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Re: 2023 Polestar Engineered V60 - One Of The Few Wagons You Can Still Buy

clmensch — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:28:48 -0000

The current V and XC series are still Swedish designs, and manufactured in Sweden. (The high end trims, anyway.) Geely has influenced their design to settle on a single platform, assisted with electrification (Geely's bread and butter), and made some cost cutting decisions...like removing paddle shifters and physical drive mode controls.

The new all electric vehicles are primarily Chinese, will be manufactured in China, and will initially available in the Chinese market. Those are probably the vehicles that will spell the end of Volvo quality, sadly.

Re: New Banksy "Hammer Boy" Piece Is On The Upper West Side

clmensch — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:23:56 -0000

Too late! http://distilleryimage1.ak.... (http://instagram.com/p/fuvx...

Re: Alamo Drafthouse No Longer Coming To Upper West Side

clmensch — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:20:29 -0000

Yeah it seems the community was enthusiastic... http://www.dnainfo.com/new-...

Re: Alamo Drafthouse No Longer Coming To Upper West Side

clmensch — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:03:59 -0000

NO NO NO NO NO. WTF does Sandy have to do with this? Are contractors so in demand now they've jacked their rates? I hadn't been more excited for something new on the UWS in years...probably ever. I've wanted one in NYC since I first visited the Austin location in the 90's. We finally had the chance to have something somewhat cool. I sincerely hope this wasn't due to pressure from tight-assed neighbors.

Re: Bagel Balls Roll Into West Village With Opening Of Bantam Bagels

clmensch — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 13:40:26 -0000

Momofuku has had these exact things for years. They call them "bagel bombs". Delicious.

Re: Still Got It: Gennaro

clmensch — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 21:10:24 -0000

Gennaro is okay, sometimes very delicious. And yes it's a fixture of the hood. But I'll tell you something, if you want the best pasta on the Upper West Side, head to Spiga on 84th & Amsterdam. It's a small yet sophisticated place with the most unbelievable dishes. Simple and fresh. SO good. But beware, it's cash and Amex only.

Re: UWS 84th Street AMC Loews Under Renovation; Premium Reclining Seats Among Improvements

clmensch — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:34:01 -0000

Yeah this is easily the crappiest/most rundown theater on the UWS. I'm excited to see the improvements! Hopefully this will include better (and digital) projection.

Re: Have You Seen The World's Largest Private Yacht In NYC?

clmensch — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:14:13 -0000

You can track ships in near realtime at http://www.marinetraffic.co.... Here's a recent snapshot of where the Eclipse is if you want to check it out... http://imgur.com/y7bPmHs It's docked where all the cruise ships dock, natch.

Re: Lebowski Fest Returns To NYC In April, Tickets On Sale Tomorrow

clmensch — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:26:37 -0000

I'm just gonna go find a cash machine...

Re: Gemma, a 1" diameter Arduino-compatible board for wearable electronics

clmensch — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:32:21 -0000

Looks a lot like the TinyLily ( http://tiny-circuits.com/pr... ), except with fewer IO pins...or even the TinyDuino ( http://tiny-circuits.com/pr... ) without the expansion boards. (Both available from the same funded Kickstarter project.)

Re: 3D printed springy bracelet

clmensch — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:42:05 -0000

I got one of these at the Makerbot Store opening. One thing to say about it...it's quite sharp and actually scraped up my wrist after prolonged wear.

Re: Twitter for minimalists — Satellite — Craig Mod

clmensch — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:55:01 -0000

If you purchase Fluid you get access to sandboxed cookies for each app you create (as opposed to sharing with Safari). So you can create a Fluid Twitter app for each account you need to access. This is how I deal with Google's horribly broken multiple account setup. It's not perfect, but it works!

Re: Central Park Cyclist Crackdown Continues: $225 Ticket Issued For Not Being Nice?

clmensch — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:25:06 -0000

What I don't understand is, why aren't the lights set to flash yellow at times when vehicular traffic is prohibited? That would require the bikes to yield to pedestrians by law but not require them to come to a full stop.

I don't mind the speed trap thing as long as it's rational...like at the posted 25mph limited.

Re: http://blog.tonyhschu.ca/post/28605659209

clmensch — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:32:00 -0000

Being at sea isn't necessarily about staying at sea. Some do it to make it to shore on their own terms, and in a boat that they built themselves.

Re: Google Takeout introduces transfer tool for Google+ circles, merges your work and personal life

clmensch — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:16:23 -0000

If I could login to Google properties from multiple Gmail accounts, that would be something. (And not the barely-working and painful method they currently employ...)

Re: Want to collect quotes from your Kindle or the web? Findings can help.

clmensch — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:45:01 -0000

Corey from Findings here. We absolutely hope Findings to be useful in educational settings! Clip notes can have hashtags (i.e. "#psych101") and the tags themselves are viewable as a stream. So students can share their highlights within a class or on a particular subject.

Additionally, I've been co-teaching at the Columbia School of Journalism this semester and my fellow instructor has been using Findings to highlight salient points in the writings of our students. (The students are required to post assignments to a blog.) Then when we discuss readings in class we can use Findings to further the discussion by showing the quotes on the class screen.

Re: WSJ: Sprint places $20 billion order for next iPhone, hinges company future on Apple's handset?

clmensch — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:17:18 -0000

And how do you feel about paying for that subsidy after the cost of the phone is recovered? The whole reason they want you locked into a contract is so they can charge you enough to pay for the phone AND continue to make even higher margins once it's paid for. You're paying for that phone one way or another.

Re: Amazon Kindle Touch impressions (video)

clmensch — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:46:29 -0000

Wow what an absolutely horrible quality video. Your autofocus was going haywire and of course the audio is just terrible. Utter crap, Engadget. You should be ashamed.

Re: Quickoffice update brings document editing to the TouchPad

clmensch — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:47:58 -0000

I'd like to disagree with the statement "editing of Powerpoint presentations is sorely lacking" nonsense. I find this to be a feature.

Re: Sharing My Kindle Highlights

clmensch — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:15:14 -0000

I'm co-founder of Findings, a betaworks company, which is something of a companion to kindle.amazon.com. Findings allows readers to import their highlights and annotations from their Kindle ebooks or highlighted text from any website. Once imported, we add a social layer...allowing users to copy and annotate one another's highlights, or follow one another's streams. Users can browse or search their own and each other's highlights, including by book, website, or author. For example, here are the community highlights from Steven Johnson's most recent book, Where Good Ideas Come From: http://findings.com/book/B0... We're currently in private beta, but will be opening up soon.

Re: HP TouchPad discounted to $399.99 this weekend; Updated x2: $299.99 at Staples

clmensch — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:05:28 -0000

Yeah it is an iPad 1, so maybe that's why it refreshes...but I'm not convinced that it's a completely eliminated risk with an iPad 2. As for why I'd want a browser running in the background...well there are lots of reasons: sites like Gmail, Facebook and Twitter render fine, so it's nice to allow them to update in the background. Any site that has embedded video or audio works (Flash or HTML5), including Turntable.fm...and I don't need to worry if there's a HTML5 version of a video (rare on Facebook embeds), nor do I have to know some hidden/unintuitive/disruptive sequence of controls to get them to continue playing after I close like on the iPad.

But beyond having a browser run in the background, ANY app will run in the background...and WebOS's notification system blows iOS out of the water...even iOS5 from the looks of the previews. One good example, the Instapaper clone for WebOS, Paper Mache, updates itself in the background. I never have to worry that I forgot to open Instapaper on my TouchPad before going into the subway...and that also goes for RSS readers. This is such basic functionality it boggles my mind that iOS still doesn't allow it.

The TouchPad is FAR from perfect, there are clearly a lot of things I miss from my iPad. For example, I really wish I had Flipboard on it. But alas, I'm resigned to the fact that the app catalog will always be behind iOS...but that doesn't mean there aren't some great apps available. In fact, the TouchPad's Facebook app is far better than anything on the iPad (that includes the website...it's broken in several ways on the iPad.)

If you're like me and both love and believe in the web...it's a better tablet. The browser is great, though there are some things I like better about Safari, such as its speed. I do have hope that HP will continue to optimize it, as Apple has done so well. I find the TouchPad does a better job overall of rendering a desktop-class experience for the web. Many sites (including Twitter, Facebook, and Google+) force iPads onto a "mobile" version of the site, or bombard you with ads for their "native" app. Unless it's something that truly needs a native experience, I'm perfectly happy accessing a site's content via the web itself...and in fact I love that I'm supporting its continued existence rather than the walled garden of the iTunes App Store.

Re: HP TouchPad discounted to $399.99 this weekend; Updated x2: $299.99 at Staples

clmensch — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:02:18 -0000

I realized I didn't write the whole thing correctly...I just updated it. Mainly, I added an action of starting and sending a new email message for the image BEFORE sending the initial one, and then continuing on without hiccup.

Sure, this is POSSIBLE on an iPad...but it is so clunky and slow to flip between actions like this it's frustrating as hell. I own an iPad, too, and the act of flipping between apps is maddening after using my TouchPad. Even with the four-fingered gesture, it's still not the same...the apps (including the browser) are not actually running in the background, and most aren't good at saving their state. For example, Mobile Safari (and the other browsers that still use a Safari web view) often refreshes the page after getting focus back...and if you were in the midst of a form you can kiss your work goodbye.

The TouchPad ain't perfect, but there are plenty of moments where I'm blown away by its utter superiority.

Re: HP TouchPad discounted to $399.99 this weekend; Updated x2: $299.99 at Staples

clmensch — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:34:44 -0000

A typical use case for my TouchPad... From the browser, copy some text, then start a new email message card from the Mail app and paste it in and write something, then go back to the browser and copy some more text, then go back to the email message you already started and paste that in as well. Then go to another site, save an image locally, then go back to the email app and attach the image to a *new* message and send it, then flip back to the original message and continue on.

Now try that on an iPad and tell me that the TouchPad isn't awesome.

Re: How TouchPad Stacks Up to iPad (Video)

clmensch — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:40:16 -0000

Doesn't Honeycomb only have a few hundred targeted apps? All the rest of the Android apps aren't made for tablets and expect hard buttons and completely different resolutions. Plus Walt makes it sound like all 400,000 iOS apps are iPad ready, which they are not. Only 100,000 are. Sure that's several orders of magnitude more than the TouchPad, but he overestimated by 75% of the entire catalog. When he makes such glaring mistakes it really hurts his credibility as a an expert on the technology.

Re: Video: Frogger Meets Paperboy Meets Spy Hunter In One Intersection

clmensch — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:12:58 -0000

This just smacks of an editing job with an obvious slant. It shows asshole cyclists, idiot pedestrians, AND likely NJ drivers doing some pretty wrong things. But like IvoryJive said...the creator complains about this being related to the expansion of bike lines and a) this intersection doesn't have one and b) features bikers who probably wouldn't use it anyway.

I sure hope the video doesn't get any traction because it's a misleading pile of garbage.