grab the average temperature of the servers on the bottom of the rack and apply an equivalent heat source to the one server and see what the error rate is.

going to the doctor once a year is good for you, and good for keeping healthcare costs down. Preventative treatment of things is key to keeping costs of expensive surgeries and treatments at later stages of disease and injuries. I'm guessing you are probably healthy but man you should get checked out. I got checked out and found out I had high blood pressure and cholesterol which apparently after talking to my dad every male person in my family has. Thing is, you never know unless you get checked out. Go get checked out.

I think that's why having free healthcare for everyone can end up being cheaper and extending peoples life spans. You end up with people not afraid of a doctors bill, or increasing premiums. You can go in get checked out and if they find something you're in better shape to get treated.

It might have been a very large push in getting Nvidia to be more supportive of an open driver.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/nvidia-seeks-peace-with-linux-pledges-help-on-open-source-driver/

They have also been putting out a better closed driver for linux for years in my opinion. I have never had anything but issues with the radeon amd drivers. Sometimes you want things to work more than you want them to be open. This could be very good for the opensource community.

I have had android devices from carriers with little to no support on them. They are locked and push out the updates themselves. These updates never see my phone. I've also had devices like my xoom that received the first major update in Canada months after the update was released in the states. If you could manage your own updates you could also hold off on device breaking updates until they have been properly tested.

Apple at the time was in a very hard place probably worse than Dell currently is. Jobs did an amazing job in fixing that company back up. Maybe it inspired Mr. Dell and Steve would be quite content with someone trying to replicate what he managed to do. Dell has a long way to go and I'm not sure it will be done, but at the end of the day Micheal Dell did half of what he said. Gave investors back a large chunk of change and is changing business structure.

It's a bunch of people hired to creep on kids who don't know or care to set their privacy settings responsibly enough. What the school should really be doing is sitting these kids down and talking about proper use of the internet, predators and how they can use public information. Instead of helping these kids grow up they want to track and follow them for infractions.

It's fucked up really, I mean what happens when one student sets up an account for another student so that they can post inflammatory things. Does this group somehow know which accounts were created by actual students and which ones weren't?

You can justify anything I suppose but maybe in the end it will be a lesson to these kids not to post stupid shit to the internet, that way when they get older they won't do it. Only silver lining I can think of.

After further reading ignore what I said I thought we were talking about hackathons like it was some of the games at def con where you hack into systems and play games. Not coding or building hackathons.

The fun in cheating in such an event is that you can be caught. Break the rules and you lose. No ill will should be held against a person/team who cheats but it should be seen more as a failure to institute your hack properly. Except this time you are hacking the game.

What are you even talking about. Micheal Dell started that company from the ground up building computers one at a time by himself. He put a lot of hard work and time into that company and he sees it's in trouble. So instead of cashing out and getting the fuck away like most people would he takes it appon himself to buy up the company, make it private and try and fix it. He's definitely tied to that company he's treating it like he would a child that has lost it's way. What you are suggesting is that he's just some random guy who happens to have the same name and it's not a big deal. It's a huge deal, you know he's not going to come in there and run it to maximize profits short term, that he's not going to sell off everything to show profits to investors. A move like this suggests that he wants to go in there an fix the company long term without worrying about investors breathing down his neck.

Your trivializing this action in a day when it doesn't usually happen with large companies. Even apple was still publicly shared when Jobs took back his roll.