I agree with you in general, but to be fair that 24% margin is *after* all of the R&D, internal investment, etc, etc. So they could keep everything at the same level, which is among if not the highest in the industry, but 20% drop in price and still make 4%. This is true profit -- after everything else has been paid for -- if it was just an amortized profit per product without all the external costs wrapped in, then yea, 24% is not very healthy to begin with and 4% would put the company out of business.

Quoted for truth.

Not just size, but I think it needs to stop focusing on the consumer market. They're a couple of generations out from getting is small and useful enough that consumers will adopt it -- even if they make it very small, it's not going to be totally hidden and people will get anxious about whether they're being recorded or not.

But in the commercial space, every single person on an assembly line could benefit from this -- the F-35 has projects and computer vision systems to overlay work instructions, rivet patterns, and check whether they're in there right. You have to design the assembly line around not obscuring the projectors that are telling you what to do. Making it on the operators face, but doing the same job would be a massive boon. Police officers recording interactions. Medical professionals pulling up charts, etc. There are a couple of very viable commercial uses that they should use to survive and refine over a couple of generations until the tech gets to the point of being able to be packaged into a consumer friendly package. Honestly, spin off a small lean company to keep it alive in the commercial sphere for 5-10 years and then absorb back into the mothership.

Iridum has terminals giving you above 128kbps. I have a terminal that I pass data via Iridium all the time.

I've always had this question, and I think that I know the answer (that the Big 3 aren't serious about EV's yet). There are dealerships *everywhere*, and they're large and have service bays. If any of these Big 3 were interested in EV's it wouldn't take much to help turn dealerships into quasi supercharger stations, where service and maintenance can also be performed. Heck, battery swaps too if the tech gets there. I think that once the Big 3 finally come full bore into EV's that the dealership network is going to have to be key to their strategy. Dealerships are independent, but if they help out and come up with the right incentives to put solar panels on dealerships and install fast charging stations, they could effectively cover all of the US in charging networks very, very quickly.

To be fair, she is using data. Most of the Psychologists at the time that the stupid Self-Esteem movement that was happening in education was incorrect and were pretty aghast. They *knew* from their studies, etc that that approach isn't particularly effective. It was more the stupidity of our educational system that was the fault of that one.

I'm all for data driven stuff; although Psychology is a tough one -- it's incredibly hard to effectively account for all the variables, and I think that she may be reading into the data bit much, as can happen in the field.

Yahoo fantasy football is still about the best around. Same with their sports apps. They bought up Sportstacular and haven't ruined it (it's actually gotten quite better since the acquisition), so those are great. But not enough to keep it aroudn forever.

I don't even know what you're talking about here. Up until a year or so ago, none had DRM. And you don't need to remove anything to use your own coffee grounds. I have quite a few reusable K-cup sized filters that I've been utilizing to put my own grounds in forever without modifying the machine. I've never actually met anyone that didn't have at least one -- eventually if you drink coffee, you realize how much money you could save with one of those versus the K-cup.

I use the Keurig for when I have multiple people wanting something. I like my coffee incredibly strong, so most people don't drink my french press coffee. But with the K-cups, they can get coffee, tea, whatever without me having to expend any extra effort. Makes hosting people easier than reworking my fancy coffee setup for 12-18 cups of coffee.

I'm a bigger fan of HTTPS everywhere over this. As far as I can tell, this would break a lot of that....But it still could be a boon for imgur, and other picture/video hosting sites. Makes sense, but I think that the trend towards encrypting everything clash with this idea pretty well.

Playing with some friend's Chromebooks, they really do seem to have a drop dead simple administration backend. They're simple, can pretty much only do what you need them to do for school and seem to work at a good price. My friend had test trialed iPads versus Chromebooks and went with Chromebooks mainly due to durability. While they do pass that cost onto the student, it was much, much easier to crack an iPad's screen, which replacement cost as much as just a new chromebook. He has a pretty good chromebook junkyard that he lets the kids have access to to fix things before they have to pay for a replacement.

Considering that's kind of like saying that maybe life will evolve to live on the surface of our sun (this is actually slightly more likely than an organism evolving to utilize as power utilize an event that takes place once every thousands of millions of years and is every bit as hostile as the surface of our sun).

Aka, they're not really talking out their asses.

Yea, but it's also getting better. I have unlimited talk, text and 2.5GB of LTE, with unlimited after that. $40/mo (Straight Talk with discounts). Pretty close to what my friends who live in the EU pay if they get a plan that works everywhere in the continent. They can get cheaper ones that cover a limited area, but you can also do that in the states too. I'd personally just like more competition; the prices are actually coming down if you move off-carrier (similar to what is seen in Europe also).

A decent chunk of the money (but way less than half) gets distributed out to the industries that have to move out of this spectrum that they're allocating. There are *lots* of legacy users in this spectrum that will get a small chunk of this money to move out of this spectrum and into other spectrum. That's why these auctions can be so hellishly complicated; before it can even be auctioned, they have to find other spectrum available to move legacy users into, which might require an auction or consolidation itself, etc, etc. You really need a long-term plan to make these kinds of things happen. Some of these industries have been notified for nearly a decade now (if not longer) about their spectrum going away in the future, and hence they've planned for it and just need the money from the auction to wholesale upgrade their entire enterprise and their customers.

65MHz is TON of spectrum. Most LTE is operating on a couple of 10MHz chunks. 65MHz, nationwide is enough to start multiple *new* wireless companies. If it wasn't so impossible to actually build a competent telecom that can compete, we'd see a lot more interesting things happening here. Look at the continual T-Mobile and Sprint acquisition/merger talks to see that it would be a huge risk of $50B+ to try to start up a whole new carrier in the US. It would be amazing, but incredibly risky capital investment.

You just determine your own new epoch :) you're the only one that accurate to begin with, so make the magic number yourself. Obviously you keep it accurate with respect to other clocks, but you're now setting the specific epoch of that extra precision. Yes, time is relative -- you just need to have an agreement on it.