@geolemon: There are several reasons, but really they come down to the fact that engineering is hard. It's easy to design and DIY an electric vehicle, but it's not so easy to design and build an electric vehicle which is efficient and powerful. Tesla's battery pack and motor are both very efficient (much more so than…

@N.ayyala: Yes, and the EyeToy was a failure for the same reason that the PS3 was very nearly a failure, and Sony's other attempts at modern gadgetry are largely failures. Sony is a hardware company that doesn't understand software. They think it's easy, unimportant and not really their concern.

EyeToy vs. Kinect is like a microcosm of the PS3 vs. XBox 360 development experience.

@Polebull: Sony have invented a better mousetrap... but it's still a mousetrap. And the Wii pretty conclusively demonstrated that mousetraps aren't actually all that fun. Kinect is, at least, a different idea.

@rick23: No, he says "Redefine gravity. And how am I supposed to do that?"

@toxic: Go look up exactly what homeopathy is, because I get the feeling you are confused on that point. You may be very surprised, and the others are very justified in their disdain for it.

@daemonoid: I didn't mean to come off as a douchebag, but here's the MWI, summarized very simply: Schrodinger's equation applies to all systems in the universe, irregardless of size. i.e., any quantum system, when considered in conjunction with another quantum system, is just another, larger quantum system.

@daemonoid: No "new cardinality of infinity" is required because under MWI the entire universe is the cardinality of the continuum, as all quantum wavefunctions are.

@Ding-Dang: How ungentlemanly of them, to force your hand like that.

@mtfmuffins: Clearly you didn't read all my comment: "unless they were selling a more expensive TV with 20% better black levels. "

@daemonoid: Multiverse theory is actually called the Many Worlds Interpretation, and it's very elegant. I would suggest understanding it before dismissing it so casually.

@bobbobato: No. But FTL is unnecessary... you can travel as fast as you want, without travelling faster than light. The only piece of fiction I know of which accurately describes the speed of light's true implications on space travel is Speaker for the Dead. Read that if you want to understand how it works.

I think the important question is: did the black levels actually improve or is it just selective perception? Or if black levels improved, were there side effects?

@pvliii: And I bet when you guys call up a gas company and tell them they've got a leak, they take things a lot more seriously (rightly or wrongly).

@DrMonkey: I don't care, I want what they're selling.

@philibuster: Pro tip: If you smell gas, call the fire department.

They're not a company I'm boycotting in any way, they just currently have no products I'm interested in. If, in the future, they make a phone that I want, sure. If not, then no.

@aek8: If you targeted a major population center like Tokyo or New York, used an entire missile load of MIRV warheads at maximum yield... yeah you still wouldn't kill that many.

@virgil.ierubino: Peace through superior firepower seems like a banal and oxymoronic statement, but the pax sinica, pax romana, pax mongolica, pax hispanica, pax britannica and pax americana beg to differ.

Nuclear weapons have had variable yields for a long time already. Although ironically, the prescribed usage of variable-yield nukes is the exact opposite (high-yield for civilian targets, low-yield for military).