>What gives? Did I totally miss the boat on this and the Zune actually sucks?
Did they sell well, outside the US? What, they weren't even released outside the US? Why? The iPod was; so was every single other MP3 player. Why not? No faith in it? Why release it then?
I think the same's going to happen to MS's mobile phones. Nobody wants a MS phone. There's just no point - too many better and/or cheaper phones out there. MS need to stick with what they're strong at and stop wasting money and embarrassing themselves with this low quality `me too` crap. MP3 players are all about marketing - there's no tech there - just a chip to decode MP3s, a 40 cent amplifier and some UI or other. I doubt there's even much money in it, other than the retailers, and no-one gives a shit about them any more.
The Samaritans have outsourced their call centre to Pakistan. I phoned the other day and told them I was suicidal. They got excited and asked if I could drive a truck.
Seriously, who gives a fuck? They're fucked either way? The 'bad guys' will be using Tor and accessing stuff on the.onion fake tld and using Silk Road to sell drugs, buy guns etc anyway, so who gives a shit?
So what? We'll have HTML5, and they can use some other shitty plugin which no-one will use, and THAT won't get any traction, but only they'll get to worry about it.
HTML5 will be used by all websites and all browsers with or without DRM support.
I sometimes wonder what's happening when a machine takes 2 mins to boot, copy a file etc. 2 mins nowadays is billions of operations, and/or gigs (or hundreds of megs) of data transfer. It's impossible to justify either. There must be some screwed up crap going on somewhere where loading the OS is seen as some sort of edge case unworthy of optimising.
9/11 was clearly intended to be symbolic, and not cause the deaths of more than a few hundred people. There's no way you're telling me they expected both towers to collapse.
They considered much more indiscriminate killings but Bin Laden warned them off. Sure, I'm sure he had propaganda rather than human interest in mind, but it makes no difference. He was the boss. It's not clear what the new boss thinks.
Not sure it's them at work in Syria. When countries are that fucked, who's to say.
I feel though that the resolution isn't the most important thing; that is, current resolutions are fine but other aspects of the display are more important which is why the cheap Kindle 4's look so good and are so pleasant to read.
Gameplay IS button mashing! All games are the same; a mixture of reaction testing and problem solving. That's why it doesn't matter what the story is, or graphics quality, or sound effects etc etc etc. That's why games aren't better now then 20 or 30 years ago. Pacman, missile command, space invaders, scramble, defender, crazy climber, galaga, pole position...bubble bobble, sonic, mario etc etc - those were good games because they were fun, not because some twat wrote a bunch of horseshit about mystical quests, good vs evil etc. Nobody cares, trust me. When a mate comes around to play a game they don't say "wait, before we start - what's my motivation? Some ape has stolen my bitch? Fuck that - lets KICK ASS".
So you've spotted the Wired reference in the summary then, and understand why I took issue with Slashdot using an award they've bestowed on someone as being meaningful in any way?
You need to work on your English comprehension. It's rather obvious that this is the right story, what with it being the one which has Wired as a source.
That's the yardstick of credibility these days? It's a piece of shit that just makes stuff up if the truth isn't exciting enough. Check out the Raspberry Pi site for more details.
Counterfeight? I certainly did hear it here first. Sounds a little like what the rest of us call counterfeit. You're using a strongly typoed language, right.
Yes, as soon as they can find stores who are prepared to sell them with a margin of precisely $0.
Seriously, why would you want to buy a cheap computer from a store? The excellent pre-sales Linux demonstration, or the after-sales support where they diagnose how precisely your modifications to the distro on the SD card and the cheap usb wifi card you got for $2 off eBay aren't working properly together if you connect to your cheap wifi router on channel 4?
You forgot to explain why. Why should I have to consider the strength of the encryption when contemplating whether to write down the password or take some sort of extra care to remember it somehow?
Radical Dance Faction? UK band which split and became known as DF118, after a popular recreational drug.
It's perfectly common, by the way. It's just Slashdot has gone to shit lately, especially after that pointless "Look! I made a pretend ZX81 out of lego" nonsense a few days ago.
How many times per product can you do something unusual? If it's just once, fine, but if every page has `yes, you're supposed to do this wrong` screaming at you then he's going to miss one of them sometimes.
Is this a joke. I actually checked to see if this was functional, and that just the case was lego, but no. Someone's made a pretend computer out of lego, and it's on the Slashdot front page. Unbelievable. I hope all you Slashdot subscription payers are happy with this; if I had one, I'd cancel it!
Try it in a Sandisk Sansa Clip+. The official firmware provides a much more usable interface than Rockbox. Rockbox is just horrible there. Fiddly and unintuitive. It adds functionality I don't want (apps, music formats) but takes away so much.
I love Open Source (I use Linux) but this is a perfect example of how a lot of Open Source projects (Eclipse, Unity) are just horrible experiences and really show the difference between them and stuff like Windows/ Apple's OS etc, which have had millions of dollars thrown at them...and it shows.
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I'm sure Olivier Messiaen would have something to say about this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messaien#Birdsong
(were he not dead)
>What gives? Did I totally miss the boat on this and the Zune actually sucks?
Did they sell well, outside the US? What, they weren't even released outside the US? Why? The iPod was; so was every single other MP3 player. Why not? No faith in it? Why release it then?
I think the same's going to happen to MS's mobile phones. Nobody wants a MS phone. There's just no point - too many better and/or cheaper phones out there. MS need to stick with what they're strong at and stop wasting money and embarrassing themselves with this low quality `me too` crap. MP3 players are all about marketing - there's no tech there - just a chip to decode MP3s, a 40 cent amplifier and some UI or other. I doubt there's even much money in it, other than the retailers, and no-one gives a shit about them any more.
The Samaritans have outsourced their call centre to Pakistan. I phoned the other day and told them I was suicidal. They got excited and asked if I could drive a truck.
Seriously, who gives a fuck? They're fucked either way? The 'bad guys' will be using Tor and accessing stuff on the .onion fake tld and using Silk Road to sell drugs, buy guns etc anyway, so who gives a shit?
Why would companies stop honouring it it everyone opts out? I mean, if the opt-out has teeth, that is. They'd have no choice.
Ah, but this email is very, very good quality. For you sir, I am having special price.
So what? We'll have HTML5, and they can use some other shitty plugin which no-one will use, and THAT won't get any traction, but only they'll get to worry about it.
HTML5 will be used by all websites and all browsers with or without DRM support.
I sometimes wonder what's happening when a machine takes 2 mins to boot, copy a file etc. 2 mins nowadays is billions of operations, and/or gigs (or hundreds of megs) of data transfer. It's impossible to justify either. There must be some screwed up crap going on somewhere where loading the OS is seen as some sort of edge case unworthy of optimising.
Exactly. The last thing I want is another Unity.
9/11 was clearly intended to be symbolic, and not cause the deaths of more than a few hundred people. There's no way you're telling me they expected both towers to collapse.
They considered much more indiscriminate killings but Bin Laden warned them off. Sure, I'm sure he had propaganda rather than human interest in mind, but it makes no difference. He was the boss. It's not clear what the new boss thinks.
Not sure it's them at work in Syria. When countries are that fucked, who's to say.
That's not their style - too indiscriminate.
I feel though that the resolution isn't the most important thing; that is, current resolutions are fine but other aspects of the display are more important which is why the cheap Kindle 4's look so good and are so pleasant to read.
Gameplay IS button mashing! All games are the same; a mixture of reaction testing and problem solving. That's why it doesn't matter what the story is, or graphics quality, or sound effects etc etc etc. That's why games aren't better now then 20 or 30 years ago. Pacman, missile command, space invaders, scramble, defender, crazy climber, galaga, pole position...bubble bobble, sonic, mario etc etc - those were good games because they were fun, not because some twat wrote a bunch of horseshit about mystical quests, good vs evil etc. Nobody cares, trust me. When a mate comes around to play a game they don't say "wait, before we start - what's my motivation? Some ape has stolen my bitch? Fuck that - lets KICK ASS".
So you've spotted the Wired reference in the summary then, and understand why I took issue with Slashdot using an award they've bestowed on someone as being meaningful in any way?
You need to work on your English comprehension. It's rather obvious that this is the right story, what with it being the one which has Wired as a source.
That's the yardstick of credibility these days? It's a piece of shit that just makes stuff up if the truth isn't exciting enough. Check out the Raspberry Pi site for more details.
Yeah, both jazz cds and all 7 classical releases sound fine to me.
Counterfeight? I certainly did hear it here first. Sounds a little like what the rest of us call counterfeit. You're using a strongly typoed language, right.
That's why he asked the question.. Do you have an answer?
> will they be in stores?
Yes, as soon as they can find stores who are prepared to sell them with a margin of precisely $0.
Seriously, why would you want to buy a cheap computer from a store? The excellent pre-sales Linux demonstration, or the after-sales support where they diagnose how precisely your modifications to the distro on the SD card and the cheap usb wifi card you got for $2 off eBay aren't working properly together if you connect to your cheap wifi router on channel 4?
You forgot to explain why. Why should I have to consider the strength of the encryption when contemplating whether to write down the password or take some sort of extra care to remember it somehow?
Radical Dance Faction? UK band which split and became known as DF118, after a popular recreational drug.
It's perfectly common, by the way. It's just Slashdot has gone to shit lately, especially after that pointless "Look! I made a pretend ZX81 out of lego" nonsense a few days ago.
Good luck finding any!
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/people-may-be-forced-to-re%11thieve-stuff-201201314832/
How many times per product can you do something unusual? If it's just once, fine, but if every page has `yes, you're supposed to do this wrong` screaming at you then he's going to miss one of them sometimes.
Is this a joke. I actually checked to see if this was functional, and that just the case was lego, but no. Someone's made a pretend computer out of lego, and it's on the Slashdot front page. Unbelievable. I hope all you Slashdot subscription payers are happy with this; if I had one, I'd cancel it!
> Damn it looks nice now.
Try it in a Sandisk Sansa Clip+. The official firmware provides a much more usable interface than Rockbox. Rockbox is just horrible there. Fiddly and unintuitive. It adds functionality I don't want (apps, music formats) but takes away so much.
I love Open Source (I use Linux) but this is a perfect example of how a lot of Open Source projects (Eclipse, Unity) are just horrible experiences and really show the difference between them and stuff like Windows/ Apple's OS etc, which have had millions of dollars thrown at them...and it shows.