It was more about the fact that someone's parents, aged in the mid-60's, was playing video games with each other until late in the night. Nintendo hit a demographic that includes both genders of a senior age, something that MS and Sony lack in their next-gen offerings.
I guess you all live with different aging parents than I did. My parents routinely play games and my father is in his 60s. He especially enjoys sports games that he can play with me (like Tiger Woods Golf for PS2).
As usual, I'm not at all impressed with the same things that the rest of the Slashdot crowd is (Firefox, Apple, and now the Wii).
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The PS3 on the other hand is so dead to me after all the hype, the failed launch, the lackluster system and so on.
I played with it for exactly 4 minutes because that's how long it took for it to load one of the games (some dirt track truck racing thing IIRC). I didn't actually even bother to play it because it was just too much of a time waste.
I'm very disappointed in the machine from the one console company that always impressed me.
Then again, I don't need a PS3 to play Katamari and Gran Turismo 1.
I want an acceptable mobile browser (much like the proxied browser that the T-mobile Sidekick has). I don't want to have to scroll around the screen to see the entire thing and I don't want it formatted to look like ass. I certainly do not want WAP. I want to see the web page, as it was intended, on my device -- just smaller.
I want an adequate QWERTY keyboard. The Treo is not acceptable. The first few iterations of the T-mobile Sidekick SK -> SK2 were good. The new individual keys of the SK3 are not as good but remain superior to the Treo.
I want it to have wifi, GPRS and EDGE (or whatever advanced radio networking they have on other providers), as well as the ability to tether for free. I don't see why I should be paying higher rates because I have it hooked to a computer.
I want it to work with all OSs. I don't want to be tied to one or the other.
It should be available as a USB mass storage device and not require anything other than a USB cable.
The applications should be easy to use, understand, and modify to work regardless of provider.
You stipulated no monthly fees? You are using MythTV for OTA TV? Your reception must be rock solid for you to worry about recording stuff OTA.
Me, I pay a $5/mo receiver fee as part of my DirecTV service (it's just like cable but they charge you per TV). So unless you are doing this completely free via OTA, you're paying monthly fees too.
If you can show me a TiVo with lifetime subscription for $60, I'll be amazed.
Your MythTV didn't cost you $60. Just because someone donated the computer to you doesn't mean it was free. There's that and there's the time it cost you to put it all together and get it working. To me, even though I have an above average background with Linux, wasting all that time getting it working just wasn't worth the hassle to have yet another computer in my home.
My DirecTivo was "donated" to me by DirecTV because they fucked up my regular TiVo with their screensaver "upgrade" over a year ago. I demanded that they give me a DirecTivo (which was not affected by their "upgrade" and a year's receiver fee free). Now that my free time is up with my receiver fee, I am not going to claim my TiVo is totally free because of that (BTW it is now a $5/month receiver fee which I would pay anyway with DirecTV regardless if I had the Tivo or not).
Technically you should be amazed by my DirecTivo. Are you?
Yes they do, until their applications stop running. People aren't going to blame MSFT for their Google apps not working. They're going to blame Google. "It's Google's responsibility to make sure our stuff works on the MSFT platform. Not the other way around."
People want their computers to run fast and easy. Aside from that, there are very few people that care how that is accomplished. So, if MSFT ensures that their computers are doing just that, they will have happier customers.
MSFT has been known to make sure that certain applications do not run w/o changes on their OS and if you think that they won't do anything in their power to shut Google out, you're sadly mistaken.
Well, it was the number of pigeon spacesuits and oxygen tanks for those suits that actually caused the financial damage. It wasn't the pigeons and binary conversions themselves!
Democracy takes all the hassle out of finding and watching videos from your favorite sources.
You use any number of the video downloading apps available for Firefox, save it as a real video format, and watch it that way -- then, regardless of what device you watch it on (mobile or otherwise) you can still use it.
Personally, I prefer it that way, but that's true Democracy;)
Then fucking search Google, Google News, and a multitude of other sites that you already know. If you still can't find it (and because we currently have 10 comments I know you didn't do that) then continue to do research until you can.
No, instead you pay $1750/month for a 2700 square foot box that you spend entirely too much time in with meth-heads for neighbors.
I live in the suburbs but would *much* prefer to live closer to the city. Mass transit, things to do, and variety rather than the fucking same restaurants, stores, and people as every other single suburb in the nation.
They don't make you sign these days (if it's under some unknown amount -- they all seem to be different) and I get cash back on my non PIN purchases.
I never quite understood the reason for using it like an ATM when it takes so fucking long. I use a card because I want it to be fast (no ID checks, no signature, no change).
Normally I'm not a super-huge privacy advocate, but something about this makes me a bit uncomfortable.
It's not like the USPS is putting this out there and mandating that we all use it. Instead, stupid people are paying someone else to do it for them. I'm not sure why you are concerning yourself with stupid people who are willing to pay for something pointless.
My mobile doesn't have a character limit for SMS (it merges multiple longer ones together into one) and because unlimited SMS is included as part of my unlimited data plan, my minutes are far more precious.
I suspect the submitter just has no friends who would actually want to talk to him on a phone, because he keeps saying stupid things to them that are contradicted by a huge body of empirical evidence.
Or he's in a circle of friends or living in an area where that just isn't true. Take for example the *huge* number of people driving around in Central FL (where I was visiting this past week for the holiday) using mobile phones pressed to their ears. Where I currently live, it's far less people (empirically).
Personally, I *rarely* use my mobile's phone function. It's not because I don't have friends it's because I don't like using the phone (minutes--) and it's because 99% of people I talk to on a regular basis are available via SMS or AIM.
The findings show that students don't know how to judge the authoritativeness or objectivity of web sites, can't narrow down an overly broad search, and can't tailor a message to a particular audience.
1. Isn't everything on see on the Internet true?
2. Google figures out everything you need to know anyway.
3. U mean thy use txt speech insted of reg typng on tsts?
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In all seriousness, I'm not surprised by anything these days. I work for a two year college and there are programs that offer money to "college ready" high school students (no remedial work necessary) and there was a HS principal (this week) that when told about the program said, "none of our students would qualify, don't even bother to bring it up."
Why should these studies even worry about topics like this when students aren't even placing into 100/1000 level courses when they "graduate" high school?
Is this good or bad for the end users of the internet--will it just increase the incentive for spiders and bots to crawl sites?
I've been using Google's Sitemaps program for quite some time. I don't want the spiders crawling old and pointless content when there is new and more relevant stuff available for them to display to end users. Why would it increase spidering when they are being specifically told what and how important something is to spider?
I have noticed a significant decrease in the overall spidering of my site (thank god) but more targeted spidering, especially after Google is notified that I have a new sitemap available.
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This is like smokers suing convenience stores because that's where they bought the smokes that gave 'em lung cancer.
It's more like suing your drug dealer after you go to prison for getting caught with a rock.
Strangely enough, allofmp3 was selling DRM free music in multiple formats for years and look what happened to them.
Hmmm, guess it has little to do w/the sheep and more to do with the power of the conglomerates and their lawyers.
The E61/62 looks great on paper but the browser blows.
It was more about the fact that someone's parents, aged in the mid-60's, was playing video games with each other until late in the night. Nintendo hit a demographic that includes both genders of a senior age, something that MS and Sony lack in their next-gen offerings.
I guess you all live with different aging parents than I did. My parents routinely play games and my father is in his 60s. He especially enjoys sports games that he can play with me (like Tiger Woods Golf for PS2).
As usual, I'm not at all impressed with the same things that the rest of the Slashdot crowd is (Firefox, Apple, and now the Wii).
The PS3 on the other hand is so dead to me after all the hype, the failed launch, the lackluster system and so on.
I played with it for exactly 4 minutes because that's how long it took for it to load one of the games (some dirt track truck racing thing IIRC). I didn't actually even bother to play it because it was just too much of a time waste.
I'm very disappointed in the machine from the one console company that always impressed me.
Then again, I don't need a PS3 to play Katamari and Gran Turismo 1.
Nintendo took this thing in an entirely new direction, and it is going to work for them.
By pricing it reasonably? It may be something different than Microsoft and Sony have chosen to do but it certainly isn't new.
I want an acceptable mobile browser (much like the proxied browser that the T-mobile Sidekick has). I don't want to have to scroll around the screen to see the entire thing and I don't want it formatted to look like ass. I certainly do not want WAP. I want to see the web page, as it was intended, on my device -- just smaller.
I want an adequate QWERTY keyboard. The Treo is not acceptable. The first few iterations of the T-mobile Sidekick SK -> SK2 were good. The new individual keys of the SK3 are not as good but remain superior to the Treo.
I want it to have wifi, GPRS and EDGE (or whatever advanced radio networking they have on other providers), as well as the ability to tether for free. I don't see why I should be paying higher rates because I have it hooked to a computer.
I want it to work with all OSs. I don't want to be tied to one or the other.
It should be available as a USB mass storage device and not require anything other than a USB cable.
The applications should be easy to use, understand, and modify to work regardless of provider.
It will remain a dream.
You stipulated no monthly fees? You are using MythTV for OTA TV? Your reception must be rock solid for you to worry about recording stuff OTA.
Me, I pay a $5/mo receiver fee as part of my DirecTV service (it's just like cable but they charge you per TV). So unless you are doing this completely free via OTA, you're paying monthly fees too.
If you can show me a TiVo with lifetime subscription for $60, I'll be amazed.
Your MythTV didn't cost you $60. Just because someone donated the computer to you doesn't mean it was free. There's that and there's the time it cost you to put it all together and get it working. To me, even though I have an above average background with Linux, wasting all that time getting it working just wasn't worth the hassle to have yet another computer in my home.
My DirecTivo was "donated" to me by DirecTV because they fucked up my regular TiVo with their screensaver "upgrade" over a year ago. I demanded that they give me a DirecTivo (which was not affected by their "upgrade" and a year's receiver fee free). Now that my free time is up with my receiver fee, I am not going to claim my TiVo is totally free because of that (BTW it is now a $5/month receiver fee which I would pay anyway with DirecTV regardless if I had the Tivo or not).
Technically you should be amazed by my DirecTivo. Are you?
Agree with you on that but given the case above, you can see that the the average user may not see things that way.
Uh, I don't think that -- that's what the average computer user will believe.
Yes they do, until their applications stop running. People aren't going to blame MSFT for their Google apps not working. They're going to blame Google. "It's Google's responsibility to make sure our stuff works on the MSFT platform. Not the other way around."
People want their computers to run fast and easy. Aside from that, there are very few people that care how that is accomplished. So, if MSFT ensures that their computers are doing just that, they will have happier customers.
MSFT has been known to make sure that certain applications do not run w/o changes on their OS and if you think that they won't do anything in their power to shut Google out, you're sadly mistaken.
Well, it was the number of pigeon spacesuits and oxygen tanks for those suits that actually caused the financial damage. It wasn't the pigeons and binary conversions themselves!
Uhh, hardware runs software. That and the fact that the Slashdot editors need to make their Slashvertisements as much as possible (Wii, Apple, etc).
Democracy takes all the hassle out of finding and watching videos from your favorite sources.
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You use any number of the video downloading apps available for Firefox, save it as a real video format, and watch it that way -- then, regardless of what device you watch it on (mobile or otherwise) you can still use it.
Personally, I prefer it that way, but that's true Democracy
While I agree w/your post, "technically" is the correct word here. We need a +1 Unfortunate mod.
Then fucking search Google, Google News, and a multitude of other sites that you already know. If you still can't find it (and because we currently have 10 comments I know you didn't do that) then continue to do research until you can.
Slashdotters are not your research assistants.
No, instead you pay $1750/month for a 2700 square foot box that you spend entirely too much time in with meth-heads for neighbors.
I live in the suburbs but would *much* prefer to live closer to the city. Mass transit, things to do, and variety rather than the fucking same restaurants, stores, and people as every other single suburb in the nation.
They don't make you sign these days (if it's under some unknown amount -- they all seem to be different) and I get cash back on my non PIN purchases.
I never quite understood the reason for using it like an ATM when it takes so fucking long. I use a card because I want it to be fast (no ID checks, no signature, no change).
He was an idiot. I doubt much has changed.
I swear that Zonk is really Jon Katz. They're both similarly retarded.
Normally I'm not a super-huge privacy advocate, but something about this makes me a bit uncomfortable.
It's not like the USPS is putting this out there and mandating that we all use it. Instead, stupid people are paying someone else to do it for them. I'm not sure why you are concerning yourself with stupid people who are willing to pay for something pointless.
My mobile doesn't have a character limit for SMS (it merges multiple longer ones together into one) and because unlimited SMS is included as part of my unlimited data plan, my minutes are far more precious.
I suspect the submitter just has no friends who would actually want to talk to him on a phone, because he keeps saying stupid things to them that are contradicted by a huge body of empirical evidence.
Or he's in a circle of friends or living in an area where that just isn't true. Take for example the *huge* number of people driving around in Central FL (where I was visiting this past week for the holiday) using mobile phones pressed to their ears. Where I currently live, it's far less people (empirically).
Personally, I *rarely* use my mobile's phone function. It's not because I don't have friends it's because I don't like using the phone (minutes--) and it's because 99% of people I talk to on a regular basis are available via SMS or AIM.
Anybody remember last year's "War on Christmas?"
Walmart does.
The findings show that students don't know how to judge the authoritativeness or objectivity of web sites, can't narrow down an overly broad search, and can't tailor a message to a particular audience.
1. Isn't everything on see on the Internet true?
2. Google figures out everything you need to know anyway.
3. U mean thy use txt speech insted of reg typng on tsts?
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In all seriousness, I'm not surprised by anything these days. I work for a two year college and there are programs that offer money to "college ready" high school students (no remedial work necessary) and there was a HS principal (this week) that when told about the program said, "none of our students would qualify, don't even bother to bring it up."
Why should these studies even worry about topics like this when students aren't even placing into 100/1000 level courses when they "graduate" high school?
Is this good or bad for the end users of the internet--will it just increase the incentive for spiders and bots to crawl sites?
I've been using Google's Sitemaps program for quite some time. I don't want the spiders crawling old and pointless content when there is new and more relevant stuff available for them to display to end users. Why would it increase spidering when they are being specifically told what and how important something is to spider?
I have noticed a significant decrease in the overall spidering of my site (thank god) but more targeted spidering, especially after Google is notified that I have a new sitemap available.