Its smaller, it looks cool, had a new "click-wheel", has plenty of capacity for most people, includes USB cable for windows users (no need to buy seperately). That said, I think $250 is still a little too high. $199 and I'd be tempted. I think if they lower the price too much (e.g. like some have advocated, a sub-$100 player) they would cannabilize sales from their full-size (and expensive) iPods.
Back in the day, one way of comparing different economies was to calculate how long you'd have to work in order to buy a big mac in both places. I wonder how san fran and Bangalore comprare in that regard? Of course, I suppose it would be a veggie burger in India.
Do you have a link to back this up? It seems unlikely that someone who forgoes meat but eats a box of Krispy Kremes every day wouldn't be at risk for diabetes.
Same result here. Clearly, their software is not immune to the slashdot effect (i.e. I hope they throw a few more servers on the fire if they expect people to use this thing!)
Advanced IT at banks? In my experience (having worked as a consultant for a major bank and as a FTE for a Financial Management company), fianancial insitutions are way behind the curve technologically, because they are by nature very conservative and don't always need the latest and greatest (along with the associated risk). I know one place still running code originally written for Windows 3.1. Why? Because it works.
Funny - I can remember in the 70s people saying that the music of the day sucked (esp. when disco came around) then in the 80s people complained that new wave sucked, and so on. It seems that every generation thinks the current music "Sucks" and the only good music is the stuff that came out when they were in high school or college. My parents don't listen to anything made after the 1950s, and I think I stopped listening to the latest music around 1993. Seems to be human nature.
What the article failed to mention is, once you had a bad Zip Disk, if you inserted it into another perfectly good drive, it would ruin that drive as well. Sort of a mechanical virus. This was a pretty common scenario, since if your disk doesnt seem to be working, what do you do? Find a friends/co-workers drive and try it out there (thus destroying your friends drive in the process).
What about those who have a land line, but don't use it to make phone calls? I would have dumped the landline when I moved since I always use my cell phone, except I need it for DSL (no cable modem available in my area), the security system, and digital cable (uses phone line to download TV schedule). An active, busy phone line but no phone plugged in!
FINALLY, someone agrees with me here! I'm almost as sick of hearing about Ogg Vorbis as I am about hearing the whining about products that don't support bluetooth. In fact, its a standing joke around my office that anything (calculator, stapler, barcode reader, vending machine) that doesnt have bluetooth must be worthless.
Now if we can get people to stop putting those OBX stickers on their cars (this habit has always baffled me) the world would be a better place.
Sorry, couldn't resist. But seriously,yeah, I agree its BS. I'm sure there's fine print on the ticket somewhere that says they have the right to refuse to let you on the plane, without any obligation to refund your money. Their game, their rules. Only way around it is to not play.
I have a targus laptop backback, and while it does protect the laptop and is comfy on my back, it is also somewhat large and cumbersome. All those chords and straps hanging off the sides are always getting caught on doorhandles, etc. Maybe I'm just clumsy, but my next laptop case will be plain and simple, fit neatly under a desk or airline seat, and not require a 5 foot clear zone around me to prevent being snagged on things.
Well, not me personally. But I've seen something very similar to that at a local (Pittsburgh) financial services company that has a cube decorating contest every year for the holidays.
Call me a ludite, but I try and stay away from any electronics product that doesnt run on ordinary, buy 'em in the grocery store batteries (AAA, etc). I'm still using my 15 year old HP 41 calculator, since I can still get batteries for it and the thing just works. Not so for my old TI laptop and countless other calculators and gizmos that you have to recharge and the built-in battery eventually dies. My Palm III runs on AAA batteries, is 4 years old, and is going strong. Until they come out with a PDA that takes cheap and easily replacable batteries again, and is not "disposable", I'll hang onto it as long as possible.
And your joke reminds me of the Simpsons joke, where Disco Stu says something like "These are the disco record sales for 1977. And these are the sales for 1978. (shows big increase) If this trend continues...ayyy! (said like Fonzie)
The bubble will burst when everyone realizes that they are not making any money from this (just like the old dot coms). It is well documented, for example, that Apple makes little to no profit off of iTunes; all the profit comes from sales of iPods.
Have you tried caching data or other tricks to try and improve performance? Where you repeatedly opening and closing the data connection? No doubt that.NET is notoriously slow, but there are some things (maybe you've already tried them) to help mitigate this.
There are many, many types of mobile applications that require a small local database. For example, UPS drivers might have a handheld computer with a database of delivery orders. These are usually synced with with the "main" database server at some point. There are other choices, but if you are working with the.NET compact framework Microsoft provides additional tools for working with and synching SQL Server
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Never had to do logs by counting grains of dirt, BUT I am old enough that we had to use log tables.
The look like the exact same pics from the Viking lander in the 1970s. Red sand and rocks. Hopefully, they will get some new data out of this.
Since they cross-sell the iPod with the VW Bug, maybe now they'll sell the iPod Mini with the BMW Mini
Its smaller, it looks cool, had a new "click-wheel", has plenty of capacity for most people, includes USB cable for windows users (no need to buy seperately). That said, I think $250 is still a little too high. $199 and I'd be tempted. I think if they lower the price too much (e.g. like some have advocated, a sub-$100 player) they would cannabilize sales from their full-size (and expensive) iPods.
Back in the day, one way of comparing different economies was to calculate how long you'd have to work in order to buy a big mac in both places. I wonder how san fran and Bangalore comprare in that regard? Of course, I suppose it would be a veggie burger in India.
Do you have a link to back this up? It seems unlikely that someone who forgoes meat but eats a box of Krispy Kremes every day wouldn't be at risk for diabetes.
Same result here. Clearly, their software is not immune to the slashdot effect (i.e. I hope they throw a few more servers on the fire if they expect people to use this thing!)
Advanced IT at banks? In my experience (having worked as a consultant for a major bank and as a FTE for a Financial Management company), fianancial insitutions are way behind the curve technologically, because they are by nature very conservative and don't always need the latest and greatest (along with the associated risk). I know one place still running code originally written for Windows 3.1. Why? Because it works.
Funny - I can remember in the 70s people saying that the music of the day sucked (esp. when disco came around) then in the 80s people complained that new wave sucked, and so on. It seems that every generation thinks the current music "Sucks" and the only good music is the stuff that came out when they were in high school or college. My parents don't listen to anything made after the 1950s, and I think I stopped listening to the latest music around 1993. Seems to be human nature.
What the article failed to mention is, once you had a bad Zip Disk, if you inserted it into another perfectly good drive, it would ruin that drive as well. Sort of a mechanical virus. This was a pretty common scenario, since if your disk doesnt seem to be working, what do you do? Find a friends/co-workers drive and try it out there (thus destroying your friends drive in the process).
What about those who have a land line, but don't use it to make phone calls? I would have dumped the landline when I moved since I always use my cell phone, except I need it for DSL (no cable modem available in my area), the security system, and digital cable (uses phone line to download TV schedule). An active, busy phone line but no phone plugged in!
Now if we can get people to stop putting those OBX stickers on their cars (this habit has always baffled me) the world would be a better place.
Hey, if you count the Viking landers the US beat them by almost 30 years!
Umm - why not just shut the router down after hours? Sure fire way of no one hacking into the system!
Sorry, couldn't resist. But seriously,yeah, I agree its BS. I'm sure there's fine print on the ticket somewhere that says they have the right to refuse to let you on the plane, without any obligation to refund your money. Their game, their rules. Only way around it is to not play.
Sure, you don't have to do what he says. And he doesn't have to let you on the plane.
I have a targus laptop backback, and while it does protect the laptop and is comfy on my back, it is also somewhat large and cumbersome. All those chords and straps hanging off the sides are always getting caught on doorhandles, etc. Maybe I'm just clumsy, but my next laptop case will be plain and simple, fit neatly under a desk or airline seat, and not require a 5 foot clear zone around me to prevent being snagged on things.
Well, not me personally. But I've seen something very similar to that at a local (Pittsburgh) financial services company that has a cube decorating contest every year for the holidays.
You left out "CAR CHASE!"
Call me a ludite, but I try and stay away from any electronics product that doesnt run on ordinary, buy 'em in the grocery store batteries (AAA, etc). I'm still using my 15 year old HP 41 calculator, since I can still get batteries for it and the thing just works. Not so for my old TI laptop and countless other calculators and gizmos that you have to recharge and the built-in battery eventually dies. My Palm III runs on AAA batteries, is 4 years old, and is going strong. Until they come out with a PDA that takes cheap and easily replacable batteries again, and is not "disposable", I'll hang onto it as long as possible.
And your joke reminds me of the Simpsons joke, where Disco Stu says something like "These are the disco record sales for 1977. And these are the sales for 1978. (shows big increase) If this trend continues...ayyy! (said like Fonzie)
Well, rocket science ain't brain surgery.
The bubble will burst when everyone realizes that they are not making any money from this (just like the old dot coms). It is well documented, for example, that Apple makes little to no profit off of iTunes; all the profit comes from sales of iPods.
Have you tried caching data or other tricks to try and improve performance? Where you repeatedly opening and closing the data connection? No doubt that .NET is notoriously slow, but there are some things (maybe you've already tried them) to help mitigate this.
There are many, many types of mobile applications that require a small local database. For example, UPS drivers might have a handheld computer with a database of delivery orders. These are usually synced with with the "main" database server at some point. There are other choices, but if you are working with the .NET compact framework Microsoft provides additional tools for working with and synching SQL Server