Hi all,
Although it gets lousy battery life and is a bit sluggish compared to a blackberry, the Sprint PPC-6700 allows you do the very same thing without having to open a $60 data only account with Sprint.
Even better, they allow the phone to not only work in a tethered USB mode, they also support bluetooth if you happen to be on a Mac. Speed is pretty decent, tethered to USB I get about a half a megabit. I get less bandwidth with bluetooth, but it's certainly much zippier than a 56k dialup.
I can confirm for a fact that the devices are indeed windows. I had a similar conversation with the kid at my local Apple store who also confirmed the device was running Windows CE/Mobile (or whatever they call it these days). He did qualify his answer by saying the thing would lock up constantly:).
I switched from Netflix to Blockbuster's mail service last year and haven't yet felt the need to switch. I'm still on the original $14.95 pricing plan for three movies out at a time. Yes, Blockbuster's UI is inferior, the selection might not be as vast, and it might take an extra day or two to receive a flick over Netflix, but the real deal are the coupons.
Blockbuster gives two in store coupons every month good for a game or movie rental. With their game rentals hovering in the $8 range, it pretty much pays for itself every month. Blockbuster also credits the value of the coupon against the 'keep it' price for any video or game rented at the store. Good deal (for me at least).
This is a good acquisition for Yahoo. Makes a lot of sense since much of what del.icio.us is about is 'tagging' the web.
What's interesting is seeing the dynamic of Internet search philosphy developing here. Google's about 'searching' and Yahoo, it seems, is about 'tagging.'
If Negroponte is able to mass produce this thing at a true $100 cost it will be revolutionary.
I wonder, however, why he only plans to offer this device to the developing world when millions of children (and their school districts) in the United States could also benefit from such a device. $100 laptops could save school districts millions in textbook costs alone!
I think Sony got it right with their release of the PSP outside the holiday season. They were able to meet the demand of the early adopters and had time to build up inventories for the holidays this year.
I've always wondered why these console manufacturers wait until Christmas to release only a trickle of hardware into the channel. This stifles profit growth, as we all know they make their money on games vs. the hardware.
Wouldn't it make more sense to release off season, satisfy the early adopter purchases, then build up inventory for the holidays while reaping the profits from game sales along the way?
I'm not sure what the laws are at Google's new location, but here in Connecticut business property is taxed in two different ways.
First of course is the actual property itself (the land and the building) second is the assets the company owns. The building and land taxes are typically paid by the owner of the building and passed onto the tenant in their rent. The other property is billed directly to the tenant.
My business owns a building that is leased to a manufacturer of sporting equipment. We pay the tax on the building, he pays on his manufacturing machines, computers, forklifts, etc. I can see why the city is very interested in Google's arrival, I'm sure there are literally millions of dollars in computers being moved into that facility.
Kudos to NASA for being entrepreneurial and finding a tenant for an otherwise unused space. But the city also has a legitimate beef here. Google should pay its taxes just like every other business is expected to.
I wonder if maybe the government should consider crafting its own open-source code for electronic voting machines to use as an backend engine for commercially produced machine..
And I also don't think we'll even see a 'leaked' development version in the wild anytime soon. Apple is distributing the dev kit installed on hardware and not on CD. I would venture to guess they are doing that for a reason.
Apple is also a company used to having their software run on a pre-determined combination of hardware and software. I suspect these dev kits are no exception. Even if it somehow leaks out, I highly doubt it will work on any 'ol wintel PC simply due to a lack of drivers.
Which just goes to prove what I always believe - being in the right place at the right time will do more for your career than everything else combined.
True.. Of course how many times have you wondered 'geez, why didn't I think of that?'
I think that it takes a little bit more than luck to be successful. It also takes the drive and ability to take that opportunity and make it something more tangible.
Luck is a big part of it, sure, but one cannot be successful without some ability to rise to the occasion.
I disagree.. They have to sell hardware to sell software. Nobody's going to buy the profit-driving components of the business if there's not a decent hardware base. Just look what happened with the 3DO.
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I will add my voice to the choir on homebrew software.. I bought a PSP at launch and haven't picked it up in weeks.. There's simply no decent software out for this thing, with very little on the horizon.
Sony would be wise to open the machine up - it'll drive hardware sales certainly more than UMD movies will. Existing homebrew apps like PSPVideo 9 are probably driving more sales than software:).
The easier it gets to download podcasting content, the more likely people will actually listen to it. Including this functionality in iTunes will expand the audience and make it easier for average Joe computer user to sample of the content.
It's only a matter of time before paid providers will see the value of this. Vidcasts (not podcasts) might be the killer app, but the media distribution has to begin somewhere:).
This Dodgeball thing looks pretty cool. It would be even better if it worked using location based GPS vs. SMS messaging.
One thing to watch is the post acquisition. Google's really didn't do much for Orkut. While Friendster continually builds a user base and adds features, Orkut remains slow and bug ridden.
The beauty of the open source movement is that if some folks are unhappy with the software as developed, they're more than welcome to do an effort of their own.
Fork it, or create something from scratch. We the users benefit.
The New York Times has digitized every edition from 1851 to 2001. It's searchable and instead of printing up some plain 'ol text, you see the actual article in PDF as it appeared when published. It's incredible stuff and would be well worth an annual fee for history buffs.
What's the point of release dates anyhow?
With digital distribution now finally catching on, it would be in the best interest of most companies to release when it's done.. I'd much prefer to download a (legal) burnable disc image than have to wait for a box to show up.
IMHO much piracy is due to impatient souls who simply can't wait for the release. Music is a great exmaple of this. I say when it goes gold, release it. Many of these downloaders would probably pay for it.
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Hi all, Although it gets lousy battery life and is a bit sluggish compared to a blackberry, the Sprint PPC-6700 allows you do the very same thing without having to open a $60 data only account with Sprint. Even better, they allow the phone to not only work in a tethered USB mode, they also support bluetooth if you happen to be on a Mac. Speed is pretty decent, tethered to USB I get about a half a megabit. I get less bandwidth with bluetooth, but it's certainly much zippier than a 56k dialup.
Added firewire and external channel changing support for SA3250HD
I can confirm for a fact that the devices are indeed windows. I had a similar conversation with the kid at my local Apple store who also confirmed the device was running Windows CE/Mobile (or whatever they call it these days). He did qualify his answer by saying the thing would lock up constantly :).
Blockbuster gives two in store coupons every month good for a game or movie rental. With their game rentals hovering in the $8 range, it pretty much pays for itself every month. Blockbuster also credits the value of the coupon against the 'keep it' price for any video or game rented at the store. Good deal (for me at least).
640K ought to be enough for everybody!
What's interesting is seeing the dynamic of Internet search philosphy developing here. Google's about 'searching' and Yahoo, it seems, is about 'tagging.'
It wasn't pulled off the air by government regulators, it was a backlash from viewers and advertisers if I recall. Ultimately the market prevails :).
I wonder, however, why he only plans to offer this device to the developing world when millions of children (and their school districts) in the United States could also benefit from such a device. $100 laptops could save school districts millions in textbook costs alone!
I think Sony got it right with their release of the PSP outside the holiday season. They were able to meet the demand of the early adopters and had time to build up inventories for the holidays this year.
I've always wondered why these console manufacturers wait until Christmas to release only a trickle of hardware into the channel. This stifles profit growth, as we all know they make their money on games vs. the hardware.
Wouldn't it make more sense to release off season, satisfy the early adopter purchases, then build up inventory for the holidays while reaping the profits from game sales along the way?
Maybe I'm just crazy.
First of course is the actual property itself (the land and the building) second is the assets the company owns. The building and land taxes are typically paid by the owner of the building and passed onto the tenant in their rent. The other property is billed directly to the tenant.
My business owns a building that is leased to a manufacturer of sporting equipment. We pay the tax on the building, he pays on his manufacturing machines, computers, forklifts, etc. I can see why the city is very interested in Google's arrival, I'm sure there are literally millions of dollars in computers being moved into that facility.
Kudos to NASA for being entrepreneurial and finding a tenant for an otherwise unused space. But the city also has a legitimate beef here. Google should pay its taxes just like every other business is expected to.
The inflation calculator reports that the TR-1 would have cost $343.45 in 2005 dollars (it cost $49.95 according to a flyer on the TR-1 site).
Will this work with my Linksys router?
Apple is also a company used to having their software run on a pre-determined combination of hardware and software. I suspect these dev kits are no exception. Even if it somehow leaks out, I highly doubt it will work on any 'ol wintel PC simply due to a lack of drivers.
True.. Of course how many times have you wondered 'geez, why didn't I think of that?'
I think that it takes a little bit more than luck to be successful. It also takes the drive and ability to take that opportunity and make it something more tangible.
Luck is a big part of it, sure, but one cannot be successful without some ability to rise to the occasion.
I don't think the point of his speech was that dropping out is cool. It was that hard work and determination are what you need to be successful.
Say what you want about Jobs, he's a gifted businessman who knows how to sell. He had the right product in the 70's at the absolute best time.
Your mileage, of course, will vary :).
I disagree.. They have to sell hardware to sell software. Nobody's going to buy the profit-driving components of the business if there's not a decent hardware base. Just look what happened with the 3DO.
Sony would be wise to open the machine up - it'll drive hardware sales certainly more than UMD movies will. Existing homebrew apps like PSPVideo 9 are probably driving more sales than software :).
UHD ran the entire first season in HD shortly after its run on Scifi.
It's only a matter of time before paid providers will see the value of this. Vidcasts (not podcasts) might be the killer app, but the media distribution has to begin somewhere :).
One thing to watch is the post acquisition. Google's really didn't do much for Orkut. While Friendster continually builds a user base and adds features, Orkut remains slow and bug ridden.
Fork it, or create something from scratch. We the users benefit.
The New York Times has digitized every edition from 1851 to 2001. It's searchable and instead of printing up some plain 'ol text, you see the actual article in PDF as it appeared when published. It's incredible stuff and would be well worth an annual fee for history buffs.
Statements like this always make me nervous.. No moving object is immune from crashing.
What's the point of release dates anyhow?
With digital distribution now finally catching on, it would be in the best interest of most companies to release when it's done.. I'd much prefer to download a (legal) burnable disc image than have to wait for a box to show up.
IMHO much piracy is due to impatient souls who simply can't wait for the release. Music is a great exmaple of this. I say when it goes gold, release it. Many of these downloaders would probably pay for it.