I remember the last time I went to Radio Shack. It would have been...gosh...hmm...never mind, I just don't know. I think I bought a few little bags of crimp terminals maybe back in 2000. Maybe it's my fault?
I probably won't own Glass until it can actually be built into eyewear directly and is more affordable, but I'm fine with law enforcement using it as a tool, as long as they agree that we can use it too.
I was puzzled by this statement as well...if I pull up the same games in Steam, they're the same price. It appears that charity gets a kickback if you buy it through the Humble Bundle store, though, which is kinda cool.
Ever hear of the Nirvana Phone? The idea was to dock the phone into a keyboard and screen and voila! Personal workstation. There's another similar product (can't recall the name at the moment) which requires a jailbreak to function properly. I can understand wanting to have a larger screen and keyboard. That's where laptops come in. I believe we'll still see separate devices for quite a while: everyone needs a phone (and portable distraction). Everyone needs a laptop for work/homework. And many people enjoy having a tablet for media consumption and games that don't require extensive keyboard-based input. I don't think we will see any successful crossovers that don't come off as the digital equivalent of the Pontiac Aztek. But then again, nobody was expecting Apple to succeed when it basically launched the tablet market. Maybe in another ten years someone will think of some input method and form factor that nobody has ever tried before.
Personally, I don't need one device that will do everything. I need my iPhone to do certain things and I need a laptop/desktop to do other things. As for a tablet, I decided to go the distraction-free, sleep-friendly route and purchased a Kindle Paperwhite.:)
I loved Minidisc, especially the last-generation Hi-MD recorders. My MZ-DH10P with its color screen and (crappy but usable) built-in camera was, IMO, the coolest bit of technology I ever had in my hand at the time. But SonicStage was absolute garbage software. The last release freed up a little bit of the DRM restrictions (getting rid of the three-transfer rule), but it was still clunky and behind the times. Once I bought an iPhone, I had no reason to carry around a separate media player any more, nor any type of physical media.
RIP Minidisc. For this avid collector, you will always be missed.
They claim also that it was used in the development of the iPhone search app, but the voice recognition in that app is nowhere near as good as that of GOOG411. Bing 411 isn't as good, but it's available.
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I remember the last time I went to Radio Shack. It would have been...gosh...hmm...never mind, I just don't know. I think I bought a few little bags of crimp terminals maybe back in 2000. Maybe it's my fault?
Now the software manufacturers are trying to get me to exercise too.
You mean this one?
I can just imagine a space-age gold rush erupting and the face of the moon forever altered...
I probably won't own Glass until it can actually be built into eyewear directly and is more affordable, but I'm fine with law enforcement using it as a tool, as long as they agree that we can use it too.
I was puzzled by this statement as well...if I pull up the same games in Steam, they're the same price. It appears that charity gets a kickback if you buy it through the Humble Bundle store, though, which is kinda cool.
Ever hear of the Nirvana Phone? The idea was to dock the phone into a keyboard and screen and voila! Personal workstation. There's another similar product (can't recall the name at the moment) which requires a jailbreak to function properly. I can understand wanting to have a larger screen and keyboard. That's where laptops come in. I believe we'll still see separate devices for quite a while: everyone needs a phone (and portable distraction). Everyone needs a laptop for work/homework. And many people enjoy having a tablet for media consumption and games that don't require extensive keyboard-based input. I don't think we will see any successful crossovers that don't come off as the digital equivalent of the Pontiac Aztek. But then again, nobody was expecting Apple to succeed when it basically launched the tablet market. Maybe in another ten years someone will think of some input method and form factor that nobody has ever tried before. Personally, I don't need one device that will do everything. I need my iPhone to do certain things and I need a laptop/desktop to do other things. As for a tablet, I decided to go the distraction-free, sleep-friendly route and purchased a Kindle Paperwhite. :)
Hear hear.
Ah, because the old business model of 'suck the lives out of your employees and then fire them indiscriminately' needed tweaking, then? Interesting.
I loved Minidisc, especially the last-generation Hi-MD recorders. My MZ-DH10P with its color screen and (crappy but usable) built-in camera was, IMO, the coolest bit of technology I ever had in my hand at the time. But SonicStage was absolute garbage software. The last release freed up a little bit of the DRM restrictions (getting rid of the three-transfer rule), but it was still clunky and behind the times. Once I bought an iPhone, I had no reason to carry around a separate media player any more, nor any type of physical media. RIP Minidisc. For this avid collector, you will always be missed.
They claim also that it was used in the development of the iPhone search app, but the voice recognition in that app is nowhere near as good as that of GOOG411. Bing 411 isn't as good, but it's available.
How are they going to get feedback from their users? Monitor Twitter?