It's just as well considering what an utter disappointment Bluetooth has been. I don't trust two devices to work together unless they're physically housed together.
The way things are going, it'll be cheaper to buy a PDA-phone than a proper PDA (since real PDAs with Bluetooth are falling off the face of the earth). Are you really saying it's worth the cost of a Bluetooth cell phone to:
1. Take out PDA and cell phone, placing them within 10 m of each other. 2. Pair PDA with cell phone. 3. Open PDA's address book. 4. Find contact. 5. Tap contact's phone number. 6. Tap "dial with Bluetooth." 7. Wait. 8. Go to 2.
So buy a cheap Motorola phone with real keys, use a standard USB cable (with the mini plug on the phone end) and Google for instructions about using it as a modem.
I've played hundreds of matches of Tetris® DS on-line on my Nintendo DS and I'll play hundreds more. Tetris® DS is even more enjoyable than Tetrinet, which I played quite a lot back in the day.
I agree with you that Tetris Worlds absolutely blew. I was amazed at its craptacularity the first time I played it.
Keynote is PowerPoint with fancier animations and graphics. That's it. It won't make you a better presenter, but it will impress your coworkers to the point where they ignore your presentation's content and ask where you got that awesome PowerPoint transition plugin. Then you can get all smug.
If used well (i.e. minimally) PowerPoint is a useful tool for putting simple, otherwise-unadorned information up on a screen. Watch a Steve Jobs keynote and see how he uses presentation software (in his case, Keynote) to present only a few words or a graph per slide.
If used poorly, PowerPoint is a tool for combining cue cards, sound effects, clip art, and cheesy animations. Yes, even Keynote's animations are cheesy.
Name one insurance company that's paid absolutely every claim that a claimant deems "probably legitimate," and I'll give you this bridge in Brooklyn.
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Here's one FireWire flash drive. Although the speeds might be faster, I like USB better just because *everything* has a USB port nowadays, but many computers (like my Dell desktop and Dell work laptop) lack FireWire ports.
The idea of a home server that doesn't need any computer per se is in its infancy: 160 GB HD, iTunes sharing, BitTorrent client, all self-contained so you can set it and take your laptop with you while your home connection continues to download all your favorite Creative Commons licensed Ogg Tarkin video files. I like it!
Just emerge gnupod and make sure you compile it with the --with-ffxk-so-opti=3 directive in autoconf. That'll hose you every time. Also I recommend that you use gnutunes out of the gnxms repository; the vanilla Gentoo repos's version is hosed.
Also, my iPod only works if I mount it as/dev/sdc6. Don't know why that is, but the dev said he'd put it on his TODO list.
When the government produces a VNR made to look like a news report, the government agent has done something immoral.
When a news agency runs that VNR as news, the news agency's incompetence has exceeded that of the government's. Until you can show me that the government forces news agencies to run their PR campaigns, I find it very hard to believe arguments that fault a VNR's producer for a news gatherer's incompetence.
"This is the greatest advance that we've ever seen in the world," said Calvin Anderson, CEO of Popsicle Sticks Research Group.
Consumers are lining up in droves to buy the new e-Pacifier(TM), the world's first baby pacifier that connects to the Internet.
If you worked at a news department, and someone sent you a video news release that was basically an infomercial, and you ran it as if it were an original news report, you deserve to be fired.
Look up "oversubscription." Virtually nobody is actually using anywhere near 2 GB of storage -- and if they find large pockets of people who are, they'll make sure that it's 2 GB of personal email.
In six years, how many of those same people will still be using Gmail and Google Maps when Quixblo is the premiere "Web 3.0" search engine that Slashdot keeps gushing about?
How should the US government communicate information to news organizations then? News releases, whether on paper, in audio, or in video, are the preferred means of distribution for all news-disseminating bodies. When a supposed news-gathering organization merely parrots what they've heard in a news release without any further investigation or insight, it is the news-gathering organization that deserves to be chastized for deceiving people.
(Yes, the government does more than just VNRs; I don't defend the use of pundits being paid to stump for the gov't on TV shows, for example. I speak solely of VNRs in the paragraph above.)
My high school had a radio station. I worked there from 1996-1999. We got many PSAs from various government agencies phrased as audio news releases. It's not just government that does this: a lot of nonprofit organizations will happily offer "News from your community" type things for broadcast.
Don't blame the government for producing VNRs. Blame lazy news/program directors for airing them without any explanation.
Which tech news outlets were drooling over the proposed specs? The CNN article you linked seems pretty skeptical about the product, but (big surprise) the Infinium Chief Marketing Officer is positive about the product./me activates a CNN news alert for "Infinium Labs"
I buy TurboTax every year to do my taxes. The box has only gotten slightly smaller (along with the typical PC game/software box) but the contents of it have shrunk: first a manual, then a quick start guide, then a single sheet, then a CD in a plastic tray, then just a CD. The outside of the box has all sorts of colorful fold-out panels to tell you all about the software, but there is literally just a CD, inside a paper sleeve, in the box.
Next year, I expect they'll start shipping boxes containing only a fortune-cookie-fortune-sized slip which contains a URL and password so you can download the software on-line.
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It's just as well considering what an utter disappointment Bluetooth has been. I don't trust two devices to work together unless they're physically housed together.
The Nokia 7600 is even worse. 1-5 vertically down the left side, 6-0 vertically down the right!
The way things are going, it'll be cheaper to buy a PDA-phone than a proper PDA (since real PDAs with Bluetooth are falling off the face of the earth). Are you really saying it's worth the cost of a Bluetooth cell phone to:
1. Take out PDA and cell phone, placing them within 10 m of each other.
2. Pair PDA with cell phone.
3. Open PDA's address book.
4. Find contact.
5. Tap contact's phone number.
6. Tap "dial with Bluetooth."
7. Wait.
8. Go to 2.
So buy a cheap Motorola phone with real keys, use a standard USB cable (with the mini plug on the phone end) and Google for instructions about using it as a modem.
Here are search results pertaining to my old Motorola v180, which at the time I bought it was the second-cheapest phone T-Mobile sold.
AIM is to Jabber as Friendster is to XFN. Like Jabber, XFN would work great if anyone actually used it.
I've played hundreds of matches of Tetris® DS on-line on my Nintendo DS and I'll play hundreds more. Tetris® DS is even more enjoyable than Tetrinet, which I played quite a lot back in the day.
I agree with you that Tetris Worlds absolutely blew. I was amazed at its craptacularity the first time I played it.
Keynote is PowerPoint with fancier animations and graphics. That's it. It won't make you a better presenter, but it will impress your coworkers to the point where they ignore your presentation's content and ask where you got that awesome PowerPoint transition plugin. Then you can get all smug.
If used well (i.e. minimally) PowerPoint is a useful tool for putting simple, otherwise-unadorned information up on a screen. Watch a Steve Jobs keynote and see how he uses presentation software (in his case, Keynote) to present only a few words or a graph per slide.
If used poorly, PowerPoint is a tool for combining cue cards, sound effects, clip art, and cheesy animations. Yes, even Keynote's animations are cheesy.
They already sell Smash TV on Xbox Live Arcade.
It's all in this helpful pamphlet.
1. Will Smith, in 1993, is the last person to refer to Basketball as "b-ball" without doing so ironically.
2. Nobody talks about soccer in the US.
Name one insurance company that's paid absolutely every claim that a claimant deems "probably legitimate," and I'll give you this bridge in Brooklyn.
Here's one FireWire flash drive. Although the speeds might be faster, I like USB better just because *everything* has a USB port nowadays, but many computers (like my Dell desktop and Dell work laptop) lack FireWire ports.
The idea of a home server that doesn't need any computer per se is in its infancy: 160 GB HD, iTunes sharing, BitTorrent client, all self-contained so you can set it and take your laptop with you while your home connection continues to download all your favorite Creative Commons licensed Ogg Tarkin video files. I like it!
Really. It's not hard.
/dev/sdc6. Don't know why that is, but the dev said he'd put it on his TODO list.
Just emerge gnupod and make sure you compile it with the --with-ffxk-so-opti=3 directive in autoconf. That'll hose you every time. Also I recommend that you use gnutunes out of the gnxms repository; the vanilla Gentoo repos's version is hosed.
Also, my iPod only works if I mount it as
Aside from that it's pretty easy!
When the government produces a VNR made to look like a news report, the government agent has done something immoral.
When a news agency runs that VNR as news, the news agency's incompetence has exceeded that of the government's. Until you can show me that the government forces news agencies to run their PR campaigns, I find it very hard to believe arguments that fault a VNR's producer for a news gatherer's incompetence.
If you worked at a news department, and someone sent you a video news release that was basically an infomercial, and you ran it as if it were an original news report, you deserve to be fired.
Look up "oversubscription." Virtually nobody is actually using anywhere near 2 GB of storage -- and if they find large pockets of people who are, they'll make sure that it's 2 GB of personal email.
In six years, how many of those same people will still be using Gmail and Google Maps when Quixblo is the premiere "Web 3.0" search engine that Slashdot keeps gushing about?
How should the US government communicate information to news organizations then? News releases, whether on paper, in audio, or in video, are the preferred means of distribution for all news-disseminating bodies. When a supposed news-gathering organization merely parrots what they've heard in a news release without any further investigation or insight, it is the news-gathering organization that deserves to be chastized for deceiving people.
(Yes, the government does more than just VNRs; I don't defend the use of pundits being paid to stump for the gov't on TV shows, for example. I speak solely of VNRs in the paragraph above.)
My high school had a radio station. I worked there from 1996-1999. We got many PSAs from various government agencies phrased as audio news releases. It's not just government that does this: a lot of nonprofit organizations will happily offer "News from your community" type things for broadcast.
Don't blame the government for producing VNRs. Blame lazy news/program directors for airing them without any explanation.
Which tech news outlets were drooling over the proposed specs? The CNN article you linked seems pretty skeptical about the product, but (big surprise) the Infinium Chief Marketing Officer is positive about the product. /me activates a CNN news alert for "Infinium Labs"
Hey! There are tons of homebrew games that people are just dying to play on their new systems!
Like... emulators!
and Tetris clones!
and, um... emulators that let you play Tetris clones!
"I'm a consumer whore... and how!"
You know overpackaging of consumer electronics is bad when you can buy a special implement specifically designed to open it.
(I have one of these. It's well worth $5. I don't work for the company though.)
I buy TurboTax every year to do my taxes. The box has only gotten slightly smaller (along with the typical PC game/software box) but the contents of it have shrunk: first a manual, then a quick start guide, then a single sheet, then a CD in a plastic tray, then just a CD. The outside of the box has all sorts of colorful fold-out panels to tell you all about the software, but there is literally just a CD, inside a paper sleeve, in the box.
Next year, I expect they'll start shipping boxes containing only a fortune-cookie-fortune-sized slip which contains a URL and password so you can download the software on-line.