I imagine the iPod Hifi will walk all over the Bose Wave radio. People have been completely brainwashed by Bose advertising and marketing to think it's the ultimate hifi gear. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Will the consumer once again have to someday replace their iTunes track just like they had to replace their LP, cassette, and CD only to get their music on their hot new non Apple mp3 phone of the future?
So far I haven't "had to" replace my LPs and CDs. Nobody "has to" do anything. It's all Madison Avenue hype. The sooner people realize what crappy sound they are putting up with with all these compressed formats and go back to the old tried and true formats, the better. Music matters, and the lossy formats are causing people to lose touch with the message musicians are trying to communicate in their performances. MP3s are the Soylent Green of the "music" industry.
Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software.
Hasn't happened yet, and damned unlikely at this point. So why should anyone pay for bug ridden software?
The first RPN pocket calculator, introduced in January 1972, complete with trig and log functions. It rocked the scientific community, and you were a Big Man on Campus if you had one hanging off your belt instead of a Pickett slide rule. Even the sound of opening the soft leather case with its Velcro closure strip was sooo geek chic. Now, if only chicks had dug it...
Just do the GPS, and make it less expensive and make it implantable. Dogs are stolen, and this would be a surefire way to nab a dog thief. The phone thing described is just something on a collar that a thief can remove, but an implanted GPS chip or whatever that thieves won't know about till they're arrested could help stop all dog thefts. And while they're at it, why not do the same for cats.
From the article (quoting an Activa spokesman): "Ultimately, they're confident it will be resolved in their favour," Murdoch said. "They're confident the right public perception will come about."
The right public perception, or the one they want?
The right public perception is coming out, and it sure isn't what they want.
the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver, which I attended. Bruce Thigpen, hardly a newcomer to high end audio and a bright designer, described the product and demonstrated it using a frequency generator. 10 Hz at 110 dB caused the mirror on the wall to move 1/2" back and forth, and at 5 Hz the door into the room had to be held shut by his associate. From that brief demo I could tell that listening to that kind of stuff long enough could make you sick to your stomach, not to mention possibly cause hearing damage. Yet everyone who heard it was amazed. Thigpen explained why his subwoofer is much more linear than other approaches. It isn't the world's most powerful subwoofer, but it may be the best. Expensive? You bet. Practical? Maybe not, but that never stopped an audiophile. It's this kind of craziness that inspires greatness, though. Gimme a matched pair when I hit the lotto. Bravo, Bruce!
>I'll agree that you are a pathetic piece of shit who can't even justify hos own existance.
You, sir (I use the term very loosely), are a pathetic excuse for a human being. I don't have to justify my existence to you or anyone else, because given your boorish demeanor and purposely distorting what I posted to satisfy your own twisted ego, I really don't give a damn. Get over it, because I'm making a good income in spite of trailer trash like you. Your hateful words demonstrate you are a worthless troll. Maybe you should crawl back under that rock from whence you emerged until you learn to be tolerant of others whose views and experiences differ with yours, not to mention tastes and income.
Too bad about some who have been to too many loud rock concerts and use MP3s for everyday listening who can't tell the difference.
I sell very high performance home audio systems, which include power cords, speaker cables and the like costing hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Nobody's holding a gun to anyone's head to buy them, but people buy them anyway. Just the same way, I'm not holding a gun to anyone's head to buy $20,000 speakers, but they buy them because they find they enrich their lives through music enjoyment. Yes, I suppose there's some exclusivity or elitism to owning some of it, but many people who come to me tend to be more interested in music and the equipment that lets them hear it all and listen for hours without fatigue. It's all relative to what your standards are and how far you want to go to pursue the best, just as with any advanced product such as photographic equipment or automobiles. If you're satisfied listening to something less, go with it and be happy. There are lots of ways to get down the road. Let's agree to disagree.
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I'm sure it's all for our benefit ;-)
bid $50,000 for that piece of toast on eBay, either.
100% pirated. But then, I use Linux...wait a sec, that's not pirated, that's free.
Wayne Smith, the guy from Microsoft: "It's not been that someone's been beavering for all these months and getting nowhere."
Maybe Slashdotters can take some tips from this guy on dating.
The service also provides optional voice scrambling, to make the caller sound like someone of the opposite sex.
And may I ask why this would be of interest to Slashdotters?
Oops, gotta go, my girlfriend's calling.
...is the day they introduce vacuum cleaners.
And how ironic is it that when I click on the screen shot thumbnails in the article that I get error messages?
I imagine the iPod Hifi will walk all over the Bose Wave radio. People have been completely brainwashed by Bose advertising and marketing to think it's the ultimate hifi gear. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Stopping porn movies altogether is the only way to keep his daughters from eventually starring in one.
Too late. Haven't you heard of Jenna?
Will the consumer once again have to someday replace their iTunes track just like they had to replace their LP, cassette, and CD only to get their music on their hot new non Apple mp3 phone of the future?
So far I haven't "had to" replace my LPs and CDs. Nobody "has to" do anything. It's all Madison Avenue hype. The sooner people realize what crappy sound they are putting up with with all these compressed formats and go back to the old tried and true formats, the better. Music matters, and the lossy formats are causing people to lose touch with the message musicians are trying to communicate in their performances. MP3s are the Soylent Green of the "music" industry.
Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software.
Hasn't happened yet, and damned unlikely at this point. So why should anyone pay for bug ridden software?
Oh yeah, 640K ought to be enough for anyone.
Irrelevant. If you're not running the latest version the rest of the office is using, you're fighting a losing battle.
the products didn't fetch enough sales, that they were real dogs.
It's hard to warm up to.
Linux cannot save Windows from itself.
The first RPN pocket calculator, introduced in January 1972, complete with trig and log functions. It rocked the scientific community, and you were a Big Man on Campus if you had one hanging off your belt instead of a Pickett slide rule. Even the sound of opening the soft leather case with its Velcro closure strip was sooo geek chic. Now, if only chicks had dug it...
Just do the GPS, and make it less expensive and make it implantable. Dogs are stolen, and this would be a surefire way to nab a dog thief. The phone thing described is just something on a collar that a thief can remove, but an implanted GPS chip or whatever that thieves won't know about till they're arrested could help stop all dog thefts. And while they're at it, why not do the same for cats.
From the article (quoting an Activa spokesman):
"Ultimately, they're confident it will be resolved in their favour," Murdoch said. "They're confident the right public perception will come about."
The right public perception, or the one they want?
The right public perception is coming out, and it sure isn't what they want.
They could have played John Tesh music.
New Coke, anyone?
here. Hopefully being /.'d won't cause problems for that page.
the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver, which I attended. Bruce Thigpen, hardly a newcomer to high end audio and a bright designer, described the product and demonstrated it using a frequency generator. 10 Hz at 110 dB caused the mirror on the wall to move 1/2" back and forth, and at 5 Hz the door into the room had to be held shut by his associate. From that brief demo I could tell that listening to that kind of stuff long enough could make you sick to your stomach, not to mention possibly cause hearing damage. Yet everyone who heard it was amazed. Thigpen explained why his subwoofer is much more linear than other approaches. It isn't the world's most powerful subwoofer, but it may be the best. Expensive? You bet. Practical? Maybe not, but that never stopped an audiophile. It's this kind of craziness that inspires greatness, though. Gimme a matched pair when I hit the lotto. Bravo, Bruce!
then I guess Bill Clinton didn't have sex with Monica either.
>I'll agree that you are a pathetic piece of shit who can't even justify hos own existance.
You, sir (I use the term very loosely), are a pathetic excuse for a human being. I don't have to justify my existence to you or anyone else, because given your boorish demeanor and purposely distorting what I posted to satisfy your own twisted ego, I really don't give a damn. Get over it, because I'm making a good income in spite of trailer trash like you. Your hateful words demonstrate you are a worthless troll. Maybe you should crawl back under that rock from whence you emerged until you learn to be tolerant of others whose views and experiences differ with yours, not to mention tastes and income.
Too bad about some who have been to too many loud rock concerts and use MP3s for everyday listening who can't tell the difference.
I sell very high performance home audio systems, which include power cords, speaker cables and the like costing hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Nobody's holding a gun to anyone's head to buy them, but people buy them anyway. Just the same way, I'm not holding a gun to anyone's head to buy $20,000 speakers, but they buy them because they find they enrich their lives through music enjoyment. Yes, I suppose there's some exclusivity or elitism to owning some of it, but many people who come to me tend to be more interested in music and the equipment that lets them hear it all and listen for hours without fatigue. It's all relative to what your standards are and how far you want to go to pursue the best, just as with any advanced product such as photographic equipment or automobiles. If you're satisfied listening to something less, go with it and be happy. There are lots of ways to get down the road. Let's agree to disagree.
"freedom to innovate"?