Have you held a ROKR and RAZR at the same time? It's like Motorola can make a gadget pretty, or functional, but not both at the same time.
Funny you should say that. Just yesterday Motorola announced the new RAZR V3i that has built-in iTunes support, plus the now-obligatory megapixel camera. It's interesting to note, though, that they're not emphasizing the iTunes support at this time and don't even mention if the 100-song limit will remain in effect.
Then Bill woke up. He writes about it like Sauron has been up in Redmond, sleeping away, until the Netscape guy wakes him up. And then Bill wakes up, like a big pissed off Sauron
*whew* I'm sure glad you cleared that up. For a minute there I wasn't sure if you were trying to say Bill woke up.
CBS and NBC have announced deals to offer replays of prime-time programs for 99 cents per episode
I remember when cable TV first appeared, and nearly every channel that existed did this for a monthly fee instead of per-episode. It was called "syndication".
shifting television toward a sales model that gained popularity with downloaded music
I wouldnt say they are the 10 worst bugs ever... more like the 10 most widely known media announced bugs
Well, several of them result in the death of medical patients or the destruction of a multi-billion-dollar rocket or spacecraft. I found this one near the top of the list a curious addition, though:
1993 -- Intel Pentium floating point divide. A silicon error causes Intel's highly-promoted Pentium chip to make mistakes when dividing floating-point numbers that occur within a specific range.... Although the bug affects few users, it becomes a public relations nightmare.... The bug ultimately costs Intel $475 million.
Now, yeah, that's bad in the amount of money it costs Intel. But being a non-destructive, non-lethal bug that almost everyone's forgotten about by now, I think it pales in comparison to the Y2K bug, which cost the entire worldwide software industry far more money over a far greater length of time and still crippled credit card readers, financial software, and other computer software that cost real lost productivity for plain ol' consumers.
Remember, what the customer wants is not always best, and if you spend your life following the customers requests only, you'll eventually go out of business when a disruptive technology appears.
A good summary to a great writeup. Although this wasn't exactly where you were going, I've never seen a better argument for why R&D is a good thing for any company that wants to survive in the long term.
Well you know what? If they did truly suck, people wouldn't go like crazy to watch them all.
Hooo-wee, where have you been living all your life?
Can anyone give me a precise reason why they think Star Wars I, II or III were horrible movies?
Lousy dialogue, wooden acting, crummy fencing, climactic conflicts straight out of a Nintendo game, and over-reliance on cliches and absurd coincidence (my general rule: you're allowed one absurd coincidence per story; Lucas uses one every twenty minutes).
If you want me to break it down scene-by-scene, you'll have to wait until I can bother to watch them again.
He's been a hermit for 20 years after Darth Vader hunted down all the Jedi, and he's used to being coy about his identity. Advertising who he was was not in his best interest.
"Obi-Wan... that's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time." "You know him?" "Well, of course I know him. He's me."
If you strip out the commercials you can watch it in under 20 minutes too
Regretably, they're using MSN Video technology which includes online ads you have to watch -- so you don't even have that advantage.
When I read this headline on Slashdot, I was hoping they'd be offering downloadable mpegs or partnering with the iTunes Media Store as a video podcast, or something hip like that. But instead we just get browser-based video that's presented just like it would be on the television. Not exactly worth crowing about, even if it is the first news show to do so.
Why would I pay for yesterday's news? The internet and televsion are giving me immediate access to news which makes newspapers somewhat obsolete.
The television does not. The internet does, but you have to be at a computer with Internet access to get it. What about those times during the day when you're not?
In my experience, newspapers are still ideal for getting the local news while you're eating breakfast, riding the bus, or sitting in the breakroom. Plus they don't use up your batteries.
Not those digital books you read on your palm computer while you're driving around, though. I'm talking about a real digital paperback-type gadget similar to the Guide from the latest "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" movie, that closes up to an 8-by-6 box when you're not using it and opens up to two large LCD screens when you do.
Make them B&W and low-res, I don't care. Just make them large enough to read text and the occasional diagram, add a CF/SD/Memory Stick reader in the side, and--here's the important thing--an iPod-like dock connector that will automatically download the latest news, magazines, books, whatever I'm subscribed to when I plug it into the dock just before I go to work. Think AvantGo, or text-only podcasts, or full-text RSS feeds, whatever you like. The important thing is that sixty seconds later, I'm ready to go with the latest from the New York Times, or Wired, or Forbes or Slashdot or Drudge or anything else I'd like to read on the subway.
This is the thing that will make digital text content a success--an iPod for news, novels, art, textbooks (students would LOVE these things to replace paper texts), weblogs, whatever you want to read online when you have to be offline. Palm computers' screens are too small to display very much text; laptops have keyboards you don't need while reading; tablet PCs are too expensive.
If I could buy a truly digital book, the size of a DVD box with a large easy-to-read screen and a no-brainer interface--just open it and it turns on, press one button to flip pages, another to switch books--I'd buy it in a second. But you'd sell it to consumers by offering them free (or cheap) offline web news, blogs, articles, whatever. If we'll pay $0.99 apiece for songs from iTunes, why not charge $0.99 a day for daily news in your hands without having to unfold an entire laptop or throw away the newspaper when you're done?
Also, video probably assumes the purchase of a newer (video) iPod, since I doubt many people are downloading these to watch on their computer/tv.
Where'd you get that idea? The video is perfectly viewable on a computer monitor; I bought an episode of "Lost" and got perfectly good video on my 17" CRT. It wasn't anywhere near DVD quality, more like a good-quality VCR recording from analog TV -- but the detail was fine and I could enjoy it from the couch halfway across the room.
I buy music from iTMS all the time, even though I don't own an iPod; I'm positive I'm not the only one. iTMS plays well with iPods, but there's no requirement there. The video and audio are both just as enjoyable on the desktop as they are in your pocket.
Nokia should learn from Apple and see that what people want are tiny, elegantly simple gadgets that do just one thing and do it very well.
The latest version of the iPod, besides playing music, will also display album art and lyrics; store contacts, text files and to-do lists; play a few arcade games; time your laps while jogging; function as an alarm clock in multiple time zones; display photo slideshows; and play video on its 2.5" screen.
I love Apple's iPod, and it's still a superior music player, but let's do away with the "does one thing well" myth already. It's moved on quite a bit since then.
'When it has been fully exploited, the momentary enterprise is reconfigured - Lego-like - to pursue another opportunity. A "pop-up" business model is born, thereby changing the competitive balance and leveraging pervasive data.'
I've heard of this sort of business before. I believe the colloquial term is 'fly-by-night'.
If your Creature (be it Cow, Lion, or Wolf) intends to do something, it vocalizes the intent via a large and obvious thought bubble. "I'm going to poop on those trees" might be something you see hovering over your critter's head.
Please, please PLEASE tell me that there's no option for online, ah, "interaction" between different Creatures.
Some of the things that a god thinks should remain mysterious.
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Well, there was this slug, and at another place there was a shaker of salt. Dump the salt on the slug, and voila - a bucket! Makes sense, huh?
Sounds like a bad pun. By pouring the salt on the slug, you of course cause it to "kick the bucket"....
Was this game "Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It", by any chance?
Congratulations, you just Godwin'd the entire thread.
That's like commending Syphilis for not being AIDS.
Bad analogy. STDs want to be shared with other people.
Have you held a ROKR and RAZR at the same time? It's like Motorola can make a gadget pretty, or functional, but not both at the same time.
Funny you should say that. Just yesterday Motorola announced the new RAZR V3i that has built-in iTunes support, plus the now-obligatory megapixel camera. It's interesting to note, though, that they're not emphasizing the iTunes support at this time and don't even mention if the 100-song limit will remain in effect.
Then Bill woke up. He writes about it like Sauron has been up in Redmond, sleeping away, until the Netscape guy wakes him up. And then Bill wakes up, like a big pissed off Sauron
*whew* I'm sure glad you cleared that up. For a minute there I wasn't sure if you were trying to say Bill woke up.
Yeah, like viewing an image from usenet.
Usenet? Is that like a web browser?
No one ever does that.
Not since 1998, really.
CBS and NBC have announced deals to offer replays of prime-time programs for 99 cents per episode
I remember when cable TV first appeared, and nearly every channel that existed did this for a monthly fee instead of per-episode. It was
called "syndication".
shifting television toward a sales model that gained popularity with downloaded music
Minus the entire computer this time.
Well, several of them result in the death of medical patients or the destruction of a multi-billion-dollar rocket or spacecraft. I found this one near the top of the list a curious addition, though:Now, yeah, that's bad in the amount of money it costs Intel. But being a non-destructive, non-lethal bug that almost everyone's forgotten about by now, I think it pales in comparison to the Y2K bug, which cost the entire worldwide software industry far more money over a far greater length of time and still crippled credit card readers, financial software, and other computer software that cost real lost productivity for plain ol' consumers.
But doesn't recent research demonstrate that the Earth is only thousands, not millions, of years old? How can the Vatican ignore something as dependable as the Institute for Creation Research?
I'm so confused....
Remember, what the customer wants is not always best, and if you spend your life following the customers requests only, you'll eventually go out of business when a disruptive technology appears.
A good summary to a great writeup. Although this wasn't exactly where you were going, I've never seen a better argument for why R&D is a good thing for any company that wants to survive in the long term.
Or stole anything without understanding what they were stealing.
Remember, smart people don't resort to auto theft.
Yes, but even stupid people need to refuel their car once in a while.
I wonder who will be the first to car jack this million dollar test car and take it to Mexico.
Unless they can find another hydrogen refueling station somewhere on the way across the border, probably no one.
According to the article, most manufacturers are still up in the air about this technology.
That's only because air is mostly made up of nitrogen, so hydrogen is naturally lighter. HA!
Okay, look, someone had to say it.
Well you know what? If they did truly suck, people wouldn't go like crazy to watch them all.
Hooo-wee, where have you been living all your life?
Can anyone give me a precise reason why they think Star Wars I, II or III were horrible movies?
Lousy dialogue, wooden acting, crummy fencing, climactic conflicts straight out of a Nintendo game, and over-reliance on cliches and absurd coincidence (my general rule: you're allowed one absurd coincidence per story; Lucas uses one every twenty minutes).
If you want me to break it down scene-by-scene, you'll have to wait until I can bother to watch them again.
He's been a hermit for 20 years after Darth Vader hunted down all the Jedi, and he's used to being coy about his identity. Advertising who he was was not in his best interest.
"Obi-Wan... that's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time."
"You know him?"
"Well, of course I know him. He's me."
Yeah, he's the embodiment of coyness there.
Aren't they a bit hypocritic when they discourage cell phone use on the road on one hand, and then try to use cell phone usage to track traffic?
No. It would be hypocritical if they discouraged cell phone use, and then used cell phones themselves while driving.
If you strip out the commercials you can watch it in under 20 minutes too
Regretably, they're using MSN Video technology which includes online ads you have to watch -- so you don't even have that advantage.
When I read this headline on Slashdot, I was hoping they'd be offering downloadable mpegs or partnering with the iTunes Media Store as a video podcast, or something hip like that. But instead we just get browser-based video that's presented just like it would be on the television. Not exactly worth crowing about, even if it is the first news show to do so.
Why would I pay for yesterday's news? The internet and televsion are giving me immediate access to news which makes newspapers somewhat obsolete.
The television does not. The internet does, but you have to be at a computer with Internet access to get it. What about those times during the day when you're not?
In my experience, newspapers are still ideal for getting the local news while you're eating breakfast, riding the bus, or sitting in the breakroom. Plus they don't use up your batteries.
A real e-book.
Not those digital books you read on your palm computer while you're driving around, though. I'm talking about a real digital paperback-type gadget similar to the Guide from the latest "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" movie, that closes up to an 8-by-6 box when you're not using it and opens up to two large LCD screens when you do.
Make them B&W and low-res, I don't care. Just make them large enough to read text and the occasional diagram, add a CF/SD/Memory Stick reader in the side, and--here's the important thing--an iPod-like dock connector that will automatically download the latest news, magazines, books, whatever I'm subscribed to when I plug it into the dock just before I go to work. Think AvantGo, or text-only podcasts, or full-text RSS feeds, whatever you like. The important thing is that sixty seconds later, I'm ready to go with the latest from the New York Times, or Wired, or Forbes or Slashdot or Drudge or anything else I'd like to read on the subway.
This is the thing that will make digital text content a success--an iPod for news, novels, art, textbooks (students would LOVE these things to replace paper texts), weblogs, whatever you want to read online when you have to be offline. Palm computers' screens are too small to display very much text; laptops have keyboards you don't need while reading; tablet PCs are too expensive.
If I could buy a truly digital book, the size of a DVD box with a large easy-to-read screen and a no-brainer interface--just open it and it turns on, press one button to flip pages, another to switch books--I'd buy it in a second. But you'd sell it to consumers by offering them free (or cheap) offline web news, blogs, articles, whatever. If we'll pay $0.99 apiece for songs from iTunes, why not charge $0.99 a day for daily news in your hands without having to unfold an entire laptop or throw away the newspaper when you're done?
Also, video probably assumes the purchase of a newer (video) iPod, since I doubt many people are downloading these to watch on their computer/tv.
Where'd you get that idea? The video is perfectly viewable on a computer monitor; I bought an episode of "Lost" and got perfectly good video on my 17" CRT. It wasn't anywhere near DVD quality, more like a good-quality VCR recording from analog TV -- but the detail was fine and I could enjoy it from the couch halfway across the room.
I buy music from iTMS all the time, even though I don't own an iPod; I'm positive I'm not the only one. iTMS plays well with iPods, but there's no requirement there. The video and audio are both just as enjoyable on the desktop as they are in your pocket.
Why, he's one of the most King-appropriate comic book artists I can think of.
http://images.google.com/images?q=jae+lee -- Google Images has lots of his stuff.
Nokia should learn from Apple and see that what people want are tiny, elegantly simple gadgets that do just one thing and do it very well.
The latest version of the iPod, besides playing music, will also display album art and lyrics; store contacts, text files and to-do lists; play a few arcade games; time your laps while jogging; function as an alarm clock in multiple time zones; display photo slideshows; and play video on its 2.5" screen.
I love Apple's iPod, and it's still a superior music player, but let's do away with the "does one thing well" myth already. It's moved on quite a bit since then.
'When it has been fully exploited, the momentary enterprise is reconfigured - Lego-like - to pursue another opportunity. A "pop-up" business model is born, thereby changing the competitive balance and leveraging pervasive data.'
I've heard of this sort of business before. I believe the colloquial term is 'fly-by-night'.
If your Creature (be it Cow, Lion, or Wolf) intends to do something, it vocalizes the intent via a large and obvious thought bubble. "I'm going to poop on those trees" might be something you see hovering over your critter's head.
Please, please PLEASE tell me that there's no option for online, ah, "interaction" between different Creatures.
Some of the things that a god thinks should remain mysterious.
How is this lawsuit different than all the others?
Because there was no lawsuit. He was charged with a crime by the government, not with loss of profits by the studio.