I think the bullet that killed Wave was, like you mentioned, the lack of email notification. It's really hard to kill email, if the replacement can't interact with it's predecessor.
I can confirm. I've spoken with a few of the larger non-profits in my area, and they're all planning on rolling out Sharepoint in the next 12-18 months.
The theater by my house now charges an extra $4 to see movies on the "big screen". This is the same "big screen" they've had with the same surround sound for the last 10 years, but now there's a premium to do it. I think it boils down to the fact that theaters get X% of ticket sales, but fees and charges on top of the initial ticket cost is pure profit for the theater. An extra $3 fee to see it in 3D? Just greed.
If Avatar is the gold standard for 3D movies, I'm not interested in seeing any others. Unless space asteroids are flying out of the screen and over my shoulder every 15 minutes, it's a waste of the technology imo. Any movie that doesn't take advantage of that sort of feature isn't worth the extra premium to see it in 3D.
You must not have an arthouse theater in your town. Go find one. There are lots of good movies being made here in the USA and released in theaters all around the nation. 2002-2008 was a huge boom era, but there are still independent films that lean heavily on their story and lack of special effects, made from that boom era but stuck in post production and being put into theaters even now.
No, you're right; we'll just ignore the entire northern 1/5th of the county. Fuck Lancaster, CA and the tens of thousands of acres of surrounding farmland.
I'm sure the price of laptops would go down if the hardware never changed. Netbooks are about as close as you are going to get in that regard. They seem to be perpetually stuck in 2004.
The carrington flare was an X class flare, two classes above this C class (out of three) flare. And it's near the bottom of the C class scale as well, a C-2. This is like interupting your normally scheduled program to report that there was a 2.0 earthquake in Los Angeles county... the rural portion.
That way say, kdawson could be moderated off the editing team if/. so desired.
I think that is desired! How can I sign up for your newsletter? kdawson's "editing" seems to be skewed towards making wildly inaccurate claims on the front page, so as to spread misinformation and cause a flurry of posts explaining why he is wrong. It attracts the wrong crowd (let's keep digg, reddit and 4chan where they are, thanks) and dumbs down Slashdot in general.
It would appear they at least recently hired kdawson, who is of the same "quantity over quality" mentality of cory doctorow. That's one problem with the site. All the stories at the beginning of the week are terrible, and lo and behold, they're released to the front page by kdawson. There's a huge discrepency in story quality, headline and commentary depending on who posts them.
The article says it's actually a C-2, not C3. They go in order from C class, the smallest, M class, Medium, and X class, the largest. C and M class go up to 9 or 10, but X class events have been rated up to 28. The numbers are on a logarithmic scale like Earthquakes are. The ones you read about causing Northern Lights as far south as Texas and lighting telegraph paper on fire, sparking wires etc are X class.
When was Microsoft profiting from selling online ads? Maybe I just missed it,
Bing is the #3 search engine. Microsoft owns Bing. Microsoft is a stable company with little prospects for growth (need proof? they've started paying dividends on their stock shares). Online search advertising is a growth market.
I'm not sure if I can reliably convey an answer to you in less than four sentences, but there's my shot. Maybe someone can do it in three?
For the people who want a Kindle for $80 or less, I don't think Amazon needs you money at this time.
Nobody said they expected Amazon to drop the price to $80 tomorrow, or even this year. One could reasonably expect the price to drop that much in two years however. At which point I'd probably buy one. None of that makes me a liar. Unless of course, the Nook hit that price point first.
$149 would be my sweet spot for a kindle DX (a.k.a. "full size") with a smaller bezel. Living in the city, 5 min from a computer at all times, I'm not really that interested in 3G for a book as a feature.
The Nook wifi-only is a full-sized Nook, and $149. I don't know how that compares to Kindle size, though.
The Nook has a 6" screen, same as the Kindle 1,2,3. I've seen a Kindle 1 & 2. The screen is too small. That is why I say it's 30% too small. The DX (9.7") is the size the device should have debuted with (full size), but the 9.7" e-ink display would have cost a fortune in 2007. Same reason why it took so long to see a 15" LCD Laptop (a "full size" laptop screen) in the 1990's, and we call 10" netbook screens "small" or "ultra-portable".
If people randomly find themselves without books, I suggest they, duh, buy some extra books in advance.
This is what I do. I always have 10-15 books that interest me sitting on my shelf at home, waiting to be read at any one time. When I got on trips I bring 2-3 extra paperbacks with me.
I've read that cheaper ebooks do exist - they are by unknown authors who are "self e-publishing" and split the revenue of their $0.99-$3.99 stories directly with Amazon. Maybe they are on one of the other ebookstores (the Nook's store?) and not Amazon's? I haven't looked into it too closely yet as my blackberry is the only Kindle compatible device I own currently.
I just pulled up the three most recent books I've read. None of them are terribly recent, meaning paperbacks are available. Cryptonomicron (Neal Stephenson) was $10.50 on the kindle store; I paid $8.99 for the paperback edition at half price books, Doctor Zhivago and Catch-22, both modern classics selling well over a million copies each, and still in print, weren't available on the Kindle store.
Where are you shopping that you're finding new paperbacks below $5.99 each? Airport paperbacks tend to start out at $6.99 and go up from there. The last time I paid $5 for a paperback new must have been in 2002.
I'm sure someone will hack the kindle to do their bidding over 3G in ways the device wasn't designed to do, albeit in a very awkward and mostly unusable manner. I mean, they got linux and a host of shells to run on the nintendo DS, right? Someone managed to load linux on the ipod, although the replacement GUI was never as good as apple's. They "hacked" the full version of OSX onto the Apple TV, but it wasn't really powerful enough to be used as a primary PC/lowcost Mac.
You could hack a proper OS onto the Kindle, but the device isn't designed to do anything beyond display books and perhaps news articles. The Kindle is the literary equivalent of a calculator.
Indeed, I made the statement that this reader would have to be under $100 for me to get one when I first saw the Kindle. And now we're down to $139 so it edges even closer.
$89 is my magic number, although at $99 it would definitely be in impulse buy territory if this economy was kind enough to hand out Christmas bonuses. $100 seems like an awful lot of money for a device that's really about 30% too small. $149 would be my sweet spot for a kindle DX (a.k.a. "full size") with a smaller bezel. Living in the city, 5 min from a computer at all times, I'm not really that interested in 3G for a book as a feature. The 3G model might make more sense to a parent who has a kid but can't afford to, or they're not old enough yet to buy them their own separate computer.
In ten years time they'll be giving Kindles away for free with the prepurchase of 10 books or more. In the early 1980s people couldn't fathom calculators costing less than $100, but by the early 80's they were giving them away with a tank of gas; and now they're used as freebie promotional items at conferences as part of gift bags. Why would they ever try and build out the kindle to be a fully featured computing tablet? It's the literary equivalent of a calculator.
From what I can tell, Zune and WinMo6 use the same web browser already, so there's a common platform on some level there already. It makes a lot more sense than trying to shoehorn Win7 onto a device that clearly doesn't need it. I'm pretty sure the Zune store already has a few productivity apps; MS released a dev kit for the Zune quite a while back. Why they're going the "full OS" route isn't entirely clear and has a lot of drawbacks from my point of view.
If rumors are true, Ballmer's job is on the line and being proactive about an iPad competetor, nomatter how shitty, gives him six more months. In a year nobody will remember the failed attempt that was the MSpad, just like with all the other MS branded hardware that has quietly gone to pasture over the years.
I think the more shocking thing here is that MS is going to try and shoehorn Win7 into a netbook to compete with the iPad, rather than starting with the Zune or WinPhone7 OS and extending that. While I never really liked the Zune before, people seemed to like (or at least, not hate) the last Zune HD which was basically an ipod touch.... and since the ipad is just an overgrown ipod touch....
The problems listed might cut the population down to a tenth of it's current size, but you are dimly aware of how most of the world functions on a day to day basis.
Rambus, a designer of semiconductor chips, won a long-running patent battle with NVIDIA
I can't help but wonder, eventually these sorts of lawsuits go from the cost of business to personal between CEOs. Since CEOs invest so much time and energy in winning these personal buisness battles, why don't they simply box it out in the ring, and sell tickets? Both companies effectively have unlimited funds for the ensuing 5-10 year legal battle, and ultimately it's really a 50/50 coin flip as to who owes who how much money when the verdict comes down from upon high. Just cut to the chase and let's see some CEOs bust some chops and knock heads in a bare knuckle boxing match instead of hiding behind overpriced lawyers.
You're paying for a piece of paper that says you can complete assigned projects on time and of average (or better) competency. In most cases it doesn't really matter what you know, since you either already know it, or will learn it on the job. Your future employer is simply paying you more since you're already prequalified to be able to handle whatever project(s) they throw at you, and be able to expect you to finish them in a timely manner. If you're still convinced that being smarter than the average bear makes you a unique snowflake, get an appointment with the dean of that department and have him sign off on letting you bypass those courses.
I doubt many people (i.e. "consumers") make the connection between the whole dark and stormy "Droid Does" marketing campaign and the light and airy green Android robot mascot.
The trick with online multiplayer is to find a community of like-minded individuals of near your own age group, find their steam community(ies) and play largely inside that circle of people, which tends to be ~100-250 people. I can think of four large, healthy TF2 communities off the top of my head that are also involved in several other games as well. All of a sudden you're playing with people you know, and it becomes a lot more fun. If you play on a 32 player instant respawn server full of strangers who happen to mostly be 12 year old shut-ins, of course you're going to have an awful time.
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I think the bullet that killed Wave was, like you mentioned, the lack of email notification. It's really hard to kill email, if the replacement can't interact with it's predecessor.
I can confirm. I've spoken with a few of the larger non-profits in my area, and they're all planning on rolling out Sharepoint in the next 12-18 months.
The theater by my house now charges an extra $4 to see movies on the "big screen". This is the same "big screen" they've had with the same surround sound for the last 10 years, but now there's a premium to do it. I think it boils down to the fact that theaters get X% of ticket sales, but fees and charges on top of the initial ticket cost is pure profit for the theater. An extra $3 fee to see it in 3D? Just greed.
If Avatar is the gold standard for 3D movies, I'm not interested in seeing any others. Unless space asteroids are flying out of the screen and over my shoulder every 15 minutes, it's a waste of the technology imo. Any movie that doesn't take advantage of that sort of feature isn't worth the extra premium to see it in 3D.
You must not have an arthouse theater in your town. Go find one. There are lots of good movies being made here in the USA and released in theaters all around the nation. 2002-2008 was a huge boom era, but there are still independent films that lean heavily on their story and lack of special effects, made from that boom era but stuck in post production and being put into theaters even now.
No, you're right; we'll just ignore the entire northern 1/5th of the county. Fuck Lancaster, CA and the tens of thousands of acres of surrounding farmland.
I'm sure the price of laptops would go down if the hardware never changed. Netbooks are about as close as you are going to get in that regard. They seem to be perpetually stuck in 2004.
The carrington flare was an X class flare, two classes above this C class (out of three) flare. And it's near the bottom of the C class scale as well, a C-2. This is like interupting your normally scheduled program to report that there was a 2.0 earthquake in Los Angeles county... the rural portion.
That way say, kdawson could be moderated off the editing team if /. so desired.
I think that is desired! How can I sign up for your newsletter? kdawson's "editing" seems to be skewed towards making wildly inaccurate claims on the front page, so as to spread misinformation and cause a flurry of posts explaining why he is wrong. It attracts the wrong crowd (let's keep digg, reddit and 4chan where they are, thanks) and dumbs down Slashdot in general.
It would appear they at least recently hired kdawson, who is of the same "quantity over quality" mentality of cory doctorow. That's one problem with the site. All the stories at the beginning of the week are terrible, and lo and behold, they're released to the front page by kdawson. There's a huge discrepency in story quality, headline and commentary depending on who posts them.
The article says it's actually a C-2, not C3. They go in order from C class, the smallest, M class, Medium, and X class, the largest. C and M class go up to 9 or 10, but X class events have been rated up to 28. The numbers are on a logarithmic scale like Earthquakes are. The ones you read about causing Northern Lights as far south as Texas and lighting telegraph paper on fire, sparking wires etc are X class.
When was Microsoft profiting from selling online ads? Maybe I just missed it,
Bing is the #3 search engine. Microsoft owns Bing. Microsoft is a stable company with little prospects for growth (need proof? they've started paying dividends on their stock shares). Online search advertising is a growth market.
I'm not sure if I can reliably convey an answer to you in less than four sentences, but there's my shot. Maybe someone can do it in three?
For the people who want a Kindle for $80 or less, I don't think Amazon needs you money at this time.
Nobody said they expected Amazon to drop the price to $80 tomorrow, or even this year. One could reasonably expect the price to drop that much in two years however. At which point I'd probably buy one. None of that makes me a liar. Unless of course, the Nook hit that price point first.
$149 would be my sweet spot for a kindle DX (a.k.a. "full size") with a smaller bezel. Living in the city, 5 min from a computer at all times, I'm not really that interested in 3G for a book as a feature.
The Nook wifi-only is a full-sized Nook, and $149. I don't know how that compares to Kindle size, though.
The Nook has a 6" screen, same as the Kindle 1,2,3. I've seen a Kindle 1 & 2. The screen is too small. That is why I say it's 30% too small. The DX (9.7") is the size the device should have debuted with (full size), but the 9.7" e-ink display would have cost a fortune in 2007. Same reason why it took so long to see a 15" LCD Laptop (a "full size" laptop screen) in the 1990's, and we call 10" netbook screens "small" or "ultra-portable".
If people randomly find themselves without books, I suggest they, duh, buy some extra books in advance.
This is what I do. I always have 10-15 books that interest me sitting on my shelf at home, waiting to be read at any one time. When I got on trips I bring 2-3 extra paperbacks with me.
I've read that cheaper ebooks do exist - they are by unknown authors who are "self e-publishing" and split the revenue of their $0.99-$3.99 stories directly with Amazon. Maybe they are on one of the other ebookstores (the Nook's store?) and not Amazon's? I haven't looked into it too closely yet as my blackberry is the only Kindle compatible device I own currently.
I just pulled up the three most recent books I've read. None of them are terribly recent, meaning paperbacks are available. Cryptonomicron (Neal Stephenson) was $10.50 on the kindle store; I paid $8.99 for the paperback edition at half price books, Doctor Zhivago and Catch-22, both modern classics selling well over a million copies each, and still in print, weren't available on the Kindle store.
Where are you shopping that you're finding new paperbacks below $5.99 each? Airport paperbacks tend to start out at $6.99 and go up from there. The last time I paid $5 for a paperback new must have been in 2002.
I'm sure someone will hack the kindle to do their bidding over 3G in ways the device wasn't designed to do, albeit in a very awkward and mostly unusable manner. I mean, they got linux and a host of shells to run on the nintendo DS, right? Someone managed to load linux on the ipod, although the replacement GUI was never as good as apple's. They "hacked" the full version of OSX onto the Apple TV, but it wasn't really powerful enough to be used as a primary PC/lowcost Mac.
You could hack a proper OS onto the Kindle, but the device isn't designed to do anything beyond display books and perhaps news articles. The Kindle is the literary equivalent of a calculator.
Indeed, I made the statement that this reader would have to be under $100 for me to get one when I first saw the Kindle. And now we're down to $139 so it edges even closer.
$89 is my magic number, although at $99 it would definitely be in impulse buy territory if this economy was kind enough to hand out Christmas bonuses. $100 seems like an awful lot of money for a device that's really about 30% too small. $149 would be my sweet spot for a kindle DX (a.k.a. "full size") with a smaller bezel. Living in the city, 5 min from a computer at all times, I'm not really that interested in 3G for a book as a feature. The 3G model might make more sense to a parent who has a kid but can't afford to, or they're not old enough yet to buy them their own separate computer.
In ten years time they'll be giving Kindles away for free with the prepurchase of 10 books or more. In the early 1980s people couldn't fathom calculators costing less than $100, but by the early 80's they were giving them away with a tank of gas; and now they're used as freebie promotional items at conferences as part of gift bags. Why would they ever try and build out the kindle to be a fully featured computing tablet? It's the literary equivalent of a calculator.
From what I can tell, Zune and WinMo6 use the same web browser already, so there's a common platform on some level there already. It makes a lot more sense than trying to shoehorn Win7 onto a device that clearly doesn't need it. I'm pretty sure the Zune store already has a few productivity apps; MS released a dev kit for the Zune quite a while back. Why they're going the "full OS" route isn't entirely clear and has a lot of drawbacks from my point of view.
If rumors are true, Ballmer's job is on the line and being proactive about an iPad competetor, nomatter how shitty, gives him six more months. In a year nobody will remember the failed attempt that was the MSpad, just like with all the other MS branded hardware that has quietly gone to pasture over the years.
I think the more shocking thing here is that MS is going to try and shoehorn Win7 into a netbook to compete with the iPad, rather than starting with the Zune or WinPhone7 OS and extending that. While I never really liked the Zune before, people seemed to like (or at least, not hate) the last Zune HD which was basically an ipod touch.... and since the ipad is just an overgrown ipod touch....
The problems listed might cut the population down to a tenth of it's current size, but you are dimly aware of how most of the world functions on a day to day basis.
I can't help but wonder, eventually these sorts of lawsuits go from the cost of business to personal between CEOs. Since CEOs invest so much time and energy in winning these personal buisness battles, why don't they simply box it out in the ring, and sell tickets? Both companies effectively have unlimited funds for the ensuing 5-10 year legal battle, and ultimately it's really a 50/50 coin flip as to who owes who how much money when the verdict comes down from upon high. Just cut to the chase and let's see some CEOs bust some chops and knock heads in a bare knuckle boxing match instead of hiding behind overpriced lawyers.
You're paying for a piece of paper that says you can complete assigned projects on time and of average (or better) competency. In most cases it doesn't really matter what you know, since you either already know it, or will learn it on the job. Your future employer is simply paying you more since you're already prequalified to be able to handle whatever project(s) they throw at you, and be able to expect you to finish them in a timely manner. If you're still convinced that being smarter than the average bear makes you a unique snowflake, get an appointment with the dean of that department and have him sign off on letting you bypass those courses.
I doubt many people (i.e. "consumers") make the connection between the whole dark and stormy "Droid Does" marketing campaign and the light and airy green Android robot mascot.
The trick with online multiplayer is to find a community of like-minded individuals of near your own age group, find their steam community(ies) and play largely inside that circle of people, which tends to be ~100-250 people. I can think of four large, healthy TF2 communities off the top of my head that are also involved in several other games as well. All of a sudden you're playing with people you know, and it becomes a lot more fun. If you play on a 32 player instant respawn server full of strangers who happen to mostly be 12 year old shut-ins, of course you're going to have an awful time.