So basically, IBM is saying that Millipede is still going to be vaporware for another decade, and until then, they'll just keep cramming more space onto hard drives until either the oxide falls off or laptops start burning holes into your khakis.
Woo. Wake me when I can buy the breakthrough stuff at Best Buy.
...are never going to see the light of day in a showroom, so the gas mileage benefit of such designs is nil. Which is damn shame, because some of those cars looked pretty cool.
On the other hand, GM is the most vocal about fuel cells. We can only hope that fuel cell use in homes and businesses will balloon in the next six or seven years, so that the possibility for hydrogen cars could exist by 2010. THEN I'll take a closer look at GM.
The home theater experience will NEVER compare to going to the movie theater. Unless you set up stadium seating in your living room and invite 150 of your best friends over to watch a film on your 480-inch projection TV with surround sound and all the popcorn you can pop, you will never be able to duplicate the experience.
Think about it -- why was The Blair Witch Project so popular? Because when you're inside a dark movie theater watching those kids stumble around in the deep woods in the dead of night, you're completely immersed. You're as scared as they are, because you don't know what's out there waiting for them. This is why Blair Witch is a dog on home video -- the very thing that gave you that adrenaline rush of fear just isn't there.
Theaters aren't going anywhere, and neither are movies. If Big Hollywood ends up collapsing underneath the weight of its own stupidity, we'll just see more films with more reasonable budgets.
Like Memento, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and Barbershop. All cost less than $12 million to make. Imagine that.
Apple-am a-laikum, my iBrothers and iSisters. Would you like an MP3 copy of Steve's Final Call for your iPod? Can I interest you in an iBeanpie? We didn't tear down the gates -- Gates tore us down!
My name is Mac-colm X, and I will soon make my pilgrimage to Cupertino.
Seriously, is this where we should focus our energy? 96% of all webcasters are practically broadcasting to themselves and nobody else. Even the hobbyists at the center of this controversy have either a few hundred or maybe a thousand regular listeners. Meanwhile, Kazaa and Morpheus have been downloaded from CNet a combined 238 MILLION times.
What that tells me is that the vast majority of music lovers out there do not want to be tied down to a PC to listen to music. You can't play a webcast in your car, the place where most people listen to the radio -- at least not without a lot of cash, a lot of hacking, and a lot of Wi-Fi in your area, and even then, a cash-hemorrhaging satellite service like XM is cheaper and offers more flexibility and better quality sound. Most people seem perfectly happy making their own playlists on their 6-disc CD changers and MP3 players.
So why are we spending all this time bickering about the symptoms when we should be attacking the root cause of the problem -- the DMCA? This is a classic divide-and-conquer ploy, and the RIAA is laughing at all of us. We have bigger fish to fry than this, folks.
Given the way the first three episodes of Season 2 have gone, I'm amazed anyone is still watching Enterprise. I deleted my TiVo season pass for Enterprise last week.
Besides, doesn't UPN still re-broadcast each week's Enterprise episode over the weekend? With a TiVo, it doesn't matter when you get it, so long as you get it, right? (Or with broadband. I got most of the first season of Enterprise from Usenet before I finally got tired of Ed last January.)
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That pretty much describes the state of radio since deregulation, doesn't it?
"Clear Channel walks in, only one station walks out..."
So basically, IBM is saying that Millipede is still going to be vaporware for another decade, and until then, they'll just keep cramming more space onto hard drives until either the oxide falls off or laptops start burning holes into your khakis.
Woo. Wake me when I can buy the breakthrough stuff at Best Buy.
...are never going to see the light of day in a showroom, so the gas mileage benefit of such designs is nil. Which is damn shame, because some of those cars looked pretty cool.
On the other hand, GM is the most vocal about fuel cells. We can only hope that fuel cell use in homes and businesses will balloon in the next six or seven years, so that the possibility for hydrogen cars could exist by 2010. THEN I'll take a closer look at GM.
Mmmmm... Famous Druid Fries. Yummy. =^)
The home theater experience will NEVER compare to going to the movie theater. Unless you set up stadium seating in your living room and invite 150 of your best friends over to watch a film on your 480-inch projection TV with surround sound and all the popcorn you can pop, you will never be able to duplicate the experience.
Think about it -- why was The Blair Witch Project so popular? Because when you're inside a dark movie theater watching those kids stumble around in the deep woods in the dead of night, you're completely immersed. You're as scared as they are, because you don't know what's out there waiting for them. This is why Blair Witch is a dog on home video -- the very thing that gave you that adrenaline rush of fear just isn't there.
Theaters aren't going anywhere, and neither are movies. If Big Hollywood ends up collapsing underneath the weight of its own stupidity, we'll just see more films with more reasonable budgets. Like Memento, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and Barbershop. All cost less than $12 million to make. Imagine that.
Apple-am a-laikum, my iBrothers and iSisters. Would you like an MP3 copy of Steve's Final Call for your iPod? Can I interest you in an iBeanpie? We didn't tear down the gates -- Gates tore us down!
My name is Mac-colm X, and I will soon make my pilgrimage to Cupertino.
Is Internet Radio worth saving?
Seriously, is this where we should focus our energy? 96% of all webcasters are practically broadcasting to themselves and nobody else. Even the hobbyists at the center of this controversy have either a few hundred or maybe a thousand regular listeners. Meanwhile, Kazaa and Morpheus have been downloaded from CNet a combined 238 MILLION times.
What that tells me is that the vast majority of music lovers out there do not want to be tied down to a PC to listen to music. You can't play a webcast in your car, the place where most people listen to the radio -- at least not without a lot of cash, a lot of hacking, and a lot of Wi-Fi in your area, and even then, a cash-hemorrhaging satellite service like XM is cheaper and offers more flexibility and better quality sound. Most people seem perfectly happy making their own playlists on their 6-disc CD changers and MP3 players.
So why are we spending all this time bickering about the symptoms when we should be attacking the root cause of the problem -- the DMCA? This is a classic divide-and-conquer ploy, and the RIAA is laughing at all of us. We have bigger fish to fry than this, folks.
Given the way the first three episodes of Season 2 have gone, I'm amazed anyone is still watching Enterprise. I deleted my TiVo season pass for Enterprise last week.
Besides, doesn't UPN still re-broadcast each week's Enterprise episode over the weekend? With a TiVo, it doesn't matter when you get it, so long as you get it, right? (Or with broadband. I got most of the first season of Enterprise from Usenet before I finally got tired of Ed last January.)
Insert wisecrack about Minority Report here.