Assembly lines? This is pre-release, in-development stuff. They may have it "fabricated" and all that, but what's on display is the equivalent of wire-wrapped demo hardware. It was put together by two guys named Phil who happen to be handy with soldering irons, not three-hundred indentured servants in Taiwan.
It'd be even better (for users) if you just put in "classic games" game card into the DS that had it's own client working through the Nintendo WFC to download games on-demand. Mmmmm, deciding to play ExciteBike while hanging out at the local Starbucks. Of course, Nintendo really likes tying their consoles together more than that, so it's doubtful they'd let the DS stand on its own in such a way.
As long as there's been an IT section, it's had it's own customer tagline. Don't forget that the different sections of Slashdot are a relatively new invention in the grand scheme of things.
I absolutely love my iLap As the name might imply; it's designed more for Apple laptops, but it's great. It's all aluminum, which is great for conducting heat away from your portable, and it comes with nice pads that keep the computer at a comfortable distance and angle for typing and using the trackpad.
The one downside is the relative lack of portability - it's not the kind of thing you can fold up and put in your bag. I've taken it with me for extended trips where I could keep it in my luggage, but for a day trip or taking down to Starbucks it's not really a good option. Still, as I use my computer at home 99% of the time, but want to be able to use it on the couch, the iLap does the job extremely well.
My camera does. It's a Casio Exilim EX-S100, which is now a discontinued product I believe. I would assume current poducts in the line have the same feature.
It's intended to take pictures of whiteboards and business cards and an angle, and does an admirable job of finding the edges and correcting for perspective. The camera itself isn't high-enough resolution to do a great job with a sheet of paper, but for smaller items or things with large print (as I said, business cards and whiteboards) it does a pretty good job.
Then again, other people have responded telling you the same thing. It's here, and it works fairly well for what it is. Take a look sometime.
That's probably a different technology entirely. This stuff works by being a contact-based oxidizing catalyst. If it's on the buld, then it's not exactly going to do anything to various things growing on fixtures.
Another question: is this related to the titanium (di?)oxide that was talked about a while ago to keep windows clean by virtue of the UV in sunlight?
What about publc restrooms and their fluorescent light? Most of the light is converted by the phosphors into visible light, but I'd imagine there's still a good amount of UV emitted.
I suppose we were looking at different points in the curve;)
It's been pretty asymptotic so far, and the past holiday season about a quarter of the total sold were put into customer hands. Extrapolate from that, and perhaps 5-10% of the sold iPods were before the third generation - and many of those who purchased the first few versions of iPods have since upgraded.
Apple Computer sold 14 million of its market-leading digital media players in the 2005 holiday sales quarter -- up from 4.5 million in the 2004 holiday quarter, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Tuesday at the Macworld trade show. All told, Apple has sold 42 million iPods -- 76% of them in 2005.
So, 76% have dock connectors for sure, and around 50% of those sold were newer models without the remote connector. Factor in the sales from 2004 that were also units with dock conenctors, and the models without one become an extremely small part of the potential market. iPod jeans are already a rather niche market, and I don't think Levis will spend the time and effort needed to support an even smaller niche within that one.
That said, yes, yt would be nice to have a pair of jeans with just an iPod-sized pocket. Maybe Levis will make one without the electronics.
In both cases, it's for safety. For the notebook, it's so your $2000 computer doesn't meet the floor prematurely as your labrador walks past. For the Fry Daddy, it's so your 3-year-old doesn't become a McNugget.
I don't see it working for any iPod pre-dock-connector. They said it'd have remote control functionality built-in, and the only option for such control on recent iPods is the dock connector.
People willing to spend much on a fancy pair of jeans aren't going to be using an iPod from three years ago. In addition, there is a relatively miniscule installed base of older iPods. They didn't really take off until at least the third or fourth generation.
I work at a form of tech support help-desk, and it seems one a week I have somebody that's been a suitably scared by a banner ad - on a porn (or warez) site, no doubt.
"I hear servers can save data on my computer!" "People can track me with cookies!" "I've won a hundred dollars! And a free PSP!"
Well, excellent conductivity and extremely low reactivity. It's not quite a noble gas, but gold doesn't corrode, which makes it much better for delicate electonics and mating connectors than most other metals.
The magic word you're looking for is "trademarked." Trademarks are government-granted monopolies on specific names, logos, or even colors that distinguish a product in a given market. Trademarks maintain validity as long as the controlling company wants them to, and adequately defends their trademark.
For example, I can't sell computers called "Macintosh" or even "Mac" because Apple has trademarked those names. I can, however, market Macintosh apples, Macintosh chicken wire, or Macintosh utility vehicles since they're in distinct categories of products. Apple has a trademark on Macintosh for computers (and likely many items of related elctronics) but that's as far as the protection extends.
Likewise, Hasbro has the trademark for RISK. Nobody else can legally market a game under that name, and they will not be able to for as long as Hasbro chooses to defend the mark.
In other words, trademark law is definitely a portion of intellectual property law, but it is quite distinct from patent and copyright laws.
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At least the med stuff should be pretty accurate, as in A Case of Need.
Compaq, actually.
Assembly lines? This is pre-release, in-development stuff. They may have it "fabricated" and all that, but what's on display is the equivalent of wire-wrapped demo hardware. It was put together by two guys named Phil who happen to be handy with soldering irons, not three-hundred indentured servants in Taiwan.
Has anybody else noticed the ballooning number of things we either have to do, or we die?
First, it was simply Join or Die. Then Skate or Die. Vote or Die. Now this!
Somewhere in there we had the much more lax Live and Let Die.
I'm just glad to have made it this far.
So that brings the total number to nine, by my recollection.
Maybe not by Apple, but in this particular case on Apple's OS.
SubEthaEdit is an awesome collaborative editor.
It'd be even better (for users) if you just put in "classic games" game card into the DS that had it's own client working through the Nintendo WFC to download games on-demand. Mmmmm, deciding to play ExciteBike while hanging out at the local Starbucks. Of course, Nintendo really likes tying their consoles together more than that, so it's doubtful they'd let the DS stand on its own in such a way.
Installing the new iTunes upgrades the QuickTime files on either platform, and you can't have two versions of QT installed at once. Sorry.
Wow; I'm usually a nazi about that one. Not a literal Nazi, mind you, but I do find it grating when people over-apostrophize.
"custom" not "customer"
As long as there's been an IT section, it's had it's own customer tagline. Don't forget that the different sections of Slashdot are a relatively new invention in the grand scheme of things.
I absolutely love my iLap As the name might imply; it's designed more for Apple laptops, but it's great. It's all aluminum, which is great for conducting heat away from your portable, and it comes with nice pads that keep the computer at a comfortable distance and angle for typing and using the trackpad.
The one downside is the relative lack of portability - it's not the kind of thing you can fold up and put in your bag. I've taken it with me for extended trips where I could keep it in my luggage, but for a day trip or taking down to Starbucks it's not really a good option. Still, as I use my computer at home 99% of the time, but want to be able to use it on the couch, the iLap does the job extremely well.
My camera does. It's a Casio Exilim EX-S100, which is now a discontinued product I believe. I would assume current poducts in the line have the same feature.
It's intended to take pictures of whiteboards and business cards and an angle, and does an admirable job of finding the edges and correcting for perspective. The camera itself isn't high-enough resolution to do a great job with a sheet of paper, but for smaller items or things with large print (as I said, business cards and whiteboards) it does a pretty good job.
Then again, other people have responded telling you the same thing. It's here, and it works fairly well for what it is. Take a look sometime.
That's probably a different technology entirely. This stuff works by being a contact-based oxidizing catalyst. If it's on the buld, then it's not exactly going to do anything to various things growing on fixtures.
Another question: is this related to the titanium (di?)oxide that was talked about a while ago to keep windows clean by virtue of the UV in sunlight?
What about publc restrooms and their fluorescent light? Most of the light is converted by the phosphors into visible light, but I'd imagine there's still a good amount of UV emitted.
Good thing you don't care, 'cause that TechieHermit guy totally ripped you off.
I suppose we were looking at different points in the curve ;)
It's been pretty asymptotic so far, and the past holiday season about a quarter of the total sold were put into customer hands. Extrapolate from that, and perhaps 5-10% of the sold iPods were before the third generation - and many of those who purchased the first few versions of iPods have since upgraded.
Apple Computer sold 14 million of its market-leading digital media players in the 2005 holiday sales quarter -- up from 4.5 million in the 2004 holiday quarter, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Tuesday at the Macworld trade show. All told, Apple has sold 42 million iPods -- 76% of them in 2005.
So, 76% have dock connectors for sure, and around 50% of those sold were newer models without the remote connector. Factor in the sales from 2004 that were also units with dock conenctors, and the models without one become an extremely small part of the potential market. iPod jeans are already a rather niche market, and I don't think Levis will spend the time and effort needed to support an even smaller niche within that one.
That said, yes, yt would be nice to have a pair of jeans with just an iPod-sized pocket. Maybe Levis will make one without the electronics.
In both cases, it's for safety. For the notebook, it's so your $2000 computer doesn't meet the floor prematurely as your labrador walks past. For the Fry Daddy, it's so your 3-year-old doesn't become a McNugget.
Either one's an expensive repair.
I don't see it working for any iPod pre-dock-connector. They said it'd have remote control functionality built-in, and the only option for such control on recent iPods is the dock connector.
People willing to spend much on a fancy pair of jeans aren't going to be using an iPod from three years ago. In addition, there is a relatively miniscule installed base of older iPods. They didn't really take off until at least the third or fourth generation.
Reminds me of the recent paranoia about cookies.
I work at a form of tech support help-desk, and it seems one a week I have somebody that's been a suitably scared by a banner ad - on a porn (or warez) site, no doubt.
"I hear servers can save data on my computer!" "People can track me with cookies!" "I've won a hundred dollars! And a free PSP!"
Er, yeah.
It'll only sync over USB. It'll charge over either.
Well, excellent conductivity and extremely low reactivity. It's not quite a noble gas, but gold doesn't corrode, which makes it much better for delicate electonics and mating connectors than most other metals.
...said Tri0de.
And He would help Satan with a UPS why now?
Sheesh, dude. This joke just got too non-jovial.
The magic word you're looking for is "trademarked." Trademarks are government-granted monopolies on specific names, logos, or even colors that distinguish a product in a given market. Trademarks maintain validity as long as the controlling company wants them to, and adequately defends their trademark.
For example, I can't sell computers called "Macintosh" or even "Mac" because Apple has trademarked those names. I can, however, market Macintosh apples, Macintosh chicken wire, or Macintosh utility vehicles since they're in distinct categories of products. Apple has a trademark on Macintosh for computers (and likely many items of related elctronics) but that's as far as the protection extends.
Likewise, Hasbro has the trademark for RISK. Nobody else can legally market a game under that name, and they will not be able to for as long as Hasbro chooses to defend the mark.
In other words, trademark law is definitely a portion of intellectual property law, but it is quite distinct from patent and copyright laws.