I get the impression from the synopsis that the author doesn't know that Google TV and Sony Ineternet TV are the same thing? I'm not sure how Google TV is going to make Google TV obsolete, but it's sure a head scratcher.
that being said, this is a horrid idea that has been tried time and time again. Nobody wants an expensive all-in-one device when individual components are typically less expensive and give better results over time. This Sony TV will be fine, until the first Google TV software update that it can't support, then it's a TV with a dead component inside. Kind of like one of those people who have a dead fetus twin inside them their whole lives until they have a cyst removed that turns out to have hair and a face.
A kid should be able to use whatever device he or she wants, as long as it has the requisite functionality.
that sounds great, but you won't know whether a given substitute covers all the needs until the kid finds out 3 months into class that he can't follow along an assignment because his calculator doesn't have a function to take the tangle of an obtuse rectoid.
the only way to do it would be to give an exhaustive list required functions and features...most of which you wouldnt' be able to find if a given model had without spending a half hour with the owners manual. In the real world, you solve this problem by telling the kids what make and model to buy.
How about you do something about the god damned HIDDEN CHARGES.
I'm not talking about overage minutes or text...those are clearly stated in my agreement and I'm on the hook for overages. I'm a big boy and I can pay the bills I agree to.
But SOMEHOW my cell phone bills seem to include over 20% in taxes, fees, surcharges...all that I never agreed to, was never informed of, and are not optional. How about that? How about when advertising service plan rates the cell companies be required to also report how much the government is going to tack on top of it too.
You have choice. You just don't want to pay for it.
Well played. I like the way you point out that I do in fact have the choice to do something ridiculously impractical.
You've opened my eyes and now I see a world FILLED with choices. I could also get horrid satellite internet, I could dig and lay fiber at my own expense to the closest MMR, I could invent a broadband internet protocol that runs off of compressed air puffs, I could tape micro-sd cards to pidgeons and engage in half-duplex HIGH latency networking.
Only if consumers have choice. In the US, were most of the country only has 1 or 2 choices for broad band services, there is no meaningful choice.
-Rick
Or even just 1 choice. Personally, I can get my broadband (god I hate how misused that term is) access from Comcast, or I can get a dial-up modem, that's my choices. So I'm functionally under a monopoly, if Comcast does something I don't like, like eliminating USENET service without lowering my bill, then I'm free to suck it up or do without internet.
Did anyone else misread this as "Largest Gnome Ever" and momentarily get excited that someone had discovered a species of Gnomes that was larger than expected?
Ok, sure it sounds stupid when you say it out loud, but dammit for a second there...
uh..that was "ipod" not "iphone". the issue I was discussing was the first black iPOD showed scratches more than the white ones of the exact same model. they scratched just the same, but you could SEE it more on the black and that made people cry.
Good god! Putting so much glass on a cell phone?!? A device that's going to be used, moved around, dropped (it should stand up to dropping a small height like a foot or so like falling out of a purse), stuck in purses and knocked around, etc...
If you have to baby a device like a phone, then it's too delicate of a design.
jesus tapdancing christ.
It seems like half the time I'm defending apple and half the time I'm bashing them.
Im not schizophrenic, I'm anti IDIOCY.
You want a ruggedized cell phone, GO BUY ONE. If you buy a phone made of GLASS, don't expect to be able to toss it around like a nerf football. It's not rocket freaking science.
I long ago gave up on submitting articles to slashdot. Relevant, timely, and sometimes extremely interesting items were simply ignored in favor of the Slashvertisement of the day. It does make for browsing slashdot to be MUCH faster than it used to be.
this is the same whining that we had to hear when apple first brought out the black ipod and people realized black shows scratches more than the old white did.
Stuff gets scratched when you use it, DEAL WITH IT.
Grit can get trapped inside a case and scratch the device? NO SHIT? have these people never used a case before? Take it out and CLEAN IT every now and again.
Are apple customers the most helpless people on the planet, or does the media just make them look that way?
By posting this story in a tone of mild outrage, what are we trying to say? People should never support a candidate they have a disagreement with, no matter how much they disagree with the OTHER candidate? People should never sue someone of their own political party, no matter how much they are affronted? Seriously, why does this story exist? How childish does your though process have to be to see this as anything other than mildly ironic.
i'm not saying that you have no right to seek out the information source about the crime against you, i'm saying your tactics suck
I didn't advocate any particular tactic or timeline. What I said was I would do whatever it took, including outright lie and/or threaten prosecution against the reporter who was protecting the identity of the person who committed the crime against me.
Hiding the identity of a criminal is an accessory after the fact offense. I'd work that angle until the cows came home.
That doesn't mean you have to go in all guns blazing, there's no requirement that you be stupid about it.
Well, if someone told me they had knowledge of a person who had committed a very serious crime against ME, but were refusing to share that information with me, then I wouldn't honestly feel the slightest obligation towards them either. I'd tell them whatever they wanted to hear to get the maximum information out of them.
AND I'd try to get that subpoena too. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, but it doesn't guarantee freedom from subpoena. An ethical journalist would go to jail in contempt of court before giving up a confidential source, but since journalism has abandoned most of the principles of old, I wouldn't count on that happening.
In the video, the robot drew boobs on the girl and a penis on the guy! Given the nature of the drawing, I suspect that the robot is really just remotely-controlled arms with an artist looking through the video camera.
Or...maybe the one on the womens side always draws boobs and the one on the mens side always draws penis's. Just a thought.
I'm not sure if this is a hoax, or just a typically poor piece of journalism that misrepresents the intentions of the engineers. Either way the term "caricature" is wildly misused. It's not even representing the people standing in front of it in the correct pose, it's just geometric stick figures...with boobs/penis.
I don't think that's accidental. a clean, uncluttered diagram would make the story uninteresting. Nobody wants to read a story titled "several companies suing each other in orderly fashion".
so out of a chart showing 17 companies suing each other, you've only got a pithy comment aimed at Microsoft?
Does that reveal a knee-jerk anti-microsoft bias, or an inability to comment on the actual subject matter...I guess that's not really an either-or question. never mind.
Because journalism schools no longer value "accuracy" where "sensationalism" will suffice.
It's like a newspaper headline that says "Unemployment literally explodes in 4th quarter". The fact that their using words incorrectly, and thereby spreading non-factual information, is less important than grabbing attention.
What do you need actual chemicals and stuff for, not to mention rulers and paper clips? Why not just a "My Science Kit" app, and do virtual experiments?
a part of me just died a little after reading this.
You can stream audio & video from your computer as long as it is in the VERY short list of Apple approved formats.
If the thing could do something as simple and basic as play plain old DVD.iso rips, I'd have one on order already. But it can't, and that's deliberate on Apples part. So yes, for many, MANY people, the device is unusable without the hack.
I'm sure Fox News will bill it as Obama trying to take over the internet. Your IP address will have to face a death panel!
It's FAUX news - as in fake news.
I hate them.
But I love Obama.
I hear this so very clever "faux news" pun a LOT, with the usual unreferenced claims of fake news.
To be honest, I don't watch TV news networks, and haven't for many years. What EXACTLY is the problem people have with Fox? Is it their political bent? Is there some factual complaint that couldn't also be leveled at CNN, MSNBC, etc by people from the other side?
If it's a lack of "objective journalism" that's the problem, then Fox hardly stands alone atop that dung heap.
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I get the impression from the synopsis that the author doesn't know that Google TV and Sony Ineternet TV are the same thing? I'm not sure how Google TV is going to make Google TV obsolete, but it's sure a head scratcher.
that being said, this is a horrid idea that has been tried time and time again. Nobody wants an expensive all-in-one device when individual components are typically less expensive and give better results over time. This Sony TV will be fine, until the first Google TV software update that it can't support, then it's a TV with a dead component inside. Kind of like one of those people who have a dead fetus twin inside them their whole lives until they have a cyst removed that turns out to have hair and a face.
Is THAT what you want in your TV? Is it?
A kid should be able to use whatever device he or she wants, as long as it has the requisite functionality.
that sounds great, but you won't know whether a given substitute covers all the needs until the kid finds out 3 months into class that he can't follow along an assignment because his calculator doesn't have a function to take the tangle of an obtuse rectoid.
the only way to do it would be to give an exhaustive list required functions and features...most of which you wouldnt' be able to find if a given model had without spending a half hour with the owners manual. In the real world, you solve this problem by telling the kids what make and model to buy.
How about you do something about the god damned HIDDEN CHARGES.
I'm not talking about overage minutes or text...those are clearly stated in my agreement and I'm on the hook for overages. I'm a big boy and I can pay the bills I agree to.
But SOMEHOW my cell phone bills seem to include over 20% in taxes, fees, surcharges...all that I never agreed to, was never informed of, and are not optional. How about that? How about when advertising service plan rates the cell companies be required to also report how much the government is going to tack on top of it too.
Or you can get a business class line, like a T1.
You have choice. You just don't want to pay for it.
Well played. I like the way you point out that I do in fact have the choice to do something ridiculously impractical.
You've opened my eyes and now I see a world FILLED with choices. I could also get horrid satellite internet, I could dig and lay fiber at my own expense to the closest MMR, I could invent a broadband internet protocol that runs off of compressed air puffs, I could tape micro-sd cards to pidgeons and engage in half-duplex HIGH latency networking.
Basically, I'm saying I don't like you.
Only if consumers have choice. In the US, were most of the country only has 1 or 2 choices for broad band services, there is no meaningful choice.
-Rick
Or even just 1 choice. Personally, I can get my broadband (god I hate how misused that term is) access from Comcast, or I can get a dial-up modem, that's my choices. So I'm functionally under a monopoly, if Comcast does something I don't like, like eliminating USENET service without lowering my bill, then I'm free to suck it up or do without internet.
just because something didn't get an answer, doesn't mean it was "ignored"..
true, just as something getting a response doesn't mean it was in any way an important, interesting, or even cogent thought.
Did anyone else misread this as "Largest Gnome Ever" and momentarily get excited that someone had discovered a species of Gnomes that was larger than expected?
Ok, sure it sounds stupid when you say it out loud, but dammit for a second there...
uh..that was "ipod" not "iphone". the issue I was discussing was the first black iPOD showed scratches more than the white ones of the exact same model. they scratched just the same, but you could SEE it more on the black and that made people cry.
really? I keep the wifis turned on constantly with my phone (Evo 4G) and it seamlessly switches back and forth between 3G and the wifis.
This is a shitty design and it is Apple's fault.
Good god! Putting so much glass on a cell phone?!? A device that's going to be used, moved around, dropped (it should stand up to dropping a small height like a foot or so like falling out of a purse), stuck in purses and knocked around, etc...
If you have to baby a device like a phone, then it's too delicate of a design.
jesus tapdancing christ.
It seems like half the time I'm defending apple and half the time I'm bashing them.
Im not schizophrenic, I'm anti IDIOCY.
You want a ruggedized cell phone, GO BUY ONE. If you buy a phone made of GLASS, don't expect to be able to toss it around like a nerf football. It's not rocket freaking science.
I long ago gave up on submitting articles to slashdot. Relevant, timely, and sometimes extremely interesting items were simply ignored in favor of the Slashvertisement of the day. It does make for browsing slashdot to be MUCH faster than it used to be.
this is the same whining that we had to hear when apple first brought out the black ipod and people realized black shows scratches more than the old white did.
Stuff gets scratched when you use it, DEAL WITH IT.
Grit can get trapped inside a case and scratch the device? NO SHIT? have these people never used a case before? Take it out and CLEAN IT every now and again.
Are apple customers the most helpless people on the planet, or does the media just make them look that way?
By posting this story in a tone of mild outrage, what are we trying to say? People should never support a candidate they have a disagreement with, no matter how much they disagree with the OTHER candidate? People should never sue someone of their own political party, no matter how much they are affronted? Seriously, why does this story exist? How childish does your though process have to be to see this as anything other than mildly ironic.
what's the problem? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
"'Paper books are really dead — they're gone. And they're not being killed by tablets, they're creating tablets,' he says.""
He sounds totally rooted in reality to me.
and the crime against you will go unpunished
i'm not saying that you have no right to seek out the information source about the crime against you, i'm saying your tactics suck
I didn't advocate any particular tactic or timeline. What I said was I would do whatever it took, including outright lie and/or threaten prosecution against the reporter who was protecting the identity of the person who committed the crime against me.
Hiding the identity of a criminal is an accessory after the fact offense. I'd work that angle until the cows came home.
That doesn't mean you have to go in all guns blazing, there's no requirement that you be stupid about it.
Well, if someone told me they had knowledge of a person who had committed a very serious crime against ME, but were refusing to share that information with me, then I wouldn't honestly feel the slightest obligation towards them either. I'd tell them whatever they wanted to hear to get the maximum information out of them.
AND I'd try to get that subpoena too. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, but it doesn't guarantee freedom from subpoena. An ethical journalist would go to jail in contempt of court before giving up a confidential source, but since journalism has abandoned most of the principles of old, I wouldn't count on that happening.
In the video, the robot drew boobs on the girl and a penis on the guy! Given the nature of the drawing, I suspect that the robot is really just remotely-controlled arms with an artist looking through the video camera.
Or...maybe the one on the womens side always draws boobs and the one on the mens side always draws penis's. Just a thought.
I'm not sure if this is a hoax, or just a typically poor piece of journalism that misrepresents the intentions of the engineers. Either way the term "caricature" is wildly misused. It's not even representing the people standing in front of it in the correct pose, it's just geometric stick figures...with boobs/penis.
I don't think that's accidental. a clean, uncluttered diagram would make the story uninteresting. Nobody wants to read a story titled "several companies suing each other in orderly fashion".
so out of a chart showing 17 companies suing each other, you've only got a pithy comment aimed at Microsoft?
Does that reveal a knee-jerk anti-microsoft bias, or an inability to comment on the actual subject matter...I guess that's not really an either-or question. never mind.
Why is this "robotic" and not just "mechanical" ?
Because journalism schools no longer value "accuracy" where "sensationalism" will suffice.
It's like a newspaper headline that says "Unemployment literally explodes in 4th quarter". The fact that their using words incorrectly, and thereby spreading non-factual information, is less important than grabbing attention.
What do you need actual chemicals and stuff for, not to mention rulers and paper clips? Why not just a "My Science Kit" app, and do virtual experiments?
a part of me just died a little after reading this.
something tells me you don't need to worry about women.
You can stream audio & video from your computer as long as it is in the VERY short list of Apple approved formats.
.iso rips, I'd have one on order already. But it can't, and that's deliberate on Apples part. So yes, for many, MANY people, the device is unusable without the hack.
If the thing could do something as simple and basic as play plain old DVD
I'm sure Fox News will bill it as Obama trying to take over the internet. Your IP address will have to face a death panel!
It's FAUX news - as in fake news.
I hate them. But I love Obama.
I hear this so very clever "faux news" pun a LOT, with the usual unreferenced claims of fake news.
To be honest, I don't watch TV news networks, and haven't for many years. What EXACTLY is the problem people have with Fox? Is it their political bent? Is there some factual complaint that couldn't also be leveled at CNN, MSNBC, etc by people from the other side?
If it's a lack of "objective journalism" that's the problem, then Fox hardly stands alone atop that dung heap.