Most PDAs are used by executives, who for the most part have no intrest in Mp3s, and thus aren't willing to pay the extrea $$$.
...which neglects that there are a lot of execs that aren't stodgy 50-somethings. Most young execs (and, well, anyone with a well-paying job) will probably go for the elegant look of the device and the "ooh-ahh" factor of any good geek toy.
Then again, for that price, you could just by an iPAQ.
Well, if you want to believe the rumors on various iPAQ discussion boards (Brighthand having the best), Compaq tech support has told iPAQ users that it's a hardware limitation, and one they don't necessarily plan on fixing.
On the other hand, between iPAQ Quake, iPAQ Doom, the NES emulator, the NeoGeo Pocket emulator, and MAME CE, maybe Compaq will consider marketing a gamepad sleeve.
There's serious money involved in the switch, when companies have to reprint stationary, advertisements, business cards.. make sure their applications can handle longer phone numbers correctly.
All the stationary/advertisements/business cards/web forms I've seen include an area code already. What's to reprint? What's worse is when an area switches area codes (Suffolk County in NY being the most recent example I can think of). Now that caused a headache.
The FCC's plan, as others have already pointed out, won't result in the reprinting of billions of pieces of paper - it'll just make the telephone dialing process take an extra second or two. The horror!
It's ironic, though, that this would confuse some elderly people who voted, because this was designed to be easier to read (bigger print, so they had to redo the layout).
The problem is two-fold:
The arrows seemed a little small compared to the text (at least according to my 21-inch TV)
Florida election law requires the check mark to be made to the right of the candidate's name, at least according to CNN.
Some people who noticed their mistake ended up checking off two candidates' circles.
If anything, the election chaos doesn't end at 5PM ET, because there are still a number of absentee ballots from overseas that need to be filed - from both military personnel who may be inclined to vote Republican, and US citizens in Israel who may be inclined to vote Democrat.
In short, linux just made a prime-time appearance. Its mad cool. It SCREAMS, yeah, it rocks, yeah, it matters, and YEAH, intelligent uber-hacker type people use it.
Was the word Linux used in the script? If not, then as far as Joe UPN Watcher is concerned, it's just another computer with a quasi-futuristic interface. Hell, for all Joe UPN Watcher knows, it could be Windows 2069.
The point that Bill Curry of Amazon makes is an important one. If 1-Click was such an obvious technology, as RMS claims, why is it that no major e-commerce site came up with it and implemented it before Amazon?
I don't even think that has anything to do with it. I'm sure the crew here does appreciate being told when something gets posted twice. But do we really need to see a dozen or so posts about it?
I'm happy to lump that in with "FIRST POST" and the "gay ass chips can't perform", personally. And if you're not, like you said, set your threshold to -1 - the posts are still there.
I was 10 years old. Jedi (sorry -- Episode VI) had just come out, and by the time summer vacation started, my friends and I had all seen it, and we'd all heard rumors that Lucas was going to start writing and filming Episode I any minute now, and that he was planning on making nine Star Wars movies in total, showing us the history behind Star Wars (sorry -- Episode IV: A New Hope) and everything that would happen after Jedi. By all guesses, we all figured that Episode IX would be in the theaters before the year 2000. We couldn't wait!
And here we are, 16 years later, and Episode I is two days away from its release.
A generation of kids (of all ages, mind you) has been waiting for this movie all that time. Even without the Pepsico tie-ins, the endless array of action figures, and all the press, this is *still* a movie that's got more than 15 years of hype behind it already. For a lot of people who've essentially been waiting for this for more than half their lives, this is a very big deal. Even without a dozen magazines devoting cover stories to The Phantom Menace, the majority of Star Wars fans already have May 19, 1999 etched in their minds, circled in red ink on their calendars, marked with a few dozen exclamation points on their PDAs, etc.
Is the hype necessary? No, certainly not. But anyone with half a brain would have to expect it.
...they also have VCD player attachments for the Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn. Dunno about the Saturn version, but I know the Playstation version connects via the serial port in the back (where a Game Shark or Game Enhancer would go), with your standard red, white, and yellow RCA jacks on the back to hook up to your TV/receiver/computer. I would assume the Saturn's goes through a similar connector in the back (haven't looked at the back of my Saturn in ages)
Also, for a while, people were using the Vivo file format to compress the movies. I haven't seen a Vivo of any film, but I can't imaging that any 2 1/2 hour movie compressed down to under 300MB would look or sound all that good, regardless of the source material.
I think part of it is that it's one less thing to carry around with you. I have a hard enough time juggling my PalmIII, cell phone, and pager...and I'm waiting for the Qualcomm pdq like everyone else... (cellular PPP...*drool*)
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Most PDAs are used by executives, who for the most part have no intrest in Mp3s, and thus aren't willing to pay the extrea $$$.
...which neglects that there are a lot of execs that aren't stodgy 50-somethings. Most young execs (and, well, anyone with a well-paying job) will probably go for the elegant look of the device and the "ooh-ahh" factor of any good geek toy.
Then again, for that price, you could just by an iPAQ.
Good point. That'll never fly. Gotta run - time for my weekly apt-get update;apt-get upgrade.
Well, if you want to believe the rumors on various iPAQ discussion boards (Brighthand having the best), Compaq tech support has told iPAQ users that it's a hardware limitation, and one they don't necessarily plan on fixing.
On the other hand, between iPAQ Quake, iPAQ Doom, the NES emulator, the NeoGeo Pocket emulator, and MAME CE, maybe Compaq will consider marketing a gamepad sleeve.
There's serious money involved in the switch, when companies have to reprint stationary, advertisements, business cards.. make sure their applications can handle longer phone numbers correctly.
All the stationary/advertisements/business cards/web forms I've seen include an area code already. What's to reprint? What's worse is when an area switches area codes (Suffolk County in NY being the most recent example I can think of). Now that caused a headache.
The FCC's plan, as others have already pointed out, won't result in the reprinting of billions of pieces of paper - it'll just make the telephone dialing process take an extra second or two. The horror!
It's ironic, though, that this would confuse some elderly people who voted, because this was designed to be easier to read (bigger print, so they had to redo the layout).
The problem is two-fold:
If anything, the election chaos doesn't end at 5PM ET, because there are still a number of absentee ballots from overseas that need to be filed - from both military personnel who may be inclined to vote Republican, and US citizens in Israel who may be inclined to vote Democrat.
In short, linux just made a prime-time appearance. Its mad cool. It SCREAMS, yeah, it rocks, yeah, it matters, and YEAH, intelligent uber-hacker type people use it.
Was the word Linux used in the script? If not, then as far as Joe UPN Watcher is concerned, it's just another computer with a quasi-futuristic interface. Hell, for all Joe UPN Watcher knows, it could be Windows 2069.
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The point that Bill Curry of Amazon makes is an important one. If 1-Click was such an obvious technology, as RMS claims, why is it that no major e-commerce site came up with it and implemented it before Amazon?
Sorry, gang, but I can't support this boycott.
I don't even think that has anything to do with it. I'm sure the crew here does appreciate being told when something gets posted twice. But do we really need to see a dozen or so posts about it?
I'm happy to lump that in with "FIRST POST" and the "gay ass chips can't perform", personally. And if you're not, like you said, set your threshold to -1 - the posts are still there.
filtering != censorship.
Let's flash back to May 1983, shall we?
I was 10 years old. Jedi (sorry -- Episode VI) had just come out, and by the time summer vacation started, my friends and I had all seen it, and we'd all heard rumors that Lucas was going to start writing and filming Episode I any minute now, and that he was planning on making nine Star Wars movies in total, showing us the history behind Star Wars (sorry -- Episode IV: A New Hope) and everything that would happen after Jedi. By all guesses, we all figured that Episode IX would be in the theaters before the year 2000. We couldn't wait!
And here we are, 16 years later, and Episode I is two days away from its release.
A generation of kids (of all ages, mind you) has been waiting for this movie all that time. Even without the Pepsico tie-ins, the endless array of action figures, and all the press, this is *still* a movie that's got more than 15 years of hype behind it already. For a lot of people who've essentially been waiting for this for more than half their lives, this is a very big deal. Even without a dozen magazines devoting cover stories to The Phantom Menace, the majority of Star Wars fans already have May 19, 1999 etched in their minds, circled in red ink on their calendars, marked with a few dozen exclamation points on their PDAs, etc.
Is the hype necessary? No, certainly not. But anyone with half a brain would have to expect it.
...they also have VCD player attachments for the Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn. Dunno about the Saturn version, but I know the Playstation version connects via the serial port in the back (where a Game Shark or Game Enhancer would go), with your standard red, white, and yellow RCA jacks on the back to hook up to your TV/receiver/computer. I would assume the Saturn's goes through a similar connector in the back (haven't looked at the back of my Saturn in ages)
Also, for a while, people were using the Vivo file format to compress the movies. I haven't seen a Vivo of any film, but I can't imaging that any 2 1/2 hour movie compressed down to under 300MB would look or sound all that good, regardless of the source material.
I'm a bit surprised that Apple released QT4 so quickly, considering how long it was between QT2 and QT3.
Another plus is the artists showcase, if only for the inclusion of some really cool vids (the Marillion video's quite nice if you like Radiohead...)
I think part of it is that it's one less thing to carry around with you. I have a hard enough time juggling my PalmIII, cell phone, and pager...and I'm waiting for the Qualcomm pdq like everyone else... (cellular PPP...*drool*)
ftp to straylight.adelphi.edu, port 1138.
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Trailer's in