Think parents of teenagers who are being badgered to get their little cherubs cells phones and iPods.
Yeah, they can badger all they want. They're not getting any of those from me unless they put down the game controller and get a part time job. Not surprisingly, they shut up for a little while and keep playing their games. The target market is the teenagers' grandparents. They are the ones that buy all the crap for the little ingrates in the first place. You'd be surprised how much of the X-Box/PS2 market is financed by bingo winnings.
I'm from the era where geeks were just boring, not wierd, so that's a compliment. And yes, custom/downloadable/whatever ringtones are annoying as hell. If you can't tell if the phone that's in your own damn pocket or clipped to your belt is the one that's ringing, you have problems. Having everyone in a 3-4 cubicle radius know which phone is ringing because of some dorky pop tune is annoying.
Are any slashdotters willing to pay this price per song?
I wouldn't. But then again, I use a cell phone to just make and receive calls. Not to take pictures, or function as a PDA, or annoy people with custom ring tones.
Sorry, one of the problems with how science is taught in schools is that it is ALREADY taught as religious dogma.
Which is the reason for all the hysteria when someone challenges how or what is taught. When I was in high school 20 something years ago, we spent a week or two on evolution. BFD. It didn't effect how any of the other science courses were taught. Hell, it didn't make a difference in the damn biology class and somehow if this isn't taught, science education will go in the shitter?
Yes, but spending 30 minutes to search through them all isn't what I would call fun unless I'm really bored. However, I did find an old Bela Lugosi movie that way. Here is the company that produces most of them, so you can at least see what might be in the bargan rack: http://www.digiviewus.com/
The South employed cheap labor when the jobs were somewhat dangerous. It was cheaper and easier to hire another Irishman to replace the one that just got killed than it would be to replace a slave which involved a long term investment.
They want to change the government into something that supports a productive society.
Most activists that I've unfortunately met are into doing the opposite: making government do everything and an oppressive burden to the productive in society. Unfortunately, this just seems to breed more of the unproductive.
It's not just the conservative religious people, although they are the common scapegoat on slashdot. The lefty New Agers are just as bad if not worse (turn on Coast To Coast AM for ample evidence of that). Downplaying of science and math in our schools and popular media has been going on for decades. Is the kid who is good at science or math ever the cool one on TV or movies? No. It's the idiot jock, musician, or stoner.
So science should be left unchecked? Just because you can technically do something, doesn't mean that you should. How many Mengele's are you willing to accept?
Good point, so expect to be modded as flamebait. I read people complaining about how they are being repressed because of BS like this and from my viewpoint, nothing has changed. I guess I don't live close enough to the boundaries of the law.
That removed any control that the state governments had over the federal government. Instead of just bitching about things like "unfunded Federal mandates", the states could do something about by getting rid of a senator. Now, they are not much different than Reps, except they get 6 years to raise campaign funds for the next election instead of two.
would it copy these lists of characters or just reference where to start and stop in the original one? if it's the later, updating the original document could raise hell with anything else that's referring to those chunks of text.
I agree that they've become more power efficient. Acording to Toshiba's web pages, their new 1.8" drives draw 1-1.1W while reading/writing compared to 1.4W for their earlier drives and 0.6W for their 0.85"/micro drives. All the single platter drives are still 5mm thick just like many of the older models and their 4G micro drives, so they aren't getting thinner. I wouldn't mind a PDA that was an extra 5-6mm thicker so it could have a 1.8" drive and a bigger battery (using my old VIIx as a form factor guide, the drive would take about 1/2 the extra volume - about 1/3 for the Symbols at work). I guess it depends on what the targeted application. I don't use them for a computer/mp3 player replacement. They would spend ~80% of the time in sleep mode, but when in use, they need access to lots of data.
better make sure it's the same sex. Otherwise, it would just be their luck that the original rat would swim back, mate with it, have a few litters, and soon two formerly rat free islands would have booming populations of the little buggers.
but hard drives of that physical size have been around since the 1st or 2nd generation iPods. they should have shown up in high end PDAs not long after. given that ipods can run a chopped down version of linux suggests that it's not just a set of dedicated simple mp3 and HD controller chips and having a nice 10-20G drive would eliminate one of the many reasons PDA manufacturers added the various slots: lack of storage. Sure, it wouldn't be a super thin device, but the zaurus 6000 or any of Symbol's industrial PDAs aren't either and a 1.8" drive in those devices would be awesome for what we use them for at work.
Who sits down and rips all their CDs into MP3 at once? They build up over time and before you know it, there's nearly 100G of MP3s and you have to weed out what to put on the portable player.
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Didn't they also have an update that broke a lot of things if the computer had volumes with spaces in the names?
Think parents of teenagers who are being badgered to get their little cherubs cells phones and iPods.
Yeah, they can badger all they want. They're not getting any of those from me unless they put down the game controller and get a part time job. Not surprisingly, they shut up for a little while and keep playing their games. The target market is the teenagers' grandparents. They are the ones that buy all the crap for the little ingrates in the first place. You'd be surprised how much of the X-Box/PS2 market is financed by bingo winnings.I'm from the era where geeks were just boring, not wierd, so that's a compliment. And yes, custom/downloadable/whatever ringtones are annoying as hell. If you can't tell if the phone that's in your own damn pocket or clipped to your belt is the one that's ringing, you have problems. Having everyone in a 3-4 cubicle radius know which phone is ringing because of some dorky pop tune is annoying.
Are any slashdotters willing to pay this price per song?
I wouldn't. But then again, I use a cell phone to just make and receive calls. Not to take pictures, or function as a PDA, or annoy people with custom ring tones.But the reviewer also refers to the machine as an IBM.
Sorry, one of the problems with how science is taught in schools is that it is ALREADY taught as religious dogma.
Which is the reason for all the hysteria when someone challenges how or what is taught. When I was in high school 20 something years ago, we spent a week or two on evolution. BFD. It didn't effect how any of the other science courses were taught. Hell, it didn't make a difference in the damn biology class and somehow if this isn't taught, science education will go in the shitter?Thanks for the excellent post.
Yes, but spending 30 minutes to search through them all isn't what I would call fun unless I'm really bored. However, I did find an old Bela Lugosi movie that way. Here is the company that produces most of them, so you can at least see what might be in the bargan rack: http://www.digiviewus.com/
A guy has been missing over a year and they only now fire him? How many here would expect their employers to do the same thing?
none of the geeks I know are like that.
The South employed cheap labor when the jobs were somewhat dangerous. It was cheaper and easier to hire another Irishman to replace the one that just got killed than it would be to replace a slave which involved a long term investment.
They want to change the government into something that supports a productive society.
Most activists that I've unfortunately met are into doing the opposite: making government do everything and an oppressive burden to the productive in society. Unfortunately, this just seems to breed more of the unproductive.It's not just the conservative religious people, although they are the common scapegoat on slashdot. The lefty New Agers are just as bad if not worse (turn on Coast To Coast AM for ample evidence of that). Downplaying of science and math in our schools and popular media has been going on for decades. Is the kid who is good at science or math ever the cool one on TV or movies? No. It's the idiot jock, musician, or stoner.
So science should be left unchecked? Just because you can technically do something, doesn't mean that you should. How many Mengele's are you willing to accept?
The Islamists will do the same thing to Europe.
Good point, so expect to be modded as flamebait. I read people complaining about how they are being repressed because of BS like this and from my viewpoint, nothing has changed. I guess I don't live close enough to the boundaries of the law.
That removed any control that the state governments had over the federal government. Instead of just bitching about things like "unfunded Federal mandates", the states could do something about by getting rid of a senator. Now, they are not much different than Reps, except they get 6 years to raise campaign funds for the next election instead of two.
would it copy these lists of characters or just reference where to start and stop in the original one? if it's the later, updating the original document could raise hell with anything else that's referring to those chunks of text.
because they usually have to spend all their time working out to look that way.
That's probably true. Similar to how little kids often create imaginary friends when they are having problems with others in the real world.
I'm probably one of the few geeks that detest these games though.the military
I agree that they've become more power efficient. Acording to Toshiba's web pages, their new 1.8" drives draw 1-1.1W while reading/writing compared to 1.4W for their earlier drives and 0.6W for their 0.85"/micro drives. All the single platter drives are still 5mm thick just like many of the older models and their 4G micro drives, so they aren't getting thinner. I wouldn't mind a PDA that was an extra 5-6mm thicker so it could have a 1.8" drive and a bigger battery (using my old VIIx as a form factor guide, the drive would take about 1/2 the extra volume - about 1/3 for the Symbols at work). I guess it depends on what the targeted application. I don't use them for a computer/mp3 player replacement. They would spend ~80% of the time in sleep mode, but when in use, they need access to lots of data.
better make sure it's the same sex. Otherwise, it would just be their luck that the original rat would swim back, mate with it, have a few litters, and soon two formerly rat free islands would have booming populations of the little buggers.
but hard drives of that physical size have been around since the 1st or 2nd generation iPods. they should have shown up in high end PDAs not long after. given that ipods can run a chopped down version of linux suggests that it's not just a set of dedicated simple mp3 and HD controller chips and having a nice 10-20G drive would eliminate one of the many reasons PDA manufacturers added the various slots: lack of storage. Sure, it wouldn't be a super thin device, but the zaurus 6000 or any of Symbol's industrial PDAs aren't either and a 1.8" drive in those devices would be awesome for what we use them for at work.
maybe you want to listen to lossless audio through your car's stereo system?
Who sits down and rips all their CDs into MP3 at once? They build up over time and before you know it, there's nearly 100G of MP3s and you have to weed out what to put on the portable player.