In times past automakers imported a wide range of cars despite the low sales numbers. Today, sales numbers have exploded and the relative diversity has been reduced. The majority of S-classe cars sold were equipped with 6 cylinder engines gas or diesel. In Europe the story was and still is the same. MB decided a…

Try this for yourself. Take a cheap laser, go to the end of the block, have a friend at the other end, then try to shine the laser at him/her. More than likely you can't do it because the beam spreads and in doing so reduces the intensity such that you can't see the reflection needed to aim it. If you are able to…

The ticket for the Chinese high speed train is 4 times that of the standard train. It's much the same on high speed trains the world over: high speed train travel is a luxury that only the rich (or their employers) can afford. I expect that with the typical cost of government managed construction and union workers,…

First of all there doesn't have to be any changes to the terminals or runways. Think of it as a 737 with the wingspan of a 777. The folding wings allow it to fit within the jetway to jetway distance used by 737's. Its weight is no more than the average. What will cause headaches is power. No one expects SUGAR to…

Let's hope Apple's version of TV Retina will be 4K and of course what better way to have an exclusive on content? Who wouldn't want to see Apple's take on a 70" TV and a remote to control it all? At $7000 including a 4K player they could sell all they could make. On an inflation adjusted basis there are many who…

If they hadn't listed the "Top 21" ATT - Mobile wouldn't have even been on the list. I smell a fix.

Don't be surprised, 75% of IT projects fail and that covers public and private initiatives. While a billion is a pretty big number the state of California has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on failed IT projects and it has a far smaller base to serve. From my perspective projects fail because politics…

This is the train version of the Concorde. Did flying supersonic do anything for the grunts flying everyday on a 737? Nope. In Japan bullet train (non mag-lev) tickets are priced like first class airline tickets. The only folk that ride them are either rich or their company is paying for them. The average…

No silly, those are VTOL fans like a Harrier.

How did Google maps get as good as they are? Millions of beta testers. How will Apple Maps get better? Millions of beta testers. Get over yourself.

I don't expect anybody to pay more taxes than they have to including Apple. Those that see this as an egregious issue should direct their ire towards Washington. Our tax code now numbers in the thousands of pages with all of them the product of the political process. All of the processes in place that allow Apple…

The pointers in question are not the cheapo laser pointers that you annoy your cat with. Those don't have the power to affect planes. The lasers in question are powerful industrial strength lasers that truly can put your eye out at close range. The people in jail bought lasers they knew to be potentially harmful…

My bet? Two years from now Tesla and Fisker will both be bankrupt. Once the final accounting is done the taxpayers will find out that we've been selling cars that cost $250,000 to the 1% for a mere $100,000.

If all of the announcements of rechargeable battery breakthroughs were true and compounded our smart phone batteries would be the size of a mouse turd and last a week. Cars would need something bigger like maybe a D cell.

Agreed. Nobody is smart enough to produce a fully baked global map application without user assistance. Google maps got to where it is only by the subtle polishing of millions of users. Apple will follow the same development path however it won't take as long as Google has defined the baseline requirements. There…

thedigitaljedi is right. I read it and started looking for a "like" button. It does appear that Giz has been taken over by Apple haters. Suggest they try a "Gizmodo - Android" web site and see how that works for them.

Giz you are so right. "Why Apple Maps Won't Get Better..." Kyle's got no better idea on this than I know who his mother is sleeping with (hope it's his dad). It's one thing to comment but quite another to predict the future and of all companies Apple has shown up prognosticators so often that the smart ones have…

I wonder what Raymond L0ewy got. He invented the name Exxon and the logo. He also did logos for Shell, BP, the postal service and a bunch of others. He was also a consummate designer of cars and industrial products. He died in 1986 and I still see his handiwork every day. It would take a large collection of…

Sorry, but if you have to squint and be primed to look for something you have nothing. It's a bit like the lady complaining to the police about her naked neighbor next door. The cop looks at the fence between the two properties and rightly claims not to see any thing. The complainant responds "well if step on this…

Why get upset? Think a little.