Well, all of them except for *the* major online retailer that is.
I wish them luck. Competition is good.
Sorry to sound like a flamebait, but you have fallen into the trap of thinking that "USA is the world". Well, as you know, there are really other countries outside of America, of which iTunes has no stores established yet.
Creative is particularly strong in the Asia/Pacific region, and they definitely have their own following... those consumers who value practical features over looks.
Competition in this market is indeed good, and the iPod is definitely not The MP3 player.
I think this is a deliberate move by the ISPs to segregate the market into "business" broadband and "home" broadband.
By offering high upload speeds only with "business" plans (that costs many times more than residental plans anyway), they can comply with the mantra of capitalism.. which is to suck each and everyone as much as possible till they themselves are flush with cash.
Considering that Nikon SLRs are already a lot less advanced (technologically) as compared to their Canon counterparts, I really wonder if Canon's huge portfolio is going to further bite Nikon in their proverbial a$$:(
I do not mean this to sound troll-like or inflamatory, but you obviously know very little about firearms.
A firearm of reasonable quality will not experience a *single* malfunction in the owner's lifetime, and unless used extremely often or abused, will likely not fail in the lifetimes of several of the original owner's descendants.
LOL, either you know a lot about firearms, Dr Firearms, or you have never served in the army!
It will really prevent cases when the victim is killed by his own gun. Imagine the gun blowing up the perp's arm when the fingerprint readers come up with a mismatch.
This is a dumb statement. Someone will have to buy the things corporations produce. There are only so many rich people to buy the crap that companies make. Robots will displace some jobs the same way as computer displaced typewriters and iron factories displaced balcksmiths. New jobs will appear and over all humanity will be better off. Individual, who's job dissapeared on the other hand woun't be happier. But it always was and always will be the same way. In the very long run we all doomed anyway as sun is expanding and in a few billion years will consume the earth.
Erm, let me paint a better alternative.. how about WE break into the big corporations, steal all their robots, gives all the executives wedgies.. castrate the CEO, and live happily ever after?
No matter what, there is still more of us than there is of them. And ultimately without the masses acting as consumers (nobody can afford it remember?), they aren't going to get very far either..
This is the first consumer-level implementation... definitely a milestone. How many of your non-photographer friends would pay $1000 for an SLR that doesn't fit in their pocket and does WiFi?
$1000 for a SLR?
Where where??!?
Unfortunately technology is not that advanced yet. The top of the line SLR is still $11000:)
Is it just me? But it does seem like while nasa did do something to alleviate the causes of a crash, it has done nothing to improve the design/engineering/materials etc used in the shuttle.
Not very wise isn't it? It's just like the modern drugs we see these days that reduces symptoms but doesn't cure the cause.
I re-installed the original Sims probably 5 times before I realized that they were speaking their own language and not some german/spanish mix. I kept turning it up real loud trying to figure out what the fork they were saying.
Yeap. They speak Simlish and deal in Simoleans.. Cool eh?:)
Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?
I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at www.primidi.com [primidi.com] . It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com [blogads.com]. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers". Visit Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (www.primidi.com [primidi.com]) to see it for yourself.
Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now let's talk about money.
Visit http://www.blogads.com/order_html?adstrip_category =tech&politics= [blogads.com] to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ [blogads.com], Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index [networksolutions.com]) . Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive ho
People who use firefox fall under those who don't really need it:)
Re:It's not that it's not fair...-Life's not fair.
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So since you're going for the moral high position here. How is ruining people's livelyhood any better? That "signal" must be worth "something" otherwise we wouldn't be repeatedly having this discussion five times a week.
Since when is it ruining someone else's livelihood? So if Toyata someday comes out with a car that's as good as a Mercedes and sells it for less, are the Japanese destroying the Germans?
Look here.. livelihood involves constantly working to earn your keep. NOT to sit on your ass, come up with one idea, and EXPECT^H^H^H^H^HDEMAND money to come in!
I hate asking my friends to sign up for crap like this, so I joined http://www.smartcongaline.com/. It took a little while, but I got my ipod and I didn't have to nag anybody I know.
Yeap.. I second that. I stopped whoring around on/. after signing up for smartcongaonline =)
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Well, all of them except for *the* major online retailer that is.
I wish them luck. Competition is good.
Sorry to sound like a flamebait, but you have fallen into the trap of thinking that "USA is the world". Well, as you know, there are really other countries outside of America, of which iTunes has no stores established yet.
Creative is particularly strong in the Asia/Pacific region, and they definitely have their own following... those consumers who value practical features over looks.
Competition in this market is indeed good, and the iPod is definitely not The MP3 player.
I think this is a deliberate move by the ISPs to segregate the market into "business" broadband and "home" broadband.
:(
By offering high upload speeds only with "business" plans (that costs many times more than residental plans anyway), they can comply with the mantra of capitalism.. which is to suck each and everyone as much as possible till they themselves are flush with cash.
Unlikely to see home servers anytime soon..
Considering that Nikon SLRs are already a lot less advanced (technologically) as compared to their Canon counterparts, I really wonder if Canon's huge portfolio is going to further bite Nikon in their proverbial a$$ :(
I do not mean this to sound troll-like or inflamatory, but you obviously know very little about firearms.
A firearm of reasonable quality will not experience a *single* malfunction in the owner's lifetime, and unless used extremely often or abused, will likely not fail in the lifetimes of several of the original owner's descendants.
LOL, either you know a lot about firearms, Dr Firearms, or you have never served in the army!
It will really prevent cases when the victim is killed by his own gun. Imagine the gun blowing up the perp's arm when the fingerprint readers come up with a mismatch.
Now, that's smart.
This is a dumb statement. Someone will have to buy the things corporations produce. There are only so many rich people to buy the crap that companies make.
Robots will displace some jobs the same way as computer displaced typewriters and iron factories displaced balcksmiths. New jobs will appear and over all humanity will be better off. Individual, who's job dissapeared on the other hand woun't be happier. But it always was and always will be the same way.
In the very long run we all doomed anyway as sun is expanding and in a few billion years will consume the earth.
Erm, let me paint a better alternative.. how about WE break into the big corporations, steal all their robots, gives all the executives wedgies.. castrate the CEO, and live happily ever after?
No matter what, there is still more of us than there is of them. And ultimately without the masses acting as consumers (nobody can afford it remember?), they aren't going to get very far either..
Inspite of these security flaws, Firefox is still a lot better than the incumbent IE.. no?
If this will be the next Centrino?
:)
If so, then Intel has very few cards left to play....
Does this build itself on the fact that..
1) More and more homes are getting wireless networks
2) Many of these meshes actually overlap?
I foresee a new internet of the future! One that runs on top of our existing home networking kits! The One True Internets!
Nah.. this is just a cover for a secret military project to install freaking lasers on the heads of sharks!
This is the first consumer-level implementation... definitely a milestone. How many of your non-photographer friends would pay $1000 for an SLR that doesn't fit in their pocket and does WiFi?
$1000 for a SLR?
Where where??!?
Unfortunately technology is not that advanced yet. The top of the line SLR is still $11000
Yeah, I love Descent I & II.. but Descent III was such utter crap :(
Is it just me? But it does seem like while nasa did do something to alleviate the causes of a crash, it has done nothing to improve the design/engineering/materials etc used in the shuttle.
Not very wise isn't it? It's just like the modern drugs we see these days that reduces symptoms but doesn't cure the cause.
I re-installed the original Sims probably 5 times before I realized that they were speaking their own language and not some german/spanish mix. I kept turning it up real loud trying to figure out what the fork they were saying.
:)
Yeap. They speak Simlish and deal in Simoleans.. Cool eh?
Since they are intending to sell this product for.. profit.. does this mean they will have as many security holes as possible in Windoze?
Erm...
When a chip is labelled, it is usually a cheaper slower chip remarked as a faster chip.
Now, when this chip is sold and fails/fizzles/burns up, its AMD's reputation on the line.
This has no parallels with copyrights and the like. AMD is doing what it must to protect its name and its profits (doh!)
Wow.. I can wait to buy one of those bioengineered p3n1s from that spamming eMerchant and install it myself!
Roland Piquepaille and Slashdot: Is there a connection?
I think most of you are aware of the controversy surrounding regular Slashdot article submitter Roland Piquepaille. For those of you who don't know, please allow me to bring forth all the facts. Roland Piquepaille has an online journal (I refuse to use the word "blog") located at www.primidi.com [primidi.com] . It is titled "Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends". It consists almost entirely of content, both text and pictures, taken from reputable news websites and online technical journals. He does give credit to the other websites, but it wasn't always so. Only after many complaints were raised by the Slashdot readership did he start giving credit where credit was due. However, this is not what the controversy is about.
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends serves online advertisements through a service called Blogads, located at www.blogads.com [blogads.com]. Blogads is not your traditional online advertiser; rather than base payments on click-throughs, Blogads pays a flat fee based on the level of traffic your online journal generates. This way Blogads can guarantee that an advertisement on a particular online journal will reach a particular number of users. So advertisements on high traffic online journals are appropriately more expensive to buy, but the advertisement is guaranteed to be seen by a large amount of people. This, in turn, encourages people like Roland Piquepaille to try their best to increase traffic to their journals in order to increase the going rates for advertisements on their web pages. But advertisers do have some flexibility. Blogads serves two classes of advertisements. The premium ad space that is seen at the top of the web page by all viewers is reserved for "Special Advertisers"; it holds only one advertisement. The secondary ad space is located near the bottom half of the page, so that the user must scroll down the window to see it. This space can contain up to four advertisements and is reserved for regular advertisers, or just "Advertisers". Visit Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (www.primidi.com [primidi.com]) to see it for yourself.
Before we talk about money, let's talk about the service that Roland Piquepaille provides in his journal. He goes out and looks for interesting articles about new and emerging technologies. He provides a very brief overview of the articles, then copies a few choice paragraphs and the occasional picture from each article and puts them up on his web page. Finally, he adds a minimal amount of original content between the copied-and-pasted text in an effort to make the journal entry coherent and appear to add value to the original articles. Nothing more, nothing less.
Now let's talk about money.
Visit http://www.blogads.com/order_html?adstrip_category =tech&politics= [blogads.com] to check the following facts for yourself. As of today, December XX 2004, the going rate for the premium advertisement space on Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is $375 for one month. One of the four standard advertisements costs $150 for one month. So, the maximum advertising space brings in $375 x 1 + $150 x 4 = $975 for one month. Obviously not all $975 will go directly to Roland Piquepaille, as Blogads gets a portion of that as a service fee, but he will receive the majority of it. According to the FAQ [blogads.com], Blogads takes 20%. So Roland Piquepaille gets 80% of $975, a maximum of $780 each month. www.primidi.com is hosted by clara.net (look it up at http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index [networksolutions.com]) . Browsing clara.net's hosting solutions, the most expensive ho
Current death tolls approaching 130k people.
If you thought 9/11 was big think again, we are talking about FOUR HUNDRED 9/11s here.
Given the recent articles today, do they put in a GPS transponder and a personal laser defense system on each of these?
They really don't need a firefox version anyway..
:)
People who use firefox fall under those who don't really need it
So since you're going for the moral high position here. How is ruining people's livelyhood any better? That "signal" must be worth "something" otherwise we wouldn't be repeatedly having this discussion five times a week.
Since when is it ruining someone else's livelihood? So if Toyata someday comes out with a car that's as good as a Mercedes and sells it for less, are the Japanese destroying the Germans?
Look here.. livelihood involves constantly working to earn your keep. NOT to sit on your ass, come up with one idea, and EXPECT^H^H^H^H^HDEMAND money to come in!
I hate asking my friends to sign up for crap like this, so I joined http://www.smartcongaline.com/. It took a little while, but I got my ipod and I didn't have to nag anybody I know.
/. after signing up for smartcongaonline =)
Yeap.. I second that. I stopped whoring around on
Please attack my CD to MP3 guide site with all the vehemence you can muster. Thanks.
W00t.. Another fellow Australian on Internode!
Does it run Linux? :D