It probably is passable on an SDTV, but it looks absolutely awful on my 42" HD plasma. I know, I know--duh! But, seriously, iPod video is very close to unwatchable on a nice TV.
My friend and I were denied just today when we applied for distribution through iTMS. No, we're not a major indie like Matador, but we're also not a bunch of yahoos making records in the garage. I'm not complaining, but self-publishing through iTMS is still not easy enough. Having said that, people in my situation can probably use CDBaby to get onto iTMS, which is exactly what Apple's rejection note said.
You are completely turned around on this. You make it sound as if the new iPod is inferior to a TiVO because it can't record inbound programming. I admit, the new iPod has not yet been provided a catalogue of programming as diverse as a TiVO connected to basic cable. But, the major advantage of the new iPod is that it allows the user to do the programming in the first place. In this sense, the iTMS/iPod video download model is superior to a PVR model.
I never said it was correct to violate your rights. I *did* say that if you expect people to respect your rights to the point of trusting unencrypted communications, you are a fool.
The good news is that even if they hear it, they likely can't use it against you in court. Does anyone expect privacy on the phone lines anyway? If you do, and you're up to no good, you're an idiot.
Or is Zonk growing less coherent with each review?
Katamari. Since the launch of the original title, it's been a hat, a cake, and now it's another game. Even then, saying it is another game is a stretch.
And you think the United Nations (ahem, Oil-for-Food scandal) is more trustworthy?
I got news for ya: there is no international government. So, you tell me which country is a more trustworthy than the US in this context? If said Denmark or Holland or something reasonable, I might have to listen to you. But the UN?!
First of all, I'm both an investor and a customer. I can't imagine being one and not the other. Secondly, Apple hasn't done anything but respond to customer issues--it's not as if they stop paying attention to problem hardware as soon as their share price recovers. (Anyone remember the PowerBook AC replacement program?) Third, at some point you have to look at the pattern of consumers griping every time a new Apple product is released and ask yourself: is Apple failing its consumers, or is a small minority of consumers just a bunch of whiners? Considering that Apple has always managed to recover from these temporary "debacles" in short measure, I suspect that the consumers are being unreasonable. I mean, come on, they're bitching about scratches! Finally, as I point out in another posting here, this happens to all sorts of manufacturers all the time. The hype around Apple releases just seems to amplify the backlash too.
Disposible is a strong word, but let's be realistic about expectations. A battery powered handheld hard drive is not something I expect to last for decades of daily use. I use the hell out of my iPods. On my first one the scroll wheel fell off. Guess what? I didn't even create an outraged website or troll message boards with my tale of woe. I went out and bought a new one (and donated the broken one to someone that didn't mind the wheel falling off all the time). My new one served me well for a long enough time to make it worth a few hundred bucks, and then the hard drive bit the dust. No suprise, really, since I often ran with it and otherwise disregarded its well-being. The next one I still use sometimes, but I prefer my shuffle because it's small. No, it's not a throwaway item, but the neither is the iPod a vintage Cartier watch.
Since this bitch session about the Nano is just a typical part of the Apple product life cycle (i.e., happens every time a new model is released), the smart investor increased his position at the end of the day yesterday and watches the profits roll in over the next few weeks as this blows over. I threw an extra 5K on before the bell, and I'm already up 2% on the morning trading.
On this topic, watch what happens during the buildup to Intel Macs next year. The stock will build as news outlets figure out the implications of OS X on Intel. Then some flaw will be found in the first gen Intel Macs. Then it will blow over. You have to know when to buy Apple to make money as an Apple investor. Personally, I'm up over 30% average across all my shares, and more than 150% on certain individual purchases. Those are real estate numbers, my friend. Bring on the complainers!
Any plastic item needs care. I bought a 35 thousand dollar Honda S2000 back in the days when the rear window was plastic. That thing got scratched every single time you lowered or raised the convertible top. If you think Nano owners are bent out of shape, you should have seen the Honda message boards. After a while, people figured out that if you cared for the plastic window with Plexus or a similar product, and treated it with appropriate caution, it was fine. It really seems to me that every iPod release is accompanied by a chorus of complainers--first the battery life (a problem I never had with any of my four iPods), then clicking noises between tracks (a software issue addressed by Apple), then HD noise on the output (easily fixed--get a non-HD device!), and now the screen is scratching up. Excuse me if I don't have much sympathy. My half-decade of iPod ownership tells me that this is a bunch of sour grapes and buyer's remorse.
Clamshells are so much more breakable than candybar phones. They have a hinge. Hinges break. I'm not saying that the Nano issue isn't user error, but your logic about phones seems offbase.
I don't have a nano, but every other iPod I've had (first and third generation and shuffle) is very scratch-prone. I doubt Nanos are any different. People are just noticing it because this one fits in your pocket, IMO. If they say it's the same plastic, it either is, or it isn't. Are you saying it isn't?
I have the Panasonic TH-42PHD7UY (i.e., the one CNET calls its top pick) and I bought it from TigerDirect.com. This set is so great. I have zero complaints. Calibrated really nicely out of the box. Good on-screen menus. Swappable input bays (hell ya!--need three DVI inputs? Need two component and one HDMI? Just buy 'em for about a hundred bucks each and slot them in!) No crummy built-in speakers (although you can buy OEM accessory speakers, if you like). Nice clean design. And the best part is the price: a little over two grand for a 42" plasma that looks better than any other I've seen anywhere. Thanks Panasonic and TigerDirect!
If you'll conced that the northeastern corner of NJ is a shithole, you'll probably concede that the rest is indistinguishable from rural Arkansas. But then we'd have to carve out AC, which is also a shithole. And the lovely Jersey Shore--what shall we call that? A paradise of mullet-haired guys standing knee-deep in water with boomboxes on their shoulders showing off for high-strung, yappy girls. Let's see, what else is good about NJ? Tomato farms? Ski areas with 200 feet of vertical drop? Clubs filled with shirtless men who will go to the grave denying their gayness? Stripclubs where girls wear bikinis? Litter-covered streets? Newark? Trenton? I dunno--you tell me.
Another brilliant Zonk review!
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Review: Darkwatch
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· Score: -1, Offtopic
With control schemes for console first person shooters fairly standardized, developers seek to differentiate their titles with theme and storyline.
This is literally all I could stomach of this week's Zonk-errific game "review".
Let's deconstruct this amazingly retarded opener, just for fun. First, it's totally untrue that control schemes are standardized. That's such an irritating assumption to make right at the top. To the contrary, every FPS seems to have a new button layout and a new way of screwing with turning and aiming.
And then Zonk completes his thesis with: "developers seek to differentiate their titles with theme and storyline". As if theme and storyline were never important until developers got that pesky control scheme worked out! I'm missing the logic here. This kind of bogus, non-sequitor thesis might have gotten you through English Lit 101 in college, Zonk, but you're gonna have to do better in front of this audience of tens of thousands.
Plus, on top of his utter inability to write good prose, Zonk is the Gene Shalit of gaming: all thumbs up and flat jokes. I wouldn't be surprised if he has the hair and moustache, too.
Sorry, there's no two ways around it: New Jersey is a brutally ugly, ill-mannered and poorly administered state. Its highways are confusingly engineered with tolls everywhere. The landscape is hideously ugly, flat, and polluted. The so-called "nice parts" are ruined by tacky, cheap pseudo-mansions. Physically beautiful areas (such as the overlook toward Manhattan in Hoboken) are ruined by horrible, putrid homes and thoughtless condo high-rises. And then, there are the people who caused all this...don't even get me started.
...I'll take your word for it, if it makes you feel better. I was just basing my opinion on the downright illiterate snips taken from your blog. I suppose the other places you write for have editors who correct your grammar, though. *However*, your response above is full of errors (e.g., "My personal Blog...of which my girlfriend posts stuff on too...") No serious journalist would crap that out, even under the harshest deadline. If you write well, you make typos here and there. You *don't* make blatant errors like that one. *Neither* would you use a mismatched "nor", but that's pedantic of me. I'd say your own ability to write proper English is all I need to evaluate your journalistic creds, as is my own.
Yeah, this guy has no credibility but....
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Review: Nintendogs
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· Score: 1
...Zonk does really, really suck at this. That Hulk review was unbelievably, painfully bad. This one is a POS, too. Get lost, Zonk!
...get used to senior people in your job getting perks while you work your ass off. The theory is that you'll be one of them someday. I guess you missed that.
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This wired article mentions a Nokia phone running a Symbian Gnutella client.
It probably is passable on an SDTV, but it looks absolutely awful on my 42" HD plasma. I know, I know--duh! But, seriously, iPod video is very close to unwatchable on a nice TV.
...I'm betting that the hacked versions of Front Row on bittorrent will work on your machine, too. ;)
My friend and I were denied just today when we applied for distribution through iTMS. No, we're not a major indie like Matador, but we're also not a bunch of yahoos making records in the garage. I'm not complaining, but self-publishing through iTMS is still not easy enough. Having said that, people in my situation can probably use CDBaby to get onto iTMS, which is exactly what Apple's rejection note said.
You are completely turned around on this. You make it sound as if the new iPod is inferior to a TiVO because it can't record inbound programming. I admit, the new iPod has not yet been provided a catalogue of programming as diverse as a TiVO connected to basic cable. But, the major advantage of the new iPod is that it allows the user to do the programming in the first place. In this sense, the iTMS/iPod video download model is superior to a PVR model.
I never said it was correct to violate your rights. I *did* say that if you expect people to respect your rights to the point of trusting unencrypted communications, you are a fool.
Let's put "critical software for airports" on a remote server so airport employees can work from home! I can't see any problems with that idea at all!
The good news is that even if they hear it, they likely can't use it against you in court. Does anyone expect privacy on the phone lines anyway? If you do, and you're up to no good, you're an idiot.
Not really. Coherence is needed most for subject matter that's difficult to describe. Otherwise, you're just blabbering into the void.
Or is Zonk growing less coherent with each review?
Katamari. Since the launch of the original title, it's been a hat, a cake, and now it's another game. Even then, saying it is another game is a stretch.
Huh?
And you think the United Nations (ahem, Oil-for-Food scandal) is more trustworthy?
I got news for ya: there is no international government. So, you tell me which country is a more trustworthy than the US in this context? If said Denmark or Holland or something reasonable, I might have to listen to you. But the UN?!
First of all, I'm both an investor and a customer. I can't imagine being one and not the other. Secondly, Apple hasn't done anything but respond to customer issues--it's not as if they stop paying attention to problem hardware as soon as their share price recovers. (Anyone remember the PowerBook AC replacement program?) Third, at some point you have to look at the pattern of consumers griping every time a new Apple product is released and ask yourself: is Apple failing its consumers, or is a small minority of consumers just a bunch of whiners? Considering that Apple has always managed to recover from these temporary "debacles" in short measure, I suspect that the consumers are being unreasonable. I mean, come on, they're bitching about scratches! Finally, as I point out in another posting here, this happens to all sorts of manufacturers all the time. The hype around Apple releases just seems to amplify the backlash too.
Disposible is a strong word, but let's be realistic about expectations. A battery powered handheld hard drive is not something I expect to last for decades of daily use. I use the hell out of my iPods. On my first one the scroll wheel fell off. Guess what? I didn't even create an outraged website or troll message boards with my tale of woe. I went out and bought a new one (and donated the broken one to someone that didn't mind the wheel falling off all the time). My new one served me well for a long enough time to make it worth a few hundred bucks, and then the hard drive bit the dust. No suprise, really, since I often ran with it and otherwise disregarded its well-being. The next one I still use sometimes, but I prefer my shuffle because it's small. No, it's not a throwaway item, but the neither is the iPod a vintage Cartier watch.
Seems like a wash, at best, to me. Let's just agree that cell phones are overpriced, underengineered crap.
I totally disagree.
Since this bitch session about the Nano is just a typical part of the Apple product life cycle (i.e., happens every time a new model is released), the smart investor increased his position at the end of the day yesterday and watches the profits roll in over the next few weeks as this blows over. I threw an extra 5K on before the bell, and I'm already up 2% on the morning trading.
On this topic, watch what happens during the buildup to Intel Macs next year. The stock will build as news outlets figure out the implications of OS X on Intel. Then some flaw will be found in the first gen Intel Macs. Then it will blow over. You have to know when to buy Apple to make money as an Apple investor. Personally, I'm up over 30% average across all my shares, and more than 150% on certain individual purchases. Those are real estate numbers, my friend. Bring on the complainers!
Any plastic item needs care. I bought a 35 thousand dollar Honda S2000 back in the days when the rear window was plastic. That thing got scratched every single time you lowered or raised the convertible top. If you think Nano owners are bent out of shape, you should have seen the Honda message boards. After a while, people figured out that if you cared for the plastic window with Plexus or a similar product, and treated it with appropriate caution, it was fine. It really seems to me that every iPod release is accompanied by a chorus of complainers--first the battery life (a problem I never had with any of my four iPods), then clicking noises between tracks (a software issue addressed by Apple), then HD noise on the output (easily fixed--get a non-HD device!), and now the screen is scratching up. Excuse me if I don't have much sympathy. My half-decade of iPod ownership tells me that this is a bunch of sour grapes and buyer's remorse.
Clamshells are so much more breakable than candybar phones. They have a hinge. Hinges break. I'm not saying that the Nano issue isn't user error, but your logic about phones seems offbase.
I don't have a nano, but every other iPod I've had (first and third generation and shuffle) is very scratch-prone. I doubt Nanos are any different. People are just noticing it because this one fits in your pocket, IMO. If they say it's the same plastic, it either is, or it isn't. Are you saying it isn't?
I have the Panasonic TH-42PHD7UY (i.e., the one CNET calls its top pick) and I bought it from TigerDirect.com. This set is so great. I have zero complaints. Calibrated really nicely out of the box. Good on-screen menus. Swappable input bays (hell ya!--need three DVI inputs? Need two component and one HDMI? Just buy 'em for about a hundred bucks each and slot them in!) No crummy built-in speakers (although you can buy OEM accessory speakers, if you like). Nice clean design. And the best part is the price: a little over two grand for a 42" plasma that looks better than any other I've seen anywhere. Thanks Panasonic and TigerDirect!
If you'll conced that the northeastern corner of NJ is a shithole, you'll probably concede that the rest is indistinguishable from rural Arkansas. But then we'd have to carve out AC, which is also a shithole. And the lovely Jersey Shore--what shall we call that? A paradise of mullet-haired guys standing knee-deep in water with boomboxes on their shoulders showing off for high-strung, yappy girls. Let's see, what else is good about NJ? Tomato farms? Ski areas with 200 feet of vertical drop? Clubs filled with shirtless men who will go to the grave denying their gayness? Stripclubs where girls wear bikinis? Litter-covered streets? Newark? Trenton? I dunno--you tell me.
This is literally all I could stomach of this week's Zonk-errific game "review".
Let's deconstruct this amazingly retarded opener, just for fun. First, it's totally untrue that control schemes are standardized. That's such an irritating assumption to make right at the top. To the contrary, every FPS seems to have a new button layout and a new way of screwing with turning and aiming.
And then Zonk completes his thesis with: "developers seek to differentiate their titles with theme and storyline". As if theme and storyline were never important until developers got that pesky control scheme worked out! I'm missing the logic here. This kind of bogus, non-sequitor thesis might have gotten you through English Lit 101 in college, Zonk, but you're gonna have to do better in front of this audience of tens of thousands.
Plus, on top of his utter inability to write good prose, Zonk is the Gene Shalit of gaming: all thumbs up and flat jokes. I wouldn't be surprised if he has the hair and moustache, too.
Sorry, there's no two ways around it: New Jersey is a brutally ugly, ill-mannered and poorly administered state. Its highways are confusingly engineered with tolls everywhere. The landscape is hideously ugly, flat, and polluted. The so-called "nice parts" are ruined by tacky, cheap pseudo-mansions. Physically beautiful areas (such as the overlook toward Manhattan in Hoboken) are ruined by horrible, putrid homes and thoughtless condo high-rises. And then, there are the people who caused all this...don't even get me started.
...I'll take your word for it, if it makes you feel better. I was just basing my opinion on the downright illiterate snips taken from your blog. I suppose the other places you write for have editors who correct your grammar, though. *However*, your response above is full of errors (e.g., "My personal Blog...of which my girlfriend posts stuff on too...") No serious journalist would crap that out, even under the harshest deadline. If you write well, you make typos here and there. You *don't* make blatant errors like that one. *Neither* would you use a mismatched "nor", but that's pedantic of me. I'd say your own ability to write proper English is all I need to evaluate your journalistic creds, as is my own.
...Zonk does really, really suck at this. That Hulk review was unbelievably, painfully bad. This one is a POS, too. Get lost, Zonk!
...get used to senior people in your job getting perks while you work your ass off. The theory is that you'll be one of them someday. I guess you missed that.