This strikes me as being congruent to the anti death penalty issue and the claim that execution does not act as a deterrent. I'm sure you all agree, you left wing nerds;)
This reminds me about that article a couple weeks back about a guy who figured out how to use a common laser mouse as a "ghetto" scanner. Has anyone successfully fired that project up?
I'd expect an announcement for new higher calibar bar-lifting hardware performance to come from the company that does this pretty much exclusively (unlike Samsung and all the others who dabble in flash memory). That notwithstanding, I'd also expect the bigger guys who are spread out into other products to buy out a threat slash potential asset like Sandisk. Does Sandisk no longer have top-notch proprietary R&D having been beaten to the punch? Or is this a very specific kind of advancement that it isn't so significant.
A clean and uncluttered interface was the key to Google's search success as well as being the key supplement to their ad brokering business. I just hope "cluttering" up their business model won't have the opposite effect.
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There are quite a lot of people who learned the stickshift form of photography, on their 35mm SLR. Many professionals still use regular film too, if only for the purist or romantic value. Either way, there'll be a market for cameras and equipment for this crowd and the crowds they teach. This same market created the digital SLR, one selling point of which was letting people use their old lenses and have full control over things like depth of field. Proctor and Gamble sells off brands all the time, they move on, but others pick it up and do well and often better. I see this similarly.
Every other article is about someone coming up with too-good-to-be-true ideas that over the past five years tend not to come into existance. Even something like this that blends into a larger effort. It'd be nice if we could filter out some noise (not that this isn't an exception).
I was under the impression that there was enough propriatery work in both Apple's software and hardware that they'd had full control over retail dealing of Apple products. They can even tell dealers at which price to sell things. Could Apple sue this outfit?
Will anything ever dethrone GTA*? According to Sigmund, man's most base needs include seeking food and shelter (running through health packs), seeking pleasure (patronizing prostitutes) and killing (killing prostitutes and cops and everybody else). GTA could not be more Freudianly ticklish, if you will, without crossing the line of objectionability too far to market the game. Therefore, we will thirst for this game the most -- most of us at least.
But these kids are getting cute and innovative. My question is, can they make a brilliant enough game that is PG that would sell more than GTA? Is that even theoretically possible, in light of Freudian theory? The only innovation I can think of to top GTA is things involving mothers but as I noted before that would so cross the line, so that gets ruled out.
I doubt I'm the only one who remembers an article about some breakthrough opening the doors to making decaffinated coffee beans. So far, hasn't happened. Between this and today's other scientific breakthrough of bumblebee flight, are we any closer to a safer and smoother cup of decaf coffee?
This will be good news for the scientists who are trying to make robot insects but just cannot nail it. But is there anything to suggest that this may be a more efficent form of flight than what methods we already have?
And by the way, is it one of/.'s top priorities to attack religion every chance it gets? Can't we stick to republicans and Microsoft, or whatever Netcraft has confirmed to be dying?
The upside to this relative to the bad publicity and straight-up being mean completely eludes me and my imagination. Who's the guy in China's old men's smoke-filled room that insists blocking wiki is good for the country? What kind of argument could he have made that's unique to Wiki versus similar projects? Anyone here capable of defending the government's actions?
OpenOffice used to strike me as something deliberately and carefully modeled around MS Office, helping the Linux world out by making MS users more comfortable migrating to Linux. Now, from what I've seen on both sides and this article as well, it is clear that OO is leading the way in innovation.
I guess they threw in the towel on copying Clippy...:)
This of course would be too good to be true, but if this device could dispense a different cocktail of drugs based on the mood of someone with bipolar disorder, to name one mood disorder, that would be a Good Thing. Serotonin comes and goes even with stablizers and antipsychotics so something that could make minor adjustments every day (versus every shrink visit) would be marketed as such and not as some computer gadget bought off of ThinkGeek.
One thing you won't be able to do, at least with Apple's factory setup of the iPod, is listen to radio (unless one day they charge for satellite radio). This could be so easily added as it is seen on competitors' devices but if users aren't listening to downloaded music, rather something from a source they do not control, then they are not buying things on iTunes. Am I correct to guess that this is a marketing thing and not because they can't fit a little radio on there? If so, that should be a big criticism of the device.
You don't need to look at their stock's performance to see that their adrift, look at how their strong-arm tactics are barely continuing to exist (EG, only selling Windows to computer dealers if they only include Microsoft). Now you can tell big brands that you want Linux and AMD and they'll do it and not just have to look for a small outfit to dodge the Microsoft tax. Look at how people would primarily buy MS ware because they want to be "compatible" with everyone else when there's no longer pretty much anything you can do on Windows that you can't do on an alternative OS. Those are concerns only a monopoly can instill to people to pressure them to buy their product, as opposed to quality being the chief factor in a consumer's decision. Look at how they're concentration seems lately to have been on just video games.
I guess now to stay afloat they're going to have to come up with some good ideas other than selling people antivirus software to patch up their crappy vulnerable OS. That was a good idea, if only for the irony.
When it's peak hours on my web site and I'm playing xlander and gtk-gnutella's connected to a zillion ultra-peers, and some douche is reloading a page every instant with some firefox plugin (basically I'm trying to say the cpu's 0% idle constantly), will this keep my chip cool and calm like the shine on a radiator grill so my box doesn't start beeping with the kernel giving me annoying overheating messages and slowing down the chip's speed in response? That beeping's so annoying and no one in #debian will tell me how to turn off that part of the kernel.
Because everything else inside a computer is measurable in pretty much just speeds and dimensions, not counting cooling systems, would it be reasonable to say that the hard drives and monitors, which die relatively quickly, are unpredictable in that sense and it is important to have a company make a quality product that they can "stand behind" to defend their brand (even if they're just being choosey with Korean OEMs?
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If not drinking water amplifies pain, wouldn't the same be true from a not-so-distant-cousin, pleasure?
You know that statement is true when even Microsoft goes out of their way to keep speech protected and free. Way to be, Microsoft.
This strikes me as being congruent to the anti death penalty issue and the claim that execution does not act as a deterrent. I'm sure you all agree, you left wing nerds ;)
This reminds me about that article a couple weeks back about a guy who figured out how to use a common laser mouse as a "ghetto" scanner. Has anyone successfully fired that project up?
Flash memory is to SanDisk as RFID technology is to ______?
I, for one, welcome our incoming flood of posts in this syntax.
I'd expect an announcement for new higher calibar bar-lifting hardware performance to come from the company that does this pretty much exclusively (unlike Samsung and all the others who dabble in flash memory). That notwithstanding, I'd also expect the bigger guys who are spread out into other products to buy out a threat slash potential asset like Sandisk. Does Sandisk no longer have top-notch proprietary R&D having been beaten to the punch? Or is this a very specific kind of advancement that it isn't so significant.
A clean and uncluttered interface was the key to Google's search success as well as being the key supplement to their ad brokering business. I just hope "cluttering" up their business model won't have the opposite effect.
I expect more from a sub 1400 UID slashdot user.
There are quite a lot of people who learned the stickshift form of photography, on their 35mm SLR. Many professionals still use regular film too, if only for the purist or romantic value. Either way, there'll be a market for cameras and equipment for this crowd and the crowds they teach. This same market created the digital SLR, one selling point of which was letting people use their old lenses and have full control over things like depth of field. Proctor and Gamble sells off brands all the time, they move on, but others pick it up and do well and often better. I see this similarly.
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Every other article is about someone coming up with too-good-to-be-true ideas that over the past five years tend not to come into existance. Even something like this that blends into a larger effort. It'd be nice if we could filter out some noise (not that this isn't an exception).
I was under the impression that there was enough propriatery work in both Apple's software and hardware that they'd had full control over retail dealing of Apple products. They can even tell dealers at which price to sell things. Could Apple sue this outfit?
But these kids are getting cute and innovative. My question is, can they make a brilliant enough game that is PG that would sell more than GTA? Is that even theoretically possible, in light of Freudian theory? The only innovation I can think of to top GTA is things involving mothers but as I noted before that would so cross the line, so that gets ruled out.
I doubt I'm the only one who remembers an article about some breakthrough opening the doors to making decaffinated coffee beans. So far, hasn't happened. Between this and today's other scientific breakthrough of bumblebee flight, are we any closer to a safer and smoother cup of decaf coffee?
And by the way, is it one of /.'s top priorities to attack religion every chance it gets? Can't we stick to republicans and Microsoft, or whatever Netcraft has confirmed to be dying?
The upside to this relative to the bad publicity and straight-up being mean completely eludes me and my imagination. Who's the guy in China's old men's smoke-filled room that insists blocking wiki is good for the country? What kind of argument could he have made that's unique to Wiki versus similar projects? Anyone here capable of defending the government's actions?
I guess they threw in the towel on copying Clippy... :)
of which you are making fun ...
This of course would be too good to be true, but if this device could dispense a different cocktail of drugs based on the mood of someone with bipolar disorder, to name one mood disorder, that would be a Good Thing. Serotonin comes and goes even with stablizers and antipsychotics so something that could make minor adjustments every day (versus every shrink visit) would be marketed as such and not as some computer gadget bought off of ThinkGeek.
One thing you won't be able to do, at least with Apple's factory setup of the iPod, is listen to radio (unless one day they charge for satellite radio). This could be so easily added as it is seen on competitors' devices but if users aren't listening to downloaded music, rather something from a source they do not control, then they are not buying things on iTunes. Am I correct to guess that this is a marketing thing and not because they can't fit a little radio on there? If so, that should be a big criticism of the device.
I guess now to stay afloat they're going to have to come up with some good ideas other than selling people antivirus software to patch up their crappy vulnerable OS. That was a good idea, if only for the irony.
When it's peak hours on my web site and I'm playing xlander and gtk-gnutella's connected to a zillion ultra-peers, and some douche is reloading a page every instant with some firefox plugin (basically I'm trying to say the cpu's 0% idle constantly), will this keep my chip cool and calm like the shine on a radiator grill so my box doesn't start beeping with the kernel giving me annoying overheating messages and slowing down the chip's speed in response? That beeping's so annoying and no one in #debian will tell me how to turn off that part of the kernel.
Because everything else inside a computer is measurable in pretty much just speeds and dimensions, not counting cooling systems, would it be reasonable to say that the hard drives and monitors, which die relatively quickly, are unpredictable in that sense and it is important to have a company make a quality product that they can "stand behind" to defend their brand (even if they're just being choosey with Korean OEMs?