I'd like the ability to show off baby photos and be able to use video out to a TV. For baby videos of course. There's probably more people like me than there are frequent-fliers-who-want-to-watch-tv-shows-frequen tly, so I think there's a market for this device.
Having used a video camera with a 3.5" LCD, I think that this would be the ideal size for actually viewing anything meaningful, though.
Mac guy that I am, the Gmini looks pretty good. If I could connect my digital stills camera to it, we'd have a winner.
Speaking as a tru blue dinky-di Aussie, I can say that I have NEVER heard the phrase "broke our duck". Yes, I have suffered through many seasons of cricket, even back to the legendary Lillee/Marsh/Thommo/Chappel days.
If this guy really said "broke our duck" and intended it as a cricket reference then he has picked the most obscure way of getting his point across. I bet one of his underlings used it as a joke, to see if they could get the boss to say it.
For the yanks: cricket is like baseball, but even more boring.
I think his comparison is in the right direction: we use computers (and the networks) to move bits and info around. Having standards simply makes it easier for the movement of that info without having someone create an adaptor (read: translator) because one company decided to go it alone.
No-one needs Windows, but if Windows conforms to nothing but its own standard then MS is digging its own grave. It's as if they have forgotten to how create useful software and just want to make stuff that you have to use just because you've always been using it.
Pity really. MS is in a position to change the world for the better, instead of for themselves. Circle of life I suppose.
If your children face the prospect of going to terrible schools, and you don't have any recourse (like even sending them to better schools in the district), you're poor.
But if no-one's kids went to crappy schools, where would the crappy teachers teach?
To counter your anecdote with mine, my work-inflicted PC running XP is very stable and I run all sorts of non-standard stuff on it. Occasional programs crap out (how the hell can a 'Save as...' dialogue box be 'Not Responding', when it's owner app has been quit???), but even iMovie4 has quit under OS X 10.3.
To summarise: hated '95 - buggy and unstable. Tolerate XP - stable. Always love my Mac. Just because.
I'm an Australian too by the way, and I find that most foreigners don't underestimate the size of Australia (it's pretty evident by looking at a globe) but are surprised by it's low population.
I find that most foreigners don't underestimate the size of Australia, but a lot of Septics overestimate the size of the USA.
To point out the exact bit: Does Al get permission to do his parodies?
Al does get permission from the original writers of the songs that he parodies. While the law supports his ability to parody without permission, he feels it's important to maintain the relationships that he's built with artists and writers over the years. Plus, Al wants to make sure that he gets his songwriter credit (as writer of new lyrics) as well as his rightful share of the royalties.
Having said that, is JibJab's work a parody of TLIYL, or is it comedy at the expense of Bush and Kerry, using TLIYL as a means to an end? If it's the latter, then the owners of TLIYL should have the right to veto it.
I think he (OP) was referring to the driver having the screen point at him, i.e. an in-dash DVD player installed primarily so the driver can watch movies.
All of the examples you gave can be achieved without giving the driver visual access to the screen. Removing the need for people having to fumble with CDs, tapes and radio dials for music is a great idea. Entertainment for the kids is a great idea.
I'm hoping to install a DVD player in my car with screens in the back. Then I can hop in the back with the kids and let the missus drive:-) Couple of Walkmans and some books on tape will do for the meantime.
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I'd like the ability to show off baby photos and be able to use video out to a TV. For baby videos of course. There's probably more people like me than there are frequent-fliers-who-want-to-watch-tv-shows-frequen tly, so I think there's a market for this device.
Having used a video camera with a 3.5" LCD, I think that this would be the ideal size for actually viewing anything meaningful, though.
Mac guy that I am, the Gmini looks pretty good. If I could connect my digital stills camera to it, we'd have a winner.
Speaking as a tru blue dinky-di Aussie, I can say that I have NEVER heard the phrase "broke our duck". Yes, I have suffered through many seasons of cricket, even back to the legendary Lillee/Marsh/Thommo/Chappel days.
If this guy really said "broke our duck" and intended it as a cricket reference then he has picked the most obscure way of getting his point across. I bet one of his underlings used it as a joke, to see if they could get the boss to say it.
For the yanks: cricket is like baseball, but even more boring.
I think his comparison is in the right direction: we use computers (and the networks) to move bits and info around. Having standards simply makes it easier for the movement of that info without having someone create an adaptor (read: translator) because one company decided to go it alone.
No-one needs Windows, but if Windows conforms to nothing but its own standard then MS is digging its own grave. It's as if they have forgotten to how create useful software and just want to make stuff that you have to use just because you've always been using it.
Pity really. MS is in a position to change the world for the better, instead of for themselves. Circle of life I suppose.
All we need is a separate system for people who self-identify as terrorists, and the rest of us can get on with things.
I thought universities were in the business of teaching, not hardware/music distribution.
They are. It's the students who are in charge of music distribution.
Leave your door unlocked and they'll also "distribute" your hardware.
wouldn't a geosync orbit above the pole simply be a satellite not orbiting at all? it'd just fall down!
I want iGreplaw - it's easy enough for my mum to use!
If English pr0n is anything like English cooking, no thanks.
An Aussie in Oz.
If your children face the prospect of going to terrible schools, and you don't have any recourse (like even sending them to better schools in the district), you're poor.
But if no-one's kids went to crappy schools, where would the crappy teachers teach?
It also creates a very odd pheonmenon: A machine where 25% of CPU is being used, but multitasking is sluggish.
Seems like there's a need for dual processor graphics cards :-)
There has to be a little thing called compatibility testing done first.
In Oz, organ donation is done at arm's length, as it were. The donor's family aren't told who the organ recipients are.
The only directed donations I know of that are carried out routinely here are bone marrow and kidney (doesn't happen often).
Further info here.
nahh, i need to use whatever the hell they give me at work :-/
Only 3 buttons? Ha! Me, my G4 and my 5-button MS intelli-rodent spit on your measly 3 buttons!
To counter your anecdote with mine, my work-inflicted PC running XP is very stable and I run all sorts of non-standard stuff on it. Occasional programs crap out (how the hell can a 'Save as...' dialogue box be 'Not Responding', when it's owner app has been quit???), but even iMovie4 has quit under OS X 10.3.
To summarise:
hated '95 - buggy and unstable.
Tolerate XP - stable.
Always love my Mac. Just because.
Shouldn't that be BTOD (Blue Tooth Of Death) then? Or Blue Teeth?
I think he means "less scrupulous". Of course "having less scruples" would have achieved the same thing.
Now please excuse me I have to flush my memory of that word. I have thought it too many times and it's causing problems.
And that's just how we like it.
All that money, all that education, and she can't spell "excerpts".
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Yes, but there's Speculation Street and then there's OMG!!!!! SPECULATION STREET!!!!!!!!
Reality distortion field. He makes people believe anything can happen.
And then it does.
I'm an Australian too by the way, and I find that most foreigners don't underestimate the size of Australia (it's pretty evident by looking at a globe) but are surprised by it's low population.
I find that most foreigners don't underestimate the size of Australia, but a lot of Septics overestimate the size of the USA.
To point out the exact bit:
Does Al get permission to do his parodies?
Al does get permission from the original writers of the songs that he parodies. While the law supports his ability to parody without permission, he feels it's important to maintain the relationships that he's built with artists and writers over the years. Plus, Al wants to make sure that he gets his songwriter credit (as writer of new lyrics) as well as his rightful share of the royalties.
Having said that, is JibJab's work a parody of TLIYL, or is it comedy at the expense of Bush and Kerry, using TLIYL as a means to an end? If it's the latter, then the owners of TLIYL should have the right to veto it.
I think he (OP) was referring to the driver having the screen point at him, i.e. an in-dash DVD player installed primarily so the driver can watch movies.
:-)
All of the examples you gave can be achieved without giving the driver visual access to the screen. Removing the need for people having to fumble with CDs, tapes and radio dials for music is a great idea. Entertainment for the kids is a great idea.
I'm hoping to install a DVD player in my car with screens in the back. Then I can hop in the back with the kids and let the missus drive
Couple of Walkmans and some books on tape will do for the meantime.
But you have to pay performance royalties for the people who played it on the CD.