What I don't get though is that you would think Apple would have tried harder to make this phone succeed, but it just seems like a half-hearted attempt at best. It's almost like they wanted this thing to fail.
The article mentions how the ROKR doesn't do what it should, because Apple, Motorola, and Cingular all have their own existing businesses that they don't want to see get bypassed by new technology.
I saw a picture of the ROKR on the web, and the menu looks exactly like the existing menus on my Motorola phone. I was expecting the famous Chicago font that you see on old classic Macs, and iPods nowadays. But its just the crap font used in Motorola phones. Also there's the input situation with no click wheel type of thing (or even an iPod Shuffle kind of interface)... the ROKR looks just like a standard issue cellphone, that has "iTunes" added as an extra application to the system, along with the calculator, mini browser, address book, and a java game.
The obvious thing to do would be for Apple to make the phone entirely themselves. I suppose it's possible since they ARE also a hardware company. Frankly, I'm surprised Apple allowed another company to have so much control in designing something that would be associated with the Apple brand. It doesn't end up having the Apple look or feel at all.
Apple could even launch their own cellphone service, instead of pairing with Cingular. They wouldn't even need to build their own network. Virgin Mobile is just re-branded Sprint service. So I suppose Apple could do something similar with an existing cellphone company... Offering an Apple phone to use on Apple's cellphone network.
Perhaps then Apple could truly innovate on this thing, instead of falling victim to the situation the article describes when multiple businesses try to cooperate.
It depends if the swastika is a backwards Nazi one I guess. A normal swastika has been a symbol of good fortune for thousands of years in India.
I think people take slander, libel, and general censorship too seriously. Just remember that freedom of speech/expression of ideas is just an illusion in America. So watch your back.
This is the kind of thing that makes me afraid of my neighbors. I hope you never go into politics.
Of course... you're certain that people NEVER abuse their power... and governments NEVER go corrupt. After all, that's never happened before in history, right? Give me a break.
...really went down in quality after Gaines died. It's been pretty much bad since 1992. I picked one up in the supermarket not too long ago and to my horror I saw that now they actually have advertisements. It really threw me off, since before whenever I saw an advertisement in MAD it was a parody. I looked and looked for the joke but it just wasn't there. Plus now they've gone to color.
The big landmark in MAD history where I saw it becoming crap was when that comic with the kid with bad hair and the slutty mom started appearing... "Monroe".
Plus when the guy who did Spy vs. Spy died and now the new ones are horrible and in this awful spraypaint sort of drawing style.
Maybe almost 10 years ago I remember reading something... somewhere... about this cool technology to turn any 35 mm camera into a digital camera. Basically it was this thing that looked like an ordinary 35 mm film canister, except instead of having a tongue of film sticking out, it had a rigid piece of plastic or metal which was fixed in place (which contained the CCD). You just plopped it into any 35 mm camera where the film would normally go, and voila, instant digital camera. No need to toss away your fancy SLR with all those lenses and filters.
Whatever happened to that? I've been dying for it. I think it might have been in Popular Science "What's New" back in 1995 or something.
Wow... nineteen bullet-points and not one of them mentions any practical usefulness for this... most of them just boil down to "it's novel" or "cockroaches are cool". Not once does he mention any valid point to this experiment. What a waste.
Ok so... what's the point in having a cockroach control a robot if the cockroach is not being steered? In this case you could achieve the same effect by making the robot drive around aimlessly, and use those same sensors to detect obstacles to directly alter the course of the robot if the point is to avoid them.
what the hell is the point of this, anyway? I see no usefulness in it, just some losers playing with bugs.
You steer the cockroach by shining light in its eyes, which makes the cockroach move one way or another on the pingpong ball... so... why is the cockroach there at all? And not just control the robot directly. This just adds an extra step in the process which makes the system less reliable.
"I was writing a paper on the PowerBook, and it was, like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep! And then, like, the battery exploded acid all over me. And I was, like 'ow.' It devoured my skin. It was really good skin. And then I had to do get grafts and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as good. It's kind of a bummer."
Ok so the explanation is pretty clear to most everyone... if you believe that propaganda!!!
Clearly the larger so-called "satellite" is a Romulan Bird of Brey that has come to hunt down the Odyssey satellite before it either A) discovers the Romulans cloaked mission control base for Earth domination (by crashing into it) or B) becomes sentient like "V---ger" did.
I would *think* a CS grad would be more familiar with appropriate algorithms and their efficiency than someone not familiar with the ins and outs of programming.
More like queue the typical slashdot groupthink about how there's so much typical slashdot groupthink.
In articles I tend to see just a small fraction of posts showing this supposed typical groupthink... and then a gigantic mass of posts from people who think they're observant and different and insightful for pointing out that it's going on.
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"For some reason, Sony will support the odd number of seven controllers on its PS3. A theory going around my house is that they suddenly realised they had more Bluetooth-width than expected and bumped up the number of possible controllers to seven. An alternative view is that they oversubscribed with eight and are now having to make the best of the limitations."
I have a Donkey Kong Game and Watch... it flips open and theres a screen on the top and the bottom. It's made of orange plastic... but it has a sticker on the outside that looks sort of metallic and reflective.
Which ones are you thinking of? Or are you talking about the Game and Watch series, and the one I have is an exception?
Hmmm... I remember having the Zelda wristwatch in 3rd grade... I wish I still had it... quite fun.
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I'll sell you one for just $200.
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You're my new hero. I salute you.
What I don't get though is that you would think Apple would have tried harder to make this phone succeed, but it just seems like a half-hearted attempt at best. It's almost like they wanted this thing to fail.
The article mentions how the ROKR doesn't do what it should, because Apple, Motorola, and Cingular all have their own existing businesses that they don't want to see get bypassed by new technology.
I saw a picture of the ROKR on the web, and the menu looks exactly like the existing menus on my Motorola phone. I was expecting the famous Chicago font that you see on old classic Macs, and iPods nowadays. But its just the crap font used in Motorola phones. Also there's the input situation with no click wheel type of thing (or even an iPod Shuffle kind of interface)... the ROKR looks just like a standard issue cellphone, that has "iTunes" added as an extra application to the system, along with the calculator, mini browser, address book, and a java game.
The obvious thing to do would be for Apple to make the phone entirely themselves. I suppose it's possible since they ARE also a hardware company. Frankly, I'm surprised Apple allowed another company to have so much control in designing something that would be associated with the Apple brand. It doesn't end up having the Apple look or feel at all.
Apple could even launch their own cellphone service, instead of pairing with Cingular. They wouldn't even need to build their own network. Virgin Mobile is just re-branded Sprint service. So I suppose Apple could do something similar with an existing cellphone company... Offering an Apple phone to use on Apple's cellphone network.
Perhaps then Apple could truly innovate on this thing, instead of falling victim to the situation the article describes when multiple businesses try to cooperate.
It depends if the swastika is a backwards Nazi one I guess. A normal swastika has been a symbol of good fortune for thousands of years in India.
I think people take slander, libel, and general censorship too seriously. Just remember that freedom of speech/expression of ideas is just an illusion in America. So watch your back.
That's weird... I could have sworn that the Elise had a Subaru WRX engine in it, but I looked on wikipedia and I can't find any mention of that.
When will K-9 get his own spin-off series again?
...aren't you?
This is the kind of thing that makes me afraid of my neighbors. I hope you never go into politics.
Of course... you're certain that people NEVER abuse their power... and governments NEVER go corrupt. After all, that's never happened before in history, right? Give me a break.
...really went down in quality after Gaines died. It's been pretty much bad since 1992. I picked one up in the supermarket not too long ago and to my horror I saw that now they actually have advertisements. It really threw me off, since before whenever I saw an advertisement in MAD it was a parody. I looked and looked for the joke but it just wasn't there. Plus now they've gone to color.
The big landmark in MAD history where I saw it becoming crap was when that comic with the kid with bad hair and the slutty mom started appearing... "Monroe".
Plus when the guy who did Spy vs. Spy died and now the new ones are horrible and in this awful spraypaint sort of drawing style.
Maybe almost 10 years ago I remember reading something... somewhere... about this cool technology to turn any 35 mm camera into a digital camera. Basically it was this thing that looked like an ordinary 35 mm film canister, except instead of having a tongue of film sticking out, it had a rigid piece of plastic or metal which was fixed in place (which contained the CCD). You just plopped it into any 35 mm camera where the film would normally go, and voila, instant digital camera. No need to toss away your fancy SLR with all those lenses and filters.
Whatever happened to that? I've been dying for it. I think it might have been in Popular Science "What's New" back in 1995 or something.
Google and MapQuest both look stretched out horizontally... Yahoo is the only one that looks normal. That's interesting.
Wow... nineteen bullet-points and not one of them mentions any practical usefulness for this... most of them just boil down to "it's novel" or "cockroaches are cool". Not once does he mention any valid point to this experiment. What a waste.
Hardly a noble reason...
Ok so... what's the point in having a cockroach control a robot if the cockroach is not being steered? In this case you could achieve the same effect by making the robot drive around aimlessly, and use those same sensors to detect obstacles to directly alter the course of the robot if the point is to avoid them.
what the hell is the point of this, anyway? I see no usefulness in it, just some losers playing with bugs.
You steer the cockroach by shining light in its eyes, which makes the cockroach move one way or another on the pingpong ball... so... why is the cockroach there at all? And not just control the robot directly. This just adds an extra step in the process which makes the system less reliable.
This is stupid tech.
"I was writing a paper on the PowerBook, and it was, like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep! And then, like, the battery exploded acid all over me. And I was, like 'ow.' It devoured my skin. It was really good skin. And then I had to do get grafts and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as good. It's kind of a bummer."
This technology amazes me!
I'll probably get modded down for this...
but you should have taken your own advice and preceded your own comment...
Ok so the explanation is pretty clear to most everyone... if you believe that propaganda!!!
Clearly the larger so-called "satellite" is a Romulan Bird of Brey that has come to hunt down the Odyssey satellite before it either A) discovers the Romulans cloaked mission control base for Earth domination (by crashing into it) or B) becomes sentient like "V---ger" did.
I would *think* a CS grad would be more familiar with appropriate algorithms and their efficiency than someone not familiar with the ins and outs of programming.
More like queue the typical slashdot groupthink about how there's so much typical slashdot groupthink.
In articles I tend to see just a small fraction of posts showing this supposed typical groupthink... and then a gigantic mass of posts from people who think they're observant and different and insightful for pointing out that it's going on.
The reason for this was actually already answered on Slashdot.
I have a Donkey Kong Game and Watch... it flips open and theres a screen on the top and the bottom. It's made of orange plastic... but it has a sticker on the outside that looks sort of metallic and reflective.
Which ones are you thinking of? Or are you talking about the Game and Watch series, and the one I have is an exception?
Hmmm... I remember having the Zelda wristwatch in 3rd grade... I wish I still had it... quite fun.
An identical twin would have to be the same gender... as opposed to fraternal...
Your post implies that all the women on slashdot are pasty and have... beards?
Hmmm.