Yet again, something absolutely useless on Slashdot has made me dumber. This time it was unfunny too. Thanks Slashdot! Two or three more like this and I'll be too retarded to type.
Let's see...I get like 36 Duracell AA's at Costco for like $11. Nope, expense isn't a problem. I'm sure my 8 AA batteries aren't the worst thing in the local landfill either.
Check on how many other $50 mice have a cable coming out of it and you'll understand why it should have Bluetooth. I'm not big on Bluetooth for mice, just wireless. But Apple's wireless mouse uses it, so it's the natural thing that it should have.
I have a wireless Logitech Click mouse, and unless Bluetooth tears through batteries more than my mouse, then batteries aren't an issue at all. I've had mine since November and I've changed the batteries four times at the max. And I think one was because the mouse was acting weird, but it turned out that I just needed to clean my desk. Batteries are hardly a pain to deal with.
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It never has, but even the lamest stuff on/. is usually better than "this guy I know at Wal-Mart says xbox 360 will cost $300."
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Did the people who submitted it even RTFA?
I quote:
Unconfirmed reports stemming from Walmart employees have today suggested a North American retail price for the Xbox 360 and its launch titles, allegedly set to arrive in shop stores on November 4th.
Now, let me repeat that with some selective highlighting:
Unconfirmed reports stemming from Walmart employees have today suggested a North American retail price for the Xbox 360 and its launch titles, allegedly set to arrive in shop stores on November 4th.
In other words, this doesn't mean jack shit. Why the hell is this news?
Yeah, I get the idea that a lot of people saw Apple + multi-button mouse and figured everything must be more than it is. I think that if Apple said "glides across your desk," people would be bitching about the fact that it doesn't actually levitate.
It's all standard marketing language. What are the chances that a company could ever possibly do something like that? The mere thought sends shivers down my spine!
Seriously though, what did you expect? Apple will wise up and drop the price on this thing by October, and hopefully have a Bluetooth version by then too. Apple claims to be a big supporter of Bluetooth with decent support in the OS, but this overpriced rodent does nothing to prove it.
I'm a fanboy, but I'll call a spade a spade. And this thing is a really overpriced spade.
But the thought that a company could possibly overstate the capabilities and features of a product! Holy shit they totally blew it out of proportion! It's actually a much smaller proportion than they claimed it is!
And you'll pay $50 for it? Good for you, you just proved that you've got more money than brains. Maybe Apple should put a Paypal link up on their site so you can donate a few dollars while you're at it, because they apparently need it.
For what it's worth, it's not a bad mouse. It's a very good one. It's just worth $30, max. They should also offer a Bluetooth version for $50. It's stupid to release a high-end mouse with a cord and still charge people for "the opportunity to use an Apple mouse" just because they'll pay it.
So "hot on the heels" apparently means "two months later?" Where do you people get your cliches? The Intel announcement was June 6. Today is August 2. Jesus, people. Stop trying to talk like you're some kind of wannabe PR student and submit stories like a normal person. At least you didn't include the obligatory rhetorical Slashdot idiot question?
Yeah, that question mark was intentional.
While I'm at it, I might as well say that I'm a big Apple fanboy, and I have to let it be known that anybody who buys a mouse for $50 is a god damn idiot, especially when the mouse isn't bluetooth.
I'm sure this will be labelled as trolling, but the illiterate person who submitted this item is apparently unaware that "environs" is not the same thing as "environment." "Environs" is the area surrounding something. So apparently Mac OS X is hanging out somewhere near corporations, perhaps in the parking lots.
I think it's a safe bet that a video iPod will support everything that Quicktime supports. They may try to push content providers toward H.264, but they know they need to support what's out there, although I doubt that will include pirated movies.
Then what's even the point? Why not just stick video on a DVD player and not have to worry about it.
I used to work at Best Buy. People are morons. The average idiot was too stupid to hook up a DVD player when all they had to do is match up colors.
Do you think the average person will have any desire to figure out how to hook up an iPod to a TV? They use the iPod because it's simple. I doubt any do that with their photos now.
Yes, you can listen to your music through a stereo by hooking the iPod up to one, but most people carry them for listening on the go or in their car.
Like I said earlier, if the iPod has the horsepower to play videos, Apple should add the software, and I think that video out would be a great thing to add too. But absolutely Apple is going to get laughed at if they think that that's what people want in a video iPod.
Those would be nice features, but a real video iPod will require a screen worth watching, and that will require some changes to the outside of the iPod.
While I occasionally see gadget-obsessed teenagers whining for something like this, I really wonder if there's any real demand.
If the iPod has the raw power to play video, I see no reason why Apple shouldn't put the software on it to do so. At the same time, I think that a lot of companies and people are overestimating the appeal of watching pirated movies on a 2-inch screen.
On the other hand, video podcasts would be nice.
On the other other hand, if Apple expects anybody to actually watch video (not just as a novelty), they're going to have to rethink the external interface of the iPod. You can't have a good sized screen and the vertical orientation of the device like it is now. There will have to be some big changes, and I really wonder if Jobs is willing to do that.
Well for the light Photoshop work that I do, the machine is more than adequate. But Photoshop work is just one small part of the job. Little things like the interface and the way Windows handles folders full of files annoy the hell out of me every day.
I could not agree with you more. It's just silly corporate bullshit that forces people to be less productive than they could be just for the sake of uniformity. The new PCs are 3.2 GHZ Dell P4's, with really nice 20" Dell LCDs, and my guess is that the whole setup cost the company around $2,000 each.
I won't argue with my company spending so much for me to have a nice computer, and it is a very nice computer, but I could be more productive on a less expensive iMac. A 20" iMac runs $1,799 these days.
I admit that it doesn't have as much horsepower as the Dell, but frankly this P4 is more than I would have ever asked for. An OS that I'm more comfortable and productive on would serve me much better than more processor speed.
Unfortunately my company doesn't give a shit about things like this. They see Dell and Pentium 4, and that's all they need to know.
My employer thankfully just bought us new 3.2 GHz PCs to replace our 1 GHz machines with Win 2K from 2001.
Screw compatible, I need to get my work done today. Those old PCs were painfully slow running Win2K. Even just simple resizing of photos in Photoshop was asking a lot.
Combine that with the fact that the interface on XP is still inconsistent crap compared to OS X, and things still take too long to accomplish.
Unless it would be screwed up by the form somehow, which I don't think it would be, you could probably format them very nicely using a list. Oh the things they can do with lists these days!
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Yet again, something absolutely useless on Slashdot has made me dumber. This time it was unfunny too. Thanks Slashdot! Two or three more like this and I'll be too retarded to type.
Let's see...I get like 36 Duracell AA's at Costco for like $11. Nope, expense isn't a problem. I'm sure my 8 AA batteries aren't the worst thing in the local landfill either.
Check on how many other $50 mice have a cable coming out of it and you'll understand why it should have Bluetooth. I'm not big on Bluetooth for mice, just wireless. But Apple's wireless mouse uses it, so it's the natural thing that it should have.
I have a wireless Logitech Click mouse, and unless Bluetooth tears through batteries more than my mouse, then batteries aren't an issue at all. I've had mine since November and I've changed the batteries four times at the max. And I think one was because the mouse was acting weird, but it turned out that I just needed to clean my desk. Batteries are hardly a pain to deal with.
It never has, but even the lamest stuff on /. is usually better than "this guy I know at Wal-Mart says xbox 360 will cost $300."
Did the people who submitted it even RTFA?
I quote:
Unconfirmed reports stemming from Walmart employees have today suggested a North American retail price for the Xbox 360 and its launch titles, allegedly set to arrive in shop stores on November 4th.
Now, let me repeat that with some selective highlighting:
Unconfirmed reports stemming from Walmart employees have today suggested a North American retail price for the Xbox 360 and its launch titles, allegedly set to arrive in shop stores on November 4th.
In other words, this doesn't mean jack shit. Why the hell is this news?
Yeah, I get the idea that a lot of people saw Apple + multi-button mouse and figured everything must be more than it is. I think that if Apple said "glides across your desk," people would be bitching about the fact that it doesn't actually levitate.
It's all standard marketing language. What are the chances that a company could ever possibly do something like that? The mere thought sends shivers down my spine!
Seriously though, what did you expect? Apple will wise up and drop the price on this thing by October, and hopefully have a Bluetooth version by then too. Apple claims to be a big supporter of Bluetooth with decent support in the OS, but this overpriced rodent does nothing to prove it.
I'm a fanboy, but I'll call a spade a spade. And this thing is a really overpriced spade.
But the thought that a company could possibly overstate the capabilities and features of a product! Holy shit they totally blew it out of proportion! It's actually a much smaller proportion than they claimed it is!
I feel so violated!
They'll probably also tell me how "beleagured PC maker Apple" is ready to shut down any day now. The laws of economics don't seem to apply to Apple.
And you'll pay $50 for it? Good for you, you just proved that you've got more money than brains. Maybe Apple should put a Paypal link up on their site so you can donate a few dollars while you're at it, because they apparently need it. For what it's worth, it's not a bad mouse. It's a very good one. It's just worth $30, max. They should also offer a Bluetooth version for $50. It's stupid to release a high-end mouse with a cord and still charge people for "the opportunity to use an Apple mouse" just because they'll pay it.
So "hot on the heels" apparently means "two months later?" Where do you people get your cliches? The Intel announcement was June 6. Today is August 2. Jesus, people. Stop trying to talk like you're some kind of wannabe PR student and submit stories like a normal person. At least you didn't include the obligatory rhetorical Slashdot idiot question? Yeah, that question mark was intentional. While I'm at it, I might as well say that I'm a big Apple fanboy, and I have to let it be known that anybody who buys a mouse for $50 is a god damn idiot, especially when the mouse isn't bluetooth.
I'm sure this will be labelled as trolling, but the illiterate person who submitted this item is apparently unaware that "environs" is not the same thing as "environment." "Environs" is the area surrounding something. So apparently Mac OS X is hanging out somewhere near corporations, perhaps in the parking lots.
"Environs"
I think it's a safe bet that a video iPod will support everything that Quicktime supports. They may try to push content providers toward H.264, but they know they need to support what's out there, although I doubt that will include pirated movies.
Then what's even the point? Why not just stick video on a DVD player and not have to worry about it. I used to work at Best Buy. People are morons. The average idiot was too stupid to hook up a DVD player when all they had to do is match up colors. Do you think the average person will have any desire to figure out how to hook up an iPod to a TV? They use the iPod because it's simple. I doubt any do that with their photos now. Yes, you can listen to your music through a stereo by hooking the iPod up to one, but most people carry them for listening on the go or in their car. Like I said earlier, if the iPod has the horsepower to play videos, Apple should add the software, and I think that video out would be a great thing to add too. But absolutely Apple is going to get laughed at if they think that that's what people want in a video iPod. Those would be nice features, but a real video iPod will require a screen worth watching, and that will require some changes to the outside of the iPod.
Never enough.
While I occasionally see gadget-obsessed teenagers whining for something like this, I really wonder if there's any real demand.
If the iPod has the raw power to play video, I see no reason why Apple shouldn't put the software on it to do so. At the same time, I think that a lot of companies and people are overestimating the appeal of watching pirated movies on a 2-inch screen.
On the other hand, video podcasts would be nice.
On the other other hand, if Apple expects anybody to actually watch video (not just as a novelty), they're going to have to rethink the external interface of the iPod. You can't have a good sized screen and the vertical orientation of the device like it is now. There will have to be some big changes, and I really wonder if Jobs is willing to do that.
No iPod, No iTunes, No Deal.
That pretty much sums it up.
Well for the light Photoshop work that I do, the machine is more than adequate. But Photoshop work is just one small part of the job. Little things like the interface and the way Windows handles folders full of files annoy the hell out of me every day.
They were Gateway P3's. My current Dell P4 is pretty nice, but I have to admit that I really do feel that it should be faster than it is.
I could not agree with you more. It's just silly corporate bullshit that forces people to be less productive than they could be just for the sake of uniformity. The new PCs are 3.2 GHZ Dell P4's, with really nice 20" Dell LCDs, and my guess is that the whole setup cost the company around $2,000 each.
I won't argue with my company spending so much for me to have a nice computer, and it is a very nice computer, but I could be more productive on a less expensive iMac. A 20" iMac runs $1,799 these days.
I admit that it doesn't have as much horsepower as the Dell, but frankly this P4 is more than I would have ever asked for. An OS that I'm more comfortable and productive on would serve me much better than more processor speed.
Unfortunately my company doesn't give a shit about things like this. They see Dell and Pentium 4, and that's all they need to know.
My employer thankfully just bought us new 3.2 GHz PCs to replace our 1 GHz machines with Win 2K from 2001.
Screw compatible, I need to get my work done today. Those old PCs were painfully slow running Win2K. Even just simple resizing of photos in Photoshop was asking a lot.
Combine that with the fact that the interface on XP is still inconsistent crap compared to OS X, and things still take too long to accomplish.
This is the dumbest thing I will read all day. I'm sure everybody will really rush out to buy Longhorn now. Not that they were planning to before.
How about this new study: 99.999% of consumers have no idea WTF blu-ray is, making the previous study essentially meaningless.
Not that I'm bashing blu-ray; it's clearly superior, but average Joe Best Buy has no god damn clue.
Sad as it is to say, but 'splosions are about the only thing that get the public to care about the space shuttle.
At least there's Mars, bitches.
Unless it would be screwed up by the form somehow, which I don't think it would be, you could probably format them very nicely using a list. Oh the things they can do with lists these days!
I'll believe it when my screen goes blank.