In 4 months they will have all of the apple fanboys marching in a straight line back to the apple store with money in hand for Nano 2.0
These guys collect models like baseball cards...You are not a true fanboy unless you have one of each.
I still think it is wrong to pay over 100$ for anything that does not have an easily user replacable battery.
My archos jukebox has logged thousands of hours of play time, and everytime my trusty double AA's where out -- I put down 6 bucks for some new ones, and I am as good as new.
Plus -- Why does every player need to support OGG? I think a high enough percentage of players support OGG for the percentage of people using OGG. Plus -- The fact that all players don't support OGG gives the OGG fanboys the chance to put their money where their mouth's are, and give a vote of confidence to the companies that have heard them and produced players that support their compressed music format of choice.
I am as techy as the next guy....But why would you take something (a regular old metal key) that work without failure for much longer than your car itself --- and replace it with a USB drive -- that is lucky to last a year or 2?
I can totally geek out on adding USB ports somewhere on the dash to upload/download songs and maps, etc. into the eye and ear candy pieces of a car. But I must draw the line on something as important as the function that determines if the car starts up or not.
I am checking out a piece of land here in the midwest plains (right next to a spot I am pimping as a replacement Israel) that would work great for a new "Big Easy". We really need the tax base out here.
if you pay 1 dollar for a lottery ticket on a 5 million dollar purse and you lose. Then no big deal -- you will live to play another day.
if you pay $4.9 million to win a $5 million lottery -- and you lose then it is a big deal. Even if you win there is not much to celebrate
The movie industry has positioned it such that the only way to be "more" successful is to have 2 or 3 mega blockbusters at a time. And the public has shown that it really only supports 1 or 2 mega blockbusters at a time.
That is exactly what is wrong with our society today. The old king of the hill syndrome. Just because you set records year after year...It should not mean that the first year you don't break that record yet again -- that failure has set in.
Many people have lost jobs because of this. A company can be highly successful -- and then they cut people to save money so that they can "beat" last years earnings. Wallstreet loves them, and they can feed on themselves for about 9 or 10 quarters --- and then the shit hits the fan when they don't have the workforce to meet demand.
3. Talk Down Editorials about pirating movies being aired in front of a whole audience that just paid $8.50 to get in.
4. It costs just as much for me to take my family to the movies and buy them popcorn and drinks as it does to go to the amusment park or the water park all day.
There really are many bad movies out these days.
NOTE TO HOLLYWOOD:
It does no good to pay $120 million on "named actors" and have a big budget "flop" by only making $40 million....When most of the really good movies (the ones with real stories) can be made with normal actors for $20 Million and be considered a success if they make $40 million.
The real failure in Hollywood is the amount of money lost on "big budget flops".
w00t! Now I can sit on the couch and surf the web on my PSP with Sony's blessing. I must say that when I bought my PSP a few days ago, the 2.0 update was one of the main things I was waiting for. While I don't really care much for convergence devices, I was attracted by the prospect of doing things with the PSP that take advantage of its great video display other than games.
I think browsing the web on such a small screen is a cool thing in theory, but the novelty of "being able to do it" never quite is enough to support the practice of doing it. I have had the ability to use my PPC browser and wireless connection on many occasion, and none of them have many very memorable, especially considering that I had this "old fasioned" thing with a full sized keyboard and monitor that could do 1024X768 called a laptop that tends to make the experience much better.
However....Has any computer company thought (as a value added feature) of including Firefox on all machines shipped out the door. Or is this a EULA violation that whould cost them their OEM privs with Micro$oft?
Damn....He is basing his math on a an average post size of 150K. From a textual standpoint through gzip compression -- that is closer to a BOOK than a blog entry. I can't remember the last time I read a single article of original content that was that big.
I will second that. Certain professions entail a certain "possibile death may be involved" risk factor that is above and beyond your typical job.
Why 15+ Marines a day can die in Iraq and it is only a 5 second blob on your local news, and 7 astronauts in 20 years can die in a crash and it is national mourning for years, statues are erected, programs get shut down, manned exploration of space gets turned off for 3 years, etc. etc. is beyond me.
Who is dumb enough to keep getting the wool pulled over their eyes? I dare anyone to prove how XP is any more improved over 2000. Now we here Vista is going to be nothing more than XP with the service packs applied and a little ram company friendly eye candy.
Granted -- the MEMORY companies must love the fact that people are so blind. The additional RAM requirements between Windows versions is the biggest thing I have noticed. And to be honest with you, a few months ago I sat down at a Windows 98 machine to get some printouts and surf the interweb a bit and do some SSH stuff on the HPUX box's at work). Sad part is that I did not have any discomforts out of the ordinary from my usual 2000 or XP "forays" at work. As a matter of fact everything seemed to run faster a smoother than I had seen from a windows machine in a few years.....(And the machine only had 128 MB ram)
I have gotten pretty agnostic about operating systems in the last few years in my transition from uber-geek to professional interweb surfer, but it does not take a rocket scientist to see that the OS inovation timeline is about as speedy as the space program.
"Accoding to http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ that Atari 2600 would cost $634.91, and each cartridge would cost $63.49, in 2005 dollars."
In college I paid $2700.00 for a 386 DX with 4 megs of RAM and an 80 meg hardrive. I could buy 5 full Dell computers with that money today. I don't think inflation applies to everything.
Any 2nd year college student with a fair hand at HTML/CSS/XML and a dislike for ads could throw a configurable aggregation site together using other peoples content -- that could rival the start page by google or microsoft.
What perplexes me is, I think we can all agree that neither of these "start" pages are a technical marvel, yet while our add and flash scorned eyes can appreciate their minimallistic approaches in contrast to their "nascar like" fueled predecesors -- why is this a big deal?
I usually tend to be negative and on the speculative side about things like this. But for once, I can't help feel a little giddy about this.
I would take one of these things in a heartbeat over any of the "other" options. Just think -- a device that does not have to be hacked nine ways till sunday to keep emulators running on it.
I was kinda down on the original GP32 because it used the "old" (hard to find and small) SmartMedia. But this puppy uses SD...
Now the only hurdles left are:
1. When will it be available? (No release date mentioned anywhere I can find)
2. Will us poor starving Americans be able to get one? (Most cool things I have seen lately, tend not to ever be available on these shores -- because they can't get by the Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sanyo, LG, etc. blockade I guess)
Quick question: Do these places that provide wi-fi also provide the ability to plug into power?
I have an edge card for my laptop with an OK connection from just about anywhere, not hi speed or anything -- but faster than a typical dial up...But usually it endes up being mostly a novelty if I can't plug in to power, since battery life divided by the time it takes me to boot up and getted logged in * 100 usually equals NOT WORTH IT.
" People are pushing the limits of browsers using Java. The Switchboard [theswitchboard.ca] is an Internet conferencing solution which requires no installation from the user. Just browse to the page and you're done."
It did not push the limits of my browser to draw a little puzzle piece with the text that said "Click here to download plugin."
I am sitting here inside my car, outside of Jeb's house in Florida -- I just got on his lan to read slashdot....And all I get to SEE is dups.
Now I have to go to all the trouble of pulling up my comments from yesterday's story and add them to this post. You would think they could write a "Dup' It Forward" module that would automatically carry ones comments forward to any future posts that were duplicates of the stories one had already commented on. Hell we can put man on the moon. (I think) at least my grandparents BW tv showed man on the moon.
I am guilty of something really similar. I live in the woods about 3/4 of a mile from the nearest neighbor -- and the private driveway to get back to my house is 200 yards from the "main" dirt road.
I have bought 3 or 4 different wireless routers over the years, and each time I install a new one -- I always leave security off or relaxed for a period of time.
Currentlly the only security I have enabled is MAC based authentication....(I just logged on all five of my "computer type devices" at one time to the "open" network, and then set the security to not allow any MAC but those 5 to connect.)
I have never done anything malicious on someones open network, but I am mighty thankful for those kind folks whose houses back up to the park (when I take my kids to play) who have chosen not to lock down their wireless networks !!!! I long for an "open" society to where I can surf the web with my laptop wherever I may be at the time.
And this captures it in a nutshell. Ease of use (even sloppy use), documented examples, price, and saturation is 9/10's of the battle...And PHP has claimed all of those crowns.
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In 4 months they will have all of the apple fanboys marching in a straight line back to the apple store with money in hand for Nano 2.0
These guys collect models like baseball cards...You are not a true fanboy unless you have one of each.
I still think it is wrong to pay over 100$ for anything that does not have an easily user replacable battery.
My archos jukebox has logged thousands of hours of play time, and everytime my trusty double AA's where out -- I put down 6 bucks for some new ones, and I am as good as new.
Plus -- Why does every player need to support OGG? I think a high enough percentage of players support OGG for the percentage of people using OGG. Plus -- The fact that all players don't support OGG gives the OGG fanboys the chance to put their money where their mouth's are, and give a vote of confidence to the companies that have heard them and produced players that support their compressed music format of choice.
I am as techy as the next guy....But why would you take something (a regular old metal key) that work without failure for much longer than your car itself --- and replace it with a USB drive -- that is lucky to last a year or 2?
I can totally geek out on adding USB ports somewhere on the dash to upload/download songs and maps, etc. into the eye and ear candy pieces of a car. But I must draw the line on something as important as the function that determines if the car starts up or not.
I am checking out a piece of land here in the midwest plains (right next to a spot I am pimping as a replacement Israel) that would work great for a new "Big Easy". We really need the tax base out here.
To me personally, storage space and battery life are much more important than size.....
However, my wife says that "size matters".
The Hollywood way is flawed.
if you pay 1 dollar for a lottery ticket on a 5 million dollar purse and you lose. Then no big deal -- you will live to play another day.
if you pay $4.9 million to win a $5 million lottery -- and you lose then it is a big deal. Even if you win there is not much to celebrate
The movie industry has positioned it such that the only way to be "more" successful is to have 2 or 3 mega blockbusters at a time. And the public has shown that it really only supports 1 or 2 mega blockbusters at a time.
Give that man a blue ribbon.
That is exactly what is wrong with our society today. The old king of the hill syndrome. Just because you set records year after year...It should not mean that the first year you don't break that record yet again -- that failure has set in.
Many people have lost jobs because of this. A company can be highly successful -- and then they cut people to save money so that they can "beat" last years earnings. Wallstreet loves them, and they can feed on themselves for about 9 or 10 quarters --- and then the shit hits the fan when they don't have the workforce to meet demand.
1. A $5 movie now costs $8.50
2. The previews go on forever
3. Talk Down Editorials about pirating movies being aired in front of a whole audience that just paid $8.50 to get in.
4. It costs just as much for me to take my family to the movies and buy them popcorn and drinks as it does to go to the amusment park or the water park all day.
There really are many bad movies out these days.
NOTE TO HOLLYWOOD:
It does no good to pay $120 million on "named actors" and have a big budget "flop" by only making $40 million....When most of the really good movies (the ones with real stories) can be made with normal actors for $20 Million and be considered a success if they make $40 million.
The real failure in Hollywood is the amount of money lost on "big budget flops".
w00t! Now I can sit on the couch and surf the web on my PSP with Sony's blessing. I must say that when I bought my PSP a few days ago, the 2.0 update was one of the main things I was waiting for. While I don't really care much for convergence devices, I was attracted by the prospect of doing things with the PSP that take advantage of its great video display other than games.
I think browsing the web on such a small screen is a cool thing in theory, but the novelty of "being able to do it" never quite is enough to support the practice of doing it. I have had the ability to use my PPC browser and wireless connection on many occasion, and none of them have many very memorable, especially considering that I had this "old fasioned" thing with a full sized keyboard and monitor that could do 1024X768 called a laptop that tends to make the experience much better.
However....Has any computer company thought (as a value added feature) of including Firefox on all machines shipped out the door. Or is this a EULA violation that whould cost them their OEM privs with Micro$oft?
Damn....He is basing his math on a an average post size of 150K. From a textual standpoint through gzip compression -- that is closer to a BOOK than a blog entry. I can't remember the last time I read a single article of original content that was that big.
I will second that. Certain professions entail a certain "possibile death may be involved" risk factor that is above and beyond your typical job.
Why 15+ Marines a day can die in Iraq and it is only a 5 second blob on your local news, and 7 astronauts in 20 years can die in a crash and it is national mourning for years, statues are erected, programs get shut down, manned exploration of space gets turned off for 3 years, etc. etc. is beyond me.
Who is dumb enough to keep getting the wool pulled over their eyes? I dare anyone to prove how XP is any more improved over 2000. Now we here Vista is going to be nothing more than XP with the service packs applied and a little ram company friendly eye candy.
Granted -- the MEMORY companies must love the fact that people are so blind. The additional RAM requirements between Windows versions is the biggest thing I have noticed. And to be honest with you, a few months ago I sat down at a Windows 98 machine to get some printouts and surf the interweb a bit and do some SSH stuff on the HPUX box's at work). Sad part is that I did not have any discomforts out of the ordinary from my usual 2000 or XP "forays" at work. As a matter of fact everything seemed to run faster a smoother than I had seen from a windows machine in a few years.....(And the machine only had 128 MB ram)
I have gotten pretty agnostic about operating systems in the last few years in my transition from uber-geek to professional interweb surfer, but it does not take a rocket scientist to see that the OS inovation timeline is about as speedy as the space program.
"Accoding to http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ that Atari 2600 would cost $634.91, and each cartridge would cost $63.49, in 2005 dollars."
In college I paid $2700.00 for a 386 DX with 4 megs of RAM and an 80 meg hardrive. I could buy 5 full Dell computers with that money today. I don't think inflation applies to everything.
Any 2nd year college student with a fair hand at HTML/CSS/XML and a dislike for ads could throw a configurable aggregation site together using other peoples content -- that could rival the start page by google or microsoft.
What perplexes me is, I think we can all agree that neither of these "start" pages are a technical marvel, yet while our add and flash scorned eyes can appreciate their minimallistic approaches in contrast to their "nascar like" fueled predecesors -- why is this a big deal?
I usually tend to be negative and on the speculative side about things like this. But for once, I can't help feel a little giddy about this.
I would take one of these things in a heartbeat over any of the "other" options. Just think -- a device that does not have to be hacked nine ways till sunday to keep emulators running on it.
I was kinda down on the original GP32 because it used the "old" (hard to find and small) SmartMedia. But this puppy uses SD...
Now the only hurdles left are:
1. When will it be available? (No release date mentioned anywhere I can find)
2. Will us poor starving Americans be able to get one? (Most cool things I have seen lately, tend not to ever be available on these shores -- because they can't get by the Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sanyo, LG, etc. blockade I guess)
Quick question: Do these places that provide wi-fi also provide the ability to plug into power?
I have an edge card for my laptop with an OK connection from just about anywhere, not hi speed or anything -- but faster than a typical dial up...But usually it endes up being mostly a novelty if I can't plug in to power, since battery life divided by the time it takes me to boot up and getted logged in * 100 usually equals NOT WORTH IT.
" People are pushing the limits of browsers using Java. The Switchboard [theswitchboard.ca] is an Internet conferencing solution which requires no installation from the user. Just browse to the page and you're done."
It did not push the limits of my browser to draw a little puzzle piece with the text that said "Click here to download plugin."
Thanks, but I choose not to plugin.
If this is their answer to google maps....then I want google to stop everything they are doing and start working on an operating system pronto!
Comparing this pile of crap to even the earliest beta's of google maps is like comparing a yugo in the junkyard to a ferrari just off the line.
I am sitting here inside my car, outside of Jeb's house in Florida -- I just got on his lan to read slashdot....And all I get to SEE is dups.
Now I have to go to all the trouble of pulling up my comments from yesterday's story and add them to this post. You would think they could write a "Dup' It Forward" module that would automatically carry ones comments forward to any future posts that were duplicates of the stories one had already commented on. Hell we can put man on the moon. (I think) at least my grandparents BW tv showed man on the moon.
I am guilty of something really similar. I live in the woods about 3/4 of a mile from the nearest neighbor -- and the private driveway to get back to my house is 200 yards from the "main" dirt road.
I have bought 3 or 4 different wireless routers over the years, and each time I install a new one -- I always leave security off or relaxed for a period of time.
Currentlly the only security I have enabled is MAC based authentication....(I just logged on all five of my "computer type devices" at one time to the "open" network, and then set the security to not allow any MAC but those 5 to connect.)
I have never done anything malicious on someones open network, but I am mighty thankful for those kind folks whose houses back up to the park (when I take my kids to play) who have chosen not to lock down their wireless networks !!!! I long for an "open" society to where I can surf the web with my laptop wherever I may be at the time.
"Oh, we solved that already. It's called xorg.conf now"
Damn...Wish I had mod points. This was a good laugh.
I think they put the thing on autopilot back around 2001 or so.
than the time it takes
Great reply.
And this captures it in a nutshell. Ease of use (even sloppy use), documented examples, price, and saturation is 9/10's of the battle...And PHP has claimed all of those crowns.