Finally, the LED backlight improves battery life, another majorly important factor for an ultra-portable machine.
Subjectively, battery life proved to be slightly improved over the TZ11MN, which was quite impressive itself. You're probably looking at around seven hours battery life, depending on how bright you set the screen and whether you're using wireless.
You can look at the Wikipedia entry on video game consoles, but PONG, the Coleco Telstar and the Magnavox Odyssey were considered the first generation. After that came the Atari/ColecoVision generation.
Also, you've got your generations mixed up. Dreamcast wasn't in the same generation as Nintendo 64 -- that was Saturn (which nobody remembers 'cause it sucked anyhow). Dreamcast was part of the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube generation, but I guess the confusion could stem from its release coming in the tail of the previous generation and getting crushed by PlayStation 2.
It's impossible to say newspapers are going to drop off the face of the planet. There are a couple of main reasons why the consideration to necessarily adapt to these new technologies is ridiculous.
(1) People should not be listening to tycoons who don't give a damn about the industry. Murdoch is telling people to blow money into new tech, when newspapers just need to stick to their guns. Good newspapers really need to do one thing: produce good content. Instead of trying to figure out podcasting and instant feedback and 10,000 ways to produce for the mobile Web, these organizations should stick to journalism. Break the story, update it, and follow through. If the story can be told several ways, tell them through these venues when appropriate. There's no reason to go crazy with figuring out all of these new things to do at the same time.
(2) Most importantly, local coverage has been completely ignored, and it's probably the most significant weapon a local newspaper has in its arsenal. With the slight caveat of http://newsvine.com/, newspapers have inherent control of their local area. Nobody can tell a story better than they can in their town. A good city paper will beat out the NYT bureau in that city almost every day. When a smart newspaper understands this, it can find revenue from these streams. Obviously no newspaper Web site is going to try to charge for national and international stories, but the local coverage is worth something that you can't buy from many other places.
Really, newspapers will need to strike a balance of what the community needs. Large news organizations can fill the niche of on-demand content. Newspapers need to reach deep and understand their core.
Or, considering that it comes for free with the Operating System, you could just never use it? Seriously, you could not take any of those, but at some point you will probably need QuickTime, simply to play a.mov file.
Mac OS X is much different from Microsoft's Windows, especially considering the browser != the file manager.
It's a nice movie, arguably, except for the overly repetitive "Courtesy of Apple," but it doesn't say anything that nobody's hear before. That Schiller quote is everywhere.
Sure, it's your money, but why would you sell everything you currently have of Apple? There's no guinea pig part of having a G4 or G5 system -- these are and will continue to be supported, as the keynote had said. How long, nobody knows, but all hardware is eventually worthless.
The experience Apple creates is arguably not THAT much better, but it is better. And what are you comparing Photoshop on? An eMac 1GHz with a P4 3.6GHz? What's the real "MUCH faster"?
You have no real basis for your argument. If it wasn't so much better, then why did you wait for a processor switch to air your discontent?
I believe the key words there were "used to." If I remember correctly, some old Walkman models were built like tanks. Obviously, you're not going to find the same quality today.
Fair enough, you are always near an electric source. But isn't the main point of a *portable* to take it with you, away from electrical sources? We all know we can keep portables plugged in all the time. But the point is that when not plugged in, they can still keep a reasonably long charge. Something like 8 hours should be good for such technology, or a company shouldn't push it. It's not worth the money.
And the reason for that is what you're doing at the time. I usually use the percentage instead of the time, because if I'm using five applications at once, I still have 63% capacity, not the 01:03 that it says.
My PowerBook gets a pretty good battery life -- I'm guessing over four hours the first time I used it on battery power. But damn is it hot.
Never said anything about being cured. I seriously hope he makes a full recovery without and remission. Cancer is such a terrible disease for everybody it afflicts, whether it be the CEO of a major corporation or a small child.
No kidding about the rarity. Although he stated in the e-mail that it was at the very least treatable, compared the the more widely recognized and uncurable pancreatic cancer.
What bothers me about Wal Mart is the fact that they have the recording industry by the balls. If you've ever shopped for CDs there, you notice that they carry the "clean" lyrics, and if not for Wal Mart they wouldn't distribute quite as much music. Despite the 10% I'm certain the sales for music is higher.
The theaters compete with the turnaround time and the hype. Seeing a movie on a screen the size of a side of my house is definately a lot better than my 19" TV or even worse my 12" PowerBook. And you won't see the movie that came out in December until May or June. The high rental fee I attribute to its rarity, if I understand what you mean correctly.
I would argue against the whole "paying people to make them poorer" point that you brought up. Yes, the majority of the music and film industries (ie the RIAA and the MPAA) have consumers doing just that, but there are enough educated and intelligent people, aren't there?
Oh wait, Slashdot's the minority, not the regular public.
I'm trying to think of how this got posted as a front page news article, much more an Apple article. Seriously, folks, I like Apple and all, but if you've seen the Hot News section of the Apple website this very article's listed. Obviously this is some fanboy barking up the Apple tree -- although somebody really should pass Sony the cluestick.
I know I shouldn't respond to an AC, but anyway...
Fact is that if you have a way to remove the battery pack, there's a significant chance that whatever's plugging that hole could come off. After all, that's what they would design it to do. And in order to make a properly-functioning slot to remove a battery pack, you'd have to close it somehow, either with a screw or something -- and you'd need extra space to hold that screw or whatever in place.
In the eyes of the designers of the iPod, it didn't seem worthwhile. Besides, with the fourth generation iPod, it has a 12-hour charge, which (although slowly) will degrade over a large enough portion of time that by the end of its life cycle you'll be in the market for a new player anyhow.
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Were we reading the same review?
You can look at the Wikipedia entry on video game consoles, but PONG, the Coleco Telstar and the Magnavox Odyssey were considered the first generation. After that came the Atari/ColecoVision generation. Also, you've got your generations mixed up. Dreamcast wasn't in the same generation as Nintendo 64 -- that was Saturn (which nobody remembers 'cause it sucked anyhow). Dreamcast was part of the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube generation, but I guess the confusion could stem from its release coming in the tail of the previous generation and getting crushed by PlayStation 2.
It's impossible to say newspapers are going to drop off the face of the planet. There are a couple of main reasons why the consideration to necessarily adapt to these new technologies is ridiculous.
(1) People should not be listening to tycoons who don't give a damn about the industry. Murdoch is telling people to blow money into new tech, when newspapers just need to stick to their guns. Good newspapers really need to do one thing: produce good content. Instead of trying to figure out podcasting and instant feedback and 10,000 ways to produce for the mobile Web, these organizations should stick to journalism. Break the story, update it, and follow through. If the story can be told several ways, tell them through these venues when appropriate. There's no reason to go crazy with figuring out all of these new things to do at the same time.
(2) Most importantly, local coverage has been completely ignored, and it's probably the most significant weapon a local newspaper has in its arsenal. With the slight caveat of http://newsvine.com/, newspapers have inherent control of their local area. Nobody can tell a story better than they can in their town. A good city paper will beat out the NYT bureau in that city almost every day. When a smart newspaper understands this, it can find revenue from these streams. Obviously no newspaper Web site is going to try to charge for national and international stories, but the local coverage is worth something that you can't buy from many other places.
Really, newspapers will need to strike a balance of what the community needs. Large news organizations can fill the niche of on-demand content. Newspapers need to reach deep and understand their core.
Wow, the site is only two weeks old.
Didn't people already know about this?
There's no way an Apple version of Minesweeper would ever fly without a two-button mouse.
Um, yeah you could do that.
.mov file.
Or, considering that it comes for free with the Operating System, you could just never use it? Seriously, you could not take any of those, but at some point you will probably need QuickTime, simply to play a
Mac OS X is much different from Microsoft's Windows, especially considering the browser != the file manager.
It's a nice movie, arguably, except for the overly repetitive "Courtesy of Apple," but it doesn't say anything that nobody's hear before. That Schiller quote is everywhere.
Sure, it's your money, but why would you sell everything you currently have of Apple? There's no guinea pig part of having a G4 or G5 system -- these are and will continue to be supported, as the keynote had said. How long, nobody knows, but all hardware is eventually worthless.
The experience Apple creates is arguably not THAT much better, but it is better. And what are you comparing Photoshop on? An eMac 1GHz with a P4 3.6GHz? What's the real "MUCH faster"?
You have no real basis for your argument. If it wasn't so much better, then why did you wait for a processor switch to air your discontent?
Could be worse. Could be Googlezon.
Maybe you need to recalibrate the battery? Sounds like that might be a fix to your problem.
My aunt has a shitload of punchcards. She uses them to write out lists on the back. Man, I would have loved to have seen those machines.
Those no-name quarterbacks were great. Same thing for the Chiefs, because it was that tricky point between Montana's being on the SF and KC.
I believe the key words there were "used to." If I remember correctly, some old Walkman models were built like tanks. Obviously, you're not going to find the same quality today.
It's time for a remake of Tecmo Super Bowl. Really, that was the greatest football game ever made.
How long ago was it that any place used to serve as just a getaway? Every aspect of life now happens everywhere.
Fair enough, you are always near an electric source. But isn't the main point of a *portable* to take it with you, away from electrical sources? We all know we can keep portables plugged in all the time. But the point is that when not plugged in, they can still keep a reasonably long charge. Something like 8 hours should be good for such technology, or a company shouldn't push it. It's not worth the money.
And the reason for that is what you're doing at the time. I usually use the percentage instead of the time, because if I'm using five applications at once, I still have 63% capacity, not the 01:03 that it says.
My PowerBook gets a pretty good battery life -- I'm guessing over four hours the first time I used it on battery power. But damn is it hot.
Never said anything about being cured. I seriously hope he makes a full recovery without and remission. Cancer is such a terrible disease for everybody it afflicts, whether it be the CEO of a major corporation or a small child.
No kidding about the rarity. Although he stated in the e-mail that it was at the very least treatable, compared the the more widely recognized and uncurable pancreatic cancer.
What bothers me about Wal Mart is the fact that they have the recording industry by the balls. If you've ever shopped for CDs there, you notice that they carry the "clean" lyrics, and if not for Wal Mart they wouldn't distribute quite as much music. Despite the 10% I'm certain the sales for music is higher.
The theaters compete with the turnaround time and the hype. Seeing a movie on a screen the size of a side of my house is definately a lot better than my 19" TV or even worse my 12" PowerBook. And you won't see the movie that came out in December until May or June. The high rental fee I attribute to its rarity, if I understand what you mean correctly.
I would argue against the whole "paying people to make them poorer" point that you brought up. Yes, the majority of the music and film industries (ie the RIAA and the MPAA) have consumers doing just that, but there are enough educated and intelligent people, aren't there?
Oh wait, Slashdot's the minority, not the regular public.
Welcome to the fruits of bad copy editing.
I'm trying to think of how this got posted as a front page news article, much more an Apple article. Seriously, folks, I like Apple and all, but if you've seen the Hot News section of the Apple website this very article's listed. Obviously this is some fanboy barking up the Apple tree -- although somebody really should pass Sony the cluestick.
I know I shouldn't respond to an AC, but anyway...
Fact is that if you have a way to remove the battery pack, there's a significant chance that whatever's plugging that hole could come off. After all, that's what they would design it to do. And in order to make a properly-functioning slot to remove a battery pack, you'd have to close it somehow, either with a screw or something -- and you'd need extra space to hold that screw or whatever in place.
In the eyes of the designers of the iPod, it didn't seem worthwhile. Besides, with the fourth generation iPod, it has a 12-hour charge, which (although slowly) will degrade over a large enough portion of time that by the end of its life cycle you'll be in the market for a new player anyhow.
Apparently you didn't RTFA. It was an anonymous donor, so the students aren't getting charged.