Hard drive probably not the bottleneck there.

Also, how come we still have stupid people? Human race has been around for like 15,000 years, we've got way more people than we need, and your parents still weren't sterilized to prevent further pollution of the gene pool.

i haven't read the thread so this might have been said, but cars are designed not to last a long time. just like everything else. they are designed crappy/cheaply so that they can sell you another one in X years.

thank you chris rock

except when he posts like 23098342 times in a couple hours in the same lost/sports thread.

Oh, don't get me started about that! I'm still bitter that my parents decided to pollute the gene pool with my sorry ass.

But don't worry, once I have a few hundred saved aside, I'll make sure I don't repeat the same mistake. ^^

I don't buy this argument. It implies that all of the car manufacturers are colluding. If they could realistically engineer and build a better more reliable car for the same price some company would do it and make a crapload of money.

Cars are designed crappy/cheaply because people buy cheap/crappy cars.

I don't think that's the case, maybe the cheap part. This is why the Detroit automakers are getting destroyed. Although that doesn't explain why everyone seems to drive a Jetta these days.

nor does it really explain why the top-selling car in the US is always the Camry.

Meh, I don't really believe cars are cheap/crappy.

I was really just commenting on the silliness of the belief that car companies make cars worse then they could otherwise make them.

Why the **** do you need a waterproof phone?

http://www.wired.com/science/discove..._breakthroughs

9. Scientists Clone Rhesus Monkey to Produce Stem Cells
8. Planet Discovered That Could Harbor Life
7. Engineers Create Transparent Material as Strong as Steel
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2. Chimpanzees Make Spears for Hunting


Am I the only one that finds that order hilarious? I understand the implications of it, but I can't help crack a smile when I read that.

The same reason people want waterproof watches. Water sometimes gets in/on them. And as I said in another thread, Water + Electricity = bad.

link

SUCK IT OP

THE FUTURE IS NOW

check it
flying car

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Your "point" is a Chris Rock standup bit about poor design of Cadillacs. It's a spinoff of a bit about drug companies not curing AIDS because it's more profitable for treat symptoms.

I'll accidentally take this thread seriously for a moment to note the changes of in fortunes for, off the top of my head, Jaguar and Hyundai over the past decade can both be pretty much directly laid at the feet of the market valuing reliability for automobiles very highly.

It just happened that I searched out this thread today while trying to get a check up on the status of OLEDs. As I read it, I was rather surprised by the venom that OP provoked. I mean, there's nothing you can say that won't get some solid contingent of bashers. And if your thesis is in any way critical, then it's ten times more likely that someone will take offense--take it personally.

But when I saw this thread, the first thing I thought of was this eminently reasonable (and ultimately favorable overall) review of the the IT shortcomings of the Infiniti M-Series:

http://philip.greenspun.com/material...s/infiniti-m35

Things that are really within our reach that aren't being done. OP--excellent post.

Well the reason I bump this is because yet again I am trying to find an item on Amazon and, as much as I love shopping and reading on Amazon, and learn things from, it still f'ing astounds me how completely incredibly stupidly infuriatingly inept their search is. I have to try ten different ways from Sunday (if that's the expression), to get even a literal parital reference to title and artist half the time. And not just amazon, but most everyplace, such as Wikipedia, the search is next to useless (except at the best ones if you can nail it literally you have a pretty good chance of hitting your target).

FUZZY LOGIC--Hello, it's not f'ing General Relativity. How g-damned hard is it really to implement this? Google has been here, what, for 15 years? How has almost no one else figured it out. end of rant.

The Kindle downloads and displays books. Developing software reliable enough to go in a car that does all of the things he listed would be an insanely expensive undertaking by Infiniti or any other car company. This is the type of thing that would be better left to a startup so that they could license it to car companies.

Not to quibble with such a scientific and clearly agenda-free chart, but its author is (hilariously imo given the bias) ignoring the development of the Chinese and Islamic cultures during the dark ages.

xoom, could you describe the units used to measure scientific advancement on your graph?

The future sucks. Change it.

mosta,

I like the bump even less than the OP. WTF does Iraq have to do with wireless internet? Is the government supposed to build wireless internet? If I can send emails with my cellphone, why can't the Inifiti?

I read all the way to the first El Diablo post before I figured out this thread was a year old. Sudden realization that it is 2009 just hit me.

Still no flying cars?