The BMW C-1 looks way more comfortable than the reclining Clever car. It didn't require a helmet (in Germany, France, and Spain) but they only made 2000 then discontinued it due to poor sales. Despite the fact that this article is just a PR piece, I can't see it helping sales much.
And in the old days, some people left their servers online with no root password so that those who needed to make a change would be able to. Surely you're not suggesting that that atmosphere of respect and trust is no longer around??
Not that I'd expect you to read the article, but the criticisms he has against it are far more than it just won't play Windows Media Player formats:
"The Nokia 770 takes longer to boot up than some desktop computers (nearly a minute) and offers battery life no longer than that of many laptops (4 1/4 hours of nearly continuous browsing). In two weeks of testing, it locked up and spontaneously rebooted more often than any computer I've used in that time."
The "unpatched Windows 98" jab must be from some Linux fanboy who inserted that. It doesn't appear in the article. The only mention of Windows Media Player is in a one sentence paragraph:
"You won't have much better luck with streaming media online because of the lack of playback software for Windows Media and QuickTime formats."
He also mentions the lack of a decent Flash player and comments that it won't play a lot of Flash content that's commonly out there. Maybe it is a good device for geeks who don't mind overlooking its myriad problems and coping with the challenges, incompatibilities, and crashes. And maybe some kernel developer will take a look at the code and work out the reliability issues. However, for the intended audience of that article -- consumers -- the review was spot on.
This is a logicalextension of paypal's increasingly omnipresent marketing and services.
Is it? Why? And omnipresent means PayPal is already everywhere... how can that be increasing?
Paypal has diversified into many diferent branches
What branches? Online payments and debit/credit cards come to mind. That's two.... and while this new mobile payment may be subject to some criticism and a degree of scepticism
Anything new might be subject to criticism and skepticism. You could say that about cops walking the MySpace beat, or censored Wikipedia articles, or Microsoft bypassing hosts file. Take any Slashdot article and your statement applies equally as well to any of them. How bland.... it is likely that this will come to be as pervasive as credit cards.
Why do you say that? Do you have any evidence that this might be the case? I don't see it as a likely thing at all but if you have some compelling arguments, it would have been nice if you had included them rather than just stating generic platitudes.
Definitely the case. And also Joystiq is whoring in on the media frenzy:
Does this ad speak to you? Does it make you want to buy the game? Is it too edgy? Does it appear to be, in the words of one Joystiq reader, an ad selling a "rape/murder fantasy" type of game? Let's see how well we can deconstruct this ad.
In other words: can we drum up some controversy and direct other sites to link to Joystiq? Is there some evil angle we can work here to drive up ad revenue? Let's see how well we can sensationalize what is an otherwise boring ad so we can sell banner impressions!
Of course, this is what keeps Slashdot going too, but Slashdot is at least a bit more honest.
Sure, maybe not *paying* for product placement but a truckload of notebooks and Cinema displays loaned to the studio for the season could be expected to find their way into scenes now and again?
I bought a subscription because I got sick of the ads...
That's funny... I just use Adblock. I have a subscription as well, but it's more to see what's coming up and to browse back beyond the first page of history for a given user.
You're welcome to challenge anything I have to say, but.. challenge it in a friendly way and I'm happy to banter.
When I reply to a post, it's done so as I please... whether or not you feel like bantering is, of course, up to you.
[...] Otherwise you just sound like a rather un-happy person that for whatever reason spends way tooo much time in front of the computer.
Strange how you can get that out of it, what with the whole not knowing me and all. I guess you didn't quite get it.
It used to be that to get modded up you could read the article leisurely, understand what it's talking about, and then post your comment at any time... letting the merit of what you wrote stand on its own.
We don't do that anymore. These days, users become subscribers so that they can get first post and fool the moderators into thinking that what they wrote was insightful. Rather than discuss, as mentioned in the article, how a witty title that perhaps employs humor or puns is rewritten to something mundane so that a search engine can pick up on common keywords, people these days are engaging in what Linus Torvalds calls little more than a public wanking session trying to post comments more insightful than the rest.
Don't try for first post. Instead, take the hint that your posts just aren't really all that informative nor insightful and re-evaluate the sanity of continuing to post such drivel. Go take a look at comments like this and realize that trying to succeed with content like that is like punching moderators in the nuts trying to get excellent karma.
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And this presents the perfect segue for Lunch, the HP Way -- for those old-school enough to relate to it.
Poor sales? I saw these things all over Switzerland, France and Italy. Hundreds of them.
There you go. Hundreds == poor sales.
The BMW C-1 looks way more comfortable than the reclining Clever car. It didn't require a helmet (in Germany, France, and Spain) but they only made 2000 then discontinued it due to poor sales. Despite the fact that this article is just a PR piece, I can't see it helping sales much.
And in the old days, some people left their servers online with no root password so that those who needed to make a change would be able to. Surely you're not suggesting that that atmosphere of respect and trust is no longer around??
for those who were wondering -- "B&M" is "brick and mortar"
Either that or a new wireless book service... Barnes & Mobile.
One to One communications -> Call them
I guess you missed the part about "multi-recipient voice-based service"? As in: One to More-than-one.
I think he took the time off because he had a problem with his arch-nemesis, Testicles.
I've gotten more back for a book than I'd payed for it at least once.
It's a pity you hadn't paid for an English textbook.
"Volunteer Jobs Represent Big Opportunity for Developing World"
The headline says "high DPI"... if each pixel was rendered as a 2x2 block, wouldn't that make it a lower DPI?
I think you failed to read between the lines on that one.
How are the letters supposed to show up on an xray? Write it in glitter pen?
Letters made out of the stuff that shows up in xrays such as... I dunno... metal?
The sad part is that Burst has already one once against Microsoft
Maybe this time they'll get to two twice.
Not that I'd expect you to read the article, but the criticisms he has against it are far more than it just won't play Windows Media Player formats:
"The Nokia 770 takes longer to boot up than some desktop computers (nearly a minute) and offers battery life no longer than that of many laptops (4 1/4 hours of nearly continuous browsing). In two weeks of testing, it locked up and spontaneously rebooted more often than any computer I've used in that time."
The "unpatched Windows 98" jab must be from some Linux fanboy who inserted that. It doesn't appear in the article. The only mention of Windows Media Player is in a one sentence paragraph:
"You won't have much better luck with streaming media online because of the lack of playback software for Windows Media and QuickTime formats."
He also mentions the lack of a decent Flash player and comments that it won't play a lot of Flash content that's commonly out there. Maybe it is a good device for geeks who don't mind overlooking its myriad problems and coping with the challenges, incompatibilities, and crashes. And maybe some kernel developer will take a look at the code and work out the reliability issues. However, for the intended audience of that article -- consumers -- the review was spot on.
...and only use the conviction to impune the victims reputation
Pedantically speaking, if you're going to use the word then at least learn to spell impugn.
This is a logicalextension of paypal's increasingly omnipresent marketing and services.
... and while this new mobile payment may be subject to some criticism and a degree of scepticism
... it is likely that this will come to be as pervasive as credit cards.
Is it? Why? And omnipresent means PayPal is already everywhere... how can that be increasing?
Paypal has diversified into many diferent branches
What branches? Online payments and debit/credit cards come to mind. That's two.
Anything new might be subject to criticism and skepticism. You could say that about cops walking the MySpace beat, or censored Wikipedia articles, or Microsoft bypassing hosts file. Take any Slashdot article and your statement applies equally as well to any of them. How bland.
Why do you say that? Do you have any evidence that this might be the case? I don't see it as a likely thing at all but if you have some compelling arguments, it would have been nice if you had included them rather than just stating generic platitudes.
Definitely the case. And also Joystiq is whoring in on the media frenzy:
Does this ad speak to you? Does it make you want to buy the game? Is it too edgy? Does it appear to be, in the words of one Joystiq reader, an ad selling a "rape/murder fantasy" type of game? Let's see how well we can deconstruct this ad.
In other words: can we drum up some controversy and direct other sites to link to Joystiq? Is there some evil angle we can work here to drive up ad revenue? Let's see how well we can sensationalize what is an otherwise boring ad so we can sell banner impressions!
Of course, this is what keeps Slashdot going too, but Slashdot is at least a bit more honest.
Sure, maybe not *paying* for product placement but a truckload of notebooks and Cinema displays loaned to the studio for the season could be expected to find their way into scenes now and again?
Of course, I meant "Opposing"... damn you, preview button!
BAN = Ban Action Network?
Isn't that kind of like:
STOP = Stop Teachers Against Pollution?
What insanely great insight into language processing can a CS student have that whole teams of experts still didn't get?
Patent office.
Yeah, I similarly did a search for Slashdot's tagging algorithm and didn't find any peer-reviewed publications. Must be vaporware.
Yes, but bought by an American company.
And build by the Japanese subcontractor who, incidentally, just became a wholly owned subsidiary.
I bought a subscription because I got sick of the ads...
.. challenge it in a friendly way and I'm happy to banter.
That's funny... I just use Adblock. I have a subscription as well, but it's more to see what's coming up and to browse back beyond the first page of history for a given user.
You're welcome to challenge anything I have to say, but
When I reply to a post, it's done so as I please... whether or not you feel like bantering is, of course, up to you.
[...] Otherwise you just sound like a rather un-happy person that for whatever reason spends way tooo much time in front of the computer.
Strange how you can get that out of it, what with the whole not knowing me and all. I guess you didn't quite get it.
It used to be that to get modded up you could read the article leisurely, understand what it's talking about, and then post your comment at any time... letting the merit of what you wrote stand on its own.
We don't do that anymore. These days, users become subscribers so that they can get first post and fool the moderators into thinking that what they wrote was insightful. Rather than discuss, as mentioned in the article, how a witty title that perhaps employs humor or puns is rewritten to something mundane so that a search engine can pick up on common keywords, people these days are engaging in what Linus Torvalds calls little more than a public wanking session trying to post comments more insightful than the rest.
Don't try for first post. Instead, take the hint that your posts just aren't really all that informative nor insightful and re-evaluate the sanity of continuing to post such drivel. Go take a look at comments like this and realize that trying to succeed with content like that is like punching moderators in the nuts trying to get excellent karma.
Also remember to donate to Slashdot so they can pay a developer to add the BSD section back to the sections list on the left. ;-)