A decent computing environment.
(Technically available now: http://www.lispmachine.net/symbolics.txt but I would like one that meets modern specs.)
Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
streaming NHL games for me but same concept :). I feel bad for all the brits at my work that are probably dying to see good soccer on the TV and can't find any. They'd probably love a streaming sports site as well.
Streaming formula 1 races.
justin.tv!
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check out http://mem.com . They made something for a friend's relative recently (unfortunately) and it looked quite nice.
I don't mean to be rude, but how is a service like this actually used? I mean, in your experience, what's different about it versus, say, a blog, or even a simple cms like jottit?
Here's how it was done: http://jeffreyfalstrom.com/
When someone close to you passes away, you are distraught and have a lot of things to take care of. Maybe you don't want to register a domain and do design and stuff (most people aren't designers afterall). So they set you up with a nice memorial and take care of the details in a tasteful way. Think of it as a specialized CMS.
Re: Ask HN: What would you love to pay for if it was available?
#194A computer display with at least 200DPI, and about 19...21 inches diagonal. I'd consider only 1:1 and 4:3 sized ones. Honestly, several times I've been searching for high resolution displays, and aside of old, expensive and slow T221 (or crazy-expensive medical and flight control ones), there are none. Why such DPI? For starters, it makes anti-aliasing (think, `blurry' fonts, jagged or blurred widgets and 3D objects…
Stare at the sun for a couple of hours; that might help with the whole "seeing pixels" issue.
Sorry.
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#195More Firefly
And I was thinking you meant http://is.gd/rtF6
:D
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Seconded. Just today I looked at ebook reader devices again because I really want one - but the prices are ridiculous. $359 for a kindle? Come on, that buys me about 35 physical books - close to 2 years of reading material. Give me the kindle and 20 books included, then we might be talking.
Some flexibility would be nice here. I'm sure there'd be a few books I'd like to read in the future, so maybe 10 books with the reader and 10 free ones I can choose later would be nice. Still, the XKCD on the Kindle made me really want to try one, if only because of sentimental reasons.
In fact, since the kindle is a closed platform, feel free to lock me into amazon until I have bought enough books to pay it off. I would immediately order a kindle for $0 that forces me to buy the first 100 books at amazon (as long as the pdf function is not crippled). $100 / 50 and other combinations would also work.
I do consider myself an early adopter. But the current asking price is too steep.
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You'd get sick of them right quick... the human digestive system craves variety too much for this to be viable. In any case there are a lot of meal replacement bars out there already. To give you 1/3 of your requirements it has to be a huge bar...
What if Bachelor Chow varied in taste and consistency from can to can?
Imagine a Clif bar the size of your fist. Even if you vary the taste from bar to bar (I'm not sure how you'd vary the consistency meaningfully), wouldn't you get sick of eating such large globs of undifferentiated foodstuff?
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Voted up, because I am actually planning to pay for a giganews feed, now that Time Warner killed there usenet servers.
Missing the point, dude. Its not about what you have access to group-wise, but rather what's posted on the groups. In this case, he's asking for intelligent discussion instead of warez.
I would pay for good access with long article expire times, to only to comp.* and sci.* and the other useful text-only groups. I have never downloaded any binary file from a newsgroup, and I have been using them since about 1994.