That's exactly what I was thinking. If $350 means I don't have to worry about two devices mucking up the stream, I'm sorely tempted to pick one of these up.
It's not about copying the content, it's about being able to actually USE the damn content.
I've long said that's what was killing Ford when I was there. There was no thought about what was happening next quarter, let alone 5 years down the line. It was all about making the numbers this week. That's what lead them to cede the small cars to the foreign companies, and concentrate solely on SUVs, which pretty much tanked the company when the SUV market fell over (that and the bad press about the Explorer, but that's another story).
Seriously, outside of just being paid advertisements and shills for the syndicated programming, there's not a lot of reporting going on for local news. The product is just terrible to watch, at least in our area.
I'm sure at some point they're going to say that the Internet is killing CNN. On that, I can fully agree: Reading comments from Twitter, voting on stories via Twitter, and showing cat videos from Youtube will definitely kill CNN dead.
Music and Movie reproduction are all about trade-offs. I'd love for Rush to play an intimate concert in my living room, but unfortunately they're currently busy in Europe, so I have to settle for seeing them live when I can, and playing their CDs when they're not available. It's a compromise I can live with. I rip all of my CDs to.FLAC because I want the best possible sound. That's a compromise I can't live without.
Unfortunately, the movie theater owners are making compromises for me by not changing the lenses of their equipment to suit the film. To me, that's one more agitation to seeing a movie in the theater. Having to deal with schedules, other inconsiderate people, and high ticket prices means additional trade-offs. Would that I could have a larger screen with theater sound systems at home, would that satisfy your requirement for me to watch a movie? Or is there something special about the whole theater-going experience that somehow transcends the hardware of that experience? I'm perfectly content with the compromises of my home setup, as are many other folks for whom even a small iPad is adequate for movie watching.
I just hope the movie theater hasn't compromised your theater-going experience without your knowledge. At least I know where my compromises are.
Gee, so on top of the projector problems, I have the various annoyances from people not behaving properly in the theater, possible sound-quality issues, and an overall sub-par experience. Or I could just wait for it to come out on DVD, and watch it at home, where I know the quality of the TV, DVD player, and sound system. And I can pause it if I need to take a potty break.
So what's the benefit to me for seeing it in the movie theater?
(And no, 3D is not a benefit because my wife gets splitting headaches from watching 3D movies).
This kind of behavior is why my wife got a HP 50G for her birthday, rather than the TI-92. As far as I know, HP doesn't care one whit about what you do with their calculators, just as long as you give them money for the initial purchase.
Considering their new beta plan screwed up a lot of sites for bands, I think the migration numbers are not only right, but also will increase as more bands move to other social media platforms. The only reason I even think to go to Myspace is because some band has made it their landing page. If Myspace continues to be hostile to the only group that keeps it alive, they will have no choice but to go away.
Considering IE6 has had an unduly long life in today's software world, it's no surprise. There are still businesses out there that rely with almost thumb-sucking adherence to keeping their sites IE6 compatible.
I'm firmly in the camp of letting IE6 have the browser wars, and letting it graze peacefully into the great software pasture in the sky, but alas, we're nowhere near that area yet.
Exactly my point. Jeopardy is still a figurative nut to crack. Just because it beat a human at a contest doesn't mean that no-one will try to perfect it. What we saw was remarkable, but it's still a hard problem. When we see a computer play a perfect game of Jeopardy every single time, then we can consider the problem completely solved. Until then, the chase is afoot!
Betty Crocker has a FAQ on all the ways you can screw up cooking Hamburger Helper. Would you say the people who need the help have no business eating?
I'm not entirely joking - it's in the best interest of everyone for companies to make their products accessible to as large a market as possible. In this case, MS probably decided that autorun was doing more harm than good, but the concept (make it as easy as possible to install software) was a good one.
I'd say the person involved needs to save up that Hamburger Helper money and order pizza.
So, essentially the bottom line of AOL is bolstered by "inertia"? Is there a compelling reason why someone hasn't told the investors and / or the people getting bilked?
I'm starting my patent application for a one-way relationship where I intensely dislike a particular entity for their ass-hat methods of scooping up obvious, real-world-inspired situations and turning them into something it calls "intellectual property".
So, it's going to be yet another useless publication in an already crowded arena? I mean, Dr. Dobbs is pretty much a parody of itself, and there's few print magazines that are worth the time investment to even open the magazine. What's this new iteration going to provide, other than a stark reminder of the mojo that Byte magazine no longer has?
In other words: Please stop devaluing our property! We need these users on here, or we won't make the millions, er... thousands, er... hundreds of dollars in selling it off to someone else!
Java is still a viable concern because of inertia. There are a lot of companies that bought into Java, J2EE, and the rest that are still going to be using Java regardless if Oracle mandates every developer wear a silly hat and pray to Larry Ellison 3 times daily. And again, Redmonk is a developer-based tea-leaf reader; nobody in business will care what developers fancy as the next big thing, because Java is here in their datacenter making stuff work now.
Sad to say, but even if every single current Java developer swore off never to code another line, there would still be Java out there, and folks ready to learn to take their place. COBOL didn't need a community, and Java won't either.
Beg pardon, but I pretty much see Apple dropping Java support as telling, rather than a bad thing. It means Apple is looking to control all ends of the development chain.
Because communities cost money to maintain. Oracle doesn't care about whiny developers; they only care about the bottom line. Developers will use what they're told by their management. Period. End of story.
As much as Oracle is an anathema to what developers and techies hold dear, until Oracle starts to see some damage to the bottom line, they won't care one iota.
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This is now my go-to site for crappy Web 2.0 clipart.
Bookmarked!
That's exactly what I was thinking. If $350 means I don't have to worry about two devices mucking up the stream, I'm sorely tempted to pick one of these up.
It's not about copying the content, it's about being able to actually USE the damn content.
Thank you, Rob, for an awesome ride. I'm glad to have gotten the chance to meet you as a colleague, and I look forward to your next gig.
I've long said that's what was killing Ford when I was there. There was no thought about what was happening next quarter, let alone 5 years down the line. It was all about making the numbers this week. That's what lead them to cede the small cars to the foreign companies, and concentrate solely on SUVs, which pretty much tanked the company when the SUV market fell over (that and the bad press about the Explorer, but that's another story).
Seriously, outside of just being paid advertisements and shills for the syndicated programming, there's not a lot of reporting going on for local news. The product is just terrible to watch, at least in our area.
I'm sure at some point they're going to say that the Internet is killing CNN. On that, I can fully agree: Reading comments from Twitter, voting on stories via Twitter, and showing cat videos from Youtube will definitely kill CNN dead.
Awesome. I should really check out slashdot.org sometime. :)
Readable websites that don't have inline ads in them, unlike the article linked.
I use lossless compression for my music, because I like the higher quality over MP3 files.
Music and Movie reproduction are all about trade-offs. I'd love for Rush to play an intimate concert in my living room, but unfortunately they're currently busy in Europe, so I have to settle for seeing them live when I can, and playing their CDs when they're not available. It's a compromise I can live with. I rip all of my CDs to .FLAC because I want the best possible sound. That's a compromise I can't live without.
Unfortunately, the movie theater owners are making compromises for me by not changing the lenses of their equipment to suit the film. To me, that's one more agitation to seeing a movie in the theater. Having to deal with schedules, other inconsiderate people, and high ticket prices means additional trade-offs. Would that I could have a larger screen with theater sound systems at home, would that satisfy your requirement for me to watch a movie? Or is there something special about the whole theater-going experience that somehow transcends the hardware of that experience? I'm perfectly content with the compromises of my home setup, as are many other folks for whom even a small iPad is adequate for movie watching.
I just hope the movie theater hasn't compromised your theater-going experience without your knowledge. At least I know where my compromises are.
Gee, so on top of the projector problems, I have the various annoyances from people not behaving properly in the theater, possible sound-quality issues, and an overall sub-par experience. Or I could just wait for it to come out on DVD, and watch it at home, where I know the quality of the TV, DVD player, and sound system. And I can pause it if I need to take a potty break.
So what's the benefit to me for seeing it in the movie theater?
(And no, 3D is not a benefit because my wife gets splitting headaches from watching 3D movies).
This kind of behavior is why my wife got a HP 50G for her birthday, rather than the TI-92. As far as I know, HP doesn't care one whit about what you do with their calculators, just as long as you give them money for the initial purchase.
Considering their new beta plan screwed up a lot of sites for bands, I think the migration numbers are not only right, but also will increase as more bands move to other social media platforms. The only reason I even think to go to Myspace is because some band has made it their landing page. If Myspace continues to be hostile to the only group that keeps it alive, they will have no choice but to go away.
Considering IE6 has had an unduly long life in today's software world, it's no surprise. There are still businesses out there that rely with almost thumb-sucking adherence to keeping their sites IE6 compatible.
I'm firmly in the camp of letting IE6 have the browser wars, and letting it graze peacefully into the great software pasture in the sky, but alas, we're nowhere near that area yet.
Exactly my point. Jeopardy is still a figurative nut to crack. Just because it beat a human at a contest doesn't mean that no-one will try to perfect it. What we saw was remarkable, but it's still a hard problem. When we see a computer play a perfect game of Jeopardy every single time, then we can consider the problem completely solved. Until then, the chase is afoot!
Right, because Deep Blue spanking Kasparov totally ruined chess for everyone else. ;)
I'm pretty sure it won't be quite the same, but I'm sure they'll manage.
Betty Crocker has a FAQ on all the ways you can screw up cooking Hamburger Helper. Would you say the people who need the help have no business eating?
I'm not entirely joking - it's in the best interest of everyone for companies to make their products accessible to as large a market as possible. In this case, MS probably decided that autorun was doing more harm than good, but the concept (make it as easy as possible to install software) was a good one.
I'd say the person involved needs to save up that Hamburger Helper money and order pizza.
So, essentially the bottom line of AOL is bolstered by "inertia"? Is there a compelling reason why someone hasn't told the investors and / or the people getting bilked?
I'm starting my patent application for a one-way relationship where I intensely dislike a particular entity for their ass-hat methods of scooping up obvious, real-world-inspired situations and turning them into something it calls "intellectual property".
So, it's going to be yet another useless publication in an already crowded arena? I mean, Dr. Dobbs is pretty much a parody of itself, and there's few print magazines that are worth the time investment to even open the magazine. What's this new iteration going to provide, other than a stark reminder of the mojo that Byte magazine no longer has?
... and home of the paid.
In other words: Please stop devaluing our property! We need these users on here, or we won't make the millions, er... thousands, er... hundreds of dollars in selling it off to someone else!
Java is still a viable concern because of inertia. There are a lot of companies that bought into Java, J2EE, and the rest that are still going to be using Java regardless if Oracle mandates every developer wear a silly hat and pray to Larry Ellison 3 times daily. And again, Redmonk is a developer-based tea-leaf reader; nobody in business will care what developers fancy as the next big thing, because Java is here in their datacenter making stuff work now.
Sad to say, but even if every single current Java developer swore off never to code another line, there would still be Java out there, and folks ready to learn to take their place. COBOL didn't need a community, and Java won't either.
Beg pardon, but I pretty much see Apple dropping Java support as telling, rather than a bad thing. It means Apple is looking to control all ends of the development chain.
Because communities cost money to maintain. Oracle doesn't care about whiny developers; they only care about the bottom line. Developers will use what they're told by their management. Period. End of story.
As much as Oracle is an anathema to what developers and techies hold dear, until Oracle starts to see some damage to the bottom line, they won't care one iota.
Anyone remember Sea Man on the Dreamcast? This is definitely in the same "creepy games that are technical marvels, but not terribly fun" category.