The problem now is that the internet is looking more like a catalog. Sometimes I want to learn about something beyond what those selling things want to tell me. I'd like to see google be google and froogle be froogle and that be that.
Really great post. I would add that buying right after and announcement is a good idea, but waiting two weeks after an announcment is even better for BTO configurations. If you're going to have Apple build it for you, waiting is good because they often tweak the options and their pricing during the first two weeks. When I bought my Key Lime Firewire iBook SE, Key Lime was a BTO option, and you had to take the expensive memory upgrade with the hard drive upgrade. I wanted the hard drive upgrade, but skipped it because they were bundled. Apple unbundled them about the time they were putting my box in the FedEx guy's hands. The Mac Mini options were repriced early this week, to significant savings.
The other nice thing about waiting is knowing more about the hardware. If I'd bought the Mac Mini after the keynote, I'd not have known how easy opening it is.
I would suggest, if the concern about timing is just not buying before an upgrade, is to wait for an update, and then until the geek community starts blogging about their experiences with the product.
"Video : Coming Soon" "Batmax installed on a battery : Coming Soon"
I've always hated this. Either put the photo and video up when you have them, or shut up about them. Nobody wants to see "coming soon" "under construction" or stupid.gif animated higway signs on your website.
There's a progman.exe in XP sp2, (\windows\system32\progman.exe) but I can't get the thing to run. I've used progman.exe in ME before. It's been updated with each release of windows and is probably kept for legacy purposes.
After reading about the E911 documents, and the way the intrusions surrounding them were mischaracterized, I doubt there was any Secret Service connection. At best, he intercepted a Secret Service employee text message:
I have a Siemens AP/Router/Print Server. My SSID is chairman_meow, but I think the camp has faded - it's time for a new SSID. It supports group-based access control, so I allow Everyone access to DNS, HTTP and HTTPS. My personal machines are unrestricted on another group. I also run 128-bit WEP. I might ditch the wep for a day or two, change the SSID to default or something, just to see what bubbles up. I'm curious about wardrivers in my area.
I'm already okay. I allow outbound access to POP3, http, https, and IMAP for everyone, and I put my own machines into a second group on my router and grant that group full outbound access. You should be able to do something similar on most reasonable residential routers.
Add two cups water, bring to a boil. Add noodles. Cook for three minutes, stirring occasionally. Take off heat. Stir in contents of seasoning packet. There! Ramen!!
Most laptop screens today are not reflective at all. Sony (and I imagine others) have put small prisms or lightpipes about the screen to transfer ambient light behind backlit displays on some of their digital imaging products. Cell phones and GPS often use transflective displays. Same goes for color Game Boy systems. The backing of the lcd panel is somewhat reflective, so they're visible in sunlight.
When it's all said and done with, a simple monochrome reflective display is going to look best.
Garmin Rino GPS/FRS/GMRS devices can transfer GPS data over the FRS channels to other similar radios. They built in some games. Games that require running about in the real world to solve some challenge on the screen of the device.
I see this supporting the same sort of thing, in a more open platform. Imagine linking over wifi to play a game of GPSpong or something.
Outdoor PDAs are truly invaluable. I don't understand why anyone would buy one. If I want to go outdoors, I sure as hell don't want to be near any electronics.
Their service plans are another example. People are actually fired for not meeting their quota on service plans. If you read the fine print and can comprehend it, there are actually certain pieces of hardware that everyone should get a service plan on, but it is useless for almost everything under $200 and stand alone commodity items. It's also good for people who don't have a clue what they are doing, and the manufacturer's support and warranty lifetime is too short (like computers).
Goodness. You're right about that! I used to work at Circuit City myself. People just wouldn't take the plans for the important stuff!
Here's what I'd consider important:
Big Screen TV
Portable MiniDisc recorder
Hardrive based MP3 player
Laptop
High-end PDA
All-in-one desktop
Camcorder
Outdoor speakers
High-end paper speakers
Car audio (except self-installed cheap head units)
Medium to high end digital camera
Cell phone
Anything with lots of complex moving parts
I remember the JVC DVD changers. I think it was a seven disc model. The changer had a rotating deck, like a five disc model, but it fit the extra two discs in by cutting the rotating section into seven pie-shaped pieces that would lift and overlap when not being played or loaded. It was one of the most mechanically complex disc players I'd ever seen. Nobody would cover it because Consumer Reports told them that DVD players didn't need coverage.
And, except when included above, I wouldn't buy coverages on these things.
Computer accessories with longer manufacturer's coverages (I made this mistake...)
Items with no moving parts, like solid state MP3 players
Anybody notice, that RAP or Hip Hop requires the singer/group to have absolutely no instrumental skills?
False. You claim that a lack of instrumental skill is required to be a Hip-Hop artist. In fact, while instrumental skill may not be required to be an effective lyricist, most Hip-Hop artists possess musical talent in general, and instrumental talent in particular. It's required to create the music, the beat, the background. The array of musical instruments can be mind-boggling, and I submit the accomplished human beatbox or turntablist is possessed of instrumental skill.
With artists like Rahzel who can beatbox and drop the chorus simultaniously, few could deny posession of musical skill born of years of focused practice. With artists like Rob Smith and the X-ecutioners, who recently scratched alongside the late Charlie Parker on Cheers (X-ecutioners Style) you can see that the turntable is a viable musical instrument, in the hands of a talented artist.
I'd also submit that the result is a way of judging the talent of the artist. It's not ultimately about the ability to depress this combination or that combination of keys while maintaining breath control. It's about the note. While the flute sounds like the flute and can't be replaced, with technology comes innovation. The flute might gain better seals, better plating and perhaps a lower price. The electronic forms, still in their infancy, will gain more from the technology surrounding the days of their invention. The early electronic keyboards had less advanced sound rendering ability than the ringer in today's cellular phone. Regardless of the source of the sound, be it sample, scratch, beatbox, real instrument or computer-modeled, Hip-Hop artists today are creating sounds that are undeniably music, and possessed of the power to entertain and emote.... What more would you want from a musician?
Atleast the predessors to rap/hip hop (grunge, glam, disco whatever..) required the group to play they're own tunes.
Grunge is not a predessor to Hip-Hop, as you claim.
An inevitable evolution of bluetooth phones is going to be P2P. Tell your phone what you're looking for, go for a walk on campus, or have coffee at starbucks, and it'll be there when you get back home. The phones eg. P800 can already be used for listening to MP3s, and they can be programmed in Java and C++, it's only a matter of month till we get fully integrated Bluetooth P2P.
I tend to doubt that. Bluetooth has been out for a time. Besides, it's too slow and the range is too limited. In your walk scenario, you'd have to walk slowly or in the same direction as those with whom you're sharing files. It would take longer to transfer an MP3 than the time required for an average person walking at a comfortable pace to pass through the range of bluetooth coverage.
I could see 802.11g ad hoc networks supporting this. Some sort of coffee shop/mall/airport/college/theatre thing would make sense. People would spend enough time in one place to actually transfer some files.
By the way, for those that worry about phones and text entry, this entire post was created on a phone in fairly short order, at a rate only slightly slower than on my desktop.
I worked at Circuit City. We used full-size Sony headphones that we also sold for about $100 each. I recall seeing two replaced across the three years I was there. Just buy good headphones and they'll last.
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Yes, but they're still susceptable to googlebombing. I figure that's what these companies are doing.
The problem now is that the internet is looking more like a catalog. Sometimes I want to learn about something beyond what those selling things want to tell me. I'd like to see google be google and froogle be froogle and that be that.
Really great post. I would add that buying right after and announcement is a good idea, but waiting two weeks after an announcment is even better for BTO configurations. If you're going to have Apple build it for you, waiting is good because they often tweak the options and their pricing during the first two weeks. When I bought my Key Lime Firewire iBook SE, Key Lime was a BTO option, and you had to take the expensive memory upgrade with the hard drive upgrade. I wanted the hard drive upgrade, but skipped it because they were bundled. Apple unbundled them about the time they were putting my box in the FedEx guy's hands. The Mac Mini options were repriced early this week, to significant savings.
The other nice thing about waiting is knowing more about the hardware. If I'd bought the Mac Mini after the keynote, I'd not have known how easy opening it is.
I would suggest, if the concern about timing is just not buying before an upgrade, is to wait for an update, and then until the geek community starts blogging about their experiences with the product.
"Video : Coming Soon" "Batmax installed on a battery : Coming Soon"
.gif animated higway signs on your website.
I've always hated this. Either put the photo and video up when you have them, or shut up about them. Nobody wants to see "coming soon" "under construction" or stupid
Nah. Skype actually works.
How about: ...a shadow of its former self.
There's a progman.exe in XP sp2, (\windows\system32\progman.exe) but I can't get the thing to run. I've used progman.exe in ME before. It's been updated with each release of windows and is probably kept for legacy purposes.
I have a Siemens AP/Router/Print Server. My SSID is chairman_meow, but I think the camp has faded - it's time for a new SSID. It supports group-based access control, so I allow Everyone access to DNS, HTTP and HTTPS. My personal machines are unrestricted on another group. I also run 128-bit WEP. I might ditch the wep for a day or two, change the SSID to default or something, just to see what bubbles up. I'm curious about wardrivers in my area.
I arrived at that theory in elementary school! I also used it to explain how it was possible for someone to dislike chocolate.
I'm already okay. I allow outbound access to POP3, http, https, and IMAP for everyone, and I put my own machines into a second group on my router and grant that group full outbound access. You should be able to do something similar on most reasonable residential routers.
Nintendo, I know you won't listen to me, but please, do what Sony did with the Aibo and release a consumer-grade development kit!
*tink-tink*
Hi! It looks like you're trying to watch friends. Would you like some assistance?
Good point. Next time I'm out, I'll bring two GPS units!
Most laptop screens today are not reflective at all. Sony (and I imagine others) have put small prisms or lightpipes about the screen to transfer ambient light behind backlit displays on some of their digital imaging products. Cell phones and GPS often use transflective displays. Same goes for color Game Boy systems. The backing of the lcd panel is somewhat reflective, so they're visible in sunlight.
When it's all said and done with, a simple monochrome reflective display is going to look best.
Garmin Rino GPS/FRS/GMRS devices can transfer GPS data over the FRS channels to other similar radios. They built in some games. Games that require running about in the real world to solve some challenge on the screen of the device.
I see this supporting the same sort of thing, in a more open platform. Imagine linking over wifi to play a game of GPSpong or something.
Finally! Geeks don't have to go offline to take a shower!!! Future -cons will smell better! I'll never miss another slashdot frist prost!
Waterproof and WiFi... Geek dreams...
Goodness. You're right about that!
I used to work at Circuit City myself. People just wouldn't take the plans for the important stuff!
Here's what I'd consider important:
Big Screen TV
Portable MiniDisc recorder
Hardrive based MP3 player
Laptop
High-end PDA
All-in-one desktop
Camcorder
Outdoor speakers
High-end paper speakers
Car audio (except self-installed cheap head units)
Medium to high end digital camera
Cell phone
Anything with lots of complex moving parts
I remember the JVC DVD changers. I think it was a seven disc model. The changer had a rotating deck, like a five disc model, but it fit the extra two discs in by cutting the rotating section into seven pie-shaped pieces that would lift and overlap when not being played or loaded. It was one of the most mechanically complex disc players I'd ever seen. Nobody would cover it because Consumer Reports told them that DVD players didn't need coverage.
And, except when included above, I wouldn't buy coverages on these things.
Computer accessories with longer manufacturer's coverages (I made this mistake...)
Items with no moving parts, like solid state MP3 players
VCRs (except DVHS)
Toys
With artists like Rahzel who can beatbox and drop the chorus simultaniously, few could deny posession of musical skill born of years of focused practice. With artists like Rob Smith and the X-ecutioners, who recently scratched alongside the late Charlie Parker on Cheers (X-ecutioners Style) you can see that the turntable is a viable musical instrument, in the hands of a talented artist.
I'd also submit that the result is a way of judging the talent of the artist. It's not ultimately about the ability to depress this combination or that combination of keys while maintaining breath control. It's about the note. While the flute sounds like the flute and can't be replaced, with technology comes innovation. The flute might gain better seals, better plating and perhaps a lower price. The electronic forms, still in their infancy, will gain more from the technology surrounding the days of their invention. The early electronic keyboards had less advanced sound rendering ability than the ringer in today's cellular phone. Regardless of the source of the sound, be it sample, scratch, beatbox, real instrument or computer-modeled, Hip-Hop artists today are creating sounds that are undeniably music, and possessed of the power to entertain and emote.... What more would you want from a musician? Grunge is not a predessor to Hip-Hop, as you claim.
I could see 802.11g ad hoc networks supporting this. Some sort of coffee shop/mall/airport/college/theatre thing would make sense. People would spend enough time in one place to actually transfer some files.
By the way, for those that worry about phones and text entry, this entire post was created on a phone in fairly short order, at a rate only slightly slower than on my desktop.
I worked at Circuit City. We used full-size Sony headphones that we also sold for about $100 each. I recall seeing two replaced across the three years I was there. Just buy good headphones and they'll last.