Comments by "Charles Eye" (@TheCharleseye) on "The Verge" channel.

  1. You're talking to a society that decided Beats were good enough. Audio quality is clearly secondary to style and brand recognition.
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  2. Says they sound pretty good. Then he says they sound about like the Apple Earpods. Not my idea of $160 headphone quality.
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  3. "Let's all move to the coast," they said. "We'll build great big cities," they said.
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  4. Glass back, no headphone jack and a notch. It's like this phone is a homage to Apple's worst design ideas.
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  5. When Google Assistant calls a company that has an automated menu, will it press 1 for English or 2 for Spanish?
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  6. For that price you can buy a car.
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  7. Google always wanted to catalog all of the world's data. Now it looks like they're going to be able to. #TooFar
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  8. Truth. I deleted Facebook before deleting Facebook was cool.
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  9. The G6 price is for the 32GB Amazon Prime version. It's $179 and comes with Amazon bloatware installed.
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  10. Linux isn't an operating system. It's a kernel. Chrome OS uses the Linux kernel.
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  11. I have two large dogs and a small yard. Mowing the lawn isn't a big deal. Sell me a robot that picks up brontosaurus crap.
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  12. No, we do. We just don't have any need to talk to the rest of you. The rest of the world uses metric, too but it doesn't affect my ability to buy a gallon of milk. Granted, every once in a while some of the rest of you manage to come up with something worth adopting but for the most part, we're good. Now I'm genuinely curious as to where WhatsApp was developed.
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  13. Are you implying he wouldn't be able to pass the vetting process? Seems like he would. Not that it matters, since he's already here.
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  14. "Tech professional" ...thinks the Razr was the first extremely popular cell phone.
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  15. We can't even get Apple to adopt a standard charging port.
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  16. Truth. I paid $115,000 for an 1800sq/ft 4/2 in a downtown location (smaller city but in California). If I were so inclined, I could add all of these Smart Home features to it and still not be at their high end (about $175,000). Plus, there's the fact that this whole "house" would almost fit in my bedroom. This isn't the kind of thing that solves a housing crisis. People realizing they are living outside of their means to survive and then moving to places where they can afford to live. THAT is the answer. Densely packed cities are just a great way to suck money out of those who don't have enough of it.
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  17. Unlimited SMS/MMS, phone calls, Skype, email, tons of different chat apps... I hope you're being sarcastic and are not really so behind as to think that WhatsApp and iMessage are the only forms of direct communication. If so, I really feel sorry for you. The problem here isn't figuring out which method to use, it's narrowing down the massive number of options so you don't have ten apps killing your battery for simple communication.
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  18. Robert Evans Yeah, okay. And according to Apple, they didn't build a phone with a bad radio antenna design...you were simply holding it wrong. Apple is a benevolent company that would never lie or mislead their customers, right?
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  19. So it's thinner, lighter and more powerful than the Macbook.....but The Verge considers it a Macbook knock-off. No bias there. :-/
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  20. Considering he probably drove home in a Prius, I'd say that's about accurate.
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  21. +Ken Mastri You're trying to justify the inflated price of this bicycle by listing the well known costs of owning a car. Sorry but that's a poor argument. The two aren't remotely in the same category. When was the last time you took an entire family (including dogs and luggage) on a cross country trip on a bicycle? My point stands. A car is a complex piece of machinery that's capable of carrying multiple people and cargo, at freeway speeds, in nearly all weather conditions. This thing in the video isn't even comparable to a Walmart bike with a weed whacker motor mounted on it and that would cost you all of $500 and a day of turning a wrench.
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  22. I might switch just to get away from where Android is going. Actually, I might switch to a flip phone, so yeah. IOS is probably dead.
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  23. CozaGames I love it when people bring up the popular vote when talking about US Presidential elections. It's like when you're playing chess with someone and they say "I would have won if the horsey piece could move straight and the Queen could jump her own pieces." It's not how the game is played, so it's completely irrelevant.
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  24.  @briangodfrey5079  Microsoft and the ilk would disagree with you. There are current supercomputers. Your smartphone is not one of them. That was dumbed-down marketing spin used for the masses, so as not to have to explain how interconnected computing works (because it's boring and doesn't sound as cool).
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  25.  @AtlantideVFX  That would put you in the ever-shrinking niche to which OP was referring.
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  26. Or just require people to pass more rigorous testing before handing them a driver's license. The fact that every one of my nieces and nephews passed their driving tests on their first try should scare the hell out of you. They're bad drivers. Being allowed to drive on public roads should mean that you've proven you can handle the types of situations that cause accidents (distractions, pedestrians jumping out, other bad drivers, etc). As it stands, the most stressful part of driver testing is parallel parking! That's ridiculous!
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  27. +bosco008 Considering one of the key features of headphones is to help drown out the noise around you, I'd say it's a perfect place to test them out. The fact is, I've got a set of $13 bluetooth headphones I use for yard work that sound better than Earpods. For $160 you'd better be able to tell the difference in a crowded room.
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  28. Everything's portable, if you rent a big enough van.
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  29. I don't understand why any cable cutter wouldn't spend the $20 to get a decent digital antenna.
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  30. I don't have a dog in the fight but I will say, I find it interesting that some outlets are using this photo that was taken earlier in the morning and others are using another photo that was taken later, after significantly more people had entered. It also seems like the ones who use the earlier photo are the outlets who have more of an interest in discrediting Trump. The problem is, when you do things like that, you're actually giving him legitimacy by proving that there is a media bias against him from major sites. He doesn't need any help. Just use facts and Trump will discredit himself, more often than not.
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  31. It looks exactly like a car with some tech slapped on top. Looks just as pieced together as half of the Civics on the road. Gaudy crap stuck to every surface with double-sided tape. Blech.
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  32. +yocampout I have a friend who spent $85,000 on a Dodge Viper that didn't even have a backseat. That doesn't mean a Ford station wagon is worth $40,000. You're comparing carbon fiber racing bikes (with top of the line components) to an entry level commuter bike that has a small electric motor and a battery. This thing shouldn't retail for more than $900 (and that's being generous).
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  33. I'm really glad this happened. This is a nice dose of reality for those who think it's a good idea to trust any online entity with their personal information. Especially a social network that is known for consistently messing with people's privacy settings. It's time for Facepalm to be replaced.
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  34. "...give them 3 million dollars of hard-earned tax money..." Yeah, that's called a lie. Nobody was talking about giving Amazon money. A tax break merely means they get to keep that much of their own money.
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  35. Wood is a renewable resource. Steel and concrete require strip-mining the Earth and destroying the air for everyone and everything in the vicinity. So, you're right. It IS nice that he was environmentally conscious enough to make his house out of wood.
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  36. Ted Thomas So, to your mind, no large company pays for promo videos? Seriously? Is it really your contention that those behind a $300 million/month game aren't busy trying to figure out how to make $400 million/month?
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  37. Car companies have been competing since the early 1900's. The prices haven't dropped. Coke and Pepsi have been duking it out for decades and a 20 oz costs almost $2 in any (competing) convenience store. In a true Capitalist society, competition would make prices drop. Corporate America got sick of that game, so they stopped abiding by the rules of true Capitalism. Shareholders, back room deals and unspoken "understandings" let them work together to screw us out of our money. They still compete with each other but not like they would if they had any respect for the consumer.
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  38. Putting a brand new drivetrain in an old VW bus would keep it from breaking down too... and it wouldn't cost $100,000. My Dad's old Beetle never broke down. Of course, it was running a Porsche engine but who wants a really fast Beetle that will go 350+ miles on a tank, when you can spend a lot more to get a slow one that won't pass a power station? :-/
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  39. All that work to improve comments......still a "first" comment. #Googlefail
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  40. Dilip Tien Care to expand on that? What "we" are you referring to? We, the People? As in the opening line of the US Constitution? The document that outlines the election process used to elect the President? That "we" or is there another "we" to which you assume I'm referring?
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  41. +Jakob Tresch (SirSchaegge) It takes about a day to mount a 49cc motor to just about any bike (including the time to figure out where/how to mount it and then round up the parts) and costs far less. When you're done you have a full-on MoPed that is perfectly street legal (in the US) and you still have about $2600 left to spend on more important things (more, if you buy a used motor).
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  42. +bosco008 A) Where did I say they were noise cancelling headphones? Honest question. I said that one of the main functions of headphones is to help drown out the noise around you. That is completely different from saying (or even implying) that they have active noise cancelling technology. B) Do car manufacturers have to list the ability to keep out rain and wind as a feature, or is that something that's obvious to any reasonable person? Have you ever thought to yourself, "Well, it's a really nice car but I better ask the salesperson for documentation showing that it seals out the elements"? Of course not. Such a thought would be ridiculous. Just as thinking that speakers placed directly in/on your ears are NOT expected to help drown out ambient noise and make their own sound the primary focus.
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  43. Uh huh.....
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  44. "There's not gonna be another one like this" Ummm.....I guess that's true. I mean, Dodge used a Viper V-10 instead of a V-8 when they built the bike that this one copies...
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  45. You guys are aware that these videos stay on YouTube, right? I mean, once you upload a video about daylight savings time, it's here until you remove it. There's really no need for so many people to upload two videos about daylight savings time every year. We all get it. We know what the flaws are and we agree. You were passionate enough to make a video about it. We weren't. It stands to reason that you're the better candidate to actually do something about it. Maybe, in a few months, you could upload a video outlining what you intend to do about the problem instead. You could have links to a petition and for people to get ahold of their representatives... it could be great! But you'll probably just come back here and say the same things you say every time it comes up, to ensure that you still get to complain about it again, next year. I guess the name says it all. If you're always on "The Verge" of something, you never actually get there.
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  46. A bed that moves your head up and down by itself? What a wonderful way to increase the number of people who consistently have the "falling" dream. No thanks, I'm good.
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  47. +loguerto Yes, because scooters are so much safer and less "toxic."
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  48. Awww, look at how cute Bill Nye is when he ignores all of the bio-dome work that has been done up to this point. It's so adorable when he makes sweeping statements about things without even applying a modicum of imagination. Gosh, I do love a pessimist.
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  49. iamterence77 $15 is the target price point for the frame. $50 for a bottom of the barrel (but complete) wi-fi device.
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  50. "Good artists copy. Great artists steal. At Apple, we're shameless about stealing other people's ideas." - Steve Jobs. I guess Asus stole their philosophy...
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