Aaronymous

if i could walk into my local verizon store and then walk out with this i would. sadly scouring the interwebs i can not find an OEM white housing for the verzon galaxy nexus so getting a grey one and doing it aftermarket is not an option either. several tech sites swore a white variant was coming in april, but if that galaxy sIII is realy coing next month then i think verizon called off the white nexus

holy comment thread from hell.
all this debate about the design, do we even know if this is what the inevitable variants that will actually hit the street look like?

Yes, this could be more interesting, but it could also be just like someone deciding to live life without indoor plumbing, it might be fascinating for a while but sooner or later we’d all realize we are reading about shit.
The internet has become as much a part of our lives as indoor plumbing, hell there are places that don’t have indoor plumbing but have the internet…

i keep thinking this same thing. I’m only 36 and I have a VERY good memory of the world before internet. I graduated from high school in 1993, the ONLY computer courses we had in high school were word processing 1 and 2. ALL of my research papers were done at a library or by phone interviews, or going to museums then typed on a typewriter. Maybe that’s the difference, the age of someone.
Paul is my favorite Verge contributor but, sadly, I grow less interested with each dispatch i read, not because it’s boring but because it seems to me a little, like someone commented above “pseudo-intellectual horse crap”. What is his real purpose here? Is he trying to develop a filter system that works equally well in both the digital and analog world? Is he just trying to prove to himself he can do it? Is Paul in search of self mastery, self discipline? It’s like an experiment without a hypothesis, which bugs me, it seems pointless.

kickstarter project proposal
the book of all the comments on Paul’s posts that he missed this year

I still think Paul is going about this in the wrong way. From his pieces it sure sounds like his larger concern is wasted time (& lack of focus too maybe) in this case “browsing, surfing…”, the pointless hours of internetting. His solution is to just stop. It reminds me of an obese person who thinks they’ll control their weight if they simply stop eating. While food IS a necessity and some could argue the Internet is not, the Internet is a HUGE part of life and I think we are all best served by regulating or moderating our selfs through practice than by avoidance just as the would-be weight loser is better served by moderation in their consumption than outright starvation.
I appreciate the things the Internet allows me to do in a faster or more convenient way that in the decades past, but I’d be downright anti-social if I refused to view and image on a friends phone. I, too, am concerned about our Internet consumption but instead of opting out entirely I engage friends and family in discussion, especially when I build, fix or make something around the house which spawns the “I’d never be able to figure that out”. Yeah, me neither, but guess what? I used google search to figure it out. So many answers to so many questions are in our pockets, well within our grasp and as dumb as it sounds to fellow Vergens, just as we are the ones friends and family come to when their wifi craps out, we should be the ones reminding our community that there is more to the web than Facebook and tumblr.

And yeah I know Paul won’t read this.

when/why did @saltydroid’s twitter account get suspended?

I’d really like The Verge to do an honest feature about electric vehicles, especially focusing on WHERE the electricity comes from (hint: it stil comes from fossil fuels), and the yearly cost of operating an electric vehicle. I had to do an electric vehicle project in my transportation design class, the facts are eye opening. I’m not saying electric vehicles shouldn’t be developed but they are not the salvation machines people think they are.

agreed, i went through a similar mental checklist when i first read about Paul’s decision and i wondered how old Paul is. I’m 36 and I remember the world before he internet. sure life moved on, but there were a lot of things that took so much more time than things do now, and we still wasted plenty of time then, just on different activities.
what Paul, and a lot of us, really needs is to just limit his access but not cut it off entirely. It is too much a part of life to opt out now altogether. Maybe he wants to make a point to himself but i know i’m already tired of reading about it. I only read this column because I drink Diet Coke, probably in dangerously flammable amounts.

Study finds guys who avoid new technology and have haircuts like Paul’s are 73% more likely to become domestic terrorists.