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Microsoft Shows Off Watch, Portable Media Player
gmt-time points to this New York Times article with a report from the in-progress Consumer Electronics Show, excerpting "Microsoft, continuing its effort to extend its reach beyond computers, today introduced designs for a new class of watch that gives more than the time and a pocket audio and video player." According to the article, several manufacturers are committed to producing both the watches (mentioned yesterday as well) and the audio/video players. I wonder if they'll play Ogg Vorbis and my DivX;) files ...
Who the hell wants a watch that crashes with the BSOD whenever I ask it to tell me the time!
Signatures are for stupids.
I wonder if it'll be more than a fancy toy/gadget. To be quite honest, I'm quite satisfied with my watch showing the time (and possibly also the date). For music, and even moreso with video, I prefer a more tangible device.
Now, integrating the whole thing in a cellphone, pda or smartphone, I can go along with. In fact, I've ditched my old watch since it's easier to just keep everything in my phone - which, by the way, I can do a lot more than listening to music and watching video on. =)
Considering the runaway profitablilty of the XBOX, I am sure this will prove to be a similarly astounding foray into the world away from PC's! soon we'll have Palladium toilet paper by microsoft. Trustworthy Whiping.
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If the MS Watch works like the MS box that I have sitting next to my linux box (so I can test web pages on IE), what the watch will do is reboot 3 or 4 times per day. Each time it will make yet another DST correction, despite the fact that DST is no longer in effect and I've checked the box saying not to do DST.
;-)
If I absentmindedly click the OK button, the watchk will be off by an hour. But mostly it'll be just another annoyance when I look at the watch to check the time, find that it has rebooted, mumble a few choice obscenities, and twiddle with it to turn the DST thingie off yet again so I can see the time.
And it'll lose 45 seconds per day.
Yeah, I know there's a linux watch available. But I can't really see running an xterm on it. The default borders and title bar would take up the whole screen, and I'd probably never find a way to turn them off.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I sure as hell aren't wearing any Microsoft product with a metal side touching my skin. My wrist would probably develop a twitch from the "corrective" shocks coming from the watch whenever I sit down at my Linux box...
I wonder if they'll play Ogg Vorbis and my DivX;) files ...
:)
HA HA! HOO HOO HOO!
<wipes eyes>
Too funny. Why don't you just ask if they can come with your favorite Linux distro preinstalled too
This is a translation (without permission) from a blurb in todays Neue Zurcher Zeitung regarding introduction of a new Microsoft Powered cell phone to be introduced by Swisscom.
[...] While Orange integrated their customers into bug hunting, Swisscom is still waiting until the first software update is rolled out.
Currently engineers at Swisscom, Microsoft and HTC (the manufacturer) are trying to determine why the phone doesn't ring on incoming calls[...]
I know, that this is slightly offtopic. But would you trust such a watch to provide the correct time of day?
ich bin der musikant
mit taschenrechner in der hand
kraftwerk
I heard this was similar to the microsoft watch, but costs one third the price. This hurdle should not be a problem for Microsoft Marketing.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
No.
It won't.
... A pretty lady asked me what time on my watch.
And I said....
"It's two bluescreens past 3:00"
(with apologies to Chicago....)
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what? you mean headphones?
The World's Worst Webcomic!
The person modeling the watch will be Christopher Walken.
I've had this watch up my ass for 3 years while my buddy Bill here has been waiting for the right time to unveil this prototype. The amazng thing is that you can almost still see the display.
"Sorry I'm late, Boss -- my watch crashed again"
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
i think that we shouuld all hold out for a .net collar that can keep track of where we are and what we are listening to. one convienient package that fits snugly around you neck, that would be the way to go.
>Why the *^&% should I again shell out the big bux for a watch that I am eventually going to wind up smashing with a sledgehammer like I did the MessageWatch??
;)
Late breaking news:
Seiko announced it was reversing its decision to leave the FM data business.
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