I think you need to look at some competition in the market place for the this unit, and come back to reality. How much do to see other multi-gig drive MP3 players going for? How many of them are this portable? I have no idea what the street price is going to be for one of these, but I plan to be in line to buy one. It is a bargain.
I've seen ads for them on TV during Enterprise (yes - I'm still giving that lame show a chance), but I haven't seen one in a store yet. To me, it looks like a great hacker toy, I'm sure there are people ripping them open as I write this.
First of all, arcades are dying/dead in the US maybe, but not world wide. Take a trip to Japan sometime, and you will see multi-story Sega owned arcades that are doing quite well.
You don't need anything for breathing. Ask any number of motorcyclists who ride without a full face helmet.
What you DO need it eye protection. Even at much lower speeds, it is too easy to pick up something in your eye that can do damage, and/or cause an accident.
More expansion options, jog wheel, but the cool one is the "virtual graffeti area" that you can move around, and the ability to rotate the screen 90-degrees for spreadsheets or books or whatever.
Ever see how dusty a typical computer can get on the inside? They all get at least a light coating. Think of how un-133t your clear case is going to look after it gets hazy, and then how much of a bitch it's going to be to clean. No thanks.
I work with a bunch of guys, that are as far from the traditional geeks as they come. They all act like they're 10 years older than they are, don't find amusement in a neat hack, hate nerf anything, don't buy geek toys, could care less about the latest greatest gadgets. I'm about five years older than all of them. What they do, is write quality code, develop innovative hardware, and usually do it under budget and ahead of schedule. While I don't like being the only real geek that works here, I do get a lot from the professional experience.
Actually, Sneakers was more like the original Mission Impossible TV series than anything, hacking and all. It's what the MI movies should have been like, instead of the completely stupid Tom Cruise solo projects they turned out to be.
Has anyone ever seen figures for what percentage of net traffic is related to the sex industry? I mean, is there any other single use of the net that generates as many hits or bandwidth? This is mostly to support a lunchtime argument from a few weeks ago...:)
Sounds to me like they are trying to thwart the DC pirates. I have no idea what percentage of DCs are used with pirated games, but I know that pretty much anything that's come out is available reformatted on to standard CDRs. Is this there way of bypassing the pirates? Seems nuts to me, but if you are loosing money on the hardware, you HAVE to recover it in software.
I know exactly what you mean. The research lab I worked in had a LJII that had been cranking away since it was new, and when I left there (7 years ago), the page count was 350,000.
When I have my HP-48SX at the office, I can reach for my now 22-year old HP-41C, that still works great, and if that isn't easy to find, I grab the HP-34C (23 years old) that's always in the drawer. The buttons on both of them still click like new. Amazing products. Too bad I don't plan on having kids, these would make great family heirlooms.
My first job out of high school was running a local arcade company for a neighbor. In addition to a real arcade/pool hall, we had video games, pinball machines, etc, scattered all over the surrounding counties. Before long of course, in addition to everything else, I'm in there repairing these beasts.
Some of these companies really seemed to at least make an attempt to make the thing easy to maintain, others must have enjoyed engineering something completely flimsy and difficult to work with. I made weekly orders to parts vendors, it really was amazing how much work went into maintaining these wonderous machines. While I am very sad to see them go, I can completely understand it. It's expensive, requires skilled technicians to diagnose and fix problems, and with the skyrocketing cost of games and their limited appeal to "Turbo Ninja Street Fighter Deluxe III", I saw their demise coming long ago.
For the record, early video games blew up all the time too. Flyback transformers for the monitors, crappy mainboards, controls, etc. I have no idea if they've gotten a lot better or now. They take a lot of abuse as well.
I can completely empathize with you on the Chex fiasco. A gf I was living with had bounced a check on an account she had, and even though I wasn't on that account, I had a seperate joint account with her at the same bank. Anyway, the bank sent a letter to Chex, and it's been a pain in the ass ever since. I was luckily able to open a local credit union account, even though they put me on "probation" for a year. I've since wanted to open an account with a more accessible bank, but have been turned down because of Chex. I've contact the original bank, and have had little luck getitng them to change anything. It really makes Fight Club seem rather appealing.
I've accused the idiot programmers at M$ being a bunch of hairy, imbecilic, incompetent apes before, who couldn't even use the tools they had around them. This just proves it!
One of the beauties of Gopher, in addition to it's speed, was the simplicity of the layout. This has great uses right now in the area of PDAs, cell phones, and other devices that don't have a big monitor attached. If you've ever tried to surf the net for info with a Palm, or Nokia cell phone...it sucks. All you end up with is a big pile of links anyway, and you waste a lot of bandwidth sorting out the crap, unless you use some kind of processing server. Gopher is the pefect mate for these devices.
One of the reasons Gopher was ugly, was that there weren't too many people worried about looks at the time. We didn't have site designers, content managers, etc... It was usually a raw server thrown together by some academic type who just wanted something that worked. In addition, most people accessed this through a simple telnet session on a monochrome terminal. I actually used Gopher on systems with a nice color display, and it was very navigable.
I think that if it caught on, you would have a lot of people involved that now know a lot more about how to present information to users, and the results would show.
When we mine our own planet, we are just moving stuff around. If we go out and actually take mass from orbiting bodies, and bring it down to Earth (if that's where we choose to put it) then at what point might we actually affect the Earth's physical properties? I realize that we would have to add significant amount of mass to make any real change, but it's still possible.
Am I the only one that can't stand to read an article at Sharkys? How many pages do you have to go through to get to the end? The world may never know...
All I want to know, is which card came out on top.
Thank you! Very true words. I was saying this same thing to some co-workers at lunch who were going off about how cool the PS2 was. These same guys were whining about RAMBUS last week, and have repeatedly whined about RIAA threatening their music habits. It seems as though all is forgiven, now that they release something neat.
Amen. In fact, I think I'm going to forward a link to this to a few of of the people I work with, who act as though MP is going to save the world. I actually made the same argument to them, that unless the programmers could learn to think differently about how they code, that we would never reap the benefit of MP. I think it's going to be a very hard transision for experienced coders, who have spent more time thinking in serial terms for their coding, than newer people just getting into the business.
I guess if you don't have a TV that can do UHF anymore...can you use one of those PC TV cards to do it? Then you can have your ZX display on your nice big 19/21-inch monitor!
I just did my first net-only (usually I do CD installs) install of Debian about two weeks ago, after downloading the boot floppy image. I have to admit it was a piece of cake. Boot the machine, select the source location, and let it rip. Now when I want to add something to it, I dselect it, and again, it all comes over the net. This has got to be the most painless install I've ever done.
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I think you need to look at some competition in the market place for the this unit, and come back to reality. How much do to see other multi-gig drive MP3 players going for? How many of them are this portable? I have no idea what the street price is going to be for one of these, but I plan to be in line to buy one. It is a bargain.
I've seen ads for them on TV during Enterprise (yes - I'm still giving that lame show a chance), but I haven't seen one in a store yet. To me, it looks like a great hacker toy, I'm sure there are people ripping them open as I write this.
First of all, arcades are dying/dead in the US maybe, but not world wide. Take a trip to Japan sometime, and you will see multi-story Sega owned arcades that are doing quite well.
What you DO need it eye protection. Even at much lower speeds, it is too easy to pick up something in your eye that can do damage, and/or cause an accident.
The red,white and blue colors are a nice touch right now.
The only PDA I've seen in a while that has done something new is the Handera
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More expansion options, jog wheel, but the cool one is the "virtual graffeti area" that you can move around, and the ability to rotate the screen 90-degrees for spreadsheets or books or whatever.
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When I have my HP-48SX at the office, I can reach for my now 22-year old HP-41C, that still works great, and if that isn't easy to find, I grab the HP-34C (23 years old) that's always in the drawer. The buttons on both of them still click like new. Amazing products. Too bad I don't plan on having kids, these would make great family heirlooms.
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
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I think that if it caught on, you would have a lot of people involved that now know a lot more about how to present information to users, and the results would show.
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That right there DOUBLES all Internet bandwidth!!!
All you 28.8 modem users can thank me for this at my christening into the computing hall of fame.
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All I want to know, is which card came out on top.
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WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?
WWJD -- What Would Jimi Do?