It's common in the electronic music world to have a stack full of singles from people you never heard before, including, never-released or unedited songs. Or having 15 different mixes of the same song. Because by the time the song is on an edited album and hits the streets, it's already old.
Oh and BTW, iTunes may rock when you have albums and coverflow is nice and cute. But it sucks when you have tons of singles each from a different artist.
What about "video" chat for blind people where they can touch other people's faces? Wouldn't that be cool? I'm sure p0rn apps will come out first, though.
I have already found sites rendering different than the mac version of it (Yeah, I know, it's a beta..) But if there's one thing we don't need is yet another browser to comply to.
The classmate site posted before states that it has 256Mb of RAM and 1GB/2GB NAND Flash storage device plues an 800x480 screen.
XP system reqs:
128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space*
Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
Office system reqs:
The basic version:
Memory 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher1
Hard disk 1.5 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
Display 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
So, even with very stripped down versions of XP and Office with interfaces re designed for this screen there will be no room for a single user document!
Sounds more like a Windows Mobile Device spec for me.
Everybody shout and scream cause they see where will this lead to. The cameras are, in fact, a good thing per sé, as of today.
It's like feeling threatened when your chess opponent moves his bishop. The move itself may not present a risk, now. But it will definitely play a role later in the game so you better take it out now before it's too late.
On the other side, you will try hide your intentions to your opponent until it's too late for him.
Flash, one of the largest Argentine broadband ISP has been offering Google-powered 10Gb e-mail addresses for months now. But the addresses are theirs (@flash.com.ar or similar) so you are stuck with them as if they were using their servers.
I'm against entirely Flash-made sites. Not even Macromedia has a full site made in Flash, they use it only for the menu and landing-page banners. They don't put content you need to read in there.
And they didn't yet come up with a simple solution for what IMHO are their main 4 problems:
1 - One URL, One page. In order to direct a friend to a specific product in a flash site you have to tell him things like: Go to this URL, then click products, then click the shoes number X. OK, this may be a development problem but they could make it very easy.
2 - Open links in new tabs/windows. This one is really annoying.
3 - Content indexing. It is currently possible, but yet more attention is drawn to a normal HTML page than to a flash site.
4 - Ability to copy/paste the text you are reading. This one is really a development problem but again, it can be made simpler.
When you buy pirate DVDs, absolutely no money goes to the people that enforced region codes and hardware region lock for your laptop's DVD drive. No money either for people that put FBI warnings, and ads on the DVD you just bought. So *don't* buy pirated DVDs, you'll make those people starve to death if you do.
We have a word for people acting very much like Greenpeace in Argentina: Piqueteros
While they arise some good valid points and concerns, they do not bring any solution to the table.
But, more importantly, a number of countries look to the US for a model of what it means to be free. mmmmmmpppfFFFFFWWWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA!!! Mod parent funny please! HAHAHAHA Can't hahahAhA stopHAHAHAHAhAlaughingHAHAHAHAhA!
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It's common in the electronic music world to have a stack full of singles from people you never heard before, including, never-released or unedited songs. Or having 15 different mixes of the same song.
Because by the time the song is on an edited album and hits the streets, it's already old.
Oh and BTW, iTunes may rock when you have albums and coverflow is nice and cute. But it sucks when you have tons of singles each from a different artist.
What about "video" chat for blind people where they can touch other people's faces? Wouldn't that be cool?
I'm sure p0rn apps will come out first, though.
Those Rubber ducks could have carried a payload! This was just a drill to test the possibility of using those cute tiny rubber ducks against us!
Tinfoil you say? Hey, the Japanese tried that before...
There's nothing like the smell of first-wave fansumers' shattered hope in the morning..
I have already found sites rendering different than the mac version of it (Yeah, I know, it's a beta..) But if there's one thing we don't need is yet another browser to comply to.
I would like to see a pong game on one of these. Or some weird DJ/VJ tools like the ReacTable wich BTW you can DIY.
But I think that the first real killer app to go with it will be a digital roulette.
My point is: Bush (and his administration) is not a rational person. I think that's been proven. So, why they are rejecting them then?
Any rational person or government would have investigated the issue before stating that "there's no such thing as global warming".
Why the hell would I want to mix folders and files, all ordered alphabetically??
Not to mention the hockey puck mouse.
Oh and hardware locked DVD drives.
Can't believe how far the marketing people can go when promoting a new movie
The classmate site posted before states that it has 256Mb of RAM and 1GB/2GB NAND Flash storage device plues an 800x480 screen.
XP system reqs:
128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space*
Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
Office system reqs: The basic version:
Memory 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher1
Hard disk 1.5 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
Display 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
So, even with very stripped down versions of XP and Office with interfaces re designed for this screen there will be no room for a single user document!
Sounds more like a Windows Mobile Device spec for me.
Everybody shout and scream cause they see where will this lead to. The cameras are, in fact, a good thing per sé, as of today.
It's like feeling threatened when your chess opponent moves his bishop. The move itself may not present a risk, now. But it will definitely play a role later in the game so you better take it out now before it's too late.
On the other side, you will try hide your intentions to your opponent until it's too late for him.
Flash, one of the largest Argentine broadband ISP has been offering Google-powered 10Gb e-mail addresses for months now. But the addresses are theirs (@flash.com.ar or similar) so you are stuck with them as if they were using their servers.
Now you can see who's /.ing your prefered sites:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn
With a little spurt of Jack Daniel's
Totally. I'd use IE on an open wide (as in like a whore) XP (virtual machine) just to watch it die.
This will push everybody to open source, common public and free software. That way, no (or less) copyright laws would be broken.
I'm against entirely Flash-made sites. Not even Macromedia has a full site made in Flash, they use it only for the menu and landing-page banners. They don't put content you need to read in there.
And they didn't yet come up with a simple solution for what IMHO are their main 4 problems:
1 - One URL, One page. In order to direct a friend to a specific product in a flash site you have to tell him things like: Go to this URL, then click products, then click the shoes number X. OK, this may be a development problem but they could make it very easy.
2 - Open links in new tabs/windows. This one is really annoying.
3 - Content indexing. It is currently possible, but yet more attention is drawn to a normal HTML page than to a flash site.
4 - Ability to copy/paste the text you are reading. This one is really a development problem but again, it can be made simpler.
When you buy pirate DVDs, absolutely no money goes to the people that enforced region codes and hardware region lock for your laptop's DVD drive. No money either for people that put FBI warnings, and ads on the DVD you just bought.
So *don't* buy pirated DVDs, you'll make those people starve to death if you do.
You mean an embedded chain saw instead of the right hand and a rocket launcher in the left one, right?
We have a word for people acting very much like Greenpeace in Argentina: Piqueteros
While they arise some good valid points and concerns, they do not bring any solution to the table.
Well, every consumer losses about 3min on the waiting line per day.
Assuming that everyone goes one day per weekend, that's 156min per year (3 * 52(number of weekends in a year)). That equals to 2.6 hours pr customer.
Let's say the average hour is $40, that's $104 a year per customer.
Now, how many customers can a big store have, US-wide? 100000? Then we are talking about $10,400,000 in consumer's losses per year.
See how easy is to come up with huge annual losses numbers?
Check Steve Jobs' speech at Stanford
Guns and f***in' Roses need to f***in' sell "Chinese f***in' Democracy" when it hit the f***in' stores.
Now all we need is to mute the humans, sink the statue of liberty to her neck in beach sand and let the time take its new course...