this brings up another issue that i was thinking about. i hope all of these companies are also thinking of ways they can make money from their search engines while they are dreaming up their new technology or it will be for naught...
the only way this will be popular is if it becomes (re)writable and is very cheap (both the burner and the discs. else, this will be another stupid propreitary sony standard that went nowhere...
yeah, i think their pages-about-peoples-cats service, errr... livejournal, should go down more often. it seems you and most of the human race will benefit from it. a win-win situation!
short, yes. older, yes (but definitely not old). fat, most definitely not.
she's lost quite a bit of weight. take a look at somerecentpix. in some pictures it looks to me like she's lost a little too much weight, but maybe that's just the picture...
be thankful they aren't doing a movie for 3d man... it would be three times suckier, cost three times as much and somehow be 3 times more of a disappointment to all those who wasted their money on it...
heh, yeah seems like every couple of years people get excited because they rediscover stuff like xanadu. i think you're right, we need 5 pages on gopherspace...
according to this story on digitimes the shuffles are made by asustek. however, the same story says that g5 ibooks and powerbooks are coming in the second quarter, so take with a grain of salt...
i would imagine at some point their mass would be too great for their exoskeleton to hold them too though. this is the reason why we don't see 10 foot tall spiders and ants like in 50's monster movies, because they would crush themselves under their own weight.
i would imagine with the weight differential due to being in water they would get away with being massive to some extent but there will be a physical limit to their size due to the makeup of their shell.
btw, i too thought it said ton, not tone and did a doubletake...
actually that is a good argument especially with many electric razors being so damn expensive these days. hell some of them almost look like an ipod with an interactive lcd display... for a razor.
what i think creative is missing is that nobody i know really gives a crap about *any* major online retailer of music. most folks i know just want to listen to the music they bought on cd's on their portable player.
itunes store is a nice extra to have for the ipod, but i don't really think it is the clincher in why folks buy an ipod. i know it wasn't for me. i dig the itunes store but i honestly would rather buy a cd than buy online music (i like the packaging you get with a cd and the openness of a cd).
if creative is focusing on being a major force in the online music store biz, i think they are missing the bigger problem. only recently with the zen micro have their players not look like crap. they don't know how to market themselves as "being cool" and the cool thing to have. much of their product line looks like stuff that would have been cool in the mid 90's.
creative pushes microsoft's drm laden crap which doesn't sit as well with many folks as apple's drm laden crap...
correct me if i'm wrong, but it wasn't that long ago that creative's players only played drm'd windows media files and transcoded mp3's into wma files.
lastly and most importantly creative doesn't have brand recognition with the general public.
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those two aren't the only ones working on these types of technologies. btw, yahoo and google were first projects that started in stanford...
and if you want to get into semantics, yes, colleges and universities are companies. they just don't like to admit it.
yeah but you know the amateur stuff doesn't look nearly as sexy as the professional, photoshopped stuff, right? ;p
this brings up another issue that i was thinking about. i hope all of these companies are also thinking of ways they can make money from their search engines while they are dreaming up their new technology or it will be for naught...
the only way this will be popular is if it becomes (re)writable and is very cheap (both the burner and the discs. else, this will be another stupid propreitary sony standard that went nowhere...
yeah, but when will we see a "father of slashdot admits mistake" article?
ehhh, probably not if they are anything like companies i've worked for. you know, small time operations like uhhh, banks...
yeah, i think their pages-about-peoples-cats service, errr... livejournal, should go down more often. it seems you and most of the human race will benefit from it. a win-win situation!
yeah but that $104 won't come close to what a heart bypass will cost years later if (s)he eats that much junk food...
exactly. if the opposite were true you'd think the ngage was doing just dandy instead of costing stores via nonsold inventory...
short, yes. older, yes (but definitely not old). fat, most definitely not.
she's lost quite a bit of weight. take a look at some recent pix. in some pictures it looks to me like she's lost a little too much weight, but maybe that's just the picture...
crisis > as long as it doesn't take a full year to see the entire thing...
if you are turning the "bad" up, wouldn't you turn it to the right, not the left? ;p
yeah lots of folks walked out right as the movie started. i think there was a story on /. about it. probably a dupe of it too...
be thankful they aren't doing a movie for 3d man... it would be three times suckier, cost three times as much and somehow be 3 times more of a disappointment to all those who wasted their money on it...
heh, yeah seems like every couple of years people get excited because they rediscover stuff like xanadu. i think you're right, we need 5 pages on gopherspace...
best $1500 i've ever spent. thanks!
heh, sorry, hit the wrong 'reply to'. meant to reply to the guy below you about the PCB...
we can only guess it uses fairy dust or leprechaun piss until we get some more pix...
according to this story on digitimes the shuffles are made by asustek. however, the same story says that g5 ibooks and powerbooks are coming in the second quarter, so take with a grain of salt...
he can just sell the thing on ebay...
"a larger scope and budget" than ever"
now with twice as much suck... free!
i would imagine at some point their mass would be too great for their exoskeleton to hold them too though. this is the reason why we don't see 10 foot tall spiders and ants like in 50's monster movies, because they would crush themselves under their own weight.
i would imagine with the weight differential due to being in water they would get away with being massive to some extent but there will be a physical limit to their size due to the makeup of their shell.
btw, i too thought it said ton, not tone and did a doubletake...
yeah but this one is up there too...
actually that is a good argument especially with many electric razors being so damn expensive these days. hell some of them almost look like an ipod with an interactive lcd display... for a razor.
what i think creative is missing is that nobody i know really gives a crap about *any* major online retailer of music. most folks i know just want to listen to the music they bought on cd's on their portable player.
itunes store is a nice extra to have for the ipod, but i don't really think it is the clincher in why folks buy an ipod. i know it wasn't for me. i dig the itunes store but i honestly would rather buy a cd than buy online music (i like the packaging you get with a cd and the openness of a cd).
if creative is focusing on being a major force in the online music store biz, i think they are missing the bigger problem. only recently with the zen micro have their players not look like crap. they don't know how to market themselves as "being cool" and the cool thing to have. much of their product line looks like stuff that would have been cool in the mid 90's.
creative pushes microsoft's drm laden crap which doesn't sit as well with many folks as apple's drm laden crap...
correct me if i'm wrong, but it wasn't that long ago that creative's players only played drm'd windows media files and transcoded mp3's into wma files.
lastly and most importantly creative doesn't have brand recognition with the general public.