1. Teach her Fortran or Cobol
2. Enjoy lots of free pizza and pop on mom
3. Have access to killer hardware when...
4. Get her a job repairing old mainframes
5. Profit when she thanks you for her first pay cheque
I have wanted one since the first time I watched the movie Harold and Maude... I heard of this 'vapour ware' no pun intended before along with catch phrases such as "Movie Theatre", "Radio" and now "Computer". I usually have a pretty good nose for things that smell off, and this one is shooting fragerance to the back of my skull like I had breathed water up my nose. If it does happen to waft its way into stores, at least I will be able to send George Carlin my very own fart joke.
(insert grandpa simpson voice here) When the internet first started out I used Netscape, as microsoft caught up so to speek, I switched over because of the interoperability. (/Grandpa simpson) I tried Mozilla for a while way back when and found it to be much slower for some reason than Explorer. Well, after reading the headline from this story, I downloaded Mozilla and transfered everything to it. I have to say I like the layout as well as some of the features. Lately I have found the Microsoft package to be too laden with shit. There is only so much I really "want" to be able to do and all the rest is just using up resources on my old system. I guess I will have to blog about how I find Moz after a few weeks of using it. I hope that my $.02 pushes up the 10.something% Moz has of the market. I know for sure that wne I switch my sytem in a week or two to Linux I will be using it. Wish me luck with that.
Now that is what I'm talkin about... never mind downloading a song from a poster... I want to be able to upload an image to the poster... talk about tagging in the 21st C.
What I wonder is shat sort of distance has to be maintained once a connection has been made? It would be a real pain if even a slight separation of the devices caused you to lose your link. It will be great for transfering product info from a smart tag to your PDA though. I can see needing some sort of application that would allow me to compare a number of items once I have the specifications downloaded. Perhaps even be able to choose, customize and order the item all from the comfort of my personal segway shopping cart.
We need a OS that works from day one. The more I read/Install, the more I believe XP stands for X-tra Patches. Why is it the only OS I ever had that worked well was on my VIC 20?
hmmm... I wonder if prisons are on the stock market? With growth potential that big, should the bill be passed, I could be a Bill Gates, or perhaps just a Jack Bars.
Another quote I live by is by Oscar Wilde " Ugliness is the result of someone trying to make something beautiful, while beuty is achieved by those who aim at making something useful."
As an Industrial Designer specializing in User Interface for the integration of the virtual and the physical, the two bigest problems I come up against is first convincing the manufacturer of the value of Interface design, which is getting easier I am happy to say, and secondly convincing them that a product that is a 'Swiss Army Knife' is perhaps not such a great idea. It is much better to have a product which does one thing well rather than a product that does a million things half assed.
We constantly see this in applications and new technology where the engeneers come up with all this facinating stuff and try to cram it into a device hoping customers will overlook the lack of need and only see the prettyness.
As product designers we are at a cross roads where we are only now starting to understand which services and abilities people want grouped together in a single appliance. This is not limited strictly to produts. We are seeing it in services as well. Things like digital television, cell phone service plans as well as in cell phones and PDAs.
Cell phones are great with a camera built in, perhaps even the ability to take a 5 second video, but there is realy no need for a cell phone which is a video camera, no matter how cool it may be to own one. Video cameras do a much better job of capturing video. In the same way you would not want a video camera which had cell phone capabilities... well perhaps you would, but unless your part of a profitably large enough group of consumers, you probably won't get it.
Perhaps it is not so much the lack of spending in business, or the speed of the unit, perhaps not even the difficulties Segway has faced in California...
On one level, a design standpoint, people might not feel comfortable with the layout of the unit. From the 1800's we have been trained to see a two wheel vehicle with one wheel in front of the other, now Segway comes along and changes the visual and expects people to be comfortable with it. I will equate it with the feeling you get when you arrive at a web page that automatically takes you to full screen with no navigator in sight. I know it is like apples and oranges, but the feeling of discomfort at looking or using something you are not used to on a vernacular level is the same.
Another example is the steering concept Mercedes developed a number of years ago which used two joysticks to control direction, speed and braking. Now in a spaceship, you wouldn't want anything but, as Will Smith showed us in Independance Day, but in a car, although it provided the same control, the comfort level of the driver was its downfall.
Now on another level, the technology has not been proven, well it has but on a very limited scale. How many people do you know personally have used one even once for more than 5 min? Have you used one for more than 5 min?
On the last level, perhaps people have a subconscious adversion to trusting a gyroscope to keep them upright. Intelectually they may trust the science behind it but still feel like they are going to hit a stone and end up looking like one of those liquid filled glass birds drinking out of a glass, or flying off the thing like when they were kids flying down the hill on a skateboard.
I am guessing this show will have the highest ratings of the fall lineup. Hey perhaps that guy who wants to skydive from the stratosphere should try out. Then we can really see something worth watching on TV.
An average CD at lets say... Cinram... stamped, sealed and delivered is about $0.28 when purchased in bulk by the major lables... so where is all the money going if the artists are complaining, the stores are complaining, and the distributers are complaining... need I say more about a $1 million price tag for Love inc.'s Here comes the sun music video... or other outragious costs in some other videos... how much can you spend on Payola? Do they really need to spend that much on a video just to convince us that we want to be as cool at the dude... or dudette... on MTV? Well I guess with all the editing out of product placement in videos, which I guess could cut costs, we have to pay at the stores...
Here in Toronto I have had a high speed connection since the day it was avaliable in my area, and I still see no content worthy of justifying it save a few small sites. What does the avearge AOHell user need with broadband when the only things thy are going to be pointed to are movie trailers they can see on television, or music they can see and hear on Much Music (MTV)? Granted having PtoP gives somewhat of a reason to get a high speed connection, but for the most part what does the average user care if fully cross patform sites, like/. , load in a nano second or a millisecond? Until I can go to a news site and instantly have, or in a reasonable amout of time have, my text news along with a short video clip or annimated gif instead of the static picture presently given, I don't see too much need for the general public to switch.
Not to mention the two major players here in Canada have now put limits on your 'free' DL. Anything above and beyond you pay for. So we are back to the dino and the egg. Content providers won't put up large file size pages because not enough people have Cable or DSL, and people won't shell out for anything above and beyond what is included with their base rate. Can you imagine having to pay extra to view/. more than 10 times a week because viewing it would put you over your monthly limit... I don't think so.
It will be so much fun in a year or two to watch the big providers hop around now that they have shot themselves in the foot.
I guess it depends on who you identify with in the books. personally I did not identify with Arthor dent, but rather with Trillian. From her point of view, it did not matter that her planet was gone, she was still there and that was good enough for her. I agree that the planet being blown up was a bummer, but the universe was a utopia within it's own subjective chaos.
Clive Barker does not usualy come to mind when thinking of nice feel good lit, but his book Imagica was pretty good if not a bit long. Lest we never forget Doulas Adams... no need to title the books.
I know you all have read this before, but here it is again for the sake of argument...
A method and system for interactively responding to queries from a remotely located user includes a computer server system configured to receiving an instant message query or request from the user over the Internet. The query or request is interpreted and appropriate action is taken, such as accessing a local or remote data resource and formulating an answer to the user's query. The answer is formatted as appropriate and returned to the user as an instant message or via another route specified by the user. A method and system of providing authenticated access to a given web page via instant messaging is also disclosed.
Now, what if I put a time delay on any message sent between one user and another? Does this still count as instant messaging? and would I then be infringing on the patent? Has anyone considered that although this is a patent, that there is something called a Design Patent which covers the look and feel of an item?
Now that they can replace your glass eye with one that actually lets you see, I guess my novelty glass eyes won't do so well... It would have been nice to see them go into production, the magic 8 ball eye, the screen saver eye, and the flashing 12:00 eye... I wonder how long it will be before someone works out how to advirtise directly to your brain by hacking your eyes... gives whole new meaning to feed my eyes doesn't it.
Or any other video rental store, and you can see why X-Box isn't doing so well. You can find a million and nine games for the PS1 or PS2 but only a hand full of X-Box games. I would summise that all things equal, the number of games avaliable for rent is a direct initiator of ones decision to purchase a gaming system. For example how many parents take a look at the game rental options when deciding which console to buy, I would hazard a guess at a large number of them. Parents are not going to fork out $400 cdn for a console and $70 cdn for a game just to find out that it sucks. when you are given something on the ratio of 5 PS games to 1 X-Box game on the rental shelve, I know for myself, I will be buying the console that will give me the largest rental option and damn the graphics quality as they are close enough to make no odds. Either way when we go from Omega race to Xenon to Moto GP in the short time we have, your going to be out of date within a couple of years anyways.
I'll wait for the backwards compatible PS3 to appear, then plan of upgrading every 2 to 3 years after that until I can afford a jet ski, a dirt bike a gatling gun and one of the female characters from Final Fantasy as a wife.
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they call them children...
it doubles as a boxing dummy... I wonder if the thing can take a beating?
1. Teach her Fortran or Cobol
2. Enjoy lots of free pizza and pop on mom
3. Have access to killer hardware when...
4. Get her a job repairing old mainframes
5. Profit when she thanks you for her first pay cheque
You just know they forsee needing to support Longhorn for the Longhaul.
I have wanted one since the first time I watched the movie Harold and Maude... I heard of this 'vapour ware' no pun intended before along with catch phrases such as "Movie Theatre", "Radio" and now "Computer". I usually have a pretty good nose for things that smell off, and this one is shooting fragerance to the back of my skull like I had breathed water up my nose. If it does happen to waft its way into stores, at least I will be able to send George Carlin my very own fart joke.
(insert grandpa simpson voice here) When the internet first started out I used Netscape, as microsoft caught up so to speek, I switched over because of the interoperability. (/Grandpa simpson) I tried Mozilla for a while way back when and found it to be much slower for some reason than Explorer. Well, after reading the headline from this story, I downloaded Mozilla and transfered everything to it. I have to say I like the layout as well as some of the features. Lately I have found the Microsoft package to be too laden with shit. There is only so much I really "want" to be able to do and all the rest is just using up resources on my old system. I guess I will have to blog about how I find Moz after a few weeks of using it. I hope that my $.02 pushes up the 10.something% Moz has of the market. I know for sure that wne I switch my sytem in a week or two to Linux I will be using it. Wish me luck with that.
Give me a break... and what do you really think the invasion of Iraq was all about...
Now that is what I'm talkin about... never mind downloading a song from a poster... I want to be able to upload an image to the poster... talk about tagging in the 21st C.
What I wonder is shat sort of distance has to be maintained once a connection has been made? It would be a real pain if even a slight separation of the devices caused you to lose your link. It will be great for transfering product info from a smart tag to your PDA though. I can see needing some sort of application that would allow me to compare a number of items once I have the specifications downloaded. Perhaps even be able to choose, customize and order the item all from the comfort of my personal segway shopping cart.
how are we going to fit a restaurant into my computer... I barely have room for my tower in my apartment as it is...
We need a OS that works from day one.
The more I read/Install, the more I believe XP stands for X-tra Patches.
Why is it the only OS I ever had that worked well was on my VIC 20?
hmmm... I wonder if prisons are on the stock market? With growth potential that big, should the bill be passed, I could be a Bill Gates, or perhaps just a Jack Bars.
Another quote I live by is by Oscar Wilde " Ugliness is the result of someone trying to make something beautiful, while beuty is achieved by those who aim at making something useful."
As an Industrial Designer specializing in User Interface for the integration of the virtual and the physical, the two bigest problems I come up against is first convincing the manufacturer of the value of Interface design, which is getting easier I am happy to say, and secondly convincing them that a product that is a 'Swiss Army Knife' is perhaps not such a great idea. It is much better to have a product which does one thing well rather than a product that does a million things half assed.
We constantly see this in applications and new technology where the engeneers come up with all this facinating stuff and try to cram it into a device hoping customers will overlook the lack of need and only see the prettyness.
As product designers we are at a cross roads where we are only now starting to understand which services and abilities people want grouped together in a single appliance. This is not limited strictly to produts. We are seeing it in services as well. Things like digital television, cell phone service plans as well as in cell phones and PDAs.
Cell phones are great with a camera built in, perhaps even the ability to take a 5 second video, but there is realy no need for a cell phone which is a video camera, no matter how cool it may be to own one. Video cameras do a much better job of capturing video. In the same way you would not want a video camera which had cell phone capabilities... well perhaps you would, but unless your part of a profitably large enough group of consumers, you probably won't get it.
Perhaps it is not so much the lack of spending in business, or the speed of the unit, perhaps not even the difficulties Segway has faced in California...
On one level, a design standpoint, people might not feel comfortable with the layout of the unit. From the 1800's we have been trained to see a two wheel vehicle with one wheel in front of the other, now Segway comes along and changes the visual and expects people to be comfortable with it. I will equate it with the feeling you get when you arrive at a web page that automatically takes you to full screen with no navigator in sight. I know it is like apples and oranges, but the feeling of discomfort at looking or using something you are not used to on a vernacular level is the same.
Another example is the steering concept Mercedes developed a number of years ago which used two joysticks to control direction, speed and braking. Now in a spaceship, you wouldn't want anything but, as Will Smith showed us in Independance Day, but in a car, although it provided the same control, the comfort level of the driver was its downfall.
Now on another level, the technology has not been proven, well it has but on a very limited scale. How many people do you know personally have used one even once for more than 5 min? Have you used one for more than 5 min?
On the last level, perhaps people have a subconscious adversion to trusting a gyroscope to keep them upright. Intelectually they may trust the science behind it but still feel like they are going to hit a stone and end up looking like one of those liquid filled glass birds drinking out of a glass, or flying off the thing like when they were kids flying down the hill on a skateboard.
I want to patent my sperm so I can sue my cloned children.
I am guessing this show will have the highest ratings of the fall lineup. Hey perhaps that guy who wants to skydive from the stratosphere should try out. Then we can really see something worth watching on TV.
An average CD at lets say... Cinram... stamped, sealed and delivered is about $0.28 when purchased in bulk by the major lables... so where is all the money going if the artists are complaining, the stores are complaining, and the distributers are complaining... need I say more about a $1 million price tag for Love inc.'s Here comes the sun music video... or other outragious costs in some other videos... how much can you spend on Payola? Do they really need to spend that much on a video just to convince us that we want to be as cool at the dude... or dudette... on MTV? Well I guess with all the editing out of product placement in videos, which I guess could cut costs, we have to pay at the stores...
Here in Toronto I have had a high speed connection since the day it was avaliable in my area, and I still see no content worthy of justifying it save a few small sites. What does the avearge AOHell user need with broadband when the only things thy are going to be pointed to are movie trailers they can see on television, or music they can see and hear on Much Music (MTV)? Granted having PtoP gives somewhat of a reason to get a high speed connection, but for the most part what does the average user care if fully cross patform sites, like /. , load in a nano second or a millisecond? Until I can go to a news site and instantly have, or in a reasonable amout of time have, my text news along with a short video clip or annimated gif instead of the static picture presently given, I don't see too much need for the general public to switch. /. more than 10 times a week because viewing it would put you over your monthly limit... I don't think so.
Not to mention the two major players here in Canada have now put limits on your 'free' DL. Anything above and beyond you pay for. So we are back to the dino and the egg. Content providers won't put up large file size pages because not enough people have Cable or DSL, and people won't shell out for anything above and beyond what is included with their base rate. Can you imagine having to pay extra to view
It will be so much fun in a year or two to watch the big providers hop around now that they have shot themselves in the foot.
I guess it depends on who you identify with in the books. personally I did not identify with Arthor dent, but rather with Trillian. From her point of view, it did not matter that her planet was gone, she was still there and that was good enough for her. I agree that the planet being blown up was a bummer, but the universe was a utopia within it's own subjective chaos.
Clive Barker does not usualy come to mind when thinking of nice feel good lit, but his book Imagica was pretty good if not a bit long.
Lest we never forget Doulas Adams... no need to title the books.
I know you all have read this before, but here it is again for the sake of argument...
A method and system for interactively responding to queries from a remotely located user includes a computer server system configured to receiving an instant message query or request from the user over the Internet. The query or request is interpreted and appropriate action is taken, such as accessing a local or remote data resource and formulating an answer to the user's query. The answer is formatted as appropriate and returned to the user as an instant message or via another route specified by the user. A method and system of providing authenticated access to a given web page via instant messaging is also disclosed.
Now, what if I put a time delay on any message sent between one user and another? Does this still count as instant messaging? and would I then be infringing on the patent? Has anyone considered that although this is a patent, that there is something called a Design Patent which covers the look and feel of an item?
And you can use the AOHell disks as cool sun glasses with the exclusive AOL/Oakley clip kit
Stand by screen saver by M$.
Now that they can replace your glass eye with one that actually lets you see, I guess my novelty glass eyes won't do so well... It would have been nice to see them go into production, the magic 8 ball eye, the screen saver eye, and the flashing 12:00 eye... I wonder how long it will be before someone works out how to advirtise directly to your brain by hacking your eyes... gives whole new meaning to feed my eyes doesn't it.
Or any other video rental store, and you can see why X-Box isn't doing so well. You can find a million and nine games for the PS1 or PS2 but only a hand full of X-Box games.
I would summise that all things equal, the number of games avaliable for rent is a direct initiator of ones decision to purchase a gaming system. For example how many parents take a look at the game rental options when deciding which console to buy, I would hazard a guess at a large number of them. Parents are not going to fork out $400 cdn for a console and $70 cdn for a game just to find out that it sucks. when you are given something on the ratio of 5 PS games to 1 X-Box game on the rental shelve, I know for myself, I will be buying the console that will give me the largest rental option and damn the graphics quality as they are close enough to make no odds. Either way when we go from Omega race to Xenon to Moto GP in the short time we have, your going to be out of date within a couple of years anyways.
I'll wait for the backwards compatible PS3 to appear, then plan of upgrading every 2 to 3 years after that until I can afford a jet ski, a dirt bike a gatling gun and one of the female characters from Final Fantasy as a wife.