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

  1.  @tat3179  Way to miss the point entirely.
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  2. Most water heaters are set at 120°F
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  3.  @xjones2087  Truth. Add in the fact that with connected computing, the computer needs to stay connected and you have all manner of potentially bad circumstances in the more mountainous parts of the Country (not even taking into account the rest of the world). But hey, when people don't have to learn to drive any more, that will surely free up more space in their heads for creating lolcats videos and Facebook memes.
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  4. Increasing the screen size would up the price. Decreasing the bezel size would force them to shrink the keyboard even further. As someone who has been into small gadgets since long before netbooks, I can tell you that most people can get used to this size of keyboard, while anything smaller becomes a hunt-n-peck situation pretty quickly. Sometimes you have to make compromises for the sake of overall usability.
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  5. chrismo2001 I drank so much Crystal Pepsi back then.
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  6. Wood is a renewable resource. Iron ore and limestone (for steel and concrete) are not. They are strip-mined. Nothing clean about that. While our dedicated lumber groves are regrowing and taking in carbon dioxide, rock quarries/mines are pumping out carbon dioxide and other toxins into the air. Visit a rock quarry some time and see how logical your choice is for the future of this planet.
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  7. Owain Harris Wood is incredibly renewable. You rotate your groves to replenish the soil - it's called farming. We have more paper and lumber than ever before and the VAST majority of it comes from groves that exist specifically for that purpose. Furthermore, even if you were right (you're not), you'd still be comparing "somewhat renewable" to "not at all renewable." There's no contest. My house is made of wood and was built in 1903. Many brick homes in the area have seen significant degradation but my house (along with many other wood frame houses in the area) is still standing strong. The concrete foundation crumbled and had to be re-poured and the wood house is still standing. Wood IS the superior framing material for houses. There are few places where this rule does not apply. We've even seen a boom in the reuse of lumber from houses and barns to make everything from furniture to fences, to pretty much anything else that can be made from wood. How many reclaimed brick coffee tables have you seen? Wood wins. All day, every day.
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  8. KING I would take your word for that if I hadn't already seen other photos of Trump's inauguration with significantly more people than this.
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  9. rymonator google.com Just enter in what you're looking for and it will do the rest. Crazy, right?
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  10. +paulmaartin Nobody said you couldn't. Reading is fundamental. You should try it some time.
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  11. How far can you go without walking past a smartphone? How many phones have a microphone? Fix the TV problem and we still have all of those phones listening. Let's get rid of certain rifles that are used very rarely in crime. All the while ignoring the handguns that are used in the vast majority.
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  12. +Jimmy Kraktov I'm not disputing that at all - I love a numbers matching resto as much as anyone and the old bugs are incredibly reliable when done right. My point is if you're going to heavily modify a VW (and I won't judge anyone for choosing mod over resto - different strokes for different folks), there are MUCH cooler and cheaper ways of doing it. The problem I'm seeing is that more and more hipsters are turning money hungry. They want to be "alternative" but they want to do it in a very mainstream, capitalist way. Now, I don't have a problem with capitalism but I do have a problem with people who claim to be shouting down Babylon while practicing the same price gouging, consumer screwing techniques as those they hate.
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  13. +Ken Mastri You can go ahead and argue but it doesn't change the fact that this bike isn't worth the price of a car. It doesn't matter that it's more efficient than a car in the city because EVERY bicycle is more efficient than a car in the city and there are millions of perfectly functional bikes that cost far less than this gimmicky pile. Electric assisted bicycles are a fad right now, so everyone who comes out with one jacks the price up to milk the new market. A $350 bike with $500 worth of components added to it is worth $850. It's that simple. But please, keep arguing. It's amusing to watch.
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  14. That Guy According to what, exactly? It has been this way for over two centuries, specifically because it is outlined that way in the Constitution. It's not like we've decided to ignore the framework of our election process and do it this way instead. This is the way it works in the US. It's one of the many reasons why I laugh when people call this a democracy. It isn't. It's a Constitutional republic with some democratic features. You might want it to be different but that's not to say that it should necessarily be different. But if you have a good case for changing it, I'd be happy to read it.
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  15. +Luniii737 Wait, what? You admit that these bikes are selling for $1000...then state that it's worth $2000 MORE for them to stuff the battery into the top tube?! You do realize that that's insane, right? In fact, the MAJOR caveat they had to make because of using a battery that fits in the top tube is that the electric assist isn't nearly as powerful as those found on some $1000 bikes. You've essentially said that it's worth three times as much money because it's prettier and less functional than other bikes in its category. I have to assume at this point that you're a long time Apple customer.
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  16. +TiggerLiveToo People need to make up their minds. Either we live in a dangerous society full of gun violence or we don't. "There will never be a defensive situation" means that all of the gun control talk lately is purely based on media hype and we don't have a problem with gun violence in this Country. If that's the case then we don't need expanded gun control. The other option is that there IS a gun violence problem and we DO need gun control but that would also mean that people are perfectly justified in feeling that they may need to defend themselves at some point. You can't have it both ways. Do we have a lot of dangerous criminals getting and using guns or is expanding gun control measures pointless?
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  17. You don't actually know why the NRA opposed the smart gun, do you? Tell the truth, you like using current buzzwords to sound cool but don't actually read more than 140 characters about these topics, right?
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  18. +Aditya Kar The "smart gun" technology that was being proposed was A) unproven B) built directly into the firearm and C) was already being "required" by New Jersey once the first one sold, even though it was unproven and built into the firearm. This meant that a State was trying to set a legal precedent requiring all handguns (those things people buy for self defense) being sold after a certain point (that being the point at which the first "smart gun" was sold in New Jersey) to have an unproven locking system that could potentially keep the owner of the firearm from being able to use it effectively. Once a State sets a legal precedent, other States often follow with the ability to say "well, they did it so we can too" (that's what legal precedent is). The NRA, it's members (aka US citizens), the vast majority of gun owners in New Jersey and yes, firearms manufacturers, all rallied against this because it had the potential to A) put a lot of unreliable firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens B) greatly reduce the variety of handguns available and C) make even entry level handguns prohibitively expensive. Now, the reason your comment is so outlandish is because there are already biometric gun safes and lock boxes on the market and the NRA doesn't have a problem with any of them. All this is, is a biometric trigger lock and so far, nobody is trying to mandate that everyone has to use an unproven, biometric trigger lock on their guns. You see, it's called choice. The NRA doesn't oppose new options, they oppose new legislation. It's really that simple.
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  19. No headphone jack ensures that these won't be used by small businesses that have card readers. I'm not plugging it into an adapter, to add more flex and read errors, that's for sure. Oh well.
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  20. A) Everything the government involves themselves in ends up costing taxpayers WAY more than it should. B) Our current street signs and lights are VERY simple to understand. My ten-year-old could likely pass the written exam. If a driverless car isn't capable of knowing the difference between a big, red octagon with the word STOP and a big, yellow triangle with the word YIELD, I definitely don't trust it to know the difference between a speed bump and a person. Or are we all supposed to start wearing clothes with big QR codes on them, to let the machines know to spare us? No. They can be either be adapted to the world as it is, or they can be scrapped as a pipe dream until such time as they're viable. We have no pressing need to expedite the inclusion of driverless cars. Especially considering that - if the government was going to do anything about the mortality rates - it would be sooo much easier and more affordable to just make it harder to get a driver's license and add a zero tolerance law for drunk driving (as in, get caught once and lose your license forever, nationally). They haven't and they won't. Why? Because they make a lot of money off of vehicle sales tax and registration. Those get reduced with less drivers and all but disappear in your driverless Utopia.
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  21. C O I didn't say they couldn't. I said it would cost more. As in cost THEM more. If you find the "similar products with thin bezels" more appealing, nobody is stopping you from buying them. Doing so is far more productive than complaining about a product you're not going to buy, on YouTube.
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  22. Mechanical devices that have to be approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration. No, we don't have a problem with government overreach...
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  23. Raja Vamshi Chatharasi You named two people who moved out of India to become successful. That's not an argument you should make when trying to claim your Country isn't poor. All that says is that, if India is poor, it's because all of your talented people go to richer Countries to become successful - rather than staying in India and helping to make it better.
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  24. Then get off YouTube and go get a job.
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  25. Soy, too.
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  26. ahmed fata You don't have to say anything "wrong," anymore. All you have to do is use a pronoun without verifying it's the right one, first. Canada defines this as "hate speech," now and the UK is pushing for the same. There are those who are trying for the same in the US. Better be careful.
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  27. So...it's an electric DeLorean?
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  28. It's a trigger lock. Do you know of anyone who carries a gun with a trigger lock on it?
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  29. This seems like a very expensive way of knowing....exactly what anyone who lives in any given place knows. Honestly, do the police really need expensive software to tell them where the "bad parts" of town are? I guess if the software is "objectively" profiling, the police won't get in as much trouble as if they just patrol the obvious areas.
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  30. Yeah, I can't get behind a holster version but as an at-home trigger lock, it has serious potential.
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  31. Not Joe Commenting on a YouTube video doesn't necessarily reflect an over-reliance on technology. There are lots of people who exist between the extremes of 'luddite' and 'techno-slave.'
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  32. Nicholas McRoberts Cool story. Who are you responding to, exactly?
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  33. Nicholas McRoberts Nuh uh, we're circles. At least from where I'm sitting.
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  34. So glad other companies aren't doing this. As much as I liked my original Motorola Droid, I'd spam them with hate mail of they ever announced they were bringing it back (complete with Android 2.2).
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  35. Shaped like a Carpenter's pencil? No thanks.
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  36. Maximilian Reach Genuinely more exciting to see still photos of this car.
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  37. Yathu prem What do you propose?
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  38. DeathBloodFunnyGuy Actually, all it would take to drastically reduce the number of people killed by cars, is for everyone who could use public transportation, to do so. As it stands, most people are far too privileged for that and would never dream of giving up their private morning commute for a bus or train ride. We've seen the numbers year after year. Cars kill more people than guns in the US and there are actually less cars on the road than guns in private ownership. The masses have decided that it's worth it - that all those deaths are acceptable losses - for the sake of private commutes and using the drive-thru. If five people are killed and ten are wounded by a tweaker with a truck, the response is "That bastard!" If the same number of people are killed and harmed by a tweaker with a handgun, it's "We need more gun control laws!" Why are the victims of vehicle collisions robbed of the public outcry? Because more people like cars than guns. Sad, isn't it? Hell, climate change is still a controversial topic (hysterically). Vehicle deaths are accepted as fact by all (kinda hard to tell a dead guy that he isn't). Yet somehow, climate change has done more to affect change in this area than vehicle deaths have. /rant
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  39. Atif Hassan It's an analogy. They're often used to show a commonality among differing areas. In this case, I was showing the typical response of concerning ourselves with a minor part of an issue and mostly ignoring a larger part. I'm sorry that wasn't clear.
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  40. Atif Hassan It's an analogy. They're often used to show a commonality among differing areas. In this case, I was showing the typical response of concerning ourselves with a minor part of an issue and mostly ignoring a larger part. I'm sorry that wasn't clear.
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  41. Since it's Android, it's likely one app away from cross-platform compatibility.
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  42. You're right. We should never do anything that isn't 100% effective. If human error or unique situations can cause something to stop functioning properly, we should all stop using it. Since it was your idea, you go first. Go out, disable your airbags and cut off your seatbelts. Then go take all of the breakers out of your breaker box and hard wire your entire house. Be sure to strip the protective sheathing off all of the wires first. Do you see where I'm going with this or do I need to continue?
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  43. +John Hunter Integrate it into a firearm and most people won't buy it. Try to integrate it into every firearm and the people will stand against it (just like last time). There is no perfect solution, ever. As a trigger lock, I believe it is much better than other trigger locks. Since that's all it's meant to be, it does its job as well as can be expected, just like biometric gun safes.
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  44. +Floris van Onna Your argument is that bicycles should have a high retail price, because....parking? By that logic, the shoes on your feet are worth at least $5,000 because you don't even have to lock those to a post.
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  45. +Joel Our Right is to keep and bear arms, not just keep them. Keep and bear means own and carry. The Supreme Court verified this in the Keller decision.
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  46. +Sifaka Lemur Isn't SwiftKey wonderful? Every time I get an update, it turns autocorrect back on.
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  47. +Sifaka Lemur I know that pain as well.
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  48. +Matthew Mers A) You seem to be confusing desire with willingness. If people were only killed by criminals who had a desire to murder them, our homicide rate would plummet. Unfortunately, more often than not people are killed by criminals who have a weapon of some sort, are amped up on adrenaline (or something else) and are not thinking their actions through. B) I guess it's good a lot of us keep our guns on us then. You'll never find my gun by breaking into my car.
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  49. +Shawzzam27 Bluetooth headsets can be had for as little as $10. There's no way these are worth even as much as $120, let alone $160.
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  50. +Arska Setä No. I'll pay an extra $20-$30 for the bluetooth equivalent to a set of headphones. It's not sorcery. They're not using anything new or special to accomplish it. Economy of scale is alive and strong in the world of wireless transmission and I won't be spending that kind of scratch on something that likely costs Apple about $7-$12/unit.
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