You mean the lack of customers is a hindrance to business? You mean to tell me that businesses don't exist to make the world a better place by trying to force a product into a niche that isn't exactly there yet?

Huh. I could have sworn this was going to work. I mean, there's absolutely no profit in fossil fuels, right?

It's not about being "old fashioned" either. It's about what works. Electric doesn't work for the vast majority of the world - yet. The business there right now is either niche ultra-high-end, or utility - both of which require a large up-front investment that you're only going to find in certain places. There's a growing niche for big-city transport, but that requires investments that many municipalities aren't willing to make just yet.

There are also a lot of problems that electric doesn't solve, like the big-haul transportation industry. Sure, you could offload that work to a national rail network, but then you run into the problem of overloaded rail traffic. In America, that's a bigger problem than you would actually imagine. (eg: it's becomming

Electric cars might be coming for the masses, but these guys were way ahead of the curve. A successful business launches right before the peak of the curve - and we're nowhere near there yet for electric cars.

So then, I'm not surprised. Sad that it didn't work out for them, but, really, did you expect anything else?

If it makes you feel uncomfortable, force people to stop talking about it. The definition of political correctness!

I wonder if there was a software glitch telling him the car was fully charged while it wasn't.

As for driving through Manhattan - yeah I know, it eats up fuel; but, it's within the supposed range. In the writers defense, nobody told him that city driving would be worse for the car. Hell, the popular assumption with regenerative braking is that it's actually better because you'll regenerate more power as you brake.

The NYT article seems pretty fair, from a consumers standpoint. Admittedly, driving through Manhattan - as a life-long New Yorker - gives me fucking nightmares, but who's to say some guy driving to Boston from South Carolina, wouldn't like to make a brief drive through Manhattan. After all, it's within the range guidelines.

I think Dr. Who had a stroke.

I'm confused. So basically what you're telling me is that you want the ability to overthrow the government, but still benefit from its laws and regulations?

I'm so confused :|

Just out of curiosity, but if you really feel that these types of laws hinder the second amendment and are of a tyrannical nature, and you intend to take arms and form an organized militia to fight or overthrow the current government, then why oh why do you care about its laws in the first place?

Learn to fucking read then, you half-wit.

The paper in question cites the ability to make carrying out work easier for us as innovation, and doesn't cite "computers" as not being innovative. They cite bullshit like Twitter and Facebook as failures of the use of the word "innovation."

Only if the money actually went to improving broadband access and speeds in America. The problem is that it just goes to the government coffers and is distributed, mostly, to Social Security.

If the money went to directly improving the system it taxed, then yes. I would love to see a tax that helped pay for a nation-wide fiber-optic system that replaced the aged copper system we rely on.

Unfortunately, it'll only go to lining the FCC board and chairman's pockets with money.

Is anyone else not psyched about this?

I mean, I really don't know which way this project will go - it could take off like the Wii did, or it could flounder around after it launches - but am I the only one not caught up in the hype?

We saw, after a month of *very* aggressive advertising - mostly through paid-for sites like Tech Crunch - a console that has "sold" about 58k units (tracking only the customers that contributed money for the minimum to get an Ouya console). This is in an industry where we constantly see simple handhelds push 200k+ units per week in one region, let alone the world.

Where's the uniqueness of this that makes this a kill "must have" item for everyone (not just geeks like me)? This plays Android games. So does the majority of smart phones around the world, and some tablets. Where's the "killer app" here that is locked into the Ouya? What's going to be the driving force behind continual sales? What's going to push this console to selling millions of units around the world per month?

Congratulations to the crowd that managed to fund this to $8m, but until I start seeing more of a demand for this - this thing got exposure from the likes of Tech Crunch (multiple times), Kotaku, IGN, G4, and even coverage on CNN - I really have to consider this to be a niche device, competing in the Android market and not competing in the console market. After all of that coverage, and hype, I expected to see *millions* of people funding this device. Instead I saw 58k.

Sure, 58k funders is far more than I could achieve, but at 200k+ units per week for something like the 3DS in just Japan alone turns Ouya, in my eyes, from a game-changing console, into a niche device that will make its audience happy.

you're arguing that we need more reliability, then you say game developers should use Java.

Yes it don't matter to anyone not looking to never make any conversation.

I came here to say "that's why independent tech podcasts are so important" but then I realized my own tech podcast was completely and utterly irrelevant :(

You have to understand something important here:

I'm karma whoring for the next Apple thread. :)

There are some medium-long term downsides to this, should Apple fall hard in the long term (ie; tablets prove to just be a trend, iPhone sales fall, etc...), but this is what investors have been waiting for. This is a fairly large buyback, which will inflate the price of the shares even more, but it's a small amount of money for Apple to be investing in itself.

This will more than likely force AAPL above $600 for the remainder of the financial year (and probably closer to $700).

There are a lot more people who are homeless who aren't begging for spare change at your local grocery store than you seem to be aware of. Many of these people actually still have some dignity left to seek out help at a homeless shelter, and to bust their asses to find paying work instead of turning to bumming.

You just don't notice them because they use whatever spare money they can muster up to buy a gym membership and shower there.