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If you don’t care about the live streaming from a PC, and you have a nice android device, this is a much cheaper option, for the same functionality.

http://www.mogaanywhere.com/about-moga/moga-pro-controller/

8 days ago on Nvidia Shield pre-orders start today, shipping in June for $349 1 reply

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So you’re saying Obama did this?

9 days ago on Bipartisan bill would force government to get a court order before seizing phone records 1 reply

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anything else free you would like to bitch about?

10 days ago on Can fancy photos and lavish linking help Google+ take off? 3 recommends

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Not sure I would call a heat pipe system water cooled.

11 days ago on NEC knows what women want: a water-cooled smartphone

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True, but you take the two best pilots in the world, put one in a P51 Mustang, and the other in a F22, and the one in the F22 will win in a dogfight 1000 out of a 1000 times.

The better plane does not make a medicare pilot a good pilot, but it always makes a good pilot better. Same in photography.

When comparing the quality of your work against others, your skill is more important then your equipment. But your work will be better with better equipment, when compared to your work with poor equipment.

12 days ago on Are you using a newer or older DSLR?

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All of them were political, and all of them passed. So not sure where your coming from.

12 days ago on Associated Press says Justice Department spied on reporters' phone calls in sweeping surveillance campaign

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Tax deal? You mean the internet tax? That was just the feds allowing the states to enforce the laws they already had. It was just closing a loophole.

This however, I will give you, is insanity.

12 days ago on Associated Press says Justice Department spied on reporters' phone calls in sweeping surveillance campaign 1 reply 1 recommend

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No, none at all.

12 days ago on Supreme Court rules in favor of Monsanto, says farmer violated seed patents

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I agree. I find it puzzling that he wants to start a movement to change it. But that does not make him wrong.

If you want to fix something that’s really broken, fix the calendar.

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/changing-times

12 days ago on Newt Gingrich is 'really puzzled' by cellphones that take pictures and needs your help

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Just a thought… don’t buy patented seeds.

12 days ago on Supreme Court rules in favor of Monsanto, says farmer violated seed patents 3 replies 3 recommends

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The who point of the video, is that he does realize this. His reference to “horseless carriage”, was to say it was wrong right after the automobile was invented, to keep the name of what’s different about what we used before. (why he calles it is a handheld computer)

The difference between a horse drawn buggy and a car, is no horse, so let’s call it a horseless carriage.

The difference between a cell phone and a {insert whatever we call it in 30 years here}, is the computer, so lets call it a smartphone.

And he is right. 8 years ago, the amount if time I spent using my cell phone for things other then talking on it, was almost 0. Today, I would say the amount of time I use my cell phone as a phone, is less then 10%. I use it more as a web browsing device.

In fact, I am sure when most people buy one, how good of a phone it is, is secondary. No one buys an iPhone or Android over the other, because if its phone capabilities. They are just something else the phone does.

I bet if, through the act of magic, someone turned your smartphone into two devices, one being nothing more then something you can talk on, and the other being everything else, and said “you can only carry one of these, and you’re not allowed to replace the other”, you would not take the phone. I know I would take everything else my phone is, before I would carry just a phone.

So if the phone part of the smartphone is an afterthought, why have it in the name?

13 days ago on Newt Gingrich is 'really puzzled' by cellphones that take pictures and needs your help 3 replies 3 recommends

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Well, I agree the it’s a stupid topic. Who cares what we call it. But I also agree that in 50 years, we won’t be calling it a smartphone.

Not sure if it’s ego that wants him to be at the front of the new term, so he can have a place in history or what, but it doesn’t make him stupid.

13 days ago on Newt Gingrich is 'really puzzled' by cellphones that take pictures and needs your help 1 reply 1 recommend

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The point of the video, is making phone calls is such a small part of what it does, it should not be in the name of the device. Just like “horseless carriage”. The word horse is in the name, because it was something we associated with non man powered equipment that moved us when the car was created.

He is saying we are equally wrong in including the word phone in the name of the device that is a smartphone.

I am sure if it was Bill Clinton who recorded that video, peoples reaction on this site would be different. The title of it certainly would.

13 days ago on Newt Gingrich is 'really puzzled' by cellphones that take pictures and needs your help 1 recommend

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I think his point is Dr. Gingrich is a pretty smart man, and anyone who actually thinks he does’t know the term “smartphone”, isn’t.

13 days ago on Newt Gingrich is 'really puzzled' by cellphones that take pictures and needs your help 1 reply 2 recommends

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What part sounded clueless?

13 days ago on Newt Gingrich is 'really puzzled' by cellphones that take pictures and needs your help 2 replies 3 recommends

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That’s great, but how much does the LEAF cost a month, compared to having a 30mph car you might of had paid off, and what did the solar panels cost?

Looks like before you got the LEAF and installed the solar panels an average month of energy cost you $350-$400, with a high of $550, and a low of $125. Looks like after your average is around $150 a month in energy use.

So you saved $200 – $250 a month. Great. If you paid nothing down on a LEAF and nothing down on your soler panels, and averages the cost per month over the life of each (not including interest, in case you had cash to pay for everything), I would guess it’s higher then $250 a month.

14 days ago on Bosch's $449 electric vehicle home charger is a bargain

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If need be, you can make a special welfare card for the poor that works at gas stations. In my city though, if someone is on welfare for example, they qualify for free bus/subway transportation. Those who are not on welfare but have low salaries can qualify for a half fare card.

This is the effect of oil subsidies and a graduated tax code. If we did this, in the end, we are subsidizing oil companies just like we do today, but we would be doing it in a MUCH more expensive way, because we need to run a brand new program.

Subsidizes for a required product, like energy and food, are a good thing, if you want the rich to help out the poor, because they are the one paying for the subsidies. The lower 50% of the population in the US pay no federal tax at all, so it’s like giving all of them a “special welfare card” for gas and food.

The “right thing to do”, is to give alternative energy companies the same financial breaks we give oil companies. The problem is if we did (and depending on who you are, we give you far more), you still can’t compete with gas.

The science just is not there yet. But, we get closer every day.

14 days ago on Bosch's $449 electric vehicle home charger is a bargain

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I am a taxpayer as well

Yea, I suspect judging from your story, you are one of the ones we should thank ;)

15 days ago on Bosch's $449 electric vehicle home charger is a bargain

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The problem with gas going up, is the people most hurt by it, are the poor. I agree we need some way for alternative solutions to compete, but penalizing those with the least, is not the way to do it.

15 days ago on Bosch's $449 electric vehicle home charger is a bargain 1 reply