I have never used a Blackberry beyond picking one up in a phone store years ago, but what you are describing is a common problem. People get the idea that the first way they see something is the 'right' way. Even if it is less efficient.
Funny, that was one of the things that turned me off of iOS. Apple didn't want to be professional and allow interoperability. They acted like babies, so if you wanted to use any products not produced by Apple, you will have a feature one day, then a week later it will be gone, then the week after that it will be there. All of this because Apple wanted to out monopoly abuse Microsoft.
The difference between innovating and inventing is mostly hand wavy marketing speak. No one "invents" anymore, everyone "innovates". Why? Because people call you out when you say invention, and the entire subject becomes a miss mash of excuses someone calls you you out on "innovation". The general public just accepts them as the same thing. Thus, innovation get's used when someone wants to claim invention, but doesn't feel they can back up the claim.
No, the iPhone was a point on an ever marching increase in features. Apple fanboys like to point to Apple devices and declare that that single shade of gray is perfections. Any features beyond the Apple device's are worthless or downright bad, and any features missing from the competitors are absolute necessities.
The iPhone was just fine, but the only reinventing that it did was in marketing.
Google has always been "do no net evil". Their company motto has always been "Don't BE evil", not "do no evil". "do no evil" is a losing proposition from the get go, as many time in life we are forced to choose between the lesser of two evils. "Don't be evil" is far more pragmatic, and just as noble, but does pretty much translate to "do no net evil".
"Pink Slim" is fat. A good steak will have fat in it. "Pick Slim" is a bumper sticker logic. Since most people are so disconnected from where their food comes from that they don't even recognize how ridiculous the "Pink Slim" term is.
That is a funny example to me. While I agree with your point 100%, in the specific case of K-Mart vs. Target, I have a different experience. My family shopped at K-Mart when I was a child. My mother worked in a K-Mart for a number of years. K-Mart was where I would often play video games. I have fond childhood memories of K-Mart.
Today I happily drive 3x as far to go to Target over K-Mart. K-Mark has become a disgusting slum of a store, and has clearly given up. Target on the other hand still makes an effort to be clean, inviting, and sanitary. Target is still on it's way up, while K-Mart is on it's death bed. And it shows.
Your one of those guys that carries around a PDA, an MP3 Player, a video player, a DS, a pocket map, a gps, and a portable alarm clock along with your smartphone, aren't you? T-Mobile has commercial making fun of you right now.
That would not be the case in 99% of gaming situations, for the other 1%, that is what tablets are for. That is if the person doesn't just answer the phone via the bluetooth headset while the rest of the group keeps playing.
The software issues would be things like, having the phone automatically VPN into my server. Right now, not only do the phones not auto login, the VPN software in Android is plain out broken. it has been from the beginning. I am still surprised that it hasn't been fixed yet. Once getting access to the server is taken car of, the next step would be having the server serve up a desktop that is appropriate to a phone. I am not talking about just sharing a standard Windows 7 desktop. That can be done now, but it is an entirely inappropriate desktop for a phone. I also don't want to have to run an entire machine for each desktop served to a phone. I want my desktop handled on a headless server. I want the desktop size to match my phone. I don't want a scaled desktop screen scrunched down to 4 inches. I want the touch controls of my phone to work on the desktop. I don't want a badly emulated mouse.
When the software is done right, a user should not even realize that the desktop they are seeing isn't the phone's native desktop.
I'm honestly surprised that they didn't merge XBox with PC Windows with the 360. If they have the same OS, it would be trivial for them to place a few requirements that allowed the software to be 'consolezed' and only installable via the 'market'.
With tablets and smart phones some people that needed desktops in the past don't need them anymore. A wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, HDTV, and a console with a few key applications would be enough to push a huge number of home users completely away from the desktop. This could be handled on a Raspberry Pi, or it could be handled on a 360. Either way, MS loses the desktop. One of the ways, they keep the customer.
Or you could set it in the dock that is sitting under the TV that routes the picture up to the same screen that the traditional console would have used, and then use a bluetooth controller to control it. The Game Console/Phone market is ripe for convergence.
I keep hearing online how no one plays the Wii, but everyone I know that has one plays it plenty. I know that it gets used noticeably more in my home than the 360.
The Wii wasn't underpowered at launch. It was correctly powered. The PS3 and 360 were over powered. That is the reason that so many more Wiis sold than PS3/360s. The PS3/360 was way too expensive for the market because they tried to pack in too powerful of a system. The power of the PS3/360 would have been properly sized for 2 or 3 years later than when they were launched. What we saw was that a couple of years in they actually started to sell when the manufacturing cost dropped to a point that they made sense.
The Wii is currently at the end of it's generation. It's sales, and it's game sales need to be looked at in that light. PS3 and 360 are really in the middle of their generation. They are at their peak. If they released new systems at the same time as the WiiU, it would be an admitting that Nintendo was right. Worse yet for MS and Sony is that they have very little room for improvement on their current systems. HDTV is a big selling point for their current systems over previous systems, as well as over the Wii today. The TV is currently the graphics bottleneck. Sure, they could do more polygons in their models, they could add more effects, but at the end of the day, 1920x1080 is as good as they are going to get.
MS and Sony need to figure out how to market their current situation. The consoles themselves don't need upgrading. The improvements that they can bring are in accessories like the Kinect. That doesn't make their systems bad, but it does pose a marketing challenge that they haven't faced before.
Conversely, Nintendo's marketing challenge is going to be in selling a new system that is not significantly better than their competitor's previous gen systems since Nintendo doesn't have much room to make systems significantly more powerful than the PS3/360.
Companies do open themselves up to serious liability by asking for this. It is expected that people will put their marital status, and parental status on their Facebook page. These are questions that employers are not allowed to even insinuate that they want to know. The Facebook account is also likely to indicate a person's nationality, sexual preference and religion.
Knowing this kind of information during the hiring process has little to no value, but does create liability.
Exactly. If I could stream a video stream that was my phone's full resolution along with audio that was decent, I couldn't care less if I got a faster stream. Give me an auto login to my home server and a Linux (or something else) desktop that is sized for my phone with remote desktop and I will have peaked my transfer speed needs. Honestly I don't even want most of my data on my phone, or on some third party's server. I want it stored in my home and streamed via vpn to my phone as I need it. If I lose my phone, I just change the password, grab a new phone and it is like nothing ever happened. This would also mean that I wouldn't care how fast of a processor the phone had, or how much storage it had. As long as it could decode the audio/video stream, I'm good to go.
If it has been seen by different astronomers using different equipment, it is highly unlikely to be a problem on the earthbound equipment side of things.
I agree with the fact that nuclear hasn't made that kind of impact, but I can also say that my mother was born on a farm in the US that had no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no car, no phone. Today, if I tried to move with my child into similar conditions, I would be are a very real risk of having the government come in and take my child away. Part of that is regional, (suburban CA vs. rural WI) but much more of it is time, and the impact that tech advances have made in a very short span of time.
If you are unwilling to chance it, you better build that dome completely encapsulating your home, because someone might throw an envelope stuffed with kiddie porn over your fence. You haven't done that? Do you really want to chance it in your location? If so, go for it.
No, it isn't. The casino can run a blackjack table because they are licensed to run blackjack tables. There are no retail businesses other than ISPs licensed to run WiFi.
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I have never used a Blackberry beyond picking one up in a phone store years ago, but what you are describing is a common problem. People get the idea that the first way they see something is the 'right' way. Even if it is less efficient.
Funny, that was one of the things that turned me off of iOS. Apple didn't want to be professional and allow interoperability. They acted like babies, so if you wanted to use any products not produced by Apple, you will have a feature one day, then a week later it will be gone, then the week after that it will be there. All of this because Apple wanted to out monopoly abuse Microsoft.
The difference between innovating and inventing is mostly hand wavy marketing speak. No one "invents" anymore, everyone "innovates". Why? Because people call you out when you say invention, and the entire subject becomes a miss mash of excuses someone calls you you out on "innovation". The general public just accepts them as the same thing. Thus, innovation get's used when someone wants to claim invention, but doesn't feel they can back up the claim.
No, the iPhone was a point on an ever marching increase in features. Apple fanboys like to point to Apple devices and declare that that single shade of gray is perfections. Any features beyond the Apple device's are worthless or downright bad, and any features missing from the competitors are absolute necessities.
The iPhone was just fine, but the only reinventing that it did was in marketing.
Google has always been "do no net evil". Their company motto has always been "Don't BE evil", not "do no evil". "do no evil" is a losing proposition from the get go, as many time in life we are forced to choose between the lesser of two evils. "Don't be evil" is far more pragmatic, and just as noble, but does pretty much translate to "do no net evil".
"Pink Slim" is fat. A good steak will have fat in it. "Pick Slim" is a bumper sticker logic. Since most people are so disconnected from where their food comes from that they don't even recognize how ridiculous the "Pink Slim" term is.
That is a funny example to me. While I agree with your point 100%, in the specific case of K-Mart vs. Target, I have a different experience. My family shopped at K-Mart when I was a child. My mother worked in a K-Mart for a number of years. K-Mart was where I would often play video games. I have fond childhood memories of K-Mart.
Today I happily drive 3x as far to go to Target over K-Mart. K-Mark has become a disgusting slum of a store, and has clearly given up. Target on the other hand still makes an effort to be clean, inviting, and sanitary. Target is still on it's way up, while K-Mart is on it's death bed. And it shows.
Your one of those guys that carries around a PDA, an MP3 Player, a video player, a DS, a pocket map, a gps, and a portable alarm clock along with your smartphone, aren't you? T-Mobile has commercial making fun of you right now.
That would not be the case in 99% of gaming situations, for the other 1%, that is what tablets are for. That is if the person doesn't just answer the phone via the bluetooth headset while the rest of the group keeps playing.
The software issues would be things like, having the phone automatically VPN into my server. Right now, not only do the phones not auto login, the VPN software in Android is plain out broken. it has been from the beginning. I am still surprised that it hasn't been fixed yet. Once getting access to the server is taken car of, the next step would be having the server serve up a desktop that is appropriate to a phone. I am not talking about just sharing a standard Windows 7 desktop. That can be done now, but it is an entirely inappropriate desktop for a phone. I also don't want to have to run an entire machine for each desktop served to a phone. I want my desktop handled on a headless server. I want the desktop size to match my phone. I don't want a scaled desktop screen scrunched down to 4 inches. I want the touch controls of my phone to work on the desktop. I don't want a badly emulated mouse.
When the software is done right, a user should not even realize that the desktop they are seeing isn't the phone's native desktop.
I'm honestly surprised that they didn't merge XBox with PC Windows with the 360. If they have the same OS, it would be trivial for them to place a few requirements that allowed the software to be 'consolezed' and only installable via the 'market'.
With tablets and smart phones some people that needed desktops in the past don't need them anymore. A wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, HDTV, and a console with a few key applications would be enough to push a huge number of home users completely away from the desktop. This could be handled on a Raspberry Pi, or it could be handled on a 360. Either way, MS loses the desktop. One of the ways, they keep the customer.
Or you could set it in the dock that is sitting under the TV that routes the picture up to the same screen that the traditional console would have used, and then use a bluetooth controller to control it. The Game Console/Phone market is ripe for convergence.
I keep hearing online how no one plays the Wii, but everyone I know that has one plays it plenty. I know that it gets used noticeably more in my home than the 360.
The Wii wasn't underpowered at launch. It was correctly powered. The PS3 and 360 were over powered. That is the reason that so many more Wiis sold than PS3/360s. The PS3/360 was way too expensive for the market because they tried to pack in too powerful of a system. The power of the PS3/360 would have been properly sized for 2 or 3 years later than when they were launched. What we saw was that a couple of years in they actually started to sell when the manufacturing cost dropped to a point that they made sense.
The Wii is currently at the end of it's generation. It's sales, and it's game sales need to be looked at in that light. PS3 and 360 are really in the middle of their generation. They are at their peak. If they released new systems at the same time as the WiiU, it would be an admitting that Nintendo was right. Worse yet for MS and Sony is that they have very little room for improvement on their current systems. HDTV is a big selling point for their current systems over previous systems, as well as over the Wii today. The TV is currently the graphics bottleneck. Sure, they could do more polygons in their models, they could add more effects, but at the end of the day, 1920x1080 is as good as they are going to get.
MS and Sony need to figure out how to market their current situation. The consoles themselves don't need upgrading. The improvements that they can bring are in accessories like the Kinect. That doesn't make their systems bad, but it does pose a marketing challenge that they haven't faced before.
Conversely, Nintendo's marketing challenge is going to be in selling a new system that is not significantly better than their competitor's previous gen systems since Nintendo doesn't have much room to make systems significantly more powerful than the PS3/360.
It is not like there are millions of unemployed people who are getting ... divorced ...
Just goes to show that it isn't just men that are bending over and taking it for a paycheck.
Companies do open themselves up to serious liability by asking for this. It is expected that people will put their marital status, and parental status on their Facebook page. These are questions that employers are not allowed to even insinuate that they want to know. The Facebook account is also likely to indicate a person's nationality, sexual preference and religion.
Knowing this kind of information during the hiring process has little to no value, but does create liability.
You are not the only one that doesn't believe "Big Banana Day" is an innocent mistake. Of course, Muno from Yo Gaba Gaba also can't be a mistake.
I agree that the bandwidth is mostly there now. It is the software side that could use some work.
Exactly. If I could stream a video stream that was my phone's full resolution along with audio that was decent, I couldn't care less if I got a faster stream. Give me an auto login to my home server and a Linux (or something else) desktop that is sized for my phone with remote desktop and I will have peaked my transfer speed needs. Honestly I don't even want most of my data on my phone, or on some third party's server. I want it stored in my home and streamed via vpn to my phone as I need it. If I lose my phone, I just change the password, grab a new phone and it is like nothing ever happened. This would also mean that I wouldn't care how fast of a processor the phone had, or how much storage it had. As long as it could decode the audio/video stream, I'm good to go.
My 8 year old does, and he isn't even in to ocean stuff. He just happens to like Pinky and the Brain.
You don't count the existence of Troma Studios to be a major impact? How could we have TromaVision without nuclear power?!?!?!?
If it has been seen by different astronomers using different equipment, it is highly unlikely to be a problem on the earthbound equipment side of things.
I agree with the fact that nuclear hasn't made that kind of impact, but I can also say that my mother was born on a farm in the US that had no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no car, no phone. Today, if I tried to move with my child into similar conditions, I would be are a very real risk of having the government come in and take my child away. Part of that is regional, (suburban CA vs. rural WI) but much more of it is time, and the impact that tech advances have made in a very short span of time.
Well, the Nazis started with badges on the clothing, and moved up to embedding the ID on the person.
If you are unwilling to chance it, you better build that dome completely encapsulating your home, because someone might throw an envelope stuffed with kiddie porn over your fence. You haven't done that? Do you really want to chance it in your location? If so, go for it.
No, it isn't. The casino can run a blackjack table because they are licensed to run blackjack tables. There are no retail businesses other than ISPs licensed to run WiFi.