Adam Meddaugh

How exactly do you expect them to make money? The only other business model I can see is them magically printing money out of their asses.

Honestly this is something i’ve been waiting for a while. A cross browser syncing platform for iOS is something that has desperately been needed.

Who is Facebook losing marketshare to exactly? All competitors have flopped. That’s not to say the company is overvalued, but they certainly aren’t losing marketshare. They may lose users, but when everyone and their mom is on FB you have no where to go but down.

401k’s aren’t managed like that. No one managing them is going to invest on a day 1 ipo.

With all due respect to Dr. Tyson’s achievements he’s not exactly a neutral figure.

Plus I never said that there was anything wrong with spending money on NASA. I just think it could be spent more efficiently.

Whether you’re spending 300bn or 3mn it doesn’t hurt to be efficient in your spending.

NASA gets 17bn – 19bn every year and they do great things, but they have a tendency to spend much more money than they need to in order to get results that could of been had for cheaper.

SpaceX can build shuttles that are just as useful for a fraction of what NASA would spend on the same thing. Let NASA do the research let the private sector provide the tools.

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Space shuttle is being replaced is what I meant to say.

SpaceX isn’t just launching rockets to the ISS because he likes to piss away money.

Talk is cheap especially coming from a country who couldn’t even launch a probe.

How exactly is it dismal?

We have companies that want to mine asteroids and a handful of them competing on who can build the best rockets.

Not exactly what I would call a dismal future. Shuttle gets retired and replaced and people act like NASA got shut down.

I think many people are in for a rude awakening if they think ala carte will magically make their cable bills shrink. Group subsidizing keeps costs low for everybody. If Discovery channel gets a fifth of the subscribers do you think you’re going to get that same sweet heart $4/month that Comcast gets? Hell no they’ll give you a channel package rate of $15 – 20. Add a few of those and you’re paying the same cost you were paying before.

Either that or the content is going to look much more low rent.

Yeah it’s definitely something i’d want to hear for myself.

I do find it funny though that the reps being yelled at by hotel staff is in a way made out to be a benchmark. I’ve lived in apartments where 25 watt subwoofers got me in trouble with the complex manager. Getting yelled at by hotel reps seems like its something to be expected.

Just a little side note can we start getting more indepth specs on things like these?

RMS, peak wattage, etc?

Depending on the output of the sub $700 isn’t bad.

The only bad thing is that its proprietary in its sources. That makes the price a bit harder to swallow.

Doesn’t work like that. If a contract is made for 1.6bn that is what the US gov will pay. SpaceX can’t just turn around and demand more money at a later date.

In the case of NASA since its owned for the government we’re responsible for cost overruns. NASA in its current form has little incentive to stay within budget since it can simply ask the government for more money.

I do have to ask who are you to say someone is making too much money?

A lot of people sit in a office all day and make 60k a year while doing effectively the same amount of work as a manager in a restaurant making 20k.

Not sure what you were expecting the UI is quite modern.

I shouldn’t have to worry about turning it off. Whether its being used or not.

People have enough shit to worry about. They don’t want to be bothered with having to turn features on and off because the phone isn’t optimized to save power by itself.

The fact that turning off WiFi is something that needs quick access says something about a phone in its own right.

You shouldn’t need to turn WiFi off on any phone. It shouldn’t be the difference between needing a recharge or having day long battery life.

Plus she’s a lady on the internet. There’s only like 4 of those.

Anyone who still has a PC choking over flash is really in dire need of an upgrade.

A job where I get paid 30k+/year to play around with gadgets and write would have me working wherever you wanted to me work.

How is this anymore anti-competitive than China subsidizing the cost of the panels? All it does is reverse China’s subsidies. Nothing is stopping these panels from being imported.

How is it an inability to succeed on their own when the Chinese government is subsidizing the companies importing the panels?

Remember MySpace wasn’t nearly as entrenched.

Facebook is not only a social network site its also the most widely used keychain login platform and a huge commenting platform.

So where exactly are the signs that people are just going to stop using Facebook?

This is real life not fantasy.

The Verge isn’t exactly representative of public opinion as a whole. Especially when power users not normal users aren’t very accepting of UI simplification.

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