I don't know about the price-point and everything, but the first thing I thought of when I saw the ability to output to a TV/projector coupled with the excellent scroll-wheel navigation was Powerpoint presentations. If they can make something that can display powerpoint presentations, it would be a huge hit with businessmen...they could have their roadshow in their pocket and not need to lug their laptop to a meeting. Also, they could control the presentation with the clickwheel.
I agree, but this difference with this MP3 player is that most people who might have been interested in a mp3 player/camera combo probably already have a camera phone.
As an american living and working in china for the last six months, I have to say that you are generally right, but you forget one thing...there are a significant number of Chinese who immigrated to the US/canada/england, usually after going to college there, and are now moving back to China because of the economic opportunities and the fact that many of their family and friends are still here in china. Working for a company like Oracle, or any foreign company, they can get paid maybe somewhat below US salary, but since everything is so cheap here, they can usually effectively double their salary in purchase power parity, and have more opportunities to move into manager and high positions in the company.
It is very true that chinese are generally rather homogenous, and I know many engineering and other students who routinely copy each others' assignments. But another thing you have to remember is that there are 1.3 billion people here and if.5% of those people are not homogenous that is still a shitload of people.
As far as the language, that's a big issue here, and their english is generally pretty bad, but as more and more students go abroad for college (since a lot more can afford it now) and that literally every chinese person i know is constantly trying to improve their english, that will become less of a factor.
The problem is that it's a question of profit maximization. Certainly if you cut the cost of CDs in half, more people will buy them, but will more than 2x as many people buy them? If sales volume doesn't at least double (it would probably have to be more than double to keep the same profits, because there is a fixed cost in the CD), then for the record companies cutting the cost will make them lose even more money.
as a former newton owner (well i still have it, but it's collecting dust right now), I completely agree with you. Probably the only reason i'm not using my newton right now is that due to its size it's pain to carry around or easily take out to jot something down. It's still amazing techonology even by today's standards. I bought my messagepad 2000 about 5 years ago (a week before they discontinued it actually), and it still does things that current palmtops struggle with. All a moot point though, because it was just annoying to carry around, like the parent said.
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While i don't necessarily disagree that Friedman has a "penchant for hyperbole," your example isn't a good one.
He states "Verisign operates *much* of the Internet's infrastucture."
I think by almost anyone's analysis.com,.net, and most of SSL would constitute "much of the Internet's infrastructure." He didn't say most, or all, he was just using Verisign's DNS requests as an example of how fast the internet is growing. This statement isn't much of a hyperbole.
yeah, there are many places where you can buy PC133 RAM for the G4. Check out dealmac.com....a few weeks ago I got some PC100 for my G3, a 256mb DIMM, for $60 including fedex shipping. From what I have seen, the memory for macs is as cheap or cheaper than PC memory. Apple just likes overcharge the clueless about RAM on their store.
i don't know what katz was thinking, but I saw this movie the other day and was greatly disappointed. The movie is so insanely Hollywoodized and full of plot holes that I feel that they had to throw all that gore in there just to keep peoples' attention. The movie is a typical hollywood blockbuster-thriller with very little substance. There were so many trite and cliché devices in this movie. The detective goes to see someone on the FBI ten most wanted criminals list, and he just happens to forget his gun , how lame can this movie get? That was just one example, I could list about 20. It was sad to see another excellent movie, Silence of the Lambs, defiled by it's inadequate sequel. Granted this movie might make a decent rental, I wouldn't reccomend anyone see it in the theatre.
the articles said they had thirty-something cameras (34 sticks in my head for some reason). As for the goal line touch down, the only real angle that mattered was the line of site from the sideline of the goal-line and they have had cameras on both sides of the goal-line for awhile.
I didn't expect it to be matrix quality, but aside from the ability to have all the camera's focus on a spot dynamically, this is hardly a breakthrough...
I was disappointed by the Eyevision. I was expecting it to be much higher quality, but it looked like a low quality quicktime VR movie. They could have at least gotten the zooms to be more in sync (no pun intended), so each angle didn't jump back and forth. It is a really great idea, but I hope it improves by next season...the camera's themselves just seemed to produce low quality film, like the lighting was off.
Someone tell me, were these Cingular commercials supposed to be funny? I don't know if i'm supposed to feel bad about laughing at that gimp artist commercial, but me and everyone I was watching it with were rolling. I feel kinda bad about it, but what does cingular expect when they air a commercial like that to 1 billion people, half of them being drunk.
If I remember correctly, this was a hoax, no one could get it to load on their newtons, though many tried, then someone took it apart and found that it was just a file with 2mb of filler.
Ironically, I set up an account on excite a long time ago for this purpose, yet I get far less spam on this account than on my real e-mail address. I guess I was a little too liberal with my real e-mail address for too long before I saw the light.
yup, I do this all the time, and it works great. The only problem is that I didn't do it when I first got the domain five years ago, and now a lot of spammers have the main e-mail address I give to most of my friends. Oh well. It still works in catching about 75% of the spam.
I'm sure I'll be lambasted for saying this, but this is about the stupidest Ask Slashdot I have ever seen. If you are going to give your credit card number to a company which you know they will have on file, you better be damn sure you don't forget the password.
Would you rather have someone crack your e-mail address password and have them realize all they have to do is go to amazon and click a few buttons and they'll have access to your amazon account as well?
Anyway, if it bothers you that much, and you can't even go through the trouble to get you credit card out to verify that this is your account, all of amazon's mass e-mails are sent from specific e-mail addresses from amazon.com, such as history-editor@amazon.com or alerts@amazon.com, and you can filter out those specific addresses really easily in most modern mail programs.
This all leads me to the conclusion that you are a troll.
A lot of you are missing a key point, if Napster goes to a subscription based service, we would be paying Napster to allow other people to suck up our bandwidth and download our MP3s. Yeah you would get Mp3s for yourself in return, but I bet if people had to pay, many would turn the sharing option off and just download from other people.
That's the problem with color, it uses much more battery power than grayscale if you have too much of it. 40 hours is not enough for a calculator you are going to use every day in school. My Casio 9850Ga+ uses 3 colors and lasts several months of multi-hour a day use before I have to replace the batteries. I think I replaced it 3x all year, and I probably used it 3hrs a day.
I find that the only new games I can still play are multiplayer. I get bored to death on any single player new game, no matter how good the graphics are, I just feel like I am wasting my time. Add multiplayer into the mix and I feel like I am actually accomplishing something. I have an n64 with a bunch of games, but the only one I ever play is Goldeneye cuz it is great to have a friend or three over and just shoot each other. I was quickly bored with the single player version, though it has great depth and was probably the best SP FPS of that year.
The only games that I can play single player anymore and not get bored are the old Nintendo games, Contra especially, you can never get bored of that. Getting bored of them are like getting bored of watching Rocky or Ferris Bueler's Day Off, whenever they are on you just can't help but watch it.
I think Multiplayer is what is keeping gaming alive, not prettier graphics. As an aside, I think we need some more freeware multiplayer games (for all platforms). Games like Tetrinet. It proves you don't need great graphics in new games for them to be fun.
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Paramount is not owned by General Electric, it's owned by Viacom - Universal Studios is owned by General Electric
I don't know about the price-point and everything, but the first thing I thought of when I saw the ability to output to a TV/projector coupled with the excellent scroll-wheel navigation was Powerpoint presentations. If they can make something that can display powerpoint presentations, it would be a huge hit with businessmen...they could have their roadshow in their pocket and not need to lug their laptop to a meeting. Also, they could control the presentation with the clickwheel.
Just a thought.
I agree, but this difference with this MP3 player is that most people who might have been interested in a mp3 player/camera combo probably already have a camera phone.
As an american living and working in china for the last six months, I have to say that you are generally right, but you forget one thing...there are a significant number of Chinese who immigrated to the US/canada/england, usually after going to college there, and are now moving back to China because of the economic opportunities and the fact that many of their family and friends are still here in china. Working for a company like Oracle, or any foreign company, they can get paid maybe somewhat below US salary, but since everything is so cheap here, they can usually effectively double their salary in purchase power parity, and have more opportunities to move into manager and high positions in the company.
.5% of those people are not homogenous that is still a shitload of people.
It is very true that chinese are generally rather homogenous, and I know many engineering and other students who routinely copy each others' assignments. But another thing you have to remember is that there are 1.3 billion people here and if
As far as the language, that's a big issue here, and their english is generally pretty bad, but as more and more students go abroad for college (since a lot more can afford it now) and that literally every chinese person i know is constantly trying to improve their english, that will become less of a factor.
The problem is that it's a question of profit maximization. Certainly if you cut the cost of CDs in half, more people will buy them, but will more than 2x as many people buy them? If sales volume doesn't at least double (it would probably have to be more than double to keep the same profits, because there is a fixed cost in the CD), then for the record companies cutting the cost will make them lose even more money.
as a former newton owner (well i still have it, but it's collecting dust right now), I completely agree with you. Probably the only reason i'm not using my newton right now is that due to its size it's pain to carry around or easily take out to jot something down. It's still amazing techonology even by today's standards. I bought my messagepad 2000 about 5 years ago (a week before they discontinued it actually), and it still does things that current palmtops struggle with. All a moot point though, because it was just annoying to carry around, like the parent said.
Just curious, did the article factor in the energy required to refine the oil into gasoline?
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While i don't necessarily disagree that Friedman has a "penchant for hyperbole," your example isn't a good one.
.com, .net, and most of SSL would constitute "much of the Internet's infrastructure." He didn't say most, or all, he was just using Verisign's DNS requests as an example of how fast the internet is growing. This statement isn't much of a hyperbole.
He states "Verisign operates *much* of the Internet's infrastucture."
I think by almost anyone's analysis
I thought Rocky IV was the third best Rocky movie (behind I and II), which in my mind is pretty damn good.
yeah, there are many places where you can buy PC133 RAM for the G4. Check out dealmac.com....a few weeks ago I got some PC100 for my G3, a 256mb DIMM, for $60 including fedex shipping. From what I have seen, the memory for macs is as cheap or cheaper than PC memory. Apple just likes overcharge the clueless about RAM on their store.
i don't know what katz was thinking, but I saw this movie the other day and was greatly disappointed. The movie is so insanely Hollywoodized and full of plot holes that I feel that they had to throw all that gore in there just to keep peoples' attention. The movie is a typical hollywood blockbuster-thriller with very little substance. There were so many trite and cliché devices in this movie. The detective goes to see someone on the FBI ten most wanted criminals list, and he just happens to forget his gun , how lame can this movie get? That was just one example, I could list about 20. It was sad to see another excellent movie, Silence of the Lambs, defiled by it's inadequate sequel. Granted this movie might make a decent rental, I wouldn't reccomend anyone see it in the theatre.
anyone know any places online to take advantage of this new low price? I just checked a few sites and all of them still have it at $150.
no not at all...it was a commercial about a retarded artist who paints with his head and saying how he "expresses himself."
the articles said they had thirty-something cameras (34 sticks in my head for some reason). As for the goal line touch down, the only real angle that mattered was the line of site from the sideline of the goal-line and they have had cameras on both sides of the goal-line for awhile.
I didn't expect it to be matrix quality, but aside from the ability to have all the camera's focus on a spot dynamically, this is hardly a breakthrough...
I was disappointed by the Eyevision. I was expecting it to be much higher quality, but it looked like a low quality quicktime VR movie. They could have at least gotten the zooms to be more in sync (no pun intended), so each angle didn't jump back and forth. It is a really great idea, but I hope it improves by next season...the camera's themselves just seemed to produce low quality film, like the lighting was off.
Someone tell me, were these Cingular commercials supposed to be funny? I don't know if i'm supposed to feel bad about laughing at that gimp artist commercial, but me and everyone I was watching it with were rolling. I feel kinda bad about it, but what does cingular expect when they air a commercial like that to 1 billion people, half of them being drunk.
If I remember correctly, this was a hoax, no one could get it to load on their newtons, though many tried, then someone took it apart and found that it was just a file with 2mb of filler.
slashdot has been fooled many many times...
Ironically, I set up an account on excite a long time ago for this purpose, yet I get far less spam on this account than on my real e-mail address. I guess I was a little too liberal with my real e-mail address for too long before I saw the light.
yup, I do this all the time, and it works great. The only problem is that I didn't do it when I first got the domain five years ago, and now a lot of spammers have the main e-mail address I give to most of my friends. Oh well. It still works in catching about 75% of the spam.
I'm sure I'll be lambasted for saying this, but this is about the stupidest Ask Slashdot I have ever seen. If you are going to give your credit card number to a company which you know they will have on file, you better be damn sure you don't forget the password.
Would you rather have someone crack your e-mail address password and have them realize all they have to do is go to amazon and click a few buttons and they'll have access to your amazon account as well?
Anyway, if it bothers you that much, and you can't even go through the trouble to get you credit card out to verify that this is your account, all of amazon's mass e-mails are sent from specific e-mail addresses from amazon.com, such as history-editor@amazon.com or alerts@amazon.com, and you can filter out those specific addresses really easily in most modern mail programs.
This all leads me to the conclusion that you are a troll.
A lot of you are missing a key point, if Napster goes to a subscription based service, we would be paying Napster to allow other people to suck up our bandwidth and download our MP3s. Yeah you would get Mp3s for yourself in return, but I bet if people had to pay, many would turn the sharing option off and just download from other people.
That's the problem with color, it uses much more battery power than grayscale if you have too much of it. 40 hours is not enough for a calculator you are going to use every day in school. My Casio 9850Ga+ uses 3 colors and lasts several months of multi-hour a day use before I have to replace the batteries. I think I replaced it 3x all year, and I probably used it 3hrs a day.
I find that the only new games I can still play are multiplayer. I get bored to death on any single player new game, no matter how good the graphics are, I just feel like I am wasting my time. Add multiplayer into the mix and I feel like I am actually accomplishing something. I have an n64 with a bunch of games, but the only one I ever play is Goldeneye cuz it is great to have a friend or three over and just shoot each other. I was quickly bored with the single player version, though it has great depth and was probably the best SP FPS of that year.
The only games that I can play single player anymore and not get bored are the old Nintendo games, Contra especially, you can never get bored of that. Getting bored of them are like getting bored of watching Rocky or Ferris Bueler's Day Off, whenever they are on you just can't help but watch it.
I think Multiplayer is what is keeping gaming alive, not prettier graphics. As an aside, I think we need some more freeware multiplayer games (for all platforms). Games like Tetrinet. It proves you don't need great graphics in new games for them to be fun.