Maybe so, but it's a joyride I'd love to take. Seriously, even if this is only a PR stunt (which I don't believe it is), I think it's a good thing. Space tourism will be a new industry at some point in time, and I for one can't wait to get my ticket.
Well that's just freakin awesome then. My kick a$$ in every other way $1000 Dell 2405 LCD monitor won't display HD movies because it doesn't have HanDiCaPping techology. Well they can kiss my a$$ I'm not buying in. I'll stick with DVD thank you very much.
The main reason that Pocket PCs sell as well as they do is simply that they natively support Office and Outlook. You don't get any goofy unsupported meeting reccurance patterns, and you can open attachments in MS office format. Most corporate (l)users run Windows and Office, and thus this is what they are familiar with.
Of course the attachment item is possible on a Palm, but it requires additional software. Again, out of the box functionality is king...
Agreed. More options are good - but this search seems significantly slower than the normal Google - I really don't think that Google can get/.'ed can it?
As a side note, selecting computers as your interests doesn't skew any results for the search term "bass" towards computers - I still get bass fishing. The FAQ is wrong man!
No, they are not. In southeast michigan, most homes can choose between Comcast and Wide Open West. I realize this is rare, but it's great. We can pit them against each other on our bills. Instead of $35 for basic cable, you can haggle them down to $20. Another cool thing is that Wide Open West has speed tiers for their cable modems - $50 / month gets you a slow cablem modem and full basic cable. Not bad really.
However, it would be nice to get HD service from either of them with a cable modem at a decent speed for under $100 / month. Ugh - slave to electronics.
That's funny - I was thinking bowling ball. Could you imagine walking off a lander onto the surface of Mars only to see 16 lb. balls hurling around through the air?:)
Fair enough... But you're paying minimum 10 grand for a (crappy) new car, which only requires a $100 set of (just as crappy) tires (for the slow at math that's 1% of the total cost). Even a $400 set for a $20,000 car ends up being just 2% of the total.
Ok now the Current DLP TV's... $4000 for a 50" TV. $200 for a bulb. That's still only 5%.
Now if we have $1000 TV's requiring a new $200 bulb every 3 years, that's a whopping 20% of the purchase price!
Of course none of this proves anything. So move along. Nothing to see here.
Yes but there's a difference. Broadband over power lines is technically unfeasible because of the ridiculous amount of radio interference generated. LCOS screens are already available. You are correct in another way, we have to wait and see if the price really drops or if they just enjoy a higher profit margin.
With current DLP projection (front and rear) systems, there is a relatively expensive light bulb to be replaced every 3-5 years at around $200 a pop. If this is the case with the LCOS technology as well, I don't think it will fare as well as predicted. Time will tell.
Right - "An important factor is that all of the software is open-source."
Who cares? It makes sense to point out that it's secure, that it's easy to use, and cost effective. But what difference does it make if it's open-source or not?
Oh yeah, it's Slashdot. Without the open-source reference it would never have been posted, much less hit the front page.
3. Make a fool of yourself trying to sell them on a website where the average reader is a broke college student or a computer tech who considers his cranium to be so superior to everyone elses that he thinks he'll be immune to such trivial things.
Something that should be mentioned - Congress is considering dropping funding entirely for the Space Environment Center. This is the government organization that comes up with the space "weather forcasts". We may not be facing major problems because of this now, but that's because the power centers and satelite providers have been able to prepare for the solar storm. More information here.
Well it happened. I clicked on the link for the FAQ and BAM! There was that damned Goatse picture on the page. So here's your warning. Don't go to the FAQ!
The guy from ars even says he likes the system... As a matter of fact, I like the system. They should just drop the iPod only restrictions for the MP3 player supported. iPod's have been selling just fine without specific backing from a music service.
So if Apple gets $.33 on each song, and credit card and hosting (might be cheap, but still costs money) companies bite a chunk out of that for each sale, how much profit is really left? Methinks not much.
And how many of you are really going to buy an iPod just because iTunes supports it?
Right... But you shouldn't have to take two steps to move the files to an MP3 player. The iPod is the only player that is directly supported. Then again if I was Apple, I'd probably do the same.
They also try to force those of us with Windows or a Mac to have an IPOD. Fortunately, you can burn the songs off to CD an unlimited number of times, so you could always rip them back to your standard mp3 player. Too bad they didn't make it easier.
This sounds a lot like the dot com days to me. They are selling songs for 99 cents a piece, nearly all of which the RIAA is taking back.
Not to mention that the software's been downloaded 1,000,000 times and they've only sold about 1,000,000 songs for the same period. Not much if you ask me. The bandwidth probably costs more than their profit.
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Bet you never had to blow into a pet rock to get the #&#^@#& thing to load a game. Oh wait...
Maybe so, but it's a joyride I'd love to take. Seriously, even if this is only a PR stunt (which I don't believe it is), I think it's a good thing. Space tourism will be a new industry at some point in time, and I for one can't wait to get my ticket.
Well that's just freakin awesome then. My kick a$$ in every other way $1000 Dell 2405 LCD monitor won't display HD movies because it doesn't have HanDiCaPping techology. Well they can kiss my a$$ I'm not buying in. I'll stick with DVD thank you very much.
The main reason that Pocket PCs sell as well as they do is simply that they natively support Office and Outlook. You don't get any goofy unsupported meeting reccurance patterns, and you can open attachments in MS office format. Most corporate (l)users run Windows and Office, and thus this is what they are familiar with.
Of course the attachment item is possible on a Palm, but it requires additional software. Again, out of the box functionality is king...
Also according to the article, if you believe a global economy, then you also believe in the Tooth Fairy. Wow, that's unbiased right there.
Where do people come up with these articles?
Agreed. More options are good - but this search seems significantly slower than the normal Google - I really don't think that Google can get /.'ed can it?
As a side note, selecting computers as your interests doesn't skew any results for the search term "bass" towards computers - I still get bass fishing. The FAQ is wrong man!
No, they are not. In southeast michigan, most homes can choose between Comcast and Wide Open West. I realize this is rare, but it's great. We can pit them against each other on our bills. Instead of $35 for basic cable, you can haggle them down to $20. Another cool thing is that Wide Open West has speed tiers for their cable modems - $50 / month gets you a slow cablem modem and full basic cable. Not bad really.
However, it would be nice to get HD service from either of them with a cable modem at a decent speed for under $100 / month. Ugh - slave to electronics.
If this were the case, I'd have the power saver function set to 3 seconds so that it'd have to warm up for every print job.
That's funny - I was thinking bowling ball. Could you imagine walking off a lander onto the surface of Mars only to see 16 lb. balls hurling around through the air? :)
Fair enough... But you're paying minimum 10 grand for a (crappy) new car, which only requires a $100 set of (just as crappy) tires (for the slow at math that's 1% of the total cost). Even a $400 set for a $20,000 car ends up being just 2% of the total.
Ok now the Current DLP TV's... $4000 for a 50" TV. $200 for a bulb. That's still only 5%.
Now if we have $1000 TV's requiring a new $200 bulb every 3 years, that's a whopping 20% of the purchase price!
Of course none of this proves anything. So move along. Nothing to see here.
What are they going to do: make televisions cost half as much and go twice as fast after 18 months?
:)
No, even better. Half as much and twice as BIG after 18 months. In 20 years we should all have drive-in theaters in our back yards.
Yes but there's a difference. Broadband over power lines is technically unfeasible because of the ridiculous amount of radio interference generated. LCOS screens are already available. You are correct in another way, we have to wait and see if the price really drops or if they just enjoy a higher profit margin.
With current DLP projection (front and rear) systems, there is a relatively expensive light bulb to be replaced every 3-5 years at around $200 a pop. If this is the case with the LCOS technology as well, I don't think it will fare as well as predicted. Time will tell.
Because CSS is taken and XSS sounds "kewl" to the script kiddies.
Right - "An important factor is that all of the software is open-source." Who cares? It makes sense to point out that it's secure, that it's easy to use, and cost effective. But what difference does it make if it's open-source or not? Oh yeah, it's Slashdot. Without the open-source reference it would never have been posted, much less hit the front page.
Ummm... What? Please only view a solar flare at night? Can I have some of that stuff to smoke as well?
3. Make a fool of yourself trying to sell them on a website where the average reader is a broke college student or a computer tech who considers his cranium to be so superior to everyone elses that he thinks he'll be immune to such trivial things.
Something that should be mentioned - Congress is considering dropping funding entirely for the Space Environment Center. This is the government organization that comes up with the space "weather forcasts". We may not be facing major problems because of this now, but that's because the power centers and satelite providers have been able to prepare for the solar storm. More information here.
Well it happened. I clicked on the link for the FAQ and BAM! There was that damned Goatse picture on the page. So here's your warning. Don't go to the FAQ!
It's not slashdotted, it's PC magazine's website. Stop whoring.
"Customers have also come up with some notably bad ideas, including engraving plastic butane lighters."
You know, it's amazing we've lasted this long.
Right... Troll...
I got my info here and here.
The guy from ars even says he likes the system... As a matter of fact, I like the system. They should just drop the iPod only restrictions for the MP3 player supported. iPod's have been selling just fine without specific backing from a music service.
So if Apple gets $.33 on each song, and credit card and hosting (might be cheap, but still costs money) companies bite a chunk out of that for each sale, how much profit is really left? Methinks not much.
And how many of you are really going to buy an iPod just because iTunes supports it?
Right then. I'll continue trolling.
Right... But you shouldn't have to take two steps to move the files to an MP3 player. The iPod is the only player that is directly supported. Then again if I was Apple, I'd probably do the same.
Why yes, you are.
They also try to force those of us with Windows or a Mac to have an IPOD. Fortunately, you can burn the songs off to CD an unlimited number of times, so you could always rip them back to your standard mp3 player. Too bad they didn't make it easier.
Oops, did I just violate the DMCA?
This sounds a lot like the dot com days to me. They are selling songs for 99 cents a piece, nearly all of which the RIAA is taking back. Not to mention that the software's been downloaded 1,000,000 times and they've only sold about 1,000,000 songs for the same period. Not much if you ask me. The bandwidth probably costs more than their profit.