The laser guidance system costs $70K by itself. http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/consumer&i...

It makes sense on long haul trucking but it is going to have to get a LOT cheaper before it goes on passenger cars. 10+ yrs is my guess before you see it on luxury cars. Same as Tesla.

People who can afford a driver will replace them with Google Bots who won't sell their story to People.

china sent 380. GB is the host country. It gets automatic entries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics#Sorted_by_...

How about adjusting by the number of Olympians per country?

There's an upper limit, and the bigger countries send all they can. (Unless with Olympian you mean something other than number of entrants?)

GPL V3 so I would not take a chance with it.

If there is another speech generator with permissive licensing we can compile that one too.

I have no problem paying for good software. The cost seems in the ballpark if it had all the features I need.

I would want the ability to add different classes other than just h1, h2.

Most of my projects will be using twitter bootstrap or jquery UI so it has to integrate well.

The link popup does not have the ability to add a target. For UGC, I would like the ability to force a target and add google analytics code.

Thanks Badragon for the comment.

It's good to hear that people will pay for a good product, even with the availability of free alternatives. Of course, we would have to offer a superior product.

We already have the ability to add different classes than H1, H2, etc. and we can do this very elegantly. In fact, we support something called named styles. Here's a few definitions.

Title: div.title > Subtitle

Subtitle: div.subtitle > Normal

This tells us that we have a named style called "Title" that is represented by a DIV element with class "title" and that after you hit enter at the end of it, it will end up in the "Subtitle" named class. This is already implemented but not exposed because we haven't built the UI for selecting Named Styles as a dropdown in the beta. This will be in there for the production release though.

We will most likely have sets of "Named Styles" that are compatible with Twitter Bootstrap and other common frameworks at some point. You will also be able to easily create your own Named Styles, probably in an online UI that will build your editor for you.

Note that once you define the Named Styles, the editor whitelists to them so you can't get "illegal" element/class combinations which lets you (the developer) keep the HTML consistent for your needs instead of hoping your users won't break your styles.

We'll keep in mind the ability to add a target for links. We hadn't thought about the need for this until you mentioned it.

TheSunny

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Great to know that this might be something you're willing to pay for.

Different classes and better link handling are on the roadmap which you can find on the "What's Coming" page.

We plan to make the UI easily modifiable so that you can use anything to style it. This is one of our goals.

There's a lot more to come.

It would be nice to add this to App Engine so people outside Google could try it. There is an issue on Google Code for it.

I would buy a Ubuntu laptop. I feel like a fool that I spent money on a MacBook Pro. I was too lazy to get a Linux laptop working.

Just give me a price. I don't want to discuss pricing.

Don't be lazy. Throw out a price.

Is it normal business practice to use ultimatums instead of negotiation?

Sounds like a simple scaling issue

When I was starting learning Python, I considered Ruby. At the time, Ruby was Active Record only. Active Record does not let you use SQL procedures without defeating the whole purpose of Rails. For me, it meant that Rails was only good for toy CRUD apps.