Thanks for saving me from having to write the same post.:-) And this is why ILM invented "go-motion" in the early 80s which made the animation in 1981's Dragonslayer look much better than Clash of the Titans from the same year. Video games, producing instantaneous, perfectly-sharp images, look like Ray Harryhausen films unless the frame rates get really high.
> For a brand new product vs an iconic powerhouse, that is little short of amazing.
I look at it the other way: a brand new product SHOULD be doing well compared to a similar product that is three years old and is largely unchanged.* "Iconic powerhouse" or not, a new product should be doing SOMETHING other than just sitting there getting crushed.
* Other than GPS, videorecording, and 3rd-party apps--which OTHER smartphones had BEFORE the iPhone was even out (so their introduction, while nice, wasn't earth-shattering)--little new of substance has been added to the iPhone since its introduction in January 2007. (Plus faster networking and a better camera and more storage, but that's just "it gets incrementally faster/better over time" like ANY technology.)
Wow, so demand for a phone that has sold tens of millions of units in the 2.5 years it's been out is leveling off, and demand for a newer phone that has sold far fewer units is growing? Stop the presses!
"documenting something that needs no documentation is universally a bad idea"
-- yeah, because everyone in the world has the exact same experience and knowledge, so something that's obvious to one person is obvious to the rest of the world and vice-versa. And nobody ever changes, learns new things, or uses things that are obvious now but will be completely forgotten after five years of not using that particular construct.
This guy's opinions are worth less than the comments he eschews.
May not be effective but I never tire of pointing out the hypocrisy of Disney, who made fortunes off of PD stories from Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty to Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.
The organization has applied for a $532,000 two-year grant from the Knight Foundation to expand the use of its secure, anonymous submission system by local newspapers.
I knew the Knight Foundation was real! Oh, how the kids in 4th grade used to tease me when I said I wanted to go work for them...
I know a decent amount about the Pre and WebOS (longtime reader of/. and other such sites) and ten minutes (with a friend's) was more than I could stand. Tiny, rubbery keys with horrible feel (I used to have a Nokia w/ a physical qwerty keyboard and I have a BB from work and I much prefer the iPhone's virtual keyboard) and the UI isn't as smooth. Sure, it's subjective, but then again, that's all that is important--YOU buy the phone YOU like. If the iPhone were as it is and only sold 50k units I'd still love mine. 10 minutes is PLENTY to decide if you like a new phone or not. In my lifetime of using gadgets, first impressions usually hold. There have been very few gadgets I've hated at first but grown to love.
I'm completely happy with my iPhone but I'd love to have a nice Android-based everything-but-the-phone device (especially with the Droid's screen), like how Apple makes the iPod touch. Does anyone make one?
Rats, you beat me to it, but yeah, that's exactly what I thought when I saw their pics. Wikipedia has a good intro to how JPEG compression works. Basically, images are cut into 8 pixel by 8 pixel squares, each of which is a kind of gradient, and when you look at all these blocks together, it looks like a real image--kind of like how you can take a bunch of 1-inch line segments, arrange them end-to-end into a shape, and from a few feet away it looks like smooth curves.
1) What programs do people here like for applying.ISO images to USB drives in Windows? Is this one "locked" to Windows 7 ISOs or can I use it to, say, put Puppy Linux onto a USB drive? I tried to install this one to find out but it's telling me "This application requires the Image Mastering API v2" and I don't want to put too much effort into this if it isn't for general use.
2) Anyone know how to do the same thing in OS X? I tried using Disc Utility but it will only let me a) burn ISOs to CDs or b) apply Apple.DMGs to drives. I tried mounting the ISO and using that as a source to create a DMG and that worked, but then when I went to apply that DMG to a disk it gave up at the last minute. (Sorry, that machine is at home, I don't know the exact error message. It basically said "Sorry, can't" after I clicked 'restore'.)
It doesn't fit into the entertainment center paradigm.
FFS, it doesn't fit into an entertainment center, period. Nor can anything be stacked on top of it. Plus it's needlessly hard to manufacture, find components for, and assemble. This is quite possibly the most horribly designed piece of consumer gear I've ever seen in my life.
ATTENTION LOSERS WHO WANT TO COPY APPLE: Design doesn't just mean making it look neat. Apple's stuff looks flashy but it actually works.(Most of the time, anyway.) And if your design only looks "neat" to 14-year-old males, you should throw it right the fuck away and never venture down that path again. Seriously, this thing looks like a prop from a bad SciFi (excuse me, SyFy) movie-of-the-week, or maybe a Roomba from Eureka that gains sentience and starts causing problems.
Responding not so much to TFA itself as much as the title, movies and music are CONSUMED in totally different ways too. Music can be on in the background at home, work, or in a car, and individual songs are only a few minutes long. A movie is much more of a "OK I'm going to sit still and do this for a couple hours" type of experience--totally different.
Yes, you can have a movie on in the background while working, but you won't really enjoy it as much as you would otherwise, and that affects its value to you. If you're working at home tonight, with HBO on in the background, and Terminator 2 comes on, will you leave it on? Sure. Does that you'd also be willing to stop at the video store and rent it or buy it just so you can have it on in the background? No way.
BeOS FTW. Loaded in 10 seconds after POST on a 300 MHz K6/2 Compaq with 48 MB RAM. Ten years ago. Yes, new OSs do more, but the point of Chrome is to be a stripped-down OS that runs nothing but a browser, unlike BeOS which had a webserver, 3D support, and lots of other good stuff going on.
Oh, and the first PC I used (an AT or XT, 8086 or 8088, I forget) went from power off to a C: prompt in 7 seconds. And QNX has done some cool stuff too.
+1 for fuck you Manulife.Richard Jeni was a fucking COMEDIAN who was clinically depressed and committed suicide. Manulife would have seen him doing a show and concluded that there was nothing wrong with him.
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Thanks for saving me from having to write the same post. :-) And this is why ILM invented "go-motion" in the early 80s which made the animation in 1981's Dragonslayer look much better than Clash of the Titans from the same year. Video games, producing instantaneous, perfectly-sharp images, look like Ray Harryhausen films unless the frame rates get really high.
> For a brand new product vs an iconic powerhouse, that is little short of amazing.
I look at it the other way: a brand new product SHOULD be doing well compared to a similar product that is three years old and is largely unchanged.* "Iconic powerhouse" or not, a new product should be doing SOMETHING other than just sitting there getting crushed.
* Other than GPS, videorecording, and 3rd-party apps--which OTHER smartphones had BEFORE the iPhone was even out (so their introduction, while nice, wasn't earth-shattering)--little new of substance has been added to the iPhone since its introduction in January 2007. (Plus faster networking and a better camera and more storage, but that's just "it gets incrementally faster/better over time" like ANY technology.)
Wow, so demand for a phone that has sold tens of millions of units in the 2.5 years it's been out is leveling off, and demand for a newer phone that has sold far fewer units is growing? Stop the presses!
When I read the subject of your post I thought by "ends" you meant "users". Which will also be a problem in 2020.
... has anyone here played with a Western Digital "WD TV Live"?
The 2000's: "I was on MySpace!"
"documenting something that needs no documentation is universally a bad idea"
-- yeah, because everyone in the world has the exact same experience and knowledge, so something that's obvious to one person is obvious to the rest of the world and vice-versa. And nobody ever changes, learns new things, or uses things that are obvious now but will be completely forgotten after five years of not using that particular construct.
This guy's opinions are worth less than the comments he eschews.
May not be effective but I never tire of pointing out the hypocrisy of Disney, who made fortunes off of PD stories from Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty to Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.
The organization has applied for a $532,000 two-year grant from the Knight Foundation to expand the use of its secure, anonymous submission system by local newspapers.
I knew the Knight Foundation was real! Oh, how the kids in 4th grade used to tease me when I said I wanted to go work for them...
... a blast at parties.
I know a decent amount about the Pre and WebOS (longtime reader of /. and other such sites) and ten minutes (with a friend's) was more than I could stand. Tiny, rubbery keys with horrible feel (I used to have a Nokia w/ a physical qwerty keyboard and I have a BB from work and I much prefer the iPhone's virtual keyboard) and the UI isn't as smooth. Sure, it's subjective, but then again, that's all that is important--YOU buy the phone YOU like. If the iPhone were as it is and only sold 50k units I'd still love mine. 10 minutes is PLENTY to decide if you like a new phone or not. In my lifetime of using gadgets, first impressions usually hold. There have been very few gadgets I've hated at first but grown to love.
I'm completely happy with my iPhone but I'd love to have a nice Android-based everything-but-the-phone device (especially with the Droid's screen), like how Apple makes the iPod touch. Does anyone make one?
Link please?
Rats, you beat me to it, but yeah, that's exactly what I thought when I saw their pics. Wikipedia has a good intro to how JPEG compression works. Basically, images are cut into 8 pixel by 8 pixel squares, each of which is a kind of gradient, and when you look at all these blocks together, it looks like a real image--kind of like how you can take a bunch of 1-inch line segments, arrange them end-to-end into a shape, and from a few feet away it looks like smooth curves.
1) What programs do people here like for applying .ISO images to USB drives in Windows? Is this one "locked" to Windows 7 ISOs or can I use it to, say, put Puppy Linux onto a USB drive? I tried to install this one to find out but it's telling me "This application requires the Image Mastering API v2" and I don't want to put too much effort into this if it isn't for general use.
2) Anyone know how to do the same thing in OS X? I tried using Disc Utility but it will only let me a) burn ISOs to CDs or b) apply Apple .DMGs to drives. I tried mounting the ISO and using that as a source to create a DMG and that worked, but then when I went to apply that DMG to a disk it gave up at the last minute. (Sorry, that machine is at home, I don't know the exact error message. It basically said "Sorry, can't" after I clicked 'restore'.)
"... and the fact the LHC is planned on being shutdown a significant fraction of the year..."
Planned on? Or just "kinda working out that way"? :-)
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong. The meaning is obvious when someone says the Lamas.
It doesn't fit into the entertainment center paradigm.
FFS, it doesn't fit into an entertainment center, period. Nor can anything be stacked on top of it. Plus it's needlessly hard to manufacture, find components for, and assemble. This is quite possibly the most horribly designed piece of consumer gear I've ever seen in my life.
ATTENTION LOSERS WHO WANT TO COPY APPLE: Design doesn't just mean making it look neat. Apple's stuff looks flashy but it actually works. (Most of the time, anyway.) And if your design only looks "neat" to 14-year-old males, you should throw it right the fuck away and never venture down that path again. Seriously, this thing looks like a prop from a bad SciFi (excuse me, SyFy) movie-of-the-week, or maybe a Roomba from Eureka that gains sentience and starts causing problems.
Yesterday evening the Large Hadron Collider at CERN for the first time accelerated protons in both directions of the ring to 1.18 TeV
640GeV ought to be enough for anybody.
Since when is 3MP "fantastically bad"?
Or maybe he's talking about the theoretical privacy issues that MIGHT happen if AN APP YOU DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL decides not to be nice and IF Apple decides not to address this situation. Either way, it's a long way off, and I don't see how he got a +5 for that.
> There. Fixed that for you.
Hmm, I'm looking for the joke, but either I'm not seeing it or it wasn't funny.
Oh, wait, you actually fixed it for him. Gotcha. Nice work. :-)
Responding not so much to TFA itself as much as the title, movies and music are CONSUMED in totally different ways too. Music can be on in the background at home, work, or in a car, and individual songs are only a few minutes long. A movie is much more of a "OK I'm going to sit still and do this for a couple hours" type of experience--totally different.
Yes, you can have a movie on in the background while working, but you won't really enjoy it as much as you would otherwise, and that affects its value to you. If you're working at home tonight, with HBO on in the background, and Terminator 2 comes on, will you leave it on? Sure. Does that you'd also be willing to stop at the video store and rent it or buy it just so you can have it on in the background? No way.
BeOS FTW. Loaded in 10 seconds after POST on a 300 MHz K6/2 Compaq with 48 MB RAM. Ten years ago. Yes, new OSs do more, but the point of Chrome is to be a stripped-down OS that runs nothing but a browser, unlike BeOS which had a webserver, 3D support, and lots of other good stuff going on.
Oh, and the first PC I used (an AT or XT, 8086 or 8088, I forget) went from power off to a C: prompt in 7 seconds. And QNX has done some cool stuff too.
+1 for fuck you Manulife. Richard Jeni was a fucking COMEDIAN who was clinically depressed and committed suicide. Manulife would have seen him doing a show and concluded that there was nothing wrong with him.