dude, I'm a fan too. Dangermouse is killer. I'm not as much a Cee-lo fan - but the dangerdoom album was bananas. I'm also a Madvillian fan - basically a big doom fan.
I'll get this album for the beats, definitely. It'll be hot.
music is one of those things. the random critiques people make of music they've never heard or music they don't understand never ceases to amaze me. because music is so personal and relative, it seems smart not to judge that which one is not. I suspect that flames will follow your post though.
the simpsons jumped the shark a long time ago. it's a stalwart lynchpin in the Fox lineup, so they'll milk the cow until she's dry.
it's funny: my nephew's ten, and a huge fan of family guy. he thinks the simpsons are a poor imitation of the former - not funny, and not worth watching.
they'll do a movie and cash out of the franchise before its fan base and ratings erode significantly. It's good business.
In other words, the decision to do a film is a signal from Fox that they believe the swan song soon cometh.
I think they care more than you think. I have a lot of friends that went and picked up flat screens and plasmas - not because they wanted or even cared about HD quiality pictures. For most, they wanted a "flat screen" because it was smaller, trendy to currently own, and more aesthetically pleasing.
notebooks are to desktops what flatscreens and plasmas are to TVs. The average user is not concerned with high end quality - it's aesthetics vs. price point. Notebooks are more aesthetically pleasing for a number of reasons - way easier to configure and get working - and the price point is getting right for the average user.
It's not the answer. chasing the desktop is not the answer. It's a mature market. For most, there's no reason to get a desktop instead of a notebook. I got an AMD Sempron notebook off TigerDirect for my mom for 500 bucks and it's more than adequate for what she does. She has nothing but praise for the thing.
Notebooks and more innovative portables is the way ahead. I've heard of Apple buying palm. Not a bad idea.
Microsoft looking into portables like Origami, etc. Not a bad idea - whether of not it fails. Desktops are dead for most.
Not sure what Apple's plans are, but the IPOD is midway through it's trendiness, if they're lucky. They either need a more diverse array of hardware solutions, or they need to heavily dissociate their software from their hardware and become more of a software solution company.
XBox Live is the blueprint. It's a very good online gaming system - smooth and easy to use. I agree that it won't be much different, but I think it's a smart thing if Nintendo and Sony pick up on the more innovative aspects of Live and apply them to exhaustingly big gaming catalogues. That can only mean significant revenue.
As far as Live goes: they struggle with insufficient killer content. It's hard out here for a monopolist, but they can't seem to get enough good games out there enough.
Also, XBox has geared their gaming a bit to the adult side. My nephews plays rpgs 75% of the time and he's ten. He also has a typical child's short attention span. You can't get bored with a PS2 - man there are so many damn games out there - odd games - innovative games - weird games, creepy games.
To reiterate, Live has some really good points. If Nintendo and Sony snatch those up and leverage game libraries to their advantage - gaming should be really interesting.
... that means his kids are fucking reviled at school. lol.
Ballmer is an interesting anti-Gates personality. I don't think his penchant for the public eye does anything to improve the company's public image. MArketing is so important to monopolies that they really can't afford to be embodied by a raging behemoth.
that credit card thing to me is a huge point. credit cards are thrown at students and most pick up at least one. this means they can spend beyond their means. this is huge to advertisers and credit card companies, and the country as a whole, as a huge method of control for the populace is personal debt.
My point is that it's possible that in six months, those kids turning 12 will no longer think myspace is cool and therefore sign up with another service.
with careful positioning, facebook can maintain its position as college-aged social networking portal and last for a while. That's my point. It's positioned itself uniquely to transcend trend-dom and become something people naturally do.
That's why I said something about tying facebook to the college experience. if they can make facebook synonymous to the college experience, then they can ensure consistent uptake. It's fine if alumni stay on, but the bread and butter are the students themselves. That critical mass. Another poster made a good point about the exchange going both ways, advertisers feedthem junk and at the same time know what they're up to - what they like, etc.
It is limiting the population. But you're thinking small. What happens if you can soon target every college going person? Nationally? Internationally? And you're just thinking about advertising. What about content delivery? Information mining?
Targeted advertising is what the web promises and can deliver well. In order to target, artificial limits have to be placed - this isn't a bad one as far as those things go.
Myspace will be replaced by another social site that becomes trendy. It's the way of trends. But facebook is uniquely placed and NAMED to last - in part because they've placed artificial filters around their product to modulate growth. Thus the growth isn't as explosive, but consistent.... like a business.
myspace will reach a zenith, then most will migrate to another site. myspace isn't new - many like it haveexisted before and existed after. Facebook is uniquely positioned to last, in my estimation, if they play their cards right. And that has value.
I think why facebook s interesting is because it's self renewing. The difference with other social sites is that they quickly die the death most fads do.
Facebook is constantly renewing itself - with a new "class" as students leave and students come in.
So in my estimation, facebook is more valuable than Myspace because facebook has constant and consistent and probably measurable influx of new people. If they can permanently tie facebook to the college experience, then facebook becomes a very valuable long term commodity, because advertisers and content providers can target the entire college age audience at once. That would be huge.
also, from a financial standpoint, college students are even more valuable than high school students, as they all will be wielding credit cards for the first time, meaning they've just acquired their power to spend beyond their means. All my college friends incurred serious debt in college - in fact most of their debt was acquired in school. So advertising to this "new money" as it were, is very important.
I hope you're not being sarcastic, because I agree.
Solaris, the George Clooney version, is an amazing movie. It was suffocating, caustrophobic, intense.
I remember in the end, when he thinks about the reincarnation of his wife on the space station, and he makes mention to, "remembering her wrong". It was this harrowing idea of living in our own heads, utterly unaware of the truths, the realities of those even closest to us. This woman, whom he professed to love above all, and he didn't even remember her as she was. It was such an amazing climax to that movie.
If this is the movie you all think is mediocre, then I'm humbled doubly, in the hopes that someone posts a list of superlativefilms for me to see.
From the article, if I understand correctly, they are committing to the possible observation of a gravitomagnetic field as the explanation for discrepancies between expected and actual mass values. According to the article, all masses produce gravitomagnetic fields, so this artificial induction of one is no different from what anyone does when one moves mass around, right? It's just in this instance, the amount was so great as to be measurable in experiment.
This is amazing, right? Isn't it that so much of gravity is known theoretically but not observationally? If we can directly gauge and measure gravitational fields, then we have taken the first critical step to manipulating them, right?
Pardon any shoddy physics, but I was a chem guy, and only undergrad.
note that my original point was about voice and text. voice and text. i wouldn't personally buy a BB or a treo - these are devices given to me by work. Given a choice - the BB works right out of the box - single hand operation and intuitive at that.
I don't want to install apps. This is a WORK phone. I want voice and text. It should NEVER crash. It should have a good battery life - be cheap and easy to replace, be lightweight and easy to use.
Again, voice and text. Treo does not match the BB at voice and text. That's why businesses embrace blackberry.
why is it that when the ipod discussions occur, its lack of features is considered a plus? When we discuss BBs, all of a sudden they aren't feature filled enough. Odd and inconsistent.
Blackberries are great at what they do - it's why they're widely adopted by the business community. ipods are great at what they do - it's why everyone has one. Simple.
dude, this is a work phone assigned to me at work. I EXPECT to turn it on and for it to work. Isn't that what apple fans always laud about?
Blackberry - I turned it on and it worked. One hand operation - scroll to a number in contacts, click to call. click to disconnect. scroll to email with dial, click to read. if i need to reply I do, otherwise, I'm on my way. I find it hard pressed for anyone to make it simpler.
because i've used both, and the blackberry far eclipses the treo as a mobile email device.
the blackberry is popular because it does mobile email REALLY well. It also excels in one hand operation because of the clickable scroll wheel. It's also intuitive and easy to use - as well as significantly lighter than its bulk would indicate.
the blackberry isn't an browsing device - it's for voice and text - and it's ideally suited for the workplace.
I haven't used the windows mobile treos, but the palm treos are heavy with small keyboards. The units don't multitask well - and they CRASH. I've never hada blackberry crash - treos freeze up all the time.
maybe the windows mobile treos are better - but treos need to go a long way, from form factor onwards, to truly best the blackberry atwhat it does.
my niece was seven months old when she spoke her first words. Her first word was "This" and it was my fault. She always would point at an object she wanted. I'd go over to the object and say "this?" so many toys and bottles became known as "this". Her second word was "no" because most of the objects she wanted were not age appropriate. She took her first steps in her tenth month - and was running around autonomously by her first birthday. In fact, she helped cut the cake and hand out pieces. "No" became a real problem because she got to the point where she would unbuckle herself from the stroller and take off. Pigtails flying, we'd yell, "Come back!". She'd yell, "NO!!!!"
The results are skewed. It's still way easy to get free current music. It's more difficult to get free current games/mods,etc for the XBox. XBox Live is in the situation where it is the only provider of the content people are downloading. It's an enviable position if you're XBox Live execs.
Music is infinitely more popular than gaming though - for the obvious reasons. It's a poor comparison.
However, XBox Live is positioning itself to be a content provider to the home. They can easily distribute music now - and core gaming and music demos by and large overlap. I didn't read the article, but this is probably where they're headed.
I agree with you. But the same goes for the US. In the cold war - we went from scratch to repeat moon landings in ten years. Not so now. My point is that democracy doesn't have an inherent monopoly on innovation.
Soviet Russia was very technically progressive. While being bad for the consumer, as it were, communism or socialism isn't necessarily bad for innovation.
i subscribe to such a service here in NY. About $120 US a month for all three, where I was paying about $80 US for a DSL/phone line (with no long distance) before.
Upside: obvious. Speed, etc. Downside, I find myself watching more television and I hate that. I didn't have cable before.
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dude, I'm a fan too. Dangermouse is killer. I'm not as much a Cee-lo fan - but the dangerdoom album was bananas. I'm also a Madvillian fan - basically a big doom fan.
I'll get this album for the beats, definitely. It'll be hot.
music is one of those things. the random critiques people make of music they've never heard or music they don't understand never ceases to amaze me. because music is so personal and relative, it seems smart not to judge that which one is not. I suspect that flames will follow your post though.
the simpsons jumped the shark a long time ago. it's a stalwart lynchpin in the Fox lineup, so they'll milk the cow until she's dry.
it's funny: my nephew's ten, and a huge fan of family guy. he thinks the simpsons are a poor imitation of the former - not funny, and not worth watching.
they'll do a movie and cash out of the franchise before its fan base and ratings erode significantly. It's good business.
In other words, the decision to do a film is a signal from Fox that they believe the swan song soon cometh.
I think they care more than you think. I have a lot of friends that went and picked up flat screens and plasmas - not because they wanted or even cared about HD quiality pictures. For most, they wanted a "flat screen" because it was smaller, trendy to currently own, and more aesthetically pleasing.
notebooks are to desktops what flatscreens and plasmas are to TVs. The average user is not concerned with high end quality - it's aesthetics vs. price point. Notebooks are more aesthetically pleasing for a number of reasons - way easier to configure and get working - and the price point is getting right for the average user.
It's not the answer. chasing the desktop is not the answer. It's a mature market. For most, there's no reason to get a desktop instead of a notebook. I got an AMD Sempron notebook off TigerDirect for my mom for 500 bucks and it's more than adequate for what she does. She has nothing but praise for the thing.
Notebooks and more innovative portables is the way ahead. I've heard of Apple buying palm. Not a bad idea.
Microsoft looking into portables like Origami, etc. Not a bad idea - whether of not it fails. Desktops are dead for most.
Not sure what Apple's plans are, but the IPOD is midway through it's trendiness, if they're lucky. They either need a more diverse array of hardware solutions, or they need to heavily dissociate their software from their hardware and become more of a software solution company.
... as they soon will be replaced by the drones anyway. Problem solved.
I'm looking forward to second generation automated flight and cars.
wow, that was a flashback. We called them 54.11s where I grew up. lol.
XBox Live is the blueprint. It's a very good online gaming system - smooth and easy to use. I agree that it won't be much different, but I think it's a smart thing if Nintendo and Sony pick up on the more innovative aspects of Live and apply them to exhaustingly big gaming catalogues. That can only mean significant revenue.
As far as Live goes: they struggle with insufficient killer content. It's hard out here for a monopolist, but they can't seem to get enough good games out there enough.
Also, XBox has geared their gaming a bit to the adult side. My nephews plays rpgs 75% of the time and he's ten. He also has a typical child's short attention span. You can't get bored with a PS2 - man there are so many damn games out there - odd games - innovative games - weird games, creepy games.
To reiterate, Live has some really good points. If Nintendo and Sony snatch those up and leverage game libraries to their advantage - gaming should be really interesting.
... that means his kids are fucking reviled at school. lol.
Ballmer is an interesting anti-Gates personality. I don't think his penchant for the public eye does anything to improve the company's public image. MArketing is so important to monopolies that they really can't afford to be embodied by a raging behemoth.
that credit card thing to me is a huge point. credit cards are thrown at students and most pick up at least one. this means they can spend beyond their means. this is huge to advertisers and credit card companies, and the country as a whole, as a huge method of control for the populace is personal debt.
I can finally get rid of this eyepatch!
My point is that it's possible that in six months, those kids turning 12 will no longer think myspace is cool and therefore sign up with another service.
with careful positioning, facebook can maintain its position as college-aged social networking portal and last for a while. That's my point. It's positioned itself uniquely to transcend trend-dom and become something people naturally do.
That's why I said something about tying facebook to the college experience. if they can make facebook synonymous to the college experience, then they can ensure consistent uptake. It's fine if alumni stay on, but the bread and butter are the students themselves. That critical mass. Another poster made a good point about the exchange going both ways, advertisers feedthem junk and at the same time know what they're up to - what they like, etc.
It is limiting the population. But you're thinking small. What happens if you can soon target every college going person? Nationally? Internationally? And you're just thinking about advertising. What about content delivery? Information mining?
Targeted advertising is what the web promises and can deliver well. In order to target, artificial limits have to be placed - this isn't a bad one as far as those things go.
Myspace will be replaced by another social site that becomes trendy. It's the way of trends. But facebook is uniquely placed and NAMED to last - in part because they've placed artificial filters around their product to modulate growth. Thus the growth isn't as explosive, but consistent.... like a business.
myspace will reach a zenith, then most will migrate to another site. myspace isn't new - many like it haveexisted before and existed after. Facebook is uniquely positioned to last, in my estimation, if they play their cards right. And that has value.
exactly my point. the demo will always be current students. that "renewable" factor ensures that facebook is around long after myspace is a memory.
I think why facebook s interesting is because it's self renewing. The difference with other social sites is that they quickly die the death most fads do.
Facebook is constantly renewing itself - with a new "class" as students leave and students come in.
So in my estimation, facebook is more valuable than Myspace because facebook has constant and consistent and probably measurable influx of new people. If they can permanently tie facebook to the college experience, then facebook becomes a very valuable long term commodity, because advertisers and content providers can target the entire college age audience at once. That would be huge.
also, from a financial standpoint, college students are even more valuable than high school students, as they all will be wielding credit cards for the first time, meaning they've just acquired their power to spend beyond their means. All my college friends incurred serious debt in college - in fact most of their debt was acquired in school. So advertising to this "new money" as it were, is very important.
I hope you're not being sarcastic, because I agree.
Solaris, the George Clooney version, is an amazing movie. It was suffocating, caustrophobic, intense.
I remember in the end, when he thinks about the reincarnation of his wife on the space station, and he makes mention to, "remembering her wrong". It was this harrowing idea of living in our own heads, utterly unaware of the truths, the realities of those even closest to us. This woman, whom he professed to love above all, and he didn't even remember her as she was. It was such an amazing climax to that movie.
If this is the movie you all think is mediocre, then I'm humbled doubly, in the hopes that someone posts a list of superlativefilms for me to see.
Second, the source material must be amazing.
... but the caption is a bit sensationalistic.
From the article, if I understand correctly, they are committing to the possible observation of a gravitomagnetic field as the explanation for discrepancies between expected and actual mass values. According to the article, all masses produce gravitomagnetic fields, so this artificial induction of one is no different from what anyone does when one moves mass around, right? It's just in this instance, the amount was so great as to be measurable in experiment.
This is amazing, right? Isn't it that so much of gravity is known theoretically but not observationally? If we can directly gauge and measure gravitational fields, then we have taken the first critical step to manipulating them, right?
Pardon any shoddy physics, but I was a chem guy, and only undergrad.
note that my original point was about voice and text. voice and text. i wouldn't personally buy a BB or a treo - these are devices given to me by work. Given a choice - the BB works right out of the box - single hand operation and intuitive at that.
I don't want to install apps. This is a WORK phone. I want voice and text. It should NEVER crash. It should have a good battery life - be cheap and easy to replace, be lightweight and easy to use.
Again, voice and text. Treo does not match the BB at voice and text. That's why businesses embrace blackberry.
why is it that when the ipod discussions occur, its lack of features is considered a plus? When we discuss BBs, all of a sudden they aren't feature filled enough. Odd and inconsistent.
Blackberries are great at what they do - it's why they're widely adopted by the business community. ipods are great at what they do - it's why everyone has one. Simple.
never seen 24. not sure who bones is.
dude, this is a work phone assigned to me at work. I EXPECT to turn it on and for it to work. Isn't that what apple fans always laud about?
Blackberry - I turned it on and it worked. One hand operation - scroll to a number in contacts, click to call. click to disconnect. scroll to email with dial, click to read. if i need to reply I do, otherwise, I'm on my way. I find it hard pressed for anyone to make it simpler.
because i've used both, and the blackberry far eclipses the treo as a mobile email device.
the blackberry is popular because it does mobile email REALLY well. It also excels in one hand operation because of the clickable scroll wheel. It's also intuitive and easy to use - as well as significantly lighter than its bulk would indicate.
the blackberry isn't an browsing device - it's for voice and text - and it's ideally suited for the workplace.
I haven't used the windows mobile treos, but the palm treos are heavy with small keyboards. The units don't multitask well - and they CRASH. I've never hada blackberry crash - treos freeze up all the time.
maybe the windows mobile treos are better - but treos need to go a long way, from form factor onwards, to truly best the blackberry atwhat it does.
my niece was seven months old when she spoke her first words. Her first word was "This" and it was my fault. She always would point at an object she wanted. I'd go over to the object and say "this?" so many toys and bottles became known as "this". Her second word was "no" because most of the objects she wanted were not age appropriate. She took her first steps in her tenth month - and was running around autonomously by her first birthday. In fact, she helped cut the cake and hand out pieces. "No" became a real problem because she got to the point where she would unbuckle herself from the stroller and take off. Pigtails flying, we'd yell, "Come back!". She'd yell, "NO!!!!"
The results are skewed. It's still way easy to get free current music. It's more difficult to get free current games/mods,etc for the XBox. XBox Live is in the situation where it is the only provider of the content people are downloading. It's an enviable position if you're XBox Live execs.
Music is infinitely more popular than gaming though - for the obvious reasons. It's a poor comparison.
However, XBox Live is positioning itself to be a content provider to the home. They can easily distribute music now - and core gaming and music demos by and large overlap. I didn't read the article, but this is probably where they're headed.
I agree with you. But the same goes for the US. In the cold war - we went from scratch to repeat moon landings in ten years. Not so now. My point is that democracy doesn't have an inherent monopoly on innovation.
Soviet Russia was very technically progressive. While being bad for the consumer, as it were, communism or socialism isn't necessarily bad for innovation.
i subscribe to such a service here in NY. About $120 US a month for all three, where I was paying about $80 US for a DSL/phone line (with no long distance) before.
Upside: obvious. Speed, etc. Downside, I find myself watching more television and I hate that. I didn't have cable before.