Does this mean that every geek culture icon is suddenly going to get front page around here anytime they make the news? Kevin Smith is a nothing in the tech world. Beyond his Star Wars mentions in every film he does I don't see any reason why the geeks embrace him.
The original article was posted yesterday afternoon. He/she could have watched it a couple hundred times since it was posted.
Or are you one of those people who reads no tech news unless it's splattered across the front page of Slashdot? In that case it's no wonder you posted as an AC and you probably have a pretty warped vision on what is happening in the world of technology.
I could only wish that Lucas would cross in the streams...
Not being a Star Wars fan myself, my opinion may matter little to people but it's time to put it to rest for a while. No reboots, no remakes, no fan mash ups pr fan fiction. Just put it to bed, George.
Just look around you, my Subaru is more than what most people need but it's one of the smaller cars on the road on average. Most people should be able to get away with eating 2200 calories or less a day but look at our fat asses and tell me that it's happening. Most people should be able to get by on a handful of TV channels and a modest collection of DVDs but we have hundreds of channels, On Demand, more DVDs in our homes than books... etc etc etc.
Modern culture likes comfort, modern culture likes the big is better lifestyle. Most people aren't going to adapt well to the next step up from the Speak and Spell. Even those who do begrudgingly adopt to it aren't really going to want it and, if they can afford a little better, will reject it with whatever bullshit logic they need to use to justify something a little more luxurious.
People have this obsession with hording and with being able to show that their possessions are bigger, stronger and faster than anyone else on the block. Computers are part of this culture of possession and no amount of benchmarks and proof of concept are going to change that.
It doesn't need to be match grade. The vast majority of guys who like to plink with a 22 handgun use a Ruger Mk II and worse. The guy with a Hammerli isn't letting this thing sit out on his night stand or tucked away in his sock drawer.
Well, you have to be rational about the taxation or else a black market will still exist. Granted, most of it will remain in the US but it will still exist.
Look at smokes and booze. We still have blackmarkets for these things. Mostly pretty small for cigarettes because of ease of access but booze is still a problem and considering the health risks of moonshine it is amazing how many people still buy the stuff just to get around the taxes.
I think the question is if you carry one with you.
If this technology worked properly instead of most people here assuming that it doesn't it would be huge. The idea of having a few wireless units plugged into home outlets like a Glade air freshener and never having to deal with this charger for this unit and another for another unit and tracking down yet another charge for a unit that only needs charged once a month would get a lot of play.
This is in spite of $160M spent on modernizing LORAN stations over the past 10 years.
Do you know how many times that the government shits out every day on projects they know will probably never see the light of day? It's so bad at this point that I find 160 million into a 10 year old functional project (open to the public, no less) to be the bargain rate.
My buddy has a WINCE cell phone. It sucks ass because you need to touch it with a stylus, and because you can't find anything through the 7 levels of menu hell.
Blame the functionality of the touch screen on the manufacturer, not MS. I have a WinMo device that works just fine with touch. Have for a couple of years now. And I don't normally have to go through more than one menu to get what I need to get to.
This exact same problem is why Windows tablets suck and will continue to suck. WINCE is just WINDOWS writ small.
Uh, wrong again. I have a HP TC1100 that runs XP. Not WinCE, Not WinMo. It works great considering it's about 7 years old. I know of others who've put Win7 on theirs and say that they work just fine. The only real downfall is the SD card reader only doing 1 gig cards and under. Again, the blame sits on HPs shoulders for this one.
Absolutely. It use to be great that I could load up games that were over 5 years old, like Medal of Honor, and still find people playing servers. I hate the thought of not being able to do that in the future. Sure, it might cost a few bucks to put together a dedicated server but I'd still be willing to play Half Life 1 deathmatch. Good times, good times.
If you're not on top of the game before mainstream rags like Money start to cover the topic than you're already too late.
The deal with catching the wave of any technology is to be at your best as the wave starts to happen, to already be where the action is as it happens, not to look at it from the beach once it's already happening (read: nearly over) and wish you'd had grabbed your board and gave it a go.
Sorry guy, or guy's friend, you have to put in your hours before the market knows that what you're doings is a market. There is no fast path to success if you're building your own merchandise.
This article is about technology giants, not marketing and commercial giants. That's more my point. If it were about marketing and commercial giants that went to crap it would enclude such names as K-Mart... A once vast empire that went to crap because of some little old man named Sam who scooted around the countryside in an old beat up pickup truck selling second rate goods at deep discounts.
Agreed but why use their software in the first place? I normally just go for the bare drivers and keep the rest of their crap off a system.
The one thing I can say is that it seems that HP is slowly crawling back out of the hole on SOHO printers. Nothing in the laser arena seemed to be as bad as the HP 1100/1200 printers of the late 90s/early 00s. They seem to have gotten back to some of the basics that made the HP 4 series a great little printer.
Let's be honest here; Napster brought nothing new to the table. They were just known on the same level that Balloon Boy's parents are known. Hadn't it been for being sued into oblivion they would hardly be a footnote in technology.
I also shiver to think that the writer still considers Commodore the same company as they one that died in the 90s. It's the same company by name only. It's not like it did a massive transformation into oblivion like Westinghouse or Polaroid.
Maybe these old clerics are putting high recruiting resources into enginering schools because those are the resources that they really need. Poor farm boys used to carry bombs into marketplaces are a dime a dozen. They need people who can make the bombs that actually do the dirty work.
And there doesn't seem to be a lack of fundamentalism in certain areas so finding them in wide and well adopted fields such as enginering shouldn't be an issue in and of itself.
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Does this mean that every geek culture icon is suddenly going to get front page around here anytime they make the news? Kevin Smith is a nothing in the tech world. Beyond his Star Wars mentions in every film he does I don't see any reason why the geeks embrace him.
The original article was posted yesterday afternoon. He/she could have watched it a couple hundred times since it was posted.
Or are you one of those people who reads no tech news unless it's splattered across the front page of Slashdot? In that case it's no wonder you posted as an AC and you probably have a pretty warped vision on what is happening in the world of technology.
I could only wish that Lucas would cross in the streams...
Not being a Star Wars fan myself, my opinion may matter little to people but it's time to put it to rest for a while. No reboots, no remakes, no fan mash ups pr fan fiction. Just put it to bed, George.
It's a question of if people want it.
Just look around you, my Subaru is more than what most people need but it's one of the smaller cars on the road on average. Most people should be able to get away with eating 2200 calories or less a day but look at our fat asses and tell me that it's happening. Most people should be able to get by on a handful of TV channels and a modest collection of DVDs but we have hundreds of channels, On Demand, more DVDs in our homes than books... etc etc etc.
Modern culture likes comfort, modern culture likes the big is better lifestyle. Most people aren't going to adapt well to the next step up from the Speak and Spell. Even those who do begrudgingly adopt to it aren't really going to want it and, if they can afford a little better, will reject it with whatever bullshit logic they need to use to justify something a little more luxurious.
People have this obsession with hording and with being able to show that their possessions are bigger, stronger and faster than anyone else on the block. Computers are part of this culture of possession and no amount of benchmarks and proof of concept are going to change that.
Will a kick ass Speak and Spell hack help any?
It doesn't need to be match grade. The vast majority of guys who like to plink with a 22 handgun use a Ruger Mk II and worse. The guy with a Hammerli isn't letting this thing sit out on his night stand or tucked away in his sock drawer.
Slashdot has completely lost it's sense of humor.
What's the big deal?
Starting with what you know isn't such a bad thing. We have only one proven model for the time being.
You're still going to be called a n00b, n00b. We just won't know who you are.
If making your own was economical and safe everyone would do it. And there is no question about it, there most certainly is a black market for booze.
Well, you have to be rational about the taxation or else a black market will still exist. Granted, most of it will remain in the US but it will still exist.
Look at smokes and booze. We still have blackmarkets for these things. Mostly pretty small for cigarettes because of ease of access but booze is still a problem and considering the health risks of moonshine it is amazing how many people still buy the stuff just to get around the taxes.
Hey, cut him a break... He used math!
I think the question is if you carry one with you.
If this technology worked properly instead of most people here assuming that it doesn't it would be huge. The idea of having a few wireless units plugged into home outlets like a Glade air freshener and never having to deal with this charger for this unit and another for another unit and tracking down yet another charge for a unit that only needs charged once a month would get a lot of play.
This is in spite of $160M spent on modernizing LORAN stations over the past 10 years.
Do you know how many times that the government shits out every day on projects they know will probably never see the light of day? It's so bad at this point that I find 160 million into a 10 year old functional project (open to the public, no less) to be the bargain rate.
My buddy has a WINCE cell phone. It sucks ass because you need to touch it with a stylus, and because you can't find anything through the 7 levels of menu hell.
Blame the functionality of the touch screen on the manufacturer, not MS. I have a WinMo device that works just fine with touch. Have for a couple of years now. And I don't normally have to go through more than one menu to get what I need to get to.
This exact same problem is why Windows tablets suck and will continue to suck. WINCE is just WINDOWS writ small.
Uh, wrong again. I have a HP TC1100 that runs XP. Not WinCE, Not WinMo. It works great considering it's about 7 years old. I know of others who've put Win7 on theirs and say that they work just fine. The only real downfall is the SD card reader only doing 1 gig cards and under. Again, the blame sits on HPs shoulders for this one.
Absolutely. It use to be great that I could load up games that were over 5 years old, like Medal of Honor, and still find people playing servers. I hate the thought of not being able to do that in the future. Sure, it might cost a few bucks to put together a dedicated server but I'd still be willing to play Half Life 1 deathmatch. Good times, good times.
If you're not on top of the game before mainstream rags like Money start to cover the topic than you're already too late.
The deal with catching the wave of any technology is to be at your best as the wave starts to happen, to already be where the action is as it happens, not to look at it from the beach once it's already happening (read: nearly over) and wish you'd had grabbed your board and gave it a go.
Sorry guy, or guy's friend, you have to put in your hours before the market knows that what you're doings is a market. There is no fast path to success if you're building your own merchandise.
This article is about technology giants, not marketing and commercial giants. That's more my point. If it were about marketing and commercial giants that went to crap it would enclude such names as K-Mart... A once vast empire that went to crap because of some little old man named Sam who scooted around the countryside in an old beat up pickup truck selling second rate goods at deep discounts.
Agreed but why use their software in the first place? I normally just go for the bare drivers and keep the rest of their crap off a system.
The one thing I can say is that it seems that HP is slowly crawling back out of the hole on SOHO printers. Nothing in the laser arena seemed to be as bad as the HP 1100/1200 printers of the late 90s/early 00s. They seem to have gotten back to some of the basics that made the HP 4 series a great little printer.
Let's be honest here; Napster brought nothing new to the table. They were just known on the same level that Balloon Boy's parents are known. Hadn't it been for being sued into oblivion they would hardly be a footnote in technology.
I also shiver to think that the writer still considers Commodore the same company as they one that died in the 90s. It's the same company by name only. It's not like it did a massive transformation into oblivion like Westinghouse or Polaroid.
WOOSH!!!
I was talking about the bombs. The bombs do the real dirty work. The carriers don't really have to do anything.
reading comprehension around Slashdot is at an all time low.
Maybe these old clerics are putting high recruiting resources into enginering schools because those are the resources that they really need. Poor farm boys used to carry bombs into marketplaces are a dime a dozen. They need people who can make the bombs that actually do the dirty work.
And there doesn't seem to be a lack of fundamentalism in certain areas so finding them in wide and well adopted fields such as enginering shouldn't be an issue in and of itself.
And do you know how many were hijacked on 9/11/2001 in the US that would have still have gotten away with it using Argentina's security measures? 4.
Our airline security wasn't the cause of these hijackings any more than DUI check points cause drunken driving.
Nice of you to take what I said out of context in order to make yourself seem insightful. Oh well, what else should I expect around here anymore?