I really don't understand why this is the "NEXT BIG THING"
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Maybe I'm the only person around here that feels this way but when has it become "cool" to go back in time and try to sound like crap?
OK maybe that's too harsh. Lemme get constructive on this although most of you will think I'm on crack. I listen to a LOT of music. I listen to classical, metal, some folk, and now I've been suckered into listening to Emo. My friends, Rolling Stone, AP....they freaking SPAM me with all these "THE" bands and how they are so great. Well, I've tried. Believe me, I really did try. When I popped "Cells" into my car stereo after I bought it, it just sounded like noise. I understood that Jack White was relying on minimalism to convey his and Meg's music, but when you somehow say "F-U" to all the hard work that people did to make music sound better in a sonic sense.... that's not a very admirable statement to me. I also believe if you are going to have a two person band, you better be DAMN good at the instruments you'll play. I'm sorry but I have heard singers that don't even have to try and they sound better than Jack. Granted his lyrics are great but I just can't stand his voice. He pushes it so much, it hurts the ears. And Meg White. Well, I don't think she spent long enough getting her drumming down. It is just too simple. If you make something minimalistic, don't make it devoid of all emotion and some sort of skill.
I'm sorry about feeling this way but I pretty much feel this way about the Hives, and the Vines. Honestly, I don't much care for a "musical revolution" composed of screaming potheads who can't sing to save their life. Maybe I'm biased, and I do believe nothing needs to be saved but if this is here to save Rock, please help us all.
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I'm sure the next generation (or the one after) will be much better, but this version just isn't that impressive.  Sure, it works just as promised and does everything it should - but the fact that it needs to be charged every few days and really just serves as another way to get your texts/alerts from your phone means that there's not a whole lot of practicality to it.  It makes a good gift for someone who has everything, but I recommend waiting until the 2nd or 3rd generation comes out.
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I won't go into a rant, but four years is a long time to wait for a third album. LP is definatley one of my favorite bands but this isn't what I was expecting. I thought with their maturity as a band, the time given between albums and with Rick Ruben producing that this would be there masterpiece. It isn't, not even close.

Mr. Hahn is no where to be found on this whole album, there is no electronica-rock-rap that make LP distinct. Mike barely raps, it seems that he took all of his ryhmes and used them for Fort Minor, and what we have left it a sappy ballad album. I won't be holding my breath for four more years for the next album.
4908866
All the hype about the size of this guy had me interested but it's not big enough!  I've got really bad near sightedness and need reading glasses over my contacts to see close-up.  A big display would help but this one crams too much at once when what I could use would be a really BIG display of one function at a time.  This of course is my problem and won't affect everyone else.  It works well and functions well, tho the instructions ain't much help.  I have a hard time believing that guy made it up Everest with this - the clasp pops open on its own with little encouragement.  I've got a Casio Riseman and it's good but I'm still looking for a bigger view - Suunto anyone?
4190067
Going into this I wasn't quite sure what to think... It purported to be about how the electric car is coming and it'll be replacing gas-guzzling cars soon. It's time has come...

In reality, the movie is more about the CHALLENGES of even bringing such a thing to market. Auto manufacturers once tried the electric car and then recalled and destroyed most of them.

Then the economic crisis hit and gas prices started going up, so now we don't want to be dependent on oil anymore, so... "the electric car's time has come!" Well, okay, not really. There's no infrastructure. Battery technology is still not yet fully fledged. They can only go so long without a recharge. Sure, we've got a few hybrids on the road, but they're still expensive. Tesla Motors has tried putting electric cars into production, but have found it far more expensive and time-consuming to design them than originally anticipated and had to raise prices on folks who had reserved cars. Various car companies are still designing and re-designing them, but we still haven't arrived yet.

So, perhaps the "revenge" of the electric car is on the manufacturers trying to manufacture and sell them or the lobbyists trying to tout the benefits and get them made by the car companies. And yet, for all the braying of the proponents, again, we're just not there yet. Car companies are slow to adapt, consumers are slow to embrace, etc.

In the end, I didn't come away feeling like the electric car has had its revenge or really even much opened the door. There are still major social and technical hurdles to overcome. Not least of all infrastructure (recharging stations as ubiquitous as gas stations) and public perception.

So, it's kind of a mixed bag. If you're into seeing some of the CHALLENGES facing car companies and specifically the electric car's adoption, this is the movie for you. If you're looking for a feel-good piece about the bright shiny future just around the corner, well, you might be a little disappointed.

Seems like the answer is a perpetual "Change is a-comin', we just, uhh, don't know when or how..."
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Well - I am really sorry, but in my opinion the best songs on this new album are the ones already on the last EP, but they had more drive and more feeling on that original recording. Where is the band going with this album? Where did the depth go, the brilliance, the versatility they had shown before? This one feels rather superficial, like accidentally tuning into a random folk radio station. Hoping for a better third album.
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Crowdfunding The Next Big Thing got my attention because it is a new buzz word--one I knew little about!  Spirer that in todays ecomonic climate, one must be a jack of all trades, so to speak.  Part scientist, partcreative designer, part artist/writer.  The author  speaks on marketing/getting traffic, building a quality list and increasing conversions.  A real eye opener for anyone starting up or looking to grow a business.
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These are things that some are already considering but the rest of us need to get on the same page with.  All of these are valid points for today's business model.

The workplace is shrinking and expanding all at once.  large scale discussions are no longer in one room but across town, across the country and sometimes the world.  The players in projects and programs are far flung and it is high time we adapt and adopt some of the ideas presented here.  Or certainly consider the need for these things.

Personal 'touch' cannot be a leadership loss or we lose good players.
710751
I don't know where this story is heading. I'm confused about what this man is doing and why he's doing it. I suppose I'll have to get the next book if I want to find out.
3457762
I don't know why everyone is acting like this thing is so great. It sucks. Its waaaaaaay too freaking small (unnecessarily, it could be bigger!) and you have to slide the keyboard out of the cover case to get the tablet to sit upright. What good is that? I want it to be a computer that I can just open and close. I already have a separate bluetooth keyboard. I don't understand why they don't make these simple products with some common sense.
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The science is becoming reachable. At least the nano technology appears so. I refuse to believe in a future that does not contain some form of interstellar travel.  It will probably be very different from any thing we imagine. The life style differences on Earth are marked.  Moving away from this planet can only exacerbate change. I wish I could see it.
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Its totally amazing and there is no device in the market like it.  i would point two things about its performance and it has nothing to do with the device hardware.
First the wireless seems be consuming more battery than its supposed to be which is actually something has to do with the software  and i believe Asus is looking into it and should be solved in the coming update. Secondly, now we started to see some few apps that are showing the real value of high definition screen but hopefully there will be more. Compared with iPad i would say this is far beyond imagination and i was real loyal to Apple products but not after this device. Screw Apple such greedy company. My only hope is if Google market would ve category of its own for tablets apps. Those who were commenting on sound im with u and I'm still wondering why the speakers are always on the back of the device and at one side. They should be more creative and practical, but still better than iPad speakers.
Thats my review after experiencing the device for a month now.
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I'm not trying to start an argument; I'm asking an existential question. Maybe one of you Apple fans can explain this to me. If you're willing to pay well over $200 for a device like this, what reason could you possibly have to buy the 16GB version over the 32GB version? (5th Generation) For the sake of saving a relatively small amount of discretionary money you lose the camera and half the memory. Let me put it this way: If someone is willing to spend $230 for the worst seat at a football game, and if the best seat cost $300, who would buy the worst seats? It makes no economic sense either to produce the 16GB version or to buy it.

Please tell me why I'm wrong. Would it make more sense if I drank enough hard Apple cider? Apple seems to be stumbling a bit since Jobs is gone. I was sorely disappointed with the 7th gen nano too. This is not rocket science, guys. I know that some of you Apple fans are going to give me negative votes for my comments, but I encourage you to get up the gumption to do more than hide behind a vote. Tell me why I'm wrong.
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As far as electronics are concerned, it seems to me that it's almost impossible to find one item that does it all.  Years ago, we plugged our tv in and watched.  Then came VCR's, some wires, but no big deal.  Then cable boxes so you could get higher stations and access to specialty stations, more wires.  Then came dvd players, but we kept the VCR, so more hook ups, more wires.  Then video games...the list goes on and on, obviously, and it's so confusing.  We have a universal remote, but it does little to alleviate the stress of trying to remember what to do first and so on.  I'm no techie, so this can be a real hassle.

Don't get me wrong, the surround sound on this is a good quality for the price, it's just that it does little to alleviate the countless hookups and wires, and maybe that was silly of me to think that it might do that.  I like that the wires are color coded, but beyond that, still too many wires for my taste...nothing is simplified, and again, perhaps it was my naivet&eacute; at work...not realizing that this system wouldn't do that for me.

If you are looking for a surround sound system, this is as good as any other I've heard.  If you are expecting more from it, then maybe this isn't the home stereo system for you.  Maybe I just expected too much.
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Not sure I like writing this, as I've always been quite the fan of Take That, with or without Robbie. Now, with Jason gone also, the three-piece needed to pull something special out of the bag. I sat down with some friends, listened through the whole album and at the end, we all looked at one another, took a deep breath, and almost simultaneously uttered ...

"It's OK"

I'm sorry, but it just lumbers along, never really going anywhere, wakes up briefly for the "quite good", "I like it", then goes back to sleep.

Here for me is the problem (and a purely subjective viewpoint) - the tracks (some produced by the same producers as Lily Allen, Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus) could have been recorded by anyone. Even Stuart Price (who produced their excellent last album) doesn't put much of a stamp on this.

So, for me, it's a miss. I'd like to think they still have a bit more invention left, and wait with anticipation for the next album.
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What happen is!!.. some Big companies act like . We have the big bucks we can put whatever we want in the market.
when the good stuff will be back with 3 words made in the USA.
Very disappointed for wait and don't see any results , only Byers saying no good.
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Since I'm a child of the microchip, anything with a touchscreen grabs my attention, and I have been coveting this router fence for months. I watched the few videos on YouTube, and was so impressed with the functionality that I knew I had to have one. Also, I don't have a ton of time to spend in the wood shop, so I'll take any advancement in work-flow efficiency I can get. This thing seemed to me that it would really cut down on a lot of math and futzing around trying to dial in the old fence. I do believe that will be true, so at least it has that going for it.

Here's the reason for only two stars. One of the things that interested me about this unit was the idea of "upgrades" to the software that would add new functionality. Imagine my surprise when, after setting up the unit, I went to Next Wave's website to check and see if there were any firmware updates, since some of the features I saw in a YouTube review were not present in my unit. I figured it just needed updating. The website indicated that no updates were available, but I could purchase an App 3-pack for $20. Seriously?!? What's even more insulting is that I'm pretty sure you can do what the app 3-pack offers with just a few extra minutes of setup on the R2R. And really, it's an app 2-pack, because I'm pretty sure the "Repeating Dado" app and the "Fluting App" are identical in their function. There is a high probability I would not have purchased the R2R knowing this was the case.

It's also a bit (okay, HIGHLY) misleading that Rockler points out that "More apps will be available in the future to further enhance the versatility of your Ready2Rout!" but doesn't bother to indicate they are going to cost extra money. I know that the $20 upgrade fee is only about 3% of the total cost of the unit, but I just feel like I got completely bamboozled.

Caveat emptor in its most raw form.