AlexH86

Holy crap 10 out of 10! I may have to get off the fence and buy this thing!!

The video is great and everything, but I think the HUD and augmented reality features are the real killer. If they can make it user-friendly and useful for a mainstream audience they really could have something.

Couldn’t agree more!

You still could. Instead of DVRing anything, it would make sense to have access to at least all episodes of the current season of shows if you had a live streaming sub.

We had an old VCR that could do it when recording shows to VHS tapes! However, the cable and satellite giants in their infinite wisdom have not deigned to give that to us in their “advanced” digital DVRs.

I want to be able to buy live-streaming channels as plug-ins or apps on a Roku or Apple TV. That needs to be the future.

Surely they know that people who watch the shows via DVR are manually skipping commercials anyway. I always wondered why DVRs didn’t come with an automatic commercial skip feature anyway. All the device would have to do is skip the parts of the recording where the audio levels explode to earth-shattering volumes.

40 years later, Apple stole the page-swipe animation idea!

Yup. Cable giants are granted local monopolies and in turn the cable companies support candidates and get to automatically give everyone a channel that runs ads for local government initiatives and shows all of their speeches and appearances. It sounds like something out of the Soviet Union.

I didn’t say they were unnecessary, just that they must be restructured. Our debt is unsustainable.

This is so, so good. Cable packages are so pricey because they have allowed monopolies in the local markets they serve. If Internet TV providers could offer the same packages without the cable giant’s costs of maintaining lines and sending technicians to every home individually, prices will theoretically go down for cable packages. This is a huge step in the right direction.

Yep, they need to throw off lots of their divisions and focus on some core products and markets. Trying to cast the same wide net with fewer employees will not work.

If only we weren’t drowning social security, medicare and other entitlements, then we could spend money on things like NASA, scientific research, improving schools and transportation infrastructure. It’s too bad the politicians in Washington aren’t willing to even discuss restructuring of these money hogs.

They don’t have to be Apple exactly, but they desperately need to simplify. They have too many moving parts and too many products started but not marketed appropriately and then cancelled.

They had the Steve Ballmer keynote where he touted the HP Slate, then they retracted by saying it wouldn’t come out. Then it did but it was only through the corporate website and had to be searched for. Then, they go in on WebOS and do full R&D and development on that product. When it doesn’t explode on day one, they cancel and sell off their stock below cost. After that whole mess, they come out with the HP Slate 2 for some reason, which debuts with no marketing effort at all.

Tell me that they shouldn’t concentrate on having a few really good products.

HP is stupid, there is already a perfect blueprint for profitability and relevance. When Jobs came back to Apple, he cut their product line down to a few products. HP should do the same.

Pro Desktop
Consumer Desktop
Pro laptop 13", 15", 17"
Consumer laptop (same sizes)
One really good Android or WebOS tablet
One really good Android or WebOS phone

You will never gain any relevance or mindshare calling your products “HP LaserJet P4515x” (that’s the name of our office printer) and trying to compete solely by being the cheapest computer that could get someone by.

This could spark a whole new space race!!

Good point. I didn’t see that.

She helped to found the private SETI institute. Unlike a government that might want to be the first to get new technology or suppress information to avoid a panic, a private non-profit organization probably would trumpet any positive findings as loudly as possible.

I’m still on the fence. I want to buy it but might wait for a price drop.

All of this is speculation

The problem is, he may only use wifi sparingly while in port or in the Internet cafes that those ships have. They’ve probably deactivated that SIM card too, rendering cell data useless.

Maybe they’re less expensive?

Phone makers use micro because they need to save space on razor-thin phones but camera makers don’t usually have to work with products that thin and small.

Disney would be pretty insane not to spend the $700 to send her a new iPhone, find this employee and fire him. That’s about the least expensive PR solution you’ll ever find.

I wonder how she’s getting these, maybe Photo Stream? Either way he’s a moron for not going into settings and doing a full reset before using the phone. Even if he wasn’t taking photos she could have tracked the phone wherever it had service or a data connection.

And before anyone jumps on it, I do see the irony in spelling “morons” without the “s”,

This is why I always tell people not to complain about the price of Xbox Live Gold. $50/yr is a small price to pay for reliable servers, fast downloads and a lesser amount of morons and young children who are playing online just for the hell of it. That small barrier to entry seems to keep a certain percentage of the biggest moron off the games.