Amazon’s Drones Dream is just that

Amazon’s Drones Dream is just that… a dream

Regardless, of how cool anyone sees this.

It would be a bit foolish to figure a bunch of drones flying around in every city just humming up the sky as a feezible tolerable thing and never once considering how kids will start trying to pop them out of the sky.and a few drunk adults.
I can’t imagine there being that many of the Amazon drones shooting around in a city and no one getting hurt, no mid air collisions or it not being a huge waste of resources.
1 u.p.s. driver makes one long round trip around a city and drops off 400lbs worth of  small 1lbs packages. in 8 hours.A small helli shooting 20 miles out at 3-10 miles an hour to and back, can do that … what… once? Twice a day? How many drones would it take to get 400 one pound boxes out?
Picture a guy unloading a truck of junk freshly shipped from wherever. He is at the front of a neighborhood at the Amazon shipping facility. because they all are at the front of neighborhoods since the drones are slow and have short flight spans. He spends an hour or two unloading the truck and evenly spacing the packages out for the drones. now it takes 7 hours for all of the packages to get to the residents, while the delivery guy could have done it in about an hour or three.
Plus imagine the thugs and trash that will follow those things around to get free merchandise?
The whole drone idea is100% idiotic and childish.

Are we all really the “generation of instant gratification”? is this proof of how lazy we are? Is this proof of how we want items 30 minutes sooner, so bad that we will get millions of people laid off just so we can see “change” ? What if you are the last guy in a day’s drone shipping? You won’t get it any sooner, neither would the first delivery.

Sometimes some types of change are the dumbest idea.

 

The New Kindle Gets Praise

The E-Reader from Amazon The New Kindle Was launched. Today.
I am seeing posts from Kevin Rose, Mashable, Techcrunch,cnet, ZDNet all talking about the Kindle and how it is killing or taking the market.
If the new kindle isn’t evolved more than a plastic case, then … well it would look like somebody’s got money to throw in the air.
I hope the new Kindle does rock the scene, someone has to put Apple in it’s place.
Will Amazon make much profit from a world that have a lot of people who already have a device to download books to?
It seems the e-reader business would pretty much be getting limited by now. Considering the cost of this device that lets you read a book as long as your battery will last, and then the cost per book, no place to really put the thing when you are not in your car. the Kindle will not fit in your pocket. Most e-readers if left in your car stand reason for someone to break into your car. If you carry the kindle around with you, you stand a chance of crushing it. So I don’t see much reason that people would want a second e-reader. Sure it helps the environment and keeps us from using the scraps at the lumber mill to make paper from. but most people will first think of what effects them. Then again, many wont.
We shall see what happens in the latest e-reader race,

Grand Theft Auto IV Radio Goes Amazon

“Amazon is lending its digital music service as a special feature for the much-anticipated upcoming videogame “Grand Theft Auto IV,” allowing gamers to download music discovered via the game’s soundtrack.”

From here

In sum it says that you can get cell phone (in game) notifications and emails about your favorite songs in game.

That is the online content it boasted?