> Meanwhile I've owned 3 Mac (1 iMac, 2 Macbooks), 1 pad > and 2 iPod, and they all turned to shit within 2-3 years.
Ooh yay, I love this game! I currently have and use... - an original G4 Mac mini (as a server), 11+ years old, always on - a MacBook Pro from 2007 (for video capturing; battery swelled up but it's otherwise fine.) - an iPod from 2004 that I don't use but it still holds a charge and will play for 2-3 hours - an iPod from 2006, I think, that I still use; holds a charge just fine and plays for many hours - my work MacBook, issued to me Sept. 2012 and still working fine - my wife's 13" MacBook, used to be my mom's, about 6-7 years old now - an iPad mini, 3 years old now... and more. My friend still uses a graphite 733 MHz PowerMac G4 I gave him a few years ago but he's ready for an upgrade. My mom bought a 17" MacBook just before Apple discontinued that size. My aunt's 15" MBP is also coming up on 7 years old -- just checked the other day because she wanted to find out if it'll run OS X 10.10 or 10.11. (Was still on 10.8 for work.) Etc etc etc.
In summary, Apple gear for the most part is only "disposable shit" if you treat it like shit.
WTF? In both cases, there is a model (Beetle, Corolla) and brand (VW, Toyota).
And everyone always forgets about trucks. Ford had sold 28 million F150s as of eleven years ago. http://www.prnewswire.com/news... They sell a couple million per year. Probably well over 40 million by now, maybe close to 50.
What's extra funny is that it's a lowercase a-with-tilde in the box -- even in the text box you get after you hit 'preview' -- but it gets converted to an uppercase a-with-tilde when submitted.
(One of those times when I wish there was an edit button...)
One last thought: make a model for a few bucks more with a built-in analog-to-digital converter (c'mon, that's gotta be like 20 cents now for something that only needs to do SD video) and let it output straight to a USB drive. Hell, maybe add a couple more circuits to 'upscale' to HD because people are idiots. If you wanna be really fancy, give it some built-in storage and a browser-based front-end so you can watch from any device in the house, and of course mobile apps because (again) people are idiots and don't understand right-clicking and "save as" in a browser.)
Come to think of it, just do the network thing and skip the USB. Just a button that says "capture to digital" and then you download it from another machine and/or post to YT or FB. 16 GB storage will hold ~16 hours of SD video, 640x480* @ 30fps ar around 1500kbps (which is PLENTY for tape.) Also, convert from 480i to 480p, always and only. And, from experience, bump up the contrast a bit. Analog tape can't make blacks as dark as people are now used to.)
*FUCK* I want to do this. THE MONEY IS SITTING THERE ON THE TABLE, WAITING TO BE TAKEN. You have a GENERATION of people with disposable income and a childhood's worth of tapes they want to convert, but it needs to be a bit slicker than existing video capture solutions.
Can someone with more time and experience than I have do a kickstarter of this? I'm not looking for a cut of the profits, I just want this to exist. Hell, I'll back it and buy the first one.
I'm sure some Chinese company -- maybe one you've kind heard of (like Huawei) or maybe a totally new one -- will pick up the slack. 750k units/year oughtta be enough for someone.If there's only one choice on the shelf, it'll sell no matter what name is on the box.
Free tip: make one VCR and sell it under two brand names. Make the first slightly flimsy-looking (like a late-90s entry-level Mitsubishi unit) and sell it for $X, and make the other weigh 6oz more (via the addition of a useless steel plate in the top), and give it a slightly more upscale-looking set of buttons (think Sony in the 80s) and sell it for $X+10.
I wish I had the capital to get into the business. This is a total gimme. There are enough tapes out there to keep a small company afloat for 5-10 years. Make hay while the sun shines.
"... the worldÃ(TM)s most powerful radio telescope..."
Yeah. That character encoding will get you every time. Maybe you should have hit 'preview'?
Look: I *know* character encoding is hard. But the simple ones -- curly quotes, en- and em-dashes, etc. -- are a SOLVED PROBLEM. A bunch of open-source rich-text editors solved this AGES ago. Maybe a DECADE ago by now. A few basics will save you in 99 cases out of 100.
CASH. For trivial, small-amount transactions that will not be returned (i.e., fast food), I LOVE CASH. I never get charged twice for the same thing. Never a problem with the tip amount, etc. And no exposure for hacks like this.
Granted, I haven't had many problems with credit card transactions, but I've had ZERO problems with cash.
"But the claim that decimate should be used to mean naught but to 'put to death (or destroy) one of every ten' has deeper problems than that. For it is not at all clear that this punitive sense is indeed the earliest definition of the word...
"So given that these two meanings of decimate appeared almost simultaneously, why are we so obsessed with assigning the punitive meaning to the word? A likely answer is that people are falling prey to what is known as the Etymological Fallacy, a tendency to believe that a word's current meaning should be dictated by its roots. Unfortunately for the etymological purists, decimate comes from the Medieval Latin word decimatus, which means 'to tithe'. The word was then assigned retrospectively to the Roman practice of punishing every tenth soldier."
I'll agree to stronger copyright enforcement if you'll agree that the duration of copyright protection should go back to 14 years. Until then, STFU. If you're going to steal from the public domain, I'm going to steal from you.
Side note: I wonder if this could be defeated by representing it as a world's-smallest-violin-worthy plea from the 1%? Seriously, look at who signed this, and look at their net worths.
> But easy access to guns makes it much more likely that an unhinged person > will take down a whole bunch of others. It's exceedingly unlikely that a guy > with a glass bottle or a knife would kill 49 people before being stopped.
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Ignore this comment. Just testing something.
Murderers -- or, as I call them, "life offenders" -- are still free to play.
Moral of the story: if you're going to rape someone, you may we well kill them, too. Life will be easier when you're released.
> Meanwhile I've owned 3 Mac (1 iMac, 2 Macbooks), 1 pad
> and 2 iPod, and they all turned to shit within 2-3 years.
Ooh yay, I love this game! I currently have and use... ... and more. My friend still uses a graphite 733 MHz PowerMac G4 I gave him a few years ago but he's ready for an upgrade. My mom bought a 17" MacBook just before Apple discontinued that size. My aunt's 15" MBP is also coming up on 7 years old -- just checked the other day because she wanted to find out if it'll run OS X 10.10 or 10.11. (Was still on 10.8 for work.) Etc etc etc.
- an original G4 Mac mini (as a server), 11+ years old, always on
- a MacBook Pro from 2007 (for video capturing; battery swelled up but it's otherwise fine.)
- an iPod from 2004 that I don't use but it still holds a charge and will play for 2-3 hours
- an iPod from 2006, I think, that I still use; holds a charge just fine and plays for many hours
- my work MacBook, issued to me Sept. 2012 and still working fine
- my wife's 13" MacBook, used to be my mom's, about 6-7 years old now
- an iPad mini, 3 years old now
In summary, Apple gear for the most part is only "disposable shit" if you treat it like shit.
Car model: VW Beetle
Car brand: Toyota Corolla
WTF? In both cases, there is a model (Beetle, Corolla) and brand (VW, Toyota).
And everyone always forgets about trucks. Ford had sold 28 million F150s as of eleven years ago.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news...
They sell a couple million per year. Probably well over 40 million by now, maybe close to 50.
It was a *great* idea -- before web pages had forms.
One step forward, one step back... So it's a typical Chrome release, then? :-/
They're so compelling. Even the smallest -- the 55-inch model -- can display up to four tweets at once.
http://www.democraticundergrou...
What's extra funny is that it's a lowercase a-with-tilde in the box -- even in the text box you get after you hit 'preview' -- but it gets converted to an uppercase a-with-tilde when submitted.
http://i.imgur.com/NgoUR8w.png
Bonus funny: the story still isn't fixed, 3 days later.
(One of those times when I wish there was an edit button...)
One last thought: make a model for a few bucks more with a built-in analog-to-digital converter (c'mon, that's gotta be like 20 cents now for something that only needs to do SD video) and let it output straight to a USB drive. Hell, maybe add a couple more circuits to 'upscale' to HD because people are idiots. If you wanna be really fancy, give it some built-in storage and a browser-based front-end so you can watch from any device in the house, and of course mobile apps because (again) people are idiots and don't understand right-clicking and "save as" in a browser.)
Come to think of it, just do the network thing and skip the USB. Just a button that says "capture to digital" and then you download it from another machine and/or post to YT or FB. 16 GB storage will hold ~16 hours of SD video, 640x480* @ 30fps ar around 1500kbps (which is PLENTY for tape.) Also, convert from 480i to 480p, always and only. And, from experience, bump up the contrast a bit. Analog tape can't make blacks as dark as people are now used to.)
*FUCK* I want to do this. THE MONEY IS SITTING THERE ON THE TABLE, WAITING TO BE TAKEN. You have a GENERATION of people with disposable income and a childhood's worth of tapes they want to convert, but it needs to be a bit slicker than existing video capture solutions.
Can someone with more time and experience than I have do a kickstarter of this? I'm not looking for a cut of the profits, I just want this to exist. Hell, I'll back it and buy the first one.
I'm sure some Chinese company -- maybe one you've kind heard of (like Huawei) or maybe a totally new one -- will pick up the slack. 750k units/year oughtta be enough for someone. If there's only one choice on the shelf, it'll sell no matter what name is on the box.
Free tip: make one VCR and sell it under two brand names. Make the first slightly flimsy-looking (like a late-90s entry-level Mitsubishi unit) and sell it for $X, and make the other weigh 6oz more (via the addition of a useless steel plate in the top), and give it a slightly more upscale-looking set of buttons (think Sony in the 80s) and sell it for $X+10.
I wish I had the capital to get into the business. This is a total gimme. There are enough tapes out there to keep a small company afloat for 5-10 years. Make hay while the sun shines.
"... the worldÃ(TM)s most powerful radio telescope..."
Yeah. That character encoding will get you every time. Maybe you should have hit 'preview'?
Look: I *know* character encoding is hard. But the simple ones -- curly quotes, en- and em-dashes, etc. -- are a SOLVED PROBLEM. A bunch of open-source rich-text editors solved this AGES ago. Maybe a DECADE ago by now. A few basics will save you in 99 cases out of 100.
CASH. For trivial, small-amount transactions that will not be returned (i.e., fast food), I LOVE CASH. I never get charged twice for the same thing. Never a problem with the tip amount, etc. And no exposure for hacks like this.
Granted, I haven't had many problems with credit card transactions, but I've had ZERO problems with cash.
Sigh. http://blog.oxforddictionaries...
"But the claim that decimate should be used to mean naught but to 'put to death (or destroy) one of every ten' has deeper problems than that. For it is not at all clear that this punitive sense is indeed the earliest definition of the word...
"So given that these two meanings of decimate appeared almost simultaneously, why are we so obsessed with assigning the punitive meaning to the word? A likely answer is that people are falling prey to what is known as the Etymological Fallacy, a tendency to believe that a word's current meaning should be dictated by its roots. Unfortunately for the etymological purists, decimate comes from the Medieval Latin word decimatus, which means 'to tithe'. The word was then assigned retrospectively to the Roman practice of punishing every tenth soldier."
Great job of parroting the MS rep, The Verge. The ACTUAL story is "$300 off". Which... who gives a shit.
Traffic tickets are not the same as parking tickets. The terms are not interchangeable.
Start your company anywhere... but if you want VC money, get your ass to Sand Hill Road because VCs can't see past the end of their own driveway.
"Just imagine Domino's..."
I'm not a big pizza snob, but even I think you're setting a pretty low bar there.
... I already eat pizzas made by robots.
http://imgur.com/5UUmFOz
Also: "[the robot] works for free..." Oh really? It never needs electricity? Or parts?
Nah, I just want bold, ital, etc. No, definitely no GIFs.
They'll also need to remember to update their CSS so ULs and OLs work at all.
A former employee of Microsoft, makers of the Zune, names his company "Zume"? Don't strain your creativity muscle there, pal.
... why is the DEC attached to this story?
Paul: Let It Be.
Taylor: Shake It Off.
Bono: Walk On.
Kings of Leon: Spiral Staircase. (Sorry, couldn't find a good one for you guys.)
I'll agree to stronger copyright enforcement if you'll agree that the duration of copyright protection should go back to 14 years. Until then, STFU. If you're going to steal from the public domain, I'm going to steal from you.
Side note: I wonder if this could be defeated by representing it as a world's-smallest-violin-worthy plea from the 1%? Seriously, look at who signed this, and look at their net worths.
> But easy access to guns makes it much more likely that an unhinged person
> will take down a whole bunch of others. It's exceedingly unlikely that a guy
> with a glass bottle or a knife would kill 49 people before being stopped.
Yeah, or they might have to use fire and only kill 87.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's been there for 13 years -- they probably figured everyone already knew what it was.