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You have NO IDEA what you're even trying to discuss in here. Case in point: Your ignorance on USB - Type B is the SOCKET that is STANDARD on just about every PC I've ever seen. Incidentally, the reason most thumb drives are Type A, is because type A is the only connector that fits into the STANDARD socket which is Type B. Why do people feel it necessary to comment so decisively on topics they clearly can't understand.
Full size? The USS Ronald Reagan is 2 1/2 times the size with double the number of aircraft. Just doesn't seem to make sense to call the Charles De Gaulle full size when pretty much every US carrier is double the size.
eno2001 said To me, all the applications I just came up with are in the same league with what this guy proposes. And I think his idea is much more far fetched than my own.
Sure... to you. Seriously, I think the dynamic vision device decribed in TFA would have the potential for mass appeal. Of course you'll probably see this on the battlefield first where soldiers will be the initial beta testers. Then the devices will get all kinds of publicity(probably during the war with Korea or whoever is next after Iran), then they'll go commercial. That seems to be what's missing from this era of war. Something cool and marketable like the HMWVV. Heck this thing was the star of Gulf War I along with the Patriot missile, must a surface to air missile is a lot tougher to market to the upper middle class.
By the way, your Swiss Army headgear idea is all over the place. It's not a new idea, it's a collection of old ideas with a very limited target market. Super optics on the other hand would have a MUCH larger target demo in both commercial and consumer apps. Hunting, Fishing and Boating come to mind. I'm sure Law enforcement would love it. Imagine being able to read a license number in the distance. I've only been thinking about it a few minutes, but I could go on and on.
American English pffft, now there's an oxymoron if ever there was one. I know many things are tolerated in spoken English, but what sort of a spasmodic creature would tolerate it in written form from a from a journalist no less. The written word should be held to a higher standard. Sheesh, the language isn't evolving. It's disintegrating.
Even the article itself by a supposed journalism student contains this grammatical abortion: "office of Steve Wozniak, who(sic) many consider the father of the personal computer."
The pronoun here should of course be "whom" and not "who"
heck, Everything(almost) that matters is invented in the USA. Then when everyone who is willing has paid top dollar for it, it gets refined by the Japanese the Koreans, and (gasp!)copied by the Chinese.
half of it is copied from British TV in the first place.
And the stuff that's copied (actually bought and licensed in most cases) is usually as bad as or worse than the British Original. In our defense however, about half of what's left is almost watchable.
Just because there is an occasional gem out of Britain (The Office for example), doesn't mean their product isn't about as consistently crappy as ours. Americans have a flawed perception that British TV is of a higher quality because they never see 90% of the CRAP that gets on the air over there. Don't believe me? Try living there, crap with quaint accents is still crap.
It's time to let Star Trek die a dignified death. Besides, it's not like it won't be back, but maybe, just maybe they'll take the time to put something together that could be as great as the original. Not that I think it's likely to happen, but if this mediocre show were to get bailed out by the fans, then the producers will have learnt nothing.
Bingo wuz here
If it supports the most common, standardized, open compression format,
are you implying that MP3 is open??? that's news to me. I'm not aware of any open formats supported by the Ipod, neither does creative for that matter, however where apple limits your choices is in the area of support for Online music purchases. You buy Itunes or you don't buy music online. For that matter only Ipods work with Itunes.
Here's the other biggie, let's suppose a few years down the road you decide you want to buy a non apple player, and you've accumulated a nice little library of music from Itunes. Guess what? You HAVE TO buy another apple player or your collection is worthless.
That's the kind of business practice that makes some people call Microsoft EVIL, and while I think Evil is strong wording, but it's the kind of situation that I would shop around to prevent dissappointment in the future. People hold Apple up as some "holier than microsoft company," but the truth is that they are the same as microsoft even before Microsoft became part owner of Apple, and pretty much have been since they came out with the Macintosh (a closed system) Try building or buying a Macintosh without the Mac OS.
Lastly, I'll agree that Ipods are nicely crafted, but they don't have the best sound processing and you simply cannot argue against them being the most "closed" player out there. I don't buy things because they are pretty, you can if you want to, no one is trying to stop you.
It's not like Creative hasn't been in the MP3 player business longer. Apple is actually the Johnny-come-lately compared to Creative, even in the hard drive based player market. Apple is simply the first to come up with a proprietary digital music player for folks who would rather spend money money than worry about whether they have the best sounding player. Don't get me wrong, the ipod is a fine piece of equipment, but it's designed to limit your choices in life, and for some, perhaps most, simpler is better. But, for those who demand more than that provided by the limited scope of the Ipod, let's be thankful there are choices.
I disagree, it's really for the do-it-yourselfer. the People you're talking about would have a better solution with in-wall speakers and very cool touchpanels in the wall that control the system. some people think the remotes are cooler, but trust me, you never lose a wall panel. frequently these panels control lighting and home theater deployment as well.
I think it's reasonable if you compare it to the cost of installing a centralized music system. It's also very elegant for a do-it-yourself system. Granted there are some people for whom this simply won't be simple enough, but it's a hell of a bargain for people that don't want to spend a crapload of money wiring their house for sound. professional installation can easily run several hundred dollars per room, and at first glance this appears to have a cool interface.
This really appears to offer a cool solution to music distribution throughout the house, just shy of an allin one system, it does assume that you already have a computer with digital music stored on it. The only caveat I'd have is that if sonos dissappears, then where do you go for support or replacement components.
Sony used to make a 40" XBR, (not a wide screen) furthermore, if your 38" is widescreen, then your's is effectively bigger than the sony when it comes to showing 16x9 images. I'm pretty certain there are no more options left for widescreen HDTV tubes larger than 34".
Do you have one of those old RCA's? Does anyone still make one? if so, I'm in the market. I don't know of any manufacturer making a tube bigger than 34". Further, a 38" tube is nice, but i haven't seen any in flatscreen. there are 34" flatscreen tubes out the wahzoo.
I find it interesting that QVC bought the initial run of these. It may be of interest to readers here that QVC Studios/HQ happens to be on the very sight where Commodore Business Machines was once based.
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You have NO IDEA what you're even trying to discuss in here. Case in point: Your ignorance on USB - Type B is the SOCKET that is STANDARD on just about every PC I've ever seen. Incidentally, the reason most thumb drives are Type A, is because type A is the only connector that fits into the STANDARD socket which is Type B. Why do people feel it necessary to comment so decisively on topics they clearly can't understand.
Full size? The USS Ronald Reagan is 2 1/2 times the size with double the number of aircraft. Just doesn't seem to make sense to call the Charles De Gaulle full size when pretty much every US carrier is double the size.
hmm $1.79, wasn't that last year?
Sure... to you. Seriously, I think the dynamic vision device decribed in TFA would have the potential for mass appeal. Of course you'll probably see this on the battlefield first where soldiers will be the initial beta testers. Then the devices will get all kinds of publicity(probably during the war with Korea or whoever is next after Iran), then they'll go commercial. That seems to be what's missing from this era of war. Something cool and marketable like the HMWVV. Heck this thing was the star of Gulf War I along with the Patriot missile, must a surface to air missile is a lot tougher to market to the upper middle class. By the way, your Swiss Army headgear idea is all over the place. It's not a new idea, it's a collection of old ideas with a very limited target market. Super optics on the other hand would have a MUCH larger target demo in both commercial and consumer apps. Hunting, Fishing and Boating come to mind. I'm sure Law enforcement would love it. Imagine being able to read a license number in the distance. I've only been thinking about it a few minutes, but I could go on and on.
American English pffft, now there's an oxymoron if ever there was one. I know many things are tolerated in spoken English, but what sort of a spasmodic creature would tolerate it in written form from a from a journalist no less. The written word should be held to a higher standard. Sheesh, the language isn't evolving. It's disintegrating.
Even the article itself by a supposed journalism student contains this grammatical abortion: "office of Steve Wozniak, who(sic) many consider the father of the personal computer." The pronoun here should of course be "whom" and not "who"
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Woudn't it be more accurate to say "THE clever MySpace user"?
if this was "widely known" I think I'd have known about it.
Yeah, but Canadian TV is like Canadian dollars, it doeasn't really count.
I'm right there with ya brother, not to mention how I love a good throat stabbing.
heck, Everything(almost) that matters is invented in the USA. Then when everyone who is willing has paid top dollar for it, it gets refined by the Japanese the Koreans, and (gasp!)copied by the Chinese.
... you got it right. It was Slim Whitman music that made their heads explode.
And the stuff that's copied (actually bought and licensed in most cases) is usually as bad as or worse than the British Original. In our defense however, about half of what's left is almost watchable.
Just because there is an occasional gem out of Britain (The Office for example), doesn't mean their product isn't about as consistently crappy as ours. Americans have a flawed perception that British TV is of a higher quality because they never see 90% of the CRAP that gets on the air over there. Don't believe me? Try living there, crap with quaint accents is still crap.
It's time to let Star Trek die a dignified death. Besides, it's not like it won't be back, but maybe, just maybe they'll take the time to put something together that could be as great as the original. Not that I think it's likely to happen, but if this mediocre show were to get bailed out by the fans, then the producers will have learnt nothing. Bingo wuz here
are you implying that MP3 is open??? that's news to me. I'm not aware of any open formats supported by the Ipod, neither does creative for that matter, however where apple limits your choices is in the area of support for Online music purchases. You buy Itunes or you don't buy music online. For that matter only Ipods work with Itunes.
Here's the other biggie, let's suppose a few years down the road you decide you want to buy a non apple player, and you've accumulated a nice little library of music from Itunes. Guess what? You HAVE TO buy another apple player or your collection is worthless.
That's the kind of business practice that makes some people call Microsoft EVIL, and while I think Evil is strong wording, but it's the kind of situation that I would shop around to prevent dissappointment in the future. People hold Apple up as some "holier than microsoft company," but the truth is that they are the same as microsoft even before Microsoft became part owner of Apple, and pretty much have been since they came out with the Macintosh (a closed system) Try building or buying a Macintosh without the Mac OS.
Lastly, I'll agree that Ipods are nicely crafted, but they don't have the best sound processing and you simply cannot argue against them being the most "closed" player out there. I don't buy things because they are pretty, you can if you want to, no one is trying to stop you.
It's not like Creative hasn't been in the MP3 player business longer. Apple is actually the Johnny-come-lately compared to Creative, even in the hard drive based player market. Apple is simply the first to come up with a proprietary digital music player for folks who would rather spend money money than worry about whether they have the best sounding player. Don't get me wrong, the ipod is a fine piece of equipment, but it's designed to limit your choices in life, and for some, perhaps most, simpler is better. But, for those who demand more than that provided by the limited scope of the Ipod, let's be thankful there are choices.
My guess is apple's patent is restricted to use on personal media type devices, either that or Sonos is going to get slammed.
I disagree, it's really for the do-it-yourselfer. the People you're talking about would have a better solution with in-wall speakers and very cool touchpanels in the wall that control the system. some people think the remotes are cooler, but trust me, you never lose a wall panel. frequently these panels control lighting and home theater deployment as well.
This really appears to offer a cool solution to music distribution throughout the house, just shy of an allin one system, it does assume that you already have a computer with digital music stored on it. The only caveat I'd have is that if sonos dissappears, then where do you go for support or replacement components.
Sony used to make a 40" XBR, (not a wide screen) furthermore, if your 38" is widescreen, then your's is effectively bigger than the sony when it comes to showing 16x9 images. I'm pretty certain there are no more options left for widescreen HDTV tubes larger than 34".
Do you have one of those old RCA's? Does anyone still make one? if so, I'm in the market. I don't know of any manufacturer making a tube bigger than 34". Further, a 38" tube is nice, but i haven't seen any in flatscreen. there are 34" flatscreen tubes out the wahzoo.
I find it interesting that QVC bought the initial run of these. It may be of interest to readers here that QVC Studios/HQ happens to be on the very sight where Commodore Business Machines was once based.