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CES Tidbits
Various newsbits from the Consumer Electronics Show: Verizon promises cell phone TV; USB flash drives get more useful; Transmeta promises a fanless media center device, sometime; things you can stick on your iPod; and a tech site offers a photographic overview of day 0 of the convention.
Oh, now I get it. Nerds.
Digital cameras that act as cell phones?
Handheld gameboy clones that play MP3s?
Mp3 players that play videogames?
Cell phones that play MP3's?
Cell phones that play videogames?
Mp3 players that take digital pictures?
Gameboys that make phone calls?
If I left off any of the the ridiculous convergence that makes up so much of tech buzz these days, let me know.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
All: Day-0, day-ay-ay-0
All: Bill Gates come and he wanna go home
All: Day, he say day, he say day, he say day,
All: He say day, he say day-ay-ay-o
All: Microsoft come and he wanna go home
Boys: Hack all night on a drink a'rum
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home
Boys: Hack manana till thee morning come
Girls: Bill gates come and he wanna go home
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
In the /. world, Microsoft's media center is already fanless.
Let me tell you about a guy with an MBA from Harvard I know who grew up in Midland, Texas -- aka the Ass End of Nowhere. He was absolutely brilliant, particularly with human relationships.
Now if you spoke to this guy, you'd never believe he graduated from college, much less got through grad school at the finest institution of higher education in the USA. He actually used that to his advantage. I saw him do this time and time again... he'd slip into the backwards Texas drawl, mess up some word or speech on purpose, and then people would think, "Oh, what a stupid hick." Of course, at this point, they were at his mercy, just like the lady and the vendor in the tale you describe.
Only this guy one-upped your gal and then some. He became President of the United States this way.
Twice.