almost all those toys survived through the entire century. I'm surprised barbie or hula hoops arn't on that list. Beanie babies and razors were definate fads though. Rubix cubes will live forever because it's especially educational for young ones but fun for people of all ages. Really though, iPod should be the most recent one.
"While he notes in the comments section that iTunes is the best of the worst, he admits to using third-party tools to remove the DRM from iTunes tracks."
think about this for a second. This guy invested $13000 and made it back in a year. So after a year or so he has not gained any profit. In a year you could have a job making $13000 profit. Sure maybe next year he'll have made 13000, but this is just breaking even. No big deal.
imo the #1 reason why the video ipod hasn't had the spark apple think it deserves is because portable video (dvd and hdd based) never became so widely successful and most likely never will be. Unlike music, which takes up only one sense for entertainment, video takes up two. In otherwords, with music you don't necesarily have to set aside time to listen to it, which is why a music ipod was such a logical success. However, with video you do and for most people to set aside time to watch things on a little screen is asking for too much. Yes, it can be plugged into a tv, and yes, you can watch it on an airplane but that's not frequent enough for people to want to buy it.
There's no satisfaction like the satisfaction i get when I adjust my photos in picasa2 to perfection, and print them out just the way I want them on my sony dye-sub photo printer. The result is lab-quality prints. Yes I could print these photos at a store for much less, but as others have mentioned, convenience is what people pay for.
The same goes with buying expensive televisions such as projectors for watching movies. Sure you could pay $9 to go see a movie at the theater but for a ~$1000 projector and a ~$15 DVD movie you could watch the movie right in the comfort of your own home. With photos, you could drop off your photos at the lab and pay 10cents per print OR pay ~200 for a dye-sub photo printer plus 30cents-60cents per print in the convenience and comfort of your own home immediately.
However, that's not to say I never use the lab. If I had to print 150 photos say from a wedding I'd go with dropping off a cd at cosco because buying 150 prints at a time for my little dye-sub would render me broke. Obviously, I use my little dye-sub for when I want one or a few photos printed for a friend or for my albums immediately. 48% photos printed at home would make sense if people followed my logic. But it could just as well be split entirely. Just remember, convenience is a wonderful thing to have.
Sure there have been less moviegoers in recent years and yes movie piracy has risen but the MPAA forget some other factors that can affect the decline in "moviegoers" mentioned in the article such as the widespread availability and purchasing of DVDs and DVD players that provide home theater quality films at affordable costs to everyone, and bigger TVs that have also become very affordable to more people.
And because of that, for the people who live in suburbia where there are people with large screens and dvd collections, inviting a few friends over for popcorn and a movie is much more social and convenient than going to the theater. That's what I see more often these days among people of all ages. The rise of the middle class is more evident than ever and it shows in every aspect of the economy.
that will get lost very easily and run out of battery even quicker when you can buy a good old fashioned everything that it can do for less? The target age is 9-14 but by the time I was 12 any pen larger than the deluxe BIC one with a rubber grip was already too phony for us "teenagers". I highly doubt anyone older than the age of 11 would really want a $99 penputer to show off in english class. The games will probably get really boring really quickly and the pen will loose its snazz.
The point is, technology has only become a necesity of life because we've made it one, but notime soon will kids be behind technology for not owning a little expensive leapfrog pen. I tried organizing life on a palm pilot once in middle school only to realize it was horribly inconvenient. An expensive pen that doesn't have half the functionality of a palm pilot wouldn't be any different.
"According to the article the missing books will be replaced by "colorful overstuffed chairs for lounging, barstools for people watching, and booths for group work. In addition to almost 250 desktop computers, there will be 75 laptops available for checkout, wireless Internet access, computer labs, software suites, a multimedia studio, a computer help desk and repair shop, and a cafe.""
Laid back lounge? Overimplementation of technology? Yep sounds like Texas to me.
I have to agree with you 100% on this. I once tried taking notes on my ipaq in a physics class but failed miserably because as you said there just isn't enough space or speed to make diagrams. Pen and paper was quicker
Armed with my Toshiba Libretto or Fujitsu Lifebook though in history class in my freshman and sophmore year, I could take notes without getting my hands all fatigued from writing; having a laptop did pay off in history class-and still does. However, unless you have a 2lb or 3lb superlightweight notebook like I do, lugging a laptop for just one class is a bit much-not to mention powering the thing once the battery runs low.
So if you're majoring in history or some class where there arn't any diagrams, a laptop works wonders when it comes to notetaking, but for the other 80% of classes, it's just not useful yet.
Compared to other names which were really pretty lame: Windows Windows 3.0 Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows eXPerience (getting a little better but now much) I'd say Windows Vista is a pleasant change as well.
from the screenshots, it looks like mandrake is starting to look more and more like WinXP, especially the system "control panel". Wasn't the point of moving to linux to move away from windows? Ah well at least it doesn't look anywhere near as bad as XPde
Good point, but there's a good chance the coders of GTA3:SA knew that nude figures shouldn't have been in an M rated game in the first place. Even if just for fun, someone really f*cked up big time here by being lazy and forgetting to cut it out.
"What would the reason be to put it in there then? Perhaps the publicity that they are getting now? My 8 y/o son would not have known about GTA except that it has been in the news lately. (Yep, an 8 y/o that watches the news)"
Publicity could definately be a reason to put it in there. Similar to presidential campaign ads that have subluminal messages or just flat out lie-yes, like those pro Bush TV ads, first spread by the media in 2000 that flashed one frame with the word "RATS", and like last year that Swiftboat campaign that told all those guys who said "I "served" with John Kerry and he's a liar" falsehoods.
Publicity may not have been intended by the coders at Rockstar, but as shown in the past where a TV ad containing a subliminal message that only aired in a few states made its rounds across the country through the media, the media can be very harmful, (in Bush's case, to his running opponents, and in Rockstar's case, to competitors) because whether people like it or not it's almost impossible not to associate Democrats as "DemoRATS" after just seeing the commercial, just as Malcom Gladwell says in Blink that through indoctrinated stereotypes people are more likely to associate a black man with the weapon. Likewise, teeagers across the world (who, not to mention are curious in every which way) will see Rockstar as "cool" now because sex is on every teenager's mind. And mothers who see sex in rockstar games will now more likely associate videogames with sex. It's Rockstar's fault for sweeping sex under the rug and forgetting to clean it up, but in the end, Rockstar has gained a "bad boy" stigma.
Rockstar, just like Bush, has now gained publicity (good or not regardless) and we can see from the the past two US elections that while bad publicity might hurt, it can heal faster. I realize I've rambled for a while now bashing the media when this website is the media. So 'tis all.
Popups let you respond to ads voluntarily. Is this new? Not really. But I think it's a step down for TIVO as a major feature was the ability to pause TV and skip through the commercials. Yes it's been argued over and over again. I'm just reitterating, 'tis a sad day in PVR history when they make it sound like a good thing you now have a "choice" in sending your personal info when TIVO ads on top of commericals are bad enough.
out of curiosity, what kind of custumers have you had that are open to making the jump to linux? Old people tired of wasting money on repair to care? I think it's incredible that you can even convince someone to switch to something they've probably only heard about from the linux junkie next door; Afterall, once they realize that they won't be able to install any off-the-shelf software on their system, and that installing anything in linux is no mindless task, i'd imagine they'll just end up buying another windows machine. `
I'm a big linux fan even though I'm guilty of being a big windows junkie (mostly for convenience of gaming and multimedia software like photoshop and premiere etc) but kudos to you for acually converting some users and "showing them the way" so to speak. In all my life I've never met a tech who's acually thought about telling their clients to use anything other than windows (largely because spyware cleanup/system reformatting brings them regular business). Nevetheless, I'm glad to see there are people out there doing the public good and making the cyberworld a safer place.
It's been more than 25 years since the first three episodes came out. So much has changed then that if movies taking place after episode 6 were to to be made now episodes 4,5,and 6 would just be smack in the middle of a bunch of episodes made with cg and crummy love scenes. Episode III was welll worth the wait, but I think it's time to put the series to rest.
I just ordered Verizon Fios at 15mbps/2mbps hoping that soon IPTV would become available to use all that yummy bandwidth. Now it seems I'll just have way more bandwidth than what I'll know what to do with.
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cbs programming sucks! so does realplayer! Why google would make these their favorites i don't know.
almost all those toys survived through the entire century. I'm surprised barbie or hula hoops arn't on that list. Beanie babies and razors were definate fads though. Rubix cubes will live forever because it's especially educational for young ones but fun for people of all ages. Really though, iPod should be the most recent one.
"While he notes in the comments section that iTunes is the best of the worst, he admits to using third-party tools to remove the DRM from iTunes tracks."
oh, the Irony!
think about this for a second. This guy invested $13000 and made it back in a year. So after a year or so he has not gained any profit. In a year you could have a job making $13000 profit. Sure maybe next year he'll have made 13000, but this is just breaking even. No big deal.
"laws are a human institution!" sure they'll get in trouble, but why not do what's best for humanity?
imo the #1 reason why the video ipod hasn't had the spark apple think it deserves is because portable video (dvd and hdd based) never became so widely successful and most likely never will be. Unlike music, which takes up only one sense for entertainment, video takes up two. In otherwords, with music you don't necesarily have to set aside time to listen to it, which is why a music ipod was such a logical success. However, with video you do and for most people to set aside time to watch things on a little screen is asking for too much. Yes, it can be plugged into a tv, and yes, you can watch it on an airplane but that's not frequent enough for people to want to buy it.
There's no satisfaction like the satisfaction i get when I adjust my photos in picasa2 to perfection, and print them out just the way I want them on my sony dye-sub photo printer. The result is lab-quality prints. Yes I could print these photos at a store for much less, but as others have mentioned, convenience is what people pay for.
The same goes with buying expensive televisions such as projectors for watching movies. Sure you could pay $9 to go see a movie at the theater but for a ~$1000 projector and a ~$15 DVD movie you could watch the movie right in the comfort of your own home. With photos, you could drop off your photos at the lab and pay 10cents per print OR pay ~200 for a dye-sub photo printer plus 30cents-60cents per print in the convenience and comfort of your own home immediately. However, that's not to say I never use the lab. If I had to print 150 photos say from a wedding I'd go with dropping off a cd at cosco because buying 150 prints at a time for my little dye-sub would render me broke. Obviously, I use my little dye-sub for when I want one or a few photos printed for a friend or for my albums immediately. 48% photos printed at home would make sense if people followed my logic. But it could just as well be split entirely. Just remember, convenience is a wonderful thing to have.
Here's the Mirrordot.org Mirror
I go straight to mirrordot whenever a site gets "slashdotted". cherio!
Sure there have been less moviegoers in recent years and yes movie piracy has risen but the MPAA forget some other factors that can affect the decline in "moviegoers" mentioned in the article such as the widespread availability and purchasing of DVDs and DVD players that provide home theater quality films at affordable costs to everyone, and bigger TVs that have also become very affordable to more people.
And because of that, for the people who live in suburbia where there are people with large screens and dvd collections, inviting a few friends over for popcorn and a movie is much more social and convenient than going to the theater. That's what I see more often these days among people of all ages. The rise of the middle class is more evident than ever and it shows in every aspect of the economy.
that will get lost very easily and run out of battery even quicker when you can buy a good old fashioned everything that it can do for less? The target age is 9-14 but by the time I was 12 any pen larger than the deluxe BIC one with a rubber grip was already too phony for us "teenagers". I highly doubt anyone older than the age of 11 would really want a $99 penputer to show off in english class. The games will probably get really boring really quickly and the pen will loose its snazz.
The point is, technology has only become a necesity of life because we've made it one, but notime soon will kids be behind technology for not owning a little expensive leapfrog pen. I tried organizing life on a palm pilot once in middle school only to realize it was horribly inconvenient. An expensive pen that doesn't have half the functionality of a palm pilot wouldn't be any different.
"According to the article the missing books will be replaced by "colorful overstuffed chairs for lounging, barstools for people watching, and booths for group work. In addition to almost 250 desktop computers, there will be 75 laptops available for checkout, wireless Internet access, computer labs, software suites, a multimedia studio, a computer help desk and repair shop, and a cafe.""
Laid back lounge? Overimplementation of technology? Yep sounds like Texas to me.
I have to agree with you 100% on this. I once tried taking notes on my ipaq in a physics class but failed miserably because as you said there just isn't enough space or speed to make diagrams. Pen and paper was quicker Armed with my Toshiba Libretto or Fujitsu Lifebook though in history class in my freshman and sophmore year, I could take notes without getting my hands all fatigued from writing; having a laptop did pay off in history class-and still does. However, unless you have a 2lb or 3lb superlightweight notebook like I do, lugging a laptop for just one class is a bit much-not to mention powering the thing once the battery runs low. So if you're majoring in history or some class where there arn't any diagrams, a laptop works wonders when it comes to notetaking, but for the other 80% of classes, it's just not useful yet.
Compared to other names which were really pretty lame:
Windows
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows eXPerience (getting a little better but now much)
I'd say Windows Vista is a pleasant change as well.
from the screenshots, it looks like mandrake is starting to look more and more like WinXP, especially the system "control panel". Wasn't the point of moving to linux to move away from windows? Ah well at least it doesn't look anywhere near as bad as XPde
Good point, but there's a good chance the coders of GTA3:SA knew that nude figures shouldn't have been in an M rated game in the first place. Even if just for fun, someone really f*cked up big time here by being lazy and forgetting to cut it out.
"What would the reason be to put it in there then? Perhaps the publicity that they are getting now? My 8 y/o son would not have known about GTA except that it has been in the news lately. (Yep, an 8 y/o that watches the news)"
Publicity could definately be a reason to put it in there. Similar to presidential campaign ads that have subluminal messages or just flat out lie-yes, like those pro Bush TV ads, first spread by the media in 2000 that flashed one frame with the word "RATS", and like last year that Swiftboat campaign that told all those guys who said "I "served" with John Kerry and he's a liar" falsehoods.
Publicity may not have been intended by the coders at Rockstar, but as shown in the past where a TV ad containing a subliminal message that only aired in a few states made its rounds across the country through the media, the media can be very harmful, (in Bush's case, to his running opponents, and in Rockstar's case, to competitors) because whether people like it or not it's almost impossible not to associate Democrats as "DemoRATS" after just seeing the commercial, just as Malcom Gladwell says in Blink that through indoctrinated stereotypes people are more likely to associate a black man with the weapon. Likewise, teeagers across the world (who, not to mention are curious in every which way) will see Rockstar as "cool" now because sex is on every teenager's mind. And mothers who see sex in rockstar games will now more likely associate videogames with sex. It's Rockstar's fault for sweeping sex under the rug and forgetting to clean it up, but in the end, Rockstar has gained a "bad boy" stigma.
Rockstar, just like Bush, has now gained publicity (good or not regardless) and we can see from the the past two US elections that while bad publicity might hurt, it can heal faster. I realize I've rambled for a while now bashing the media when this website is the media. So 'tis all.
Popups let you respond to ads voluntarily. Is this new? Not really. But I think it's a step down for TIVO as a major feature was the ability to pause TV and skip through the commercials. Yes it's been argued over and over again. I'm just reitterating, 'tis a sad day in PVR history when they make it sound like a good thing you now have a "choice" in sending your personal info when TIVO ads on top of commericals are bad enough.
out of curiosity, what kind of custumers have you had that are open to making the jump to linux? Old people tired of wasting money on repair to care? I think it's incredible that you can even convince someone to switch to something they've probably only heard about from the linux junkie next door; Afterall, once they realize that they won't be able to install any off-the-shelf software on their system, and that installing anything in linux is no mindless task, i'd imagine they'll just end up buying another windows machine. `
I'm a big linux fan even though I'm guilty of being a big windows junkie (mostly for convenience of gaming and multimedia software like photoshop and premiere etc) but kudos to you for acually converting some users and "showing them the way" so to speak. In all my life I've never met a tech who's acually thought about telling their clients to use anything other than windows (largely because spyware cleanup/system reformatting brings them regular business). Nevetheless, I'm glad to see there are people out there doing the public good and making the cyberworld a safer place.
I want a Microsoft OS that crashes as much as my toaster. oh, and liberation from virus/spyware/etc for all! That will be the day that I die.
It's been more than 25 years since the first three episodes came out. So much has changed then that if movies taking place after episode 6 were to to be made now episodes 4,5,and 6 would just be smack in the middle of a bunch of episodes made with cg and crummy love scenes. Episode III was welll worth the wait, but I think it's time to put the series to rest.
They finally figured them out!. Now if I strap enough of these flying snakes to my arms I'll be able to fly!
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I just ordered Verizon Fios at 15mbps/2mbps hoping that soon IPTV would become available to use all that yummy bandwidth. Now it seems I'll just have way more bandwidth than what I'll know what to do with.
'In other news, terrorists have been charged with breeding weapons of mass destruction...'