According to this article, "Apple has just hived off iPod into a separate division under Jon Rubenstein, formerly head of hardware development. Despite protestations, maybe there really is a video iPod (or PDA-Pod or mobile phone-Pod) in the works.".
For all you know, there will be a cellphone designed by Apple. I imagine if they use the iPod Touch Wheel for an interface, it would bring back the act of rotationally "dialing" a phone number.
Have you seen the Creative Labs Zen Touch? It looksso similar to the iPod and also has a touch-sensitive scrolling interface navigation method. Even the screen looks nearly identical. It seems Creative Labs has done just what you said.
As recently as a month ago, "He was on the computer every day," Teeler said Wednesday. "He is a man who literally worked just about every day until he died. He felt at home sitting in front of a (computer) screen."
Do you people think he knew about Slashdot? Maybe he actually had an account and got involved with the story discussions. For all you know, he may have been a regular comment and story submitter on this site and nobody will notice his disappearance. Just a thought.
I know the bit you've described regarding the "Retro-reflective Material"(.pdf), but the University of Tokyo page also says it involves this X'tal Vision thing that somehow involves projection only visible on the material. I don't think the site was clear on it, so I don't get how it is involved. Look at the pictures, though.
Hi. I just wanted you to know that some people were able to understand that your comment was sarcastic humour, not to be taken literally. Or at least I was. This site can get up to half a million viewers a day, and you're bound to run into some at the low end of the bell curve when it comes to getting a joke;)
That's probably part of the technology they used, mentioned in a previous story about "Invisible Cloaks, Translucent Walls". Otherwise, I don't see how they would be able to project an image on a material without the projection appearing around it.
I came across this on the internet when I was looking for something on RGB lasers a while back, and this just now. Ever since I heard that blue lasers had been invented years ago, I've been waiting for them to be used for projection displays, because there already were green and red ones.
I think they could be better than projectors that used lamps because they could probably last longer. They shouldn't need to be focused either, because a laser can act like a scan line on a surface directly (like an electron gun in a CRT) and achieve greater resolution. However, I'm not sure if that's how these existing RGB laser projectors work.
It continues a trend that began two years ago when Stewart Filmscreen Corp., a leading U.S. maker of screens, began selling a light-gray screen that enhanced the images from projectors using digital chips.
I'm just guessing, but since they said "digital chips" rather than LCDs, maybe it has to do more with DLP Projectors rather than LCD Projectors. Although LCD projectors can be brighter than DLP projectors, the pixels aren't as obvious on DLPs. Perhaps since brightness is a problem, this screen may be better suited to enhance a DLP projection. DLPs are supposed to be popular for home theaters.
Better yet, does anybody know how he folded those things? They're amazing! It reminds me of the works of Buckminster Fuller, Kenneth Snelson, and Chuck Hoberman in that they have an underlying mathematical model that also exhibits "elegance and simplicity". I love this kind of art.
People should be able to submit story ideas and scripts, and have others review them, all through ther website. Kind of like this site, I guess, but the other users get to vote on good stories. So the website just turns into this big story making machine. They would possibly come across some brilliant screen writers lurking somewhere on the net that would provide them with unbelievable material.
If you got a bunch of linux users to play "devil's advocate" and come up with reasons to explain advantages of using Windows over using Linux, they would have done a better job than these infomercial drop-outs mentioned in the article. Seriously, for company that has such deep pockets, they seem to manage to blow all their money on the worst there is, from programming quality to advertising and PR. Either they're being stingy and are holding back on spending for quality, or they don't care that they're throwing money away hiring people who just take the cash and do a half-assed job.
The SuperDrive on my PowerBook couldn't handle the copy protection on a CD I bought a while back, so I simply stopped buying CD's because I use my computer as my stereo, and some stores don't take returns. I have an iPod too. If it won't go on my iPod, I don't want it. I didn't have a problem with buying CD's before. I used to buy tons of them. I'd even buy a whole album just for one song, rather than just getting a single. I'm the kind of customer they are alienating. I've decided to just boycott buying music because of this. There's always radio anyway, internet or free-to-air.
What I'd like to see are stores that specifically sell CD's without this kind of crap. These "copy protection" labels are usually hidden very obscurely in the fine print. I'd like to see CD's with huge "NO COPY PROTECTION" labels on them that you could see from across the music store. And I'd like online MP3 download music services for independent music getting together. I can't access the iTunes Music Store. It is taking too slow to get to different countries, and they sell music from the record companies I want to boycott anyway.
Here are a list of the MP3 sites I've come up with. If other people know of other sites, please post them. And if I'm mistaken about any on this list, please say so.
"It seems that Capitol Records has some sort of new copy protection system, that automatically, silently, installs "helpful" copy protection software on MacOS and Windows as soon as you insert the CD into default systems."
"They include some sort of uninstaller buried on there for Windows, but I see no such thing for MacOS."
I've never heard of something like the "autorun" feature for Mac OS. Is there one? Or was the person who wrote this unfamiliar with Mac OS and just presumed it had one?
That happens all the time on this site. The submissions page says "grousing about rejected submissions is Offtopic and usually gets moderated that way. It happens, don't take it personally". They get up to half a million viewers a day, and that happens often.
If work can be so easily ousourced to other countries, then have those jobs your looking at 'outsourced' to you, without you having to be there physically.
Building a "record player that can play anything" (his phrase) is the first step.
The thing is, that is what the WWW has been for literature for over a decade. It is a medium that any book can be published on, but it never took off as one. He does propose half a solution in telling Microsoft what not to do, mainly by not applying DRM to constrain material. But he doesn't say what kind of business model Microsoft should implement in order to allow people to earn a living producing material. Although, in all honesty, I don't have a clue myself what that would be.
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According to this article, "Apple has just hived off iPod into a separate division under Jon Rubenstein, formerly head of hardware development. Despite protestations, maybe there really is a video iPod (or PDA-Pod or mobile phone-Pod) in the works.".
For all you know, there will be a cellphone designed by Apple. I imagine if they use the iPod Touch Wheel for an interface, it would bring back the act of rotationally "dialing" a phone number.
Have you seen the Creative Labs Zen Touch? It looks so similar to the iPod and also has a touch-sensitive scrolling interface navigation method. Even the screen looks nearly identical. It seems Creative Labs has done just what you said.
As recently as a month ago, "He was on the computer every day," Teeler said Wednesday. "He is a man who literally worked just about every day until he died. He felt at home sitting in front of a (computer) screen."
Do you people think he knew about Slashdot? Maybe he actually had an account and got involved with the story discussions. For all you know, he may have been a regular comment and story submitter on this site and nobody will notice his disappearance. Just a thought.
... you know, like OS X <ducking>
I know what you mean. They couldn't even handle the power management on my laptop, and they think I'm going to let them run power through my body?
I know the bit you've described regarding the "Retro-reflective Material"(.pdf), but the University of Tokyo page also says it involves this X'tal Vision thing that somehow involves projection only visible on the material. I don't think the site was clear on it, so I don't get how it is involved. Look at the pictures, though.
Hi. I just wanted you to know that some people were able to understand that your comment was sarcastic humour, not to be taken literally. Or at least I was. This site can get up to half a million viewers a day, and you're bound to run into some at the low end of the bell curve when it comes to getting a joke ;)
FUD... check out UrbanDictionary.com whenever you run into this kind of slang. It has a lot of computer slang definitions.
This "Get the Facts" tour sounds like a Jon Lovitz "liar" sketch on Saturday Night Live.
That's probably part of the technology they used, mentioned in a previous story about "Invisible Cloaks, Translucent Walls". Otherwise, I don't see how they would be able to project an image on a material without the projection appearing around it.
I came across this on the internet when I was looking for something on RGB lasers a while back, and this just now. Ever since I heard that blue lasers had been invented years ago, I've been waiting for them to be used for projection displays, because there already were green and red ones.
I think they could be better than projectors that used lamps because they could probably last longer. They shouldn't need to be focused either, because a laser can act like a scan line on a surface directly (like an electron gun in a CRT) and achieve greater resolution. However, I'm not sure if that's how these existing RGB laser projectors work.
It continues a trend that began two years ago when Stewart Filmscreen Corp., a leading U.S. maker of screens, began selling a light-gray screen that enhanced the images from projectors using digital chips.
I'm just guessing, but since they said "digital chips" rather than LCDs, maybe it has to do more with DLP Projectors rather than LCD Projectors. Although LCD projectors can be brighter than DLP projectors, the pixels aren't as obvious on DLPs. Perhaps since brightness is a problem, this screen may be better suited to enhance a DLP projection. DLPs are supposed to be popular for home theaters.
Better yet, does anybody know how he folded those things? They're amazing! It reminds me of the works of Buckminster Fuller, Kenneth Snelson, and Chuck Hoberman in that they have an underlying mathematical model that also exhibits "elegance and simplicity". I love this kind of art.
It looks like these are steps more in the direction that Cory Doctorow of the EFF thinks things should go, mentioned in a previous story on Slashdot.
People should be able to submit story ideas and scripts, and have others review them, all through ther website. Kind of like this site, I guess, but the other users get to vote on good stories. So the website just turns into this big story making machine. They would possibly come across some brilliant screen writers lurking somewhere on the net that would provide them with unbelievable material.
Do a well-done mini-series on Star Fleet academy
Great. Star Trek: 90210
If you got a bunch of linux users to play "devil's advocate" and come up with reasons to explain advantages of using Windows over using Linux, they would have done a better job than these infomercial drop-outs mentioned in the article. Seriously, for company that has such deep pockets, they seem to manage to blow all their money on the worst there is, from programming quality to advertising and PR. Either they're being stingy and are holding back on spending for quality, or they don't care that they're throwing money away hiring people who just take the cash and do a half-assed job.
The SuperDrive on my PowerBook couldn't handle the copy protection on a CD I bought a while back, so I simply stopped buying CD's because I use my computer as my stereo, and some stores don't take returns. I have an iPod too. If it won't go on my iPod, I don't want it. I didn't have a problem with buying CD's before. I used to buy tons of them. I'd even buy a whole album just for one song, rather than just getting a single. I'm the kind of customer they are alienating. I've decided to just boycott buying music because of this. There's always radio anyway, internet or free-to-air.
What I'd like to see are stores that specifically sell CD's without this kind of crap. These "copy protection" labels are usually hidden very obscurely in the fine print. I'd like to see CD's with huge "NO COPY PROTECTION" labels on them that you could see from across the music store. And I'd like online MP3 download music services for independent music getting together. I can't access the iTunes Music Store. It is taking too slow to get to different countries, and they sell music from the record companies I want to boycott anyway.
Here are a list of the MP3 sites I've come up with. If other people know of other sites, please post them. And if I'm mistaken about any on this list, please say so.
Quotes from the story links...
"It seems that Capitol Records has some sort of new copy protection system, that automatically, silently, installs "helpful" copy protection software on MacOS and Windows as soon as you insert the CD into default systems."
"They include some sort of uninstaller buried on there for Windows, but I see no such thing for MacOS."
I've never heard of something like the "autorun" feature for Mac OS. Is there one? Or was the person who wrote this unfamiliar with Mac OS and just presumed it had one?
That happens all the time on this site. The submissions page says "grousing about rejected submissions is Offtopic and usually gets moderated that way. It happens, don't take it personally". They get up to half a million viewers a day, and that happens often.
Anybody care to fill in the blank?
One word... NEPOTISM!
If work can be so easily ousourced to other countries, then have those jobs your looking at 'outsourced' to you, without you having to be there physically.
Read Larry Lessig's "The Future of Ideas" for more on that train of thought.
I was hoping that "The Future of Ideas" website was a version of the book published on the web, but no, it's basically just an ad for the book. :)
Building a "record player that can play anything" (his phrase) is the first step.
The thing is, that is what the WWW has been for literature for over a decade. It is a medium that any book can be published on, but it never took off as one. He does propose half a solution in telling Microsoft what not to do, mainly by not applying DRM to constrain material. But he doesn't say what kind of business model Microsoft should implement in order to allow people to earn a living producing material. Although, in all honesty, I don't have a clue myself what that would be.
Yeah, but your original post is modded a -1 Troll, so nobody can see that I was actually responding to your comment!