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- d2002, on 12/02/2008, -2/+77That reminds me, I have to give the woman who brushes my teeth a raise.
- ScottMcIntyre, on 12/02/2008, -4/+37Letter to Santa: "Can I please have a Kaleidescape Home Entertainment System... only $10,000." ;-)
- bambala, on 12/02/2008, -2/+28http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,154432 ...
- mikebenson, on 12/02/2008, -1/+22I know what's going to be on my christmas list this year. Dear Santa, I want the car, the plane, the liquid computer, the...
- trer, on 12/02/2008, -1/+20I'm happy with my Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Thanks.
- Czechxican, on 12/02/2008, -1/+19Dear SANTA, I wish for world peace. If you can't do that then a Hardcore Reactor Extreme Desktop PC will suffice.
ps. the Motorola Cell Phone looks like *****. - DirectTulip, on 12/02/2008, -2/+15Darling, forgot about the one that ties your shoes? C-c-c-c.
;) - Rocksea24, on 12/02/2008, -1/+13Yes because we all know you refused any niceties in your own life and gave it all to the starving poor right? Because you wouldn't dare wear Nike shoes or designer clothes when people are starving, right?
Take your self righteousness and shove it. People who have the money to buy this kind of stuff also donate the most to charitable causes. - Rikkochet, on 12/02/2008, -0/+12What a useless product, though. It's a simple media center - they've been selling them for years for hundreds of dollars.
But with this fancy, expensive media center will you still have to manually encode all of your movies to get them into the system? Well, yes.
If it came with a loading unit that had a robotic arm to load your stack of DVDs and automate the encoding we'd have something.
This thing is like buying Bose home theater equipment - you're not buying it because it sounds the best, you're buying it because it's expensive and you assume that means it's great. - CarbonKid, on 12/02/2008, -2/+13ef all of that! a true sign of wealth is a personal ball washer!....
- kakwakas, on 12/02/2008, -0/+11Do you not realize which site you're on?
- Spire3660, on 12/02/2008, -0/+10That Kaleidescape is HORRIBLY overpriced for what it does. Not to mention its really hamstrung by licensing issues to be truly robust. (media re-encoding for portable formats, multi-house sharing, integration of all playable video formats) etc. Basically you are paying for a DRM system for your DVD collection to give you 'limited' rights to watch them. Kaleidescape had to jump through some serious hoops to be able to get the DVD consortium to sign off on it, and they still werent happy about the whole idea.
- t3rmv3locity, on 12/02/2008, -1/+11Ehhh, the list sorta fell apart after 5 or 6.
- inactive, on 12/02/2008, -1/+10How new, and this article is going to stop or contribute to that in what way? Stop trying to be so politically correct - this article is just for geeks to slober over.
- lvliv, on 12/02/2008, -0/+8agreed it got boring when they brought vehicles in the mix..Everyone knows when someone gets a huge sum of money for a stupid reason they are going to get an ridiculously fast car.
- dalittle, on 12/02/2008, -0/+8Who needs $10,000 for that? You can build that Kalidaskope system using Mythtv.org. And Mythtv is open source so all you would have to spend money on is the hardware so a working system would be less than $500.
- Jektal, on 12/02/2008, -0/+8Slaves?
- inactive, on 12/02/2008, -0/+8Okay libsucker, but then how much have you donated? I seriously doubt they actually have the equipment they listed nor do they expect people to buy it becuase of this article... The article make several jokes about 'poor' people, it's obviously not serious.
- subliminalurge, on 12/02/2008, -1/+9Ok, so as long as you have that covered, I can go ahead and ask for the private jet?
- groo68, on 12/02/2008, -2/+9communist.
- ousthouse, on 12/02/2008, -0/+7Think of it this way... if the obscenely wealthy didn't buy waste their money by buying insanely priced computers in the past - we wouldn't have more powerful cheap computers everyone can afford today.
- inactive, on 12/02/2008, -0/+6The troll is playin' y'all like a fiddle.
- ParanoydAndroid, on 12/02/2008, -0/+6Why would you make such a horrible, unfounded presumption? If there are rich people buying these items, who's to say they're not already donating to charity? Bill Gates gives millions a year to his charity, for example.
Even if they give a percentally small portion of their wealth to charities, they probably still make a larger difference than you or I ever will.
Or maybe people who are generally not rich, but can occasionally splurge, would buy items like this.
Also, spending money in the economy does benefit everyone. It may not benefit everyone equally, and the way you choose to distribute your wealth can assuredly affect the efficiency of the dispersion of the wealth throughout the economy, but it definitely does spread.
Last, people have a right to spend their money as they see fit. Don't dare condemn people who you know nothing about for spending their money, which they have probably sacrificed time, health, or a social life for, in a way that benefits them. Charity is great, and giving should be encouraged, but I think it's sickening to see some hypocrite decrying people for enjoying themeselves.
Here's a tip, sell your computer and give up your internet connection. That cash could feed literally hundreds of people who are starving in Africa. Or are you not expected to sacrifice? - Czechxican, on 12/02/2008, -1/+7You can't win if you don't play.
A genius buys one ticket, only a fool buys two. - oboshoe, on 12/02/2008, -0/+6True,
But your dead anyway and being dead, money doesn't help much.
I suppose if you a billionaire, then $200g for the remote chance of getting to live again in some future age would be a small amount of money for a nice payoff.
And if it doesn't work, well your still dead and nothing has changed. - Jektal, on 12/02/2008, -0/+6Actually, it hasn't been floating at all, just sort of sitting there looking like it ought to float, but can't.
- cawfee, on 12/02/2008, -1/+7Finally an article that doesn't pawn off diamond-encrusted three-dollar MP3 players as "luxurious technology".
- Volatile36, on 12/02/2008, -3/+9Dugg, but jeez...Come on. Too many pages.
- inactive, on 12/02/2008, -0/+6Aren't you the guy who thinks people should be forced into medical experimentation against their will?
- MaynardJK, on 12/02/2008, -0/+5Exactly. Ripping dvds to your own computer is simple. Sharing files from your computer is simple. Making an xbmc box from an old xbox or building an htpc to connect to your tv is not that difficult and (can be) cheap. I just don't see what else that thing could possibly do to deserve that kind of price tag.
- iloveobama, on 12/02/2008, -0/+5As long as the proles are happy
- pudds, on 12/02/2008, -2/+710 pages of advertisements ftl, even if I don't see them with Adblock.
- ICSU, on 12/02/2008, -0/+4Two of the products there will help technology, Tesla roadster and private space flight.
The rest is crap. - wrobson, on 12/02/2008, -1/+5Can the obscenely wealthy hurry up and buy as much of this as possible so the prices can drop.
- SingleMaltWSKY, on 12/02/2008, -1/+5Will that Moller Skycar thing ever die? How long has it been floating around?
- cannarymburns, on 12/02/2008, -0/+4just ask akeem joffer of zamunda!
- CynicalTyler, on 12/02/2008, -1/+5No, people don't usually pay their husbands.
- DiggzDE, on 12/02/2008, -1/+5 I don't pay the guy who wipes my ass. He does it for free. Is that unusual?
- oboshoe, on 12/02/2008, -0/+4I doubt the author is wealthy.
He's just a working scrub like the rest of us. - Shazbuckle, on 12/02/2008, -2/+6I'm not browsing 10 pages. I hate that site.
Buried - inactive, on 12/02/2008, -0/+4Do you really think any zillionaires would choose to fly solo in the bedroom?
- tehbored, on 12/02/2008, -0/+4A fool and his money are easily separated. If you want to stay rich you won't waste money on products like these. Except for maybe the Tesla Roadster. I'd probably buy that.
- inactive, on 12/02/2008, -0/+3Flying cars will never 'catch on' with any but a handful of wealthy people until they prove to be extremely reliable and idiot-proof. Few people sitting on a mountain of cash choose to be reckless with their lives.
- 55mph, on 12/02/2008, -1/+4they don't show you the portable pussy in the drawer. the carmen electra model is popular among the zillionaires.
- bjornski, on 12/02/2008, -1/+4No, I'll buy two. But not more. That one extra ticket cutting down your odds by that large of a percentage is worth one more pick. But trying to work the math any further than that gets to be such small increases in percentages that it's not worth it.
I figure my odds are about the same if I don't play at all, so I save the $2 a week. - inactive, on 12/02/2008, -0/+3World peace? But that's what I wished for!
- Topher07, on 12/02/2008, -0/+3Technology for the obscenely wealthy? I thought we just called that "Apple..."
- Scrappy1850, on 12/02/2008, -0/+340 years
- bjornski, on 12/02/2008, -1/+4Add it to the rent for the basement.
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