from time to time, I played this a little bit at the local target and just didn't find it all that compelling. Even 3D movies I have to watch normal ones first to really be able to follow the plot.
I wonder if all this 3D stuff is coming because of consumer demand (Costco is pushing the TVs pretty hard) or the manufacturers just shooting spitballs during the recession and hoping something sticks?
I always like new technology, but the last 3D I really like was the arcade game Time Traveler, and I'm not really sure if it was the quality or just neat factor since I was so young and don't have access to it anymore.
I wouldn't give you jack for them. Can I pay my utility bills with them? No. Can I may my mortgage with them? No. Can I go into most shops or online stores and buy stuff with them? No.
You can say the same about gold coins.
I'll take any you happen to have lying around off your hands.
Most LCDs only have a short warranty and there are a lot of parts that will simply fail over a much shorter period of time than a CRT (like the backlight).
They're mostly selling LED backlit systems now for both TVs and Computers (and phones and notebooks and tablets, etc). The two monitors that are part of my desktop of LED and over a year old (and were cheap already).
I'd say the weight savings in the summary is understated going forward. My monitors are much lighter than the old flat ones, let alone CRT.
You know what's worse? Security questions! Especially when you can't type your own.
Favorite Color? Too easy - people aren't going to say FF1A16. Most will say black, red, green, blue, white, or a handful of other labels.
With all these favorite questions, I either don't have one. I really lack strong favorites in all areas. And the next time it asks me that, it will have likely changed.
OR, it's information that's know to my entire household. Even if they don't do anything nefarious, I'm sure someone can wrangle out of my mother what street I lived on as a kid in a casual conversation.
I hate SQs with a passion. Whoever thinks this is security is nuts.
(Srry, posted as anon before, dang sign-in isn't as convenient as it used to be.)
Computing has moved onto mobile now. Linux only caught it due to Google. And it's barely open source.
But even then, the OS on those will not be the determinant of much. Cloud computing has come. I know people's whose home office desktops basically just run as a dumb terminal, as all that data sits on some far off server somewhere. Google Docs, Linnworks, what have you. What is old is new again. And again.
The only way to escape lock-in will always be open data formats and being able to back up that data. Chasing the OS rainbow might have been the wrong game.
Oh, I didn't think Amazon would release an E-ink touch screen tablet to compete with ipad, even disregarding this fingerprint issue, the refresh rate would be unsatisfactory for anything else but reading books, and would be doubly bad for responding quickly to direct touch commands.
Used my iPhone for 2 years now. Bought parents an iPad2 a while back. I have no problems with fingerprints. The light from the screen usually diminishes the impact if you are viewing the screen head on (and as a personal device, why wouldn't you be?) It's more visible when off or from the side. My glasses give me more problems with blurriness and I wash them at least daily if not more because it bothers me. My phone, once in a blue moon.
I hope Amazon brings a good tablet out though, competiton and choice are always better.
I don't need to bash him, but your need to whitewash him is curious. He did both bad and good things.
Steve Jobs may or may not do charity. It's really his business, isn't it?
It's curious to me that people who do far less with their lives feel the need to either bring down either man or erect a podium for them. It doesn't make you a better person to be a slobbering idol worshipper nor a spiteful harpy about it.
There are some things I like retro because I believe they are better (like DE safety razors) in some utilitarian way.
Analog watches aren't exactly one of them. Compared to a digital: they worse at keeping accurate time, most don't update themselves like "atomic" watches do, and some (like Rolex) may need some maintenance after a while. It's like a Japanese vs. German car - Japanese car is more practical overall, and German cars are often overengineered - but they're important to people who care about making a fashion statement. And I respect watchmaking as an art/science but there are enough old ones around unused that you don't need to buy new.
That said, I find most digital watches ugly. They need an Apple-like brand in terms of design that gets in there and promotes nice materials like a sapphire crystal face, clean lines, and minimalism. A digital watch almost always has ugly styling or just has too much going and is too busy looking. In fact, maybe an iWatch wouldn't be a bad idea.
We have that, see trade schools, even community colleges to a degree.
What a crock of shit. Dropping psychology/history/bs requirements does not a tradeschool make. And community colleges, for an AS degree, largely follow the requirements of the first 2 years of most 4 years schools.
I think asian countries are a bit different. At least in Japan, they don't heft heavy tomes of text books around, but use 6-8 week pamphlet that have their lessons/content for that period of time in that subject. I'm under the impression that those are owned by the school system.
If wikibooks or similiar took off, no reason that can't happen in schools. After all, there is no reason to really update algebra/calc books all that much. It was pretty much the same today as 100 years ago.
If the students would have the same devices anyhow, probably negligible. If it's e-ink, also negligible. If neither, then it will come at a cost.
But imagine if all newspapers/magazines/etc were now delivered digitally. What a savings in gas, ink, and paper! Plus recycling is energy intensive too.
Yeah, that Tesla is expected to be around $60 when it launches. The gas Scion IQ is $15k, so I expect this to be at or under $20k. Not even the same ballpark.
I wish Aptera was succesful, that would have been a radical concept and may have reached under $30k. Batteries just don't have the energy density yet (or in the near future), when you turn on heating, airconditioning, your electronics. I think a combustion-electric, like a train, is a superior solution for now (not like the hybrid cars on the road now, that give the motor a direct connection to the wheels), allowing you to drop in any type of motor - gas, diesel, stirling, etc.
Anyway, Scion's competition will be the Honda Insight, Honda Fit, Toyota Prius, and Smart Car - not the Teslas of the world. (Even if all of them aren't electric.)
There's already a gas version out. It's a similiar size as a 'Smart' Car which is already in America and is all over Europe. The people who go for electric probably would go for the smaller size anyway.
By virtue of having 4 wheels, sides and a roof, it's much safer than a motorcycle already.
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from time to time, I played this a little bit at the local target and just didn't find it all that compelling. Even 3D movies I have to watch normal ones first to really be able to follow the plot.
I wonder if all this 3D stuff is coming because of consumer demand (Costco is pushing the TVs pretty hard) or the manufacturers just shooting spitballs during the recession and hoping something sticks?
I always like new technology, but the last 3D I really like was the arcade game Time Traveler, and I'm not really sure if it was the quality or just neat factor since I was so young and don't have access to it anymore.
You can say the same about gold coins.
I'll take any you happen to have lying around off your hands.
They're mostly selling LED backlit systems now for both TVs and Computers (and phones and notebooks and tablets, etc). The two monitors that are part of my desktop of LED and over a year old (and were cheap already).
I'd say the weight savings in the summary is understated going forward. My monitors are much lighter than the old flat ones, let alone CRT.
Yeah, that's what they did but it's stupid. When Intel comes with a new chip, they don't announce it's a leap of 100x speed!!!*
*Compared to a 10 year old P4.
Plus the same write speed as Blu-Ray is pretty bad. It should have scaled up. Oh well, it's something.
Surprised the title or summary didn't mention that.
You know what's worse? Security questions! Especially when you can't type your own.
Favorite Color? Too easy - people aren't going to say FF1A16. Most will say black, red, green, blue, white, or a handful of other labels.
With all these favorite questions, I either don't have one. I really lack strong favorites in all areas. And the next time it asks me that, it will have likely changed.
OR, it's information that's know to my entire household. Even if they don't do anything nefarious, I'm sure someone can wrangle out of my mother what street I lived on as a kid in a casual conversation.
I hate SQs with a passion. Whoever thinks this is security is nuts.
(Srry, posted as anon before, dang sign-in isn't as convenient as it used to be.)
The sun's rays are much less direct in the winter. Also, the sun shines less in the winter. Which is why it is colder.
Heat also rises, it will only go down if pushed.
In other words, you stand to gain much more from the roof being white in the summer than you do by it being black in the winter.
How your post got modded up is beyond me. I think your religious fundamentalist friend has a tighter grasp on reality than you do.
I'm using /. time:
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/14/2137238/After-a-Decade-Mac-Sales-Again-Top-10
Computing has moved onto mobile now. Linux only caught it due to Google. And it's barely open source.
But even then, the OS on those will not be the determinant of much. Cloud computing has come. I know people's whose home office desktops basically just run as a dumb terminal, as all that data sits on some far off server somewhere. Google Docs, Linnworks, what have you. What is old is new again. And again.
The only way to escape lock-in will always be open data formats and being able to back up that data. Chasing the OS rainbow might have been the wrong game.
Oh, I didn't think Amazon would release an E-ink touch screen tablet to compete with ipad, even disregarding this fingerprint issue, the refresh rate would be unsatisfactory for anything else but reading books, and would be doubly bad for responding quickly to direct touch commands.
Used my iPhone for 2 years now. Bought parents an iPad2 a while back. I have no problems with fingerprints. The light from the screen usually diminishes the impact if you are viewing the screen head on (and as a personal device, why wouldn't you be?) It's more visible when off or from the side. My glasses give me more problems with blurriness and I wash them at least daily if not more because it bothers me. My phone, once in a blue moon.
I hope Amazon brings a good tablet out though, competiton and choice are always better.
I don't need to bash him, but your need to whitewash him is curious. He did both bad and good things.
Steve Jobs may or may not do charity. It's really his business, isn't it?
It's curious to me that people who do far less with their lives feel the need to either bring down either man or erect a podium for them. It doesn't make you a better person to be a slobbering idol worshipper nor a spiteful harpy about it.
I wish all taxes were replaced by an APT-TAX:
http://www.apttax.com/
No loopholes. No charities. Too low to bother getting around in most cases. Less IRS to hire. Less accounting industry to make sense of all the rules.
No, the law, if morale, should prevail. Not a feel good situation.
If it states he should keep the rock, then so be it.
No, it just means you shouldn't be posting... wait why is everyone going the wrong way on this highw-
I don't find the e-ink watches by phosphor horrendously ugly:
http://www.google.com/search?q=minimalist+digital+watch&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#sclient=psy&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&tbm=shop&source=hp&q=eink+watch&aq=f&aqi=g-l2g-lm1&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=e88630cdc138baf3&biw=1920&bih=907
There are some things I like retro because I believe they are better (like DE safety razors) in some utilitarian way.
Analog watches aren't exactly one of them. Compared to a digital: they worse at keeping accurate time, most don't update themselves like "atomic" watches do, and some (like Rolex) may need some maintenance after a while. It's like a Japanese vs. German car - Japanese car is more practical overall, and German cars are often overengineered - but they're important to people who care about making a fashion statement. And I respect watchmaking as an art/science but there are enough old ones around unused that you don't need to buy new.
That said, I find most digital watches ugly. They need an Apple-like brand in terms of design that gets in there and promotes nice materials like a sapphire crystal face, clean lines, and minimalism. A digital watch almost always has ugly styling or just has too much going and is too busy looking. In fact, maybe an iWatch wouldn't be a bad idea.
WTF. Is the news day that slow?
What a crock of shit. Dropping psychology/history/bs requirements does not a tradeschool make. And community colleges, for an AS degree, largely follow the requirements of the first 2 years of most 4 years schools.
I think Atari stayed afloat for years like this, way before SCO, and moderately successful at it too.
I think asian countries are a bit different. At least in Japan, they don't heft heavy tomes of text books around, but use 6-8 week pamphlet that have their lessons/content for that period of time in that subject. I'm under the impression that those are owned by the school system.
If wikibooks or similiar took off, no reason that can't happen in schools. After all, there is no reason to really update algebra/calc books all that much. It was pretty much the same today as 100 years ago.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
If the students would have the same devices anyhow, probably negligible. If it's e-ink, also negligible. If neither, then it will come at a cost.
But imagine if all newspapers/magazines/etc were now delivered digitally. What a savings in gas, ink, and paper! Plus recycling is energy intensive too.
But yeah, I agree, this should be quantified.
Yeah, that Tesla is expected to be around $60 when it launches. The gas Scion IQ is $15k, so I expect this to be at or under $20k. Not even the same ballpark.
I wish Aptera was succesful, that would have been a radical concept and may have reached under $30k. Batteries just don't have the energy density yet (or in the near future), when you turn on heating, airconditioning, your electronics. I think a combustion-electric, like a train, is a superior solution for now (not like the hybrid cars on the road now, that give the motor a direct connection to the wheels), allowing you to drop in any type of motor - gas, diesel, stirling, etc.
Anyway, Scion's competition will be the Honda Insight, Honda Fit, Toyota Prius, and Smart Car - not the Teslas of the world. (Even if all of them aren't electric.)
There's already a gas version out. It's a similiar size as a 'Smart' Car which is already in America and is all over Europe. The people who go for electric probably would go for the smaller size anyway.
By virtue of having 4 wheels, sides and a roof, it's much safer than a motorcycle already.