Ed Ovett - Comments

@edovett It's not public yet, I will priobably ask a few listeners to beta test with me

April 1, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

i can help beta test. Let me know Web Nex! - Ed Ovett

I'm having Vista display problems. So now it's time do do a new fresh reinstall. BUT should I downgrade to XP? Is Vista really that bad?

December 23, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

And I can't remember Vista ever crashing or hanging. And this is after 20 months of constantly installing/uninstalling many,many questionable free/shareware apps and utilities that I wanted to try. My memories of XP are of constant crashing and hanging. Maybe I should stick with Vista. P.S. I also have a MacBook and it's 100 times better than XP OR Vista. - Tokyo Dan

Not sure what you should do, but whatever you do, listen to this, http://tinyurl.com/93nxdx - Ed Ovett

Tokyo Dan

Today is December 2nd 2008. And WHIT takes you to 7th Avenue in Yokohama to hear a special one-time live performance of Daiki & Little Wings. - Podcast: http://cdn4.libsyn.com/whitoky... - Shownotes: http://www.whitokyo.info/WHIT...

December 9, 2008 from twhirl - Comment - Like - Share

Daiki came back to Japan for a short vacation after nearly two years in Canada. He stayed in Japan about 6 weeks. And then he left Tokyo on the 4th to go back to Toronto for six months. But before he departed, and after only one quick rehearsal, he had a special show show with his old band, Little Wings. The show took place at 7th Avenue, a live house, in Yokohama on the 2nd of December, two days before he left. - Tokyo Dan from twhirl

Just contacted Daiki at his Facebook, thanks to your shownotes Dan! Got the latest WHIT downloaded as well to listen to either tonight or tomorrow. ttyl :-) - Ed Ovett

Thanks Ed - Tokyo Dan

Jason Calacanis

Tesla Wants A Piece Of The Hypothetical Auto Bailout Fund - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...

November 19, 2008 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

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"Actually Tom I’m able to get 200 miles on a charge fairly easily with my Tesla Roadster. My commute is five miles a day, and with another trip or two thrown in a day (i.e. lunch,dinner, meeting, movie, whatever) that means I can charge it every 4-5 days. I just had my charger put in yesterday and with the low speed charger it takes 6-8 hours for a full charge and with high-speed charger it takes 3-4 hours. I actually think I’ll never have to buy/drive another car since I only do two or three road trips a year (i.e. San Diego), and when I do I can us my old Mini Cooper. 95% of folks drive less than 100 miles a day… so the Tesla 2.0 at 60k and 3.0 at 30k would do the trick. Additionally, battery life is getting better and better, so my guess is they will be able to get the range from 220+ to 350-400+ in two years. When the car gets to 400 miles a charge and under 50k then it really starts to make sense because the gas savings of 2-3k a year pays for the additional 15k of the car (or..." - Jason Calacanis

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You were just saying the other day that Congress should give money to Tesla instead of the Big 3. Did you put them up to this? More importantly, does Tesla really need a bailout? How are they doing? And if they went out of business, it would have minimal impact on most people. - Richard Klein from twhirl

Day wouldn't be complete without a Jason/Tesla posting - Fleagle

200 miles on a charge is pretty good already for a car you use daily. I wonder if they can make cars for harder climates like Northern Europe. We have snow here already so the current model might actually have trouble over here in the winter. I postponed buying a new car as I hope that within 2 years there would be more hybrid/electric alternatives in the market. Only option currently is the Toyota Prius. I am not a big fan of that car. - Davide D'Incau

Yeah, bring on a version designed for harder climates, at 50k-60k and I'm there.! - Juho Tunkelo

Detroit has a myopic vision of how the auto industry needs to work. Think about how much this influences daily life from regulations and taxes on gas, to the size of road and amount of pavement in the country. Detroit still has big guns, and they effect everything. For change to really happen, as much as it hurts they need to die. This is about much more than cars. - Greg Birch

Oh boy, more Tesla. - Fleagle

The latest episode of the NPR technology podcast talks about Tesla and interviews the CEO. - Tokyo Dan

Shouldn't ALL automakers get a piece of the bailout fund? Otherwise it's an illegal and unfair advantage to those receiving it, no? (I'm against any kind of bailout at this point... anyway) - Carlos Granier-Phelps

I'd love to be a Tesla dealership in Tokyo. Could sell a million of them here. Lots of rich geeks here who love cool cars. - Tokyo Dan

@Carlos: This is exactly why I'm against the auto bailout. Toyota, Honda, and other foreign car manufacturers are suffering under the economic meltdown as well, but they're not in trouble because they have solid business practices. So I think bailing out GM or all of the Big Three is ridiculous. They have cars no one wants to buy, and awful business practices that got them into this mess. Any other company would either go bankrupt or out of business. I don't think the Big Three are special cases. - Cheryl Jones

@Calacanis - what do you think of Better Place / Shai Agassi - "We buy batteries and clean electricity and we sell miles" re: http://ff.im/65yB - SnakeDoc

I want what no is making: an electric car I can afford. - ComicList

really enjoyed and I know Vobes did, your Skype call to him. Did you speak with Jeff Mahoney first, his call screener? - Ed Ovett

Daniel Johnson, Jr.

packing up and heading back home to Cincinnati. Time to play the Call Dan Game. The number for you to call and chat w/ me: 513 373 4442 Go!

November 17, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I'm subscribed to danieljohnsonjr now on FriendFeed! - Ed Ovett

Daniel Johnson, Jr.

GMail Voice and Video Chat: http://mail.google.com/videoch...

November 17, 2008 from Gmail/Google Talk - Comment - Like - Share

...and I just happened to know who inspired it! - Ed Ovett

Tokyo Dan

Heard on Paul Harvey that AIG execs had another lavish but highly secretive party at the same time as they were asking us for even more money. I wish there were a real-life Ninja that would go and kill those rich arrogant fuckers.

November 11, 2008 from twhirl - Comment - Like - Share

i have a small investment with AIG, just stopped the payroll deductions, about to withdraw all the funds with a 20% penalty, jackasses! - Ed Ovett

Ed Ovett

I hear there's a good music show there! - http://www.edsmixedbag.com

November 10, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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What music show? - Tokyo Dan

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Oh! now understand. It's YOUR music show. Good indeed. Everybody on FriendFeed should check out Ed's show: Ed's Mixed Bag. Ed's one of the pioneer podcasters. Just click the link to get there. - Tokyo Dan

Thanks Dan who himself has become a great virtual friend over the years. Hey I just added a friendfeed badge on the Libsyn page. See www.edsmixedbag.com For newcomers, Libsyn is just shownotes with a media download link. I'm actually hosted by Mevio @ www.edsmixedbag.mevio.com - Ed Ovett

Ed, u should subscribe to some people on FF to make it more interesting 4 u. Go to my page and click on the people I'm subscribed to and in-turn subscribe to some of them. - Tokyo Dan

A lot of really interesting people on FF. - Tokyo Dan

Tokyo Dan

Hey Ed Ovett, get over here.

November 10, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

I'm here now! - Ed Ovett

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Hey Ed. u missed it. FriendFeed was down for the first time this morning. - Tokyo Dan

Really? First time for everything! - Ed Ovett

I just got here via your FF badge on your website. - Tokyo Dan

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