Great, so now two pieces of metal (arm) joined by some bolts to some motor and encased in plastic is a robot? And this is 2013 when we were supposed to be on flying cars and have robo-hookers. You suck humanity!
how bad Fallout would have been if the Pipboy 3000 had a "Windows Ready" sticker on it. OTOH hand, I guess I'm not a target for such products, since my wrists are kind of thin, and anything bigger than a silver dollar looks inappropriate.
I work creating new products to try to break this market and our biggest resistance is time. Most small business owners don't have the time to learn your tool, learn your business model or to care. They're not going into your HTML5 dashboard where you show them visits, spending rates, high traffic windows, etc. They're not going to download your app because they might not even have a smartphone and if they do, probably, don't know how to install apps. They're not going to go through the process (as Foursquare is experiencing) of registering their business just to get some hate feedback and loose the little customers they have left. Also, any normal small shop can have 2-3 visits a day from providers and commercials trying to sell them stuff. So you're simply another guy trying to reach into their rather limited margins and there's no MBA that can break that.
I don't know about you, but I (and my kids) still keep playing with a PS2, an Xbox and a Wii. So, for how long will MS keep those servers online after the next Xbox? 3 years? 5 years? Nice way of making a perfectly working and fun product go by the drain of obsolescence. Just imagine if the Xbox360 was launched with this atrocity. I would be in fear that in the next few years my console would be a brick.
Today would have been the perfect day to kill Google Reader. I mean, I've already closed it because all my feeds are full of lame jokes on the wrong date
P.S. April's Fool is on Dec. 28th where I'm at (Día de los Santos Inocentes)
Don't compare Vietnam with NK. On Vietnam they were fighting since the country existed for a common goal: kick out any foreign colonial power (french, english, americans, etc.)
defeating North Korea would be easier than Iraq. No questions asked.
Don't be so sure about this. Iraq is pretty much a plain desert, whereas NK is a jungle with lots of mountains and a pretty rough winter. Iraq military was still relieving from the Iran-Iraq war and the previous Gulf war and after those two, I don't think many Iraqi soldiers (also divided by tribal believes) were about to give their lives for their leaders.
I passed my whole college time with a PalmPilot and a Palm III and it was great to develop stuff on it and to carry around. I even remember connecting to the Net with the modem dongle which connected to the bottom port to check emails and browse online.
The worst thing about them was that they totally messed up my hand writing.
If 900 missiles hit the continental USA, I don't think vengeance and counter attacks will be your biggest problem/priority. Neither a soviet invasion (who wants to conquer a wasteland?)
Also, a "surprise" attack with 900 nukes is hardly "surprise" and if movies have taught me anything, is that the US can launch its nukes in less than an hour.
What worries me the most is the big interest private enterprises and countries are starting to take on "mining" asteroids and NEOs. Wait 'til one of the big players puts a 10km rock in orbit and we'll have another race to put the biggest rock on top of a major capital in no time.
I've never tried a touch screen laptop/desktop but what I'm pretty sure (and also every one of my coworkers who for some reason comes to stick their fingers in my display) is that I DO NOT LIKE FINGER PRINTS IN MY SCREEN.
I can handle finger prints in my phone or tablet because I use them for a few minutes but when you're staring to the same screen for 8 hours straight, I can't handle it.
Man, I loved my N95 and it cost me the silly amount of 350€ with an 18 months contract. It was a good phone, no software obsolescence, well designed, great camera (it had video, something the iPhone didn't have until the 3GS three years later!), you could install third party apps (the iPhone didn't allow this until much later) and great battery life with 3G on (3 - 4 days). All the apps I needed were there.
The main issue with Symbian was that it sucked to develop on it because the tools weren't the best and the OS itself was too embedded on the device (no OS updates), no real app store where devs to sell their apps and the browser was stuck on 1999. The same thing can be said about J2ME.
It's a shame Nokia, really a shame. Maybe they'll embrace FirefoxOS for their new line of cheap smartphones.
If I were this guy, I would put this in the front page of every search of "toshiba" on its site.
"Oh! You're looking for the manual for the Toshiba Satellite XXX. We had that, but Toshiba itself told us to drop it from this site because they think that your computer is SO OLD that it's already discontinued. Good luck finding it in Toshiba's site (link goes here to some goatsy picture)"
The community around it. I mean, if you want to know who understands something like IO handling, ask the guy who's doing it.
Actually, I remember reading not long ago that Linus main purpose to this day is filtering stupid crap from getting into the main kernel branch and not so much of developing active parts.
I remember each distro I installed on my PC: Red Hat 5.2 (felt in love with Linux, vim, remote X's, Apache and PHP [I was young]) Mandrake (cute tuxies, magic stars and KDE) Debian ("apt-get install kde" over a 56K modem is slooooow) Gentoo (Wow, that "stage 1" thing took long enough) Ubuntu (Wait, my WiFi, X and Sound card work already? But it's all brown) Xubuntu (I loath you Unity!)
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Great, so now two pieces of metal (arm) joined by some bolts to some motor and encased in plastic is a robot? And this is 2013 when we were supposed to be on flying cars and have robo-hookers. You suck humanity!
how bad Fallout would have been if the Pipboy 3000 had a "Windows Ready" sticker on it. OTOH hand, I guess I'm not a target for such products, since my wrists are kind of thin, and anything bigger than a silver dollar looks inappropriate.
I work creating new products to try to break this market and our biggest resistance is time. Most small business owners don't have the time to learn your tool, learn your business model or to care. They're not going into your HTML5 dashboard where you show them visits, spending rates, high traffic windows, etc. They're not going to download your app because they might not even have a smartphone and if they do, probably, don't know how to install apps.
They're not going to go through the process (as Foursquare is experiencing) of registering their business just to get some hate feedback and loose the little customers they have left.
Also, any normal small shop can have 2-3 visits a day from providers and commercials trying to sell them stuff. So you're simply another guy trying to reach into their rather limited margins and there's no MBA that can break that.
Yeah, that worked out fine for Putin in Chechnya.
I don't know about you, but I (and my kids) still keep playing with a PS2, an Xbox and a Wii. So, for how long will MS keep those servers online after the next Xbox? 3 years? 5 years? Nice way of making a perfectly working and fun product go by the drain of obsolescence.
Just imagine if the Xbox360 was launched with this atrocity. I would be in fear that in the next few years my console would be a brick.
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I guess we won't be playing this on 2016
I hope that at least Disney tries to get money from me by releasing HD versions of TIE and XWing as LucasArts did with Monkey Island
Today would have been the perfect day to kill Google Reader. I mean, I've already closed it because all my feeds are full of lame jokes on the wrong date
P.S. April's Fool is on Dec. 28th where I'm at (Día de los Santos Inocentes)
Right side of this picture:
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02522/north-korea-jong-m_2522857c.jpg
OMG! Everybody! Run!
The great leader is an Apple Fanboy http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02522/north-korea-jong-m_2522857c.jpg
That should end this stupid war: move some of Apple production lines to the NK/SK frontier and let Kim brag about being the first to get an iWatch.
Funny, it could be him doing all those photoshops.
Wow, better think twice about who we're voting for then.
Don't compare Vietnam with NK. On Vietnam they were fighting since the country existed for a common goal: kick out any foreign colonial power (french, english, americans, etc.)
defeating North Korea would be easier than Iraq. No questions asked.
Don't be so sure about this. Iraq is pretty much a plain desert, whereas NK is a jungle with lots of mountains and a pretty rough winter. Iraq military was still relieving from the Iran-Iraq war and the previous Gulf war and after those two, I don't think many Iraqi soldiers (also divided by tribal believes) were about to give their lives for their leaders.
I passed my whole college time with a PalmPilot and a Palm III and it was great to develop stuff on it and to carry around. I even remember connecting to the Net with the modem dongle which connected to the bottom port to check emails and browse online.
The worst thing about them was that they totally messed up my hand writing.
If 900 missiles hit the continental USA, I don't think vengeance and counter attacks will be your biggest problem/priority. Neither a soviet invasion (who wants to conquer a wasteland?)
Also, a "surprise" attack with 900 nukes is hardly "surprise" and if movies have taught me anything, is that the US can launch its nukes in less than an hour.
What worries me the most is the big interest private enterprises and countries are starting to take on "mining" asteroids and NEOs. Wait 'til one of the big players puts a 10km rock in orbit and we'll have another race to put the biggest rock on top of a major capital in no time.
At least the night sky will have "stars".
Who cares? It's not like you're going to run a web browser on a server, right?
I've never tried a touch screen laptop/desktop but what I'm pretty sure (and also every one of my coworkers who for some reason comes to stick their fingers in my display) is that I DO NOT LIKE FINGER PRINTS IN MY SCREEN.
I can handle finger prints in my phone or tablet because I use them for a few minutes but when you're staring to the same screen for 8 hours straight, I can't handle it.
The same can be said about almost every African country where the only mobile coverage only allows for SMS's, and that's a big market to grow on.
Man, I loved my N95 and it cost me the silly amount of 350€ with an 18 months contract. It was a good phone, no software obsolescence, well designed, great camera (it had video, something the iPhone didn't have until the 3GS three years later!), you could install third party apps (the iPhone didn't allow this until much later) and great battery life with 3G on (3 - 4 days). All the apps I needed were there.
The main issue with Symbian was that it sucked to develop on it because the tools weren't the best and the OS itself was too embedded on the device (no OS updates), no real app store where devs to sell their apps and the browser was stuck on 1999. The same thing can be said about J2ME.
It's a shame Nokia, really a shame. Maybe they'll embrace FirefoxOS for their new line of cheap smartphones.
Doom 3 BFG !!! And it was released last year!!!
I wonder how would TPS would feel like with this thing.
If I were this guy, I would put this in the front page of every search of "toshiba" on its site.
"Oh! You're looking for the manual for the Toshiba Satellite XXX. We had that, but Toshiba itself told us to drop it from this site because they think that your computer is SO OLD that it's already discontinued. Good luck finding it in Toshiba's site (link goes here to some goatsy picture)"
The community around it. I mean, if you want to know who understands something like IO handling, ask the guy who's doing it.
Actually, I remember reading not long ago that Linus main purpose to this day is filtering stupid crap from getting into the main kernel branch and not so much of developing active parts.
And boom! Here comes Sony with Orbis and their AMD ARM APU strategy to save the day.
I remember each distro I installed on my PC:
Red Hat 5.2 (felt in love with Linux, vim, remote X's, Apache and PHP [I was young])
Mandrake (cute tuxies, magic stars and KDE)
Debian ("apt-get install kde" over a 56K modem is slooooow)
Gentoo (Wow, that "stage 1" thing took long enough)
Ubuntu (Wait, my WiFi, X and Sound card work already? But it's all brown)
Xubuntu (I loath you Unity!)