I'm all for competition and for things looking desirable. But I have to admit that I was a bit disappointed with the two products I checked out (the tablet and the iPod-competitor), especially considering that Sony have a pretty decent reputation for product design.
I own an Archos Jukebox from a couple of years back. It's not the most attractive device. More recently (when I was passing through Singapore and Hong Kong) I got to see and hold the new Archos devices and they are a vast improvement.
From Sony, with a substantial budget and existing stable of industrial designers, I expected a lot more. The buttons are an absolutely crucial component of a device's usability and appearance, and I don't think these two products really stand out. I have an iPod 40GB (thinking of selling it because I don't really need it; but the design and usability is excellent) and it's a very attractive object. I guess I expected Sony to challenge that a little more -- to provide more competition.
Where did I suggest anything regarding your gender? I used the term "dude" to refer to another poster. And I used the word "him" to refer to my brother. I'm not sure what you're getting at.
I can appreciate that they'll have ads running in the sidebar, but I'd hardly use the claim "They will clean up" WRT to free email. Good luck to them though.
Has anyone ever wondered about the effect that is a "slashdotting"? See, it's fact that no one will ever "RTFA". And it's also a foregone conclusion that anything mentioned on/. is overwhelmed by traffic. So what's happening in the middle there?
And back (slightly) on track -- with the technology arriving yearly with faster and smaller hard-drives (mostly used in digital music devices) why do people still have giant (even a midi case is massive) cases on their desktops? Is it only due to standardised components, sizes, plugs, etc?
Because working on the inside of a PC is ugly stuff. IDE cables are bastards. Sharp edges and tiny switches are everywhere. Now, not everyone needs to get in there to tinker, but surely there are enough geeks around the place to warrant more usable hardware? I mean, someone's out there making money from selling glowing cables to people fancifying their computers, and when Slashdot isn't showing endless ads for Microsoft products (or taunting everyone with ads saying Windows is faster than Linux) it's often advertising modifications to make computer cases look like plastic fish tanks...
Then you'd give them back, thank him for an eye-opening (nostril-opening?) experience, and be on your way. Like the other dude said, it was a terse joke ruined only by extraneous exploration of alternative options.
You're like my brother when we were kids:
Me: A man walks into a bar... Him: How tall was he? Me: I don't know, 6'2". So, he walks into this bar, right? Him: What was he wearing? Me: Umm, clothes. Anyway, he walks into the bar and... Him: What were the opening hours of said bar? Me:...!?!
It's only bloat if the OS runs like shit on lesser hardware, which is not something I've seen stated as fact.
It might be that they just want people to think "Wow, it's going to be hardcore." and leave them to lap it up.
You've got your well-engineered cars. You've got your sporty cars. And then you've got armoured behemoths that just crush everything in their path, and some people love that stuff.;)
Some people whined when Apple did away with the then-standard floppy disk drive. Occasionally companies need to push forward (even if it is in x years time!).
And this is the suggested system that would have the OS running at its best.
Maybe they just want to give hardware companies something to aim for, and hardware resellers something to look forward to as masses of users upgrade their computers.
I just want to say that I'm sick of people writing stuff like "standards based goodness". It's over. That's just not cool, fresh, whatever any more. It's common. It's old. It's over.
It's also not cool to say stuff like "for more AMD love, head to our forums". Yes (insert name of almost ANY hardware site here), I'm talking to you. Go and love whoever lets you in their pants and leave the hardware out of it.
Where is a link to pictures? If there aren't pictures of gadgets, no one cares.
Nice to know that the welcoming avatar has blue hair. Because that's the future, apparently.
I bet they'd fire the receptionist of he/she dyed their hair blue, or they'd refuse to hire the same, but as soon as you need to represent the future, it has blue hair.
Just like Strong Bad has a Japanese cartoon character: http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail57.html
Thank god they didn't invent this earlier! Injecting computers... shit, computers used to be huge! Now they'd just be sticking a midi-tower into your stomach...
Oh wait, that's going to explain the size of the average geek; they've been onto this for years!
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I'm all for competition and for things looking desirable. But I have to admit that I was a bit disappointed with the two products I checked out (the tablet and the iPod-competitor), especially considering that Sony have a pretty decent reputation for product design.
I own an Archos Jukebox from a couple of years back. It's not the most attractive device. More recently (when I was passing through Singapore and Hong Kong) I got to see and hold the new Archos devices and they are a vast improvement.
From Sony, with a substantial budget and existing stable of industrial designers, I expected a lot more. The buttons are an absolutely crucial component of a device's usability and appearance, and I don't think these two products really stand out. I have an iPod 40GB (thinking of selling it because I don't really need it; but the design and usability is excellent) and it's a very attractive object. I guess I expected Sony to challenge that a little more -- to provide more competition.
Where did I suggest anything regarding your gender? I used the term "dude" to refer to another poster. And I used the word "him" to refer to my brother. I'm not sure what you're getting at.
Those dinners at restaurants are paying the wages of waiting staff working to put themselves through university. i.e., hardly a bad thing.
I can appreciate that they'll have ads running in the sidebar, but I'd hardly use the claim "They will clean up" WRT to free email. Good luck to them though.
And adapted for Slashdot:
"If you're hard, you're not trying to work enough."
Are you sure that you don't need to be logged in as root to change the application settings? Who knows.
Surely if ISPs make it clear as to the exact service they provide (port-blocking, data restrictions, etc) then everything's cool.
If someone doesn't want to sign up with an ISP who blocks ports, then by no means do they have to do so.
Has anyone ever wondered about the effect that is a "slashdotting"? See, it's fact that no one will ever "RTFA". And it's also a foregone conclusion that anything mentioned on /. is overwhelmed by traffic. So what's happening in the middle there?
And back (slightly) on track -- with the technology arriving yearly with faster and smaller hard-drives (mostly used in digital music devices) why do people still have giant (even a midi case is massive) cases on their desktops? Is it only due to standardised components, sizes, plugs, etc?
Because working on the inside of a PC is ugly stuff. IDE cables are bastards. Sharp edges and tiny switches are everywhere. Now, not everyone needs to get in there to tinker, but surely there are enough geeks around the place to warrant more usable hardware? I mean, someone's out there making money from selling glowing cables to people fancifying their computers, and when Slashdot isn't showing endless ads for Microsoft products (or taunting everyone with ads saying Windows is faster than Linux) it's often advertising modifications to make computer cases look like plastic fish tanks...
Then you'd give them back, thank him for an eye-opening (nostril-opening?) experience, and be on your way. Like the other dude said, it was a terse joke ruined only by extraneous exploration of alternative options.
...!?!
You're like my brother when we were kids:
Me: A man walks into a bar...
Him: How tall was he?
Me: I don't know, 6'2". So, he walks into this bar, right?
Him: What was he wearing?
Me: Umm, clothes. Anyway, he walks into the bar and...
Him: What were the opening hours of said bar?
Me:
100 hours of use. That's more than a lifetime for everyone on here put together.
:P
Except me that is.
Never criticise a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Then, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have his shoes!
Wait up guys! My shoes have crashed...
Cats might be able to survive the fall to Earth? Heh. I'll do some tests and get back to you.*
*JK! I love my cat. He could probably leap up into space. I'm not going to do any tests.
True (I knew that but was being silly).
Anyway, I'm only replying because you're being "insigful" and it made me laugh.
"Insighful" would be moderation for when a comment makes you sigh. Hmm..
He's karma-whoring, and successfully! ;)
It's only bloat if the OS runs like shit on lesser hardware, which is not something I've seen stated as fact.
;)
It might be that they just want people to think "Wow, it's going to be hardcore." and leave them to lap it up.
You've got your well-engineered cars. You've got your sporty cars. And then you've got armoured behemoths that just crush everything in their path, and some people love that stuff.
Some people whined when Apple did away with the then-standard floppy disk drive. Occasionally companies need to push forward (even if it is in x years time!).
And this is the suggested system that would have the OS running at its best.
Maybe they just want to give hardware companies something to aim for, and hardware resellers something to look forward to as masses of users upgrade their computers.
If we were to be hit by a massive asteroid, do you think anyone would care about a bribe?
"Oh gee! $60m! Hmm, what should I buy fi..." *BOOM*
Months ago, there was talk of burrowing a road underneath Stonehenge at great cost and it raised great concern amongst many.
How about this time they put the road in, and *then* place the stones?
However many hundreds of years on, surely we've learnt something about planning!
I refuse to be the first guy on here to suggest that, in that case, their more modern attempt at building the same thing be any smaller!
I just want to say that I'm sick of people writing stuff like "standards based goodness". It's over. That's just not cool, fresh, whatever any more. It's common. It's old. It's over.
It's also not cool to say stuff like "for more AMD love, head to our forums". Yes (insert name of almost ANY hardware site here), I'm talking to you. Go and love whoever lets you in their pants and leave the hardware out of it.
I've seen an air guitar for sale on ebay with free shipping. It's the in thing!
Where is a link to pictures? If there aren't pictures of gadgets, no one cares.
Nice to know that the welcoming avatar has blue hair. Because that's the future, apparently.
I bet they'd fire the receptionist of he/she dyed their hair blue, or they'd refuse to hire the same, but as soon as you need to represent the future, it has blue hair.
Just like Strong Bad has a Japanese cartoon character: http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail57.html
That'd be fantastic. What about a MS Exercise Drone?
"You appear to be walking like an obese person."
And before you can say "I am an ob..." it starts shooting at your feet, "Would you like some help? Run fat boy, run!".
Yeh, I'm all for this. It'd be hilarious.
Thank god they didn't invent this earlier! Injecting computers... shit, computers used to be huge! Now they'd just be sticking a midi-tower into your stomach...
Oh wait, that's going to explain the size of the average geek; they've been onto this for years!